Hans Christian Andersen was a poor boy who lived in Denmark. His father, a shoemaker, had died, and his mother had married again.
Andersen’s father liked to read better than to make shoes. In the evenings, he had read aloud from The Arabian Nights. His wife understood very little of the book, but the boy, pretending to sleep, understood every word.
By day Hans Christian Anderson went to a house where old women worked as weavers. There he listened to the tales that the women told. In those days, there were almost as many tales in Denmark as there were people to tell them.
Among the tales told in the town of Odense, where Andersen was born in 1805, was one about a fairy who brought death to those who danced with her. To this tale, Hans Christian later added a story from his own life.
Once, when his father was still alive, a young lady ordered a pair of red shoes. When she refused to pay for them, unhappiness filled the poor shoemaker’s house. From that small tragedy and the story of the dancing fairy, the shoemaker’s son years later wrote the story that millions of people now know as The Red Shoes.
As a little girl, Hans Christian’s mother was sent out on the streets to beg. She did not want to beg, so she hid under one of the city bridges. She warmed her cold feet in her hands, for she had no shoes. She was afraid to go home. Years later, her son, in his pity for her and his anger at the world, wrote the angry story She’s No Good and the famous tale The Little Match Girl.
Through his genius, he changed every early experience, even his father’s death, into a fairy tale. One cold day his father showed him a white, woman-like figure among the frost patterns. “That is the snow queen,” said the shoemaker. “Soon she will be coming for me.” A few months later he died. And years later, Andersen turned that sad experience into a fairy tale, The Snow Queen.
【小题1】Which of the following is TRUE about Anderson when he was a boy?

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Do you know the fiddler crab(招潮蟹) is a living clock? It shows the time of day by the color of its skin, which is dark by day and pale by night. The crab’s changing skin color follows a regular twenty-four hours cycle that exactly matches the daily rhythm of the sun.

Does the crab actually keep time, or does its skin simply respond to(对……反应) the sun’s rays, changing color according to the amount of light that strikes it? To find it out, biologists kept crabs in a dark room for two months. Even without daylight the crab’s skin color continued to change exactly on time.

This probably developed gradually in response to the rhythm of the sun, to help protect the crab from sunlight and enemies. After millions of years it has become completely regular inside the living body of the crab.

The biologists noticed that once each day the color of the fiddler crab is especially dark, and that each day this occurs fifty minutes later than on the day before. From this they discovered that each crab follows not only the rhythm of the sun but also that of the tides(潮汐). The crab’s period of greatest darkening is exactly the time of low tide on the beach where it was caught!

64. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

  A. The crab cannot actually keep time.

B. The crab’s skin changes color according to the amount of light that strikes it.

C. The crab’s skin still changes color even if there isn’t any daylight.

D. The crab likes the sun’s rays best of all.

65. The crab’s color-changing ability was probably developed _________.

  A. by the work of biologists                     B. over plenty of dark nights

C. by protecting themselves from enemies          D. over millions of years

66. The biologists discovered that the crab’s darkest color occurs _________.

  A. at the time of low tide                       B. when it’s dark

C. fifty minutes later than the sunset              D. every two days

Do you know the fiddler crab(招潮蟹) is a living clock? It shows the time of day by the color of its skin, which is dark by day and pale by night. The crab’s changing skin color follows a regular twenty-four hours cycle that exactly matches the daily rhythm of the sun.

Does the crab actually keep time, or does its skin simply respond to(对……反应) the sun’s rays, changing color according to the amount of light that strikes it? To find it out, biologists kept crabs in a dark room for two months. Even without daylight the crab’s skin color continued to change exactly on time.

This probably developed gradually in response to the rhythm of the sun, to help protect the crab from sunlight and enemies. After millions of years it has become completely regular inside the living body of the crab.

The biologists noticed that once each day the color of the fiddler crab is especially dark, and that each day this occurs fifty minutes later than on the day before. From this they discovered that each crab follows not only the rhythm of the sun but also that of the tides(潮汐). The crab’s period of greatest darkening is exactly the time of low tide on the beach where it was caught!

64. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

  A. The crab cannot actually keep time.

B. The crab’s skin changes color according to the amount of light that strikes it.

C. The crab’s skin still changes color even if there isn’t any daylight.

D. The crab likes the sun’s rays best of all.

65. The crab’s color-changing ability was probably developed _________.

  A. by the work of biologists                     B. over plenty of dark nights

C. by protecting themselves from enemies          D. over millions of years

66. The biologists discovered that the crab’s darkest color occurs _________.

  A. at the time of low tide                       B. when it’s dark

C. fifty minutes later than the sunset              D. every two days

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、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。

The story goes that some time ago, a man had a very lovely little daughter．One day the man   1his 3-year-old daughter for    2a roll of gold wrapping paper．Money was tight and he became   3when the child tried to decorate a   4to put under the Christmas tree．   5, the little girl brought the gift to her   6the next morning and said, "This is for you, Daddy．"

The man was    7by his earlier   8, but his anger flared again when he found out the box was   9．He yelled at her, stating, "Don’t you know, when you give someone a present, there is   10to be something inside?" The little girl looked   11at him with tears in her eyes and cried, "Oh, Daddy, it’s not empty   12．I blew kisses into the box．They are all for you, Daddy．"

The father was crushed. He  13his arms around his little girl, and he begged for her   14．Only a short time later, an  15took the life of the child. It is also told that her father kept that gold box by his bed for many   16and whenever he was discouraged, he would take out an  17kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there．In a very real sense, each one of us, as human beings, has been given a gold container  18unconditional love and kisses．．．from our children, family members, friends and God. There is simply no other  19, anyone could hold, more  20than this．

1.A．asked                  B．praised             C．begged              D．punished

2.A．wasting              B．stealing             C．selling                 D．holding

3.A．glad                  B．angry            C．sad                D．upset

4.A．room                 B．hall               C．box                D．ball

5.A．Nevertheless           B．But             C．Therefore      D．And

6.A．father                 B．mother                                         C．teacher            D．sister

7.A．puzzled                B．surprised         C．scared            D．embarrassed

8.A．overwork              B．overreaction      C．overcoat           D．overpass

9.A．empty                  B．heavy             C．full             D．wet

10.A．happened           B．seemed          C．supposed        D．used

11.A．down               B．back                C．up                  D．forward

12.A．at all                 B．after all             C．above all       D．in all

13.A．put                  B．turned             C．handed          D．gave

14.A．kindness             B．forgiveness        C．sadness             D．carelessness

15.A．overcoat            B．incident             C．accident           D．action

16.A．days                    B．months           C．nights              D．years

17.A．imaginary            B．kind               C ．gentle             D．warm

18.A．filled with      B．pleased with           C．crowded with     D．equipped with

19.A．world          B．feeling                  C．possession          D．love

20.A．expensive             B．precious            C．comfortable        D．interesting