The UN is the international organization which _______ all countries to settle any conflicts between two countries.

              A .lose power over        B. has power over  C. seize the power of     D. come into power of

第五节 阅读理解

On May 29, 1973, Thomas Bradley, a black man, was elected mayor of Los Angeles. Los Angeles is the third largest city in the United States, with a population of three million. About sixteen percent of the city’s population are black.

   News of this election appeared on the front pages of newspapers everywhere in the United States. Here is how one major newspaper reported the event.

LOS ANGELES ELECTS BRADLEY MAYOR UNSEATING YORTY

BLACK WINS 56% OF VOTES

   Bradley called his victory over Yorty “ the fulfillment of a dream ”. During his childhood and youth, people had kept telling him , “You can’t do this, you can’t go there, because you are a Negro. ” Nevertheless he had won a decisive victory over a man who had been won 43.7 percent.

   Los Angeles voters have had many opportunities to judge. Thomas Bradley had to form an opinion of him, The son of a poor farmer Texas, he joined the Los Angeles police force in 1940. During his twenty-one years on the police force he earned a law degree by attending school at night. He was elected to the city council years ago.

  At the time of the Los Angeles election, three other American cities already had black mayors, but none of these cities had as large a population as Los Angeles. Besides, the percentage of blacks in those other cities was much larger. Cleveland, Ohio, had thirty-six percent black when Carl Stokes was elected mayor of Cleveland in 1967. In the same year Richard Hatcher was elected mayor of Cary. In Newark, New Jersey, sixty percent of the population were black when Kenneth Gibson was elected in 1970. Thus election of a black mayor in those cities was not very surprising .

In Los Angeles, thousands of white citizens voted for Thomas Bradley because they believed he would be a better mayor than the white candidate. Bradley had spent forty-eight of his fifty-five years in Los Angeles. Four years ago, Bradley lost mayoral election to Yorty. This time Bradley won.

56. People kept telling Bradley not to “go there” in his childhood because ____________

A. he was too young                     B. he was a black boy

C. he came from a poor farmer’s family      D. he himself hated the whites

57. In the author’s opinion, It was surprising that _______________

A. the whites would vote for a black mayor

B. the black mayor lost his mayor election to Yorty four years ago

C. the black mayor came from a poor farmer’s family

D. there would be so many black mayors

58. From the passage, we can learn that people _______________

A. voted for Bradley because of his black color

B. cared much about his color when they voted

C. voted for him to give a chance to fulfill his dream

D. voted for him because they trusted him

 59. Bradley hit the front page headline, for ________________

A. he was the first black mayor in history

B. he once served in the Los Angeles police force

C. he was the first black mayor of one of the largest cities in the USA

D. a poor farmer’s son could also win an important election

 60. From Bradley’s victory in the election we can see that ____________ 

A. blacks had equal rights as whites in the USA

B. black people’s situation began to be improving much more than before

C. one can be successful through hard work in the USA no matter what color he is

D. it is certain that someday the USA will have a black president  

IV. 写作(共两节，满分40分)

基础写作 (共1小题，满分15分)

[写作内容]

假如你是李芳，是学校广播室的播音员， 请就以下新闻内容编辑一篇发言稿在下午的广播时间里播出：

2010年1月13日，星期二，加勒比岛国海地首都太子港发生里氏7级地震。地震估

计将导致4.5至5万人遇难，另有300万人受伤或无家可归。 首都太子巷将近50%的房屋被损毁，目前海地首都太子巷到处是一片废墟。地震后，国际社会纷纷伸出援助之手---包括捐衣服，食品和药物。中国国际救援队也于1月14日抵达海地，并立即展开搜救工作； 医务工作者们也已经在海地建立了流动医院，救治当地的受伤民众。

[写作要求]

只能使用5个句子表达全部的内容。

[评分标准]

    句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。

参考词汇：   

Haiti海地  Port-au-Prince太子港  at a scale of 7 on the Richter calculations里氏7级

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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。

                                    Some people bring out the best in you in a way that you might never have fully realized on your own. My mom was one of those people.

       My father died when I was nine months old, making my mom a single mother at the age of eighteen. While I was growing up, we lived a very hard life. We had little money, but my mom gave me a lot of love. Each night, she sat me on her lap and spoke the words that would change my life, “Kemmons, you are certain to be a great man and you can do anything in life if you work hard enough to get it.”

       At fourteen, I was hit by a car and the doctors said I would never walk again. Every day, my mother spoke to me in her gentle, loving voice, telling me that no matter what those doctors said, I could walk again if I wanted to badly enough. She drove that message so deep into my heart that I finally believed her. A year later, I returned to school — walking on my own!

       When the Great Depression (大萧条) hit, my mom lost her job. Then I left school to support the both of us. At that moment, I was determined never to be poor again.

       Over the years, I experienced various levels of business success. But the real turning point occurred on a vacation I took with my wife and five kids in 1951. I was dissatisfied with the second-class hotels available for families and was angry that they charged an extra $2 for each child. That was too expensive for the average American family. I told my wife that I was going to open a motel (汽车旅馆) for families that would never charge extra for children. There were plenty of doubters at that time.

       Not surprisingly, mom was one of my strongest supporters. She worked behind the desk and even designed the room style. As in any business, we experienced a lot of challenges. But with my mother’s words deeply rooted in my soul, I never doubted we would succeed. Fifteen years later, we had the largest hotel system in the world — Holiday Inn. In 1979 my company had 1,759 inns in more than fifty countries with an income of $ 1 billion a year.

       You may not have started out life in the best situations. But if you can find a task in life worth working for and believe in yourself, nothing can stop you.

41. What Kemmons’ mom often told him during his childhood was _________.

A. caring      B. moving     C. encouraging      D. interesting

42. According to the author, who played the most important role in making him walk back to

school again?

A. Doctors.    B. Nurses.      C. His friends.       D. His mom。

43. What caused Kemmons to start a motel by himself?

A. His terrible experience in the hotel.

B. His previous business success of various level.

C. His mom’s strongest support.

D. His wife’s valuable suggestion.

44. Which of the following best describes Kemmons’ mother?

A. Modest, helpful and hard-working.                      B. Loving, supportive and strong-willed.

C. Careful, helpful and beautiful.                             D. Strict, sensitive and supportive.

45. Which of the following led to Kemmons’ success according to the passage?

A. Self-confidence, hard work, higher education and a poor family.

B. Clear goals, mom’s encouragement, a poor family and higher education.

C. Mom’s encouragement, clear goals, self-confidence and hard work.

D. Mom’s encouragement, a poor family, higher education and opportunities.

       I will give you my friend’s home address, _____I can be reached most evenings.

A.    Which    B. when    C.whom    D.where

______, I have to put the book away and focus my attention on study this weekend.

  A. However the story is amusing         B. No matter how amusing is the story

C. However amusing is the story         D. No matter how amusing the story is

He has difficulty in remembering lines，but       he is a good actor

A．in addition            B．all in all                       C．as a result               D．at most

Air travel is such an everyday experience these days that we are not surprised when we read about a politician having talks with the Japanese Prime Minister one day, attending a meeting in Australia the following morning and having to be off at midday to sign a trade agreement in Hong Kong. But frequent long-distance flying can be so tiring that the traveler begins to feel his brain is in one country, his digestion（消化吸收）in another and his powers of concentration nowhere---in short, he hardly knows where he is.

 Air travel is so quick nowadays that we can leave London after breakfast and be in New York in eight hours, yet what really upsets us most is that when we arrive it is lunch time while we have already had lunch on the plane and are expecting dinner.

 Doctors say that air travelers are in no condition to work after crossing a number of time zones. Airline pilots, however, often live by their own watches.

After a long air travel, a traveler _______.

 A. finds himself in a different world

 B. finds his brain apart from his body

 C. finds himself in Hong Kong the following morning

 D. has little sense about where he is

The sentence “Airline pilots often live by their own watches. ” means______.

 A. they don’t trust others’ watches

 B. they don’t change their watches

 C. they make a living by their own watches

 D. they do as they used to do

Doctors suggest the travelers_______?

 A. should rest when they arrive in New York from London.

 B. should work in good condition since they just finish a long journey.

 C. rest in a place with good condition.

 D. give up long journey since it makes them tired.

Watching bison up close is fascinating, like watching a grass fire about to leap out of control. With their huge, wedge-shaped heads and silver-dollar-size brown eyes, the 2,000-pound animals are symbols of another place and time. More than 100 bison now roam the 30,000-acre American Prairie Reserve in eastern Montana — the first time they’ve inhabited that region in a century. Direct descendants of the tens of millions of bison that once populated the Western plains, they represent an epic effort: to restore a piece of America’s prairie to the national grandeur that Lewis and Clark extolled two centuries ago. During that famous expedition across the Western states to the Pacific, the two explorers encountered so many bison that they had to wait hours for one herd to pass.

       In order to protect what’s here and reintroduce long-gone wildlife (something the World Wildlife Fund is helping with), the American Prairie Foundation began purchasing land from local ranchers in 2004. It now owns 30,000 acres and has grazing privileges on another 57,000. Its goal over the next 25 years is to assemble three million acres, the largest area of land devoted to wildlife management in the continental United States.

       Already, herds of elk, deer, and pronghorn antelope roam the grasslands, where visitors can camp, hike, and bike. Cottonwoods and willows are thriving along streams, creating habitats for bobcats, beavers, and other animals.

       Not everyone shares APF’s vision. Some residents of Phillips County (pop. 3,904) worry that the area could become a prairie Disneyland, overcrowded with tourists. But the biggest obstacle is the ranchers themselves, whose cattle compete with prairie dogs and bison for grass and space.

       “People like me have no intention of selling their ranches,” says Dale Veseth, who heads the Ranchers Stewardship Alliance of 35 families in Phillips County and whose family has been ranching here since 1886. “They’ve been a labor of love through the generations.” Instead, he wants APF to pay or subsidize ranchers to raise bison. This would be far less costly for the foundation, he argues, than buying the land directly.

If you go to the American Prairie Reserve in eastern Montana, you will see ________.

       A. the burning fire moving across the grassland

B. hundreds of bison travelling through the prairie

C. tens of millions of bison occupying the farmland

D. groups of experts examining the dead bison

What measures have been taken to protect the wildlife by APF?

       A. They have borrowed much money and developed new habitat.

B. They have hired many farmers to raise bison on their farms.

C. They have turned grassland into Disneyland to attract tourists.

D. They have bought large land from farmers for bison to live on.

The underlined word “subsidize” in this passage means ________.

       A. give money to                                             B. borrow money from

C. provide land to                                            D. exchange land with

Which would be the best title for this passage?

       A. The exciting scenery in eastern Montana

B. Great changes in raising bison in America

C. The return of the American prairie

D. The challenge in protecting the grassland

If you are hungry, what will you do? Grab a piece of your favorite meal and stay quiet after that? Just like stomach, even your mind will be hungry. But it never lets you know, because you keep it busy thinking about your dream lover, favorite star and many such absurd things. So it silently begins to hide your needs and never lets itself grow. When mind loses its freedom to grow, creativity gets its full stop. This might be the reason why we all sometimes think “What happens next?”, “Why can’t I think?”, “Why am I always given the difficult problems?” Well, this is the after-effect of using our brain for thinking of not-so-worthy things.

Hunger of the mind can be actually satisfied through extensive reading. But why is it reading but not watching TV? Because reading has been the most educational tool used by us right from the childhood. Just like that to develop other aspects of our life, we have to turn to reading for help. You have a number of books in the world which will answer all your “how-to” questions. Once you read a book, you just don’t run your eyes through the lines, but your mind decodes (译解) it and explains it to you. The interesting part of the book is stored in your mind as a seed. Now this seed is unknowingly used by you in your future to develop new ideas. The same seed, if used many times, can help you link and relate a lot of things, which you would never thought of in your wildest dreams! This is nothing but creativity. The more books you read, the wider your mind will become. Also this improves your oratorical (speech-making) skills to a large extent and also makes a significant contribution to your vocabulary. When you start speaking English or any other language fluently with your friends or other people, you never seem to run out of the right words at the right time.

Actually, I had a problem in speaking English fluently, but as I read, I could improve significantly. So guys, do join me and give food for your thoughts by reading, reading and more reading. Now what are you waiting for? Go, grab a book and let me know!

49. What’s the best title of the passage?

A. Hunger of the mind                            B. Stomach and Mind 

C. Feed your Mind by reading                   D. Reading or Watching TV

50. You don’t know your mind is in hunger because _____.

A. you are not hungry                                    

B. you keep it thinking of silly things 

C. your creativity gets a full stop             

D. you always meet with difficult problems

51. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as the advantage of reading?

A. Reading can make your dream come true.

B. Reading can contribute to your vocabulary.

C. Reading can improve your spoken ability.

D. Reading can make people creative.

52. The purpose of the author in writing this passage is to _______.

A. comment and blame                             B. introduce and describe 

C. explain and persuade                             D. advise and inform