(06·湖南)

I returned to Abujs,the capital of Nigerin,after college gradvation.I had been there before my mother became a minister.

Two weeks Inter.I told  my mother I was bored.She said.“Here’re the car keys.Go and buy some fruit.”  36   ,I jurnped into the car and speeded off.

Seeing me or rather my  37   ,a boy sprang up(跳起来).  38    to sell his banan is and peanuts.“Banana 300 naira.Peanut 200 naira!”

Looking at his bbinck-striped bananas,I  39    to 200 total for the fruit and nuts.

He  40   .I handed him a 500 naira note.He didn’t have  41   .So I told him not to worry.He was  42   and smiled a row of petfect teeth.

When.two weeks later.I  43   this same boy.I was more aware of my position in Nigerian soeicty.I should  44   this country as the son of a  45   .But it was hard to find pleasure in a place where it was so  46   to see a little boy who should have been in school selling fruit.

    “What’s up?”I asked.He answered in  47   English,“I…I no get money to buy book.”I took out two 500 naira notes.He looked around  48   before sticking his hand into the car   49  the bills.One thousand naira means a lot to a farnily that  50   only 50,000 cach year.

    The next morning,security officers told me,“In this place,when you give a little,people think you’re a fountain of opportunity(机会).”

  51    it’s right,but this happens everywhere in the world.I wondered if my little friend had actually used the money for  52   .

    After six months’work in northern Nigeria,I returned and saw him again standing on the road.

“Are you in school now?”

He nodded.

A silence fell as we looked at each other,then I  53    what  he wanted.I held out a 500 naira note.“Take this.”

He shook his head fiercely and stepped back  54    hurt.

“It’s a gift.”I said.

    Shaking his head again,he handed me a basket of bananas and peanuts,“I’ve been waiting to 55   these to you.”

36.A.Encouraged                  B.Disappointed              C.Delighted                   D.Confused

37.A.car                              B.mother                      C.drivet                        D.keys

38.A.willing                         B.afraid                        C.cager                 D.ashamed

39.A.got down                            B.bargained down          C.put down                  D.look down

40.A.explained                     B.promised                   C.agreed                       D.admitted

41.A.change                        B.notes                         C.checks                      D.bills

42.A.troubled                       B.regretful                    C.comfortable               D.graleful

43.A.ran after                      B.ran into                            C.ran over                    D.ran  to

44.A.proteet                         B.enjoy                         C.help                          D.support

45.A.minister                       B.headmaster                C.manager                    D.president

46.A.lucky                           B.amazing                     C.funny                        D.common

47.A.old                              B.broken                      C.traditional                  D.modern

48.A.proudly                        B.madly                        C.cunously                   D.nervously

49.A.for                              B.with                          C.at                             D.upon

50.A.spends                         B.pays                          C.makes                       D.affords

51.A.Possibly                       B.Actually                     C.Certainly                   D.Fortunately

52.A.joys                             B.nuts                          C.books                       D.bananas                      

53.A.asked                          B.unagined                    C.reminded                   D.realized

54.A.when                           B.as if                          C.even if                      D.after

55.A.send                            B.provide                      C.sell                           D.give

 (06·湖南E篇)

Susan Sontag (1933----2004)was one of the most noticeable figures in the world of literature.For more than 40 years she made it morally necessary to know everything---to read every book worth reading ,to see every movie worth seeing .When she was still in her early 30s,publishing essays in such important magazines as Partisan Review, she appeared as the symbol of American culture life ,trying hard to follow every new development in literature, film and art .With great effort and serious judgement. Sontag walked at the latest edges of world culture.

Seriousness was one of Sontage’s lifelong watchwords(格言).but at a time when the barriers between the well-educated and the poor-educated were obvious,she argued for a true openness to the pleasure of pop culture.In “Notes Camp”,the 1964 essay that first made her name ,she explainedwhat was then a little-known set of difficult understandings, through which she could not have been more famous .“Notes on Camp”,she wrote,represents“a victory of ‘form’over‘content’,‘beauty’over‘morals’”.

By conviction（信念）she was a sensualist（感觉论者）, but by nature she was a moralist （伦理学者）,and in the works she published in the 1970s and 1980s , it was the latter side of her that came forward. In illness as Metaphor —published in 1978, after she suffered cancer—she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a special problem of repressed personalities（被压抑的性格）, a concept that effectively blamed the victim for the disease. In fact , re-examining old positions was her lifelong lifelong habit.

In America,her story of a 19th  century Polish actress who set up a perfect society in California, won the National Book Award in 2000.But it was as a tirelessm all-purposer cultural view that she made her lasting fame.“Sometimes,”she once said ,“I feel that, in the end, all I am really defending …is the idea of seriousness, of true seriousness.”And in the end ,she made us take it seriously too.

71.The underlined sentence in paragraph 1 means Sontag_________.

A.      was a symbol of American cultural life

B.      developed world literature,film and art

C.      published many essays about world culture

D.     kept pace with the newst development of world culture

72.She first won her name through ___________.

A.      her story of a Polish actress

B.      her book illness as Metaphor

C.      publishing essays in magazines like partisan Review

D.     her explanation of a set of difficult understankings

73.According to the passage,Susan Sontag__________.

A.      was a sensualist as well as a moralist

B.      looked down upon the pop culture

C.      thought content was more important than form

D.     blamed the victim of cancer for being repressed

74.As for Susan Sontag’s lifelong habit , she __________.

A.      misunderstood the idea of seriousness

B.      re-examined old positions

C.      argued for an openess to pop culture

D.     preferred morals to beauty

75.Susan Sontag’s lasting fame was made upon___________-.

   A.  a tireless, all-purpose cultural view

   B.  her lifelong watchword ：seriousness

   C.  publishing books on morals

D.  enjoying books worth reading and movies worth seeing

 (06·湖南C篇)

The coyote(丛林狼).that elever animal of wide-open space .has come to the nation’s captial.In fact ,coyotes have spread to every comer of the United States,changing their behaviors to fit new envioronments and causing researchers to deal with a troublesome new kind of creature:the city coyote.

The coyote originally lived in the middle of the continent.One of its most obvious characters is its smartness, which has made the animal a notorious（臭名昭著的）pest.Hunters trapped,shot and poisoned more than a million coyotes in the 1900s.It’s still one of America’s mosthunted animals. Yet the coyote has survived.How has the coyote shown this extraordinary ability?”I guess if you wanted to use one word,it’d be ‘plasticity’.”says Erie Gese,an expert at Utah State University. Coyotes can live alon, in pairs, or in large packs like wolves,hunt at night or during the day , occupy a small region or an area up to 40 square miles,and live on all sorts of food,from lizards（蜥蜴）and shoes, to ants and melons.

    Unbelicvadly  people  helpcd coyotes  increase  when  they kiltcd most of the wolves in the United States. The sprcdding of coyotes into city areas,though.is rccent.They travel at night,crossing sidcwalks and bridges.running atong roads and ducking into cuinerts (钻入涵洞)and underpasscs .No one knows why coyotes are maving into cities.but expertsexplaih that clevcter,more human-tolerant(不怕人的)coyotes are teaching urban survivalskills to new generations.

Occasionally.coyotes mighe attack human beings.There have been about 160 attacks on peoplc in reccnt years Therefore,people have bccn consistently told not feed coyotes or leave pct food unseeurcd.That ,plus a large trapping program in the neighborhood.has cur down on the coyote population.

63.The underlinged word “plasticity”in Paragraph 2refers to____________.

A.the ability to fit the environment             B.notonous smartness

C.hunting ability                           D.being human-tolerant                   

64.The aim of the passage is to_____________.

A.tell pcople how to fight against coyotes

B.tell us why the coyote is the most hunted animal

C.supply the reason why the coyote is a kind of motorious pest

D.explain how the coyote has spread to and survived in cities                        

65.According to the passage,coyote__________.

A.originally lived in the west of the continent

B.sleep dung the day but look for food at night

C.are teaching survival skills to therr younger generations

D.suffered a population deerease because pcople killed wolves                       

66.According to the passage,to cut dowa on the coyolc population.people are advised to_______.

A.leave pct food secured                     B.keep coyotes in small regions

C.foree coyotes to live alone                  D.avond using trapping programs             

 (06·湖南A篇)

It’s likely that everything you learned about.America’s ancient history is wrong.

The new book,1491,completely changes our understanding of the Amerieas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.

DID YOU KNOW?

When Columbus landed there were probably more people in the Americas than there were in Europe.

The peoples of North America had such healthy life-styles that as late as the 19^th century they continued to be the tallest people on earth.

Facts have shown that the Amenicas were populated as long as 33,000 years ago.

4,000 years ago Mesoamerican famers developed com in a feat (技艺) of genetie engineering that still isn’t completely understood.

COMMENTS ON 1491

“In the tradition of  Jared Diamond & John MePhee,a totally new view of precolunhian America”.

－Richard Rhodes

“Attrnctively written and really absorbing Charles C.Mann has produced a book that’s part detective story,part cpie(史诗)　and part tragedy(不幸).He has taken on a vast topic:thousands of years,two huge continents,and cultures.”

－Charles Matthews,San Jese Mercary News

“Powerful and challenging”

－Alan Taylor,Washingto post

“A pleasure to read as well as a wonderful education”

－Howard Zinn

56.On the whole,1491 is a book mainly about America’s________.

A.life-styles           B.population          C.history            D.agrieulture

57.Which of the following as NOT TRUE about the comments on the book 1491?

A. It is interesting and instructive.

B. It is attractive and culturally related.

C. It is challenging and revolutionary.

D. It is hurnorous and persuasive.

58.From this passage,we can learn_________.

A.people settled in the Amencas a little carlier than 1942

B.North Americans were the tallest in the 18^th cenntry in the world

C.Mesoamencan farmers knew genclic engineering 5,000 years ago

D.the population in the Americas was smaller than that in Europe in 1492

 (06·湖南D篇)

The discovery of a dwarfed (矮个的)”human being” who lived in Flores .Indonesin .up to 18,000 years ago is changing the way we think about the human family .This “Flores Human”was three foot tall and her brain was smaller than that lf the average chimp (黑猩猩).yet she and her relatives apparently lived fully human lives .They seem to have made tools ,worked together to find food and cook it,and perhaps even hurried their dead with ceremony.

It was a major surprise to find tools associated with the new human family member .The tools are like those frmmerly seen only with European fossils (化石)from our own species;Homo sapiens (智人)；and the oldest of them were made  94,000years ago .Homo sapiens is thought to have amved in the island about 40,000 years ago ,much too late to be responsible for the tools .If this tiny human made the tools ,them the inside  structure (结构)of its brain must have been more like our own than a chimp’s ,despite being just a third the size of ours.

   This “new human” was suspected to be a dwarfed ranch of Homo erectus (直立人). When creatures are separated in regions with rare resources but few enemies,being big is a disadvantage, and evolution tends to shrink them, aprocess known as island dwarfing.Could natural selection make a human smaller while keeping----even improving----mental ability ?Quite possibly, believes Christopher Wills of the University of California.

   Has the “Flores Human” even shown the ability of language? “I find it difficult to imagine that people could make tools.use fire ,and kill large animals without fairly advanced communication.”  Wills says .Did “Flores Human” possess the basic components of human culture ---such as the burying of the dead with ceremony ?  Emiliano Bruner of the Italian Institute points out that Indonesia’s hot,wet environment is bad for fossilization.It is reasonable to assume ,he says ,that the 18,000-year-old bones of the most complete Flores woman were well-preserved because she was buried with special care.

67.According to the passage , “Flores Human”______.

A. lived a partly human life

B. was a branch of Homo sapiens

C. used tools before Homo sapiens arrived

D. had a brain as a common chimp’s                    

68.The underlined part “this tiny human”in Paragraph 2 refers to _______.

A.a chimp     .       B.Flores Human       C.Homo sapiens       D.Homo sapiens                  

69.This passage mainly talks about______.

A. the tools made by “Flores Human”

B. the language used by “Flores Human”

C. the evolution of “Flores Human”

D. the major surprising findings about “Flores Human”      

70.According to the passage ,it is believed that “Flores Human”_______.

A. was dwarfed by its enemies   

B. could use language

C. left a lot of fossils in hot and wet environment

D. reached Flores 40,000 years ago