第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）第一节：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，并将答案写在答题卡上。（共20小题，每小

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第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）
第一节：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，并将答案写在答题卡上。（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）
A
O. Henry was a pen name used by an American writer of short stories. His real name was William Sydney Porter. He was born in North Carolina in 1862. As a young boy he lived an exciting life. He did not go to school for very long, but he managed to teach himself everything he needed to know. When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas, where he tried different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank, when some money went missing from the bank O. Henry was believed to have stolen it. Because of that, he was sent to prison. During the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and continued writing. He wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because simple as the tales were, they would finish with a sudden change at the end, to the reader’s surprise.
41. In which order did O. Henry do the following things?
a. Lived in New York.   b. Worked in a bank.        c. Travelled to Texas.
d. Was put in prison.    e. Had a newspaper job.      f. Learned to write stories.
A. e. c. f. b. d. a       B. e. b. d. c. a. f.        C. c. e. b. d. f. a    D. c. b. e. d. a f.
42. O. Henry went to prison because ___________.
A. people thought he had stolen money from the newspaper
B. people thought he had taken money that was not his
C. he wanted to write stories about prisoners
D. he broke the law by not using his own name
43. What do we know about O. Henry before he began writing?
A. He was very good at learning.                     B. He was not serious about his work.
C. He was devoted to the poor.                  D. He was well-educated.
44. Where did O. Henry get most material for his short stories?
A. His life inside the prison.                  B. The newspaper articles he wrote.
C. His exciting early life as a boy.       D. The city and people of New York.

答案

41-44 CBAD

解析

略

举一反三

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，并将答案标号填写在答题卡上。选项中有两项多余选项。（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）
—Can I help you?
—61___B___
—Let me see. One lady’s skirt and one man’s overcoat.
—62_F_____
—Is next Thursday soon enough?
—63___G___
—Until 6 : 30 pm, sir.
—64___D___
—Here’s your receipt（收据）,sir.
—65___C___

A．Fine. That leaves me plenty of time to pick them up after work.

B．I want to have these clothes cleaned and pressed.

C．Good. Thank you.

D．How much is it?

E．A piece of cake?
F．When will they be ready?
G．Well. Yes. When does the shop close?

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任务型读写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。
注意：表格中的每个空格只填一个单词。请将答案写在答题卡相应题号的横线上。
Everyone knows that you can study the English language for years and still not understand a
native speaker of English when you meet one. Everyone knows that native speakers say a lot of
things that you can"t find in any dictionary. Well, here"s a secret for you: a lot of British people
can"t understand each other either!
There are different local accents across the UK, and a number of areas have several different dialects, that is, they have their own unique vocabulary and grammatical phrases. There were at least six different accents born to London the last time I counted.
Worse than that, it is not just where a person is born in the UK that decides their accent. For example, a language and its accents often vary across class or level of education. Another example is how language can differ among age groups in the UK. The words and pronunciation used by young people in the UK can be completely different compared with those used by adults. They are
creating a "yoof culture".
The word "yoof"”is an informal spelling of "youth". Some people don"t consider "yoof" to be a positive term, since its pronunciation is easier and lazier than "youth". Other people see the term
as positive, because it describes how young people are creating their own language, concepts and
identity. When parents find it difficult to understand their children, the children can say more things without the examining of their parents. In this way, young people are starting to find freedom, independence and self-expression. Even though certain groups of society feel threatened
by "yoof culture", new words come and go like fashions.
Therefore, learners should not worry about communicating with native speakers so much. Even British people don"t speak English properly! The UK no longer owns the English language.

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第二节完型填空（共20小题，小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文所给各题的四个选项（A, B, C, D）中选能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。
In 1991, 1 spent five months in Niger. There were many things I found difficult about this place—the climate and beggars were my biggest complaints. One day, a friend and I 36 for neighbouringBurkina Faso to work in a health clinic. Arriving by taxi at our 37 in Burkina, we began to 38  . I had a large backpack and a smaller daypack. With my daypack between my legs, I reached for my larger piece of 39 . Out of the darkness, a motorbike with two men 40  slowly Without warning, one of the men grabbed my daypack 41 the motorbike swept close by. Within seconds, the two were out of sight, 42 up by the night. The bag had everything 43 to me, my passport, money and an airline ticket. I was in deep trouble. All I wanted was to leave this hell.
Then, walking through Burkina"s streets the following week, I was 44  rudely by an old woman who stretched her hand in my face. "Cadeau (gift)! Cadeau!" she 45  in French.
I"d had enough. I was sick and 46  of the country. I told her 47 in French, "I have no "cadeau". I have no money A thief stole all my money a week ago and now I can"t 48 your country. I cannot give you anything."
The beggar woman listened 49   and thought about my words. "Then I will give you a cadeau," she announced and 50 into the folds of her dress. Kindly, she placed an old, dark brown coin in my  51 . I looked at it in 52 . It was an extremely small amount of money—but for this woman, the coin 53 a meal. At that moment, I saw the beauty of the 54  of Burkina Faso, and appreciated the kindness of me 55 .
36. A. went                  B. headed                   C. served                   D. worked
37. A. destination            B. spot                         C. goal                      D. station
38. A. rest                      B. dine                         C. load                             D. unload
39. A. equipment            B. furniture                  C. luggage                 D. medicine
40. A. rode                     B. drove                       C. approached            D. left
41. A. because                B. as                            C. until                         D. after
42. A. taken                   B. brought                    C. turned                   D. swallowed
43. A. memorable           B. important                 C. beautiful                  D. wonderful
44. A. cheated                B. charged                    C. stopped                    D. questioned
45. A. cried                    B. whispered                 C. threatened                D. demanded
46. A. fond                    B. proud                       C. aware                       D. tired
47. A. pleasantly            B. firmly                     C. actively                   D. bravely
48. A. get rid of             B. take advantage of     C. get out of                D. take notice of
49. A. attentively           B. anxiously               C. curiously                       D. coldly
50. A. reached               B. pulled                     C. looked                    D. came
51. A. pocket                       B. bag                         C. dress                      D. palm
52. A. fright                 B. disappointment         C. shock                     D. satisfaction
53. A. bought                B. meant                      C. ordered                   D. prepared
54. A. country                      B. society                    C. nature                     D. people
55. A. foreign               B. poor                        C .rich                        D. Female

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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、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 1 probably means _____.
A. the period of time for reading together    B. me 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

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B
On the last day of his life, my dog Otto spent that morning of spring napping in the garden. This was always one of his favorite things to do, even before the days when he was too old and too weak to get out of a car by himself.
I probably would have started crying over Otto right then, if my two other little dogs hadn"t suddenly raced past. Larry, who was a puppy, got knocked into Otto, then licked Otto"s ear, and that got Otto excited, and Otto barked and tried to stand up again, but it was hard for him.
Soon it was time for me to drive to see Steve, our vet.
When Steve gave Otto the first shot, it made him woozy (眩晕的). Otto wandered over to where Steve and I were sitting and settled down between us. He has always liked to touch everyone in his pack, if possible, while he sleeps.
After Steve gave him the last shot and Otto stopped breathing, he didn"t look like Otto anymore. He looked like an old gray-brown piece of beat-up carpet, and I suddenly realized what bad shape he"d been in for a long, long time. I wondered if he"d been in much more pain than I knew. Wondering made me feel even worse.
The week after Otto died was not good. Every morning when I walked Larry and Sticky in the neighborhood, somebody would come up and say they had heard about Otto and they were sorry. They were all Otto"s friends and some of them cried. Others, like Debbie who lives on my street, reminded me about how, even at the end. Otto would stand between her twins" stroller (婴儿车) and the street when the garbage truck went by. "Like it was his job to protect them," she marveled.
Otto has left us, but his memory lives on.
60. How did the author feel when Otto was napping in the garden?
A. She felt like crying.                      B. She thought life was beautiful.           C. She found spring was wonderful.            D. She was relieved.
61. According to the passage, how did the dog die?
A. He had an accident on the street.         B. He died naturally.                  C. He was made to die by a vet.                   D. He starved.
62. What can we know about Otto?
A. He was already too old to bark.                            B. He liked people to keep him company.     C. He died a very painful death.                       D. He was protected by the neighbours.
63. We can see from the passage that Sticky is a ______.
A. cat                 B. dog             C. child            D. Neighbour

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