三、阅读理解(共15小题;每题2分，共30分。)

　　阅读下列短文，然后根据短文的内容从每小题的四个选择项中选出最佳的一项。

　　A

　　Many people earn their living with their hands. Ed earns his living with his feet! And a very good living it is,too.

　　Ed’s story began in a very small town in Brazil. His father and mother were very poor. Seven people lived in their tiny house. Ed's father often played football. Little Ed wanted to play football too. So his father made a soft ball for him to kick. It was a sock filled with soft materials. The little kicked it every day.

　　At last Ed learned to kick a real football. By the time he was 11, he played football very well.

　　One day Ed was playing with some men. A man passing by saw how fast the boy ran. He stopped

　　to watch. How well Ed kicked the ball!

　　After the game, the man called Ed to him. "My name is Mr. Dee," he said. "I used to play football for a living. Will you let me teach you what I know?"

　　"Oh. yes!" Ed answered.

　　In the next four years, Mr.Dee Ed to be a fine player. The boy worked hard. At last Mr.Dee talked to Ed's father. "This is boy is ready to play with the big teams."he said. "Let me take him to a city that has a good team."

　　Mr.Dee took Ed to Santos, Brazil. There, the boy joined the Santos Football Club.

　　In his first big game, Ed helped his team win by seven points. He made four of the seven points!

　　Many people thought he was the best football player in the world. He was "The King of Football".

　　36. What is said about Ed's family when he was a little child?

　　A. There were seven people in his family.

　　B. His father made soft balls for a living.

　　C. His parents liked playing football.

　　D. His parents bought him a football.

　　37. When he first saw Ed playing football, Mr. Dee was attracted by .

　　A. his young age

　　B. his running speed

　　C. his love for football

　　D.his playing with men

　　38. What can we know about Mr. Dee from the text?

　　A. He joined the Santos Football Club.

　　B. He and Ed used to live in the same town.

　　C. He had been the best football player in Brazil.

　　D. He happened to find a very good football player.

　　B

　　"The price of books for our students is just getting higher and higher and higher and, along with the rising cost of tuition (学费), it's killing these students," said Peter Jason, a college professor. "Remember, students are one of the poorest groups of people in America. Almost half of them have at least one part-time job. In fact, one of my students has three jobs. And she still manages to have high scores and go to school full-time."

　　Textbook prices are usually high. Adding to that problem, many college teachers change textbooks year after year, they either upgrade to a new edition (版本) or change to a different textbook. This further hurts students because if a teacher no longer uses a textbook, that book has no resale value.

　　Dr. Jason decided to make life a little easier and a lot cheaper for his students by writing his own book on public speaking. "Many books have an increased price because of CD-ROMs, lots of color photographs and pictures. I talked to my students, and many of them, like me, prefer to keep things simple. So, a few years ago, I wrote my own textbook. I made sure that it was simple. Compared to most of other public speaking books, mine is half the number of pages, and one-third the price. That is $30 instead of $90. When I wrote a second edition last year, students only had to buy the 35 new pages. For only $7.00, they had almost a new book."

　　39. What did Dr. Jason say about students at college?

　　A. They are short of money.

　　B. They need simple books.

　　C. They have no part-time jobs.

　　D. They are trying to get high scores.

　　40. What does "that problem" in Paragraph 2 refer to?

　　A. The high prices of textbooks.

　　B. The low resale value of books.

　　C. Too many different new books.

　　D. No color pictures in textbooks.

　　41. What did Dr. Jason decide to do to help the students?

　　A. To choose cheaper textbooks.

　　B. To write a textbook himself.

　　C. To speak to his students

　　D. To use old textbooks.

　　42. How much does a public speaking book usually cost?

　　A. About 7 dollars.

　　B. About 30 dollars.

　　C. About 37 dollars.

　　D. About 90 dollars.