5．The news hit the Venice Film Festival unexpectedly：Hayao Miyazaki，the world's most honored creator of animated（动漫） features，was ending his movie career．
Koji Hoshino，who is the president of Mr．Miyazaki's production company，made the announcement at the film festival，where Mr．Miyazaki's latest work，The Wind Rises，was shown．"Miyazaki has decided that The Wind Rises will be his last film，and he will now retire，"said Mr．Hoshino．The language of the announcement is believed to have left the door open for Mr．Miyazaki to work on shorter projects．
Mr．Miyazaki's latest work has been met with some controversy in Japan and in Republic of Korea．The Wind Rises is a fictional account on the life of JiroHorikoshi，the engineer who designed the Mitsubishi A6M Zero，a fighter plane used in the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941．Some Japanese conservatives have criticized Mr．Miyazaki for the film's antiwar attitude，while some Internet users in Republic of Korea have accused him of romanticizing（使浪漫） the inventor of a plane that became a symbol for the Japanese military during World War II．
The controversy，however，doesn't change the fact that Mr．Miyazaki is one of the most famous figures in animated filmmaking．
The72-year-old has directed 11animated features over 34years，including the international hits My Neighbor Totoro，Princess Mononoke，Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle．
In the age of digital animation，Mr．Miyazaki has remained faithful to the hand-drawn technique．His movies，known for their entertaining plots，convincing characters and wonderful animation，won him critical praise as well as public recognition．In 2003，Mr．Miyazaki won an Oscar for best animated feature for Spirited Away，and he was awarded a Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival in 2005．
It's doubtless a shame if animation lovers will really see no more new works from the legend．May his announced retirement be a brief，dark impulse（冲动）．May he go on attracting movie fans for years to come．

26．What can we learn from the second paragraph？A
A．Mr．Miyazaki will have an opportunity to work on shorter projects．
B．The Wind Rises was shown for the first time at the film festival．
C．Mr．Miyazaki will retire after the film festival．
D．Mr．Miyazaki is believed to continue his work．
27．The third paragraph of the passage is mainly aboutA．
A．different opinions about The Wind Rises
B．a symbol for the Japanese military
C．a designer of a fighter plane
D．the attack on Pearl Harbor
28．We can infer from the first sentence in Paragraph 7thatB．
A．Mr．Miyazaki is creative
B．Mr．Miyazaki is conservative
C．Mr．Miyazaki is stubborn
D．Mr．Miyazaki is determined
29．What does the author think of Mr．Miyazaki's retirement？C
A．It's surprising．
B．It's disappointing．
C．It‘s a pity．
D．It's acceptable．
30．Which of the following is the best title of the passage？A
A．A Person of Great Achievements．
B．The Venice Film Festival．
C．Controversies Over The Wind Rises．
D．Animation Legend Retires．

4．It's hard to find Alice Munro in the media．Even after she won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature，the Canadian writer just appeared for a quick interview and then dropped out of 8ight．On Dec 29，she still didn't seek the spotlight（聚光灯）when she was named one of the rive Women of the Year by the Financial Times．
    In Munro's eyes，ordinary lives always hide larger dramas． So she records what we casually think of as the everyday actions of normal people，She often focuses on life in her hometown，a small village in Ontario which 8he is most familiar with．She writes about the ordinary things in the village-fox forming；，trees felled in the Ontario wilderness，poor country achool8 and long last illnesses．Above all，she talk8 about girls and women who have seemingly ordinary lives but struggle against daily misfortune．
    She has a special talent for uncovering the extraordinary in the ordinary． These are ordinary people，ordinary stories，but she has the magic． Her precise language，depth of detail and the logic of her storytelling have made her stories inviting．
    Runaway，one of Munro's representative works，is a good example of her writing style．One of the stories centers on the life of an ordinary woman Carla，who lives in a small Canadian town with her husband Clark．The story slowly forms a picture of Carla，trapped in a bad marriage，her unhappiness building into desperation until she decide8 to flee．The story of Carla is a story of the power and betrayals of love．It is about lost children and l08t chance8 that we can all find in life，There is pain beneath the surface，like a needle in the heart．
    Since she published her first collection of 8hort stories in 1968，Munro has won many a wards，with the Nobel Prize being her bigge8t honor．On Oct 10，2013，the Nobel Prize commit-tee named Munro the"master of the contemporary short story"．

41．We learn from Paragraph 1 that Alice MunroD
A．didn't get on well with the media
B．was 8urprised at winning the Nobel Prize
C．didn't value the title of Women of the Year
D．remained modest though very successful
42．Many of Alice Munro's worksA
A．focus on everyday life of ordinary people
B．are about betrayals of love and violence
C．center on the happy life of country women
D．are romantic stories setting in her hometown
43．What makes Alice Munro's stories fascinating according to the text？B
A．The complicated plots． 
B．Her writing techniques．
C．The humorous language． 
D．Her rich imagination．
44．In her representative work Run．away，CarlaC
A．leads a happy life with Clark
B．is a faithful wife to her husband
C．tries to run away from her husband
D．loses all hopes for a better life
45．What is the text mainly about？B
A．Alice Munro and her hometown．  
B．The awards Alice Munro won．
C．Alice Munro's literary life．   
D．Alice Munro and her writing style．

3．company（　　）

A．

castle

B．

case

C．

accurate

D．

wander

2．When Sally Ride was ten years old，she had no idea that she would someday grow up to be one of America's first women astronauts．In fact，if you had asked her then what she wanted to be，she would have said，"I want to play shortstop （游击手） for the Los Angeles Dodgers．"Sally collected baseball cards by the boxful，and she knew the name and batting average of every player in the National League．
But major league baseball didn't seem much of a possibility for a girl，even an athletic one like Sally，so her father and mother talked her into taking tennis lessons when she was twelve．At first she hated to trade in her baseball bat for a tennis racket，but it wasn't long before she started to win tournaments in her new sport．"Tennis became much more fun when I started winning，"Sally remembers．
Sally first became interested in the space program in 1962when astronaut John Glenn orbited the earth in his Mercury space capsule．Sally was ten years old at the time，but she remembers the launch and the splashdown as if they happened yesterday．The girl who used to memorize batting averages became a space fan．She quickly learned the name of all the eight NASA astronauts，the date of every launch，and the name and number of every spacecraft from Freedom 7to Skylab 3．
By the time she was sixteen，Sally had decided to become an astrophysicist．She had also become a nationally ranked tennis player．She remembers yawning through an important tennis match on June 20，1969，after staying up all night to watch Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon．Sally lost the match．As Sally got older，many of her friends started playing professional tennis．Some of them tried to talk her into quitting school to join them on the professional tennis circuit．But Sally said no．"Black holes are more interesting to me than backhands，"she told them．Now she knows that she made the right choice，but in 1970Sally had no way of knowing that NASA would open the space program to women．

56．When still a child，Sally Ride wanted to be a （an）A when she grew up．
A．baseball player  B．astronaut  C．tennis player  D．astrophysicist
57．Sally Ride became a space fanB．
A．when she was 12   B．in 1962   C．in 1970   D．in 1976
58．She lost an important tennis match on June 20，1969becauseC．
A．she kept yawning while playing the game
B．she was no longer interested in tennis
C．she didn't have enough sleep the night before
D．she was thinking of becoming an astrophysicist．

1．What does the notice on the wall say？
"No person ____ take books out of the reading room； otherwise he will be fined．"（　　）

A．

should

B．

would

C．

shall

D．

must

20．---Why couldn't you tell me how you felt about things？
---That's because I grew up in a family _________ we didn't talk about feelings．（　　）

A．

where

B．

which

C．

when

D．

why

19．In China，Some people are quite well-off____________ some live in terrible conditions，especially in remote areas．（　　）

A．

though

B．

as

C．

while

D．

when

18．Although there were lots of difficulties________，I never let my problems defeat me．（　　）

	A．	to overcome		B．	to have overcome
	C．	overcoming		D．	overcome

17．All the photographs in this album，        stated otherwise，date from the 18^th century．（　　）

A．

until

B．

unless

C．

once

D．

while

16．The engine of the bus was out of order and the bad weather        the worries of the passengers．（　　）

A．

added up

B．

resulted from

C．

added to

D．

made of