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In England, nobody under 18 are allowed to drink in a bar. Mr. Thompson used to going to a bar near his house, or he never took his son, Tom, because he was too young.

Then when Tom had his eighteen birthday, Mr. Thompson took him to his usual bar. After drinking at half an hour, Mr. Thompson said to his son, “Tom, I want to teach you an useful lesson. You must always be careful never drink too much.”

“How do you know how you’ve had enough?” asked Tom.

“Do you see those two lights at the end of the bar? When it seem to have become four, you’ve had enough and should go to home.”

“But , Dad, I can see only one,” said Tom.

Tom had been studying French hard for nearly three years     he mastered it．

A．after       B．when    C．since       D．before

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Our brains work in complex and strange ways. There are some people who can calculate the day of the week for any given date in 40,000 years, but who cannot add two plus two. Others can perform complex classical piano pieces after hearing them once, but they cannot read or write.
Dr．J．Langdon Down first described this condition in 1887．He called these people idiot savants. An idiot savant is a person who has significant mental impairment （损伤） , such as in autism or retardation.  At the same time, the person also exhibits some extraordinary skills, which are unusual for most people．The skills of the savant may vary from being exceptionally gifted in music or in mathematics, or having a photographic memory.
One of the first descriptions of a human who could calculate quickly was written in 1789 by Dr．Benjamin Rush, an American doctor．His patient, Thomas Fuller, was brought to Virginia as a slave in 1724. It took Thomas only 90 seconds to work out that a man who has lived 70 years, 17 days, and 12 hours has lived 2,210,500,800 seconds．Despite this ability, he died in 1790 without ever learning to read or write．
Another idiot savant slave became famous as a pianist in the 1860s. Blind Tom had a vocabulary of only 100 words, but he played 5 ,000 musical pieces beautifully．
In the excellent movie Rain Man, made in 1988 and available on video cassette, Dustin Hoffman plays an idiot savant who amazes his brother played by Tom Cruise, with his ability to perform complex calculations very rapidly.
Today we more clearly recognize that the idiot savant is special because of brain impairment．Yet not all brain impairment leads to savant skills．Some studies have shown that people who have purposeful interruption of the left side of the brain can develop idiot savant skills. However,few people wish to participate in such experiments. There are many excellent reasons for not undergoing unnecessary experimentation on one's brain. The term idiot savant is outdated and inappropriate. Virtually all savants have a high degree of intelligence and are thus not idiots.
48．What does the passage mainly talk about?
A．Idiot savants have areas of outstanding abilities．
B．Human Beings have complicated thinking process．
C．The brains of the idiot savants are partly impaired．
D．The reasons why people have wonderful skills vary．
49．Which of the following can be done by Rain Man?
A．He can play wonderful pieces of classical music．
B．He can guess out exactly the length of a man's life．
C．He can memorize the contents of the pictures fast．
D．He can count matches dropped on the floor quickly．
50．What can you infer from the passage?
A．Idiot savants have real talents for art and math．
B．Dr．Down is the first person who found idiot savants．
C．Few people wish to risk becoming savants by brain operations．
D．Intentional left brain impairments will surely lead to idiot savants．

23. Tom had to be told two or three times ________ he could remember what the teacher said.

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）

      阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白出的最佳选项。

?After 42-year-old guy Tom had quitted his job, he began to make up his mind to become a freelance (self-employed) writer, no one could tell for sure whether he would succeed or not．He found a cold storage room in a building, set up a(n)  21  typewriter and settled down to work．

    After a year or so, however, Tom began to  22  himself．He found it was difficult to earn his living by  23  what he wrote．But Tom determined to put his dream to the test —  24  it meant living with uncertainty and fear of  25 ．This is the shadowland of hope, and  26  with a dream must learn to live there．

    One day Tom got a call, “We need a(n)  27 , and we’re paying $6,000 a year．” $6,000 was  28  money in 1960．It would enable Tom to get a nice apartment, a used car and more． 29 , he could write on the side． 30  the dollars were dancing in Tom’s head, something  31  his senses．He had dreamed of being a  32  — full time．“Thanks, but no,” Tom said  33 ．“I’m going to stick it out and write．”

    After Tom got off the phone, he  34  everything he had: two cans of vegetables and 18 cents．Tom put the cans and cents into a  35  bag, saying to himself, “There’s everything you’ve made of yourself so far．”

　　Finally his work was  36  in 1970．Instantly he had the kind of fame and success that  37  writers ever experience．The shadows had turned into limelight．

　　Then one day, Tom  38  a box filled with things he had owned years before． 39  was a paper bag with two cans and 18 cents．Suddenly he  40 himself working in that cold storage room．It reminds Tom, and anyone with a dream, of the courage and persistence it takes to stay the course in the shadowland．

A．excellent   B．used C．expensive    D．priceless

A．regret  B．hate C．doubt    D．trust

A．selling B．buying   C．reading  D．appreciating

A．Now that    B．What if  C．As if    D．Even though

A．success B．failure  C．perspiration     D．loss

A．someone B．none C．nobody   D．anyone

A．boss    B．assistant    C．manager  D．writer

A．false   B．little   C．real D．high

A．However B．Still    C．Besides  D．Therefore

A．As  B．But  C．If   D．Because

A．hurt    B．destroyed    C．cleared    D．struck

A．driver  B．assistant    C．writer   D．dancer

A．hesitantly  B．firmly   C．slowly   D．hurriedly

A．pulled out  B．pulled apart C．pulled back  D．pulled down

A．cloth   B．metal    C．plastic  D．paper

A．written B．published    C．completed    D．punished

A．few B．great    C．famous   D．poor

A．sought  B．searched C．found    D．picked

A．Above   B．Below    C．Outside  D．Inside

A．called  B．pictured C．described    D．reminded