70. From the passage, we can learn that _____________.

A. Miss Stay liked Anne very much

B. when Anne became a teacher, she would have lived in the family for six years

C. Marilla cried because Anne would leave for ever

D. Rachel was a teacher of Anne’s

答案　 66.D　 67.A　 68.C　 69.D　 70.B

Passage 13

(江西省抚州一中2009届高三第四次模拟考试D篇)

Justin's bedroom was so full of flat bicycle tires, bent tennis rackets, deflated basketballs, and games with missing pieces that you could barely get in the door. His parents pleaded with him to clean out his room.

　　　 "What use is a fish tank with a hole in the bottom?" his father asked. But Justin simply smiled and repeated his motto, "Never throw anything out, you never know when it might come in handy."

　　　 When Justin was away from home, he always carried his blue backpack--a smaller version of his bedroom--a place to store the many objects that he collected. It was so worn and stretched that it hardly resembled a backpack anymore.

　　　 Justin had earned a reputation for figuring things out and getting people out of otherwise hopeless situations. Many of his classmates and neighbors sought him out when they needed help with a problem. On the first day of school, his friend Kenny, came looking for Justin.

　　　 "Do you think you have something in your bag that could help me remember my locker combination?" he asked. "I lost the piece of paper it was written on. I have a science class in two minutes and if I'm late on the first day it'll make me look bad for the rest of the year." Kenny looked really worried.

　　　 "Relax," Justin said, taking his backpack off and unzipping the top. "Remember how you borrowed my notebook in homeroom to write the combination down? Well, I know how we can recover what you wrote."

　　　 He took the notebook and a soft lead pencil out of his bag. The page that Kenny had written on had left faint marks on another page in the notebook. Justin held the pencil on its side and rubbed it lightly over the marks. Slowly but surely the numbers of the locker combination appeared in white, set off by the gray pencil rubbings.

　　　 "That's amazing!' Kenny said. "I owe you one." And he dashed off to open his locker.

　　　 It was just another day in the life of the boy whose motto was "Never throw anything out, you never know when it might come in handy."

69. What will be written in the following paragraph?

A. Anne’s summer holiday.

B. What will Anne talk about her college life with Diana

C. How will Miss Stacy help Anne study.

D. What will Anne do before attending college.

68. The paragraph “Oh Marilla! I’d love to be a teacher! But won’t it be very expensive?” should be put between ___________.

A. paragraph ③ and ④　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. paragraph ⑦ and ⑧

C. paragraph ① and ②　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. paragraph ⑨ and ⑩

67. Why are Anne and Gilbert enemies? Because _____________.

A. they were competitors in school 　　　　　　　　　 B. they didn’t like each other

C. it wasn’t mentioned in the passage 　　　　 　　D. their parents were enemies

66. Which of the following statements is true?

A. To be a teacher was one of Annes’ dreams.

B. Both Anne and Diana studied hard for the special examination.

C. Matthew and Marilla were Anne’s parents.

D. Anne was adopted by Matthew and Marilla.

54. What’s the writer’s attitude towards the lady now?

A. Sympathetic　　　　 B. Fearful　　 　　 　　C. Hateful　　 　　 　　D. Grateful

答案　 51.B　 52.C　 53.B　 54.D

Passage 12

(江苏省启东中学2009届高三最后一卷D篇)

One day Marilla said, “Anne, your new teacher, Miss Stacy, spoke to me yesterday. She says you must study for the examinations for Queen’s College in two years’ time. Then if you do well, you can study at Queen’s in Charlottetown for a year, and after that you’ll be a teacher!”

“That doesn’t matter, Anne. When Matthew and I adopted you three years ago, we decided to look after you as well as we could. Of course we’ll pay for you to study.”

So in the afternoons Anne and some of her friends stayed late at school, and Miss Stacy helped them with the special examination work. Diana didn’t want to go to Queen’s, so she went home early, but Gilbert stayed. He and Anne still never spoke and everybody knew that they were enemies, because they both wanted to be first in the examination. Secretly, Anne was sorry that she and Gilbert weren’t friends, but it was too late now.

For two years, Anne studied hard at school. She enjoyed learning, and Miss Stacy was pleased with her. But she didn’t study all the time. In the evenings and at weekends she visited her friends, or walked through the fields with Diana, or sat talking to Matthew.

“Your Anne is a big girl now. She’s taller than you,” Rachel Lynde told Marilla one day.

“You’re right, Rachel!” said Marilla in surprise.

“And she’s a very good girl now, isn’t she? She doesn’t get into trouble these days. I’m sure she helps you a lot with the housework, Marilla.”

“Yes, I don’t know what I’d do without her,” said Marilla, smiling.

“And look at her! Those beautiful grey eyes, and that red-brown hair! You know, Marilla, I thought you and Matthew made a mistake when you adopted her. But now I see I was wrong. You’ve looked after her very well.”

“Well, thank you, Rachel,” replied Marilla, pleased.

That evening, when Matthew came into the kitchen, he saw that his sister was crying.

“What’s the matter?” he asked, surprised. “You haven’t cried since… well, I can’t remember when.”

“It’s just… well, I was thinking about Anne,” said Marilla. “I’ll…I’ll miss her when she goes away.”

“When she goes to Queen’s, you mean? Yes, but she can come home at weekends, on the train.”

“I’ll still miss her,” said Marilla sadly.”

In June the Avonlea boys and girls had to go to Charlottetown to take their examinations.

“Oh, I do hope that I’ve done well,” Anne told Diana when she arrived back at Green Gables. “The examinations were very difficult. And I’ve got to wait for three weeks before I know! Three weeks! I’ll die!”

Anne wanted to do better than Gilbert. But she also wanted to do well for Matthew and Marilla. That was very important to her.

Diana was the first to hear the news, she ran into the kitchen at Green Gables and shouted, “Look, Anne! It’s in Father’s newspaper! You’re first… with Gilbert… out of all the students on the island! Oh, how wonderful!” Anne took the paper with shaking hands, and saw her name, at the top of the list of two hundred. She could not speak.

“Well, now, I knew it,” said Matthew with a warm smile.

“You’ve done well, I must say, Anne,” said Marilla, who was secretly very pleased.

For the next three weeks Anne and Marilla were very busy. Anne needs new dresses to take to Charlottetown.

53. When the lady taught the writer how to do housework, the little girl was ______.

A. eager to learn　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. unwilling to learn

C. forced to learn　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. careful to learn

52. The writer used to take care of the lady because ______.

A.　 she wanted to learn how to do housework

B.　 she was a relative of the disabled woman

C.　 she wanted to earn some money while sleeping and eating there

D.　 she had to do something in return to the lady for her kindness

51. From the passage we can infer that the writer of the passage now is ________.

A. a housewife　　　　　　　　　　 　　　 　　B. a full-time worker

C. a clothes maker　　　　　　　　 　 　　　　D. a college student

66. What do we know from the last paragraph?

　 A. Some newspaper editors were laughed at.

　 B. Moby Dick is the name of a woman writer.

　 C. All the newspapers reported the story under the same title.

　 D. The rifle “ There She Blows! “ is taken from the book Moby Dick.

答案　 63.C　 64.A　 65.C　 66.D

Passage 10

(江苏省淮安市2009届高三第四次调研考试A篇)

"As sure as you're alive now, Peter Rabbit, some day I will catch you," shouted Reddy Fox, as he put his black nose in the hole between the roots of the Big Hickory-tree which grows close to the Smiling Pool. "It is lucky for you that you were not one jump farther away from this hole."

Peter, safe inside that hole, didn't have a word to say, or, if he did, he didn't have breath enough to say it. It was quite true that if he had been one jump farther from that hole, Reddy Fox would have caught him. As it was, the hairs on Peter's funny white tail actually had tickled Reddy's back as Peter ran wildly through the root-bound entrance to that hole. It had been the narrowest escape Peter had had for a long, long time. You see, Reddy Fox had surprised Peter eating sweet clover (苜蓿) on the bank of the Smiling Pond, and it had been a lucky thing for Peter that that hole, dug long ago by Johnny Chuck's grandfather, had been right where it was. Also, it was a lucky thing that old Mr. Chuck had been wise enough to make the entrance between the roots of that tree in such a way that it could not be dug any larger.

Reddy Fox was too shrewd (机灵的) to waste any time trying to dig it larger. He knew there wasn't room enough for him to get between those roots. So, after trying to make Peter as uncomfortable as possible by telling him what he, Reddy, would do to him when he did catch him, Reddy walked across the Green Meadows. Peter remained where he was for a long time. When he was quite sure that it was safe to do so, he crawled out and hurried to the Old Orchard. He felt that that would be the safest place for him, because there were ever so many hiding places in the old stone wall along the edge of it.

56. Where is Peter Rabbit hiding?

A. On the bank of a pond　　 　　　　　　　　　　　 　　B. In a hole

C. In a tall tree　　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　　D. Behind a room

57. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE according to the story?

A. Reddy Fox might find rabbit hairs on him.

B. Old Mr. Chuck took advantage of the roots to dig the hole.

C. The hole could be made larger.

D. Reddy almost caught Peter this time.

58. Why did Peter Rabbit wait so long before leaving?

A. Because Reddy was trying to get him.

B. Because it was cold outside.

C. Because his grandfather would help him dig a large hole.

D. Because the Old Orchard was not so safe as this hole.

答案　 56.B　 57.C　 58.A　

Passage 11

(江苏省金坛一中2009届高三5月模拟A篇)

I love it at night. It’s peaceful. And when it cools down I sometimes do some ironing. I don’t really care for it. I work full-time and too busy for most housework. I remember the old woman who taught me to iron. I was about 15 and somehow got a live-in job taking care of a woman who had been an able-bodied, healthy woman until the accident that caused her to be paralyzed(瘫痪).

The woman had an electric wheelchair. She could move her head and arms but not her hands or fingers. She had this clamp(夹子)attached to her arm and I’d have to open it and put a cup or a pencil in it and then she could move it. She would tell me how to do things. She would instruct me in great detail on the correct way to do things. Her home was perfect and beautiful. She would follow me around in her electric wheelchair to make sure I did everything exactly right. I’m sure she had been a perfect homemaker. She would have me fold everything, including socks and pillow cases. I would complain silently and wish terrible things on her. She taught me the right way to make the bed and tuck (塞)the corners. I know sometimes she’d get frustrated and impatient with me. I knew she wanted to grab it and do it herself. But she never yelled(大叫)or scolded. Only insisted I do it right. I didn’t like it much, but I did it.

Today I can iron pretty well. I know where to start on a shirt, the right way to do the collar and sleeves. Now that I think about it, I don’t think she is an old lady. I think she might have been about my age now. Anyway, when I iron, I think of her and silently thank her for all the things I learned.