That year , in the local school, there was a new math teacher, as well as some new pupils. One of the new kids was the stupidest child anyone had ever seen. It made no difference how quickly or how slowly they tried explaining numbers to him; he would always end up saying something enormously stupid. Like two plus two was five, seven times three was twenty-seven, or a triangle had thirty corners……
Before this boy arrived, math lessons had been the most boring of all. Now they were great fun. Encouraged by the new teacher, the children would listen to the pieces of nonsense spouted by the new kid, and they would have to correct his mistakes.
Whenever the new teacher asked questions, the stupid kid would stand up but made the wrong answers, the other students all wanted to be the first to find his mistakes, and then think up the most original ways to explain them. To do this they used all kinds of stuff : sweets, playing cards, oranges, paper planes, etc. It didn’t seem like any of this bothered the new kid.
However, Little Lewis was sure that it was bound to make him feel sad inside. Lewis was sure he would see him crying. So, one day, he decided to follow the new kid home after school. On leaving school, the new kid walked a few minutes to a local park, and there he waited for a while, until someone came along to meet him……
It was the new teacher!
The teacher gave the new kid a hug, and off they went, hand in hand. Following from a distance, Lewis could hear they were talking about math.
【小题1】根据短文第二三段描述，可知这位新老师的工作很有创造性，故选A。
【小题2】根据短文最后一段Following from a distance, Lewis could hear they were talking about math.描述，可知选B，这个所谓的最蠢的学生其实比其它学生知道的多。
【小题3】根据Lewis was sure he would see him crying. So, one day, he decided to follow the new kid home after school.描述，可知选B。
【小题4】联系上文To do this they used all kinds of stuff :可知选C。
【小题5】The math lessons became interesting again because of the new teacher’s ___________.

（2011·安徽卷）B

Think about the different ways that people use the wind. You can use it to fly a kite or to sail a boat. Wind is one of our cleanest and richest power sources（来源）, as well as one of the oldest. Evidence shows that windmills（风车）began to be used in ancient Iran back in the seventh century BC. They were first introduced to Europe during the 1100s, when armies returned from the Middle East with knowledge of using wind power.

For many centuries, people used windmills to grind（磨碎）wheat into flour or pump water from deep underground. When electricity was discovered in the late 1800s, people living in remote areas began to use them to produce electricity. This allowed them to have electric lights and radio. However, by the 1940s, when electricity was available to people in almost all areas of the United States, windmills were rarely used.

During the 1970s, people started becoming concerned about the pollution that is created when coal and gas are burned to produce electricity. People also realized that the supply of coal and gas would not last forever. Then, wind was rediscovered, though it means higher costs. Today, there is a global movement to supply more and more of our electricity through the use of wind.

60. From the text we know that windmills              .

A. were invented by European armies

B. have a history of more than 2800 years

C. used to supply power to radio in remote areas

D. have rarely been used since electricity was discovered

61. What was a new use for wind power in the late l9th century?

A. Sailing a boat. 

B. Producing electricity.

C. Grinding wheat into flour.

D. Pumping water from underground.

62. One of the reasons wind was rediscovered in the 1970s is that             .

A. wind power is cleaner

B. it is one of the oldest power sources

C. it was cheaper to create energy from wind

D. the supply of coal and gas failed to meet needs

63. What would the author probably discuss in the paragraph that follows?

A. The advantage of wind power.

B. The design of wind power plants.

C. The worldwide movement to save energy.

D. The global trend towards producing power from wind.

【解析】选D。推理判断题。根据末段句子Today, there is a global movement to supply more and more of our electricity through the use of wind可知，接下来作者应该谈论利用风能发电的情况，因此选择D项。

The magnitude 7.9 quake struck Sichuan province on May 12 at around noontime, which may have increased the human death toll because many people were at school, and the school buildings turned out to be not firm enough to collapse because of poor construction. More than 69,000 people have been confirmed dead so far, and more than 374,000 injured, with fears of further disasters because several lakes created by rockfall dams may give way and cause sudden flooding.
Clark Burchfiel, Schlumberger Professor of Geology, and Leigh Royden, professor of geology and geophysics in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT, have been doing extensive research in that region of China and the Tibetan plateau(高原) for more than two decades, but had found no signs that suggested such a large earthquake might strike the area.
The team operated 25 broadband seismograph (地震仪) stations in this region of western Sichuan for more than a year. "Nobody was thinking there would be a major earthquake in that area," Royden says. "This earthquake was quite unusual, and may have involved a simultaneously（同时发生的） severe break of two separate but neighboring faults," she continued.
The region is extremely unusual geologically, Royden says, because of the very steep slopes at the boundary between the Sichuan Basin to the east and the Tibetan plateau to the west. The altitude rises sharply by about 3,500 meters (more than two miles) over a span of only about 50 kilometers (about 30 miles).
The area where the quake occurred is part of the boundary between two of the Earth's structural plates, where the Indian and Asian plates meet in an ongoing collision that has created the Himalayan mountains and the Tibetan plateau. But in central and eastern Tibet, unlike most other areas of continental collision, much of the movement of crust（地壳） is hidden from view. Instead of thickening the entire crust by folding and faulting, the surface of the eastern Tibetan plateau is not deformed（变形的） and is being lifted upward by thickening of a weak crustal layer more than 15 km below the surface.
60. Why did the school buildings collapse in the earthquake, according to the passage?
A. They had too long a history.
B. They were poorly built.
C. They were crowded with students and teachers.
D. They were damaged by the earthquake.
61. Based on Para. 1, why does the writer think that more people will be killed or injured after 
the earthquake?
A. Because there will be more aftershocks after the major quake.
B. Because more school buildings will collapse after the quake.
C. Because destructive flooding caused by rockfall dams is likely to occur..
D. Because there was not enough medical care for the injured in the area.
62. What can we infer from this passage?
A. There was no prediction that such a large-scale quake might occur there.
B. Researchers had done little research in that area before the earthquake struck it.
C. The 5.12 earthquake was the most destructive in the world.
D. If more research had been done, the destruction could have been avoided.
63. Which one can be used as the best title for this passage?
A. The Great Disasters.
B. The Earthquake was very frightening.
C. The Causes of the earthquake.
D. An Extremely Unusual Earthquake.

Soon Tommy’s parents, who had recently separated, would arrive for a conference on his failing schoolwork and bad behavior. Neither parent knew that I had called the other.

    Tommy, an only child, had always been happy, cooperative and an excellent student. How could I convince his father and mother that his recent failing grades represented a broken-hearted child’s reaction to his parents’ separation and pending (即将发生的) divorce?

    Tommy’s mother entered and took one of the chairs. Soon the father arrived. Good! At least they were concerned enough to be here in time. They ignored each other.

    As I gave a detailed account of Tommy’s behavior and schoolwork, I prayed for the right words to bring these two together to help them see what they were doing to their son. But somehow the words wouldn’t come. Perhaps if they saw one of his dirty, carelessly done papers?

    I found a sheet in the back of his desk. Writing covered both sides: not the assignment, but a single sentence scribbled (潦草地写) over and over.

    Silently I gave it to Tommy’s mother. She read it and then handed it to her husband. Then his face softened.

    At last he folded the paper carefully, placed it in his pocket, and reached for his wife’s hand. She wiped the tears from her eyes and smiled up at him. He helped her with her coat and they left together.

    In his own way God had given me the words to reunite that family. He had guided me to the sheet of yellow copy paper covered with the pain out pouring of a small boy’s troubled heart.

    The words are “Dear Mom…Dear Daddy… I love you…”

1.The author called Tommy’s parents in order to ________.

A. solve the couple’s problem

B. scold them for their divorce

C. help them realize their influence on Tommy

D. blame Tommy for his failing grades

2.This passage is most probably written by _________.

A. a teacher            B. a journalist         C. a lawyer         D. a doctor

3.How did Tommy’s parents feel after seeing the words?

A. Satisfied.           B. Troubled.            C. Depressed            D. Moved

4. We can learn from the passage that _______.

A. the author knew Tommy often wrote to his parents

B. the author said a lot to make Tommy’s parents reunite

C. Tommy hated his parents divorcing

D. Tommy was greatly influenced by his parents

5. What would be the best title for this passage?

A. A separate family                    B. Tommy’s essay

C. Never divorce                        D. A good teacher

原创（九）

宽容是人世间最好的良药。对于一些无可挽回的悲剧或过失，过多的指责没有任何意义，因为悲剧或过失是任何人都不希望发生的。这时惟有以一种宽容的心态来对待身边的人或事，看待得与失。

Human Relations

                     ----- By Marion Williams

A boy was born to a couple after eleven years of marriage. They were a loving couple and you can imagine how excited they were. Certainly the boy was   1   as the apple of their eyes.

       One morning, the husband saw a medicine bottle   2   ．As he was late for work, he asked his wife to cap the bottle and ___3____. The mother, who was busy in the kitchen,   4    the matter. The boy playfully went to the medicine bottle, was    5    with its color,and drank it all. It   6    to be a poisonous medicine    7    adults in small dosages. When the child showed   signs of poisoning, the mother took him to the hospital,   8   he died. The mother was stunned（使昏迷）.She was too   9    to face her husband. When the   10   father came to the hospital and saw the dead child, he   11    his wife and uttered just four words.

       The husband just said “   12    ”

       The husaband was indeed   13    in human relationships.The child was dead. He could   14   be brought back to life. There was no   15    in finding fault with the mother.   16   , if only he had taken time to keep the bottle in the cupboard or other place, this would not have happened. No one is   17   . She had also lost her only child .What she needed at that moment was consolation(安慰，慰藉) and   18   from the husband. That was what he gave her.

If everyone can look at life with this kind of perspective（观点）, there would be much fewer  problems in the world. Sometimes we spend time in asking who is    19    or whom to blame, whether in a relationship, in a job or with the people we know. By this way we   20   some warmth in human relationship .

1．A．treated              B．thought                 C．ignored                  D．abandoned

2．A．shut                  B．close                      C．bare                       D．open

3．A．put it aside        B．set it aside              C．put it away            D．leave it alone

4．A．completely forgetting                                B．wholly terrified

   C．totally forgot                                      D．absolutely remembered

5．A．satisfied            B．fascinated             C．puzzled                  D．calmed

6．A．happened          B．seemed                   C．appeared               D．uttered

7．A．stood for           B．made for                C．meant for              D．called for

8．. A．when               B．then                       C．but                        D．where

9．A．ashamed            B．frightened             C．annoyed                 D．worried

10．A．awful              B．angry                     C．distraught             D．patient

11．A．looked at     B．stared at                C．glared at                D．amazed at

12．A．I hate you, now.                                  B．How do you do?

    C．How did this happen?                        D．I love you, Darling.

13．A．a idiot             B．a genius               C．a success                D．a evil

14．A．never              B．seldom                   C．even                       D．once

15．A．wonder            B．point                     C．pleasure                 D．worry

16．A．Therefore        B．Otherwise              C．Besides                  D．However

17．A．to blame        B．to be blamed          C．to be accused         D．to be noticed

18．A．explanation      B．courage                  C．excuse                    D．sympathy

19．A．suitable           B．believeable             C．accessible               D．responsible

20．A．make out         B．look out                 C．stand out               D．miss out