阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

One day a few years ago we had an uninvited guest—a sparrow.  36  the little bird had flown into our open garage. Then I  37  the bird before I saw it.

“What’s that?”I asked when I first heard the sound.

“It’s coming from the  38  .”my wife, Anita, said. “Maybe it’s one of the little  39  .”

I looked into the garage. No children at all. But there was that sound again, coming from right up there. And that’s  40   I saw the sparrow. It was flying  41  just inches below the ceiling. It was clearly  42  to get out, but couldn’t see the way out was not up, but  43  and and out through the garage door. So the bird continued flapping its wings and bumping its little head 44  the ceiling.

I tried to terrify it out, but only succeeded in driving it into the  45  open space between the door and the ceiling. Then I tried to show the bird how to fly down a few feet  46   it could get outside, but that only seemed to  47  it more.

“Why don’t we just leave for a few minutes,” Anita  48  .“I’m sure he’ll figure it out eventually.”

We went back into the house, where we  49  to hear the ongoing struggle between the sparrow and the ceiling. Then suddenly, it was  50  and our uninvited guest was gone.

I’ve  51  that little sparrow through the years, and I’ve decided that birds are not different much from people. We think we were  52  to fly ever upward, and we don’t even consider the  53  that something good might happen if we just fly down a little bit. Once we figure out that we can make  54  without banging（碰）our heads against ceilings, we can usually save ourselves much  55  .

36.A. Still              B. Somehow          C. Instead              D. Perhaps

【答案】B

【解析】不知怎么的，这只小鸟飞进了我们开着的车库。B.不知怎么的。

37.A. heard            B. caught               C. searched           D. observed

【答案】A

【解析】根据下文when I first heard the sound， 可知本句的意思是“未见其鸟，先闻其鸣”。

38.A. house           B. backyard           C. garage               D. basement

【答案】C

【解析】根据36题所在的句子可知， 小鸟进入了garage,所以声音应该从garage传来。

39.A. birds            B. guests               C. cats                  D. kids

【答案】D

【解析】根据下文no children at all.可知, 作者的妻子认为是期中一个孩子

40.A. when            B. how                  C. why                  D. whether

【答案】A

【解析】when引导表语从句。“就在那时我看到了那只麻雀。”

41.A. quickly         B. anxiously           C. cautiously          D. slowly

【答案】B

【解析】anxiously不安的，焦虑的。因为被困，所以很焦虑。

42. A. deciding       B. hesitating           C. trying                D. choosing

【答案】C

【解析】try to get out努力要出去。

43. A. up               B. backward          C. forward            D. down

【答案】D

【解析】但是它看不到出去的路不在上方，而在下方。

44. A. against         B. off                    C. along                D. into

【答案】A

【解析】bump its little head against the ceiling 小脑袋撞击天花板

45. A. free             B. small                 C. wide                 D. dark

【答案】B

【解析】门和天花板之间的空间很小。

46. A. in case         B. even if               C. as though          D. so that

【答案】D

【解析】so that 引导目的状语从句。

47. A. puzzle          B. confuse             C. frighten             D. disturb

【答案】C

【解析】但是这样似乎使它更害怕。Frighten sb使某人害怕， 吓唬某人

48. A. suggested     B. explained           C. insisted             D. demanded

【答案】A

【解析】why don’t sb do 是表示建议的用语。 所以选择A。

49. A. attempted     B. continued          C. refused             D. failed

【答案】B

【解析】continue to do sth继续干某事

50. A. fierce           B. empty               C. safe                  D. silent

【答案】D

【解析】根据下文our uninvited guest was gone， 所以没有声音了，很安静

51.A. looked after   B. worried about    C. thought about    D. brought up

【答案】C

【解析】Ａ．照看　Ｂ．担心 Ｃ．思考  Ｄ． 提出。下文题到“鸟和人没有什么不同”，所以作者是在思考。

52. A. forced         B. determined         C. born                 D. urged

【答案】C

【解析】be born to do 天生就是干某事的。 “我们认为我们天生就是往上飞的”

53. A. idea             B. possibility          C. challenge           D. problem

【答案】B

【解析】我们甚至没有考虑这种可能性，如果我们飞的低一些，好事也可能会发生。

54. A. progress      B. peace                C. decisions           D. efforts

【答案】A

【解析】make progress取得进步

55. A. panic           B. pressure            C. loss                  D. trouble

【答案】D

【解析】save some trouble 省去很多麻烦。

从上海、北京2003年高考试卷上阅读理解题，可发现一大特色，就是阅读篇章在加大，词汇量在增多，因而平时一定要加强泛读的练习，不断提高阅读水平和阅读技巧.

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳答案.

　　 Sometime today--perhaps several times--Dick Winter will think about the19-year-old who saved his life.

　　 Because of this young man, Winter enjoys things like friendships, colours and laughter every day.

　　 The young man saved Winter's life by signing an organ donor card (器官损献卡).

   “I can't say thank you enough,” Winter said yesterday at a news conference making the tenth anniversary of the Multi Organ Transplant program at Toronto General Hospital.

    What Winter knows of the 19-year-old who saved his life is only that he died in a car accident and that his family was willing to honour his wishes and donate his organs for transplantation.

    His liver (肝脏) went to Winter, who was dying from liver trouble. “Not a day goes by that I don't think of what a painful thing it must have been for them.” Winter said yesterday.

    “They are very, very special people.”

　　 Winter, 63, is fitter now than he was 10 years ago, when he got the transplant. He has five medals from the 1995 World Transplant Games in swimming and hopes to collect some next year in Japan.

　　“At one time, we were probably strange people in the eyes of other people. Now it's expected you should be able to go back and do everything you did before, only better.”

　　 The biggest change for Winter, however, isn't that he has become a competitive athlete. The biggest change is how deeply he appreciates every little thing about his life now.

   “I have no time for arguments,” said Winter.

   “You change everything. Material things don't mean as much. Friendships mean a lot.”

    Also at yesterday's news conference was Dr. Gray Levy, Winter's doctor.

    Levy said he has bitter-sweet feelings when he looks at Winter and hears of his athletic exploits.

   Levy knows that for every recipient (接受者) like Winter, there are several others who die even though they could be saved because there aren't enough donated organs.

  “For every Mr Winter. We have five to 10 people that will never be given the chance that Mr. Winter was given.” Levy said.

   Levy said greater public awareness and more resources are needed．He noted that in Spain and the United States, hospitals receive $10,000 per donor to cover the costs of the operating room, doctors, nurses and teams to work with the donor's families.

(1)Which of the following is true about the 19-year-old? ________.

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A．He died of liver trouble

B．He got wounded in a battle

C．He was willing to donate his organs

D．He became a recipient of a prize

(2)What do we learn about Dick Winter? ________.

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A．He is becoming less competitive now

B．He is always thinking about his early life

C．He knows all about the young man and his family

D．He values friendships more than material things

(3)Dr. Levy would agree that ________.

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A．Spanish hospitals have more favorable conditions for organ transplant

B．the Canadian public have realized the importance of organ donation

C．Spanish hospitals received more money from the donors

D．Canadian hospitals now have enough donated organs

(4)What's tbe author's purpose in writing this article?______.

A．The public should give more support to organ transplant

B．Transplant patients are thankful for the help they receive

C．Transplant can change a patient stile greatly

D．It is not easy to get organs for transplant

从上海、北京2003年高考试卷上阅读理解题，可发现一大特色，就是阅读篇章在加大，词汇量在增多，因而平时一定要加强泛读的练习，不断提高阅读水平和阅读技巧.

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳答案.

　　 A lot of tourists visit Las Vegas every day Millions of people all over the world look forward to just getting a look at what Las Vegas is like. But one particular question always cross people's mind: Why is Las Vegas always on the top of every vacation resort list? Why is La s Vegas the first thing that crosses every single person's mind when the word “vacation” approaches?

    Las Vegas is the legendary dreamland for moneymakers, as well as the most perfect vacation spot ever to be open and available to vacationers throughout the whole world! Equip with 12 of the largest hotels ever to be built, casinos make your brain spin, and sights you could never finish seeing I guess the most important and popular thing that attracts so many tourists, is the money magnet that only Las Vegas possesses This craving desire for money that lives within ourselves always tends to lead to Las Vegas, which is why 30 million people hear for the golden town of gambling each and every year.

　　Now, many great famous movie stars as well as singers, and all the tops in show biz, are coming to this little town just out of nowhere to perform and entertain the many sightseers of Las Vegas. It truly brings me in awe when I note the fact that the most successful town in the whole broad world could be located in such a deserted town in which many years ago were nothing more than a giant mass of sand and mountains suffering in the tremendous desert heat. To think the human race could establish such a growing and changing treasure is so much of an abandoned, really unites the fact that if we especially work hard, and put enough effort into anything, there isn't anything we can't accomplish!

(1)Las Vegas is in ________.

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(2)The very thing for Las Vegas to attract so many tourists is the ________.

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A．wonderful sightseeing

B．dreamland

C．gambling

D．money magnet

(3)________ is always on the top of every vacation resort list.

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(4)________ like to go to Las Vegas, too.

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(5)Las Vegas comes up from ________.

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A．a wonderful place

B．a deserted place

C．a rich place

D．a small town

(1)单项选择

The research is so designed that once ________ nothing can be done to change it.

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(2)完成下面句子

过马路时一定要遵守交通规则。

________ the street, be sure to ________ the traffic rules.