C
The Chinese have used a method called acupuncture to help perform operations for about 4,000 years without putting the patient to sleep. This involves inserting(插入) flexible needles into certain parts of the body. The needles used are available in a number of stores in China and everyone may buy them.
To learn how to use needle takes about one month of training. But to be skillful requires greater time. The person who performs the acupuncture knows how to insert the needles so the needles themselves are not painful. This person also knows where to place the needles so the patient feels no pain in the area where the operation is to be performed. The needles are not necessarily inserted near the place where the pain is to be prevented. In the past, a particular operation might require 25 or more needles placed in various parts of the body. But now this operation requires only 3 or 4 needles.
Today the Chinese doctors are trying to learn more about acupuncture. They are trying to develop a convincing thoery to explain how the needles work in preventing pain, or, why a needle in the wrist(手腕), for example, would prevent the pain in the area of the mouth.
A patient who needs an operation is given a choice between having acupuncture or having one of the chemicals used for putting him to sleep. It has been estimated that over half of the patients choose acupuncture because there is no sickness after the operation whereas(然而，反之) the chemical may make the patient sick for a few hours or a day.
62．Acupuncture is a kind of _________.
A. medical needles B. medical equipment
C. medical technique D. medical examination
63. To perform the acupuncture skillfully, one __________.
A. has to learn how to insert the needles accurately in the right place
B. should insert the needles where the pain is to be prevented
C. needs to be trained for a short period of time
D. must use fewer needles than in the past
64. According to the 3rd paragraph, we can infer _________.
A. people must insert a needle in the wrist to prevent the pain in the mouth
B. people come to realize the shortcomings of the acupuncture
C. people are convinced to use the acupuncture to cure diseases
D. people need to make deeper research into the acupuncture
65.Nowadays, more and more people prefer having acupuncture because _________.
A. acupuncture has no side effects after the operation
B. acupuncture costs them less than having chemicals
C. chemicals usually cause many more deaths
D. they want to protect the traditional Chinese medicine
66. The author of the passage tends to be __________ acupuncture.
A. strongly against B. in favor of
C. doubtful about D. uninterested in
B
Dear Miss Austen,
Your letter made me happy. I did not expect such a full return. I am eighty years old, and I am blind. There is little I can do except knit, and that is why I knit so many caps and sweaters and scarves. Of course I cannot write this, so my daughter-in-law is doing it for me. She also sewed the seams(缝合线) and made the buttonholes for the knitted things.
I know something of the work you are doing. At the age of nineteen I married a man who was going to China to be a missionary(传道士). For forty years, with an occasional year at home in America, we worked in China, and during that time our two sons and a daughter were born to us, of whom only one son survives. After forty years, my husband’s health began to fail, we returned to the United States where he took charge of a settlement house in Brooklyn, New York. A surprising number of the problems we had met in China. When my husband died, I came to Toronto to live with my son and daughter-in-law. They are very good to me, and I pride myself that I am little trouble to them, though it is hard for a blind old lady to be sure of anything.
What I most want to say, my dear, is this. For sixty years I have been making up missionary packages of such clothing or food or medicine or books as I could collect. In various parts of the world and to the various parts of the world I have sent them. Sometimes I have received a printed slip(便条) of acknowledgement from the headquarters(总部) storehouse or mission board, sometimes nothing. Occasionally I have been informed that my contribution was sent to Syria or America or the upper Yangtze. But never before in all that time have I had a personal letter picturing the village and telling me who was wearing the clothing and what they said. I did not suppose that ever in my lifetime I should receive a letter like that. May God bless you.
Yours sincerely,
Laura N. Russell
59. This letter must be a reply in response to the letter written by _____________.
A. someone who sent her a package
B. someone who works in the headquarters storehouse
C. her son and daughter-in-law
D. someone who knows where she had sent her packages
60．The word “knit” in the first paragraph most probably means _____________.
A. to design fashion
B. to make paper-cuts
C. to make clothing with sticks and long thread
D. to draw pictures on clothes
61.All the following statements are right Except _________.
A. It is her daughter-in-law who helped her with knitting
B. The writer thinks that she is so useful to her son and daughter-in-law
C. They lived in China most of their life
D. The writer has sent many packages to the people who need
A
Everyone has got two personalities-the one that is shown to the world and the other that is secret and real. You don’t show your secret personality when you are awake because you can control your behavior, but when you are asleep, your sleeping position shows the real you. In a normal night, of course, people frequently change their position. The important position is the one that you go to sleep in.
If you go to sleep on your back, you are a very open person. You normally trust people and you are easily influenced by fashion or new ideas. You don’t like to upset people, so you never express your real feelings. You are quite shy and you aren’t very confident.
If you sleep on your stomach, you are a rather secretive person. You worry a lot and you are always easily upset. You are very stubborn, but you aren’t very ambitious(雄心勃勃的). You usually live for today not for tomorrow. This means that you enjoy having a good time.
If you sleep curled up, you are probably a very nervous person. You have a low opinion of yourself and so you are often defensive(自卫的). You are shy and you don’t normally like meeting people. You prefer to be on your own. You are easily hurt.
If you sleep on your side, you have usually got a well-balanced personality. You know your strengths and weaknesses. You are usually careful. You have a confident personality. You sometimes feel anxious, but you don’t often get depressed. You always say what you think even if it annoys people.
56．According to the writer, you naturally show your secret and real personality _______.
A. only in a normal night
B. only when you go to sleep
C. only when you refuse to show yourself to the world
D. only when you change sleeping position
57. Maybe you don’t want to make friends with a person who sleeps curled up. Why?
A. He or he would rather be alone than communicate with you.
B. He or she is rarely ready to help you.
C. He or she prefers staying at home to going out.
D. He or she wouldn’t like to get help from you.
58. It appears that the writer tends(趋向) to think highly of the person who sleeps on one side because _________.
A. he or she always shows sympathy for people
B. he or she is confident, but not stubborn
C. he or she has more strengths than weaknesses
D. he or she often considers annoying people.
第二节 完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)
In history, a real cowboy was a simple farm worker on horseback. He spent a long time a day outdoors working with cows. The work was dirty, tiring and not very well paid.
People in the western states had to 36 cattle at low cost and send them by railway to the eastern ___37____. But someone had to ___38____ the cattle and get them to the nearest railroad. This was the job of a cowboy. Sometimes the _39____ was more than a thousand kilometers away and it could take as __40____ as six months to move the cattle. The ____41__ was long but the cattle were driven ___42___ so as not to lose __43____. Then they could be sold at a good price.
Most cowboys were young, ___44___ men. A good horse ___45___ their job of moving cattle much easier. A good cowboy __46____ cows and knew how to control them. At night, he ___47____ to the cows to keep them calm.
In the late 1800s, America was changing from a nation of farm to one of __48____ and cities. The cowboys seemed __ 49___ compared with other Americans doing ordinary jobs.
Today, the ___50___ of cowboys has ___51____ greatly. One change is the use of trucks. The job is not so __ 52_ _as it used to be. And cowboys are better __ 53____ now. They are _ 54___ to be married. Some of them are farmers or teachers or truck drivers. Some work for big companies. ___55____ at night and on weekends, they become cowboys. These part-time cowboys increase the total production of meat, keeping the beef price low.
36.A. get B. buy C. sell D. raise
37. A. markets B. countries C. cities D. stores
38.A. deal with B. find out C. look after D. pay off
39.A. road B. railroad C. state D. farm
40.A. good B. much C. long D. far
41.A. journey B. trip C. tour D. travel
42.A. hurriedly B. smoothly C. slowly D. carefully
43.A. mind B. direction C. head D. weight
44.A. unmarried B. proud C. strong D. educated
45.A. had B. made C. found D. helped
46.A. recognized B. understood C. owned D. kept
47.A. whispered B. shouted C. cried D. sang
48.A. towns B. factories C. companies D. villages
49.A. free B. brave C. easy D. pleased
50.A. manner B. job C. life D. mind
51.A. changed B. developed C. improved D. realized
52.A. tiring B. hard C. exciting D. dangerous
53.A. known B. paid C. treated D. dressed
54.A. afraid B. eager C. worried D. likely
55.A. Because B. And C. When D. But
35.Please raise as much money as you can_____ those poor children in Sichuang.
A. to help B. help C. helping D. helped
34.Jim often talks ______ he knew everything in the world.
A. even if B. as if C. every time D. when
33.Little Tom, as well as all the other classmates,______ plays in that famous theatre.
A. enjoy watching B. enjoys watching C. enjoy to watch D. enjoys to watch
32.Fifty-six nationalities(民族)_____the People’s Republic of China.
A. consist of B. are made up of C. are consisting of D. make up
31.Young Jack made an English speech to all the students in his school, which made a(an)____on his teachers deeply.
A. promise B. impression C. plan D. face