I have no _______ to the plan, so long as it would not cost too much.

    A. refusal         B. comment      C. idea       D. objection

第三部分： 阅读理解 （共20小题; 每小题2分,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。

I felt encouraged by his words and began to swim more calmly.But my clothes stuck to me like a heavy weight.I could hardly stay above the surface.

Counsel saw this.“Shall I cut them?”he asked.

With a knife he cut my clothes from top to bottom and took them of quickly while I swam for both of us.Then I did the same for Counsel,and we continued to swim near each other.

 But we were in serious trouble.The crew（船员）might not have noticed our disappearance.

And if they had,they could not return because the rudder（舵）had broken.Counsel thought of all this,and calmly made his plans.We decided to wait for the ship as long as possible,because we had no other hope of safety.I suggested that we save our strength so that both of us would not be tired out at the same time.This was how we did it:While one of us lay on his back,quite still,with arms crossed and legs stretched out（伸直）,the other would swim and push him along.We changed every ten minutes or so.In this way we could swim for hours,perhaps till daylight.The crash（破裂声）of the ship and the whale（鲸）had appeared at about eleven o’clock.We had about eight hours to swim before daylight.This seemed possible,if the sea remained calm.

56.What happened to the man who told the story?

A.He and his companion got into the water to test their strength.

B.He jumped into the water to save the broken rudder.

C.He was knocked into the water by his enemy.

D.He was thrown into the sea when the ship struck a whale.

57.Why did the two men cut their clothes?

A.Because no people helped them to take off their clothes.

B.Because they couldn’t take off their clothes on the sea.

C.Because they wanted to get rid of their clothes quickly.

D.Because they wanted to lifebuoys（救生圈）with their clothes.

58.What does the word “still” in the last paragraph mean?

A.not moving               B.even                         C.yet                            D.however

59.In order to save their strength,______.

A.one of them pushed the other while swimming and then they changed

B.they both swam calmly

C.they crossed their arms and stretched their legs on the water

D.they lay on their backs instead of swimming

60.Which one of the following is true?

A.Neither of the two men was good swimmers.

B.The sea was calm before eleven o’clock that night.

C.The story took place at night.

D.The two men had to swim eight hours to catch up with the ship.

第二节：根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

—I’m standing in the center of Plymouth, the capital of Montserrat, where just one week ago, a volcanic eruption took place. With me is Savage, the officer of the island. Savage, thank you for talking to us.

—You’re Welcome.

—  61 

—Well, the volcano erupted, and the ash and lava poured down the mountain towards the sea. And there are several villages in path.

—  62 

—No. Luckily, we had plenty of warning and told people who lived in the path of the ash and lava to leave the island. We managed to get half the population to another island before the eruption took place.

—  63 

—Eleven thousand people live here and about six thousand people have left.

—  64 

—The most dangerous place is between the volcano and the sea. There are a lot of villages there.

  Sadly, hundreds of houses caught fire when the alva reached them.

—  65 

—Thankfully, no one was killed.

       A．Did it do serous damage?

       B．I’m very sorry to hear that.

       C．When did it happen?

       D．What exactly happened last week?

       E．Which area is the most dangerous?

       F．That’s terrible. Was anybody hurt?

       G．How many people live on the island?

All the villagers took     boats to defend their island against the attackers arriving by     sea.

       A．the; the     B．不填；the C．the; 不填 D．不填；不填    

___ by the beauty of nature, the girl from London decided to spend another two days on the farm.          

A. Attracting         B. Attracted 

C. To be attracted    D. Having attracted

—______ you got to know my telephone number?

       —Through a friend of yours.

       A．How was it      B．How was it that

       C．Was it how that         D．How did

Father finally came back home, which I ___ forward it.

A. had been looking                                       B. have been looking

C. looked                                                      D. have looked

When I was growing up in America, I was ashamed of my mother’s Chinese English. Because of her English, she was often treated unfairly. People in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her.

My mother has realized the limitations of her English as well. When I was fifteen, she used to have me call people on phone to pretend I was she. I was forced to ask for information or even to yell at people who had been rude to her. One time I had to call her stockbroker (股票经纪人). I said in an adolescent voice that was not very convincing, “This is Mrs. Tan...”

And my mother was standing beside me, whispering loudly, “Why he don’t send me cheek already two week lone.”

And then, in perfect English I said, “I’m getting rather concerned .You agreed to send the check two weeks ago, but it hasn’t arrived.”

Then she talked more loudly. “What he want? I come to New York tell him front of his boss.” And so I turned to the stockbroker again, “I can’t tolerate any more excuse. If I don’t receive the check immediately, I am going to have to speak to your manager when I am in New York next week.”

The next week we ended up in New York. While I was sitting there red-faced, my mother, the real Mrs. Tan, was shouting to his boss in her broken English.

When I was a teenager, my mother’s broken English embarrassed me. But now, I see it differently. To me, my mother’s English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. It is my mother tongue. Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, and full of observation and wisdom. It was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed ideas, and made sense of the world.

Why was the author’s mother poorly served?

A. She was unable to speak good English.

B. She was often misunderstood.

C. She was not clearly heard.

D .She was not very polite.

From Paragraph 2, we know that the author was          .

A. good at pretending

B. rude to the stockbroker

C. ready to help her mother

D. unwilling to phone for her mother

After the author made the phone call, ___________.

A. they forgave the stockbroker

B. they failed to get the check

C. they went to New York immediately

D. they spoke to their boss at once

What does the author think of her mother’s English now?

A. It confuses her.

B. It embarrasses her.

C. It helps her understand the world.

D. It helps her tolerate (容忍) rude people.

We can infer from the passage that Chinese English         .     

A. is clear and natural to non-native speakers

B. is vivid and direct to non-native speakers

C. has a very bad reputation in America

D. may bring inconvenience in America

仿照示例，写句子(不要求句式完全相同)。

光明说，把黑暗拧成一根灯芯，以满腔的热情将它点燃，路途再艰难，也不黑暗。

美好说，把丑恶碎成一堆烂泥，                                       。

宽容说，                  ，                                       。

Humans have observed and explored the oceans since ancient times.But it wasn’t until the 19th century that the scientific study of oceans began.The first major scientific expedition,and the one that firmly established the field of oceanography,was the around-the-world voyage of H.M.S.  Challenger.Setting out from England in 1872,the Challenger spent almost three and a half years gathering a wealth of information about seawater,sea life,and the ocean floor.Major oceanographic expeditions since then have included the South Atlantic voyage of the German ship Meteor in 1926 and the Deep-Sea Drilling Project from 1968 to 1983.Many individuals also have played important roles in advancing our understanding of oceans,beginning with Matthew Fontaine Maury in the mid-1800s;his work on oceanography and navigation led to a uniform system of weather reporting at sea.Since Maury’s time,oceanography has progressed rapidly.Early oceanographers had to contend themselves with tossing buckets overboard to see what they might haul in.Today’s oceanographers are equipped with space images,supercomputer models,and deep-sea robots that can crawl along the seafloor.As they set goals for the future,some oceanographers even dream of doing research in permanently manned stations on the bottom of the oceans.

Which of the following statements is true?

A.Humans didn’t explore the oceans until the 19th century.

B.Maury first established the field of oceanography.

C.Maury spent a lot of time in studying seawater,sea life,and the bottom of the ocean.

D.Many individuals also plays a very important part in advancing our understanding of oceans,such as Maury.

How many expeditions are mentioned in this passage?

A.Four.                       B.Three.                            C.Five.                       D.Two.

What can we infer from the passage?

A.The process of the oceanography has stopped at one time.

B.Maury’s work on oceanography contributes a lot to weather reporting at sea.

C.Nowadays the equipment for studying the oceans needs improving,because it is out of date.

D.The expeditions in the past had great difficulty and made a lot of efforts in order to study the oceans.