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A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项

(A)

MONTREAL (Reuters) – Crossing the US-Canada border to go to church on a Sunday cost an American $10,000 for breaking Washington’s strict new security(安全)rules.

The expensive trip to church was a surprise for Richard Albert, who lives  on the Canadian border. Albert often crosses the border like the other half-dozen people of Township 15. The nearby Quebec village of St. Pamphile is where they shop, eat and go to church. There are many such situations in these areas along the largely unguarded 5,530-mile border between Canada and the US, which in some cases actually runs down the middle of streets or through buildings.

As a result, Albert says he did not expect any problems three weeks ago when he returned home to the US after attending church in Canada as usual. The US customs(海关)station in this area is closed on Sundays, so he just drove around the locked gate, as he had done every weekend since the gate appeared last May, following a tightening of border security. Two days later, Albert was told to go to the customs office, where an officer told him he had been caught on camera crossing the border illegally(非法).

Ottawa has given out special passes to some 300 Americans in that area so they can enter the country when Canadian customs stations are closed, but the US stopped a similar program last May. That forces the people to a 200-mile detour along hilly roads to get home through another border checkpoint.

Albert has requested that the customs office change their decisions on the fine, but he has not attended a Sunday church since. “I feel like I’m living in a prison,” he said.

56.We learn from the text that Richard Albert is            .

A.an American working in a Canadian church

B.a Canadian living in a Quebec village

C.a Canadian working in a customs station

D.an American living in Township 15

57.Albert was fined because he              .

A. broke the American security rules     

B.failed to obey traffic rules           

C.worked in St. Pamphile without a pass   

D.damaged the gate of the customs office

58.According to paragraph 4, how can Americans in that area get home ?

A.They have to drive through the town.            

B.They have to race across the fields.

C.They have to drive to the mountain area.

D.They have to drive in a roundabout(绕道的) way.

59.What would be the best title for the text?

A.A Cross-country Trip             B.An Expensive Church Visit

C.An Unguarded Border            D.A Special Border Pass

C

In some parts of the United States, farming is easy. But farming has always been difficult in the northeastern corner of the country, which is called New England.

New England has many trees and thin, rocky soil. Anyone who has wanted to start a new farm there has had to work very hard. The first job has been cutting down trees. The next job has been digging stumps (树桩) of the trees out of the soil. Then the farmer has had the difficult job of removing stones from his land.

The work of removing stones never really ends, because every winter more stones appear. They come up through the thin soil from the rocks below. Farmers have to keep removing stones from the fields. Even today, farms which have been worked on for 200 years keep producing more stones.

That is why stone walls are used instead of fences around New England fields. The stone walls are not high: A man can easily climb over them. But they keep the farmer’s cows from joining his neighbour’s cows.

64.   New England is an area ______.

in the northeastern part of Britain        

which has been newly discovered by the Englishmen

which lies between Australia and New Zealand

which lies in the northeastern part of the USA

65.   According to the passage, farming is difficult in New England because ______.

A. the winter is very long there           B. the farms are very old

C. the soil is rocky and thin                D. there are not enough machines for farming

66.   From this passage, we know the removing of stones ______.

must be done again and again             

is usually done during the winter

is an interesting job children enjoy doing

was more difficult before machines were used

67.   In New England, stone walls are used to ______.

keep dangerous beasts out

keep the farmer’s cows from wandering away

protect the farmers fields from thieves

provide comfortable living conditions for the farmer’s family

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