初中英语阅读理解与完形填空

初中 英语 关于好奇心的名言警句英语高中英语词汇下载高中英语词汇 下载英语衡水体下载小学英语关于形容词和副词的题 阅读理解与完形填空 (一) A It is 3 a.m. Everything on the university campus seems ghostlike in the quiet, misty darkness－everything except the computer center. Here, twenty students sit in chairs, tapping away on the keys. With eyes glued to the video screen, they tap on for hours. For the rest of the world, it might be the middle of the night, but here time does not exist. These young computer "hackers" are pursuing a kind of compulsion（强烈欲望）, a drive which overshadows nearly every other part of their lives. They are compulsive computer programmers. Some of these students have been there for thirty hours or more without a break for meals or sleep. Some have fallen asleep on sofas in the computer center, trying to catch a few winks（眨眼）but hate to get too far away from their beloved machines. Most of these students don’t have to be at the computer center in the middle of the night. They aren’t working on assignments. They are there because they want to be－they are irresistibly drawn there. And they are not alone. There are hackers at computer centers all across the country. In their extreme form, they focus on nothing else. They fail in school and lose contact with friends; they might have difficulty finding jobs, choosing instead to wander from one computer center to another. "I remember one hacker. We had to carry him off his chair to feed him and put him to sleep. We really feared for his health," says a computer science professor at MIT. Computer science teachers are now more aware of the meaning of this hacker phenomenon. They know that the case of the hackers is not just the story of one person’s relationship with a machine. It is the story of a society’s relationship to the so-called thinking machines, which are becoming almost widespread. 56. Which of the following is NOT true of those young computer "hackers"? A. Most of them are top students majoring in computer programming. B. For them, computer programming is almost the only purpose for their life. C. They can stay with the computer at the center for nearly three days on end. D. Their "love" for the computer is so deep that they want to be near their machines even when they sleep. 57. It can be reasonably inferred from the passage that ____. A. the "hacker" phenomenon exists only at university computer centers B. university computer centers are open to almost everyone C. university computer centers are expecting outstanding programmers out of the "hackers" D. the "hacker" phenomenon is partly due to the lack of the computer centers 58. The author’s attitude towards the "hacker" phenomenon can be described as ____. A. positive B. indifferent C. anxious D. disgusted 59. Which of the following may be a most appropriate title for the passage? A. The Charm of Computer Science B. A New Type of Electronic Toys C. Compulsive Computer Programmers D. Internet Addicts B One of the most interesting paradoxes(自相矛盾的话) in America today is that Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, is now engaged in a serious debate about what a university should be. 　　“Should Harvard or any other university be an intellectual sanctuary, away from the political and social revolution of the age, or should it be a laboratory for experimentation with these political and social revolutions; or even an engine of the revolution?” This is what is being discussed privately in the faculty of Harvard. 　　The issue was defined by Waiter Lippmann, a distinguished Harvard graduate, several years ago. “If the universities are to do their work,” he said, “they must be independent and they must be disinterested（廉洁）… They are places to which men can turn for judgments which are unbiased（无偏见的） by partisanship（政党支持）and special interest. Obviously, the moment the universities fall under political control, or under the control of private interests, or the moment they themselves take a hand in politics and the leadership of government, their value as independent and disinterested sources of judgments is damaged.” 　　This is part of the argument that is going on at Harvard today. Another part is the argument of the militant(好战的) : that a university is the keeper of our ideals and morals, and should not be “disinterested” but activist in bringing the nation’s ideals and actions together. 　　Harvard’s men of today seem more troubled and less sure about personal, political and academic purpose than they did at the beginning. “They are not even clear about how they should debate and solve their problems, but they are struggling with them privately, and how they come out is certain to influence American university and political life.” 60. The issues in the debate on Harvard’s goals are whether the universities should remain independent of our society and its problems, or whether they should . A. fight with the militant B. overcome the widespread dependency C. take an active part in solving society’s ills D. support our old and established institutions 61. In regard to their goals and purposes in life, the author believes that Harvard men are becoming . A. more sure about them B. less sure about them C. more hopeful of reaching a satisfactory answer D. completely disappointed about ever 62. The word “sanctuary”in paragraph 3 is . A. a holy place devoted to a certain god B. a temple of middle age C. a certain place you can hide in and avoid something D. a place to train soldiers 63. In the author’s judgment, the debate going on at Harvard . A. is a sad symbol of our general puzzlement B. will soon be over, because times are bound to change C. is of interest mostly to Harvard men and their friends D. will influence future life in America C The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, painfree life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining（达到）real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not things that lead to happiness involve some pain. As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment (承担的义务), self improvement. Ask a bachelor(单身汉) why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features. Couples with infant（婴儿）children are lucky to get a whole night’s sleep or a three day vacation. I don’t know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild. Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all. 64. According to the author, a bachelor resists marriage chiefly because _______ . A. he is unwilling to take on family responsibilities B. he believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single C. he finds more fun in dating than in marriage D. he fears it will put an end to all his fun adventure and excitement 65. From the last paragraph, we learn that envy sometimes stems from _______. A. hatred B. misunderstanding C. prejudice D. ignorance 66. To understand what true happiness is one must _______. A. have as much fun as possible during one’s lifetime B. make every effort to liberate oneself from pain C. put up with pain under all circumstances D. be able to distinguish happiness from fun 67. What is the author trying to tell us? A. Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain. B. One must know how to attain happiness. C. It is important to make commitments. D. It is pain that leads to happiness. D Professor Smith recently persuaded 35 people, 23 of them women, to keep a diary of all their absent-minded actions for a fortnight. When he came to analyse their embarrassing lapses ( 差错) in a scientific report, he was surprised to find that nearly all of them fell into a few groupings, nor did the lapses appear to be entirely random (随机的). One of the women, for instance, on leaving her house for work one morning threw her dog her earrings and tried to fix a dog biscuit on her ear. “the explanation for this is that the brain is like a computer,” explains the professor. "People programme themselves to do certain activities regularly. It was the woman's custom every morning to throw her dog two biscuits and then put on her earrings. But somehow the action got reversed in the programme," About one in twenty of the incidents the volunteers reported were these "programme assembly failures," Altogether the volunteers logged 433 unintentional actions that they found themselves doing -- an average of twelve each, There appear to be peak periods in the day when we are at our zaniest (荒谬可笑的). These are two hours some time between eight a.m. and noon, between four and six p.m. with a smaller peak between eight and ten p.m. "Among men the peak seems to be when a changeover in brain 'programmes' occurs, for instance between going to and from work." Women on average reported slightly more lapses－ 12.5 compared with 10.9 for men probably because they were more reliable reporters. A startling finding of the research is that the absent-minded activity is a hazard（冒险）of doing things in which we are skilled. Normally, you would expect that skill reduces the number of errors we make. But trying to avoid silly lapses by concentrating more could make things a lot worse or even dangerous. 68. In his study Professor Smith asked the subjects . A. to keep track of people who tend to forget things B. to report their embarrassing lapses at random C. to analyse their awkward experiences scientifically D. to keep a record of what they did unintentionally 69. "Programme assembly failures" (Line 6, Para. 2) refers to the phenomenon that people . A. often fail to programme their routines beforehand B. tend to make mistakes when they are in a hurry C. unconsciously change the sequence of doing things D. are likely to mess things up if they are too tired 70. We learn from the third paragraph that . A. absent-mindedness tends to occur during certain hours of the day B. women are very careful to perform actions during peak periods C. women experience more peak periods of absent-mindedness D. men's absent-mindedness often results in funny situations 71. It can be concluded from the passage that . A. people should avoid doing important things during peak periods of lapses B. hazards can be avoided when people do things they are good at C. people should be careful when programming their actions D. lapses cannot always be due to lack of concentration E Brazil has become one of the developing world’s great successes at reducing population growth, but more by accident than design. While countries such as India have made efforts to reduce birth rates, Brazil has had better results without really trying, says George Martine at Harvard. Brazil´s population growth rate has dropped from 2.99％ a year between 1951 and 1960 to 1.93％ a year between 1981 and 1990, and Brazilian women now have only 2.7 children on average. Martine says this figure may have fallen still further since 1990, an achievement that makes it the envy of many other Third World countries. Martine puts it down to, among other things, soap operas and installment (分期付款) plans introduced in the 1970s. Both played an important, although indirect, role in lowering the birth rate. Brazil is one of the world’s biggest producers of soap operas. Globl, Brazil’s most popular television network, shows three hours of soaps six nights a week, while three others show at least one hour a night. Most soaps are based on wealthy characters living the high life in big cities. “Although they have never really tried to work on the problems of reproduction, they describe middle and upper class values: not many children, different attitudes towards sex, women working," says Martine. "They sent this image to all parts of Brazil and made people conscious of other patterns of behaviour and other values, which were put into a very attractive package.” Meanwhile, the installment plans tried to encourage the poor to become consumers. “This led to an enormous change in consumption patterns and consumption was in compatible (不相容的) with unlimited reproduction.” says Martine. 72.According to the passage, Brazil has cut back its population growth_______. A. by educating its citizens B. by careful family panning C. by developing TV programmes D. by chance 73. According to the passage, many Third World countries_______. A. haven’t attached much importance to birth control B. would soon join Brazil in controlling their birth rate C. haven’t yet found an effective measure to control their population D. neglected the role of TV plays in family planning 74. Soap operas have helped in lowering Brazil’s birth rate because_______. A. they keep people sitting long hours watching TV B. they have gradually changed people’s way of life C. people are drawn to their attractive package D. they popularize birth control measures 75. What is Martine’s conclusion about Brazil’s population growth? A. The increase in birth rate will promote consumption. B. The desire for consumption helps to reduce birth rate. C. Consumption patterns and reproduction patterns are contradictory. D. A country’s production is limited by its population growth. 56-59 ABCC 60-63 CBCD 64-67 A BDA 68-71 DCAD 72-75 DCBB[ （二） A Last week my youngest son and I visited my father at his new home in Tucson, Arizona. He moved there a few years ago, and I was eager to see his new place and meet his friends. My earliest memories of my father are of a tall, handsome, successful man devoted to his work and family, but uncomfortable with his children. As a child I loved him; as a school girl and young adult I feared him and felt bitter about him. He seemed unhappy with me unless I got straight A’s and unhappy with my boyfriends if their fathers were not as “successful” as he was. Whenever I went out with him on weekends, I used to struggle to think up things to say, feeling on guard. On the first day of my visit, we went out with one of my father’s friends for lunch at an outdoor café. We walked along that afternoon, did some shopping, ate on the street table, and laughed over my son’s funny facial expressions. Gone was my father’s critical(挑剔的) air and strict rules. Who was this person I knew as my father, who seemed so friendly and interesting to be around? What had held him back before? The next day my dad pulled out his childhood pictures and told me quite a few stories about his own childhood. Although our times together became easier over the years, I never felt closer to him at that moment. After so many years, I’m at last seeing another side of my father. And in so doing, I’m delighted with my new friend. My dad, in his new home in Arizona, is back to me from where he was. 56. Why did the author feel bitter about her father when she was a young adult? A. He was silent most of the time. B. He was too proud of himself. C. He did not love his children. D. He expected too much of her. 57. When the author went out with her father on weekends, she would feel ______. A. nervous B. sorry C. tired D. safe 58. What does the author think of her father after her visit to Tucson? A. More critical. B. More talkative. C. Gentle and friendly. D. Strict and hard-working. 59. The underlined words “my new friend” in the last paragraph refer to ______. A. the author’s son B. the author’s father B. the friend of the author’s father D. the café owner B More than 10 years ago, it was difficult to buy a tasty pineapple. The fruits that made it to the UK were green on the outside and, more often than not, hard with an unpleasant taste within. Then in 1996, the Del Monte Gold pineapple produced in Hawaii first hit our shelves. The new type of pineapple looked more yellowy-gold than green. It was slightly softer on the outside and had a lot of juice inside. But the most important thing about this new type of pineapple was that it was twice as sweet as the hit-and-miss pineapples we had known. In no time, the Del Monte Gold took the market by storm, rapidly becoming the world’s best-selling pineapple variety, and delivering natural levels of sweetness in the mouth, up until then only found in tinned pineapple. In nutrition(营养) it was all good news too. This nice-tasting pineapple contained four times more vitamin C(维生素C) than the old green variety. Nutritionists said that it was not only full of vitamins, but also good against some diseases. People were understandably eager to be able to buy this wonderful fruit. The new type of pineapple was selling fast, and the Del Monte Gold pineapple rapidly became a fixture in the shopping basket of the healthy eater. Seeing the growing market for its winning pineapple, Del Monte tried to keep the market to itself. But other fruit companies developed similar pineapples. Del Monte turned to law for help, but failed. Those companies argued successfully that Del Monte’s attempts to keep the golden pineapple for itself were just a way to knock them out of the market. 60. We learn from the text that the new type of pineapple is ______. A. green outside and sweet inside B. good-looking outside and soft inside C. yellowy-gold outside and hard inside D. a little soft outside and sweet inside 61. Why was the new type of pineapple selling well? A. It was rich in nutrition and tasted nice. B. It was less sweet and good for health. C. It was developed by Del Monte. D. It was used as medicine. 62. The underlined word “fixture” in Paragraph 3 probably refers to something ______. A. that people enjoy eating B. that is always present CV. that is difficult to get D. that people use as a gift 63. We learn from the last paragraph that Del Monte ______. A. allowed other companies to develop pineapples B. succeeded in keeping the pineapple for itself C. tried hard to control the pineapple market D. planned to help the other companies C Do’s and Don’ts in Whale(鲸) Watching The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has developed guidelines for whale watching in Johnstone Strait, where killer whales are found on a daily basis each summer. It is strongly recommended that vessel(船只) operators follow these guidelines for all kinds of whales. · Approach whales from the side, not from the front or the back. · Approach no closer than 100 metres, then stop the boat but keep the engine on. · Keep noise levels down — no horns, whistles or racing of engines. · Start your boat only after the whales are more than 100 metres from your vessel. · Leave the area slowly, gradually moving faster when you are more than 300 metres from the whales. · Approach and leave slowly, avoiding sudden changes in speed or direction. · Avoid disturbing groups of resting whales. · Keep at low speeds and remain in the same direction if traveling side by side with whales. · When whales are traveling close to shore, avoid crowding them near the shore or coming between the whales and the shore. · Limit the time spent with any group of whales to less than 30 minutes at a time when within 100 to 200 metres of whales. · If there is more than one vessel at the same observation spot, be sure to avoid any boat position that would result in surrounding the whales. · Work together by communicating with other vessels, and make sure that all operators are aware of the whale watching guidelines. 64. For whom is this text written? A. Tour guides. B. Whale watchers. C. Vessel operators. D. Government officials. 65. When leaving the observation areas, the vessel should ______. A. move close to the beach B. increase speed gradually C. keep its engine running slowly D. remain at the back of the whales 66. When going side by side with whales, the vessel should ______. A. keep moving in the same direction B. surround the whales with other boats C. travel closer and closer to the shore D. take a good viewing position 67. What is the shortest safe distance from the whales? A. 400 metres. B. 300 metres. C. 200 metres. D. 100 metres. D Holidays Holiday News Vacancies(空位) now and in the school holidays at a country hotel in Devon. This comfortable, friendly home-from-home lies near the beautiful quiet countryside, but just a drive away from the sea. The food is simple but good. Children and pets are welcome. Reduced prices for low season. The snowdonia Centre The Snowdonia Centre for young mountain climbers has a mountain climbing lesson. The beginners’ costs are ￡57 for a week, including food and rooms. Equipment is included except walking shoes, which can be hired at a low cost. You must be in good health and prepared to go through a period of body exercises. This could be the beginning of a lifetime of mountain climbing adventure. The World Sea Trip of a Lifetime Our World Sea Trip of 2008 will be unlike any holiday you have ever been on before. Instead of one hotel after another, with all its packing and unpacking, waiting and traveling, you just go to bed in one country and wake up in another. On board the ship, you will be well taken care of. Every meal will be first-class and every cabin like your home. During the trip, you can rest on deck(甲板), enjoy yourself in the games rooms and in the evening dance to our musical team and watch our wonderful play. You will visit all the places most people only dream about — from Acapulco and Hawaii to Tokoy and Hong Kong. For a few thousand pounds, all you’ve ever hoped for can be yours. 68. What can you do if you like to go on holidays with pets? A. Choose the holiday in Devon. B. Go to the Snowdonia Centre. C. Join the World Sea Trip of 2008. D. Visit Acapulco and Hawaii. 69. In what way is the Snowdonia Centre different from the other two holidays? A. It provides chances of family gatherings. B. It provides customers with good food. C. It offers a sports lesson. D. It offers comfortable rooms. 70. What is special about the World Sea Trip of 2008? A. You can have free meals on deck every day. B. You can sleep on a ship and tour many places. C. You will have chances to watch and act in a play. D. You have to do your own packing and unpacking. 56. D 57. A 58. C 59. B 60. D61.A 62. B 63. C 64. C 65. B 66. A 67. D 68. A 69. C 70. B （三） A It was a winter morning, just a couple of weeks before Christmas 2005. While most people were warming up their cars, Trevor, my husband, had to get up early to ride his bike four kilometers away from home to work. On arrival, he parked his bike outside the back door as he usually does. After putting in 10 hours of labor, he returned to find his bike gone. The bike, a black Kona 18 speed, was our only transport. Trevor used it to get to work, putting in 60-hour weeks to support his young family. And the bike was also used to get groceries（食品杂货），saving us from having to walk long distances from where we live. I was so sad that someone would steal our bike that I wrote to the newspaper and told them our story. Shortly after that, several people in our area offered to help. One wonderful stranger even bought a bike, then called my husband to pick it up. Once again my husband had a way to get to and from his job. It really is an honor that a complete stranger would go out of their way for someone they have never met before. People say that a smile can be passed from one person to another, but acts of kindness from strangers are even more so. This experience has had a spreading effect in our lives because it strengthened our faith in humanity（人性）as a whole. And it has influenced（影响）us to be more mindful of ways we, too, can share with others. No matter how big or how small, an act of kindness shows that someone cares. And the results can be everlasting. 56．Why was the bike so important to the couple? A．The man’s job was bike racing B．It was their only possession. C．It was a nice Kona 18 speed. D．They used it for work and daily life. 57．We can infer from the text that ____________. A．the couple worked 60 hours a week. B．people were busy before Christmas C．the stranger brought over the bike D．life was hard for the young family. 58．How did people get to know the couple’s problem? A．From radio broadcasts. B．From a newspaper. C．From TV news D．From a stranger. 59．What do the couple learn from their experience? A．Strangers are usually of little help B．One should take care of their bike. C．News reports make people famous D．An act of kindness can mean a lot. B Many animals recognize their food because they see it. So do humans. When you see an apple or a piece of chocolate you know that these are things you can eat. You can also use other senses when you choose your food. You may like it because it smells good or because it tastes good. You may dislike some types of food because they do not look, smell or taste very nice. Different animals use different senses to find and choose their food. A few animals depend on only one of their senses, while most animals use more than one sense. Although there are many different types of food, some animals spend their lives eating only one type. The giant panda（大熊猫）eats only one particular type of bamboo（竹子）. Other animals eat only one type of food even when given the choice. A kind of white butterfly（蝴蝶）will stay on the leaves of a cabbage, even though there are plenty of other vegetables in the garden. However, most animals have a more varied diet（多样化饮食）. The bear eats fruits and fish. The fox eats small animals, birds and fruits. The diet of these animals will be different depending on the season. Humans have a very varied diet. We often eat food because we like it and not because it is good for us. In countries such as France and Britain, people eat foods with too much sugar. This makes them overweight, which is bad for their health. Eating too much red meat and animal products, such as butter, can also be bad for the health. Choosing the right food, therefore, has become an area of study in modern life. 60．We can infer from the text that humans and animals _________. A．depend on one sense in choosing food B．are not satisfied with their food C．choose food in similar ways D．eat entirely different food 61．Which of the following eats only one type of food? A．The white butterfly. B．The small bird. C．The bear D．The fox. 62．Certain animals change their choice of food when ___________. A．the season changes B．the food color changes C．they move to different places D．they are attracted by different smells 63．We can learn from the last paragraph that __________. A．food is chosen for a good reason B．French and British food is good C．some people have few choices of food D．some people care little about healthy diet C Our “Mommy and Me” time began two years ago. My next-door neighbor and fellow mother, Christie, and I were out in our front yards, watching seven children of age 6 and under ride their bikes up and down. “I wish I could take one of my children out alone,” said Christie. Then we worked out a plan: When Christie takes one of her children out, I’ll watch her other three. And when she watches two of mine, I’ll take someone out. The children were extremely quick to accept the idea of “Mommy and Me” time. Christie’s daughter, McKenzie, went first. When she returned, the other children showered her with tons of questions. McKenzie was smiling broadly. Christie looked refreshed and happy. “She’s like a different child when there’s no one else around,” Christie shared with me quickly. With her mother all to herself, McKenzie didn’t have to make an effort to gain attention. Just as Christie had noticed changes in McKenzie, I also discovered something different in each of my children during our alone times. For example, I am always surprised when my daughter, who is seldom close to me, holds my hand frequently. My stuttering（口吃的）son, Tom, doesn’t stutter once during our activities since he doesn’t have to struggle for a chance to speak. And the other son, Sam, who’s always a follower when around other children shines as a leader during our times together. The “Mommy and Me” time allows us to be simply alone and away with each child ---talking, sharing, and laughing, which has been the biggest gain. Every child deserves（应得到）to be an only child at least once in a while. 64．What is the text mainly about? A．The experience of the only child being with mother. B．The advantage of spending time with one child at a time. C．The happy life of two families. D．The basic needs of children. 65．Right after McKenzie came back, the other children were _____________. A．happy B．curious C．regretful D．friendly 66．What is one of the changes the author finds in her children? A．The daughter acts like a leader. B．Sam holds her hand more often. C．The boys become better followers. D．Tom has less difficulty in speaking. 67．The author seems to believe that ___________. A．having brothers and sisters is fun B．it’s tiring to look after three children C．every child needs parents’ full attention D．parents should watch others’ children D Anyone who cares about what schools and colleges teach and how their students learn will be interested in the memoir（回忆录）of Ralph W. Tyler, who is one of the most famous men in American education. Born in Chicago in 1902, brought up and schooled in Nebraska, the 19-year-old college graduate Ralph Tyler became hooked on teaching while teaching as a science teacher in South Dakota and changed his major from medicine to education. Graduate work at the University of Chicago found him connected with honorable educators Charles Judd and W. W. Charters, whose ideas of teaching and testing had an effect on his later work. In 1927, he became a teacher of Ohio State University where he further developed a new method of testing. Tyler became well-known nationality in 1938, when he carried his work with the Eight-Year Study from Ohio State University to the University of Chicago at the invitation of Robert Hutchins. Tyler was the first director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, a position he held for fourteen years. There, he firmly believed that researchers should be free to seek an independent（独立的）spirit in their work. Although Tyler officially retired in 1967, he never actually retired. He served on a long list of educational organizations in the United States and abroad. Even in his 80s he traveled across the country to advise teachers and management people on how to set objectives（目标）that develop the best teaching and learning within their schools. 68．Who are most probably interested in Ralph W. Tyler’s memoir? A．Top managers. B．Language learners. C．Serious educators . D．Science organizations. 69．The words “hooked oh teaching” underlined in Paragraph 2 probably mean ________. A．attracted to teaching B．tired of teaching C．satisfied with teaching D．unhappy about teaching 70．Where did Tyler work as the leader of a research center for over 10 years? A．The University of Chicago B．Stanford University. C．Ohio State University. D．Nebraska University. 56．D 57．D58．B 59．D60．C 61．A62．A63．D64．B65．B66．D67C68．C69．A70．B　 （四） A I travel a lot, and I find out different “styles”(风格) of directions every time I ask “How can I get to the post office?” Foreign tourists are often confused(困惑) in Japan because most streets there don’t have names; in Japan, people use landmarks(地标) in their directions instead of street names. For example, the Japanese will say to travelers, “Go straight down to the corner. Turn left at the big hotel and go past a fruit market. The post office is across from the bus stop.” In the countryside of the American Midwest, there are not usually many landmarks. There are no mountains, so the land is very flat; in many places there are no towns or buildings within miles. Instead of landmarks, people will tell you directions and distances. In Kansas or Iowa, for example, people will say, “Go north two miles. Turn east, and then go another mile.” People in Los Angeles, California, have no idea of distance on the map; they measure distance in time, not miles. “How far away is the post office?” you ask. “Oh,” they answer, “it’s about five minutes from here.” You say, “Yes, but how many miles away is it?” They don’t know. It’s true that a person doesn’t know the answer to your question sometimes. What happens in such a situation? A new Yorker might say, “Sorry, I have no idea.” But in Yucatan, Mexico, no one answers “I don’t know.” People in Yucatan believe that “I don’t know” is impolite. They usually give an answer, often a wrong one. A tourist can get very, very lost in Yucatan! 56. When a tourist asks the Japanese the way to a certain place, they usually ______. A. describe the place carefully B. show him a map of the place C. tell him the names of the streets D. refer to recognizable buildings and places 57. What is the place where people measure distance in time? A. New York. B. Los Angeles. C. Kansas. D. Iowa. 58. People in Yucatan may give a tourist a wrong answer ______. A. in order to save time B. Los Angeles. C. so as to be polite D. for fun 59. What can we infer from the text? A. It’s important for travelers to understand cultural differences. B. It’s useful for travelers to know how to ask the way properly. C. People have similar understandings of politeness. D. New Yorkers are generally friendly to visitors. B Heroes of Our Time A good heart Dikembe Mutombo grew up in Africa among great poverty and disease. He came to Georgetown University on a scholarship(奖学金) to study medicine — but Coach(教练) John Thompson got a look at Dikembe and had a different idea. Dikembe became a star in the NBA, and a citizen of the United States. But he never forgot the land of his birth, or the duty to share his fortune with others. He built a new hospital in his old hometown in the Congo. Af friend has said of this good-hearted man: “Mutombo believes that God has given him this chance to do great things.” Success and kindness After her daughter was born, Julie Aigner-Clark searched for ways to share her love of music and art with her child. So she borrowed some equipment, and began filming children’s videos(录像) in her own house. The Baby Einstein Company was born, and in just five years her business grew to more than $20 million in sales. And she is using her success to help others — producing child safety videos with John Walsh of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Julie says of her new program: “I believe it’s the most important thing that I have ever done. I believe that children have the right to live in a world that is safe.” Bravery and courage A few weeks ago, Wesley Autrey was waiting at a Harlem subway station with his two little girls when he saw a man fall into the path of a train. With seconds to act, Wesley jumped onto the tracks, pulled the man into the space between the rails(铁轨), and held him as the train passed right above their heads. He insists he’s not a hero. He says: “We have got to show each other some love.” 60. What was Mutombo praised for? A. Being a star in the NBA. B. Being a student of medicine. C. His work in the church. D. His willingness to help the needy. 61. Mutombo believes that building the new hospital is ______. A. helpful to his personal development B. something he should do for his homeland C. a chance for his friends to share his money D. a way of showing his respect to the NBA 62. What did the Baby Einstein Company do at its beginning? A. Produce safety equipment for children. B. Make videos to help protect children. C. Sell children’s music and artwork. D. Look for missing and exploited children. 63. Why was Wesley Autrey praised as a hero? A. He helped a man get across the rails. B. He stopped a man from destroying the rails. C. He protected two little girls from getting hurt. D. He saved a person without considering his own safety. C Tom was one of the brightest boys in the year, with supportive parents. But when he was 15 he suddenly stopped trying. He left school at 16 with only two scores for secondary school subjects. One of the reasons that made it cool for him not to care was the power of his peer(同龄人) group. The lack of right male(男性的) role models in many of their lives — at home and particularly in the school environment(环境) — means that their peers are the only people they have to judge themselves against. They don’t see men succeeding in society so it doesn’t occur to them that they could make something of themselves. Without male teachers as a role model, the effect of peer actions and street culture(文化) is all-powerful. Boys want to be part of a club. However, schools can provide the environment for change, and provide the right role models for them. Teachers need to be trained to stop that but not in front of a child’s peers. You have to do it one to one, because that is when you see the real child. It’s pointless sending a child home if he or she has done wrong. They see it as a welcome day off to watch television or play computer games. Instead, schools should have a special unit where a child who has done wrong goes for the day and gets advice about his problems — somewhere he can work away from his peers and go home after the other children. 64. Why did Tom give up studying? A. He disliked his teachers. B. His parents no longer supported him. C. It’s cool for boys of his age not to care about studies. D. There were too many subjects in his secondary school. 65. What seems to have a bad effect on students like Tom? A. Peer groups. B. A special unit. C. The student judges. D. The home environment. 66. What should schools do to help the problem schoolboys? A. Wait for their change patiently. B. Train leaders of their peer groups. C. Stop the development of street culture. D. Give them lessons in a separate area. 67. A teacher’s work is most effective with a schoolboy when he ______. A. is with the boy alone B. teaches the boy a lesson C. sends the boy home as punishment D. works together with another teacher D Far from the land of Antarctica(南极洲), a huge shelf of ice meets the ocean. At the underside of the shelf there lives a small fish, the Antarctic cod. For forty years scientists have been curious about that fish. How does it live where most fish would freeze to death? It must have some secret. The Antarctic is not a comfortable place to work and research has been slow. Now it seems we have an answer. Research was begun by cutting holes in the ice and catching the fish. Scientists studied the fish’s blood and measured its freezing point. The fish were taken from seawater that had a temperature of -1.88℃ and many tiny pieces of ice floating in it. The blood of the fish did not begin to freeze until its temperature was lowered to -2.05℃. That small difference is enough for the fish to live at the freezing temperature of the ice-salt mixture. The scientists’ next research job was clear: Find out what in the fish’s blood kept it from freezing. Their search led to some really strange thing made up of a protein(蛋白质) never before seen in the blood of a fish. When it was removed, the blood froze at seawater temperature. When it was put back, the blood again had its antifreeze quality and a lowered freezing point. Study showed that it is an unusual kind of protein. It has many small sugar molecules(分子) held in special positions within each big protein molecule. Because of its sugar content. It is called a glycoprotein. So it has come to be called the antifreeze fish glycoprotein. Or AFGP. 68. What is the text mainly about? A. The terrible conditions in the Antarctic. B. A special fish living in freezing waters. C. The ice shelf around Antarctica. D. Protection of the Antarctic cod. 69. Why can the Antarctic cod live at the freezing temperature? A. The seawater has a temperature of -1.88℃. B. It loves to live in the ice-salt mixture. C. A special protein keeps it from freezing. D. Its blood has a temperature lower than -2.05℃. 70. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 5 refer to? A. A type of ice-salt mixture. B. A newly found protein. C. Fish blood. D. Sugar molecule. 71. What does “glycol-” in the underlined word “glycoprotein” in the last paragraph mean? A. sugar B. ice C. blood D. molecule E If you boss asks you to work in Moscow this year, he’d better offer you more money to do so — or even double that depending on where you live now. That’s because Moscow has just been found to be the world’s most expensive city for the second year in a row by Mercer Human Resources Consulting. Using the cost of living in New York as a base, Mercer determined Moscow is 34.4 percent more expensive including the cost of housing, transportation, food, clothing, household goods and entertainment(娱乐). A two-bedroom flat in Moscow now costs $4,000 a month; a CD $24.83, and an international newspaper $6.30, according to Mercer. By comparison, a fast food meal with a hamburger(汉堡包) is a steal at $4.80. London takes the No.2 place, up from No.5 a year ago, thanks to higher cost of housing and a stronger British pound relative to the dollar. Mercer estimates(估算) London is 26 percent more expensive than New York these days. Following London closely are Seoul and Tokyo, both of which are 22 percent more expensive than New York, while No.5 Hong Kong is 19 percent more costly. Among North American cities, New York and Los Angeles are the most expensive and are the only two listed in the top 50 of the world’s most expensive cities. But both have fallen since last year’s study — New York came in 15th, down from 10th place, while Los Angeles fell to 42nd from 29th place a year ago. San Francisco came in a distant third at No. 54, down 20 places from a year earlier. Toronto, meanwhile, is Canada’s most expensive city but fell 35 places to take 82nd place worldwide. In Australia, Sydney is the priciest place to live in and No. 21 worldwide. 72. What do the underlined words “a steal” in Paragraph 3 mean? A. an act of stealing B. something delicious C. something very cheap D. an act of buying 73. London has become the second most expensive city because of ______. A. the high cost of clothing B. the stronger pound against the dollar C. its expensive transportation D. the high prices of fast food meals 74. Which city is the third most expensive on the list? A. Tokyo. B. Hong Kong. C. Moscow. D. Sydney. 75. Which city has dropped most on the list in North America? A. New York. B. Los Angeles. C. San Francisco. D. Toronto. 56. D 57. B 58. C 59. A 60. D 61. B 62. C 63. D 64. C 65. A 66. D 67. A 68. B 69. C 70. B 71. A 72. C 73. B 74. A 75. D （五） A When building houses, people used to think about not only the climate of the areas but also the building materials and the fashions for their houses. However, since electricity became more and more expensive, people began to pay much more attention to the energy they could get for their houses and the new ways they could find to protect their houses from both cold and heat. Now, houses of an old yet new type have been widely built. In some parts of the world, people share their houses with their livestock（家畜）.During cold weather, they gather their cows, goats, or other animals and keep them on the first floor of their houses. The reasons are that the animals can be protected from the cold and that they can help to heat the houses as well. The body heat given off by the animals rises to the second floor of the houses, where people live. By sharing their houses with their livestock, people gain a source of heat. People who live in or near cities do not usually keep livestock. However, home builders use the fact that heat rises. This natural law can be used in building houses in these areas. Instead of keeping livestock on the first floor, builders fill it with large rocks. As they are open to the sun’s rays during cold weather, these rocks take in heat. They also give off the heat, and, of course, the warm air rises into the living areas of the houses. So these houses are energy-saving. House-building becomes a great challenge（挑战）to building designers and energy engineers. They try to meet this challenge by learning from old traditions and by using modern technology. And someday in the future, people will be able to live in more energy-saving houses. 56．What did people begin to consider as electricity was no longer cheap? A．The climate of their areas. B．The energy for their houses. C．The fashions for their houses. D．The building materials for their houses. 57．People in some areas gain a source of heat by _________. A．keeping their livestock downstairs B．protecting their livestock from the cold C．sharing their houses only with their cows D．living on the second floor with their livestock 58．The underlined words “natural law” in the third paragraph refer to the fact that ________. A．heat raises the temperature in the houses B．heat goes in the upward direction C．heat goes up if temperature is raised D．heat increases the temperature of rocks 59．From the passage, we can conclude that __________. A．people will no longer consider building materials in the future B．energy-saving buildings will become more popular in the future C．almost all people will move into the houses heated by large rocks D．energy engineers will devote themselves only to modern technology B When Babbage was working at Cambridge, a new idea occurred to him. He wanted to construct a calculating machine to work out the solutions（解法）to maths problems not only with correctness but also with a speed beyond the power of any human mind. His machine could solve problems involving（涉及）long rows of figures in one continuous operation（运算）. In 1822 Babbage exhibited his invention and won a prize from the government. After that, he immediately started to work on a larger machine designed to solve more difficult problems. Although he received some money left by his father, the money was not enough to support his design. He wrote to the government about his plan and was given ￡2500 to start with, a sum worth much more in those days than it is now. Babbage continued his work in London for four years. Then his health broke down, and he had to take a long holiday abroad. When he returned to London in 1828, he was at the end of his resources. Many bills remained unpaid. His chief assistant and co-workers quarreled with him and left with many expensive tools. For one year no work was done. During this period, Babbage, whose mind was always active, suddenly thought of a completely new idea for the machine. He rushed to meet the government officials to explain his new idea. But this time, they were unwilling to help him. For eight years, they refused to say whether they wanted the machine or not, and their final answer was “No.” From 1828 to 1839, Babbage held the position of professor at Cambridge very successfully. But his greatest work was the unfinished calculating machine which stood covered in dust in his house. It was the beginning of the modern computer. 60．The machine Babbage designed would solve difficult maths problems _________. A．in one operation with few mistakes B．in more than one operation without any mistakes C．in more than one operation with slight mistakes D．in one operation without any mistakes 61．Babbage failed to continue his research work in 1828 mainly because _______. A．he was in poor health B．he almost ran out of money C．his co-workers argued with him D．he spent all his money on his bills 62．Babage explained his new idea to the government officials, expecting that _________. A．they would agree to his plan B．they would pay for his new idea C．they would support him with money D．they would exhibit his new design 63．From the passage, we can infer that __________. A．Babbage failed to be a famous scientist at Cambridge B．Babbage always had new ideas but gave them up easily C．Babbage always needed support from the government officials D．Babbage was the first designer of the modern computer C Here’s How to Get Your 6 Movies for 1￠Each Just Write in the Numbers of the 6 movies you want for 1￠each, plus shipping. In exchange（交换）,you agree to buy just six more movies in the next three years, at our regular Club prices (which currently start as low as $19.95 plus shipping) — and you may cancel（取消）membership at any time after doing so. What’s more, you can get two more movies for the low price of $6.95 each and you will, after that, spend much less on the movies you want. 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Of all the reasons that explain their loneliness, a large geographical distance between parents and their children is the major one. This phenomenon（现象）is commonly known as “Empty Nest Syndrome”（空巢综合症）. In order to seek better chances outside their countries, many young people have gone abroad, leaving their parents behind with no clear idea of when they will return home. Their parents spend countless lonely days and nights, taking care of themselves, in the hope that someday their children will come back to stay with them. The fact that most of these young people have gone to Europeanized or Americanized societies makes it unlikely that they will hold as tightly to the value of duty as they would have if they had not left their countries. Whatever the case, it has been noted that the values they hold do not necessarily match what they actually do. This geographical and cultural distance also prevents the grown-up children from providing response（回应）in time for their aged parents living by themselves. The situation in which grown-up children live far away from their aged parents has been described as “distant parent phenomenon”, which is common both in developed countries and in developing countries. Our society has not yet been well prepared for “Empty Nest Syndrome”. 68．According to the passage, the loneliness of aged parents is mainly caused by _________. A．their earlier experience of feeling lonely B．the unfavorable living conditions in their native countries C．the common worry about their income D．the geographical distance between parents and children 69．Many young people have gone abroad, leaving their aged parents behind, to _________. A．live in the countries with more money B．seek a better place for their aged parents C．continue their studies abroad D．realize their dreams in foreign countries 70．If young people go abroad, _________. A．they do not hold to the value of duty at all B．they can give some help to their parents back home C．they cannot do what they should for their parents D．they believe what they actually do is right 71．From the last paragraph, we can infer that ________. A．the situations in the developed and developing countries are different B． “Empty Nest Syndrome” has arrived unexpectedly in our society C．children will become independent as soon as they go abroad D．the aged parents are not fully prepared for “Empty Nest Syndrome” E There are two kinds of physical activity which require special training. The first demands exact careful movements of the muscles（肌肉）. This kind of activity must be strictly controlled because even a slight movement in the wrong direction will lead a mistake. To type quickly, for example, a person needs training; the slightest movement of a finger in the wrong direction may cause a spelling mistake. A dancer who has to dance on the point of her shoes or turn around on one foot must be trained for a long period of time before she can sense her own center and balance herself. You may have seen a girl walking on a rope across an empty space, which, too, requires a lot of practice. The second kind of physical activity needs greater strength or extra effort. Most of us get tired if we try to run half a mile without stopping, but a specially-trained person can do this without much effort. Three years ago, some scientists carried out experiments, which produced meaningful and unexpected results. They wanted to find out whether a certain amount of physical exercise would injure those suffering from heart problems. They selected some male patients and trained them in continuous bicycle riding. They were surprised to find that the harmful effect of given amount of physical effort was actually less on the hearts of these trained patients than on those of the patients who were not similarly trained. This is important because it shows that regular physical exercise enables us to make better use of the oxygen（氧气）we breathe in and that this training, in fact, reduces the amount of work our hearts do. Many tasks which are hard for untrained people are not hard at all for trained people. 72．The first kind of physical activity must be strictly controlled because _________. A．a mistake in the wrong direction is dangerous to the fingers B．a wrong movement in a direction will cause no mistakes C．a movement in the wrong direction will cause a mistake D．a slight movement of a finger will lead to a mistake 73．What must a dancer do before she can balance herself? A．She must dance on the point of her shoes. B．She must receive long-time training. C．She must turn around on one foot. D．She must perform again and again. 74．The experiments done by some scientists showed that ________. A．some male patients were asked to ride bicycles regularly in the experiments B．the physical exercise had more harmful effect on the hearts of the untrained patients C．the physical exercise was harmless to the male patients with heart trouble D．the physical exercise could be helpful for the patients to take in more oxygen 75．What would be the best title for this text? A．Training Our Bodies B．Physical Activities C．Movement Training D．Extra Body Effort 56—60 BABBD 61—65 BCDAA 66—70 DDDDC 71—75 BCBBA C According to Pete Singer, a researcher who wrote a number of books on the military, active involvement of robots in battles could worsen warfare by making machines do all the dirty work for humans. He says that humanity is currently at point of breakthrough in war, like the discovery of the atomic bomb. “What does it mean to go to war with US soldiers whose hardware is made in China and whose software is made in India?” The research predicts that by 2015 American soldiers will be half robots, half humans. It is worth mentioning that attack drones (持续的低音) and bomb-handling robots are just some of the devices that armies use in battles. Besides having no mercy in battle, robots, in contrast to humans, also cut off living soldiers from horrors. “The United States is ahead in military robots, but in technology there is no such thing as a permanent advantage,” Mr. Singer said, adding that currently Russia, China, Pakistan and Iran are working on the development of military robots as well. The researcher mentioned that robotics is something terrorists can take advantage of as well. “You don’t have to make robots believe they are going to get 7 million dollars when they die to get them to blow themselves up,” he said. In addition, Mr. Singer mentioned that military robots feature cameras that record everything a machine sees, providing digital video that is uploaded on You Tube in graphic clips, which soldiers call “war porn”. “It turns war into entertainment, sometimes set to music. The ability to watch more but experience less,” he said. David Hansco, who is a robotics designer, creates robots that have more features of a human. For example, his robots feature synthetic (合成的) flesh faces and have the ability to read human facial expressions and copy them. The engineer states that the main idea is to create robots that can show empathy(移情作用). 36. The readers can probably hit upon this passage in _________. A. a magazine B. a science fiction C. a newspaper D. a lecture 37. The advantage of using robots in the war is __________. A. that they use the advanced technology B. that they can suit all kinds of condition C. that they are no longer in fear of war as men D. that they cost less money in the war 38. These countries are working on the development of military robots EXCEPT_______. A. China B. the USA C. Iran D. India 39. Which of the following statements is NOT true? A. The future robots containing a camera can film whatever they have seen. B. The future robots can read and copy human’s facial expression. C. The future robots seem like real persons with flesh faces. D. The future robots can have a feeling of enjoying the war. 40. Which of the following is the best title of this passage? A. Half robots, half humans B. The future of robots C. Military robots in the future D. Synthetic flesh featured robots D I really hadn’t meant to yell at them. But that grey afternoon saw it just as my son and daughter were making a terrible mess on the floor in the kitchen. With a tiresome report to write, I felt bothered at my desk. Suddenly, it occurred to me that my kids were at fault. A voice inside me insisted that I do something quickly. “Ok, you two here, but what an awful thing you are attempting!” I was shouting angrily. I made for them, while it became evident that the boy wanted no part of me. “Get away from us!” he shouted back, there being an expression of support from his sister. All of a sudden, I found the fault in myself. Quickly I shaped my hands into pincers and crawled towards them, “Crabby Daddy is here. Ha, Ha, Ha, he likes to yell at children, and then eat them!” My son continued to keep me away, but now he was laughing and crying at the same time. My mission to repair the damage caused by my yelling seemed to work well. Still, I regretted not having controlled myself first in a right way. Need I let them know how badly they were acting by blaming? This is a lesson that serves myself. It only shows just how to get rid of something (ill-feelings, responsibility…) by blaming others. It’s not my “best self”. We have to search for our “best self” when with our children. They don’t need perfect parents, but they do need parents who are always trying to get better. Here, I am reminded of the words of a great thinker. “When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the book…” Then, in our lifetime, couldn’t we always speak to our kids in such a sweet voice since most of us consider them as the most precious in the world? And before we reach this level, what should we do when we come across various difficult cases with our children? 41. The author couldn’t help yelling at his kids this time probably because________. A. the weather was so unpleasant B. he was tired of his boring work C. the kids didn’t ask him to join them D. a Daddy has his right to do so 42. Which of the following made the author aware of his fault? A. No obvious reason. B. The boy’s yelling back. C. His self-awareness. D. The girl’s shouting back 43. According to the passage, the author will _____ in another similar situation. A. play a crab again like this time B. apologize to kids in a sincere way C. avoid blaming kids in a hurry D. beat them up about such things 44. What will the writer go on to write about in the next paragraph(s)? A. How to behave ourselves properly when kids are at fault. B. How to play with our children in a more interesting way. C. How to deal with the housework with children around us. D. How to persuade children to do what they are told to. 45. What does “the boy wanted no part of me” in the third paragraph mean? A. The boy was happy because I loved them. B. The boy was curious because I wanted to help them. C. The boy was very happy for I was angry. D. The boy didn’t want me to join them. 36-40 CCDDC 41-45 BBCAD 高考英语阅读理解专项训练（20）A Are you a big fan of pirate（海盗） stories? Do you know how to talk like a pirate? You can have fun on September 19th. This special holiday is called International Talk Like A Pirate Day. It was invented in 1995 by two young Americans, John Baur and Mark Summers. These two good friends came up with this idea when they were playing racquetball, and began to talk like pirates. At that moment, they thought, “Young people are interested in pirate. But there is no such a chance for people to get together to share it. Why not have a day when everybody talks like a pirate?” They decided to make September 19th the date. Since then, Baur and Summers have tried hard to promote Talk Like A Pirate Day. As Baur said, “We've talked like pirates, and encouraged several of our friends to do so every September 19th.” At first, this day was only known by a few people. In 2002, Baur and Summers sent a letter about their invented holiday to Dave Barry. This columnist（专栏作家）really liked their idea. He promoted the holiday and made it known to more and more people. Now, it has really become an international holiday. On Talk Like A Pirate Day, you need to dress like a pirate. You should wear a big hat or maybe cover one of your eyes. You can pretend to be any kind of pirate that you can find in any story or movie. Having fun and being relaxed are not the only best things about the holiday. Young people share the same interest and childhood dreams that day. That's why it is welcomed by so many people, especially young people. Unlike traditional holidays, International Talk Like A Pirate Day is a brand new holiday which is invented by the youth themselves and celebrated by themselves too. Because of Baur and Summers' imagination and creativity, thousands of young people's pirate dream come true. Next time, when you have a good idea, why not share it with your fiends and insist on your belief? Maybe you can create another wonderful holiday for the youth in the future. 1. How did John Baur and Mark Summers invent the special holiday? A. Many young people asked them to do it B. They did it just for pleasure C. They thought out the idea by chance and imagination D. They did it in order to honor pirates 2. Why are the holiday become more and more popular？. A. You can have fun and relax yourself freely. B. young people can exchange ideas and dreams on the day C. young people can have fun and be relaxed. D. you can play the role of the pirate in the movie on the day 3. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage? A. It was Dave Barry who made more people know the holiday. B. Talk Like A Pirate Day is a young, active and lively holiday C. 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But Moses was refused by his ugly appearance When it was time for him to leave, Moses picked up his courage and climbed the stairs to her room to take one last chance to speak with her. She was a heavenly beauty, but caused him deep sadness by her refusal to look at him. After several attempts at conversation, Moses shyly asked, “Do you believe marriages are made in heaven？” “Yes, ”She answered, still looking at the floor. “And do you？” “Yes I do, ”He replied. “You see, in heaven at the birth of each boy, the God announces which girl he will marry. When I was born, my future bride(新娘) was pointed out to me. Then the God added, ‘But your wife will be humpbacked. ’”“Right then and there I called out, ‘Oh God, a humpbacked woman would be a tragedy(不幸). Please, God, give me the hump and let her be beautiful. ’” Then Frumtje looked up into his eyes and was stirred by some deep memory. She reached out and gave Mendelssohn her hand and later became his devoted wife. 1. 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Today, the average turnover（更换）rate for a computer in the United States is every two years, according to the environmental group, Greenpeace. The group's Dai Yun says e-waste is a global problem. "The electronic industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. The high speed of growth in this industry means more and more electronic products are being wasted and thrown away. If no one decides to retrieve the old products and process them properly, the electronic waste will sweep over the earth like the huge wave behind me and pollute the Earth seriously." Greenpeace works out that 20 to 50 million tons of e-waste are produced globally each year. The components（部件）in many electronic products contain harmful chemicals that pollute ground water and the environment. At present , the U.S. has no federal law for the disposal (处理) of e-waste although a few states have e-waste recycling programs in place, but there is no law. The U.S. exports much of its e-waste to third world countries, such as India and China, where workers took apart computers for valuable parts, hoping to sell them for money. But harmful wastes expert, Dr. Bakul Rao, says that's a dangerous practice. "From now on, the recyclers are not very educated. All they know is they can retrieve copper or gold out of it. So, the easiest way to do that is leach (过滤) it out in an acid or burn it off to retrieve it. So, that's where they don't know how to deal with it, neither do they have any health systems in place. So, their exposure is more." 1. Which of the following is most likely not to be a form of e-waste? A. A mobile phone B. A radio C. An e-bike D. A table 2. What does the underlined word "retrieve" (paragraph 2) probably mean? A. look into B. take apart C. get back D. throw away 3. What of the following statements is true according to the passage？ A. The U.S. has strict national laws for dealing with e-waste. B. Third world countries import e-waste to get valuable parts, which is a safe and easy way to make money. C. The way uneducated workers deal with old computers does great harm to the environment as well as to their own health. D. More and more electronic waste is being wasted and thrown away mainly because of people's bad habits. 4. What is the purpose of writing the passage? A. To attract more people's attention to e-waste. B. To call on people not to throw away e-waste anywhere. C. To tell people what e-waste is and how to deal with it well. D. To warn people to break away from the electronic industry. 5. The next paragraph probably concerns_______. A. how to deal with e-waste properly B. how to protect ourselves from harm by e-waste C. How to slow down the development in the electronic industry D. how to make full use of e-waste 答案与解析 A 1.C 本 题 快递公司问题件快递公司问题件货款处理关于圆的周长面积重点题型关于解方程组的题及答案关于南海问题 考查理解细节信息的能力。由第二段 “These two good friends came up with this idea when they were playing racquetball, and began to talk like pirates.”可知，他们是在玩球时偶然想到的主意，也就是说这个节日是在他们的丰富想象中诞生。故C项为正确答案。 2. B 本题考查根据文章细节进行推理判断的能力。由第四段 “Young people share the same interest and childhood dreams that day. That's why it is welcomed by so many people, especially young people.”可以推知B项为最佳答案。 3. D 本题考查根据文章相关信息进行正误判断的能力。由第三段首句“At first, this day was only known by a few people.”可知D项表述错误，符合题意；由第三段“This columnist（Dave Barry） really liked their idea. He promoted the holiday and made it known to more and more people.”可知A项表述正确，不符合题意；由最后一段可知B, C两项表述正确，均不符合题意。 4. C 本题考查理解细节信息的能力。由 “Unlike traditional holidays, International Talk Like A Pirate Day is a brand new holiday which is invented by the youth themselves and celebrated by themselves too”.可知答案为C。 5.A 本文讲述了海盗狂欢节的由来和兴起, 在这一天年轻人像海盗一样谈话,倾心交流,分享共同的乐趣和童年的梦想，骄傲地宣扬着自己那芬与众不同的年轻活力。用A项作标题更能突出节日的特点。 B 1.C 本题考查根据文章内容判断作者写作目的的能力。由文章开头和最后一段可知, 本文介绍了乌龙茶的减肥神奇功效和购买无风以险及特价格优惠措施, 其目的是说服减肥者购买乌龙茶。 2.B 本题考查根据上下文判断特定句子含义的能力。由倒数第二段 “We're giving you a zero-risk "test drive" to judge for yourself just how powerful Okuma's Wu-Long really is.”以及最后一段 “…simply return your order within 30 days from the date Wu-Long was delivered to your address to receive a full refund（退款）….”可以推出本句的意思为: 如果不满意, 我们(厂家)可以随时退货退款。 3.A本题考查理解文章细节信息的能力。由第五段 “…and 37 scientific studies published within the last several months alone show it helps melt away bodyfat; increase energy; and even clarify skin, giving your face a clear, shining glow.”可知A项不是乌龙茶的功效。 4.A 本题考查根据文章内容判断文章体裁的能力。从本文的标题和结尾的 表格 关于规范使用各类表格的通知入职表格免费下载关于主播时间做一个表格详细英语字母大小写表格下载简历表格模板下载 以及文章的内容(介绍了乌龙茶的减肥功效和优惠大酬宾活动等)可以判断出本文是一则产品推销广告, 最佳出处应为报纸的广告专栏。 5.D本题考查根据文章相关内容进行简单运算的能力。由文章最后 “New Special Limited-Time Offers: Buy 3, Get 1 Free (You save $37.00)”可知买三盒赠一盒,花三盒的钱可以买到四盒, 即3×37=$111。 C 1.B 本题考查理解文章细节信息的能力。由第一段 “…was far from being handsome. Along with a rather short stature(身材), he had a hunchback(驼背) .”和 第二段“But Moses was refused by his ugly appearance.”可知答案为B。 2.A 本题考查根据文章细节信息进行简单推理的能力。由他们的对话可知Moses是一个的人, 外表虽然丑陋,但心地善良,真诚执着, 这也是打动Frumtje之处。 3.B 本题考查根据上下文信息判断词语含义的能力。由下文 “She reached out and gave Mendelssohn her hand and later became his devoted wife.”可知推出的意思为 “使激动,是感动”。（ 记忆深处的某些东西把她深深打动了, 她伸出手, 答应了门德尔松的求婚。后来, 成为了他忠诚的妻子。） 4. D本题考查根据短文内容判断作者写作意图的能力。本文通过这个故事告诉我们什么是真爱: 真爱是一种牺牲, 是一种奉献。真正的爱情就是真，它没有怨言，没有花言巧语，一切都是真切的让你感动。 D 1.D 本题考查理解文章细节信息的能力。由第一段 ''Electronic waste, or e-waste, refers to electronic products that are no longer usable. This can include TVs, cell phones and computers and other office electronics, electronic toys and videos machines.''可知答案为D. 2.C本题考查根据上下文信息判断词语含义的能力。结合上下文可知, retrieve的意思为 "回收", 本句的意思为: 如果没有人回收并合理地加工电子废物, 那么我们的地球上就会布满废物, 就会严重的危害我们的地球。 3.C本题考查根据文章相关段落进行正误判断的能力。由最后一段中 "So, that's where they don't know how to deal with it, neither do they have any health systems in place. So, their exposure is more."可知C项表述正确, 符合题意。由最后一段首句可排除A项；由 "But harmful wastes expert, Dr. Bakul Rao, says that's a dangerous practice."可排除B项；由第二段 "The high speed of growth in this industry means more and more electronic products are being wasted and thrown away."可排除D项。 4.A 本题考查根据短文内容判断作者写作意图的能力。本文主要讲述了电子废物的是一个全球性问题, 至今还没有统一的法律法规来处理它们, 处理方式的滞后和不科学时刻危及着我们的生存环境, 因此作者呼吁人们对这一问题引起足够的重视。 5.A本题考查根据短文内容进行推理判断的能力。由最后一段最后 “So, that's where they don't know how to deal with it, neither do they have any health systems in place. So, their exposure is more."可以推出下面很可能要讲如何正确处理电子废物。 高考英语阅读理解专项训练（21）Do you blank out or feel so nervous in exams that you have trouble writing answers to questions that you knew just last night? If so, you likely have a case of test anxiety. But, don't be afraid. By recognizing the problem, you are taking the first step towards overcoming it. Believe it or not, a touch of nervousness can sharpen your mind, allowing you to perform more quickly. This is because under stress, the body releases (释放) the hormone adrenaline (肾上腺素), which prepares it for something important that will happen. However, too much anxiety can result in sleeplessness, loss of appetite（胃口）before tests, and poor performance. Some people might feel hot and tired. With great anger they often shout or complain for no reason. If you worry a lot or are a perfectionist, you are more likely to have trouble with test anxiety. Those who have prepared poorly for a test or have had negative experiences taking tests may also experience test anxiety. When you feel a storm of anxiety coming on, stop what you're doing and make your mind a blank. If possible, actually tell yourself to 'STOP!' This will get your mind off the stress. Then think of being at a place of comfort and let your body relax. As you continue the test, find questions you know the answers to and answer them first. This will help restore your confidence. Important of all, talk to yourself using positive language. Make it a habit to replace each negative thought with a logical reason. For example: "I've studied hard and I know the material, so I'm ready to do the best I can." Another thing you can do is to learn to accept mistakes. In fact, they can be valuable learning opportunities. Last but not least, start test preparation early - three to five days ahead of the quiz or test. After all, good study habits and skills - for example, time management and note-taking - will give you the feeling that you are in control. 1. The best title of the passage is probably______ A. How to beat test anxiety. B. What is test anxiety. C. The effects of test anxiety. D. Experience test anxiety will help you. 2. Those ______ more easily suffer from test anxiety. A. who are not well prepared for a test. B. who wants everything to be perfect and highest. C. who have experiences of failure in exams. D. who do poorly in their study. 3. The author mentions _____pieces of suggestions about how to get over test anxiety. A.3 B.4 C.5 D.6 4. What can we infer from the passage？ A. Mistakes sometime can be valuable and helpful. B. Those who have prepared poorly for a test cause test anxiety easily. C. Full test preparations will give you the feeling that you are in control. D. A touch of anxiety can have a positive effect. 5．The underlined word “hot” in Paragraph3 means . A．disappointed B．angry C．active D．running a high body temperature B 材料来源：http://www.tvwiki.tv/wiki/Vancouver（网页中经济Economy部分， 有变动） Vancouver(温哥华) Natural Resources As a major centre for the global forestry industry, Vancouver is host to many international forestry conferences and events, and the natural home of the massive BC forestry business. Companies such as Canfor and West Fraser Timber Co., the second and third largest lumber（木材）producers in the world, are headquartered in Vancouver. Vancouver is also a major centre for the mining industry. International trade International trade is a key part for Vancouver's economy. The city has Canada's largest port and is one of North America's major gateways for Pan-Pacific（泛太平洋）trade. The Port of Vancouver ranks first in North America in total foreign exports and second on the West Coast in total goods volume. Banking and Financial The headquarters for HSBC Canada （汇丰银行）is located in the Financial District in downtown. Canada's third largest commercial entity(实体), Jim Pattison Group is also based in Vancouver. International relation Vancouver is a major centre for diplomacy(外交) and foreign relations. Most countries of the world have consulate（领事馆）or general offices in the Central Business District. In fact, many major diplomatic conferences are hosted by the city - including the world famous G7 summit with President Clinton, APEC, and the World Trade Organization. Greenpeace has its world headquarters in the city. Therefore, Vancouver was among the first North American cities to declare itself a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone. Tourism Tourism is a leading industry to Vancouver. The Whistler-Blackcomb Resort is among the most popular skiing resorts in North America, and will be the site of the downhill events of the 2010 Winter Olympics. Vancouver's beaches, parks, waterfronts, and mountain backdrops and its multi- cultural character attract more and more tourists. Film Vancouver was the source of the sobriquet（绰号）"Hollywood North", for hosting the production of about ten percent of Hollywood's movies. Many U.S. television and films series are shot exclusively in Vancouver. This has partly been because of the favourable Canadian dollar exchange rate. 1. Which of the following description about Vancouver is NOT true according to the passage? A.The Port of Vancouver ranks first in North America in total foreign exports B.Vancouver is a film production centre and called “Hollywood North". C.International forestry conferences and events were held in Vancouver. D.Vancouver is a leading centre for the global agriculture and industry. 2. Which of the following organizations or events is not related to Vancouver? A. Jim Pattison Group B. WHO C. Greenpeace D. The 2010 Winter Olympics 3. If you are a graduate from Shanghai Finance and Economics University, what is it that will probably attract you to visit Vancouver? A. Its international trade. B. Its film industry C. HSBC Canada D. Its beautiful natural scenery 4. We can infer______ from the part: International relation. A. Vancouver is a major centre for foreign relations. B. Vancouver has hosted many major diplomatic conferences. C. APEC and WTO are headquartered in Vancouver D. Canada is a peace-loving country. 5. The passage is probably taken from________. A. a magazine B. a geography book C. a newspaper D. an entertainment book C 材料来源：http://shopping.guardian.co.uk/christmas2005/story/0,,1645812,00.html For £12 you can equip an entire classroom in Burkina Faso, for £31 you can equip a school football team in Sierra Leone and for £68 you can support the whole education of a Haitian schoolgirl. The educational presents are the latest way on the trend of charitable（慈善的）giving for Christmas. Plan UK, an international children's charity, has made its gift list focusing on helping the world's poorest countries to improve their education conditions. "Every year we rack our brains for the perfect present and too often end up with yet another pair of socks or a useless ornament," said Marie Staunton, Plan UK's chief executive. "This year we are offering people in the UK the chance to give twice. Buying an alternative gift for a loved one could likely save the life of some of the world's poorest children." Plan UK is working on projects in specific countries, such as Burkina Faso, which is one of the poorest countries in the world and has a primary school enrolment rate（入学率）of just 36%. A present of £12 will help equip a classroom in Burkina Faso with chairs, desks, books and pencils. The educational presents are the latest addition to a list of other charitable presents, including vaccinations（接种）and clean water systems. Football strips for schoolchildren in Sierra Leone are designed to help the children have fun while continuing with the psychological healing process following the country's civil war. The £31 gift will supply the team strip, a football and a whistle to a school in Sierra Leone. Oxfam offers similar gifts. Its Back to School kits for five pupils is a bestseller in a catalogue（目录）which includes the £24 Christmas goat, the £30 lavatory and £12 for school dinners for up to 200 children. 1. The first paragraph is written to tell us________. A. the great differences between the rich and the poor. B. the general conditions of education in poor countries. C. the difficulty in getting good education in poor countries. D. the great meaning of a little money to children in poor countries. 2. The underlined phrase “rack our brains” means _____in the third paragraph. A. cause physical or mental hurt B. think very hard C. improve our intelligence D. make full use of 3. Which of the following is Right according to the passage? A. Plan UK is working on educational projects all over the world. B. The sufferings brought by war still have side effects on the children in Sierra Leone. C. The educational Christmas presents have been given to the children for many years. D. Its Back to School kits for five pupils is a bestselling book. 4. The title for the passage would probably be ______. A. A new way of Christmas shopping B. Give a helping hand to poor children C. Buy a child an education this Christmas D. Plan UK, an international children's charity D 材料来源：www.the-womens-press.com/ - 2k Women, Race & Class Angela Y Davis £7.99 Analysing the differences and similarities between the experiences of black and white women, Davis casts new light on the struggle for human rights. The Words to Say it (an autobiographical novel) Marie Cardinal translated by Pat Goodheart £7.99 Marie Cardinal's groundbreaking book was the first and remains the complete book about the personal experience of psychoanalysis (精神分析学). It reveals her traumatic (创伤的)childhood and institutionalisation(收容), followed by her escape to the cul-de-sac(死路)where her analyst(精神分析医师)lived. There, for many years, she made the journey towards recovery through Freudian psychoanalysis. A worldwide bestseller, translated into eighteen languages, it remains one of the most highly-praised books of our age. Jade Millie Murray £4.99 Jade Wilson is smart, young, black and ambitious. And she's just been given the chance of a lifetime - a try-out for the Commonwealth Games swimming team. Jade lives with her mum, Jojo, a successful business woman. Jojo is overprotective of Jade, but she has her reasons. As a young model with a wonderful career ahead of her, she fell pregnant(怀孕) with Jade, and, much as she loves her daughter, she's determined not to let anything get in the way of Jade's success. So when Jade starts dating Dicey, there is hell to pay. Will Jade survive her Mum's constant nagging (唠叨)? And what if she were to get pregnant - would she, could she, do the same as Jojo and give up her career? As things start hotting up with Dicey, Jade is faced with some very tough choices... . The book is very popular with people all over the world. 1. Which of the following can prove the book The Words to Say it is very successful ? A. It is the first book about psychoanalysis. B. It has a successful beginning and ending. C. It has translated into 18 languages. D. It remains the complete book about personal experiences. 2. From the third part we can learn that ________about Jade Wilson’s mother, Jojo. A. She didn’t care about Jade. B. She gave it up because of lack of interest in her career. C. She wouldn’t like Jade to be what she was. D. She was willing to accept Jade’s boy friend first. 3. The sentence “there is hell to pay” in the third part probably means _____. A. there are a lot of ghosts B. there is a lot of trouble C. the price has to be paid D. it cost too much to do something 4. Which book do you buy if you want to read about women’s rights? A. Women, Race & Class B. Jade C. The Words to Say it D. Marie Cardinal 5. What is it that makes the book The Words to Say it different from two other books in writing style? A. It is an autobiographical novel B. Its contents and writer C. Its translations D. The leading character in the book 答案与解析 A 1. A归纳文章要义题。本文前四段讲了什么是考试焦虑症，焦虑症的症状，易得焦虑症的人群，后五段讲了如何克服考试焦虑, 通过分析可知, 前四段是为下文介绍如何克服考试焦虑服务的。故A项为本文的中心思想，以次作为标题恰如其分。 2. B 细节考查题。由第二段 "If you worry a lot or are a perfectionist, you are more likely to have trouble with test anxiety."可知那些过于担心或做事情追求完美和高标准的人更容易产生考试焦虑症, 故D项为最佳答案。 3.C 理解段落结构题。由文章第五段至第九段中的 "This will get your mind off the stress." " Then" "Important of all" " Another thing" "Last but not least"可知正确答案为C。 4.D推理判断题。由第三段 "…, a touch of nervousness can sharpen your mind, allowing you to perform more quickly."可知些许焦躁能你的思维更敏捷, 这使你的行动更迅速, 也就是说，些许焦躁有时会产生积极的影响。故由此可推出D项为正确答案。其他选项均在文中均有明确表述，不合题意。 5. B 推测词义题。由下文“With great anger they often shout or complain for no reason.”可知此处的意思为 “生气的；愤怒的”。 B 1.D 正误判断题。从Natural Resources中可知,是森林业和矿业中心, 不是工农业中心。故D项符合题意，为最佳答案。其他三项文中均有对应表述。 2.B 理解文章细节信息题。从Banking and Financial中的 “Jim Pattison Group is also based in Vancouver.” , International relation中的 “Greenpeace has its world headquarters in the city.”以及从Tourism中的“The Whistler-Blackcomb Resort is …and will be the site of the downhill events of the 2010 Winter Olympics.” 可知 A,C,D三项均与Vancouver有关, 文中没有提到WHO, 只提到了WTO(International relation中). 故B项符合题意，为最佳答案。 3.C推理判断题。题干说:一个上海财经大学的学生想去温哥华, 最大可能的理由是什么? 当然他对财经方面感兴趣。由Banking and Financial 中可知加拿大汇丰银行设在温哥华的金融商业区，故C为最佳答案。 4.D 推理判断题。由这一部分中“Vancouver was among the first North American cities to declare itself a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone.”可以推出加拿大没有核武器，是一个爱好和平的国家。故D为最佳答案。A，B文中有明确表述，不合题意；而C项本身表述错误，APEC 和 WTO的总部不在温哥华。 5. B推理判断题。本文介绍了温哥华的自然资源、经济贸易、金融、国际关系、电影业以及旅游业等方面，我们可以推出本文最大可能出自地理书中的国家概况部分. C 1.D 推理判断题。分析第一段内容可知，数量很少的钱在帮助贫困国家的儿童接受教育方面意义重大。 2.B 猜测词义题。根据上下语境可以判断,人们每年圣诞节为给孩子买礼物绞尽脑汁, 伤透了脑筋。 3.B 正误判断题。由倒数第二段可知, 塞拉利昂的儿童应战争带来的心灵创伤还没有愈合, 对他们的发展仍然有负面影响。由此可以判断B项符合文意。A（in specific countries）；C（the latest addition） D（是一套服务项目，不是畅销书）。 4.C 主旨大意题。通读全文可知, 文章讲了一个慈善机构Plan UK号召人们通过购买特殊的圣诞礼物来捐助世界上最贫穷国家的儿童来改善自身的教育状况的问题, 故C项符合文章主题。 D 1.C 细节理解题。由 “A worldwide bestseller, translated into eighteen languages, it remains one of the most highly-praised books of our age.”可知答案为C。 2. C判断正误题。由 “…she's determined not to let anything get in the way of Jade's success. So when Jade starts dating Dicey, there is hell to pay.”可知Jojo不愿意让Jade成为她过去的那个样子 故答案为C。 3. B句子理解题。Jade的妈妈Jojo年轻时为了Jade放弃了她钟爱的事业，为了不让Jade重蹈覆辙，她不让任何事情干涉生活，当Jojo得知她的女儿交男朋友时，她极力阻止，制造麻烦，干预他们的生活。故答案为B。 4. A 从Women, Race & Class 中 “…Davis casts new light on the struggle for human rights.” 可知答案为A。Marie Cardinal是作者的名字。 5. A The Words to Say it这本书是自转题小说,作者描写了自己的亲身经历。这正是这本书的与众不同之处。 本资料由《七彩教育网》www.7caiedu.cn 提供！ 高考英语阅读理解专项训练（07）A Indonesia’s coral reefs(珊瑚礁) are in trouble. Coral mining, Industrial pollution and poisonous agricultural runoff all play a role in their destruction, but the fishermen have been the worst offenders. They not only bomb fish but also poison them with cyanide, an equally destructive practice. The fishermen are also among the biggest potential victims(受害者). Two thirds of Indonesia’s 7, 000 coastal villages are close to coral reefs and thus depend for their livelihood on the harvest of reef fish. The disappearing reefs are already leading to a dramatic decline in the productivity of coastal fisheries and to increasing fights among fishermen. Indonesia’s reefs are vast – they cover 51, 000 square kilometers, surround 17, 500 islands and stretch 3,500 kilometers – but they are not infinite. Many foreign experts and Indonesians fear that the region’s entire marine environment could be seriously damaged if the reefs keep dying at their present rate. “The overall picture is depressing,” says Ian Dutton, Indonesian director of an environmental group. Depressing, but not hopeless. Despite the destruction, environmentalists have in recent years made significant progress in changing the hearts and minds of the fishermen. Working closely with local Indonesian authorities in North Sulawesi and less populated eastern Indonesia, where most of the country’s reefs are located, they have succeeded in preventing destructive fishing practices and coral mining from overwhelming the reefs. Increasing numbers of fishermen are waking up to the threat and protecting the life-sustaining coral before it’s too late. Nuhung, a 56-year-old fisherman, says, “I always knew blast fishing was harmful. Then I suddenly realized that by bombing the reefs I was destroying not only my own but my children’s future.” 1. The fishermen are named “worst offenders” because . A. they defend their rights of mining the coral reefs too eagerly B. they wake up too late to realize the terrible situation C. they use the fishing ways, which destroy the coral reefs D. they pretend to follow the government’s rules 2. In the text the author . A. presents us some facts and people’s opinions as well B. shows that he’s worried about the situation, but still feels a little hopeful C. says he’s delighted and meanwhile, depressed D. disagrees with what’s being done and gives suggestions 3. The underlined word “infinite” in the 2nd paragraph most probably means . A. incomplete B. short C. unfit D. limitless 4. Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the text? A. But for the fishermen’s protection, the reefs would disappear soon. B. More and more fishermen have realized their mistakes. C. Without the coral reefs, the fishermen would have nothing for their livelihood. D. Some practical measures have been taken to stop the situation worsening. 5.This passage may be taken from______. A. a magazine B. a novel C. a newspaper D. a storybook B New York’s streets were covered by people dressed in elephant costumes (服装) and others waving antiwar posters with pictures of US President George W. Bush on them last week. But this was no carnival (狂欢节) – it was the Republican Party’s National Convention (共和党全国大会), which attracted thousands of protestors (抗议者). It was the largest protest ever at a US political convention, with at least 120,000 people marching through Manhattan on August 29. They demanded that the US leave Iraq and a new president be chosen. The Republicans say the opposition – Democrat Party (民主党) encouraged the people on to the streets. They believe it is a democratic move to help win presidential election, to be held on November 2. The election is described as “the decisive battle between donkey and elephant”. The two animals are the symbols of the two major political parties in the US. The elephant represents (象征) the Republicans, whose candidate (侯选人), President George W. Bush, is trying to defeat the donkey to win his second them. The donkey represents the democrats, whose candidate, John Kerry, is trying to kick the elephant out of the White House. Republicans think the elephant is powerful and clever, but the Democrats argue it is stupid and conservative (守旧的). In return, the Republicans regard the donkey as stubborn (倔强的) and silly but the Democrats say it is humble, plain, smart and courageous. The Republicans have been sending emails to Bush supporters and journalists with the heading, “An Elephant Never Forgets”, said party spokeswoman Heather Layman. Elephants are known for their long memories. The emails suggest that Bush will keep his promises, while Kerry will not stick to his words. It is interesting that both symbols were created by a single person, Thomas Nast, a famous political cartoonist of the late 19th century. During the election in 1874, Nast drew a cartoon, in which a donkey in a lion’s skin frightened an elephant marked “Republican”. 1. What does “kick the elephant out of the White House” mean? A. Drive the animal out of the White House. B. Drive President Bush out of power. C. Keep the elephant out of the White House. D. Insist on Bush’s being elected. 2. In the eyes of the Republicans, the donkey is considered as . A. clever B. foolish C. polite D. brave 3. Which of the following is NOT true? A. The same artist created the two symbols. B. The emails suggest Kerry will not carry out his promises. C. “An Elephant Never Forgets” means that an elephant has a good memory. D. John Kerry is a Democrat. C The 12—year—old CEO（首席执行官）of a Web site design company will be one of 300 business and political leaders accompanying Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien on a trade visit to China in March. Keith Peiris, who founded Cyberteks Design in June 1999 and now has 25 clients （客户）in North America ,insisted in an interview that he is “just like any other kid.” He and his father will spend nine days on the Team Canada trip to Beijing ,Shanghai and Hong Kong ,where Chretien aims to showcase the best of Canadian business in the most populous country in the world . A glance at the complex ,elegant animations （动画）on his www.cybertecks.com site shows the extent of Peiris’ talent . “He doesn’t want to be No.2,”his father Deepal said proudly . His father ,who is now vice president of operations at Cyberteks ,said , “I am teaching my son what I know .We make decisions together .I haven’t done anything my son disagreed with .He makes the final decision .” The company has seven offices in the United States and five part—time employees who ,like the Peiris family ,work from their London homes . Keith Peiris admitted some potential clients change their minds when they learn his age ,but the well—informed not—yet—teenager tries to ignore them . “Suddenly ,I’ve been called a whiz kid or geek ,which I am not too happy about .A few people have asked if they should call me ‘mister’, but I stay casual , I am still a kid . 1．That Keith Peiris insisted that he is “just like any other kid” shows he is . A．proud B．modest C．honest D．excited 2．Who makes the final decision on operations at Cyberteks Design? A．Keith Peiris B．Deepal Peiris C．Jean Chretien D．Both A and B. 3．According to the information in the passage ,which is the best and fastest way to know more about the Web giant ? A．We can go to Canada to pay him a visit . B．We can make an international telephone call to him. C．We’d better visit his web site—www.cyberteks.com. D．We can write to his father for the kid’s information. 4．Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE? A．Keith Peiris is a Canadian boy . B．All the employees of the child’s company work at home . C．The Canadian Prime Minister means to show off Keith’s success during his stay in China . D．Keith always tries his best to be the best in the field of web site designing . D Whatever our differences as human beings are we all think we’re more like the rest of the animal world than we realize. It is said that we share 40 per cent of our genetic（遗传的）structure with the simple worm. But that fact has helped Sir John Sulston win the 2002 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Sir John is the founder of the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, which was set up in 1992 to get further understanding of the human genome（染色体组）. To help them do this, they turned to the worm. The nematode（线虫类的）worm is one of the earliest creatures on planet earth. It is less than one millimeter long, completely transparent and spends its entire life digging holes through sand. But it still has lots to say about human life, and what can be done to make it better. What the worm told Sir John and his colleagues was that each of the cells in the human body is programmed like a computer. They grow, develop and die according to a set of instructions that are coded in our genetic make-up. Many of the diseases that humans suffer from happen when these instructions go wrong or are not obeyed. When the cell refuses to die but carries on growing instead, this leads to cancer. Heart attacks and diseases like AIDS cause more cell deaths than normal, increasing the damage they do to the body. Sir John was the first scientist to prove the existence of programmed cell death. 1．Sir John Sulston got a Nobel Prize for Medicine because he has . A．found that human beings are similar to the worm B．got the fact we share 40 per cent of our genetic structure with the simple worm C．found the computer which controls each of the cells in the human body D．proved that cell death is programmed 2．People might be seriously ill if the cells in their body . A．grow without being instructed B．die regularly C．fail to follow people’s instructions D．develop in the human body 3．The underlined word“they”（paragraph 5）refers to . A．cell deaths B．diseases C．instructions D．cells 4．What is the subject discussed in the text? A．The theory of programmed cell deaths. B．A great scientist—Sir John Sulston. C．The programmed human life. D．Dangerous diseases. 答案与解析 A 1. C. 由第一段“They not only bomb fish…an equally destructive practice”可推知。 2. B. 由第一段第一句“Indonesia’s coral reefs are in trouble”及第三段第一句“Depressing, but not helpless”可知。 3. D. “Indonesia’s reefs are vast—but they are not infinite” 是一个转折句，表明not infinite 的意义与vast 相反。 4. A. 用排除法很容易找到答案。 5. C. B 1. B. “大象” 指的是“共和党”，即“什么派”；“白宫”是“权力”的象征。 2. B. 由第三段 “the Republicans regard the donkey as stubborn and silly…” 可知。 3. C. 由末段第一句可知A正确；倒数第二段末句可知B正确；“The donkey represents the democrats, whose candidate, John Kerry”可知D正确。 C 1. B. Keith Peiris说这句话表明他很“谦虚”。 2. A. 文中直述了“He makes the final decision.” 3. C. 从第四段可知。 4. C. 此选项中的show off (炫耀)与原文中的showcase(陈列，展销)意义不符。 D 1. D. 由文章最后一句可知。 2. A. 末段首句与A项表达意义一致，而C项指的是“没有遵照人的指令”。 3. B. they do to the body是定语从句修饰the damage，they显然是指上文中的diseases。 4. A. 若以B为题，文章需介绍他的成长过程、创业经历、工作生活等内容。 高考英语阅读理解专项训练（29）A No poem should ever be discussed or “analyzed”, until it has been read aloud by someone, teacher or student. Better still, perhaps, is the practice of reading it twice, once at the beginning of the discussion and once at the end, so the sound of the poem is the last thing one hears of it. All discussions of poetry are, in fact, preparations for reading it aloud, and the reading of the poem is, finally, the most telling “interpretation” of it, suggesting tone, rhythm, and meaning all at once. Hearing a poet read the work in his or her own voice, on records or on film, is obviously a special reward. But even those aids to teaching can not replace the student and teacher reading it or, best of all, reciting it. I have come to think, in fact, that time spent reading a poem aloud is much more important than “analyzing” it, if there isn’t time for both. I think one of our goals as teachers of English is to have students love poetry. Poetry is “ a criticism of life”, and “ a heightening(提升) of life”. It is “an approach to the truth of feeling”, and it “can save your life”. It also deserves a place in the teaching of language and literature more central than it presently occupies. I am not saying that every English teacher must teach poetry. Those who don’t like it should not be forced to put that dislike on anyone else. But those who do teach poetry must keep in mind a few things about its essential nature, about its sound as well as its sense, and they must make room in the classroom for hearing poetry as well as thinking about it. 1. To have a better understanding of a poem, one should________. A. discuss it with others B. analyze it by oneself C. copy it down in a notebook D. practise reading it aloud 2. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a function of poetry? A. Extending your life B. Saving your life C. Criticizing life D. Heightening life 3. According to the writer, one of the purposes of teaching English is to get students________. A. to understand life. B. to enjoy poetry. C. to become teachers. D. to become poets 4. What does the last sentence in the third paragraph imply? A. More stress should be laid on the teaching of poetry. B. Poetry is more important than any other subject. C. One cannot enjoy life fully without an understanding of poetry D. Poetry is the foundation of all language and literature courses 5. The phrase “make room” in the last paragraph could be best replaced by A. “build a booth” B. “provide equipment” C. “leave a certain amount of time” D. “set aside enough space” B Reading to oneself is a modern activity which was almost unknown to the learned in the early days of the history, while during the fifteenth century the term “reading” undoubtedly meant reading aloud. Only during the nineteenth century did silent reading become popular. One should be careful, however, of supposing that silent reading came about simply because reading aloud is distraction（分散注意力）to others. Examination of reasons connected with the historical development of silent reading shows that it became the usual mode of reading for most adult reading tasks mainly because the tasks themselves changed in character. The last century saw a gradual increase in literacy（读写能力）and thus in the number of readers. As readers increased, so the number of listeners dropped, and thus there was some reduction in the need to read aloud. As reading for the benefit of listeners grew less common, so came the popularity of reading as a private activity in such public places as libraries, trains and offices, where reading aloud would disturb other readers in a way. Towards the end of the century there was still heated argument over whether books should be used for information or treated respectfully, and over whether the reading of material such as newspapers was in some way mentally weakening. Indeed this argument remains with us still in education. However, whatever its advantages are, the old shared literacy culture had gone and was replaced by the printed mass media on the one hand and by books and magazines for a specialized readership on the other. By the end of t he century students were being advised to have some new ideas of books and to use skills in reading them which were not proper, if not impossible, for the oral reader. The social, cultural, and technological developments in the century had greatly changed what the term “reading” referred to. 6. Why was reading aloud common before the nineteenth century? A. Because silent reading had not been discovered. B. Because there were few places for private reading. C. Because few people could read for themselves. D. Because people depended on reading for enjoyment. 7. The development of silent reading during the nineteenth century showed_______. A. a change in the position of literate people B. a change in the nature of reading C. an increase in the number of books D. an increase in the average age of readers 8. Educationalists are still arguing about__________. A. the importance of silent reading B. the amount of information provided by books and newspapers C. the effects of reading on health D. the value of different types of reading material 9. What is the writer of this passage attempting to do? A. To explain how present day reading habits developed. B. To change people’s way to read. C. To show how reading methods have improved. D. To encourage the growth of reading. C Sherlock Holmes is considered by many people as the greatest detective in fictional literature. He is, in fact, more famous than his own creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the popular series of stories, Holmes is described as “tall and lean, pope-smoking, always in his cape and speaks in a splendid manner”. Doyle gave Holmes’ address as 221-B Baker Street, London, and to this day some visitors to London still go to Baker Street to search for 221-B. Of course, there never was really any such address. Holmes’ flat was supposed to be shared by the lovable, but sometimes clumsy Doctor Watson who went around with Holmes trying to solve crimes before Holmes did. Poor Dr Watson lost out to Holmes every time. Doyle gave Holmes a masterly skill of deduction---the ability to come up with interesting conclusion from the simplest clues found at the scene of a crime. Doyle said that the description of Holmes was modeled on one of his lecturers at Edinburgh University where he studied medicine. That man was Dr Joseph Bell. Sherlock Holmes first appeared in Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet published in 1887. Holmes was so loved by all that when his author killed him off in one of his stories, readers wrote in anger to complain. They refused to allow Holmes to die! Holmes was brought back to “life” and appeared in further stories. The stories of Sherlock Holmes have been reprinted many times ever since then. Today we can watch Holmes at work on cinema and television screens as well as on stage. 10. Sherlock Holmes was________. A. the greatest detective who ever lived B. Dr Joseph Bell C. Arthur Conan Doyle D. only a character made up by Arthur Conan Dolye 11. Dr Watson was________. A. tall and learn B. lovable but always clumsy C. lovable but sometimes clumsy D. lovable and never clumsy 12. Holmes was supposed to have lived_______. A. with Dr Watson B. with Dr Joseph Bell C. with the greatest detective D. with Doyle 13. Doyle made up the description of Holmes_______. A. from his own imagination B. based on a famous London doctor C. based on Dr Joseph Bell at Edinburgh University D. based on a model of Holmes 答案与解析 1. D 根据第一段内容可知答案。 2. A B、C、 D三个选项在文章中第三段都提到了。 3. B　根据文章中第三段第二句话I think one of our goals as teachers of English is to have students love poetry.可知答案。 4. A　结合本段主题及It also deserves a place …more central than it presently occupies.可知答案。 5. C　根据第三段第一句话I have come to think, in fact, that time spent reading a poem aloud is much more important than “analyzing” it, if there isn’t time for both.及in the classroom(在课堂上)可知答案。 6. C 从文中第三段的前两句可以看出。 7. B 从最后一段可找到答案。 8. D 文中第四段的第一句话作了明确说明。 9. A 作者写此文的目的正是向我们说明现代的阅读习惯是如何变化的、发展的。 10. D 从第一段前两句话可知：Holmes (福尔摩斯 ）被公认为是虚构文学中最伟大的侦探家，事实上他比他的创作者Arthur Conan Doyle 先生还出名，由此可知Holmes是Arthur Conan Doyle 笔下虚构的一个人物形象。 11. B 由第一段倒数第二句话可知：福尔摩斯和很可爱但有时难免笨拙的华伦医生住在一起。华伦医生伴随福尔摩斯左右并试图在福尔摩斯之前破案，但可怜的他每次都输给福尔摩斯。由此可知答案。 12. A 由第一段倒数第二句可知在小说中Holmes即福尔摩斯被安排和华伦医生住在一起，故选A。 13. C 由第二段第二句话可知福尔摩斯的原型来源于爱丁堡大学的Joseph Bell 博士。 本资料由《七彩教育网》www.7caiedu.cn 提供！ 高考英语阅读理解专项训练（33）A “Creativity is the key to a brighter future,” says education and business experts. Here is how schools and parents can encourage this important skill in children. If Dick Drew had listened to his boss in 1925, we might not have a product that we now think of as of great importance: a new type of tape. Drew worked for the Minnesota Mining Company. At work he developed a kind of material strong enough to hold things together. But his boss told him not to think more about the idea. Finally, using his own time, Drew improved the tape, which now is used everywhere by many people. And his former company learned from its mistake. Now it encourages people to spend 15 percent of their work time just thinking about and developing new ideas. Creativity is not something one is just born with, nor is it necessarily a character of high intelligence. The fact that a person is highly intelligent does not mean that he uses it creatively. Creativity is the matter of using the resources one has to produce new ideas that are good for something. Unfortunately, schools have not tried to encourage creativity. With strong attention to test results and the development of reading, writing and mathematical skills, many educators give up creativity for correct answers. The result is that children can give back information but can’t recognize ways to use it in new situations. They may know the rules correctly but they are unable to use them to work out practical problems. It is important to give children choices. From the earliest age, children should be allowed to make decisions and understand their results. Even if it’s choosing between two food items for lunch, decision-making helps thinking skills. As children grow older, parents should let their children decide how to use their time or spend their money. This is because the most important character of creative people is a very strong desire to find a way out of trouble. 1. What did the company where Drew once worked learn from its mistake? A. They should encourage people to work a longer time. B. People should be discouraged to think freely. C. People will do better if they spend most of their work time developing new ideas. D. It is necessary for people to spend some of their work time considering and improving new ideas. 2. According to the passage, creativity is ________. A. something that most people are born with B. something that depends mainly on intelligence C. a way of using what one has learned to work out new problems D. something that is not important to the character of a person at all 3. Why do schools tend to fail to encourage creativity? A. They give children too many choices. B. They are not strict enough with children. C. They care too much about examination marks. D. They don’t understand the importance of education. 4. Which of the following skills is the most important in developing creativity? A. Reading. B. Writing. C. Mathematical skill. D. Decision-making. B A new study finds that the animal known as man’s best friend can also be a good friend to the heart. Researchers in California say they have found that even just a short visit with a dog helped ease the worries of heart patients. The study divided the patients into three groups. In Group A, a dog and a person visited each patient for twelve minutes. Patients in Group B received just a human visitor for twelve minutes. And members of Group C received no visitor, human or canine(犬的). The dogs would lie on the hospital bed so the heart patients could touch them. The researchers say some patients immediately smiled and talked to the dog and the human visitor. Dogs, in her words, “make people happier, calmer and feel more loved.” The researchers examined the patients before, during and after the visits. They measured stress levels based on blood flow and heart activity. They say they found a twenty-four percent decrease in the group visited by both a dog and a person. They reported a ten percent decrease in the group visited by a person only. There was no change in the patients without any visit. These patients, however, did have an increase in their production of the hormone epinephrine (epinephrine肾上腺素). The body produces epinephrine during times of stress. The increase was an average of seven percent. But the study found that patients who spent time with a dog had a seventeen percent drop in their levels of epinephrine. Patients visited by a human but not a dog also had a decrease, but only two percent. 1. The author believes that _______. A. the dog can take the place of most medicines B. the dog is the most popular pet for man C. the findings of the research cannot be trusted D. visits by a human work better than visits by a dog 2. Which of the following best shows the stress level changes in the groups of patients? BACC 3. From the research findings we may conclude that _______. A. the less the body produces epinephrine, the better B. the longer a visit lasts, the happier the patient should be C. the patients enjoyed the dogs’ company more than the human visitors’ D. it’s impossible for heart patients to recover without dogs’ visits 4. Which of the following is the best title for the passage? A. Worried Heart Patients B. Epinephrine and Stress C. Good Friend to the Heart D. Three Groups of Patients C An Earthship is a home that is built of materials such as old tires and aluminum cans. It is the idea of a man named Michael Reynolds. Many Earthships are more or less self-sufficient because they provide their own heat, air and water. They often have gardens watered and fed by waste water. They are comfortable and ecologically friendly. The main material used in building Earthships is tires. Tires are plentiful and can't be recycled like paper, plastic, and metal. While building supplies for most houses can be very expensive, old used tires are free. First, the tires are packed tightly with dirt. Each full tire weighs as much as 400 pounds. The tires are then stacked like bricks. The walls are extremely strong. They also help keep an even temperature in the house (between 60 and 70 degrees) without heating and cooling systems. The walls inside the Earthship are made of aluminum cans that are held together by cement. Then they are coated with adobe or stucco. The roofs of Earthships are sloped so that rain and snow run into large tanks. These tanks hold all the water for the house, and pumps push the water through the pipes. Sometimes, water flows in certain areas of the house as waterfalls! Water that has been used is pumped out into the gardens where owners grow much of their own food. In most of these houses, the southern side has huge windows that take in winter sunlight as a source of heat. Summer sun does not come in through the south windows, so it doesn't get too hot in the summer. The house also has solar panels that gather energy for lights and hot water and cooking. The Earthships have all the comforts of a regular house without the high cost of electric bills! In a time when we are running out of energy resources, pollution is bad, and waste is piling up, Earthships are the best places to live in. For people who truly care about the environment,Earthships provide a great alternative to traditional houses. You won't be giving up any comforts, and the styles are attractive. We all hope that more and more people will build Earthships and take a huge step toward helping the environment and saving our planet. 1.What is the main idea of this passage? A. Earthships are a good way to live and protect the environment. B. Tanks hold water collected from rain and snow. C. It's important to grow your own food in a vegetable garden. D. People who live in Earthships usually live in the desert. 2.Which of the following is NOT explained in the passage? A. How an Earthship is built. B. What an Earthship is mainly made of. C. Why the Earthship is so called. D. How an Earthship is heated in winter. 3.Which evidence best supports the idea that Earthships are environmentally friendly? A. They were invented by Michael Reynolds. B. Water that has been used is pumped out into the garden. C. They are comfortable and ecologically friendly. D. The tires are packed tightly with dirt. 4. It can be inferred from the passage that ________. A. a large population are already living in Earthships B. the idea of Earthships will attract the attention of governments C. the materials for the Earthships will be harmful to the dwellers(居住者) D.the northern side of the Earthship has no window 答案与解析 (A) 1. 答案：D 解析：答案依据在文章第二段。Drew在上班时间研发一种新型胶带，被老板警告。尔后他利用自己的时间将该胶带研制成功。于是该公司决定其员工可将15%的上班时间用于发明创造。 2.答案：B 解析：答案依据在文章第三段。据该段首句可排除A项；据该段首句后一个分句和第二句可排除B项；据该段第三句可确定C项为正确答案。 3.答案：C解析：答案依据在文章第四段。 4.答案：D解析：根据文章第四段，学校过度重视阅读、写作和数学能力的培养限制了儿童的创造力发展。第五段则指出多给孩子自主决策的机会对其创造力的发展至关重要。 (B) 1. 答案：B 解析：推理判断题。本题要求根据作者的遣词用句和表述方式判断其情感态度，这是对 较高层次的阅读能力的考查。A选项有些言过其实: 作者虽认同狗在病人康复过程中的 积极作用，但没有表明它可以取代药物；透过全文的字里行间，可以看出作者对该项研 究成果的极大兴趣和深度认同，故排除C项；仔细研究第4、5段提供的数据，可知狗 的探视比人的探视给病人提供的安慰更多，故排除D项；文章首句中known as man’s best friend表面上似乎是陈述事实，实际上在字里行间表明了他（她）也认为狗是人类最好 的朋友。 2.答案：A 解析：图表题。将文字信息转化为图表信息是考查阅读理解能力的很好的 题型。根据文章第2段和第4段，A组病人接受了狗和人的共同探视，其心理压力指数下降 了24％；B组病人只接受了人的探视，其心理压力指数下降了10％；C组病人没有得到任 何探视，其心理压力指数没有改变。图A正确地描述了上述信息。其他图便不必再深究了。 3.答案：C 解析：归纳推理题。做这类题要特别注意将推理基于文章的信息之上，把握 好度。根据本文可知：人在经受不同程度的精神压力时，身体会生产肾上腺素，平均增 加7％。压力缓解，肾上腺素便下降。但未说明人体生产的肾上腺素越少越好。事实上， 根据医学常识，适量的肾上腺素对人体有着积极作用，故排除A项；文章没有说明探视 的效果与探视时间的关系，因而不可盲目做出结论，故排除B项；D项显然言过其实； 认真研究第4、5段提供的数据，可知C项正确。 4.答案：C 解析：归纳主旨题。选项A意为“着急的心脏病患者”，不能表达本文主旨；选项A意为“肾上腺素和压力”，只是本文中的枝节信息；选项D意为“三组病人”，而本文并非主要谈论病人的情况；选项C意为“心脏的好友”，既表达了本文主旨，又生动新颖，引人注意。 (C) 1.答案：A解析：归纳主旨题。全文主要介绍Earthship这种新概念住房：以废旧轮胎为建筑材料，巧妙利用太阳能，水资源循环利用，根本特点是节能环保。 2.答案：C解析：细节理解题。Earthship的建筑材料、建筑过程以及采暖方式文中都有明确介绍，只有为什么称该房子为“Earthship”在文中没有明确解释。 3.答案：B解析:分析判断题。本题要求选出最能说明Earthship的环境友好功能的证据，注意C项是主观意见而非客观证据。 4.答案：B解析: 推理判断题。迄今为止Earthship仅仅是一个环保人士推出的新概念住房，根据文章无法推出已有很多人使用该种住房（A）；没有证据说明Earthship的建筑材料对人体有害（C）；房子的南面设计了大窗户，目的是在冬天吸收阳光的热量，但无法据此推断北面不设窗户（D）；能源危机、环境恶化已成为世界性难题，各国政府都在努力寻求解决该问题的途径，Earthship如此节能、环保，可能会引起各国政府的注意。 本资料由《七彩教育网》www.7caiedu.cn 提供！ The passengers on the bus watched sympathetically as the attractive young woman with the white cane made her way carefully up the steps. She paid the driver and, using her hands to 36 the location of the seats, walked down the aisle and found the seat he'd told her was 37 . Then she settled in, 38 her briefcase on her lap and rested her cane against her leg. It had been a year since Susan, 34, became 39 . Due to a medical misdiagnosis, she was suddenly 40 into a world of darkness, anger, frustration and self-pity. Mark, her husband , 41 her to work each day, even though they worked at 42 ends of the city. Soon, however, Mark realized the arrangement wasn't 43 .Susan had to start taking the bus again. Just as he predicted, Susan was 44 at the idea of taking the bus again. "How am I 45 to know where I am going? I feel like you're abandoning me. "she responded bitterly. Mark taught her how to rely on her other 46 , specifically her hearing, to determine where she was and how to 47 to her new environment. Monday morning arrived, they went their 48 ways for the first time. On Friday morning, Susan took the bus to work as usual. As she was paying, the driver said, "I sure do 49 you." Curious, she asked the driver, "Why do you say that you envy me?" The driver responded, "It must feel 50 to be taken care of and protected like you are." "What do you mean?" she asked. The driver answered, "You know, every morning for the past week, a fine- looking gentleman in a military uniform has been 51 across the corner watching you as you get off the bus. He makes sure you cross the street 52 and he watches until you enter your office building. Then he blows you a kiss, gives you a little salute and walks away." Tears of happiness poured down Susan's cheeks. For 53 she couldn't physically see him, she had always felt Mark's presence. He had given her a gift more powerful than 54 , a gift she didn't need to see to 55 ——the gift of love that can bring light where there is darkness. 36. A. feel B. use C. draw D. control 37. A. nice B. taken C. safe D. empty 38. A. carried B. placed C. took D. found 39. A. deaf B. blind C. weak D. angry 40. A. going B. lost C. getting D. thrown 41. A. forced B. advised C. got D. drove 42. A. opposite B. some C. usual D. far 43. A. working B. determined C. going D. giving 44. A. excited B. horrified C. puzzled D. moved 45. A. pleased B. told C. supposed D. taught 46. A. friends B. drivers C. senses D. organs 47. A. change B. turn C. devote D. adapt 48. A. strange B. funny C. own D. new 49. A. envy B. protect C. love D. watch 50. A. sorry B. good C. relaxing D. nervous 51. A. sitting B. expecting C. working D. standing 52. A. happily B. safely C. quickly D. silently 53. A. although B. if C. when D. before 54. A. money B. help C. sight D. tears 55. A. believe B. hope C. buy D. take 36—40 A D B B D 41—45 D A A B C 46—50 C D C A B 51—55 D B A C A Hidden passengers traveling in ships, trains, or even cars can be a terrible trouble—especially when they are insects . As for this, there is a great 21 between human beings and insects. The former 22 every possible effort to avoid being discovered, while the latter quickly 23 attention to themselves. We can only show mercy to the 24 man who had to stop his car soon after 25 from a country village to drive to London. Hearing a strange noise from the 26 of the car, he naturally got out to 27 the wheels carefully , but he found nothing wrong , so he 28 his way . Again the noise began 29 and became even louder . Quickly 30 his head , the man saw what appeared to be a great 31 cloud following the car. When he stopped at a village further on, he was told that a queen bee must be hidden in his car as there were thousands of bees 32 . On learning this, the man drove away as quickly as possible. After an hour’s 33 driving, he arrived safely in London , where he parked his car outside a 34 and went in . It was not long 35 a customer who had seen him arrive 36 in to inform him that his car was 37 with bees . The poor driver was 38 that the best way should be to call a 39 . In a short time the man arrived . He found the unwelcome passenger hidden near the wheels at the back of the car . Very thankful to the driver for this 40 gift , the bee-keeper took the queen and her thousands of followers home in a large box . 21．A．connection B．difference C．communication D．similarity 22．A．do B．take C．make D．try 23．A．give B．keep C．pay D．draw 24．A．unfortunate B．careless C．unpleasant D．hopeless 25．A．passing by B．leaving out C．setting out D．getting up 26．A．front B．back C．left D．right 27．A．clean B．change C．test D．examine 28．A．drove B．continued C．pushed D．forced 29．A．normally B．gently C．naturally D．immediately 30．A．hiding B．turning C．shaking D．raising 31．A．black B．beautiful C．white D．colorful 32．A．below B．ahead C．nearby D．behind 33．A．boring B．careful C．exciting D．hard 34．A．hotel B．museum C．hospital D．school 35．A．when B．after C．until D．before 36．A．broke B．moved C．hurried D．dropped 37．A．crowded B．covered C．filled D．equipped 38．A．advised B．required C．ordered D．requested 39．A．bee-keeper B．policeman C．waiter D．repairman 40．A．unfamiliar B．unknown C．unexpected D．uncertain 21—25 BCDAC 26—30 BDBDB 31—35 ACDAD 36—40 CBAAC 　　George Pickens had been making a wish daily as a worker at Central Bank. 　　All over the country banks were being 36 , George thought． 37 this bank? Didn't robbers hear of its four-million-dollar 38 ? Were they afraid of Mr．Ackerman, the old 39 guard, who hadn't 40 his gun in twenty-two years? 　　Of course George had a (an) 41 for wanting the bank to be robbed． 42 , he couldn't simply take bills that were under his 43 all day long．So he had thought of another 44 to get them．His plan was 45 ．It went like this: 　　If Bank Robber A holds up Bank Teller B… 　　And if Bank Teller B gives Bank Robber A a certain sum of money… 　　What is to prevent Bank Teller B from 46 all the money left and 47 that it was taken away by Bank Robber A? 　　There was only one 48 ．Where was Bank Robber A? 　　One morning George entered the bank．“Good morning, Mr．Burrows,” he said 49 ．The bank president said something in a 50 voice to George and went into his office. 　　At two o’clock Bank Robber A walked in．George 51 he was a bank robber．For one thing, he stole in．For another thing, he wore a mask（面罩）. 　　“This is a holdup,” the man said 52 ．He took a gun from his pocket．The 53 made a small sound．“You!” the bank robber said, “Lie down on the floor!” Mr．Ackerman lay down．The robber stepped 54 to Georges cage. 　　“All right,” he said．“Hand it over.” 　　“Yes, sir,” George reached into his drawer and took all the bills from the top part-close to six thousand dollars．He passed them through the window．The robber took them, put them into his pocket, and 55 to leave. 　　Then, while everyone watched Bank Robber A, Bank Teller B calmly lifted off the top part of the drawer and got the bills from the bottom part into his pockets. 36．A．repaired B．broken　 C．robbed　 D．built 37．A．Why not　 B．What about　 C．How about　 D．How is 38．A．money B．capital　 C．note　 D．bill 39．A．door　 B．body　 C．safety　 D．bank 40．A．pulled out　 B．got 　 C．carried out　 D．kept 41．A．chance B．reason　 C．excuse　 D．time 42．A．Of all　 B．In all　 C．Above all D．After all 43．A．hands　 B．desks　 C．drawer　 D．control 44．A．man B．day C．way　 D．robber 45．A．perfect　 B．complete C．easy D．simple 46．A．robbing B．stealing C．keeping D．taking 47．A．telling　 B．thinking C．insisting　 D．imagining 48．A．secret　 B．problem C．thing D．puzzle 49．A．cheerfully　 B．calmly　 C．anxiously D．eagerly 50．A．loud　 B．low　 C．big　 D．worrying 51．A．trusted　 B．recognized　 C．supposed D．knew 52．A．angrily B．roughly C．firmly 　 D．politely 53．A．robber　 B．manager C．guard　 D．customer 54．A．on　 B．above　 C．through D．over 55．A．turned　 B．decided C．signed　 D．drew 36-40CABDA 41-45BDACD　46-50 CCBAB 51-55DBCDA When I was a college student, I did a lot of traveling abroad. That was because a professor __36__ me to do so. She said, “Now it is the time for you to travel around the world, _37__ your knowledge through actual experiences and have fun!” I _38__ her. Since I started to work for food company, however, I have done _39__of my traveling through the Internet. By using the Internet, I have seen the __40_ of many cities on my computer screen. And I have really made business __41__, too. With the help of the Internet, I have also got __42__about food in different countries. Therefore, I was beginning to feel that actual trips were __43__ necessary when I happened to read a famous chef’s（厨师）comment on the Internet. He said, “It is very different to have real Italian food in a foreign country, because we enjoy food and the __44__ around us at the same time. So why don’t you fly over to Italy and enjoy real Italian __45___?” Those words reminded me of my __46_ advice. As information technology __47__, you might be able to do without making some real trips. But this also means that you will miss the various __48_ you can get from traveling. Today there are people who _ 49__ direct communication with others and spend much of their time on the Internet. It is not surprising to see a group of people __50___ not with each other but into their microphones. It seems as if such people are _51__ by an invisible wall. They seem to be losing out on a good chance to _52__ and talk with other people. I do not think that they are taking good advantage of information technology. We should use information technology as a tool to make our daily _53_ more fruitful. However, we should never let it _54__ our time for face-to-face communication. Let’s make use of information technology more _55__, and have great fun in experiencing the actual world. 36. A. promised B. allowed C. hurried D. encouraged 37. A. build up B. use C. practise D. exchange 38. A. agreed with B. learned from C. understood D. obeyed 39. A. mostly B. most C. few D. little 40. A. life B. rivers C. sights D. houses 41. A. plans B. bargain C. progress D. trips 42. A. information B. taste C. cooks D. feelings 43. A. even more B. no longer C. much D. actually 44. A. people B. drink C. atmosphere D. Environment 45. A. shoes B. dishes C. customers D. situations 46. A. friend’s B. parents C. professor’s D. boss’ 47. A. produces B. advertises C. forms D. advances 48. A. news B. pleasures C. troubles D. places 49. A. avoid B. keep C. lose D. enjoy 50. A. meeting B. talking C. communicating D. traveling 51. A. stopped B. met C. surrounded D. hurt 52. A. look at B. employ C. travel D. meet 53. A. communicationB. study C. work D. action 54. A. spare B. increase C. reduce D. make use of 55. A. wisely B. correctly C. carefully D. slowly 36~40：DAABC 41~45：DABCB 46~50：CDBAB 51~55：CDACA Seventy years ago I was quite a small little girl, with an older brother and sister. My father was very ill at the time,and my mother __36__sewing of any kind so we could live. She __37_ sew far into the night with nothing but a dim light and an old sewing machine. Things were very _38__ that particular winter. Then a letter came from where her sewing machine was bought,__39__ that they would have to pick up her machine the next day unless payments were brought up to _40__ . I remember when she read the letter I became frightened;I could _41_ us starving to death and all sorts of things that could come to a child’s _42__. My mother did not appear to be worried, __43_, and seemed to be quite_44__ about the matter. Mother said God would not_45__ her, that he never had. I couldn’t see how God was going to help us__46__ this old sewing machine. The day the men were to come for our only means of __47__, there was a knock at the kitchen door. I was __48_ , for I was sure it was those dreaded men. _49__, a nicely dressed man stood at our door with a darling baby in his arms. He asked my mother if she __50__ Mrs Hill. When she said she was ,he said “I’m in __51__ this moring and I am told that you are an honest and wonderful woman. My __52__was rushed to the hospital this morning and__53__we have no relatives here, and I must open my dentist office, I have nowhere to __54__my baby. Could you possibly take care of her for a few days?” he continued, “I will pay you __55__.” With this he took out ten dollars and give it to my mother. 36. A. took down     B. took on         C. took up     D. took in 37 .A. could         B. would          C. must        D. should 38. A. bad           B. sudden         C. strange      D.rare 39. A. warning       B. announcing      C. stating      D. declaring 40. A. date          B. day             C. time        D. age 41. A. suppose       B. picture          C. stand        D. regret 42. A. head         B. heart            C. thought      D. mind 43. A. however      B. therefore         C. still         D.otherwise 44. A. doubtful      B. angry           C. sure          D.calm 45. A. fail          B. miss            C. lose          D. drop 46. A. take         B. own             C. keep         D. hold 47. A. support      B. help             C. hope          D. pleasure 48. A. delighted     B. puzzled          C. frightened     D. surprised 49. A. Instead      B. Besides           C. Actually      D. Finally 50. A. heard        B. knew             C. was         D. trusted 51. A.danger       B. trouble           C. despair        D. loss 52. A. daughter     B. wife             C. mother        D.partner 53. A. although     B. if only           C. since          D. even if 54. A. care         B. place            C. attend         D. leave 55. A. in full       B. in advance        C. in all          D. with cash 36—55  DBACA  BDADA   CACAC  BBCDB  “Down-to-earth” means someone or something that is honest, practical and easy to deal with. It is   1   to find someone who is down-to-earth. A person who is down-to-earth is easy to talk to and   2   other people as equals. A down-to-earth person is just the   3   of someone who acts important and proud. Down-to-earth persons   4   be important members of society, of course.   5  they do not let their importance “go to their heads”. They do not   6   themselves to be better persons than others of less importance. Someone who is filled with his own importance and pride, often without cause, is   7   to have “his nose in the air”. There is   8   way a person with his nose in the air can be down-to-earth. Americans   9   another expression that means almost the same as “down-to-earth”. The expression is “both-feet-on-the-ground”. Someone with both-feet-on-the-ground is a person with a good   10   of reality. He   11   what is called “common sense”. He may have   12  , but he does not allow them to   13   his knowledge of what is real. The opposite kind of   14   is one who has his “head-in-the-clouds”. A man with his-head-in-the-clouds is a dreamer whose   15   is not in the real world.    16  , such a dreamer can be brought back to earth.   17   words from a teacher can usually bring a day-dreaming student down-to-earth. Usually, the person who is down-to-earth is very   18   to have both feet on-the –ground.   19   we have both our feet on-the –ground, when we are down-to-earth, we act honestly and openly   20   others. Our lives are like the ground below us, solid and strong. 1．A．pleasant                B．sad                     C．common             D．surprising 2．A．meets                   B．welcomes            C．receives              D．accepts 3．A．case                     B．kind                    C．opposite              D．example 4．A．must                     B．may                    C．should                 D．will 5．A．But                      B．So                      C．For                     D．And 6．A．wish                     B．expect                 C．desire                  D．consider 7．A．said                      B．told                     C．asked                  D．made 8．A．some                    B．a                         C．no                      D．every 9．A．discover                B．find                     C．make                  D．use 10．A．understanding      B．wish                   C．reason                 D．expectation 11．A．demands              B．lacks                   C．has                     D．likes 12．A．fortunes              B．dreams                C．achievements       D．disadvantages 13．A．block                  B．protect                C．own                    D．gain 14．A．idea                    B．people                 C．attitude                D．person 15．A．mind                   B．life                      C．body                   D．head 16．A．Always               B．Therefore            C．However             D．Sometimes 17．A．Sharp                  B．All                      C．No                      D．Bad 18．A．possible               B．probable              C．likely                   D．able 19．A．Though               B．Since                  C．When                  D．Unless 20．A．toward                B．for                      C．over                    D．onto .KEY: 1—5 ADCBA     6—10 DACDA       11—15 CBADA     16—20 DACCA There is a workman in America who earns as much as a company director. He is Max Quarterman, a thirty-year-old plasterer (泥瓦匠).     Max lives in an upper middle-class housing estate. His   1   are mostly bank managers, business executives, airline pilots and the   2  , but Max's seven-bedroom house —  3    $ 80,000 — is the largest in the area.   4   outside the house are Max's $ 7000 sports car and his wife's Morris Mini.   5  is a 150 colour TV set and the family's   6   — a circular bath with gold-plated taps. There are also many labour－saving   7   and luxury (豪华) furniture.     How can a plasterer   8   all this? The answer, says Max, is hard work. In partnership with another plasterer, Max   9  contract plastering jobs for a firm. The owner of the firm   10   them as human machines, the best and quickest in the   11  , who can do as much in two days as   12   two-man team can in two weeks. How do they   13   it? Not by working overtime. They work a normal eight-hour day, five days a week. The secret   14  in Max's hod (桶) in which he carries the plaster to the site of the job. Max's is a superhod — it contains double the usual   15   of plaster, and Max, a strong fellow, runs when he carries it. More time is thus   16  to get on with the plastering. Besides,   17  man wastes time smoking, and they   18   their lunch break to a   19   of an hour a day. Now Max earns over $ 800 a week which is four times the average weekly pay in Britain today, and if he gets as  20   as $ 15, it's a disaster. 1. A. friends                 B. neighbours           C. relatives               D. colleagues 2. A  like                   B. kind                   C. class                   D. same 3. A  worthy              B. spending             C. costing                D. worth 4. A  Stopped             B. Stopping               C. Parked                D. Parking 5  A  Indoors            B. Outdoors            C. Nearby               D. Inside 6  A  property            B. honour                C. facility                D. pride 7  A  objects              B. devices                 C. articles               D. materials 8  A. buy                   B. use                    C. afford                 D. provide 9  A. makes                B. does                  C. takes                 D. gets 10  A. tells                B. says                    C. compares             D. describes 11. A. trade                B. job                      C. area                   D. walk 12. A. no                    B. few                   C. any                    D. all 13. A. manage             B. get                    C. do                      D. finish 14. A. is                   B. lies                 C. hides                 D. falls 15. A. quality               B. size                   C. quantity             D. weight 16. A. left                  B. needed               C. spent                D. kept 17. A. both                 B. either                 C. neither              D. each 18. A. have                B. cut                  C. miss                 D. spend 19. A. time                  B. period               C. limit                   D. total 20. A. much               B. little                 C. more                D. less KEY：1－5 BADCA   6－10 DBCBD     11－15 ACABC    16－20ACBDB 2012高考英语完形填空预测 （Part 1） 1 To Design Perfect School Uniforms Believe it or not, there are good reasons for wearing a school uniform. It makes you 1__ proud of your school. It builds a common spirit of unity (整体) among students and 2 them of the values and history of their school. But for most students, school uniforms are not something to be proud of 3 . “Why 4 the school uniform just one day a week? Always wearing the same clothes makes me feel boring,” a senior student from a high school complained (抱怨). “I don’t like the big English letters of the name of our school on the back,” said a junior student “They could be __5 .” The main student complaints about school uniforms are: simple colors, boring designs and bad 6 . And a teacher at a middle school in Guangzhou said that 7 a teacher and a mother, she eagerly 8 the quality of school uniforms will be improved soon. What has caused all these problems? Chen Hong, a uniform designer in Shenzhen, pointed out that problems 9 because the whole society doesn’t see the 10 of the school uniform. “Most designers are 11 to stick to the same old fashion, 12 _ there are no professionals (专业人员) 13 work for students,” Chen said. His company 14 most of the awards in the first national competition for school uniforms last month in Nanning, Guangxi. “Besides, high quality calls for a high price,” said Chen. “But in some schools, the annual (一年一度) expense for each student’s uniform is only 50 to 60 yuan. How can we produce high quality clothes with so 15 money?” Even with these problems, efforts have been made 16 the situation, according to Zhai Shiliang, 17 of the School Uniform Administration and Service Center in Beijing. A school clothes competition was held in April in Beijing. Thirty-seven uniforms, 18 in schools next spring, were selected from 570. “We will offer the samples (样品) for schools to choose,” Zhai said. “The perfect uniform should remind the students of the school’s honor and cause them to be proud of it 19 they are,” Chen said. Zhai added, “During the 2008 Olympic Games, the whole world will see the new appearance of our 20 century young generation with new school uniforms.” 1. A. take B. feel C. to take D. to feel 2. A. remains B. remember C. reminds D. recalls 3. A. at all B. in all C. for all D. after all 4. A. not to wear B. to wear C. not wear D. wear 5. A. large B. larger C. small D. smaller 6. A. quantity B. amount C. quality D. unit 7. A. as B. like C. for D. with 8. A. wishes B. needs C. wants D. hopes 9. A. come through B. come up C. come in D. come on 10. A. importance B. important C. design D. possibility 11. A. like B. possibly C. unlikely D. likely 12. A. if B. although C. because D. because of 13. A. what B. which C. that D. × 14. A. won B. has won C. wins D. had won 15. A. few B. little C. much D. many 16. A. improve B. develop C. change D. to change 17. A. a head B. the head C. Head D. head 18. A. being seen B. to be seen C. to see D. will be seen 19. A. whenever and wherever B. when and where C. what and who D. whatever and whoever 20. A. 19th B. 20th C. 21st D. 22nd 1. B make后面接不带to的不定式作宾补，排除C和D；feel proud of对……感到自豪。 2. C remind sb. of sth.是固定短语，意为“使……想起……”。 3. A at all用在否定句末尾，以加强语气，意为“根本，全然”。 4. C Why not do sth.?是一个表示建议的句型，意为“为什么不……”。 5. D 由上句中的I don’t like the big English letters… 可判断此处应为smaller。 6. C 该题可采用排除法，不难判断学生抱怨校服“质量不好”。 7. A as在此处作介词，意为“作为……”。 8. D 由句意和结构来判断，此处选择hope；wish也可以接从句，但从句要用虚拟语气。 9. B come up意为“（问题）被提出”，形式上要用主动，意义上是被动的。 10. A 该从句句意为“因为整个社会没有意识到校服的重要性”。 11. D be likely to do是likely的固定用法，意为“可能会”。 12. C 由上下文判断，应用because引导表原因的状语从句。 13. C that在此处引导定语从句，修饰professional，that在从句中作主语，不能省略。 14. A 由句中的时间状语last month可判断应用一般过去时。 15. B 该句句意为“用如此少的钱怎能做出高质量的衣服呢？”money 为不可数名词，用little修饰。 16. D 不定式短语在此处作目的状语。 17. D 表示头衔、职位的名词作主补、宾补或同位语时，前面一般不加冠词。 18. B 不定式短语的被动式在此处作定语，表将来意义，修饰thirty-seven uniforms。 19. A whenever and wherever引导让步状语从句，表示“无论何时何地”。 20. C 由the 2008 Olympic Games可判断是21世纪。 2 The Colors of Friendship Once upon a time the colors of the world started to quarrel. Green said, “Clearly I am the most important. I am the sign of life and hope. I was chosen for grass, trees and leaves. Without me, all animals would ___1__.” Blue interrupted, “You only think about the __2__, but consider the sky and the sea. __3__ the water that is the basis of life and drawn up by the clouds from the deep sea. Without my peace, you would all be __4__.” Yellow chuckled (笑道), “You are all so serious. I bring laughter, fun, and __5__ into the world.” Orange started next to blow her trumpet, “I am the color of health and strength. I may be __6__, but I am precious for I serve the needs of human life. When I fill the sky __7__, my beauty is so striking that no one gives another __8__ to any of you.” Red could stand it __9__ and he shouted out, “I am the ruler of all of you. I am the color of danger and of bravery. I am willing to __10__ truth. I am also the color of passion and of love.” Then came Purple and Indigo (深蓝) … The colors went on boasting, each convinced of his or her own __11__. Their quarreling became louder and louder. Suddenly there was a startling flash of bright lightening thunder. Rain started to pour down __12__. The colors crouched (蜷缩) down __13__, drawing close to one another for comfort. In the midst of the clamor (叫嚷), rain began to speak, “You foolish colors, fighting __14__ yourselves, each trying to dominate __15__. Don’t you know that you were each made for a special purpose, __16__? Join hands with __17__ and come to me.” Doing as they were told, the colors __18__ and joined hands. They formed a colorful rainbow. From then on, whenever a good rain ___19__ the world, a rainbow appears in the sky. They remember to __20__ one another. 1. A. stay B. leave C. go out D. die 2. A. earth B. moon C. star D. sun 3. A. That is B. I am C. It is D. This is 4. A. anything B. nothing C. something D. everything 5. A. warmth B. sadness C. depression D. anxiety 6. A. usual B. normal C. common D. scarce 7. A. at midnight B. at noon or at night C. at sunrise or sunset D. during the day 8. A. gift B. honor C. thought D. respect 9. A. for more B. any more C. very much D. no longer 10. A. turn to B. fight for C. struggle with D. bend over 11. A. superiority B. disadvantages C. inferiority D. weakness 12. A. gently B. quietly C. violently D. peacefully 13. A. with care B. in fear C. by chance D. on purpose 14. A. among B. by C. for D. against 15. A. others B. themselves C. the other D. the rest 16. A. equal and simple B. ordinary and similar C. more or less D. unique and different 17. A. each other B. me C. one another D. them 18. A. combined B. separated C. united D. divided 19. A. cleans B. washes C. brightens D. dampens 20. A. appreciate B. quarrel with C. ignore D. praise 这是一篇富有哲理的文章。绿色象征生命，红色象征热情，黄色象征着温暖和快乐……。颜色之间也要一争高下，比比谁更重要。斑斓世界，五颜六色，一个也不能少。看那雨后的彩虹，也许你会因此而相信：唯有手拉手、肩并肩，才能创造出美丽和希望。 1. D 由上文I am the sign of life and hope可知“没有我，其它的动物就会死亡。” 2. A 由下文的“天空和海洋”，结合上文的“草、树、叶”可知，此处指“陆地”。 3. C 此处是一个强调句型：It be +被强调部分+that从句。 4. B 此处与第一段的最后一句有异曲同工的作用，意为“没有我，你们全都没有”。 5. A 此选项应与前面的laughter, fun一样表示积极向上的词，而sadness，depression，anxiety都表示“消极”的意义。 6. D 桔黄色在平时不多见，结合下文只有在太阳升起或落下时出现，因此用scarce表示“稀少，不常见”。 7. C 由常识可知，只有在太阳升起或落下时天空才出现桔黄色。 8. C 由上文“我的美丽如此迷人”推断下文“当我出现时，没有人会想起你们的”。give thought to想起，注意。 9. D 由下文shouted out可知，红色再也忍不住了，no longer表示“不再”。 10. B 由上文bravery可知，此处意为“我愿意为真理而战”。fight for为……而战。 11. A 由上文各种颜色的讲话内容及此句中的boasting可知，它们都在吹嘘自己的优越。 12. C 由谓语动词pour down可知，副词用violently来表示“猛烈、激烈”。 13. B 由谓语crouched down及下文“互相缩成一团”可知：它们处于“恐惧之中”。 14. A 三者或三者以上相互之间应用介词among。 15. D 句中的动词dominate意为“支配”，根据上文的内容，他们极力说自己的优点，想超出对方，因此用the rest表示除自己之外的所有其它颜色。 16. D 由for a special purpose可知，各种颜色都有自己的特殊用途，它们各自的特点是其它颜色没有的，因此用unique and different来表示“独特的和与众不同的”。 17. C 此处表示三者以上的“互相，彼此”，要用one another。 18. C 由下文joined hands可知，颜色们联合起来，团结在一起。 19. B 此处是拟人化的表达，wash有“冲洗”之意。此处意为“每当一场大雨之后”。 20. A 它们团结在一起形成了美丽的彩虹，所以颜色们都记住要彼此欣赏。 3 Puppies for Sale A store owner was putting a sign above his door that read “Puppies For Sale”. Signs like that have a way of 1 small children, and 2 enough, a little boy appeared under the store owner’s sign. “ 3 are you going to sell the puppies for?” he asked. The store owner replied, “Anywhere from $30 4 $ 50.” The little boy 5 in his pocket and pulled out some 6 . “I have $ 2.37,” he said. “ 7 I please look at them?” The store owner 8 and whistled and out of the kennel (狗窝) came a lady, who ran down the aisle (过道) of his store 9 by five puppies. One puppy was 10 . Immediately the little boy singled out the puppy and said, “What’s 11 with that little dog?” The store owner explained that the veterinarian (兽医) had 12 the little puppy and had discovered that it didn’t have a hip socket. It would always walk slowly and with difficulty. It would always be lame. The little boy became 13 “That’s the little puppy that I want to buy.” The store owner said, “No, you don’t want to buy that little dog. If you really want him, I’ll just give him to you.” The little boy got quite upset. He looked 14 into the store owner’s eyes, pointing his finger and said, “I don’t want you to give him to me. That little dog is worth every bit as much as all the other dogs and I’ll pay 15 price. In fact I’ll give you $2.37 now, and 50 cents a month 16 I have him paid for.” The store owner answered, “You really don’t want to buy this little dog. He is 17 going to be able to jump and play with you like the other puppies.” To his surprise, the little boy reached 18 and rolled up his pant leg to show a badly twisted, crippled (残疾的) left leg 19 by a big metal brace (支架). He looked up at the store owner and softly replied, “Well, I don’t run so well myself, and the little puppy will need someone who 20 !” 1. A. absorbing B. attracting C. bargaining D. greeting 2. A. sure B. luckily C. surprisingly D. interestingly 3. A. What B. How come C. When D. How much 4. A. on B. at C. to D. between 5. A. put B. arrived C. reached D. filled 6. A. coin B. note C. value D. change 7. A. Can B. Shall C. Will D. Must 8. A. performed B. smiled C. disagreed D. announced 9. A. applied B. guided C. followed D. linked 10. A. falling behind B. setting foot C. lending a hand D. putting forward 11. A. the price B. the matter C. the weight D. the name 12. A. tested B. studied C. examined D. experimented 13. A. excited B. shocked C. worried D. disappointed 14. A. straight B. deeply C. closely D. totally 15. A. half B. lower C. higher D. full 16. A. unless B. after C. until D. once 17. A. always B. often C. no D. never 18. A. up B. down C. out D. over 19. A. supported B. assisted C. adjusted D. surrounded 20. A. encourages B. cooperates C. understands D. recognizes 身有残疾的小男孩看到了一只与他同病相怜的小狗，他决定以全价把它买下了，虽然老板愿意免费赠送。残疾的人有着与正常人一样的价值和尊严，我们不能歧视他们，这是小男孩带给我们的心灵反思。 1. B 商店老板这样做的目的就是吸引孩子前来购买。 2. A sure enough意为“果然如此”，表示事情的发展与预料的相符。 3. D 从下文的回答可知，此处小男孩是在询问小狗的价格。 4. C from … to …是固定搭配，此处指的是小狗的价格从30美元到50美元不等。 5. C 该句句意为“小男孩把手伸进口袋里，拿出一些零钱。”reach in把手伸进。 6. D coin硬币；note纸币，钞票；value价值；change零钱。 7. A 该句句意为“我能看看它们吗？”can在此处意为“能够”。 8. B 从下文内容可知，商店老板同意了小男孩的请求，他微笑着并吹响了口哨。 9. C 五只小狗跟随在狗妈妈的身后。 10. A 从下文内容可知，这只小狗有残疾，所以落在了最后。 11. B 小男孩问“这只小狗怎么了？”what’s the matter with sth./sb.是一个固定句型，用来询问毛病或问题所在。 12. C 兽医已经给这只小狗检查过身体了。examine检查；test测验；study研究；experiment做实验。 13. A 从下面小男孩所说的话可知，小男孩很兴奋。 14. A 小男孩直视着商店老板的眼睛，look straight into sb.’s eyes直视某人的眼睛。 15. D 从上下文内容可知，小男孩认为这只残疾的小狗与其他健康的小狗一样有价值，小男孩不会白要，他会以全价买下来。 16. C 小男孩手头没有足够的钱，他要慢慢地付清；until引导时间状语从句，意为“直到”。 17. D 该句句意为“他永远不能蹦跳，不能像其他小狗一样陪你玩耍。” 18. B 从下文内容可知，小男孩把手伸向下面。 19. A 因为小男孩的左腿有残疾，所以靠一个金属架支撑着。 20. C 该句句意为“我自己也不能跑的很好，这只小狗需要一个理解他的人。” 4 The Quiet Hero It was Mother’s Day, the day we celebrate everything mothers are and everything we do. But I’ll 1 that Sunday in 2000 was bittersweet for me. As a single mother I 2 to think of my shortcomings — how many evenings I couldn’t spend with my children, and how many things I couldn’t 3 my waitress’ salary to buy. But what 4 kids I had! My daughter Maria was a senior in college, and Denny was home visiting from his freshman year at Harvard University. They were 5 impolite enough to complain, but there was so much more I 6 I had done for them. I just hoped they ___7 . As I walked into the 8 quietly to start breakfast, I was greeted by a vase 9 a dozen red roses! When had Denny possibly slipped down to leave them? But even their delicate beauty was overshadowed by the note sitting beside them, in the quick, manly 10 of an eighteen-year-old. It was about a story that happened between Denny and me long ago. It 11 : She took a day off from her busy 12 to take the boy to see his hero in the flesh at the stadium. It took 3.5 hours just to get there, and they had to be there early 13 he could see his hero take batting practice. 14 their arrival, she took her hard-earned money to buy an overpriced T-shirt on which was 15 his hero making a diving catch. After the game, of course he had to 16 his hero’s signature, so she stayed with the little boy 17 one in the morning… It took me long enough to 18 it, but I finally know who the 19 hero is. Mom, I love you! And suddenly, it was a 20 Mother’s Day, after all. 1. A. admit B. adopt C. deny D. refuse 2. A. intended B. liked C. tended D. hesitated 3. A. stress B. spare C. strengthen D. spend 4. A. poor B. great C. faithless D. pretty 5. A. merely B. usually C. never D. often 6. A. wished B. hoped C. expected D. desired 7. A. supported B. understood C. approved D. disgusted 8. A. 1iving-room B. kitchen C. bed loom D. study 9. A. including B. containing C. possessing D. pinning 10. A. handwriting B. description C. tone D. scratch 11. A. wrote B. recorded C. memorized D. read 12. A. event B. content C. schedule D. circumstance 13. A. or B. for C. but D. so 14. A. At B. In C. On D. By 15. A. impressed B. printed C. presented D. pressed 16. A. buy B. abandon C. get D. swap 17. A. before B. until C. after D. when 18. A. see B. hear C. realize D. tell 19. A. actual B. true C. imaginary D. visual 20. A. sad B. bitter C. happy D. exciting 年少的时候，我们心目中可能有各种各样的英雄形象，让我们激动、崇拜并仿效；等我们慢慢长大，才发觉真正的英雄其实就在我们身边，他（她）们默默无闻，无私奉献，就像文章中这位母亲。 1. A 该句句意为“但我承认2000年那个星期天对我而言苦乐参半。” 2. C 作为单身母亲，我总是不由自主想到自己的缺点。tend to do意为“倾向于”。 3. B 服务员收入微薄，孩子们想要的很多东西我都不能匀出钱去买。share匀出。 4. B 从下文内容可知，孩子们给母亲过了一个美好的母亲节，他们是伟大的孩子。 5. C 该句句意为“他们从不无理地抱怨。” 6. A 但作为母亲，有多少事情我想为他们做却做不到啊。wish后面的宾语从句用虚拟语气，表示难以实现的愿望。 7. B 我只是希望孩子们能够理解（我的无奈）。 8. B 从后面的to start breakfast可知，我悄悄走进厨房。 9. B 花瓶里装着一打红玫瑰，表示容器中装有什么东西，只能用contain。 10. A 从下文内容可知，18岁的儿子给母亲写了一封短信，所以此处指的是字迹。 11. D 该句句意为“短信的内容是”，read在此处意为“内容如下”。 12. C 母亲的时间表安排的很满，但还是请了一天假带儿子去见儿子心目中的英雄。 13. D 根据句意可知上下文之间是因果关系，所以用并列连词so。 14. C on与名词或动名词连用，表示“一……就……”。 15. B T恤衫上印着儿子崇拜的英雄的形象。 16. C 比赛后，儿子当然要索取英雄的签名。 17. B 母亲一直陪伴着儿子直到凌晨一点钟。until引导时间状语。 18. C 该句句意为“我过了很长时间才意识到，谁是真正的英雄。” 19. B true真正的；actual实际的；imaginary想象的；visual视觉的。 20. C 懂事的儿女让母亲感到欣慰，自然这是一个快乐的母亲节。 5 The Abominable Snowman He has been called the “missing link.” Half-man, half-beast. He is supposed to live in the highest mountain in the world-Mount Everest. He is known as the Abominable Snowman. The 1 of the Snowman has been around for __2 . Climbers in the 1920s reported finding marks like those of human feet high up on the side of Mound Everest. The native people said they 3 this creature and called it the “Yeti,”and they said that they had 4 caught Yetis on two occasions 5 none has ever been produced an evidence（证据）. Over the years, the story of the Yetis has 6 . In 1951, Eric Shipton took photographs of a set of tracks in the snow of Everest. Shipton believed that they were not 7 the tracks of a monkey or bear and 8 that the Abominable Snowman might really 9 . Further efforts have been made to find out about Yetis. But the only things people have ever found were 10 footprints. Most believe the footprints are nothing more than 11 animal tracks, which had been made 12 as the melted（融化）and refroze in the snow. 13 , in 1964, a Russian scientist said that the Abominable Snowman was 14 and was a remaining link with the prehistoric humans. But, 15 . no evidence has ever 16 been produced. These days, only a few people continue to take the story of the Abominable Snowman __17 . But if they ever 18 catching one, they may face a real 19 : Would they put it in a 20 or give it a room in a hotel? 1. A. event B. story C. adventure D. description 2. A. centuries B. too long C. some time D. many years 3. A. heard from B. cared for C. knew of D. read about 4. A. even B. hardly C. certainly D. probably 5. A. as B. though C. when D. until 6. A. developed B. changed C. occurred D. continued 7. A. entirely B. naturally C. clearly D. simply 8. A. found B. declared C. felt D. doubled 9. A. exist B. escape C. disappear D. return 10. A. clearer B. more C. possible D. rare 11. A. huge B. recent C. ordinary D. frightening 12. A. strange B. large C. deep D. rough 13. A. In the end B. Therefore C. After all D. However 14. A. imagined B. real C. special D. familiar 15. A. so B. besides C. again D. instead 16. A. rightly B. actually C. normally D. particularly 17. A. lightly B. jokingly C. seriously D. properly 18. A. succeed in B. insist on C. depend on D. join in 19. A. decision B. situation C. subject D. problem 20. A. zoo B. mountain C. museum D. laboratory 本文是一篇以介绍一种“半人半兽”的生物Yeti为主要内容的说明文。主要介绍了其特征、居住地以及关于它的传说故事。1、2、10、11、12、14、20题偏重于考查对文章内容的理解；3、6、8、9、18、19题考查词汇（包括词组、动词、名词）的辨析；4、7、13、15、16、17题要求根据文章内容判断适当的副词（短语）；第5题考查连词。 1. B 后文叙述的是关于Yeti的传说故事，故选story。 2. D 从1920年开始被发现，至今应有“许多年了”。 3. C 当地人称这种生物为Yeti，肯定是“知道”它以及关于它的事。 4. A “抓住”比“知道”更进一步，用even表示强调程度的加深。 5. B “曾经抓到”与“没有证据”之间为转折关系，即“虽然……但是……”。 6. D 第二段讲述了关于Yeti的一个传说故事，后文中将有新的介绍。故可知“故事”在“继续”。 7. D Shipton相信这些“脚印”不简简单单为“猴子”或“熊”的脚印，故选simply。 8. C felt与believed是并列的谓语动词，意为“感觉到”。 9. A Shipton感觉这种动物可能真的存在。 10. B 人们发现的仅仅是“更多”的脚印。 11. C 许我人相信这些脚印只不过是那些普通动物（比如猴子或熊）留下的。 12. B “普通的脚印”看起来不“普通”，是因为其在雪里融化而变“大”了。 13. D 前文介绍了一些人脚印的判断，而后文是一位俄国科学家的新发现。故判断出两部分之间应用 however转折。 14. B real意为“真的，存在的”。 15. C 前面提到过，当地人的发现和传说没有证据可依，这一次“又”是如此。 16. B 没有证据被实际记载。 17. C take … seriously意为“把……当回事（严肃认真对待）”。 18. A succeed in doing意为“成功地做成某事”。 19. D face a problem意为“面临问题”。 20. A 前文提到这种生物“半人半兽”，那么如果人们真的抓住一个，将面临的问题是：把它放到动物园（当它是动物？）还是在旅馆里给它一个房间（当它是人？） Two old beggars were sitting on a busy street corner. They watched helplessly as scores of people walked by, some purposely _____1_____ them and others too caught up in their own cares to even notice their _____2_____. Every so often, a kind-hearted woman or a small child would drop a few coins in the _____3____ which lay in front of them. As the crowd began to die down, they started to _____4_____ their things and head for their evening shelter. Just as they were getting ready to leave, they noticed a man walking toward them. He was obviously a wealthy man—they could tell that from his finely tailored business suit. The first beggar whispered to the second with _____5_____, “He’s coming our way!” The two tried not to look ______6______ at the man as he stepped closer to them, but they couldn’t _____7____ gazing up with anticipation as he reached into his pocket and took something out. “Thunk” was the only sound they heard as what looked like a piece of hard _____8_____, wrapped in tissue paper hit each of their waiting hats. The rich man _____9_____ and continued on his way, not making a backward glance. “How insulting(侮辱人的)!” said the first beggar. “He could have_____10______ left us a few coins or a spare bill, but he mocks us with a piece of rock candy. Who does he think we are? ____11____? There’s no way we can even eat this—we have no _____12_____.” He picked up the object and threw it into the gutter. “I haven’t had anything like this for ages,” the second beggar thought. “I can’t chew it, but I can suck on it for a while, and the sugary juices will stay in my _____13_____ for a long time. How nice of that man to offer me something so sweet！” With that, he _____14_____ the white tissue paper, but to his _____15____, there was no hard rock candy inside. However, into his fingers fell a shiny white pearl worth thousands of dollars. 1. A. aiding B. abusing C. noticing D. ignoring 2. A. existence B. situation C. appearance D. expression 3. A. hats B. hands C. pockets D. bowls 4. A. put up B. cover up C. pack up D. end up 5. A. confusion B. happiness C. excitement D. amazement 6. A. calmly B. happily C. sadly D. directly 7. A. help B. avoid C. stop D. prevent 8. A. cake B. candy C. coin D. bill 9. A. quit B. declined C. turned D. resigned 10.A. easily B. hardly C. suddenly D. finally 11.A.Babies B. Children C. Adults D. Old men 12.A.hands B. teeth C. bowls D. money 13.A.pocket B. hand C. mouth D. hat 14.A.threw B. undertook C. unfolded D. wrapped 15.A.satisfaction B. surprise C. horror D.disappointment 1-5 DAACC 6-10 DABCA 11-15 BBCCB The old man awoke just before sunrise, as he often did. He was walking by the ocean's edge to 1 the new day. As he moved through the morning dawn, he 2 on a faint, far away motion. He saw a young man, bending and waving arms, dancing on the beach, no 3 that he was in celebration of the perfect day soon to begin. As he 4 , he realized that the young man was not dancing to the bay, but rather bending to looking through what was left by the night's 5 , stopping now and then to 6 up starfish and then standing, to throw it back into the 7 . He asked the youth the 8 of the effort. "The tide has washed the starfish onto the beach and they cannot 9 to the sea by themselves," the youth replied. "When the sun rises, they will die, unless I put them back into the sea." As the youth made his 10 , the old man looked at the vast expanse of beach, stretching in both 11 beyond eyesight. Starfish littered the shore in 12 beyond calculation. The hopelessness of the young man’s plan became 13 and the old man countered, "But there are more starfish on this beach than you can ever save before the sun is down. Surely you cannot expect to make a(n) 14 ." The young man paused briefly to consider the words, bent to pick up a starfish and threw it as far as 15 . Turning to the old man, he said, "I made a difference to that one." 1. A. accept B. inspect C. inspire D. greet 2. A. focused B. insisted C. carried D. stepped 3. A. wonder B. doubt C. way D. problem 4. A. approached B. left C. thought D. remained 5. A. coldness B. darkness C. tide D. steam 6. A. set B. pick C. take D. hold 7. A. river B. pond C. lake D. sea 8. A. cause B. excuse C. purpose D. idea 9. A. swim B. return C. fly D. dive 10. A. decision B. conclusion C. instruction D. explanation 11. A. directions B. arms C. length D. methods 12. A. piles B. need C. numbers D. danger 13. A. worried B. anxious C. eager D. clear 14. A. sense B. effort C. difference D. effect 15. A. possible B. likely C. necessary D. probable II. 阅读（共两节，满分50分） A She is quiet, soft-spoken and has a kind face and a strong heart. She is my mom, Lili. When I was nine, Lili quitted her job and started her own business. She said she didn’t want to stay at home and work as a housewife: “It’s a waste of life.” Lili became so busy that she spent less and less time with me. She didn’t help me with my schoolwork. It was, in her words, “so that you can develop your independence”. We quarreled because she rarely showed up at parents’ meetings. Like mother, like daughter. I have many things in common with Lili. I want everything to be under control. I want to be perfect and I don’t expect other people to help me. I push myself hard to achieve my goals. After I started to go to high school, Lili and I were too busy to communicate much with each other. In biology class I began to be depressed. When the teacher showed us a picture of a butterfly, I was scared and screamed. I had a vision of thousands of butterflies flying toward me. That night I told Lili about it. The next morning, I saw that she had red eyes with black circles around them. She took me to see a therapist (治疗师). Three hours later, the therapist told Lili that my life was like a wheel spinning (旋转) faster and faster and that was the reason for what had happened to me. I only realized it when my body couldn’t stand the pressure anymore. At these words, Lili burst into tears. “It’s all my fault, she’s just a kid and I didn’t have time to take care of her….” To be honest, I had never seen Lili cry before. After that, Lili began to spend more time at home, cooking and dragging me to do sports. I realized she was the one who would always be there when I was in real trouble. No mom is perfect, but she is the one who really cares about her kid. 26. Lili quitted her job and started her own business because _________. A. she wanted to make more money B. she was not willing to look after me C. she didn’t want to waste her life D. she likes keeping busy 27. We quarreled because __________. A. she began to spend less and less time with me B. she didn’t help me with my schoolwork. C. she seldom attended the parents’ meetings in my school. D. Lili and I were too busy to communicate much with each other. 28. What can we learn from the passage? A. Most women don’t want to be a housewife. B. Most children want their mothers to accompany them at home. C. We need to understand our mothers’ busy life. D. Although mothers are not perfect, they all love the children 29. Which of the following statements is WRONG? A. Lili is a quiet, strong-willed woman. B. Lili began to spend more time at home after visiting the therapist. C. I was scared and screamed in biology class because I hate butterflies. D. I only realized my life was like a wheel when my body couldn’t stand the pressure anymore. 30. What is the best title for the passage? A. Mom Does Care. B. A Busy but Successful Mother. C. Change From Mother to Businessman. D. A Student’s Opinion on Mother. B Learn To Speak French With Rocket French! Who Wants to Learn to Speak French Fluently in the Shortest Possible Time? If You Answered “I Do!” Then Please Read on to Try My FREE 6-Day French Course Why do you want to learn to speak French? Do you live in a French speaking country and want to communicate better? Are you traveling to a French speaking country? Are you a home-schooled student or a parent who wants their children to learn more quickly and easily? 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A. will speak fluent French in six days B. can take the entire course for free C. will practice French in a restaurant or airport D. won’t have to worry about the security of their email addresses 34. The underlined word “fast-track” in the passage probably means . A. speed up B. pick up C. change D. solve 35. According to the text, which of the following statements is TRUE? A. The Rocket French course lasts for 6 days. B. Thousands of people worldwide have benefited from Rocket French Premium. C. People will enroll in Rocket French Premium for different reasons, but all can be confident that they will be confident French speakers in the shortest time. D. Rocket French Premium mainly aims to introduce second-language learners to French culture. 1-5 DABAC 6-10 BDCBD 11-15ACDCA 26-30 CCDCA 31-35 ABDAB A Strange Greeting, a True Feeling Last week I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Ruth hospital for incurables. In one of the wards a patient, an old man, got up shakily from his bed and moved towards me. I could see that he hadn't long to  1   , but he came up to me and placed his right foot close mine on the floor. “Frank！” I cried in astonishment. He couldn’t  2 , as I knew, but all the time pressing his foot against mine. My memories raced back more than thirty years to the dark days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The  3 was an air-raid shelter, in which I and about hundred other people slept every night. Two of the regulars were Mrs. West and her son Frank. w.w.w.k.s.5.u.c.o.m 4  wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to  5 each other very well. Frank West  6  me because he wasn’t normal, not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had  7   of a mind than a baby has. His “ 8 ” consisted of rough sounds——sounds of pleasure or anger and  9  more. Mrs. West, then about 75, was a strong, capable woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank  10   on her entirely. He needed all the  11  of a baby. One night a policeman came and told Mrs. West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder. She  12   nearly everything she owned. When that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the unlucky ones. So before we  13  that morning, I stood beside Frank and  14  my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night, then, I took a pair of shoes to the shelter for frank. But as soon as he saw me he came running and placed his right foot against mine. After that, his  15 to me was always the same. w.w.w.k.s.5.u.c.o.m 1. A. work     B. stay C. live   D. expect 2. A. answer   B. speak C. smile   D. laugh 3. A. cave      B. place C. sight    D. scene 4. A. Discussing     B. Solving C. Sharing       D. Suffering 5. A. learn from    B. talk to C. help        D. know 6. A. needed   B. recognized C. interested      D. encouraged 7. A. more       B. worse C. fewer   D. less 8. A. word      B. speech C. sentence      D. language 9. A. not       B. no C. something     D. nothing 10. A. fed       B. kept C. lived    D. depended 11. A. attention    B. control C. treatment      D. management 12. A. lost       B. needed C. destroyed      D. left 13. A. separated    B. went C. reunited      D. returned 14. A. pushed    B. tried C. showed      D. measured 15. A. nodding      B. greeting C. meeting       D. acting 1-5:CADCD 6-10:CDBBD 11-15 :AAADB 1 In a few years, you might be able to speak Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French,and English — and all at the same time. This sounds incredible, but Alex Waibel, a computer science professor at US's Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Germany's University of Karlsruhe, announced last week that it may soon be reality. He and his team have invented software and hardware that could make it far easier for people who speak different languages to understand each other. One application, called Lecture Translation, can easily translate a speech from one language into another. Current translation technologies typically limit speakers to certain topics or a limited vocabulary. Users also have to be trained how to use the programme. Another prototype(雏形机) can send translations of a speech to different listeners depending on what language they speak. “It is like having a simultaneous translator right next to you but without disturbing the person next to you,” Waibel said. Prefer to read? So-called Translation Glasses transcribe(转录) the translations on a tiny liquid – crystal (液晶) display(LCD) screen. Then there's the Muscle Translator. Electrodes capture the electrical signals from facial muscle movements made naturally when a person is mouthing words. The signals are then translated into speech. The electrodes could be replaced with wireless chips implanted in a person's face, according to researchers. During a demonstration held last Thursday in CMU's Pittsburgh campus, a Chinese student named Sang Jun had 11 tiny electrodes attached to the muscles of his cheeks, neck and throat. Then he mouthed — without speaking aloud — a few words in Mandarin(普通话) to the audience. A few seconds later, the phrase was displayed on a computer screen and spoken out by the computer in English and Spanish: “Let me introduce our new prototype.” This particular gadget(器械),when fully developed, might allow anyone to speak in any number of languages or, as Waibel put it, “to switch your mouth to a foreign language”. “The idea behind the university's prototypes is to create ‘good enough’ bridges for cross-cultural exchanges that are becoming more common in the world,” Waibel said. With spontaneous(自发的) translators, foreign drivers in Germany could listen to traffic warnings on the radio, tourists in China could read all the signs and talk with local people, and leaders of different countries could have secret talks without any interpreters there. 36. Which of the following statements is not true ? A. A lecture translation can translate what you said into other languages easily. B. Muscle Translators can translate what you think into speech if you just move your mouth. C. There is no Muscle Translator in the world now. D. The spontaneous translators will help us a lot. 37. What kind of equipment is NOT mentioned in this passage? A. Lecture Translation.           B. Multiple Translator. C. Muscle Translator.          D. Translation Prototype. 38. What's the final destination of inventing the language translators? A. To make cultural exchanges between different countries easier. B. To help students learn foreign languages more easily. C. To make people live in foreign countries more comfortably. D. To help people learn more foreign languages in the future. 39. What can be inferred from the seventh paragraph? A. The translator is so good that it can translate any language into the very language you need. B. The translator is becoming more and more common in the world as a bridge. C. With the help of the translator, you only need to open your mouth when you want to say something without saying the exact words at all. D. The translator needs to be improved before being put into market. 40.Where can this passage probably be excerpted from? A. A newspaper.              B. A magazine on science. C. A fairy tale.                 D. A scientific fantasy book. 36-40 CBADB It is commonly believed that school is where people go to get education. 1 , it has been said that today children interrupt their education to go to school. The 2 between schooling and education suggested by this is important. Education is 3 , compared with schooling. Education knows no edges. It can take place 4 , whether in the school or on the job, whether in a kitchen or on a tractor. It includes both the 5 learning that takes place in schools and the whole universe of learning out of class. 6 the experience of schooling can be known in advance, education quite often produces surprises. A chance talk with a 7 may lead to a person to discover how 8 he knows of another country. People obtain education from 9 on. Education, then, is a very 10 and unlimited term. It is lifelong experience that starts long 11 the start of school, and one that should be a necessary part of one’s entire life. Schooling, on the other hand, is a 12 experience, whose style changes 13 from one way to the next. Throughout a country, children arrive at school at the same time, take 14 seats, use similar textbooks, do homework, and 15 , and so on. Schooling has usually been limited by the edges of the subjects being taught. 1. A. Then B. However C. Thus D. Therefore 2. A. difference B. importance C. use D. problem 3. A. unexpected B. endless C. countless D. simple 4. A. anywhere B. anywhere else C. somewhere D. somewhere else 5. A. part-time B. public C. standard D. strict 6. A. If B. Because C. So D. Though 7. A. neighbour B. friend C. foreigner D. teacher 8. A. wonderful B. well C. greatly D. little 9. A. babies B. grown-ups C. women D. men 10. A. long B. broad C. narrow D. short 11. A. that B. when C. after D. before 12. A. basic B. strict C. final D. irregular 13. A. unusually B. differently C. little D .frequently 14. A. large B. new C. fixed D. small 15. A. take exams B. hold exams C. mark papers D. read papers A The year of the pig is over and we have rats (老鼠) this year. Many people hate rats. They think rats are dirty and carry diseases, but they are also very useful in medicine and can be very good pets. Rats are very smart and are known for their problem-solving (解决困难的) skills. “Many people believe they are nasty and that’s not true at all. In fact, rats wash themselves several times a day, about as often as cats,” says a rat fan. Rat teeth are very strong and can chew (咀嚼) through walls. Rats like to chew and are always looking for food. They can live between one and three years. Rats are experts swimmers; rats can laugh and do so with a loud sound when they are happy. Rats are easily trained and many can play games. They also can understand things quickly. If you put them in a maze (迷宫)，they can soon find their way out. It has been clear that rats are useful in medicine research. In research labs around the world, rats have helped cure more illnesses than any other animals. No doubt they have saved millions of lives. They have also been imitated (模仿) in Hollywood. You know Disney’s Mickey Mouse has been loved for over 80 years. 26. The closest meaning to the underlined word “nasty” in Paragraph 2 is . A. dirty B. boring C. clean D. foolish 27. Rats are good at finding a way out in a maze because . A. they can be trained to do so B. they are smart C. they can swim well D. they can ask for help 28. What do we learn from the passage? A. All rats can be trained to play games. B. Rats can imitate people’s actions. C. Rats are the most important animal in medical research. D. Rats wash themselves at the same time as cats do. 29. What is the author’s purpose of writing this passage? A. To introduce the abilities of rats. B. To welcome the year of the rat. C. To ask people to raise rats as pets. D. To correct people’s wrong ideas about rats. 30. What is the passage mainly about? A. The good sides of rats. B. The bad sides of rats. C. The daily life of rats. D. The use of rats. B When I was about 16 years old, I went to Pusan with my family to enjoy a summer vacation. At night our family watched TV together. There was an interesting movie on TV, and we were enjoying watching the movie and eating the tasty plums（李子）. Generally, if someone eats a plum, he spits out the plum seed. But I swallowed (咽下)it. And it got stuck in my throat. It was a little bit big, so I couldn’t breathe, and I couldn’t say anything. My family was so involved in the movie that they didn’t notice anything .Everything went black, and I thought that I was going to die. Fortunately, my father finally noticed what was happening. They thought that I was having a problem, but they didn’t know why I couldn’t speak and had a red face .I felt hopeless. It was a very serious situation. Then my younger brother saw the remains of the plum and realized why. I couldn’t say anything. My brother pounded (连续猛击) my back many times. My parents were surprised at first, but once they realized what happened they began to hit me on the back, too. Fortunately I survived; for some time, I wasn’t able to fall asleep easily because my back hurt so much. So, if you eat a plum, be sure not to swallow the seed. 31. We may infer from the first paragraph that the accident might happen . A. in a cinema B. in the author’s bedroom C. in a neighbor’s house D. in a hotel 32. The underlined phrase “spits out ” (in Paragraph 2) probably means “ ”. A. forces something out of one’s mouth B. makes something down into one’s stomach C. is able to recognize flavors D. takes the skin off fruit 33. What happened to the author? A. The author’s back was hurt. B. The author was choked by a plum seed. C. The author swallowed a plum. D. The author was hit by the family. 34. Who found the reason of the author’s serious situation at first? A. The author’s sister. B. The author’s older brother. C. The author’s younger brother. D. The author’s mother. 35. Why couldn’t the author fall asleep after the accident? A. Because the author was too frightened to sleep. B. Because the author’s back was very painful. C. Because the author missed his own bed. D. Because the author was thinking the accident. C Many children use the Internet to get useful knowledge and information, and to relax in their free time, but some of them are not using it in a good way. Here are some rules to make sure you are safe and have fun on the Internet. Make rules for Internet use with your parents. For example, when you can go online, for how long and what activities you can do online. Don’t give your password(密码)to anyone else, and never give out the following information: your real name, home address, age, school, phone number or other personal information. Check with your parents before giving out a credit card number. Never send a photo of yourself to someone in an email unless your parents say it’s OK. Check with your parents before going into a chat(聊天)room. Different chat rooms have different rules and attract different kinds of people. You and your parents can make sure it’s the right place for you. Never agree to meet someone you met on the Internet without your parents’ permission(允许). Never meet anyone you met online alone. Always remember that people online may not be who they say they are. Treat everyone online as if they were strangers. If something you see or read online makes you uncomfortable, leave the site and tell a parent or a teacher right away. Treat other people as you’d like to be treated. Never use bad language. 36. What would be the best title for the passage? A. How to use the Internet. B. Don’t stay online too long. C. Never use bad language online D. Internet fun 37. With the help of the Internet, we can do the following EXCEPT . A. get useful knowledge and information B. relax in our free time C. talk with our friends D. tell strangers our credit card numbers 38. The writer tells us NOT to when we go online. A. give out personal information B. talk with other people C. believe anybody D. watch films 39. When we want to talk with people online, what does the writer advise us to do first? A. To type in our password. B. To check with our parents. C. To choose the best chat room. D. To finish our homework first. 40. What’s the attitude of the writer in the passage? A. Concern. B. Indifference. C. Complaint (抱怨). D. Criticism (批评). D Nuclear radiation has a certain mystery, partly because it cannot be detected by human senses. It can’t be seen or heard, or touched or tasted, even though it may be all around us. There are other things like that. For example, radio waves are all around us but we can’t detect them or sense them without a radio receiver. Similarly, we can’t sense radioactivity without a radiation detector. But unlike common radio waves, nuclear radiation is not harmless to human beings and other living things. At very high levels, radiation can kill an animal or human being outright by killing masses of cells in important organs. Even the lowest levels can do serious damage. There is no level of radiation that is completely safe. If the radiation does not hit anything important, the damage may not be significant. This is the case when only a few cells are hit, and when they are killed outright. Your body will replace the dead cells with healthy ones. But if the few cells are only damaged, and if they reproduce themselves, you may be in trouble. They reproduce themselves in an unusual way. They can grow into cancer. Sometimes this does not show up for many years. This is another reason for some of the mystery about nuclear radiation. Serious damage can be done without the knowledge of the person at the time that damage has occurred. A person can be irradiated(放射治疗) and feel fine, then die of cancer five, ten, or twenty years later as a result. A child can be born weak or easy to get serious illness as a result of radiation absorbed by its grandparents. 41．According to the passage, the danger of nuclear power lies in . A．nuclear mystery B．radiation detection C．radiation level D．nuclear radiation 42．Radiation can lead to serious trouble even at the lowest level . A．when it kills few cells B．if it damages few cells C．though the damaged cells can repair themselves D．unless the damaged cells can reproduce themselves 43．Radiation can hurt us so much that it can . A．kill large numbers of cells in main organs B．replace cells which may grow into cancer years later C．affect the healthy growth of our younger generation D．A and C 44．Which of the following can be best inferred from the passage? A．The importance of protection from radiation cannot be overemphasized. B．The mystery about radiation has been solved. C．Cancer is only caused by radiation. D．Radiation can hurt those who do know about its danger. 45．What would be the best title of the text? A．Radiation can hurt us. B．Radiation is the source of cancer. C．Radiation is a subject scientists work on. D．Radiation is a mystery. 1~5. BABAC 6~10. DCDAB 11~15. DACCA 26-30 ABCDA 31-35 DABCB 36-40 ADABA 41—45 DBDAA As a young man, Al was a skilled artist, with a wife and two fine sons. One night, his 1 son developed a severe stomachache and died suddenly that night. To make matters worse, his 2 left him a short time later, leaving him alone with his six-year-old younger on. The hurt and 3 of the two situations were more than Al could handle, and he turned to 4 for help. In time Al became an alcoholic. As the alcoholism progressed, Al began to lose everything he 5 —his home, his land, his art objects, everything. Eventually Al died alone in a San Francisco motel room. When I heard of Al’s 6 , I reacted with the same disdains(鄙视) the world shows for one who 7 his life with nothing material to show for it. “What a complete failure！” I thought. “What a 8 wasted life！” As time went by, I began to reevaluate my earlier harsh 9 . You see, I knew Al’s now adult son, Ernie. He is one of the 10 , most caring, most loving men I have ever known. I watched Ernie with his children and saw the free flow of love between them. I knew that kindness and caring had to come from somewhere. One day I worked up my courage to ask him. “I’m really 11 by something,” I said. “I know your father was basically the only one to raise you. What on earth did he do that you became such a special person？” Ernie sat quietly and 12 for a few moments. Then he said, “From my earliest memories as a child until I left home at 18, Al came into my room every night, gave me a kiss and said, “I love you, son.” Tears came to my eyes as I realized what a fool I had been to judge Al as a(n) 13 . He had not left any 14 possessions behind. But he had been a kind loving father, and he left behind one of the finest, most giving men I have ever 15 . 1. A. finer B. older C. better D. weaker 2. A. wife B. son C. child D. family 3. A. happiness B. love C. pain D. loss 4. A. drug B. smoke C. alcohol D. art 5. A. handled B. possessed C. evaluated D. treasured 6. A. death B. story C. situation D. statement 7. A. saved B. ends C. kept D. spent 8. A. hardly B. normally C. naturally D. totally 9. A. agreement B. preference C. judgement D. prediction 10. A. kindest B. tallest C. coldest D. strangest 11. A. encouaged B. disappointed C. thrilled D. puzzled 12. A. listening B. expected C. reflected D. struggled 13. A. artist B. failure C. father D. husband 14. A. mental B. actual C. legal D. material 15. A. known B. heard C. found D. asked A Like distance runners on a measured course, all of us will move through time in a roughly predictable pattern. In the first stage of our lives, we develop and grow, reaching toward the top of physical vitality (energy). After we grow up, however, the body begins a process of gradually wearing out. A new awareness of physical fitness may help lengthen our years of health and vitality, yet nothing we do will work to stop the unavoidable force of aging. Most of the changes of aging take place deep inside the body. The lungs become less able to take in oxygen. Powerful muscles gradually lose their strength. The heart loses power and pumps less blood. Bones grow easier to break. Finally, we meet a stress, a stress that is greater than our physical resistance. Often, it is only a minor accident or chance infection (a disease caused by virus), but this time, it brings life to an end. In 1932, a classic experiment nearly doubled the lifetime of rats, simply by cutting back the calories in their diet. The reason for the effect was then unknown. Today, at the University of California at Berkley, Dr. Paul Seagle has also greatly lengthened the normal lifetime of rats. The result was achieved through a special protein limited diet, which had a great effect on the chemistry of the brain. Seagle showed that within the brain, specific chemicals control many of the signals that influence aging. By changing that chemical balance, the clock of aging can be reset. For the first time, the mystery of why we age is being seriously challenged. Scientists in many fields are now making striking and far-reaching discoveries. An average lifetime lasts 75 years, yet in each of us lies a potential for a longer life. If we could keep the vitality and resistance to disease that we have at age twenty, we would live for 800 years. 26. What does the underlined word “it” refer to? A. Physical vitality. B. Stress. C. Aging. D. Physical resistance. 27. Which of the following is not a change of aging? A. The lungs become unable to take in oxygen. B. People gradually lose their muscle strength. C. The heart loses power and pumps less blood. D. Bones tend to break more easily. 28. The author believes the following except that ________. A. human’s life pattern is predictable B. physical fitness can’t stop the force of aging C. human’s lifetime will last longer than 75 years D. all of the changes of aging take place deep inside the body 29. How did Dr. Paul Seagle lengthen the lifetime of rats in his experiment? A. By limiting the protein in their diet. B. By cutting the calories in their diet. C. By resetting their clock of aging. D. By keeping their physical fitness. 30. What is probably the best title for the article? A. Two Great Experiments B. The Mystery of Human Life C. Ways to lengthen Human Life D. The Breakthrough in the Study of Aging B What is the nature of the scientific attitude, the attitude of the man or woman who studies and applies physics, biology, chemistry, geology, engineering, medicine or any other science?   We all know that science plays an important role in our societies. However, many people believe that our progress depends on two different aspects of science. The first aspect is the application of the machines, products and systems of knowledge that scientists and technologists develop.  The second is the application of the special methods of thought and action that scientists use in their work.  What are these special methods of thinking and acting? First of all, it seems that a successful scientist is curious — he wants to find out how and why the universe works. He usually pays attention to problems which he notices have no satisfying explanation, and looks for relationships even if the data available seem to be unconnected. Moreover, he thinks he can improve the existing conditions and enjoys trying to solve the problems which this involves.   He is a good observer, accurate, patient and objective and uses the facts he observes to the fullest. For example, trained observers obtain a very large amount of information about a star mainly from the accurate analysis of the simple lines that appear in a spectrum (光谱). He does not accept statements which are not based on the most complete evidence available. He rejects authority as the only basis for truth. Scientists always check statements and make experiments carefully and objectively. Furthermore, he does not readily accept his own idea, since he knows that man is the least reliable of scientific instruments and that a number of factors tend to disturb objective investigation.       Lastly, he is full of imagination since he often has to look for relationships in data which are not only complex but also frequently incomplete. Furthermore, he needs imagination if he wants to guess how processes work and how events take place.       These seem to be some of the ways in which a successful scientist or technologist thinks and acts.  31. Many people believe that science helps society to progress through _________. A. knowledge only B. more than one aspect    C. technology only D. the use of machines 32. Which of the following statements about a curious scientist is TRUE? A. He doesn’t find confidence and pleasure in work. B. He is interested in problems that are explained. C. He makes efforts to investigate potential connections. D. He looks for new ways of acting. 33. According to the passage, a successful scientist would NOT _________. A. easily believe in unchecked statements. B. easily criticize others’ research work.    C. always use his imagination in work.    D. always use evidence from observation. 34. Which word can be used to describe the data that a good scientist uses? A. complete B. objective C. complicated D. accurate 35. What does the passage mainly discuss?    A. Application of technology. B. Progress in modem society.    C. Scientists’ ways of thinking and acting.    D. How to become a successful scientist. 1-5 BACCB 6-10 ABDCA 11-15 DCBDA 26-30 BADAD 31-35 BCACC The old man awoke just before sunrise, as he often did. He was walking by the ocean's edge to 1 the new day. As he moved through the morning dawn, he 2 on a faint, far away motion. He saw a young man, bending and waving arms, dancing on the beach, no 3 that he was in celebration of the perfect day soon to begin. As he 4 , he realized that the young man was not dancing to the bay, but rather bending to looking through what was left by the night's 5 , stopping now and then to 6 up starfish and then standing, to throw it back into the 7 . He asked the youth the 8 of the effort. "The tide has washed the starfish onto the beach and they cannot 9 to the sea by themselves," the youth replied. "When the sun rises, they will die, unless I put them back into the sea." As the youth made his 10 , the old man looked at the vast expanse of beach, stretching in both 11 beyond eyesight. Starfish littered the shore in 12 beyond calculation. The hopelessness of the young man’s plan became 13 and the old man countered, "But there are more starfish on this beach than you can ever save before the sun is down. Surely you cannot expect to make a(n) 14 ." The young man paused briefly to consider the words, bent to pick up a starfish and threw it as far as 15 . Turning to the old man, he said, "I made a difference to that one." 1. A. accept B. inspect C. inspire D. greet 2. A. focused B. insisted C. carried D. stepped 3. A. wonder B. doubt C. way D. problem 4. A. approached B. left C. thought D. remained 5. A. coldness B. darkness C. tide D. steam 6. A. set B. pick C. take D. hold 7. A. river B. pond C. lake D. sea 8. A. cause B. excuse C. purpose D. idea 9. A. swim B. return C. fly D. dive 10. A. decision B. conclusion C. instruction D. explanation 11. A. directions B. arms C. length D. methods 12. A. piles B. need C. numbers D. danger 13. A. worried B. anxious C. eager D. clear 14. A. sense B. effort C. difference D. effect 15. A. possible B. likely C. necessary D. probable A She is quiet, soft-spoken and has a kind face and a strong heart. She is my mom, Lili. When I was nine, Lili quitted her job and started her own business. She said she didn’t want to stay at home and work as a housewife: “It’s a waste of life.” Lili became so busy that she spent less and less time with me. She didn’t help me with my schoolwork. It was, in her words, “so that you can develop your independence”. We quarreled because she rarely showed up at parents’ meetings. Like mother, like daughter. I have many things in common with Lili. I want everything to be under control. I want to be perfect and I don’t expect other people to help me. I push myself hard to achieve my goals. After I started to go to high school, Lili and I were too busy to communicate much with each other. In biology class I began to be depressed. When the teacher showed us a picture of a butterfly, I was scared and screamed. I had a vision of thousands of butterflies flying toward me. That night I told Lili about it. The next morning, I saw that she had red eyes with black circles around them. She took me to see a therapist (治疗师). Three hours later, the therapist told Lili that my life was like a wheel spinning (旋转) faster and faster and that was the reason for what had happened to me. I only realized it when my body couldn’t stand the pressure anymore. At these words, Lili burst into tears. “It’s all my fault, she’s just a kid and I didn’t have time to take care of her….” To be honest, I had never seen Lili cry before. After that, Lili began to spend more time at home, cooking and dragging me to do sports. I realized she was the one who would always be there when I was in real trouble. No mom is perfect, but she is the one who really cares about her kid. 26. Lili quitted her job and started her own business because _________. A. she wanted to make more money B. she was not willing to look after me C. she didn’t want to waste her life D. she likes keeping busy 27. We quarreled because __________. A. she began to spend less and less time with me B. she didn’t help me with my schoolwork. C. she seldom attended the parents’ meetings in my school. D. Lili and I were too busy to communicate much with each other. 28. What can we learn from the passage? A. Most women don’t want to be a housewife. B. Most children want their mothers to accompany them at home. C. We need to understand our mothers’ busy life. D. Although mothers are not perfect, they all love the children 29. Which of the following statements is WRONG? A. Lili is a quiet, strong-willed woman. B. Lili began to spend more time at home after visiting the therapist. C. I was scared and screamed in biology class because I hate butterflies. D. I only realized my life was like a wheel when my body couldn’t stand the pressure anymore. 30. What is the best title for the passage? A. Mom Does Care. B. A Busy but Successful Mother. C. Change From Mother to Businessman. D. A Student’s Opinion on Mother. B Learn To Speak French With Rocket French! Who Wants to Learn to Speak French Fluently in the Shortest Possible Time? 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Parents who want their children to learn French more quickly and easily. 32. Rocket French Premium describes itself as . A. free and funny B. practical and interactive C. slow but efficient D. suitable for everyone 33. The ad claims learners of Rocket French Premium . A. will speak fluent French in six days B. can take the entire course for free C. will practice French in a restaurant or airport D. won’t have to worry about the security of their email addresses 34. The underlined word “fast-track” in the passage probably means . A. speed up B. pick up C. change D. solve 35. According to the text, which of the following statements is TRUE? A. The Rocket French course lasts for 6 days. B. Thousands of people worldwide have benefited from Rocket French Premium. C. People will enroll in Rocket French Premium for different reasons, but all can be confident that they will be confident French speakers in the shortest time. D. Rocket French Premium mainly aims to introduce second-language learners to French culture. 1-5 DABAC 6-10 BDCBD 11-15ACDCA 26-30 CCDCA 31-35 ABDAB A U.S man found 300 letters to God floating in the Atlantic Ocean last week. He said on Friday he would 1 them to a church instead of selling them on eBay following protests from religious people. The letters , sent to a late Baptist clergyman (牧师), were 2 put in a sealed plastic shopping bag near a 3 in Atlantic, New Jersey. Bill Lacovara, an insurance adjuster from Ventnor, New Jersey, said he got the bag while on a fishing trip last week. The letters were 4 to the clergyman, who died in 2004. Someone cleaning his house may have 5 the bag, which Lacovara found about 100 miles (160km) from Cooper’s house. They include one from a teenage girl asking God to 6 her for her wrongdoing, one from a prisoner who said he was 7 and someone had set a trap for him, and 8 from a man who wanted God’s help winning the lottery, according to media reports. Lavovara said he could have 9 them on eBay for up to $15,000(7,889 pounds) according to his prediction of the compete price and would have given the money to charity. But he has changed his mind because he said the move caused 10 to some religious people. “They said they were 11 in me, and I didn’t want to do something that’s going to create 12 results.” he told Reuters. Some 13 him to burn the letters, throw them back in the ocean or give them to a church, Lacovara said. Lacovara said about a dozen clergymen have offered to take the letters, and he is evaluating the 14 to make sure the letters don’t fall into the 15 hands. 1. A. donate B. show C. sell D. owe 2. A. hurriedly B. privately C. mysteriously D. occasionally 3. A. river B. lake C. hill D. beach 4. A. taken B. offered C. addressed D. given 5. A. collected B. thrown C. opened D. destroyed 6. A. forgive B. punish C. adjust D. charge 7. A. friendly B. correct C. innocent D. energetic 8. A. others B. another C. the other D. one 9. A. auctioned(拍卖) B. bought C. donated D. discounted 10. A. damage B. offence C. injury D. worry 11. A. absorbed B. involved C. interested D. disappointed 12. A. final B. direct C. same D. bad 13. A. forced B. urged C. questioned D. pleased 14. A. requests B. orders C. commands D. invitations 15. A. wrong B. poor C. tight D. firm A One of the requirements of every graduation ceremony speaker is that they offer some advice. Well, get ready, here it comes. Soon you will be leaving the company of those who think they have all the answers –your professors, instructors and counselors-and going out into what we like to call the real world. In time you will meet up with other people who think they have all the answers. These people are called bosses. My advice is: humor them. A little later you’ll meet additional people who think they have all the answers. These are called spouses (配偶) . My advice is: humor them, too. And of all goes well, in a few years you will meet still another group of people who think they have all the answers. These are called children. Humor them. Life will go on, your children will grow up, go to school and someday they could be taking part in a graduation ceremony just like this one. And who knows, the speakers responsible for handing out good advice might be you. Halfway through your speech, the graduate sitting next to your daughter will lean over and ask, “Who is that woman up there who thinks she has all the answers?” Well, thanks to the reasonable advice you are hearing today and that I hope you will all pass on, she will be able to say, “That is my mother. Humor her.” 26. According to the text, at a graduation ceremony you’ll most probably hear ________ given by the speaker. A. wishes B. proposals C. warnings D. instructions 27. Among the people mentioned who think they have all the answers, which of the following are not referred to? A. teaching staff B. company staff members C. recreational and sports person D. family members 28. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the expression “have all the answers”? A. know a great deal about something through man’s life B. know all the keys to any test before any graduation C. be clever enough to do anything well in school D. be experienced in giving advice on any subject 29. What should you do with those who think they know all the answers according to the writer? A. Argue with them to keep them angry B. Keep them happy by accepting their wishes C. Refuse them to make them complain D. Turn deaf ears to them 30. What is the best title for the passage? A. The Requirement Of Speakers B. How to Offer Advice C. Humour them! D. To Hell with them! B Grandparents might be known for spoiling grandchildren, but a new study says they might also be helping the kids improve their social skills and behavior. Spending time with grandma and grandpa especially appears to help children from single-parent, divorced/separated or stepfamily households, according to the report, published in the February Journal of Family Psychology. "Grandparents are a positive force for all families but play a significant role in families undergoing difficulties," the study's lead author, Shalhevet Attar-Schwartz, of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said in an American Psychological Association news release. "They can reduce the negative influence of parents separating and be a resource for children who are going through these family changes." In interviewing 11- to 16-year olds from England and Wales, Attar-Schwartz and her team found that the more conversations the youths had with a grandparent, including asking for advice or even money, the better they got along with their peers and the fewer problems they had, such as hyperactivity and disruptive behavior. "This was found across all three family structures," she said. "But adolescents in single-parent households and stepfamilies benefited the most. The effect of their grandparents' involvement was stronger compared to children from two biological parent families." The study did not look at children who lived solely with their grandparents, though. The findings have great implications for people in the United States, the authors said, because American grandparents are increasingly sharing living space with their grandchildren. A 2004 U.S. Census Bureau survey found that more than 5 million households include a grandparent and a grandchild under 18, up 30 percent since 1990, according to background information in the news release. 31.It is generally believed that a grandmother __________ . A. can help a child through hard times B. can help kids develop social skills C. can spoil a child D. is a positive force for all families 32. According to the passage, grandparents will be of least benefit to a child __________ . A. from two biological parent families B. from a single—parent household C. from a divorced household D. from a stepfamily household 33. A child who asks his grandmother for money will __________ . A. have difficulty in getting along with his peers B. still get along well with his peers C. be easier to be spoiled than his peers D. not be popular with peers 34. We can learn from the last paragraph that ___________ . A. there are more families in America undergoing difficulties B. American parents are much busier than those from other countries C. American grandparents are much better at bringing up their grandchildren D. American kids like to share more living space with their grandparents 35. The passage implies that __________ . A. children who live solely with their grandparents may benefit the most B. grandparents are a source of comfort to children from families undergoing difficulties C. grandparents play a more positive role than parents in children’s growth D. all families should leave their children to be brought up by grandparents 1-5 ACDCB 6-10 ACDAB 11-15 DDBAA 26—30 BCABC 31—35 CABAB 黄冈二轮新思维完形填空 Ex 1 BRITISH newspapers are among the oldest and most famous in the world. 1 recently big changes have seen these traditional publications try to 2 the modern world. After 216 years, The Times has halved its 3 to become much smaller. In fact, the paper has 4 its size in half from a broadsheet to tabloid. In Britain the newspaper market is 5 between the larger broadsheets and the smaller tabloids. These terms 6 the size of the papers' pages but there is also a clear 7 in content. Broadsheets such as The Times, the Guardian and Daily Telegraph are 8 papers. They cover a broad range of political, economic and international issues. Their stories are also 9 long and use quite formal language. Tabloids have far more stories about 10 seri- ous issues such as celebrities' love lives. Their stories are shorter and use more simple language. Tabloids of-ten have bigger pictures. Britain's 11 newspaper, the Sun, is a tabloid and has a naked 12 on page three every day. By 13 to the size of a tabloid, The Times is following in the footsteps of a less 14 broadsheet paper the Independent. 15 changed to tabloid last year and saw its sales increase 16 . Although both papers have 17 to the smaller size, the content of the papers has 18 the same. They are both still se-rious papers. The two papers claim that people 19 the smaller size easier to handle when they travel to work on the bus or the train in the morning. 20 says its new size is "compact", not tabloid. 1. A. Then B. So C. And D. But 2. A. match B. suit C. fit D. change 3. A. length B. size C. width D. thickness 4. A. cut B. added C. enlarged D. printed 5. A. devided B. separated C. arranged D. marked 6. A. turn into B. refer to C. think about D. connect with 7. A. meaning B. mark C. difference D. sign 8. A. old B. interesting C. modern D. serious 9. A. possibly B. especially C. reasonably D. not 10. A. more B. less C. even D. quite 11. A. best-selling B. good-looking C.slow-moving D. ugly-looking 12. A. line B. page C. paragraph D. edition 13. A. going B. getting C. changing D. coming 14. A. important B. welcoming C. helpful D. famous 15. A. It B. This C. That D. They 16. A. slowly B. greatly C. little D. usually 17. A. halved B. made C. switched D. cut 18. A. become B. found C. left D. remained 19. A. find B. hope C. expect D. agree 20. A. The Independent B. The Times C. The Guardion D. Daily Telegraph Ex. 2 The half-empty coffee cups, still standing next to their plates, tell of a morning like any other. And yet, that grey covering of dust that everything 1 tells a different story: it tells of screams, tears, terror and 2 . Now the restaurant in the World Trade Center will 3 again serve breakfast. And never again will all those people go there to eat or 4 . So many people whose faces we associate with life and liveliness are gone 5 . So many words remain 6 , and so much happiness has been destroyed. In their places are tear-stained faces. My generation has seen this. On Monday, a fight with my sister, a bad grade and homework 7 to be the biggest problems in the world. Tonight, so many across the country know that America's pain is at its 8 ever. We have 9 World WarⅡBut to most of us students, that's an event on a textbook 10 that would never happen" today. After all, this was a time of 11 and wealth—the United States was powerful and successful. There would be no more wars, and we were 12 to live in such a time. But when those planes 13 ; when firefighters with 14 on their faces ran among the parts of the building that had fallen; when people 15 for their family members; when history was unfolding before our eyes, in full, clear color--then we knew the world had been changed. 16 how many human beings turned to ashes in a second, and seeing some jump from the buildings, I know that my generation is growing up in a world where 17 can still be evil. But seeing those heroes risk their lives among the castle-like ruins, and seeing the 18 blood donors(捐献者) at the hospitals, my generation has learned that tears are allowed, that mankind can also be 19 ,and that the ghost of evil never 20 the spirit of good. : 1. A. dresses B. gets C. wears D. covers 2. A. blood B. surprise C. laugh D. cry 3. A. still B. never C. hardly D. seldom 4. A. work B. drive C. play D. swim 5. A. yesterday B. tonight C. last night D. this morning 6. A. unknown B. untold C. unchanged D. unsaid 7. A. turned B. had C. got D. seemed 8. A. least B. worst C. best D. most 9. A. experienced B. known C. read about D. seen 10. A. text B. lesson C. copy D. page 11. A. tears B. terror C. peace D. health 12. A. unlucky B. promising C. convenient D. lucky 13. A. fell B. landed C. hit D. exploded 14. A. terror B. surprise C. joy D. smile 15. A. called B. screamed C. died D. reached 16. A. Knowing B. Tellin C. Hearing D. Remembering 17. A. everyone B. nobody C. mankind D. our country 18. A. unwilling B. eager C. happy D. curious 19. A. beautiful B. terrible C. terrified D. hopeful 20. A. hurt B. beat C. wins D. defeats Ex. 3 Water and its importance to human life were the centre of the world's attention last week. March 22 was World Water Day and 1 the theme "Water for Life". There are more than one billion people in the world who live without 2 drinking water. The United Nations 3 to cut this number in half by 2015. Solving such a big problem seems like 4 chal-lenge. But everyone, 5 teenagers, can do some-thing to help. A teenage girl in the US has set an exam-ple to 6 of her age around the world. Rene Haggerty, 13, was awarded the 2004 Gloria Barron Prize for her work 7 discarded batteries which pollute water. In 2003, Haggerty went on a field trip to the Great Lakes Science Centre in Ohio. There, she saw an ex-hibit about how 8 in old batteries harm the water of Lake Erie. Haggerty learnt that 9 the batteries was an easy solution. "I think everybody can do it, because everyone 10 batteries, and it can make a bigdiffer-ence. " With these words, she began to 11 aware-ness in her area. She 12 her county government and school board. She got permission to start a recycling pro-gramme in schools 13 the public library, hospital, and churches. With help from her family, friends and local waste-management 14 , she gathered contain-ers, arranged transportation, and made a(n) 15 video. Over the past two years, she collected four tons of batteries and drew the attention of officials, who were in charge of a battery recycling programme but had made 16 progress. When asked 17 she feels like a hero Haggerty is quite 18 . "Not really. Well, maybe for the fish I saved !" Every year the Gloria Barron Prize 19 young Americans aged 8 to 18 who have shown leadership and courage in 20 the public and the planet. Each year ten winners receive US $ 2,000 each, to help with their education costs or their public service work. 1. A. had B. gave C. wrote D. discussed 2. A. enough B. safe C. much D. polluted 3. A. asks B. orders C. hopes D. ensures 4. A. a great B. a strong C. an important D. an unreal 5. A. especially B. sometimes C. even D. seldom 6. A. boys B. others C. students D. grown-ups 7. A. collecting B. selling C. buying D. using 8. A. things B. chemicals C. water D. air 9. A. making B. recycling C. reducing D. handling 10. A. uses B. has C. throws D. needs 11. A. tell B. increase C. spread D. inform 12. A. talked to B. listened to C. heard from D. thought about 13. A. and B. besides C. as well as D. as good as 14. A. officials B. workers C. clerks D. experts 15. A. industrial B. agricutural C. scientific D. educational 16. A, much B. no . C. some D. little 17. A. if B. how C. when D. why 18. A. pround B. glad C. modest D. worried 19. A. praises B. helps C. supports D. honours 20. A. benefiting B. saving C. serving D. favouring Ex. 4 Salsa is a musical type that has existed for many years and is still 1 today. Salsa comes from Cuba, but many people 2 that the Puerto Ricans who moved to the US 3 the style of salsa we know today. Because of political problems in the 4 20th century, many people left Puerto Rico and settled in the US. Between 1915 and 1930, about 50,000 Puerto Ricans 5 in the US. In 1917, a 6 was passed that made people from Puerto Rico Americans move 7 After this, Puerto Ricans were able to move 8 between their home and the US mainland. Between 1940 and 1969, about 800,000 Puerto Ri-cans moved to the US, 9 to New York City and Miami. They brought with them their culture, style, and Latin rhythm (节拍). One style of music and dance they 10 to the US was a mixture of Afro-Cuban rhythms and Puerto Rican traditional dance. In New York, 11 incorporated (little) American jazz, and the salsa we know today 12 . During this time, sala music and dance, were popular in the New York City and around the US. The song words 13 stories of the immigrants' (移民) struggle to make a 14 in New York City. By the late 1970's, salsa caliente was 15 popular; another style-salsa romantica, with its romantic love lyrics (词句) -became popular, 16 . Salsa romantica is still popular today and is 17 by musicians suchas Mare Anthony, a singer from Puerto Rico. 18 Puerto Ricans continue to make special mixtures of salsa by combining it with other musical styles. A mixture of hip-hop and salsa can be 19 in Jennifer. Lopez's music which became world famous by combining rock rhythms with the salsa romantics style. For many people, listening to salsa music is not 20 ;its fast rhythm and lively beat make them want to get up and dance. 1. A. new B. popular C. beautiful D. wonderful 2. A. believe B. doubt C. agree D. guess 3, A. formed B. got C. developed D. invented 4. A. middle B. late C. unknown D. early 5. A. arrived B. lived C. worked D. visited 6. A. plan B. law C. suggestion D. rule 7. A. back and forth B. up and down C. in and out D. here and there 8. A. slowly B. quickly C. gradually D. freely 9. A. exactly B. certainly C. mainly D. impossibly 10. A. brought B. took C. carried D. gave 11. A. singers B. musicians C. dancers D. New Yorkers 12. A. was born B. came out C. was finished D. went on 13. A. wrote B. made up C. changed into D. told 14. A. journey B. room C. living D. contribution 15. A. for ever B. even more C. no longer D. now and then 16. A. instead B. indeed C. too D. either 17. A. acted B. performed C. played D. showed 18. A. Old B. Young C. Man D. Woman 19. A. seen B. felt C. heard D. imagined 20. A. good B. comfortable C. enough D. easy 答案 EX．1 1．D从后文内容看．《泰晤士报》历经216年后缩小版面，进行改革，此处应为转折关系，用But。 2．C使……适应。D逻辑不符，match意为“……与……相配”，suit指某物适合某人，某人适合做 某事。 3．B大小、尺寸、规模，指报纸则为版面，长度、宽度、厚度都不能表述报纸的版面。 4．A cut削减，减少。B增加，c扩大，D印刷，均不合文意。 5．A分为，分成。B离开，C安排，D作记号。 6．B涉及、提及。A变成，C考虑，D联系，均不符合文意。 7：C从but表转折之意看应为difference。 8．D从后文叙述的其内容为政、经、国际问题以及文章相当长、语言正式看应为serious。 9．C相当地。A、B、D不符合逻辑和文意。 10．B less serious不太严肃，从more stories和love lives恋情知A、C、D都不对。 11．A 畅销的。从其内容更市民化、生活化知其畅销。 12．B一般说来，big picture不存在在哪行或哪段，且报纸一般不存在印刷几版的问题，只能是在第3页(版)。 13．C变成，变为；由文章第一段可知。 14．D从后文叙述两报虽经缩版，但内容不变，仍为严肃报纸知A、B、C不合文意，只不过大版面特色不复存在，故较之往昔其名气稍逊一筹。 15．A It指代The Times。 16．B 从全文的主旨是英国报业的成功改革看，可以推定greatly为正确答案。 17．C switch此处相当于change。 18．D保留原样，有主观的含意，A、B均指客观发生的状态，left不合文意。 19．A指读者在客观上对已有事实的发现，B、c表达的不是已有事实，D不合逻辑。 20．B，文章叙述的主体是《泰晤士报》，答案自然为B。 EX．2 1．C Wear此处喻指大楼倒塌后周围的物体表面覆盖着灰尘，而dress在此处用法不对。 2．A 根据全文以及这里的表示痛苦和灾难的词screams，tears和terror判断只有blood与它们是同 一个范畴的。 3．B根据整个文章判断，世贸大厦倒塌后，人们不再去吃早饭和工作，由下句中的And never again亦可得到提示。 4．A 同上。 5．B根据前面的morning判断，这里说的是今天的事情。 6．D话当然是“说”出来的。 7．D根据上下文判断。 8．B世贸大厦倒塌使人们感到从未有过的痛苦。 9．C根据后文判断，作者是从书本上了解到的二次世界大战。 10．D若选lesson或text，则前面的介词应该是in。 11．C根据上下文以及后面的wealth和there would be no more wars判断。 12．D生活在没有战争的时代，所以是“幸运”的。 13．C 这里是说飞机撞击世贸大厦。 14. A 根据后面的seeing those heroes risk their lives among the castle-like ruins判断，消防员在倒塌的大楼里救援的时候是充满了恐慌的。 15．B这里是指人们为自己的家人而哭泣。 16．A根据上下文判断。 17．C根据19空处的mankind来判断。 18．B这里描述的是人们“急切”为伤员捐血。 19．A人们为伤员捐血反映了人类美丽的一面。 20．D邪恶是永远不会战胜正义的。 EX．3 1．A因为每个节日都“有”一个主题，所以“节水日”也是一样。 2．B这里是指没有洁净的水，所以饮用也就不“安全”。 3．C 这里是说联合国“希望”将这个数字减少一半。 4．D要达到这个目的有极大的困难，好像是一个不真实的挑战。 5．C这里是说“甚至”青少年也可以参与到这个活动中，做一些有帮助的事情。 6．B泛指与之年龄相仿的其他青少年，并非指其他某类人。 7．A根据后文知是“收集”废弃龟池。 8．B是由于电池里面的“化学物”对环境造成的污染和危害。 9．B这里只有“回收”电池符合上下文。 10．A人人都能做点事是因为人人都“使用”它。 11．B因为她有这种想法，所以她开始使她生活的地方的人们认识到这一点。 12．A于是她就向她们县的管理部门和学校董事会“谈”这件事。 13．C因为后面有and，所以这里只能用as well as。 14．A存waste-management部门工作的是政府官员。 15．D这里说的是她制作一个用于宣传教育的电视影像。 16 . D根据这甲的but判断。 17．A根据后面的答语not really来判断。 18．C根据下文判断。 19．D根据后文知，the Gloria Barron Prize每年都要“奖励”些8到18岁的那些“为公众服务和保护地 球”的青少年. 20．C 同上。 EX．4 1．B 既已存在多年，自然不是new，另后文有提示popular和很多人仍然了解、熟悉。 2．A由第二、三、四、五段陈述的Salsa演变的事实决定此空应为believe。 3．C从Salsa最初的形式到今天的形式应是演变、发展，而不是发明、得到、形成。 4．D由后句1915 and 1930和in 1917知是20世纪初，不是middle和late。 5．A从前句settled，本句的50，000 Puerto Ricans以及后文内容知此处应是arrived，不是B、C、D项。 6．B移民是一项严肃的国策，涉及许多社会问题，只有法(1aw)才能解决，并非 计划 项目进度计划表范例计划下载计划下载计划下载课程教学计划下载 、建议、规定能决定。 7．C从前后文看此处移民是国与国之间的移民，只能是移进移出，并非前后、上下和空泛的here and there。 8．D从前句的in and out和下段的移民数字800，000及本句句意综合看答案应是相对于一般移民的严格限制而言的自由freely，而不是时间的快、慢和进度的gradually。 9．C A选项是指精确地，B选项是指当然地，与前后文逻辑上毫无关联且与事实不符，D选项是指不可能地，在文中不合逻辑，C选项由上下文可知。 10．A移民带到美国的音乐和舞蹈的风格，“带到”只能是brought to。 11．B从句意和文意看能够改编、创作乐曲的人当然是选项四种人中的B。 12．A WflS born诞生、问世，音乐诞生只能用was born。 13．D told讲述，A、B、C与文意均不相符。 14．C make a living谋生，对于新移民而言首要的任务是谋生，不是在纽约旅游。make a room留出空间，与文意不符，make a contribution做贡献，更是与文意不符。 15．C该句前后两部分内容形成对照，后一句讲另一种风格的Salsa became popular，前一句自然就是no longer popular。 16．A后者替代前者。 17．B 演奏，played接乐器类名词，showed表演，acted扮演。 18. B Man, Woman填于此空与全文没有任何联系，由continue可推断答案应为Young。 19．C hip—hop和salsa都是音乐，音乐只能听到。 20．C 由后句想跳舞知答案为c，光听还不够，还要伴乐而跳。 黄冈二轮新思维阅读理解 A I'll be the first to admit that I am a technophobe(对技术有恐惧感的人）.Who would have guessed thata website would help repay a 20-year-old loan? I'1l always remember my last day at school. My best friend, Jenny, had organized a party in the Sixth Form Common Room; Jenny asked me to go to the supermarket with her to buy all the snacks. "I'm really looking forward to this party, Stingy," she said. Everyone called me Stingy instead of Debbie because they thought I didn't like to spend money. Actually, it was true. "There's lots of money in the kitty(零星凑起的一笔钱）. Let's go crazy!" Going crazy meant buying ehough snacks to feed an army. It came to ￡ 19.90,which was a lot of money in 1982. Jenny gave me a guilty( 内疚的) look. "I've left-the kitty money in the common room. Can you pay and I'll give you back the money?" "Sure," I replied, trying to look relaxed. ' Neither a lender or a borrower be' was my motto but I didn't want to look stingy(小气). I gave ￡20 to the impatient shop assistant. Well, the Party was a great success. So great that I completely forgot about my loan until I was flying to America the next day. I was going to live with my uncle's family until I started university. I tried to get in touch with Jenny but her family had moved. My ￡20 was lost. Until... I'd heard about a website called Friends Reunited which helped people contact old school friends. My husband helped me log on and find my school. There she was,Jenny Frost. I'm now married with a beautiful daughter called Debbie. Does anyone know how to get in touch with Debbie 'Stingy' Jones? I still owe her ￡20! We met two months later and the ￡20 was returned, plus interest(利息)of course. After all, I'm a bank manager now, so loans are my business. 1. Why did Jenny spend a lot of mon-"ey on the snacks? ( ) A. Debbie had money. B. There was money.she could use. C. She wanted Debbie to stop being stingy. D. She wanted to be crazy. 2. How did Debbie get her money at last? ( ) A. Her husband found Jenny. B. Jenny had a website on the Internet. C. Debbie met Jenny. D. Debbie put a message on the Friends Reunited website. 3. Which sentence best describes Debbie Jones? ( ) A. She didn't like to spend money at school and often uses computers. B. She sometimes lends money and doesn't like using computers. C. She sometimes lends money and uses,the computer whenever she can. D. She only lends money to friends and doesn't like using computers. 4. We know from the passage that Jenny __ . ( ) A. liked parties at school and felt guilty about borrowing money B. had fun at school but soon forgot about her school friends C. forgot her best friend at school until she saw the Friends Reunited website D. was forgetful about the money B Solomon Shereshevski was a man with an amazing memory. He was one of the world's most famous me-monists (记忆能手). Born in Russia in about 1900, he spent much of his life performing memory skills that people found difficult to believe. He could memorize long lists of numbers after reading them through once, and he could then recite(背诵) them forwards or back-wards. He could also remember the same numbers months later.. He could easily remember lists of names, dozens of playing cards or hundreds of cities. Although he had a wonderful memory, he found some normal skills very difficult. For example, he found it difficult to learn to read. He also found it diffi-cult to recognize patterns in words or numbers. When presented with a long list of numbers like this : 1234 4231 5678 8765 6789 9876 he could not see that there was a pattern. If he could see or hear a collection of numbers, he could remember it. However, this did not mean that he could understand what he was looking at. He could remember long complex mathematical formulas, but could not understand what the numbers meant. Solomon suffered from a condition known as Syn-aesthesia. This meant that all of his senses were con-nected in a special way. In other words, when he heard a particular word he also experienced a unique taste, or saw a unique color. Each word that he heard brought a particular description into his mind. Each word for him was unique, because he remembered it as a taste, a smell, a color or a sound, or all of them together. He was not a clever man except this ability and people found him rather stupid. He found it difficult to,become friends with other people because his mind was so different. In a way, his memory was a curse(祸根). He remembered everything, and that made it difficult for him to understand anything. 5. We know from the first paragraph that ( ) A. all of his life, Solomon was kept busy doing mem-ory tricks B. if Solomon read a list of numbers he could immedi-ately remember them C. Solomon could memorize long list of numbers andfound their patterns D. people thought Solomon could remember the most things in the world 6. Solomon had very powerful memory, but he . ( ) A. could not read or write B. never knew what people meant when they said to him C. could not work out some simple math problems D. found everything he did was meaningless 7. When a person suffers from synaesthesia, he (or she) . ( ) A. senses things usually in a wrong way B. confuses feelings with c61ors or tastes C. often connects words he (or she) hears with things he(or she) experienced D.each word he (or she) hears changes its meaning completely 8. The author wants to express an idea that . ( ) A. one cannot be good at both memorizing and understanding things B. some people are actually quite stupid though they seem clever C. having a good memory does not mean having good intelligence D. the more you can memorize, the more stupid you will certainly be C Last year, my boyfriend suggested that I should run the London marathon(马拉松), and I laughed. He laughed too, but he laughed too long and too loud. That made me think. I realized that he didn't believe that I could do it. That made me angry, and determined, Now he knows that I can! Training wasn't easy, but I kept going. I didn't need special training but I did need to buy very good shoes. Each day, I went a little further. By the end of three months, I was running five days a week. Some- times in the evenings I ran 10 km； on Sunday mornings, I sometimes ran about 30 kin. I used to come home, have a shower and eat my breakfast. I felt wonderful ! On the day of the race in London, I lined up with about 30,000 other runners. The faster runners were at the front, while slower runners like me were placed further back. In that way, the professional runners and club runners were not slowed down by the amateurs(业余爱好者). At first, there were so many runners close together that we were almost falling over each other. We could only run very slowly but that was a good thing because it meant that we didn't rush off too quickly. Gradually the runners spread out and there was more space. There were thousands of people watching us along the route and they cheered and clapped everyone, even the slowest runner. It was wonderful! For the first 10 km I felt very happy and my legs felt very comfortable. However, at 15 km I got a pain in my side and running became difficult, but I kept going and the pain disappeared. At the 30 km mark, I felt extremely tired, and wanted to stop, but I kept on going. I covered another 3 km and then I began to feel better again. By the time I reached the 35 km mark, I knew I was going to get to the end of the course. Somehow that confidence made me feel lighter and faster and it seemed as if my legs flew over the last few kilometers. I passed hundreds of slower runners, some of whom had passed me earlier, and I felt wonderful! AS I came round the last bend(弯道)and saw the finishing line, I could see three runners ahead of me. I raced past all of them to finish the race in just under four hours. The winner had completed the race in 2 hours and 10 minutes, but I didn't care! I had run 42 km and com-pleted my first marathon! 9. The writer's boyfriend laughed at her because . ( ) A. he thought she could run the marathon B. he .didn't think she could run the marathon C. he wanted her to run the marathon D. she wanted to run the marathon 10. When the race began . ( ) A. all,the faster runners were asked to stand before those slower ones B. many runners fell over each other C. all the runners were asked to run slowly D. the professional runners and club runners ran very fast 11. The hardest time for the writer was when she . （ ） A. had run for 15 kilometers B. got a pain in her side C. reached the 30 kilometer mark D. was about to reach the finish line 12. The passage suggests that it is better to start a long race slowly . ( ) A. than to run at the same speed all the time B. than to run too fast at the beginning C. than to run slowly at the end D. than to run very fast all the time D What's on TV? 6 : 00 ③Let's Talk! Guest : Animal expert Jim Porter ⑤Cartoons ⑧ News ⑨News 7 : 00 ③Cooking with Cathy Tonight: Chicken with mushrooms. ⑤Movie A Laugh a Minute (1955) James Rayburn. ⑧Spin for Dollars! ⑨Farm Report 7 : 30 ③Double Trouble (comedy) The twins disrupt the high school dance. ⑨Wall Street Today.. Stock Market Report 8 ：00 ③NBA Basketball. Teams to be announced ⑧Movie At Day's End (1981) Michael Collier, Julie Romer. Drama set in World War 11. ⑨ News Special "Saving Our Waterways: Pollution in the Mississippi". 13. The right order of the number of programs is . ( ) A. News＞ art＞ animals＞ economic B. News＞ economic＞ art＞ animals C. Art＞ animals＞ news＞ economic D. Art＞ news＞ economic＞ animals 14. Which program would probably interests a housewife most? ( ) A. Let's Talk! B. Wall Street Today. C. Cooking with Cathy. D. Farm Report. 15. If you'd like to watch a game show, you could turn on the TV to . （ ） A. Channel 5 at 6 : 00 B. Channel 8 at 7 : 00 C. Channel 3 at 7 : 30 D. Channel 3 at 8 : 00 16. Which is most probably the News Channel? ( ) A. 3. B. 5. C. 8. D. 9. E All around us buildings shook. We decided to leave the town ... We stopped once we had left the buildings behind us... The carts(马车) were moving on opposite directions, though the ground was perfectly flat, and they wouldn't stay in place even with their wheels blocked by stones. In addition, it seemed as though the sea was being sucked(吸) backwards, as if it were being pushed back by the shaking of the land. Certainly the shoreline moved out'wards, and many sea animals were left on dry sand. Behind us were frightening dark clouds that opened up to show fire--like lightening, but bigger... Not long after that the cloud reached down to the ground and covered the sea. Now came the dust, though still thin. I looked back. A dense cloud appeared behind us, fol-lowing us like a flood pouring across the land. Then a darkness came that was not like a moonless or cloudy night, but more like being in a closed and unlighted room. You could hear women and children crying, men shouting. Some were calling for parents, others for children； they could only recognize them by their voices. Darkness and ashes came again, a great weight of them. We stood up and shook the ash off again and again, otherwise we would have been covered with it and crushed(压垮)by the weight. At last the cloud became thinner and thinner until it was no more than smoke or fog. Soon there was real daylight. The sight that met our still terrified eyes was a changed world, buried in ash like snow. —from Pliny's letter to a friend 17. Pliny left the town after __ . ( ) A, the eruption B. the sky became dark C. the buildings began shaking D. the sea went back 18. The carts wouldn't stay still because __ . ( ) A. the earth was shaking B. the sea sucked them backwards C. the wheels had stones under them D. the lightening frightened the horses 19. It was dark because __ . ( ) A. it was very late at night B. clouds of ash covered the sun C. there was a very bad storm D. there was no moon that night 20. People tried to find their relations by calling out their names and . ( ) A. listening to their voices B. running about looking for them C. shaking the ash off people D. watching people as they ran past Ex. 2 A People can be addicted to different things— e. g. alcohol, drug, certain foods, or even television. People who have such an addiction are compulsive (强迫的): they have a very powerful psychological need that they feel they must satisfy. According to psychologists, many people are compulsive spenders. They feel that they must spend money. This compulsion, like most others, is impossible to explain reasonably. For com-pulsive spenders who buy on credit, charge accounts are even more exciting than money. In other words, compulsive spenders feel that with credit, they can do anything. Their pleasure in spending large amounts is actually greater than the pleasure that they get from the things they buy. There is even a special psychology of bargain hunting. To save money, of course, most people look for sales, low prices, and discounts. Compulsive bar-gain hunters, however, often buy things that they don't need just .because they are cheap. They want to believe that they are helping their budgets, but they are really ! 'playing an excit!ng game. When they can buy some-thing "for less than other people, they feel that they are winners. Most people, experts claim, have two reasons for their behavior: a good reason for the things that they do and the real one. It is not only scientists, of course, who understand the psychology of spending habits, but also business people. Stores, companies, and advertisers use psy-chology to increase husiness. They consider people's needs for love, power,or influence, their basic values, their beliefs and opinions, and so on in their advertist-ing and sales methods. Psychologists often use a method called "behavior therapy (疗法)" to help individuals solve their person ality problems. In the same way, they can help people who feel that they have problems with money. 1. According to the passage, the greatest pleasure of crazy shopping for a compulsive spender is . ( ) A. to get things they want B. to meet their strong psychological need C. to spend a lot of money D. to meet their basic needs 2. According to the passage, compulsive bargain hunters constantly search for the lowest possible pices . ( ) A. because they feel satisfied if they spend less money han others B. because they have money problem C. because they like to show off their success in geting things for less money D. because they want to save money to help heir budget 3. What does the passage mainly discuss? ( ) A. The use of the psychology of spending money in usiness. B. A special psychology of bargaining. C. A method to help compulsive spenders to solve the roblem of money. D. The psychology of money spending habits. B In the past, young people in Japan were expected to take on responsibilities to support their parents and grandparents. Now they expect to be supported well into young adulthood. The "new breed", born since the 1960s, have never known anything but richness. Youth are seen as resistant to entering society as mature a-dults, to becoming social citizens. Once the great objective of reconstruction after the Second World War was accomplished, a new generation lost the motivating power that had united the nation together. Japan's birth rate has been failing rapidly, partly because of economic decline, and the job and financial insecurity that it has caused. In 1999, the figure was1.38 children per woman, the lowest ever recorded. Atthe same time, youth crime, although still especially low by western standards, rose to its highest level since record-keeping began 32 years ago. Likewise, the proportion of students dropping out before graduating, at 2.5％ also Very low by western standards, has never-theless been rising. Entrepreneurial (企业家的) role models are few and far between. Bill Gates is often mentioned, but a foreign model can only have so much influence. The problem is that Japanese culture discourages people from revealing details of personal life, including such difficult or painful experience as starting a company. In the past, successful companies such as Honda or Hita-chi provided role models of a sort. But today they have been faded by the downturn, and few others have risen to take their place. By the same reason, young people often feel isolated from their fathers, who worked too hard at their jobs to establish much of a relationship with their children. "The one thing they're sure of is that they don't want to be like their fathers. And the girls don't want to be with boys who are like their fathers, so the boys are sure not to be,"says Professor Morishima. 4. According to the passage, former young people were expected to . ( ) A. enter the society before adulthood B. hold together C. work hard and support their family D. study hard and find a good job 5. The underlined word “it”(Para. 2) most probably refers to . ( ) A..economic decline B. job insecurity C. birth rate D. financial unsafety 6. The author takes the two examples of the youth crime and students' dropping-out before graduating to show . ( ) A. the youth are overburdened B. the educational system in Japan is not satisfying C. public security and order in Japan are bad D. the ethnical level of youth in Japan is dropping 7. Today, entrepreneurial models are rarely found in Japan because . ( ) A. the discouragement of Japanese culture B. the worshipping of western models C. the lack of experience of starting a company D. the "new breed" don't want to work hard 8. The passage mainly discusses . ( ) A. the decline of the Japanese economy B. the great change of the ethnical and value concept of youth in Japan C. the existence of generation gap between youth and their parents D. the increase of birth rate C For the first nine months of Sam Berns' life, everything seemed normal. He learned to walk, but then his parents noticed something different. After a year, doctors in the end diagnosed (诊断) him with a genetic disease so rare that it affects just one in 8 million children. Only 40 children in the world are known to have the disease. The disease, progeria, ages children at up to 10 times the normal rate. They stop growing prematurely, then lose their hair and get arthritis. Some children suffer strokes by the time they are 4 or 5. There is no known treatment or cure, and most patients die of heart disease by the age of 13. Progeria is a gene mutation (突变). But scientists had not identified which gene or genes were responsible for the disease, so they had no idea even how to start hunting for a cure. With most genetic disease, re-searchers are able to examine family trees to see how diseases recur (happen again), crossreferencing the information to narrow the hunt. But with progeria sufferers seldom living into their teens, there were no family trees to study. But not long ago, NIH (National Institutes ot Health) called Sam's parents with good news., by comparing the genetic samples of progeria sufferers with a normal human gene structure, they had found a com mon chromosome (染色体) fault that almost all of the progeria-suffered Children shared. The discovery could potentially be the first step toward finding a cure for the rare disease and possibly even a way to fight the disease of aging in the general population. Now 7, Sam acts just like any child of his age. However, Sam has the body of a 70-year-old, and is starting to feel some of the effects of premature aging, including poor eyesight and stiffness in his joints. 9. Progeria cannot be cured up to now because . ( ) A. scientists pay no much attention to it due to the small number of patients B. they lack of advanced medical facilities in treating genetic disease C. scientists have not discovered the type of genes which arouse progeria D. no family trees are available due to the short life of progeria sufferers 10. What can researchers know through studying family trees? ( ) A. The circumstances of the recurrence of the disease. B. The genetic samples of progeria sufferers. C. Chromosome faults of progeria suffers. D. The method of overcoming progeria. ll. What do we know from the news that NIH brought to Sam's parents? ( ) A. This incurable disease finally was overcome. B. Different children have different chromosome faults. C. It is possible to find the cure of the rare disease. D. All the people have the same chromosomes. D About 2 percent of American students are now taught at home. Educators are confused about how this growing practice should be regulated, and also wonder whether children who are not fully registered in school should get some public services. The issue shows how dim the line between public and private education can become, even when that private education is delivered at home. Probably about half the parents who teach at home are religiously motivated and use lessons by mail (or Internet) from church schools. Perhaps an additional fourth have some doubts about public education, think schools are unsafe of the fact that their children have special need that regular schools don't meet, In some cases, parents home-school to escape compulsory (义务的) education; they do least teaching while having older children care for younger sisters or brothers or work in home businesses. Although .children often learn well at home weak regulations in most states mean that officials rarely challenge or monitor parents who say they are home-schooling. With glowing frequency, however, public schools offer services to the home-schooled. Districts may permit them to enroll part time for instance; educators fear that otherwise these children could later return full time with serious academic weaknesses, and in any case some districts wanting to qualify for state aid can benefit from part-timers filling empty seats. Here in Helena, Mary Brown has taught her 12 children at home while manufacturing clothing there in her non-teaching hours. Mrs Brown says her motive is to give more training in basics, like phonics (发音学) than public schools offer. Most of her curriculum is from a church school, with tests returned by mail. Two years ago her seventh child, Andrea, wanting to join regular athletic programs, enrolled at Capital High School. Andrea soon changed her mind and continued home study. But she had liked gym and chorus, so Mrs Brown asked that she be allowed to continue in them while taking other courses at home. 12. The education experts worry about . ( ) A. whether home-schooling affects the general level of education B. whether the children studying at home need help C. whether the family education should 'be aban- doned D. whether parents use the right methods to teach children 13. We can know from the passage that . ( ) A. half the parents feel doubtful about public education B. most parents have religious consideration C. some parents want to escape the compulsory education D. public schools should not interfere in private education 14. The important problem of home-school education is . ( ) A. lack of social activities B. lack of strict manageme.nt C. inefficiency in study D. low teaching quality 15. According to Mrs Brown, the purpose of teaching her children at home is . ( ) A. looking after them by herself B. teaching them what they like C. helping her to do housework D. teaching them more basics 16. It can be inferred from the passage that . ( ) A. no measures can be taken to regulate the home: school education B. most parents are not satisfied with public education C. it is wiser for schools to accept enrollment part time D. the home-schooled have no difference with those in public schools E Most ,young people enjoy some form of physical activity. It may be walking, cycling, or swimming, or in winter, skating or skiing. It may be a game of some form—footballl, basketball, hockey, golf or tennis. It may be mountaineering, Those who have a passion for climbing high and difficult mountains are often looked upon with astonishment. Why are men and women willing to suffer cold and hardship, and to take risks in high mountains? This astonishment it caused, probably, by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity to which men give their leisure. Mountaineering is a sport and not a game. There are no man-made rules, as others, as there are for such games as golf. and football. There are, of course, rules of different kind which it would be dangerous to ignore, but it is this freedom from man-made rules that makes mountaineering attractive to many people. Those who climb mountains are free to use their own methods. If we compare mountaineering and other more familiar sports, we might think that one big difference is that mountaineering is not a "team game". We should be mistaken in this. There are, it is true, no "matches" between "teams" of climbers, but when climbers are on a rock face linked by a rope on which their lives may depend, there is obviously teamwork. The mountain climber knows that he may have to fight forces that are stronger and more powerful than man. He has to fight the forces of nature. His sport requires high mental and physical qualities. A mountain climber continues to improve in skill year after year. A skier is probably past his best by the age of thirty. But it is not unusual for men of fifty or sixty to climb the highest mountains in the Alps. They may take more time than younger men, but they perhaps climb with more skill and less waste of effort, and they certainly experience equal enjoyment. 17. What movements are popular among people in winter in the passage? ( ) A. Soccer and golf. B. Skiing and skating. C. Cycling and hockey. D. Mountaineering. 18. The underlined word "passion" (Para. 2) could best be replaced by . ( ) A. strong emotion B. enthusiasm C. feeling D. affection 19. Mountaineering is a sport, not a game because . ( ) A. it has man-made rules B. it is too dangerous for climbers C. it can't bring people joy and leisure D. it is free for climbers to use their own methods 20. We know from the passage that . ( ) A. mountaineering has no appeal to people B. physical quality is more important than mental one for climbers C. a mountain climber would pass his best by the age of thirty D. it is possible for an old man of fifty or sixty to climb the Alps Ex. 3 A Even with little exposure to cultural standards of heauty,"infants treat attractive faces as distinctive regardless of the sex, age and race of the stimulus (刺激物) faces," write psychologist Judith H. Langlois and her colleagues in the January DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. In their experiment, 60 healthy 6-month-old infants from middle-class families viewed slides showing eight pairs of white male faces and eight pairs of white female faces. Each pair, displayed for 10 seconds, consisted of one attractive and one unattractive face, as previously judged by a group of male and female college students. An experimenter viewed the young participants on a video monitor and recorded the direction and duration of each infant's gaze. The 35 boys and 25 girls looked longer at both male and female faces judged as attractive, the re- searchers found. Their second study of 6-month-old involved 15 boys and 25 girls, mostly white, who saw eight pairs of slides showing an attractive and an unattractive black female, as previously judged by both white and black college students. Again, the babies looked much longer at attractive faces. Finally, 19 boys and 20 girls, all 6 months old and almost all of them white, viewed eight pairs of slides showing the faces of 3-month-old boys and girls previ-ously rated as attractive or unattractive by college students. Attractive baby faces drew significantly longer looks, the psychologists report. Further studies must explore whether infants take attractive faces as"best examples'of a face, the investi-gators claim Langlois and a coworker recently reported that attractive faces may possess features that approxi-mate the mathematical average of all faces in particular population. 1. What was found in the first study? ( ) A. Male infants looked longer only at female ones. B. Females looked more attractive than males. C. Sixty 6-month-old babies looked longer at the attractive faces, male or female. D. White female faces drew more attention than those of black ones. 2. In the last paragraph, the writer implies that . ( ) A. Langlois and her partners will stop their experi-ments they accomplished a lot B. Langlois and her partners will focus on the other fields of infants C. Langlois and her partners have achieved success in studying the infants' mind D. Langlois and her partners have found a more interesting field 3. What can be inferred from the passage? ( ) A. All babies, white or black, tend to share with the college students the preference for attractive faces. B. White babies prefer white faces to black ones. C. Babies tend to get interested in the attractive faces of the opposite sex. D. Beauty has something to do with a person's age, race and sex. 4. The title that best expresses the main idea is . ( ) A. Psychology of Infants B. Beauty in Variety C. Beauty and Race D. Beauty in Infants B America is a country on the move. In unheard-of numbers, people of all ages are exercising their way to better health. According to the latest figures, 59 per cent of American adults exercise regularly—up 12 percent from just two years ago and more than double the figure of 25 years ago. Even non-exercisers believe they would be more attractive and confident if they were more active. It is hard not to get the message. The virtues of physical fitness are shown on magazine covers, postage stamps, and television ads of everything from beauty soaps to travel books. Exercise as a part of daily life did not catch on until the late 1960s when research by mili-tary doctors began to show the health benefits of doing regular physical exercises. Growing pub|icily ( 宣传) for races held in American cities helped fuel a strong in-terest in the ancient sport of running. Although run-ning has leveled off in recent years as Americans have discovered equally rewarding--and sometimes safer—forms of exercise, such as walking and swimming, run-ning remains the most popular form of exercise. As the popularity of exercise continues to mount, so does scientific evidence of its health benefits. The key to fitness is exercising the major muscle groups vig-orously (强有力地) enough to approximately double the heart rate and keep it doubled for 20 to 30 minutes at a time. Doing such physical exercises three times or more a week will produce considerable improvements in physical health in about three months. 5. It can be learnt from the passage that the health benefits of exercise . ( ) A. are to be further studied B. are self-evident C. are yet to be proved D. are supported by scientific evidence 6. A growing interest in sports developed after . ( ) A. an increasing number of races were held in Ameri-can cities B. research showed their health benefits C. scientific evidence of health benefits was shown on TV ads D. people got the message from magazine covers and postage stamps 7. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage? ( ) A. Exercise—The Road to Health. B. Scientific Evidence of Health Benefits. C. Different Forms of Exercise. D. Running—A Popular Form of Sport. 8. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the phrase "leveled off" in the paragraph 2? ( ) A. Reached its lowest level in popularity. B. Stopped being popular. C. Stopped increasing in popularity. D. Become very popular. C Unless we spend money spotting and preventing asteroids (小行星) now, one might crash into Earth and destroy life as we know it, say some scientists. Asteroids are bigger versions of the meteoroids(流星) that race across the night sky. Most orbit the sun far from Earth and don't threaten us. But there are also thousands of asteroids whose orbits put them on a collision course with Earth. Buy $ 50 million worth of new telescopes right now. Then spend $10 million a year for the next 25 years to locate most of the space rocks. By the time we spot a fatal one, the scientists say, we'll have a way to change its course. Some scientists favor pushing asteroids off course with nuclear weapons. But the cost wouldn't be cheap. Is it worth doing so? Two things experts consider when judging any risk are: (1) How likely the event is; and (2) How bad the consequences if the event occurs. Experts think an asteroid big enough to destroy lots of life might strike Earth once every 500,000 years. Sounds pretty rare--but if one did fall, it would be the end of the world. "If we don't take care of these asteroids, they'll take care of us,"says one scientist. "It's that simple. " The cure, though, might be worse than the disease. Do we really want fleets of nuclear weapons sit- ting around on Earth? "The world has less to fear from doomsday (世界末日) rocks than from a great nuclear fleet set against it,"said a Nero York Times article. 9. What does the passage say about asteroids and mete oroids? ( ) A. They are heavenly bodies different in composition. B. They are heavenly bodies similar in nature. C. There are more asteroids than meteoroids. D. Asteroids are more mysterious than meteoroids. 10. What do scientists say about the collision of an asteroid with Earth? ( ) A. It is very unlikely but the danger exists. B. Such a collision might occur once every 25 years. C. Collisions of smaller asteroids with Earth occur more often than expected. D. It's still too early to say whether such a collision might occur. 11. What do people think of the suggestion of using nuclear weapons to alter the course of asteroids? ( ) A. It sounds practical but it may not solve the problem. B. It may create more problems than it might solve. C. It is a waste of money because a collision of asteroids with Earth is very unlikely. D. Further research should be done before it is proved applicable. 12. We can conclude from the passage that . ( ) A. while pushing asteroids off course nuclear weap-ons would destroy the world B. asteroids racing across the night sky are likely to hit Earth in the near future C. the worry about asteroids can be left to future generations since it is unlikely to happen in our lifetime D. workable solutions still have to be found to prevent a collision of asteroids with Earth D While still in its early stages, welfare reform has already been judged a great success in many states--at least in getting people off welfare. It's estimated that more than 2 million people have left the rolls since 1994. In the past four years, welfare ro[|s in Athens County have been cut in half. But 70 percent of the people who left in the. past two years took jobs that paid less than $ 6 an hour. The result: The Athens County poverty rate still remains at more than 30 percent-- twice the national average. For advocates (代言人) for the poor, that's an indication that much more needs to be done. "More people are getting jobs, but it's not making their lives any better,'says Kathy Lairn, a policy ana-lyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington. A center analysis of US Census data nationwide found that between 1995 and 1996, a greater percent-age of single, female-headed households were earning money on their own, but that average income for these households actually went down. But for many, the fact that poor people are able to support themselves almost as well without government aid as they did with it is in itself a huge victory. "Welfare was a poison. It was a toxin (毒素) that was poisoning the family,'says Robert Rector, a wel-fare-reform policy analyst. "The reform is changing the moral climate in low-income communities. It's begin-ning to rebuild the work ethic (道德观),which is much more important. " Mr Rector and others argued that once "the habit of dependency is cracked", then the country can make other policy changes aimed at improving living stand- ards. 13. From the passage, it can he seen that the author . ( ) A. believes the reform has reduced the government's burden B. insists that welfare reform is doing little good to the poor C. is over-enthusiastic about the success of welfare reform D. considers welfare reform to be fundamentally successful 14. Why aren't people enjoying better lives when they have jobs? ( ) A. Because many families are divorced. B. Because government aid is now rare. C. Because their wages are low. D. Because the cost of living .is rising. 15. What is worth noting from the example of Athens County is that . ( ) A. greater efforts should be made to improve people's living standards . B. 70 percent of the people there have been era- ployed for two years C. 50 percent of the population no longer relies on welfare D. the living standards of most people are going down 16. From the passage we know that welfare reform aims at . ( ) A. saving welfare funds B. rebuilding the work ethics (观念） C. providing more jobs D. cutting government expenses E In some urban centers, workaholism is so common that people do not consider it unusual: they accept the lifestyle as normal. Government workers in Washington D. C. , for example, frequently work sixty to seventy hours a week. They don't do this because they have to； they do it because they want to. Workaholism can be a serious problem. Because true workaholics(工作狂) would rather work than do anything else, they probably don't know how to relax. Is workaholism always dangerous? Perhaps not. There are, certainly, people who work well under stress. Some studies show that many workaholics have great energy and interest in life. Their work is so pleas-urable that they are actually very happy. For most workaholics, work and entertainment keep them busy and creative. Why do workaholics enjoy their jobs so much? There are several advantages to work. Of course, it provides people with paychecks, and this is important. But it offers more than financial security. It provides people with self-confidence; they have a feeling of satis-faction when they've produced a challenging piece of work and are able to say,"I made that." .Psychologists claim that work gives people an identity(认同) through participation in work, they get a sense of self and indi-vidualism. In addition, most jobs provide people with a socially acceptable way to meet others. Perhaps some people are compulsive about their work, but their addiction seems to be a safe--even an advantageous—one: 17. The passage indicates that workaholics . A. just know work but nothing else B. are willing to work hard for long hours without pay C. find their work provide them more satisfaction and self-confidence than how much they are paid D. has the work with more responsibility than others 15. One of the reasons that some people are not willing to quit their jobs even in their eighties and nineties is that ( ) A. they are in the need of financial security B. they would rather work than be disturbed by domestic affairs C. they long for a sense of identity and being accomplished D. they may have health problems from sheer boredom(极端厌倦） 19. This passage is mainly about . ( ) A. workaholics are usually successful people, but their lives are in a mess B. workaholism can lead to serious problems but it can also create a joyful life C. people who are absorbed in their work may enjoy movies, sports and other kinds of entertainment D. those who work even under difficult conditions. may be very happy 20. It can be inferred from the passage that ( ) A. in the eyes of all the common people workaholics are peculiar B. to workaholics, work is the sole source of happiness C. a piece of challenging work may provide the worka-holics a sense of satisfaction D. workaholics are as addicted to their job as other people are to drugs or alcohol ( ) 答案 Ex．I A 1．B从“There’S lots of money in the kitty．”一句中可知她是在这种情况下才决定这么做的。 2．D从文中的“I'd heard about…There she was．…”一段记述可知。 3．D从本文的开头一句及“they thought I didn’t like to spend money．Actually，it was true．”可推测知道她是一个不喜欢玩电脑的人，而且不爱花钱。 4．A从Jenny在网上发布广告的举动及她的广告语言形式可知，她多年来对她借钱一事耿耿于怀，而不是忘记了。 B 5．B A项与“spent much of his…”不符；C与“when presented with ... a pattern" 不符；而D在文中也无根据。 6．C根据第二段特别是该段的最后一句可知。 7．C从文中的第三段说明可知，他总是把词语与经验 (体验)联系起来，混淆在一起。 8．C作者在本文中表明的是一种客观、一分为二的观点。一方面，Solomon记忆力超人，但另一方面，他却有时显得缺乏正常人的智力水平。A、D都太绝对，B不准确。 C 9．B从第一段的“He laughed too”直到最后的话语可知。 10．A说到赛跑的开始，本文只谈到了不同级别赛跑手排列的情况，而未说到谁快谁慢的事，故D不符；C在文中没有出处；B与第四段的第一句话不符。 11．C文中第五段有“At the 30 km mark．I felt extremely tired…”句子，这是本题的答案的出处。 12．B根据第四段“We could only run…rush off too quickly．”的话语意思及第六段中“I passed hundreds of slower runners.., felt wonderful!"的话语可知。 D 13．D③⑤⑧⑨四个频道的四个时段中出现的节目数量依次为D。 14．C家庭主妇一般说来对烹饪感兴趣。 15．D D是体育专题节目。 16．D⑨频道节目内容全部为新闻。 E 17．C本文第一句已交待。“All around…We deeided to leave the town…”即是答案的出处。 18．A 文章在说明“The carts were…flat。and they wouldn't stay in place.., by stones. " 之前已有交待，说明:是大地抖动，这正是说明了产生此种结果的原因。 19．B根据第三段的前两句话得出。 20．A根据第三段最后一句可以推断出。 Ex．2 A 1．C第一段最后一句说“他们从花掉大笔钱中所获得的乐趣远远超过了从所买的东西中获得的乐趣”，由此可知选项C正确。 2．A B项是购物狂大量花钱猎取廉价货所造成的结果，而非原因，故排除；第三句只提到这些人买了比别人更便宜的货物会觉得自己赚了，而并不是指炫耀自己的成功，因此C也不对；D虽在第二段中提到，但不是追求便宜货者购物的原因。由第二段第三句可知，答案为A。 3．D从全文来看，主要讲述了购物狂的两种心理，一种是为满足心理需要而花大量的钱，一种是为了心理需要而买便宜货，而这些都被懂得这种心理的商人利用来促销商品，所以D是正确的选项。 B 4．C文章开篇第一句话就对此做了说明，“过去，日本的年轻人是要承担起照顾父母和祖父的责任”。由此可知，C与文意相符。 5．A it可用来指代刚刚提到过的事，根据前后文内容，在此处应指代economic decline，这造成了就业和经济的不安定局面，因此A为正确答案。 6．D作者在第二段中所列举的犯罪率及辍学率的上：升均与道德水平有关系，所以应选D。在首段中已：经提到年轻人的负担较之过去已经减轻了，故排除·A；B项与题意不符；C项概括不全面。 7．A作者在第三段中指出，日本缺少企业家的行为榜样的问题在于“日本的文化阻碍了日本人民揭示个人生活中的细节部分，其中包括创建公司的经验”。由此可知选项A为正确答案。第三段第二句提到外国人的榜样所起的作用是有限的，故排除B；选项C只是问题的一个方面，也可排除；D在文中未提及。 8．B文章通过年轻人在社会生活中的一些表现，如：日本出生率的下降，少年犯罪率和辍学率的上升等例子说明了日本年轻人的道德观与价值观的变化，故选B项。 C 9．C文章第三段第二句指出“因科学家尚未找到致病的是哪一种基因，所以他们还不知道如何着手跟踪治疗该病”，由此可知C与文章相符，为正确答案。 10．A“研究者们可以研究早衰病患者的家谱，看疾病复发的情况如何(examine family trees to see how diseases recur)”，目的是通过信息之间的相互关系来缩小查找目标，由此可知A与文章相符；B、C虽在文中有所提及，但都与题意不符。 11．C文章第四段中提到NIH最近有新发现，这一发现可能会迈出治愈这一疾病的第一步，这就是说明将来治愈早衰病是有可能的，故C为正确的答案。该病现在未被攻克，由此可排除A；文章虽提到几乎所有受早衰病折磨的孩子都有共同的染色体故障，但与本题题意不符，B项也可排除；D项未在文中提及。 D 12．B文章第一段第二句“Educators…wonder whether children who are not fully registered in school should get some public services．”由此可知，教育专家担心的是这些接受家庭教育的孩子是否应得到一些社会服务，也就是是否需要帮助，故B为正确的答案。 13．C文章第二段首句提到“大概有一半实行家庭教育的父母出于宗教原因”，而不是大多数，故排除B；第二句指出“另外四分之一的父母对公共教育存在疑虑”，而不是一半，由此可排除A；第三句明确提到“In some cases，parents home-school to escape compulsory education",由此可知，C为正确答案。本段还提到"however, public school offer services to the home-schooled”，故排除D. 14．B第二段第四句指出"weak regulations in most states mean that officials rarely challenge or monitor parents who say they are home-schooling", 由此可知家庭教育管理薄弱，故B为正确答案。 15．D文章第三段指出Mary Brown说“她的目的是想比公立学校给孩子更多的基础训练(give more training in basics)”，因此D为正确的答案。 16．C根据第二段第二句可知只有四分之一的父母对公立学校表示怀疑，而不是大多数，故排除B；文章第二段最后两句指出“公立学校对在家里接受教育的学生提供服务”，而且“一些社区有可能允许他们进行非全日制注册”，由此可知A不对。第二段最后提到“教育专家担心，如果在家接受教育的学生将回到学校时会有严重的心、理缺陷”，由此可知，他们与公立学校的学生是有差别的，故排除D。 E 17．B根据第一段第二句“It may be walking，cycling…or in winter，skating or skiing．”及常识可知，滑雪和滑冰在冬季颇受欢迎，故B为正确的答案。 18．A文章第二段指出：人们对于那些去攀登险山峻岭的人感到震惊和疑惑，想知道为什么他们愿意经历寒冷和艰辛。正是因为这些人对登山有一种激情。 19．D第三段" There are no man-made rules it is this freedom from man-made rules ... Those who climb mountains are free to use their own methods. "指出了登山运动没有规律，并且根据常识可知，凡是体育比赛都有人为制定的规则，故D为正确的答案。 20．D文章第三段提到“…that makes mountaineering attractive to many people”，由此可排除A；第五段只提到登山需要较好的心理素质和身体素质，而没有提到哪个更重要，故排除B；最后一段第二句指出，“滑雪运动员到了三十岁也许就过了他的最佳时期”，而不是登山运动员，故排除C；最后一段第三句说“一个五六十岁的人要攀登阿尔卑斯山的最高峰也并不是非同寻常的事”，因此D为正确的答案。 Ex．3 A 1． C文章第二、三段讲述的是第一个实验的情况，第二段为实验经过，第三段是结果，即“35名男孩和25名女孩对漂亮男人和女人的脸看的时间较长”。由此可知C为正确答案。 2．D文章最后一段指出：这些研究者坚持认为，进一步的研究应该探索这些婴儿是否把吸引人的面孔作为最典型的面孔。由此可推断出：Langlois及其同事发现了一个更有趣的领域，故选D。 3．A文章第四段指出：40个婴儿对漂亮面孔的反应与大学生相同，都会对漂亮的脸看较长的时间，由此可推知A为正确答案。B和C在文中未提到；文章首句提到“…infants treat attractive face as distinctive regardless of the sex，age and race of the stimulus faces”，由此可排除D。 4．B文章介绍了Langlois和其同事们的三次实验，内容是让一些六个月的婴儿观察漂亮与不漂亮的脸，结果发现他们与大学生一样，都会在漂亮面孔前注视的时间长一些，而漂亮面孔各有其特点，故B为最佳题目。 B 5. D可参考文章第二段，“军医研究表明”，因此正确答案为D：有科学的证据支持。 6．B参考文章第二段可知研究表明锻炼对人身体的好处。 7．A本文以美国人为例讲运动对人身体的好处。正确答案应选A，“运动——通向健康的道路”。 8．C level off所在句是一个转折句，下句讲跑步仍是最受欢迎的运动方式，可推知上句应是说跑步不再流行。 C 9．B文章第二段第一句指出，小行星足比划过夜空的流星大的天体。可见二者是性质相同的天体，只是大小不同。 10．A文章第二段后两句指出，绝大多数的小行星围绕太阳运行。远离地球，不会威胁到我们。但仍然有上千颗小行星可能撞击地球。可见，小行星与地球相撞的可能性很小，但危险确实存在。B项为概念错误。文章第三段指出，确定大多数小行星的位置需要25年。文章第五段又提到，大到足以有很强毁灭性的小行星，可能每五十万年与地球碰撞一次，可见B项是错误的；C项文中没有提到；D项与文章内容不符。 11．B注意最后一段第一句，cure指解决办法，即用核武器改变小行星的运行轨道，而disease指小行星，可能与地球碰撞这件事情。由此本句可理解为核武器会比小行星带来更糟的后果，并且带给人们更大的恐慌。故选B项。 12．D应依据全文内容作出选择。全文一再强调小行星与地球碰撞的危险性，但没有提及在不久的将来会发生，故排除B项。文章最后提出对付小行星的核武器，在改变小行星运行轨道的同时会毁灭地球，那么可以得出结论：解决小行星撞击地球的可行的办法有待进一步的探索。A项是事实，而不是结论。 D 13．D纵观全文，作者十分客观地分析了福利 制度 关于办公室下班关闭电源制度矿山事故隐患举报和奖励制度制度下载人事管理制度doc盘点制度下载 改革的利与弊。改革成功地减少了靠福利救济生活的人数，尽管它并没能提高穷人的生活水平，但改变了低收入者的思想观念，使人们不再心安理得地接受救济。这本身就是一个胜利。可见作者仍然认为福利制度改革利大于弊。 14．C文章第二段第二句指出，第二年不再接受救济的人中，有70％找到了工作，但报酬每小时不到6美元。可见收入过低使他们生活贫困。 15．A作者列举Athens County这个实例，是为了说明福利制度改革虽然使多数人重新开始工作，但由于收入低，人们的贫困状况仍然没有改变。文章第三段暗示了作者举例的意图：Athens County提供的事实表明，人们为改善低收入者贫困生活所做出的努力还远远不够。可见，作者在呼吁政府作出更多的努力来改善人们的生活。 16．B文章第七段末句指出，改革正在重塑人们的工作观，这是最重要的。可见，福利制度改革旨在改变人们的思想观念。 E 17．C根据第二段第二句“…true workaholics would rather work than do anything else…”可知工作狂只是更愿意工作，而非只知道工作，A说法过于绝对。根据第四段第三句“it provides people with paychecks"可排除B。文中只提到工作狂工作时问比其他人更长、工作更卖力，但未提及他们的责任问题，故排除D。根据第四段第四句“But it(=work)offers more than financial security．”及第五句“It (= work) provides people with self-confidence ... a feeling of satisfaction…”可知C正确。 18．C从文章第四段第五、六句我们知道，工作赋予他们一种满足感、成就感，工作使人获得一种认同(i-dentity)，通过参与工作，他们获得一种自我意识和个人意识。可知C正确。而金钱只是人们工作的目的之一，并不是最重要的方面，故不选A。人们到老年仍然工作，并非由于不愿意做家务，也并不是担心整天无所事事会引起健康方面的问题，所以B和D不正确。 19．B文章中心围绕工作狂的特点展开，第二段提出工作狂可能是一个很严重的问题，但在第三段也指出工作狂也可快乐地生活，并介绍了快乐的原因。所以可以看出主题是讲工作狂既有负面影响又有正面影响，因此选B。 20．D首段首句指出“人们认为工作狂的生活状态是正常的”。A项与之相反，故可排除。B太片面，因为工作狂也喜欢生活，第三段说“many workaholics have great energy and interest in life”。C是文章直接指出的(见第四段第五句)，而不是推断出的。所以只有D正确，从文章许多地方可以找到支持D的证据：首段讲到他们迷恋工作；第三段讲到他们视工作为娱乐；最后一段中作者还用到compulsive一词同样地说明D。