Peter Fern was crazy about mountains. Climbing was the  1  of his life. Church towers，seaside cliffs, rock faces, ice mountains，anything “If it is there” , he used to say, “then I want to climb it.”

So the news of his marriage gave me a   2  . I’d never known him to take much interest in   3  . Well，Peter Fern a married man! I couldn't  4  it. I  5  whether his wife would try to stop some of his risky   6  .

She was French perhaps--from that place   7  he usually spent his holidays. Chamonix，wasn’t it? From Chamonix he'd climbed Mount Blanc on his seventeenth birthday, and another one the day after! That was it, then: She was French，from a mountaineering family. No  8  . No other explanation.

A month later I met them  9  in town. Anna surprised me—because she was English. She was a dancer in the   10．

“I have   11  climbed more than sixty steps in my life,” she told me. “Peter has his   12  , and I’ve got mine. No   13  ”. “None at all，”Peter said, smiling. “Where did you spend your   14  ?” I asked．Somewhere far  15  theatres and mountains，was it? “We had a week's holiday,” Anna said, “I flew to New York to see Dirke Dancers on Broadway. A wonderful  16  !” Peter said, “I didn’t want to   17  the good weather. So I went to Switzerland and climbed the north   18  of the Eiger with Allen Dunlop. Great   19  , the Eiger. Grand place for a honeymoon! I’ll show you the   20  we took one day.”

1． A．purpose                B．love                  C．answer                 D．even

2． A．joy                       B．thought              C．lesson                   D．shock

3． A．mountains             B．churches            C．faces                    D．girls

4． A．accept                  B．understand         C．bear                     D．tell

5． A．believed               B．knew                 C．wondered             D．realized

6． A．jobs                      B．words                C．adventures            D．deeds

7． A．where                   B．when                 C．which                   D．how

8． A．one                      B．reason               C．sign                      D．doubt

9． A．all                     B．two                   C．both                     D．double

10．A．family　              B．mountain            C．theatre                  D．holiday

11．A．ever                    B．even                  C．never                    D．almost

12．A．interests               B．life                    C．room                    D．car

13．A．wonder             B．way                   C．time                     D．problems

14．A．days                    B．honeymoon        C．childhood              D．rest of life

15．A．away                   B．as                      C．by                        D．from

16．A．show                   B．sight                  C．scene                   D．game

17．A．miss                    B．escape               C．break                    D．forget

18．A．position               B．face                   C．point                    D．line

19．A．programme          B．progress            C．fun                       D．invention

20．A．photographs         B．roles                  C．sports                   D．pains

阅读理解

　　Enduring Storms

　　Several more rounds of severe storms, tornadoes and flash flooding struck many parts of the American Midwest and Northeast as bad weather continued across the US for a second month.

　　Monsoon Storms

　　A south-west monsoon has caused havoc in parts of SriLanka. Government meteorologists said that unexpected monsoonal winds blew directly across the country from the Southern Hemisphere at about 100 km/h, producing several rounds of stormy weather. Nearly 250 houses in the capital Colombo were damaged.

For the week ending 3 July 1998

　　Mt. Etna Erupts

　　Sicily’s Mount Etna volcano erupted shortly after midnight on July 1, shooting“bombs”of lava nearly 1.5 metres in diameter on the eastern side of the mountain. The 30-minute eruption could be seen for several miles, but did not threaten any nearby villages.

　　Hurricane

　　Hurricane Blas lost strength as it moved over cooler waters in the Pacific Ocean to the west of Mexico. Blasformed off southwest Mexico during the previous week, but squalls on the outer fringes of the storm lashed western Michoacan State, killing four people when their wood and cardboard home collapsed.

　　Monkey Repellent

　　After years of unsuccessful attempts to keep crop-eating monkeys out of Japanese fields, a Tokyo research team believes that it may have finally found a way to prevent the damage caused by the monkeys. Animal raids on crops were successfully prevented by shooting chilli powder into the air, irritating the eyes and noses of monkeys that passed in front of carefully-placed warning sensors.“We’ve tried…all kinds of preventive measures, but the monkeys are smart enough to outwit the tricks,”said Toshiaki Wada, Director of the Tokyo Forestry Experiment Station in western Tokyo.

1．The monsoon is Sri Lanka ________.

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A．was of average strength

B．destroyed more property than previous monsoons

C．was not typical for that time of the year

D．affected only the outer areas of the nation

2．What aspect of Hurricane Blas does the map show?

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3．According to the information, which of the following statements is TRUE?

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A．The eruption of Mt. Etna lasted thirty days.

B．Hurricane Blas was formed off the coast of Italy.

C．The American Midwest had fine weather throughout July 1998.

D．The eruption of Mt. Etna did not destroy local villages.

4．According to the information, the monkeys in the Japanese fields ________.

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A．destroy crops

B．kill unsuspecting humans

C．spread eye diseases to humans

D．stop farmers from working

5．Toshiaki Wada, Director of the Tokyo Forestry Experiment Station, would describe the monkeys as ________.

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第三部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
　　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
　　Nearly a thousand people laugh heartily together for jalf an hour every morning in a park in Shenzhen.The Guangzhou Daily took a closer look at those happy people.
　　They are members of a group named Laughing Club,and when they get together,all they do is laugh.
　　Zheng Lixin,the fouder of the club and regarded as the "laugh leader",told the paper that laughing does him a lot of good.He started after he read some advice in a book and tried giggling afer quarrelling with his wife to relax.
　　After laughing for a few days,Zhang found himself more outgoing and relaxed.Soon his wife joined him,bringing the family more laughter and less bickering.
　　When he got to know a kind of "laughing yoga(瑜珈)" is good for the health,Zhang went to Bomday to learn from locals and developed what he learned into more than 30 ways of laughing.
　　The "lion bellow"is to shout with the fingers outstretched(伸开) near the ears.There is the "open mouth laugh".The "bow-pulling laugh",the "welcoming laugh" and evenn the "quarrelling laugh",with different arm movements of laugh style.
　　The "laugh movement" swept over Shenzhen in a matter of months,attracting tens of thousands of people to join,and has been followed in nearby cities such as Guangzhou.
　　Every morning at the lakefront and at 8 p.m.on every Monday,Wednesday and Friday at the mountain peak square in Linadhua Mountain Park,club members gather to laugh and shout loudly.
　　56.From the first paragraph we know that________.
　　A.the Guangzhou Daily is the source of the information
　　B.those happy people come from the Guangzhou Daily
　　C.there is a Guangzhou Daily office near the Laughing Club
　　D.the Guangzhou Daily supported the laughing movement
　　57.Which of the underlined words has a meaning similar to "laughing""
　　A.B.C.D.
　　58.What is the "lion bellow"?
　　A.It's a kind of "laughing yoga".
　　B.It's a bombay style of laughing.
　　C.It's one of the 30 ways of laughing.
　　D.It's not among the 30 ways of laughing.
　　59.What's the idea expressed by the last two paragraphs?
　　A.The Laughing Club is getting larger.
　　B.The laugh movement is becoming popular.
　　C.The laughing is done only in parks.
　　D.Lianhua Mountain Park also has a lake in it.