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阅读理解。 "A good book for children should simply be a good book in its own right," says Mollie Hunter. Born and
brought up near Edinburgh, Mollie has devoted her talents to writing primarily for young people. She firmly
believes that there is always and should always be a wider audience for any good book whatever its main
market is. In Mollie"s opinion it is necessary to make full use of language and she enjoys telling a story, which
is what every writer should be doing."If you aren"t telling a story, you"re a very dead writer indeed," she says.
With the chief function of a writer being to entertain (让人愉快), Mollie is indeed an entertainer."I have this
great love of not only the meaning of language but of the music of language," she says. "This love goes back
to early childhood. I"ve told stories all my life. I had a school teacher who used to ask us what we would like
to be when we grew up and, because my family always had dogs, and I was very good at handling them, I said
I wanted to work with dogs, and the teacher always said "Nonsense, Mollie, dear, you"ll be a writer."So finally
I thought that this woman must have something, since she was a good teacher and I decided when I was nine
that I would be a writer."
This childhood intention is described in her novel, A Sound of Chariots, which although written in the third
person is clearly autobiographical (自传体的) and gives a picture both of Mollie"s ambition (理想) and her
struggle towards its achievement. Thoughts of her childhood inevitably(不可避免地) brought thoughts of the
time when her home was still a village with buttercup meadows and strawberry fields-sadly now covered with
modern houses."I was once taken back to see it and I felt that somebody had lain dirty hands all over my
childhood. I"ll never go back," she said."Never.""When I set one of my books in Scotland," she said,"I can
recall my romantic (浪漫的) feelings as a child playing in those fields, or watching the village blacksmith at
work. And that"s important, because children now know so much so early that romance can"t exist for them,
as it did for us." 1. What does Mollie Hunter feel about the nature of a good book? A. It should not aim at a narrow audience.
B. It should be attractive to young readers.
C. It should be based on original ideas.
D. It should not include too much conversation. 2. In Mollie Hunter"s opinion, which of the following is one sign of a poor writer? A. Being poor in life experience.
B. Being short of writing skills.
C. The weakness of description.
D. The absence of a story. 3. What do we learn about Mollie Hunter as a young child? A. She didn"t expect to become a writer.
B. She didn"t enjoy writing stories.
C. She didn"t have any particular ambitions.
D. She didn"t respect her teacher"s views. 4. In comparison with children of earlier years, Mollie feels that modern children are _____. A. more intelligent
B. better informed
C. less eager to learn
D. less interested in reality 5. What"s the writer"s purpose in this text? A. To describe Mollie Hunter"s most successful books.
B. To share her enjoyment of Mollie Hunter"s books.
C. To introduce Mollie Hunter"s work to a wider audience.
D. To provide information for Mollie Hunter"s existing readers.

1-5: ADABC

阅读理解。     There are many famous museums throughout the world where people can enjoy art. Washington, D.C. has
the National Gallery of Art (美术馆); Paris has the Luvre; London, the British Museum. Florida International
University (FIU) in Miami also shows art for people to see. And it does so without a building, or even a wall for
its drawings and paintings. FIU has opened what it says is the first computer art museum in the United States.
You don"[t have to visit the University to see the art. You just need a computer linked to a telephone. You can
call the telephone number of a university computer and connect your own computer to it. All of the art is stored
in the school computer. It is computer art, produced electronically by artists on their own computers. In only a
few minutes, your computer can receive and copy all the pictures and drawings.
     Robert Shostak is director of the new computer museum. He says he starts the museum because computer
artists had no place to show their works.
     A computer artist can only record his pictures electronically and send the records, or floppy discs, to others
to see on their computers. He can also put his pictures on paper. But to print good pictures on paper, the
computer artist needs an expensive laser printer.
     Robert Shostak says the electronic museum is mostly for art or computer students at schools and universities. Many of the pictures in the museum are made by students. Mr Shostak said the FIU museum will make
computer art more fun for computer artists because more people can see it. He says artists enjoy their work
much more if they have an audience. And the great number of home computers in America could mean a huge
audience for the electronic museum. 1. The main purpose of this text is to give information about _____.A. museums throughout the world
B. an electronic art museum in Miami, U.S.A.
C. art exhibitions in Florida International University
D. latest development of computer art 2. To see the art in FIU museum, you need _____. A. floppy discs
B. a computer and a printer
C. pictures and drawings on paper
D. a computer connected to the museum by telephone line3. The museum was started when _____. A. Robert Shostak wanted to do something for computer scientists
B. Robert Shostak wanted to help computer artists
C. art students needed a place to show their works
D. computer scientists wanted to do something about art 4. The words "an audience"in the last paragraph refer to _____.A. art students
B. computer owners
C. exhibits in the museum
D. those who will enjoy art

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完形填空。     Living and dealing with kids can be a difficult job, but living and dealing with parents can be even more
difficult.
     If I have learned anything in my 16 ears, it is that   1 is very important,   2   when you disagree. With
any relationship, you need to let other people know how you"re   3   . When you"re mad at your parents, or
anyone else, not talking to them doesn"t   4   anything.
     Communication   5   the concerns (所关注的事) of another. It means that you can"t   6 come home
from school, go up to your room and ignore (不理睬) everyone.   7   you just say "Hi", and see how their
day was for five minutes, it is better than nothing.
     When   8   with parents, you always have to make them feel good about how they are doing   9   parents.
If you are   10 to make them see something as you see it, tell that you"ll listen to what they have to say, but
ask them   11 to listen to you. Shouting or walking away only makes the situation   12 .
     This is an  13 : one night, Sophie went to a street party with her friends. She knew she had to be home by
  14 , but she didn"t feel she could jus   15 to go home. That would be rude.   16 , the had been nice enough
to make her along with them. Needless to say, she was late getting home. Her parents were   17   at first, but
when Sophie explained why she was late, they weren"t as mad and let the incident go. Communication was the
key factor here. If Sophie"s parents had not been willing to  18 , Sophie would have been in a lot of trouble.
     Communication isn"t a(n)   19 way deal, it goes both ways. Just remember, if you get into a   20   like
Sophie"s, tell the other person how you feel-listening is a key factor in communication.

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(     )1. A. discussion
(     )2. A. especially
(     )3. A. recovering
(     )4. A. mean
(     )5. A. begins with
(     )6. A. yet
(     )7. A. Ever since
(     )8. A. agreeing
(     )9. A. for
(     )10. A. managing
(     )11. A. specially
(     )12. A. worse
(     )13. A. experience
(     )14. A. supper
(     )15. A. cheat
(     )16. A. after all
(     )17. A. mad
(     )18. A. obey
(     )19. A. new
(     )20. A. position

B. transportation
B. highly
B. feeling
B. hold
B. ends up with
B. just
B. Once
B. arguing
B. through
B. trying
B. entirely
B. better
B. example
B. noon
B. threaten
B. at first
B. anxious
B. listen
B. unique
B. stage

C. communication
C. luckily
C. enjoying
C. solve
C. starts
C. rather
C. Even if
C. going
C. like
C. encouraging
C. politely
C. harder
C. operation
C. midnight
C. need
C. at once
C. natural
C. scold
C. honorable
C. view

D. dependence
D. strangely
D. hating
D. shock
D. ends up in
D. even
D. Even so
D. dealing
D. as
D. affording
D. rudely
D. narrower
D. outline
D. morning
D. ask
D. in all
D. mild
D. tolerate
D. double
D. situation

阅读理解。

     One of the more common and destructive mental tendencies I"ve seen is that of focusing on what we want
instead of what we have.
     We want this or that. If we don"t get what we want, we keep thinking about all that we don"t have and we
remain dissatisfied. If we do get what we want, we simply recreate the same thinking in our new
circumstances. So, despite getting what we want, we still remain unhappy. Happiness can"t be found when we
are yearning (向往,渴望) for new desires.
     Luckily, there is a way to be happy. It involves changing the emphasis of our thinking from what we want
to what we have. Rather than wishing you were able to take a vacation to Hawaii, think of how much fun you
have had close to home. The list of possibilities is endless! Each time you notice yourself falling into the "I
wish life were different" trap, back off and start over. Take a breath and remember all that you have to be
grateful. When you focus not on what you want, but on what you have, you end up getting more of what you
want anyway. If you focus on the good qualities of your spouse (配偶), she"ll be more loving. If you are
grateful for your job rather than complaining about it, you"ll do a better job, be more productive, and probably
end up getting a raise anyway. If you focus on ways to enjoy yourself around home rather than waiting to
enjoy yourself in Hawaii, you"ll end up having more fun. If you ever do get to Hawaii, you"ll be in the habit of
enjoying yourself. And, if by some chance you don"t, you have a great life anyway.
     Make a note of yourself to start thinking more about what you have than what you want. If you do, your
life will start appearing much better than before. For perhaps the first time in your life, you"ll know what it means to feel satisfied.

1. Why did the author say that focusing on what we want is destructive?

A. If we don"t get what we want, we remain dissatisfied.
B. If we do get what we want, we simply recreate the same thinking.
C. If we desire what we want, we would be unhappy.
D. All of the above

2. How do you understand the underlined expression "I wish life were different" in the second paragraph?

A. Focusing on what you want.
B. Focusing on what you have.
C. Focusing on ways to enjoy yourself around home.
D. Focusing on being able to take a vacation.

3. The passage implies that ______.

A. getting what we want, we would be happy
B. if we focus on what we have, we would have a better life
C. it is more fun than you have had close to home
D. focusing on what you want, you end up getting more of what you have anyway

4. Which is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A. If we focus on what we want, we may remain dissatisfied and unhappy.
B. Changing our thinking from what we want to what we have would make you happy.
C. Focus on the good qualities of your wife, she"ll be more loving.
D. It is more fun to around home than taking a vacation to Hawaii.

阅读理解。
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。

     Facebook (a social networking service) makes it far too easy to make new friends-Unfortunately, reality
is not like that.   1 The difference here is that we don"t get to choose our families; friends, on the other hand,
are picked, selected and developed through our life.
     It is quite funny how your best friends know exactly what your are thinking without even telling them.
   2 This friend"s sixth sense is something that takes time to develop through many long-lasting experiences
that your go through.
     I was once asked: which one would be the worst thing, to lose all your loved ones or to lose all your
friends?   3 I believe that I couldn"t live a day if I had lost all my friends.
     Respect, loyalty (忠诚), and support are few of the qualities that will form a good friendship. There are
many others for sure, but it is enough for you to get these.
       4   The ability to trust someone and therefore, be trusted, can be only built with a lot of effort and time.
     I hate that ugly Facebook"s message "Add to your friends?" It is like a friends was something that you
could simply add to your "portfolio (文件夹)" without feeling.   5

A. My answer was certainly the latter.
B. This is definitely not the way to make friends.
C. This is not something that happens overnight.
D. Life without friends is just like soup without salt.
E. We need friends to help us when we meet with difficulties.
F. Trust is also one of the major features of a good relationship.
G. Friends sometimes are just as important to us as our families.

完形填空。

     Science seems to be getting closer to answering a very old mystery. Homing pigeons can be   1 hundreds
of miles from their homes. When they are let to go to   2 again, they find their way home. Because of this
special ability to  3 , pigeons have been used   4 messengers for hundreds of years.
     Today people even breed homing pigeons for   5 at a sport. The birds are shipped to some chosen   6   a
few hundred miles away. Then all of them are let to go together. The winner is the bird that gets home   7 . A
good race can make it home from 500 miles away   8   a single day.
     The mystery of the homing pigeons is how they   9 directions and how they find home. The first part seems
to be pretty well   10 , and we know of two ways that pigeons tell directions. First, they use the sun.
Experiments show that homing pigeons can tell    11   by the sun. What happens when the   12 is darkly
overcoat by clouds and no one can   13 where the sun is? Then the pigeons still find their way home.
     Naturally, people have wondered whether pigeons might have a built-in compass   14   that would tell them
about the direction of the  15   magnetic(磁的)field. Many different kinds of experiments were   16 . Here"s
what the scientists decided   17   they had made experiments many times. When pigeons can see the sun, they
use it as their 　  18  means of direction-finding. When they can"t see the sun, they use some   19 way to sense
direction from the earth"s magnetic field.
     But how do pigeons know 20   direction is toward home? What do they use that we would call a map? These are other questions to be answered.

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