第三部分  阅读理解 (共两节，满分40分)

第一节 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Recently, one of my best friends, whom I’ve shared just about everything with since the first day of kindergarten, spent the weekend with me. Since I moved to a new town several years ago, we’ve both always looked forward to the few times a year when we can see each other.

Over the weekend, we spent hours and hours, staying up late into the night, talking about the people she was hanging around with. She started telling me stories about her new boyfriend, about how he experimented with drugs and was into other self-destructive behavior. I was blown away! She told me how she had been lying to her parents about where she was going and even stealing out to see this guy because they didn’t want her around him. No matter how hard I tried to tell her that she deserved better, she didn’t believe me. Her self-respect seemed to have disappeared.

I tried to convince her that she was ruining her future and heading for big trouble. I felt like I was getting nowhere. I just couldn’t believe that she really thought it was acceptable to hang with a bunch of losers, especially her boyfriend.

By the time she left, I was really worried about her and exhausted by the experience. It had been so frustrating, I had come close to telling her several times during the weekend that maybe we had just grown too far apart to continue our friendship，but I didn’t. I put the power of friendship to the final test. We’d been friends for far too long. I had to hope that she valued me enough to know that I was trying to save her from hurting herself. I wanted to believe that our friendship could conquer anything.

A few days later, she called to say that she had thought long and hard about our conversation, and then she told me that she had broken up with her boyfriend. I just listened on the other end of the phone with tears of joy running down my face. It was one of the truly rewarding moments in my life. Never had I been so proud of a friend.

56. In the writer’s opinion, her friend ________.

   A. was a girl with no self-respect

   B. could find a better boyfriend

   C. was brave enough to stick to her own choice

   D. didn’t value the writer’s suggestion

57. What did the writer worry about?

   A. She would lose the friendship with her.

   B. Her friend’s parents would be worried about their daughter.

   C. Her friend would get into great trouble with the boy.

   D. Her friend’s boyfriend would be in great trouble.

58. We may leam from Paragraph 3 that the writer ________.

   A. didn’t want to go anywhere else

   B. hated her friend’s hanging with her boyfriend

C. couldn’t believe that her friend’s choice was acceptable

   D. doubted that she could in any way help her friend

59. What can be concluded from the passage?

   A. Friendship starting from childhood is not reliable.

   B. Friendship is a cure for any injury in life.

   C. Friendship should be everlasting once begun.

   D. Friendship can have magical power in life.

Some Jewish people risk____ and put to death to escape from Germany during the Second World War.

A. to be caught   B. being caught     C. to catch        catching

20.If you are unable to attend the interview, for __________reason, you should inform us immediately.

A. no matter what     B. whatever                C. however      D. no matter how

写作（满分25分）

目前, 不少人在写作与交流中喜欢使用网络语言, 有时讲汉语时还夹杂着英语, 如PK等。就此现象, 你班最近举行了一场讨论。请根据下表的提示, 客观的介绍讨论情况及你的观点。

1. 词数 ：100-120, 开头已经写出（不计入总词数 ）。

2. 可根据内容要点适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯。

3. 参考词汇：荒诞ridiculous

Nowadays, with the development of the Internet , there came a kind of language called Web Language.

I was so familiar with him that I recognized his voice ____ I pick up the phone.

A. while     B. after        C. in case       D. the moment

17. —Have you heard the latest news?

    —No, What______？

A. is it          B. is there                C. am. they             D. are those

32. Tens of thousands of trees _____ in the area in the past few years.

A. have been planted   B. were planted             C. have planted         D. had planted

“I wanted to do something       I felt like I could make a difference，”says Lina Bilimoria, a student from the UK．   

    A．where                      B．which                                C．that                     D．why

Oprah Winfrey, the queen of American daytime talk TV, is considered one of the most powerful women in the world. Now, after 25 years’ hosting The Oprah Winfrey Show, the star has announced she is calling it quits.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the move “signals the beginning of the decline for the daytime talk show.” More women are working full-time jobs, and people are turning to cable (有线电视) and pre-recorded shows for their entertainment.

It may be that Oprah isn’t quitting so much as moving on. She has created the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), and will most likely move her show to the network. If audiences around the world need Oprah, they well know where to look.

Oprah Winfrey was born to a single teenage mother in a small town in rural Mississippi, US. As a child, she lived with poverty and abuse. But she got a job at a local radio station, where her honesty, emotional style won her many fans. She quickly rose through the ranks of radio and television before launching her own production company and starting her own show.

Oprah’s talk show was not the first of its kind, but it quickly became the best and most popular. It made talk shows popular, and others jumped in to start similar shows. But while other talk shows turned ugly, featuring guests who argued and attacked each other with chairs, Oprah rose above the mess.

“Part of her power lies in the fact that her life story resonates (产生共鸣) with her audience, as a kind of version of the American dream,” writes Kevin Connolly, a reporter with the BBC.

She became a star because of the way she opened up about her problems to her audience. She shared her own struggles with relationships and weight. She focused on self-help. Connolly believes “something in her honesty and her sometimes painfully emotional directness struck home with a certain type of American”.

60. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

   A. The stop of Oprah’s show reflects the decrease of audience.

   B. Oprah hosted her show for about 25 years.

   C. American talk show was pioneered by Oprah.

   D. Oprah used to be a radio presenter.

61. What does the underlined sentence mean?

A. Oprah could deal with the guests fighting very well.

   B. Oprah’s show stood out with her unique style.

   C. Oprah turned a deaf ear to other people’s quarrel.

   D. Oprah’s fame rose because lots of people watch her show.

62. From Kevin Connolly, we know people like Oprah’s show for all the reasons EXCEPT ________.

   A. Oprah always shares people’s life stories in her show

   B. the audiences are touched by Oprah’s honesty and frankness

   C. Oprah’s life story reflects the truth of American dream

   D. some audiences are inspired by Oprah’s show

63. According to the text, Oprah ________.

   A. always volunteers to help those who need help

   B. has practiced presentational skills since she was young

   C. believes that one should rely on himself to solve problems

D. calls on women to work full-time jobs

E

    No matter how long your life is, you will, at best, be able to read only a few books of all that Have been written, and he few you do read should include the best. It is to be expected that the selections will change over time. Yet there is a surprising uniformity（一致）in the lists which represent the best choices of any period.

What are the signs by which we may recognize a great book? The four I will mention may not be all there are, but they are the ones I’ve found most useful in explaining my choices over the years.

Great books are probably the most widely read. They are not bet sellers for a year or two. But they are long lasting ones. Gone With the Wind has had relatively few readers compared to the plays of Shakespeare or Don Quixote. It would be reasonable to estimate that Homer Iliad（《伊利亚特》）has been read by at least 25,000,000 people in the last 3000 years.

Great books are popular, not pedantic（书生气的）.They are not written by specialists about specialties for specialists. Whether they are philosophy or science, or history or poetry, they treat of human, not academic problems. They are written for men, not professors. To read a textbook for advanced students, you have to read an elementary textbook first. But the great books can be considered elementary in the sense that they treat the elements of any subject matter. They are not related to one another as a series of textbooks, graded in difficulty or in the technicality of the problems with which they deal.

Great books are always contemporary, the most readable and instructive.

Great books deal with the persistently unsolved problems of human life. There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Great minds acknowledge mysteries honestly. Wisdom ins strengthened, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations.

72．Which is NOT the standard in the following when evaluating a great book?

       A．Although not a best seller, it must be the most widely read.

       B．It can be read without much relevant knowledge.

       C．Great books are never out of date.

       D．Great books will not disappoint you.

73．According to the author, Gone With the Wind is        .

       A．sure to enjoy a large number of readers in the long run

       B．disliked by readers who like Shakespeare

       C．not a great book because of the few readers

       D．read more often than Don Quixote

74．After reading the passage, we can infer that        .

       A．different periods have different lists of great books because there are many books for people to choose from

       B．if you don’t read an elementary textbook, you may have difficulty in understanding in   understanding an advanced one

       C．Homer Iliad must be a best seller when it came out

       D．great books often deal with unsolved problems of human life for the writers have confidence in settling them

75．The best title for this passage is         .

       A．Great Books in Your Life           B．Great Books in Your Specialty

       C．How to Find a Great Book      D．What Is a Great Book