请认真阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项题卡上将该项涂黑。

       In eighteen thirty, only a few miles away from what is now the great city of Cincinnan,  Ohio, lay a   36  and almost endless forest.

       The area had a few settlements   37   by people of the frontier. Many of them had already left the area for settlements further   39   the west. But among those   40   was a man who had been one of the first people to arrive there.

       He lived alone in a house of logs surrounded   41  all sides by the great forest. He seemed a part of the darkness and   42   of the forest, for no one had   43   known him to smile or speak an unnecessary word. His simple needs were   44  by selling or trading the skins of wild animals in the town.

       His little log house had a single door. Directly   45   was a window. The window was boarded up(堵住). No one could remember a(n)  46   when it was not. And no one knew why it had been   47  .  I imagine there are few people living today who ever knew the   48   of that window. But I am one, as you shall   49  .

       The man's name was said to be Murlock. He   50   to be seventy years old, but he was really fifty. Something other than years had been the   51  of his aging.

       His hair and long, full beard were white.  His gray,   52   eyes were sunken.  His face was wrinkled. He was tall and thin with drooping shoulders—like someone with many   53  .

       I never saw him. These   54   I learned from my grandfather. He told me the man's story   55   I was a boy. He had known him when living nearby in that early day.

A.huge      B.heavy       C.small D.bright

A.discovered     B.created     C.established       D.invented

A.visited   B.reached     C.left    D.loved

A.in   B.for    C.over  D.to

A.moving  B.remaining C.traveling   D.hunting

A.along     B.by     C.with  D.on

A.silence   B.noises       C.brightness D.freshness

A.never     B.ever  C.once  D.sometimes

A.understood    B.exchanged C.satisfied    D.offered

A.outside B.inside       C.before      D.opposite

A.time     B.opportunity      C.story D.experience

A.opened B.closed       C.destroyed  D.protected

A.secreet B.structure   C.formation D.construction

A.guess   B.see    C.suppose    D.feel

A.seemed B.happened  C.pretended  D.appeared

A.cause   B.cure  C.reason      D.affection

A.pretty   B.lively       C.lifeless      D.horrible

A.achievementsB.enemies   C.problems  D.dreams

A.lessons B.details      C.summaries       D.ideas

A.because       B.since C.when D.although

As dangerous as sharks may have seed to people after watching Jaws, which was released on June 20,1975, the recent disastrous decrease in their numbers show that people have proven far more dangerous to sharks.

    This disastrous decline is due in large part to commercial fishing of sharks. “The market for

shark fins(鱼翅)in East Asia opened up thanks to changes in their economy, increasing their

ability to spend money on things such as shark fin soup,” Burgess said.

However, the biggest worry for sharks and their relatives, the skates and rays, which are suffering a similar fate, “is how they are killed incidentally when fishermen try and take other fish—the problem of bycatch(渔业混获),” Burgess explained. “They may be thrown back afterward, but they’re still dead.”

The key of the problems behind bringing sharks back is that “they’re not the same as other fish,” Burgess said, “Sharks are slow growing and slow to reach maturity. Sharks are live bearers, which means females keep their young in their body just like us, but instead of nine months, it takes 12 to 18 months or more in sharks. Also, sharks generally can’t give birth again until a year after they’ve given birth—sometimes they’re on a three-year cycle. So once you get a shark population knocked down, this ‘life in the slow lane’ means that recovery is measured in decades rather than years.”\

Burgess said, “I’m on the recovery team for it, but the recovery plan for that is over the course of 100 years. So I won’t see them recover, nor will you, nor will your children. That’s what it means when these animals go down—they’re down a long time.”

Any measures aimed at saving sharks must not only consider byeatch, “which is the real killer right now,” but also encourage interactional cooperation, Burgess said.

“Sharks are very migratory, and many species cross borders,” he said. “We can protect them only by getting many govemment to come aboard. That’s the hardest part about this.”

The text mainly tells us       .

       A.shark fins are valuable    B.sharks are dangerous

       C.bycatch brings bad effects       D.sharks are in danger

The number of sharks is decreasing mostly because of      .

       A.the film Jaws          B.commercial interests

       C.changes in economy D.shark fin soup

Bringing sharks back is difficult because      .

       A.they’re like the other fish      

       B.their reproductive rate is slow

       C.they can’t give birth again     

       D.their life cycle is only 3 years

What can be concluded from the last paragraph?

       A.Sharks live the way human beings do.

       B.It’s time many govemments cooperate.

       C.Sharks’ migration takes a very long time.

       D.Bycatch shouldn’t be forbidden by intemational laws.

The test is most probably a        .

       A.newspaper ad          B.book review

       C.science news report  D.science fiction story

阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36—55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。

Taking Care

From a very early age, I knew I wanted to be a nurse. My mother was a nurse and I have always  36  her and the way she took care of everyone. I wanted to be just like her.

So, here I am, a   37  for the last seven years. I love my work. Now, my father is quite   38  . He is 71 and has heart failure, and a lot of other medical  39  . Up until April of this year, he was able to live alone, drive, and   40  all of his own needs. His health has broken sown swiftly. I’m the only girl out of the five children. Being the only girl and a nurse  41  me at the top of the caregiver list. Taking care of a sick parent is very  42  , not at all like taking care of other patients. I have to   43  my own family to be here with Dad. I know this is   44  I need to be but it is still hard. I   45  abut 12-15 hours day taking care of him. I want to spend all of the time that I can with him because I know that our   46  left together is short.

At the same time, I find myself  47  that my brothers don’t help more. Sometimes, it is days between their   48  . they all have families of their own and busy lives but…so do I. My eldest brother does help some. He   49  at night. He comes in at 8 or 9pm and lets me go home. But he is up and   50  to hit the road at about 6 am. My   51  brothers pop in for 10-15 minute visits. It is   52  annoying. They say they  53  stand “to see Daddy this way” which I understand. It hurts me to see him so sick  54  weak, too. But …he’s our Dad. He has taken care of us our whole lives. I just  55  like we should all do our part to take care of him now.

A.missed   B.admired    C.cheered     D.loved

A.nurse     B.mother     C.doctor      D.daughter

A.stubborn       B.healthy     C.lonely       D.ill

A.puzzles  B.difficulties       C.problems  D.matters

A.give up  B.take care of      C.watch over       D.take up

A.put B.encouraged      C.obliged     D.showed

A.necessary      B.easy  C.important  D.difficult

A.refuse    B.support     C.abandon    D.own

A.when     B.how  C.where       D.why

A.waste   B.spend       C.kill    D.pass

A.money  B.pleasure    C.emotion    D.time

A.angry   B.calm  C.enthusiastic      D.anxious

A.trips     B.favours     C.visits D.meals

A.lives    B.appears     C.sleeps       D.stays

A.likely   B.ready C.sorry D.glad

A.other    B.dear  C.busy  D.pitiful

A.even    B.ever  C.still   D.really

A.mustn’t       B.needn’t     C.can’t D.shouldn’t

A.or B.and   C.yet    D.but

A.feel      B.sound       C.smell D.look

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