三、阅读理解（本题有15小题，每小题2分，共30分）

阅读下面短文，从每个小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

“Reading makes a full man” (Bacon, 1597). Novels written by the writers like Jane Austen, Victor Hugo and Ernest Hemingway help us to know more about our history, culture and many other things.

Jane Austen was one of the most well-known women writers of the world. She was born in England in 1775. Jane loved reading and writing. She wrote a number of famous novels in her life. Among them, Pride and Prejudice written in 1779 was the most popular.

 

Victor Hugo, born in 1802 in France, was one of the best writers in the19th century. The talent in writing and hard work brought great success to Hugo at an early age. His most popular novel, the Hunchback of Notre-Dame, was written in 1831. The book was so successful that it was quickly translated into many other languages across Europe.

 

Ernest Hemingway, an outstanding American writer and reporter, was born in 1899. His life experience had a great influence on his writing style. Hemingway lived in France and Italy between the 1920s and 1950s. Most of his books such as The Sun Also Rises were written at that time. He won the Nobel Prize in 1954 mainly because of the novel The Old Man and the Sea.

26. When was Jane Austen born?

A. In 1775    B. In 1799   C. In 1802   D. In 1899

27. Where was Victor Hugo from?

A. England.   B. America.    C. Italy.   D. France.

28. Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize mainly because of _________.

A. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame    B. Pride and Prejudice

C. The Old man and the Sea    D. The Sun Also Rises

B

Frogs are animals that can live both in water and on land. There are more than 5,000 kinds of frogs on the earth. The earliest known frogs lived about 190 million years ago and the frogs today still look the same. Here are some fun things that you might not know about frogs. Enjoy!

The Biggest and the Smallest Frogs

Some frogs can be very big. The biggest kind of frog is the Goliath Frog in West Africa. Its body can be nearly 30cm long, about the size of a large cat. The Gold Frog and the Poison Frog are the smallest frogs in the world. They are less than 1cm long. Though the Poison Frog is very small, it is not weak at all. It is dangerous. Any animal that eats it will die very soon.

The Best Jumpers

Frogs are very good at jumping. They developed jumping legs so that they would not be eaten by other large animals. Using their big strong legs, more frogs can jump over 20 times their own length. It is like a person jumping over about 30,48. The Australian Rocket Frog can even jump over 2m, which is 50 times its body length(5.5cm). That might be the reason why frogs are called the best jumpers on the earth.

The Cryogenic Animal

Some frogs like the Common Wood Frog have a special ability to live in very cold places. When the temperature goes down, they become ice frogs. 2/3of their body water freezes. Their hearts stop, and their breathing stops too. You may think they are dead, but in fact they are not. Maybe we humans can learn the way that the frogs do for medical purpose.

29. The earliest frogs lived about ________ million years ago.

A. 20  B. 30   C. 50   D. 190

30. The Gold Frog is one of the ________ frogs on the earth.

A. smallest   B. biggest   C. strongest   D. weakest

31. ________ can jump over 2m.

A. The Goliath Frog   B. The Common Wood Frog

C. The Poison Frog   D. The Australian Rocket Frog

32. What will happen to a Common Wood Frog at very low temperature?

A.It will die very soon.   B. It will be an ice frog.

C.It will become dangerous.   D. It will become very small.