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Michael was a farmer in Texas．His parents moved to the USA from Ireland in the 1940’s， and they became very rich．Michael decided to go back to Ireland to meet his old grandfather， who was still living on the same farm．

Michael booked his ticket，flew to Shannon airport，hired a car and drove to the small village where his parents had been born．He asked for directions to the Ohagan farm，and in the end he drove up a bumpy path．He was shocked by what he saw：a small field，and in the middle of it was an old house，which looked as if it was falling down．Animals were wandering in and out of the front door，and on the porch an old man was smoking a pipe.

“Are you Mr. Ohagan?”asked Michael。

“Yes，”replied the old mall．

“I'm your grandson，Michael，”said Michael．

“A--ha，”replied the old man．

“Is this your farm?”asked Michael．

“Yes，all the way to the wall over there，”said the old man．

Michael was astonished．“Grandfather,”he said，“I have a farm in Texas．I can get into my car and drive all day and I still haven’t reached the end of the farm．”

“Yes，”said his grandfather．“I used to have a car like that．”

Michael’s parents _______．

A．still lived in Ireland alone B．owned a small farm in Texas

C．returned to their birthplace D．were Irish immigrants（移民）in America

Which of the following shocked Michael?

A．The farm was small B．The old house looked like his own．

C．Living conditions were poor in the fields． D．Animals were free in the fields．

The old man _______．

A．owned a small farm, which extended only to the wall not far away

B．had so large a farm that he couldn’t cover it in a day

C．hadn’t his modern car any longer

D．used to have as good a car as his grandson’s

Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Michael owned a large farm in Ireland.

B．Michael’s car was in such poor condition that it couldn’t reach the end of the farm within a day．

C．Michael’s farm was too large for a car to reach its end in a day．

D．Michael didn’t know what to say to his grandfather

From“I used to have a car like that”，we can see that________．

A．the old man really had a car like that

B．the old man knew his son’s farm in the US was quite large

C．the old man misunderstood what Michael said

D．the old man wanted to buy a car like that

From Mr. Ward Hoffman.

Sir, I was halfway through Professor Raj Persaud's article “What's the tipping point"

(Financial Times Weekend, April 9-l0) when it occurred to me that what I was reading was not ironic(讽刺的). If Prof Persaud wants to know why Americans tip in restaurants, he need only ask the first American he meets in London.

Americans tip in restarts for one reason, and one reason only: we tip to supplement (补贴) the salary of restaurant workers. Quality of service does not enter into it, beyond the fact that one may tip a bit less for poor service, or a little more for good service.

Not tipping at all in a non-fast-food restaurant is not a choice. In the US, one used to tip about 15 per cent for dining in a family-style restaurant or in an up-market (高档的) restaurant. Here, in San Francisco Bay area restaurants, we me encouraged to tip 20 per cent or more, to help restart workers live in this very expensive area.

After eating at an Italian restart in my city, I left a tip of 20 per cent on the non-tax part of our dinner bill. It was expected. There is nothing more complicated (复杂的) than that about Americas tipping in restaurants.

Ward Hoffman,

Palo Alto, CA 94306, US

* * *

From Mr. Philip McBride Johnson.

Sir, I agree with most of Raj Persaud's opinion about the doubtful value of tipping, but with one exception(例外). Tips can be very useful when one is a repeat customer or diner.

It is only when the tipper is a stranger and likely to remain so that the system does not work to his or her advantage. But frequent a hotel or a restaurant, always tip a bit more, and the difference in service and treatment will ha easily felt.

Phfiip McBnde Johnson,

Great Falls, VA 22066, US

68. What can we learn from Hoffrnan's letter?

A. Quality of service determines tipping in the US.

B. Americans don't tip in non fast-food restaurants.

C. Tipping in US upmarknt restarts is unnecessary.

D. How to tip in the United States is not complicated.

69. Johnson's letter shows ________.

A. a stranger in a restaurant is likely to tip a bit more

B. diners receive better service if they frequent a restaurant

C. repeat dinners may get good service ifthay tip a bit more

D. the tipping system works to the advantage of new customers

70. From tbe two letters, we can learn Professor Raj Persaud ______ .

A. feels doubtful about the value of tipping

B. believes tipping improves quality of service

C. wats to ask Hoffman about tipping m the US

D. thinks tipping a bit mom one can get good service

71. The two letters most probably appears in a ______.

A. notice B. handbook C. book review D. newspaper

完形填空(共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分)阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36-55各小题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Life is not always smooth. There was a man who had    36   numerous failures in his life. But he said, "One success is    37   for me!"
When he was five years old, his father died of illness without leaving him any    38    . Since then, his mother worked outside 39  he had to stay at home and take care of his siblings, He learnt cooking since then.
When he was fourteen, he dropped 40  and began his life of roving.
When he was eighteen, he married a girl, who,   41  , sold out all his properties and went back to her home several months after their marriage.
When he was twenty, he    42  his job from electrician to ferry staff to railway worker. All his jobs were   43  for him.
When he was thirty-five, misfortune again   44  on him. When he was driving across a huge bridge, the steel ropes along the edge of the bridge were broken and he fell into the river with his car. He suffered such severe injuries that he could no longer continue his   45 .
When he was    46   , he opened a gas station in a town. However, he   47 dispute(争端)because he beat his competitors    48  the billboard hanging problems.
When he was forty-seven, he   49 his second wife, which had    50   stricken his three children.
When he was sixty-six, he made a living by   51  his chicken-frying techniques to various restaurants in different places.
When he was seventy-five, he felt 52 to maintain his company, so he transferred his brand and patent to others. The new owner suggested giving him ten thousand stock shares as part of the purchasing price. But he   53  the suggestion. Later the price of the stocks of the company soared and he lost the chance of being a billionaire.
When he was eighty-eight, he achieved great success and became well-known to the whole world.
He was exactly the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Ha Lunde Sandoz. He often said, "People always complain about the bad 54  . Actually it is not bad at all. As long as you are   55 and confident all the time, you will have a good weather every day."

Earlier this year I traveled to Turkana in Kenya. I was there to take pictures of the “broken food system”.

As a special visitor, I was greeted with songs and dances. The locals used to sing and dance all the time but now Turkana is silent and has been for some years. No one is singing or dancing any more because they have no food, nothing to celebrate. Many of them are surviving on a little corn a day and water, which they can get just every two days.

I met Tede Lokapelo, a local farmer who described the experience of a six-year drought(干旱). Tede used to have 200 goats, but now he has only seven left. He told me that this drought has taught him a hard lesson: It is too difficult to keep animals. He lives on animals. His traditional way of life has been completely destroyed now. Without the food aid(援助) they got, Tede is certain that they would starve because there are no other ways to feed themselves left.

Sadly, the same can be heard in almost any developing country around the world. Almost one billion people go to bed hungry each night. The food system is broken. In Turkana, not enough rain has fallen since 2005. They measure(测量) rainfall not in days or weeks but in minutes. More and more people are being forced to rely on food aid, but people like Tede don’t want food aid. They want to work and develop their country. It’s our responsibility(责任) to change the situation so that they can support themselves.

Drought is impossible to avoid but famine(饥荒) is manmade, and unless enough money is provided to develop a basic infrastructure(基础设施) for people in the area, thousands more lives are sure to be lost.

1. Why do people in Turkana no longer sing or dance any more?

A. Because they have no time.

B. Because they are tired of them.

C. Because they are always hungry.

D. Because they have other interesting things to do.

2.During the drought Tede had experienced, ______of his goats were killed.

A. 200 B. 193 C. 7 D. 6

3. Which of the following is NOT true about Tede Lokapelo?

A. He was a farmer in Kenya.

B. He has never received any food aid.

C. His traditional way of life ha s been changed.

D. He found it hard to raise animals after the drought.

4.What’s the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A. To show drought is serious in the world.

B. To tell readers the serious situation of food shortage(短缺).

C. To ask more people to give food aid to people in Kenya.

D. To make it clear what is the right way to help people suffering from drought.

第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

What is it about maths, anyway? Why is it that a ___36___ who would rather die than ___37___ they found reading difficult at school will happily say he is brain-dead when it ___38___ to numbers?

“I was ___39___ at maths at school,” they say. “still am. Can’t ___40___ up to save my life. My little girl takes after____41___. Thinks take-aways are something to do with fish and chips. Ha-ha!” Oh, how we all laugh.

But how many of us remember it being ___42___ at the time? How many of us remember the blind panic of the Monday morning maths test when the ___43___ we could hope for was a miracle(奇迹) to make the numbers we ___44___ without thinking as answers somehow ___45___ the questions?

On the face of it, today’s children can ___46___ be considered happier and more satisfied. They have a daily numeracy lesson ___47___ to improving their maths skills. But if that sounds like hell to you, you may ___48__ find that your child surprises you by actually quite ___49__ it.

One of the __50___ is that over the last ten years or so, there has been a ___51___ in the way maths is taught. And many of those who teach it feel it’s been a ___52__ for the better. There’s generally much more emphasis now on __53___ arithmetic, getting children used to doing calculations without forever having a pen in one hand and a calculator in the other. Often the first question a teacher will ask is: can you do this in your___54___? And if they can, they do.

The whole approach is more___55___, the goal to get children understanding numbers, not just putting them through the uninteresting process of learning something by repeating it until they remember it.

36 A. teacher B. parent C. pupil D. teenager

37 A. understand B. admit C. observe D. pretend

38 A. add B. relate C. comes D. reject

39 A. good B. expert C. special D. rubbish

40 A. add B. make C. look D. pick

41 A. stranger B. me C. herself D. somebody

42 A. funny B. easy C. attractive D. remote

43 A. worst B. prize C. best D. surprising

44 A. missed B. lost C. found D. chose

45 A. get B. foresee C. fit D. evaluate

46 A. however B. frequently C. mostly D. hardly

47 A. suggested B. devoted C. intended D. adapted

48 A. well B. sometimes C. seldom D. extremely

49 A. enjoying B. hating C. objecting D. mastering

50 A. consequences B. reasons C. findings D. incidents

51 A. mistake B. program C. policy D. revolution

52 A. preparation B. reputation C. requirement D. change

53 A. difficult B. general C. mental D. basic

54 A. class B. head C. textbook D. own

55 A. logical B. unbelievable C. direct D. conservative

He is a hard-working boy．He doesn’t need to be made ________．

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