1957年高考英语试题.docVIP

中国大方题库网1957年试题 一、阅读测验和英译汉 60% 1.阅读测验 24% 细读下面两段文字，然后回答文后所附的问题（答案必须用英文，必须简明扼要，不必用完整的句子）： A) Once a poor man had a parrot. The parrot could speak. It could say: There is no doubt about it. The parrot could only say these words and all day long it repeated: There is no doubt about it. To every question it gave one and the same answer: There is no doubt about it. One day, when the poor man had no money for bread, he decided to sell the parrot. He took the cage and went to the market. Who wants to buy my parrot? Twenty pounds for my clever parrot, cried he. A man came up and said: This is a fine bird but the price is too high. Then he asked the parrot: Are you worth twenty pounds? There is no doubt about it, answered the parrot as usual. The man was very pleased with the clever answer; he bought the bird and took it home. Some time after he began to see his mistake. And he was sorry. He stood near the cage and said: What a fool I am to have thrown so much money away! There is no doubt about it, answered the parrot. And this time the parrot was right. 1. What could the parrot do? 2. How much did the man pay for the parrot? 3. Why was the man sorry afterwards? 4. Why does the writer say at the end, And this time the parrot was right? B) There are two ways to increase agricultural production. One is by bringing more land under cultivation. The other is by getting more out of the land already cultivated. China still has not enough land under cultivation. Most of Chinas unused land is in the North-east and North-west—very large areas inhabited by a comparatively small number of people. But she is still industrially backward, and for the time being cannot afford the machines and money to reclaim(开垦)it on a large scale. Our main job at present, therefore, is to increase production by raising the output(产量)per acre of existing farm land. If we can work on these lines, we shall be able, in a period of several five-year plans, to raise our agricultural output to such a level tha