四、阅读理解 阅读下列短文，从每题所给四选取项中，选取出一个最佳答案。（本题共30分，每小题2分）

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Denies Walme in dallas, Texas, USA, now 14 years old, published his best seller "Unbending Gisula" enght years ago.

The book is baout a little whale（鲸） named Gisula. One day, Gisual did not take his mother’s words and went up the beach.（海滩） Then he got lost ad had to learn to live by himself. The colour plates were drawn by denies himself. Denise published the book at the age of six. He is said to be the youngest writerand picture artist.

Another suprsing thing about the book is that it became a best selleer immediately after it was published and buought him a lot of money.

Because hi spent much time writing hthe book,hi sstudy was not very good nad he had to learn the year‘s work again. But his gift（才智） of writing is highly praised by the teachers and students. And he was even invited to give talks on writing.

But Denies does not want to hbe a writer. He said:"I like planes most. I dream of becoming a pilot（飞行员） some day."

51.From the story we can learn that Denies ____.

A.published his "Unbending Gisula" at the age of 14

B.wants tobe a writer when he grows up

C.drew the pictures for his own book

D.does not go to school any more

52.What Denies liked most is ____.

A.writing stories B.drawing pictures C.whales D.planes

53.Denies spent much time writing his book so ____.

A.he learnt his lessons very well

B.he had to learn his lessins again

C.he eas invited to give talks everywhere

D.he didn’t take his mother‘s words

54.Denise;s best seller is about ____.

A.his teachers and sudents B.Gisula’s mother

C.how to go to the beachand live D.a little whale

55.One surprising thing about the book should be _____.

A.Denise‘s age B.Denise’s home in the USA

C.the poor Gisula‘s getting lost D.Denise’s talks on writing

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Not long before a university professor（大学教授） made several experiments（实验） with different animals to find out which was the most intelligent. He found out the monkey was more intelligent than other animals.

In one ecperiment the professor put a monkey in a room where there were several small boxes. Some boxes were inside ofther boxes. One small box had some food inside it. The professor wanted to watch the monkey and to find out how long it would take the mondey to find the food. The professor left the room. He waited a frew minutes outside the door. Then he knelt(跪下） down and put his eye to the keyhole. What did he see? To his surpirise he found himself looking directly（正好） into the eye of the monkey. The monkey was looking at the professor through the other side of the door.

56.The reading mainly wants to tell us ____.

A.the food is difficult for animals to find

B.there are too many animals to feed

C.the result of the experiment on a monkey

D.the profesor was clever to make the epxeriment

57.The word "intelligent" int the reading means ____.

A.clever B.worried C.quick D.careless

58.The professor put the food in a small box to ____.

A.give the monkdey a surprise

B.see how the monkey ate from a box

C.know how soon the monkey could find it

D.find out how the monkey could open the box