阅读下面短文并用英语回答问题，交答案与在答题卡相应的位置上（请注意52、53、55和56四个小题后面的词数要求）。

[1] Jean Paul Getty was born in 1892 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He became a millionaire when he was only 24. His father was wealthy, but he did not help his son. Getty made his millions alone. He made his money from oil. He owned Getty Oil and over 100 other companies. The Fortune magazine once called Getty “the richest man in the world.”

[2]But money _________. He married five times and divorced five times. He had five children but spent little time with them. None of Getty’s children had very happy lives.

[3]Getty loved to make money and loved to save it. In spite of his great wealth, Getty was miser. Every evening, he wrote down every cent he spent that day. He even put pay telephone in the guest’s bedrooms in his house so he could save money on phone bills.

[4] In 1973, kidnappers took his 16-year-old grandson, and demanded a large amount of money for his safe return. Getty’s son asked his father for money to save his child. But Getty refused. The kidnappers were merciless and Getty’s son made repeated requests for help from his father. Finally, Getty agreed to lend the money, but at 4 percent interest.

[5] Getty started a museum at his home Malibu, California. He bought many important and beautiful pieces of art for the museum. When Getty died in 1976, the value of the collection in the museum was $1 billion. He left all his money to the museum. After his death, the museum grew in size. Today it is one of the most important museums in the United States. Getty made a large fortune in his life, but he gave his money to the art world because he wanted people to learn about and love art.

52. What is the main idea of Paragraph 1? (no more than 8 words)
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53. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words. (no more than 7 words)
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54. Explain the underlined sentence in Paragraph3.
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55. What did the kidnappers do to Getty’s family (no more than 10 words)
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56. What does the author want to tell us about Getty in the last paragraph? (no more than 10 words)
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Advertisers tend to think big and perhaps this is why they're always coming in for criticism. Their critics（批评家）seem to hate them because they have so much money to throw around. Why don’t they stop advertising and reduce the price of their goods? After all, it’s the consumer who pays.

     The poor old consumer! He'd have to pay a great deal more if advertising didn't create mass markets for products. It is precisely because of the heavy advertising that consumer goods are so cheap. But we get the wrong idea if we think the only purpose of advertising is to sell goods. Another equally important function is to inform. A great deal of the knowledge we have about household goods is largely from the advertisements we read. Advertisements introduce us to new products or remind us of the existence of ones we already know about. Supposing you wanted to buy a washing machine, it is more than likely you would obtain details regarding performance, price, etc., from an advertisement.

     Lots of people pretend that they never read advertisements, but this claim may be seriously doubted. It is hardly possible not to read advertisements these days. And what fun they often are, too! Just think what a railway station or a newspaper would be like without advertisements. Would you enjoy gazing at a blank wall or reading railway byelaws while waiting for a train? A cheerful, witty advertisement makes such a difference to a dull wall or a newspaper full of the incidents and disasters.

     We must not forget, either, that advertising makes a positive contribution to our pockets. The fact that we pay so little for our daily paper, or can enjoy so many broadcast programmers is due entirely to the money spent by advertisers. Just think what a newspaper would cost if we had to pay its full price!

     Another thing we mustn't forget is the “small ads.” What a tremendously useful service they perform for the community! Just about anything can be accomplished through these columns. For instance, you can find a job, buy or sell a house, announce a birth, marriage or death in what used to be called the “hatch, match and dispatch” column(栏目) but by far the most fascinating section is the personal or “agony” column. No other item in a newspaper provides such entertaining reading or offers such a deep insight into human nature. It's the best advertisement for advertising there is!

48.  What is the main idea of this passage?
A. Advertisements steal money from our pockets
B. The critics get the wrong idea of advertisements.
C. Advertisers perform a useful service to communities.
D. Advertisements are everywhere.

49. What is the attitude of the author toward advertisements?                
A. He appreciates the role of advertisements.

B. He doubts the effect of advertisements.

C. He believes what is said in advertisements.

D. He complains too many advertisements in daily life.

50.  Which of the following is Not True?
A. The personal or “agony” column makes us know more about human nature.

B. The only purpose of advertising is to sell goods.

C. A newspaper will cost us more if there is no advertisement on it.
D. Advertisement makes our life colorful.

51.  Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?

( ①= Paragraph 1, ②= paragraph 2,  ③= paragraph 3,   ④= paragraph 4   ⑤= paragraph 5 )

　　What is teaching? It’s a difficult question to answer. In fact, as long as teachers fail to distinguish between teaching and learning, they will continue to undertake to do for children that which only children can do for themselves. Teaching children to read is not passing reading on to them. It is certainly not endless hours spent in activities about reading. Douglas insists that “reading cannot be taught directly and schools should stop trying to do the impossible”.

　　Teaching and learning are two entirely different processes. They differ in kind and function. The function of teaching is to create the conditions and the climate that will make it possible for children to devise the most efficient system for teaching themselves to read. Teaching is also a public activity. It can be seen and observed.

　　Learning to read involves all that each individual does to make sense of the world of printed language. Almost all of it is private, for learning is an occupation of the mind, and that process is not open to public scrutiny.

　　If teacher and learner roles are not interchangeable, what then can be done through teaching that will aid the child in the quest(探索) for knowledge? Smith has one principal rule for all teaching instructions. “Make learning to read easy, which means making reading a meaningful, enjoyable and frequent experience for children”.

When the roles of teacher and learner are seen for what they are, and when both teacher fulfil them appropriately, then much of the pressure and feeling of failure for both is eliminated. Learning to read is made easier when teachers create an environment where children are given the opportunity to solve the problem of leaning to read by reading.

44. According to the passage, learning to read will no longer be a difficult task when ________.

A. reading enriches children’s experience

B. teacher and learner roles are interchangeable

C. teaching helps children in the search for knowledge

D. children become highly motivated

45. The instruction of reading will be successful if         .

A. teachers can enable students to develop their own way of reading

B. teachers can improve conditions at school for the students　　

C. teachers can devise the most efficient system for reading

D. teachers can make their teaching activities observable

46. The underlined word “scrutiny” most probably means “        ”.

A. inquiry　　　　        B. suspicion                C. control　　                    D. observation

47. The main idea of the passage is that ________.

A. teachers should do as little as possible in helping students learn to read

B. teachers should encourage students to read as widely as possible

C. reading is more complicated than generally believed

D. reading ability is something acquired rather than taught

Plants are very important living things. Life could not go on if there were no plants. This is because plants can make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals and man cannot make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals get their food by eating plants and other animals. Therefore animals and man need plants in order to live. This is why we find that there are so many plants around us.

If you look carefully at the plants around you, you will find that there are two kinds of plants: flowering plants and non-flowering plants.

Flowering plants can make seeds. The seeds are protected by the fruits. Some fruits have one seed, some have two, three or four, and some have many seeds. But a few fruits have no seeds at all. An example of a fruit without seeds is the banana fruit.

Most non-flowering plants do not grow from seeds. They grow from spores(胚芽). Spores are very small. Some spores are so small and light that they can float in the air. We may say that spores are quite the same as seeds. When these spores are all on wet and shady places, they usually grow into new plants.

40. The main idea of the first paragraph is that ______.

A. plants are important for life      B. plants cannot grow without air

C. there are many plants in the world D. we can not live without water

41. What can we infer(推断) from the passage ?

A. Of all living things animals are most important   

B. Spores are seeds   

C. All fruits of flowering plants have seeds 

D. Without plants, man will die out

42. This passage may be taken from______.

A. a medicine book                   B. a novel   

C. a science magazine                 D. an experiment report

43. The underlined word “protected” in the third paragraph can be replaced by ______.

A. damaged     B. polluted      C. prevented        D. guarded

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36. Where can you find the full post of the “Cryo S”?

A. Tech Styling.                            B. Super Cool Pets.

C. Decide What to Buy.                           D. Trends Updates.

37.If you buy a Starry Night Bed, you can get all the following gadgets EXCEPT ___________.

A. temperature control                            B. movie projector

C. adjustable fans                                D. anti-snore technology

38.From this passage, we learn that Fugoo can_________.

A. check traffic conditions                   B. wake you up

C. take you to work                       D. make coffee

39.Where does this advertisement probably come from?

A. A magazine.       B. A website.                C. A newspaper.      D. A textbook.

I used to be a very self-centered person, but in the past two years I have really changed. I have started to think about other people   36   I think about myself. I am happy that I am becoming a   37   person.

I think my   38   started when I was at Palomar College. At first, I just wanted to get my   39   and be left alone. I thought I was smarter than everyone else, so I hardly ever   40    to anyone in my classes. By the end of my first semester, I was really   41   . It seemed as if everyone but me had made friends and was having fun. So tried a(n)  42   . I started asking people around me how they were doing, and if they were having trouble I  43  to help. That was really a big   44   for me. By the end of the year, I had several new friends, and two of   45   are still my best friends today. 

A bigger cause of my new   46   , however, came when I took a part-time job at a Vista Nursing Home. One old lady there who had Alzheimer’s disease became my   47    . Every time I came into her room, she was so   48  because she thought I was her daughter. Her real daughter never   49   her, so I took her place. She let me   50  . that making others feel good make me feel good, too, when she died, I was  51   , but I was very grateful to her.

I think I am a much   52   person today than I used to be, and I hope I will not   53   these experiences. They have   54    me to care about other people more than about myself. I   55   who I am today, and I could not say that a few years ago.

16. A. since                B. before                    C. or                           D. unless

17. A. famous                    B. simple                            C. different                 D. skilled

18. A. education         B. career                            C. tour                        D. change

19. A. balance                   C. homework               C. degree                          D. interest

20. A. talked                      B. wrote                             C. lied                        D. reported

21. A. careful                     B. lonely                      C. curious                   D. guilty

22. A. argument         B. game                            C. experiment             D. defence

23. A. dared                      B. offered                   C. hesitated                      D. happened

24. A. dream                     B. problem                  C. duty                       D. step

25. A. us                            B. which                     C. them                             D. whom

26. A. attitude            B. hobby                            C. hope                             D. luck

27. A. friend                B. partner                          C. guide                            D. guest

28. A. polite                B. happy                    C. strange                  D. confident

29. A. bothered          B. answered                      C. visited                    D. trusted

30. A. explain                     B. guess                            C. declare                   D. see

31. A. homeless          B. heartbroken                   C. bad-tempered               D. hopeless

32. A. quieter                     B. busier                    C. better                            D. richer

33. A. forget                      B. face                        C. improve                 D. analyze

34. A. forced                     B. preferred                      C. ordered                 D. taught

35. A. miss                  B. like                         C. wonder                  D. expect

 There is some doubt whether he will______ in the meeting.

  A. turn on      B. turn up        C. turn down        D. turn off

It’s a specially protected area. People are not_____ to cut down trees and hunt animals.

  A. permited           B. allowing         C. advised      D. permitted

 —Excuse me. Is this the right way to the Summer Palace?

   —Sorry, I am not sure. But it _______ be.

  A. must           B. will             C. might         D. can

 Nobody will______ with breaking the law.

  A. run away     B. get away      C. put away     D. throw away