第三部分：阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)

第一节(共15小题：每小题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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

A nine-year-old kid was sitting at his desk when suddenly there was a puddle (/JC^C)between his feet and the front of his trousers was wet.He thought his heart was going to stop because he couldn't possibly imagine how this had happened.It had never happened before, and he knew that when the boys found out he would never hear the end of jt. When the girls found out, they would never speak to him again as long as he lived.

He prayed this prayer, "Dear God, I need help now! Five minutes from now I'm dead meat!" He looked up from his prayer and here came the teacher with a look in her eyes that said he had been discovered.As the teacher was walking toward him, a classmate named Susie was carrying a goldfish bowl full of water.Susie tripped (绊倒) in front of the teacher and dumped (倒) the bowl of water in the boy's lap.The boy pretended to be angry, but all the while was saying to himself, "Thank you.Lord!"

Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of ridicule, the boy was the object of sympathy.The teacher rushed him downstairs and gave him gym shorts to put on while his trousers dried out.All the other children were on their hands and knees cleaning up around his desk.The sympathy was wonderful.But as life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his had been transferred (转移) to someone else+—Susie.She tried to help, but they told her to get out.

When school was over, the boy walked over to Susie and whispered, "You did that on purpose, didn't you?" Susie whispered back, "I wet my trousers once, too!"

56.The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 means ____ .

A.the boys would never play with him

B.the boys would treat him as usual

C, he would hardly hear any praise from the boys

D.he would be laughed at by the.boys endlessly

57.After Susie dumped water in his lap, the boy was in a state of ___ _.

A.excitement B.relief C.anxiety D.anger

58.What did the other kids do after the incident?

A.They offered him dry clothes. B.They laughed at the boy rudely,

C.They helped the boy do the cleaning. D.They urged the boy to get out angrily,

59.Why did Susie dump water in the boy's lap?

A.The boy asked her to do so. B.She just did it by accident.

C.The teacher tripped her on purpose. D.She knew the boy's embarrassment.

B

The Rockford police chief and some city officials want to install (安装) video cameras in all 100 police cars.They think this will reduce the number of lawsuits (法律诉讼).In the last five years, Rockford has paid out more than five million dollars to settle about 40 lawsuits.

The chief said, "If cameras had been in those cars.we wouldn't have.had to pay one cent. We're always pulling over drunks or drug users who try to fight the police or shoot them.Then they always claim (声称) that the police start beating them first or start shooting at them first."

The cost of installing cameras will be about $500 each.The city council (委员会) will vote on the proposal (提议) next Monday.Ten of the 13 council members said that they like the idea. One member said that it makes good sense.

The police officers enthusiastically support camera use.One officer said that too many people think the police often lie; cameras would show citizens that police tell the truth."The money that we've been spending on lawsuits will be better spent on more cameras," said one of ficer.

Citizen opinions to the idea of police car cameras are mixed.One person, said that the police should have started doing this years ago when video cameras were invented.But an elderly man strongly objected.'These police are trying to stick their nose into everything," he said.He was going to attend the council meeting to condemn the proposal.He hoped that other citizens would join him,

60.We can learn from what the chief said that with cameras on ___.

A.the police will not be treated unjustly B.the police will be free from any lawsuits

C.the police can beat the law-breakers first D.the police can monitor everything around

61.What's the purpose of installing video cameras in police cars?

A.To pay less money on lawsuits. B.To cut the number of lawsuits.

C.To prevent lawsuits from happening. D.To stop being beaten by law-breakers.

62.Which group of people support camera use most?

A.Council members, B.Police officers.

C.Local people. D.Drug users.

63.What can be learned from the last paragraph?

A.Most citizens support camera use in police cars,

B.The police are trying to take control of everything.

C.The man showed great disagreement on camera use in police cars.

D.Other citizens will join the man to object to camera use in police cars.