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(      ) 58. What might happen next according to the writer’s idea?

A. The writer would ask more and more people to join his company.

         B. The writer’s dream could not come true because genies didn’t help him.

C. The writer would start his own company and become a speaker.

D. The company would come to an end as soon as the writer left

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(      ) 57. What does the underlined sentence mean in the last paragraph?

A. I wanted to keep trying it instead of thinking it over and over.

B. I wanted to find my own way instead of getting help from others.

C. I would stop doing it at any time if I had some troubles in the future.

D. I wanted to try my best and make my life better and better.

(      ) 56. What can we know from the passage?

A. The writer got all his greeting cards lost on his way home.

B. The writer wanted to work as a speaker at the age of nine.

C. Many people thought he was right to leave the company.

D. It is important for us to have a dream and make it come true.

(    ) 55. What’s the passage mainly about? 

A. It tells us something the writer did when he was a child.

        B. It tells us how the writer grew up and made successes.

C. It tells us who helped the writer start his own company.

D. It tells us when the writer began to have the strange dream.

(       ) 54. What does the writer write this article for?

         A. The writer tells us that reading is not so useful as it was.

         B. The writer encourages us to do some reading every day.

         C. The writer prefers seeing a film to reading a book.

         C. Reading is more important than listening or writing.

（C）

When I was nine years old living in a small town in North Carolina, I found an ad for selling greeting cards in the back of a children’s magazine. I thought to myself I could do this. I asked my mother to let me send for the cards. Two weeks later when the cards arrived, I opened the parcel(包裹), caught the cards and rushed from the house. Three hours later, I returned home with no cards and a pocket of money. A salesperson(推销员) was born.

When I was twelve years old, my father took me to see Zig Zigler. I remember sitting in that dark hall listening to Mr. Zigler’s talk, which made everyone excited. I left there feeling like I could do anything, when we got to the car. I turned to my father and said, “Dad, I want to make people feel like that.” My father asked me what I meant. “I want to be a motivational(激励他人的) speaker just like Mr. Zigler.” I answered. A dream was born.

Recently, I began following my dream of motivating others. After a four-year job in a big company beginning as a sales trainer and ending as a sales manager, I left the company in the end. Many people were surprised that I would leave after getting a great income(收入). And they asked why I would risk(冒险) everything for a dream.

I made my decision to start my own company after attending(出席) a sales meeting. The chairman of our company delivered a talk that changed my life. He asked us, “If a genie(精灵) would give you three wishes, what would they be?” after we wrote down the three wishes, he asked, “Why do you need a genie?” I knew I was ready and did not need a genie’s help to become a motivational speaker. I wanted to move forward rather than end up with a mouth full of “if only…” Later on a motivational speaker was born.

(      ) 53. What does the writer think about reading?

         A. It is more interesting than television

         B. It doesn’t need any practice at all.

         C. It is an important part of our lives.

         D. It is a wonderful invention.

(      ) 52. What does the underlined word “illustrations” mean in Paragraph 2?

         A. Pictures.                 B. Signs.               C. Covers.                         D. Words.

(      ) 51. Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

         A. Photographs can provide some information but not enough.

         B. Each of us imagines a novel or a story we read differently.

         C. Reading is very important for information and pleasure.

         D. We spend more time reading newspapers than watching TV.

(      ) 50. What does Tom do according to the form?

         A. A doctor.                                                          B. A student.

               C. A cook.                                                            D. A cleaner.

 (B)

Some people say that today, reading is not as important as it was. These days we have photos, films, radio, and television. Why read a description(描述) of something when you can look at a photograph(图片)? Why read a novel when we can see a film? Why read a newspaper when the latest news is brought to us every hour on radio and TV?

 Photographs can give a very clear idea of places and of people that we have never seen. An encyclopedia(百科全书), for example, is always better when it has good illustrations. But we also need words to explain the photographs and drawings. A photograph of an elephant may give us a very good idea of what an elephant looks like, but it tells us nothing about the different kinds of elephants there are and where they are found, their exact size and weight, how they can be useful to man and so on.

In the same way a good film has action(动作), movement, color, and maybe music. These are things we do not find on the printed page. But reading a novel has certain advantages over watching even an excellent film. Reading a novel requires(需要) imagination(想象力). Each of us imagines a story differently.

Watching news on television can certainly be exciting. But we need newspapers as well. Some important news stories happen when there are no cameras around. More importantly, a newspaper does not just report the news. It explains why something has been happening. It also contains(包括) interesting articles on different subjects(主题). Newspapers are an important part of our lives, if we want to understand what is going on in the places we live as well as in other parts of the world.

Reading is very important for information and pleasure. We need to be good readers to enjoy a full life as human beings. Reading is a skill(技能) and like other skills, it needs practice. The more we read, the better readers we become. And the better readers we become, the more we enjoy reading! The secret is to get the reading habit(习惯). Read at least a little every day.