One winter morning I bought a copy of the New York World and turned its pages until I got the “Help Wanted Unskilled” section.A small advertisement held my   36 .It read, “Easy job.Good wages.No experience   37  .” It sounded like the job I was   38   .Easy job.Good wages.Those four words  39   now and then in my brain as I was traveling to the address indicated in the   40   .Easy job.Good wages.Easy job.Good wages.Easy ...

    When I got to the place I saw a series of large  41  half filled with water, out of which I noticed   42   the necks of many bottles of various sizes and shapes. 43  these basins there were a number of workers sitting on small wooden benches.All had their  44  in the water of the basin, the left hand holding a  45  and the thumb nail of the right hand scratching(刮;擦) the labels on   46  .

    I sat down on a  47   beside one of the basins and started to work on one bottle.As the minutes went by I noticed that the  48   of the water started to  49   from my hand to my body.But  50   still, the delicate thumb of my right hand was  51  by the minute into a full?? blown tomato?? colored finger.A numb(麻木的)pain began to be felt  52   from my right thumb.Then I began to feel as if the pain was coming from a finger bigger than all my body.

    After three hours of this I told the manager I’d  53  .He figured I had  54  69 cents at 23 cents an hour.With the money, I left the working place.“Easy job.Good wages.” came to my brain again.Looking at my hands, I  55    myself, “Can easy job get good wages?”

A.eyes              B.attention             C.decision           D.breath

A.necessary          B.relevant           C.practical           D.primitive

A.running after      B.looking for         C.heading for       D.looking after

A.circled         B.moved             C.flashed           D.attacked

A.letter           B.sign             C.advertisement     D.post

A.baskets         B.bowls              C.pots             D.basins

A.hiding          B.sticking            C.rising                   D.breaking

A.In             B.Above             C.Under           D.Around

A.arms           B.hands            C.legs                D.feet

A.knife          B.snail             C.bottle               D.brush

A.that                  B.those               C.them                D.it

A.chair          B.bench             C.bottle              D.sofa

A.smell          B.coldness           C.color             D.steam

A.spread         B.travel            C.recycle           D.accelerate

A.worse         B.better            C.more             D.rather

A.going         B.finding           C.growing          D.becoming

A.now and then   B.here and there     C.one by one         D.little by little

A.adapt          B.equip               C.bargain             D.quit

A.taken          B.offered            C.earned              D.created

A.thought        B.asked            C.found              D.hated

With fears of a possible nuclear meltdown(核反应堆堆芯的熔毁) in Japan building up, evidence has come to light that the nation received warnings over the stability of its power plants from an international watchdog more than two years ago.
  As the Telegraph is reporting, an official from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in December 2008 that safety rules were out of date, and strong earthquakes would cause a “serious problem” for the power stations.
  A U.S. embassy document, by quoting(引用)an unnamed expert, states: “He (the IAEA official) explained that safety guides for earthquakes have only been updated three times in the last 35 years and that the IAEA is now re-examining them. Also, the presenter noted recent earthquakes in some cases have gone beyond the design basis for some nuclear plants, and that this is a serious problem that is now driving earthquake safety work.”
  The Telegraph also reports that the government responded to the warnings by building an emergency response center at the Fukushima Daiichi plant designed to resist magnitude-7.0 earthquakes. Friday's earthquake, originally named a magnitude-8.9 shock, has since been upgraded to magnitude-9.0.
  Other nuclear experts state IAEA officials had willingly ignored lessons from the Chernobyl disaster to protect the nuclear industry's expansion, reports Bloomberg. “After Chernobyl, all the force of the nuclear industry was directed to hide this event, for not creating damage to their reputation,”Russian nuclear accident specialist Iouli Andreyev tells Reuters, before noting that radiation from spent fuel rods(棒)stored close to reactors at Fukushima looked like an example of putting profit before safety. “The Japanese were very greedy, and they used every square inch of the space. But when you have a dense(密集的) placing of spent fuel in the basin, you have a high possibility of fire if the water is removed from the basin.”
【小题1】 From the passage, we know that ____________.

A.people fear that the nuclear meltdown will possibly become more and more serious in Japan
B.people are becoming more and more afraid of a possible nuclear meltdown in Japan
C.Japan made no response to the warnings over the safety of its power plants
D.Iouli Andreyev warned Japan not to store spent fuel rods close to reactors
【小题2】 Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A.Japan was warned of the stability of its power plants when they were built over 2 years ago.
B.Safety guides for earthquakes should be updated three times in 35 years.
C.The emergency response centre at the Fukushima Daiichi plant can not resist Friday’s
earthquake.
D.IAEA officials advised Japan to ignore lessons from the Chernobyl disaster.
【小题3】 IAEA officials were willing to ignore lessons from the Chernobyl disaster because they want ________.
A.to put profit before safety.B.the nuclear industry to develop
C.to protect the reputation of JapanD.every inch of land to be made good use of
【小题4】The writer develops this passage mainly by__________.
A.making comments B.providing facts
C.quoting what experts say D.analysing what happened

 

第二部分(共50分)

Ⅴ. 短文填空(共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分)

选择适当的词(组)并用适当形式完成短文。每个词(组)只使用一次,其中有两个词(组)是多余的。

 

leak out,     likely ,   keep ,   undoubted ,    though ,     in short ,

make use of  ,  never ,   say  ,   take ,        still ,       afford

 

 “You can learn English more efficiently if you spend 20 minutes a day for a week than if you spend two hours a day.” This is what a teacher usually 71  when he tells his students how to allot(分配)their time. But is it true?

Suppose you have a bucket with a small hole in its bottom. Now you are asked to fill the bucket with the water in a basin. If you are too little a boy to lift the basin full of water, you are sure 72   a bowl or something alike. You will dip out the water from the basin with the bowl and pour it into the bucket .You may dip from the basin again and again. However, you will soon find that as soon as you pour a bowl of water into the bucket , most of the water 73  through the hole , so you are 74   able to fill up the bucket this way.

On the contrary , if you are an adult, you will 75   lift the basin and pour the whole basin of water into the bucket at once. Now, the bucket is full. Though the water in it is also leaking out, you at least have filled up the bucket with water. If you want to 76   the bucket full, you only have to add a bowl of water now and then .

The same is true of English learning. Let us 77  a simple example. If you learn 10 new words today, you are most likely to remember 9 tomorrow. But if you try to learn 30 words today, though you may forget far more than one word , you may 78  be able to remember 11 or 12 words tomorrow.

Day in and day out , you will be able to remember a large number of words, 79  you may forget some of them.

 80  , the more time you spend at a time, the more you will learn on the whole. Of course, the amount of time you spend each time must be within the limit that you do not exhaust (使筋疲力尽)yourself .

 

One winter morning I bought a copy of the New York World and turned its pages until I got the “Help Wanted Unskilled” section.A small advertisement held my  36 .It read, “Easy job.Good wages.No experience  37 .” It sounded like the job I was  38  .Easy job.Good wages.Those four words  39  now and then in my brain as I was traveling to the address indicated in the  40  .Easy job.Good wages.Easy job.Good wages.Easy ...

When I got to the place I saw a series of large  41 half filled with water, out of which I noticed  42  the necks of many bottles of various sizes and shapes. 43 these basins there were a number of workers sitting on small wooden benches.All had their  44 in the water of the basin, the left hand holding a  45  and the thumb nail of the right hand scratching(刮;擦) the labels on   46 .

I sat down on a  47  beside one of the basins and started to work on one bottle.As the minutes went by I noticed that the  48  of the water started to  49  from my hand to my body.But  50   still, the delicate thumb of my right hand was  51  by the minute into a full­ blown tomato­ colored finger.A numb(麻木的)pain began to be felt  52  from my right thumb.Then I began to feel as if the pain was coming from a finger bigger than all my body.

After three hours of this I told the manager I’d  53  .He figured I had  54  69 cents at 23 cents an hour.With the money, I left the working place.“Easy job.Good wages.” came to my brain again.Looking at my hands, I  55   myself, “Can easy job get good wages?”

1.

A.eyes

B.attention

C.decision

D.breath

 

2.

A.necessary

B.relevant

C.practical

D.primitive

 

3.

A.running after

B.looking for

C.heading for

D.looking after

 

4.

A.circled

B.moved

C.flashed

D.attacked

 

5.

A.letter

B.sign

C.advertisement

D.post

 

6.

A.baskets

B.bowls

C.pots

D.basins

 

7.

A.hiding

B.sticking

C.rising

D.breaking

 

8.

A.In

B.Above

C.Under

D.Around

 

9.

A.arms

B.hands

C.legs

D.feet

 

10.

A.knife

B.snail

C.bottle

D.brush

 

11.

A.that

B.those

C.them

D.it

 

12.

A.chair

B.bench

C.bottle

D.sofa

 

13.

A.smell

B.coldness

C.color

D.steam

 

14.

A.spread

B.travel

C.recycle

D.accelerate

 

15.

A.worse

B.better

C.more

D.rather

 

16.

A.going

B.finding

C.growing

D.becoming

 

17.

A.now and then

B.here and there

C.one by one

D.little by little

 

18.

A.adapt

B.equip

C.bargain

D.quit

 

19.

A.taken

B.offered

C.earned

D.created

 

20.

A.thought

B.asked

C.found

D.hated

 

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