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第二部分:阅读理解(共25小题;第一节每小题2分;第二节每小题1分;满分45分)
第一节: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,并将答案写在答题卡上。
A woman who was a student at the Central Conservatory of Music killed herself in Beijing, for a money-changing deal getting into trouble.
The 33-year-old graduate student in folk music was found dead in her bedroom on January. 14 during winter vacation.
She had written to a ~end that she wanted to die because she found her life “makes no sense.”
She probably joined m a money deal and could not return a large amount of money that she had promised to change into Hard currency(硬通货), sources said.
They said she had been asked to exchange 30,000 yuan into US dollars for actors going to perform in East Europe last year.
She seemed to have been cheated in the money deal. She was supposed to pay back the whole sum but was able to return only 10,000 yuan.
A school official said some students had joined in changing money though they knew it is against the Law.
41. The best headline for the above news story is _______________.
A. A Woman Was Cheated            B. Deal Fails, Student Dies
C. Student Found Dead               D. A Lesson For Us All
42. The woman killed herself most possibly because ___________
A. she failed to change the money into foreign currency    B. she cheated some actors
C. she felt her life boring             D. she could not return that good sum of money
43. According to the story, what does the word "sources" mean?
A. The people who gave the news.        B. The officials in the conservatory.
C. The woman herself.                D. The sources of a river.
44. According to the text, which of the following is true?
A. The woman managed to change only two-thirds of the money into hard currency.
B. She spent 20, 000 yuan.
C. She failed in the money-changing deal.
D. She got back only 10,000 yuan from the cheat.

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Where
to pick
Pine Farms Tel: 905-833-5459
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday 9 am to 5 pm
Details: Pick your own apples from mid-August to November.
Albion Farms Tel: 905-584-0354
Hours: Daily 10 am to 6 pm
Details: Pick your own apples on weekends only
Watson Farms Tel: 905-623-9109
Hours: Monday to Friday 9 am to 8 pm Weekends 9 am to 6 pm
Details: Pick your own apples only in early September.
Brooks Farms Tel: 905-473-3920
Hours: Daily 9 am to 5 pm
Details: Picking your own apples is not available(可得到的),but apples are available in the farm market.
Willis Family Fruit Farms Tel: 905-876-2606
Hours: Weekends 10 am to 8 pm
Details: Pick your own apples only in September and October.
Apple picking tips
Call first: Certain apple types may not be available because demand and farm hours can change without notice. So call ahead before setting out.
What to bring: Some farms provide containers(容器) for you to carry the fruit home, but it’s not a bad idea to bring them yourself. Comfortable shoes and clothes that you don’t mind getting dirty are a must. And keep the weather in mind: pack a sweater for cooler days, and bring sun cream.

According to the author, apple picking ______ .

A.helps farmers harvest the fruit
B.can bring great pleasure to families
C.is better for teenagers than for adults
D.is becoming more and more popular in cities

If you are only free after 6 pm on Tuesday, you can choose _____ .

A.Pine Farms B.Albion Farms
C.Watson Farms D.Willis Family Fruit Farms

What can we learn from the passage?

A.You may dirty your clothes when picking apples.
B.Apples on all the farms are on sale at the same time.
C.You have to pay to take the apples you have picked home.
D.You are not allowed to take containers for carrying apples.

I regularly train at a local boxing gym and I’m lucky enough to meet an amazing man, Adrian Charter. Adrian comes to the gym to train, just like me. The difference is, I’m 31 years old, and Adrian is 72!
I watched Adrian as he was training, early on a Sunday morning, and he was hitting the punching bag harder and quicker than most men in their twenties would. Adrian was a former boxer whose last professional fight was in 1972. Even though he has stopped competing as a boxer, his discipline(纪律) still makes him stick to a training rule.
It simply amazed me as to how a 72-year-old man could train so hard. Believe me, boxing is one of the most difficult sports on the earth, needing much patience,skill, and effort.
What surprised me even more was that a few days earlier he did some running. He ran 9 kilometers. He does this on a regular basis. For me, I can run 5 kilometers at most.
When I questioned him about how he kept such discipline, he calmly replied, “It is all in my mind.”
I thought about it for a moment. If discipline can push a 72-year-old man to train so hard and enjoy it, could I imagine how discipline could serve every single human being on the earth? Right at this point, as you read this story, please pause and ask yourself, “What is my level of discipline?”
Adrian’s example told me that the power of discipline will get us to the finishing line! The bigger the challenge is, the more our discipline can serve us and the sweeter the taste of success will be!
The author noticed Adrian Charter mostly because Adrian Charter _______ .

A.was a famous former boxer
B.was the oldest in the boxing gym
C.acted faster even than young people
D.didn’t want to compete any longer

What does the author think of boxing?

A.It has high requirements.
B.It has strict training rules.
C.It has a limit to people’s age.
D.It makes people become quick and strong.

The underlined sentence in the last paragraph probably means “______ ”.

A.Rome was not built in a day
B.no pains, no gains
C.failure is the mother of success
D.early birds can catch worms

What can be the best title for the text?

A.Grasp every chance to keep fit
B.An unforgotten experience
C.The power of discipline
D.An amazing boxer

A bargain is something offered at a low and advantageous price. A more recent definition is: a bargain is a dirty trick to force money out of the pockets of silly and innocent people.
The cost of producing a new - for example - toothpaste would make 80p the proper price for it, so we will market it at £1.20. It is not a bad toothpaste, and as people like to try new things it will sell well to start with; but the attraction of novelty soon fades, so sales will fall. When that happens we will reduce the price to £1.15. And we will turn it into a bargain by printing 5p OFF all over it.
Sometimes it is not 5p OFF but 1p OFF. What breathtaking rudeness to advertise 1p OFF your soap or washing powder or whatever! Even the poorest old-age pensioner ought to regard this as an insult(侮辱), but he doesn’t. A bargain must not be missed. People say one has to have washing powder (or whatever) and one might as well buy it a penny cheaper.
The real danger starts when unnecessary things become ‘bargains’. Many people just cannot resist bargains. Provided they think they are getting a bargain they will buy clothes they will never wear or furniture they have no space for. Once I heard of a man who bought an electric saw as a bargain and cut off two of his fingers the next day. But he had no regrets: the saw had been truly cheap.
Quite a few people actually believe that they make money on such bargains. A lady once told me: “I’ve had a lucky day today. I bought a dress for £120, reduced from £400; and I bought a beautiful Persian carpet for £600, reduced from £900.” It will never occur to her that she has actually wasted £720. She feels as though she had made £580. She also feels, I am sure, that if she had more time for shopping, she could make a living out of it.
Some people buy in large quantities because it is cheaper. Once a couple bought enough sugar for their lifetime and the lifetime of their children and grandchildren. They thought it a bargain not to be missed. When the sugar arrived they didn’t know where to store it – until they realized that their toilet was a very spacious one. So that was where they piled up their sugar. Not only did their guests feel rather strange whenever they were offered sugar to put into their coffee, but the toilet became extremely sticky.
To offer bargains is a commercial trick to make the poor poorer. When greedy fools fall for this trick, it serves them right.
Which word best describes the language style of the passage?

A.Polite. B.Foolish. C.Humorous. D.Serious.

What does the underlined word “novelty” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?

A.Good quality. B.Low price.
C.Newness. D.Curiosity.

How does the author feel about 1p OFF a product?

A.It’s a gift for poor people.
B.It’s an offense to shoppers.
C.It’s a bargain worth trying.
D.It’s a real reduction in price.

Which statement will the author probably agree with?

A.Bargains are things people don’t really need.
B.Bargains are often real cheap products.
C.Bargains help people make a living.
D.Bargains play tricks on people.

The bed should be reserved as a place for sleep, but people tend to read an iPad a lot in bed before they go to sleep.
Charles Czeisler, a professor at Harvard Medical School, and his colleagues got a small group of people for an experiment. For five days in a row, the people read either a paper book or an iPad for four hours before sleep. Their sleep patterns were monitored all night. Before and after each trial period, the people took hourly blood tests to paint a day-long picture of just how much melatonin (褪黑激素) was in their blood at any given time.
When subjects read on the iPad as compared to the paper books, they reported feeling less sleepy at night and less active the following morning. People also took longer to fall asleep on the iPad nights, and the blood tests showed that their melatonin secretion (分泌) was delayed by an hour and a half.
The researchers conclude in today's journal article that given the rise of e-readers and the increasingly widespread use of e-things among children and adolescents, more research into the long-term consequences of these devices on health and safety is urgently needed. Czeisler and colleagues go on, in the research paper, to note:“Reading an iPad in bed may increase cancer risk.”
However, software has been developed that can reduce some of the blue light from the screens of phones and computers according to time of day, and there are also glasses that are made to filter (过滤) short wavelengths. While they seem like a logical solution for the nighttime tech users, it needs more research.
In Charles Czeislers experiment, all the subjects were asked to______.

A.sit in a row and receive the strict tests
B.have their sleep patterns observed all night
C.read a paper book and an iPad at the same time
D.have their blood tested per hour during the trial

The third paragraph tells us the iPad readers were likely to____________.

A.feel less sleepy and tired in the day
B.fall asleep more easily after reading
C.become less energetic the next morning
D.have a lot more melatonin secretion

The special software recently developed can______.

A.remove the blue light from your devices completely
B.help prevent eyes being harmed by short wavelength
C.weaken the harm done by doing nighttime e-reading
D.be used in all the e-things widely and safely

Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A.No e-reading in bed before sleep
B.New software for night e-readers
C.Wrong behaviors before bedtime
D.No games on iPad in bed

My 16-year-old son, Anton, had gone to the local swimming hole.Most of the kids swim there, and there are plenty of rocks for them to use as safe harbors, so I had no fears for his safety.
Still, the firefighter's first words "You need to come up here to the Stillwater River" made me catch my breath, and his follow-up words gave me relief: “ Your son is OK.”
When I got to the river, I immediately saw the fire truck, ambulance and Anton, wrapped with a towel about his shoulders, sitting quietly on a low platform of the fire engine.
I hurried over to him. "You OK?"I asked.
“Yeah," was all he said.But my eyes begged for an explanation. I didn't get it from my son, however, who tends to play his cards close to his vest
The story was this: A woman was being swept under water. Hearing the cries, Anton and his friend Tyler, without hesitation, swam out to her, and brought her safely to shore.
In an age in which the word "hero" is broadcast with abandon and seemingly applied to anyone who make it through the day, I realized the real thing in my son.The teens are stubborn and self-centred, but that didn't mean they have no desire to do good.
Still shocked by my son's daring, I drove him home.Along the way, I tried to dig out some more information from him - but he had precious little to say.The only words he said were,
“What's for supper?"
I spent some time alone that evening, thinking about the tragedy that might have been. The next morning, when Anton got up, I half wanted him to tell me the story.But all he did was toast some bread, pull himself together, and head for the door to start a new day. Watching from the window, I was reminded that still water often runs deep.
Why did the mother allow her son to swim there?

A.He was an excellent swimmer.
B.The water of the river is shallow.
C.He was old enough to swim.
D.The rocks can be of help if there's danger.

The underlined part "who tends to play his cards close to his vest" probably means ________

A.Anton is a boy fond of swimming with other kids
B.Anton is unwilling to tell others what he thinks
C.Anton always has a desire to help others
D.Anton seldom changes his mind

In the mother's eyes, what her son did was__________

A.dangerous but interesting
B.meaningful but difficult
C.unexpected and courageous
D.awful and absurd

What might be the best title for the passage?

A.My Son, My Hero B.Anton, A Silent Boy
C.A Good Deed D.A Proud Mother

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