四、阅读理解 （本题有18小题，共25分）

第一节： 阅读下列短文并做每篇后面的题目。从A,B,C,D四个选项中，选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。（本节有14小题，每小题1.5分，共21分）

                                Early rising is helpful in more than one way. First, it helps us to have good health. We all need fresh air. It makes our health better to take morning exercises. The air is never so fresh as early in the morning. Early rising helps us in our studies. In the morning we learn more quickly and find it easy to learn something by heart.

Early rising makes people able to plan the work for the day. We can’t work well without a good plan. Just as the plan for the year should be made in the spring, the plan for a day should be made in the morning. Early rising gives us enough time to get ready for our work, such as to wash our hands and eat our breakfast. So the popular saying says, “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”

51. What does “early rising” mean in the passage?

A. waking up     B. getting up      C. have breakfast     D. making a day’s plan

52. Why does the passage advise us to take exercises early in the morning？

A. Because we can save much time.       B. Because we are not busy in the morning.

C. Because air in the morning is very fresh. D. Because we don’t need to prepare for breakfast.

53. We can work well with _____.

A. enough time    B. a good reading   C. clean hands       D. a good plan

Many years ago  my dad was diagnosed (诊断) with a terminal illness . He was unable to work at     36   job . He would be fine for quite a while , but would then fall suddenly   37     and have to be admitted to the hospital .

He wanted to do something to keep himself    38    , so he decided to volunteer at the local children    39    . My dad loved kids . He would talk to them and play with them .Sometimes , he would    40    one of his kids . In certain instances , he would give   41     to the sad parents of these children .

One of his kids was a girl who had been admitted with a    42    disease that paralyzed (使…瘫痪) her from the neck down . I don’t know the    43    of the disease , but I do know that it was very sad for a little girl . My dad decided to try to help her . He started    44    her in her room , bringing paints , brushes and paper . He stood the paper up    45    a backing , put the paintbrush in his mouth and began to paint . He didn’t use his hands at all . Only his    46    would move . He would visit her    47    he could and paint for her . All the while he would tell her , “see , you can do    48    you set your mind to .”

  49     , she began to paint using her mouth , and she and my dad became friends . Soon after , the little girl was discharged (允许出院). My dad also    50    the children hospital for a little while because he became ill. Sometime later after my dad had recovered and    51    to work , he was at the volunteer counter one day and    52    the front door open . In came the little girl who had been paralyzed , but this time she was    53    . She ran straight to my dad and hugged him really tight . She gave my dad a picture she had done using her   54     . At the bottom it read, “thank you for helping me walk .” Sometimes love is more    55    than doctors , and my dad-who died just a few months after the little girl gave him the picture-loved every single child in that hospital .

1.. A．an important         B．a steady             C．an easy      D．a good

2..．A．ill         B．behind           C．asleep       D．down

3..．A．well                B．wealthy          C．busy         D．healthy

4.. A．palace           B．hospital         C．center       D．park

5..．A．teach               B．miss             C．lose         D．treat

6..．A．speech          B．comfort          C．praise       D．help

7..．A．special         B．curious          C．strange      D．rare

8.. A．result               B．reason           C．name         D．course

9..．A．observing       B．drawing          C．painting         D．visiting

10..．A．with               B．across           C．against      D．over

11..．A．head           B．neck             C．fingers      D．eyes

12..．A．with whoever       B．whenever         C．as if            D．as soon as

13.. A．everything      B．something        C．anything         D．nothing

14.. A．Basically           B．Naturally            C．Eventually       D．Suddenly

15.. A．left                B．entered          C．rushed to        D．stayed at

16..．A．stopped            B．returned             C．hesitated        D．refused

17..．A．pushed             B．noticed          C．observed         D．kicked

18..．A．shouting           B．lying            C．walking      D．jumping

19..．A．hands          B．pens             C．paper    D．mind

20..．A．thankful           B．useful           C．thoughtful       D．powerful