B
More than 10 years ago, it was difficult to buy a tasty pineapple. The fruits that made it to the UK were green on the outside and, more often than not, hard with an unpleasant taste within. Then in 1996, the Del Monte Gold pineapple produced in Hawaii first hit our shelves.
The new type of pineapple looked more yellowy-gold than green. It was slightly softer on the outside and had a lot of juice inside. But the most important thing about this new type of pineapple was that it was twice as sweet as the hit-and-miss pineapples we had known. In no time, the Del Monte Gold took the market by storm, rapidly becoming the world’s best-selling pineapple variety, and delivering natural levels of sweetness in the mouth, up until then only found in tinned pineapple.
In nutrition(营养) it was all good news too. This nice-tasting pineapple contained four times more vitamin C(维生素C) than the old green variety. Nutritionists said that it was not only full of vitamins, but also good against some diseases. People were understandably eager to be able to buy this wonderful fruit. The new type of pineapple was selling fast, and the Del Monte Gold pineapple rapidly became a fixture in the shopping basket of the healthy eater.
Seeing the growing market for its winning pineapple, Del Monte tried to keep the market to itself. But other fruit companies 
developed similar pineapples. Del Monte turned to law for help, but failed. Those companies argued successfully that Del Monte’s attempts to keep the golden pineapple for itself were just a way to knock them out of the market.
65. We learn from the text that the new type of pineapple is ______.
A. green outside and sweet inside
B. good-looking outside and soft inside
C. yellowy-gold outside and hard inside
D. a little soft outside and sweet inside
66. Why was the new type of pineapple selling well?
A. It was rich in nutrition and tasted nice. B. It was less sweet and good for health.
C. It was developed by Del Monte. D. It was used as medicine.
67. The underlined word “fixture” in Paragraph 3 probably refers to something ______.
A. that people enjoy eating B. that is always present
C. that is difficult to get D. that people use as a gift
68. We learn from the last paragraph that Del Monte ______.
A. allowed other companies to develop pineapples
B. succeeded in keeping the pineapple for itself
C. tried hard to control the pineapple market
D. planned to help the other companies
When friends come to visit us in the evening, they spend their time telling us they are in a hurry and looking at their watches. It isn’t that our friends are all very busy; it is just that we haven’t got a television. People think that we are very strange. “But what do you do in the evening?” they are always asking. The answer is very simple. Both my wife and I have hobbies. We certainly don’t spend our evenings staring at the walls. My wife enjoys cooking and painting and often attends evening classes in foreign languages. This is particularly useful as we often go abroad for our holidays. I collect stamps and I’m always busy with my collection. Both of us enjoy listening to the music and playing chess together．
Sometimes there are power cuts and we have no electricity in the house. This does not worry us; we just light candles and carry on with what we were doing before. Our friends, however, are lost------No television! -------So they don’t know what to do. On such evenings our house is very full; they all come to us. They all have a good time. Instead of sitting in silence in front of the television, everybody talks and plays games．
69. The couple have not got a television, because______．
A. they are not rich enough
B. they are strange people
C. they enjoy spending evenings in their own ways
D. they don’t know what to do when there are power cuts
70. At night when there is no electricity, the couple____．
A. have to look at the walls B. can do nothing but sit in silence
C. will have many visitors D. have to go out for candles
71. The best title for this passage is _____________.
A. Why Do We Need a Television? B. Candle! But No Electricity!
C. Different Friends, Different Hobbies D. We Go Without Televisions!
The following is a true story. It happened in the northern end of Queens land, Australia, where all kinds of animals live in the forest.
Lisa, a 33-year-old woman, went to prepare lunch in the kitchen, leaving Barney, her three-year-old son, playing by himself in the back garden.
Suddenly, a sharp cry of Barney came into the mother’s ears, and Lisa rushed into the backyard in a hurry and found a big snake entwining(缠绕) the little child with its terrible body and trying to eat the boy as its delicious dish! It was a boa(蟒蛇)! Lisa was terrified and quite angry. She made up her mind to save her son from the snake’s mouth.
It was fearless mother love that made Lisa forget what she faced. She took up an old hoe (锁头) from the ground and beat the boa with all her strength.
One...two... With the hoe, Lisa beat the snake repeatedly, but useless. The little boy’s voice and breath were getting weaker and weaker. Lisa’s heart was broken and she got nearly mad.
Suddenly Lisa put away the hoe and threw herself to the boa, opening her mouth and bit into the boa’s back as if trying to eat a rare steak(牛排). Lisa was really mad!
Blood was spurting(喷射) out of the boa’s body and covered most of Lisa’s body. The boa was so badly wounded that it let go of Barney and moved back into the forest hurriedly. It had never known how a woman had such terrible sharp teeth! On halfway home, the boa died.
It was fearless mother love that saved the little boy.
65. When she rushed into the back garden, Lisa found ______
A. a boa eating her son
B. her son was playing with a big snake
C. her son in danger of losing his life
D. her son was fighting with a boa
66. Lisa failed in fighting against the boa at first just because ______.
A. she was bit by the boa
B. the boa was too strong
C. the hoe was not sharp enough
D. she was afraid that she would hurt her son
67. Lisa bit the snake because ______.
A. she was mad
B. she thought her teeth were much sharper than the boa
C. her son was entwined by the boa
D. she hadn’t got any other way to fight with the snake
68. The best title for this passage is ______.
A. Mother and BoaB. Fearless Mother Love
C. A Boa and a BoyD. Saving a Boy from a Boa
第三部分阅读理解（共20题，每小题2分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C或D）中，选出最佳选项
New York, London, Paris and other big cities are exciting places to live in. There are many interesting things to see and to do. You can go to different kinds of museums, plays and films. You can also go shopping to buy things from all over the world.
But there are serious problems in big cities too. The expense of living is high, and there are too many people in some places of big cities. Every year, many people move to the cities because of the chances to find jobs, to study at good schools, and to receive good medical care. But sometimes these people cannot find work or a good place to live in. Also, too many people in a small space make it hard to keep the cities safe and clean.
Some people enjoy living in big cities, others do not. Before people move to a big city, they should think about the problems of living there.
61. In big cities people can ____________.
A. go to different kinds of museums B. see all kinds of plays and films
C. buy things from all over the worldD. A,B and C.
62. Which of the following is True?
A. Big cities are not safe and clean enough.
B. People can easily find a good place to live in.
C. All people like to live in big cities.
D. No one likes to live in big cities.
63. In the passage the writer advise people __________ .
A. to move to a big city
B. not to move to a big city
C. not to move to a big city without thinking about the problems
D. not to think too much about the problems before they move to a big city
64. Which is not talked about in the passage?
A. New York and London are big cities, and so is Paris.
B. Big cities are better than small cities.
C. Big cities are exciting places to live in.
D. Big cities have a lot of serious problems.
Beauty has always been regarded as something praiseworthy. Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and healthier, have better marriages and have more respectable jobs.
Personal advisors give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants. But in the executive (主管的) circle, beauty can become a liability. While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up the executive ladder, it is harmful to a woman. Handsome male executives were considered having more honesty than plainer men; effort and ability were thought to lead to their success. Attractive female executives were considered to have less honesty than unattractive ones; their success was connected not with ability but with factors such as luck. All unattractive women executives were thought to have more honesty and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. Interestingly, though, the rise of the attractive overnight successes was connected more with personal relationships and less to ability than that of the unattractive overnight successes. Why are attractive women not thought to be able? An attractive woman considered to be more womanish has an advantage in traditionally female jobs, but an attractive woman in a traditionally manly position appears to lack the “manly” qualities. This is true even in politics, “When the only clue is how he or she looks, people treat men and women differently,” says Anne Bowman, who recently published a study on the effects of attractiveness on political candidates. She asked 125 undergraduate students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one of women, in order of attractiveness. The students were told the photographs were of candidates for political offices. They were asked to rank them again, in the order they would vote for them. The results showed that attractive males completely defeated unattractive men, but the women who had ranked most attractive unchangeably received the fewest votes.
73. The underlined word "liability" most probably means ______.
A. disadvantage B. advantage C. misfortune D. trouble
74. Bowman’s experiment shows that when it comes to politics, attractiveness ______.
A. turns out to be a disadvantage to both men and women
B. is more of a disadvantage than an advantage to women
C. has as little effect on men as on women
D. slightly affects both men and women
75. It can be inferred from the passage that people’s views on beauty are often ______.
A. practicalB. supportive C. old-fashioned D. one-sided
When TV news programs report wars or disasters, the editors rarely use the most horrifying pictures of dead or wounded victims because they don’t want to upset their viewers. Even so, viewers are usually crowded in advance that they may find some of these scenes disturbing, so they can look away if they choose. But the men and women whose job is to record those scenes—the TV cameramen—have no such choice. It is their duty to witness the horrors of the world and record them, no matter how terrible and unpleasant they may be. Consequently, it is one of the most dangerous, exposed and emotionally taxing jobs the world has to offer.
Today, the demand for their work is rising. The explosion of satellite broadcasting and 24-hour news in recent years has created a demand for TV information. But major broadcasters and the TV news agencies——such as Reuters and WTN-have never had enough staff to meet the worldwide demand for up-to-date pictures, so increasingly they turn to “freelance” TV cameramen.
These freelance cameramen are independent operators tied to no particular organization. They will work for any company which hires them, be it for just a few hours or for several weeks in a war zone. But if the freelance cameraman is injured in the course of the job, the TV company is not responsible for him. The freelancer must survive on his own.
TV will always need hard, vivid moving pictures which are fresh, but these companies feel uncomfortable with large numbers of employees on their books, explains Nick Growing, once a foreign editor for Britain Channel 4 News and now a BBC news presenter.
By hiring freelancers, they can buy in the skills they need only when they need them. It also enables them to contract out the risk, he says.
69.TV news agencies turn to freelance cameramen in order to.
A. buy pictures which are the most touching to the senses
B. look for pictures that are of fine qualities
C. get first-hand information and pictures
D. save expense and avoid risks
70. The freelance cameramen.
A. need to contract out risks of work for TV companies
B. have better skills than other cameramen
C. have to take risks in the course of work
D. are tied to many TV news agencies
71.According to this passage, some major broadcasters and TV news agencies.
A. are responsible for the freelancer if he is injured
B. are not willing to employ many cameramen
C. have employed enough cameramen
D. are very kind to freelancers
72.The author of this passage shows histhe freelance cameramen.
A. respect for B. sympathy for
C. anger to D. admiration to