1.

Most parents,I suppose,have had the experience of reading a bedtime story1their children.And they must have realized how difficult it is to write a2children'sbook.Either the author has aimed(定目标）too3,so that children can't follow whatis in his(or more often,her)story,4the story seems to be talking to the readers.

The best children's books are 5very difficult nor very simple,and satisfy(令人满意的）the6 who hears the story and the adult(成年人）who 7it.Unfortunately（不幸的是），there are in fact few books like this,8 the problem of finding the rightbedtime story is not 9to solve.This may be why many of the books regarded as10of children's literature(文学）were in fact written for11 “Alice in Wonderland"is perhaps the most obvious(明显）of thisChildren,left for themselves,often12the worstpossible interest in literature just leave a child in a bookshop or a13and he will morewillingly choose the books written in an unimaginative(开非想象的）way.orhavelook at the most children’s comics(连环图书），full of the stories and jokes which ate the rejectionsof teachers and righting-thinking parents.Perhaps we parents should stop14 to brainwash(洗脑）children into accepting（接受）our taste in literature.After all,children and adults are so15 that we parentsshould not expect that they will enjoy the same books.So I suppose we'll just have to compromise(妥协）over the bedtime story.13.单选

2.Children don't understand initially what they are reciting,but___it will have an impact on their thinking.

3.Passage FiveMark Twain is one of America's much-beloved authors,creating imaginative and humorousclassics for children and adults alike,such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,The Prince and ThePauper,and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Twain passed away in 1910,leaving behind a treasure of great literature.But now,100 years after his death,he'll have a brand-new book on the shelves: a three-volume autobiography.Twain hasn't been keeping busy in his tomb:it was his wish that publishers wait until 100years after his death to publish his memoirs(自传),which he spent the last decade of his lifeworking on.The autobiography totals more than 5,000 pages,and likely won't be all sunshine and roses.Itseems that Twain harbored some bitterness against former girlfriends and ex-friends.He also writes negatively about politicians of his day,such as Teddy Roosevelt.It's likely that he requested such a long lead time for the memoirs because he didn't want to hurt the feelings of anyone mentioned in this work.Although small sections of the memoirs have been previously published,the autobiography hasnever been available in full,and should provide great insights into the man behind the classicbooks.The first volume of the set will be available in November,and the trilogy is being published by the University of California,Berkeley."There are so many biographies of Twain,and many of them have used bits and pieces of theautobiography,"editor Robert Hirst told The Independent.“But biographers pick and choose what bits to quote.By publishing Twain's book in full,we hope that people will be able to come to their own complete conclusions about what sort of a man he was.”54.What does the underlined word“trilogy”in Paragraph 4 mean?

4.He got a job with the corporation in 2000 and has worked there ( ).

5.

The Saturday Evening Post"became symbolic of the reading fare of middle-class America".In 1897 Curtis began to revive(重振）The Post on the proposition that a man's chiefinterest in life is the fight for livelihood-business,Fiction and articles about romantic business and successful businessmen filled its pages.and products backed by its advertisements directed at the needs and desires of the business world.The general interest weekly reached new audiences.Its conservative viewpoint and strong admiration for material success appealed to the tastes of the millions who settled in an easy chair with it each Thursday evening.As a more commercial,mass-circulation magazine than The New Yorker,the widely readable post set out to interpret America to itself.

As a national and international institution,The Saturday Evening Post made its markin the lives of massive numbers of men and women,and served society as a stabilizing influence,Its editorial matter addressed the problems and interests of the readers as neverbefore.Neither highbrow nor lowbrow,The Post set out to interpret average middle-classAmerica,for that was its audience,However,this magazine lost touch with the mood of the American people in the 1930s.The Post's editor Lorimer,opposed Roosevelt and the New Deal and changed his magazine from an organ of entertainment and enlightenment into a weapon of political warfare.He believed that in opposing the New Deal he had spoken forthe majority of voters,but the 1936 election proved him wrong.His conservatism extendedbeyond politics,it dominated the magazine's content and style causing a decline in reputation and authority.The Post met 'its greatest success when it went beyond the tastes of the masses,challenging its readers to acknowledge the genius of contributors such as F.ScottFitzgerald and William Faulkner.It was later reformed in an effort to fulfill its responsibility to awaken lethargic(昏昏欲睡的）America,however,The Saturday Evening Postseemed to play to conventions while The New Yorker took off to redefine the character of American Humor.4.What makes The Post so commercially successful?（）

6.Passage TwoThere were many different cultures in the ancient world,but the two that had the most influence on European and American civilizations were the Greek and the Roman.Often these two cultures are lumped together in our minds,as if they were really exactly alike.But that is not the case.In many ways the Greeks and the Romans could not have been more different.The Greeks were truly democratic,often without a single leader but instead governed by a group of men chosen by the people.The Romans were semi-democratic.They had a governing Senate,but the political power was mostly or completely in the hands of a single emperor.Both cultures were great builders.But the construction interests of the two cultures were also different.The Greeks tended to be more artistic.Their buildings were well constructed and they were especially interested in temples,columns,and decorative forms.The Romans,on the other hand, were more engineers than artists.They concentrated their efforts on urban planning,well-functioning water pipes,and the best roads.Only in cooking and eating habits are the two cultures really similar.Both peoples ate very well indeed:lots of fish,fresh vegetables and fruits,healthy meals,holding at the same time longdiscussions and tasting excellent wines.In fact,it would probably be fair to say that they both loved life in their warm,sea-orientedclimates,and they both lived a full life.43.How are the two cultures alike?

7.We first think of the traditional or nuclear family．This is a two-generation family, the father and the mother and their own children．Most couples wanted to have four children, two boys, two girls. 　　Some nuclear families, however, may add one or more grandparents to come to live with them, that is three generations．This kind of family with grandparents, parents, and grandchildren is called an extended family．This family type was not very common during the later half of the twentieth century, but it's becoming more common now as an elderly grandparent moves in to live with a son or daughter．This is more possible now that American homes have become larger．What is interesting, however, is that after the grandchildren move out of the home and start their own families, this extended family shrinks back to a nuclear family, with just two generations again living together, a grandparent and parents, with the grandchildren coming only for occasional visits． 　　Now, the fatherless or motherless family is one kind of what we call a single-parent family．In the fatherless family it's just the mother and her children．As I said, this can be the result of the husband's death, of an unmarried mother, of a separation or divorce．There are also a growing number of motherless families--where the father raises the children, for any of the same reasons．A motherless family may also be fatherless, but still a family with one adult．This is becoming more common in the big cities where a grandmother will raise her daughter's children while the daughter goes elsewhere to work. 　　One other new kind of family is becoming increasingly more common．A single parent with one or more children will marry again．Perhaps the other parent is also a single parent．Together they will start what is called a blended family, which blends together or combines the children from two other families.[单选题] Who usually looks after the children in a both motherless and fatherless family in America?

8.Passage FiveAs my train wasn't due to leave for another hour, I had plenty of time to spare. After buying some newspapers to read on the journey, I made my way to the luggage office to collect the heavy suitcase I had left there three days before. There were only a few people waiting, and I took out my wallet to find the receipt for my case. The receipt didn't seem to be where I had left it. I emptied the contents of the wallet, and railway-tickets, money, scraps of paper, and photographs fell out of it; but no matter how hard I searched, the receipt was nowhere to be found.looked at me suspiciously as if to say that he had heard this type of story many times and asked me to describe the case. I told him that it was an old, brown-looking object, no different from the many cases I could see on the shelves. The assistant then gave me a form and told me to make a list of the chief contents of the case. If they were correct, he said, I could take the case away. I tried to remember all the articles I had hurriedly packed and wrote them down as they came to me.After I had done this, I went to look among the shelves. There were hundreds of cases there and for one dreadful moment, it occurred to me that if someone had picked the receipt up, he could have easily claimed the case already. This hadn't happened fortunately, for after a time I found the case lying on its side high up in a corner. After examining the articles inside, the assistant was soon satisfied that it was mine and told me I could take the case away.Again I took out my wallet: this time to pay. I pulled out ten-shilling note and the "lost" receipt slipped out with it. I couldn't help blushing and looked up at the assistant. He was nodding his head knowingly, as if to say that he had often seen this happen before too !The writer had plenty of time to spare as his train__________.

9.They can't answer the question in Japanese:we can answer it,____

10.In his speech,he gave us___on how to learn a foreign language

11.根据以下资料，回答1-4题。 　　Key James, Secretary of Health and Human Resources in the Virginia State government, loves to turn the tables on those who don't think it's possible to be middle-class, conservative, educated and still be truly black．Once, during an abortion debate, a woman in the audience angrily told James she was so middle-class she didn't have a clue about real African American life．"If you understood what these women go through," the woman said, "you would realize that abortion is their only choice." 　　James then asked the woman to consider a poor black mother on welfare．She already has four children and an alcoholic husband who has all but abandoned the family．Now she discovers another child is on the way．"How would you counsel that woman?" asked James. 　　"Have an abortion," the woman responded．"That child would have a very poor quality of life." 　　"I have a vested interest in your answer," James said．"The woman I described was my mother．I was the fifth of six children born into poverty．And, in case you're interested, the quality of my life is just fine!"3 James' mother __.

12.Laura was married for 6 months. Her husband was using drugs. She didn’t want her son or herunborn baby to live that way, but she was afraid to ask her husband to leave. She left him a noteinstead. After reading the note,Laura’s husband waited for her to come home and then beat herand her son.Laura had little education and she never had a good paying job. She was ashamed to ask for helpfrom the police, courts or women’s shelters. Sometimes her husband was very nice to her. Shedecided to try harder so her children could have a home and a father. Laura joined a church andtold a priest about her problem.But her husband kept using drugs and hurting the family. Finally, she told her husband she lovedhim,but they should live apart for a while.He beat her again.The priest came over to talk to her.Heasked the husband to go out for a while. Laura packed up her things and left home with her son.The next day she lost the baby. Her husband went to jail.Laura got a lot of help from groups that help women who have been beaten.Now she is incollege,has her own apartment and works on special projects at a women’s shelter.“We got out,and it changed life for me and my child. You can do it. You can break the cycle,”Laura said.Laura didn’t go to the police or courts because__________.

13.exact

14.

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability.

It is like this. 61 you are going to have a baby, it ’s like preparing a vacation trip to Italy. You 62 a bunch of guidebooks and make wonderful 63 . You may learn some useful phrases 64 Italian. It ’s all very exciting. 65 several months of eager expectation, the day finally 66 . You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours 67 , the plane lands in Holland. ―Why Holland? ‖ you say, ―I sign up 68 Italy! All my life I ’ve dreamed 69 going to Italy. ‖ But you have landed in Holland and 70 you must stay.

The importance thing is to remember that they haven ’t taken you 71 a horrible, disgusting, filthy place. It ’s just a 72 place. So you go out and new guidebooks 73 you must learn a whole new language. Holland may be slower-paced 74 Italy. But you have been there for a while, you 75 that Holland has windmills and tulips( 郁金 香). Everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy, and they all boasting about 76 a wonderful time they had there. And for the 77 of your life you will say, ―Yes, that’s where I was 78 to go ‖. But if you spend your life 79 the fact that you didn ’t get to Italy, you may never be free to 80 the very special, the very lovely things about Holland.74、

15.When we walk through the city,we,all experience a kind of information overload(超载）。but we pay attention only to those that are,important to us.We don't stop,we keepour faces expressionless and eyes straight ahead,and in doing so,we are not just protecting ourselves, but are,avoiding overloading other people as well.We make use of stereotypes(刻板的模式）as convenient ways to make quick judgmentsabout situations and people around us.They may not always be accurate(精确的），andthey can often be dangerously wrong,but they are used regularly.The problem with the stereotypes is that they restrict(限制）experience.,By using limited clues(线索）to provide us with a rapid opinion of other people on places we may choose to limit our communication.We may decide not to go to certain places because we believe.they will not offer something weenjoy.In the city ,styles of dress are particularly important with regard to （关于）self-presentation,Different groups often use clearly identifiable(可辨认的）styles of clothes so thatthey can be easily recognized.It is becoming increasingly.common for brand names to beplaced on the outside of clothes,and this labeling(标签）makes it easy to send out information about fashion and price instantly(马上）lets other tell at a distance whether n individual has similar tastes and is a suitable person to associatewithIn England,where social grouping or classcontinues to make social distinctions(区分），clothes,hairstyles,people's pronunciation and the manner of speaking are all clues toour social group.Class distinctions tend to be relatively fixed,although in the citywhere greater variety is permitted.they are more likely to he secondary determining factorsfriendship and association.It would appear that in England,a person s class,（）

16.根据以下资料，回答16-30题。Every woman dreams of receiving a huge priceless diamond．Now space scientists __1__ that they have discovered the largest diamond in the universe．But it’s well 2_ the reach of the most loves truck men because it's 50 light years away, to be __3__．Measuring 2,500 miles across and weighing five million trillion pounds，the rock Was found on Valentine’ s Day __4__ in the core of a white dwarf star, and it has excited the _5__ world. “It’s the mother of all diamonds，”said Travis Metcalfe， __6__ led the team of researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre，“and you would need a jeweler’S loupe(专用放大镜)，the size of the Sun，to __7__ this diamond．” The largest diamond __8__ on earth was the 3，106-carat(克拉)Cullinan．It Was cut __9__ nine major stones，including the 530-carat Star of Africa，now a part of the Crown Jewels．Diamonds were __10__ discovered in India more than 2,800 years ago．The Ancient Romans __11__ that the stones were broken pieces of stars that had __12__ to earth．In Ancient Egypt，diamonds were used in funerals. In the Middle Ages，men __13__ them to symbolize their courage and strength．The __14__ of giving them as presents dates from 1477，__15__ Maximilian，the prince of Austria, gave a diamond ring to Mary of Burgundy．7A.measure,B.register,C.grade,D.weigh

17.选出下面读音不同的选项()。

18.Hunting tools struck together may have been the first musical ______.填入____处的最佳答案是()。

19.When he left___college,he got a job as___reporter ina newspaper office.

20.The Saturday Evening Post "became symbolic of the reading fare of middle-class America". In 1897 Curtis began to revive (重振) the Post on the proposition that a man's chief interest in life is the fight for livelihood -- business. Fiction and articles about romantic business and successful businessmen filled its pages, and products backed by its advertisements directed at the needs and desires of the business world. The general interest weekly reached new audiences. Its conservative viewpoint and strong admiration for material success appealed to the tastes of the millions who settled in an easy chair with it each Thursday evening. As a more commercial, mass-circulation magazine than The New Yorker, the widely readable Post set out to interpret America to itself.As a national and international institution, The Saturday Evening Post made its mark in the lives of massive numbers of men and women, and served society as a stabilizing influence. Its editorial matter addressed the problems and interests of the readers as never before. Neither highbrow nor lowbrow, the Post set out to interpret average middle-class America, for that was its audience.However, this magazine lost touch with the mood of the American people in the 1930s. The Post's editor Lorimer, opposed Roosevelt and the New Deal and changed his magazine from an organ of entertainment and enlightenment into a weapon of political warfare. He believed that in opposing the New Deal he had spoken for the majority of voters, but the 1936 election proved him wrong.His conservatism extended beyond politics, it dominated the magazine's content and style causing a decline in reputation and authority. The Post met its greatest success when it went beyond the tastes of the masses, challenging its readers to acknowledge the genius of contributors such as F.Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner. It was later reformed in an effort to fulfill its responsibility to awaken lethargic (昏昏欲睡的)America, however, The Saturday Evening Post seemed to play to conventions while The New Yorker took off to redefine the character of American Humor.Why did the Post lose much of its audience in the 1930s?