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阅读理解及英翻中专项练习1

Part I Reading Comprehension （共20小题，每小题2分，共40分）

Directions: In this part there are four passages. Each passage is followed by

four comprehension questions. Read the passage and answer the questions. Then

mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.

Passage 1

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:

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 Whites 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. He has the most modern secretary in the world to help him.

It’s computer, worth ￡ 800，000，which has its own rooms on the first floor

of the White House. It has a bank of electronic pens which write like the President

writes, 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 takes less than a second to write.

A White House official said, “It’s not important that letters come from a

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阅读理解及英翻中专项练习1

computer. Each letter says what the President wants to say.”

1. for a reply from the President.

A. You have to wait a long time

B. You only have to wait several days

C. You have to wait at least one month

D. You only have to wait a few weeks

2. The reply from the President .

A. is always printed B. is always typed

C. is always written in ink

himself

D. is always written by

3. It takes the computer to write ten letters.

A. no more than ten seconds B. a little more than ten seconds

C. less than ten seconds D. at least one second

4. The computer can be described as .

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