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阅读下面的短文,掌握其大意,然后从下列各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
Animals perform many useful and amusing jobs. Dogs are particularly valuable in guiding the blind,   31  property(财产), finding   32  people, and hunting criminals(犯人). Horses are used in guarding herds(牧群),carrying men in lands where there are no roads, and helping farmers work their land. Pigeons(鸽子)  33  to carry messages. Wild animals from the jungles, forests and seas are very popular performers in   34  and motion pictures(电影). People realize that,   35  animals may not have the same intelligence(智慧) as   36 , they are clever enough to learn certain things.
The first thing a dog is taught is to  37 . It should not  38  too 1ong for him to learn commands. Simple orders, such as “sit, lie down,stay there, come here, ” can  39 be taught by a child.
Training a dog to be a watchdog often produces unexpected results. Some dogs quickly learn the difference   40  unwanted people and friends. This is   41  their masters welcome friends and invite them into their houses. However, some dogs will always   42  the postman who comes to   43  letters. One explanation for this behavior is that, although the postman comes to the house often, he never   44  the house. Therefore, the dog thinks the postman is someone   45  is not wanted, but keeps   46  back anyway.
Dogs are extremely useful as   47  for blind people. When a dog has been properly trained, he will lead his blind master in the right direction and keep him   48   danger. For example, seeing eye dogs   49  a busy road when cars are coming,   50  their masters command(命令) them to do so.
小题1:
A.savingB.helpingC.makingD.protecting
小题2:
A.lostB.losingC.lossD.missed
小题3:
A.have long usedB.have long been used
C.have long been usingD.are long being used
小题4:
A.cinemasB.theatresC.museumsD.circuses(马戏团)
小题5:
A.althoughB.asC.sinceD.because
小题6:
A.children B.human beingC.human beingsD.students
小题7:
A.obey B.orderC.doD.study
小题8:
A.spendB.takeC.useD.want
小题9:
A.stillB.thoughC.enoughD.even
小题10:
A.fromB.betweenC.amongD.with
小题11:
A.because of B.due toC.whyD.because
小题12:
A.beatB.protestC.attackD.eat
小题13:
A.deliverB.giveC.postD.fetch
小题14:
A.entersB.enters intoC.getsD.arrives to
小题15:
A.heB.whoC.whomD.which
小题16:
A.comeB.to comeC.from comingD.coming
小题17:
A.companiesB.companions(同伴) C.menD.colleagues(同事)
小题18:
A.out fromB.outC.out ofD.out by
小题19:
A.learn never to acrossB.learn to never cross
C.never learn to crossD.learn never to cross
小题20:
A.evenB.ifC.even ifD.because

小题1:D小题1:A小题1:B小题1:D小题1:A
小题1:C小题1:A小题1:B小题1:D小题1:B  
小题1:D小题1:C小题1:A小题1:A小题1:B 
小题1:D小题1:B小题1:C小题1:D小题1:C
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Once Dr.Mellinkoff invited me to join him at the hospital to discuss interesting cases with his  students.The case at hand was a Guatemalan man, aged 34, who had a fever and many other medical ^problems.His condition was not improving, and there was not much hope he would live.
Dr.: Mellinkoff asked to see the patient.He introduced himself in Spanish and, in a very gentle voice, asked how he felt.The patient smiled and said everything was all right.Then the doctor asked if he was able to eat.The patient said that he had no desire to eat.
"Are you getting food you like?"
The patient said nothing.
"Do you get the kind of food you have at home?"
The answer was no.
The doctor put his hand on the man’s shoulder and his voice was very soft.
"If; you had food that you liked, would you eat it?"
"Yes, yes," the patient said.
The change in the patient’s appearance couldn’t have been more obvious.Nothing was said, but it was easy to tell that a message had been sent and! had also been received.
Later, the doctor asked why the Guatemalan man wasn’t getting food he could eat.One of the students said, "We all know how difficult it is to get the kitchen to make special meals."
"Suppose," the doctor replied, "you felt a certain medicine was absolutely necessary but that our hospital didn’t carry it, would you accept defeat or would you insist the hospital meet your request?"
"I would probably insist," the student said.
"Very well," the doctor said."You might want to try the same method in the kitchen.It won’t be-easy, but I can help you.Meanwhile, let’s get some food inside this man as fast as possible, and stay with it.Or he’ll be killed by hunger.By the way, there must be someone among you who can speak Spanish.If we want to make real progress, we need to be able to talk with him."
Three weeks later.Doctor Mellinkoff told me that the Guatemalan man had left the hospital under his own power.It takes more than medicine to help sick people; you also have to talk to them and make them comfortable.
小题1:The patient had no desire to eat because
A.he was not hungryB.he was seriously ill
C.he was given special mealsD.he was not satisfied with the food
小题2:According to the passage, we can conclude that       .
A.the patient’s native language was Spanish
B.the patient’s illness was caused by hunger
C.Dr. Mellinkoff performed an operation on the patient
D.the hospital failed to provide the right medicine for the patient
小题3:Which of the following words can be used to describe Dr. Mellinkoff?
A.Cold.B.Considerate.C.Curious.D.Careless.
小题4:What do you think Dr. Mellinkoff wanted to tell his students in this case?
A.Doctors should be good at foreign languages.
B.Doctors should know their patients’ real problems.
C.Doctors should try to improve their medical skills.
D.Doctors should have a good relationship ith their patients.
Britain’s seed bank, the only one in the world aiming to collect all of the planet’s wild plant species, has reached its goal of banking 10 percent by 2010.
The Millennium Seed Bank Project, run by Kew Gardens—one of the oldest botanical gardens—will officially deposit the 24,200th species on Thursday, a pink, wild banana from China.
More than 50 countries are now on board with Kew's giant task but vast places of the globe, including India and Brazil, still need to join in and donate seeds, director Paul Smith said.                                                                                                                                                            
The seed bank is one of the largest and most diverse in the world with more than 1.5 billion seeds. Its goal is to help protect the planet’s bio-diversity during a time of climate change.
The wild banana seed is under threat of extinction(灭绝) in southwest China from agricultural development. It is a vital food source for Asian elephants and important for growing bananas for human consumption.
Stored at minus-20 degrees centigrade, so they can last for thousands of years, the seeds await the day that scientists hope never comes—when the species no longer exist in the wild.
It is a race against time, Smith said, because in the last decade alone, 20 plants held in the bank have already been wiped out in the wild. He estimates that between a third and a quarter will become extinct this century.
"It is urgent and it is happening now. An area, the size of England, is cleared of primary vegetation(植被)every year." Smith said.
Because most of the world's food and medicines come from nature, protecting wild plant species is quite important, scientists say. There are already many other seed banks safeguarding food crops, which only account for 0.6 percent of plant diversity.
For Kew's next goal—to collect a quarter of wild varieties by 2020—the botanists need 10 million pounds a year, or a further 100 million pounds on top of the 40 million they have already been granted.
小题1:What’s the final purpose of the Britain’s seed bank?
A.To collect enough money for the project.B.To safeguard food crops.
C.To protect wild plants from extinction.D.To help scientists study wild plants.
小题2:The wild banana seed in China is in danger because of _______.
A.the expanding of farming workB.the climate change in this area
C.the large number of Asian elephantsD.human’s large consumption
小题3: We can learn from the passage that _______.
A.the seeds in the bank can be used now and then all over the world
B.India and Brazil haven’t joined in the Seed Bank Project at present
C.there is only one seed bank in the world at present
D.the wild plants in places like India and China will never die out
小题4: What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 7 refer to?
A.The extinction of plant species.B.The Millennium Seed Bank Project.
C.Britain’s seed bank.D.Kew Gardens’ next goal.
小题5:Which of the following information isn’t mentioned in the passage?
A.The global partnership of collecting wild plant species.
B.The temperature condition of the conservative wild plant species.
C.The government’s financial support for the seed bank project.
D.Scientists’ concern on the extinct wild plant species.
Reading poems is not exactly an everyday activity for most people. In fact, many people never read a poem once they get out of high school.
It is worth reminding ourselves that this has not always been the case in America. In the nineteenth century, a usual American activity was to sit around the fireplace in the evening and read poems aloud. It is true that there was no television at the time, nor movie theatres, nor World Wide Web, to provide diversion. However, poems were a source of pleasure, of self-education, of connection to other people or to the world beyond one’s own community. Reading them was a social act as well as an individual one, and perhaps even more social than individual. Writing poems to share with friends and relations was, like reading poems by the fireside, another way in which poetry had a place in everyday life.
How did things change? Why are most Americans no longer comfortable with poetry, and why do most people today think that a poem has nothing to tell them and they can do well without poems?
There are, I believe, three culprits (肇事者): poets, teachers and we ourselves. Of these, the least important is the third: the world surrounding the poem has betrayed (背叛) us more than we have betrayed the poem. Early in the twentieth century, poetry in English headed into directions hostile (不利的) to the reading of poetry. Readers decided that poems were not for the fireside or the easy chair at night, that they belonged where other difficult-to-read things belonged.
Poets failed the readers, so did the teachers. They want their students to know something about the craft (技巧) of a poem, and they want their students to see that poems mean something. Yet what usually occurs when teachers push these concerns on their high school students is that young people decide poems are unpleasant crossword puzzles.
小题1: Reading poems is thought to be a social act in the nineteenth century because _______.
A.it built a link among peopleB.it helped unite a community
C.it was a source of self-educationD.it was a source of pleasure
小题2:The underlined word “diversion” in Paragraph 2 most probably means _______.
A.diversityB.change C.amusementsD.happiness
小题3:In the last paragraph, the writer questions _______.
A.the difficulty in studying poems
B.the way poems are taught in school
C.students’ wrong ideas about poetry
D.the techniques used in writing poems
小题4:According to the passage, what is the main cause of the great gap between readers and poetry?
A.Poems have become difficult to understand.
B.Students are poorly educated in high school.
C.TV and the Internet are more attractive than poetry.
D.Students are becoming less interested in poetry.
It’s 2035. You have a job, a family and you’re about 40 years old. Welcome to your future life.     Getting ready for work, you pause in front of the mirror, “Turn red,” you say. Your shirt changes from sky blue to deep red. Tiny preprogrammed electronic(智能电子元件) is rearranged in your shirt to change its color. Looking into the mirror, you find it hard to believe that you are 40. You look much younger. With amazing advances in medicine, people in your generation may live to be 150 years old. You’re not even middle-aged.
As you go into the kitchen and prepare to pour your breakfast cereal into a bowl, you hear: “To lose weight, you shouldn’t eat that,” from your shoes. They read the tiny electronic code(电 子源码)on the cereal box to find out the nutrition details. You decide to listen to your shoes. “Kitchen, what can I have for breakfast?” A list of possible food appears on the counter as kitchen checks its food supplies.
“Ready for your trip to space?” you ask your son and daughter. In 2005 only specially trained astronauts went into space—and very few of them. Today anyone can go to space for day trip or longer vacation. Your best friend even works in space. Handing your children three strawberries each, you add, “The doctor said you need these for space travel.” Thanks to medical advice, vaccination shots(防疫针) are a thing of the past. Ordinary foods contain specific vaccines. With the berries in their mouths, the kids head for the front door.
It’s time for you to go to work. Your car checks your fingerprints and unlocks the doors. “My office. Autopilot,” you command. Your car drives itself down the road and moves smoothly into traffic on the highway. You sit back and unroll your e-newspaper. The latest news downloads and fills the viewer. Looking through the pages, you watch the news as video films rather than read it.
小题1: What changes the color of your shirt?
A.The mirror. B.The shirt itself. C.The counter. D.The medicine.
小题2: How do the shoes know that you shouldn’t eat the breakfast cereal?
A.By pouring the breakfast into a bowl.
B.By listening to the doctor’s advice.
C.By testing the food supplies in the kitchen.
D.By checking the nutrition details of the food.
小题3: The strawberries the children eat serve as ______.
A.breakfast B.lunch C.vaccines D.nutrition
小题4: How is the text organized?
A.In order of time B.In order of frequency.
C.In order of preference(偏爱).D.In order of importance
For the person keeping a journal, whatever he experiences and wants to hold he can write down. But to get it down on paper begins another adventure. For he has to focus on what he has experienced, and to be able to say what, in fact, the experience is. What of it is new? What of it is remarkable because of associations in the memory it stirs up? It is a good or bad thing to have happened? And why, specifically? The questions multiply  (增多) themselves quickly. As one tries to find the words that best represent this discovery, the experience becomes even clearer in its shape and meaning.
Beyond the value of the journal as record, there is the value of the discipline it teaches. The journalist begins to pay closer attention to what happened to and around himself. He develops and sharpens his skills of observation. He learns the usefulness of languages as a means of representing what he sees, and gains skill and certainty in the expression of his experiences. To have given up one’s experience to words is to have begun marking out the limits and potential of its meaning. In the journal that meaning is developed and clarified (澄清、阐明) to oneself. When the intention of the development of that meaning is the consideration of another reader, the method of the journal redirects itself and it becomes the essay.
小题1:According to the author, keeping a journal is good for ________.
A.observation and expression
B.certainty and discipline
C.experience and adventure
D.consideration and development
小题2:By keeping a journal, one can ________.
A.develop the usefulness of language
B.develop his memory
C.clarify the consideration to everyone
D.have a thorough understanding of his experience
小题3:Which of the following statements is NOT correct?
A.The journalist can express what has happened.
B.A journal can serve as a record of the past happening.
C.The journalist must be able to observe closely.
D.Writing helps develop the consideration of others.
小题4:The passage is mainly about ________.
A.how to write a journal
B.the expressions of a journal
C.the values of keeping a journal
D.how to solve the problems in a journal
In this age of Internet chat,videogames and reality television,there is no shortage of mindless activities to keep a child occupied.Yet,despite the competition,my 8-year-old daughter Rebecca wants to spend her leisure time writing short stories.She wants to enter one of her stories into a writing contest,a competition she won last year.
As a writer I know about winning contests,and about losing them.I know what it is like to work hard on a story only to receive a rejection slip from the publisher.I also know the pressure of trying to live up to a reputation created by previous victories.What if she doesn.t win the contest again?That’s the strange thing about being a parent.So many of our own past scars and dashed hopes can surface.
A revelation(启示)came last week when l asked her,”Don’t you want to win again?” “No,” she replied,“I just want to tell the story of an angel(天使)going to first grade.”
I had just spent weeks correcting her stories as she spontaneously(自发地)told them.Telling myself that l was merely an experienced writer guiding the young writer across the hall. I offered suggestions for characters,conflicts and endings for her tales.The story about a fearful angel starting first grade was quickly“guided”by me into the tale of a little girl with a wild imagination taking her first music lesson.I had turned her contest into my contest without even realizing it.
Staying back and giving kids space to grow is not as easy as it looks.Because I know very little about farm animals who use tools or angels who go to first grade,I had to accept the fact that I was co-opting(借用)my daughter’s experience.
While stepping back was difficult for me,it was certainly a good first step that l will quickly follow with more steps,putting myself far enough away to give her room but close enough to help if asked.All the while I will be reminding myself that children need room to experiment,grow and find their own voices.
小题1:What did the author say about her own writing experience?
A.Most of her stories had been rejected by publishers.
B.She did not quite live up to her reputation as a writer.
C.Her way to success was full of pains and frustrations.
D.She was constantly under pressure of writing more.
小题2:Why did Rebecca want to enter this year’s writing contest?
A.She wanted to share her stories with readers.
B.She was sure of winning with her mother’s help.
C.She believed she possessed real talent for writing.
D.She had won a prize in the previous contest.
小题3:The author took great pains to refine her daughter’s stories because       
A.she was afraid Rebecca’s imagination might run wild while writing
B.she did not want to disappoint Rebecca who needed her help so much
C.she believed she had the knowledge and experience to offer guidance
D.she wanted to help Rebecca realize her dreams of becoming a writer
小题4:What’s the author’s advice for parents?
A.Parents should keep an eye on the activities their kids engage in.
B.Children should be allowed freedom to grow through experience.
C.A writing career,though attractive,is not for every child to pursue.
D.Children should be given every chance to voice their opinions.
Swimming is one of those activities that can be learned early in life. Little children can learn to swim as soon as they walk. In fact, you need the same skills in walking as in swimming. However, I believe that five is the best age to learn. By five or six, a child knows fear of water, a very important thing to know. It's wise to be afraid, to recognize true danger. Young ones understand that the water can sometimes be very dangerous.
To really benefit from swimming, every swimmer should learn, as soon as possible, these four basic strokes; butterfly, backstroke, Breaststroke, and crawl. I feel that one of these-the breaststroke-is different from the others, since some young swimmers use this stroke naturally, without any training.
In swimming there are certain rules every swimmer should follow:
1). Never swim alone! No matter how good you are in the water, don’t risk drowning by swimming alone. If you swim by yourself, with no life guards or friends with you, you may get into trouble.
2). Don't go beyond your abilities. Most swimmers know enough not to swim too far from the bank or the beach, Showing off by doing dangerous tricks is no good. Swim safely and you will continue to swim and alive.
3). Don't smoke. Swimming depends on a healthy body; good lungs are part of it.
4). Work at any activity that builds muscles.
小题1: Little children can learn to swim as soon as _____.
A.they can talk
B.they start walking
C.they have no fear of the water
D.they are five or six years old
小题2:The author believes that fear of water is_____.
A.stupidB.sensibleC.dangerousD.not smart
小题3: The stroke that some young swimmers use first is_____.
A.butterflyB.backstrokeC.breaststrokeD.crawl
小题4:According to the passage, you should not swim alone because_____.
A.the water is too cold
B.your parents would not be happy
C.something in the water might attack
D.you might drown
Our plan was to drive into Cambridge, catch the 7:34 train to Liverpool Street Station, then to separate and meet again for lunch. We should have arrived at Liverpool at 9:19, but due to a typical London fog, the train had to move along so slowly that it was not until 10:30 that it got there. In spite of our late arrival, Joan, my wife’s sister, decided that she would go to see the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London while we went shopping. It was only after her sister had disappeared into the fog that my wife realized that we hadn’t decided where we should meet for lunch. Since I had our three tickets for the concert in my pocket, this was indeed a problem. There seemed to be nothing we could do except taking a taxi to the Tower of London, and try to find her there. Needless to say, we didn’t find her.
It was now one o’clock, and the concert began at 2:30. “Perhaps she will think of waiting outside the concert hall,” suggested my wife hopefully. By this time the fog was so thick that road traffic had to stop, and the only way to get there was by underground railway. Hand in hand we felt our way along the road to where we thought the nearest station should be. An hour later we were still trying to find it. Just as I was about to lose my temper completely when we met a blind man tapping his way confidently through the fog. With his help we found Tower Hill tube station just fifty yards down the road.
By now it was far too late even to try to get to the concert hall before the performance began at 2:30, so we decided to return to Cambridge. It took seven long hours instead of the usual two to make that journey. Nor were we able to get any food and drink on the train. Tired and hungry we finally reached home at ten, opening the door to the sound of the telephone bell. It was Joan; she had seen the Crown Jewels, had managed to get another ticket for concert, and had had a wonderful dinner at a restaurant near the hotel where she decided to stay for the night. Now she was ringing to discover whether we had had an equally successful day.
小题1: Why was Joan separated from her sister and her brother-in-law?
A.they could not see each other because of the fog.
B.Joan had not seen Crown Jewels.
C.They planned to do different things until lunch time.
D.The writer didn’t want to go to the concert.
小题2: What did the writer plan to do in the afternoon?
A.Go to the concert.B.See the Crown Jewels.
C.Return to Cambridge.D.Go shopping.
小题3: The reason why they didn’t all meet for lunch was that _______.
A.They lost their way in the fog
B.they forgot to make necessary arrangement
C.they waited at different places and didn’t meet each other
D.the couple couldn’t find the underground station
小题4: It’s quite clear that for Joan the trip to London had been ________.
A.spilt by the fogB.quite tiring
C.rather disappointingD.very enjoyable

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