第三部分 阅读理解(共20小题，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

Your dog's got it made. It spends most of its time indoors, enjoying familiar surroundings and all the comforts of home. But do you know indoor dogs may get less exercise and that their skin may dry out more easily? That’s why Purina veterinarians and nutritionists developed Purina Little Bites Indoor Complete to meet the nutritional needs of indoor dogs like yours. New Little Bites Indoor Complete has a formula (配方) that delivers :

●High quality protein that helps keep an ideal body condition

●Vitamin E and minerals to help promote healthy skin and coat

●Crunchy nuggets(酥脆的小圆块食品) to promote healthy teeth and help freshen breath

●A small tidbit (小片食物) and a great taste your dog loves

GUARANTEED ANALYSIS:

Crude Protein (Min)                                    25.00/o

Crude Fat (Min)                                       9.0%

Crude Fiber (Max)                                     4.50/o

Moisture(Max)                                      12. Ou/o

Linoleic Acid (Min)                                    1. 5%

Calcium (Ca) (Min)                                  1. 1%

Phosphorus (P) (Min)                       0.9%

Copper (Cu) (Min)                                    10 mg/kg

Zinc (Zn) (Min)                                      135 mg/kg

Vitamin A (Min)                                      10,000 IU/kg

Vitamin E (Min)                                      150 IU/kg

INGREDIENTS: Ground yellow corn, meat and bone meal, corn gluten meal, animal fat, soybean meal, animal digest, salt, Vitamin E supplement, added color ( Yellow 6, Yellow5 , Red 40, Blue 2) , Vitamin A supplement, calcium carbonate, copper sulfate, garlic oil, pyridoxine hydrochloride, Vitamin B-12 supplement, Vitamin D-3 supplement, riboflavin supplement, folic acid, biotin.

PRODUCED BY: Nestle Purina PetCare Company, St. Louis, MO63164, USA

Animal feeding tests using  the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) procedures show that Purina Little Bites Indoor Complete, dog food provides complete and balanced nutrition for all life stages.

56. According to the passage, for whom is the food produced?

A. Babies.      B. Pets,      C. Indoor dogs.      D. Old men.

57. The following are all the characteristics of the food EXCEPT that ________ .

A. it helps keep the best body conditions

B. it helps promote healthy skin and coat

C. it helps increase the height and strength

D. it helps promote healthy teeth

58. Which of the following has the least amount in the food?

A. Crude Protein.            B. Crude Fiber.

C. Linoleic Acid.            D. Calcium.

59. Which of the following descriptions of the food is TRUE?

A. This kind of food is suitable for any life stage.

B. This food is up to the international food safety standard.

C. There is at least 150 IU/kg of vitamin A in this food.

D. This food is made by an American company in Florida.

B

Carol Wang and Emily Ellenberger live 7,000 miles apart, but the teenagers share many similarities. Both are attentive, determined, sociable and computer-savvy. Yet once the school bell rings, the differences between the two college-bound students' experiences are striking.

Carol's school in China is sharply focused on math and science. In one day she takes math, two physics classes and three chemistry classes. In Emily’s school in Maryland, interest in these subjects is dwindling(变小).Much of Emily's school time is active—oral exams, lab work and yearbook. In China, Carol's teachers deliver rote lectures, a style known as tianya, the Chinese word for force-feeding a duck. Emily leaves th e classroom for field hockey practice at 2: 10 p. m. , while Carol sits at her desk for another two hours, interrupted only by a class in physical education.

But at the end of the day, which student is smarter? Which system will produce the most successful generation of young adults?

The answers are debatable (有争议的) , but there is no denying  Chinese motivation in the fields of math and science. In China, almost 40 percent of students study engineering, and more are entering the field. By contrast, only about 5 percent of American students currently major in engineering and those numbers have been on the decline for the last 15 years.

“I think that science education has sort of been spinning its wheels in America,” said Howard Putterman, a biology teacher at Quince Orchard High School, Emily's school. I have at least 15 to 20 kids a year who flat out tell me,‘science isn't my thing. I don't like it. I'm not good at it.’”

Soon Carol and Emily will be going to college. Carol wants to study biology; Emily wants to play field hockey, and perhaps major in business or design.“American kids are more independent than Chinese kids,” said Carol’s father. They have their own opinion, and they're quicker to adapt to society when they grow  up.”

60. Compared with Emily Ellenberger, Carol Wang is ________ .

A. more attentive         B. less determined   C. more able   D. less active

61. The underlined part“spinning its wheels”in Paragraph 5 means ________ .

A. making great progress

B. making useless efforts

C. moving the cars' wheels

D. having great development

62. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

A. More and more Chinese students study engineering.

B. Emily is far smarter than Carol in the future.

C. Carol's and Emily's fathers are living in China.

D. It's difficult to find a job as an engineer in China.

63. What would be the best title for the passage?

A. Carol and Emily Working Hard for College

B. East Meets West in the Classroom

C. Different Systems Have Same Results

D. Carol and Emily Study Far Apart

C

Many people have described the Internet as a huge public library; a library open to anyone, twenty-four hours a day and with more information than any other library that has ever existed.  But this analogy (类比) is incorrect. Libraries are organized so that information is easy to find, with uniform, centralized systems and ever-helpful librarians. The Internet is a different story. Where do you start when you are trying to find specific information about a specialist interest or one particular piece of data for some academic research?

One good place to start is by clicking onto a site like www. intute. ac.uk. Subjects on Intute are initially categorised into four main topic areas: Science & Technology, Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences and Health &Life Sciences. Once you have selected the most appropriate topic area you can move nearer to your specialist subject through further subheadings (副标题)or by using a search box.

Intute is not the only site of this kind. At www. scholar. google. com you can find academic literature on a wide range of subjects including theses, books and abstracts. www. scirus. com is a science specific search engine which scans more than 450 million science web sites enabling you to quickly find the most recently published reports and data with the minimum of effort.

Another tip for finding information on the internet is by working out the name of an existing web site, If you don't know the name of the site, you can often work it out using this formula:

www. name of organisation. domain.  For example, www. britishcouncil.org. If you are right—all well and good; if you are wrong—then the internet will offer alterative suggestions. The main domain types are:

edu-educational institution in the USA

ac. uk-educational institution in the UK

com-commercial or personal

net-internet infrastructure

gov-government agency

org-non-profit organisations

mil-military institutions

64. What's the main idea of the paragraph I?

A. The Internet has more information than library. B. The Internet is considered a huge public library.

C. The difference between the Internet and library. D. Some wrong ideas about the Internet.

65. If you want to find some information about academic literature, you will click onto ________ .

A. www. intute. ac. uk.      B. www. scholar. google. com

C,. www.scirus.com            D. www. org. com

66. The passage may be taken from ________.

A. a magazine     B. a website     C. a newspaper        D. a guide book

67. Which is true according to the passage?

A. Internet is the only site the specialist subject.  B. Internet has information that library doesn't have.

C. You can't get information unless you know the name of the site.

D. Three ways at most are advised to surf the specialist subjects.

D

Five dollars unexpected reward for a courtesy in the grocery line, not much you might say, but I would beg to differ. When Richard and I  were at the grocery store, a young girl was in line, behind three others, yet in front of us. She had half a basket of different items, to include three packages of hot dogs.

This young girl looked back at us, saw that we had only two items, immediately she pulled her basket out of line and told Richard to go in front, of course. We both immediately told her we were in no hurry, and let her go ahead. As if we had not spoken, she continued to move her basket, now to refuse someone the blessing of giving is wrong thus, we walked in front to the counter.

A thought of gratefulness hit me. I reached into my purse, pulled out five dollars, leaned in toward the checker, whispered,“Deduct(扣除) the five from her purchase.” We quickly came out of the store and left. That five dollars was not enough to cover her entire grocery bill, it was not intended to do such, only as a response to give my personal thanks for an act of common good manners.

It is not important who did what or for how much. I know that I should bless someone else, as well as receive his or her blessing in return.

68. We can replace the underlined word“courtesy”in the first paragraph with         .

A. polite behavior  B. great achievement C. special experience  D. long waiting

69. How many people are waiting for pay for in the grocery?

A. Three.        B. Four.       C. Five.            D. Six.

70. From the second paragraph, we can infer that the author and Richard ________ .

A. bought more items  than the young girl   B. refused the young girl's offer politely

C. took the young girl's offer for granted   D. accepted the young girl's offer unwillingly

71. According to the passage, the author gave the young girl five dollars because ________ .

A. the young girl couldn't afford her items   B. the author intended to show his generosity

C. the author wanted to express his appreciation  D. the young girl asked him to help her out

E

I am honored to be with you today at one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation.

I was lucky—I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. We had just released our finest creation—the Macintosh—a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors(董事会) sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was depressing.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world's first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance(复兴). And Laurence and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.

72. This passage is probably taken from         .

A. a lecture given by a professor     B. a speech given to some college students

C. a talk given at a conference     D. a book dealing with a person's own experience

73. Which of the following is the correct order of events that happened to the speaker?

a. He released the Macintosh.

b. He got fired from Apple.

c. He returned to Apple.

d. He fell in love with the woman who was to become his wife.

e. He started another  two companies.

A. b-c-a-d-e          B. a-b-c-d-e   C. b-e-a-d-c          D. a-b-e-d-c

74. The underlined word “diverge” in the second pa ragraph probably means“________”

A. differ        B. change     C. accomplish        D. fall

75. What is the point the speaker wants to make in the passage?

A. Never be afraid of failures.     B. Be willing to change yourself.

C. Be sure to find what you love to do.   D. Stick to your own vision.