第二部分  阅读理解（共两节，满分30分）

（共10小题，每小题2分，满分20分）

阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

   Scientists used to explore(探测)on the surface of the ocean. Now they are exploring below the surface, too. They want to know about ocean water and the plant and animal life deep in the ocean.

   In 1934 the scientist William Beebe dived 3,000 feet below the surface in a hollow steel ball. In 1935 August Piccard dived 10,330 feet. In 1960 his son Jean dived to a depth of 35,800 feet.

   All these early dives were deep. But the divers could not stay down for very long. They had to come back up to the surface after a few seconds. Scientists needed to stay down longer to study life below surface. Gradually they succeeded. Cousteau，a Frenchman，was able to keep men down to a depth of 36 feet for one month and to a depth of 90 feet for a week.

   Now scientists are developing even better equipment. With this new equipment，men can stay below the surface for days or even weeks. In 1962 Cousteau set up a research station 35 feet below the surface. Then，in 1964，he set up another station on the ocean floor of the Red Sea. This was the first undersea station to operate without help from the surface.

   Many countries are now studying undersea living. The former Soviet Union has an undersea laboratory in the Crimean Sea. The United States has a laboratory 50 feet down on the ocean floor off the Virgin Islands. In 1970 five men lived there for two weeks. Then a team of five women scientists stayed in the laboratory. Next came other teams of men. All were there to explore the ocean depths and to make plans for the use of its resources. Scientists hope to find enough mineral，vegetable，and animal wealth there to provide food for the entire world.

 46.In order to______ ，scientists are exploring below the surface of the ocean.

        A. know about the ocean water deep in the ocean

        B. stay down longer to study life of the plant and animal below the surface

         C. know about the plant and animal life deep in the ocean

        D. both A and C

 47.Who made the deepest dive?______

        A. William Beebe.    B. August Piccard.     C. Jean Piccard.       D. Cousteau.

 48. Which of the following statements is true?____

        A. The early divers could not stay down for very long.

        B. Up to now only five women scientists have stayed in the undersea laboratory.

        C. The purpose of setting up the undersea laboratories is to make plans for the use of the resources in the ocean.

        D. None of the above is true.

第三部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30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。

Erik Weihemnayer was born with an eye problem. As a child his eyesight became worse and then, at the age of 13, he lost his sight completely. However, he did not lose his determination to lead a full and active life.

    Erik became an adventurer. He took up parachuting, wrestling and scuba diving. He competed in long-distance hiking, marathons and skiing. His favorite sport, though, is mountain climbing.

    As a young man, Erik started to climb mountains. He reached the summit of Mount McKinley in 1995 and then climbed the dangerous 1000-metre rock wall of El Capitan. Two years later, while climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya with his girlfriend, they stopped for a time at13,000 feet above sea level in order to get married．In 1999, he climbed Aconcagua, the tallest mountain in South America．And then, on May 25, 2001, at the age of 33, Erik successfully completed the greatest climbing challenge of all. He climbed Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world．

   Erik invented his own method for climbing mountains. He carries two long poles: one to lean on and the other to test the way ahead of him. The climber in front of him wears a bell to guide him. Erik is a good team member. He does his share of the job, such as setting up tents and building snow walls.

   Although he could not enjoy the view, Erik felt the excitement of being on the summit of Everest. He hopes that his success will change how people think about the blind．“When people think about a blind person or blindness, now they will think about a person standing on top of the world.”

56．When did Erik become blind totally?

    A．In 1968.                 B．In 1995.                 C.  In 1981.                D．In 1970.

57．Erik got married ________.

    A．on the summit of Mount McKinley               B．when climbing Mount Everest

    C.  on the top of Aconcagua                             D．when climbing Mount Kilimanjaro

58．What is Erik’s special way for climbing a mountain?

    A．Using two long poles.                                B．Doing his share of work.

    C.  Taking his girlfriend．                               D．Keeping a good team around him.

59．Which of the following shows the right order of what happened?

    a．He topped Mount McKinley.

    b．He became blind．

    C.  He challenged Mount Everest.

    d．He reached the peak of Kilimanjaro.

    e．He climbed the rock wall of EI Capitan.

A．b, e, d, c, a             B．b, a, e, d, c                    C.  a, b, e, d, c                   D．b, d, a, c, d

When middle-aged Alex quit his job and made up his mind to become a self-employed writer， no one could tell for sure whether he would succeed or not. He found a cold storage room in a building, set up a used typewriter and settled down to work.
After a year or so, however, Alex began to doubt himself. He found it was difficult to earn his living by selling what he wrote. But Alex determined to put his dream to the test—even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadowland (虚幻世界) of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.
One day Alex got a call,“We need an assistant, and we’re paying $6,000 a year.” $6,000 was real money in 1960. It would enable Alex to get a nice apartment ,a used car and more. Besides, he could write in his spare time. As the dollars were dancing in Alex’s head, something cleared his senses. He had dreamed of being a writer--full time. “Thanks, but no,” Alex said firmly and swiftly, “I’m going to stick it out and write.”
After Alex got off the phone, he pulled out everything he had: two cans of vegetables and 18 cents. Alex put the cans and cents into a paper bag, saying to himself, “There’s everything you’ve made of yourself so far. I’m not sure I ever felt so low.”
Finally his work was published in 1970.Instantly he had the kind of fame and success that few writers ever experience. The shadows had turned into focus of attention.
Then one day, Alex found a box filled with things he had owned years before. Inside was a paper bag with two cans and 18 cents. Suddenly he pictured himself working in that cold storage room. It reminds Alex, and anyone with a dream, of the courage and persistence(坚毅) it takes to stay the course(持续到底) in the shadowland.
【小题1】Why did Alex give up his job?

A businesswoman, a mother of four, an international fashion icon（偶像） , a woman committed to making the world a better place for women and children—Queen Rania of Jordan is truly changing the world．

Rania was bom in Kuwait, in 1970．Shortly after Iraq invaded that country in 1990, her family fled and settled in Jordan．After graduating from a business school, Rania became successful in the business world．

When she was just 22, she went to a dinner party that changed her life forever．It was there that she met Jordan' s Prince Abdullah．Six months later, Rania and Abdullah had a royal wedding and started a family．

After the death of her father – in – law, King Hussein, in 1999, Prince Abdullah was crowned King Abdullah II of Jordan, and Rania became the world' s youngest living queen．

In her role as Queen, Rania has become well known around the world for her charity work and her efforts to improve educational opportunities for girls．She is an outspoken advocate of women' s rights, education reform, and child abuse．She is also well - known for her efforts to remove Western stereotypes （旧观念） about the Muslim world．

Rania explains that there is a direct relationship between increasing education and eliminating poverty．" You can change the course of a nation through education," she says．" One of the most important things you can do for a girl is empower her with her education．Once she has the education she can then have control over her income, she can change her life, she can have choices．"

In the future, Rania says, she hopes for a more open and secure world．"We look at problems happening halfway across the world and we think,' Well, that' s their problem．' But it' s not," she says．" When you solve somebody else' s problem, you are solving a problem for yourself, because our world today is so interconnected．"

1.Rania and her family moved to Jordan because ____．

2.Rania became the world' s youngest living queen when she was ____．

3.In her role as Queen, Rania is more devoted to ____．

4.Rania thinks that ____．

5.The text mainly describes Rania as ____．

第二部分：阅读理解

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。

Almost 40 years ago , a community servies organization started providing eye care in Gujarat State , in western India .

The Rgtary Club of Navsari operates an eye hospital and 9 area eye centers in and around Navssri , whose services are for the poorest people . The group opened the hospital , the Rotary Eye Institute of Navsari , in 1970 . India has only about one ophthalmologist for every 120,000 people . The Institute , however , has ten such specially trained eye doctors . It has restored or improved the eyesight of thousands of patients . Many people with eye problems cannot easily get to a big city for examinations and treatment . They live in villages and have no transportation. The Institute established eye centers called camps in places far from the city . Teams from it travel as far as 150 kilometers to see patients . People go to their nearest camp , where medical workers examine their eyes . The workers look for conditions including glaucoma , night blindness and other problems.Some people are found to have cataracts ,abnormal growths on the eye that can lead to loss of eyesight . India has about 13 million people with the condition . Cataract patients get free operations to correct the problem.

Rotary groups also operate eye banks . Doctors at these centers replace damaged eyes with the healthy eyes of donors who have just died . One such center is the Rotary Rajah Eye Bank . It operates in cooperation with the Rajah Eye Care Hospital in Chennai . The Eye Bank opened in 1996 . Hundreds of patients have received new corneas from donors since then . The cornea is the clear front part of the eye that transmits light . 2 million people in India are blind because of problens of the cornea . The Rotary Rajah Eye Bank holds continuing eye donation campaigns . It urges people to leave the gift of sight to others when they die .

1. Which of the following is True about the Rotary Club of Navsari ?

A.The Rotary Club of Navsari is a community service organization .             

B.The Rotary Eye Institute of Navsari has only one eye doctor .                

C.The Rotary Club of Navsari includes 9 area eye centers in big cities .                                                          

D.The Rotary Club of Navsari offers free operations to all the poor patients .

2.The underlined word “ophthalmologist” in Paragraph 2 refers to ______.

A.a physician who specializes in eyes   B.a worker working in countryside

C.a patient suffering eye problems       D.a volunteer working in eye centers

3.We can infer from the passage that      .

A.there are 13 million Indians having eye problems in total

B.the Rotary Eye Institute of Navsari is located in the center of India

C.the medical treatment is convenient for the local residents

D.communications in Navsari are difficult   

4.According to the last paragraph ,the Rotary Rajan Eye Bank gets new corneas mainly by_____.

A.cloning          B.donating          C.cooperating          D.forcing

5.The author develops the passage mainly by ______.

A.providing typical examples

B.making a definition

C.comparing two different areas

D.presenting two examples and drawing a conclusion