第四节 : 阅读理解 (共20小题;每小题2分,满分40分)

Ammie Reddick from East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, was only 18 months old when she had the accident that had scarred(留下创伤) her for life. The curious child reached up to grab the wire of a hot kettle in the family kitchen and poured boiling water over her tiny infant frame.

Her mother Ruby turned round and, seeing Ammie horribly burnt, called an ambulance which rushed her daughter to a nearby hospital. Twenty percent of Ammie’s body had been burned and all of her burns were third-degree. There, using tissue taken from unburned areas of Ammie’s body, surgeons(外科医生)performed complex skin grafts(移植) to close her wounds and control her injuries, an operation that took about six hours. Over the next 16 years, Ammie underwent 12 more operations to repair her body.

When she started school at Maxwelton Primary at age 4, other pupils made cruel comments or simply wouldn’t play with her. “ I was the only burned child in the street, the class and the school,” she recalled, “some children refused to become friends because of that.”

Today, age 17, Ammie can only ever remember being a burned person with scars; pain is a permanent part of her body. She still has to have two further skin grafts. Yet she is a confident, outgoing teenager who offers inspiration and hope to other young burns victims.

She is a member of the Scottish Burned Chindren’s Club, a charity set up last year. This month, Ammie will be joining the younger children at the Graffham Water Center in Cambridgeshire for the charity’s first summer camp. “I’ll show them how to shrug off unkind stares from others,” she says. Ammie loves wearing fashionable sleeveless tops, and she plans to show the youngsters at the summer camp that they can too. “I do not go to great lengths to hide my burns scars,” she says, “I gave up wondering how other people would react years ago.”

56.What would be the best title of the passage?

A. Angel of Hope                   B. A seriously burned girl survives

C. Permanent scars and pain for a girl   D. Shrug off unkind stares

57. How many operations has Ammie already had?

   A. One       B. Twelve        C. Thirteen        D. Fifteen

58. What did other children do when Ammie first went to school?

   A. They were friendly to her    B. They laughed at her

   C. They were cruel to her       D. They were afraid of her

59. Ammie will teach the younger children at the Graffham Water Center to ____.

   A. hide their scars by proper dressing    B. face others’ unkindness bravely

   C. recover quickly                   D. live a normal life

60. Which of the following words is not proper to describe Ammie?

   A. Confident      B. Outgoing       C. Optimistic      D. Fashionable

The energy crisis (危机) has made people aware of how the careless use of the earth’s energy has brought the whole world to the edge of disaster. The over – development of motor transport, with its increase of more cars, more traveling, has contributed to the near – destruction of our cities and the pollution not only of local air but also of the earth’s atmosphere.

Our present situation is unlike natural disasters of the past. Worldwide energy use has brought us to a state where long – range planning is vital. What we need is not a continuation of our present serious state, which endangers the future of our country, our children, and our earth, but a movement forward in order to work rapidly and effectively on planetary problems.

This country has been falling back under the continuing exposures of loss of morality and the revelation (揭露) that lawbreaking has reached into the highest place in the land. There is a strong demand for morality to turn for the better and for some devotion that is vast enough and yet personal enough to enlist the devotion of all. In the past it has been only in a way in defense of their own country and their own benefits that people have been able to devote themselves wholeheartedly.

This is the first time that we have been asked to defend ourselves and what we hold dear in cooperation with all the other people of this planet, who share with us the same endangered air and the same endangered oceans. There is a common need to reassess our present course, to change that course and to employ new methods through which the world can survive. This is a priceless opportunity.

To grasp it, we need a widespread understanding of nature if the crisis we and the world are facing is no passing inconvenience, no byproduct of the ambitions of the oil – producing countries, no environmentalists’ only fears, no byproduct of any present system of government. What we face is the result of the invention of the last four hundred years. What we need is transformed life style. This new life style can flow directly from science and technology, but its acceptance depends on a sincere devotion to finding a higher quality of life for the world’s children and future generation.

Which of the following has nearly destroyed our cities?

       A.The loss of beliefs and ideas.  B.More of law – breaking.

       C.Natural disasters in many areas.      D.The rapid growth of motors.

By comparing past problems with present ones, the author draws our attention to the        .

       A.seriousness of this crisis  B.ineffectiveness of laws

       C.similarity of the past to the present D.hopelessness of the situation

Which of the following is used as an example to show the loss of morality?

       A.Disregard for law.          B.Lack of devotion.

       C.Lack of understanding.    D.Destruction of cities.

The author wrote the passage in order to         .

       A.make a recommendation for a transformed life style

       B.limit ambitions of the people of the whole world

       C.demand devotion to nature and future generation

       D.encourage awareness of the decline of morality

I practised religion in this district. I used to find notes left in the collection basket of the church, beautiful notes about my homilies (布道) and about the writer’s thoughts on the daily readings. The  31  attracted me. But it was a long time __32__I met the author of the notes.

One Sunday morning, I was  33  that someone was waiting for me in the office, a young woman who said she  34  all the notes. When I saw her I was  35 , since I had no idea that it was she who wrote the notes. She was sitting in a chair in the office. Her  36  was bowed and when she raised it to look at me, she could hardly  37  without pain. Her face was disfigured (畸形), so smiling was very  38  for her.

We  39  for a while that Sunday morning and agreed to meet for lunch later that week.

As it  40 , we went to lunch several times, and we shared things about our  41 . We spoke of authors we both had  42 , and it was easy to tell that  43  are a great love of hers.

She suffered from a disfigurement which cannot make her look  44 . I know that her condition  45

her deeply. Yet there was a beauty to her that had nothing to do with  46 . She was one to be listened to, whose words came from a wounded but  47  heart. She possessed a fine tuned sense of beauty. Her only

 48  in life was the loss of a friend.

The truth of her life was a desire to see beyond the  49  for a glimpse of what it is that matters. She found  50  and grace (优雅) and they befriended her, and showed her what is real.

31. A. questions         B. words           C. answers          D. texts

32. A. since           B. after                   C. when            D. before

33. A. told                  B. warned               C. informed             D. showed

34. A. lost                    B. left                 C. dropped               D. collected

35. A. shocked              B. satisfied                   C. frightened            D. disappointed

36. A. hand                   B. arm                   C. head                  D. body

37. A. stand                 B. smile               C. say                      D. sit

38. A. pleasant                   B. bitter                C. ugly                  D. difficult

39. A. chatted               B. discussed           C. drank                 D. greeted

40. A. turned out           B. turned up          C. came out             D. came up

41. A. families             B. beliefs               C. hobbies                D. lives

42. A. realized              B. read                C. met                      D. heard

43. A. friends             B. churches           C. writings              D. books

44. A. friendly             B. happy              C. attractive              D. wonderful

45. A. hurt                         B. impressed          C. changed                    D. affected

46. A. fame                 B. wealth              C. interest               D. appearance

47. A. cheerful            B. interesting              C. loving                 D. exciting

48. A. defeat                B. wonder             C. fear                     D. defend

49. A. dream                B. surface              C. imagination        D. time

50. A. success             B. hope               C. beauty                  D. help

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