Onedayanantwasdrinkingatasmall-优题课

第二部分：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A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
Dear Cary,
I’m writing because I’ve understood you’ve struggled with alcoholism(酗酒)．I’ve been fighting mine ever since I went through 9-11．After that，I’ve been more or less useless professionally –I’m a lawyer–and have had to resign from my job because I was discovered passed-out drunk in front of my computer.I’ve taken some medicine and it has helped somewhat.I can manage about a month without drinking，but after that I end up having a crazy stage where nothing matters except drinking．After a week or so of heavy drinking，I start having nightmares of people jumping.After that，it’s a week of not being able to get out of bed.
I was supposed to travel to a conference but didn’t make it because I got so drunk at the airport that I fell down on my face and spent the rest of the day in the emergency room. I have been hiding from my family since then．Fortunately they won’t be expecting me to come back for a week or so.Otherwise, they would notice the bump on my forehead and two black eyes．
I don’t really know what I’m asking you．Cary,I need a way out that doesn’t involve causing pain to my family．I’m taking medicine，but I still have these attacks every few months．If there’s alcohol in the house，I can’t stay away from it．It seems that this will never end. I’m afraid of what will happen if something bad happens，like a family member dying,or getting fired again．
Thanks for reading．
Yours
T
36．The underlined sentence shows us all the following EXCEPT____________．
A．that the author is a lawyer by profession
B．that the author is a lawyer and he seldom gets drunk
C．the reason why the author had to resign
D．that the author was once discovered drunk as a fish
37．The author writes to Cary in order to____________．
A．offer advice B．tell a story
C．avoid nightmares D．ask for help
38．What is the author worried about?
A．Losing his job B．Missing the conference
C．Bring pain to his family D．Giving up drinking
39．What do we learn from the passage?
A．T’s family members don’t want to see him because of his alcoholism．
B．Getting drunk once prevented T from attending a conference．
C．T will have nightmares when he stops drinking．
D．T never attempted to give up his alcoholism．
40．We know from the passage that Cary____________．
A．likes to talk about the details of his life． B．is an expert on treating alcoholism
C．is probably a recovered alcoholic D．never suffered from alcoholism

Looking for a low-cost path to self-knowledge? A way to mine your subconscious（潜意识的）
for clues to your motivations, desires and fears? No need to have years of treatment or analysis．Just look to your dreams．“You can ignore your dreams, but you are really doing harm to yourself,” says Lauri Quinn Loewenberg．“If so, you’re letting red flags pass you by, letting great ideas pass you by．”
Some sleep researchers believe dreams are more directly related to our moods and emotions
and can serve as tools to self-understanding．Dreams occur during the REM (rapid eye movement) cycles of sleep each night．For adults, that means about every 90 minutes．The first period of REM sleep may be short, 5 to 10 minutes, followed by longer periods, finally reaching an hour or more in the fourth or fifth period．When people are dreaming, brain scans show a lot of activities．The brain is online during
dreams．The experiences you have during the day are connected during dream sleep．People we know or experiences we’ve had at different times in our lives may be different in the same dream．
AmyBeth Gilstrap has had the same recurring（循环）dream that annoyed her since Hurricane
Katrina drove her and her daughter and friends out of New Orleans．Ms．Gilstrap says, “It is always spies．My job is to get people to some place．” She’s certain the dream is related to her effort in the hurricane to help several families leave．Sometimes her cats also are part of that dream．That’s because she went back into New Orleans, before it was allowed, to rescue her cats．
Today, through brain scans scientists have known that the parts of the brain that control
emotions and long-term memories are active during REM sleep．
72．The passage is mainly to tell readers ______．
A．dreams are mainly caused by hard work
B．dreams can offer us key to self-knowledge
C．dreams are only activities of our brains
D．how dreams help us solve our problems
73．According to the words from Lauri Quinn Loewenberg, ______．
A．dreams can make you feel badly ill
B．you often have red flags in your dreams
C．dreams will make your life colorful
D．you may get great help from your dreams
74．When you are dreaming at night, .
A．your eyes will not move during the time
B．your dream is connected with your work in the day
C．the dream will generally last about 5 to 10 minutes
D．the longer dream should be in the later part of the sleep
75．The underlined word “It” in Paragraph 3 refers to .
A．Mrs. Gilstrap’s dream B．Mr. Gilstrap’s job
C．Hurricane Katrina D．New Orleans

The following are introductions to some programs that BBC I London will show on TV．

12:25 a．m．Tuesday	The Real Swiss Robinson Family Laura worried that her children have had their life too easy due to her husband’s career in big business, so she decides to take her teenagers to the Cook Islands to experience the simple life．They face storms and a lack of food, but Laura is happy as their local guide shows them the island’s wealth of rare fruits and foods．
11:00 a．m．Wednesday	Orangutan Diary A Team have come across an armed man who is holding two baby apes who were captures one of them, David, is sent to a medical emergency in the forest．Later a center director, Nielsen, finds a suitable place to set free more rescued animals．
7:50 p．m．Thursday	Lost Buildings of Britain Simon Thurley visits the ruins of Glastonbruy Abbey（修道院），which , before its destruction by Henry VIII, was famous for some of the most amazing stained-glass of its age．It also had a great deal of financial power, acting as the center of an influential business empire．Eventually, it was the king’s envy of the abbey’s wealth that changed the abbey’s fate．
10:35 p．m．Thursday	Nigella Express Nigella presents ideas for impromptu（即兴的）cooking, from new recipes and suggestions for taking advantage of the food you have to making quick, simple and impressive meals．

68．Why is Laura worried?
A．Life on the Cook Islands is too simple.
B．Her husband faces difficulties in his business.
C．Storms are approaching her hometown.
D．Her children may not know how to cherish life.
69．Jim enjoys TV programmes of people or organizations that take care of animals. He should probably watch TV at .
A．10:35 p.m. on Thursday B．7:50 p.m. on Thursday
C．11.00 a.m. on Wednesday D．12:25 a. m. on Tuesday
70．We can learn from the text that .
A．David is a farmer
B．Henry VIII set up a business empire in the Abbey
C．Nielsen is an animal-lover
D．Glastonbury Abbey is famous today for its stained-glass
71．Elizabeth, who likes trying out new recipes, may be most interested in .
A．Nigella Express B．Lost Buildings of Britain
C．Orangutan Diary D．The Real Swiss Robinson Family

All over my garden I’ve planted nothing but roses, because I especially love the flower．A close friend came for a visit the other day．I told her that she should pick a bunch of roses to beautify her bedroom．I promised that the smell of the roses would be wafted far, far away．
That girl friend of nine, walking into the garden in high spirits, smelt here and there, but in the end she didn’t pick a single rose．I said that she could pick many flowers; I told her that I was not a flower farmer and didn’t make a living out of them．Saying so, I raised the scissors for the sacrifice of the flowers, but she stopped me, crying no, no, no!
To cut such beautiful roses would hurt one, she said．With her hands seizing at my sleeves, she told me that by no means should they be cut．Roses are the smiling face of the earth, and who could be so iron-hearted as to destroy such a charming smile?
My mind was shocked: the ugly earth, the tough earth, the plain earth-it is for the reason of that smile that it wins the care and pity of people．
64．The writer plants nothing but roses in her garden probably because________.
A．she can make money out of them B．her friends like them
C．she enjoys the roses very much D．the roses sell well
65．The underlined word “wafted” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to “ _______”.
A．given off B．lost C．destroyed D．thrown away
66．Why did the writer’s close friend refuse to pick a single rose?
A．Because the roses were not beautiful.
B．Because she loved the roses very much.
C．Because she did not like this kind of roses.
D．Because the writer did not want to give her any.
67．What is the best title for the passage?
A．The Pity of People to the Roses
B．The Smiling Face of the Earth
C．A Lovely Rose Garden
D．A Lover of Flowers

Hey, Mr．and Ms．Unluckiness and Unhappiness! Terrorism, the war, the economic crisis and unemployment are at your door．Are you afraid of them? Well, don’t be! America is a happy land．The Smiley Face icon proves this in towns all over the country．
The tallest structure—the steel water tower—is often painted bright yellow, in a circle containing a pair of black dots for eyes and an upturned（朝上的）line for a mouth: the unforgettable smile．Most towns decorated their spheroid (or cylindrical) water storage tanks in the 1970s, when Smiley was still conceptually fresh．As a "safe" counterculture symbol, with absolutely no bite, the Smile Face water tower was a low cost way to radiate sunny greetings to travelers and locals．Calumet City, Illinois claims to have been the first, when 8-year old resident Kim Fornero sent a letter to the city council in late 1972 suggesting a smile face would be more fun to look at than a plain old water tower．
In the 1980s, with the paint on the water tower fading, residents of Calumet City decided to make the face their own．They repainted the tower, and a Happy Cook Restaurant and Smiley Face Inn appeared on the highway outside the town, ready to make you smile! Local businessmen printed the Smiley icon on their business cards, and displayed Smiley Face souvenirs in shop windows．
By the late 1990s, the survival of the Smiley Face water tower was assured．It didn’t matter why the face had been painted there—it was now a part of history．In May 2009, the town again celebrated its Smiley Face water tower as a symbol of hope for a better tomorrow．
60．The author mainly wants to tell readers that the symbol asks them to_________
A．greet people politely B．deal with their problems
C．enjoy themselves D．forget the past
61．The underlined word “icon ” in the first paragraph probably means________.
A．beautiful picture B．building C．image D．valuable painting
62．Why did Calumet residents accept the tower happily?
A．It set a good example to them.
B．It made them work harder.
C．They wanted to think it for supplying water.
D．They wanted to make the Smiley Face their own.
63．From the text we learn that the Smiley Face water tower________
A．was based on a painter’s inspiration
B．is a symbol of the prosperity of the town
C．is meant to give people hope for a better future
D．was created in 1972 by the city council, just for fun

A．a leaf	B．a piece of wood
C．a blade of grass	D．a raft