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1Which of the following magazines will probably provide you with articles about music and paintings?

  A. Apollo.     B. The Week.     C. New Internationalist.     D. The Guardian Weekly.

It is possible that most of the readers of the four magazines are ____.

  A. men     B. women     C. children     D. grown-ups

Which of the following would you most probably read if you want to get information from the world’s most popular newspapers?

  A. Apollo & The Week.

  B. Apollo & New Internationalist.

  C. The Guardian Weekly & New Internationalist

  D. The Guardian Weekly & New Internationalist

The purpose of writing these four texts is to ____.

  A. tell the readers the latest news

  B. get more readers to subscribe(订阅)

C. show the importance of the four magazines

  D. introduce the four magazines to new readers

I believe honesty is one of the greatest gifts. I know they call it a lot of fancy names these days, like  36_ and straightforward .And it’s still what  37  a man a good citizen .This is my secret ,and I try to live by .
I’ve been in the taxi business for thirty-five year,  38  there is a lot about it that is not so good. Taxi drivers have to be rough and tumble (乱作一团) fellows to be able to take it in New York. You’ve got to be  39  to fight the New York traffic eight hours a day . Because taxi drivers are tough, people get the   40  impression that they are bad .Taxi drivers are just like other people. Most of them will act as   41  fellows. You read in the papers almost every week   42  a taxi driver turns in money or jewels or like that people leave in their   43  . If they weren’t hones, you wouldn’t be reading those stories in the papers. One time .I found an emerald (翡翠的) ring in my car. I remembered helping a lady with a lot of suitcases that day , so I went back to where I had   44  . It took me almost two days to wait for her in order to return her   45  to her. I didn’t get much as “thank you”.  46  I felt good because I had done what was right. I think I felt better than she   47  .
I was born and raised in Ireland until I was nineteen years old. I came to this country in 1913 where I   48  several jobs to earn a few dollars before joining the army in Word War I. After being discharged (退伍), I bought my own car and have owned one ever since. It hasn’t been too easy   49  , but my wife takes care of our money and we have a good bit   50  for a rainy day (一时之需). In all my years of driving a taxi, I have never had   51  with the public, not even with drunks. Even if they get a little headstrong (顽固的) once in a while, I just agree with them and then they behave themselves.
People ask me about tips. As far as I know,   52  everyone will give you something , because most Americans are   53  generous . I always try to be nice to everyone, whether they   54  or not. I believe in God and try to be a good member of my parish (教区 ). I try to act toward others like I think god wants me to act. I have been trying this for a long time, and the   55  I try , the easier it gets.

【小题1】
A.dishonorB.dishonesty C.uprightD.faithful
【小题2】
A.takeB.becomeC.makeD.have
【小题3】
A.knowB.knownC.knewD.knowing
【小题4】
A.generousB.toughC.mildD.warm-hearted
【小题5】
A.rightB.properC.badD.wrong
【小题6】
A.rudeB.honestC.goodD.tough
【小题7】
A.whenB.whatC.whichD.where
【小题8】
A.housesB.carsC.pocketsD.rooms
【小题9】
A.picked her up B.dropped her offC.dropped her downD.pull her down
【小题10】
A.ringB.suitcaseC.carD.emerald
【小题11】
A.SoB.StillC.ButD.Though
【小题12】
A.wasB.didC.hasD.is
【小题13】
A.madeB.putC.heldD.took
【小题14】
A.at one timeB.some timeC.in no timeD.at times
【小题15】
A.put offB.put upC.put onD.put away
【小题16】
A.troubleB.difficultC.wordD.anything
【小题17】
A.especiallyB.speciallyC.particularlyD.practically
【小题18】
A.neverB.seldomC.ratherD.fairly
【小题19】
A.tipB.adviseC.suggestD.ask
【小题20】
A.longerB.harderC.betterD.shorter


B
It was 1961 and I was in the fifth grade. My marks in school were miserable and, the thing was, I didn’t know enough to really care. My older bother and I lived with Mom in a dingy multi-family house in Detroit. We watched TV every night. The background noise of our lives was gunfire and horses’ hoofs from “Wagon Train” or “Cheyenne”, and laughter from “I Love Lucy”, or “Mister Ed”. After supper, we’d sprawl on Mon’s bed and stare for hours at the tube.
But one day Mom changed our world forever. She turned off the TV. Our mother had only been able to get through third grade. But, she was much brighter and smarter than we boys know at the time. She had noticed something in the suburban houses she cleaned books. So she came home one day, snapped off the TV, sat us down and explained that her sons were going to make something of themselves. “You boys are going to read two books every week,” she said. “And you’re going to write a report on what you read.”
We moaned and complained about how unfair it was. Besides, we didn’t have any books in the house other than Mom’s Bible. But she explained that we would go where the books were: “I’ll drive you to the library.”
So pretty soon there were these two peevish boys sitting in her white 1959 Oldsmobile on their way to Detroit Public Library. I wandered reluctantly among the children’s books. I loved animals, so when I saw some books that seemed to be about animals, I started leafing through them.
The first book I read clear through was Chip the Dam Builder. It was about beavers. For the first time in my life I was lost in another world. No television program had ever taken me so far away from my surroundings as did this verbal visit to a cold stream in a forest and these animals building a home.
It didn’t dawn on me at the time, but the experience was quite different from watching TV. There were images forming in my mind instead of before my eyes. And I could return to them again and again with the flip of a page.
Soon I began to look forward to visiting this hushed sanctuary form my other world. I moved from animals to plants, and then to rocks. Between the covers of all those books were whole worlds, and I was free to go anywhere in them. Along the way a funny thing happened: I started to know things. Teachers started to notice it too. I got to the point where I couldn’t wait to get home to my books.
Now my older brother is an engineer and I am chief of pediatric neurosurgery at John Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore. Sometimes I still can’t believe my life’s journey, from a failing and indifferent student in a Detroit public school to this position, which takes me all over the world to teach and perform critical surgery.
But I know when the journey began the day Mom snapped off the TV set and put us in her Oldsmobile for that drive to the library.
46. We can learn form the beginning of the passage that ___________.
A. the author and his brother had done well in school
B. the author had been very concerned about his school work
C. the author had spent much time watching TV after school
D. the author had realized how important schooling was
47. Which of the following is not true about the author’s family?
A. He came from a middle-class family.
B. He came from a single-parent family.
C. His mother worked as a cleaner.
D. His mother had received little education.
48. The mother was ____________ to make her two sons switch to reading books.
A. hesitant               B. unprepared        C. reluctant                   D. determined
49. How did the two boys feel about going to the library at first?
A. They were afraid                                    B. They were reluctant.
C. They were impatient.                               D. They were eager to go.
50. The author began to love books for the following reasons EXCEPT that ___________.
A. he began to see something in his mind
B. he could visualize what he read in his mind
C. he could go back to read the books again
D. he realized that books offered him new experience

For their nick-of-time acts, Toby, a 2-year-old dog, and Winnie, a cute cat, were named Dog and Cat of the Year by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

As Amy Paul choked(哽住) on a piece of apple at her home, her dog jumped up, landing hard on her chest and forcing the piece in her throat out. When the Keesling family of Indiana was about to be killed by carbon monoxide, their cat clawed at the wife Cathy’s hair until she woke up and called for help.

No one could explain their timely heroics.

Both pets were rescued by their owners in infancy---Toby as a 4-week-old thrown into a garbage bin to die, and Winnie as a week-old orphan hiding under a barn, so helpless that Cathy’s husband, Eric, had to feed her milk with an eyedropper.

As the Keeslings recalled it, a gas-driven pump being used broke down, spreading carbon monoxide through the house. By the time Winnie went to rescue, the couple’s 14-year-old son was already unconscious. “Winnie jumped on the bed and was clawing at me, with a kind of angry sound,” Cathy Keesling said. The state police responding to her 911 call said the family was only minutes from death, judging by the amount of poisonous gas in the house.

Amy Paul’s husband was at his job when she took a midday break from making jewelry and bit into an apple. “Normally I peel them, but I read in Good Housekeeping Magazine that the skin has all the nutrients, so I ate the skin, and that’s what caused me to choke,” she recalled. “I couldn’t breathe and I was in panic when Toby jumped on me. He never does that, but he did, and saved my life.”

Both Toby and Winnie accompanied their owners to the awards luncheon.

1.Why did Amy Paul choke on a piece of apple?

A. She was too young to care for herself.?????

B. She didn’t peel the skin as usual.

C. The apple was too hard.?????????????????

D. She had a big bite.

2.Winnie saved the lives of its owner’s whole family in an accident by __________.

A. jumping onto its owner??????????

B. calling for help

C. clawing at Cathy’s hair??????????

D. making some strange noises

3.Which of the following has the similar meaning to the underlined word “infancy” in? Paragraph 4?

A. middle age??????? B. youth?????? C. babyhood??????? D. agedness

4.What caused the carbon monoxide spreading through the house?

A. A pump breaking down.?????????

B. A driver breaking into the house.

C. The burning gas.???????????????

D. The poisonous gas.

5.What would be the suitable title for the passage?

A. So Smart Animals Are?????????

B. Great Honors for Cat and Dog

C. Unforgettable Experiences

D. Dog and Cat Honored for Saving Their Masters

 

 

 

1,3,5

 
第Ⅱ卷(45分)

第四部分:书面表达(共两节,满分45分)

第一节:阅读表达(共5小题;每题3分,满分15分)

    阅读下面的短文,并根据短文后的要求答题。(请注意问题后的字数要求)

You know you have to read “between the lines” to get the most out of anything. I want to persuade you to do something equally important in the course of your reading. I want to persuade you to “write between the lines.” Unless you do, you are not likely to do the most efficient kind of reading.

There are two ways you can own a book. The first is the property right you establish by paying for it, just as you pay for clothes and furniture. But this act of purchase is only the prelude(前奏) to possession. Full ownership comes only when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it is by writing in it.

Why is marking up a book necessary while reading it? First, it keeps you wide awake. In the second place, reading, if it is active, is thinking, and thinking tends to express itself in words, spoken or written. The marked book is usually the thought-through book. Finally, writing helps you remember the thoughts you had, or the thoughts the author expressed

If reading is to accomplish anything more than passing time, it must be active. You can’t let your eyes glide(滑动) across the lines of a book and come up with an understanding of what you have read.The book you read for pleasure can be read in a state of relaxation, and nothing is lost. But a great book, rich in ideas and beauty, a book that raises and tries to answer great fundamental questions, demands the most active reading which you are able to do. If, when you have finished reading a book, the pages are                  your notes, you know that you read actively.

76.Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one? If you “write between the lines” while reading, you probably read actively and efficiently.

________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ 

77.What is owing a book in its true sense according to the author? (Please answer within 10 words.)

________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________                                                                                 

78.List at least two reasons of marking up a book necessary while reading it. (Please answer within 30 words.)

________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________                                                                                 

79.Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese.

________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________                                                                                 

80.Fill in the blanks in the last sentence with proper words. (Please answer within 10 words)

 ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________                                                                                

 

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