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Driving to a friend's house on a recent evening, I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend’s rooftops. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking about what a pity it was that most city people? Myself included? Usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors.
My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life.
　I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest-house with no electricity or running hot water. Our group had campfires outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply.
Today our lives are filled with glass, metal, plastic and fibre-glass. We have televisions, cell phones, pagers, electricity, heaters and ovens and air-conditioners, cars, computers.
Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of it spent indoors, I thought: before long, I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains And perhaps write, but not in anger. I may become an old man there, and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled and measure out my life in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touch the moon.
71.The best title for the passage would be______.
A. Touched by the moon
B. The pleasures of modern life
C. A bottomless well of silence
D. Break away from modern life
72. The writer felt sorry for himself because________.
A. there was too many pollution
B. he failed to see the fullest moon
C. he didn’t adapt to modern inventions
D. there were too accidents on the road
73. What impressed the writer most in the mountainous jungle of northern India?
A. No modern equipment     B. Complete silence.
C. The nice moonlight        D. The high mountains
74. Modern things (Paragraph 4) are mentioned mainly to______.
A. show that the writer likes city life very much
B. tell us that people greatly benefit from modern life
C. explain that people have less chances to enjoy nature
D. show that we can also enjoy nature at home through them
75. The author wrote the passage to_______.
A. express the feeling of returning to nature
B. show the love for the moonlight
C. advise modern people to learn to live
D. want to communicate longing for modern life

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
It' s six o' clock on a cold Saturday morning．Liu Zifan reluctantly gets out of the warm bed．
"I wish I could sleep  36  more," says Liu．
The 12-year-old seventh grader from Beijing Guangqumen   37  School must take an - hour - ride to get to the school for the   38 curriculums that occupy her whole Saturday morning．  39 Sunday afternoon, she has music lessons from 3 p．m．to 7 p．m．．
During weekdays, Liu has to get up around five in the morning, and  40 home by six．
" My teacher  41 us to eat an apple in the morning so that we won' t feel  42 " , she says．
In primary school, Liu  43 taking the New Concept English class every Saturday morning, and Chinese, English and Olympic maths classes in the afternoon．On Sunday morning, she had to do  44 at home．In the afternoon, she took Cambridge English class．
"I didn't have time to rest,   45 on Friday night," Liu recalls．
The family has a monthly  46 of about 1,700 yuan．Liu Zifan' s  47 classes cost 2, 000 yuan each term．
" I think it' s   48 the money," Liu' s father says．" We do everything we can to provide her with good education,   49  she will get a good job in the future．"
Chinese children face   50 pressures on study．Some parents make their children study 51    First graders start to take classes for second graders, and so on, therefore they can get an   52 in exams．Most Chinese   53 believe high academic credentials （成绩） mean a better school, a brighter future．So they   54  their children to extracurricular classes like music, English and maths to develop a special   55 , which later might be a stepping stone to a good school．  
36．A．any           B．some          C．even           D．far
37．A．Secondary                                     B．Training        C．Language     D．Primary
38．A．super          B．extra          C．huge           D．usual
39．A．In             B．For            C．At            D．On
40．A．get                                           B．stay            C．leave            D．drive
41  A．orders          B．recommends     C．persuades        D．suggests
42．A．sleepy            B．tired               C．cold                 D．thirsty
43．A．stopped              B．finished            C．enjoyed              D．started
44．A．housework          B．washing           C．homework       D．writing
45．A．besides            B．including            C．since             D．except
46．A．pay                  B．cost                    C．income                D． money                                 
47．A．weekend           B．Sunday            C．everyday             D．Saturday
48．A．wasteful         B．worth                  C．valuable              D．worthy
49．A．so that                B．since               C．now that              D．while
50．A．challenging      B．increasing            C．developing      D．changing
51．A．ahead              B．hard              C．late                 D．away
52  A．average            B．achievement        C．advance          D．advantage
53．A．teachers              B．students           C．friends           D．parents
54．A．send            B．hope                   C．take                    D．wish
55．A．strength        B．interest             C．talent              D．skill

For thousands of years, the most important two buildings in any British village have been the church and the pub. Traditionally, the church and the pub are at the heart of any village or town, where the people gather together to socialize and exchange news.

As a result, British pubs are often old and well preserved. Many of them have become historic sites. The most famous example is the pub in the city of Nottingham called “The Old Trip to Jerusalem”, which dates back to the year 1189 AD and is probably the oldest pub in England.

However, British pubs are not just for kings and queens; they welcome people from all classes and parts of society. On a cold night, the pub’s landlord or landlady can always find a warm place for you by the fire. There is always honest and hearty food and plenty of drink available at an affordable price.

That’s how things used to be. Things are beginning to change. It is said that the credit crunch(信贷紧缩) is causing 39 British pubs a week to go out of business. People do not have enough spare money to spend on beer. Recently, the UK government banned smoking in all pubs, and that may also have affected the number of customers going to pubs.

This decline is happening despite the fact that in 2005 the UK government started to allow pubs to stay open after 1l pm. Previously, with 1l pm as closing time, customers would have to drink quite quickly, meaning they sometimes got more drunk than they would if allowed to drink slowly. The British habit of drinking a lot very quickly is known as “binge drinking”, and it causes long-term health problems for people and problems with violent crime for communities.

In order to save their businesses, pubs are trying to change with the market. British pubs now offer something for everyone. A lot of pubs used to be “Working Men's Clubs”, meaning that women could not usually enter. Today, however, women can freely enter 99% of pubs without experiencing any problems. Perhaps things are changing for the better after all.

1.The passage mainly tells us something about ______.

2.Which may not be the cause of the decline of British pubs?

3.We can infer from the passage that ______.      

4.We can see from the last paragraph that the author _______.

For thousands of years, the most important two buildings in any British village have been the church and the pub. Traditionally, the church and the pub are at the heart of any village or town, where the people gather together to socialize and exchange news.
As a result, British pubs are often old and well preserved. Many of them have become historic sites. The most famous example is the pub in the city of Nottingham called “The Old Trip to Jerusalem”, which dates back to the year 1189 AD and is probably the oldest pub in England.
However, British pubs are not just for kings and queens; they welcome people from all classes and parts of society. On a cold night, the pub’s landlord or landlady can always find a warm place for you by the fire. There is always honest and hearty food and plenty of drink available at an affordable price.
That’s how things used to be. Things are beginning to change. It is said that the credit crunch(信贷紧缩) is causing 39 British pubs a week to go out of business. People do not have enough spare money to spend on beer. Recently, the UK government banned smoking in all pubs, and that may also have affected the number of customers going to pubs.
This decline is happening despite the fact that in 2005 the UK government started to allow pubs to stay open after 1l pm. Previously, with 1l pm as closing time, customers would have to drink quite quickly, meaning they sometimes got more drunk than they would if allowed to drink slowly. The British habit of drinking a lot very quickly is known as “binge drinking”, and it causes long-term health problems for people and problems with violent crime for communities.
In order to save their businesses, pubs are trying to change with the market. British pubs now offer something for everyone. A lot of pubs used to be “Working Men's Clubs”, meaning that women could not usually enter. Today, however, women can freely enter 99% of pubs without experiencing any problems. Perhaps things are changing for the better after all.
【小题1】The passage mainly tells us something about ______.

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
The winter skies are grey and it’s cold outside. The nights come early and we spend a lot more time  16   and alone. Many people   17   winter: so cold, so dark, so boring. But I like winter because I have more time to read.
For many students reading means school; it means   18  . Reading is something your teacher assigns and it’s something you’re   19  . Reading is something you have to do, not something you want to do. But for me and many other people, reading is the most   20   thing we can imagine. Getting lost in a good book can   21   a cold winter evening disappear. Dull grey skies are no   22  for the fantastic adventures of Frodo in The Lord of the Rings《指环王》，or for romantic trouble-making of Jane Austen’s Emma《爱玛》, or for the youthful problems of Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye《麦田守望者》.
All of those books are studied in North American high schools. They are interesting and well written books that   23   young people.   24  , even there, many high school students don’t enjoy reading the books because they are   25   their school work: “Oh, my God! Two hundred pages! I’ll never be able to read   26   much.” But sometimes a funny thing happens. They begin to read and they begin to follow the   27  . Suddenly, the world inside the book becomes more exciting and more wonderful than the world they   28  . At the moment the thought   29   reading is work disappears and reading becomes   30  .
Reading anything is   31   but reading good books is a terrific way to improve your English. Good writers write English very well and   32   you with good examples to follow. And good books will tell you more about English   33  : what people think, how they talk, how they interact with each other. But don’t let me  34   it by telling you that reading is good for you. Just think of it as a good way to   35   on a cold winter evening.
16. A. indoors                   B. indoor                            C. outdoors              D. outside
17. A. like                           B. prefer                                      C. hate                      D. love
18. A. job                            B. worry                                       C. try                          D. work
19. A. tested                     B. tested on                      C. examined             D. examined on
20. A. enjoyable            B. reasonable                             C. comfortable      D. considerable
21. A. want                        B. cause                                       C. make                     D. force
22. A. contest                   B. challenge                      C. competition        D. match
23. A. appeal to                B. respond to                             C. react to                D. reply to
24. A. Fortunately B. Luckily                            C. Unfortunately      D. Accidentally
25. A. free from                B. part of                            C. in place of            D. far from
26. A. not                           B. very                                C. those                    D. that
27. A. story                        B. subject                           C. instruction            D. theme
28. A. leave for                 B. care about                             C. flee from              D. live in
29. A. what                        B. that                                C. this                        D. which
30. A. a comfort               B. a failure                         C. a success             D. a pleasure
31. A. bad                          B. mean                              C. great                     D. grand
32. A. provide                   B. offer                               C. give                       D. award
33 A. custom                     B. language                       C. culture                  D. art
34. A. break                       B. spoil                                C. make                     D. develop
35. A. keep warm            B. stand still                      C. stay calm             D. stay cool