四、阅读理解(20分)

A

In England nobody under eighteen years old is allowed to drink in a bar(酒吧). Mr. Thompson often went to a bar near his house. But he never took his son, Tom, because he was too young. Then when Tom had his eighteenth birthday, Mr. Thompson took him to his usual bar for the first time. They drank for an hour. Tom drank a bit. Then Mr. Thompson said to his son, “Now, Tom, I want to teach you a useful lesson. How do you know when you’ve had enough? Well, I’ll tell you. Did you see those two lights at the end of the bar? When they seem to become four, you’ve had enough and should go home.”

“But, Dad,”said Tom,“I can only see one light at the end of the bar.”

46. Young people _______ allowed to drink in a bar until eighteen in England.

A. is not  B. are not   C. may  D. must

47. When Tom was a child, his father often went to a nearby bar _______ taking him.

A. by   B. for   C. with  D. without

48. On Tom’s eighteenth birthday, he drank together with his father in that bar for _______.

A. the first time     B. once

C. many times     D. eighteen times

49. Father wanted to tell his son _______.

A. the time to drink    B. something about the light

C. when to stop drinking   D. something about the bar

50. In fact(事实上), there _______ at the end of the bar.

A. was one light     B. were two lights

C. were three lights    D. were four lights

B

Every morning my father buys a newspaper on his way to work. Every evening my mother looks through magazines at home. And every night, I look at the posters with photos of David Beckham and Yao Ming on my bedroom wall before I go to sleep. Can we imagine life without paper or print?

Paper was first created about 2,000 years ago, and has been made from silk, cotton, bamboo, and, since the 19th century, from wood. People learned to write words on paper to make a book. But in those days，books could only be produced one at a time by hand. As a result，they were expensive and rare. And because there weren’t many books, few people learned to read.

Then printing was invented in China. When printing was developed greatly at the beginning of the 11th century, books could be produced more quickly and cheaply. As a result, more people learned to read. After that，knowledge and ideas spread quickly.

Today information can be received online, downloaded from the Internet rather than found in books, and information can be kept on CD-ROMs or machines such as MP3 players.

Computers are already used in classrooms, and newspapers and magazines can already be read online. So will books be replaced by computers one day? No, I don’t think the Yao Ming poster on my bedroom wall will ever be replaced by a computer two metres high!

51.What does the writer do before he goes to sleep?

A.He reads books.     B.He reads newspapers.

C.He looks through magazines.  D.He looks at the posters on the wall.

52.When was paper first created?