44. It can be inferred from the text that the Canadian government supports ______.

A. the protection of different cultures　　　　　　　　 B. the plan of an open-air market

C. the request of merchants　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. the attitude of shoppers

答案　 41.B　 42.B　 43.B　 44.A

Passage 5

(南昌市南昌二中高三冲刺模拟考试C篇)

Misery and setbacks are not always as terrible as one imagines．Hard times can offer new ways of looking at life that would otherwise never be known．And, if you are a writer, this can be the source of much of your success．

　 　 Popular British author, Charles Dickens' (1812-1870) family could hardly make ends meet (入不敷出)．They could only afford to send one of their six children to school．

　 　 Dickens was not that child．

　 　 His parents chose to send a daughter, who had a talent for music, to an academy．Then at the age of 12, Dickens' life took another turn for the worse．

His father, a clerk, was placed in prison for unpaid debts．And, being the oldest male left at home, Dickens took up work at a factory．His horrible experience there became the fuel for his future writing．

His father was freed three months later and inherited (继承) a small amount of money．Dickens was then sent to school．

From 1836 to 1837, he wrote a monthly series of stories．Thus the "Pickwick Papers" (《匹克威克外传》), came into being, which brought fame to the 23-year-old man．

Throughout his career, Dickens covers various situations in his novels．He wrote about the miserable lives of the poor in "Oliver Twist" (《雾都孤儿》), the French Revolution in "Tale of Two Cities", and social reform in "Hard Times" (《艰难时世》)．He also wrote "David Copperfield" (《大卫·科波菲尔》), a book thought to be based on his own life．

"I do not write bitterly or angrily: for I know all these things have worked together to make me what I am," he once said．

His difficult childhood did indeed shape the person he became, as well as his writing career．There are shades of young Dickens in many of his most beloved characters, including David Copperfield and Oliver Twist．

Like the author, all these characters come from poor beginnings and are able to rise above their setbacks and achieve success．

"Minds, like bodies, will often fall into an ill-conditioned state from too much comfort," he once wrote．

　　 On June 9th, 1870, aged 58, Dickens died, leaving one unfinished work．The words on his tombstone read: "He was a sympathizer (同情者) to the poor, the suffering and the oppressed (受压迫者), and by his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world．"

43. According to Salvatori, the marketplace may also help to improve Toronto’s ______.

A. market management　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. travel industry

C. community service　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. city planning

42.　 Fidenzio Salvatori, with two other students, has got two thousand dollars from the

government ______.

A. to make an experiment　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. to perform a research

C. to start a marketplace　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　　 D. to operate a business

41. What is Fidenzio Salvatori’s purpose of having an outdoor marketplace for Toronto?

A. To provide different forms of amusement.　 B. To keep the cultural variety of the city.

C. To inspire its immigrant community.　　　 D. To satisfy its immigrant merchants.

71．From the works Susan published in the 1970s and 1980s, we can learn that _______.

A．She was more a moralist than a sensualist

B．She was more a sensualist than a moralist

C．She believed repressed personalities mainly led to illness

D．She would like to re-examine old positions

答案　 68.D　 69.D　 70.A　 71.A

Passage 4

(浙江省宁海县知恩中学2009届高三最后适应性考试A篇)

Fidenzio Salvatori is determined that the city of Toronto will have an outdoor marketplace for merchants from its immigrant community, complete with dancing and other forms of amusement from their native countries. “Toronto is truly multicultural，” he said in a newspaper interview. “It’s a city from many places, and multicultural marketplace will help Torontonians to understand and appreciate the rich variety of cultural groups in our city.”

Salvatori, aged 23, will soon complete his studies at the University of Toronto. He was eleven years old when he came to Canada from Italy with his parents. “Most of Toronto’s immigrants are from lands where the marketplace has always been part of daily life,” he said.

Salvatori has been interested in getting an open-air market for Toronto for the last three years. This year, with the help of two fellow students, he prepared a proposal on the subject and presented it to the city’s Executive committee, asking for their support. The proposal pointed out Toronto’s rich variety of national groups, “whose customs include market shopping.”

Under a Canadian government program for multiculturalism, the three students have received two thousand dollars with which they will do a study to find out whether Toronto’s immigrant businessmen would support an open-air market. They hope the merchants will support the plan strongly. “A study done earlier this year showed that 90 percent of shoppers would be in favor of it,” Salvatori said. “At first it would be an experiment. But we think it will prove to be good business for the merchants, as well as tourist attraction.”

70．Susan Sontag’s lasting fame was made upon _______.

A．a tireless, all-purpose cultural view　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

B．her lifelong watchword: seriousness　

C．publishing books on morals　

D．enjoying books worth reading and movies worth seeing　

69．She first won her name through _______.

A．her story of a Polish actress　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

B．her book illness as Metaphor　

C．publishing essays in magazines like partisan Review　

D．her explanation of a set of difficult understandings

68．The underlined sentence in paragraph 1 means Sontag ______.

A．was a symbol of American cultural life　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

B．developed world literature, film and art　

C．published many essays about world culture　 　　　　　　　　　　　　

D．kept pace with the newest development of world culture

75．From the passage we may conclude that______．

　　 A．John Dalton’s only contribution to science was his achievement in chemistry

　　 B．as a great educator，John Dalton established the basis for education in England

　　 C．John Dalton’s book about the elements enjoyed great popularity then

　　 D．John Dalton devoted his entire life to science

答案　 73.C　 74.A　 75.D

Passage 3

(上海市崇明中学2009届高三5月高考模拟考试B篇)

Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004) was one of the most noticeable figures in the world of literature. For more than 40 years she made it morally necessary to know everything - to read every book worth reading, to see every movie worth seeing. When she was still in her early 30s, publishing essays in such important magazines as Partisan Review, she appeared as the symbol of American culture life, trying hard to follow every new development in literature, film and art. With great effort and serious judgment, Sontag walked at the latest edges of world culture.

Seriousness was one of Sontag’s lifelong watchwords (格言), but at a time when the barriers between the well-educated and the poor-educated were obvious, she argued for a true openness to the pleasure of pop culture. In “Notes Camp”, the 1964 essay that first made her name, she explained what was then a little-known set of difficult understandings, through which she could not have been more famous. “Notes on Camp”, she wrote, represents “a victory of ‘form’ over ‘content’, ‘beauty’ over ‘morals’”.

By conviction (信念) she was a sensualist (感觉论者), but by nature she was a moralist (伦理学者), and in the works she published in the 1970s and 1980s, it was the latter side of her that came forward. In Illness as Metaphor -published in 1978, after she suffered cancer-she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a special problem of repressed personalities(被压抑的性格), a concept that effectively blamed the victim for the disease. In fact, re-examining old positions was her lifelong habit.

In America, her story of a 19th century Polish actress who set up a perfect society in California, won the National Book Award in 2000．But it was as a tireless, all-purpose cultural view that she made her lasting fame.

“Sometimes,” she once said, “I feel that, in the end, all I am really defending …is the idea of seriousness, of true seriousness.” And in the end, she made us take it seriously too.

74．Which of the following descriptions about John Dalton is wrong?

　　 A．John found a cure for color-blindness

　　 B．As a student，John was outstanding

　　 C．John used to help with farm work

　　 D．In his book，presentation of the atomic weight of many known elements was of great importance.