四、阅读理解。（共20小题：每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

GUANGZHOU: The successful Guangdong International Tourism and Culture Festival has become a perfect stage to showcase the popularity of Guangdong and Pan Pearl River Delta (PPRD) region as a tourism destination, said Tang Bingquan, vice-governor of Guangdong Province.

According to the provincial tourism administration of Guangdong, more than 40,000 people attended the opening ceremony of the festival. More than 1, 000 high-ranking officials from the central government and Guangdong provincial government, World Tourism Organization, consulates (领事馆) of various countries in Guangzhou, and other provinces of China, also showed up in the ceremony. The activities in the past few days attracted a large number of visitors from home and abroad.

In the past 30 years, Guangdong Province has been one of the leaders in the nation in terms of economic development. Its average annual economic growth maintained a rate of 13.8 percent, according to Tang.

Last year, Guangdong’s gross domestic product (GDP) hit 330 billion, accounting for one-eighth of the total of the country. The province’s import and export volume hit 527.2 billion, accounting for one-third of the country’s total foreign trade volume.

Guangdong Governor Huang Huahua earlier predicted that the province’s GDP will surpass that of Taiwan by the end of this year.

“Guangdong is also leading the development of the whole country’s tourism industry,” Tang said.

Last year, Guangdong’s tourism revenue (年收入) hit 212.5 billion, occupying one-fourth of the country’s total tourism income. The net profit of the province’s tourism industry was 7.5 billion, which was one fifth of the nation’s total.

Tang noted that the tourism festival will give a further boost (促进) to the tourism development of Guangdong and the entire PPRD region.

The closing ceremony of the festival will take place tonight in Foshan, a city in Guangdong Province.                                          （China Daily Nov. 30, 2007）

56. What would be the best title for the passage?

A. Event to boost Guangdong’s tourism industry.

B. Guangdong -- China’s leading city in economy.

C. The increase in Guangdong’s tourism revenue.

D. The development of Guangdong’s tourism industry.

57. Which of the following is NOT true?

A. The past 30 years have seen Guangdong’s fast development in economy.

B. Guangdong is one of the leading provinces in national tourism industry.

C. Guangdong’s GDP makes up almost 13% of the total country last year.

D. Guangzhou will be the host city for the closing ceremony of the festival.

58. Which of the following word is the closest to the underlined word in the text?

A. replace       B. survive       C. overtake     D. succeed

59. What is the writer’s attitude towards the event?

A. indifferent  B. neutral            C. opposed          D. supportive

第二节完形填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分） 
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从第31至第40小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
One day an old card caught my eye: Queen City Casket Company. Immediately my mind traveled back many years.
I was nine years old, walking down the cold, wet streets of Springfield, with a bag of   31       on my shoulder. Finally, I came to that Company, whose owner, Mr. Rader, had taken me there to   32   his workers whether they wanted any magazines.
Shaking off the rain, I entered Mr. Rader’s office. After a quick glance he led me over to the fire-place. Noticing the   33   in the top of my shoe, he said, “Come with me!” Then, he took me to a shoe store. Inside, a salesman   34   me with the finest pair of Oxfords I had ever seen. I felt about 10 feet tall when I got up in   35  . “We’d like a pair of   36   socks, too.” Mr. Rader said.
Back in his office, Mr. Rader took out a   37  , wrote something on it, and handed it to me. With tearful eyes, I read, “Do to others as you would have them do to you.” He said affectionately(深情地), “Jimmy, I want you to   38   I love you.”
I said good-bye, and for the first time I sensed that somehow things would be   39  . With people like Mr. Rader in the world, there was hope, kindness and love, and that would always make a  40  .
31. A. newspapers                B. magazines                C. books                       D. tools
32. A. tell                              B. say                          C. answer                    D. ask
33. A. dirt                           B. water                       C. hole                    D. mud
34. A. bought                         B. fitted                       C. sold                        D. comforted
35. A. it                         B. them                     C. one                         D. this
36. A. new                          B. old                          C. big                      D. small
37. A. pen                           B. paper                             C. card                        D. notebook
38. A. admit                    B. know                             C. consider                  D. express
39. A. mistaken                   B. right                       C. all right                   D. possible
40. A. rule                          B. cake                        C. thing                        D. difference

完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36---55所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。

The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know a new classmate. I stood up to  36   when a gentle hand   37   my shoulder. I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady looking up at me with a   38   .

She said, “Hi. My name is Rose. I’m eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a  39   ?” I laughed and enthusiastically responded, “Of course you may!” and she gave me a giant squeeze (an act of pressing).

“Why are you in college at such a young,    40   age ?”I asked. “I always dreamed of having a   41    experience and now I’m getting   42  !” she told me.

Later, we became close friends. Every day we would leave class together and she   43   her wisdom and   44    with me. Over the course of the year, Rose became a (an)    45   icon（偶像） and she easily made friends wherever she went.

At the  46  of the term we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I’ll never forget what she taught us. When she was   47   , frustrated and a little embarrassed, she cleared her  48  and said, “We do not stop playing because we are old; we  49  old because we stop playing. There are only two secrets to staying   50  , being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find  51    every day. You’ve got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you   52   .”

One week after graduation Rose died   53   in her sleep. Many college students attended her funeral in tribute to（悼念）the wonderful woman who taught us by    54   that it’s never too late  to  55   all you can possibly be.

1.A. look around        B. look back            C. look down       D. look up

2. A. hit           B. felt                 C. touched              D. knocked

3. A. surprise          B. smile            C. wonder           D. pleasure

4. A. hand          B. welcome              C. hug                  D. gift

5.A. innocent       B. golden           C. happy            D. valuable

6. A. college           B. junior high school   C. senior high school   D. primary school

7.A. it             B. that                 C. one              D. them 

8. A. shared            B. told                 C. learned              D. debated

9. A. course            B. experience      C. degree           D. happiness

10. A. old          B. great                C. campus          D. outgoing

11.A. end           B. middle      C. beginning    D. top   

12.A. invited           B. appearing    C. speaking         D. introduced

13.A. nose              B. face             C. throat           D. eyes 

14.A. look          B. prove            C. grow         D. stay   

15.A. healthy       B. young        C. cheerful         D. rich    

16.A. humor         B. goals            C. dreams       D. jokes

17.A. lose              B. fail         C. die              D. disappoint

18. A. hopefully        B. peacefully  C. fortunately D. bitterly

19. A. experience       B. example       C. pleasure   D. courage

20. A. be           B. achieve      C. gain             D. do

第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1. 5，满分30分）

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，选出可以填入空白的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Facial expressions carry meanings, which depends on situations and relationships. For instance, in American culture the smile is typically an expression of    36   .Yet it has other functions. A smile may    37    love, politeness, or    38   true feeling. It is also a source of confusion across    39   .    40   , many people in Russia    41   smiling at strangers in public to be unusual or even suspicious. Yet many Americans    42    freely at strangers in public places. Some Russians believe that Americans smile in the wrong    43   ; some Americans believe that Russians don't smile enough. In Southeast Asian cultures, a smile is frequently used to cover emotional pain or mental difficulty, discomfort or anxiety.

Our faces make our emotions and attitudes known,    44    we should not try to "read" people from another culture    45    we would "read" someone from our own culture. The degree of facial expressiveness one shows changes    46   persons and cultures. The fact that members of one culture do not   47    their emotions as openly as members of    48    does not mean    49   they do not    50    emotions. Rather, their cultures    51    them expressing their emotion and attitudes freely.

If we    52    people whose    53    of showing emotion are not the same according to  54   own cultural patterns, we may make the    55    of "reading" the other persons incorrectly.

36. A. worried                            B. surprise                    C. excitement                D. pleasure

37. A. show                         B. tell                          C. sound                       D. seem

38. A. cover                         B. cultures                    C. include                     D. suggest

39. A. countries                    B. cultures                    C. nations                     D. oceans

40. A. In a word                   B. As a result                C. For example             D. On the contrary

41. A. keep                          B. enjoy                       C. continue                   D. consider

42. A. stare                          B. smile                       C. look                         D. shout

43. A. direction                    B. manner                    C. time                         D. place

44. A. and                           B. so                            C. but                          D. or

45. A. as                              B. though                            C. unless                      D. since

46. A. among                       B. into                         C. between                   D. about

47. A. find                           B. form                        C. express                     D. control

48. A. the others                   B. others                      C. the other                  D. another

49. A. whether                            B. that                          C. if                             D. why

50. A. experience                 B. use                          C. bring                       D. carry

51. A. feel                           B. keep                        C. prevent                    D. make

52. A. think                         B. observe                    C. judge                       D. watch

53. A. hopes                        B. ways                        C. thoughts                   D. means

54. A. your                          B. their                        C. one's                        D. our

55. A. answer                       B. mistake                    C. promise                    D. use

四、阅读理解。（共20小题：每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
GUANGZHOU: The successful Guangdong International Tourism and Culture Festival has become a perfect stage to showcase the popularity of Guangdong and Pan Pearl River Delta (PPRD) region as a tourism destination, said Tang Bingquan, vice-governor of Guangdong Province.
According to the provincial tourism administration of Guangdong, more than 40,000 people attended the opening ceremony of the festival. More than 1, 000 high-ranking officials from the central government and Guangdong provincial government, World Tourism Organization, consulates (领事馆) of various countries in Guangzhou, and other provinces of China, also showed up in the ceremony. The activities in the past few days attracted a large number of visitors from home and abroad.
In the past 30 years, Guangdong Province has been one of the leaders in the nation in terms of economic development. Its average annual economic growth maintained a rate of 13.8 percent, according to Tang.
Last year, Guangdong’s gross domestic product (GDP) hit 330 billion, accounting for one-eighth of the total of the country. The province’s import and export volume hit 527.2 billion, accounting for one-third of the country’s total foreign trade volume.
Guangdong Governor Huang Huahua earlier predicted that the province’s GDP will surpass that of Taiwan by the end of this year.
“Guangdong is also leading the development of the whole country’s tourism industry,” Tang said.
Last year, Guangdong’s tourism revenue (年收入) hit 212.5 billion, occupying one-fourth of the country’s total tourism income. The net profit of the province’s tourism industry was 7.5 billion, which was one fifth of the nation’s total.
Tang noted that the tourism festival will give a further boost (促进) to the tourism development of Guangdong and the entire PPRD region.
The closing ceremony of the festival will take place tonight in Foshan, a city in Guangdong Province.                                          （China Daily Nov. 30, 2007）
56. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Event to boost Guangdong’s tourism industry.
B. Guangdong -- China’s leading city in economy.
C. The increase in Guangdong’s tourism revenue.
D. The development of Guangdong’s tourism industry.
57. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. The past 30 years have seen Guangdong’s fast development in economy.
B. Guangdong is one of the leading provinces in national tourism industry.
C. Guangdong’s GDP makes up almost 13% of the total country last year.
D. Guangzhou will be the host city for the closing ceremony of the festival.
58. Which of the following word is the closest to the underlined word in the text?
A. replace       B. survive       C. overtake     D. succeed
59. What is the writer’s attitude towards the event?
A. indifferent  B. neutral            C. opposed          D. supportive