At 50 I was the first woman to travel alone at the North Pole. To celebrate my 60th birthday, I decided to make a journey at the  41  end of the world. I began the journey on  November 1 st, 1997. I knew another journey of  42  and danger was about to begin.

The first days the weather was very good。But changes were just  43  the comer. The wind grew stronger and stronger and increased to a howling storm that   44  to blow me and my tent away.

On November 12th the storm  45  . I celebrated my birthday lonely but calmly.

A few days late5 1 was moving forward over a slope  46  without warning my world  47  from under my skis. I fell into a deep hole but I finally got out.

During the journey I once hurt my leg  48  couldn’t stand on my left leg. However I  49 to my knees. I overcame countless difficulties and managed to get to Antarctica. It's an experience I shall never forget and shall  50  for the rest of my life.

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。

　　After breakfast Mrs Cotton said to Kurt,“ You really ought to tidy your room．I should have cleaned it weeks ago but it's been impossible because of all your things all over the place．”

　　So Kurt went upstairs and began to sort out all his belongings．There were a lot of things that ought to have been thrown out ages ago．Among the things he found some old school reports from St．Mark's Grammar School where he was educated．They had been put into the drawer years ago and hadn't been taken out for ages．Kurt looked through these and thought about some of the boys and masters he used to know．Most of the boys had done much better than he had；they had all either got good jobs or were studying at university．

　　Kurt hadn't worked very hard，especially in his last two years at school、Instead he used to waste his time and everybody said he ought to have worked much harder．Unfortunately，he failed his A-level examinations and his parents were very disappointed．In their opinion he should have become a doctor like his father．

　　When he left school，he found it very difficult to get a decent(体面的)job．First of all，he became a clerk in an insurance(保险)company．This was a very boring job．He used to sit at a desk all day and copy figures from one piece of paper to another．He then got his job in the library．

　　“But I don't really like it there，”he thought，“I oughtn't to stay there all my life．I ought to try and study again and get something good like some of the boys I shall see at the dance tonight Now I ought to get on and tidy my room, I suppose．

1．The first paragraph of the passage tells us that________．

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A．Mrs Cotton hadn't cleaned Kurt's room

B．Kurt's things are orderly laid

C．Mrs Cotton had cleaned Kurt's room

D．Kurt always cleaned his room by himself

2．“There were a lot of things that ought to have been thrown out ages ago．”This means that________

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A．these things were of importance to Kurt

B．Kurt always went over these things

C．Kurt had thrown out some of these things

D．Kurt seldom went over these things

3．According to the passage we learn that________．

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A．St．Mark's Grammar School was a university

B．Mrs Cotton was a chief librarian

C．Kurt hadn't entered university

D．Kurt was happy about his school days

4．Why was it very difficult for Kurt to get a decent job？

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A．Because he was not tidy．

B．Because he hadn't worked hard at school．

C．Because he couldn't do jobs well．

D．Because he wanted to be a doctor．

I shall never forget the day       Shen Zhou V was launched ,         has a great effect on my life .

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

Hidden in our subconsciousness(潜意识）is a perfect mental picture.  We see ourselves on a long trip that goes across the continent. We are traveling by train. Out the windows, we think in the passing scene of cars on nearby highways,  of children waving at a crossing , of cattle feeding on a distant hillside, of smoke pouring from a power plant, or row upon row of corn and wheat, of flat lands and valleys, of mountains and rolling hills, of city skylines and village halls.
But uppermost in our minds is the final destination.  On a certain day at a certain hour, we will pull into the station. Bands will be playing and flags waving. Once we get there, so many wonderful dreams will come true and the pieces of our lives will fit together like a completed jigsaw puzzle. How restlessly we pace the aisles, condemning(谴责）the minutes for loitering(虚度）— waiting, waiting,  waiting for the station.
"When we reach the station, that will be it!”we cry. "When I’m 38." "When I buy a new 450SL Mercdes Benz!""When I put the last kid through college.""When I have paid off the debt!" "When I get a promotion.""When I reach the age of rement, I shall live happily ever after!"
Sooner or later, we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip. The station is only a dream.It constantly outdistances us.
"Relish(appreciate) the moment" is a good motto,  actually it isn’t the burdens of today that drive man mad. It is the regret over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow. Regret and fear are twin thieves who rob us of today.
So stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. Instead, climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, swim more rivers,  watch more sunsets, laugh more and cry less. Life must be lived as we go along. Then the station will come soon enough.
【小题1】
Why does the author describe the mental picture?

B
For almost two months Dominic York, a 23-year-old hairdresser, wandered about hospitals all night, wearing a white coat and pretending he was a doctor. Yesterday he proudly claimed in court that despite his complete lack of medical experience or qualifications, he had saved several people’s lives. He had even been allowed to assist a surgeon during an emergency operation on a patient who was about to die on something she had swallowed.
“I watched one of those TV dramas about a hospital and suddenly I felt like playing one of the roles myself. So I put on a white jacket and a stethoscope(听诊器)and walked around one of the biggest hospital in London. At first I just watched. Once you learn how doctors talk to patients, nurses and others doctors, it’s easy to take people in,” he said.
One of the patients he treated was Laura Kennan. She had been knocked down by a car and fainted. When she came to in hospital, York was standing over her.
“He looked very professional. He told me his name was Doctor Simon. Then he gave me some sort of injection,” she said. And then he suddenly cleared off when a nurse asked who he was. She didn’t think there was anything wrong. “I would never have realized he was a fake if a policewoman hadn’t showed me his photograph a week later. When the policewoman told me who he really was, I could hardly believe my ears.”
Judge Raymond Adams told York that he was. “ shocked and horrified” that he got away with his deceiving for so long, and then sentenced him to eighteen months in a special prison for criminal with mental disorders.
“I can only hope that this will not lead to further problems. After all, you will have considerable opportunity to study the behaviour of the psychiatrists(精神科医生)who will look after you while you are there. If you try to persuade people that you yourself are a psychiatrist after you are set free, I shall make sure that you are given a much longer sentence.” Judge Adams warned York.
5. York was proud of the fact that ___________.
A. a surgeon let him watch an operation.
B. he could perform some duties of a doctor.
C. he had cheated doctors for so long
D. people thought he could become a real doctor
6. York learned how to behave like a doctor by __________.
A. watching other doctors work             B. talking to doctors and nurses
C. getting some training and experience         D. observing doctors while he was a patient
7. Why was Laura Kennan in hospital?
A. She had swallowed something and almost died.
B. She had to have and emergency operation.
C. She had been injured in a road accident.
D. She had lost consciousness while driving.
8. The judge’s remark implied that York would be more severely punished if he _________.
A. pretended to be a psychiatrist            B. tried to get away from prison
C. was proud of what he had done     D. studied the behaviour of the psychiatrist