第三部分阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）请阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项的标号涂黑。Ma

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第三部分阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
请阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项的标号涂黑。
May 16th Wednesday Sunny
They used to call her “the witch（女巫）”, but today I found things were different.
My legs were too short to reach the floor from up there on the big chair. I was so afraid. My legs started to shake.
It was the first time I had been to the principal’s（校长的） office. And I knew what she was going to ask me.
Why had I been running on the concrete（混凝土） in the playground? Why hadn’t I followed the school rules?
The principal’s secretary was sitting at her desk. She kept asking me questions like whether I liked school and what grade I was in. I didn’t want to talk to her, so I just gave one-word answers.
Then she asked what my dad did. But I didn’t really know what he did, so I made something up. “He plays basketball for the Boston Celtics,” I said.
The secretary just looked at me, and said nothing more.
Just then, the door to the principal’s offic

e opened. There she was, the woman that everyone called “the witch”.
Was she really that bad? I was surprised to see her office walls were bright yellow, and there were some nice pictures on the desk.
She told me about the pictures. I was surprised that she had a family and a kid, just like me.
Then she asked how my family was. It turned out that she had known me since I was only a few weeks old. I was happy to hear that. If she knew my mum, then I wouldn’t get into much trouble.
She cleaned the cut on my knee and told me to be more careful. She also told me about the rules of the playground. But she didn’t punish or shout at me. And I forgot all the bad things I had heard about “the witch”. I had met her and I knew she was nice.
1．“The witch” in the story refers to _______.
A. the writer                     B. the writer’s father            C. the secretary    D. the principal
2．Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. The writer often asked the principal for help.
　 B. The principal must be very strict with students.
　 C. Running in the playground was allowed by the school rules.
　 D. The writer’s father was an excellent basketball player.
3．Which word can replace the underlined phrase “made up” (in Paragraph 6)?
　 A. Told.                    B. Invented.             C. Minded.              D. Memorized.
4. How did the writer find the principal in the end?
　 A. Terrible.            B. Kind.                        C. Proud.                D. Strict.

答案

小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:B
小题4:B

解析

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第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、Ｂ、Ｃ和Ｄ）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
Fesil Mahand, a Pakistani-American citizen , is accused of driving the explosives-laden car into Big Square on Saturday evening. He__21__appear in court in New York later. Mr Mahand was__22__ at Kennedy Airport attempting to__23__ a flight to Debai. __24__from the US say Mr Mahand recently returned from a five-month visit to Pakistan.
A senior Pakistani security officer in Islamabad said that the authorities had no __25__of Mr Mahand. A car __26__a bomb made from fertiliser, fireworks, petrol and gas tanks __27__in Big Square on Saturday.The Nissan Pathfinder __28__with its engine running and lights flashing. The bomb was discovered __29__it could explode after a street-vendor noticed smoke coming from the vehicle and alerted police.
Mr Holder told a news __30__that investigators were pursuing "a number of leads", adding: "We will not rest until we have brought everyone responsible to__31__." He __32__the American people to "remain alert " and report anything __33__to the police. Mr Holder said the __34__car bombing "would have been a deadly attack __35__been successful".
He added: "It"s clear that the intention __36__this terrorist act was to kill Americans. "Big Square was full of __37__and theatergoers when the alarm was__38__. Police evacuated a wide area of the district and closed subway lines, while a controlled explosion was__39__. Officials said the bomb was crude, __40__could have sparked a "significant fireball".
21. A.is about to        B.is due to         C. is accustomed to        D. has been to
22. A.aborted          B. nearly          C. arrested            D. abandoned
23. A.aboard        B.get off       C.broad            D. board
24. A. Reports       B.Interviews      C. Stories             D. Research
25. A.meaning             B.want            C. knowledge         D. message
26. A.including        B. containing     C.contained               D. included
27. A.was missing       B.were leaving       C. left                    D. was left
28. A. was parked    B.has been parked C. parked           D. had parked
29. A.since            B. until         C. before             D.unless
30. A.association     B.communication C. media            D. conference
31. A. law            B. justice         C. jail                D.death
32. A.suggested         B. warned         C. urged                D. advocated
33. A.special           B.superior        C.safe               D. suspicious
34. A. attempted        B.informed       C.involved           D. investigated
35. A.it had         B.did it           C.it has              D. had it
36. A. behind         B.back            C.beneath            D.above
37. A.persons        B. terrorists       C. tourists             D.minsters
38. A. risen            B. raised        C.arisen             D.announced
39. A.carried on        B.put out          C. brought out              D. carried out
40. A. but           B.and            C.still                D.otherwise

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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，并将答案填写在本题下面的横线上。选项中有两项多余选项。（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
Purser: Excuse me, have you filled out your customs declaration form yet?
Han: No, I haven’t. ___1____
Purser: Yes._____2______
Han: Thanks...It looks rather complicated.
Purser:___3____ ---the Prohibited Articles List and the Duty-Free Quota List. Right.Here.
Han: I have nothing but personal belongings.
Purser:_____4__. But please go over the lists to make sure that you have nothing to declare.
Han: All right. We seem to be standing still.
Purser: ____5____. We’ve waiting for the quarantine (防疫)and immigration(移民) officers to come on board to check the passport and health certificates. There they are now, on that launch.
Han: Well, I’d better hurry and get ready to go ashore. Thank you.

A．In that case, just put down “personal effects”.

B．I can help you. Please look through the two lists.

C．Am I to fill it out before we land?

D．I’d better hurry now.

E.Here’s a form for you, sir.
F.The ship is docking(靠码头) soon.
G.What can I do with all my belongings?

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四、阅读理解（30分）
Each morning a rich man found a poor man sitting on a park bench (长凳). The poor man always sat there, looking at the big hotel in which the rich man lived. One day the rich man got out of his car and said to the poor man, “Excuse me, but I just want to know why you sit here and look at my hotel every morning.” “Sir,” said the poor man, “I am a failure. I have no money, no family, no home. I sleep on this bench, and every night I dream that one day I’ll sleep in that hotel.” The rich man said, “That is not so hard. Tonight your dream will come true. I’ll pay for the best room in that hotel for you for a whole month.”
A few days later, the rich man went by the poor man’s room to ask him how he was enjoying himself. To his surprise, he found that the man had moved out of the hotel, back to his park bench. When the rich man asked why, the poor man said, “you see, when I am down here sleeping on my bench, I dream I’m up there, in that big hotel. It’s a wonderful dream. But when I was up there, I dreamed I was back to this cold bench. It was a terrible dream, and I couldn’t get any sleep at all.”
1. The poor man lived in_____ before he met the rich man.
A. the hotel        B. his home      C. the park        D. the car
2. Every morning, the poor man sat on the bench and _____
A. waited for the rich man        B. looked at the rich man’s hotel
C. looked at the rich man’s car     D. enjoyed the clean air
3. The poor man moved out of the hotel because_______
A. he didn’t want to live in such a fine room
B. he didn’t like the rich man
C. he couldn’t pay for the room
D. he couldn’t get any sleep at all there
4. In the end, the poor man found it _____to sleep in the hotel.
A. sorry         B. nice         C. sad       D.terrible

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第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
What is it about maths, anyway? Why is it that a ___36___ who would rather die than ___37___ they found reading difficult at school will happily say he is brain-dead when it ___38___ to numbers?
“I was ___39___ at maths at school,” they say. “still am. Can’t ___40___ up to save my life. My little girl takes after____41___. Thinks take-aways are something to do with fish and chips. Ha-ha!” Oh, how we all laugh.
But how many of us remember it being ___42___ at the time? How many of us remember the blind panic of the Monday morning maths test when the ___43___ we could hope for was a miracle(奇迹) to make the numbers we ___44___ without thinking as answers somehow ___45___ the questions?
On the face of it, today’s children can ___46___ be considered happier and more satisfied. They have a daily numeracy lesson ___47___ to improving their maths skills. But if that sounds like hell to you, you may ___48__ find that your child surprises you by actually quite ___49__ it.
One of the __50___ is that over the last ten years or so, there has been a ___51___ in the way maths is taught. And many of those who teach it feel it’s been a ___52__ for the better. There’s generally much more emphasis now on __53___ arithmetic, getting children used to doing calculations without forever having a pen in one hand and a calculator in the other. Often the first question a teacher will ask is: can you do this in your___54___? And if they can, they do.
The whole approach is more___55___, the goal to get children understanding numbers, not just putting them through the uninteresting process of learning something by repeating it until they remember it.
36    A.    teacher    B.    parent     C.    pupil       D.    teenager
37    A.    understand      B.    admit      C.    observe   D.    pretend
38    A.    add B.    relate      C.    comes     D.    reject
39    A.    good       B.    expert     C.    special     D.    rubbish
40    A.    add B.    make       C.    look D.    pick
41    A.    stranger   B.    me   C.    herself     D.    somebody
42    A.    funny      B.    easy C.    attractive D.    remote
43    A.    worst      B.    prize       C.    best D.    surprising
44    A.    missed     B.    lost C.    found      D.    chose
45    A.    get   B.    foresee    C.    fit    D.    evaluate
46    A.    however B.    frequently       C.    mostly     D.    hardly
47    A.    suggested B.    devoted   C.    intended D.    adapted
48    A.    well B.    sometimes      C.    seldom    D.    extremely
49    A.    enjoying B.    hating     C.    objecting D.    mastering
50    A.    consequences B.    reasons    C.    findings   D.    incidents
51    A.    mistake   B.    program C.    policy     D.    revolution
52    A.    preparation     B.    reputation       C.    requirement    D.    change
53    A.    difficult   B.    general    C.    mental     D.    basic
54    A.    class B.    head C.    textbook D.    own
55    A.    logical     B.    unbelievable   C.    direct      D.    conservative

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第四部分：任务型阅读（每小题1分，满分10分）
请认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。
注意：每空格1个单词。
At the age of twelve years, the human body is at its most vigorous. It has yet to reach its full size and strength, and its owner his or her full intelligence; but at this age the likelihood of death is least. Earlier we were infants and young children, and consequently more vulnerable; later, we shall undergo a progressive loss of our vigour and resistance which, though not felt at first, will finally become so sudden and quick that we can live no longer, however well we look after ourselves, and however well society, and our doctors, look after us. This decline in vigour with the passing of time is called ageing. It is one of the most unpleasant discoveries which we all make that we must decline in this way, that if we escape wars, accidents and diseases we shall eventually die of old age, and that this happens at a rate which differs little from person to person, so that there are heavy odds in favour of our dying between the ages of sixty-five and eighty. Some of us will die sooner, a few will live longer-- on into a ninth or tenth decade. But the chances are against it, and there is a virtual limit on how long we can hope to remain alive, however lucky and strong we are.
Normal people tend to forget this process unless and until they are reminded of it. We are so familiar with the fact that man ages, that people have for years assumed that the process of losing vigour with time, of becoming more likely to die the older we get, was something self-evident, like the cooling of a hot kettle or the wearing-out of a pair of shoes. They have also assumed that all animals, and probably other organisms such as trees, or even the universe itself, must in the nature of things "wear out". Most animals we commonly observe do in fact age as we do if given the chance to live long enough; and mechanical systems like a wound watch or the sun, do in fact run out of energy in accordance with the second law of thermodynamics (whether the whole universe does so is a matter about which there may be disagreement or uncertainty at present). But these are not similar to what happens when man ages. A run-down watch is still a watch and can be rewound. An old watch, by contrast, becomes so worn and unreliable that it eventually is not worth mending. But a watch could never repair itself, it does not consist of living parts, only of metal, which wears away by friction. We could, at one time, repair ourselves well enough, at least, to overcome all but the most instantly fatal illnesses and accidents. Between twelve and eighty years we gradually lose this power; an illness which at twelve would knock us over, at eighty can knock us out, and into our grave. If we could stay as vigorous as we are at twelve, it would take about 700 years for half of us to die, and another 700 for the survivors to be reduced by half again.

The ____71____ of ageing	Infants and children under 12 are more easily ____72___ physically or emotionally. At 12, we are ____73____ active and full of energy. Later, we will ___74___ our energy or enthusiasm continuously. Finally we can’t live any longer no matter how ___75___ we are cared for.
The characteristics of ageing	Not noticeable at first Not avoidable in the end Not the ____76___ speed for everyone
People’s misunderstanding of ageing	Just taking the ageing with time ____77___ for granted. Simply thinking all living things or other systems also ___78___ the same way as we humans do.
Truth about ageing	We humans can ___79___ ourselves well enough to live a longer life, ___80___ the other living things or systems can’t.

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