高一英语阅读训练(5)

高一英语阅读训练（5）

A

Mr Smith（John's English teacher）：John Brown？Yes，I remember John．I knew he was an unusually bright boy from the moment he entered the school．Writing came as naturally to him as walking．He enjoyed playing with words，in the same way that other boys played with a football．He wrote stories whenever he had the chance：stories that most of us couldn't hope to write，with the experience of a person two or three times his age．

Mrs Jane Brown（John's mother）：When he was young，John was always writing．He wrote in bed；he wrote while the rest of us were watching television，in the half darkness；he would even write at the breakfast table if I let him．He was a very quiet boy．Even now，I'm not sure that I'd know my son very well，if I didn't read these stories！

1．Mr Smith ＿＿＿＿．

A．recognized John Brown as soon as he entered the school

B．knew that John was a clever boy as soon as he met him

C．remembered John as a boy to whom walking came naturally

D．remembered writing to John when he entered the school

2．To John，words ＿＿＿＿．

A．were what a football was to other boys

B．were like a game，not to be taken seriously C．came more naturally than walking D．came almost as naturally as playing football

3．The stories that John wrote were ＿＿＿＿．

A．about he experiences of someone two or three times his age

B．two or three times better than the stories that most people write

C．of the kind that most people older than John hope to write

D．of a kind that few people can write，even after years of experience of life

4．Mrs Brown knows John wrote ＿＿＿＿．

A．instead of going to bed or eating breakfast B．to her instead of talking to her C．except when he was watching television D．whenever he had the chance 5．Mrs Brown knows John ＿＿＿＿．

A．better as a writer than a talker B．well only because she has read his stories C．only through what Mr Smith said about him

D．is a writer，but this is almost all she knows about him

B

Do you want to say what you think in a letter to the President of the United States？You'll get a reply from him—written in ink，not typed，after only a few days．

The President gets about 4,000 letters every week．He answers everyone who writes to him on special White House paper．But he doesn't need a lot of time for it．In fact，he only gives 20 minutes a week to look at his personal correspondence（信函）．He has the most modern secretary in the world to help him．

It's a computer，worth ＄800,000，which has its own room on the first floor of the White House．It has a bank of electronic pens which write like the President writes，in ink，in his favorite light blue ink．Each letter the President receives gets a number，according to the type of answer it needs．The pens then write the correct reply for it，according to the number．Each letter