第三部分：阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40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。

My wife and I used to feel that it was impossible to be a true friend to someone whose name we didn’t know. How wrong we were! Years of Sunday-morning bus trips through the city with the same group of “nameless” people have changed our thinking.?

Before the bus takes off, we all join in a conversation: where’s the silent woman who sits up front and never responds to our cheery greetings? Here she comes. Her worn clothing suggests she doesn’t have much money to spare, but she always takes an extra cup of coffee for the driver.?

We get smiles from a Mexican couple as they get on the bus hand in hand. When they get off, they’re still holding hands. The woman was pregnant late last year, and one day her change of shape confirmed that she’d delivered the child. We even felt a little pride at the thought of our extended family.?

For many months, our only sadness lay in our inability to establish the same friendship with the silent woman at the front of the bus. Then, one evening, we went to a fish restaurant. We were shown to a table alongside someone sitting alone. It was the woman from the bus.?

We greeted her with friendly familiarity we’d shown all year, but this time her face softened, then a shy smile. When she spoke, the words escaped awkwardly from her lips. All at once we realized why she hadn’t spoken to us before. Talking was hard for her.?

Over dinner; we learned the stay of a single mother with a disabled son who was receiving special care away from home. She missed him desperately, she explained.?

“I love him… and he loves me, even though he doesn’t express it very well,” she murmured. “Lots of us have that problem, don’t we? We don’t say what we want to say, what we should be saying. And that’s not good enough.”?

The candles flared on our tables. Our fish had never tasted better. But the atmosphere grew pleasant, and when we parted as friends—we shared names.

56.Which of the following might be the best title of this passage?

Friends of the Road               B. The Silent Woman on the Bus

   C. Going to Work by Bus              D. Different Kinds of Friendship

57.All the following statements can describe the woman except ______.

   A. poor         B. warm hearted          C. silent         D. cold

58. The underlined word “establish” in the fourth passage probably has the same meaning as ______.

   A. keep         B. discover        C. set up         D. accept

59. Why did the woman usually keep silence while taking the bus?

   A. She was worried about her disabled son.

   B. She was sad to see the happy Mexican couple us a single mother.

   C. She had difficulty in expressing herself.   D. She was only interested in the bus driver.

60. The woman had the same problem with her son in the way that ______.

   A. they both disabled people   B. they both had some difficulty in expressing

   C. they both liked bus travel   D. they both brought interest to the passengers

第三部分：阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40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。

My wife and I used to feel that it was impossible to be a true friend to someone whose name we didn’t know. How wrong we were! Years of Sunday-morning bus trips through the city with the same group of “nameless” people have changed our thinking.?

Before the bus takes off, we all join in a conversation: where’s the silent woman who sits up front and never responds to our cheery greetings? Here she comes. Her worn clothing suggests she doesn’t have much money to spare, but she always takes an extra cup of coffee for the driver.?

We get smiles from a Mexican couple as they get on the bus hand in hand. When they get off, they’re still holding hands. The woman was pregnant late last year, and one day her change of shape confirmed that she’d delivered the child. We even felt a little pride at the thought of our extended family.?

For many months, our only sadness lay in our inability to establish the same friendship with the silent woman at the front of the bus. Then, one evening, we went to a fish restaurant. We were shown to a table alongside someone sitting alone. It was the woman from the bus.?

We greeted her with friendly familiarity we’d shown all year, but this time her face softened, then a shy smile. When she spoke, the words escaped awkwardly from her lips. All at once we realized why she hadn’t spoken to us before. Talking was hard for her.?

Over dinner; we learned the stay of a single mother with a disabled son who was receiving special care away from home. She missed him desperately, she explained.?

“I love him… and he loves me, even though he doesn’t express it very well,” she murmured. “Lots of us have that problem, don’t we? We don’t say what we want to say, what we should be saying. And that’s not good enough.”?

The candles flared on our tables. Our fish had never tasted better. But the atmosphere grew pleasant, and when we parted as friends—we shared names.

56.Which of the following might be the best title of this passage?

Friends of the Road               B. The Silent Woman on the Bus

   C. Going to Work by Bus              D. Different Kinds of Friendship

57.All the following statements can describe the woman except ______.

   A. poor         B. warm hearted          C. silent         D. cold

58. The underlined word “establish” in the fourth passage probably has the same meaning as ______.

   A. keep         B. discover        C. set up         D. accept

59. Why did the woman usually keep silence while taking the bus?

   A. She was worried about her disabled son.

   B. She was sad to see the happy Mexican couple us a single mother.

   C. She had difficulty in expressing herself.   D. She was only interested in the bus driver.

60. The woman had the same problem with her son in the way that ______.

   A. they both disabled people   B. they both had some difficulty in expressing

   C. they both liked bus travel   D. they both brought interest to the passengers

The English are often described as unfriendly people who don’t talk to strangers（陌生人）。 But not London taxi drivers. I once asked one cabby to describe his life to me and he didn’t stop talking until I arrived home half an hour later. He told me many interesting stories and this is one of them.“Some strange things happen late at night. The other day I was taking a woman home from a party. She had her little dog with her. When we got to her house， she found that she’d lost her key. So， I waited in the cab with her dog while she climbed in through the window.”

“I waited and waited. After half an hour of ringing the bell I decided to find out what was going on. I tied the dog to a tree and started to climb in through the window. The next thing I knew was that the police came. They thought I was to rob the house！ Luckily， the woman came downstairs. She’d gone to sleep and forgotten about me and the dog. I was in such a hurry to get away that I forgot to ask her for the fare.”

1. What does the writer think of the London taxi driver？

2. From the passage， we know_________.

3. What does “cabby” mean？

4.Why did the taxi driver wait for the woman？

A. Because she had left her dog with him.

B. Because she had not paid him.

C. Because she wanted to go out again.

D. Both A and B.

5. Why do you think the woman didn’t go out of the house again.

The English are often described as unfriendly people who don’t talk to strangers（陌生人）。 But not London taxi drivers. I once asked one cabby to describe his life to me and he didn’t stop talking until I arrived home half an hour later. He told me many interesting stories and this is one of them.“Some strange things happen late at night. The other day I was taking a woman home from a party. She had her little dog with her. When we got to her house， she found that she’d lost her key. So， I waited in the cab with her dog while she climbed in through the window.”
“I waited and waited. After half an hour of ringing the bell I decided to find out what was going on. I tied the dog to a tree and started to climb in through the window. The next thing I knew was that the police came. They thought I was to rob the house！ Luckily， the woman came downstairs. She’d gone to sleep and forgotten about me and the dog. I was in such a hurry to get away that I forgot to ask her for the fare.”

1. 1.

   What does the writer think of the London taxi driver？

   1. A.
      They are unfriendly
   2. B.
      They like to talk to strangers
   3. C.
      They talk too much
   4. D.
      They are not English
2. 2.

   From the passage， we know_________

   1. A.
      the writer is the taxi driver’s friend
   2. B.
      the writer often travels by taxi
   3. C.
      the writer is a foreigner visiting London
   4. D.
      the writer lives in London
3. 3.

   What does “cabby” mean？

   1. A.
      Taxi
   2. B.
      Stranger
   3. C.
      Taxi driver
   4. D.
      Londoner
4. 4.

   Why did the taxi driver wait for the woman？

   1. A.
      Because she had left her dog with him
   2. B.
      Because she had not paid him
   3. C.
      Because she wanted to go out again
   4. D.
      Both A and B
5. 5.

   Why do you think the woman didn’t go out of the house again

   1. A.
      Because she didn’t want to pay the taxi driver
   2. B.
      Because she was so tired that she had forgotten about the taxi driver
   3. C.
      Because she wanted to keep the taxi driver waiting
   4. D.
      Because she wanted to go to sleep first

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
I found the imagination of becoming a grandmother somewhat discouraging. I was younger than I thought a grandmother should be when I got the news that I was going to become one myself. I admit, it was not a role that I was emotionally ready to accept. I had been a young mother, and had certainly hoped my daughter would not face that same challenge. I remarried when she was a teenager, and then had two more children. On getting the news that she was expecting(怀孕), I remember thinking “What do I know about being a grandmother? —I haven’t even finished raising my own kids yet!” I don’t like to be unprepared, so I read a few books about grandparenting. That gave me a little help, but I was still uncertain. I thought about other grandmothers I knew, and got a few ideas I liked and a few more that I didn’t. But I couldn’t quite figure out what kind of grandmother I wanted to be. Then I thought about my own grandmother, Granny, as she’s known by most people, and I knew I had the answer.
I didn’t realize it until that moment, but my own grandmother was the example for the kind of grandmother I wanted to be. I am fortunate that I got to spend a lot of time with my grandparents when I was a little kid. Here is what I learned from my Granny：
Grandmothers always have a cookie jar. For my whole life, Granny always had a cookie jar full of cookies. When I was a little tiny girl, just at eye level with the counter, Granny would get the cookie jar down for me. When I was a little older I learned how to pull the chair over so I could reach. As I got taller, if I really stretched, I could reach the cookie jar with my finger tips and move it close enough to get it down off the counter to find out what kind of treat was inside. Always the first thing I did when I went to Granny’s house was check the cookie jar, and there were always cookies in it. Many years later, I’ll drive my own children to Granny’s house and the first thing to do is get us all a cookie.
So grandmothers must have a cookie jar, and on my granddaughter’ s first Christmas，my daughter bought me my own cookie jar. She said when they came to see me，her daughter would find the treat the way she did and I did.
【小题1】The writer thought it was a little discouraging to be a grandmother because________.