How often one hears children wishing they were grown up, and the old wishing they were young again! Each age has its pleasure and its pains, and the happiest person is the one who enjoys what each age gives him without wasting any time in useless regrets.
Children is a time when there are few duties to make life hard. If a child has good parents, he is fed, looked after, and loved whatever he may do. It’s impossible for him to be given so much again in his life without having to do anything in return. Besides, life is always giving new things to the child. A child finds pleasure in playing in the rain, or in the snow. His first visit to the seaside makes him wild. But a child has his pains; he is not so free to do as he wishes. He is continually being told not to do this, not to do that, or being punished for what he has done wrong. His life is therefore not perfectly happy.
When the young man starts to make his own living, he becomes free from the rules of school and parents; but at the time he is forced to accept duties. He can no longer expect others to pay for his food, his clothes and his room, but has to work for them if he wants to live comfortably. If he spends most of his time playing about in the way that he used to as a child, he will go hungry and suffer. And if he breaks the law of society as he used to break the laws of his parents, he may go to prison, lf, however, he works hard, keeps out of trouble, and has good health, he can have the great happiness of seeing himself make steady progress in his job and of building up his own position in society and enjoy success and good reputation..
Old age has always been thought of as the worst age to be, but it is not necessary for the old to be unhappy. Old age has its own happiness. They can have the joy of seeing their children making progress in life; they can watch their grandchildren growing up around them and, perhaps, best of all, they can, if their life has been a useful one, feel the happiness of having come through the battle of life safely and of having reached a time when they can lie back and rest, leaving others to continue the fight.The main reason children wish they were grown up, and the old wish they were young again is that ______.
| A．both aren’t satisfied with the weak points at their ages |
| B．both enjoy the strong points at the other age by looking back or looking forward |
| C．the human beings should be like this |
| D．they don’t think both ages are acceptable |
“Enjoy what each age gives him without wasting time in useless regrets” means ______.
| A．Enjoy what is given to him by people at his age, feeling regrets |
| B．Enjoy himself at his own age, feeling regrets for a waste of time |
| C．Make full use of the time he is given at his age instead of regretting having no achievements |
| D．Enjoy his own age and look down on the people at other ages |
“Children is a time when there are few duties to make life hard” means “______”.
| A．Children shouldn’t be made to live a hard life |
| B．All the children won’t have to work for their own living |
| C．Children shouldn’t answer for the hard life they are leading |
| D．A child bas few duties to try hard to make a living for himself or for his seniors |
According to the passage, what is a child’s greatest dissatisfaction?
| A．He thinks he has not got the equal freedom as his seniors. |
| B．He thinks he knows less about things than the older do. |
| C．He thinks it easy for him to do something wrong. |
| D．He thinks the society doesn’t believe in him. |
Hundreds of years ago, life was much harder than it is today, people did not have modern machines. There was no modern medicine, either.
Life today has brought new problems. One of the biggest is pollution. Water pollution has made our rivers and lakes dirty. It kills our fish and affects our drinking water. Noise pollution makes us talk louder and become angry more easily. Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution. It affects every living thing in the world.
Cars, planes and factories all pollute our air every day. Sometimes the pollution is so thick that it is like a quilt(被子) over a city. This kind of quilt is called smog.
Many countries are making new laws to fight pollution. Factories must now clean their water before it is thrown away; they mustn’t blow dirty smoke into the air.
We need to do many other things. We can put waste things in the dustbin and not throw them on the ground. We can go to work by bus or with our friends in the some car. If there are fewer people driving, there will be less pollution.
Laws are not enough. Every person must help to fight pollution.
49. Life was harder hundreds of years ago because____________.
A. the weather was bad B. there were no cities
C. people had no modern machines D. people couldn’t make machines
50._______ makes the rivers and lakes dirty.
A Swimming. B Polluted water C. Growing population D. Warmer weather
51.More and more people become angry easily because __________.
A. they can’t get enough money B. They are often hungry
C. there’s much traffic on the roads D. there’s much noise around them
52 The writer of the passage thinks__________.
A. everyone should do something to fight pollution
B. all the laws can stop factories going on polluting
C few countries can stop the air and water being polluting
D. people have to live in the polluted air..
When David Williams left the college, he went to Australia. When he returned to England for a visit twenty years later, he decided to go back to his old college.
David was very glad when he found out that his old college teacher was still teaching there. He went to visit the old man, and after they had an interesting talk, the teacher went out to get something. While he was away, David saw an exam paper on the desk. He looked at the date on it and saw that it was given to the students a week ago. David picked the paper up and read it. When the teacher came back, David said to him, ”Mr. Smith, I’m sure that these are right the same questions that you asked us in our exams twenty years ago! How is that possible?”
“Yes, that’s right,” agreed the teacher. “The questions are the same, but the answers have changed.”
45. David went to______ after he left the college.
A. England B. Australia C. another college D. his teacher’s office
46. David felt ______ when he found out that his college teacher was still teaching there.
A. worried B. sorry C. surprised D. happy
47. The students took the same exam_____.
A. twenty years ago B. while David’s teacher was away
C. a week ago D. while David read the paper
48 Can you guess why the teacher still used the same exam paper twenty years later? Because______.
A.times have changed, answers have changed, too B different students have the same answers
C. the students like to take the same exam D. the teacher loved his students very much
第三部分：阅读技能（共三节，满分35分）
阅读理解（共12小题；每小题2分，满分24分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A man went to a fast food restaurant to buy his lunch. “Hi,” a worker said. May I help you?’’ “I’d like a hamburger, large chips, and a coke,” the man said. “:Anything else?” the worker asked. “No,’’ the man answered. “That’s it.” “Is that for here or to go?” the worker asked. “To go,” the man said. The worker put the man’s lunch in a bag. The man took out his money and paid for his lunch. “Thank you,” the worker said. “Have a nice day.”
The man took the bag and walked to a park. He sat down and opened the bag. He was surprised. There was no hamburger in the bag. There were no chips. There was no coke. There was only money in the bag__ a lot of money! The man counted the money. Two thousand dollars! Why was the money in the bag? Where was the man’s lunch?
The manager of the fast—food restaurant needed to go to the bank. He put two thousand dollars in an envelope(信封). He put the envelope in a bag and put the bag down. The worker gave the manager’s bag to the man by mistake. So the manager had a hamburger, chips and a coke, and the man had two thousand dollars. What should the man do?
41.The man went to a restaurant to ________.
A. buy his lunch. B. have a rest C. sell drinks D. cook food.
42. The man wanted to have his lunch______________.
A. in a hotel B. in a shop C. in a restaurant. D. in a park
43. When the man opened the bag, he found ________ in it.
A. food B. drink C. money D. nothing
44.___________ couldn’t find his money.
A. The man B The manager C. The worker D. Nobody
第二部分回答问题（共4小题；每小题2分，满分8分）
阅读下面短文，根据第9 至第12小题的具体要求，简单回答问题。
There are amazing things in the world. The story about Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster（尼斯湖水怪）, is one of the widely spread legends(传说) in the early 20th century.
On July 22, 1933, two visitors, Mr. and Mrs. George Spices, were driving along one of the most famous lakes in the highlands of Scotland. Suddenly they saw an animal on the road in front of them. Unlike any other animals that they had seen before, it had a very big body and a very small head, but no legs. When Mr. and Mrs. Spices saw it, it was moving towards the lake like a snake. Later on, the animal was described like a long black or green dinosaur, and it was informally called Nessie.
Soon, stories about this strange animal and Loch Ness became famous all over the world. Now people are still interested in Nessie and many visit Loch Ness so that they can see Nessie.
There are different opinions on this legend among scientists. Anyway, they are all sure that a kind of large animal lives in the lake and believe that they are going to find out what it is some day.
9. When did Mr. and Mrs. Spices see Nessie?(不超过4个单词)
_______________________________________________________________________________
10. Where is Loch Ness?( 不超过2个单词)
_______________________________________________________________________________
11. Why do many people visit Loch Ness?(不超过3个单词)
_______________________________________________________________________________
12. What is the thing that all scientists are sure about Loch Ness?(不超过13个单词)
_______________________________________________________________________________
When I was twelve years old, my family were the first black people to move into an all white part of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Many of our new neighbors weren’t very welcoming. Some of them said angrily that we should return to where we came from. The children sometimes threw stones at me .
Most of my teachers simply took no notice of me, but not Dorothy Bean, my history teacher. Miss Bean was angry at how badly I was being treated, but she didn’t say this to me. Miss Bean showed her respect for me by teaching me just like anyone else. Instead of being unnoticed, I was given a chance to show that I was clever. Miss Bean was the first teacher who ever made me think for myself. She always wanted to know what I thought about different questions. She expected me to have my own idea. Miss Bean was teaching me that thinking for oneself was the real key to education.
One day, when I was not paying attention in class, Miss Bean suddenly threw an eraser(黑板擦) at me. The eraser hit me right on the hand and sent my pencil flying. The whole class were very surprised at first, then started laughing. This event became famous in the school and, because it happened to me, the students wanted to get to know me. So that’s the story of how Dorothy Bean made me her target(靶子). However, what I want to do is express my thanks to her.
56. The author and his family were not welcomed by the local people because ____________.
A. they returned from another countryB. they have different skin color
C. they spoke a different language D. they moved to a wrong place
57. From the end of the first paragraph we know that _____________.
A. children were more friendly to strangers
B. American schools were not safe for kids
C. children often follow their parents’ behavior
D. fighting each other is part of children’s nature
58. Miss Bean respected the author by ____________.
A. giving him special attention.
B. hitting him with an eraser.
C. giving him extra lessons.
D. treating him as one of her students.
59. To Miss Bean the most important thing for a student is to _________.
A. pay close attention to what the teacher says.
B. learn to think and have one’s own idea.
C. keep silent and unnoticed in class.
D. get special attention from the teacher.
60. Which is the writer’s attitude to Miss Bean?
A. Grateful. B. Hateful. C. Negative. D. Supportive.