阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36--55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出一个最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Mary’s parents are different from the average. While she was  36   up they required her to  37  . First of all she had to work around their home. Later on Mary worked for other people.

When Mary was 14 years old, her mother and father told her that they were no  38  going to buy her clothes. Sure, they would continue to buy shoes for her and also the special clothes  39  suits, but  40  else was her responsibility. Some people thought that they were   41  , but they wanted to teach Mary some  42  lessons. One thing she learned was that nothing is cheap or  43  . She learned how to deal with her money  44  . Another thing she learned was how to keep from  45  out her clothes too fast.

Also, even  46  Mary went to school she was  47  to work. All through her high school and  48  years she worked as well as studied. Mary’s parents had plenty of  49  but they felt she would  50  5her education more if she had to  51  it. And strange  52  it may seem, they had heard that students who worked part-time generally got  53  grades than students who did no work.

Now Mary is a mother herself. She requires her  54  to do the same  55  she did, especially working part-time as they go to school.

36. A. raising        B. bringing       C. growing       D. getting

37. A. study B. play C. learn D. work

38. A. longer B. money C. more D. hope

39. A. and B. or C. as D. like

40. A. what B. anything C. nothing D. everything

41. A. responsible B. lazy C. poor D. careless

42. A. difficult B. daily C. valuable D. useless

43. A. free B. expensive C. useful D. proper

44. A. quickly B. slowly C. carefully D. suddenly

45. A. working B. wearing C. giving D. taking

46. A. when B. as  C. until D. since

47. A. permitted B. required C. going D. forced

48. A. hard B. work C. other D. college

49. A. time B. children C. money D. work

50. A. value B. have C. use D. receive

51. A. enjoy B. pay C. pay for D. work for

52. A. thing B. as C. enough D. although

53. A. worse B. better C. more D. less

54. A. husband B. mother C. parents D. children

55. A. as          B. what         C. which        D. like

第三节、阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分，满分40分)

A

My husband had just bought a new washing machine for me. I decided to use it the other day and I washed a lot of things. Everything worked well, but I found one of my husband’s socks missing. I looked everywhere for it, but I couldn’t find it anywhere.

The next morning, I got ready for school as usual. When the bell rang, the students came in, I greeted them and told them what we were going to do that day. When I turned around to the blackboard, the class broke out a roar. They laughed and laughed. They laughed so much, in fact, that I was afraid the headmaster would be in and to see this. I asked the class to stop, but the more I talked, the more they laughed. I decided to pay no attention to them and continued to write on the blackboard. When I did this, they roared even more. Finally, the teacher who was in the next room came in to see what all the laughter was about. When he came in, he started laughing, too!

“Good heavens,” I said. “Will someone please tell me what is so funny?”

“Oh, God,” said the teacher. “You have a brown sock stuck to the back of the skirt!”

So that’s how I found my husband’s missing sock.

“Oh, well,” I said to the class, “Let’s just say you have had an unforgettable lesson on static electricity (静电学).”

56. From the passage we know that the writer can NOT be ______.

A. a physics teacher  B. a good wife   C. a cleaner    D. a clever woman

57. What happened when the writer turned around to write on the blackboard?

A. The class didn’t pay attention to what the teacher said.

B. The class began to laugh loudly.

C. Another boy made faces in the classroom.

D. Another teacher came in.

58. The reason why the writer couldn’t find one of her husband’s socks was that ______.

A. it was torn to pieces while being washed

B. her husband himself had taken it away

C. she had left it in the washing machine

D. it was stuck to the back of her own skirt

59. How did the writer react(反应)when she got to know why her students laughed?

A. She gave an explanation for the matter in a clever way.

B. She wanted to punish those students who laughed at her.

C. She tried to persuade the class to study physics well.

D. She regretted not having taught her students physics well.

B

Time spent in a bookshop can be enjoyable. If you go to a good shop, no assistant will come to you and say, “Can I help you?”. You needn't buy anything you don't want. You may try to find out where the book you want is. The assistant will lead you there and then he will go away and look as if he were not interested in selling a single book.

There is a story which tells us about a good shop. A medical student had to read a text-book which was too expensive for him to buy. He couldn't get it from the library and the only copy he could read was in a bookshop. So every afternoon, he went there to read a little at a time. One day, however, he couldn't find the book from its usual place and was about to leave when he noticed an assistant signing (示意)to him. To his surprise, the assistant pointed to the book, which was in a corner. “I put it there so as not to be sold out,” said the assistant. Then he left the student to continue his reading.

60. In a bookshop you will be very happy when ____.

A. the assistant says “Can I help you?”  B. you meet some of your friends there

C. the assistant watches you attentively  D. you can be free to read all kinds of books

61. A good assistant of a bookshop _____.

A. is never interested in selling books       B. likes to read all kinds of books

C. often helps book-lovers when necessary   D. must keep silent all the time

62. The medical student was in great need of _____.

A. a medical dictionary                    B. an expensive story-book

C. a cheap book                          D. a useful book

63. In the bookshop, books were often put in _____.

A. usual places every day         B. different places every day

C. the corners of the room         D. the place where no one could find them

C

We know that many animals do not stay in one place. Birds, fish and other animals move from one place to another at a certain time. They move for different reasons: most of them move to find food more easily, but others move to get away from places that are too crowded.

When cold weather comes, many birds move to warmer places to find food. Some fishes give birth in warm water and move to cold water to feed. The most famous migration(迁移)is probably the migration of the fish, which is called“salmon”. This fish is born in fresh water but it travels many miles to salt water. There it spends its life. When it is old, it returns to its birthplace in fresh water. Then it gives birth and dies there. In northern Europe, there is a kind of mouse. Then it gives birth and dies there. In northern Europe, there is a kind of mouse. They leave their mountain homes when they become too crowded. They move down to the low land. Sometimes they move all the way to the seaside, and many of them are killed when they fall into the sea.

Recently, scientists have studied the migration of a kind of lobster(龙虾). Every year, when the season of bad weather arrives, the lobsters get into a long line and start to walk across the floor of the ocean. Nobody knows why they do this, and nobody knows where they go.

So, sometimes we know why humans and animals move from one place to another, but at other times we don’t. Maybe living things just like to travel.

64. Most animals move from one place to another at a certain time to __________ .

A. give birth                          B. enjoy warmer weather

C. find food more easily                 D. find beautiful places