I was a nurse who worked in a
children's hospital.One evening there was a 36 dance at the hospital.Most of the doctors and nurses would be there,but of course some had to be 37 to look after the children.and I was not of the 38 ones who were free to go to the dance.I liked dancing very much, so 39 I had to start work that evening while my
40 were getting ready to go to the dance,I felt very 41
for myself.
I went to each 42 child one after another and said
good-night, 43 I
came to one little boy whom I Was very fond of.His
name was Dick,and he was eleven years old,but he
44 talked like an adult(成年人).Poor
Dick had a very 45 illness,and now he was hardly able to 46 any part of his body except his hands.I knew he would never get 47 better,but
he was always happy and always 48 about other people instead of
himself.
He knew I 49 dancing,so
now when I came to say good-night to him,he
greeted me with the 50 ,“I'm
very sorry that you have to 51 the dance because of us.But we are going to have a 52 for you.If
you look in my drawer,you'll find a piece of cake.I 53 it from my supper today,so it's quite fresh.And there's also a penny there which my 54
gave me last week.You can buy something to drink with that.And I'd 55 and dance with you myself if I was able
to.”he added.
Suddenly the hospital dance seemed
very far away and not at all important to me.
36.A.big
B.good
C.lovely D.new
37.A.stayed B.asked C.left D.ordered
38.A.happy B.beautiful C.free D.lucky
39.A.if
B.when C.unless D.whether
40.A.patients B.students C.nurses D.friends
41.A.had
B.angry C.regretful D.sorry
42.A.young B.little C.sick D.sad
43.A.before B.until C.after D.when
44.A.already B.ever C.still D.just
45.A.strange B.curious C.serious D.common
46.A.feel
B.move
C.touch D.reach
47.A.no
B.far
C.any
D.some
48.A.worrying B.hearing C.talking D.thinking
49.A.loved B.preferred C.regretted D.remembered
50.A.sentences B.words
C.languages D.speeches
51.A.hate
B.join
C.miss D.practise
52.A.dinner B.meal
C.present D.party
53.A.made
B.saved
C.got D.left
54.A.mother B.teacher C.classmate D.doctor
55.A.get
up B.jump up C.look up D.stand
up
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和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Our maths test started and I was
sitting there and working away quite quickly.I
looked around with 15 minutes left,because
I had finished and was checking my test.
I noticed something very special!
Mr.Ward
was staring right at one of the kids that seemed to be only halfway done with
his test.Every test we took,there was always one boy hurrying at the last
minute to finish his test.It
was Tony.He would turn the pages and you
saw blank spot(空白)after blank spot.Sometimes I even saw entire pages that were
left blank.Mr.Ward
didn't take his eyes off Tony.It
seemed strange to me.For the rest of the test,Mr.Ward
watched Tony as he struggled anxiously,turning
papers back and forth and writing anxiously and erasing even more anxiously.He seemed to use his calculator(计算器) a lot more than he needed.
After the test was finished,Mr.Ward
gave his end of the year speech,basically
along the lines of good luck and good job.Then
I saw him go to Tony and tell him to go into the hall.
Mr.Ward
walked out of the room and went into the hall silently.He closed the door and from that moment on,I heard about 4 minutes of Mr.Ward shouting at Tony.He got his test paper torn up and a zero for
the end of the year exam and also failed for the term and had to take summer
school.
That was the first and the last
time that I had seen Mr.Ward
ever shout like that.Obviously Tony had written his
answers inside the sleeve(外壳)of
the calculator and every time he was“using
his calculator”he was really looking at the
formulas (公式)and other information he had
written inside of the sleeve,which
was all done without success because Mr.Ward
noticed it a mile away.
58.The boy used his calculator again and again
because he.
A.wanted to see what was wrong with it
B.needed to add the numbers
C.wanted to see what he had written inside the
sleeve of it
D.felt
too frightened to use it properly with Mr.Ward
staring at him
59.We can infer from this passage that.
A.Mr.Ward
was a new teacher
B.Tony asked the writer for help in his test
C.Mr.Ward
regretted having let Tony fail the test
D.the
students were taking the final-term exam
B
If you travel to a new exhibit at the San
Francisco Greenhouse of Flowers,you
will have a chance to see some meat-eating plants.Take
bladderworts,a kind of such plant,for example.They
appear so small and grow in a quiet pool.But
these are the fastest-known killers of the plant kingdom,able to catch a small insect(昆虫)in 1/50
of a second using a trap(陷阱) door!
Once the trap door closes on the animal
falling into it,the enzymes(酶)similar to those in the human stomach slowly
digest(消化)the insect.When dinner is over,the plant open the trap door and is ready for
trap again.
Meat-eating plants grow mostly in wet areas
with soil that doesn't offer much food value.In
such conditions,these amazing plants have
developed insect traps to get their nutritional(营养)needs
over thousands of years.North
America has more such plants than any other continent.
Generally speaking,the traps may have attractive appearance to
fool the eye,like pitcher plants,which get their name because they look like
beautiful pitches(a container like a bottle)full of honey.
The Asian pitch plant,for example,has
bright colors and an attractive half-closed cover.Curious
insects are attracted to come close and take a drink,then fall down the slippery wall to their
deaths.
Hair-like growths along the pitch walls
ensure that nothing can escape,and
the digestive enzymes can get to work.A
tiny insect can be digested in a few hours,but
a fly takes a couple of days.
Some of these pitches are large enough to
hold two gallons(7.5liters).Meat-eating
plants only eat people in science movies,but
sometimes a bird or other small animals will discover that a pitcher plant
isn't a good place to get a drink.
60.From the first paragraph,we can know that meat-eating plants can.
A.catch 50 small insects in a second B.catch
an insect in the shortest time
C.be
found floating on a quiet lake D.notice an insect in 1/50 of a second
61.If the trap door of a meat,eating plant is closed,the plant.
A.is fooling insects into taking a drink B.is producing honey
C.is
attracting insects to come close D.is enjoying a dinner
62.Meat-eating plants can grow in wet and poor
soil because they.
A.can get nutrition from animals B.don't need much food value
C.can
make the most of such conditions
D.have
developed digestive enzymes
63.We learn from the text that meat-eating
plants.
A.are big and tall
B.like
to grow in dry land
C.look
bright and beautiful D.are usually covered with hair
C
Not all children who grow up inside a culture
are completely influenced(影响)by
another culture.Some young people find that they
are more interested in nature or the culture of other country at a very young
age.
The most famous painter in Victoria's history
is Emily Carr.She was born in 1871 and,as a child,she
discovered that walking in the woods appealed more to her than
playing with other children.She
discovered she was more interested in wandering in the streets of old Victoria
than playing at home with dolls(玩具娃娃)and
spending her time brushing her hair and putting pretty ribbons(丝带)in it.Emily
was a little girl who spent much of her childhood in Beacon Hill Park,which was very close to her family home.Drawing fascinated(使……着迷)her,and
she also liked to play with the animals she kept as pets.She had ducks and chickens,and even a crow.In
later life she had several dogs and pet monkeys too! She often wandered around
the streets of Victoria and Was particularly interested in the First Nations
people and the Chinese people she saw in Victoria's Chinatown.Their culture and way of dressing seemed
different from her own.
At the age of sixteen she began to study
drawing seriously.She finally traveled to San
Francisco and Paris to study art,but
always returned to her beloved forests of the Pacific Northwest in the Victoria
area.
As she became a young,strong and independent woman,Emily loved the free and simple lifestyle she
saw the First Nations people living.In
the summer of 1895 she went on an expedition(远征探险)with
two other women to explore the wilderness along the Cowichan River that runs
through Duncan,just north of Victoria.
64.What is the main idea of the first paragraph?
A.Some children may be attracted by nature or
foreign culture.
B.The relationship of children and culture.
C.Some
children live in foreign culture.
D.All
children like their own culture.
65.Which of the following is closest in meaning
to the underlined phrase“appealed…to?
C.Dolls and ribbons were what ordinary girls
liked.
D.Dolls
and ribbons were what Emily Carr liked.
67.Emily learned painting in.
A.the streets of Victoria B.Victoria's Chinatown
C.San
Francisco and Paris D.the forests of the Pacific
Northwest
D
The British colony(殖民地)of Bermuda is a top summer-time escape.Yet,even
through October,Bermuda isn't ready to stop for
the winter.During this month,world-class festivals on the island keep
things lively and the weather remains comfortable enough for Bermuda shorts and
bathing suits.
In October,Bermuda
hosts two major festivals-the Bermuda Music Festivals and the Bermuda Culinary
Arts(厨艺)Festival.The 10th anniversary Bermuda Music Festival
begins October 5 and includes three days of performances at the Royal Naval
Dockyard on Bermuda's West End.Main
stage performers include Joss Stone,Patti
Labelle,and Al Green,and famous local Bermudian artists.General admission tickets start $60 for one
day or $160 for a three-day pass.
Starting October 21,the Culinary Arts Festival brings some of
North America's top chefs(厨师)
to the island for four days of food and wine tastings,conferences,and
cooking competitions.The chefs present include Todd
English and Michael Lomonaco,among
others.Three-day festival passes start at
$649 per person,but you can also buy separate
tickets for individual(个体的)events.
Even if you don't attend one of the
festivals, there's still plenty to do.With
mostly sunny days and temperatures averaging around 79 degrees,the weather is just right for joining in
Bermuda's two favorite pastimes-golf and tennis.With
fewer visitors on the island than during the summer,you may have an easier time getting the best
times or a place on the courts.It's
also still warm enough to enjoy the island's pink sand beaches and go swimming,because the water keeps the summer's heat
longer than the air.Of course,you can always shop in the city of Hamilton's
upscale(质优价高的)small goods and arts and crafts
shops.
68.The Culinary Arts Festival lasts.
A.from October 5 to 7 B.from
October 5 to 8
C.from
October 21 to 24 D.from
October 21 to 25
69.The best time to travel to Bermuda is.
A.spring B.summer C.autumn D.winter
70.This text is most probably a piece of.
A.advertisement
B.introduction C.news
D.notice
71.According to the text which of the following
statements is true?
A.In winter the travelers can't swim in the sea.
B.Bermuda is an island controlled by the UK
C.The two festivals fall on the same period of
October
D.Bermuda's
two major festivals in October are mainly for the British.
E
Electric books could change reading,but people ought to consider their
far-reaching effect as well.“The
e-book promises to cause a slow destruction on life as we know it,”Jason Ohler, professor of technology
assessment(评估),university
of Alaska Southeast in Juneau,
warned the World Future Society,Bethesda,Md.His
assessment weighed the pros and cons of e-book technology's effect on social
relationships,the environment,the economy,etc. Before you open an e-book, consider that
disadvantages.
They increase tiredness of eyes because of
poor-made screen,replace a relatively cheap
commodity(商品)with a more expensive one,and displace workers in printing book
production and traditional publishing,E-books
make it easy to share information,therefore
having an effect on copyright agreements and reducing pay to the authors,as well as bringing non-biodegradable (不可生物降解)rubbish.
On the other hand, e-books save paper and
trees,reduce the heavy work of the
carrying and storing of printed books,develop
ability in learning by oneself and make reading an experience of working with
others online.They also offer new jobs to
writers and artists and encourage self publishing.
Besides,Ohler
points out,e-books should gain society's
agreements if a few conditions are met:make
them biodegradable and recyclable(可循环的),solve the problem of eye tiredness,be sure the have-nots get the technology,and support e-book training in schools and
businesses.
72.What is the author's purpose of writing the
passage?
A.Warn people of the disadvantages of e-books.
B.Call on people not to use e-books.
C.Blame schools that don't provide e-books.
D.Encourage
people to use e-books.
73.We learn from the text that Ohler.
A.is against the use of e-books. B.prefers e-books to printed books
C.considers
both sides of the e-books D.doesn't like e-books at all
74.What is e-books' disadvantage on social
relationship?
A.They offer new jobs only for writers.
B.Fewer and fewer people will respect writers.
C.They may have a bad effect on some
traditional trades.
D.They
separate people from one another.
75.What does Ohler suggest regarding the use d
e-books?
A.The society should ensure the poor are able
to use the technology.
B.The schools should forbid the use of e-books
if they can't reduce eye tiredness.
C.The society should not agree to the use of
e-books even if they are recyclable.
D.The
schools should solve the present problems of e-books.