41. A. questioned           B. recognized        C. praised      D. thanked

42. A. manner          B. appearance           C. sound            D. announcement

43. A. found           B. ignored          C. remembered            D. wondered

44. A. promise         B. appointment        C. suggestion         D. attention

45. A. amazing         B. confusing            C. scaring             D. challenging

第二部分 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)

阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

A

Fat and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. “Football, tennis, cricket —— anything with a round ball, I was useless.” he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the one always made fun of in school gym classes in Devonshire, England.

It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first he went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to ride the bike along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his mind on building up his body, increasing his speed and strength. At the age of 18, he ran his first marathon.

The following year, he met John Ridgway and he was hired as an instructor at Ridgway’s School of Adventure in Scotland, where he learnt about Ridgway’s cold-water exploits. Greatly interested, Saunders read all he could about North Pole explorers and adventures, then decided that this would be his future.

In 2001, after becoming a skillful skier, Saunders started his fist long-distance expedition towards the North Pole. It took unbelievable energy. He suffered frostbite(冻疮), ran into a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit, pulling his supply-loaded sled(雪橇)up and over rocky ice. Next October, Saunders, 27, heads south from the coast of Antarctic to the South Pole and back, a 2900-kilometer journey that has never been completed on skis.

46. What change happened to Saunders after he was 15 years old?

A. He became good at most sports.          B. He began to build up his body.

C. He joined a sports team.     D. He made friends with a runner.

47. The underlined word “exploits” (Para. 3) is closet in meaning to _________.

A. journeys           B. researches           C. adventures     D. operations

48. Which of the following is the correct order of the events that happened to Saunders?

a. He ran his first marathon.                          b. He skied alone in the North Pole.

c. He rode his bike in a forest.                        d. He planned an adventure to the South Pole

A. acdb          B. cdab          C. acbd     D. cabd

49. What does the story mainly tell us about Saunders?

A. He is a success in sports.          B. He is the best British skier.

C. He is Ridgway’s favorite student.       D. He is good instructor at school.

B

As you grow rapidly through your teenage years, you will experience a lot of changes. The changes may seem difficult and they may seem to happen quickly. Don’t panic! You will deal successfully with them! You are a young adult now!

With more responsibility, you will find more freedom to make your own choices. This is a time to be well informed about your choices so that you can make healthy balanced decisions that will help shape your future. You may already know your career path or you may have no ideas at all what you want to do. Both situations are fine! Work hard and the right opportunity will present itself to you. http://www.xkb1.com

Young adulthood means greater freedom and more choices. You will probably want to be independent. But try not to shut your family out of your life! You should learn to think of others even though you are old enough to look after yourself. Your families have been with you since you came into this world.

It is also perfectly natural in this time for you to spend more time with your friends than your family. Choose your friends wisely. A true friend will stand by you no matter what happens.

This period is part of the life circle. There are some people who will be with you throughout life’s journey and there will be some people with whom you part and go separate ways. Leaving school can be hard. The reality is that you may not ever see all of your classmates again.

You are a young adult. It is your life. No one can live it for you. The choices that you make from now on will be your choices. So making the right choices will be important to you. Life is for living. Enjoy your life wisely!

50. The best title for this passage would be _________.

A. The Choices in Life.          B. The Key to Success.

C. Say Goodbye to the Past.     D. Becoming a Young Adult.

51. Who do the underlined words “some people” (Para. 5) probably refer to?

A. Your parents.          B. Your classmates.        C. True friends.     D. Your relatives.

52. The author thinks teenage years are _________.

A. a period of complete freedom

B. too hard for young to get through

C. an important time for the young to make right choices

D. a very important period for young students to leave their parents.

53. Who is the passage mainly written for?

A. Teenagers.          B. Teachers.          C. Young parents.     D. Adults.

C

If women are mercilessly exploited year after year, they have only themselves to blame. Because they tremble at the thought of being seen in public in clothes that are out of fashion, they are always taken advantage of by the designers and the  big stores. Clothes which have been worn only a few times have to be put aside because of the change of fashion.

Changing fashions are nothing more than the intentional creation of waste. Many women spend large sum of money each year to replace clothes that have hardly been worn. Women who cannot afford to throw away clothing in this way, waste hours of their time changing their old-fashioned dresses. Skirts are lengthened or shortened; neck-lines are lowered or raised, and so on.

No one can claim that the fashion industry contributes anything really important to society. Fashion designers are rarely connected with necessary things like warmth, comfort and durability(耐用年限). They are only interested in outward appearance and they take advantage of the fact that women will put up with any amount of discomfort, as long as they look right. There can hardly be a man who hasn’t at some time in his life smiled at the sight of a woman shaking in a thin dress on a winter day, or picking her way through deep snow in high heeled shoes.

When comparing men and women in the matter of fashion, the conclusions to be drawn are obvious. Do the constantly changing fashions of women’s clothes, one wonders, reflect basic qualities of inconstancy and instability? Men are too clever to let themselves be cheated by fashion designers. Do their unchanging styles of dress reflect basic qualities of stability and reliability(稳定耐用)? That is for you to decide.

54. Designers and big stores always make money _________.

A. by mercilessly exploiting women workers in the clothing industry

B. because they are capable of predicting new fashions

C. by constantly changing the fashions in women’s clothes

D. because they attach great importance to quality in women’s clothing

55. To the writer, the fact that women change their old-fashioned dresses is seen as __________.

A. a waste of money      B. a waste of time       C. an expression of taste     D. an expression of love beauty

56. New fashions in clothing are created for ________.

A. the commercial exploitation of women          B. the women’s strength’s of character

C. basic qualities of inconstancy and instability     D. an important contribution to society

57. By saying “the conclusions to be drawn are obvious” (Line 1 to line 2, Para. 4), the writer means that _________.

A. women’s inconstancy in their choice of clothing is often laughed at

B. women are better able to put up with discomfort

C. men are also exploited greatly by fashion designers

D. men are more reasonable in the matter of fashion