第三部分  阅读理解（共20小题：每小题2分，满分40分）

第一节   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。                 

When I was a boy, my father told me that he could do anything he wanted to. Dad said that he wanted to be the first to develop color prints in our city. And so he did. 

When I was 16, Dad looked closely at the violin I played and announced that he wanted to make one. He read about violinmaking, and then became a violinmaker at the age of 43. He bought the tools and materials, opened a small store and set Mom up as the shopkeeper, while he worked at a local company. He retired from the company 17 years later and continued to make violins and other instruments.

Dad often guessed why the Stradivarius violins sound so beautiful. Some experts claimed that it was the unique varnish(清漆) that gave those instruments their beautiful sound. Dad argued that chemists could analyze the varnish---if that were the answer.

One of Dad’s friends asked him once which kind of wood was used to make violins. When Dad explained that the top was made of spruce（云杉）, his friend said that he had an old piece of spruce Dad might be interested in.

He worked for the next 12 months making a violin from the wood that his friend had given him. It proved to be a superior violin and it would become Dad’s masterpiece. He was convinced that the secret of the Stradivarius sound was in the wood itself.

Later, the instrument was stolen. Dad’s spirit was broken by the robbery, and he stopped making instruments. But he kept the music shop until he was 80 years old, selling guitars and violins.

My father has been gone for 14 years now. The violin has been missing for more than 25 years. Somewhere a musician is playing a late-20th-century violin with an excellent tone. The owner today may never understand why this ordinary-looking violin sounds so much like Stradivarius.

41. The author mentions his father’s developing color prints     .

  A. to show that his father’s real interest was not in making violins

  B. to prove that his father could do anything he wanted to

  C. to give an example proving that his father was an inventor

  D. to describe the real thing that made the author believe his father

42. What did the author’ father think about Stradivarius violins?

  A. The varnish was different from others.

  B. The way of making them was special.

  C. The wood of the violins was special.

  D. They could only be analyzed by chemists.

43. From the underlined sentence, we can learn that the author’s father     .

  A. liked the violin very much         B. got crazy after this happened

  C. lost interest in instruments         D. didn’t want to become famous

44. We can infer from the last paragraph that the author     .

  A. really hates the thief         B. misses his father a lot

  C.really wants to play the violin  D. wonders who’s playing the violin now

第一节 单词拼写（共10小题；每小题1分,满分10分）

66．Li Qiang looks down. Let’s go over and _____（使振作） him up.     

67．Suddenly they heard a loud cry for help in the _____（远处）.         

68．The __________(理论) he stuck to for many years turned out to be incorrect.

69．A healthy diet should be a ______ （平衡的）diet which contains energy-giving food, body-building food and protective food.                     

70．Do _____（提醒）me of the time for the meeting in case I forget it.         

71．It is the education _____（制度） rather than teachers that should answer for students’ heavy load of homework..                                              

72．He got seriously injured and was immediately sent to a ___ (附近的)hospital.

73．Even though you don’t _____（钦佩）these elderly people, I think you

should at least respect them.                                                            

74．When I turned round, I found he was _____（怒视） at me.                       

75．Haven’t you found mine is _____ （稍微）different from yours?                      

—I told you that he would go abroad for further study.

   —Actually I had little doubt_____ it was true.

     A. whether                        B. since               C. that                D. if

All parents are willing to risk ________ their lives to save ________ of their children when a disaster is approaching.

A. losing; that B. to lose; those     C. losing; those      D. having lost; the ones

---What’s the matter with Tim?

   ---Oh. Tim’s cellphone was left in a taxi accidently, never _____ again.

   A. to find      B. to be found     C. finding     D. being found

Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the word or phrase given in the brackets.

86.   抱怨作业太多是没有用的。（complain）

87. 当她听到这则好消息时，面露喜色。(light)

88. 在作演讲时我很难使自己放轻松。（difficulty， at ease）

89. 我们相信， 年轻一代将不会辜负我们的期望。 （confident）

90. 自从他被任命为经理以来， 他在公司的发展方面起了重要的作用。 （part）

   ________ too much exposure to wind may cause the dryness of skin, so too much exposure to the sun may result in cancer.

a. Just as             b. While          c. If                d. Now that

The mother forbids     noise in our study，but she doesn’t forbid us____ a discussion．

A、to make；to have    B、making；to have   C、making；having     D、make；having

It was too dark, and I couldn’t _______ the words written on the blackboard.

   A. look at   B. turn up    C. decide on    D.make out

— Are your parents satisfied with your performance at home?

—_____ but not exactly. They want me to do more housework.

A. Kind of                    B. Just the opposite    C. On average            D. By all means