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阅读理解。     When I learned that my 71-year-old mother was playing Scrabble-a word game-against herself, I
knew I had to do something. My husband suggested we give her a computer to play against. I wasn"t
sure my mother was ready for it After all, it had taken 15 years to persuade her to buy an electric cooker.
Even so, we packed up our old computer and delivered it to my parents" home. And so began my mother"s
adventure in the world of computers.
     It also marked the beginning of an unusual teaching task for me. I"ve taught people of all ages, but I
never thought I would be teaching my mother how to do anything. She has been the one teaching me all
my life: to cook and sew: to enjoy the good times and put up with the bad. Now it was my turn to give
something back.
     It wasn"t easy at the beginning. There was so much to explain and to introduce. Slowly but surely, my
mother caught on, making notes in a little notebook. After a few months of Scrabble and other games, I
decided it was time to introduce her to word processing (文字处理) This proved to be a bigger challenge
(挑战) to her, so I gave her some homework I asked her to write me a letter, using different letter types,
colors and spaces.
     "Are you this demanding with your kindergarten pupils?" she asked.
     "No, of course not," I said. "They already know how to use a computer."
    My mother isn"t the only one experiencing a fast personal growth period. Thanks to the computer, my
father has finally got over his phone allergy (过敏反应). For as long as I can remember, any time I called,
my mother would answer. Dad and I have had more phone conversations in the last two months than we"ve
had in the past 20 years. 1. What does the author do? A. She is a cook.
B. She is a teacher.
C. She is a housewife.
D. She is a computer engineer. 2. The author decided to give her mother a computer _____. A. to let her have more chances to write letters
B. to support her in doing her homework
C. to help her through the bad times
D. to make her life more enjoyable 3. The author asked her mother to write her a letter _____.A. because her mother had stopped using the telephone
B. because she wanted to keep in touch with her mother
C. so that her mother could practice what she had learned
D. so that her mother could be free from housework 4. After the computer was brought home, the author"s father _____. A. lost interest in cooking
B. took more phone calls
C. played more games
D. began to use it

1-4: BDCB

完形填空。     I used to live selfishly, I should admit. But one moment changed me.
     I was on my lunch break and had   1   the office to get something to eat. On the way, I   2   a Busker (街头
艺人), with a hat in front of him. I had some   3   in my pocket, but I would not give them to him, thinking to
myself he would   4   use the money to feed his addiction to drugs or alcohol. He   5   like that type-young and
ragged.   6   what was I going to spend the money on? Only to feed my addiction to Coca-Cola or chocolate! I
then   7   I had no right to place myself above   8   just because he was busking.
    I   9   and dropped all the coins into his  10 , and he smiled at me, I watched for a while. As  11  as it sounds,
I expected something more to come from that moment-a feeling of  12  or satisfaction, for example. But nothing
happened  13 , I walked off. "It proved to be a waste of  14 ," I thought.
     On my way home at the end of the  15 , I saw the busker again and he was  16 . I watched him pick up the
hat and walk  17  a cafe counter. There he poured the  18  contents into a tin collecting  19  an earthquake fund-
raising (募捐) event. He was busking for charity (慈善)!
     Now I donate any  20  I have to charity tins and enjoy the feeling of giving.

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(     )1. A. left
(     )2. A. led
(     )3. A. chocolates
(     )4. A. almost
(     )5. A. acted
(     )6. A. Though
(     )7. A. declared
(     )8. A. it
(     )9. A. waited
(     )10. A. rag
(     )11. A. selfish
(     )12. A. happiness
(     )13. A. Disappointedly
(     )14. A. words
(     )15. A. moment
(     )16. A. walking around
(     )17. A. around
(     )18. A. chief
(     )19. A. by
(     )20. A. work

B. cleaned
B. chose
B. coins
B. only
B. looked
B. For
B. realized
B. all
B. followed
B. hat
B. awkward
B. sadness
B. Unfortunately
B. effort
B. day
B. passing by
B. in
B. basic
B. for
B. time

C. prepared
C. saw
C. tins
C. rather
C. sounded
C. Therefore
C. expected
C. him
C. stopped
C. pocket
C. innocent
C. love
C. Coincidentally
C. space
C. break
C. packing up
C. behind
C. actual
C. on
C. energy

D. searched
D. fooled
D. drugs
D. still
D. smelt
D. But
D. guessed
D. them
D. arrived
D. counter
D. special
D. hate
D. Comfortably
D. money
D. event
D. running off
D. to
D. total
D. with
D. change

完形填空。

     One summer day my father sent me to buy wire for our farm. At 16, I liked   1 better than driving our
truck,   2 this time I was not happy. My father had told me I"d have to ask for credit (赊账) at the store.
     Sixteen is a   3 age, when a young man wants respect, not charity. It was 1976, and the ugly   4 of
racial discrimination was   5 a fact of life. I"d seen my friends ask for credit and then stand, head down,
while the store owner   6 whether they were "good for it." I knew black youths just like me who were   7
like thieves by the store clerk each time they went into a grocery.
     My family was   8 . We paid our debts. But before harvest, cash was short. Would the store owner   9
us?
     At Davis"s store, Buck Davis stood behind the cash desk, talking to a farmer. I nodded  10  I passed him
on my way to the hardware shelves. When I brought my  11 to the caskh desk, I said 12 , "I need to put this
on credit."
     The farmer gave me and amused, distrustful   13 . But Buck"s face didn"t change. "Sure," he said 14 .
"Your daddy is  15 good for it." He  16 to the other man. "This here is one of James Williams"s sons." The
farmer nodded in a neighborly 17 . I was filled with pride. James William"s son. Those three words had opened
a door to an adult"s respect and trust.
     That day I discovered that the good name my parents had  18 brought our whole family the respect of our
neighbors. Everyone knew what to  19 from a Williams: a decent person who kept his word and respected
himself  20 much to do wrong.

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(     )1. A. something
(     )2. A. and
(     )3. A. prideful
(     )4. A. intention
(     )5. A. thus
(     )6. A. guessed
(     )7. A. watched
(     )8. A. generous
(     )9. A. blame
(     )10. A. until
(     )11. A. purchases
(     )12. A. casually
(     )13. A. look
(     )14. A. patiently
(     )15. A generally
(     )16. A. pointed
(     )17. A. sense
(     )18. A. earned
(     )19. A. receive
(     )20. A. very

B. nothing
B. so
B. wonderful
B. shadow
B. just
B. suspected
B. caught
B. honest
B. excuse
B. as
B. sales
B. confidently
B. stare
B. eagerly
B. never
B. replied
B. way
B. deserved
B. expect
B. so

C. anything
C. but
C. respectful
C. habit
C. still
C. questioned
C. dismissed
C. friendly
C. charge
C. once
C. orders
C. cheerfully
C. response
C. easily
C. sometimes
C. turned
C. degree
C. given
C. collect
C. how

D. everything
D. for
D. colorful
D. faith
D. ever
D. figured
D. accused
D. modest
D. trust
D. since
D. favorites
D. carefully
D. comment
D. proudly
D. always
D introduced
D. mood
D. used
D. require
D. too

阅读理解。

      Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. "Football, tennis
Cricket-anything with a round ball, I was useless, "he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the
object of jokes in school gym classes in England"s rural Devonshire.
     It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first the teen went biking
alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his mind
building up his body, increasing his speed, strength and endurance. At age 18, he ran his first marathon.
      The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat
across the Atlantic Ocean. Saunders was hired as an instructor at Ridgway"s school of Adventure in Scotland,
where he learned about the older man"s cold-water exploits (成就). Intrigued, Saunders read all he could about
Arctic explorers and North Pole expeditions, then decided that this would be his future.
     Journeys to the Pole aren"t the usual holidays for British country boys, and many people dismissed his
dream as fantasy."John Ridgway was one of the few who didn"t say, "You are completely crazy," Saunders
says.
     In 2001, after becoming a skilled skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition toward the North
Pole. He suffered frostbite, had a closer encounter (遭遇) with a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit.
     Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he"s skied more of the
Arctic by himself than any other Briton. His old playmates would not believe the transformation.
     This October, Saunders, 27, heads south to explore from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, an 1800-mile journey that has never been completed on skis.

1. The turning point in Saunders" life came when _____.

A. he started to play ball games
B. he got a mountain bike at age 15
C. he ran his first marathon at age 18
D. he started to receive Ridgway"s training

2. We can learn from the text that Ridgway _______.

A. dismissed Saunders" dream as fantasy
B. built up his body together with Saunders
C. hired Saunders for his cold-water experience
D. won his fame for his voyage across the Atlantic

3. What do we know about Saunders?

A. He once worked at a school in Scotland.
B. He followed Ridgway to explore the North Pole.
C. He was chosen for the school sports team as a kid.
D. He was the first Briton to ski alone to the North Pole.

4. The underlined word "Intrigued" in the third paragraph probably means _____.

A. Excited
B. Convinced
C. Delighted
D. Fascinated

5. It can be inferred tat Saunders" journey to the North Pole ______.

A. was accompanied by his old playmates
B. set a record in the North Pole expedition
C. was supported by other Arctic explorers
D. made him well-known in the 1960s

阅读理解。

     November not only marks the publication of Toni Morrison"s eagerly anticipated (期待) eighth novel,
Love, but it is also the tenth anniversary of her Nobel Prize for Literature. Morrison is the first black
woman to receive a Nobel, and so honored before her in literature are only two black men: Wole Soyinka,
the Nigerian playwright, poet and novelist, in 1986; and Derek Walcott, the Caribbean-born poet, in 1992.
But Morrison is also the first and only American-born Nobel prizewinner for literature since 1962, the year
novelist John steinbeck received the award.
     Like Song of Solomon, Love is a multigenerational story, revealing the personal and communal legacy
of an outstanding black family. As Morrison scholars will tell you, Love is the third volume of a literary
master"s trilogy (三部曲) investigating the many complexities of love. This trilogy began with Beloved
(1988), which deals with a black mother"s love under slavery and in freedom. Jazzy (1993), the second
volume, tells a story of romantic love in 1920s Harlem. This latest novel looks back from the 1970s to the
1940s and 50s.
     The emotional center of Love is Bill Cosey, the former owner and host of the shabby Cosey"s Hotel and
Resort in Silk, North Carolina, described in the novel as "the best and best-known vacation sport for colored
folk on the East Coast." We get to know Cosey through the memories of five women who survive and love
him: his granddaughter, his widow, two former employees, and a homeless young girl.
     The latest novel, Love, had been described in the promotional material from her publisher as "Morrison"s
most accessible work since Song of Solomon." This comparison to her third novel, published in 1977, was
an effective selling point.

1. What would be the best title for the text?

A. Toni Morrison"s latest novels
B. Toni Morrison and her trilogy
C. Toni Morrison and her novel Love
D. Toni Morrison, the Nobel prizewinner

2. What can we learn about John Steinbeck?

A. He was a black writer.
B. He was born in America.
C. He received the Nobel Prize after Morrison
D. He was the first American novelist to win a Nobel

3. The similarity between Love and Song of Solomon is that they both _____.

A. belong to the same trilogy together with Beloved
B. concern families of more than one generation
C. deal with life of blacks under slavery
D. investigate life in 1920s Harlem

4. The novel Love mainly describes ______.

A. the best-known vacation spot for blacks
B. the life of an outstanding black family under slavery
C. the miserable experience of the five women in Harlem
D. the memories of five women about Bill Cosey

完形填空。

     The child in the hospital bed was just waking up after having a throat (喉咙) operation. His throat   1 , and
he was afraid. However, the young nurse   2   by his bed smiled so   3   that the little boy smiled back. He   4
to be afraid. The young nurse was May Paxton   5   she was deaf (聋的). May Paxton graduated   6 the
Missouri School for the Deaf near the year 1909.Three years   7   she went to see Dr. Richard son about   8
a nurse. Dr Richardson was one of the founders of Mercy Hospital of Kansas City.   9   had never heard of a
deaf nurse. She told May that her  10  would be very low and that the work would be  11 . However, May said
that hard work did not frighten her. Dr. Richardson was  12  her, and accepted May as a student nurse.
     Dr. Richardson never  13  her decision  14 , she was so pleased with May"s work that she later accepted two
other deaf women as student nurses. The  15  was Miss Marian Finch, who was hard of  16 . The second was
Miss Lillie Bessie. These three were  17  "the silent angles (天使) of Mercy Hospital" during the  18  they worked
there.
     Dr. Richardson often  19  her faith in the girls" ability to learn nursing. She wrote to May, "For three years,
you have been with us… It is wonderful to me that no man,  20  or child ever, to my knowledge, made a
complaint (投诉) against you…"

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