57．Who was the most successful in career (事业) among the March girls ?

　　　 A．Jo.　　　　　　　　　　　　 B．Beth .　　　　　　　　　　 C．Amy .　　　　　　　　　　 D．Meg .

56．The members of the March family were Father March , Mrs, March and their 　　　　.

　　　 A．four daughters 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B．five daughters

　　　 C．son and four daughters 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D．son and five daughters

58．What is the main idea of the story?

　　　 A．Everybody can find his or her own way to success.

　　　 B．Everybody has his or her own value in the world.

　　　 C．Everybody should learn to play different roles.

　　　 D．Everybody has some unforgettable memory.

答案　 56.A　 57.C　 58.B

Passage 47

(06·江苏A篇)

The Marches were a happy family . Poverty, hard work, and even the fact that Father March was away with the Union armies could not down the spirits of Meg , Jo, Beth , Amy , and Marmee , as the March girls called their mother .

The March sisters tried to be good but had their share of faults . Pretty Meg was often displeased with the schoolchildren she taught ; boyish Jo was easy to become angry ; golden-haired schoolgirl Amy liked to show up ; but Beth , who kept the house , was loving and gentle always .

The happy days passed and darkness came when a telegram arrived for Mrs . March . “Your husband is very ill,” it said , “come at once.” The girls tried to be brave when their mother left for the front . They waited and prayed . Little Beth got scarlet fever (猩红热)when she was taking care of a sick neighbor . She became very ill but began to recover by the time Marnee was back . When Father came home from the front and at that joyful Christmas dinner they were once more all together .

Three years later the March girls had grown into young womanhood . Meg became Mrs .Brooke , and after a few family troubles got used to her new state happily . Jo had found pleasure in her literary efforts . Amy had grown into a young lady with a talent for design and an even greater one for society . But Beth had never fully regained her health , and her family watched her with love and anxiety .

Amy was asked to go and stay in Europe with a relative of the Mareches’ . Jo went to New York and became successful in her writing and had the satisfaction of seeing her work published there .But at home the bitterest blow was yet to fall . Beth had known for some time that she couldn’t live much longer to be with her family , and in the springtime she died .

News came from Europe that Amy and Laurie , the grandson of a wealthy neighbor , had planned to be married soon. Now Jo became ever more successful in her writing and got married to Professor Bhaer , and soon afterwards founded a school for boys .

And so the little women had grown up and lived happily with their children , enjoying the harvest of love and goodness that they had devoted all their lives to .

57．Why did the mother suggest a walk in the garden?

　　　 A．To remove the dandelions

　　　 B．To enjoy the garden scene.

　　　 C．To have a talk with her daughter.

　　　 D．To help her daughter with the play.

56．The girl did not play the role of the princess mainly because 　　　　　　　　.

　　　 A．she felt nervous on the stage

　　　 B．she lost her interest in that role

　　　 C．she preferred the role of the narrator

　　　 D．she had difficulty memorizing her words

63. This story wants to tell us that　 　　　　　　.

　　 A. craftsmen make a lot of money

　　 B. whatever you do, do it well

　　 C. craftsmen need self-respect

　　 D. people are born equal

答案　 60.C　 61.A　 62.C　 63.B

Passage 46

(06·重庆A篇)

When I was in the third grade, I was picked to be the princess(公主)in the school play. For weeks my mother had helped me practice my lines. But once onstage, every word disappeared from my head. Then my teacher told me she had written a narrator’s(解说者的) part for the play, and asked me to change roles. Though I didn’t tell my mother what had happened that day, she sensed my unhappiness and asked if I wanted to take a walk in the yard.

It was a lovely spring day .We could see dandelions(蒲公英)popping through the grass in bunches, as if a painter had touched our landscape with bits of gold. I watched my mother carelessly bend down by one of the bunches. “I think I am going to dig up all these weeds,” she said. “From now on, we’ll have only roses in this garden.”

“But I like dandelions,” I protested. “All flowers are beautiful-even dandelions!”

My mother looked at me seriously. “ Yes, every flower gives pleasure in its own way, doesn’t it?” she asked thoughtfully. I nodded. “And that is true of people, too,” she added.

When I realized that she had guessed my pain, I started to cry and told her the truth.

　“But you will be a beautiful narrator,” she said, reminding me of how much I loved to read stories aloud to her.

Over the next few weeks, with her continuous encouragement, I learned to take pride in the role. The big day finally came. A few minutes before the play, my teacher came over to me. “Your mother asked me to give this to you,” she said, handing me a dandelion. After the play, I took home the flower, laughing that I was perhaps the only person who would keep such a weed.

62. According to the author, many people work just to 　　　　　　.

　　 A. realize their abilities

　　 B. gain happiness

　　 C. make money

　　 D. gain respect

61. The sentence “He was something out of an ancient legend.” ( paragraph 7 ) implies that　　　

　　 A. nowadays you can hardly find anyone like him

　　 B. it was difficult to communicate with this man

　　 C. the man was very strange

　　 D. the man was too old

60. Which of the following is true about the old cobbler.'?

　　 A. He was equipped with the best repairing tools.

　　 B. He was the only cobbler in the Marais.

　　 C. He was proud of his skills.

　　 D. He was a native Parisian.

59. The last paragraph implies that　 　　　　　　.

　　 A. the bees have been driven to Central and North America

　　 B. the bees may bring about trouble in more countries

　　 C. the bees must be stopped from moving north

　　 D. the bees prefer to live in Brazil

答案　 56.C　 57.A　 58.C　 59.B

Passage 45

(06·广东B篇)

He's an old cobbler　 (修鞋匠)　 with a shop in the Marais, a historic area in Paris. When I took him my shoes, he at first told me: “I haven't time. Take them to the other fellow on the main street ; he'll fix them for you right away.”

　　 But I'd had my eye on his shop for a long time. Just looking at his bench loaded with tools and pieces of leather, I knew he was a skilled craftsman　 (手艺人).　 “No,” I replied, “the other fellow can't do it well.”

　　　 “The other fellow” was one of those shopkeepers who fix shoes and make keys “while-U-wait” -- without knowing much about mending shoes or making keys. They work carelessly, andwhen they have finished sewing back a sandal strap (鞋带) you might as well just throw away the pair.

　　　 My man saw I wouldn't give in, and he smiled. He wiped his hands on his blue apron ( 围裙), looked at my shoes, had me write my name on one shoe with a piece of chalk and said, “Come back in a week.”

　　　 I was about to leave when he took a pair of soft leather boots off a shelf.

　　　 “See what I can do?” he said with pride.　 “Only three of us in Paris can do this kind of work.. ”

　　　 When I got back out into the street, the world seemed brand-new to me. He was something out of an ancient legend, this old craftsman with his way of speaking familiarly, his very strange, dusty felt hat, his funny accent from who-knows-where and, above all, his pride in his craft.

　　　 These are times when nothing is important but the bottom line, when you can do things any old, way as long as it “pays”, when, in short, people look on work as a path to ever-increasing consumption　 (消费) rather than a way to realize their own abilities. In such a period it is a rare comfort to find a cobbler who gets his greatest satisfaction from pride in a job well done.