62．What happened when the author found smoke coming out of his car?

A．He had it pulled back to the gas station.

B．The couple sent him a business card.

C．The couple offered to help him.

D．He called his friend for help.

61．The words “took off ” underlined in Paragraph 2 mean “________”.

A．turned off

B．moved off

C．put up

D．set up

60．The author planned to stop at Oklahoma City _______.

A．to visit a friend

B．to see his parents

C．to pay or the cash register

D．to have more gas for his car

75. The writer provides two book lists to ________.

　 A. show how he developed his point of view

　 B. tell his reading experience at high school

C. introduce the two persons' reading methods

　 D. explain that he read many books at high school

答案　 71.A　 72.A　 73.A　 74.C　 75.B

Passage 40

(06·全国ⅠB篇)

Many years ago, when I was fresh out of school and working in Denver, I was driving to my parents’ home in Missouri for Christmas. I stopped at a gas station(加油站) about 50 miles from Oklahoma City, where I was planning to stop and visit a friend. While I was standing in line at the cash register(收款台), I said hello to an older couple who were also paying for gas.

I took off, but had gone only a few miles when black smoke poured from the back of my car. I stopped and wondered what I should do. A car pulled up behind me. It was the couple I had spoken to at the gas station. They said they would take me to my friend’s. We chatted on the way into the city, and when I got out of the car, the husband gave me his business card.

I wrote him and his wife a thank-you note for helping me. Soon afterward, I received a Christ-mas present from them. Their note that came with it said that helping me had made their holidays meaningful.

Years later, I drove to a meeting in a nearby town in the morning. In late afternoon I returned to my car and found that I’d left the lights on all day, and the battery(电池) was dead. Then I noticed that the Friendly Ford dealership－a shop selling cars－was right next door. I walked over and found two salesmen in the showroom.

“Just how friendly is Friendly Ford?” I asked and explained my trouble. They quickly drove a pickup truck to my car and started it. They would accept no payment, so when　 I got home, I wrote them a note to say thanks. I received a letter back from one of the salesmen. No one had ever taken the time to write him and say thank you, and it meant a lot, he said.

“Thank you”－two powerful words. They’re easy to say and mean so much.

74. The writer's purpose in mentioning The Republic is to________.

　 A. explain why it was included in the list

　 B. describe why he seriously crossed it off the list

　 C. show that he read the books blindly though they were hard to understand

　 D. prove that he understood most of it because he had looked at every word

73. The underlined phrase "with finality" probably means

　 A. firmly　　 　　　　B. clearly　　　　　　　　　　 　　 C. proudly　　 　　 　　D. pleasantly

72. While at high school, the writer________.

　 A. had plans for reading　　 　　　　　　　 　　　　B. learned to educate himself

　 C. only read books over 100 pages　　　　　　 D. read only one book several times

71. On heating the teacher's suggestion of reading, the writer thought________.

A. one must read as many books as possible

　 B. a student should not have a complicated idea

　 C. it was impossible for one to read two thousand books

　 D. students ought to make a list of the books they had read

61. From Smoller's words, we can infer that ________.

　　 A. Jim's father cared little about his study

　　 B. Smoller agreed that Jim did kill his father

　　 C. Jim thought he would be punished some day

　　 D. Smoller believed Jim wouldn't live to the age of 48

答案　 59.A　 60.D　 61.C

Passage 39

(07·四川E篇)

I entered high school having read hundreds of books. But I was not a good reader. Merely bookish, I lacked a point of view when I read. Rather, I read in order to get a point of view. I searched books for good expressions and sayings, pieces of information, ideas, themes-anything to enrich my thought and make me feel educated. When one of my teachers suggested to his sleepy tenth-grade English class that a person could not have a "complicated (复杂的) idea" until he had read at least two thousand books, I heard the words without recognizing either its irony (嘲讽) or its very complicated truth. I merely determined to make a list of all the books I had ever read. Strict with myself, I included only once a title I might have read several times. ( How, after all, could one read a book more than once?) And I included only those books over a hundred pages in length. ( Could anything shorter be a book?)

There was yet another high school list I made. One day I came across a newspaper article about an English professor at a nearby state college. The article had a list of the "hundred most important books of Western Civilization. " "More than anything else in my life," the professor told the reporter with finality , " these books have made me all that I am . " That was the kind of words I couldn’t ignore (忽视). I kept the list for the several months it took me to read all of the titles. Most books, of course, I hardly understood. While reading Plato's The Republic, for example, I needed to keep looking at the introduction of the book to remind myself what the text was about. However, with the special patience and superstition (迷信) of a schoolboy, I looked at every word of the text. And by me time I reached the last word, pleased, I persuaded myself that I had read The Republic, and seriously crossed Plato off my list.

60. What made Dr. Smoller feel strange about Jim's case?

A. Jim died at a young age.　　 　

B. Jim died on the operating table.

C. Both Jim and his father died of the same disease.　　

D. Jim's death is closely connected with his father's.