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It was Sunday morning. All the summer world was bright and fresh, and full of life. There was cheer on every face and a spring in every step. Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He stopped by the fence in front of the house where he lived with his aunt Polly. He looked at it, and all joy left him. The fence was long and high. He put the brush into the whitewash and moved it along the top of the fence. He repeated the operation. He felt he could not continue and sat down. He knew that his friends would arrive soon with all kinds of interesting plans for the day. They would walk past him and laugh. They would make jokes about his having to work on a beautiful summer Saturday. The thought burned him like fire. He put his hand into his pockets and took out all that he owned. Perhaps he could find some way to pay someone to do the whitewashing for him. But there was nothing of value in his pockets—nothing that could buy even half an hour of freedom. So he put the bits of toys back into his pockets and gave up the idea. At this dark and hopeless moment, a wonderful idea came to him. It filled his mind with a great, bright light. Calmly he picked up the brush and started again to whitewash. While Tom was working, Ben Rogers appeared. Ben was eating an apple as he walked along the street. As he walked along, he was making noises like the sound of a riverboat. First he shouted loudly, like a boat captain. Then he said “Ding-Dong-Dong”, “Ding-Dong-Dong” again and again, like the bell of a riverboat. And he made other strange noises. When he came close to Tom, he stopped.Tom went on whitewashing. He did not look at Ben. Ben stared a moment and then said: "Hello! I’m going swimming, but you can’t go, can you?” No answer. Tom moved his brush carefully along the fence and looked at the result with the eye of an artist. Ben came nearer. Tom"s mouth watered for the apple, but he kept on working. Ben said, "Hello, old fellow, you’ve got to work, hey?" Tom turned suddenly and said, "Why, it"s you, Ben! I wasn"t noticing." "Say — I"m going swimming. Don"t you wish you could? But of course you’d rather work — wouldn"t you? Of course you would." Tom looked at the boy a bit, and said "What do you call work?" "Why, isn"t that work?" Tom went back to his whitewashing, and answered casually, "Well, maybe it is, and maybe it isn"t. All I know is, it suits Tom Sawyer." "Oh come, now, you don"t mean to say that you like it?" The brush continued to move. "Like it? Well, I don"t see why I shouldn’t like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?" Ben stopped eating his apple. Tom moved his brush back and forth, stepped back to look at the result, added a touch here and there, and stepped back again. Ben watched every move and got more and more interested. Soon he said, "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little." Tom thought for a moment, was about to agree; but he changed his mind: "No — no — it won’t do, Ben. You see, Aunt Polly wants this fence to be perfect. It has got to be done very carefully. I don’t think there is one boy in a thousand, maybe two thousand, that can do it well enough." "No — is that so? Oh come, now —let me just try. Only just a little." "Ben, I"d like to, but if it isn’t done right, I’m afraid Aunt Polly— " "Oh, I"ll be careful. Now let me try. Say -- I"ll give you the core（核心）of my apple." "Well, here — No, Ben, now don"t. I"m afraid —" "I"ll give you all of it." Tom gave up the brush with unwillingness on his face, but joy in his heart. And while Ben worked at the fence in the hot sun, Tom sat under a tree, eating the apple, and planning how to get more help. There were enough boys. Each one came to laugh, but remained to whitewash. By the time Ben was tired, Tom sold the next chance to Billy for a kite; and when Billy was tired, Johnny bought in for a dead rat — and so on, hour after hour. And when the middle of the afternoon came, Tom had won many treasures And he had not worked. He had had a nice idle time all the time, with plenty of company -- and the fence had been whitewashed three times. If he hadn"t run out of whitewash, Tom would have owned everything belonging to his friends. He had discovered a great law of human action, namely, that in order to make a man or a boy want a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to get. 68．Tom was about to agree to let Ben whitewash when he changed his mind because ______ . A. Tom wanted to do the whitewashing by himself B. Tom was unwilling to let Ben do the whitewashing C. Tom was afraid Ben would do the whitewashing better D. Tom didn’t want to let Ben do the whitewashing before he made him give up his apple first 69．The underlined word “casually” is most similar to “______” in meaning. A. carelessly B. delightedly C. seriously D. angrily 70．We can learn from the passage that ______ . A. Tom was interested in whitewashing the fence. B. Tom had a lot of friends who are ready to help others. C. Tom was unwilling to whitewash the fence, but he managed to let other boys do it for him D. Tom was good at whitewashing the fence, so he looked at the result of his work with the eye of an artist.答案
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试题【D It was Sunday morning. All the summer world was bright and fresh, and full of 】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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第四部分任务型阅读 (共10小题；每小题1分, 满分10分)请认真阅读下列短文, 并根据所读内容在文章后表格的空格处里填人最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格填1个单词。
There’re seven oceans across most of the earth"s surface. But they contain saltwater, unfit for human consumption. Only a tiny part of the world"s water – about 2.5 percent – is drinkable. That still would be an enough supply if it were clean and available where needed. However, it"s not.
Today some 1.2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water and 2.6 billion lack proper waste water treatment. As a result, polluted water supplies are blamed for the worldwide deaths of 1.8 million children, according to the United Nation"s Human Development Report for 2006.That means 4,900 children under 5 years old died per day.
What"s more, children worldwide miss 443 million days of school each year because of water-related illnesses. The UN also estimates that half of the world"s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from water-borne diseases.
Beyond that, millions of people (almost always women) in different parts of the world spend hours per day carrying water up to several miles for their family"s needs because no source is close at hand.
Since 1992, the UN has sponsored(倡议) World Water Day, observed on March 22, to raise awareness of the need to protect and improve access to clean water supplies.
"When the well is dry, then we know the worth of water," said Benjamin Franklin, long before today"s water challenges.
It"s clear that competition for water "will intensify(加剧) in the decades ahead," said Kemal Dervis, administrator of the United Nations Development Program in its 2006 report. "Water is the fundamental resource, crossing borders through rivers, lakes – a fact that points to the potential for cross-border tensions in water-stressed regions."
Growing populations, are using up water resources, and climate change is expected to worsen the problem as it changes rainfall patterns. A new UN study shows that as temperatures have gone up, the world"s glaciers(冰川) have been decreasing at fast rates and may disappear entirely within a few decades. China, India, and the West Coast of the United States are among populous places that rely on glaciers for their water supply. Glaciers feed some of the world"s great rivers, which serve billions of people.
One of the UN"s Millennium Development Goals, established in 2000, is to cut in half by the year 2015 the population unable to reach or afford safe drinking water. Achieving that goal is "critically important," says UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon. "When you look at the health and development challenges faced by the poorest of the world"s population, the common sticking point often turns out to be water." Governments and private groups are working hard to solve the problem as well.
| Title | A Mighty Global Thirst |
| Facts | Drinkable water (1)_____up only 2.5 percent of the world’s water. Safe drinking water is not(2) ________to some 1.2 billion people. 2.6 billion people are (3)_______ of proper wastewater treatment. 1.8 million children died from polluted water supplies in 2006. Children worldwide are (4)________from school for 443 million days because of water-related illness. Water-borne diseases keep people in half of the world’s hospital beds. Millions of people spend hours per day carrying water a long distance to meet their family needs. |
| Purpose of the UN’s sponsoring World Water Day | To make people more (5)______ of the need to protect and improve access to clean water supplies. |
| (6)_______ of the global thirst | Water pollution Growing (7)__________ |
| Potential threat | Climate change, which may result in the (8)________ of glaciers in the near future. |
| Efforts | The UN aims to cut in half by the year 2015 the population having no (9)______ to safe drinking water. Governments and private groups are trying to work out a (10)______ to the problem. |
第二节：补全对话（共5小题，每小1分，满分5分）
根据对话情景和内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
A: Excuse me, Sir. Are you a guide?
B: Yes, I am. 6
A: Can I ask you a question about the Famen Temple?
B: Of course. What do you want to know?
A: When was it built? 7
B: In the third century in Eastern Han Dynasty．It has a history of more than 1,700 years．The Temple is famous in the world for Sheli, fingers;of Buddha which is the holy object of Buddhism．
A: Can you speak more,slowly? 8
B; I"m sorry! I’ll speak more slowly．Any more questions?
B: Yes．Well, __9__
B: The Famen Temple has become the sacred place of Buddhism, so millions．of Buddhista including common people come here to pray for peace and happiness．
A: I see. Thank you very much. Goodbye.
B: 10 Goodbye!
A: Welcome to the Famen Temple．
B: I’m afraid I can"t follow you．
C: And what is it famous for?
D: See you later．
E: Why are there so many people visiting the Temple?
F: Can I help you?
G: Have a good time．
第二节：完型填空（共20 小题；每小题1分；满分20分）
She was a four-year-old girl with very fine golden hair when I first met her. She was carrying a bowl of soup. I was 29 at that time and 11 from the flu.
Her mom and I had been friends for years. 12 that friendship grew into care, from care into 13 and marriage. Marriage brought the three of us together as a 14 . At first I was afraid to be a “stepfather”. Therefore, I tried not to come 15 my future daughter and her 16 father. I acted in that way in order to be liked. However, 17 she was growing up, I found it increasingly hard to 18 with her.
Once her school required the parents to individually(个别的) write an open and 19 letter to our children. I wrote a letter about a little golden-haired girl who had 20 me a bowl of soup when I needed 21 .
A week later, all the parents 22 together with our children. The students were allowed to make a few statements. I was 23 to hear what my daughter would say.
Finally my daughter 24 make her way up to the microphone. She said something like others and then 25 , “At this very moment, I just want to say …I love you, Father.”
Immediately people around me started 26 at me. For a teenage girl to say 27 in front of so many people, “I love you,” took a great deal of courage.
Since then I have 28 to understand I didn’t need to have any 29 about being a stepfather. I can still 30 honest love with the same little girl I met so many years before － carrying a bowl full of what turned out to be kindness. I can also be friends with the girl － my dear daughter.
11. A. hurting B. attacking C. suffering D. experiencing
12. A. Immediately B. Finally C. Especially D. Generally
13. A. like B. pleasure C. excitement D. love
14. A. union B. group C. family D. whole
15. A. between B. among C. from D. for
16. A. natural B. following C. untrue D. old
17. A. after B. as C. with D. before
18. A. connect B. share C. communicate D. argue
19. A. honest B. formal C. powerful D. responsible
20. A. taken B. shown C. shared D. brought
21. A. cure B. care C. help D. friend
22. A. presented B. invited C. gathered D. asked
23. A. glad B. hopeful C. serious D. anxious
24. A. determinedly B. independently C. patiently D. unexpectedly
25. A. lasted B. declared C. continued D. responded
26. A. hugging B. smiling C. kissing D. celebrating
27. A. quietly B. openly C. brightly D. attractively
28. A. used B. stepped C. desired D. come
29. A. courage B. fear C. happiness D. idea
30. A. exchange B. send C. expect D. fall
(D)
Mozart was one of the greatest composers who ever lived. He was born in Salzburg,
Austria, in 1756. Even when he was very young, Mozart loved music. His father, who was the leader of an orchestra, was very happy that his son was so interested in music. When Mozart was three years old, he learned to play the harpsichord, which is a kind of piano. Mozart began to compose music at the age of five, and his father took him to play in front of the kings and queens of Europe.
At one concert, one of the violinists was missing from the orchestra. Mozart picked up a violin and played the music without a mistake. Mozart’s father and the other players in the orchestra were surprised. Mozart had never been taught to play the violin! Mozart continued travelling around Europe with his father, who was his teacher in everything. He composed many pieces for the piano, the violin, and later for full orchestra.
Mozart could write down a piece of music even if he had heard it only once. One day, he went to hear a group of people singing in a big church in Rome. The song was very special. The church leader said that people could sing the song only once a year, and only in his church. No one else was allowed to have the music. Mozart listened to the song. Although it was very difficult and long, Mozart went back home and wrote down the whole piece from memory. The head of the church heard about this, and instead of being angry with Mozart, he gave him a prize.
When Mozart grew up, people were not so interested in him. He worked as a teacher and pianist, but he did not make much money. In 1791, at the age of 35, he died. He was so poor that there was not enough money for him to have a proper grave. No one knows where he is buried.
43. The story is mainly about ____.
A. Mozart and his music
B. a leader of an orchestra
C. the life of a great composer
D. the head of a church in Rome.
44. Mozart’s father helped Mozart a lot by ____.
A. teaching him about music
B. giving him a violin to play with
C. sending him to a music school
D. giving him a lot of money
45. When Mozart was only three years old, he ____.
A. went to Rome B. began to sing C. began to compose music D. played the harpsichord.
46. Mozart had a very good _____.
A. violin B. grave C. memory D. orchestra
47. Although Mozart was one of the world’s greatest composer, ____.
A. he died poor B. he did not teach anyone.
C. he did not know many famous people
D. he couldn’t play the piano or violin
第二节：任务型阅读（共3小题，每小题2分，满分6分）
阅读下列材料，然后按要求完成材料后面的三个小题。
Driving Rules in Winter
Winter is dangerous because it’s so difficult to know what is going to happen and accidents take place so easily. Fog(雾) can be waiting to meet you over the top of a hill. Ice might be hiding under the melting snow, waiting ahead to send you off the road. The car coming to you may suddenly slip(滑) across the road.
Rule Number One for driving on icy roads is to drive smoothly(平稳地). Sudden movements can make a car very difficult to control. So very time you either start or stop your car, increase or reduce your speed, you must be as gentle and slow as possible. Suppose you are driving with full cup of hot coffee on the seat next to you. Drive so that you wouldn’t spill(溅) it.
Rule Number Two is to pay attention to what might happen. The more ice there is, the further down the road you have to look. Test how long it takes to gently stop your car. Remember that you may be driving more quickly than you think. Generally, allow twice of your usual stopping distance when the road is wet, three times this distance on snow and even more on ice. Try to stay in control of your car at all times and you will not get into trouble.
请根据阅读材料补全以下语句信息。（48-49题，每空一词，共4分）
48. Winter is dangerous for drivers because there may be ____ or ____ on the road.
49. In order to drive smoothly, you must avoid _____ ______.
根据阅读材料的描述用英语完成以下任务：（共2分）
50. The passage mainly tells us ______________________________________.
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