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Our listener question this week comes from Abdullahi Farah, who wants to know about the life and work of Doctor Benjamin Carson.

Doctor Carson is an internationally recognized doctor at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He has been the director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at the hospital for twenty-five years. At the age of thirty-three, he became one of the youngest doctors in the United States to hold that position. And he was the first African-American to have that position at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Ben Carson is known for his work as a brain surgeon for children. For example, in nineteen eighty-seven, he led a team of seventy doctors and nurses in an operation to separate two babies joined at the head. Earlier attempts by other surgeons on other babies had failed. Doctor Carson successfully performed the operation. Both babies were able to survive independently.

Doctor Carson has written four books. His first book, "Gifted Hands," tells the story of his life. Benjamin Carson was born in nineteen fifty-one in Detroit, Michigan.

As a boy, Ben was not a good student. In fact, he was the worst in his class. When his mother learned of his failing grades she asked her sons to read two library books every week. She limited the amount of time they watched television. And she told them to respect every person.

Ben Carson soon became the top student in his class. He went on to study at Yale University, one of the best universities in the country, and later to medical school at the University of Michigan.

Doctor Carson has received many awards and honors. Last year he received the nation's highest civilian honor. Former President George W. Bush presented Benjamin Carson with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a ceremony at the White House.

45. The passage is probably taken from _____.

A. a radio              B. a magazine        C. TV            D. a paper

46. What does the word “surgeons” in paragraph 3 mean?

A. nurses        B. doctors              C. hospitals     D. points

47. Benjamin Carson’s change in study was largely because of ______

A. his hard work           B. his teacher

C. his mother                D. his father

48. What’s the aim to write the passage?

A. To call on us to learn from Benjamin Carson.

B. To praise Benjamin Carson for his achievements.

C. To show us how Benjamin Carson succeeded

D. To introduce Benjamin Carson’s life and work

第二节：短文改错（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

   此题要求改正所给短文中的错误，对标有题号的每一行做出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个钩(√)；如有错误（每行只有—个错误），则按下列情况改正：

    此行多一个词：把多余的侧用斜线(\)划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

    此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(^)，在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

    此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

    注意：原行没有错的不要改。

When train fairs went up for the third times in one year, I decided          76______

buy a motorcycle to ride to work. My idea was that. although I            77______

would have to pay for tax, insurance and gasoline, I will still spend        78______

more than on train tickets over the year. I might even save time on         79______

the journey from home to work. So I bought for one small                80______

second-hand Japanese motorcycle. I began to learn to ride them. At first     81______

it seemed very difficult for me when l had never learned to ride           82______

a ordinary bicycle before. But I soon got used to it. I just fell             83______

off once or twice during the first few weeks, but after a while            84______

I felt reasonable confident and rode to work every day.                 85______

9.  After playing basketball for two hours. he returned home.

  A.  tiredly and thirsty      B.  tired and thirstily

  C.  tiredly and thirstily    D.  tired and thirsty

15. _____ U2, the Irish rock band from Dublin perform a concert in Beijing, tell me in advance.

A. If                     B. Shall                 C. Should              D. Would

29．He’s particular about food, I dare not serve him the dish, __________ his scolding.

A．with fear of　   B．in fear of   C．for fear of　　  D．on fear of

18._________is often the case, he didn’t study hard and failed to pass the test.  

A. What                B. Which               C. It                      D. As

According to the report, the American government didn’t intend to have its troops____of war zone.

A. pulled out                B. dropped out           C. driven out                D. run out

完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Doing community service work, I spent three or four hours handing out warm dinner to the homeless out in the streets. After that I went to a   36   shelter not far from the Bay Bridge.

I was in high school and at the time my sister was too young to   37   . She wanted to help,    38   she made four or five dozen chocolate chip cookies for me to    39    and hand out to people. When getting to the homeless shelter I passed out the remaining meals. I had the containers with my   40   cookies in them and began to   41   , offering them to anyone near me.

I    42    an old gentleman and said, “Sir, would you like a cookie?” He stopped and turned around, looked at me    43   in the eye and said, “What did you say? Did you call me sir?” I told him I had, and his eyes    44    a little bit and he said, “No one has    45    called me sir.” He was completely taken aback.

It struck me. 

I explained I had been raised that    46    color and social status, everyone deserved     47    . It made me    48    to think that just because he was homeless, no one    49   him the honor. It broke my   50   , and I couldn’t help   51   cry. I just didn’t understand    52   no one ever called him sir? I had never thought that anyone was below me because I wasn’t raised that way. Every    53   person deserves to be treated with dignity. Years later, I still carry that memory and the    54   it taught me. Sometimes, what we take for granted can    55   make a difference in someone’s life.

How have you made a difference to others? How have others made a difference to you?

36. A. useless                              B. careless                 C. homeless                        D. hopeless

37. A. participate                  B. involve    C. choose                   D. go

38. A. however                B. but               C. yet                  D. so

39. A. bring                 B. fetch             C. collect               D. take

40. A. classmate’s               B. schoolmate’s      C. sister’s                  D. family’s

41. A. walk around      B. knock around      C. come around                D. stand around

42. A. went                     B. came             C. approached             D. met

43. A. right                       B. even               C. still                   D. just

44. A. watered     B. cried                C. tore                  D. dropped

45. A. already               B. ever             C. still                  D. yet

46. A. in spite                B. regardless of      C. concerned about       D. for fear of

47. A. happiness                         B. truth                       C. respect                           D. help

48. A. strong-minded                B. sad                      C. frightened             D. pleased

49. A. handed                     B. afforded            C. provided               D. supplied

50. A. eyes                                   B. mind                       C. opinions                          D. heart

51. A. but                                      B. and                         C. until                                 D. or

52. A. what                 B. when              C. whether               D. why

53. A. single                      B. poor             C. ordinary              D. normal

54. A. stories                               B. lessons                  C. experiences                   D. tears

55. A. equally                               B. hardly           C. really                               D. finally

D

College libraries are designed primarily for research and study. To explain its use, let us choose a research topic and follow the step-by-step procedure of looking up the material for the paper. Suppose your assignment is to write a paper on a novel called “The Sun Also Rises” by American writer Hemingway. The first step is to go to the main catalog. Many small drawers on the large wooden cabinets are lined up in alphabetical(字母的) order. Each of the drawers contains hundreds of alphabetical ordered cards. These cards are printed references to all material available in the library. Title cards are cataloged() by the first word of the book title, leaving out the articles like “a”, “an” and “the”. And then you get the cards for the books you need. On the upper left corner of each card is the call number. This is the numerical code that shows where the book is located in the library. The library has open and closed stacks. If your book is on the open stacks, you can go to the open-stack room, and according to the call number find it out by yourself. There are only about 30,000 books on o pen stacks, while most of the 800,000 books in our library are kept in closed stacks, which are accessible only to teachers and graduate students. For undergraduates like you, borrowing books from the closed stacks have to be done with the help of our librarian. In that case, you must fill out a call slip(纸条) for the book, showing the call number, author and title. You can get call slips on tables near the catalog cabinets. You show your call slip together with your library card to a librarian at the information desk. He or she will help you find the book out in the closed stacks.

53.What is the main purpose of this text?

A. To present readers a brief introduction to a college library.  

B. To guide readers how to find books needed in a college library.

C. To tell readers how to fill out a call slip in a college library.

D. To show readers where to find books in a college library.

54.What letter you should look for on the title card for the book “The Old Man and the Sea” by the Hemingway?

A. The letter “t”.           B. The letter “h”.           C. The letter “s”.           D. The letter “o”.

55.How are books arranged and shelved in the library?

A. By call numbers.                                          B. By call slips of authors’ names.

C. In alphabetical order.                             D. By the first word of book title.

56.Suppose you are an undergraduate and you want to borrow a book from the closed stacks, which is the correct order to do it?

a. go to the main catalog                     b. show your call slip and library card

c. find out the call number           d. fill out a call slip

e. get the cards for the books

A.a-b-e-d-c                   B. a-e-c-d-b                  C. b-a-c-d-e                  D. b-c-a-e-d

5. I don't know what to_________at the university. I can't make any forecasts about my future.

A. take in               B. take over                  C. take off        D. take up