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　　2010届高三英语上学期（9-12）月考试题分类汇编：阅读理解之社会生活类
　　Passage1
　　（安徽省桐城六中2010届高三第二次模拟月考）
　　L’HAY-LES-ROSES, France: Three teenage girls admitted starting a fire in a suburban Paris housing project over the weekend that killed 17 people, including three children, police said yesterday. A fourth girl was held yesterday morning.
　　The fire in a 19-storey building south of Paris was the third fatal blaze in the Paris area in nine days. The death toll rose to 16 after a man died late Sunday in a hospital, where seven others were being treated for serious injuries, police said.
　　Three teenagers taken in for questioning on Sunday admitted having started the fire for fun, police said. Two of the suspects were 18-year-old, the other was 16, police said. Further details were not available.
　　Witnesses ed to have seen a group of youths who lived in the building start the fire, said Patrick Seve, mayor of the town of L’HAY-LES-ROSES, near Orly airport, where the building was located.
　　The fire is believed to have brot in the lobby（门厅）of the building before raging up a stairwell at least three floors. Some residents jumped from windows as the fire spread through the building’s entrance.
　　Authorities were investigating possible inals in an August 26 fire that killed 14 African children and three adults in a Paris apartment building. Three days later, another fire killed seven in a building.
　　Interior Minister Nicolas Sarggested on French television on Sunday night that copycats（盲目模仿者）were at work. “Eae there is a new story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into inals,”Sarkozy said, promising severe punishment for anyone found guilty of arson（纵火）.
　　56. What can we learn from the first two paragraphs？
　　A. Three girls were caught setting fire to a building.
　　B. The fourth girl wasn’t present when the fire brot.
　　C. All the people lost their lives before polie.
　　D. Paris was troubled by fire during that period.
　　57. Why did the teenagers start the fire？
　　A. They were interested in playing with fire.
　　B. They wanted to man of their parents.
　　C. They were not satisfied with the surroundings.
　　D. They wanted to warm themselves.
　　58. From the fourth and fifth paragraphs we know that ________.
　　A. the witnesses must have put out the fire
　　B. the lobby of the building was covered with wood.
　　C. the witnesses were familiar with the teenagers
　　D. the residents shouldn’t have jumped from windows
　　59. What the Minister said in the last paragraph means that ________.
　　A. he doesn’t like to listen to new stories
　　B. he has no time to write new stories
　　C. teenagers often have ideas to turn into inals
　　D. teenagers may do the same as others have done
　　答案DACD
　　Passage 2
　　（安徽省芜湖七中2010届高三上学期第一次调研考试）
　　One of the goals of American education officials is to have all public schools connected to the Internet puter system and have puter for all students. Government studies show that in 1994 only thirty-five percent of American public schools were connected to the Internet. Last year. that number reached eighty-nine percent.
　　Virginia Polytechnic Institute of State University is a large university in the southern state of Virginia. Officials at Virginia Tech say puters are very important to a student’s education. All students at Virginia Tech have been required to have a puter since 1998.
　　Each student’s living area at Virginia Tech has the necessary wires to link a puter to the Internet. The students can send and receive electroniail. use the World Wide Web part of the Internet and link with other universities. all without leaving their room. They can also use their puters to send electronics copies of their schoolwork to their teachers. And they can search for books in the school’s huge library.
　　Most major American universities and colleges strongly urge or require new students to have a puter. Most colleges and universities also have large rooms where students can use puters for class work.