60．In what way is David different from people of his age?

A．He often goes out with friends

B．He lives with his mother

C．He has a handsome income

D．He graduated with six O-levels

63. According to the passage ,what do the three people have in common?

　A. Courage.

　B. Devotion.

　C. Hard work.

　D. Self-confidence.

答案　 60.D　 61.A　 62.C　 63.D

Passage 3

(09·宁夏、海南B篇)

Computer programmer David Jones earns $35.000 a year designing new computer games. yet he cannot find a bank ready to let him have a credit card(信用卡)Instead he has been told to wait another two years until he is 18. The 16-year-old works for a small firm in Liverpool where the problem of most young people of his age is finding a job David’s firm releases(推出)two new games for the fast growing computer market each month

But David’s biggest headache is what to do with his money. Even though he earns a lot he cannot drive a car take out a mortgage(抵押贷款),or get credit cards David got his job with the Liverpool-based company four months ago ,a year after leaving school with six O-levels and working for a time in a computer shop. “I got the job because the people who run the firm knew I had already written some programs” he said David spends some of his money on records and clothes and gives his mother 50 pounds a week But most of his spare time is spent working.

“Unfortunately, computing was not part of our studies at school “ he said “But I had been studying it in books and magazines for four years in my spare time I knew what I wanted to do and never considered staying on at school Most people in this business are fairly young, anyway” David added :”I would like to earn a million and I suppose early retirement(退休)is a possibility You never know when the market might disappear.”

62.What does the underlined word “distractions” probably refer to？

　A. Ways that help one to focus.

　B. Words that help one to feel less tense.

　C. Activities that turn one's attention away.

　D. Habits that make it hard for one to relax.

61. What does Karen Pickering put on top of her diary?

　A. Her training schedule.

　B. Her daily happenings.

　C. Her achievements.

　D. Her sports career.

60. What does Sir Steven Redgrave mainly talk about?

　A. Difficulties influenced his career.

　B. Specialists offered him medical advice.

　C. Training helped him defeat his disease.

　D. He overcame the shadow of illness to win.

60. What is the writer’s attitude toward Wilkins, Watson and Crick? 　 A. Disapproving.　　 B. Respectful.　　　　 C.　 Admiring.　　　 D. Doubtful.

答案　 57.B　 58.C　 59.D　 60.A

Passage 2

(09·重庆B篇)

How to Be a Winner

　Sir Steven Redgrave

　Winner of 5 Olympic Gold Medals

　“In 1997 I was found to have developed diabetes(糖尿病). Believing my career(职业生涯) was over, I felt extremely low. Then one of the specialists said there was to no reason why I should stop training and competing. That was it -the encouragement I needed. I could still be a winner if I believed in myself. I am not saying that it isn’t difficult sometimes. But I wanted to prove to myself that I wasn't finished yet. Nothing is to stand in my way.”

　Karen Pickering

　Swimming World Champion

　“I swim 4 hours a day, 6 days a week. I manage that sort of workload by putting it on top of my diary. This is the key to success-you can’t follow a career in any field without being well-organized. List what you believe you can achieve. Trust yourself, write down your goals for the day, however small they are, and you’ll be a step closer to achieving them.”

　Kirsten Best

　Poet & Writer

“When things are getting hard, a voice inside my head tells me that I can’t achieve something. Then, there are other distractions, such as family or hobbies. The key is to concentrate. When I feel tense, it helps a lot to repeat words such as ‘calm’, ‘peace’ or ‘focus’, either out loud or silently in my mind. It makes me feel more in control and increases my confidence. This is a habit that can become second nature quite easily and is a powerful psychological(心理的) tool”

59. Why is Franklin described as　 “Dark Lady of DNA”? 　 A. She developed pictures in dark labs.

　 B. She discovered the　 black X-the shape of DNA.

　 C. Her name was forgotten after her death.

　 D. Her contribution was unknown to the public.

58. Watson was angry with Franklin because she 　　.

　 A. took the lead in the competition　　　　 B. kept her results from him

　 C. proved some of his findings wrong　　　 D. shared her data with other scientists

57. What is the text mainly about?

　 A. The disagreements among DNA researchers.

　 B. The unfair treatment of Franklin.

　 C. The process of discovering DNA.

　 D. The race between two teams of scientists.

63. 答案B

[解析]推理判断题。其它三个问题在上文中都有所涉及，只有B项没有。所以如果还剩一个问题，很有可能就是B项。

2009年高考题

Passage 1

(09·浙江E篇)

Four people in England back in 1953, stared at Photo 51,It wasn’t much-a picture showing a black X. But three of these people won the Nobel Prize for figuring out what the photo really showed –the shape of DNA The discovery brought fame and fortune to scientists James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins. The fourth, the one who actually made the picture, was left out.

　 Her name was Rosalind Franklin.”She should have been up there,” says historian Mary Bowden.” If her photos hadn’t been there, the others couldn’t have come up with the structure.” One reason Franklin was missing was that she had died of cancer four years before the Nobel decision. But now scholars doubt that Franklin was not only robbed of her life by disease but robbed of credit by her competitors

　 At Cambridge University in the 1950s, Watson and Click tried to make models by cutting up shapes of DNA’s parts and then putting them together. In the meantime, at King’s College in London, Franklin and Wilkins shone X-rays at the molecule(分子). The rays produced patterns reflection the shape.

　 But Wilkins and Franklin’s relationship was a lot rockier than the celebrated teamwork of Watson and Crick, Wilkins thought Franklin was hired to be his assistant .But the college actually employed her to take over the DNA project.

What she did was produce X-ray pictures that told Watson and Crick that one of their early models was inside out. And she was not shy about saying so. That angered Watson, who attacked her in return, “Mere inspection suggested that she would not easily bend. Clearly she had to to go or be put in her place.”

As Franklin’s competitors, Wilkins, Watson　 and Crick had much to gain by cutting her out of the little group of researchers, says historian Pnina Abir-Am. In 1962 at the Nobel Prize awarding ceremony, Wilkins thanked 13 colleagues by name before he mentioned Franklin, Watson wrote his book laughing at her. Crick wrote in 1974 that　 “Franklin was only two steps away　 from the solution.”

　No, Franklin was the solution. “She contributed more than any other player to solving the structure of　 DNA . She must be considered a co-discoverer,” Abir-Am says. This was backed up by Aaron Klug, who worked with Franklin and later won a Nobel Prize himself. Once described as the　 “Dark Lady of DNA”, Franklin is finally coming into the light.