If we were asked exactly what we were doing a year ago，we should probably have to say that we could not remember. But if we had kept a book and had written in it an account of what we did each day，we should be able to give an answer to the question.

    It is the same in history Many things have been forgotten because we do not have any written account of them. Sometimes men did keep a record of the most important happenings in their country，but often it was destroyed by fire or in a war．Sometimes there was never any written record at all because the people of that time and place did not know how to write．For example，we know a good deal about the people who lived in China 4，000 years ago, because they could write and leave written records for those who lived after them．But we know almost nothing about the people who lived even 200 years ago in central Africa, because they had not learned to write．

  Sometimes, of course，even if the people cannot write，they may know something of the past．They have heard about it from older people，and often songs and dances and stories have been made about the most important happenings，and these have been sung and acted and told for many generations. For most people are proud to tell what their fathers did in the past．This we may call ‘remembered history’．Some of it has now been written down. It is not so exact or so valuable to us as written history is，because words are much more easily changed when used again and again in speech than when copied in writing．But where there are no written records，such spoken stories are often very helpful．

46. Which of the following ideas is not suggested in the passage?

   A．“Remembered history”，compared with written history，is less reliable

   B．Written records of the past play the most important role in our learning of the human history．

   C．A written account of our daily activities helps us to be able to answer many questions．

   D．Where there are no written records, there is no history．

47．We know very little about the central Africa 200 years ago because ___

   A．there was nothing worth being written down at that time

   B . the people there ignored the importance of keeping a record

   C．the written records were perhaps destroyed by a fire

   D．the people there did not know how to write

48．“Remembered history” refers to ___．

   A．history based on a person’s imagination

   B . stories of important happenings passed down from mouth to mouth

   C . songs and dances about the most important events

   D . both B and C

49．“Remembered history” is regarded as valuable only when ____.

   A.  it is written down     B .  no written account is available

   C．it proves to be time    D．people are interested in it

50．The passage suggests that we could have learned much more about our past than we

do now if the ancient people had _____

A．kept a written record of every past event    B.  not burnt their written records in wars

C．told exact stories of the most important happenings    D．made more songs and dances

Goldie's Secret

She turned up at the doorstep of my house in Cornwall. No way could I have sent her away. No way, not me anyway. Maybe someone had kicked her out of their car the night before. "We're moving house. " "No space for her any more with the baby coming. " "We never really wanted her, but what could we have done? She was a present. " People find all sorts of excuses for abandoning an animal. And she was one of the most beautiful dogs I had ever seen.

I called her Goldie. If I had known what was going to happen I would have given her a more creative name. She was so unsettled during those first few days. She hardly ate anything and had such an air of sadness about her. There was nothing I could do to make her happy, it seemed. Heaven knows what had happened to her at her previous owner's. But eventually at the end of the first week she calmed down. Always by my side, whether we were out on one of our long walks or sitting by the fire.

That's why it was such a shock when she pulled away from me one day when we were out for a walk. We were a long way from home, when she started barking and getting very restless. Eventually I couldn't hold her any longer and she raced off down the road towards a farmhouse in the distance as fast as she could.

By the time I reached the farm I was very tired and upset with Goldie. But when I saw her licking (舔) the four puppies (幼犬) I started to feel sympathy towards them. "We didn't know what had happened to her," said the woman at the door. "I took her for a walk one day, soon after the puppies were born, and she just disappeared. " "She must have tried to come back to them and got lost," added a boy from behind her. 

I must admit I do miss Goldie, but I've got Nugget now, and she looks just like her mother. And I've learnt a good lesson: not to judge people.

46. How did the author feel about Goldie when Goldie came to the house?

A. Shocked                     B. Sympathetic          C. Annoyed          D. Upset.

47. In her first few days at the author's house, Goldie _______.

A. felt worried           B. was angry            C. ate a little             D. sat by the fire

48. Goldie rushed off to a farmhouse one day because she ________.

A. saw her puppies                             B. heard familiar barkings

C. wanted to leave the author               D. found her way to her old home

49. The passage is organized in order of ________ .

A. time              B. effectiveness       C. importance      D. complexity

完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
请阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项的标号涂黑。
I believe in my mother. My belief began when I was just a kid,   36  I dreamed of becoming a doctor.
My mother was a 37__. Through her work, she observed that 38  _ people spent a lot more time 39 __than they did watch television. She 40 ___ that my brother and I could only watch two to three pre-selected TV programs during the week. With our free time, we had to read two books each from the Detroit Public Library and41__ written book reports to her. She would mark them up with check marks and under-line the important  42 . Years later we realized her marks were only a  43  My mother was a illiterate (文盲). Although we had no money, between the covers of those books, I could go anywhere, do anything and be 44__.
When I entered high school I was an A-student,  45  not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang about with the guys. I went from being an A—student then to a B--student then to a C-student, but I didn't   46 . I was cool.
One night my mother came home from working her multiple jobs and I  47   about not having enough Italian knit shirts. She said, "Okay, I will give you all the money I make this week by scrubbing floors and   48 _bathrooms, and you can buy the family food and pay the bills. With everything left over, you can have all that you want." I was very 49  with that arrangement but  50  I got through allocating (分配) money, there was nothing left. I realized my mother was a financial genius to be able to keep a  51 _over our heads and any kind of food on the table, much less to buy clothes. I also52 ___ that immediate satisfaction wasn't going to get me anywhere. Success 53 intellectual preparation. I went back to my studies and became an A—student 54__, and eventually I fulfilled my dream and I became a 55___

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

My father was a highly educate, intelligent gentleman. He could debate or discuss for hours on almost any topic and hold your   31   in the process. I thought there was nothing be wasn’t   32  to do.

A few days before my younger brother’s 7^th birthday, Dad planned to assemble(装配) a new   33   as a special birthday surprise. After nearly an hour of  34   the instructions, Dan was still unable to   35  the new bike together. Later he  36  the paper of instructions,   37  up his tool box, and decided to take the bike back to the local toy store and pay extra   38  to have it correctly assembled there.   39  an idea came to him, as he called out to Lovett, the quiet little man who cut our grassland.

“Lovett, have you ever assembled a boy’s bicycle?”

As Lovett walked towards the bike, Dad handed him the  40  . Lovett handed it back to him, saying, “No ,thanks. I can’t read. When you can’t read, you have to  41  .” Less than 15 minutes later, the new bicycle was   42   assembled, with no  43   parts remaining. Dad shook Lovett’s hand, patted him on the back, thanked him, and hid the bike.

On the night after my brother received his shiny new gift, Dad announced at the family dinner table what had happened several days earlier. He took great  44   in telling it over and over again-be used it as an example of thinking.      

He did not prefer to illiteracy(文盲) , but strongly taught us to use our  45  , The joke was on my father,   46  he was able to turn it into a learning tool, and I liked him even more after that incident. I also gained a new   47   for Lovett. To me he had   48  been the old yard man who didn’t   49   much, but after that day, he seemed to smile broader, even walk taller, It’s amazing what a real nod of   50   can do to lift people up.

31．A．attention   B．belief       C．view  D．breath

32．A．willing     B．lucky C．able   D．sure

33．A．toy    B．bicycle     C．computer  D．boat

34．A．reading     B．reviewing C．examining D．searching

35．A．bring B．get    C．put．       D．give

36．A．folded up  B．looked through       C．turned to   D．devoted to

37．A．brought    B．added       C．set     D．picked

38．A．money      B．effort       C．service      D．tax

39．A．Thus B．Then C．Since D．Though

40．A．tools B．rites  C．orders       D．instructions

41．A．exchange  B．admit       C．learn D．think

42．A．Partly       B．fully  C．hardly      D．largely

43．A．separate    B．different   C．major       D．spare

44．A．delight     B．action       C．care   D．risk

45．A．resources  B．knowledge       C．heads D．hands

46．A．so     B． or    C．but    D．and

47．A．reward     B．regard      C．relief D．respect

48．A．never       B．regard      C．ever  D．often

49．A．show B．say    C．care   D．earn

50．A． approva1       B．agreement C．affection1 D．altitude