二、完型填空(30分)

阅读下面短文，从短文所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中选能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。

“Fire! Fire!” What terrible   36   to hear when one woke up in a strange   37   in the middle of the night!  38    was a large old wooden house and my room was on the top floor. I   39    bed, opened the door   40    stepped out. It was full of thick smoke. I began to   41   , but instead of going towards the stairs I went   42    the opposite direction. I found an   43    door and ran into a room to get to the window. But    44   I reached it, one of my feet caught in something soft and I fell down. The thing   45   I had fallen over felt like a bundle(包) of clothes, and I   46   it up to protect my face from the    47   and heat. Just then the floor gave way under me and I crashed(哗啦一声坠落) to the floor   48  .

I saw a doorway in front of me, put the bundle over my   49   and ran. I got through. As I reached the cold air   50  , my bundle of clothes gave a low   51  .I nearly dropped it in surprise. Then I saw a crowd   52   in the street. A woman in a night-dress and a borrowed man’s coat screamed, as she saw me, came running   53  . “My baby! My baby!” she cried. The crowd   54   wildly as she took the bundle out of my arms. I had   55   the baby. I was a hero.

36. A. words   B. noises         C. meanings         D. thoughts

37. A. room      B. cottage  C. building         D. house

38. A. This   B. They   C. It     D. Itself

39. A. stayed in  B. jumped out of C. stepped out of  D. walked out of

40. A. but   B. and   C. or    D. as well[

41. A. walk   B. jog(慢吞吞地走)  C. run   D. wander(漫步)

42. A. towards  B. to   C. for    D. in

43. A. open   B. shut   C. closed    D. locked

44. A. as    B. because  C. before    D. since

45. A. where   B. that   C. as    D. when

46. A. picked   B. closed   C. rose    D. built

47. A. fire   B. water   C. noise    D. smoke

48. A. above   B. upstairs  C. nearby   D. below

49. A. head   B. stomach  C. face    D. nose

50. A. inside   B. outside  C. indoors   D. out

51. A. cry   B. whistle(口哨) C. shout    D. surprise

52. A. scattered(分散) B. ran away  C. gathered   D. escaped

53. A. madly   B. angrily  C. surprisingly  D. disappointedly

54. A. screamed  B. called   C. yelled(尖叫)  D. cheered

55. A. held   B. warmed  C. carried   D. saved

第三部分：阅读理解(共40分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出最佳选项。

A

Visitors to the United States are often surprised to learn the distance from the east coast to the west coast. It’s more than 3,500 kilometers from the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast to the Pacific Ocean on the west. A jet plane crosses the continental United States in about 5 hours, but a traveler in a fast railroad needs more than forty-eight hours to cross the country.

The new state of Hawaii is very far from the states on the east coast of the continent. Hawaii is in the Pacific Ocean. It is more than 3,000 kilometers from Hawaii to the mainland(大陆) of the United States.

56.The main idea of this passage is ______.

A. the United States is smaller than most people think it is

B. the United States is a very big country

C. the new state of Hawaii has greatly increased the size of the United States

D. the United States is a very famous country

57.This passage tells us the distance ______.

A. from New York to Chicago

B. from the east coast to the west coast

C. from the Canadian border to the Mexican border

D. from Hawaii to the east coast

58.People who visit the United States are often surprised when they ______.

A. come to the east coast of the United States

B. know how far it is from the east coast to the west coast

C. are in a jet plane

D. travel in a fast train

59.According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?

A. It takes a traveler more than 48 hours to cross the country by fast car.

B. There are no mountains in the continental US

C. America is in the Atlantic Ocean

D. Hawaii is far away from the mainland of the US

B

Co-operation means working together for the benefit of all. Without co-operation, modern society could not exist. Co-operation among the farmers in the dry areas of certain parts of Australia and Africa is very important. The fields have been irrigated(灌溉) in these areas. Crops cannot be grown without water. For this purpose, canals(水渠) and reservoirs(水库) have been built. The canals have been cut through the fields of not only one farmer. Those who live higher up the valley than the others have permitted canals to be built through their land in order to carry water to the fields of farmers lower down. When there is a long period without rain, all share the water. Instead of taking all the water for themselves, the farmers in the higher land leave enough water for their neighbours down the valley. Farming in the dry areas has been made possible by such co-operation. By co-operation farmers have learned to make even the desert produce crops.

60. Co-operation means ______.

A. working for others        B. working for oneself

C. working together for the interests of all

D. working together for the benefit of the whole world

61. A reservoir is used ______.

A. to keep the fields wet          B. to store water

C. to join canals                 D. to prevent farmers from getting water

62. In dry weather the farmers who live higher up the valley ______.

A. share the water with their neighbours

B. keep all the water for themselves

C. build canals across the fields of other farmers

D. work hard to store water

63. Crops can be produced in desert only because ______.

A. there is a lot of rain

B. there is one reservoir

C. the people work together for the benefit of all

D. many wells have been found

C

Isn’t it astonishing(令人惊讶的) how much time we talk about food? “Have you ever eaten…?” “What did you have for lunch?” and so on. And yet when you travel from one country to another, you will find that people have quite different feelings about food. People often feel that what they eat is normal and what other people eat is strange. In England, people eat potatoes every day. In the Middle East, bread is the main part of every meal. Eating like so many things we do, becomes a habit which is difficult to change. Americans like to drink a lot of orange juice and coffee. The English drink tea four or five times every day. Australians drink a great deal of beer, and the French drink wine every day.

The sort of meat people like to eat also differs from one country to another. Horse meat is thought to be delicious in France. New Zealanders eat sheep, but they never eat goat meat. The Japanese don’t like to eat sheep meat because of its smell, but they enjoy eating raw fish

So it seems that although eating is a topic we can talk about for hours, there is very little common sense in what we say. People everywhere enjoy eating what they have always eaten, and there is very little we can do to change our eating habits.

64. What is the main part of every meal in the Middle East?

A. Rice    B. Bread    C. Meat    D. Tomato

65. Why does Japanese not like sheep meat? Because it ______.

A. is expensive B. is cheap       C. is delicious    D. smells

66. The meaning of “raw” is ______.

A. not cooked    B. nicely cooked    C. big          D. young

67. According to the passage, which of the following is true?

A. In some parts of Asia people like rice.

B. Eating is a topic that people don’t like to talk about.

C. The habit of eating is easy to change.

D. French people like sheep meat very much.

D