第三部分:阅读理解(共20小题;每小题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、D)中选出最佳选项。
A
Mr. Brozina is a single father and an elementary school librarian who reads aloud for a living. When his daughter, Kristen, hit fourth grade, he proposed The Streak: to see if they could read together for 100 straight bedtimes without missing once.
When The Streak reached 100, they celebrated with a pancake breakfast, and Kristen whispered, "I think we should try for 1,000 nights."
Mr. Brozina was delighted, but what he was thinking was, a thousand nights?! "I thought, we'll never do it," he recalled. "And then we got to 1,000, and we said, 'How can we stop?' "
For 3,218 nights (and some mornings, if Mr. Brozina was coming home too late to read). The Streak went on. It progressed from picture books to middle-school classics to Harry Potter, Agatha Christie, Dickens and Shakespeare, continuing on, until Kristen's first day of college.
In those nine-plus years, they survived many close calls. When Kristen was still in elementary school, her father went to Washington. "The phone rang at 10:45 at the hotel and it was Kristen," Mr. Brozina recalled. "She said, 'Dad, we forgot The Streak!' Fortunately, I always traveled with several books and we read right then and there."
This spring, Kristen graduated from Rowan' University. She has performed as you'd expect for a product of The Streak, an English major with a 3.94 average. She also won two national writing contests, was an editor of the humor arid literary publications and won the annual English department award.
56. According to the passage, Mr. Brozina and his daughter read together for          .
A. 100 bedtimes                           B. 1000 nights                         
C. over nine years                          D. nearly 3000 nights and some mornings
57. In the passage, the underlined phrase in Paragraph 1 probably means _____.
A. the period of time for reading together    B. me children's book                   
C. the special night                      C. the school work
58. How has Kristen benefited from reading with her father?
A. She has grown closer to her father.         B. She has become a school librarian herself. 
C. She has performed well at university.          D. She has won many reading awards.
59. This passage is about a father who _____.
A. is very strict in his work                        B. enjoys reading when travelling         
C. makes his daughter love reading             D. has a hard time bringing up his daughter

 

第二节:(共5小题,每小题2分,满分10分)

根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

注意:请将答案转写到答题卡上,写在本试卷上无效。

Since the pre-historic times, man has had an urge to satisfy his needs, but as we climbed the steps of evolution with giant leaps, we somehow left behind common sense and logical thinking — we forgot that we have stopped thinking ahead of times.

    If you are hungry, what do you do? Grab a piece of your favorite meal and stay quiet after that? ____71_____ But it never lets you know, because you keep it busy thinking about your favorite star and many such absurd things.When mind looses its freedom to grow, creativity gets a full stop.This might be the reason why we all sometimes think "What happens next?", "Why can't I think?".Well this is the aftermath of using our brain for thinking of not-so-worthy things.

    Hunger of the mind can be actually satisfied through extensive reading.Now why reading and not watching TV? ___72___ Just like that to develop other aspects of our life, we have to take advantage of reading.You have innumerable number of books in this world which will answer all your “How to?” questions.___73___ Now this seed is unknowingly used by you in your future to develop new ideas.The same seed if used many times, can help you link and relate a lot of things, of which you would have never thought of in your wildest dreams! This is nothing other than creativity.The larger number of books you read, your mind will open up like never before.Also this improves your speaking skills to a large extent and also makes a significant contribution to your vocabulary in writing.___74____

    Actually, I had a problem in speaking English fluently, but as I read, I could improve significantly.___75____ So guys do join me and give food for your thoughts by reading, reading and more reading.Now what are you waiting for?

A.Soon you will find no difficulty employing the right words when speaking.

B.The interesting part of the book is stored in your mind as a seed.

C.I am still on the path of improvement to satisfy my thirst.

D.Just like your stomach, even your mind is hungry.

E.Because reading has been the most educative tool used by us right from the childhood.

F.Within no time you never seem to run out of the right words at the right time.

G.Because watching TV too often will make you a “couch potato”.

 

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