第三部分阅读技能(共三节，满分35分)      

第一节阅读理解(共12小题，每小题2分，满分24分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Violent（暴力的） computer games have been strongly connected with aggression(好斗) in teenager boys in a study that shows the machines are increasingly becoming substitutes(替代品)for friendship.

The research provides powerful support to the doubt that actual violence could be one of the factors behind the crimes of aggression including young people. John Colwell, a lecturer at Middlesex University, who carried out the research, said aggression in boys seemed to increase with the amount of playing such games. “There are many facts to suggest there is a connection between playing computer games and aggression,” he said.

Previous studies have shown only a certain relation between such games and aggression. This conclusion was uncertain because it could mean that children who played the games did so because they had shown a sign to violence. Colwell's work shows, however, that there is a strong link, meaning that playing such games makes children more aggressive. He reached his conclusions after studying the behavior of 204 pupils aged 12-14 from a school in north London.

Children became obviously more aggressive the longer they had been playing violent games. They shouted, pushed and hit other children. Those who played in occasional bursts showed little effect. All the children spent many hours playing such games. Nearly 97％ of boys and 88％ of girls were regular users. Almost the boys, the heaviest computer users tended to have the fewest friends and reported seeing their machine as a friend.

41. Why did most of the computer users have few friends?

A. Because they felt very proud and lonely

B. Because they seldom left their homes

C. Because they regarded the computer as their only friend

D. Because they spent more time working in the computer

42. In fact, one of the factors connected with crimes is that _______.

A. children spend many hours on the computer studies

B. many boys are interested in violence{007}

C. children always play violent games in the computer

D. many girls become more dishonest up to now

43. How did Colwell prove his own views from the passage?

A. He studied nearly 97％ of boys' actions.

B. He studied the behavior of over two hundred children in a school.

C. He studied almost 80％of girls' actions.

D. He often talked to those little computer users in his home.

44. Which of the following words can best replace the underlined word “heaviest” in the last paragraph?

A. fattest      B. slowest      C. most dangerous     D. greatest number

45. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

A. aggression in girls and boys seemed to come from the computer

B. playing computer games is no good to all the children

C. Colwell's studies showed the computer is connected with violence

D. the computer games can have a connection with violence

Priscilla Ouchida’s “energy-efficient” house turned out to be a horrible dream. When she and her engineer husband married a few years ago, they built a $100,000 three-bedroom home in California. Tightly sealed to prevent air leaks, the house was equipped with small double-paned (双层玻璃的) windows and several other energy-saving features. Problems began as soon as the couple moved in, however. Priscilla’s eyes burned. Her throat was constantly dry. She suffered from headaches and could hardly sleep. It was as though she had suddenly developed a strange illness.

Experts finally traced the cause of her illness. The level of formaldehyde (甲醛) gas in her kitchen was twice the maximum allowed by federal standards for chemical workers. The source of the gas? Her new kitchen cabinets and wall-to-wall carpeting.

The Ouchidas are victims of indoor air pollution, which is net given sufficient attention partly because of the nation’s drive to save energy. The problem itself isn’t new. “The indoor environment was dirty long before energy conservation came along,” says Moschandreas a pollution scientist at Geomet Technologies in Maryland. “Energy conservation has tended to accentuate the situation in some cases.”

The problem appears to be more troublesome in newly constructed homes rather than old ones. Back in the days when energy was cheap, home builders didn’t worry much about unsealed cracks. Because of such leaks, the air in an average home was replaced by fresh outdoor air about once an hour. As a result, the pollutants produced in most households seldom build up to dangerous levels.

1. It can be learned from the passage that the Ouchidas’ house __________

A. is well worth the money spent on its construction

B. is almost faultless from the point of energy conservation

C. failed to meet energy conservation standards

D. was designed and constructed in a scientific way

2. What made the Ouchidas’ new house a horrible dream?

A. Lack of fresh air.                                  B. Poor quality of building materials.

C. Gas leak in the kitchen.                          D. The newly painted walls.

3. The underlined word “accentuate” in the third paragraph most probably means ___________.

A. control        B. worsen               C. relieve               D. improve

4. This passage is most probably taken from an article entitled “_________”.

A. Energy Conservation                             B. Houses Building Crisis

C. Air Pollution Indoors                             D. Traps in Building Construction

My name is Ralph and I am 42 years old. I work in a factory that I enjoy very much. On May 27, 1999, I was working on an automatic machine. While working my hand was pulled into the machine and my middle finger on my right hand was ripped off. I had surgery to replace what was left of the finger and now I have a finger that is almost as long as my index finger.

Over the years I have been very blessed for a full and healthy life. Most of all, blessed for having my wife. We have grown together and grown in our faith. Life is going to go on with or without my finger. I was not going to let this take over my life and I pushed to go back to work and got light duty.

This was where my lesson began. When I returned to work, I started getting comments and some teasing from people asking me if it was worth losing my finger over a pack of cigarettes. Someone started a rumor that I had dropped a pack of cigarettes and reached down to pick them up and that is how I lost my finger. This is not true. This rumor hurt more than losing my finger in that machine. Everyone was called in to a meeting to resolve this matter and get the story straight. I had to share my lesson.

We can ruin a person’s life by just a few bad words. There is an old saying that I will never forget: “Words and water are easily poured, but impossible to recover.” So please remember to watch what you say.

1.According to the author, his index finger on his right hand is almost as long as ________.

2.From the second paragraph, we know that the author ________.

3.The rumour about the author is that he lost his finger ________.

4.Which of the following can match the underlined sentence in the last paragraph?

D

During the twentieth century there has been a great change in the lives of women. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old and up. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which chance and health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman’s youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and can be expected to live another thirty-five years and is likely to take paid work until sixty.

This important change in women’s life has only recently begun to have its full effect on women economic (经济的) position. Even a few years ago most girls left school and took a full-time job. However, when they married their school-leaving age is sixteen. Many girls stay at school after that age, and though women marry younger, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Very many more afterwards return to fuller part-time work. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage (婚姻), with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life.

71.We are told that in a family about 1900________.

A.few children died before they were five

B.seven or eight children lived to be more than five

C.the youngest child would be fifteen

D.four or five children died when they were five

72.One reason why the woman of today may take a job is that she______.

A.is younger when her children are old enough to look after themselves

B.does not like children herself

C.needn’t worry about food for her children

D.can be free from family duties when she reaches sixty

73.Many girls are now likely to_______.

A.give up their jobs for good after they are married

B.leave school as soon as they can

C.marry so that they can get a job

D.continue working until they are going to have a baby

74.According to the passage, it is now quite usual for women to _______.

A.stay at home after leaving school

B.marry men younger than themselves

C.start working again in life

D.marry while still at school

75.Now a husband probably_________.

A.plays a greater part in looking after children

B.helps his wife by doing much of the housework

C.feels dissatisfied with his part in the family

D.takes a part-time job so that he can help in the home

第二节（共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分）

根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 (E="AB " F=" AC  " G=AD)

All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy and happy, and to live longer.

61. They buy tickets or turn on their TVs to watch the games. Often they get very excited when their player or team wins.

62. Football, for example, has spread around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers. What fun it is to jump into a pool or lake, whether in China, Egypt or Italy!  __63___. Think how many lovers to skate or ski in Japan, Norway or Canada.

Some sports or games go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese wushu, for example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a hundred years old yet. ___64_____. Water—skiing is one of the newest in the family of sports.

People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game together they often become good friends. ____65_____. One learns to fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and to lose with grace. （胜不骄,败不馁）

A. And think of people in cold countries.

B. Sports help to train a person’s character （性格）

C. Not a few people like sports in the word.

D. Many people like to watch others play games.

E. People aren’t inventing new sports or games.

F. Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere take part in them.

G. People are inventing new sports or games all the time.