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第二部分:阅读理解(共两节;满分35 分)  
第一节:(共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分)
阅读下面四篇短文,从每小题后的A,B,C,D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
WASHINGTON -Tofu(豆腐)and Soyaburgers (豆饼) may be coming to American school lunch menus. What will the kids say? “Terrible,” said Greg Dudzinski, 17, of Ripon High School in Wisconsin, as he toured the US capital.
“The regular hamburgers are bad enough, so soyaburgers would be a lot worse, offered Zach Richey, 13, of Scottsboro Junior High in Alabama, another tourist. But the United States government – hoping to reduce the amount of fat that children are eating –has approved the use of soy as a meat substitute in meals for schools and day-care centers.Not all kids dislike the change. Mariel Spano, 17, of sandy Greek High School in New York, also visiting the capital, said she likes soyaburgers:“There is less fat, and they are better for you… They taste the same, and they are just as good.”
The government tried to make soy a meat substitute nearly 20 years ago, but later dropped the idea.At the time, the plan was intended as a cost-cutting move. US Agriculture Department officials say that their purpose now is only to make meals healthier.Schools are likely to increase the amount of soy that is mixed with hamburgers and other foods already on their menus, and they will also be looking for food companies to develop new soy products that children will like. “I can’t see putting tofu on a student’s plate and having a good acceptance. I can see taking a product that is familiar to the students and adding a large amount of soy to it and having it to be acceptable,” said Jill Benza, director of food services for the Mesa, Arizona schools.
36.What is the newspaper report mainly about?
A.The difficulty in using soy products for US schools.
B.Various opinions on soy products for US schools.
C.The plan that is made by the US government for school lunch.
D.Healthy foods for students in US schools.
37.Where did the interviews most probably take place?
A.In food companies.            B.In schools.
C.In Washington.                D.In some other states.
38.We may learn from the text that _________________________.
A.soyaburgers taste better than hamburgers.   
B.hamburgers are healthier than soyaburgers.
C.soyaburgers cost less than hamburgers.    
D.hamburgers cost less than soyaburgers.
39. What Jill Benza said shows that ___________________________.
A.students have not yet been used to soy products.
B.it is hardly possible to make soy products popular.
C.he does not like the change in meals for students.
D.schools are unwilling to change the lunch menus.

小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:C
小题4:A
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Football is, I suppose, the most popular games in England. One had only to go to one of the important   31  to see this. One can see kinds of people there, shouting and   32  for one side or the other.
One of the most   33  thing about football in England to a stranger is the __34__ knowledge of the game which even the   35  seems to have. He can tell you the names of the players in   36  of the important teams. He   37  photos of them and knows the result of large numbers of matches. He will tell you   38  he expects will win such and such a match,
  39 his opinion is usually as   40  as that of men three or four times his   41 .
Most schools in England take   42  seriously—much more seriously than nearly all the schools in other countries,   43 lessons are all important and games are left for one’s own arrangements(安排). In England, it is believed that   44  is not only a matter of filling a boy’s mind with facts in the   45 ; it also means character training; and one of the   46 ways of training character is by means of games,   47 team games, where the boy has to learn to   48  with others for his team, instead of working just for himself alone. The school therefore arranges games and matches for its   49 . Football is a good team game and it is good exercise for   50 .
小题1:
A.gamesB.matchesC.sportsD.sports meet
小题2:
A.fightingB.jumpingC.laughingD.cheering
小题3:
A.excitingB.pleasantC.surprisingD.disappointing
小题4:
A.greatB.interesting C.limitedD.useless
小题5:
A.smallest boyB.oldest manC.shortest childD.most stupid child
小题6:
A.noneB.eachC.fewD.most
小题7:
A.hasB.takesC.acceptsD.gains
小题8:
A.whyB.whichC.whoD.whom
小题9:
A.butB.andC.howeverD.because
小题10:
A.sameB.uselessC.manyD.valuable
小题11:
A.experience B.heightC.ageD.size
小题12:
A.matchesB.footballC.educationD.pupils
小题13:
A.whereB.thereC.theirD.because
小题14:
A.learningB.educationC.a textbookD.physical education
小题15:
A.schoolB.labC.libraryD.classroom
小题16:
A.quickestB.cheapestC.bestD.modernest
小题17:
A.especially B.usuallyC.seldomD.hardly
小题18:
A.fightB.struggleC.workD.study
小题19:
A.teachersB.pupilsC.playersD.team
小题20:
A.eyesightB.headC.footD.body
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Two days before Thanksgiving, I was trying to open my mouth wide enough for a mirror and a roll of steel wire. Metal braces (牙齿矫正器)had been on my   31  for weeks, but this was the day for the wire to be adjusted. Only those who have had braces will understand the terrible   32  of being “wired”. For the next 24 hours, it felt like every tooth was being   33  slowly by a giant clawhammer (拔钉锤).  34  drinking water caused pain.
By Thanksgiving Day, I had got used to it.   35  I didn’t use my teeth, the pain was bearable. But this was a day when teeth had to   36  longer than usual. We were   37  at my grandparents’ house with relatives. The house was filled with so many pleasant   38  that we could hardly resist the food. When grandma said, “Dinner is ready!” all the kids   39  to be first in line. I was so excited that I    40  the braces in my mouth and   41  my way up to the head of the line.
I piled my plate high with my favorite corn-on-the-cob(玉米棒子)and   42  my mouth to enjoy it. The pain was   43 . I felt I would never be able to eat again. I put my plate away and ran outside in   44 .
Grandma then took my plate to the   45 . She cut all the corn off that cob and rescued me from my   46 . She handed me my plate piled high with corn. “Thanks,” I said   47 . Then I looked up and   48  a strange light in her eye, a light that is still   49  to me after more than fifty years. That was the Thanksgiving when I discovered something more   50  than good food.
小题1:
A.tongueB.handsC.teethD.head
小题2:
A.subjectB.situationC.chanceD.production
小题3:
A.pushedB.plantedC.openedD.pulled
小题4:
A.StillB.SoC.EvenD.Yet
小题5:As long as                  B.Even though                     C.In case                      D.As though
小题6:
A.playB.workC.hurtD.shake
小题7:
A.mixedB.calledC.gatheredD.surrounded
小题8:
A.experiencesB.wordsC.coloursD.smells
小题9:
A.rushedB.startedC.steppedD.walked
小题10:A thought of             B.got out of                 C.complained about       D.forgot about
小题11:
A.forcedB.createdC.led D.gave
小题12:
A.narrowedB.openedC.cleanedD.shut
小题13:
A.normalB.violentC.regretfulD.common
小题14:
A.timeB.angerC.surprise D.tears
小题15:
A.kitchenB.bedroomC.clinicD.restaurant
小题16:
A.fearB.lonelinessC.painD.interest
小题17:
A.sadlyB.kindlyC.shylyD.gratefully
小题18:
A.checkedB.passedC.caughtD.filled
小题19:
A.attractiveB.mysteriousC.naturalD.untrue
小题20:
A.importantB.popularC.usefulD.expensive
阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When I was in the 8th grade in Ohio, a girl named Helen in my class had a terrible accident. As she was   31  to the bus in order not to miss it, she slipped on the ice and fell under the back wheels of the bus. She   32  the accident but was paralyzed from the waist down. I went to see her, in my 13-year-old   33  thinking that she wouldn’t live   34  from then on.
Over the years, I   35  and didn’t think much about Helen after that. Three years ago, in Florida, my oldest son was hit by a car while riding his bike,   36  a terrible brain injury. While I was looking after my son, a lady who said she was the hospital’s social worker called. It was a (an)   37  trying (难受的) day. I burst into tears for no reason and rang   38 .
A short time 1ater, a beautiful woman, in a wheelchair,   39  into my son’s room with a box of   40 . After 16 years, I still   41  Helen. She smiled, handed me the tissues and hugged me. I told her who I was, and after we both went through the shock of that, she began to tell me about   42  since we last saw each other. She married, had children and got her degree so that she   43  the path for those people who were less   44  than her. She told me that if there was anything she could give me, it would be   45 .
Looking at this wonderful, giving person, I felt   46 . But I also felt the first hope I had since learning that my son was   47 . From this person that I thought would have no   48  of life, I learned that where there is life, there is hope. My son miraculously (神奇的)   49  and we moved north, but I owe Helen   50  that I can never repay.
小题1:
A.walkingB.ridingC.runningD.driving
小题2:
A.livedB.survivedC.existedD.escaped
小题3:
A.mindB.brainC.headD.thought
小题4:
A.equallyB.calmlyC.quietlyD.normally
小题5:
A.studiedB.movedC.workedD.1ived
小题6:
A.sufferingB.causingC.bearingD.catching
小题7:
A.normallyB.particularlyC.necessarilyD.eventually
小题8:
A.upB.offC.backD.down
小题9:
A.ranB.walkedC.rolledD.moved
小题10:
A.tissuesB.presentsC.pillsD.candies
小题11:
A.realizedB.knewC.recognizedD.reminded
小题12:
A.her lifeB.her sonC.her familyD.her work
小题13:
A.clearB.smoothC.cleanD.open
小题14:
A.richB.healthyC.strongD.fortunate
小题15:
A.moneyB.hopeC.pityD.medicine
小题16:
A.smallB.pitifulC.weakD.shameless
小题17:
A.admittedB.beatenC.hurtD.hospitalized
小题18:
A.useB.valueC.meaningD.quality
小题19:
A.treatedB.worsenedC.relievedD.recovered
小题20:
A.some moneyB.some tissuesC.a debtD.a hope

How can we get rid of garbage? Do we have enough energy sources to meet our future energy needs?
These are two important questions that many people are asking today. Some people think that men might be able to solve both problems at the same time. They suggest using garbage as an energy source.
For a long time people buried garbage or dumped it on empty land. Now, empty land is scarce. But more and more garbage is produced each year. But garbage can be a good fuel to use. The things in garbage do not look like coal, petroleum, or natural gas; but they are chemically similar to these fossil fuels. As we use up our fossil-fuel supplies, we might be able to use garbage as an energy source.
Burning garbage is not a new idea. Some cities in Europe and the United States have been burning garbage for years. The heat that is produced by burning garbage is used to boil water. The steam that is produced is used to make electricity or to heat nearby buildings. In Paris, France, some power plants burn almost 2 million metric tons of the city's garbage each year. The amount of energy produced is about the same as the world produced by burning almost a half million barrels of oil!
But there are problems in using garbage as a fuel. Garbage that burns easily, such as food scraps and paper, must be separated from metals, glass, and other materials that do not burn easily. This separation process is normally costly. Another problem is that burning garbage can pollute the air.
Our fossil fuel supplies are limited. Burning garbage might be one kind of energy source that we can use to help meet our energy needs. This method could also reduce the amount of garbage piling up on the earth.
53. What two problems can be solved by burning garbage?
A. The shortage of energy; Air pollution.
B. The shortage of energy; the shortage of empty land for holding garbage.
C. Air pollution; the shortage of empty land for holding garbage.
D. Air pollution; the shortage of fossil fuel.
54.Which of the following is NOT a result of burning garbage?
A. The heat produced is used to boil water.
B. The steam produced is used to make electricity.
C. The garbage burned is turned into fossil fuels.
D. The steam produced is used to heat buildings.
55.According to the passage. Which of the following four groups of garbage is ready for burning?
A. food scraps and metals                    B. paper and glass
C. metals and glass                             D. food scraps and paper
56.What is the general tone of the passage?
A. optimistic                       B. indifferent                     C. advocating               D. anxious
Poverty exists because our society is an unequal one, and there are plenty of political pressures to keep it that way. Any attempt to redistribute wealth and income in the United States will be opposed by powerful middle and upper class interests. People can be relatively rich only if others are relatively poor, and since power is concentrated in the hands of the rich, public policies will continue to reflect their interests rather than those of the poor.
  As Herbert Gans has pointed out, poverty is actually functional form from the point of view of the non-poor. Poverty ensures that ‘dirty’ work gets done. If there were no poor people to clean floors and empty dustbins, these jobs would have to be rewarded with high incomes before anyone would touch them. Poverty creates jobs for many of the non-poor, such as police officers, welfare workers, and government officials. Poverty makes life easier for the rich by providing them with cooks, gardeners and other workers to perform basic work while their employers enjoy more pleasurable activities. Poverty provides a market for low-level goods and services, such as day-old bread, rundown automobiles. Poverty legitimizes (make legal) middle-class values. To the middle class, the fate of the poor---who are supposed to lack honesty, and a taste of hard work---only confirms the desirability of qualities the poor are thought to lack. Poverty also provides a group that can be made to absorb the costs of change. For example, the poor bear the pressure of unemployment and it’s their homes, not those of the wealthy, that are destroyed when a route has to be found for a new highway. It cannot be said that the wealthy keep the poor in poverty. It is just that poverty is an outcome of the American economic system, which the poor are politically powerless to influence or change.
小题1: The best title is ________________________.
A.Functions of PovertyB.Political Power in Poverty
C.The Fate of the PoorD.An Unequal Society
小题2: Poverty exists in American society because ____________.
A.the wealthy work hard and are glad to keep it  
B.the majority of the non-poor are totally indifferent (not paying much attention) to it 
C.the rich are politically powerful while the poor are politically powerless 
D.the poor like the jobs that they’re supplied by the wealthy.
小题3:The poor take on ‘dirty work’ ___________________.   
A.under political pressureB.for the high pay offered
C.as they are reasonably paidD.though ill-paid
小题4: The author thinks that _____________________.
A.the poor lack such desirable qualities as honesty  
B.the poor are not supposed to work hard  
C.the poor are willing to bear the costs of changeD.none of the above
Today, as with so many days, I found myself stuck in a traffic jam, and I thought I’d share my little trick for keeping calm when it seems like you are creeping along(缓慢行进).
The key to understand is that traffic jams don’t take as long as they seem to. It’s just that when we are in a hurry, and think we should be moving, but time appears to pass more than it does. To really show this, the next time you are stopped at a light that always seems to take forever to change, try to do something with your phone, your laptop, whatever you have available, and watch how much briefer the light seems.
When you enter a jam on the highway, reset your trip plan and care the time. Then, when you clear the jam, and are normally on your way again, care the distance of the jam, and the time it took to get through it. For my experience today, it took me 6 minutes to go 2 miles. Now, it happens to be mathematically convenient that your average speed on the highway is about 60 mph, or a mile per minute. So to estimate what time the jam actually cost you, just take your traffic jam passing time, and subtract(减去) the distance covered, which we know is a good estimate of the time it would have taken with no traffic jam. In my case, all that added up to 6-2="4" minutes.
Do this for every jam you are subjected to every time and watch how much less stressful they become once you understand how little time you are really losing.
小题1:We can infer from Paragraph 1 and 2 that ________.
A. there was no traffic jam in the past
B. modern people are under great pressure
  time passes much faster during traffic jams
D. people in traffic jams are usually impatient
小题2:What does the writer suggest when caught in traffic jams?
A. Playing a trick on other drivers.
B. Figuring out how much time the jam actually cost you.
  Doing some math problems.
D. Informing the boss about the delay.
小题3:The underlined phrase “subjected to” in the last paragraph probably means ________.
A. experience          B. avoid                admit                     D. control
小题4: What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. Math is closely connected with life.
B. Stress is always a bad thing.
  Traffic jam is not as bad as you think.
D. There is no use complaining about traffic jams.

Oceanography has been defined as “The application of all sciences to the study of the sea”. Before the nineteenth century, scientists with an interest in the sea were few .
   For most people the sea was remote, and with the exception of early intercontinental travelers or others who earned a living from the sea, there was little reason to ask many questions about it, let alone to ask what lay beneath the surface. The first time that the question 'What is at the bottom of the oceans?' had to be answered with any commercial consequence was when the laying of a telegraph cable from Europe to America was proposed. The engineers had to know the depth profile (起伏形状 ) of the route to estimate the length of cable that had to be manufactured. 
   It was to Maury of the US Navy that the Atlantic Telegraph Company turned, in 1853, for information on this matter. In the 1840s, Maury had been responsible for encouraging voyages during which soundings (测深 ) were taken to investigate the depths of the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Later, some of his findings aroused much popular interest in his book The Physical Geography of the Sea. 
   The cable was laid, but not until 1866 was the connection made permanent and reliable. At the early attempts, the cable failed and when it was taken out for repairs it was found to be covered in living growths, a fact which defied contemporary scientific opinion that there was no life in the deeper parts of the sea.
  Within a few years oceanography was under way. In 1872 Thomson led a scientific expedition, which lasted for four years and brought home thousands of samples from the sea. Their classification and analysis occupied scientists for years and led to a five-volume report, the last volume being published in 1895.
 68. The passage implies that the telegraph cable was built mainly _________.
 A) for oceanographic studies
 B) for military purposes
C) for business considerations
 D) for investigating the depths of the oceans
69. The aim of voyages Maury encouraged in the 1840s was __________.
 A) to make some sound experiments in the oceans
 B) to collect samples of sea plants and animals
 C) to estimate the length of cable that was to be made
 D) to measure the depths of two oceans
70. 'Defied' in the 4th paragraph probably means ________
 A)   doubted        B)  gave proof to
 C)   challenged     D)  agreed to
71. This passage is mainly about _________
 A) the beginnings of oceanography
 B) the laying of the first undersea cable
C) the investigation of ocean depths
 D) the early intercontinental communications

   The fact that blind people can see things using other parts of their bodies apart from their eyes may help us to understand our feelings about color. If they can sense color differences, then perhaps we, too, are affected (影响) by color without knowing it. Salesmen have discovered by experience over a long period of time that sugar sells badly in green wrappings (包装), that blue foods are considered not agreeable to the taste ,and that cosmetics (化妆品) should never be packed in brown. These discoveries have grown into a whole subject of color psychology (心理学).
Some of our preferences (偏爱) are clearly psychological. Dark blue is the color of the night sky and therefore connected with calm, while yellow is a day color connected with energy and encouragement. Experiments have shown that colors, partly because they are connected with psychology, also have a direct effect on people’s mind. People in bright red surroundings (环境) show an increase in breathing speed, heartbeat and blood pressure. Red is exciting. Pure blue has exactly the opposite effect; it is a calming color. Being exciting, red was chosen as the signal for danger, but a closer study shows that a bright yellow can produce a more basic state of alarm, so fire engines in some advanced areas are now rushing around in bright yellow colors that stop buses, trucks and cars.         
65. The passage tells us that salesmen have _______.
A. found out that colors affect sales   
B. discovered the relationship between color and psychology 
C. tried colors on blind people     
D. developed a special subject of color psychology    
66. If people are exposed to (置身于) pure blue, _______.
A. their body pressure rises                    B. they won’t easily feel nervous
C. they want to taste blue foods          D. they will feel like buying things
67. The most effective color in the passage for warning people is _____.      
A. red    B. bright yellow    C. dark blue    D. green
68. Which of the following do you think is the best title of the passage?
A. Color and Feelings                B. Colors and Sales 
C. The Blind and Colors             D. Preferences for Colors

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