The deer multiplied(繁殖) until there were as many as 40000 on the island. They destroyed 32 of the vegetation on it. Finally as they couldn’t find enough 33 they began to starve and die. Then came the wolf: 34 knows how wolves got to the island, but they 35 . The wolves killed those deer that were easiest to catch—the sick, the weak and the old. So only the strong and the healthy animals were left. The island become green once again and there was enough food for the deer that were left.

16. A. lovely B. strange C. many D. much

17. A. harms B. breaks C. injury D. destroys

18. A. stems B. branches C. leaves D. flowers

19. A. what B. how C. why D. when

20. A. still B. ever C. even D. quite

21. A. which B. that C. what D. how

22. A. years B. meetings C. parties D. holidays

23. A. to B. of C. about D. for

24. A. waters B. smells C. gases D. whistles

25. A. effects on B. efforts for C. reasons for D. causes of

26. A. poor B. weak C. strong D. ill

27. A. studied B. developed C. invented D. discovered

28. A. valuable B. need C. necessary D. helped

29. A. consider B. think it C. regard D. sound

30. A. field B. land C. mountain D. island

31. A. left B. got C. reached to D. arrived in

32. A. a whole B. most C. more D. more much

33. A. plants B. rice C. vegetation D. food

34. A. Nobody B. Anybody C. Somebody D. Everybody

35. A. got B. went C. arrive D. did

第三题：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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Richard Gray was a famous explorer(勘察者). He was also a millionaire. He had visited every country in the world. He had crossed Antarctica, flown across the Atlantic by balloon, and climbed Mount Everest. Last year he decided to walk across Death Valley, the hottest place on earth. He walked for days over the hot desert sand. One night he found the camp where he had been in the night before. Gray had walked in circle. He was lost.

Two days later he had drank up all his water. He couldn’t walk. He crawled to the top of a sand dune(沙丘), and there he saw a man. The man was wearing smart clean trousers, a white shirt and a tie. Gray crawled over to him.

“Water…water…,” he said.

“I’m terribly sorry, old boy,” replied the man, “but I haven’t got any water with me.”

“Help me!” shouted Gray, “I’m a rich man, a millionaire…I’ll give you anything.”

“That’s very nice of you, old boy,” said the man, “Look, I can’t give you any water, but would you like to buy my tie?”

“A tie? Of course not!” Gray screamed and crawled away. He crawled slowly up the next sand dune. His mouth was full of sand. His lips were cracked and dry. He couldn’t breathe. He reached the top of the dune and there he saw a huge good hotel. Girls were swimming in the hotel.

“It is a mirage(幻景)?” he thought “Am I dying?” He stood up and staggered(蹒跚) down the dune.

A waiter in a shining white uniform came out of the door.

“Water…water…a bath! Food!” screamed Gray.

“I’m sorry, you can’t come into this hotel, ”said the waiter.

“Why not? I’ve got plenty of money…I’m a millionaire.”

“Ah, ” replied the waiter, “but you aren’t wearing a tie.”

36. The famous explorer __________.

A. had crossed Antarctica and the Atlantic by balloon

B. had travelled all over the world

C. had walked across Death Valley

D. had ever been a millionaire

37. Death Valley is __________.

A. a valley where people may die from loss of water

B. a dead place where people dare not go

C. a terribly hot valley where people may die of heat

D. a place’s name

38. Two days later Richard Gray __________.

A. was lost in a circle

B. was drunk

C. began to search for water in the desert

D. crawled to the top of a dune to see a man

39. At last Richard Gray __________.

A. was not permitted to enter the hotel B. got some water to drink

C. was very sorry for the waiter D. was dying

B

You can not see any object unless light from that object gets into your eyes. Some of the things you see give off light of their own. The sun, the stars, a lighted lamp are examples that can be seen by their own light. Such things are luminous. Most of the things you see are not giving off light of their own. They are simply reflecting light that falls on them from the sun or some other luminous bodies. The moon, for example, does not give off any light of its own. It is non-luminous. You see it because sunlight falls on it and some of it reflects in our direction. So moon light is only second hand sunlight.

When you look at a book, it sends to your eyes some of the light which falls on it, and you see the book. If light could be kept out from where you are so that there would be no light for the book to reflect, then you could not see the book even with your eyes wide open.

Light travels so fast that the time in which it travels from the book you are reading to your eyes is so short as if there were no time at all. Light reaches us from the moon, which is about 380 000 kilometers away, in only a little more than a second.

40. You can see the book because_______.

A. your eyes are close to it B. your eyesight can get to it

C. it has light of its own D. it reflects some of the sunlight

41. The underlined word “luminous” means_______.

A. visible B. all colors C. giving off light D. sunlight

42. ________ have light of their own.

A. The sun and the moon B. The sun and the stars

C.The stars and the earth D. The moon and the earth

43. Which of the following is true?

A. All the things you can see give off light.

B. Light from the book is much shorter than that from the moon.

C. Light travels so fast that there is no time for you to read.

D. The moment you open your eyes the light from the book travels to your eyes.

C

For thousands of years, we have looked for way to measure time. Early humans found that the regular movement of the sun, the earth, the moon and the stars made good ways to measure time. The rising and setting of the sun were used to distinguish(区别) day from night.

But eventually, people needed to tell time more accurately, or exactly. So by using the sun’s position in the sky, they divided the day into dawn morning, midday and evening.

Then it was noted that the sun cast a changing shadow(阴影) as it moved across the sky. Time could be told more accurately by setting up a stick and making the positions of the sun’s shadow. It was the ancient Greeks who divided each position of this “sundial(日晷)” into hours.

But the sun doesn’t always shine so. For the past 6000 years, many other ways of keeping time have been tried. Slow-burning candles were divided into hours, and the hourglass was invented. When all the sand in the top of an hourglass has shifted to the bottom, an hour has passed.

Later, the pendulum(钟摆), with its regular back-and-forth movement of weights, was used to move the hands on a clock pendulums are still used in grandfather clocks.