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（阅读理解题） Every country has secret services to help protect it against serious threats from terrorists, major criminals or even from other countries. People who threaten to harm a country always plot in secret, so the intelligence agencies have to work in secret to find out what is being planned before it happens, so that it can be prevented. They do that in many different ways – by secretly listening to their targets talking on the phone, by planting microphones to overhear meetings, by watching the targets as they move from place to place and by recruiting some of the targets to act as double agents to report on what is going on. For most of my career I worked in one of the UK’s three intelligence services, MIS, the domestic security service. I first joined in the 1970s, in the middle of the Cold War, when the war was divided into two armed camps, the Soviet Union(苏联) and its allies on the one side and Western Europe, America and their allies on the other. The Cold War never became a fighting war. It was an intelligence war, with intelligence officers from both sides trying to find out what the other side was doing, what kind of weapons they had, when and if they might start a war and what their plans were. Both sides were secretly working in each other’s countries. Nowadays one of the biggest threats to the world, comes from terrorists. Intelligence officers from many different countries are working together to find out who they are., where they are and what they are planning. Today’s MIS officers get their intelligence in much the same way as we did during the Cold War, but their task is even more difficult and urgent because most terrorists want to kill people. Many terrorist attacks that are planned and prepared never happen, and we never know anything about them because the intelligence services find them out and prevent them.1. What is the first paragraph mainly about? ( ) A. The tasks of intelligence agencies. B. The contributions of intelligence agencies. C. The equipment used by intelligence agents. D. The recruitment of intelligence agents. 2. The biggest security threats for Britain in the 1970s were from ______. ( ) A. international terrorists B. the Soviet Union and its allies C. major criminals within the country D. agents working for both camps 3. What is true about the Cold War? ( ) A. Both camps were planning to start a war. B. It was a war fought with advanced weapons. C. No fierce clash broke out during the period. D. It is not regarded as an intelligence war. 4. MIS officers’ task is more urgent today in that ______. ( ) A. terrorists are more difficult to find than spies B. most terrorist attacks are aimed at killing people C. terrorist attacks happen more frequently than before D. it takes only a little time to prepare a terrorist attack 5. The best title for the passage might be “_______”. ( ) A. Ways of Gathering Intelligence B. National Defense Against All Threats C. Which Is More Threatening: Terrorists Or Spies? D. What We Do As Intelligence Officers
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（阅读理解题） By definition, heroes and heroines are men and women distinguished by uncommon courage, achievements, and self-sacrifice made most for the benefits of others - they are people against whom we measure others. They are men and women recognized for shaping our nation's consciousness and development as well as the lives of those who admire them. Yet, some people say that ours is an age where true heroes and heroines are hard to come by, where the very idea of heroism is something beyond us - an artifact of the past. Some maintain, that because the Cold War is over and because America is at peace, our age is essentially an unheroic one. Furthermore, the overall crime rate is down, poverty has been eased by a strong and growing economy, and advances continue to be made in medical science. Cultural icons are hard to define, but we know them when we see them. They are people who manage to go beyond celebrity (明星), who are legendary, who somehow mange to become mythic. But what makes some figures icons and others mere celebrities? That's hard to answer. In part, their lives have the quality of a story to tell. For instance, the beautiful young Diana Spencer who at 19 married a prince, renounced marriage and the throne, and died at the moment she found true love. Good looks certainly help. So does a special indefinable charm, with the help of the media. But nothing confirms an icon more than a tragic death - such as Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, and Princess Diana.1. The passage mainly deals with ______. A. life and death B. heroes and icons C. heroes and heroines D. icons and celebrities 2. Heroes and heroines are usually ______. A. courageous B. exemplary C. self-sacrificing D. all of the above 3. Which of the following statements is wrong? A. Poverty in America has been eased with the economic growth. B. We can identify cultural icons when we see them. C. Heroes and heroines can only emerge in war times. D. One's look can contribute to being famous. 4. Beautiful young Diana Spencer found her genuine love________. A. just before her death B. when she became a princess C. when she was 19 D. after she gave birth to a prince 5. What is more likely to set an icon's status? A. Good looks. B. The quality of one's story. C. Personal attraction D. Tragic and early death.
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