Peru, a county
If you are to visit Peru, you may consider spending a day or two
2 . What are you going to do if you are in a burning house? How will you escape? Do you know how to save yourself? Please read the following passage.
Escaping a fire is a serious matter. Knowing what to do during a fire can save your life. It is important to know the ways you can use and show them to everyone in the family, such as stairways and fire escapes, but not lifts.
From the lower floors of the buildings, escaping through windows is possible. Learn the best way of leaving by windows with the least chance of serious injury.
The second floor window is usually not very high from the ground. An average (平均高度的) person, hanging by the finger-tips will have a drop of about six feet to the ground. It is about the height of an average man. Of course, it is safer to jump a short way than to stay in a burning building.
Windows are also useful when you are waiting for help. Be sure to keep the door closed. Or smoke and fire may be drawn into the room. Keep your head low at the window to be sure you get fresh air rather than smoke that may leak (渗) into the room. On a second or third floor, the best windows for escape are those that open onto a roof. From the roof a person can drop to the ground more safely. Dropping onto cement (水泥) might end in injury. Bushes (灌木丛) and grass can help to break a fall.
1. It is important to __________.| A．put out the fire in the burning house | B．know the ways to escape a fire |
| C．jump off a burning house | D．keep the door closed |
| A．If there are some bushes on the ground. | B．If you are strong enough. |
| C．If you live on a lower floor. | D．If you have a long rope. |
| A．you can get fresh air | B．you can call for help |
| C．you can easily jump off | D．you can be seen first |
| A．Escaping from the Windows | B．Save Yourself in a Burning House |
| C．Knowledge on Fire | D．Waiting for Help |
3 . Pearl S. Buck was a very popular American writer of her day. She was famous for her books about China. Pearl was born in 1892 in West Virginia, America, but she spent almost half of her 81-year-long life in China.
Pearl spent her youth in Jiangsu Province, China. She learned to speak Chinese before she could speak English. Her mother had travelled widely in her youth and liked literature very much. After being educated by her mother and by a Chinese teacher, Pearl S. Buck went to school in Shanghai at the age of fifteen. She continued her education in the United States at a Woman’s College to study psychology（心理学）. After graduation in 1914, she returned to China. In the 1920s, her family moved to Nanjing, where she taught English and American literature at a university.
As a writer, Pearl S. Buck’s book, The Good Earth, appeared in 1931 and sold quite well in its first year. It has been translated into over thirty languages. In 1938, she became the third American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. By the time of her death in March, 1973, Pearl had published more than seventy books.
1. Pearl S. Buck was born in West Virginia, America in ______.| A．1892 | B．1901 |
| C．1906 | D．1913 |
| A．She lived in Jiangsu Province in her youth. |
| B．She was able to speak English before she spoke Chinese. |
| C．Her mother and a Chinese teacher had educated her. |
| D．She studied at a Woman’s College in the United States. |
| A．education in China | B．experience in America |
| C．The Good Earth | D．psychology books |
| A．Pearl S. Buck’s Family | B．Pearl S. Buck’s Life Story |
| C．Pearl S. Buck’s Books | D．Pearl S. Buck’s Job as a Teacher |
