Bill White’s father is a lawyer. In his 36 time, he likes to get out in the country and take some 37 of animals.

   For a long time, Bill had wanted to go with his father on one of his 38. But his father didn’t take Bill along with him 39 he was fifteen.

   He and Bill drove to the farm which 40 to his uncle in the afternoon. They 41 the night there, so that they could 42 out early the next morning. Uncle Steve and his son Larry, who was sixteen, were going to go out with them.

   It was still dark when Bill heard the alarm 43 the next morning. He wondered why it was running so early. He couldn’t remember 44 he was. He turned over 45 and looked at the clock. It was 5 o’clock. Then he 46 that he was at the 47 and that he was going out to take pictures with his father. He jumped out of bed and got 48 quickly.

   He ran downstairs. The others were already in the 49. Uncle Steve was cooking bacon and eggs. There was a pot of coffee on the stove. It 50 good.

   They ate breakfast quickly. They didn’t talk 51, because they didn’t want to 52 up the other people in the house. They filled a thermos bottle 53 hot coffee and took some sandwiches 54 Aunt Grace, Uncle Steve’s wife, had made for them. They gathered their camera 55 and started out.

A. busy          B. spare            C. enough       D. limited

A. foods          B. drawings         C. paintings      D. pictures

A. trips          B. buses            C. holidays        D. mountains

A. after         B. when            C. until            D. unless

A. led           B. stuck            C. got             D. belonged

A. cost          B. spent            C. slept           D. took

A. start       B. begin            C. walk           D. step

A. telephone   B. machine          C. bell            D. clock

A. where         B. how            C. who            D. what

A. quickly        B. sleepily          C. quietly         D. suddenly

A. imagined      B. pronounced     C. forgot           D. remembered

A. mountain      B. town            C. farm         D. station

A. dressed        B. ordered          C. eaten         D. prepared

A. bathroom     B. kitchen           C. dining-room    D. sitting-room

A. seemed       B. felt            C. tasted          D. smelled

A. many         B. soundly          C. much                D. highly

A. wake         B. go              C. put                  D. come

A. of            B. with            C. in                   D. by

A. that           B. what            C. after          D. before

A. cover          B. supply          C. operator              D. equipment

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

Anna lived on the side of a valley. One summer, there was a very big 36 , and a lot of houses down below Anna’s were washed away. Anna’s house was 37 enough to escape the flood, so when the water had 38 and the other houses were  39  there with no roof and no walls and all covered with mud(泥), her house was just all right.

　  Her house was quite small, her husband was dead, and she had four children, 40 Anna took in one of the families that had lost 41 in the flood and she 42 her home with them until it was 43 for them to rebuild their house.

　　Anna’s friends were 44 when they saw Anna do this. They could not understand why Anna wanted to give 45 so much more work and trouble when she already had quite a few children to 46 .

   “Well,” Anna  47  her friends, “at the end of the First World War, a woman in the town where I then lived found herself very  48 , because her husband had been killed in the  49  and she had a lot of children, 50  I have now. The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘We won’t be able to have much for Christmas this year, so I’m going to 51 only one present to all of us. Now I’ll go and get it.’ She came back with a  52  who was even poorer than they, and who had no parents. ‘Here’s our 53 ,’ she said to her children.

　　The children were 54 and happy to get such a present. They 55 the little girl, and she grew up as their sister. Such was that Christmas present.”

A. earthquake          B. accident           C. flood                  D. fire

A. below                 B. high                  C. big                D. small

A. reduced                  B. come            C. appeared             D. disappeared

A. rising                 B. flowing           C. falling              D. standing

A. so                    B. but                     C. for               D. since

A. nothing              B. everything        C. anything          D. something

A. gave                B. found               C. shared             D. built

A. possible            B. necessary            C. important           D. obvious

A. worried             B. disappointed      C. puzzled           D. satisfied

A. them                B. herself                  C. him               D. us

A. support            B. supply           C. grow              D. educate

A. explained to               B. asked for         C. talked with        D. turned up

A. sad                 B. poor              C. rich              D. happy

A. war                 B. storm                   C. rain                D. flood

A. because            B. as              C. which              D. that

A. get                  B. send           C. buy                D. make

A. boy                 B. girl          C. student              D. teacher

A. child                B. daughter         C. sister               D. present

A. angry               B. excited           C. lovely              D. sorry

A. disliked           B. gained         C. welcomed          D. led

Last year, Jack Bleed cut through the bone of his ring finger while working. The 31-year-old resident of North Little Rock, Arkansas, waited for about six hours at a nearby medical center while the medical staff there called all over town — even as far away as Dallas and Memphis — to find a hand surgeon to reattach his finger. Finally, a willing doctor was located in Louisville, Kentucky. But even though Bleed had insurance(保险), he would have to hire a private plane to get himself there, at a cost of $4,300. In the end, he charged the cost to two credit cards, and his finger was saved. His insurance company eventually covered the cost of the plane, but his experience makes people aware of the fact that trauma(外伤) care in the United States is not only geographically limited, but in many places, non-existent.

Only eight states — New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, New Mexico, California, Oregon, and Washington — have local, fully functional trauma systems. The remaining states have partial systems, and 12 — including Arkansas — have no trauma system at all.

Although the President has signed a bill of $12 million for the purpose of supporting trauma care systems nationwide, many in Congress(国会) are unwilling to spend government money for a service they think should be paid for by states, says Wayne Meredith, medical director for trauma programs at the American College of Surgeons. Meanwhile, many states have also failed to find the dollars to support trauma systems. To make matters worse, many people without insurance depend heavily on the emergency care services, placing a huge financial burden on the medical centers that serve them.

For the same reason, doctors, too, often go unpaid. They are unwilling to perform emergency care, worsening critical shortages of neurosurgeons, orthopedists, and hand surgeons — the very types of specialists Bleed needed at short notice.

Supporting a trauma care system doesn’t take much. A half-penny sales tax in Miami-Dade County makes its outstanding system work. In Arkansas alone, says Wayne Meredith, a well-funded trauma system would possibly prevent 200 to 600 deaths each year. If trauma care systems were to work well across the nation, experts say, many thousands of lives each year could be saved. “You don’t get much better return on your investment than that,” Meredith says.

In Paragraph 1, the writer uses Bleed’s case to ______.

A. make a comparison                               B. describe a person

C. introduce a topic                                          D. tell a story

Many people in Congress argue that trauma care systems should be supported by ______.

A. the President                                       B. each state

C. insurance companies                              D. the US government

The example of Miami-Dade County shows that ______.

A. its tax policy is admirable                      B. running a trauma system is profitable

C. a trauma system is not expensive            D. sales tax is not heavy in small counties

Why are the present trauma care systems in some states not satisfactory?

A. They are shared by all the states.                    B. They are short of financial support.

C. The doctors are not well trained.                    D. The hospitals can’t provide low-cost services.

Is early childhood education really necessary? Early childhood education primarily focuses on learning through playing to develop the child’s physical, sensory, communicational and social development．Early childhood education has become a concern of the government, who pushes poor children to be formally trained before they are old enough for Kindergarten．

There are good reasons for the government to push early childhood education．Studies have shown that orphaned children who did not receive good care and education become developmentally delayed causing failure in school, and even in life．Further studies show that poor children who take part in Head Start programs are more prepared for school, less likely to end up in Special Education classes, and are less likely to receive public help or go to jail．

There are also negative parts to putting a child in formal education programs too early．Time Magazine online explains that “the younger the child the less his chances of catching up with first-grade work．” I have personally witnessed many children of my generation who went to Head Start programs become frustrated and bored with school before they finished high school．Yet parents have been sure that the earlier the child starts school, the better off he or she is, so they push to start children earlier．

Actually while early formal education of poor children does show great gains in the early elementary years, studies also show that this head start is really a “false start”, as the gains are lost in middle and high school years．It seems that environment is a bigger factor on life’s success than early education．Head Start programs have not achieved its original goal in closing the achievement gap in poor and middle school children．Perhaps it is time to find other ways to close that gap．

The purpose of the government valuing the early childhood education is ________．

A．to develop the children’s communication

B．to give orphaned children good care and education

C．to get the children prepared for the kindergarten

D．to train the children formally and regularly

According to the studies, which of the following is True?

A．Children with good early education may have a rich life．

B．The orphaned children are usually unhappy in their life．

C．Children without early education can do well at school．

D．Head Start programs are helpful to the poor children．

“the younger the child the less his chances of catching up with first-grade work．” suggests that _________．

A．the early childhood education is helpless to the child’s grade

B．it is good for the young children to receive early education

C．the early education can help the children follow the grade

D．the younger the children are, the cleverer they will be

The author’s attitude toward the early childhood education is _________．

A．puzzling             B．objective   C．indifferent      D．approving

The main idea of the last passage is that __________．

A．the early childhood education is very necessary

B．Head Start programs have helped the children a lot

C．environment is the most important to life’s success

D．better ways should be found to help the poor children