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ALast year．I took a

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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
A
Last year．I took a sightseeing trip to Washington, DC．I heard a voice say, “Can you help me?” When I turned around, I saw an elderly blind woman with her hand extended．Immediately, I pulled out all of my change and placed it on her hand without even looking at her．But the blind woman smiled and said, “I don’t want your money．I just need help finding the post office．”
In an instant, I realized what I had done．I acted with prejudice―I judged another person simply for what I assumed she had to be．I hated what I saw in myself．
The thing I had forgotten about myself is that I am an immigrant．I left Honduras and arrived in the US at the age of 15．I started my new life with two suitcases,my brother and sister．Through the years, I have been a doorkeeper, cashier and pizza delivery driver among many other humble(卑微的)jobs, and eventually I became a network engineer．
In my own life, I have experienced prejudice．I remember a time―at the age of 17―when I was a busboy, I heard a father tell his little boy that if he did not do well in school, he would end up like me．
But now, living in my American middle-class lifestyle, it is too easy to forget my past, to forget who I am, where I have been ,and to lose sight of where I want to be going．That blind woman on the streets cured me of my blindness．She reminded me of my belief in humility(谦虚)．By the way, I helped that lady to the post office．I hope to thank her for the priceless lesson．
56．How did the writer give the blind woman money?
A．In a modest way            B．In a polite way
C．In an impatient way．     D．In a painful way
57According to the text, the writer__________．
A．still lives a poor life         B．was busy with his work

C．was born in Honduras        D．was a native of Washington D．C．
58．According to the text, the author most probably agrees that one should__________．
A．be nice to the elderly and the disabled
B．try to experience different kinds of culture
C．treat others equally with love and respect
D．think about one’s past as often as possible
59．What would be the best title of the text?
A．A priceless lesson    B．An act of prejudice
C．A sightseeing trip    D．A humble moment

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56—59 CCCA

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Robert Owen was born in Wales in 1771. At the age of ten he went to work. His employer had a largePrivate library so Owen was able to educate himself. He read a lot in his spare time and at nineteen he was given the job of superintendent(监工) at a Manchester cotton mill. He was so successful there that he persuaded his employer to buy the New Lanark mill in Scotland.
When he arrived at New Lanark it was a dirty little town with a population of 2,000 people. Nobodypaid any attention to the workers" houses or their children"s education. The conditions in the factories were very bad. There was a lot of crime and the men spent most of their wages on alcoholic drinks.
Owen improved the houses. He encouraged people to be clean and save money. He opened a shop and sold the workers cheap, well-made goods to help them. He limited the sale of alcoholic drinks. Above all, he fixed his mind on the children"s education. In 1816 he opened the first free primary school in Britain.
People came from all over the country to visit Owen"s factory. They saw that the workers were healthier and more efficient than in other towns. Their children were better fed and better educated. Owen tried the same experiment in the United States. He bought some land there in 1825,but the community was too far away. He could not keep it under control and lost most of his money.
Owen never stopped fighting for his idea. Above all he believed that people are not born good or bad.
He was a practical man and his ideas were practical. "If you give people good working conditions," he thought, "they will work well and, the most important thing of all, if you give them the chance to learn, they will be better people."
64. For Owen, his greatest achievement in New Lanark was _____________.
A. improving worker"s houses                      B. helping people to save money
C. preventing men from getting drunk             D. providing the children with a good education
65. From the passage we may infer that Owen was born ___________.
A. into a rich family                      B. into a noble family
C. into a poor family                    D. into a middle class family
66. Owen"s experiment in the United States failed because _______.
A. he lost all his money
B. he did not buy enough land
C. people who visited it were not impressed
D. it was too far away for him to organize it properly
67. We may infer form the passage that no children in Britain could enjoy free education until ____.
A. 1771         B. 1816          C. 1825            D. 1860

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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、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
　　Columnist Dave Barry says this about his father:"My dad would try anything - carpentry(木匠活),electrical wiring,roofing and so on.From watching him,I learned a lesson that still 36 to my life today:no matter how difficult a task may seem, 37 you"re not afraid to try it,you can do it."
　　I learned from my parents the value of "going for it"." 38 ventured(冒险),nothing lost" is the motto of too many of us.Many people are so afraid to 39 that they never venture beyond the familiar."Better to be safe than sorry",has 40 too many people in the cocoon(保护膜) of their 41 zones.
　　A delightful 42 tells that Col.Robert Johnson of Salem,New Jersey,announced that he would take a 43 risk.He let the town know that he would 44 a wolf peach on the steps of the country courthouse at noon on September 26,1820. "Why would he take such a chance?" asked the 45 people.
　　Scientists and doctors had long declared the wolf peach to be 46 .If the wolf peach was too ripe and warmed by the sun,they told him he would be exposing himself to brain fever.Should he somehow 47 the experience,the skin of the 48 would stick to the lining of his stomach(他的胃黏膜) and 49 cause cancer.
　　Nearly 2,000 people 50 the square to see Col.Johnson eat the "poisonous" peach - now known as the tomato.
　　Col.Johnson believed his 51 was small,but it must be take if the 52 about the peach were to be 53 .Who has accompished anything worthwhile 54 taking a risk?
　　Much like the tortoise it makes 55 only when it sticks its neck out.
　　36.A.refers         B.applies       C.tends          D.leads
　　37.A.if            B.since         C.although       D.unless
　　38.A.Anything      B.Something    C.Nothing        D.Everything
　　39.A.fail           B.win          C.succeed        D.leave
　　40.A.turned        B.trapped       C.forbidden      D.orced
　　41.A.comfortable    B.miserable     C.surprising     D.unimportant
　　42.A.novel         B.message      C.joke          D.story
　　43.A.private        B.public       C.secret        D.national
　　44.A.buy          B.sell          C.eat           D.cut
　　45.A.puzzled       B.disappointed   C.angry        D.happy
　　46.A.delicious       B.smelly        C.salty        D.poisonous
　　47.A.enjoy         B.survive         C.understand D.know
　　48.A.wolf         B.seed           C.peach      D.body
　　49.A.eventually     B.firstly          C.lately       D.hardly
　　50.A.reached      B.decorated         C.surrounded D.crowded
　　51.A.audience     B.risk            C.fruit        D.size
　　52.A.myths        B.ingredients    C.truths         D.prices
　　53.A.changed      B.adopted        C.removed      D.grasped
　　54.A.without      B.for            C.with         D.except
　　55.A.sense        B.trouble         C.room        D.progress

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第三部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
　　JSC Boggs is an artist who makes money.To be exact,he draws money.In the United States he draws dollars,in Britain pounds and in France francs.Each are almost perfect reproductions,apart from the fact that he writes "Bank of Boggs" or another humorous message on them.
　　When Boggs goes shopping or for a meal,he offers "Boggs dollars" in the payment for what he wants.He also offers real money.It is up to the people selling the goods to take whichever they prefer.
　　When a shopkeeper or a restaurant owner takes a "Boggs dollar",he or she gives a receipt in return for the things bought.Boggs then sells the receipt at face value to art collectors.This is how he makes actual money for the times when people will not accept his drawings.
　　The collector uses the receipt to find the person holding the actual "Boggs dollar" and the two talk over what they think would be a fair price.This gives the shop or restaurant owner the chance to make another profit on the goods he or she sold to Boggs.It means Boggs actually gets paid for buying things.And it means that the collector has a unique work of art---each "Boggs dollar" is separately drawn.
　　Artists like to make us think.What Boggs wants us to think about is the nature of value and money. What is money really worth? Is value of money the same as personal value? Once "Boggs dollars " have been given away by the artist,they often continuew to circulate and grow on value A "Boggs one dollar bill" may have bought the artist a cup of coffee in New York.Now it may be worth a car or an expensive meal.It all depends on that value a person chooses to give it.
　　Money used to be worth a certain weight in gold or silver.Now it is just worth whatever the government or the banks.JSC Boggs is trying to start another type of money.People can choose "Boggs dolars" or not.And their value is up to whoever uses them.In a way,"Boggs dollars" are "people"s money".
　　56.How much will Boggs get if he buys a cup of coffee with a "Boggs one dollar bill"?
　　　A.One dollar. B.More than one dollar.
　　　C.Less than one dollar. D.Much more than one dollar.
　　57.According to the text,the main difference between"value of money "and "personal value" is that ______.
　　　A.they rise or fall separately B.they refer to different people
　　　C.they are decided by different people D.they are decided by different banks
　　58.What does the writer mean by saying "Boggs dollars are people"s money"?
　　　A.They are two different types of money.
　　　B.In fact they are not real money.
　　　C.People can share them and use them among themselves.
　　　D.People are free to use them and deck their value.
　　59.Choose the girht order in which Boggs gets paid.
　　　　a.He buys things with his dollars.
　　　　b.He sells the receipt to an art collector.
　　　　c.He araws dollars.
　　　　d.The art collector finds the shopkeeper to buy his dollars.
　　　　e.The shopkeeper gives him a receipt.
　　　A.c - a - e - b - d
　　　B.c - e - b - d - a
　　　C.e - c - b - d - a
　　　D.e - b - c - a - d

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B
　　Fever has usually been regarded as a threat to health.However,no one has actually proved that fever is dangerous.This fact attracted the attention of Matthew J.Kluger.Imagining that fever might not be as harmful as it had been supposed,Kluger set up a series of experiments with lizards(蜥蜴).
　　What Kluger and his team did his team did in their first experiment was simple.They put some lizards in a sand-box,one end of which was heated to 44℃,while the other was at a room temperature.It was found that the lizards moved form one part of the box to the other in order to keep a constant temperature of about 38℃.Having shown that normal lizards regulate(调节) their own temperature,Kuger,in a second experiment,then set out to show that lizards,like most other animals,develop fever when infected.This was done by making lizards infected with bacteria (细菌) that were known to cause disease.As the team expected,the infected lizards remained longer in the heated part of the box,until they had raised their body temperatures to two or three degrees above normal.In other words,the sick lizards gave themselves fever.
　　In a third experiment,the team observed the effect of temperature on the survival of the lizards.One group of infected lizards was given a fever - suppressing(退烧) drug.The other group was given no drug and ran a fever,that is to say,they kept a highter temperature for four or five days before seeking a cooler environment.The results were impressive.Of those which raised their body temperature,all but one remained alive.Of those given the fever - suppressing drug,more than half died.Similar results have since been produced in other animals.For example,infeced fish swim to warmer water,and will die if not allowed to do so.
　　An important conclusion can be drawn from these experiments.As Kluger points out,lizards have been on earth for hundreds of millions of years.It is reasonable to suppose that a response that is so old has been kept by nature for some purpose.It would appear, therefore, that fever does not make disease worse.Rather it its part of the mechanism(机能) by which infection is controlled.
　　60.In his experiments,Kluger was hoping to prove that fever ________.
　　　A.is not harmful to lizards
　　　B.is not necessarily bad
　　　C.is necessary for both humans and animals
　　　D.has the same effect on humans and animals
　　61.The lizards put in the sand - box in the first experiment _____.
　　　A.had a fever B.were not sick C.recovered from disease D.died of heat
　　62.In the third experiment,the lizards given a fever - suppressing drug died because _____.
　　　A.they had no more fever that they needed
　　　B.they were normal ones and had no fever
　　　C.the drug had no iffect on sick lizards
　　　D.the drug made their body temperature too low
　　63.How would you understand the underlined words"a response" in the last paragraph?
　　　A.Gause of disease. B.Recovery from disease.
　　　C.Relationship between living D.Natural defense in the body against disease.

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第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
　　根据短文内容，从短文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。
　　Are you truly hapy? Do you ever know what it means to be happy and what it takes to achieve happiness? 71 The following are a few tips that I follow to create happiness in my life.
　　*Make a plan for attaining goals that you lelieve will make you happy.Your moods will very likely increase if you are going after something you value.
　　*Surround yourself with happy people.It is easy to begin to think negatively(消极地) when you are surrounde by people who think that way. 72
　　*When something goes wrong,try to figure out a solution instead of being absorbed in self pity. Truly happy people don"t allow setbacks to affect their mood because they know that with a little thought they can turn the circumstances back to their favor.
　　* 73 There few minutes will give you tthe opportunity to focus on the positive things in your life and will lead you to continuous happiness.
　　* 74 Whether you treat yourself to lunch,take a long,relaxing bath or simply spend a few extra minutes on your appearance ,you will be subconsiciously(下意识地) putting yourself in a better mood.
　　*Finding the humor in situations can also lead to happiness. Find way to make light of a situation that would otherwise make you happy.
　　*Keeping healthy is another way to achieve happiness. 75

A．What makes one person happy may be very different from what makes someone else happy.

B．On the contrary,if you are around people who are happy their emotional state will be infections.

C．Being overweight or not eating nutritious foods can have a negative effect on your mood.

D．These are important questions for anyone who is seeking happiness to ask themselves.

E.Spend a few minutes each day thinking about the things that make you happy.
F.There are some tips in life that lead to happiness.
G.It"s also important to take some time each day to do something nice for yourself.

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