第三部分阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

A teenager says he convinced the White House that he was Iceland’ s president and managed to schedule a call with George W.Bush , but was found out before he got to talk to the US president.

“My call was transferred around a few times until I got hold of Bush’s secretary and managed to book a call meeting with Bush the following Monday evening ,” Vifill Atlaso, 16, told Reuters.

Several Icelandic police turned up at his door two days later---the day of the planned call---and took him in for questioning.

“They told me the CIA had called the National Commissioner of the Icelandic Police and asked if the police could try and find out where I received that phone number from,” said Atlason.

The teenager said he was unable to recall where he had discovered the telephone number of the White House.

“I know I’v had it on my phone card for at least four years now and that an Icelandic friend gave it to me, but I don’t remember who,”he said.

At a White House news conference on Monday, Bush’s spokeswoman Dana Perino said her understanding was that Atlason had called a public line “that anybody can call”, according to a transcript(记录).

Jon Buartmarz, Chief Superintendent at Iceland’s national police headquarters, said Icelandic police had not spoken to their US counterparts about the matter. He declinced(拒绝) to say how police were tipped off (通告) about Atlason’s call.

“As far as we’re concerned, there will not be any further investigation, and I don’t know if the American government is taking any action because of this,”he said.

1.According to the passage, when did Atlason call the White House ?

A.On Friday      B. On Saturday     C. On Sunday    D. On Monday

2.What does the underlined “it ”refer to ?

A.The telephone number of the White House.

B.The telephone number of his friend.

C.A White House news conference .

D.CIA

3.How did Atlason get the telephone number of the White House ?

A.From a newspaper   

B.From Bush’s secertary

C.From an Icelandic friend  

D.By calling the National Commissioner of the Icelandic Police.

4.What is the main idea of the article ?

A.An Icelandic teenager tricks the the White House

B.CIA found out the truth of a trick.

C.A teenager pretended to be the Icelandic president.

D.The telephone number of the Whiite House is known by public.

 

 

第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的（A、B、C和D）四个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

The relationship between a son and his father changes over time. it may   36   and flourish(繁茂) in mutual maturity. It may fail in disliked dependence or independence.

The first   37   I have of him--of anything, really--is his strength. To a little boy right after World War II , a father seemed a god with strange strengths and powers   38   him to do and know any things in the world, such as putting a bicycle chain back on, building a hamster cage or guiding a jigsaw(拼板玩具) so it   39   the letter F. In fact, I learned the alphabet that way in those pre-television days.

There were, of course, rules to learn. First came the handshake.    40   of those fishy (冷冰冰的) little finger grips, but a good firm squeeze   41   by an equally strong gaze into the other’s eyes.

As time passed, there were other rules to learn. “Always do your best.” “Do it now.” “Never lie!” And most   42  , “You can do whatever you have to do.”

By my teens, he wasn’t telling me   43   to do anymore, which was scary and exciting at the same time. He   44   perspective (视角), not telling me what was around the great corner of life but letting me know there was a lot   45   just today and the next, which I hadn’t thought of.

With father, I   46   became a grown up.

But one day, I realize now, there was a(n)   47  .

A School fact   48   something he said. Impossible that he could be wrong, but there it was in the book. I began to see, too, his   49   spots, his prejudices and his weaknesses. I never threw these up at him. He hadn’t to me. I   50   asking his advice.

There seemed to be a   51   between us, which I found   52   to fill in.

After much thought and practice (“You can do whatever you have to do.”), one night last winter, I sat down by his bed. I told my father how much I   53   him and talked of some of my advice on him.

He said he knew how hard my   54   had been to say and how proud he was of me.

“I had the best teacher,” I said. “You can do whatever you have to do.” He smiled a little. And we shook hands once again,   55     .

36. A. raise             B. grow                C. worsen              D. exist

37. A. lesson            B. idea                C. memory               D. touch

38. A. making             B. encouraging          C. getting             D. enabling

39. A. writes            B. forms                C. appears             D. comes

40. A. Nothing            B. All                  C. None                 D. Some

41. A. approved          B. accompanied          C. astonished            D. appointed

42. A. strictly              B. importantly          C. urgently              D. surprisingly

43. A. how                B. when                   C. what                 D. why

44. A. provided         B. gained                C. lost                 D. kept

45. A. earlier than     B. more than           C. shorter than          D. less than

46. A. luckily             B. gradually            C. surprisingly           D. regularly

47. A. choice            B. chance               C. change               D. check

48. A. confirmed         B. confused             C. contradicted           D. connected

49. A. strong            B. blind                 C. poor                 D. dark

50. A. began            B. continued            C. stopped             D. missed

51. A. gap              B. failure               C. crash               D. loss

52. A. impossible        B. easy                C. necessary            D. strange

53. A. disappointed      B. misunderstood        C. loved                 D. supported

54. A. life              B. years                 C. speech              D. words

55. A. hardly            B. firmly               C. warmly              D. friendly

 

Mr. Glen is a millionaire. Years ago, after returning from abroad to his motherland, he     his company. Speaking of success, Glen often tells us a story about his extra expensive “school” fee. He always     his success to it.

At that time, Glen, who already got a Ph.D. degree,      to return home, starting a company. Before leaving, he bought a Rolex watch with the      made through years. At the airport he had to accept the      customs check. The watch on his wrist was also demanded to be  taken down for    . Glen knew that carrying such goods out had to pay the tax, and he worried about paying      for his watch. So while checked, he told a lie that his watch was a      fake（假货）. When he was      of his “smarts”, immediately, in the presence of Glen, the officers hit the watch, which    nearly 100,000, into pieces     hearing Glen’s words. Glen was    . Before he understood why, he was taken to the office to be examined     . For many times of entry-exit     he knew that only those people in the “blacklist” would “enjoy” this special treatment. The officers looked over everything carefully, and     him no matter what time of entry and exit he must accept the check and if        reusing and carrying fake goods, he would be      by law! Suddenly, his face turned red, and he had nothing in mind after boarding the plane for long.

After that, he often told the story to his family and his employees. He said that this made a deep     on him, because the additional high “school” fee that he had ever paid made him realize the value of     , which he would remember as the     of his success forever.

1.A. went up             B. set up             C. took up        D. picked up

2.A. owes                   B. mentions      C. brings   D. honors

3.A. objected   B. refused       C. decided        D. asked

4.A. books                  B. things        C. pounds   D. savings

5.A. ordinary     B. regular                 C. routine   D. common

6.A. inspection B. look                   C. test      D. experiment

7.A. it                      B. one                 C. them            D. these

8.A. careless         B. priceless        C. hopeless  D. worthless 

9.A. afraid                  B. ashamed              C. proud            D. hard

10.A. spent                 B. paid           C. cost      D. took

11.A. at           B. on                     C. in       D. by

12.A. amazed     B. delighted  C. disappointed   D. satisfied

13.A. strictly     B. quietly       C. quickly D. curiously

14.A. conditions  B. chances  C. experiments    D. experiences

15.A. stopped        B. warned     C. urged   D. hoped

16.A. found out    B. came out      C. sent out  D. set out

17.A. hit            B. charged   C. praised         D. blamed

18.A. expression     B. idea       C. thought  D. impression

19.A. lies          B. honesty      C. goods     D. bravery

20.A. choice       B. lesson       C. secret     D. belief

 

Moreover, insofar as any interpretation of its author can be made from the five or six plays attributed to him, the Wake field Master is uniformly considered to be a man of sharp contemporary observation. He was, formally, perhaps clerically educated, as his Latin and music, his Biblical and patristic lore indicate. He is, still, celebrated mainly for his quick sympathy for the oppressed and forgotten man, his sharp eye for character, a ready ear for colloquial vernacular turns of speech and a humor alternately rude and boisterous, coarse and happy. Hence despite his conscious artistry as manifest in his feeling for intricate metrical and stanza forms, he is looked upon as a kind of medieval Steinbeck, indignantly angry at, uncompromisingly and even brutally realistic in presenting the plight of the agricultural poor.

Thus taking the play and the author together, it is mow fairly conventional to regard the former as a kind of ultimate point in the secularization of the medieval drama. Hence much emphasis on it as depicting realistically humble manners and pastoral life in the bleak hills of the West Riding of Yorkshire on a typically cold bight of December 24th. After what are often regarded as almost “documentaries” given in the three successive monologues of the three shepherds, critics go on to affirm that the realism is then intensified into a burlesque mock-treatment of the Nativity. Finally as a sort of epilogue or after-thought in deference to the Biblical origins of the materials, the play slides back into an atavistic mood of early innocent reverence. Actually, as we shall see, the final scene is not only the culminating scene but perhaps the raison d’etre of introductory “realism.”

There is much on the surface of the present play to support the conventional view of its mood of secular realism. All the same, the “realism” of the Wakefield Master is of a paradoxical turn. His wide knowledge of people, as well as books indicates no cloistered contemplative but one in close relation to his times. Still, that life was after all a predominantly religious one, a time which never neglected the belief that man was a rebellious and sinful creature in need of redemption, So deeply (one can hardly say “naively” of so sophisticated a writer) and implicitly religious is the Master that he is less able (or less willing) to present actual history realistically than is the author of the Brome “Abraham and Isaac”. His historical sense is even less realistic than that of Chaucer who just a few years before had done for his own time costume romances, such as The Knight’s Tale, Troilus and Cressida, etc. Moreover Chaucer had the excuse of highly romantic materials for taking liberties with history.

Which of the following statements about the Wakefield Master is NOT True?

[A]. He was Chaucer’s contemporary.

[B]. He is remembered as the author of five or six realistic plays.

[C]. He write like John Steinbeck.

[D]. HE was an accomplished artist.

By “patristic”, the author means

[A]. realistic. [B]. patriotic

[C]. superstitious. [C]. pertaining to the Christian Fathers.

The statement about the “secularization of the medieval drama” refers to the

[A]. introduction of mundane matters in religious plays.

[B]. presentation of erudite material.

[C]. use of contemporary introduction of religious themes in the early days.

In subsequent paragraphs, we may expect the writer of this passage to

[A]. justify his comparison with Steinbeck.

[B]. present a point of view which attack the thought of the second paragraph.

[C]. point out the anachronisms in the play.

[D]. discuss the works of Chaucer.

He was no scholar, and his classmates teased him．Rather than reading, the kid really preferred running around with an 8mm camera, shooting homemade movies of wrecks of his Lionel train set(which he showed to friends for a small fee)

In his second year of high school he dropped out．But when his parents persuaded him to return, he was mistakenly placed in a learning-disabled class, he lasted one month．Only when his family moved to another town did he land in a more suitable high school where he graduated eventually.

After being denied entrance into a traditional filmmaking school, Steven Spielberg enrolled  in English at California State University at Long Beach .Then in 1965 he recalls ,in one of those casual moments, his life took a complete turn．Visiting Universal Studios ,  he met Chuck Silvers, an executive in the editorial department．Silvers liked the kid who made 8mm films and invited him back sometime to visit.

He appeared the next day．Without a job or a security clearance ,   Spielberg(dressed in a dark suit and tie, carrying his father’s briefcase with nothing inside but “a sandwich and candy bars’’)walked confidently up to the guard at the gate of Universal Studios and gave him a casual wave．The guard waved back．He was in.

“For the entire summer,” Spielberg remembers,” I dressed in my suit and hung out with the directors and writes including Silvers, who knew the kid was not a studio employee, but winked at the deception) I even found an office that was not being used ,and became a squatter．I bought some plastic tiles and put my name in the building directory: Steven  Spielberg, Room 23C〞

It paid off for everyone．Ten years later the 28-year-old Spielberg directed Jaws, which took in $470 million, then the highest-grossing movie of all time．Dozens of films and awards have followed because Steven Spielberg knew what his teachers didn’t---talent is in the eyes of the filmmaker.

1．What is the text mainly about?

A．Dream is more important than knowledge

B．How Spielberg made his first famous film Jaws

C．Spielberg has a gift for filming

D．How Spielberg became a famous director

2．From the 4th and 5th paragraph we can know ___

A．he was confident and this won others’ admiration

B．he worked hard and got his own office

C．usually people can not come into Universal Studios freely

D．he had been accepted as a member of the company

3．What does the underlined word〝 winked〞mean?

A．shown great concern              B．became angry

C．had to be silent            D．pretended not to notice

4．Silvers helped Spielberg probably because__________

A．he was Spielberg’s father’s friend

B．Spielberg’s talent and passion for filming moved him

C．he hoped to find a good employee for Universal Studios

D．he was sure Spielberg would become a great director