第三节：阅读理解（每小题2分，共40分） 
A
I had gone to bed after a very hard day when the phone rang. It was an eccentric(古怪的)  
farmer. I had never met him before although I had often heard people talk about him. He sounded quite nervous and he had been talking for a minute or so before I understand anything. Finally all I could make out was that someone called Millry had a very bad accident. No matter who she was I obviously had to go.
It had been snowing heavily that day. I didn’t know the way. I had been driving for at least an hour when I finally found his place. He was standing there, waiting for me. It seemed Millry had died. “She meant more to me than anyone…even my own wife!” he said. I could see that he had been crying. I thought something terrible had taken place, it may be a scandal(丑闻). I was even more shocked when he told me be had put her in the barn(厩). “I wouldn’t leave her out in the cold!” he said.
Millry had clearly been a secret lover of his. I was about to tell him he could not expect me to cover anything up when he opened the barn door. He lifted his candle and I saw a dark figure on the ground, “She was such a good cow! I wouldn’t let anyone but a doctor touch her!”  
he said, and bust into tears again.
56. The underlined phrase “make out” in the first paragraph means        .
A. expect        B. understand          C. see clearly        D. hear clearly
57. Before he arrived at the farmer’s house, the writer expected to see Millry lying       .  
A. on the ground of a barn        B. on the floor of a room
C. in bed in a room               D. in bed in a barn
58. The farmer wished that the writer might       .
A. look into the matter          B. bring Millry back to life
C. free him from a scandal       D. keep a whole thing a secret
59. The person who told the story is probably a             .
A. farmer        B. policeman       C. country doctor      D. newspaper reporter 

    根据括号中的汉语提示填写单词，每空仅限一词。

56.     Australia sounds fascinating from your ______ (描述).

57.     What impressed the manager most was the girl’s positive ______ (态度).

58.     I like to be ______ (有条理的) and do things in a planned way.

59.     He is a(n) ______ (精力充沛的) boy; he enjoys sports.

60.     The search was ______ (放弃) when night came, even though the child had not been found.

61.     The ______ (产品) are good in quality and low in price.

62.     Plants and animals, including humans, need food and water to ______ (生存).

63.     Everyone can go on well with him; he is easy to ______ (接近).

64.     The police came to a ______ (结论) after looking into the case carefully.

65.     What was your parents’ ______ (反应) to your decision?

66.     The ______ (发明) of planes caused a revolution in our ways of travelling.

67.     As is known to us, fever is a ______ (症状) of many illnesses.

68.     With a ______ (疼痛) in his right foot，he couldn’t walk any longer.

69.     Much to our delight, things have returned to ______ (正常的).

70.     This is a popular TV program with an ______ (观众) of 30 million viewers.

71.     Why the city disappeared suddenly was not ______ (记录) in this book.

72.     Without ______（观察）carefully, you can’t learn Chemistry well.

73.     We will consider every ______ (方面) of the problem before we act.

74.     She was i      (受伤) badly in the car crash.

75.     Having failed my French exams, I decided to c     (集中，专心) on science subjects.

59. She was, I thought, the best       novelist（小说家）in the world because she told us a large number of        stories about her life in Africa.

A. alive                   B. living                   C. lively                             D. Live

第三节：阅读理解（每小题2分，共40分）  

A

I had gone to bed after a very hard day when the phone rang. It was an eccentric(古怪的)   

farmer. I had never met him before although I had often heard people talk about him. He sounded quite nervous and he had been talking for a minute or so before I understand anything. Finally all I could make out was that someone called Millry had a very bad accident. No matter who she was I obviously had to go.

It had been snowing heavily that day. I didn’t know the way. I had been driving for at least an hour when I finally found his place. He was standing there, waiting for me. It seemed Millry had died. “She meant more to me than anyone…even my own wife!” he said. I could see that he had been crying. I thought something terrible had taken place, it may be a scandal(丑闻). I was even more shocked when he told me be had put her in the barn(厩). “I wouldn’t leave her out in the cold!” he said.

Millry had clearly been a secret lover of his. I was about to tell him he could not expect me to cover anything up when he opened the barn door. He lifted his candle and I saw a dark figure on the ground, “She was such a good cow! I wouldn’t let anyone but a doctor touch her!”   

he said, and bust into tears again.

56. The underlined phrase “make out” in the first paragraph means        .

   A. expect        B. understand          C. see clearly        D. hear clearly

57. Before he arrived at the farmer’s house, the writer expected to see Millry lying       .   

   A. on the ground of a barn         B. on the floor of a room

   C. in bed in a room               D. in bed in a barn

58. The farmer wished that the writer might       .

   A. look into the matter          B. bring Millry back to life

   C. free him from a scandal       D. keep a whole thing a secret

59. The person who told the story is probably a             .

   A. farmer        B. policeman       C. country doctor      D. newspaper reporter