（5） ------中偏易题

When other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station．When other teens were studying or going out, she struggled to find a place to sleep on the street．But she overcame these terrible setbacks to win a highly competitive scholarship and gain entry to Harvard University．And her amazing story has inspired a movie, “Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story”, shown in late April.

Liz Murray, a 22-year-old American girl, has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination．Liz grew up in the shadow of two drug-addicted parents．There was never enough food or warm clothes in the house．Liz was the only member of the family who had a job．Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was just 15 years old．The effect of that loss became a turning point in her life．Connecting the environment in which she had grown up with how her mother had died, she decided to do something about it.

Liz went back to school．She threw herself into her studies, never telling her teachers that she was homeless．At night, she lived on the streets．“What drove me to live on had something to do with understanding, by understanding that there was a whole other way of being．I had only experienced a small part of the society,” she wrote in her book Breaking Night.

She admitted that she used envy to drive herself on．She used the benefits that come easily to others, such as a safe living environment, to encourage herself that “next to nothing could hold me down”．She finished high school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University．But Liz decided to leave her top university for a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care of her father, who has also developed AIDS．“I love my parents so much．They are drug addicts．But I never forget that they love me all the time.”

Liz wants moviegoers （影迷） to come away with the idea that changing your life is “as simple as making a decision”．

1．In which order did the following things happen to Liz?

a．Her Mum died of AIDS．

b．She worked at a petrol station．

c．She got admitted into Harvard．

d．The movie about her life was put on．

e．She had trouble finding a place to sleep．

     A．b, a, e, c, d      B．a, b, c, e, d      C．e, d, b, a, c      D．b, e, a, d, c

2．What decision did Liz make that changed her life?

       A．To write Breaking Night.

       B．To go to the best university.

       C．To live through the difficult time.

       D．To live a different life from her parents’．

3．When she wrote, “What drove me to live on … I had only experienced a small part of the

   society”, she meant that ________.

A．she had little experience of social life

B．she could hardly understand the society

C．she would do something for her own life

D．she needed to travel more around the world

I think basketball is _______．I like to watch it.

     A．boring      B．bored       C．exciting    D．excited

第二节  根据对话内容，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。

—Mary, what do you usually have for breakfast in America?

—I usually eat bread, fried eggs, and a bowl of porridge. (61)        

—I like to have ham and eggs, bread and butter, vegetable salad and an orange, a usual English breakfast.

—(62)       They think it’s very convenient and good for their health.

—(63)       In England since most people begin working early in the afternoon, they often have fast food for lunch such as sandwiches, apple pies and beef noodles.

—We often have lunch in a dining hall.

—(64)    

—No, we usually wait for dinner. (65)       All the members of the family come home and sit together, enjoying dishes with cooked rice.

A. Having western food for breakfast is good for one’s health.

B. It’s the biggest meal of the day.

C. When do you have breakfast, Paul?

D. We enjoy breakfast every day.

E. What about you, Paul?

F. Do you have the habit of drinking afternoon tea with cakes?

G. More and more young couples in China have come to like a western breakfast

 In order to support the big family, he worked so hard that_______ he made himself ill.

A. occasionally     B. purposefully          C. normally        D. eventually

 Whenever and wherever we are, keep in mind that we should listen more to others. It’s wrong to express ourselves without thinking. Just as we all know, ___________.

A. a good beginning makes a good ending    B. a still tongue makes a wise head

C. a great hope makes a great man          D. a good husband makes a good wife

—Wang Meng won another Olympic gold medal in the women’s 1000m final of speed skating.

   —_______ !

A. Congratulations B. Cheer up         C. Good news   D. A pleasure

We plant trees______________, and the young trees grow taller______________.

   A. year by year; year after year      B. year after year; year by year

C. year by year; year by year       D. year after year; year after year

—Shall we go out for dinner tonight?

—______.

A.You are right     B. It must be funny       C. That sounds great  D. Have a nice time

第三部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

第一节（共15题；每小题2分，满分30分）

 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。

Begin doing the work you love as soon as possible, even if you don’t get paid for it, or if you can only work at it part-time. Albert Einstein was unable to get a job as a physics professor. He could have said to himself, “Well, I just don’t have the work relative to physics. I should give up on it and settle for something else.” Instead, he wrote the two most famous papers while employed as a patent（专利）clerk. After their publication, there was not a major university in the world that would not have been glad to have him on their staff.

If you want to work as an artist and you are making a living as a waiter, don’t think of yourself as a waiter who hopes one day to become an artist. That puts the work you love somewhere off in the distant future. Rather, think of yourself as an artist, supporting yourself by waiting tables—and paint, or draw as much as you can. It is possible to earn a living wage as a waiter working 24 hours a week. That leaves plenty of time to devote to training or developing your craft（工艺）in the off hours.

While seeking the work you love, it helps to expand your awareness（意识）into the universe of all possibilities. You don’t want to be limited to the ideas of what you should do or what you have done before. Having opened to all possibilities, you can make a final decision and select the work you love as your own.

Doing the work you love requires that you be equally comfortable with the imaginative and the practical. It requires the ability to dream big dreams and the ability to face and master all the little details that make dreams come true.

56．According to the passage, perhaps Einstein once said to himself, “_______.”

       A．Well, I just don’t have the work relative to physics. I should give up on it and settle for something else

       B．The job is just what I want, I should work very hard at it

       C．I have to support myself by working as a patent clerk now, but I won’t give physics up

       D．I must wait until I find my favorite job

57．If a person works 24 hours a week, he can________.

       A．have enough spare time for his hobbies 

B．have no time left to make his dream come true

       C．do nothing else                      

D．make a good living

58．Which of the following is not implied in the last paragraph?

       A．Sometimes the imaginative is different from the practical.

       B．We have to take care of a lot of details before we make our dreams come true.

       C．We shall do practical things rather than dream.

       D．We shall dream big dreams and practice as well.

59．According to the passage, the author encourages us to ________.

       A．start work quickly    B．select job carefully and patiently

       C．dream often         D．make up our minds quickly

       You’re in a department store and you see a couple of attractive young women looking at a sweater. You listen to their conversation:

       “I can’t believe it—a Lorenzo Bertolla! They are almost impossible to find. Isn’t it beautiful? And it’s a lot cheaper than the one Sara bought in Rome.”

       They leave and you go over to see this incredible sweater. It’s nice and the price is right. You’ve never heard of Lorenzo Bertolla, but those girls looked really stylish. They must know. So, you buy it. You never realize that those young women are employees of an advertising agency. They are actually paid to go from store to store, talking loudly about Lorenzo Bertolla clothes.

       Every day we notice what people are wearing, driving and eating. If the person looks cool, the product seems cool, too. This is the secret of undercover marketing. Companies from Ford to Nike are starting to use it.

       Undercover marketing is important because it reaches people that don’t pay attention to traditional advertising. This is particularly true of the MTV generation—consumers between the age of 18 and 34. It is a golden group. They have a lot of money to spend, but they don’t trust ads.

       So advertising agencies hire young actors to “perform” in bars and other places where young adults go. Some people might call this practice deceptive (骗人的), but marketing executive Jonathan Ressler calls it creative. “Look at traditional advertising. Its effectiveness is decreasing.”

       However, one might ask what exactly is “real’ about of young women pretending to be enthusiastic about a sweater? Advertising executives would say it’s no less real than ad. The difference is that you know an ad is trying to persuade you to buy something. You don’t know when a conversation you overhear is just a performance.

68. The two attractive young women were talking so that they could___________.

       A. get the sweater at a lower price

       B. be heard by people around

       C. be admired by other shoppers

       D. decide on buying the sweater

69. Lorenzo Bertolla is ___________.

       A. a very popular male singer

       B. an advertising agency

       C. a clothing company in Rome

       D. the brand name of a sweater

70. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

       A. The two girls are in fact employed by the Lorenzo Bertolla Company. 

       B. The MTV generation tend to be more easily influenced by ads.

       C. Traditional advertising is becoming less effective because it’s too direct.

       D. Undercover marketing will surely be banned soon by the government.

71. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

       A. Two Attractive Shoppers

       B. Lorenzo Bertolla Sweaters.

       C. Ways of Advertising

       D. Undercover Marketing