A Tchaikovsky concerto（协奏曲）is what made Romel Joseph fall in love with the violin.

He learned how to play in Haiti, where he was born, but a Fulbright scholarship brought him to the United States, and he finally earned a master’s degree, reports CBS News reporter Katie Couric. Music had changed his life. He wanted to do the same for the children of Haiti.

Joseph built a school in Port-au-Prince nearly 20 years ago. He was on the third floor when suddenly “It was like boom boom boom and everything just opened,” Joseph said. “And the next thing I knew I was on the ground.”

Blind since birth, Joseph tried to feel his way out, but was pinned（夹）beneath heavy concrete（混凝土）. He remained trapped for 18 hours. He prays that his new wife, seven months pregnant（怀孕的）, will be found.

He is now being treated at Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital for two injured legs and an arm.

Joseph wonders if he’ll ever play the violin again. He can feel sensation（知觉）in his fingertips. He said, “If you were to give me a violin and if I didn’t have to fold the fingers, I would be able to play.”

Joseph’s daughter Victoria spent three terrifying days unsure of her father’s fate. For her, having him home is the sweetest music.

“Can you imagine your dad not being able to play the violin?” Couric asked.

“No, I can’t,” Victoria Joseph said. “But I will love him all the same if he can’t.”

Romel doesn’t know how many of his 300 students died in the quake. As he waits for news about his wife, Romel Joseph is already planning a return to Haiti to rebuild the school and continue teaching there.

“We can save two children, 20, 200, 300, 500 through education and music, and these children will make a difference,” Romel Joseph said.

54．Romel began to like music ________.

A. because he was blind since birth

B. after he had listened to a famous piece of music

C. when he got a scholarship to study in America

D. since he was born in Haiti

55．From what Romel said in Paragraph 6, we can infer that he was ________.

A. upset        B. fearful          C. excited          D. optimistic

56．To Victoria, the best thing is ________.

A. to see her father recover from the injury quickly

B. to listen to her father playing the sweetest music

C. to play the violin as well as her father

D. to be sure that her father could play the violin

57．Why does Romel want to go back to Haiti?

A. To save his students from the earthquake.

B. To change the life of children by teaching music.

C. To find out how seriously his school was damaged.

D. To look for his wife who is pregnant.

58．Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A. Music education: keep your creativity alive

B. A great blind musician and his students

C. Haiti earthquake: a story of a music teacher

D. How did some Haiti earthquake victims survive

There is no excuse for not doing your assignments（作业）. If you can’t come to school, you should call your teacher or your classmate and ask about homework. It is your responsibility（责任）to find out what homework you have missed. It is not the teacher’s job to remind you of the missed assignments.

You must not be absent on a test day. If you are seriously ill, call and let the teacher know you will not be there for the test. If your teacher allows a make-up test（补考），you should take the test within one or two days after you return to class. Serious illness is the only reason for missing a test.

Be on time! It is impolite to be late. Also, it bothers other students. If you must come in late, be sure to do it quietly. Have your books and papers out of your bag before you come into the room. Then go to your seat and sit down quietly. In the USA, it is not necessary to knock before you enter the classroom. Most teachers will give you a low grade if you are often late.

In America, you should call your teacher by his or her last name instead of “ teacher”. Also you should use Mr, Miss, Ms or Mrs before the last name ( such as Mrs Smith or Mr Jones). This is polite. The teacher will tell you the title that he or she likes. It is impolite in the USA to eat, drink or chew gum during class. Don’t do these until the break. Also, removing your shoes in the classroom is not polite.

1.What should you do if you miss a class?

A．Give an excuse for missing the assignments.

B．Tell the teacher you can’t come to school or do the assignments.

C．Ask your teacher to remind you of the missed assignments.

D．Call your teacher or your classmate to find out what assignments were given.

2. When can a student miss a test according to the passage?

A．When he / she is late for the test.

B．When he/ she is really sick.

C．When he / she failed another test.

D．When he / she doesn’t want to have the test.

3. In America, if your teacher’s name is Susan Black, what should you call her politely?

A．Ms Black

B．Ms Susan

C．Susan Black

D．Teacher Black

4.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．A student is thought to be impolite when he / she takes off his / her shoes in the classroom.

B．A student is thought to be impolite when he / she eats and drinks in class.

C．When a student is late for class, he / she must knock before he / she enters the classroom.

D．A student is thought to be impolite when he/she doesn’t come for class on time.

 

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　　By the time that a student reaches his senior year in high school, he is likely to believe that he is an expert in reading. No matter how 1 he is, he can still improve. How do you read an article in a textbook? Do you have a certain 2 of doing it or do you just 3 at the beginning and keep reading 4 you come to the end?

　　 5 students say that they use the“slow and sure”method(方式). By this they mean they read every sentence slowly and 6 . Every time they come to an 7 word they stop 8 what it means and, if necessary, looking it up in the 9 . In this method a person 10 has no time left for 11 what he has read, for he has used all his 12 in trying to get the meaning of each word to 13 that he 14 everything.

　　Other students use what has been 15 the review method. Here a person tries to arrange his time 16 he can read his lesson 17 twice. This type of reading is 18 than the“slow and sure” method, for the lesson 19 be read rapidly or there will not be 20 time left for a second reading. Which method do you think better?

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III  阅读理解（共25小题；每小题2分，满分50分）

阅读下列短文，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。                                 

It doesn't matter when or how much a person sleeps, but everyone needs some rest to stay alive. That's what all doctors thought, until they heard about Al Herpin. Al Herpin, it was said, never slept. Could this be true? The doctors decided to see this strange man themselves.

Al Herpin was 90 years old when the doctors came to his home in New Jersey. They thought for sure that he got some sleep of some kind. So they stayed with him and watched every movement he made. But they were surprised. Though they watched him hour after hour and day after day, they never saw Herpin sleeping. In fact, he did not even own a bed. He never needed one.

The only rest that Herpin sometimes got was sitting in a comfortable chair and reading newspapers. The doctors were puzzled by this strange continuous sleeplessness. They asked him many questions, hoping to find an answer. They found only one answer that might explain his condition. Herpin remembered some talk about his mother having been injured several days before he was born. But that was all. Was this the real reason? No one could be sure.

Al Herpin died at the age of 95. 

41.The main idea of this passage is that _______

A. everyone needs some sleep to stay alive

B. people can live longer by trying not to sleep

C. large numbers of people do not need sleep

D. a person was found who actually didn't need any sleep

42.The doctors came to visit Herpin, expecting ______

A. to find out whether his sleeplessness was really true

B. to find out why some old people didn't need any sleep

C. to find a way to free people from the need of sleeping

D. to cure him of his sleeplessness

43. After watching him closely, the doctors came to believe that Al Herpin ____

A. needed no sleep at all                     B. needed some kind of sleep   

C . was too old to need any sleep       D .often slept in a chair

44.One reason that might explain Herpin' s sleeplessness was ______

A. his mother's injury before he was born

B. his magnificent physical condition

C. that he had gradually got rid of the sleeping habit

D. that he hadn't got a bed

45.Al Herpin' s condition could be regarded as ______

A. a common one      B. very healthy      C. one that could be cured    D. a rare one

 

In 1971, readers around the world were astonished by some photographs which appeared in newspapers. Hidden deep in the rainforests of an island in the Philippines, was an ethnic (种族的)  36  called the Tasaday. Not until that moment did anyone have any   37   of these people. They didn’t have an agricultural economy; they hunted animals and   38   fruit from the plants in the rainforest. They carried tools made of stone, lived in   39   and wore clothes made of leaves. Unknown until 1971, they   40   became world famous. After that, there were TV   41  and books about them; people said their simple lives showed that human beings could be good and kind if they were not  42  by modern life. Then after 1974 the region was closed by the government and the world   43   about them.

In 1986, a Swiss journalist, Oswald Iten, decided to visit the Tasaday. The journey   44  thick rainforests and across rivers was hard and dangerous. Mr. Iten was   45   killed by the soldiers, villagers and businessmen who wanted to take the wood from the rainforest. Finally, Mr. Iten   46   and found the caves of the Tasaday   47  . The people were living in nearby huts and they were all   48   jeans and T-shirts, not leaves. He thought that perhaps they were not an ethnic minority   49   .

When he   50   to Switzerland, Mr. Iten wrote about the Tasaday people in the newspapers. He said he thought that they were just ordinary farmers, poor, but not   51   from anyone else. He believed that in 1971, the government told “the Tasaday” to   52   they were native people from thousands of years ago, so that tourists---and money---would start   53  into the region.

One group of experts said that they really were people who had no   54   with modern life before 1971; another group said they were just   55   the part. So who are these people, really? Perhaps we’ll never really be sure.

1. A. man               B. group                C. chief                D. tradition

2. A. knowledge         B. impression           C. doubt                D. fear

3. A. grew              B. enjoyed          C. collected            D. stored

4.A. huts               B. houses               C. apartments           D. caves

5. A. certainly         B. suddenly         C. absolutely           D. privately

6. A. advertisements        B. services         C. stations         D. programs

7. A. refused               B. separated            C. spoilt               D. conquered

8. A. forgot                B. knew             C. talked               D. thought

9. A. around                B. through          C. over             D. along

10.A. once              B. almost               C. often                D. even

11.A. arrived               B. left             C. hid              D. began

12.A. dirty             B. valueless            C. accessible           D. empty

13. A. making               B. selling              C. wearing          D. designing

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

15. A. returned             B. went             C. traveled         D. drove

16. A. absent               B. secure               C. different            D. free

17. A. agree                B. pretend          C. admit                D. consider

18. A. looking              B. falling              C. turning          D. pouring

19. A. contact              B. competition          C. agreement            D. patience

20. A. learning             B. forming          C. acting               D. missing