It`s 2035. You have a job, a family and you`re about 40 years old! Welcome to your future life.

Getting ready for work, you pause in front of the mirror. “ Turn red,” you say. Your shirt changes from sky blue to deep red. Tiny preprogrammed electronics (智能电子元件) are rearranged in your shirt to change its color. Looking into the mirror, you find it hard to believe you`re 40. You look much younger. With amazing advances in medicine, people in your generation may live to be 150 years old. You`re not even middle-aged!

As you go into the kitchen and prepare to pour your breakfast cereal into a bowl , you hear, “To lose weight , you shouldn`t eat that.” from your shoes. They read the tiny electronic code (电子源码) on the cereal box to find out the nutrition details. You decide to listen to your shoes. “Kitchen, what can I have for breakfast?” A list of possible foods appears on the counter as the kitchen checks its food supplies.

“Ready for your trip to space?” you ask your son and daughter. In 2005 only specially trained astronauts went into space – and very few of them. Today anyone can go to space for day trips or longer vacations. Your best friend even works in space. Handing your children three strawberries each , you add, “The doctor said you need these for space travel.” Thanks to medical advances, vaccination shots(防疫针) are a thing of the past. Ordinary foods contain special vaccines. With the berries in their mouths, the kids head for the front door.

It`s time for you to go to work. Your car checks your fingerprints and unlocks the doors. “My office. Autopilot.” you command. Your car drives itself down the road and moves smoothly into traffic on the highway. You sit back and unroll your e-newspaper. The latest news downloads and fills the viewer. Looking through the pages, you watch the news as video film rather than read it.

55. What changed the color of your shirt?

                A. The mirror

B. The shirt itself

C. The counter

D. The medicine

56. How do the shoes know that you shouldn`t eat the breakfast cereal?

 A. By pouring the breakfast into a bowl               

B. By listening to the doctor`s advice

C. By testing the food supplies in the kitchen           

D. By checking the nutrition details of the food

57. The strawberries the children eat serve as________.

A. breakfast                        B.lunch

C. vaccines                   D. nutrition

58. How is the text organised?

A. in order of time

B. in order of frequency  

C. in order of preference

D. in order of importance

完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)

阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。

I have never learned as much math in my life as I did last year, It was because of Ms. Pam  21    I truly understood what I was learning. It might not seem  22     a big deal to some,but to me it is. I have never met a woman so caring and so determined to teach her  23  .

I never really wanted to work for good   24   in math class. I never knew how to study math and never understood some of the concepts. I can remember trying to sneak (偷偷溜出) the classroom    25    Ms. Pam caught me and yelled across the   26   ," Lauren, are you coming to extra help during lunch?" It was a nightmare… She would always  27  me with one foot out of the door; it never   28  . Even then I just thought of it as a thing I had to do. It was funny to see how everyone would be in her room during lunch and then again after school. She would  29  everyone to come every day,just so we could do our homework in  30  .

Many of the students thought of her as a bit of nag (唠叨),but  31  they knew that she was right and   32   for it. Many of her tests were hard at first,but as the year progressed,many students felt them easier,so did I. I knew that it was because of her.

Even outside class,she was  33  as ever. She always wanted to know what was going on in my(and everyone else’s)life,and she was always looking out for everyone’s best interest.

    Ms. Pam is a sweet woman with a sense of   34   that you just have to laugh at. When regents were approaching,she was more concerned than ever about everyone doing well. Many of her precious students   35  high,and so she  36  the same from us. Day after day there were students in the classroom   37   problems. When it was time for our big test,I knew I was ready. I walked out of that test with my head  38 . I knew that I was a  39  and Ms. Pam had made me that way, I appreciated all the hard work that she put into helping me and my fellow students. I knew that I would  40  her.

21. A. how                     B. what                   C. that                        D. why

22. A. like                           B. as                        C. so                           D. as if

23. A. students               B. children         C. classmates            D. family

24. A. life                         B. salary                C grades             D. subjects

25. A. while                              B. unless                  C. before                         D. until

26. A. seat                  B. classroom         C. yard                 D. kitchen

27. A. see                                 B. catch                  C. help                              D. beat

28. A. succeeded               B. stopped              C. worked             D. failed

29. A. encourage            B. let                         C. forbid                   D. hope

30. A. confusion                      B. peace                             C. surprise                      D. home

31. A. inside                             B. outside              C. almost                       D. hardly

32. A. praised              B. scolded               C. respected                   D. blamed

33. A. frightened            B. caring                  C. hard                 D. right

34. A. duty                  B. time                  C. foolishness              D. humour

35. A. jumped                          B. scored            C. grew                           D. drank

36. A. hoped                      B. received              C. wished                    D. expected

37. A. previewing                 B. making                 C. learning                      D. reviewing

38. A. low                                    B. hanging         C. high                        D. down

39. A. failure                            B. student              C. success                       D. hero

40. A. hate                           B. miss                C. forget                         D. marry

“In our time,” Marx once wrote, “change is upon the world and cannot be stopped as we wish. The thing now is to understand it.” Marx devoted his life to understanding that change.

Born in Trier in 1818, he came from a rich, middle—class family. Many of his relatives believed in Judaism,but his father had changed to believe in Protestantism(新教) in order to become a lawyer. After studying at the universities of Bonn and Berlin, Marx became interested in politics in his early twenties and in 1848 wrote The Communist Manifesto, together with his life-long friend Friedrich Engels.

Revolution broke out throughout Europe in 1848 and Marx was forced to leave Germany when it failed in 1849. He moved to London, where he spent the rest of his life, working in the British Museum.

His stay in the house in Dean Street in Soho was a time of great hardship for Marx and his family. He was surviving almost on the money provided by Engels and on the very little money he earned as the foreign reporter for a newspaper in New York.

Three of his six children died during the time in Soho and, Marx even had to borrow money in order to bury one of them. Only when Marx’s wife Jenny got 120 pounds after her mother died was the family able to move out of Soho and into a slightly better house in Kentish Town.

Marx died on March 14th ,1883, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery in north London.

60.Why did Karl Marx’s father change his belief from Judaism to Protestantism?

      A.For his son’s education.                      B.For his career development.

       C.Not to be looked down on.                     D.To move to another country.

61.Why did Karl Max leave Germany?

       A.He was offered a job by the British Museum.     B.He couldn’t find work in Germany.

       C.The political situation was very dangerous for him.   D.He wanted to write a book.

62.Which of the following statements is true?

       A.Karl Marx lived a happy life in Soho, London

       B.Karl Marx suffered the death of more than half his children

       C.Karl Marx was born in a poor family

       D.Karl Marx lived a better life after his mother-in-law died

63.Which is the right order of the following facts?

a. Marx’s family moved to Kentish Town.

b. Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto with Engels.

c. He began to work as the foreign reporter for a newspaper.

d. Marx had to leave Germany because of the failure of the revolution.

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

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