57. How did Frank save Lisa?

A. By lifting her to the platform.

B. By helping her rise to her feet.

C. By pulling her along the ground.

D. By dragging her away from the edge.

56. Why did Jennifer try to stop her boyfriend?

A. Because they would miss their train.

B. Because he didn’t see the train coming.

C. Because she was sure Lisa was hard to lift.

D. Because she was afraid the train would kill him.

62．We can learn from the last paragraph that 　　　　　　.

　　　 A．Mrs. Thompson was deeply hurt by Teddy's words

　 　　 B．Teddy missed his mother and desired love very much

　 　 C．Mrs. Thompson realized it useless to teach knowledge

　 　 D．Mrs. Thompson cried because she lied to Teddy about his presents

答案　 60-62 DCB　 　

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Passage 35

(安徽省巢湖市示范高中2010届高三上学期四校联考期中考试)

A

Lisa was running late. Lisa, 25, had a lot to do at work, plus visitors on the way, her parents were coming in for Thanksgiving from her hometown. But as she hurried down the subway stairs,　 she started to feel uncomfortably warm. By the time she got to the platform, Lisa felt weak and tired--maybe it hadn’t been a good idea to give blood the night before, she thought. She rested herself against a post close to the tracks.

Several yards away, Frank, 43, and his girlfriend, Jennifer, found a spot close to where the front of the train would stop. They were deep in discussion about a house they were thinking of buying.

But when he heard the scream, followed by someone yelling, “Oh, my God, she fell in!” Frank didn’t hesitate. He jumped down to the tracks and ran some 40 feet toward the body lying on the rails. “No! Not you! ” his girlfriend screamed after him.

She was right to be alarmed. By the time Frank reached Lisa, he could feel the tracks shaking and see the light coming. The train was about 20 seconds from the station.

It was hard to lift her. She was just out. But he managed to raise her the four feet to the platform so that bystanders could hold her by the grins and drag her away from the edge. That was where Lisa briefly regained consciousness, felt herself being pulled along the ground, and saw someone else holding her purse.

Lisa thought she’d been robbed. A woman held her hand and a man gave his shirt to help stop the blood pouring from her head. And she tried to talk but she couldn’t, and that was when she realized how much pain she was in.

Police and fire officials soon arrived, and Frank told the story to an officer. Jennifer said her boyfriend was calm on their 40-minute train ride downtown-just as he had been seconds after the rescue，which made her think about her reaction at the time. “I saw the train coming and 1 was thinking he was going to die，”she explained.

61．How did Teddy's behavior change between Grades 1 and 4?

　　　 A．He became better at making friends.　 　 B．He became closer to his father.

　 　 C．He paid less attention to school.　 　　　 D． He stopped doing his homework.

60．What is the best title of this text?

　　　 A．A Student's Best Friend　 　　　　　　　　　 B．How To Be a Good Student

　 　　 C．The Story of a Good Teacher　 　　　　　 D． A Teacher's Lesson

56．When the newspaper seller thought about the two clerks he decided they were _______

A．badly dressed 　　　　 B. very well off

C．not as rich as himself　 D．not as hardworking as himself

答案　 53-56 CACC

Passage 34

(江苏省南京市金陵中学2010届高三10月月考)

B

As Mrs. Thompson stood in front of her 5a grade class on the very first day of school, she told the children a lie. Like most teachers, she looked at her students and said that she loved them all the same.

But that was impossible, because there in the front row, slumped in his seat, was a little boy named Teddy Stoddard. Mrs. Thompson noticed that he didn't play well with the other children, that his clothes were messy and that he constantly needed a bath. And Teddy could be unpleasant. It got to the point where Mrs. Thompson would actually take delight in marking his papers with a broad red pen, making bold X's and then putting a big "F" at the top of his papers.

However, when she reviewed his file, she got a surprise.

Teddy's first grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is a bright child with a ready laugh. He does his work neatly and has good manners, he is a joy to be around."

His second grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is an excellent student, well liked by his classmates, but he is troubled because his mother has a terminal illness and life at home must be a struggle."

His third grade teacher wrote, "His mother's death has been hard on him. He tries to do his best but his father doesn't show much interest and his home life will soon affect him if some steps aren't taken."

Teddy's fourth grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is withdrawn and doesn't show much interest in school. He doesn't have many friends and sometimes sleeps in class."

Now, Mrs. Thompson was ashamed of herself and felt worse when her students brought her beautifully wrapped Christmas presents.　 Teddy's present,　 however,　 was clumsily wrapped in rough brown grocery paper. Taking her time she opened it to reveal Teddy's gifts, a rhinestone bracelet with stones missing and a quarter full perfume bottle. How the children laughed! "What a pretty bracelet! Mm, lovely perfume! Perfect on my wrist." The children were silent.

Alone together, after school, Teddy told Mrs. Thompson, "Today you smelled just like my Mom used to..." His teacher cried all night and, from that day, she stopped teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic and began to teach children instead.

55．If they realized that he was not a heating engineer he would have to _______.

A．park his car in a government car park　 B．look for another free parking place

C．pay to park his car in a garage　　　　 D．pretend he was a government employee

54．The assistant’s job that evening was to ______.

A．sell papers until 8 o’clock　　　　　 　 B．start selling magazines at 8 o’clock

C. count the money taken that day　　　　 D．lock up the car park

53．It seems unlikely that the newspaper seller would be the sort of man who would ______.

A．be a cheerful companion　　　　　 　 B．try to cheat a customer

C．earn a great deal of money　　　　　 　　　 D．trust his assistant much

48. From this passage, we can infer that ______.

A. the boy would like to have dinner with his father

B. the boy often asked for money to buy some nonsense

C. the boy loved his father very much

D. the man would get even angrier at last

答案　 45-48 BADC

Passage 33

(河北省正定中学2010届高三摸底考试)

D

The newspaper seller was a clean, neat man, of about forty with a rather serious, unsmiling face. He didn’t speak much to the customers or to his helpers, but when he did he spoke slowly and quietly, as if to himself. He believed in efficiency, not conversation, and this was how the office workers, rushing to catch their trains, preferred it.

It had been a good day. Lunch-time had been warm and sunny, and many people had bought magazines to read outside with their sandwiches. Now it was cold rainy, and people wanted an evening paper for a cheerless joyless journey ahead and a dull evening indoors.

At 6:30, with the main rush over, he started to collect the money together and count it. Then he left the stand and went home. It was the assistant’s turn this evening to look after it till eight o’clock, when it would be packed away for the night. His large white Mercedes was in the private car park of a large government building. He’d parked there for six months, pretending to be part of a heating firm working in the building. They would find out about him soon, and he’d have to park in a garage again, which was annoying. Their charges were far too high. A couple of junior clerks, regular customers, happened to see him getting into his car. “Must be a lot of money in papers, eh?” one of them shouted. He just smiled coldly in reply, and got into the car, placing the bags of money on the floor.

He thought about the clerks on the way home. Like the majority of his customers, despite their white shirts and dark suits, they probably made in a week as much as he could make in a good day.