(06·辽宁)

It was a bright spring afternoon when Freda told me she wouldn’t need me any more. I had just finished my four-hour work －___36___ up and down the stairs of her three-storey home, cleaning the floor and washing the dished. She was___37___ jeans and a sweater. Sitting at the table I had just 38_______. a pile of papers spread around her. Her husband’s___39___ was going to be reduced by thirty percent. And they were trying to live as if it had___40___ happened. I felt sorry for her. but I also felt a sense of___41___.

I had been cleaning Freda’s house for five years and had___42___ an unexpected relationship with the family. It was not just___43___ I had become an expert at scraping（刮掉）dirt stuck to their wooden floor.___44___ that I had learned exactly how to place toys on the girls’ beds. It was___45___ than that. For I felt I had become a part of their___46___.

Freda stayed at home with the kids,___47___ I would often see her in the morning___48___ them to school. And I’d be there when they___49___ home at lunch for sandwiches and piano practice. I had___50___ them grow up. Now I was fired, but the ___51___thing was that I still wanted to keep scraping away the dirt and dust for the family.

I left Freda’s house that day, wondering about the___52___ relationship with my clients（主顾）. Who am I___53___ them? As a matter of fact, I’m ___54___ an employee － the lowest kind of employee. But I’m also a trusted___55___ of the family. I can’t help worrying about what happens around me.

36. A. stepping              B. coming              C. jumping             D. moving

37. A. hanging                     B. making              C. wearing             D. changing

38. A. cleaned               B. washed             C. swept               D. brushed

39. A. duty                   B. money               C. work                D. pay

40. A. already               B. seldom              C. never                D. yet

41. A. regret                 B. surprise             C. fear                  D. loss

42. A. started                B. developed          C. improved           D. broken

43. A. why                   B. what                 C. that                   D. which

44. A. but                     B. and                   C. or                     D. for

45. A. less                    B. least                  C. more                 D. most

46. A. life                     B. story                 C. activity              D. experience

47. A. as                      B. so                     C. since                 D. however

48. A. taking                 B. bringing             C. meeting             D. calling

49. A. left                     B. returned            C. went                 D. marched

50. A. found                 B.noticed            C.watched       D.realised

51. A. possible              B.great                C.prople             D.strange

52. A. meaning              B.nature                C.result               D.important

53. A. for                            B.to                      C.with            D. at

54. A. hardly                 B.certainly             C.probably             D.merely

55. A. member                     B.person                C.relative               D.impanion

 (06·辽宁A篇)

Have you ever dreamed of having a fashionable watch of great value?

A small watchmaker in Switzerland in 1922 designed the first automatic（自动的）watch to show the day, month, and date, Only seven of these splendid watches were ever made and these watches were almost lost to history. Today, it is so hard to get an original（首批的）watch that some watch historians are even willing to offer $ 200,000 for one.

These watches attracted a lot of people for their splendid color, fashionable style, and new uses in the 1920s. The owners of the watches were admired and set apart from the crowd. Because the number of the original watches is very limited, owning such a watch will make you feel very special.

Today, you are offered the same kind of watch with improvement. It has a 24-jewel mechanical（机械的）movement, the kind desired by  watch collectors, The watchmaker has made the movement of the watch much more modern with an automatic rotor（上弦装置）so that the watch never needs to be wound by hand. The watch comes in a very beautiful case with a crocodile design on it. To get a watch in such a perfect design to know history and to wear such a watch will show your personal taste and social position.

You can get the watch either in person or by mail all an affordable price. You will also receive good service from the watch seller. If you are not satisfied with the watch after you get it, you may simply return it within 30 days. Don’t miss the chance to realize your dream.

56. The original automatic watches are valuable because _______.

A. the watches were made many years ago

B. the watches were made by a Swiss watchmaker

C. only rich people can afford the watches

D. only a few watches of the kind were made

57. Watch collectors want to get the improved watch, especially for its_______.

A. mechanical movement                             B. splendid color

C. fashionable style                                       D. new uses

58. The purpose of the passage is to encourage the readers to_______.

A. buy the watch                                          B. return the watch

C. wear the watch                                         D. receive the service

59. The passage is probably taken from a _______.

A. report                           B. magazine          C. text book                     D. science book

 (06·辽宁D篇)

Collecting information about pre-employment and filling out an application form（申请表）are closely connected, However, filling out an application form is much easier because you have total control and have enough time to think and plan.

That you are given a form to fill out does not necessarily mean that you have to answer all the questions in it. If the form contains unclear questions or terms and conditions, you can make some changes before signing（签约）it, or refuse to answer some of the questions. What you must realize is that those terms and conditions have been written by highly paid lawyers. Each word is important, or it would not be there; and you can be sure that there is not anything there that is written with your interests in mind.

I know what I speak of because, as a lawyer for Litton Industries. I wrote the terms and conditions that were printed on the back of order forms, I wrote the most tiring terms and conditions anyone has ever seen. Still, 90 percent of the buyers would just sign on them without questioning anything. If anyone questioned them, we would reach an agreement on something that was acceptable to both sides.

So when you see a preprinted application that contains questions or terms and conditions, read it all and read it slowly. If you don’t like something, you can simply change the parts you don’t like, Remember that everything can be settled by discussion. To what degree it can be settled depends on your position（立场）,of course, and that is something only you can determine.

68. Filling out application forms is much “easier” because_______.

A. everything connected with application forms is easier

B. it is easier to collect information about pre-employment

C. you can plan and have control of the needed time

D. you can control the form filling with enough time

69. We can learn from the underlined part “Each word is important” that _______.

A. everything in a form must be read carefully

B. questions in a form must be answered

C. the conditions that interest you are changeable

D. something of your interests is most important

70. The writer points out with an example that the side who will sign a form _______.

A. it depends on your position to settle everything in a form

B. questions in a form are more important than your position 

C. you have little right to determine the conditions you like most

D. you must change a preprinted application before it is discussed

71.It can be inferred from the 4th paragraph that_______.

   A. it depends on your position to settle everything in a form

   B. questions in a form are more imoortant

   C. you have little right to determine the contions you like most

   D. you must change a preprinted applicationbefore it is discussed

 (06·辽宁B篇)

Unlike modern animal scientists, dinosaur scientists cannot sit on a hillside and use telescopes to watch dinosaurs in order to know how they lived and whether they were good parents Instead, they have to search hard for information from dinosaurs’ fossils（恐龙化石） because dinosaurs died out millions of years ago.

It’s very difficult for the scientists to reach an agreement because different results can be got from the same fossils. Many fossils of the same kind of dinosaurs have been dug out from one place. They might have formed when an entire group of dinosaurs got stuck（陷入）all at once, or they might have been the result of dinosaurs getting stuck one after another over a course of a few centuries. Thus we can say that dinosaurs might have in the first case lived in big groups and in the second lived alone.

Though there are two different results, dinosaur scientists now generally agree that at least some kinds of dinosaurs lived in big groups. “That’s pretty much settled at this point. ” says Paul Sereno. A kind of dinosaurs called Sauropods left behind tracks in the western United States that appear to run north and south, suggesting that they even moved long distances together.

As to whether dinosaurs cared for their young, dinosaur scientists have turned to the closest living relatives of dinosaurs― birds and crocodiles ― for possible models. Birds give a lot of care to their young, while crocodiles just help their young to the water. The discovered fossils of dinosaurs sitting on their gees and staying with their young suggest the parents were taking care of their babies, but we still cannot say that all dinosaurs did the same.

There is still a long way to go before the above questions could be answered. Dinosaur scientists will have to find more proof to reach an agreement.

60. Dinosaur scientists can get information directly by _______.

A. studying dinosaur fossils                           B. examining modern animals

C. watching dinosaurs                                   D. using telescopes

61. What is pretty much settled according to Paul Sereno?

A. Half of the dinosaurs lived alone.              B. Most dinosaurs moved long distances.

C. Many dinosaurs settled in the north.          D. Some dinosaurs lived in big groups.

62. Dinosaur scientists can probably know whether dinosaurs were good parents by_______.

A. watching many kinds of animals

B. studying dinosaurs’ living relatives

C. following the tracks left behind

D. working on dug-out dinosaur eggs

63. Which of the following the according to the paragraph?

A. Birds hardly ay attention to their young.

B. Baby crocodiles can look after themselves well.

C. Some dinosaurs took care of their young.

D. Birds and crocodiles take good care of their young.

 (06·辽宁E篇)

Important change took place in the lives of women in the 19th century. When men went out from their farms to cities to seek jobs in industry, peasant women had to take over the sowing, growing, and harvesting of the fields as well as caring for cattle and raising their children. When women also moved to the cities in search of work, they found that it was increasingly. Separated by sex and that employment opportunities for women were limited to the lower-paid jobs. Later in the century, women in industry gathered mainly in cloth-making factories, though some worked in mining or took similarly difficult and tiring jobs.

In the 1800s, service work also absorbed（吸纳）a great number of women who arrived in the cities from the country. Young women especially took jobs as servants in middle-class and upper-class homes; and as more and more men were drawn into industry, domestic service（家庭服务）became increasingly a female job. In the second half of the century, however, chances of other service work also opened up to women, from sales jobs in shops to teaching and nursing. These jobs came to be done mainly by women and low paid.

For thousands of years, when almost all work was done on the family farm or in the family firm（家庭作坊），home and workplace had been the same, In these cases, women could do farm work or hand work, and perform home duties such as child care and preparation of meals at the same time, Along with the development of industry, the central workplace, however, such as the factory and the department store, separated home from work, Faced with the necessity for women to choose between home and workplace, Western society began to give particular attention to the role of women as homemakers with more energy than ever before.

72. We learn from the first paragraph that ______  had been done chiefly by men before they went to cities to seek jobs.

A. mining, teaching, and nursing

B. sewing clothes and mining

C. sowing, growing, and harvesting

D. caring for cattle and growing crops

73. Domestic service because a female job mainly because_______.

A. more and more women began to work in domestic service

B. women mainly worked as servants, nurses, and miners

C. service and industrial jobs absorbed more women than men

D. women enjoyed working as sellers, teachers, and miners

75. This passage is about ______  in the 19th century.

A. service and industry                       B. female and male jobs

C. women and their work                   D. female jobs and the pay