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第四部分完形填空Passage1One daya womangot into her carand startdriving homeafter work.Suddeny,she sawa yellowcarbehind her.The driverwas aman.When sheturned left,the yellowcar turnedleft.When sheturned right,the yellowcar turnedright,21too.When shestopped at the trafficlights,the yellowcar stopped22behindher.The womanwas afraid,so shedrove quicklyto thepolicestation.She was very surprisedwhen shefound thecar stoppedbehind her.At thattime,a youngman wasstandingoutside thepolice station.The womanwasveryhappy to see him.She knewthat hewas apolicemanbecause hewas23_wearing_a policeuniform.She jumpedout ofher carand ranto the policeman.She askedhim to arrest theman in the yellowcar,so thepoliceman walkedto theman.The mandidnt tryto run24_Away_when hesaw thepoliceman.He justsmiled andsaidto thewoman,I want to givethis purseback to you,madam.I thinkyou_dropped_25it onthestreet.”一天一种女人下班开着回家忽然她看到一辆黄色的车跟在她背面司机是个男人她左转，这辆黄色的车也跟着左转她向右转，这辆黄色的车也跟着右转她等红绿灯的时候，黄色的车在她背面停下了她很胆怯，因此迅速的把车开到了警察局当她看到停在背面的黄车时，她很吃惊就在这时，警察局外面站着一位年轻人这个女人看到他非常开心她懂得这是一种警察，由于他穿了一身警服她跳下车跑到警察跟前，让这个警察把黄车里的男人抓起来因此警察向黄车走过去看到警察后，开黄车的男人没有试图逃跑他笑了笑对这个女人说“女士，我只是想把这个钱包还给你，我觉得这个是你丢的”A.wearing B.behind C.too D.dropped E.Away KEYCBAEDPassage2One of the latestimports is acupuncture（针刺疗法）,theuse ofneedles for_______21disease.Although acupuncturehas beenpracticed in China foryears,its22in theWesternworld is still very

23.Several hospitalsin the United Statesare nowexperimenting withacupunctureas away oftreating pains.An Americanjournalist descriedthe process24its effects.To keepthe patient25feeling painduring theoperation,four needleswere used,each aboutan inchand ahalf long.The topsofthe needleswere attachedto wireswhich ledto asmall electricaldevice.最新引进的针刺疗法，被用来治疗疾病虽然针刺疗法在中国已经被用了了，但它的使用方法在西方还算很新，美国的某些医院目前开始把针刺疗法作为治疗疼痛的一种措施一种美国新闻记者描述了它的效果在手术中为了让病人感觉不到疼痛，要使用四根针，每根月一种半英尺长针的顶部连接着电线导向一种很小的仪器A.and B.treating C.from D.new E.use KEYBEDACPassage3Eagle hasthe longestlife-span of its species.Eagle can21up to70years,but toreach thisageeagle must make ahard decision.In its40s,its longand flexibletalons（JK）can nolonger grabprey（掠食）which servesas food,itslong andsharp beak（鸟嘴，喙）become bent.Its old-aged andheavy wings,due to their thickfeathers,become stuckto itschest andmake it22to fly.Then,the eagleis leftwith onlytwooptions:die orgo througha painfulprocess ofchange whichlasts150days forsurvival.The processrequires thateagle flyto amountain topand siton itsnest.There theeagle knocksitsbeak23a rockuntil itplucks（拔去）it out.After pluckingit out,eagle willwait for a newA.heavy B.burning C.start D.pulled E.tied KEYCBAEDPassage17Modern zoosare verydifferent fromzoos thatwere builtfifty years ago.At thattime,zoos wereplaces21people couldgo tosee animalsfrom manyparts of the world.The animalslived incages thatwere made22concrete withiron bars,cages thatwere easyto keepclean.Unfortunately for the animals,the cageswere smalland impossible to hidein.The zooenvironmentwas anythingbut natural.23the zookeepers tookgood careof theanimals andfed themwell,many of theanimals didnot thrive;they behavedin strangeways,and theyoften becameill.In modernzoos,people cansee animalsin morenatural habitats.The animalsare givenmore_24in largeareas so that theycan livemore comfortablyas theywould innature.Even theappearance ofzooshas changed.Trees andgrass growin thecages,and streamsof waterflow25the areasthat animalslivein.现代动物园与50年前的很不一样样50年前，动物园是可以看到世界各地动物的一种地方动物们住在钢筋混凝土建造的笼子里，笼子轻易清理对于动物们很不幸的是，笼子太小无处可藏动物园的环境一点也不天然虽然动物园的员工照顾和喂养动物都很好，但动物们还是没有兴旺他们行为怪异，常常生病在现代动物园中，人们可以可以看到动物体现出更多天然的习性人们给动物提供广阔的场地和更多的自由，因此动物们可以像在自然环境中同样舒适的生活甚至连动物园的外观也进行了改善笼子中种了树和草，小溪流过动物们居住的地方A.of B.Although C.where D.over E.freedom KEY.CABEDPassage18Three mencame toLondon fora holiday.They came toa large hoteland tooka roomthere.21roomwas on the fiftiethfloor.In theevening the three menwent toa cinemaand cameback very

22.Tm sorry,“said theassistant of the hotel.Our liftsare notworking atthis timeof night.If you dontwant to walk up to your room,we shallmake upa bedfor youin thehalL^^“No,no,“Tom,one ofthethreemen,said,No,thank you.We do not wantto sleepin the hall.Weshall walkup to ourroom.”Then heturned to his twofriends andsaid,It is not easyto walkup to the fiftiethfloor,but Iknow23___________make iteasier.On ourway to the room,I shalltell you some jokes,then you,Andy,sing ussome songs,then you,Peter,tell ussome interestingstories.“AH right.Thafs a good ideaJ thefriends bothagreed.They begantowalkuptotheir room.Tom toldmany jokes.Andy sangsome songs.24they cametothe thirty-eighth floor.They weretired anddecided to have arest.“WellJ saidTom,“Now ifsyour turn,Peter.After allthose jokesand songs,tell usa longandinteresting storywith asad ending.“AH right/9said Peter,I shalltell youa story.It isnot long,25itis reallysad:We leftthe keyin ourroom in thehall.”一看三个人来到英国去度假，他们来到一种非常大的旅馆，住在第四十五层一天，他们去看电影很晚才回来“很抱歉”旅馆服务员说“我们的电梯今晚坏了”三人中的一种对此外两个朋友说“我们可以步行到房间，它很困难，但我想我懂得怎样使它变得简朴在我们去房间的路上，我将将某些笑话，而你，约翰，给我们唱一首歌；而你，彼得，给我们将某些有趣的故事”因此他们开始步行到他们的房间，汤姆将诸多笑话，约翰唱诸多歌，最终，他们来到那一层他们很累，决定休息一下“彼得你能不能告诉我们一种带着悲伤结局的真实故事？”汤姆说“我将告诉你一种悲伤的故事”彼得说，“它很短，不过足够是人难过就在刚刚我们将钥匙落在楼下我们将怎么做？A.At lastB.late C.Their D.but E.how toKEY:CBEADPassage19Its veryinteresting tostud namesof differentcountries.Chinese namesare different_21—foreignnames.Once anEnglish ladycametovisit me.When I was introducedto her,she said“Glad to meet you,Miss Ping.^^Then she gave hername cardwith threewords onit“Betty J.Black”.So Isaid uThank you,Miss Betty.v Welooked ateach other and laughedheartily.Later Ifound thatthe Englishpeople_22—their family name lastand the given namefirst,while theirmiddles arenot usedvery much.I explainedtoher thatthe Chinesefamily namecomes first,thegivenname last,so she_23—never callme MissPing.She askedif weChinese had a middlename.I toldher wedidnt.But peoplemay oftenfind threewords onaChinese namecard.In thiscase the familynamestill comesfirst and the othertwo wordsafter it_24—a two-word givenname.It isquite usualinChina.My sisteris LiXiaofang.She hastwo wordsin hergivenname instead_25—just onelike mine.学习不一样国家认的名字其实是一件很有趣的事情中国人的取名不一样于外国人的取名曾经，有一种英国女士来访问我我做完自我简介后，她打招呼道“萍小姐，很快乐见到你”然后她给我她的名片，上面写着“BettyJ.Black因此我同道“谢谢，贝蒂小姐J我们看着彼此，不禁笑起来之后，我发现本来英国人的姓氏都放在名字之后，而中间的名字并不常用我向他解释道，中国人的姓名都是姓氏在前，名字在后因此她不应当叫我萍小姐她问我们中国人与否有中间名，我告诉她我们没有不过人们一般会发现中国人的名片上有时候会出现三个字在这种状况下，姓氏放在首位，背面的两个字都是名字这在中国是很常见的，我姐姐的姓名就叫李晓芳，名字有两个字，而不像我的只有一种A.put B.from C.should D.of E.Are KEY:BACEDPassage20The worldisnotonly hungry;it isalso thirstyfor water.This mayseem strangetoyou,since nearly75%oftheearths surfaceis coveredwith water.But about97%of thishuge21is seawater,or saltwater.Man canonly drinkand usethe other3%ofthefresh waterthat comesfrom rivers,lakes,underground,and other22,And wecant evenuse allof that,because some ofit is in the formof icebergsand glaciers.Even worse,someofit hasbeen polluted.However,as thingsstand today,this smallamount offreshwater,23is constantlybeing replacedby rainfall;isstillenough forus.But ourneed forwater isincreasingrapidly-almost dayby day.We allhave to learn how to stopwasting our24water.One ofthefirst stepswe shouldtake is to developways ofreusing it.Experiments havealready beendone inthis25,but onlyon asmall scale.The systemsthat have been workedout resemblethose usedin spacecraft.世界不仅仅饥饿，还很渴你也许觉得这很奇怪，由于近75%的地球表面都覆盖着水不过96%的水都是海水或咸水人们只能饮用和使用其他3%的来自河湖、地下与其他来源的淡水我们甚至连这些也不能都运用，由于有的存在于冰山和冰川里更糟糕的是，某些水还被污染了不过，正如今天的状况同样，这些少许的淡水，在不停地由降雨循环，目前还够我们使用但我们对水的需求在增长，几乎是每天都在增长我们都必须学会怎样不挥霍宝贵的水我们可做的第一步中，开发反复运用水的技术是一项这一领域，已做了诸多试验，但只是小规模的开发的系统很像飞行器上的用的那种A.field B.sources C.which D.precious E.amountKEY:EBCDAbeak togrow back.When itsnew talonsgrow backthe eaglesstarts pluckingits old-aged feathers andafter fivemonths,eagle antake itsflight ofrebirth andlive forthirty24years.Many times,in orderto survive,we haveto starta changeprocess.We sometimesneed to25oldmemories,habits andother pasttraditions.Only freedfrom pastburdens,can wetakeadvantage ofthe present.鹰是寿命最长的鸟类，它可以活到70岁，然而，为了活到70岁，鹰比粗做一种很艰难的选择当鹰活到40岁，它原本细长灵活的双爪无法再扑捉猎物，长而尖的喙变得弯曲由于厚重的羽毛，鹰的又老又重的翅膀也贴在了胸前，扣扣一零七八二五二四四九由于再也无法翱翔这个时候，鹰只有2个选择要么静静等死，要么通过150天漫长而痛苦的转变过程获得重生假如鹰选择重生，它必须飞到山崖的顶端，在那里筑巢然后，它要在岩石上敲打它的喙,直到脱落，然后等待新的喙长出来当鹰的新爪子长出来后，它开始拔掉老的羽毛，五个月后，鹰可以获得30年的新生，再次翱翔在天空诸多时候，我们为了生存必须做出变化有时候我们需要抛掉此前的记忆，习惯以及其他过去的通例只有狰脱过去的承担，我们才能把握当下A.against B.difficult C.get rid of D.live E.more KEYDBAECPassage4Ifs alwaysinteresting tovisit another country,especially forthose whohave nevertravelled agreatdeal.Foreign21can bevery educationalfor anyoneif he is interestedenough tomakepreparations beforehand.Learning the language ofthe new country wouldbe difficultfor the traveller,22the benefitsof suchan effortwould becomeobvious immediatelyon hisarrival.It maynotseem important to himwhen hecomfortably stayat home,but knowinghowtoorder ameal orbook aroomis necessaryfor thenewcomer in a strangecountry.Without knowingthe language,its verydifficult23the strangerto understand the peopleofthenewcountryand theircustoms.Of course,in oursmall worldit isoften possibleto findsomeone whounderstands ourown,but thisisonly second-best for thetraveller.To besure,he cansee placesand thingswithout theuse ofa language,but placesand things24not theheart ofany country.To getthe greatestbenefit fromatrip25anothercountry,it ishow importantfor thevisitor tohave anunderstanding ofthelanguage.出国旅行总是很有趣的，尤其是对那些很少出门旅行的人只要你兴致很高，提前做些准备，出国旅行对任何人老说都很有教育意义学习一门新的语言对于旅行者来说会很难，不过一抵达新国度，这种努力学习语言的益处就会立竿见影当他舒适地待在国内的时候这并不重要，不过在一种陌生的国家里，对于一种新来的人懂得怎样点餐货预定房间却是必须的假如不懂这个国家的语言，对陌生人而言，就很难理解这个国家的人文及风俗文化当然，在我们这个小世界里，很有也许找到一种懂我们语言的人，不过，这对旅行者来说是退而求另一方面的做法可以肯定的是，在不合用语言的状况下，他可以参观许多地方并看到许多事物，不过这额都不是这个国家的关键为了从国家旅行中获得最大的益处，懂得这个国家的语言对旅行者来说是非常重要的A.travel B.are C.for D.but E.to KEYADCBEPassage5A littleboy wantedtomeetGod,so hestarted histrip withsome cakesand orangejuice.On hiswayhe sawan oldwoman_21—in the park.The boysat downnext toher.The oldlady lookedhungry,so heofferedher acake.She acceptedit thankfullyand smiledat him.Her smilewas_22—pretty thatthe boywantedtoseeit again,so hegave hera bottleof orangejuice.Once againshe smiledat him.The boywasvery happy!They satthere allafternoon eatingand smiling,but theynever saya word.As itgrew dark,the boy got upto leave.—23—he left,hegaveherakiss.She gavehim herbiggest smileever.When theboygothome,his mothersaw thelook ofjoy onhis face.She askedhim,_24_made yousohappy”He replied,661had lunchwith God.Shes gotthe mostbeautiful smileIve everseen!^^The oldwomanalso returnedtoherhome_25_.Her sonasked,Mother,why areyousohappy”She answered,I atecakes intheparkwith God.You know,hes muchyounger thanI expected.一种小男孩想见上帝一面，因此他带着某些糕点和橙汁就上路了他走着走着看见了一种老妇人坐在公园里男孩坐到了她的旁边老妇人看上去很饿，因此男孩给了她一块蛋糕老妇人感谢地接过蛋糕，对男孩微笑了一下她的微笑非常美，引得男孩想再看一次，因此他给了她一瓶橙汁她对他又微笑了一次男孩感到很开心，他们坐在那儿吃啊笑啊整整一下午，但并未交谈半个字天渐渐黑了，男孩站起身来准备离开扣扣一零七八二五二四四九他离开之前给了老妇人一种吻，老妇人回报了他一种最大的微笑当男孩回到家里，他妈妈看到他脸上快乐的表情，问道:“什么让你这样开心啊？”他回答:“我跟上帝一起吃了午餐，她拥有我曾见过最美的微笑”老妇人也快乐地回到家里，她儿子问她:“妈妈，你为何这样开心？她回答:“我跟上帝一起在公园里吃了点心，你懂得吗，他比我想象得年轻多了”A.so B.What C.sitting D.happily E.Before KEYCAEBDPassage6More andmore teachersand parentshave noticedanother kind of pollution,which camefromthe printedpapers soldon streets.There printedthings looklike newspaperbut havehardly anythingto dowith them.You canonlyfind readingmaterial badly21there-some aretoo strangefor anyoneto believe,22arefrightening storiesof somethingeven worse.However,many ofthe youngstudents aregetting absorbedinsuch poisonousreading,which coststhem whatthey shouldpay for their breakfastand bringthemnightmares andimmoral ideasin return.Homework isleft undone,daily gameslost.There sellersshout onstreets sellingtheir paperswell.The writers,publishers andprinters,23theyare,we neverknow,are makingtheir silentmoney.They sheepskinned wolfsstoriesseem tohavebeenforgotten onceagain.Why notforbid thiskindofthings at school Yes,both teachersand parentshave askedeach otherformore strictcontrol ofthe youngreaders.Yet unfortunately,24you wantto forbidit,the morethey wanttohavea lookat itsometimes youmay evenfind severalchildren shareone patchedpaper,which hastravelled fromone handto anotherdriven bythe curiousnature.It reallydoes harmtooursociety.It hasalready formeda sortof moralpollution.The25teachersand parentsneed morepowerful support.Meanwhile,the youngreaders needmoreinteresting booksto helpthem getridofthese uglypapers.越来越多的老师和家长已经注意到另一种污染，即随街叫卖的印刷品这些印刷品看起来像报纸，但又几乎跟报纸无关你只能看到这些阅读材料粗制滥造，有些材料离奇得让人难以相信，其他的则是更糟糕的恐怖故事然而，许多学生却迷上了这种有毒的读物，他们把用于买早餐的钱拿来买这些，但带来的回报却是恶梦和不道德的思想家庭作业不做，整日沉迷于游戏这些卖家在街上叫卖他们的报纸，销量很好我们历来不懂得作家，出版商和印刷商是谁，但他们正默默赚着钱披着羊皮的狼的故事似乎又被遗忘了为何学校不严禁这种事情呢？是的，老师和家长都规定对方愈加严格控制这些年轻的读者然而不幸的是，你越是制止，他们就越是想看有时你甚至会发现好儿种孩子争着看一张由于好奇心而穿来穿去的破报纸这些劣质读物确实对我们的社会导致了危害扣扣一零七八二五二四四九它已经形成了一种道德污染忧心的老师和家长需要更有力的支持同步，这些小读者更需要更多有趣的书来协助他们挣脱这些不健康的读物A.others B.made upC.worried D.whoever E.the moreKEY BADECPassage7Did yousleep welllast nightMaybe peoplewill answer.No.in fact,intheworld aboutone inthreepeople donthave good sleep.21you sayyoudonot havegoodsleep,it meanswakingearly andnot gettingback tosleep,often interruptedshort periodof sleep,or hoursof wakefulness.You22_________get tired,worried,and anxious.Your memoryand abilityto rememberthings willbeaffected.Then whatshould youdo whenyou have the troubleDo notworry aboutit toomuch.First,lets seewhetheryou cansleep yourself.The waysare asfollows:First23that youbedroom isnttoo coldor toohot.Keep itdark andquiet.Second,check yourlifestyle:Do notdrink tea,coffee,cola orchocolate fourhours beforegoing to bed.Drink lessliquid sothatyou canhave noor lessvisits tothe toilet.Set your body clockwell bygetting up and goingto bedatthefixed timeevery day.You24take anddaytime naps.Develop arelaxing bedtimehabit.Read orlisten tomusic,then takea warmbath.If youreally cannotsleep,try somebread,rice ormilk.They willhelp youfast asleep.Go fora dailywalk.Natural lighthelps youto putyourbodyclock intocorrect habit,25do exerciseoutdoor ifyou can.Forget theworries ofthe day,write downany worries,thoughts orquestions beforeyou goto bed.With thesewritten down,you willhave lessto thinkabout andyour sleepwill becomeeasier.昨天你睡得好吗？也许诸多人会说不实际上，全球有三分之一的人睡不好假如你说你没有休息好，这意味着早醒后无法再入睡，睡觉的时间断断续续，或一连几小时无法入睡飞你也许总是感到疲劳、焦急或易怒；你的记忆和记忆力都会受到影响那么出现这的问你题该怎样做？不要太紧张首先，我们来看你与否可以自己入睡措施如下首先，保证你的卧室不是太冷也不是太热保持黑暗和安静第二，检查你的生活方式睡觉前4小时不要品茗、咖啡、可乐，也不要吃巧克力尽量少喝点水这样晚上就可以不上或是少上厕所调整你的生物钟，每天固定期间起床，睡觉最佳不要睡午觉培养睡前放松的好习惯阅读或者听音乐，然后洗个热水澡假如你真的不能入睡，吃点面包、米饭或者喝点牛奶这些可以协助你入睡每天散步自然光有助于调整你的生物钟假如也许的话，到户外去运动忘掉一天的烦恼上床之前可以把烦恼的事、思绪或者问题写下来把这些写下来之后你就可以少想些事了，这样你入睡就更轻易了A.make sureB.may C.if D.had betternot E.so KEYCBADEPassage8Without timeto relaxand havefine,kids cansuffer stressjust like adults,warn exports-who sayasmany asone infour youngstershave symptomsof burnout（过度劳累）.More andmore parentsarepushing thekids tobe busyin structuredactivities allthe time.Many ofthese activitiesfor childrenarentrecreational（娱乐的）_______21involve competition.The kidsare pushedto win,not justparticipate,and thiscan causestress.Todays parentshavethe22that childrenwho dontpursuea lotof outsideactivities willbe leftbehind.Parents areinapanic becausethey knowits23world outthere.They arerunning scaredtobesure theirkids cango intothe marketplaceandcompete asadults,but24some casesthey aremissing thebig picture.Kids whoare unhappyand depressedgrow uptotheunhappy,depressed adultswho dontdo wellintheir jobsor personallife.And thesekids wontknow asadults howto relax.Everyone needstime justtorelax andrefresh.When yourenot stressed,you canbe25productive.Thats whyitsimportant tohelp yourchild find a balance.专家警告说，假如没有时间放松，没有娱乐，还是会像大人同样感到过度的紧张听说，每四个孩子中就有一盒有过于疲劳的症状越来越多的父母让孩子成天在严格安排的活动中忙碌而这些孩子们的活动许多都富有竞争性，而不是娱乐性的孩子们不光被迫去参与，还要被迫去“取胜这就会导致过度的紧张如今的父母认为，孩子假如不参与许多课外活动就会落后父母很恐慌，由于他们懂得现实生活是很残酷的他们十分紧张，想让孩子长大后可以进入市场竞争不过在这种状况下，他们会因小失大从小不不幸福、性格抑郁的孩子长达后会不幸福，性格也会抑郁扣扣一零七八二五二四四九这样的成人工作也干不好，生活也过不好此类孩子不懂得怎样像成人那样放松自己人人都需要时间放松、调整只有在你不紧张的时候才会更有发明力因此协助你的孩子保持身心平衡是很重要的A.in B.idea C.but D.more E.toughKEY:CBEADPassage9Many studentsfind theexperience ofattending universitylectures tobe aconfusing andfrustratingexperience.The lecturerspeaks forone ortwo hours,perhaps21_the talkwithslides,writing upimportant informationontheblackboard,distributing readingmaterial andgiving outassignment.The newstudent seesthe otherstudents continuouslywriting onnotebooks and22what towrite.Very oftenthe studentleaves thelecture withnotes whichdonotcatch themainpoints andwhich becomehard evenfor thestudents tounderstand.Most institutions provide courseswhich assistnew studentsto developthe skillsthey need to beeffectivelisteners andnote—takers.If theseare unavailable,there aremany usefulstudy-skills guideswhich_23learners topractice theseskills independently.In allcases itis importantto—24the problembefore actuallystarting yourstudies.It isimportanttoacknowledge thatmost studentshave difficultyin acquiringthelanguageskillsrequired incollege study.One wayof25these difficultiesis toattend thelanguageand study-skills classeswhich mostinstitutionsprovidethroughout theacademic year.Another basicstrategyistofindastudy partnerwith whomitispossibletoidentify difficulties,exchange ideasandprovide support.诸多学生发现听大学的课程是一种很令人沮丧的经历讲师连着讲一小时甚至是两小时,也许是配着幻灯片讲，写某些重要信息到黑板上，发某些阅读材料，布置某些作业新生看见其他的学生不停地在笔记本上记着东西，很想懂得他们究竟在写什么讲课结束后，学生常常是带着抓不到重点，无法理解的笔记离开教室大多数学校都会提供某些课程，以协助学生培养有关聆听和笔记技能假如没有这些课的话，就会有诸多有用的学习技巧指南，以协助学生独立训练这些技能任何状况下，在真正开始学习之前，扣扣一零七八二五二四四九处理此类问题是至关重要的不得不承认，大多数学生在掌握大学规定的语言技能上，存在一定的困难其中克服这些困难的一种方式是参与一整年语言和技能学习培训课此外一种基本方略就是找一种学习同伴，可以互相指出困难，交流想法，互相协助A.which B.enable C.overcoming D.trackle E.illustrating KEYEABDCPassage10There wasa womanin Detroit,who hadtwo sons.She wasworried aboutthem,especially theyoungerone,Ben,because hewas notdoing wellin school.Boys inhis classmade jokesabout himbecausehe seemedso_21_.The motherdecided thatshe wouldherself haveto gether sonsto dobetter inschool.She toldthemto gototheDetroit PublicLibrary toread abook aweek anddo abook reportfor her.One day,in Bens_22_,the teacherheld upa rockand askedif anyoneknew it.Ben putup hishandand the teacher lethim_23_,Why didBen putup hishand”his classmateswondered.He neversaidanything.What couldhe possiblywanttosay”Well,Ben notonly_24_the rock,but alsosaid a lot aboutit.He namedother rocksin itsgroup andevenknew wheretheteacherhad foundit.The teacherand thestudents weresurprised.Ben hadlearned allthisfrom doingone of his bookreports.Ben laterwent ontothe_25—ofhisclass.When hefinished highschool,he wentto YaleUniversity andatlast becameone ofthe bestdoctors intheUnitedStates.有一位女士生活在底特律，她有两个儿子.她为他们感到担忧，尤其是对她叫本的小儿子,由于他在学校的功课不好.班上的男生由于他的迟钝而讥笑他.这位母亲决定靠自己的力量，把她的儿子们送到更好的学校.她让她的两个儿子每星期都去底特律的公共图书馆读一本书，并且写一篇汇报给她.有一天，在本上课的时候，老师拿出一块石头问有无理解它的人.本举起了手，老师让他回答.”为何本会举手？”大家都很疑惑，”他历来不说话啊，他会想要说什么呢？”然而，本不仅理解这种石头，并且能说出诸多有关它的知识.他说出了这块石头的种类，并且甚至懂得老师是从哪里找到它的！老师和同学们都很惊讶.而本是由于做了一篇读书汇报学到了所有这些知识的.后来（渐渐地），本成为了班级里的优等生.在中学毕业后，本去了耶鲁大学；并且最终,他成为了美国最优秀的医生之一.当本长大之后，他才懂得了一件有关他妈妈的，他小的时候并不懂得的事情她，自身，甚至都不识字.A.top B.slow C.class D.answer E.knew KEYBCDEAPassage11In theeighteenth century,cities becamelarger andlarger.People movedfrom the countryside andsmalltowns tothe_21—because therewas morework forthem to do inthe cities.On Sundaysand holidays,they likedto leavethe citiesand haveagoodtime inthecountryside.Butnot every_22—hadahorse ora wagon（四轮马车）People neededa simplermeans of transportation.Inventors inmany countriestied tosolve thisproblem.The firstbicycle,which isvery simple,—23—in

1790.People called“the horseon wheel”.Then in1861,after manyimprovements beingmade,the bicyclebecame apractical_24_oftransportation.People likedbikes becausethey werentas expensiveas horsesand didntneedtobe fed.They couldgoanywhere andwere easyto_25—.在十八世纪，都市变得越来越大，人们都从乡下到小镇到都市重要是由于在都市里有更所的工作在周末和假日，他们喜欢离开都市，在乡村里度假，但并不是每一种家庭都能有马或者四轮马车在诸多国家人们需要更多的交通改革来处理他们的问题第一辆自行车，它非常简朴，出目前1790年，人们叫它“在轮子上的马”，然后通过许多改善，在1861年，自行车变成了常见的交通工具人们喜欢自行车，重要是由于它没有马那么贵，并且不需要喂养，他们就能去任何地方，并且很轻易骑A.appeared B.cities C.family D.means E.ride KEYBCADEPassage12Man hasalways wantedto fly.Even aslong aseight hundredyearsago,an Englishmanhad tried.Hemade apair of_21—from chickenfeathersandfixed themtohisshoulders.Then hejumped froma tallbuilding.As youcan imagine,he didnot flyvery far.—22—,the felltotheground andbroke severalbones.The firstreal attemptat flyingtook placein Francein

1783.The twoMongolian brothersknew thathot air rose.If theycould fillalargeballoon withhot air,they thoughtit wouldrise intothe airand_23—.They wereright.They madea verylarge hotair balloonof clothand paper.It measuredten metersindiameter.They filledit withhotairandtheballoon gottwo hundredmeters intothe air.It fellto earthaboutthree kilometers_24_.At thenext attempt,they arrangedforaballoon tocarry passengers.We donot knowwhat thepassengersfelt aboutthe tripas theywere acock,a duck,and asheep.But we_25—know thatthe triplastedeight minutesandtheanimals landedsafely.人类总想飞行甚至早在8前，就有一种英国人尝试过他用鸡的羽毛做了一双翅膀，把翅膀固定在肩膀上然后从一种很高的建筑物上跳下去你能想象的到，他没有飞多远相反，他掉到了地上，摔断了几根骨头第一次真正意义上的试飞发生在1783年，在法国2个蒙古的兄弟理解到热的空气可以上升假如他们能把一种大的气球装满热气，他们认为热气球就会飞到空中他们是对的的，他们用某些布料和纸做了一种很大的热气球，直径有10米他们把气球充斥热气，气球就飞到了空中200米的高度在300米以外的地方着陆第二次试验的时候，他们装载了乘客由于乘客是一只公鸡、一只鸭子和一只绵羊，因此我们不懂得他们对于那次飞行有什么感受不过，我们懂得的是那次旅游持续了8分钟并且动物都安全的着陆了A.Instead B.wings C.do D.away E.Fly KEYBAEDCPassage13“Mom,can1have somemoney^^those arethe wordsmy motherused tohear allthe time.In return,I heard,“why dontyou geta jobNot tomake thehappy,but sothat youhave yourown moneyand gainabit moreresponsibility.So lastyear1got a job workingabout25hours aweek.For$5an hour,workingas asalesman ina photostudio.After Igot this_21—,I hadtodofootball,homework andjob atthe sametime.It wasreally hardforme.Iwasburning out,falling asleepatschool and failing_22—many courses.My teachersweremadatme andyelled at me:why havea jobI missedalotpractice infootball teamand couldonly_23—backdown atthe match.My coachwas coldatmewith anunasked question:why haveajobI toldthem iswasfor thethings Ineed,when actuallyit wasorthethings Iwanted.Needing andwanting aredifferent.Needing somethingis likeyour onlyshoes haveholes inthem.But wantingus haveevery newbrandsneaker justbecause you_24—it.I startto thinkabout ifI dida wrongthing.Slowly,I learntto managemymoney bettersothatI couldhave moretime forschoolandfootball.I learnttmakea wide_25—onwhat Ineed andwhat Iwant.“妈妈，能给我某些钱吗？这是我母亲过去常常听到的话，作为回应，我听到的是“你为何不找个工作？虽然不快乐，但你可以有自己的钱，同步会获得某些尊重J因此一年后，我找到工作一周工作25个小时5美元一小时，在一家影楼做推销员我得到这份工作后，我不得不一样步踢足球，做作业和做工作，这对我来水真的很难我太疲惫了，学习上耽误了，诸多功课不及格，我的老师对我很生气，扣扣一零七八二五二四四九并责骂我为何找工作？足球队上，我也缺乏了诸多训练，比赛垫底我的教练很生气,又不禁问到，你为何要工作？我告诉他们，这我是我想要某些事物时，我需要做的需要和想要是不一样的需要的东西就像是你唯一的一双鞋子破了个洞想要就是你由于喜欢，就想要诸多鞋子我开始思索我是不是做错了最终我学会了更好地管理钱，以便我有足够的时间做好学习的事情和踢足球我学会了在需要和想要之间做对的的决定A.decision B.like C.sit D.in E.Job KEYEDCBAPassage14Memory isvery importantin ourlife.A goodmemory isgreat helpfor learninga language.Everybody learns_21—own languageby keepingin mindwhat hehears whenheissmall child.Somechildren likethose who_22—abroad withtheir_23—,seem tolearn twolanguages easilyas theydo one.In school,its noteasy forpupils_24—a secondlanguage becausethey havevery—25—time forit.Memory islikeadiary thatwe keepevery day.记忆在我们的生命中非常重要好的记忆对学习语言能提供诸多协助每个人学习自己的语言就是通过记忆他听到的内容，当他还是的小孩子的时候诸多随父母住在国外的小孩,他们学两种语言就比较轻易在学校，对每个学生而言，学生学习第二种语言不那么轻易，由于他们对此语言的记忆很少记忆就像口志，每天都保留着A.live B.little C.parents D.his E.tolearnKEY DACEBPassage15Many peoplewould agreethat stressisamajor problemin modernlife.It iscertainly truethat worryandquaiTel cancause allkinds ofillnesses,_21_backache tosevere headaches,or evenmore seriouscomplaintssuch ashigh bloodpressure.Many ofus think_22_stress assomething thatother peopleimpose onus.We oftencomplain abouthowother peopleput us_23—pressure.But weshould trynot tolet suchpressure affectus.We shouldnotforget thatwe arelargely responsiblefor someofthestress ourselves.We sometimestake_24—morework thanour bodiesand ourminds canhandle.We shouldlearn to—25—our limitations.We shouldbeaware ofwhich thingsare reallyimportant andwhich arenot.诸多人认同压力是现代生活的一种重要问题很明确，担忧和争执会导致多种疾病，从背疼到严重的头痛，甚至是更严重的病患，例如高血压我们中有诸多人认为压力是他人强加给我们的东西我们常常埋怨他人怎样给我们压力但我们应当试图使这些压力不影响我们我们不应忘掉我们很大程度上自己在为自己制造压力我们有时候接受了超过我们的身体和心理所能应付的工作我们要学会接受自己的有限性我们应当知晓什么东西真正重要，什么东西不重要A.of B.under C.accept D.from E.on KEYDABECPassage16Last night,a firebroke outin Annshouse inManchester.Anns parentswere outof townfortheweekend whensomething wrongintheroom causedthe fireto_21—inthemiddle ofthe night.The girlwas wakenup bythefamilydog,Danny,who wasbarkingloudly inthe backgarden.Ann smelledsomething_22—.She gotupandonce ranthrough thesmoke-filled houseto wakeher oldbrother,Frank.When Frankwould notwake up,Ann gotsome helpfrom thedog.Franks unconsciousbody wasfartoo_23—forthelittle girlto morealone,but theclever girlbrought thedog insideand—24_the dogsleash（牵狗的皮带）to Franksleft ankle.She thenheld herbrothers rightankle,and togetherthe girlandthe dog_25—Frank tosafety.The10-years oldgirl,Ann,saved herbig brothersfrom death.昨天晚上，一场大货袭击了按在曼彻斯特的房子午夜里房间起火的时候，安的父母刚好出城过周末去了小狗丹尼在后花园中大声非叫，把安吵醒了安闻到着火的味道她立即起床穿过满是烟雾的房子想去叫醒她的哥哥,弗兰克不过弗兰克醒不过来，这时安得到了够的协助弗兰克没故意识的身体对于这个小女孩来说太重了，因此她一种人没措施挪动哥哥的身体，不过这个聪颖的小女孩把狗带了过来,并把牵狗的皮带帮到弗兰克的左脚踝上，自己拉住哥哥的右脚踝，最终在狗的协助下她终于把哥哥挪到了安全的地方安，这个年仅10岁的小女孩，救了自己的大哥哥。