The past ages of man have all been carefully labeled by anthropologists (人类学家). Descriptions like "Palaeolithic(旧石器时代的)Man" ."Neolithic(新石器时代的)Man" ,etc. .neatly sum up whole periods. When the time comes for anthropologists to turn their attention to the twentieth century, they will surely choose the label" Legless Man". Histories of the time will go something like this: "in the twentieth century, people forgot how to use their legs. Men and women moved about in cars, buses and trains from a very early age. There were lifts in all large buildings to prevent people from walking. And the surprising thing is that they didn't use their legs even when they went on holiday. "

       The future history books might also record that we were deprived (剥夺) of the use of our eyes. In our hurry to get from one place to another, we failed to see anything on the way. Air travel gives you a bird's-eye view of the world. When you travel by car or train, an unclear picture of the countryside constantly smears the windows. Car drivers, especially, are mixed with the urge to go on and on: they never want to stop. The typical twentieth-century traveler is the man who always says" I've been there. "You mention the remotest, and someone is bound to say "I've been there"—meaning, "I drove through it at 100 miles an hour on the way to somewhere else. "

       When you travel at high speeds, the present means nothing: you live mainly in the future because you spend most of your time looking forward to arriving at some other place. But actual arrival, when it is achieved, is meaningless. You want to move on again. By traveling like this, you suspend all experience. The traveler on foot, on the other hand, lives constantly in the present.

       For him traveling and arriving are one and the same thing: he arrives somewhere with every step he makes. He experiences the present moment with his eyes, his ears and the whole of his body. At the end of his journey he feels a delicious physical tiredness. He knows that sound, satisfying sleep will be his: the just reward of all true travelers.

What's the best title of the passage?

       A. The advantages of travel                B. The best way to travel

       C. The reward of true travel           D. Possible ways to travel

Anthropologists label man nowadays "Legless" because______.

       A. people forget how to use their legs

       B. lifts prevent people from walking

       C. modern vehicles have replaced walking

       D. people prefer cars, buses and trains

While traveling at high speed,______.

       A. people can get more pleasure from it

       B. people always focus on next destination

       C. people can enjoy the view of the destination

       D. people care much about the arrangement of the journey

The author says "we are deprived of the use of our eyes "because ______.

       A. people can't get a clear picture of the view along

       B. eyes become useless in traveling at high speed

       C. people want to sleep during traveling

       D. people won't use their eyes

What does the author intend to tell us?

       A. Legs become weaker.

       B. There is no need to use legs or eyes.

       C. Modern means of transportation make the world a small place.

       D. We should experience the present heart and soul while traveling.

阅读表达(共s小题,每小题3分,满分15分)

    阅读下面的短文,并根据短文后的要求答题(请注意问题后字数要求)。

 [1] I was walking in the park with a friend recently, and his cell phone rang, interrupting our conversation. There we were, walking and talking on a beautiful sunny day. But I became in visible, absent from the conversation.

[2] The telephone used to connect you to the absent. Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent. Recently I was in a car with three friends. The driver told us to be quiet because he could not hear the person on the other end of his cell phone. There we were, four friends going down the highway, unable to talk to one another because of a tool designed to make communication easier.

[3]Why is it that the more connected we get, ________________________ ? Every advance in communications technology is a hurt to the closeness of human interaction (互动). With e-mail and instant messaging over the Internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another. With voice mail, you can conduct entire conversations without ever reaching anyone.

[4] More and more. l find myself hiding behind e-mail to do a job meant for conversation. Or being relieved that voice mail picked up because I didn’t really have time to talk. The industry devoted to helping me keep in touch is making me lonelier.

 [5] So I've put myself on technology restriction: no instant messaging with people who live near me, no cell-phoning in the presence of friends, no letting the voice mail pick up when I' m home.

76. What does the author say about communications technology according to the first two paragraphs? (within 15 words)

_____________________________________________________________________________

77. Which sentences in the text is the closest in meaning to the following one?

However, I felt left out as if we were not conducting the conversation.

_____________________________________________________________________________

78. Fill in the blanks in Paragraph 3 with proper words. (within 10 words)

_____________________________________________________________________________

79. Does the author restrict his own activity to improving the situation? (within 15 words)

_____________________________________________________________________________

80. Translate the underlined sentences in Paragraph 4 into Chinese.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

完形填空(共20小题;每小题1分,满分20分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后所给的四个选项A、B、C、D中,选出可以填人空白处的最佳答案,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Once a group of tourists who were staying at a hotel in Birmingham were having dinner in the restaurant. Fish was brought in and while they were   16  it, some of them told interesting stories about  17  pearls and other   18   things inside fish.
An old gentleman, who up to now had   19   quietly to their conversation, at last said,
“ I’ve heard all your stories, now I’ll tell you   20  . When I was a young man I was working in a large importing factory in New York, and   21   is usual with young persons, I fell in   22   with a pretty young girl. Very __23__ we were engaged(订婚). About two months __24___ our marriage was to take place, I was suddenly   25  to Birmingham on a very important business. I left my sweetheart,   26   to write to her. ”
“ I had to stay in Birmingham longer than I had   27  . At last my work was done and I could leave Birmingham. But just before I  28  New York, I bought a beautiful and very expensive diamond   29  , planning to give it to my sweetheart. ”
“ On my way to New York, I was__30___ the morning newspaper, which had been brought on board by the sailor. Suddenly I   31   an announcement of my sweetheart’s   32   with another. This made me so angry that I threw the ring overboard. A few days  33  , when I was eating fish, I bit(咬) on something   34  . What do you think it was ? ”
“ The diamond ring, ” cried his companions. “ No ” , said the old gentleman  35  , “ it was a fish-bone.”
16. A. eating       B. cooking          C. peeling        D. weighing
17. A. exchanging     B. tasting                 C. finding          D. searching
18. A. valuable                    B. terrible                 C. common                D. cheap
19. A. sat                    B. listened                C. stood                      D. thought
20. A. one                       B. all                     C. some                D. another
21. A. it                  B. which                          C. that                        D. as
22. A. trouble             B. debt                               C. quarrel                            D. love
23. A. quickly              B. fast                       C. soon                 D. lucky
24. A. when                    B. before                         C. after                 D. since
25. A. reported                   B. sent             C. caught           D. taken
26. A. promising                 B. agreeing              C. refusing                 D. wishing
27. A. regretted            B. wondered                  C. expected       D. finished
28. A. left for              B. left to                          C. returned back   D. returned from
29. A. watch               B. ring                       C. earring                            D. necklace
30. A. looking at       B. looking up                  C. looking through   D. looking for
31. A. looked              B. saw                       C. heard                     D. recognized
32. A. marriage                  B. fight                            C. talk                         D. agreement
33. A. before              B. later                          C. earlier              D. ago
34. A. hard                           B. sweet                         C. soft                         D. crisp
35. A. happily             B. loudly                    C. angrily             D. sadly 

It was the district sports meet. My foot still hadn’t healed(痊愈) from a(n)_________(21) injury. I had_________(22) whether or not I should attend the meet. But there I was,__________(23) for the 3,000-metre run.
“Ready… set…”. The gun popped and we were off. The other girls rushed________(24) me. I felt_________(25) as I fell farther and farther behind.
“Hooray!” shouted the crowd. It was the loudest________(26) I had ever heard at a meet. The first-place runner was two laps(圈))ahead of me when she
crossed the finish line.
“Maybe I should________(27).” I thought as I moved on. _______(28), I
decided to to keep going. During the last two laps, I ran _______(29) and decided not to_______(30) in track next year.It wouldn’t be worth it, ______(31) my foot did heal.
When I finished, I heard a cheer--- ________(32) than the one I’d heard earlier. I turned around, _________(33) the boys were preparing for theirs.  “They must be cheering for the boys.”
I was leaving________(34) several girls came up to me. “Wow, you’ve got courage!” one of them told me.
“Courage? I just __________(35) a race!” I thought.
“I would have given up on the first lap,” said another girl. “We were cheering for you. Did you hear us?”
Suddenly I regained _________(36). I decided to ________(37) track next year. I realized strength and courage aren’t always__________(38) in medals and victories, but in the _________(39) we overcome. The strongest people are not always the people who win, _________(40) the people who don’t give up when they lose.

【小题1】
A.slighterB.worseC.earlierD.heavier
【小题2】
A.expectedB.supposedC.imaginedD.doubted
【小题3】
A.lateB.eagerC.readyD.thirsty
【小题4】
A.from behindB.ahead ofC.next toD.close to
【小题5】
A.ashamedB.astonishedC.excitedD.frightened
【小题6】.
A.cheerB.shoutC.cryD.noise
【小题7】.
A.slow downB.drop outC.go onD.speed up
【小题8】.
A.ThereforeB.OtherwiseC.BesidesD.However
【小题9】.
A.with delightB.with fearC.in painD.in advance
【小题10】.
A.playB.arriveC.raceD.attend
【小题11】.
A.even ifB.only ifC.unlessD.until
【小题12】
A.weakerB.longerC.lowerD.louder
【小题13】
A.well enoughB.sure enough
C.surprising enoughD.strangely enough
【小题14】.
A.whileB.whenC.asD.since
【小题15】.
A.finishedB.wonC.passedD.lost
【小题16】.
A.cheerB.hopeC.interestD.experience
【小题17】.
A.hold onB.turn toC.begin withD.stick with
【小题18】.
A.measuredB.praisedC.testedD.increased
【小题19】
A.sadnessB.strugglesC.diseaseD.tiredness
【小题20】
A.orB.norC.andD.but

I fell in love with Yosemite National Park the first time I saw it, when I was 13. My parents took us there for camping. On the way out, I asked them to wait while I ran up to E1 Capitan, a ___16___ rock of 3,300 feet straight up. I touched that giant rock and knew ___17___ I wanted to climb it. That has been my life’s passion (钟爱) ever since--- ___18___ the rocks and mountains of Yosemite. I’ve long made Yosemite my ___19___.
About 15 years ago I started seeing a lot of ___20___, like toilet paper, beer cans, and empty boxes, around the area. It’s ___21___ me why visitors started respecting the place ___22___ and treated such a beautiful home-like place this way.
I tried ___23___ trash(垃圾)myself, but the job was too big. I would ___24___an hour or two on the job, only to find the area trashed all over again weeks later. Finally, I got so ___25__ it that I decided something had to change.
As a rock-climbing guide, I knew ___26___about organizing any big event. But in 2004, together with some climbers, I set a date for a ___27___. On that day, more than 300 people ___28___. Over three days we collected about 6,000 pounds of trash. It was amazing how much we were able to ___29___. I couldn’t believe the ___30___ we made ---the park looked clean!
Each year volunteers come for the cleanup from everywhere. In 2007 alone, 2,945 people picked up 42,330 pounds of trash and ___31___ 132 miles of roadway.
I often hear people ___32___ about their surroundings. If you are one of them, I would say the only way to change things is by ___33___ rather than complaining. We need to teach by ___34___. You can’t blame others ___35___ you start with yourself.

【小题1】
A.distantB.hugeC.narrowD.loose
【小题2】
A.immediatelyB.finallyC.graduallyD.recently
【小题3】
A.imaginingB.paintingC.describingD.climbing
【小题4】
A.gardenB.homeC.labD.palace
【小题5】
A.materialB.resourcesC.wasteD.goods
【小题6】
A.beyondB.againstC.overD.within
【小题7】
A.moreB.mostC.lessD.least
【小题8】
A.throwing awayB.picking upC.breaking downD.digging out
【小题9】
A.killB.saveC.waitD.spend
【小题10】
A.satisfied withB.delighted inC.tired ofD.used to
【小题11】
A.somethingB.anythingC.everythingD.nothing
【小题12】
A.cleanupB.partyC.picnicD.concert
【小题13】
A.dropped outB.showed upC.looked aroundD.called back
【小题14】
A.demandB.receiveC.accomplishD.overcome
【小题15】
A.planB.visitC.contactD.difference
【小题16】
A.crossedB.measuredC.coveredD.designed
【小题17】
A.talkB.complainC.argueD.quarrel
【小题18】
A.doingB.thinkingC.questioningD.watching
【小题19】
A.methodB.explanationC.exampleD.research
【小题20】
A.althoughB.ifC.whenD.useless

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