第二节  读写任务（共1小题，满分25分）

阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词的英语短文。

When students first go to a library, they may be at a loss as to what to read of all the different

subjects. Well, Bacon tells you to “look at weak places in your armor (盔甲)”, and shows you how to fill up the blanks in your knowledge. On the other hand, it is no good just trying to fill your mind with knowledge. Knowledge in itself is often useless. A mind filled with too much knowledge is like a room too full of furniture; a man cannot walk about freely in it, and look out of the windows. It is much better to concentrate on a few subjects that interest you and to deal lightly with the others than to march heavily through the whole range of learning, like a silly tourist going through a museum and not missing a single object. If you try to master every subject you may become very wise, but you will be very lonely and you will probably lose all your friends. So you must learn to pick and choose, and you must also learn to look here and there in a library like a camel eating grass on the grassland. If you watch it eating, you will see that although he is supposed to be one of the most stupid animals in the world, he has at least one of the qualities of the cultured man, the power to pick and choose. A student looking for mental food in a library should take the camel as his model.

[写作内容]

用约30个词概括以上短文内容；

用约120个词就“读书是否应有所选择还是应博览群书”的主题发表看法，并包括以下要点：

有人认为一个人的时间和精力有限，所以读书要有所选择；

有人认为要全面了解世界，就应当博览群书；

你自己的看法及理由。

[写作要求]

可以使用实例或其他论述方法支持你的论点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得

直接引用原文中的句子；

标题自定。

[评分标准]

概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。

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第二部分阅读理解（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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

I used to work in an office, which had a Iocust tree growing outside the window. It had grown into a tall tree and must have been there for a long time. The tree blocked the view and made the office seem dull. Unfortunately, this happened to be the room assigned(分配)to me, and l was depressed by it for quite some time.

When the first spring came, everything was green except the locust tree.I felt very happy because I had thought it had died!

One moming, when I opened the window for some some fresh air,I unexpectedly smelt a familiar

sweet scent floating into my office which I could not name. Suddenly,I realized it was the locust tree!

The tree that I thought dead was in full bloom!

From then on,I usually came to the office very early to see dew【露珠】forming on the locust treeblossoms, and was eager to see spring again every year.

During summer, the green leaves provided shade protecting me from the harsh sunlight, butallowing enough light in to make it pleasant. In autumn, the leaves turned many different colors. Its beauty touched my soul. Many times,I thought to take photos but never did. Then,I had to leave in a hurry. Later in life, it became a great regret that I had not done so.

Actually, many times in our livesj we think we own something and thus do not value it.We don't

feel regretful until we lose it one day! Moreover, sometimes, we have to accept the things we don'twant and need to discover the hidden beauty tofind unexpected joy!

56. The Jocust tree first attracted the author most by____.

A. the way it blocked the view    B.its height

C. the smell ofits flowers    D.its green leaves

57. In which season do you think the author paid the least attention to the locust tree?

A. Spring.    B.Summer    C.Autumn.    D.Winter.

58. Which ofthe following statements is true of the author according to the passage?

A. He would have regretted ifthe locust tree had died as he had thought it had.

B. The locust tree turned out to be a lovely memory for him.

C. He felt unhappy as he had forgotten to take the photos with him.

D. Hls work in the office changed with the seasons every year.

59. It can be inferred from the passage that _

A. the locust tree died soon after the author left the office

B. the author worked in the office for at least a few years

C. it was summer when the author took his job in the office

D. the wPather was dry when the author first saw the tree

60. What advice does the author intend to give us?

A. Treasure what we've owned.                B. Look before you leap.

C. Treat everything calmly.                  D. Never forget the past.

 阅读下列短文，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。
A young man, a student in one of our universities, was one day taking a walk with a professor, who was commonly called the students’ friend, for his kindness to those who waited on his instructions．
　   As they went along, they saw   21  in the path a pair of old shoes, which they supposed to belong to a poor man who was employed in a field close by, and who had   22  finished his day’s work．
　The student   23  the professor, saying, “Let’s play the man a（n）   24 : we will hide his shoes, and we stay behind those bushes, and wait to see his  25  when he cannot find them.”
　  “My young friend,” answered the professor, “we should never  26  ourselves at the expense of the poor．You are   27 , and may give yourself a much greater pleasure by means of helping the poor man．Put a  28  into each shoe, and then we will hide ourselves and watch how the   29  affects him.”
　  The student did so,  30  they both placed themselves behind the bushes close by．
　  The poor man soon finished his work, and came   31  the field to the path where he had left his coat and shoes．While   32  his coat he slipped his foot into one of his shoes; but feeling something 33 , he bent down to feel what it was, and found the coin．
　  Astonishment and wonder were seen upon his face．He gazed upon the coin, turned it round, and looked at it again and again．He then looked around 34  on all sides, but no person was to be seen．He now put the money into his pocket, and went on to put on the other shoe; but his surprise was  35  on finding the other coin．
　  His feelings   36  him; he fell upon his  37 , looked up to heaven and let out a sincere thanksgiving, in which he spoke of his wife, sick and  38 , and his children without bread, whom the timely giving, from some unknown hand, would save from dying．
　  The student stood there deeply affected, his eyes filled with tears．“Now,” said the professor,
“Are you not much better pleased than if you had played your  39  trick?” The youth replied, “You have taught me a lesson which I will never forget．I feel now the  40 of those words, which I never understood before: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
【小题1】．

A．healthy

B．kind

C．mean

D．rich

A．faith

B．fact

C．truth

D．reliability