41．When the author was working in a beer company, his mother 　　　　.

A．was concerned about him　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B．drew the president’s attention

C．was seriously ill　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D．was proud of her son

54．C　 考查判断推理。根据文章中的“I was no longer a stranger.”推知作者被接纳了。S

53．A　 考查猜测词义。根据第三段可知：班上男孩众多，我并不引人注目。

52．B　 考查细节理解。根据第二内容中的“I stood in the center of the playground, expecting someone to say “hello”, but no one spoke to me.”可推知选B。

51．C　 考查细节理解。根据第一段我设想的问题可知选C。

54．The writer was offered a handkerchief because ________.

　　 A. he threw himself down and saved the goal B. he pushed a player on the other team

　　 C. he was beginning to be accepted　　　　　 D. he was no longer a new comer

53．The underlined part “I didn’t stand out” in paragraph 3 means that the writer was not ________.

　　 A. noticeable　　　　　 B. welcome　　　　　 C. important　　　　　　 D. outstanding

52．We can learn from the passage that ________.

A. boys were usually unfriendly to new students

B. the writer was not greeted as he expected

　　 C. Brian praised the writer for his cleverness

　　 D. the writer was glad to be a goalkeeper

51．The writer prepared to answer all of the following questions EXCEPT “________”.

　　 A. How old are you?　　　　　　　　　　 B. where are you from?

　　 C. Do you want to join my gang?　　　　　　 D. When did you come back to London?

58. A　 考查推理判断。从文章第一﹑二自然段“为了减少导致全球变暖的温室气体的排放，澳大利亚科学家目前正在想办法将牛羊胃变成袋鼠式的胃。袋鼠胃中有一种特殊的细菌能使其放的屁中不含有甲烷。科学家想将这种细菌移至牛羊的胃中，以抑制它们所排放的大量有害气体。”可推断得知。

B

　[2010·湖北黄冈中学一模]

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It was my first day at school in London and I was half-excited and half-frightened. On my way to school I wondered what sort of questions the other boys would ask me and rehearsed (practiced) all the answers: “I am nine years old. I was born here but I haven’t lived here since I was two. I was living in Farley. It’s about thirty miles away. I came back to London two months ago.” I also wondered if it was the custom for boys to fight strangers like me, but I was tall for my age. I hoped they would decide not to risk it.

　　 No one took any notice of me before school. I stood in the center of the playground, expecting someone to say “hello”, but no one spoke to me. When a teacher called my name and told me where my classroom was, one or two boys looked at me but that was all the curiosity my arrival aroused.

　　 My teacher was called Mr Jones. There were 42 boys in the class, so I didn’t stand out there, either, until the first lesson of the afternoon. Mr Jones was very fond of Charles Dickens and he had decided to read aloud to us from David Copperfield, but first he asked several boys if they knew Dickens’ birthplace, but no one guessed right. A boy called Brian, the biggest in the class, said: “Timbuktu”, and Mr Jones went red in the face. Then he asked me. I said: “Portsmouth”, and everyone stared at me because Mr Jones said I was right. This didn’t make me very popular, of course.

　　 “He thinks he’s clever,” I heard Brian say.

　　 After that, we went out to the playground to play football. I was in Brian’s team, and he obviously had Dickens in mind because he told me to go in goal. No one ever wanted to be the goalkeeper.

　　 “He’s big enough and useless enough,” Brian said when someone asked him why he had chosen me.

　　 I suppose Mr Jones remembered Dickens, too, because when the game was nearly over, Brian pushed one of the players on the other team, and he gave them a penalty. As the boy kicked the ball hard along the ground to my right, I threw myself down instinctively and saved it. All my team crowded round me. My bare knees were grazed and bleeding. Brian took out a handkerchief and offered it to me.

　　 “Do you want to join my gang (team)?” he said.

　　 At the end of the day, I was no longer a stranger.