We couldn’t forget the historic moment on Oct.11, 2012, when the first Chinese Nobel laureate, Mo Yan, won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature. Minutes after the award was announced, millions of Chinese expressed pleasure and pride for Mo Yan on the Internet. So a Chinese getting the Nobel Prize for literature did really increase the national pride.

On Dec.11 (Monday) in Sweden Mo was given the Nobel diploma, medal and a document confirming the prize amount. In his speech at the ceremony, Mo said receiving the prize felt like a fairy tale, but of course it was true and that literature was useless compared with science. Mo's award filled the blank left by Chinese literature in the world literary history. Meanwhile, Monday's Nobel awards ceremony set off another buying rush on Mo's works among Chinese readers.

45. Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for _________.

   A. history          B. Literature          C. peace           D. physics
46. Which of the following words can best describe our Chinese feeling when hearing the news?
   A. Calm           B. Relaxed            C. Proud           D. indifferent
47. The underlined word “laureate” in Paragraph 1 most probably means _________.

   A. loser            B. winner             C. fan             D. superstar
48. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
   A. It was hard for Mo Yan to believe he was awarded the prize.
   B. Mo Yan thinks Literature is useless.

C. Mo Yan was given the Nobel Prize, medal and a document.
   D. Mo Yan’s works were more popular after his receiving the prize.

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从第31至40小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并将答案写到答题卡上。

Are you   31   for a place in the southwest of China? If your answer is “yes”, why not pay a trip to Shangri-la, which is   32   mysteries and beauty.

The world “Shangri-la” first appeared in the 1993 novel Lost Horizon   33   the British writer James Hilton. He described a beautiful kingdom where three rivers   34   together and snow-capped mountains reached to the sky, with fields of long grass covering the earth. In this perfect world lived people who had discovered how to stay   35   forever.

Three mountains are covered with snow and tower   36   the land. These snowy mountain tops form   37   beautiful picture that we can’t wait to fly there.

Lakes,   38   by vast grasslands, look like diamonds. Sheep, cows, horses and animals feed   39   on the green grass and the forests around are   40   to lots of birds and animals. In this heavenly world, people live in perfect harmony with nature.

31. A. tired          B. thirsty           C. hungry            D. angry

32. A. full of         B. lack of           C. short of            D. fill with

33. A. with           B. by               C. for                D. to

34. A. put            B. got             C. joined             D. formed

35. A. calm          B. still             C. young           D. the same

36. A. over                 B. above           C. on                  D. beyond

37. A. so a           B. such a          C. such                D. so

38. A. covered        B. surrounded       C. separated            D. divided

39. A. simply          B. deeply          C. mostly              D. finally

40. A. family         B. room            C. space               D. home

 I feel so excited! At this time tomorrow, I ________ by camel with local guides in Northern Africa.

   A. travel           B. travelled            C. will be travelling      D. have travelled

I’m trying to lose weight because I _______ my figure.

   A. am proud of                            B. am ashamed of

   C. am dying for                                D. am happy with

 Some amazing people _______ our world for the better in the past 100 years.

A. change          B. are changing      C. have changed       D. had changed

_______ was a struggle for me to remember all the strange faces and new names.

   A. It                  B. That               C. There                           D. This

Mountain climbing _______ be tiring and many people feel sick as the atmosphere gets thinner.

   A. need            B. can               C. must               D. would

 Now she is considering taking some weight-loss pills, _______ she thinks will help her become slim.

A. which           B. that               C. what              D. who

 The _______ boy made the police and his family _______.

A. gone; puzzled                          B. missing; puzzled

C. missing; puzzling                   D. lost; puzzling