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第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（共15 小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文，从每小题所给的四个选项(A. B. C和D) 中，选出最佳选项。

A

I am an English dictionary. I can still remember the day my ex-owner bought me. He had stood in front of the shelf for around half an hour before finally picking me. Originally, he chose my neighbor. But because she had some ink on the cover, he put her down and chose me instead.

I may sound arrogant (傲慢的) . But please forgive me. I am so proud of my vocabulary. With 100,000 entries and 300,000 examples, I think no scholar can be more knowledgeable than me. My only weakness is that I can’t speak. But that is not my fault. I was not designed to speak in the first place. My ex-owner was supposed to read the phonetic symbols (音标) clearly printed beside each word, which were also my selling point. I should have been respected but have ended up lying next to a piece of used toilet paper inside the rubbish bin.

It is all because of the electronic dictionary. He is the bad guy because he takes advantage of my one weakness. And I just don’t understand why he can be so slim. He also has about 100,000entries but 450,000 examples! But I know this was not the reason why my ex-owner was attracted, for he was not a very diligent (勤奋的) student and seldom read the examples listed. The main reason was that the bad guy had so many games in him. My ex-owner always pretended to be working hard while actually he was playing games.

My ex-owner put me on his bookshelf because of my awesome English name “Advanced English Dictionary”. He wanted people to think that he was an advanced learner. I wanted to tell him that it would be better if he hid the comic books standing next to me. But, you know, I can’t speak. I stood there for years. I was so bored. So I talked to the comic book next to me. Under normal circumstances, I wouldn’t have talked to him because I was educated and he was not. But who else could I choose? He told me that my ex-owner had read him once only and then put him there. I was upset because he had never read me from page one to page 1,000. Was I not a better book than the comic book? I wanted to challenge his honesty but before I did so, he was thrown away.

I give up. My pages are absorbing waste water. There is no way people will use me again. Suddenly, I want to talk to the comic book. Would he talk to me if we met?

1. The dictionary is proud of its _________.

A. knowledge B. ex-owner C. thickness D. cover

2. Why does the dictionary think that the electronic dictionary is the “bad guy”?

A. I t contains more words and examples. B. I t can actually pronounce the words.

C. It has a smaller size. D. It has many games.

3. The dictionary thinks that its ex-owner put it on the bookshelf because he _______.

A. thought that it could match the comic books B. wanted his friends to study English

C. just wanted to show off D. had to use it sometimes

4. What was the dictionary’s attitude toward the comic book standing next to it?

A. It wanted to make friends with him. B. It respected him.

C. It envied him. D. It hated him.

5. Which of the following is the best title for the text?

A. A Dictionary Is Replaced with an Electronic One B. Students Seldom Use Dictionaries

C. A Dictionary and a Comic Book D. The Experience of a Dictionary

B

6．It is said that the love story about Xu Xian and the White Snake happened on _____.

A. Dragon Tower

B. West Lake

C. Water Cube

D. Disneyland

7．If a person in Hangzhou feels like visiting Water Cube, he should call _____to get??information.

A. 010-28315589 B. 0451-82187899 C. 0571-68345576 D. 0l0-28135589

8．Which of the following is TRUE according to the travel information?

A. Water Cube is special in design.

B. The price of a ticket for West Lake is the highest.

C. In Disneyland, you can't see any cartoon characters.

D. The price of a ticket for Dragon Tower is the lowest.

C

Cooking food over a smoky fire is found everywhere in the world. It is often difficult to find wood for the fire. People who do not have wood must spend large amounts of money on cooking fuel. However, there is a much easier way to cook food using energy from the sun. Solar cookers, or ovens, have been used for centuries. A Swiss scientist made the first solar oven in 1767. Today, people are using solar cookers in many countries around the world. People use solar ovens to cook food and to heat drinking water to kill bacteria and other harmful organisms.

There are three kinds of solar ovens. The first is a box cooker. It is designed with a special wall that shines or reflects sunlight into the box. Heat gets trapped under a piece of glass or plastic covering the top of the cooker. A box oven is effective for slow cooking of large amounts of food.

The second kind of solar oven is a panel(嵌板式) cooker. It includes several flat walls, or panels, which directly reflect the sun’s light onto the food. The food is inside a separate container of plastic or glass that traps heat energy. People can build panel cookers quickly and with very few supplies. They do not cost much. In Kenya, for example, panel cookers are being manufactured for just two dollars.

The third kind of solar oven is a parabolic(抛物线的) cooker. It has rounded walls that aim sunlight directly into the bottom of the oven. Food cooks quickly in parabolic ovens. However, these cookers are hard to make. They must be re-aimed often to follow the sun. Parabolic cookers can also cause burns and eye injuries if they are not used correctly.

You can make solar ovens from boxes or heavy paper. They will not catch fire. Paper burns at 232 degrees Celsius. A solar cooker never gets that hot. Solar ovens cook food at low temperatures over long periods of time. This permits people to leave food to cook while they do other things.

To learn more about solar cooking, you can write to Solar Cookers International. The postal address is nineteen-nineteen Twenty-First Street, Sacramento, California, nine-five-eight-one-one, USA. Or you can visit the group’s Internet Web site. The address is www.solarcooking.org.

9．How long is the first solar cookers invented?

A. About 1767 years B. More than 300 years

C. More than 250 years D. Less than 250 years

10．In which of the following column could we find the passage?

A. Development Report B. Agricultural Report

C. Health Report D. Education Report

11．Which of the following is TRUE?

A. The first sun-cooker was made by a Swiss soldier

B. Parabolic cookers can be dangerous sometimes

C. Sun-cookers often get hotter than 232℃

D. It is more expensive to cook with a sun-cooker than on fire

12．Which of the following could be the best title of the passage?

A. Different Ways of Cooking B. The History of the Solar Cookers.

C. How to Choose Solar Cookers. D. Cooking Meals with the Sun for Fuel

D

You wake up in the morning, the day is beautiful and the plans for the day are what you have been looking forward to for a long time. Then the telephone rings, you say hello, and the drama starts. The person on the other end has a depressing tone in his voice as he starts to tell you how terrible his morning is and that there is nothing to look forward to. You are still in a wonderful mood? Impossible!

Communicating with negative people can wash out your happiness. It may not change what you think, but communicating long enough with them will make you feel depressed for a moment or a long time.

Life brings ups and downs, but some people are stuck in the wrong idea that life has no happiness to offer. They only feel glad when they make others feel bad. No wonder they can hardly win others’ pity or respect.

When you communicate with positive people, your spirit stays happy and therefore more positive things are attracted. When the dagger（匕首） of a negative person is put in you, you feel the heavy feeling that all in all, brings you down.

Sometimes we have no choice but to communicate with negative people. This could be a co-worker, or a relative. In this case, say what needs to be said as little as possible. Sometimes it feels good to let out your anger back to the negative person, but all this is to lower you to that same negative level and they won’t feel ashamed of themselves about that.

Negativity often affects happiness without even being realized. The negative words of another at the start of the day can cling to（附着） you throughout the rest of your day, which makes you feel bad and steals your happiness. Life is too short to feel negative. Stay positive and avoid negativity as much as possible.

13．The purpose of the first paragraph is to __________.

A. make a comparison B. offer an evidence

C. introduce a topic D. describe a daily scene

14．How can negative people have effect on us?

A. By changing our ways of thinking B. By telling us the nature of life

C. By influencing our emotion D. By comparing their attitudes to life with ours

15．According to the passage, to reduce negative people’s influence on us, we are advised to __________.

A. show our dissatisfaction to negative people

B. communicate with negative people as little as possible

C. change negative people’s attitudes to life

D. make negative people feel ashamed of themselves

第二节( 共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)。

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选入能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

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