V. READING COMPREHENSION
There are 4 reading passages inthissection.Each passage is followed by some questions. For each question there are 4 suggested answers marked A),B),C) and D). Choose the ONE best answer and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
Passage 1
I was telling my boy Sonny the story of the hare(野兔) and the tortoise(乌龟).At the end I said."Son, remember: slow and steady wins the race.Don't you think there's something to learn from the tortoise?"
He opened his eyes wide."Do you mean next time when I'm entering for the 60-metre race I should wish that Billy and Tony and Sandy would all fall asleep half-way?"
I was shocked. "But the tortoise didn't wish the hare would fall asleep!"
"He must have wished that," Sonny said."Otherwise how could he be slo stupid as to race with the hare? He knew very well the hare ran a hundred times faster than he himself did."
"He didn't have such a wish," I insisted."He won the race by perseverance(坚韧不拔), by pushing on steadity."
Sonny thought for a while. "That's a lie," he said. "He won because he was lucky. If the hare hadn't happened to fall asleep, the tortoise would never have won the race. He could be as steadyas you like, or a hundred times steadier, but he'd never have won the race. That's for sure."
I gave up. Today's children are not like what we used to be.
They're just hopeless.

81. The writer argued with his son because ( ).
A) he liked tortoises while his son liked hares
B) they disagreed about whether the tortoise was stupid
C) he liked the story of the hare and the tortoise while his son didn't
D) he tried to teach his son the moral lesson of the story but the son rejected it
82. Sonny believed that the tortoise ( ) .
A) won the race by his own effort
B) took a risk by agreeing to race
C) was not given a fair chance in the race
D) won the race by chance
83. Billy, Tony and Sandy must be ( ).
A) boys who were unknown to Sonny's father
B) boys Sonny had run races with before
C) boys Sonny had never raced with before
D) boys Sonny did not expect to race with again
84. When the writer says "I gave up" at the end, he means ( ).
A) he gave up his belief in the moral idea of the hare-and-tortoise story
B) he gave up arguing with Sonny
C) he gave up Sonny as a hopeless child
D) he gave up trying to keep up with the new generation
85. According to the passage, who do you think learnt a lesson?
A) The tortoise. C) Sonny.
B) The hare. D) Sonny's father.

Passage 2
Are you forty years old and fat? Do you wear fine clothes? Do you look rich? If so, be careful. There is a pickpocket(扒手)looking for you. World travelers, away from home and usuallycarrying much money, are often troubled by pickpockets in foreign countries, but they should remember that there are pickpockets in their own country, too.
A typical pickpocket is under forty years of age, usually a male. He has nimble(灵敏的) fingers and has trained himself in running. Generally, he carries a newpaper or magazine in his hand.
He may appear fairly clever and pretend to be calm. He has learned his job from another pickpocket, and he repays his "teather" by giving him a percentage of the money or things which he steals.
The good pickpocket always operates in crowded places. Very well-dressed men and slightly drunken men the favorite objects of the pickpocket.
An average-sized department store hires about six or seven full time detectives. These men and women are constantly looking for pickpockets and thieves. Many police districts have detectives whose only job is to catch the pickpockets quickly.
But a good pickpocket knows these things and is very careful. He is especially busy on buses, trains and subways(地铁) between 11:00 a.m and 3:00 p.m. when there are many shoppers with much money to spend. He carefully remembers the payday and bonus(奖金) times of companies.
Pickpocketing and stealing from a shop together represent about 75% of daytime petty crime in America. The sentence for these crimes is usually from three to five years in prison. After
finishing their sentence, pickpockets and thieves seldom reform; they usually advance to more serious crimes.

86. According to the author, a typical pickpocket looks like ( ).
A) an old world traveler C) a slightly drunken man
B) a well-dressed rich man D) a clever and calm man
87. If a pickpocket is caught in America, he will be ( ).
A) fined heavily
B) beaten and then set free
C) sent to a reform campus
D) sent to prison for three to five years
88. According to the author, a pickpocket will most probably ( )after he leaves the prison.
A) commit more serious crimes
B) work hard to make up for what he has done
C) change and improve greatly
D) do everything more carefully
89. The job of the detectives in a department store is ( ).
A) to find out information about thieves
B) to help the police
C) to get the department store in good order
D) to find and catch pickpockets and thieves
90. The author is attempting to ( ).
A) tell us how pickpockets steal things
B) help us to learn some pickpockets' skills
C) warn us against pickpockets
D) prove himself to be a good detective
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