第三部分 阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分，满分40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

According to statistics, now there are more than 130,000 children of migrants (移民) going to 297 migrant schools in Beijing. Only 58 of these schools have government authorization. The 239 schools without permits are in poor condition. The government has closed some of them since last summer. But the results are less than successful. The action even led to the appearance of some tiny and shabby(破旧的) underground schools in Fengtai and Haidian districts. These schools are much worse than the openly operated schools for children of migrant workers.

Why? For migrant workers the fees collected by public schools are too high to afford. Moreover, it is difficult for the parents to get all five certificates and papers required for their children to attend public school.

Since an increase in migrant population can be expected for a long time in medium and large cities, it’s necessary for the government to play a major role in promoting equal education. Public schools, non-public schools and schools run by the migrant population can all give chances for these children who are part of China’s future.

56. The government closed some migrant schools because _________.

A. They didn’t have good teachers       B. They were in poor conditions

C. They were underground schools       D. They collected high fees

57. We can infer from the facts in Paragraph 1 that ________.

A. the migrant workers only find work in Fengtai and Haidian

B. the government has financial difficulties in solving the problem

C. the migrants ran some schools in some secret places

D. these parents don’t know how long they will stay in Beijing

58. Migrant workers have to show _______ if they send their children to public schools.

A. certificates and papers              B. their level of education

C. a reference letter (介绍信)           D. ability to pay higher fees

59. The author’s purpose is ________ .

A. to report the number of authorized schools in Beijing

B. to tell that migrant children needs equal education with others

C. to ask people to donate money for the migrant schools

D. to tell migrant workers to send children to public schools

B

Not many years ago, a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy-five, he gave £ 12,000 to the village school to buy land and equipment (设备) for a children’s playground.

As a result of his kindness, many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk, Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be a hundred. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy-five. Johnson had a sense of humour (幽默). He liked whisky and drank some each day. “I have an injection (注射) in my neck each evening.” he told the newspaperman, thinking of his evening glass of whisky.

The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy-five and had a daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain, asking him for the secret of his daily injection.

60. The gift of money to the school suggests that Johnson ________.

A. had no children.                    B. was a strange man.

C. was very fond of children.            D. wanted people to know how rich he was.

61. The newspaperman _________.

A. should have reported what Johnson had told him.

B. shouldn’t have asked Johnson what injection he had.

C. was eager to live a long life.

D. should have found out what Johnson really meant.

62. When Johnson said he had an injection in his neck each evening, he really meant that ______.

A. he liked drinking a glass of whisky in the evening.

B. he needed an injection in the neck.

C. a daily injection in the evening would make him sleep well.

D. there was something wrong with his neck.

C

I found out one time that doing a favor for someone could get you into a lot of trouble. I was in the eighth grade at the time, and we were having a final test. During the test, the girl sitting next to me whispered something, but I didn’t understand. So I leaned over her way and found out that she was trying to ask me if I had an extra pen. She showed me that hers was out of ink and would not write. I happened to have an extra one, so I took it out of my pocket and put it on her desk.

Later, after the test papers had been turned in, the teacher asked me to stay in the room when all the other students were dismissed. As soon as we were alone she began to talk to me about what it meant to grow up; she talked about how important it was to stand on your own two feet and be responsible for your own acts. For a long time, she talked about honesty and emphasized the fact that when people do something dishonest, they are really cheating themselves. She made me promise that I would think seriously about all the things she had said, and then she told me I could leave. I walked out of the room wondering why she had chosen to talk to me about all those things.

Later on, I found out that she thought I had cheated on the test. When she saw me lean over to talk to the girl next to me, it looked as if I was copying answers from the girl’s test paper. I tried to explain about the pen, but all she could say was it seemed very very strange to her that I hadn’t talked of anything about the pen the day she talked to me right after the test. Even if I tried to explain that I was just doing the girl a favor by letting her use my pen, I am sure she continued to believe that I had cheated on the test.

63. The story took place exactly ____ .

A. in the teacher’s office                B. in an exam room

C. in the school                        D. in the language lab

64. The girl wanted to borrow a pen, because ____ .

A. she had not brought a pen with her      B. she had lost her own on her way to school

C. there was something wrong with her own  D. her own had been taken away by someone

65. The teacher saw all this, so she asked the boy ____ .

A. to go on writing his paper             B. to stop whispering

C. to leave the room immediately         D. to stay behind after the exam