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、D）中选出最佳选项。

A

       Mr．Brozina is a single father and an elementary school librarian who reads aloud for a living．When his daughter, Kristen, hit fourth grade, he proposed The Streak: to see if they could read together for 100 straight bedtimes without missing once．

       When The Streak reached 100, they celebrated with a pancake breakfast, and Kristen whispered, "I think we should try for 1,000 nights．"

       Mr．Brozina was delighted, but what he was thinking was, a thousand nights?! "I thought, we'll never do it," he recalled．"And then we got to 1,000, and we said, 'How can we stop?' "

       For 3,218 nights （and some mornings, if Mr．Brozina was coming home too late to read）．The Streak went on．It progressed from picture books to middle-school classics to Harry Potter, Agatha Christie, Dickens and Shakespeare, continuing on, until Kristen's first day of college．

       In those nine-plus years, they survived many close calls．When Kristen was still in elementary school, her father went to Washington．"The phone rang at 10:45 at the hotel and it was Kristen," Mr．Brozina recalled．"She said, 'Dad, we forgot The Streak!' Fortunately, I always traveled with several books and we read right then and there．"

       This spring, Kristen graduated from Rowan' University．She has performed as you'd expect for a product of The Streak, an English major with a 3．94 average．She also won two national writing contests, was an editor of the humor arid literary publications and won the annual English department award．

56．According to the passage, Mr．Brozina and his daughter read together for __________．

       A．100 bedtimes       B．1000 nights                         

       C．over nine years    D．nearly 3000 nights and some mornings

57．In the passage, the underlined phrase in Paragraph I probably means _____．

       A．the period of time for reading together     B．the children's book                   

       C．the special night                         C．the school work

58．How has Kristen benefited from reading with her father?

       A．She has grown closer to her father．    

       B．She has become a school librarian herself．

       C．She has performed well at university． 

       D．She has won many reading awards．

59．This passage is about a father who _____．

       A．is very strict in his work         B．enjoys reading when travelling         

       C．makes his daughter love reading     D．has a hard time bringing up his daughter

E

The black robin is one of the world’s rarest birds. It is a small, wild bird, and it lives only on the island of Little Mangere, off the coast of New Zealand. In 1967 there were about fifty black robins; in 1977 there were fewer than ten. These are the only black robins left in the world. The island has many other birds, of different kinds, large and small; these seem to multiply very happily.

Energetic steps are being taken to preserve the black robin. Detailed studies are going on, and a public appeal for money has bee made. The idea is to buy another island nearby as a special home, a “reserve”, for threatened wild life, including black robins. The organizers say that Little Mangere should then be supplied with the robin’s food—it eats only one kind of seed. Thousands of the required plants are at present being cultivated in new Zealand. The public appeal is aimed at the conscience of mankind, so that the wild black robin will not die out and disappear form the earth in our time at least.

Is all this concern a waste of human effort? Is it any business of ours whether the black robin survives or dies out? Are we losing our sense of what is reasonable and what is unreasonable?

In the earth’s long, long past, hundreds, of kinds of creatures have evolved, risen to a degree of success—and died out. In the long, long future, there will be many new and different forms of life. Those creatures that adapt themselves successfully to what the earth offers will survive for a long time. Those that fail to meet the challenges will disappear early. This is nature’s proven method of operation.

The rule of selection—“the survival of the fittest”—is the one by which human beings have themselves arrived on the scene. We, being one of the most adaptable creatures the earth has yet produced, may last longer than most. You may take it as another rule that when, at last, human beings show signs of dying out, no other creature will extend a paw to put off our departure. On the contrary, we will be hurried out. For nature, tough fair, is a hard-hearted mistress. She has no favorites.

Life seems to have grown too tough for black robins. I leave you to judge whether we should try to do something about it.

57．The black robin is dying out mainly because__________.

       A．people have been very careless about its survival

       B．its only food supply is far from enough on Little Mangere

       C．the other birds on the island have destroyed it

       D．the appeal for money has come at the wrong time

58．In Paragraph 3, the writer puts forward three questions to__________

       A．make a comparison      B．make an argument

       C．introduce a topic             D．present his own idea

59．As for selection and survival, the decisive factor seems to be__________.

      A．the ability to adapt to changed or changing conditions

       B．the number of wild life reserves that are available

       C．the concern and generosity of the public

       D．the size of the home, or the amount of space one has to live in

60．The writer’s attitude towards the protection of the black robins is__________.

       A．active          B．passive          C．unconcerned         D．Optimistic

6．The get-together after tem years of separation should be a（n）__________of excitement, but the old friends could not feel real joy.

       A．situation   B．occasion   C．atmosphere      D．Condition

“If anything ________ to the patient, let me know at once, please.” the doctor said to the nurse.

A. takes place B. breaks out  C. comes about      D. happens

—Sir, I haven’t found a more suitable job for me so far. 

    —       

A. I’m glad you like it so much.             B. That’s all right for you.

C. I believe you will.                      D. Oh, don’t you like it?

双向翻译 （共4小题；每小题2分，满分8分）

   When I entered senior high school, I began to show a great interest in poems. 61.I happily devoted nearly all my free time to reading and writing poems. One day, I presented one of my poems to my teacher because I wanted his honest opinion. I waited while he read through the lines. 62.让我高兴的是，他说我的诗很棒, and encouraged me to send it to a newspaper. I was happy to hear his opinion, 63. but I still felt uncertain about whether or not my poem was really that good. Anyhow, wanting to try my luck, I posted it to a newspaper the following day. After waiting more than a month, I assumed that my poem was not wanted. Then a letter came informing me that 65.他们准备要出版我的诗歌并为我付足够的稿费。Hooray! I had done it.

翻译

D

    Our 16-year-old daughter started to smoke last Christmas. It killed me to see that lovely girl with a cigarette(香烟) in her mouth. I told her how I felt. Martha continued to smoke（抽烟）, saying, “It's my life,” and so on. I told her if she didn't stop smoking, I wouldn't send her to college. She agreed to give it up.

Last night there was cigarette smell on Martha's breath(呼吸). She had to say she had broken her word. Now I must do what I've said to punish(惩罚) her.

Martha is unusually bright and wants to teach children. I'm working full-time to put her older sister through school and would do the same for Martha. My husband's pay is good, but with prices going up all the time we could never educate the girls unless I kept on working.

My theory(理论) is that if smoking is more important to Martha than college, I'm a fool to work to put her through college.

68. Why did the mother feel sad?

A. Because her daughter failed to go to college.

B. Because her daughter tried to kill her.

C. Because her daughter promised to smoke no more.

D. Because her daughter got used to smoking.

79. The mother warned that if Martha didn't give up smoking, she would ______.

A. refuse to give Martha any money

B. not be Martha's mother

C. refuse to pay for Martha's college education

D. not let Martha teach children

70. What did Martha really do after mother warned her?

A. She failed to keep her promise.

B. She kept her promise.

C. She managed to give up smoking.

D. he broke something her mother give her.

 57. Work hard _____ you can succeed.

         A．in order to                  B．so that                     C．for fear that                D．in case

We all got up early_____we might start at six.

         A．in order that         B．in order to              C．so                            D．so as to

You won’t succeed_____harder.

         A．unless you will work                             B．unless you work

         C．unless you don’t work                                  D．if you won’t work