B
Senior citizens are permitted to travel cheaply on a bus if they have a special card. Women may get cards when they are sixty.
Mrs. Matthews lives in the country but she went into town once a week to buy food and other things for the house, and she usually went by bus. She always had to pay the full price for her ride.
Then she reached the age of sixty and got her senior citizen’s card, but when she used it for the first time on the bus, it made her feel very old.
The bus driver had often seen her traveling on the bus before, and he notices that she was feeling unhappy, so after she had paid her money, he winked at her and whispered, “Don’t forget to give your mother’s card back to her when you see her again.”
Mrs. Matthews was very happy when she heard this.
40. Senior citizens in the story refer to _____.
A. those who have special cards
B. old people with special cards
C. people who hold high positions in the government
D. those who want to travel cheaply
41. Women over sixty______
A. don’t have to pay for taking buses
B. pay less for their ride if they have a special card
C. have to pay the full price for their ride
D. have to pay their special card
42. Mrs. Matthews felt unhappy on the bus because _______.
A. she still had to pay for the tide. B. the card wasn`t hers
C. she felt she was now an old woman D. the driver whispered to her
43. The driver whispered to her _______.
A. in order to make her feel younger
B. because he thought that she shouldn’t have borrowed her mother’s card
C. because he wanted her to pay the full amount
D. because he knew her mother was still alive.
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III．阅读（共两节，满分40分）
第一节 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Now in his senior year in Bowdoin College, a small, elite liberal-arts（文科）college in Masine, Chen Yongfang has become such a devotee of the liberal-arts approach that he’s made it his mission to spread the word throughout China. He has coauthored a book called A True Liberal Arts Education, which essentially explains the little-known concept to Chinese students and their parents. Though there have been many books about how to get into Ivy League universities, “there was not a single book in China about the smaller liberal-arts colleges,” he says.
The book, which Chen wrote with friends Ye Lin and Wan Li, who also attend small U. S. colleges, touts（兜售）such benefits as intimate classes (the student-to-faculty ratio at Bowdoin is 9:1) and professors who focus on teaching rather than research. Chen, 23, explains that he was won over by Bowdoin’s commitment to nurturing skills for life, rather than simply for the workplace. “Liberal arts is abut fostering your identity,” he says. “They want to cultivate your mind.” He admits that liberal arts may be a hard sell in a country with an increasingly competitive job market. The book states bluntly that in the short term, a liberal-arts education won’t improve job prospects. “In China, employers are looking for someone who can come in and start working immediately when they graduate, not someone who still needs to be trained in practical skills,” Chen says.
The book, which received wide media coverage in China and now has a waiting list for its second print run, is certainly timely: it plays into a growing debate in China about what national universities should be teaching. The country needs a workforce with the skills and creativity to help move away from low-cost manufacturing and, in economic terms, move up the value chain. And some educators believe liberal-arts training is vital to help China deal with its increasingly complex new realities. Yet the well-known intellectual historian Xu Jilin believes that China’s rapid expansion of higher education has had a detrimental effect on curriculum as the country’s universities race to compete globally. “Education these days in like factory-farming chickens,” he says. “Universities all wan to get into international rakings—and most of these depend on research. They’re not interested in providing a unique education for our kids.”
1．According to Chen Yongfang, the benefits of attending liberal-arts colleges are the following EXCEPT .
A．closer relationship with tutors
B．teachers more devoted to teaching
C．practical skills for getting a job in China
D．development in mind and life-long ability
2．It can be inferred from the passage that .
A．the teaching quality in big research universities not as good as small colleges
B．it is more difficult for liberal-arts graduates to find a job because employers don’t believe that they can perform well
C．literal-arts education is of little help to China’s economic development
D．research universities received more Chinese applicants than smaller liberal-arts colleges
3．The word “detrimental” in Para.3 probably means “_________.”
A．instant B．rewarding C．damaging D．obvious
4．According to Xu Jilin,___________.
A．the expansion of higher education has improved the competitive strength of China’s universities
B．Chinese universities are providing the same courses as foreign universities
C．many universities are not paying enough attention to teaching
D．research should gain more attention in order to improve China’s universities’ rankings
5．This passage is most probably adapted from_________.
A．an article introducing liberal arts
B．an article introducing the book A True Liberal Arts Education
C．an article criticizing China’s higher education
D．an advertisement for Bowdoin College
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---Mr. Wu, can I have a look at the scores?
---Well, you are a senior, so I_____ hardly remind you that the scores are not open to students.
A. can B. need C. will D. shall
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Forty years ago Sadie left her drunk and violent husband. Needing shelter（住所）for herself and her young son, she took a job as a doorkeeper in a housing project for ___36___people. It meant she could live “on site” in one of the ___37___.
Eventually, she got to know the residents（居民）. One resident, Archie, didn't have a family of his own, ___38___his nephew’s wife and her naughty kids would drop in from time to time. They were there to help the old guy.
Sadie helped care for Archie as he ___39___illness and it was she who called the ___40___who diagnosed（诊断） his deadly cancer.
___41___time passing, Sadie’s son ___42___up, got married and settled several hundred miles away. Sadie ___43___and moved into a nice little house of her own. To ___44___the loneliness, she took in a series of ___45___over the years.
A heavy fall of snow came a year and a half ago. She was pleased when a neighbor ___46___to walk her current dog, Muffin, until the weather improved. Each day he would ___47___a while talking to her, making sure she was okay, and ___48___if she needed anything.
Although she had known him for a long time, Sadie ___49___thought to wonder what his last name was. This morning she asked. His surname was the same ___50___old Archie’s. It brought back a memory and she talked about the ___51___. She told him about working at the old residents’ flats and was ___52___to discover the man who had been “caring” for her for the past year and a half had been one of the little kids who used to run ___53___on his way to visit “Uncle Archie”.
She had cared for his family, now he was caring for her. ___54___of them knew it until that moment but they were living proof of the old saying, “What goes around comes around, ” and the ___55___of kindness will not be broken.
1.A. poor B. senior C. disabled D. unfortunate
2.A. groceries B. stadiums C. flats D. cages
3.A. otherwise B. but C. though D. because
4.A. battled B. banned C. cured D. beat
5.A. servant B. master C. neighbor D. doctor
6.A. As B. Since C. With D. When
7.A. grew B. got C. went D. came
8.A. complained B. retired C. fired D. hesitated
9.A. refuse B. reduce C. stop D. escape
10.A. programs B. projects C. birds D. dogs
11.A. attempted B. declared C. offered D. wished
12.A. spend B. cost C. take D. spare
13.A. observing B. requiring C. indicating D. checking
14.A. often B. never C. sometimes D. once
15.A. to B. from C. as D. of
16.A. coincidence B. comprehension C. tradition D. statement
17.A. puzzled B. frightened C. concerned D. surprised
18.A. calling B. screaming C. barking D. whispering
19.A. All B. None C. Neither D. Both
20.A. custom B. glory C. pattern D. circle
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One afternoon, Tom started acting ___43__. I was sitting on the floor playing with him, __44___he started sniffing at the right side of my chest. He had never done anything like this before, suddenly he threw his entire__45__at the right side of my chest, and I cried in___46___.
Soon after this, I felt a lump(肿块). After X-rays and tests, doctors told me I __47__cancer. When cancer started, for an unknown __48___, a wall of calcium(钙化壁) built. Then the lump or cancer _49__ itself to the wall. When Tom __50__on me, the force broke the lump away from the calcium wall, which made me ___ 51__the lump. Before that, I couldn’t see or feel it, so there was no way for me to know it was there.
I had a complete __ 52___ and the cancer did not spread. The doctors told me if the cancer had gone unfound even six more months, it would have been too late.
Was Tom ___53__ of just what he was doing? I’ll never really know. What I do
know is that I’ m glad I made a promise to_ 54 __my golden years with this wonderful creature---- for Tom not only shares his life with me; he has made sure that I will be ___55___to share my life with him.
1.A. suggested B. insisted C. told D. promised
2.A. take B. bring C. share D. carry
3.A. well-behaved B. well-built C. well-dressed D. well-known
4.A. dirty B. neat C. lazy D. sad
5.A. working B. sleeping C. eating D. playing
6.A. joke B. fun C. game D. face
7.A. company B. kindness C. care D. comfort
8.A. happily B. luckily C. strangely D. sadly
9.A. while B. when C. as D. before
10.A. power B. energy C. devotion D. weight
11.A. joy B. surprise C. pain D. relief
12.A. enjoyed B. had C. lived D. treated
13.A. cause B. excuse C. reason D. idea
14.A. attached B. devoted C. fell D. dropped
15.A. jumped B. sat C. stood D. put
16.A. watch B. witness C. observe D. notice
17.A. task B. work C. operation D. job
18.A. fond B. aware C. ashamed D. afraid
19.A. waste B. spend C. cost D. make
20.A. in B. around C. out D. outside
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________ seems to be a strong competition in China for senior high students to enter college or university.
A. It B. This C. That D. There
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