60．What advice does Horowitz have for readers?

A．Confidence is the key to success.

B．Hardship teaches valuable lessons.

C．Interest is the best teacher.

D．Diligence is the parent of success.

B

Almost a decade ago, the federal government dropped $10 million for an Earth-monitoring satellite that never made it into space. Today it sits in a closet in Maryland. Cost to taxpayers for storing it: $1 million a year. And that's just what's hiding in one closet. Who knows what's in the rest of them?

Because we think the government should be held to at least the same standards as a publicly traded company, and because as taxpayers, we're America's shareholders, we performed an audit (财务检查)of sorts of the federal books. We're not economists, but we do have common sense. We tried to be apolitical (无关政治的)and got help from Congressional staffers from both parties, as well as various watchdog groups and agencies. In the end, we found that the federal government wastes nearly $1 trillion every year.

That's roughly equal to the amount collected annually by the Internal Revenue Service in personal income taxes. Put another way, it's also equal to about one-third of the country's $2.9 trillion total annual budget. And reclaiming that lost trillion(三十亿)could help wipe out the country's annual budget deficit(赤字), improve education, and provide health insurance for those who don't have it.

So how do you define "waste"? David Walker of the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a federal watchdog agency, calls it "the government's failure to give taxpayers the most for their money." For our part, we used the kind of household test you would use on a piece of meat sitting in your refrigerator: If it smells rotten, it's waste. And there is plenty to sniff out. Our government regularly pays for products and services it never gets, wildly overpays companies to do things it could do more cheaply itself, loses money outright due to lax(松驰的)accounting and oversight, fails to collect what it's owed, and antes up for unnecessary programs.

How exactly does the federal government fritter away your hard-earned tax dollars? We've identified what we consider ten of the worst ways.

59．Which of the following is true of Anthony Horowitz?

A．He was the beloved child of his family.

B．He benefited a lot from boarding school.

C．He emphasizes the plot rather than character in stories.

D．Although he is successful, he isn't very happy.

58．In the boarding school, Horowitz's teachers ______.

A．showed great concern for him

B．often abused and bullied him

C．taught him how to write stories

D．thought little of his ability

57．In his childhood, Anthony Horowitz　　　 .

　　　　 A．was more intelligent than his brother

B．was paid more attention by his parents

C．led a miserable why he was sent to the boarding school

D．led a miserable life because of poverty

56．The text is mainly about ______.

A．Horowitz's popular book – Alex Rider

B．Horowitz's miserable childhood

C．Horowitz, a successful children's writer

D．Horowitz's special writing style

47．A．caring 　　　　　　　　　　　　 B．careless　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 C．careful 　　　　　　　　　　　　 D．carefree

SECTION C

　 　Directions: Complete the following passage by using ONE word that best fits the context.

New studies show how food and its production affect the globe and its climate. The process of making a hamburger, for example, requires loss of energy. A cow has to be fed and raised on farmland. And cow waste is a major source of methane(沼气)-　 48　 especially powerful greenhouse gas. The cow has to be killed. The meat has to be processed and shipped, 　49　 takes fuel. Most of the cow won’t even be used for meat people eat. By the time a hamburger finally lands o a dinner plate, 　50　 has made bad effect on the environment.

We can reduce the production of global warming gases by eating less beef. Other kinds of meat like pork and chicken do　 51　 harm to the environment ---at least　 52　 terms of the amount of greenhouse gases released. 　53 , all kinds of meat are harder on the planet that vegetables.　 54　 changing our diet to less meat and more vegetables, as it turns　 55　 ,may do the world some good.

PART THREE READING COMPREHENSION

　 　Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A,B,C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage.

A

Anthony Horowitz was miserable (痛苦的) as a child. He was, as he puts it, “not very bright” and couldn't win the attention of his very wealthy parents, who preferred his “clever” older brother. At age 8, Horowitz was sent away to an abusive (虐待的) boarding school in his native England, even though he screamed and pleaded (恳求) with his parents year after year not to send him. “The thought was, ‘It'll be good for him' ,” Horowitz recalls (回忆).

It was not. Horowitz did badly in his studies, had few friends and was bullied (欺负) for five years. “My teachers couldn't have had a lower opinion of me,” he said. “I wasn't even smart enough to rebel (反抗). The one thing I remember from the very earliest age was this desire to write. When I was 10 years old, I remember asking my parents to get me a typewriter for my birthday because I wanted to be a writer.”

Now, at 55, Horowitz is one of the world's most successful children's book authors. His Alex Rider series has sold more than 5 million copies, and the eighth book featuring the young spy, Crocodile Tears, came out this month.

The Alex Rider books tell the adventures of 14-year-old Alex Rider, an agent for the British intelligence agency MI6.

Horowitz said he doesn't try to write for kids; it just comes out that way. “I have a feeling it's to do with purity and simplicity. I give as little information as is necessary to describe the room, the character in the room, and get on with the action,” he said.

That style has also made Horowitz a successful writer of television shows for adults in Britain because, he says, writing books for kids is a lot like writing television for grown-ups: In both cases, it's all about entertaining people with a good story.

Now, Horowitz couldn't be happier with his life. He sums up his success: “…you can be anything you want to be if you just believe in yourself. I do believe it completely.”

46．A．put off 　　　　　　　　　　　　 B．put away 　　　　　　　　 C．put up 　　　　　　　　　　　　 D．put out

45．A．things 　　　　　　　　　　　　 B．actions 　　　　　　　　　　　 C．dos 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D．reactions

44．A．heavily 　　　　　　　　　　　　 B．strongly 　　　　　　　　　　　 C．loudly　 　　　　　　　　　　　　 D．happily

43．A．voice 　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B．noise 　　　　　　　　　　　　　 C．accent　 　　　　　　　　　　　 D．sound