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When a private plane flew off course some time ago, it crashed in                              

the mountains and its pilot was k        ．A young woman and her                          76．       

two baby daughters, the only _         （乘客） , were unhurt．It was           77．       

the middle of winter．Snow lay        （厚） on the ground．The woman）      78．       

       knew that the nearest village was miles away． L        , she found a                     79．        

       case nearby and turned it             a bed and put the children inside it,          80．           

       c           them with all the clothes she could find．During the night,            81．           

       it got terribly cold．The woman kept as near         she could to the                      82．           

       children．The next day, she h      _ planes passing overhead and                 83．           

       wondered         she could send a signal．Then she had an idea．She            84．           

       stamped out the l         "SOS" in the snow．Eventually, a pilot saw             85．         

       the “SOS” and arrived on the scene to rescue the survivors．

Recently, a study was carried out to determine who was the greatest American president．Sixty-five presidential historians took part in it, and they judged the past forty-two American leaders based on ten leadership qualities, including public persuasiveness(信服), crisis leadership, management of the economy, moral leadership, and conduct of international relations．The historians also looked at administrative ability (管理能力), relations with Congress, ability to set goals, and the pursuit of equal justice for all．Finally, the experts took into consideration the historical period in which the president lived．

The historians chose Abraham Lincoln as American’s greatest president．He had also been named best president in a similar study in 2000．Abraham Lincoln was the president who led the nation through the Civil War in the 1860s, and was able to unite it in the end．He also took the first steps to abolish slavery in America．

Edna Medford, a professor of history at Howard University in Washington, D.C., was an adviser on this study and the earlier one．She says Abraham Lincoln is seen to represent the values the nation most honors, such as truthfulness, moderation, and respect for human rights．

The historians put American’s first president, George Washington, second on the list, while Franklin D．Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, and Harry Truman follow in that order．John   F．Kennedy, the country’s first Roman Catholic president, is sixth on the list．Like Lincoln, Kennedy was murdered while in office．

Among recent presidents, Ronald Reagan was named the tenth best and Bill Clinton rated fifteenth, while the historians put former president George W．Bush at number thirty-six．His father, George H.W．Bush, did much better, being placed at number eighteen．

1.We learn from the text that ___________．

    A．this is the second time that Abraham Lincoln has been chosen as America’s greatest president

    B．Edna Medford didn’t take part in the study conducted in 2000．

    C．George H.W．Bush was thought to have done worse in office than George W．Bush

    D．Harry Truman was rated the fourth-best president by the study

2.Which of the following belong to the ten leadership qualities considered?

    a．Being able to persuade the public

    b．Taking effective measures during a financial crisis．

    c．Balancing home life and career．

    d．Pursuing equal justice for all．

   A．a,b,c           B．b,c,d          C．a,b,d          D．a,c,d

3.Who is rated worst among the following four presidents?

   A．John F．Kennedy                  B．George Washington

   C．Bill Clinton                     D．George W．Bush

4.The text is mainly about ________．

   A．the ten qualities a great president needs

   B．a study of American presidents

   C．the values the American nation honors most

   D．how Abraham Lincoln improved the country

Poet William Stafford once said that we are defined more by the detours(绕行路) in life than by the narrow road toward goals. I like this image. But it was quite by accident that I discovered the deep meaning of his words.

For years we made the long drive from our home in Seattle to my parents' home in Boise in nine hours. We traveled the way most people do: the fastest, shortest, easiest road, especially when I was alone with four noisy, restless kids who hate confinement(限制) and have strong opinions about everything.

Road trips felt risky, so I would drive fast, stopping only when 1 had to. We would stick to the freeways and arrive tired.

But then Banner, our lamb was bent. He was reeled by h, mama days before our planned trip to Boise, I had two choices: leave Banner with my husband, or take him with me. My husband made the decision for me.

That is how I found myself on the road with four kids, a baby lamb and nothing but my everlasting optimism to see me through. We took the country roads out of necessity. We had to stop every hour, let Banner shake out his legs and feed him. The kids chased him and one another. They'd get back in the car breathless and energized, smelling fresh from the cold air.

We explored side roads, catching grasshopper in waist-high grass. Even if we simply looked out of the car window, at baby p.gs following their mother, or fish leaping out of the water, it was better than the best ride down the freeway. Here was life. And new horizons(见识).

We eventually arrived at my parents' doorstep astonishingly fresh and full of stories.

I grew brave with the trip back home and creative with my disciplining technique. On an empty section of road, everyone started quarreling. I stopped the car, ordered all kids out and told them to meet mc up ahead. I parked my car half a mile away and read my book in sweet silence.

Some road trips are by necessity fast and straight. But that trip with Banner opened our eyes to a world available to anyone adventurous enough to wander around and made me realize that a detour may uncover the best part of a journey-and the best part of yourself.

46. Why did the author use to take freeways to her parents' home?

A. It was less tiring.

B. It would be fester and safer.

C. Her kids would feel less confined.

D. She felt better with other drivers nearby.

47. The author stopped regularly on the country roads to ______.

A. relax in the fresh air

B. take a deep breath

C. take care of the lamb

D. let the kids play with Banner

48. What does the author discover from the trip according to Paragraph 6?

A. Freeways are where beauty hides.

B. Getting close to nature adds to the joy of life.

C. Enjoying the beauty of nature benefits one's health.

D. One should follow side roads to watch wild animals.

49. Why did the author ask the kids to get out of the car on their way back home?

A. To give herself some time to read.

B. To order some food for them

C. To play a game with them

D. To let them cool down.

50. What could be the best title for the passage?

A. Charm of the Detour

B. The Road to Bravery

C. Creativity out of Necessity

D. Road Trip and Country Life

John H. Johnson was born in a black family in Arkansas city in 1918. His father died in an accident when John was six. He was reaching the high school age, but his hometown offered no high school for blacks.
Fortunately he had a strong-willed (意志坚强的) caring mother. John remembered that his mother told him many times, “Son, you can be anything you want really to be if you just believe.”She told him not to depend on others, including his mother. “You have to earn success, ”she said. “All the people who work hard don’t succeed, but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard.”
These words came from a woman with less than a third grade education. She also knew that believing and hard work don’t mean everything. So she worked hard as a cook for two years to save enough to take her son, who was then 15, to Chicago.
Chicago in 1933 was not the promised land that black southerners were looking for. John’s mother and stepfather could not find work. But here John could go to school, and here he learned the power of words—as an editor of the newspaper and yearbook at Du Sable High School His wish was to publish a magazine for blacks.
While others discouraged him, John’s mother offered him more words to live by.“Nothing beats a failure but a try. ”She also let him pawn(典当)her furniture to get the $ 500 he needed to start the Negro magazine.
It is natural that difficulties and failures followed John closely until he became very successful. He always keeps his mother’s words in mind.“Son, failure is not in your vocabulary!”
Now John H. Johnson is one of the 400 richest people in America—worth $ 150 million.
【小题1】John’s mother decided to move to Chicago because _____.

Section B

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only

be used once.  Note that there is one word more than you need.

F.  sales    G. amazing     H. similar    I. included   J. contest

Do you have a problem with the messy homework? Good news! You may soon be able to solve that, thanks to Keagan Bolibol and her Problem Pad.

Keagan is the winner of the Staples Invention Quest for kids, a (41)________ that encourages people to invent helpful office products. This is the first year that the Invention Quest has （42）________ a category for kids. “ I’m very excited,” Keagan told Scholastic News Online. “ I really can’t believe I actually did it. From the moment I entered it, it’s really (43)________that I should make it this far.”

Keagan was one of the five (44) _______ in the kids’ category. She is a fourth-grader in Woodinville, Washington.  Keagan’s Problem Pad is (45)________ to a dry-erase board except that it can fit into a notebook. It also has a pen (46)_______ to the bottom, along with helpful tools like a multiplication table (乘法表). Kids can use the Problem Pad to do their homework and other projects. They can make mistakes and then erase them. When they finally get them right, they can copy their work on a clean sheet of paper.

Keagan received a $25,000 prize for her invention, (47) ________ thousands of other kids. If her product is produced and sold in Staples stores, she can also receive royalties（版税），part of the money made from (48)________ of a product. “ I’m (49) ________ going to donate some to charities. Then the rest is for college,” said Keagan.