41. Katharine Graham was born in a time when __________.

A. women were not given the chance to receive education

B. women were not considered as intelligent as men

C. women were not permitted to achieve their goals

D. women were not allowed to enter every field

75. The passage mainly tells us ________.

A. Mike’s exciting sail trip around the globe

B. how Mike’s father taught him to sail a boat

C. why CNN wanted to report the news to the public

D. the introduction of the Guinness World Records

答案　 71-75 ADCCA

Passage 11

(四川省成都石室中学2010届高三10月月考)

A

She was born to wealth and power in a time when money and politics were left to the men. Later, as The Washington Post's publisher, Katharine Graham became one of America's most powerful women.

Despite a privileged background, Katharine had to deal, while growing up, with the high demands her mother placed on her children. Katharine's love of journalism, which she shared with her father, led to her career after college at The Washington Post, the newspaper her father bought in 1933．At the Post, Katharine met Phil Graham, a young, charming lawyer who became her husband. When, in 1945, Katharine's father chose Phil over her to take over his struggling paper, Katharine didn't object and stayed at home as a wife and mother of four.

While Phil's successful efforts to restore the Post to fame made the Grahams popular members of the Washington social scene, Katharine privately suffered great pain from her husband's increasingly harmful behavior caused by severe depression. When Phil committed suicide(自杀), the 46-year-old Katharine found herself thrown into a new job, that of newspaper publisher. But determined to save the family paper for her children, Katharine rose to the challenge of running the Post, attending meetings in every department, working endlessly to prove herself to her critics, and becoming the toast of Washington.

In 1971, Katharine ordered the Post to print a copy of the Pentagon Papers, the top-secret documents revealing the truth about the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War. What's more, her courageous decision and support for her journalists prepared the Post to break the most important political story in modern history: Watergate(水门事件), one of the greatest scandals(丑闻)in American political history. Katharine managed to keep control over the most disorganized situation when it was reported, all the time insisting the news stories be accurate and fair. Watergate made the Washington Post an internationally known Paper and Katharine was considered as the most powerful woman in America.

74. According to the passage, Mike did anything EXCEPT ________ on his trip.

A. regret　　　　 B. worry　　 C. abandon　　 D. fear

73. We can infer from the passage that ________.

A. the English school is the same as ours

B. the English school doesn’t care for students

C. the English school has a humane management

D. the English school gives students a lot of course work

72. Mike Perham is ________ that went on the round-the-world trip in the world up till now.

A. the first　　　 B. the bravest　　 C. the luckiest　　 D. the youngest

71. Mike Perham returned to Britain in ________.

A. August　　　 B. September　 　 　C. October　　 　　　 D. November

55. What's the writer's purpose in this text?

A. To describe Mollie Hunter's most successful books.

B. To share her enjoyment of Mollie Hunter's books.

C. To introduce Mollie Hunter's work to a wider audience.

D. To provide information for Mollie Hunter's existing readers.

答案　 52-55 ADAC

Passage 10

(山东省淄博市2010届高三第一次摸底考试)

D

LONDON, England(CNN)--- The youngest person to sail solo around the world returned home Thursday from his 30,000-mile, 282-day ocean journey.

Mike Perham, 17, sailed into Lizard Point in Cornwall, the southernmost point in Britain, at 9:47 a.m., his race team said.

“It feels absolutely brilliant,” Mike told CNN by phone hours before crossing the finish line. “I'm really, really excited to be going across the line at last. It doesn't feel like long since I crossed it first.”

Mike set off on his round-the-world trip on November 18, 2008. He has been sailing his yacht,, single-handedly, though a support team has been sailing next to him along the way.

The teen has now achieved the title of Youngest Sailor to Circumnavigate the Globe Solo, according to the Guinness World Records.

Mike learned how to sail when he was seven years old from his father, Peter and at age 14, he sailed across the Atlantic alone.

The teenager's school --- which Mike describes as “highly supportive” of his trip --- has redesigned his coursework to fit in with his trip. It also gave him some coursework to do during “quiet moments,” according to Mike's Web site.

There haven't been many of those quiet moments. Repeated autopilot failures forced him to stop for repairs in Portugal, the Canary Islands, South Africa, and twice in Australia, according to his Web site.

Bad weather in the Southern Ocean --- between Australia and Antarctica --- forced Mike to battle 50ft waves and 57 mph winds. He said at one point, a “freak wave” picked up the boat and turned it on its side.

“My feet were on the ceiling at the time,” he told CNN. “That was a really hairy moment, and I was certainly thinking, ‘Why am I here?’ But we took the sails off and the day after I thought, ‘This is brilliant!’”

Mike describes his father as his biggest hero, always supportive of what he wanted to achieve. Peter Perham said he wasn't too worried about his son facing dangerous situations at sea, as long as he knew what to do and stayed safe.

54. What do we learn about Mollie Hunter as a young child?

A. She didn't expect to become a writer. B. She didn't enjoy writing stories.

C. She didn't have any particular ambitions. D. She didn't respect her teacher's views.

53. In Mollie Hunter's opinion, which of the following is one sign of a poor writer?

A. Being poor in life experience.　　 　　 B. Being short of writing skills.

C. The weakness of description.　　　 　　 D. The absence of a story.

52. What does Mollie Hunter feel about the nature of a good book?

A. It should not aim at a narrow audience.

B. It should not be attractive to young readers.

C. It should be based on original ideas.

D. It should not include too much conversation.