75. The writer provides two book lists to ________.

　 A. show how he developed his point of view

　 B. tell his reading experience at high school

C. introduce the two persons' reading methods

　 D. explain that he read many books at high school

答案　 71.A　 72.A　 73.A　 74.C　 75.B

Passage 40

(06·全国ⅠB篇)

Many years ago, when I was fresh out of school and working in Denver, I was driving to my parents’ home in Missouri for Christmas. I stopped at a gas station(加油站) about 50 miles from Oklahoma City, where I was planning to stop and visit a friend. While I was standing in line at the cash register(收款台), I said hello to an older couple who were also paying for gas.

I took off, but had gone only a few miles when black smoke poured from the back of my car. I stopped and wondered what I should do. A car pulled up behind me. It was the couple I had spoken to at the gas station. They said they would take me to my friend’s. We chatted on the way into the city, and when I got out of the car, the husband gave me his business card.

I wrote him and his wife a thank-you note for helping me. Soon afterward, I received a Christ-mas present from them. Their note that came with it said that helping me had made their holidays meaningful.

Years later, I drove to a meeting in a nearby town in the morning. In late afternoon I returned to my car and found that I’d left the lights on all day, and the battery(电池) was dead. Then I noticed that the Friendly Ford dealership－a shop selling cars－was right next door. I walked over and found two salesmen in the showroom.

“Just how friendly is Friendly Ford?” I asked and explained my trouble. They quickly drove a pickup truck to my car and started it. They would accept no payment, so when　 I got home, I wrote them a note to say thanks. I received a letter back from one of the salesmen. No one had ever taken the time to write him and say thank you, and it meant a lot, he said.

“Thank you”－two powerful words. They’re easy to say and mean so much.

74. The writer's purpose in mentioning The Republic is to________.

　 A. explain why it was included in the list

　 B. describe why he seriously crossed it off the list

　 C. show that he read the books blindly though they were hard to understand

　 D. prove that he understood most of it because he had looked at every word

73. The underlined phrase "with finality" probably means

　 A. firmly　　 　　　　B. clearly　　　　　　　　　　 　 　C. proudly　　 　　 　　D. pleasantly

72. While at high school, the writer________.

　 A. had plans for reading　　 　　　　　　　 　　　　B. learned to educate himself

　 C. only read books over 100 pages　　 　　　　D. read only one book several times

71. On heating the teacher's suggestion of reading, the writer thought________.

A. one must read as many books as possible

　 B. a student should not have a complicated idea

　 C. it was impossible for one to read two thousand books

　 D. students ought to make a list of the books they had read

61. From Smoller's words, we can infer that ________.

　　 A. Jim's father cared little about his study

　　 B. Smoller agreed that Jim did kill his father

　　 C. Jim thought he would be punished some day

　　 D. Smoller believed Jim wouldn't live to the age of 48

答案　 59.A　 60.D　 61.C

Passage 39

(07·四川E篇)

I entered high school having read hundreds of books. But I was not a good reader. Merely bookish, I lacked a point of view when I read. Rather, I read in order to get a point of view. I searched books for good expressions and sayings, pieces of information, ideas, themes-anything to enrich my thought and make me feel educated. When one of my teachers suggested to his sleepy tenth-grade English class that a person could not have a "complicated (复杂的) idea" until he had read at least two thousand books, I heard the words without recognizing either its irony (嘲讽) or its very complicated truth. I merely determined to make a list of all the books I had ever read. Strict with myself, I included only once a title I might have read several times. ( How, after all, could one read a book more than once?) And I included only those books over a hundred pages in length. ( Could anything shorter be a book?)

There was yet another high school list I made. One day I came across a newspaper article about an English professor at a nearby state college. The article had a list of the "hundred most important books of Western Civilization. " "More than anything else in my life," the professor told the reporter with finality , " these books have made me all that I am . " That was the kind of words I couldn’t ignore (忽视). I kept the list for the several months it took me to read all of the titles. Most books, of course, I hardly understood. While reading Plato's The Republic, for example, I needed to keep looking at the introduction of the book to remind myself what the text was about. However, with the special patience and superstition (迷信) of a schoolboy, I looked at every word of the text. And by me time I reached the last word, pleased, I persuaded myself that I had read The Republic, and seriously crossed Plato off my list.

60. What made Dr. Smoller feel strange about Jim's case?

A. Jim died at a young age.　　 　

B. Jim died on the operating table.

C. Both Jim and his father died of the same disease.　　

D. Jim's death is closely connected with his father's.

59. Jim was sent back to operation because ________.

A. his heart didn't work well　　 　　　　 　　　　B. he expected a full recovery

　　 C. his life was drawing to a close　　 　　　　D. the first one wasn't well performed

59.Which of the following is TRUE?

　 A.The writer could run faster than Amery.

B.The writer liked playing on boys of all sizes.

C.Amery was a student in Grade Four.

D.Amery forgave the writer for his rude behavior.

答案　 56.C　 57.D　 58.A　 59.D

Passage 38

(07·四川B篇)

Jim suffered heart problems. In conversation he expressed little joy and it seemed that his life was drawing to a close.

When his heart problems led to operation, Jim went through it successfully, and a full recovery was expected. Within days, however, his heart was not beating properly. Jim was rushed back to operation, but nothing was found to explain the cause of his illness. He died on the operating table on the day before his 48^th birthday.

Dr. Bruce Smoller, a psychologist (心理学家), had had many conversations with him, and the more he learned, the stranger he realized Jim's case was. When Jim was a child, his father, a teacher, suffered a heart attack and stayed home to recover. One morning Jim asked his father to look over his homework, promising to come home from school at noon to pick it up. His father agreed, but when Jim returned his father had died. Jim's father was 48.

"I think all his life Jim believed he killed his father," Dr. Smoller says. "He felt that if he had not asked him to look at his homework, his father would have lived. Jim had been troubled by the idea. The operation was the trial (判决) he had expected for forty years. " Smoller believes that Jim willed himself not to live to the age of 48.

　　 Jim's case shows the powerful role that attitude (态度) plays in physical health, and that childhood experiences produce far-reaching effect on the health of grown-ups. Although most cases are less direct than Jim's, studies show that childhood events, besides genes, may well cause such midlife diseases as cancer, heart disease and mental illness.

58.By saying “My father, who is a great man, is also small”, the write　 .

　 A.tried to please Amery　　　 　　　　　　　　B.challenged Amery

C.threatened Amery　　　　　 　　　　　　　D.admired his father