Premier Win Jiabao continued his second trip around the quake disaster zone on May 23, 2008, visiting surviving students in Mianyang, one of the worst-hit cities.

In a tent school, where more than 500 students from the destroyed Beichuan Middle School were studying, Premier Wen encouraged them to study harder following the disaster. “let us not forget the earthquake,” he told the students. “Then you will know what life is all about—it is bumpy, as the roads are.  Today, people save us and take good care of us. In the future, we will help them in return.” He wrote on the blackboard to encourage them, “Hardships make a country stronger.”

His first trip to the area was on May 12, just hours after the powerful quake rocked Sichuan at 2:28 pm. During the next four days, Premier Wen set foot in almost all of the worst-hit counties, walking over rocks and tiles, comforting weeping children and encouraging rescuers.

The Chinese Premier says saving lives is the top priority. “We must try all means to get into those areas. The earlier, the better. One person can be saved one second earlier. As long as there is a gleam of hope, we will make efforts 100 times greater than that.’

Chinese are deeply moved by what the Premier has said and done. A mother sent a message to her son in Beijing, saying “The 66-year-old Premier Wen has worked really hard for quake relief. He has comforted and moved us. Pass this on to your friends, pray for him.”

67. What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. Hardships make a country stronger.

B. Premier Wen jiabao went on his first trip around the quake disaster zone.

C. Life is difficult.

D. The Chinese are deeply moved by Premier Wen.

68. By saying “Then you will know what life is all about—it is bumpy, as the

roads are.”, Premier Wen want to tell the students that _______________.

A. Life is filled with various difficulties , we must overcome them

B. roads of the area are rough, we should repair them

C. they should forget the earthquake and study harder

D. earthquakes are common on Sichuan, we shouldn’t be afraid

69. What did Premier Wen do when he first set foot in almost all of the worst-hit

counties EXPECT________________________________.

A. walking over rocks and tiles

B. comforting weeping children

C. encouraging rescuers

D. asking them not to forget the earthquake

70. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A. The Chinese are grateful for what the Premier has said and done.

B. Chinese are deeply moved by what the Premier has said and done

C. What the Premier has said and done comforted the mother.

D. The mother’s message is moving.

第三部分　阅读理解（共两节20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）    

第一节：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。

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Premier Win Jiabao continued his second trip around the quake disaster zone on May 23, 2008, visiting surviving students in Mianyang, one of the worst-hit cities.

In a tent school, where more than 500 students from the destroyed Beichuan Middle School were studying, Premier Wen encouraged them to study harder following the disaster. “let us not forget the earthquake,” he told the students. “Then you will know what life is all about—it is bumpy, as the roads are.  Today, people save us and take good care of us. In the future, we will help them in return.” He wrote on the blackboard to encourage them, “Hardships make a country stronger.”

His first trip to the area was on May 12, just hours after the powerful quake rocked Sichuan at 2:28 pm. During the next four days, Premier Wen set foot in almost all of the worst-hit counties, walking over rocks and tiles, comforting weeping children and encouraging rescuers.

The Chinese Premier says saving lives is the top priority. “We must try all means to get into those areas. The earlier, the better. One person can be saved one second earlier. As long as there is a gleam of hope, we will make efforts 100 times greater than that.’

Chinese are deeply moved by what the Premier has said and done. A mother sent a message to her son in Beijing, saying “The 66-year-old Premier Wen has worked really hard for quake relief. He has comforted and moved us. Pass this on to your friends, pray for him.”

56. What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. Hardships make a country stronger.

B. Premier Wen jiabao went on his first trip around the quake disaster zone.

C. Life is difficult.

D. The Chinese are deeply moved by Premier Wen.

57. By saying “Then you will know what life is all about—it is bumpy, as the roads are.”,

Premier Wen want to tell the students that _______________.

    A. Life is filled with various difficulties , we must overcome them

    B. roads of the area are rough, we should repair them

    C. they should forget the earthquake and study harder

    D. earthquakes are common on Sichuan, we shouldn’t be afraid

58. What did Premier Wen do when he first set foot in almost all of the worst-hit counties

EXPECT________________________________.

    A. walking over rocks and tiles

    B. comforting weeping children

    C. encouraging rescuers

    D. asking them not to forget the earthquake

59. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

    A. The Chinese are grateful for what the Premier has said and done.

    B. Chinese are deeply moved by what the Premier has said and done

    C. What the Premier has said and done comforted the mother.

    D. The mother’s message is moving.

A coal-fire stove（炉灶）provided heating for Zhao Yaoqin's courtyard bungalow in a Beijing hutong all her life. This winter, however, the stove has disappeared from the 66-year-old's life, and an electric radiator takes its place beside her bed, a product of a government to use clean energy in the national capital.

With the Olympics to be staged in Beijing next August, the city is determined to eliminate the use of coal within the Third Ring Road that circles the city before the Games. The project to replace the stoves with electric radiators has been part of the effort.  When the city's four-month long heating season started on Thursday, coal-fired stoves, known as a big source of pollution in the big city, have disappeared from some 20,000 local households like Zhao's bungalow in the inner city "hutong" -- traditional alleyways（小巷） that date back centuries. "We used to boil water or bake bread on the stove," said Zhao, sounding sentimental（伤感） to the disappearance of the coal furnace from her life.  

Late in the 1990s, Beijing's air quality monitoring office found that the emissions（排放） of sulphur dioxide and carbon monoxide from the hutong areas have been higher than the city's average in winter, mainly because of the coal stoves. With the project to switch to clean energy for heating launched in 1999, the emission level of the two poisonous substances decreased by 42 percent and 44 percent, respectively, this year from 2001 levels.    

Zhao said the fee for electrical heat for the entire winter was usually around 2,400 yuan （US$323） per household. With the government's subsidy（补贴）, however, she only needed to pay about 500 yuan, nearly the same price as that for coal.

1．  Zhao Yaoqin’ example in the passage is to tell us that_______.

       A．people in Beijing are using electric radiators to welcome the Olympics.

       B．people in Beijing are doing something to protect the environment.

       C．hutongs in Beijing have a long history.

       D．people pay more money to use electric radiators than before.

2．The underlined word eliminate in the second paragraph probably means________

       A．cut down.           B．increase.              C．get rid of.            D．replace

3．We can infer from the passage that ______

       A．Zhao Yaoqin has a strong and deep emotion with the use of coal-fire stove.

       B．The government will pay most of the fee.

       C．The air of Beijing has been badly polluted since 1990s.

       D．The people do not use coal eight months in one year.

4．Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

       A．The clean air is important when the Olympics Games are held in Beijing.

       B．The success of the Olympics Games depends on the clean air.

       C．The government spares no effort to make the environment better.

       D．The emission level of poisonous substances will be low in 2008.

Premier Win Jiabao continued his second trip around the quake disaster zone on May 23, 2008, visiting surviving students in Mianyang, one of the worst-hit cities.

In a tent school, where more than 500 students from the destroyed Beichuan Middle School were studying, Premier Wen encouraged them to study harder following the disaster. “let us not forget the earthquake,” he told the students. “Then you will know what life is all about―it is bumpy, as the roads are.  Today, people save us and take good care of us. In the future, we will help them in return.” He wrote on the blackboard to encourage them, “Hardships make a country stronger.”

His first trip to the area was on May 12, just hours after the powerful quake rocked Sichuan at 2:28 pm. During the next four days, Premier Wen set foot in almost all of the worst-hit counties, walking over rocks and tiles, comforting weeping children and encouraging rescuers.

The Chinese Premier says saving lives is the top priority. “We must try all means to get into those areas. The earlier, the better. One person can be saved one second earlier. As long as there is a gleam of hope, we will make efforts 100 times greater than that.’

Chinese are deeply moved by what the Premier has said and done. A mother sent a message to her son in Beijing, saying “The 66-year-old Premier Wen has worked really hard for quake relief. He has comforted and moved us. Pass this on to your friends, pray for him.”

56. What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. Hardships make a country stronger.

B. Premier Wen jiabao went on his first trip around the quake disaster zone.

C. Life is difficult.

D. The Chinese are deeply moved by Premier Wen.

57. By saying “Then you will know what life is all about―it is bumpy, as the roads are.”,Premier Wen want to tell the students that _______________.

    A. Life is filled with various difficulties , we must overcome them

    B. roads of the area are rough, we should repair them

    C. they should forget the earthquake and study harder

    D. earthquakes are common on Sichuan, we shouldn’t be afraid

58.What did Premier Wen do when he first set foot in almost all of the worst-hit counties EXPECT________________________________.

    A. walking over rocks and tiles

    B. comforting weeping children

    C. encouraging rescuers

    D. asking them not to forget the earthquake

59. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

    A. The Chinese are grateful for what the Premier has said and done.

    B. Chinese are deeply moved by what the Premier has said and done

    C. What the Premier has said and done comforted the mother.

    D. The mother’s message is moving.

Premier Win Jiabao continued his second trip around the quake disaster zone on May 23, 2008, visiting surviving students in Mianyang, one of the worst-hit cities.

In a tent school, where more than 500 students from the destroyed Beichuan Middle School were studying, Premier Wen encouraged them to study harder following the disaster. “let us not forget the earthquake,” he told the students. “Then you will know what life is all about—it is bumpy, as the roads are.  Today, people save us and take good care of us. In the future, we will help them in return.” He wrote on the blackboard to encourage them, “Hardships make a country stronger.”

His first trip to the area was on May 12, just hours after the powerful quake rocked Sichuan at 2:28 pm. During the next four days, Premier Wen set foot in almost all of the worst-hit counties, walking over rocks and tiles, comforting weeping children and encouraging rescuers.

The Chinese Premier says saving lives is the top priority. “We must try all means to get into those areas. The earlier, the better. One person can be saved one second earlier. As long as there is a gleam of hope, we will make efforts 100 times greater than that.’

Chinese are deeply moved by what the Premier has said and done. A mother sent a message to her son in Beijing, saying “The 66-year-old Premier Wen has worked really hard for quake relief. He has comforted and moved us. Pass this on to your friends, pray for him.”

67. What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. Hardships make a country stronger.

B. Premier Wen jiabao went on his first trip around the quake disaster zone.

C. Life is difficult.

D. The Chinese are deeply moved by Premier Wen.

68. By saying “Then you will know what life is all about—it is bumpy, as the

roads are.”, Premier Wen want to tell the students that _______________.

    A. Life is filled with various difficulties , we must overcome them

    B. roads of the area are rough, we should repair them

    C. they should forget the earthquake and study harder

    D. earthquakes are common on Sichuan, we shouldn’t be afraid

69. What did Premier Wen do when he first set foot in almost all of the worst-hit

counties EXPECT________________________________.

    A. walking over rocks and tiles

    B. comforting weeping children

    C. encouraging rescuers

    D. asking them not to forget the earthquake

70. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

    A. The Chinese are grateful for what the Premier has said and done.

    B. Chinese are deeply moved by what the Premier has said and done

    C. What the Premier has said and done comforted the mother.

    D. The mother’s message is moving.