第二部分阅读(共20小题,每题2分,满分40分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C或D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
An old friend from California called from the airport(机场) to tell me that he had arrived. I was not able to leave the office, but I had made plans for his arrival. After explaining where my new house was, I told him that I had left the key under the doormat (门垫). Since I knew it would be pretty late before I could get home, I suggested that he make himself at home and help himself to anything that was in the refrigerator.
Two hours later my friend phoned me from the house. At the moment, he said, he was listening to some of my records after having had a delicious meal. Now, he said, he was drinking a glass of orange juice. When I asked him if he had had any difficulty finding the house, he answered that the only problem was that he had not been able to find the key under the doormat(门垫), but luckily, the living room window by the apple tree had been left open and he had climbed in through the window. I listened to all this in great surprise. There is no apple tree outside my window, but there is one by the living room window of my next door neighbor's house!
31. An old friend of mine called ______.
A. to tell me to meet him at the airport    B.  to tell me about his arrival
C. to ask me to leave the office         D. to ask me to make plans for his arrival.
32. My friend climbed into the room because ______ .
A. there was an apple tree outside     B. the living room window was left open
C. he had difficulty opening the door  D. he hadn't found the key
33. My friend telephoned me two hours later ______ .
A. from my home   B. at the airport   C. in his office   D. from my neighbor's house
34. The purpose(目的) of writing this passage(文章的段) is to ________.
A. introduce a friend      B. tell an interesting story  
C. explain something     D. show what friendship is

Last week, I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Ruth Hospital. In one of the rooms a patient, an old man, got up from his bed and moved slowly towards me. I could see that he hadn’t long to live, but he came up to me and placed his right foot close to mine on the floor.
“Frank!” I cried in surprise. He couldn’t answer, as I knew, but he tried to smile, all the time keeping his foot close to mine.
My thoughts raced back more than thirty years - to the dark days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The scene was an air-raid shelter (防空洞), in which I and about a hundred other people slept every night. Among them were Mrs West and her son Frank, who lived nearby. Sharing wartime problems, we got to know each other very well. Frank interested me because he was not normal. He had never been normal, ever since he was born. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had less of a mind than a baby has. Mrs West, then about 75, was a strong, able woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank depended on her completely. He needed all the attention of a baby.
One night a policeman came into our shelter and told Mrs West that her house had been all destroyed. That wasn’t quite true, because the Wests went on living there for quite some time. But they certainly lost nearly everything they owned.
When that kind of thing happened, the rest of us helped the unlucky ones. So before we separated that morning, I stood beside Frank and measured my right foot against his.
They were about the same size. That night, then, I took a spare pair of shoes to the shelter for Frank. As soon as he saw me, he came running - and paced his right foot against mine. After that, he always greeted me in the same way.
【小题1】 How did the writer know that the patient was Frank?

A.He was told that Frank was in the hospital.B.He was invited to study Frank’s illness.
C.Frank’s name was written on the door.D.Frank greeted him in a special way.
【小题2】 When and where did the writer first meet Frank?
A.In Mrs West’s house in 1941.
B.In an air-raid shelter during the war.
C.At the Ruth Hospital about ten years ago.
D.In London after he Wests’ house was destroyed.
【小题3】 The unlucky ones mentioned by the doctor were ______.
A.those who suffered from illnessB.those who slept in the air-raid shelter
C.those who were killed during the warD.those whose homes were destroyed in air-raids
【小题4】The writer placed his foot against Frank’s before he left the shelter ______.
A.to be friendly towards Frank
B.to see if Frank’s feet were normal
C.to find out if Frank could put on his shoes
D.to teach Frank to greet people in a special way


B
“How are you?” is a nice question. It’s a friendly way that people in the United States greet each other. But “How are you?” is also a very unusual question. It’s a question that often doesn’t have an answer. The person who asks “How are you?” hopes to hear the answer “Fine.”, even if the person’s friend isn’t fine. The reason is that “How are you?” isn’t really a question and “Fine.” isn’t really an answer. They are simply other ways of saying “Hello!” or “Hi!”.
Sometimes, people also don’t say exactly what they mean. For example, when someone asks, “Do you agree?”, the other person might be thinking, “No, I disagree. I think you’re wrong …” But it isn’t very polite to disagree strongly, so the other person might say “I’m not sure …”. It’s a nice way to say that you don’t agree with someone.
People also don’t say exactly what they are thinking when they finish talking with other people. For example, many talks over the phone finish when one person says “I’ve to go now.” Often, the person who wants to hang up gives an excuse, “Someone is at the door.” “Something is burning on the stove.” The excuses might be real, or it might not. Perhaps the person who wants to hang up simply doesn’t want to talk any more, but it isn’t polite to say that. The excuse is more polite, and it doesn’t hurt the other person.
When they are greeting each other, talking about an idea, or finishing a talk, people often don’t say exactly what they are thinking. It’s an important way that people try to be nice to each other, and it’s also a part of the game of language.
60. When a person in the United States asks “How are you?”, he or she wants to hear “___________”
A. How are you?      B. Hello!       C. I don’t know.        D. Fine.
61. When a person wants to disagree with someone, it is polite to say “___________”
A. You’re wrong. I disagree.           B. I’m not sure.
C. I’m sure I disagree.                D. No, I disagree.
62. When a person says “I’ve to go now. Someone is at the door.”, he or she may be __________.
A. giving an excuse                  B. hurting someone’s feeling
C. talking to a person at the door        D. going to another place
63. One of the rules of the game of language is probably “_________”
A. Always say what you mean.               B. Don’t disagree with people.
C. Never say exactly what you’re thinking.     D. Be polite.

Memory, they say, is a matter of practice and exercise. If you have the wish and really made a conscious(自觉的)effort, then you can quite easily improve your ability to remember things. But even if you are successful, there are times when your memory seems to play tricks on you.
Sometimes you remember things that really did not happen. One morning last week, for example, I got up and found that I had left the front door unlocked all night, yet I clearly remember locking it carefully the night before.
Memory “trick” work the other way as well. Once in a while you remember not doing something, and then find out that you did. One day last month, for example, I was sitting in a barber(理发师)shop waiting for my turn to get a haircut, and suddenly I realized that I had got a haircut two days before at the barber shop across the street from my office.
We always seem to find something funny and amusing(有趣的)in incidents caused by people’s forgetfulness or absent-mindedness. Stories about absent-minded professors have been told for years, and we never got tired of hearing new ones. Unfortunately, however, absent-mindedness is not always funny. There are times when “trick” of our memory can cause us great trouble.
【小题1】If you want to have a good memory, .

A.you should force yourself to remember things
B.you should make a conscious effort of practice and exercise
C.you should never stop learning
D.you should try hard to remember tings
【小题2】Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A.One night the writer forgot to lock the front door.
B.One night the writer forgot having locked the front door.
C.The writer remembered to lock the door.
D.the writer remembered unlocking the front door.
【小题3】In the passage, the writer seems to tell you .
A.forgetting things is serious and dangerous
B.always forgetting things is understandable
C.forgetting things at times is natural
D.the way to protect yourself from memory “tricks”
【小题4】The best title for this passage is .
A.How to Get a Good Memory
B.“Tricks” Of Memory
C.Forgetfulness and Absent-mindedness is Dangerous
D.Get Rid of Absent-mindedness

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