More often than not, young readers find the novels of Dickens far more exciting than _______ of Thackeray.

A. ones           B. them           C. these             D. those

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每题2分，满分40分）

请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

The story is about a 92-year-old lady. She is fully dressed each morning by eight, with her hair fashionably done and makeup perfectly applied. She is moving to a nursing home today. Her husband recently passed away, making the move necessary.

      After waiting for many hours patiently in the lobby（大厅） of the nursing home, she smiled sweetly when told her room was ready. As she maneuvered（操作） her walker to the elevator, I provided a description of her tiny room. “I love it,” she stated with childlike enjoyment.

      “Mrs. Jones, you haven’t seen the room yet. Just wait,” I said.

      “That doesn’t have anything to do with it,” she replied. “Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn’t depend on how the furniture is arranged. It depends on how I arrange my mind, I have already decided to love it before I see it. It’s a kind of decision I make every morning when I wake up.”

      “I have a choice： I can spend the day in bed counting the difficulties I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do. Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open I’ll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I’ve shored away.”

      “Life is like a bank account from which you withdraw（提取） what you’ve put in. so, my advice to you would be to deposit（存） a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories. Thank you for your part in filling my memory bank. I am still depositing.”

   56. Mrs. Jones has to move to a nursing home probably because _______.

   A. she needs others to do her hair           B. she wants to visit a friend there

   C. she is not willing to become homeless     D. she has no family to take care of her

   57. What makes Mrs. Jones satisfied with her new room?

   A. Her own decision.                     B. The size of the room

   C. The author’s description                D. The arrangement of the furniture

   58. According to the passage, the old lady _______.

   A. has a positive attitude towards life         B. has a lot of money in her bank account

   C. is very lonely and in fact not happy at all D. is self-centered and never takes others’ advice

   59. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

   A. How to Live Economically.               B. Life Like a Bank Account

   C. Always Smile to Others.                  D. New Life in the Nursing Home

  Not long ago, people thought babies were not able to learn things until they were five or six months old. Yet doctors in the United States say babies begin learning on their first day of life.

Scientists note that babies are strongly influenced by their environment. They say a baby will smile if her mother does something the baby likes. A baby learns to get the best care possible by smiling to please her mother or other caregiver. This is how babies learn to connect and communicate with other human beings.

One study shows that babies can learn before they are born. The researchers placed a tape recorder on the stomach of a pregnant woman. Then, they played a recording of a short story.  On the day the baby was born, the researchers attempted to find if he knew the sounds of the story repeated while in his mother. They did this by placing a device in the mouth of the newborn baby.

The baby would hear the story if he moved his mouth one way. If the baby moved his mouth the other way, he would hear a different story. The researchers say the baby clearly liked the story he heard before he was born. They say the baby would move his mouth so he could hear the story again and again.

Another study shows how mothers can strongly influence social development and language skills in their children.

Researchers studied the children from the age of one month to three years. The researchers attempted to measure the sensitivity of the mothers. The women were considered sensitive if they supported their children’s activities and did not interfere unnecessarily. They tested the children for thinking and language development when they were three years old. Also, the researchers observed the women for signs of depression.

The children of depressed women did not do as well in tests as the children of women who did not suffer from depression. The children of depressed women did poorly in tests of language skills and understanding what they hear.

These children also were less cooperative and had more problems dealing with other people. The researchers noted that the sensitivity of the mothers was important to the intelligence development of their children. Children did better when their mothers were caring, even when they suffered from depression.

64. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT the factor that influences intelligence development in babies?

      A. The environment.             B. Mother’s sensitivity.

       C. Their peers(同龄人)        D. Education before birth.

65. What is the purpose of the experiment in which newborn babies heard the stories?

      A. To prove that babies can learn before they are born.

      B. To prove that babies can learn on the first day they are born.

      C. To show mothers can strongly influence intelligence development in their babies.

      D. To indicate early education has a deep effect on the babies’ language skills.

66. Which group of children did the worst in tests of language skills?

      A. The children of depressed mothers who cared little for their children.

      B. The children of women who did not suffer from depression.

      C. The children of depressed but caring mothers.

       D. Children with high communication abilities.

67. What is the main idea of the passage?

      A. Scientific findings about how babies develop before birth.

      B. Scientific findings about how the environment has an effect on babies’ intelligence.

      C. A study shows babies are not able to learn things until they are rice or six months old.

      D. Scientific findings about how intelligence develops in babies.

What kind of car will we be driving in 2010? Rather different from the type we know today, with the next 20 years bringing greater change than the past 50．The people who will be designing the models of tomorrow believe that environmental problems may well accelerate the pace of the car’s development. Today they are students on the transport design course at London’s Royal College of Art.

Their vision is of a machine with three wheels instead of four, electrically powered, environmentally clean, and able to drive itself along “intelligent” roads equipped with built-in power supplies. Future cars will pick up their fuel during long journeys from a power source built into the road, or store it in small quantities for travelling in the city.

Instead of today’s seating arrangements—two in front, two or three behind, all facing forward--- the 2010 car will have a versatile interior with adults and children in a family circle.

This view of the future car is based on a much more sophisticated road system, with strips built into motorways to supply power to vehicles passing along them, cars will not need drivers, because computers will provide safe driving control and route finding. All the driver will have to do is say where to go and the computer will do the rest. It will become impossible for cars to crash into one another. The technology already exists for the car to become a true automobile.

71．What kind of car will we be driving in 2010?

A．Three wheeled.                 B．Electrically powered.

C．With a versatile seating arrangement   D．All of the above.

72．How long will a volunteer be required to spend?

A．A few hours every day.                 B．A couple of hours each day.

C．One or two hours every two weeks.      D．A few days per week.

73．What does the word “versatile” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A．having many different kinds of skill

B．easily able to change from one direction to another

C．easily able to change from one kind of activity to another

D．having many different uses

74．In paragraph 4 “with strips built into motorways to supply power to vehicles passing along them” means “there are many ____”.

A．traffic lights to control the speed of future cars

B．street posts to indicate directions for drivers

C．power sources along the street are able to supply power to automobiles

D．stop marks along the street to stop cars

75．What is the main idea of the passage?

A．Future cars are completely different from the automobiles we know today.

B．The design of future cars will be more sophisticated.

C．Because of the new type of cars, our future environment will become cleaner.

D．The road system will become more sophisticated than it is today.

根据提示，翻译下列句子（共7小题；每题2分，最后一题3分，满分15分）。

91. 不要信任Bob，即使他没撒谎，也并不意味着他说出了所有的真相。(trust, mean)

92. 世界杯每四年举行一次，就像奥运会一样。（hold）

93. 一到达山顶，我就体验到了一种幸福感和成就感。（upon）

94. 我生日时她给我买了一些羊毛、酒和瓷器。总而言之，她很爱我。（as a whole）

95. 很多因素使得英语发展成这种新的类型。（contribute）

96. 女生的友谊通常建立在共同的情感和相互支持上。（base）

97. 他真后悔浪费很多时间打电子游戏，现在他决定努力学习各门功课。(regret, determined)

I want to be liked and loved for _______ I am inside.

A. who                   B. where                C. what                 D. how

 It was funny to see that the dog’s eyes immediately ________ at the sight of its owner. 

 A. lit up                     B. fixed up                   C. did up                      D. turned up 

 The long-lasting war, ______ with blood and death, ended in people’s sadness, ______ no result.

A. filling; reached            B. filled; to reach              

C. filling; would reach     D. filled; reaching

James finished his lunch in _____hurry _____some of the food was all over the table.　　

         A．so; that 　　　        B．such a; that 　 C．so a; / 　　　  D．such; /

He hid himself behind the door to avoid _____.　　

         A．to see　　　   B．to be seen　　  C．being seen　　      D．seeing