三、完形填空（总计20小题，每小题1.5分）

It was a sunny day．A city man was driving along a country road with a new wagon（马车）and a beautiful pair of horses．He didn’t pay a lot of 36 to where he was going．Pretty soon he 37 that he was lost， but he 38 to drive， expecting to   

refind his way or to 39 someone who could tell him how to get back to the 40．

It was a long 41 road．For many hours he kept on driving．When it was almost 42，he saw in a 43 a tall farmer ploughing the land． He stopped his 44 team of horses near the fence and called out，“Hello， farmer．”

    “Hello，yourself，”the farmer replied，45  ploughing．

    “Where does the horse 46？”he asked without knowing his language errors（错误）．

    “I haven’t seen it go anywhere．It 47 stays right where it is，”said the farmer，48 stopping his work．

    “How far is it to the next town？” said the city man，speaking a little 49．

    “Don’t know．I never 50 it，” replied the farmer． By this time the city man was getting 51．“What do you know？ You’re the biggest fool I 52 saw．”

    53 stopping the farmer turned and looked for a long time 54 at the city man．Then he said，“Maybe I don’t know much．55 I am a fool． But at least I’m not lost！” 

36. A. signs         B. orders         C. attention       D. direction

37. A. realized      B. recognized     C. accepted        D. received

38. A. stopped       B. used           C. wanted          D. continued

39. A. miss          B. meet           C. look            D. lose

40. A. town          B. country        C. capital         D. village

41. A. lonely        B. busy           C. dirty           D. crowded

42. A. at noon       B. at night       C. raining         D. dark

43. A. truck         B. pile           C. field           D. store

44. A. strong        B. tired          C. weak            D. tiring

45. A. but           B. went on        C. stopped         D. still

46. A. go            B. lead up        C. get             D. show

47. A. always        B. often          C. sometimes       D. seldom

48. A. began         B. still          C. without         D. already

49. A. clearly       B. lower          C. more loudly     D. more politely

50. A. judged        B. measured       C. saw             D. studied

51. A. sad           B. lovely         C. friendly        D. angry

52. A. ever          B. often          C. even            D. never

53. A. Still         B. Not            C. With            D. Finally

54. A. gladly        B. immediately    C. in silence      D. excitedly

55. A. Really        B. Perhaps        C. Certainly       D. Fortunately

What motivates(激发) us to take on life’s challenges? Is it money, fame, power, or something else? Most businesses operate today on the carrot-and –stick system of rewards(奖赏) and punishments. Employees are rewarded for good performance, and punished for performing badly. This usually works well in situations where workers are performining simple tasks, like cheching products or packing boxes.

However, for jobs that repuire creativity, such as writing or designing, it’s a different matter. In actual fact, people in these jobs are not so much motivated by outer factors like cash rewards. They do their job because they like it. They like the challenge of it, they like the mastery of it, they like the creativity that it requires. These factors are generally called inner motivators, which can be further broken down into autonomy, mastery and purpose.

Autonomy refers to self-direction. The greatest things that have happened in all kinds of societies--western, eastern, modern, ancient—have been the result of people being able to do what they wanted to do. People, like these Iranian portesters in July 2009, follow the human nature to resist(抵制) control and direct their own lives.

Mastery is the desire to become better at something that matters. A recent Harvard business school research shows that the biggest motivator at work by far is making porgress. People, making progress one day, are more likely to be motivated to make greater progress the next day.

And finally, purpose, to do what we do in service of something larger than ourselves. It is not necessarily something like reducing-green-house gases from the atmosphere, but can be simply writing a great story that helps people understand world a little bit better or creating something that brings beauty to somebody’s life.

Today’s business managers, facing the increasingly competitive pressures of a global marketplace, should question their traditional attitudes about what actually motivates us as humans.

57．According to the text, if Jack is a designer, he is most probably motivated by __________.

  A．The carrot-and-stick system    B．cash rewards

  C．outer factors                D．mastery

58．The ujnderlined part in the third paragraph is meant to__________．

  A．suggest that Iranian people desire freedom

  B．show that people tend to guide themselves

  C．prove that autonomy can make people great

  D．encourage people to do whatever they want

59．It seems that the author__________．

    A．regards purpose as the most important inner factors

    B．is persuading managers to turn to inner motivators

    C．Thinks reducing greenhouse gases is not necessary

    D．is doubtful about what on earth motivates people

60．Which of the following shows the organization of the text?

—Don’t interrupt me while I’m explaining the key points to you.

  —All right__________

A. Wait a moment   B. Go ahead            C. Take your time          D. Forget it

—Shall we go out for a walk?

    —Sorry. I’m too busy to ______-for the moment.

       A．get away B．get off      C．get through      D．get together

You can complain, but I doubt _____ it’ll make any difference．

A．if             B．what      C．that           D．how

Every year, _____ people die from illness caused by smoking．

       A．millions of       B．million of C．millions    D．million

 Nowadays, many people________about eating habits _________what they believe.

A. take choices; base on                     B. make choices; based on

C. do choices; basing on                     D. have choices; to base on

第三部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

Are some people born clever, and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our environment and our experiences? Strangely enough, the answer to both these questions is yes. To some extent our intelligence is given to us at birth, and no amount of special education can make a genius out of a child born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and varied surroundings. Thus the limits of a person’s intelligence are fixed at birth, but whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. This view, now held by most experts can be supported in a number of ways.

It is easy to say that intelligence is to some extent something we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be in intelligence. Thus if we take two unrelated people at random from the population, it is likely that their degrees of intelligence will be completely different. If on the other hand we take two identical twins, they will very likely be as intelligent as each other. Relations like brothers and sisters, parents and children, usually have similar intelligence, and this clearly suggests that intelligence depends on birth.

Imagine that now we take two identical twins and put them in different environments. We might send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory where the work is boring. We would soon find differences in intelligence developing, and this indicates that environment as well as birth plays a part. This conclusion is also suggested by the fact that people who live in close contact with each other, but who are not related at all, are likely to have similar degrees of intelligence.

56. By using the example that two people closer in blood relationship are closer in intelligence that writer wants to prove     .

A. intelligence is given at birth

B. intelligence can be developed by environment

C. intelligence can be developed by experience

D. education plays an important part in the development of education

57. A child who lives in rich and varied surroundings turns out higher in intelligence because    .

A. his family is rich and therefore can afford to develop his intelligence

B. he can break the limits of intelligence fixed at birth

C. his family is rich and provides him with various healthy food

D. these surroundings are likely to help him reach the limits of his intelligence

58. The writer of this article believes that    .

A. the development of one’s intelligence is determined by many factors working together

B. environment plays the most important role in the development of intelligence

C. education plays the most important role in the development of intelligence

D. birth plays the most important role in the development of intelligence

59. The best title for this passage might be    .

A. Intelligence                           B. Birth and Environment

C. The Answer to a Question                D. Why Are Some People Born Clever

第二节: 阅读下列材料，从所给的六个选项（A、B、C、D、E和F）中，选出符合各小题要求的最佳选项，并将答案写在答卷纸上。选项中有一项是多余选项。

The following people are trying to choose which TV programme to watch. Read the descriptions and decide which programme would be the most suitable.

71. _______

Although Rob leads a quiet life in a small village, that doesn’t stop him from wanting to find out about the latest scientific development.

72. _______

Bella enjoys eating out but can’t afford to spend very much at the moment as she is saving for holiday. She has never learnt how to cook, so now it might be quite a good time to find out!

73. _______

Dan is interested in taking wildlife photographs and enjoys the kind of programme which gives him a chance to see a professional photographer at work.

74. _______  

Gina is a music teacher. Although she prefers classical music, she likes to follow the kind of music that interests the teenagers she teaches.

75. _______  

Ron’s wife is in hospital. He wants to finds a programme suitable for his three-year-old son while he gets on with the housework and prepares a meal.

TODAYS TELEVISION PROGRAMME PREVIEW

A. TV1 7:20 p.m. Find out more about Australia’s animal life. This film was made last year by one of Australia’s best-known cameramen, Dougie Bond. He spent over 200 hours filming the birds, animals and fish that inhabit this beautiful continent and for the first time brings some of these unusual animals to our TV screens.

B. TV3 9:00 p.m. The popular science programme is back with the latest in technology and medicine. This week, cars that run on sunlight and the story of one baby’s fight live.

C. TV2 8:10 p.m. Do you think what goes into the food most of us eat every day of the week? Tonight’s programme takes a serious scientific look at the bread industry. Whether you bake your own bread or just enjoy buying it, this programme will give you an interesting insight into something most of us eat every day of the week.

D. TV3 8:45 p.m. If you’ve always wanted to cook, now it’s your chance to learn. In the studio are two chefs who will take you through some simple recipes (菜谱) step by step. This is a repeat of the popular series shown last year, and available from most good bookshops.

E. TV3 7:40 p. m. The latest new music. Pete Hogg looks at the best of the current rap, rage and new jack swing plus new video releases. This is programme that tells you all about what’s happening on the music scene and brings you interviews with tomorrow’s young artists.

The news that an earthquake happened in Yushu ______ throughout the whole world quickly.

A. was spread    B. were spreading     C. spread    D. had been spread