(福建省厦门双十中学2008年6月迎考热身试卷D篇)

Dear SJ,

Losing a best friend is never easy.

Your problem, is not just that you miss your best friend, it is that you feel empty and lost without her friendship.

It takes time to get over a lost, and during that time, your mind is getting used to a new way of being. This is usually a good thing, even if it feels like a bad thing.

Now that you are on your own, you are being forced to learn to be by yourself and to rely upon your own inner voice for guidance. I am sure that this feels strange for you, but if you can hang on for a bit longer, it may work to your advantage.

Best friends are cool, but it is important to know the difference between missing someone and being too independent upon them.

At your age, girls do tend to stick together and having a good boyfriend may not yet be the better choice. Your friend is leaving you, her best friend, for a boyfriend. Boyfriends are completely different from best friends. The distinction is that boyfriends come and go, while girl friends often stay in your life throughout high school, and even afterwards. It is a completely different sort of bond.

I suggest that you take advantage of this period in your life to expand your horizons. Enjoy the freedom of having no best friend for a while, and hang with the group. By the time your former best friend breaks up with her boyfriend, you will be in a completely different place, a far better place.

And, by the way, next time you feel empty and lost, try to write about it in a diary. In several months, you will look back and read it with curiosity about yourself. “Who was I then, and what could I have been thinking?”

67．Judging from the letter, SJ’s problem was that she didn’t know           .

       A．whether to give up her best friend                  B．what to do without her best friend

       C．whom to choose between two friends            D．how to stop missing her former friend

68．The underlined part “a new way of being” (in Paragraph 3) refers to the situation in which SJ has to           .

       A．find a new friendship                                    B．live without her boyfriend

       C．learn to give up                                            D．learn to be independent

69．The writer believes by the time SJ’s former friend loses her boyfriend, SJ will           .

       A．take revenge on her former friend

       B．comfort her former friend

       C．feel more independent and confident

       D．continue friendship with her former friend

70．What does the last paragraph seem to suggest?

       A．Unhappy experiences are easy to forget.         B．Keeping a diary helps correct oneself.

       C．SJ will get over her problem soon.                 D．One shouldn’t forget the past experiences.

For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words.
In   16  a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend  17  can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are  18__  readers. Most of us develop poor reading    19  at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency（缺乏）  20  in the actual stuff of language itself — words. Taken individually, words have little meaning until they are strung together into phrases, sentences and paragraphs.   21 , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing（退回） to  22 words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over what you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading.
Another habit which   23  down the speed of reading is vocalization — sounding each word either orally or mentally as one reads.
To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an   24 , which moves a bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined（预先确定的） speed．The bar is set at a slightly faster rate   25   the reader finds comfortable, in order to “stretch” him. The device forces the reader to read fast,   26  word-by-word reading, regression and sub-vocalization（默读）practically impossible.
At first   27  is sacrificed for speed．But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, but your understanding will   28 . Many people have found their reading skill greatly improved after some training.  29  Charlie Au, a business manager, for instance, his reading rate was a reasonably good 172 words a minute before the training, now it is an excellent 182 words a minute. He is delighted that how he can    30  through a lot more reading material in a short period of time.

阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：

1）汉语提示，2）首字母提示，3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。

"I didn't hear them call my name," explained Shelley Hennig to Active Teens (AT) as she talked about that exciting moment on national television when she won the honor of Miss Teen USA 2004. "Are you ready?" is what she heard. Then she said, "I shook my head no, and then they said ‘yes’ and it was announced again."

It was four days after that life changing moment for the seventeen-year-old high school student from Destrehan, Louisiana----she was still on cloud nine．

"I was so shocked! I never believed that it could actually really happen." Present in the audience（观众）that day were: her mother and father, older brother, her friends, and her dance teacher.

Understanding why members of her family and her friends would be there, AT asked why her dance teacher had traveled so far to see her compete（比赛）．"She's always been my role model．I've danced with her since I was six. She's been through so many difficulties and came through them all. I've learned to get over bad life's experiences and learned how to move on because of her."

One of those bad life's experiences for Shelley happened three years ago when her brother Brad was killed in a drunk driving accident. He was 18. She found writing helped her get through the rough days. She said, "I write a lot about my brother. I write a lot, a lot, a lot...”

As Miss Louisiana Teen, she traveled around the state speaking to teens（青少年）about the dangers of drinking and driving. In her role as Miss Teen USA, Sheiley will continue to speak to youth about safe driving, in addition to many other things to help the youth.

When AT asked Miss Teen USA if she had any advice for our readers, she said, "Don't let anyone change you. Hang out with people that make you feel good about yourself. That way, it is easy to be yourself."

1.What do the words “on cloud nine” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?

A．frightened         B．very happy        C．troubled          D．very angry

2.Shelley takes her dance teachers as a role medel mainly because she is        .

A．strict             B．friendly           C．determined        D．experienced

3.How many children did the Hennigs have according to the text?

A．1.               B．2.                C．4.               D．3

4.What did Shelley often do after she became Miss Louisiana Teen?

A．She visited drunken drivers.               B．She gave dance performance.

C．She helped other teens with their studies.    D．She made speeches on safe driving.

5.What suggestion does Shelley give to the teens?

A．Go easy on yourself and others.            B．Meet friends whenever possible.

C．Be yourself with the support of friends.       D．Have a good role model.

Special Bridges Help Animals Cross the Road

――Reported by Sheila Carrick

    Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side.

    Most people know this joke．But recently, some people have been much more worried about how the grizzly bear and mountain lion can cross the road.

     “Millions of animals die each year on U.S．roads,” the Federal Highway Administration reports．In fact, only about 80 ocelots, an endangered wild cat, exist in the U.S．today．The main reason? Roadkill.

     “Ecopassages” may help animals cross the road without being hit by cars．They are paths both over and under roads．“These ecopassages can be extremely useful, so that wildlife can avoid road accidents,” said Jodi Hilty of the Wildlife Protection Society.

    But do animals actually use the ecopassages? The answer is yes．Paul Beier of Northern Arizona University found foot marks left by mountain lions on an ecopassage that went under a highway．This showed that the lions used the passage.

    Builders of ecopassages try to make them look like a natural part of an area by planting trees on and around them．Animals seem to be catching on．Animals as different as salamanders and grizzly bears are using the bridges and underpasses.

    The next time you visit a park or drive through an area with a lot of wildlife, look around．You might see an animals overpass!

45．The writer uses the example of “ocelots” to show that ______.

      A．wild animals have become more dangerous

      B．the driving conditions have improved greatly

      C．the measure for protecting wildlife fails to work

      D．an increasing number of animals are killed in road accidents

46．From the news story, we know an ecopassage is ______.

       A．an underground path for cars                B．a fence built for the safety of the area

       C．a bridge for animals to get over a river   D．a pass for animals to cross the road

47．When the writer says that animals seem “to be catching on”, he means ______.

       A．animals begin to realize the dangers on the road                     

       B．animals begin to learn to use ecopassages

      C．animals are crossing the road in groups                                                         

       D．animals are increasing in number

48．The writer asks visitors and drivers to look around when traveling because ______.

      A．wild animals may attack cars                B．wild animals may jam the road

       C．they may see wild animals in the park    D．they may see wild animals on ecopassages