三、完型填空(共20小题;每小题1分，满分20分)

请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large  36  across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-aged children. At the end of the day, he would  37   his taxi on the road. I  38   why he did not park it in the garage.

Then one day I learnt that he had another car in his garage. In the afternoon he would come home  39  work, leave his taxi and go out for his  40   affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was a 41  .

I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I  42   to be outside one evening two weeks  43  , when the garage door was  44  and he drove out in his “own” car: a Rolls-Royce(劳斯莱斯)! It shook me completely  45  I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But  46  inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a(n)  47  . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. The world looked at his taxi and 48  him a taxi driver. But for him, a taxi was just something he drove for a living. Rolls-Royce was something he drove for a (n)  49  .

We go to bed every night and   50  every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a  51  as close friends or go for a vacation as a  52  . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how much bigger and better a 53  we have. And we ignore our Rolls-Royce, by  54  it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on  55  we are than what we do!

36. A. window      B. garage      C. door   D. yard

37. A. park       B. stop   C. check   D. repair

38. A. knew       B. understood     C. asked   D. wondered

39. A. for       B. out of   C. without  D. from

40. A. business      B. national  C. personal  D. public

41. A. waste       B. gift         C. wonder  D. must

42. A. appeared      B. intended  C. expected  D. happened

43. A. later       B. more   C. ago   D. before

44. A. broken   B. fine   C. shut   D. open

45. A. once       B. before      C. when   D. until

46. A. far       B. deep   C. long   D. little

47. A. driver   B. engineer  C. father   D. son

48. A. called   B. made   C. elected      D. turned

49. A. experience      B. earning  C. life   D. work

50. A. stay up      B. wake up  C. stay home  D. go home

51. A. competition  B. performance C. debate      D. party

52. A. family   B. company  C. team   D. whole

53. A. garden   B. garage      C. car   D. taxi

54. A. giving      B. keeping  C. driving  D. parking

55. A. who       B. what   C. which   D. where

四、阅读理解(本题有15小题，每小题2分，共30分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Try and see inside your mind a wide open blue sky and a wide green sea far away. Breathe in as you circle your hands high above your head, then bend back a little. Breathe out as you circle your arms back down to your sides..."

Following the yoga teacher's gentle instructions, Bai Yunuo,15, from the High School attached to Beijing Normal University tried to get each of her poses correct.

Bai's school offered 24 elective courses (选修课) for Senor 1 students this term and she chose two. It was her first yoga class.

"I'm happy that I can learn yoga at school. I love dancing but I had some injuries on my knees when I was a kid. So I decide to try something soft. Simply stretching into different poses makes me feel free and quiet. And the music is quite comforting. The class is relaxing after a whole day's work," Bai said.

Liu Zehao,15, found his interest was Junior Achievement (企业经营模拟). The course brought students into the real world of business. In their first class, Liu and his group members named their company "Vision". Liu was elected as CEO of the company.

"Here we learn to think like an adult. We have to make our company get more money. It's new and different from other courses," he said.

Liu and Bai take their elective courses twice a week with students from other classes who share the same interest. The students will get two credits (学分) from each course at the end of this term. They have to achieve eight credit points from electives to graduate from high school.

If you are interested in more about elective courses, please CLICK HERE to register for general elective courses.

56. What’s the main idea of the first paragraph?

A. Skills for imagination.                  B. Learning tips.

C. Instruction for yoga students.             D. Breathing rules.

57. What can be inferred from the passage?

A. Bai does not like dancing.               B. Yoga is softer than dancing.

C. Students study hard for credits.           D. The elective courses are easy.

58. Which of the sentence is NOT true about Liu Zehao?

A. He was interested in Junior Achievement which brought him the real world of business.

B. He was elected as CEO of the company named "Vision".

C. He was an adult and he tried to make more money for his company.

D. He took their Junior Achievement twice a week.

B

Some of the planet’s most precious animals and plants are disappearing, according to the World Conservation Union (IUCN). The group, based in Switzerland, works with governments and experts to protect threatened species. On September 12, the IUCN released its Red List, a list of species at greatest risk of extinction.

The list includes 41,415 animals and plants. The IUCN says that habitat destruction, hunting and other causes threaten one in four mammals, one in eight birds and one in three amphibians(两栖动物).

Who is to blame?

Scientists believe that 99 percent of threatened species are at risk because of human activity. “We are losing animals and plants at a high rate,” says Julia Marton-LefEevre, director general of the IUCN. “We need to change our behavior.” Warmer oceans and over-fishing are changing sea life. This year for the first time corals(珊瑚) made their appearance on the list. The gharial, a crocodile living in India and Nepal, has lost almost 60 percent of its population in the last 10 years. It is a victim(受害者)of habitat destruction.

Still, the news is not all bad. Thanks to efforts made to protect it, the Mauritius echo parakeet, a bird once endangered, has seen an increase in its population. “This shows that protection methods can work,” says Marton-LefEevre. “That’s the message we want to send to young people.”

In China the new reserve(保护区)itself is part of green efforts that have seen more than 2,400 nature reserves of various kinds being set up, covering more than 15 percent of the nation's land area, official figures showed.

"The country's natural resources(资源) have benefited from conservation," said Lei Guangchun, director of the nature reserve department of Beijing Forestry University. "It is a big increase nowadays compared with other countries." Lei said.

The total areas of China’s natural reserves have covered 1.38 million km2, which accounts for 15.4% of China’s area, higher than both the world average(平均水平) of 11% and the rate in most developed countries.

Li Zhong, an official in charge of the nature reserves office with the State Forestry Administration, thought it was important to increase investment(投资) in such reserves at all levels.

59. What do we know about the IUCN?

A. A union for listing animals and plants on the earth

B. A group of volunteers who are interested in wildlife

C. An organization concerning the protection of rare species' survival

D. A government made up officials, scientists and experts