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。 Hsieh．

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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。

Hsieh．a never--say--die young man，has mastered the technique of painting hy holding

the paintbrush in his mouth．When he was sixteen，Hsieh had a terrible electrical accident．

Both of his arms and the lower part of his right leg were cut off．He also lost sight in his

rigllt eye．But Hsieh didn’t lose heart．He decided to learn art，and took the first difficult

step toward changing his life．

“At first．I tried to hoht a pen in my mouth．But I couldn’t control it，”Hsieh said，“Fi—nally，after trying over and over again，I learned tO write my OWn name．”

Learning to paint was even more difficuh．At first，every brushstroke he made caused

deep cuts in his mouth．It was ext remely painful．But Hsieh didn’t let the pain discourage

him．“lnstead，I held the painlbrusb even tighter，”Hsieh explained in a firm voice．“l

knew if I gave up．it would not only be the end of my painting，hut also the end of my

struggle for a better life．”No matter what the obstacle(障碍)is，Hsieh always manages to

find the bright side of the situation．

Hsieh works hard tO inspire others．He is a tireless lecturer，giving about four hundred

formal speeches a year!“If a person like me can lead a happy life，”Hsieh explained，“why

would regular people feel unhappy?It doesn’t always take tWO arms tO achieve your dreams．

A11 it lakes is a warm heart．”

56．What happened tO Hsieh when he was young?

A．He was struck by electricity．

B．His left leg was hurt．

C．He lost heart because of failure．

D．He was ill for two months．

57．Which of the following is his character?

A．Realistic thought． B．Impressive works．

C．Unexpected news． D．Belief in SUCCESS．

58．Which is right?

A．Hsieh once got the help from the government．

B．Only such a person like Hsieh can succeed．

C．He touched himself before he began to paint．

D．It doesn’t always take tWO arms to realize one’S dream．

59．Which is the best title of the passage?

A．How to learn painting． B．A painter without hands．

C．A man who was hurt． D．How to make oneself well—known．

答案

小题1:A
小题2:D
小题3:D
小题4:B

解析

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第二卷非选择题满分35分
第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节：对话填空（共10小题：每小题1分，满分10分）
请认真阅读下面对话，并根据各题所给首字幕的提示，在答题卡上标有题号的横线上，写出一个英语单词的完整、正确形式，使对话通顺。
D="Debbie     " P="Paul  "
D: Have you（76）e          been to Britain on vacation?     76.
P: Oh, yes .I’ve often been there
D: Where have you been?
P: Well, last year, we(77)f          to the Livepool ,           77.
but we’re(78) a          been to Scotland and Ireland.         78.
We always go in summer because the (79)w_________ is better.   79.
D: Yes, but there are more tourists .
P: Yes, that’s right. But it’s the(80) s          in every          80.
country . Have you been to Britain?
D: Yes, but not on (81) h          .                         81.
I have(82) m________ several business trips to Britain.           82.
P: Which places have you been to ?
D: Nowhere (83) b          London.                        83.
P: There are many (84) i          places in London.            84.
D: Yes .And there are lots of lovely shops , (85) t          .      85.

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Directions: Read the following passage. Complete the diagram by using the information for the passage.
Write NO MORE THAN 3 WORDS for each answer.
For many the idea of one day having your dream home is not buying a bigger home, but a home that you have built by yourself. A house that is unique and fit for your tastes and your lifestyle. It sounds great but where do you begin to design your dream home? Here is a quick guide that can help you make your dreams come true.
The first step is to get an idea of what type of home you want. You can get inspiration from others. Drive around t

o neighborhoods that have the styles of homes that you like and take pictures. Y

ou can also cut out pictures from magazines, newspapers, or print-out pictures you find on the Internet.
The next step will be to make two lists of items for yourself. The first list will be those items or features that you feel your new home must have,

such as granite (花岗岩 ) counter tops or a hot water heater. The second list will be those items or features that are on your wish list like a fireplace or slate (石板) floors.
At this point you will probably have a good idea what your dream home will look like, so you will need to seek some professional help. You will need to hire an architect to put your ideas down on paper. You may need to interview a few different architects to find one that you are comfortable with. Make sure whomever you choose to make the final drawings has a full understanding of local building codes and zoning by-laws (地区议事程序).In any case your final plan will need to be approved by the city and a building permit must be obtained before any construction can begin.
It is time to look for a contractor (承包人). Whichever way you do it, be sure you are comfortable with your contractor and you have gotten references from his past clients (客户). Remember the more homework you do in the beginning, the more enjoyable the process will be.
Title: 71____________

72____________	From other people
	73_______________
	From media: Internet, newspaper, etc
Making lists	74____________	75_____________or a hot water heater
		A fire place or slate floors
76___________	77_______________
	78______________by the city and getting a building permit
79____________ a contractor	Getting along well with your contractor
	80______________his past clients

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Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and the required words limit. Write your answers on your answer sheet.
Several years ago, Masaru Ibuka, the chairman of Sony, was at a company planning a meeting. Suddenly he had a brilliant idea. He stopped the meeting and asked everyone present what would happen if Sony removed the recording function and speaker and sold headphones with a tape player instead. Almost everyone thought he was crazy. Still, Ibuka kept thinking about his idea and worked at refining it. The result, of course, turned out to be the wildly successful Sony Walkman.
Good ideas often start

with a really silly question. Bill Bowerman was making breakfast one day. As he stood there making waffles(蛋奶烙饼)for his son, he wondered what would happen if he poured rubber into his waffle iron(蛋奶烙饼烤模).So, he tried and the result looked something like the bottom of most sports shoes we see today. Still,when he took this idea to several existing shoe companies he was literally(确实地)laughed at. In fact, every single company turned him down. Though rather disappointed. Bowerman was determined and went on to form his own company, making NIKE athletic shoes.
Sometimes good ideas grow out of frustration. When Fred Smith was a student at Yale University, he had some paperwork that he needed to have delivered across the country the next day. Smith was amazed to find out that overnight delivery was impossible. He sat for a long while wondering why. Why couldn’t there be reliable overnight mail delivery service? He decided to design one. Smith did just that and turned his design into a class project. His business professor gave him only a C for efforts. However, Smith refined the idea in that class project and eventually turned it into one of the first and most successful overnight mail services in the world——FedEx.
81. What did Masaru Ibuka’s idea turn out to be? （no more than 2 words）
______________________________________________________________________________
82. What did Fred Smith’s teacher think of his class project? （no more than 8 words）
______________________________________________________________________________

83. From what idea did Bill Bowerman make Nike athletic shoes ？（no more than 9 words）
___________________________________________________________

___________________
84. What is the main idea of the passage? （no more than 12 words）
________________________________________________________________

______________

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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。
My wife and I used to feel that it was impossible to be a true friend to someone whose name we didn’t know. How wrong we were! Years of Sunday-morning bus trips through the city with the same group of “nameless” people have changed our thinking.
Before the bus takes off, we all join in a conversation: where’s the silent woman who sits up front and never responds to our cheery greetings? Here she comes. Her worn clothing suggests she doesn’t have much money to spare, but she

always takes an extra cup of coffee for the driver.
We get smiles from a Mexican couple as they get on the bus hand in hand. When they get off, they’re still holding hands. The woman was pregnant late last year, and one day her change of shape confirmed that she’d delivered the child. We even felt a little pride at the thought of our extended family.
For many months, our only sadness lay in our inability to establish the same friendship with the silent woman at the front of the bus. Then, one evening, we went to a fish restaurant. We were shown to a table alongside someone sitting alone. It was the woman from the bus.
We greeted her with friendly familiarity we’d

shown all year, but this time her face softened, then a shy smile. When she spoke, the words escaped awkwardly from her lips. All at once we realized why she hadn’t spoken to us before. Talking was hard for her.
Over dinner; we learned the stay of a single mother with a disabled son who was receiving special care away from home. She missed him desperately, she explained.
“I love him… and he loves me, even though he doesn’t express it very well,” she murmured. “Lots of us have that problem, don’t we? We don’t say what we want to say, what we should be saying. And that’s not good enough.”
The candles flared on our tables. Our fish had never tasted better. But the atmosphere grew pleasant, and when we parted as friends—we shared names.
56.Which of the following might be the best title of this passage?
Friends of the Road               B. The Silent Woman on the Bus
C. Going to Work by Bus              D. Different Kinds of Friendship
57.All the following statements can describe the woman except ______.
A. poor         B. warm hearted          C. silent        D. cold
58. The underlined word “establish” in the fourth passage probably has the same meaning as ______.
A. keep         B. discover        C. set up         D. accept
59. Why did the woman usually keep silence while taking the bus?
A. She was worried about her disabled son.
B. She was sad to see the happy Mexican couple us a single mother.
C. She had difficulty in expressing herself.   D. She was only interested in the bus driver.
60. The woman had the same problem with her son in the way that ______.
A. they both disabled people   B. they both had some difficulty in expressing
C. they both liked bus travel   D. they both brought interest to the passengers

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Fluency(流利) in another language is one of the most important aims of a newcomer to another country. In addition, understanding the culture and learning to communicate comfortably with people of that culture are as important as learning the rules of the language. Language learning and culture learning go together and may take a long time.
Sometimes people feel that they understand a culture after a few weeks or months. People do learn a lot when they first begin living in another culture, but this is only the first stage of learning. It usually involves(含包) things like learning everyday activities and some basic customs.
To really understand another culture, people have to go beyond the first stage, This is challenge because it is often difficult to know what to learn. Much of what we call “culture” is hard to see.
Culture is like an iceberg. Picture in your mind a huge iceberg in the ocean. The only part of the iceberg that you see is the tip.

You don’t see the rest of the iceberg because it is hidden from sight in the water. It is easy to forget that it is there. Most of the iceberg is deep within the ocean, just as much of a culture is deep within its people.
When you meet someone from another culture， certain culture differences are obvious: You hear another language or you hear your own language spoken with an accent. You see different foods, clothes and sometimes physical characteristics of people. You observe new customs or habits, such as the use of chopsticks, and, bowing or kissing on both cheeks as a greeting. These differences are interesting and important, but they are usually not too difficult to understand. They are visible so they are seen easily and quickly.
The part of culture that is like the underwater part of the iceberg consists of assumptions(设想), communication styles, values, and beliefs about what is right and wrong. The hidden part of culture affects much of a person’s way of thinking and communicating. It is the meaning behind his or her verbal (言语的) and nonverbal language. Learning to communicate well with people from a

nother culture involves becoming aware of the hidden part of culture.
61.What’s the subject of this passage?
A. Learning about culture.          B. Language learning.
C. The hidden part of the iceberg.    D. Fluency in another language.
62.What is learning about culture?
A. Learning the hidden part of the iceberg, which is underwater.
B. Learning everyday activities and some basic customs.
C. Learning the culture of an iceberg.
D. Learning the visible as well as the hidden differences of culture.
63.What’s the writer’s opinion?
A. Communication styles can be easily seen and learned.
B. Language learning is more important than culture learning.
C. Learning about culture is not easy and may take a long time.
D. People usually learn a culture after a few weeks or months.
64.The underlined phrase “consists of” can be replaced by “______”.
A. lies in         B. is made up of         C. agrees with         D. is different from
65.What conclusion can we draw after reading this passage?
A. Values and beliefs are like the tip of the iceberg.
B. People often become aware of the hidden part of culture.
C. The tip of the iceberg is larger than the hidden part.
D. The hidden part of culture has a great effect on people’s communication styles.

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