It was Thanksgiving morning and in the crowded kitchen of my small home I was busy preparing the traditional Thanksgiving turkey when the doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw two small children in rags(破旧衣服) huddling together inside the storm door on the top step.

"Any old papers, lady? " asked one of them.

I was busy. I wanted to say "no" until I looked down at their feet. They were wearing thin little sandals(凉鞋), wet with heavy snow.

“Come in and I'll make you a cup of hot cocoa.”

They walked over and sat down at the table. Their wet sandals left marks upon the floor. I served them cocoa and bread with jam to fight against the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started again on my household budget.

The silence in the front room struck me. I looked in. The girl held the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked in a flat voice, "Lady, are you rich? "

"Am I rich? no!"

I looked at my shabby slipcovers(旧家具套). The girl put her cup back in its saucer (茶托;浅碟)carefully and said, "Your cups match your saucers." Her voice was hungry with a need that no amount of food could supply. They left after that, holding their bundles of papers against the wind. They hadn't said "Thank you." They didn't need to. They had reminded me that I had so much for which to be grateful.

Plain blue china(瓷的) cups and saucers were only worth five pence. But they matched.

I tasted the potatoes and stirred the meat soup. Potatoes and brown meat soup, a roof over our heads, my man with a good steady job--these matched, too.

I moved the chairs back from the fire and cleaned the living room. The muddy prints of small sandals were still wet upon my floor. Let them be for a while, I thought, just in case I should begin to forget how rich I am.

1. Why did the writer let the children in?

A. She showed great pity on them.

B. She wanted to sell old papers.

C. She knew them and wanted to make them a cup of cocoa.

D. She wanted to invite them to her Thanksgiving party.

2. The girl thought the writer was rich perhaps because_________

A. she saw that the lady's room was comfortable

B. she saw the cups matched the saucers

C. the writer's slipcovers were very new

D. the woman had expensive clothes

3.What was the weather probably like when the story happened?

A. cloudy     B. sunny      C. windy      D. snowy

4. From the passage, we can infer that whether you are rich depends on_______

A. how much money you have had    B. how you feel about your life

C. how you have helped others       D. what job you are doing

--  Would you help sweep the floor?

   --  _____ I’d rather water the flowers.

A. Not particularly     B. Don’t mention it. C. Anything but that. D. With pleasure.

 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

      Armed with two over-packed suitcases, we arrived at the airport just in time for my flight. As I watched her unload my luggage, I could see the ___36___ in her eyes. One last hug and a final good-bye, and I would be on my way to a new life ___37____. “You'd better go or you'll miss your flight,”she said.

   “I'll __38_____ you,”I replied , and with those words I __39___. By the time I reached the customs I was __40__. While boarding the plane I was still crying. I did not have the ___41__ to put my bag in the overhead locker, so I put it on the empty seat next to mine.

   Born barely fifteen months __42___, we not only looked alike, we were alike. We both had that same mix of ___43___ and fear of all things unknown to us. One sunny summer day I was playing outside when she came ___44___ to me and said, “Want to come to the attic(阁楼)?”The answer was always “___45__”. We were frightened of the attic but also ___46_____ by its smells and sounds. Together we would flight many spiders and battle through the numerous boxes __47_____ we found what we needed.

   The plane shook ___48___ and my bag fell on the floor. My aspirin, hairbrush and some other things were __49___ on the floor. I __50_____ over to gather them up when I saw a (an) ___51___ little book in the middle of my belongings. It was a diary.

   Immediately I __52___ my sister's handwriting. “Hi Sis. What a day it has been today. You let me know that you are moving abroad...”Only __53___ did I realize that my sister had been ___54___ a diary for the past month.

I read about my sister's coming and going during the flight. Even though a large ocean ____55___ us, at some point it felt like she was actually there.

1.A. honesty        B.concern       C.sadness       D.satisfaction

2.A.abroad         B.home         C.again         D.along

3.A.remember       B.remind       C.miss          D.think of

4.A.was cut        B.was off        C.left off        D.left away

5.A.smiling        B.sneezing       C.sighing        D.sobbing

6. A.courage        B.energy        C.idea           D.spirit

7.A.before         B.after          C.between       D.apart

8.A.curiosity       B.anxiety        C.sympathy      D.worry

9.A.about         B.across         C.down          D.up

10.A.No           B.Yes           C.Sorry          D.Certain

11. A.surprised       B.bored         C.attracted       D.interested

12.A.until          B.unless         C.though         D.since

13. A. hardly        B.slightly        C.weakly         D.heavily

14.A. spread        B.thrown        C.dropped         D.pushed

15.A. turned        B. went          C. bent           D. looked

16.A. familiar       B. unfamiliar      C.important       D.unimportant 

17.A. knew         B. saw           C.observed        D.recognised

18.A.when         B.that            C.then            D.this

19. A.keeping       B.writing         C.using           D.making

20.A.faced         B.separated       C.surrounded       D.blocked

五.任务型阅读（10分）

Could your cellphone give you cancer? Whether it could or not, some people are worrying about the possibility that phones, powerlines and wi-fi (路由器) could be responsible for a range of illnesses, from rashes to brain tumours.

For example, Camilla Rees, 48, a former investment banker in the US, moved out of her apartment in San Francisco because of the radiation coming from next door. Rees told the Los Angeles Times that when her neighbors moved in and installed a wi-fi router she lost her ability to think clearly. “I would wake up dizzy in the morning. I’d fall to the floor. I had to leave to escape that nightmare,” she said. Since then, she’s been on a campaign against low-level electromagnetic fields, or EMFs（低频电磁场）.

And she’s not alone. Millions of people say they suffer from headaches, depression, nausea and rashes when they’re too close to cellphones or other sources of EMFs.

Although the World Health Organization has officially declared that EMFs seem to pose little threat, governments are still concerned. In fact, last April, the European Parliament called for countries to take steps to reduce exposure to EMFs. The city of San Francisco and the state of Maine are currently considering requiring cancer-warning labels on cellphones. 

If these fears are reasonable, then perhaps we should all be worried about the amount of time we spend talking on our phones or plugging into wi-fi hotpots.

Some say there is evidence to support the growing anxieties. David Carpenter, a professor of environmental health sciences at the University at Albany, in New York, thinks there’s a greater than 95% chance that power lines can cause childhood leukemia. Also there’s a greater than 90% chance that cellphones can cause brain tumours.

But others believe these concerns are unreasonable paranoia (猜疑). Dr Martha Linet, the head of radiation epidemiology at the US National Cancer Institute, has looked at the same research as Carpenter but has reached a different conclusion. “I don’t support warning labels for cellphones,” said Linet. “We don't have the evidence that there’s much danger.”

Studies so far suggest a weak connection between EMFs and illness — so weak that it might not exist at all. A multinational investigation of cellphones and brain cancer, in 13 countries outside the US, has been underway for several years. It’s funded in part by the European Union, in part by a cellphone industry group.

According to Robert Park, a professor of physics at the University of Maryland in the US, the magnetic waves aren’t nearly powerful enough to break apart DNA, which is how known threats, such as UV rays and X-rays, cause cancer.

Perhaps it’s just psychological. Some experts find that the electro-sensitivity syndrome seems to be similar to chemical sensitivity syndrome, which is a condition that’s considered to be psychological.

Whether EMFs are harmful or not, a break in the countryside, without the cellphone, would probably be good for all of us.

四、阅读理解（共20小题。每小题2分；满分40分）
第一节 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
(A)
In the course of working my ways through school , I took many jobs I would rather forget . But none of these jobs was as dreadful （可怕的）as my job in an apple plant. The work was hard ; the pay was poor ; and, most of all , the working conditions were terrible.
First of all , the job made huge demands on my strength . For ten hours a night , I took boxes that rolled down a metal track and piled them onto a truck . Each box contained twelve heavy bottles of apple juice. I once figured out that I was lifting an average of twelve tons of apple juice every night .
I would not have minded the difficulty of the work so much if the pay had not been so poor. I was paid the lowest wage of that time — two dollars an hour. Because of the low pay , I felt eager to get as much as possible . I usually worked twelve hours a night but did not take home more than $ 100 a week.
But even more than the low pay , what made me unhappy was the working conditions . During work I was limited to two ten—minute breaks and an unpaid half hour for lunch .Most of my time was spent outside loading trucks with those heavy boxes in near-zero-degree temperatures. The steel floors of the trucks were like ice, which made my feet feel like stone. And after the production line shut down at night and most people left , I had to spend two hours alone cleaning the floor.
I stayed on the job for five months , all the while hating the difficulty of the work, the poor money , and the conditions under which I worked . By the time I left , I was determined never to go back there again.
56. Why did the writer have to take many jobs at that time ?
A. To pay for his schooling     B. To save for his future   
C. To support his family        D. To gain some experience
57. The following facts describe the terrible working conditions of the plant EXCEPT_____.
A. loading boxes in the freezing cold       B. having limited time for breaks
C. working and studying at the same time   D. getting no pay for lunch time
58.What is the subject discussed in the text?
A. The writer’s unhappy school life.       
B. The writer’s eagerness to earn money.
C. The writer’s experience as a full-time worker. 
D. The writer’s hard work in an apple plant.
59. How is the text organized?
A. Topic — Argument — Explanation
B. Opinion— Discussion — Description
C. Main idea — Comparison —Supporting examples
D. Introduction— Supporting examples — Conclusion