It’s helpful to put children in a situation ____ they can see themselves differently.

A. that　　　　　 B. when　　　　　 C. which　　　　　 D. Where

答案:D

 John always tries to _____ people who are useful to him professionally.

A. develop B. provoke C. correspond  D. cultivate

[答案]D. cultivate.

[注释]cultivate sb.结识（有地位的人），培养与......的友谊：He always tries to cultivate rich and famous people.(他总是极力结识有钱的知名人士。)

本题译文：约翰总是力图结识在职业方面对他有用的人。

第三部分：阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)

第一节：选择题(共15小题，每小题2分，共30分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳答案，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

I was born an albino．No one in my family had ever known what an albino was，what it meant to be an albino，and what had to be done differently because I was an albino.

My parents treated me just like they treated everybody else. That was just about the best thing they could have done. It helped me trust myself，so when the annoyances came along，I could deal with them.

Actually，my photo always looked like a snowball with two pieces of coal for eyes. Kids would tease me，asking if I was joining the circus and calling me “Whitey”. Like most albinos，I had terrible eyesight，and my grades suffered until eventually I overcame my feeling ashamed of myself and realized it was okay to ask to sit in the front of the classroom so I could see the blackboard better. People stared at me when I held reading material right at the tip of my nose so I could see it well enough to read. Even when I was eight or nine. movie-theater clerks started asking me to pay adult prices because I “looked older”.

The worst part for me was that because my eyesight was so bad，I couldn't play sports very well. I didn't give up trying，though. And I studied harder. Eventually，I got better at school and loved it. By the time I got to college I was double majoring，going to summer school and devoting myself to every kind of extracurricular activity I could find. I had learned to be proud of being an albino. I did my best to make “albino” a positive word. And I decided to make my living with my eyes.

I couldn't see well enough to play spots，but with a solid education and the drive to do it，I could make a living involved in the field I loved. I've done it now for more than thirty years in print and in video，and now in cyberspace. People make jokes about how I'm the only “blind editor” they know，but most of the time the jokes are signs of respect. And I make jokes about being an albino.

I was just a proud albino kid from the coal country of Pennsylvania. I now realize that being born an albino helped me to overcome difficulties，gain confidence，and be proud of my personal achievement and humble about my professional accomplishments.

56．According to the passage，an albino refers to a person__________．

A．who has bad eyesight        B．who is born with white skin and hair

C．who looks older than his age  D．who joins the circus

57．What does the underlined word “It” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A．The fact that the author was born an albino．

B．The way that the author's parents treated him．

C．What had to be done differently to the author．

D．The fact that the author had no idea what an albino was．

58．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Despite his bad eyesight，the author played sports well．

B．The author paid adult prices for movies when he was still young．

C．The author's study was affected by his eyesight at first． 

D．“Albino” has already become a positive word now．

59．In the passage，the author intends to tell us___________．

A．actually being an albino helped him achieve success

B．how an albino studied well

C．what it is like to be an albino

D．how people should treat an albino

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

例： pen

     A.  restore    B. theme     C. effect     D. respect

答案是D

country

  A. pound        B. proud      C. soup       D. enough

breathe

A. worthy        B. thought     C. south     D. tooth

pleasant

A. license        B. escape      C. design    D. house

express

A. explanation    B. experience   C. exercise   D. exhibition

studio

A. study         B. funny       C. plus    D. reduce

通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在各题所给的A，B，C，D四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

I was in the queue for the supermarket checkout(付款台) earlier today．All of the checkouts were    36   , and the woman behind me was not happy! Every word that came from her mouth was a(n)    37   ! She wasn’t happy with the number of checkouts      38    ; she wasn’t happy with the amount of shopping some people had in their baskets; she wasn’t happy because this supermarket didn’t have a stand where she    39    scan her own shopping.

    I listened to her    40   looking around as I loaded my stuff onto the conveyor belt (传送带)．I didn’t want    41    to do with that kind of attitude, and if ever I’d felt like letting someone go     42     of me, it wouldn’t be such a woman!

But then I    43   back．Standing beside the woman was a five-year-old girl,    44    her granddaughter．The girl’s part of the shopping    45   of some comic books.

I couldn’t    46   it．I pushed my shopping back to the end of the conveyor belt,     47    a space．“After you,” I said to the woman and the girl, and    48    them to a big     49    ．The woman was delighted, and even    50    to complain ---- until she was walking away．

So,   51   bother having helped? It was because that little girl was probably taking in her granny’s complaint like a sponge(海绵)．She was learning how to    52    situations like that by listening to her granny．I’d seen that I could interrupt that complaining, and put a smile and some   53    into the middle of it．

We can all complain; we can all react    54    , but it doesn’t have to be like that．And, even if only for a few     55     , I wanted to leave that little soul with just a glimpse of another way．

A．busy     B．big   C．free        D．empty

A．quarrel B．argument        C．praise     D．complaint

A．opened B．closed   C．left        D．hired

A．would         B．need      C．could     D．must

A．beyond       B．without         C．with       D．by

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

A．ahead  B．behind   C．beside   D．back

A．went   B．glanced         C．focused  D．jumped

A．merely        B．surely           C．possibly        D．luckily

A．contained B．included   C．consisted       D．made

A．think        B．help      C．believe         D．forget

A．taking   B．leaving      C．bringing         D．occupying

A．returned  B．pleased    C．treated          D．served

A．smile    B．meal      C．joke      D．room

A．thanked  B．paid         C．checked        D．forgot

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

A．face with B．put with     C．deal with      D．do with

A．truth        B．kindness       C．courage         D．money

A．actively  B．correctly   C．negatively    D．patiently

A．hours    B．chances    C．years    D．seconds