第二节，阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。注意：如果选E，则将A和B同时涂黑；如果选F，则将C和D同时涂黑。

请阅读下列某书店各书架的相关信息：

Section A: Do-It-Yourself Section -- On these shelves customers can find the latest manuals on how to do everything from building a computer to constructing your own home.

Section B: Sports & Leisure Section -- Stocks a large range of the latest books on your favourite sporting teams and events. Pick up the perfect Father's Day present here.

Section C: Humour Section -- A great selection of joke books, funny stories and wonderful real life adventures that are sure to keep the reader laughing for days.

Section D: Business & Finance - Students, business people or anyone interested in the world of commerce are certain to find the book they are after here. We have special subsection for international trade and e-commerce.

Section E: Biography - Find out about the lives of your favourite sports stars, singers, actors and other famous people from today and the past. Learn what they had to go through to become successful and the effect it had on their lives.

Section F: Education - Has a huge range of textbooks and supplementary material covering all the major high school and university subjects. Buyers showing their student cards receive a 15% discount on all purchases from this section.

阅读下列关于各书籍的信息，匹配书籍与其所应放置的书架：

71. The Delighted Eye - by Prof. John Nash - The 1994 Nobel Prize Winner for Economics, whose ideas have influenced a generation of the world's greatest economic minds, tells his life story: growing up in a small town in America, becoming one of America's most influential mathematicians and his battles with mental illness.

72. Mother Tongue: The English Language - by Bill Bryson - Bryson's book is a journey through the history and different aspects of the English language , one that is both informative and hugely entertaining. As with most of Bryson's books, fun comes before facts and readers will be left with a smile on their faces.

73. Into Thin Air - by John Krakauer - is a riveting first-hand account of a disastrous race to the top of Mount Everest. In March 1996, `Outside' magazine sent veteran journalist and experienced climber John Krakauer to join the team led by the famous Everest guide Rob Hall. Despite the expertise of Hall and the other leaders, by the end of the race eight people were dead.

74. ReadyMade: How to Make (Almost) Everything - by Shoshana Berger and Grace Hawthorne - beautifully written with great factual information. The theme behind this book is re-use, re-claim, re-cycle and there are many detailed easy-to-do projects for the reader to try such as making a photo frame from a book cover or a pot for your plants from plastic shopping bags.

75. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron - by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind - As the title suggests the authors cover the rise of the American electricity company to become one of the 10 richest companies in the world and its spectacular fall into dishonor and bankruptcy. A perfect guide on what not to do in business.

The government has taken some measures to solve the shortage of electricity, but it may be some time ______ the situation improves.

A. since                     B. when         C.  before              D.  unless

— Jane Goodall belongs to a great woman.

   — ________. She has devoted much of her life to protecting chimps everywhere.

A. Good idea                   B. Congratulations      

C. I think so             D. The same to you

My sister, who is______a red sweater now, ______a foreigner for 3 years.

       A．having on; has married    B．dressed in; has got married

       C．wearing; has been married to  D．putting on; has married with

It was not until 7 o’clock in the evening________to an end.

       A．did the meeting come      B．that the meeting came

       C．when the meeting came   D．and the meeting came

When it comes to parenting, it can be hard to know which issues are important and which ones are not. According to parenting expert Anne Murphy, a family dinner matters. “Having a family dinner doesn’t only mean hours of sharing various kinds of food,” she said. “It means getting together as long as you can —even if it’s just 15 minutes for pizza. Or make it breakfast or lunch—whatever you can do.

Never waste your valuable time on TV. Keep the conversation joyful—Murphy thinks it makes a difference. Studies have shown that teenagers whose families eat together are less likely to abuse drugs. They also have better grades and—perhaps most importantly—better relationships with their parents. It brings more benefit to children than many after-school activities, she added.

Homework has become a hot issue recently. According to a study, the amount of time kids spend on homework has increased by 51 percent since 1981.

“The point of homework is to make students continue to learn after school hour,” Murphy said. “However, giving too much homework runs the risk of turning kids off school and even worse—turning them off learning in all forms. They will turn to other things, such as computer games, some of which are aggressive, or drinking for fun. Therefore, some experts came up with an idea, that is, kindergarteners and first-graders get 10 minutes of homework. Second-graders get 20 minutes, and so on.”

Murphy offered tips to parents who think their children are getting too much homework. “Talk to other parents to see if they also think so, and then talk to the teacher,” she said. “Have a discussion about it, and let the teacher know that you want to work together on a solution.”

60. According to Anne Murphy, ___________.

A. parents should tell children what matters during dinner time

B. parents should save time and not cook for children

C. it’s important for the family to have a good talk during dinner time

D. it’s important for the family to discuss sharing together

61. Which of the following is the benefit of families eating together?

a. Children are more likely to avoid drugs.

b. Children may have better grades.

c. Children may have a close relationship with their parents.

d. It can save children’s time and prevent them from watching TV.

e. It encourages children to have more after-school activities.

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

62. What do we know about homework from the passage?

A. The time spent on homework shouldn’t be over 10 minutes.

B. Too much homework may make students lose interest in study.

C. Homework does not help children continue learning after school.

D. Parents should decide the amount of homework for their children.

63. From the passage, we can learn that___________.

A. children’s time spent on after-school activities is being reduced

B. computer games are making children increasingly aggressive

C. it is unnecessary for young children to do homework

D. some experts think it necessary to reduce children’s homework

64. What does the passage mainly talk about?

A. What matters most in parenting.

B. How to develop a close relationship with children.

C. Family education is important for children.

D. Parents say no to too much homework.

If you were to come up with a list of organizations whose failures had done the most damage to the American economy in recent years, you would probably have to start with the Wall Street firms that brought us the financial crisis. From there, you might move on to the automakers in Detroit.

But I would suggest that the list should also include a less obvious nominee: public education.

At its top level, the American system of higher education may be the best in the world. Yet in terms of its core mission---turning teenagers into educated college graduates--- much of the system is failing.

The United States does a good job enrolling (招生) teenagers in college, but only half of the students who enroll end up with a bachelor’s degree.

So identifying the causes of the college dropout crisis in the world’s largest economy matters enormously, and a new book called “Crossing the Finish Line” tries to do precisely that. Its authors are economists William Bowen and Michael McPherson, and a doctoral candidate Matthew Chingos. The first problem they diagnose is something they call under-matching. It refers to students who choose not to attend the best college they can get into. They instead go to a less selective one, perhaps one that is closer to home or less expensive. About half of the low-income students with a grade-point average of at least 3.5 in high school and an SAT score of at least 1,200 do not attend the best college they could have. “I was really astonished by the degree to which well-qualified students from poor families under-matched,” said Mr. Bowen.

In fact, well-off students attend the colleges that do the best job of producing graduates. Meanwhile, lower-income students -–even when they are better qualified—often go to colleges that excel（擅长）in producing drop-outs. “It’s really a waste,” Mr. Bowen said, “and a big problem for the country.” As the authors point out, the only way to lift the college graduation rate significantly is to lift it among poor and working-class students. Instead, it appears to have fallen.

What can be done? Money is clearly part of the answer.

71. Which of the following would people first think of as a factor responsible for the American financial crisis according to this passage?

A. The government.                           B. Public education

C. The Detroit automakers.                   D. The Wall Street firms.

72. What is a big problem with American higher education?

A. It is hard to enroll enough students into college.

B. Many colleges are experiencing low rate of graduation.

C. Many college students stay away from classes.

D. It is hard for many colleges to get financial aid from the government.  

73. The title of the book Crossing the Finish Line probably means______.

A. running to the end of the line              B. going to college

C. finishing college education               D. working hard in college

74. Why do some students under--match ?

A. Because they have financial difficulty.        B. Because they face ambition crisis.

C. Because they lack confidence.                D. Because they can’t get guidance.

75. The passage is mainly about _______.

A. problems with secondary American education and possible solutions

B. America’s financial crisis, its cause and influence

C. low rate of American college graduation, its cause and its influence

D. relationship between American education and its economy

 China, a country with 145 million elderly people, will remain _______ ageing society during this century, according to _______ Chinese population experts.

A. /; the               B. an; /                 C. an; the                     D. the; /

As we all know, no one is perfect, and everyone has his own ______.

  A. mistakes                 B. weakness                     C. tricks                  D. benefits

 To our disappointment, the rock star everyone looked forward to _________.

A. turning up             B. not turning up             C. turned up         D. didn’t turn up