第三部分：阅读理解 (共15小题;每题2分，满分30分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

A

Big football matches are always exciting affairs. Besides the action on the field, the noise the crowd makes really creates the unique atmosphere. At this summer’s World Cup, you can be sure that every country’s fans will be in full voice, supporting their teams.

The football chant(口号) is as old as the sport itself. It’s a way for fans to express their support for their team. It’s common for the noise of supporters to provide the encouragement for a team to win a match. Most agree that a chant is for building a great atmosphere and to support the team.

One of the most famous football songs is the Liverpool club anthem(颂歌) You’ll Never Walk Alone，originally from a 1945 Broadway show, which was adopted by Liverpool and is sung before every match. It has been said that as soon as the opposite hears the song, they become aware of how tough winning at Anfield (Liverpool’s stadium) will be.

The key to a good football song is that it should be simple. It has to be easy for all fans to sing along with. When I went to watch Beijing Guo’an last season, I could join in one chant though I could only speak a little Chinese. “Beijing wo ai ni,” the Guo’an fans sang — you didn’t have to be gifted to work out what that meant.

At the World Cup, the first songs you’ll hear at matches will be the national anthems. Fans and players join together to sing the anthems before each match, and it is considered a mark of respect that the opposite remains silent while each team’s anthem is being sung.

So, even though I’ll be supporting England from home in the summer, you can be sure I’ll be chanting at my TV: “En-ger-land, En-ger-land, En-ger-land!”

56. From the passage we can learn that _______.

A. a good football chant is usually very long

B. the football chant can express support to the team

C. the football chant appears later than football itself

D. a fan is talented to learn foreign languages

57. What can fans do to support their team?

A. To kick the ball on the field.

B. To fight with the opposition fans.

C. To provide encouragement with chants.

D. To donate money to the players.

58. Why the national anthems of both the teams can be heard at the World Cup?

A. Because it is a sign to show the respect to each other.

B. Because it is sung for the leaders of the host country.

C. Because it represents encouragement from their fans.

D. Because either team senses the support from their country.

59. Which of the following is the best title?

A. Football — A Popular Sport    B. National Anthems at Matches

C. You’ll Never Walk Alone     D. You’ll Never “Cheer” Alone

B

An election year is one in which all four numbers can be divided by four (1944, 1948, etc.). Since 1840, American presidents elected in years ending in zero have been noticed to die in office. William H. Harrison, the man who served the shortest term, died of a kind of deadly illness several weeks after he took office.

Abraham Lincoln was one of the four presidents who were murdered. He was elected in 1860, and his death came just five years later.

James A Garfield, a former Union Army general from Ohio, was shot during his first year in office (1881) by a man to whom he wouldn’t give a job.

While in his second term of office (1901), William McKinley, another Ohioan, attended the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, New York. During the reception, he was killed while shaking hands with some of the guests.

Three years after election in 1920, Warren G. Harding died in office. Although it was never proved, many believed he was poisoned.

Franklin D. Roosevelt had been elected four times (1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944), the only man to serve so long a term. He had suffered from poliomyelitis(小儿麻痹症)in 1921 and died of the illness in 1945.

John F. Kennedy, the last of the line, was shot in 1963, only three years after his election.

60. Which of the following was an election year?

A. 1962    B. 1928     C.  1890   D. 1846

61. _______ served the shortest term in office.

A. Abraham Lincoln       B. Warren G. Harding

C. William McKinley       D. William H. Harrison

62. Which of the following statements is true?

A. All presidents elected in years ending in zero died in office.

B. Only presidents from the state of Ohio have died in office.

C. President Abraham Lincoln died in the year of 1865.

D. Franklin D. Roosevelt completed four times as president.

63. How many presidents elected in years ending in zero since 1840 have died in office?

A. 7      B. 6     C. 5     D. 4

C

New Zealand

Fact box: New Zealand

Position: South of the Equator (赤道);

Nearest neighbor: Australia, 1600 km away.

Size: Two main islands — North Island and

South Island, 268.680 sq. km together.

Population: 4 million

Capital: Wellington

Languages: English and Maori What can you see?

Mountains, volcanoes, rivers, lakes, waterfalls, forests, beaches. Both islands are mountainous. In fact, only 30% of New Zealand is flat.

Who can you meet?

Most people live on North Island. Eighty-five percent of New Zealanders are white men, whose great grandfathers came from Europe. Ten percent are Maoris. The Maoris came to New Zealand from the Polynesian islands probably around the tenth century. Europeans started to arrive in New Zealand about 200 years ago as farmers and traders. The Maoris

When the Maoris first arrived in New Zealand, they lived in villages and were excellent fishermen, hunters and farmers. About 50 years ago many Maoris started to live and work in large cities and took jobs in government, industries, medicine and education. They are proud of their culture and are determined to keep many of the customs which are part of their way of life.

64. Which of the following is a fact about New Zealand?

A. Maoris make up 20% of the population.

B. There are four million white people.

C. It’s about 1600 km south of the Equator.

D. Nearly 1/3 of the country is plains.

65. When did the white people begin to live in New Zealand?

A. 1000 years ago.      B. 200 years ago.      C. 85 years ago.        D. 50 years ago.

66. What do the Maoris value most in life?

A. Living in small villages.

B. Developing farming skills.

C. Keeping their own culture.

D. Taking up government jobs.

D

When students and parents are asked to rate subjects according to their importance, the arts are unavoidably at the bottom of the list. Music is nice, people seem to say, but not important. Too often it is viewed as mere entertainment, but certainly not an education priority(优先). This view is shortsighted. In fact, music education is beneficial and important for all students.

Music tells us who we are. Because music is an expression of the beings who create it, it reflects their thinking and values and the social environment it came from. Rock music represents a lifestyle just as surely as does a Schubert song. The jazz influence that George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into their music is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions. Music expresses our character and values. It gives us identity as a society.

Music provides a kind of perception(感知)that cannot be acquired any other way. Science can explain how the sun rises and sets. The arts explore the emotive meaning of the same phenomenon. We need every possible way to discover and respond to our world for one simple but powerful reason: No one way can get it all.

The arts are forms of thoughts as powerful in what they communicate as mathematical and scientific symbols. They are ways we human beings “talk” to each other. They are the language of civilization through which we express our fears, our curiosities, our discoveries, our hopes. The arts are ways we give form to our ideas and imagination so that they can be shared with others. When we do not give children access to an important way of expressing themselves such as music, we take away from them the meanings that music expresses.

Science and technology do not tell us what it means to be human. The arts do. Music is an important way we express human suffering, celebration, the meaning and value of peace and love.

So music education is far more necessary than people seem to realize.

67. According to Paragraph 1, students _______.

A. regard music as a way of entertainment

B. disagree with their parents on education

C. view music as an overlooked subject

D. prefer the arts to science

68.  In Paragraph 2, the author uses jazz as an example to _______.

A. compare it with rock music

B. show music identifies a society

C. introduce American musical traditions

D. prove music influences people’s lifestyles

69.  According to the passage, the arts and science _______.

A. explain what it means to be human differently

B. explore different phenomena of the world

C. express people’s feelings in different ways

D. approach the world from different angles

70.  What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Music is an effective communication tool.

B. Music should be of top education priority.

C. Music education deserves more attention.

D. Music makes students more imaginative.

第二卷 (非选择题 共15分)

第四部分：词汇填空题 (每空1分，满分15分)

71. 夏天长时间暴露在阳光下是有害的。

It’s ____________ to be ____________ to the sun for a long time in summer.

72. 这种药物尚未进行过人体试验，所以还不能投放到市场。

This drug has not been ____________ ____________ on humans yet, so it cannot be put on the market.

73. 他所说的话未必意味着现在的工作就是他最喜欢的。

____________ he said does not ____________ mean that the present job is his ____________.

74. 因为不习惯城市的生活，老人又回到了农村。

____________ ____________ ____________ to the life in the city, the old man came back to the countryside.

75. 负责行李的那个人在每件行李上都贴上了一个标签。

The man in ____________ of the luggage ____________ a label to each piece.

76. 该店由于正在修理屋顶，所以今天停止营业。

The shop is ____________ today because the roof is ____________ ____________.

注意：

诸位考生，请将选择题的答案填涂到答题卡上，词汇填空题71 – 76的答案填入以下空白处(每空一词)。

71. ______________________，______________________;

72. ______________________，______________________;

73. ______________________，______________________，______________________;

74. ______________________，______________________，______________________;

75. ______________________，______________________;

76. ______________________，______________________，_____________________