Some weird, wild and wonderful stories coloured the news in 2010:
★A Copenhagen bus company has put "love seats" on 103 of its vehicles for people looking for a partner. "Even love at first sight is possible on the bus," said a spokesman for the British owned Arriva company to explain the two seats on each bus that are covered in red cloth and a "love seat" sign.
★Shoppers at an international luxury fair in Verona, Italy, found a cell-phone-equipped golden coffin among the items on display. The phones will help "the dead" contact relatives if they have been buried alive by mistake.
★A man in New York came up with a disarming way to set off his latest bank heist , approaching the clerk’s window with a large bunch of flowers and handing over a hold-up note saying
“give me the money!”
★ An Englishman who lost all his legs and arms in an electrical accident successfully swam across the Channel, a challenge he had been preparing for two years. The whole cost is 400 dollars.
★A set of artificial teeth made for Britain's war-time prime minister Winston Churchill known as "the teeth that saved the world" sold for nearly 18,000 pounds (21,500 euros, 24,000 dollars) at auction.
★A British woman caused an Internet hate campaign after she was caught on camera dumping a cat in a rubbish bin. She was fined 250 pounds (400 dollars, 280 euros) after pleading guilty.
★The BBC apologized completely and without any doubts after a radio presenter jokingly announced that Queen Elizabeth II had died.
★Two Australian men needed surgery after shooting each other in the bottoms during a drinking session to see if it would hurt were charged 400 dollars separately.
★ A Kuwaiti MP(议员) proposed state-aid for male citizens to take second wives, in a bid to reduce the large number of unmarried women in the oil-rich state.What is special about the coffin in the second news?
| A．It is golden | B．It has a cell phone. |
| C．It is a luxury | D．It has many items |
What is the probable meaning of the underlined wordheist in the third news?
| A．robbery | B．proposal | C．begging | D．raising money |
Who has to spend 400 dollars to do the surgery?
| A．A British woman who dumped a cat in a rubbish bin. |
| B．One who bought Winston Churchill’s artificial teeth. |
| C．An Australian man who shot in bottom to test the hurt. |
| D．An Englishman crossing the Channel without legs and arms. |
From the last news we can infer that _________.
| A．In Kuwait many men are eager to get married |
| B．A lot of rich single men lived in Kuwait |
| C．There are quantities of oil in Kuwait |
| D．There are many single women in Kuwait |
During the summer holidays there will be a revised (修改过的) schedule (时刻表) of services for the students. Changes for dining-room and library service hours and for bus schedules will be posted on the wall outside of the dining-hall . Weekly film and concert schedules, which are being arranged(安排)，will be posted each Wednesday outside of the student club.
In the summer holidays, buses going to the town center will leave the main hall every half hour during the day. The dinning-room will serve three meals a day from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. during the week and two meals from noon to 7:00 p.m. on weekends. The library will continue its usual hours during the week, but have shorter hours on Saturdays and Sundays. The weekend hours are from noon to 5:00 p.m.
All students who want to use the library borrowing services must have a new summer card. This announcement will also appear in the next week’s student newspaper.
68. The main purpose of this announcement is to______.
A. tell students of important schedule changes
B. tell students of new bus and library services
C. show the excellent services for students
D. ask students to renew their library cards
69. At which of the following times will the bus leave the main hall?
A. 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 B. 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30
C. 8:30, 9:00, 9:30; 10:00 D.8:00, 9:30, 11:00, 12:30
70. Times for films and concerts are not listed in this announcement because______.
A. they are not to be announced B. they are hard to arrange
C. the full list is not ready D. the full list is too long
71. In the summer holidays, the library will have______.
A. no special hours
B. special hours on weekdays
C. special hours on weekends
D. special hours both on weekdays and weekends
James Joyce was an Irish novelist who revolutionized the methods of depicting characters and developing a plot in modern fiction. his astonishing way of constructing a novel, his frank portrayal（描画, 描写）of human nature in his books, and his complete command of English have made him one of the outstanding influences on literature in the 20th century. Many critics judge that he is second only to Shakespeare in his mastery of the English language. Joyce was deeply influenced by Ireland and wrote all his books about Dublin.
When he was in Dublin College, he studied languages and spent his spare time reading books. He refused to take part in the nationalist movement like his fellow students, but he became passionately（热情地, 热烈地）interested in literature. He wrote outspoken articles of literary criticism that shocked his teachers and even taught himself norwegian（挪威语）so that he could read Ibsen’s（挪威剧作家及诗人）works in the original.
When he graduated in 1902, he knew he would become a writer and an exile（流犯, 被放逐者）, because he felt he could not be one without the other. In order to preserve his ideal of writing truthfully, fully, and as objectively as he knew how, about the people and places he knew best, he had to escape from all temptations to become involved in popular opinion or public life. He went to France, Italy and Switzerland, where he lived in poverty and obscurity for the first 20 years, only returning to Ireland when his mother was dying. Except for a couple of brief trips, he stayed abroad all his life.
64．James Joyce was famous for many reasons except _______.
A．his way of constructing a novel
B．his frank portrayal of human nature
C．his complete command of English
D．his passion in literature
65．“he is second only to Shakespeare” is a comment on his ________.
A．achievement in literature
B．achievement in the nationalist movement
C．achievement in his study of languages
D．mastery of the English language
66．How many examples are used to show his passion in literature?
A．2. B．3. C．1. D．4.
67．Why did James Joyce stay abroad almost all his life?
A．Because he wanted to live in poverty and obscurity.
B．Because he wanted to write the people and places he knew best.
C．Because he wanted to escape from all temptations to become involved in popular opinion or public life.
D．Because he wanted to preserve his ideal of writing truthfully, fully and objectively about the people and the places he knew best.
Hong Kong, major commercial center for Asia, and with a population which has grown at an alarming rate to over 5 million, is a city highly dependent on mass (大量的, 大规模的) transit of all sorts, both local and long distance. An ordinary Hong Kong worker or businessman, going about his daily activities, simply must use transportation at one time or another.
Because Hong Kong is in two parts, Kowloon, on the mainland side, and Hong Kong, the island, with Hong Kong's harbor in between Hong Kong's mass transit systems, in addition to going over land they must also cross water.
Going from home to work, or going shopping from one side of the harbor to the other, the Hong Kong resident has three choices. One way is to take a bus which will cross the harbor through an under water traffic tunnel moving slowly through bumper- to-bumper (一辆接一辆) traffic．Another way is by ferry boat , a pleasant ride which crosses the harbor in from seven to fifteen minutes.
But by far the fastest way of crossing the harbor is the newly built underground electric railway, the Hong Kong Metro(地铁). If one gets on the train in the Central District,the commercial area of Hong Kong on the island side, he can speed across the harbor in an astonishing three minutes. On the other side of the harbor the railway continues, snaking back and forth through the outlying districts of Kowloon, allowing one to get off a short distance from his destination.
The story of the Metro is an encouraging one for supporters of mass transit. Although building the system was certainly a challenging task, the Japanese firm hired to construct it did so in record time. Construction got underway in 1979 and it was completed in 1980.
For the average commuter (一般持月票往返两地的乘客) the system has only one disadvantage; it is more expensive than by bus or ferry. One can ride the bus across the harbor for half as much or he can ride the ferry across for less than one-fifth as much.
60．Hong Kong public transportation extends ________.
A．over hills and valleys B．across land and water
C．through mountains D．throughout the Kowloon area
61．Crossing the harbor by train is ________.
A．by far the most economical methods
B．the most pleasant method
C．the least pleasant method
D．the fastest method
62．The business area on the island side of Hong Kong is referred to as ________.
A．KowloonB．the Central District
C．the Hong Kong Metro D．downtown Hong Kong
63．The underground railway ________.
A．winds through Kowloon B．ends when it reaches Kowloon
C．snakes across the harbor D．circles Kowloon
第三部分阅读理解（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。
It doesn't matter when or how much a person sleeps, but everyone needs some rest to stay alive. That's what all doctors thought, until they heard about Al Herpin.
Al Herpin, it was said, never slept. He was 90 years old when doctors came to his home in New Jersey. They expected to find out that he needed sleep of some kind. But they were surprised. Though they watched him every hour of the day, they never saw Herpin sleeping. He did not even own a bed. He never needed one.
The closest that Herpin came to resting was to sit in a rocking chair(摇椅) and read some news papers. The doctors were puzzled by this strange continuous sleeplessness. Herpin offered the only probable explanation of his condition. He remembered some talk about his mother having been injured several days before he was born.
56. The point of this story is that _______.
A. We needn't feel surprised to find someone who doesn't sleep
B. one person was found who actually didn't need any sleep
C. everyone needs some rest to stay alive
D. not sleeping may help one to live longer
57. After watching him closely, the doctors believed that Al Herpin _______.
A. needed some kind of sleep B. slept while one was watching
C. needed no sleep at all D. nearly slept in a rocking chair
58. One suggested explanation of Herpin's sleeplessness was _______.
A. his old age
B. his not having a bed
C. his magnificent physical condition
D. his mother's injury while carrying him
59.The writer of the story obviously thinks that Al Herpin's sleeplessness ___.
A. could be cured B. could be explained
C. was healthful D. was uncommon
Through watching the National Day parade roll down Tian’anmen Square last Thursday, foreign observers were impressed by China’s fast development and growing strength
China’s military parade, the birthday celebration was a showcase of fighter jets, tanks and ballistic missiles（弹道导弹）．The display included 100,000 marchers, 80,000 children, 8,000 soldiers and 151 planes．President Hu Jintao, whose Mao suit（中山装）interested foreign media, told the watching nation that the Chinese people were “full of confidence,” USA Today reported．“Today, a socialist China, facing modernization, the world and the future, has stood rock-firm in the east of the world,” he said.
The celebration marked the day in 1949 when Chairman Mao Zedong announced the founding of the People’s Republic of China．In the years since, the nation has grown into the world’s third largest economy．
The Associated Press（美联社）quoted Geremie Barme, a China expert at Australian National University as saying that the displays “meant” to educate, excite, unite and entertain”．The New York Times said that while China’s military is still behind those of many developed nations, its progress since the last parade in 1999 was clear．
The rapidly improving ability of China’s army has worried some overseas analysts．Reuters said that Dongfeng 21C, the anti-ship missile, could force US aircraft carriers（航空母舰）to stay farther away from China’s waters, if models were developed into more powerful ballistic missiles．
Russell Moses, a political analyst, said China’s leaders are “right to congratulate themselves, but real test is not how they deal with success but how they deal with present challenges．” Among these are the imbalance in development between the town and the country, unemployment and the environment.
53．In total, ____people took part in the National Day military parade last Thursday．
A．100,000 B．88,000 C．188,000 D．188,151
54．_______reported the overseas analysts worry about the rapidly improving ability of China’s army．
A．Reuters B．The Associated Press C．USA Today .D．The New York Times
55 Which of the following is TRUE?
A．Foreign media paid little attention to President Hu’s Mao suit
B．Foreign media were only impressed by China’s rapid development
C．Dongfeng 21C has driven US aircraft carriers away from China’s waters
D Ten years ago, another National Day military parade was held in Beijing
56 What can be inferred from the passage?
A．China has successfully completed the processed of modernization
B．The US aircraft carriers are now staying not far from China’s waters
C．China’s military has caught up with most of the developed countries
D．There is a gap in development between China’s urban and rural areas