75. By telling the childhood experience, the passage suggests that ________.

A. the writer is a daughter of a member of Representatives.

B. the Capitol used to be open to the public in history.

C. London was attacked during the war, as well as Washington.

D. the writer’s father and brother joined the army during the war.

74. When the writer said “I was born and raised in the shadow of the Capitol” (1^st paragraph), she most probably meant that ________.

A. she spent her childhood in an area near the Capitol

B. she grew up under the pressure of the Capitol

C. the Capitol had some bad influence on my childhood

D. she was born and brought up secretly in the Capitol

73. From the passage, we can understand that ________.

A. The writer attended the meeting in House of Representative

B. The writer’s family lived in Washington D.C. for generations

C. American citizen, except children, could never enter the Capitol

D. The writer’s father had a gas mask to prevent him from smoking

72. What is the purpose of this passage?

A. To attract readers’ attention on the new issue of the magazine.

B. To introduce Jolie’s all family members to readers

C. To praise Jolie’s generous deeds of adopting children.

D. To instruct readers how to adopt a child from Vietnam.

答案　 69.C　 70.D　 71.B　 72.A

Passage 2

(湖北省新洲区实验高中2009届高三5月检测D篇)

I WAS BORN and raised in the shadow of the Capitol, in Washington, D.C., as were my parents and my mother’s parents.

Our row house was on a tree-lined street just blocks from the building that was the heart of the federal legislative branch. When I was a child, in the 1940s, friends and I would pack a lunch or ride a streetcar to the Capitol. If we roller-skated, we hid the skates in the bushes in the park across the street before entering the building.

I knew every corner of the Capitol. We’d play hide-and-seek and pretend we saw ghosts in the halls and stairways. I don’t know how we got away with it.I remember the beautiful ladies’ rooms, with their marble floors and sinks. I pretended that I was a fine lady in them.

In those days, you could walk around the Capitol dome(圆顶屋), which was a little scary for me. I loved the wonderful paintings and statues and the subway rides to the Senate Office Building. It was like an amusement ride. I even used to sit in the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives-until I became bored with all the talk and went on another adventure.

Whenever I ran up the steps to the huge bronze doors of the Rotunda, I would look back to the world below like a hero. As soon as the doors were opened, the sense of history surrounded me, and I knew it was someplace special.

Those were lucky days, when an American citizen could wander in the Capitol and be a part of history.

Once war was declared, some things changed in the nation’s capital.

Because of concerns that Washington might be attacked, as London had been, everyone prepared. Kids at my elementary school wore dog tags, and each of us was fingerprinted.

My father, a pipe worker, became a civil defense warden(民防队员). During an air raid, his job was to turn off any leaking gas. Since he always had a cigarette in his mouth, maybe that was not a good choice, but he had a gas mask and flashlight hanging in the rafters of our basement…the mask looked like a monster in the ceiling. My 15-year-old brother was a junior civil defense warden. During air- raid drills, he knocked on doors and asked people to put out their lights. I remember huge searchlights that crisscrossed the skies during the drills, looking for enemy planes.

71. Why does Jolie want to start a gentle relationship with her son Pax?

A. Because Jolie thinks Pax doesn't know he has a family.

B. Because Jolie wants to set an example to her other children.

C. Because Pax is a strong boy in Jolie’s mind.

D. Because Pax can't meet his father when he is in America.

70. Which of the following statements is TURE?

A. Pax is the last children that Jolie has.

B. Vietnamese laws allow everyone to adapt orphan.

C. Pax meet the whole family with the help of Jolie.

D. Pitt takes care of Shiloh when he acts in a movie.

69. According to the passage, how many children does Jolie have in all?

A. 1 　　　　　　　　B. 3 　 　　　　　　　C. 4 　 　　　　　　　D. 5

63. What’s the idea of the message?

A. Life and death is an unsolved mystery

B. Every story should have a happy ending

C. Never feel guilty all the time because not every disaster is our fault

D. In general, the survivors will feel guilty about the people who passed

　away

答案　 ADBCC

2009年联考题

Passage 1

(湖北省新洲区实验高中2009届高三5月检测C篇)

COVER STORY-Pax's New Life

By Michelle Tauber and Mary Green

The actress and 3-year-old Pax Thien Jolie, whom she adopted last week from an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, left Hanoi's Noi Bai Airport in a private jet on Wednesday, bound for home-and, for Pax, a new life – in the U.S. 　　 Jolie, 31, understands the challenges her new son will face as the latest addition to the world's most famous multicultural family. "You can imagine what courage it takes to be in all new surroundings, with new people and a new language," she tells PEOPLE in its new issue. "He is very strong." But she is committed to making his transition as smooth as possible. "It will take him a while to realize he has a family," she says, "and that his new life is permanent and that it won't keep changing." 　　 The boy with the sweetly shy smile and the big brown eyes joins big brother Maddox, 5 (adopted from Cambodia), sister Zahara, 2 (adopted from Ethiopia) and 10-month-old Shiloh, the daughter born to Jolie and Brad Pitt, 43, in May. 　　 As for Dad, because Vietnamese regulations don't allow unmarried couples to co-adopt, Jolie adopted Pax as a single parent while Pitt remained in Los Angeles, where he is filming The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. "He has specific days on the movie that couldn't be changed or production would run over," says his rep. 　　 But Jolie still made sure to bring a welcoming committee: Joined by Maddox and Zahara – Shiloh has been on the Button set every day with her father-the new mom used her first few days with Pax to begin gently bonding with him and to ask her other kids to do the same. 　 "We are slowly beginning to build his trust and bond," Jolie says, "but it will feel complete only when we are all together." For exclusive photos – plus details on Angelina and Pax's first moments together, what Pax's life was like at the orphanage and more – pick up this week's PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.

62. According to the passage, the underlined part in paragraph 4 probably means that _____

A. everything in the world is predetermined

B. the world can be interpreted in different ways

C. there’s an explanation for everything in the world

D. we have to be sensible in order to understand the world

61. People feel guilty for the death of their loved ones because ____.

　　 A. they couldn’t a better way to express their sorrow.

　　 B. they believed that they were responsible

　　 C. they had neglected the natural course of events

　　 D. they didn’t know things often turn in the opposite direction