III．阅读 （共两节，满分40分）

第一节 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

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

A little under one-third of U.S. families have no Internet access and do not plan to get it, with most of the holdouts seeing little use for it in their lives, according to a survey released on Friday.

Park Associates, a Dallas-based technology market research firm, said 29 percent of U.S. families, or 31 million homes, do not have Internet access and do not intend to subscribe（预订） to an Internet service over the next 12 months. The second annual National Technology Scan conducted by Park found that the main reason why potential customers say they do not subscribe to the Internet is because of the low value to their daily lives rather than concerns over cost.

Forty-four percent of these families say they are not interested in anything on the Internet, versus just 22 percent who say they cannot afford a computer or the cost of Internet service, the survey showed. The answer "I'm not sure how to use the Internet" came from 17 percent of participants who do not subscribe. The response "I do all my e-commerce shopping and YouTube-watching at work" was cited by 14 percent of Internet-access refuseniks. Three percent said the Internet doesn't reach their homes.

The study found U.S. broadband adoption grew to 52 percent over 2006, up from 42 percent in 2005. Roughly half of new subscribers converted（转变） from slower-speed, dial-up Internet access while the other half of families had no prior access.

"The industry continues to chip （击破）away at the core of non-subscribers, but has a long way to go," said John Barrett, director of research at Parks Associates. "Entertainment applications will be the key. If anything will pull in the holdouts, it's going to be applications that make the Internet more similar to pay-TV," he predicted.

41. What does the underlined word “holdouts” in the first paragraph most probably mean?

A. some American families      

B. those who hold out one’s opinions

C. those who have been surveyed    

D. those who still haven’t access to the Internet currently

42. Many potential customers refuse to subscribe to the Internet mainly because __________.

A. they show too much concern about the cost

B. they can find little value of it

C. they do most YouTube-watching at work

D. the Internet doesn’t reach their homes

43. From the passage we can infer that _____________.

A. It is not an easy job to transform those holdouts into the Internet users

B. people will adopt dial-up Internet access no more

C. many Americans enjoy doing e-commerce shopping at home

D. more than half of the population are using the Internet in 2005

44. According to John Barrett, what is the key to attracting more U.S. families to broadband service?

A. making the Internet look more similar to TV set

B. applying the Internet more to entertainment

C. providing more pay-TV programs

D. chipping away at the core of non-subscribers

45. Which is the best title for the passage?

A. Web develops with technology

B. The present situation of web

C. Many Americans see little point to web

D. It is urgent to promote web service

 

 

    阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(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。

When I was thirteen, my family moved from Boston to Tucson, Arizona.  1the move, my father  2us in the living-room on a freezing January night. My sisters and I sat around the fire, not   3that the universe would suddenly change its course. "In May, we’re  4to Arizona."

     The words, so small, didn’t seem  5enough to hold my new life. But the world changed and I awoke on a tram moving across the country. I watched the  6_  change from green trees to flat dusty plains to high mountains as I saw strange new plants that  7mysteries(奥秘) yet to come. Finally, we arrived and  8into own new home.

9my older sisters were sad at the loss of friends, I   10explored(探索) our new surroundings.

     One afternoon, I was out exploring  11and saw a new kind of cactus(仙人掌). I crouched (蹲) down for a closer look. "You’d better not  12that."

     I turned around to see an old woman

     "Are you new lo this neighborhood?" I explained that I was,  13, new to the entire state.

     "My name is Ina Thorne. Have you got used to life in the  14? It must be quite a _15after living in Boston."

     How could I explain how I  16the desert? I couldn’t seem to find the right words.

     "It’s vastness," she offered. “That vastness  17you stand on the mountains overlooking the desert -- you can  18how little you are in comparison with the world.  _19, you feel that the possibilities are limitless.”

     That was it. That was the feeling I’d bad ever since I’d first seen the mountains of my new home. Again, my  20would change with just a few simple words.

     "Would you like to come to my home tomorrow? Someone should teach you which plant you should and shouldn’t touch."

1.A. During         B. Until                C. Upon             D. Before      

2.A. gathered       B. warned           C. organized            D. comforted 

3.A. hoping             B. admitting            C. realizing            D. believing  

4.A. going          B. moving           C. driving              D. flying    

5.A. good           B. simple           C. big                  D. proper   

6.A. picture            B. ground               C. scene            D. area     

7.A. suggested      B. solved               C. discovered           D. explained 

8.A. settled            B. walked               C. hurried          D. stepped 

9.A. If             B. After            C. once             D. While    

10.A. bitterly          B. easily          C. proudly          D. eagerly   

11.A as well            B. as usual             C. fight away           D. on time  

12.A. move              B. dig                  C. pull                 D. touch    

13.A. of course    B. in fact          C. after all            D. at least  

14.A. desert            B. city                 C. state                D. country  

15.A. luck              B. doubt                C. shock            D. danger  

16.A. found         B. examined             C. watched          D. reached   

17.A. why           B. when             C. how                  D. where  

18.A. prove             B. guess                C. sense           D. expect   

19.A. However       B. Otherwise            C. Therefore            D. Meanwhile

20.A. idea          B. life                 C. home                 D. family  

 

第二节 语法填空 (共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31～40的相应位置上。

Feneque, for his part, couldn't stop wondering what had happened to the woman on the tracks. He went on his own hunt, posting a message on a newspaper website asking if anyone knew 31.________ the woman who'd fallen in the subway 32._________(survive) or not. No one responded. Several weeks later, while surfing the Internet for any new clues, Feneque found a television station had posted an update on its website, detailing Donath's recovery and her search for her rescuer. Feneque e-mailed the address 33.____________(provide) to say that he was that man.

When the two first met, Donath threw 34.____________ arms around Feneque and wept. It was overwhelming, she says, to try to convey her 35.____________ (feel). "What do you say to the person who saved your life?" When they met again several months later, for this photo shoot, it felt a lot 36.____________(easy). "I finally had the chance to hear his side of the story in detail," she says. "He really just seems like such 37.____________ sweet and humble person."

Feneque says there's no point in 38.____________(wonder) why he was on the platform. "Whether it was pure coincidence or sent from above, who's to say? 39.____________I know is I was there and I'd do it again," he says.

"I have a daughter. And I said 40.____________ myself, I'm going to help this person. She could be anybody's daughter."

III．阅读 （共两节，满分40分）

第一节 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

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

A little under one-third of U.S. families have no Internet access and do not plan to get it, with most of the holdouts seeing little use for it in their lives, according to a survey released on Friday.

Park Associates, a Dallas-based technology market research firm, said 29 percent of U.S. families, or 31 million homes, do not have Internet access and do not intend to subscribe（预订） to an Internet service over the next 12 months. The second annual National Technology Scan conducted by Park found that the main reason why potential customers say they do not subscribe to the Internet is because of the low value to their daily lives rather than concerns over cost.

Forty-four percent of these families say they are not interested in anything on the Internet, versus just 22 percent who say they cannot afford a computer or the cost of Internet service, the survey showed. The answer "I'm not sure how to use the Internet" came from 17 percent of participants who do not subscribe. The response "I do all my e-commerce shopping and YouTube-watching at work" was cited by 14 percent of Internet-access refuseniks. Three percent said the Internet doesn't reach their homes.

The study found U.S. broadband adoption grew to 52 percent over 2006, up from 42 percent in 2005. Roughly half of new subscribers converted（转变） from slower-speed, dial-up Internet access while the other half of families had no prior access.

"The industry continues to chip （击破）away at the core of non-subscribers, but has a long way to go," said John Barrett, director of research at Parks Associates. "Entertainment applications will be the key. If anything will pull in the holdouts, it's going to be applications that make the Internet more similar to pay-TV," he predicted.

41. What does the underlined word “holdouts” in the first paragraph most probably mean?

A. some American families      

B. those who hold out one’s opinions

C. those who have been surveyed    

D. those who still haven’t access to the Internet currently

42. Many potential customers refuse to subscribe to the Internet mainly because __________.

A. they show too much concern about the cost

B. they can find little value of it

C. they do most YouTube-watching at work

D. the Internet doesn’t reach their homes

43. From the passage we can infer that _____________.

A. It is not an easy job to transform those holdouts into the Internet users

B. people will adopt dial-up Internet access no more

C. many Americans enjoy doing e-commerce shopping at home

D. more than half of the population are using the Internet in 2005

44. According to John Barrett, what is the key to attracting more U.S. families to broadband service?

A. making the Internet look more similar to TV set

B. applying the Internet more to entertainment

C. providing more pay-TV programs

D. chipping away at the core of non-subscribers

45. Which is the best title for the passage?

A. Web develops with technology

B. The present situation of web

C. Many Americans see little point to web

D. It is urgent to promote web service

 

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

 

Arriving in a new city, I had the strangest first week of my graduate school. I fell and broke my 1within two days of arriving there! I was really  2by the kindness shown by my new  3, someone who I had only just met. "We are family now", she said when she found me  4in my room with a swollen leg, unable to move, in a  5city with no family except across three oceans.

She  6me to the student health center by taxi to get my leg  7. The driver was so nice and said to me how  8I was to have a friend like that. After that, my roommate  9stop helping me — she made me delicious meals and  10them to me and made me comfortable despite my insistence that I could do things on my own. When I refused her help, "I really like  11people", she would say, "and I believe what goes  12always comes around..." and this was from someone who I had been   13just by chance!

I was  14touched by the kindness of everyone — the girl in the elevator, people on the bus, the doctors and nurses—people who were so considerate and  15. Not feeling lonely and homesick any more, I  16I’ve become a member of a big family.

The small acts  17in my mind — the bus drivers gave me the luxury of being picked up from any point wherever and made sure I could get the connections to  18I needed to go... or the many people who  19the door open for me — small things that were incredibly hard with inconvenience. In whatever way I could, I decided to 20the universe for its blessings.

1.A. leg                B. arms             C. back             D. fingers

2.A. interested         B. assisted         C. touched          D. advocated

3.A. classmate          B. teacher          C. desk-mate        D. roommate

4.A. studying           B. lying                C. walking          D. dying

5.A. strange            B. different            C. big              D. small

6.A. brought           B. fetched          C. took             D. drove

7.A. examined           B. examining        C. examine          D. to examine

8.A. easy               B. comfortable      C. inspiring            D. lucky

9.A. didn't             B. had to           C. failed to            D. promised to

10.A. cooked            B. brought          C. bought           D. sent

11.A. to help           B. help             C. being helped         D. helping

12.A. around            B. across           C. over             D. beyond

13.A. parted                B. passed           C. paired           D. pitied

14.A. slightly         B. secretly          C. seriously            D. suddenly

15.A. concentrated      B. concerned        C. changed          D. conducted

16.A. felt              B. stopped          C. announced        D. determined

17.A. stayed                B. lasted               C. grew             D. related

18.A. whatever          B. whenever         C. wherever         D. whoever

19.A. prepared          B. held             C. tended           D. threw

20.A. refuse            B. repay                C. reach                D. receive