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SSAT阅读试题精练 　　美国SSAT考试，又被称为美国中考，关于阅读方面的SSAT试题： 　　1、When you want to hang the American flag over the middle of a street, suspend it vertically with the blue field, called the union, to the north and east-west street. When the flag is displayed with another banner from crossed staffs, the American flag is on the right. Place the staff of the American flag in front of the other staff. Raise the flag quickly and lower it slowly and respectfully. When flying the flag at half-mast, hoist it to the top of the pole for a moment before lowering it to mid-pole. When flying the American flag with banners from states or cities, raise the nations banner first and lower it last. Never allow the flag to touch the ground. 　　What is the main idea of this passage? 　　A. The American flag is the symbol of American freedom. 　　B. The American flag has fifty stars. 　　C. Placing the American flag inappropriately will draw government intervention. 　　D. American flag should be flown differently in certain situations. 　　,The flag should be lowered quickly and respectfully. 　　2、. What if someone told you about a kind of grass that grows as tall as the tallest trees? A grass that can be made as strong as steel? A grass from which houses, furniture, boats, and hundreds of other useful things can be made? A grass that you would even enjoy eating? Would you believe that person? You should, for that grass is bamboo, the “wood” of 1,001 uses. 　　Bamboo may look like wood, but it is part of the family of plants that includes wheat, oats, and barley. It is a kind of grass. This grass is not just a material for making useful products. Young bamboo is eaten, often mixed with other vegetables, in many Asian foods. 　　Bamboo grows in many parts of the world. In the United States it grows in an area from Virginia west to Indiana and south to Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. Most bamboo, however, is found in warm, wet climates, especially in Asia and on the islands of the South Pacific Ocean. 　　In most Asian co