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　　A warm, dusty wind was blowing over the harbor (海港) from the south．Where it stopped, it left a thin layer of fine African sand, a bit of unwanted Africa, and also unwanted by France．

　　Clive stood with Dick, a racing driver, in the ship, watching the cares being taken from the land． Some of the cars were already in the ship．

　　‘ I hope this wind will have changed by the time we get there,’ the driver said, staring up at the cream-colored sky． ‘These conditions wouldn’t be any good for racing．’

　　‘Don’t worry,’ Clive said with a smile． ‘It’ll hardly trouble us, since Argentina is about 7,000 miles away．’

　　Surprise came over the driver’s face． ‘Is that so? We should leave it behind then, shouldn’t we?’

　　They talked for a while about Argentina． Clive was going on business, but Dick was to take part in a motor-race． It was his first important event outside Europe．He mentioned the date of the race-December 30, and added, ‘I’ve never raced in cold winter before．’

　　Their conversation was then turned to the young driver．He was an engineer, twenty-six years old． Motor-racing was his great love, and he was recently driving a car made in France． He spoke well enough, so Clive thought he must have had a good education．However, something seemed to have gone wrong- or was different these days． Here he was, going to Argentina, but without much idea where the country was． When he spoke of a cousin of his, who worked in South Africa- ‘Is there any chance of this ship calling there ?’ Clive realized that the young man had no map of the world in his mind．

　　He had plans to race in South Africa and in Japan． To him, they were places on the earth, and probably that was all． Clive was interested because the man seemed cheerfully unconscious of his lack of knowledge． What was worse, he even thought everyone else was as foolish as him．

　　Dust blew into their faces． “This wind from Africa…’ but he did not go on． Was there any point of his saying so? To the young man, it might have been the same as a wind from China． Were there many people, he wondered, who did not know where they were going, or even where they were?

1．Clive and Dick were on the ship because they ______．

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A．were leaving for South America

B．wanted to see a French motor-race

C．tried to stay away from a dust storm

D．had gone there to get the motor-cars

2．Clive was puzzled when the driver spoke about the weather conditions because ______．

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A．the weather didn’t look like changing

B．the driver couldn’t race that day

C．the driver thought conditions would be the same in Argentina

D．the long distance to Argentina had surprised the man

3．_________ made Clive try to find out more of the young driver．

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A．It was his interest in people with exciting jobs that

B．The young man’s idea that the race would be run in winter

C．His wish to make a friend for the long trip

D．His wish to make the young driver feel less worried

4．What seemed to have gone wrong was that ______．

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A．an engineer should waster time racing

B．people started on long journeys without any maps

C．the young man’s education was far from perfect

D．the young man was on the wrong ship for South America

5．Clive and Dick were not the same kind of people because ______．

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A．the driver was much younger than Clive

B．their jobs were different

C．Clive knew his way about the world, but the young man didn’t

D．the wind worried Dick, but it didn’t trouble Clive

I don’t remember her name and would not recognize her if I were to pass her on the street. But I do__36__the kindness given by a stranger and the difference it has made in my life.

One Sunday, I was told to dress in my best clothes for I was going to __37__ . She smiled brightly as I got into her car, the car of a __38__I did not even know her name, but here I was , along with four others I __39__from our low-income neighborhood, on our way to church.

As we __40__ into the parking lot, I remember how beautiful the old stone building was with its tall steeple(尖塔)and stained glass windows. The__41__seemed long, and not accustomed to the rituals(仪式)of the Catholic Church, I felt out of place. Once the service had ended, I __42__ to be taken home, but __43__ we headed in the opposite direction. We were taken to a small__44__with the furnishings that portrayed a simple lifestyle. Two tables were set up with large boxes__45__ puzzles. As she made us hot chocolate, we were__46__ to begin working the puzzles. It was a quiet and happy time.

I came to __47__ Sundays，to hot chocolate, to puzzles that__48__ where we had left off the week before, and to the love I felt whenever she __49___at me .

Once our 1,000-piece puzzles had been completed, she no longer came to__50__us up on Sundays .I was told she was__51__ and no longer able to travel. However, I _52__ if perhaps it was time for her to “rescue” the next group of children. To give them hope that kindness still__53__ and can be found within those we call strangers.

I am forty-four years old now and often show__54__to strangers when given the chance. I know she may not move amongst us now, but I hope she smiles when she sees that her efforts to reach out to those less fortunate__55__.

1.                A．forget          B．understand      C．remember D．see

 

2.                A．school         B．college         C．hospital   D．church

 

3.                A．friend          B．stranger        C．teacher   D．leader

 

4.A recognized        B. described          C. realized         D. offered

5.                A．pulled          B．pushed         C．broke    D．stopped

 

6.                A．service         B．holiday         C．cure D．ceremony

 

7.                A．imagined       B．recommended   C．expected D．expressed

 

8.                A．besides         B．except         C．instead   D．still

 

9.                A．park           B．apartment       C．field D．path

 

10.               A．consisting       B．concluding      C．including  D．containing

 

11.               A．instructed      B．explored       C．convinced D．determined

 

12.               A．pay attention to B．devote to       C．look forward to D．lead to

 

13.               A．covered        B．replaced        C．changed   D．remained

 

14.               A．stared         B．smiled         C．threw D．glared

 

15.               A．make          B．pick           C．take  D．bring

 

16.               A．lost            B．gone           C．ill    D．old

 

17.               A．wondered      B．wandered       C．hoped D．insisted

 

18.               A．gathers         B．exists          C．drops D．moves

 

19.               A．respect        B．guidance       C．signs  D．kindness

 

20.A appear           B. fade              C. continue        D. create

 

Most of the 20th century has been a development on the Industrial Revolution taken to an extreme: people now own more products than ever before; there are enough unclear weapons to destroy the earth several times over; there is hardly any forest left and pollution has got to the point where we buy water. Within a few years I predict you will be able to buy air. (There once was a time when you didn’t need to buy food or shelter either.)

Important developments in the last century are the breading down of the class structures left over from the Industrial Revolution stage, bringing with it the empowerment of the “common man ”: the working day is set by law to only 8 hours a day, everyone has the vote, the media has less obvious government control, people have landed on the moon, sent spacecrafts to Mars and so on. Families have also shrunk drastically（强烈地）; the nuclear family came about, and especially in the last half of the 20th century, one-parent families are becoming more common. This shrinking in the size of the family shows the increased independence of people—once upon a time people had to live in large groups to survive.

As humans have “become the gods”, they have realized their individuality and independence and taken their control of the world to an extreme. In many countries the land is almost completely used in the land is almost completely used in the production of food and as living space and they live in small cities which are entirely human constructed, made from materials which are also entirely human constructed(concrete, bricks) with hardly any remains of nature. Weeds are poisoned because they are messy; even parks have trees grown in tidy lines; grass is mowed to keep it short and so on. I think the massive drug “problem” troubling people is a result of too much of this influence, humans needing to escape the stark world they have created by entering fantasy worlds.

Over the last 100 years, the 20th century consciousness has spread throughout the world; most of Asia has been thoroughly “Westernized”, and most of the Third World is being overrun by western ways of doing things and living.

1.What’s the author most concerned about?

A．The influence of pollution.         

B．Strong effects of development.

         C．Changed positions of humans as gods.    

         D．The process of the Industrial Revolution.

2.What is the author’s attitude towards the changes of the 20th century? 

A．Objective.  B．Tolerant.    C．Vague.        D．Negative.

3.What does the underlined word “stark” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A．Unfair.        B．Illegal.        C．Dull.   D．Violent.

4.What can be inferred from the passage?

A．Men’s individuality is over controlled.

B．People have damaged nature too much.

C．Men’s independence is partially limited.

D．People show concern for nuclear families.

 

My husband and son took a New York-to-Milwaukee flight that was supposed to leave Friday at 11:29 am. The flight boarded after 4 pm and didn’t leave the gate until 4:40, and half an hour later the pilot announced it would be another hour until takeoff. At that point a Jewish family, worried about violating the Sabbath （安息日）, asked to get off. Going back to the gate cost the plane its place in line for takeoff, and the flight was eventually cancelled. Was the airline right to grant that request?

M. W, Norwalk, CONN.

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Situations like that can bring out the worst in people. But despite the increasing resentment（怨恨） of a plane full of people, the pilot tried to do the right thing. He went out of his way to satisfy one family’s urgent need. He should not have done so.

Passengers bought tickets in the belief that the airline’s primary goal was to get them to their destination as close to the schedule as possible. Once they got on the plane and the doors are locked, it’s not correct to announce that the rules have changed and that a personal (as opposed to medical) emergency —no matter how urgent — might take precedence（优先）.

That would be just as true if turning back to the gate had merely cost a few minutes rather than doomed the flight entirely, since on a plane, even a slight delay can spread outward, from the people in the cabin to those meeting them to the passengers waiting to board the plane for the next leg of its journey and so on. It would also be true if the personal emergency were not religious — if someone suddenly realized she’d made a professional mistake that might cost her millions, and she had to race back to the office to fix it.

If a religious practice does nothing to harm others, then airlines should make a reasonable effort to accommodate it. Though that family has every right to observe the Sabbath, it has no right to enlist an airplane full of captive bystanders to help them do so. By boarding a flight on a Friday afternoon, the family knowingly risked running into trouble. The risk was theirs alone to bear.

1.M. W. wrote the letter to ask whether ______.

A．Any religious passenger has the right to ask the pilot to take off

B．The airline has the right to cancel the flight without any reason

C．A flight should meet any passenger’s need despite others’ benefit

D．A plane which has left the gate should give up taking off

2.What do we know from the reply letter?

A．The pilot did the right thing in spite of the fierce resentment.

B．The plane should turn back if anyone aboard is seriously ill.

C．Anybody who has boarded has no chance to get off the plane.

D．Any flight shouldn’t change its schedule no matter what has happened.

3.What does the underlined part in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．Turning back to the gate usually takes a plane quite a long time.

B．Nobody should take precedence to require the plane to turn back to the gate.

C．Even if it had taken a few minutes it was not right to turn back to the gate.

D．It was OK if turning back to the gate hadn’t caused the flight to be cancelled.

4.The author of the reply letter thinks that _________.

A．It’s right for the plane to turn back to the gate to save a passenger’s treasure

B．The Jewish family should give up observing the Sabbath after boarding

C．The biggest problem of turning back is to bring trouble to the pilot

D．The Jewish family had better avoid boarding on Friday afternoon

 

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　　A Frenchman arrived at a small Italian town and was staying with his wife at the best hotel there. One night he went out for a 1 alone. It was late and the street was dark and 2 . Suddenly he heard 3 behind him. He turned his head and saw an Italian man quickly walk past him. The man was nearly 4 when the Frenchman suddenly found his watch was 5 . He thought that 6 was the Italian who had taken his watch. He decided to follow him and 7 him to return the watch.

　　Soon the Frenchman 8 the Italian. They didn't understand each other's language. The Frenchman 9 the Italian with signs and pointed to his watch in his pocket. The Italian thought that the Frenchman was 10 his own watch. The Italian, 11 , gave up his watch to the Frenchman.

　　When he returned to the hotel, the Frenchman told his wife 12 had happened. He was greatly 13 when his wife pointed the watch on the table. Now he 14 that by mistake he had 15 the Italian of his watch.

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