When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Dr. Gibbs. He didn’t look like any doctor I’d ever known. He never yelled at us for playing in his yard. I remember him as someone who was a lot nicer than most of the adults in our community.

　　When Dr. Gibbs wasn’t saving lives, he was planting trees. His house sat on ten acres, and his life’s goal was to make it a forest.

　　The good doctor had some interesting theories concerning plant care and growth. He never watered his new trees, which flew in the face of conventional wisdom. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants spoiled them so that each successive tree generation would grow weaker and weaker. So you have to make things rough for them and weed out(淘汰) the weaker trees early on.

He talked about how watering trees made for shallow roots, and how trees that weren’t watered had to grow deep roots in search of moisture. I took him to mean that deep roots were to be treasured.

　　So he never watered his trees. He planted an oak and, instead of watering it every morning, he’d beat it with a rolled-up newspaper. Smack! Slap! Pow! I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree’s attention.

Dr. Gibbs passed away a couple of years after I left home. Every now and again, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I’d watched him plant some twenty-five years ago. They’re extremely tall, big and robust since they have deep roots now. However, the trees in my garden trembled in a cold wind although I had watered them for several years.

It seems that adversity(逆境) and suffering benefit these trees in ways comfort and ease never could. I stood there deep in thought.

　　Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. I stand over them and watch their little bodies, the rising and falling of life within. I often pray for them. Mostly I pray that their lives will be easy. But I think it’s time to change my prayer(祷词) because now I know my children are going to encounter hardship..

According to Dr. Gibbs’ theories, trees will become weaker if they______

    A. are lack of care   B. are watered   C. are weeded out    D. are beaten

.According to Para.3 and Pare.4, we can infer that Dr. Gibbs’moto（座右铭）may be_____

     A. “seeing is believing”        B.“Put everything in proper use”

     C. ”Practice makes perfect”     D. “No pains, no gains”

.The underlined word robust in Para.5 most probably means______

      A. strong         B. strange         C. deep        D. old

Which of the following may be the author’s best prayer for his two sons now ?

  A. I wish them strong wings, with which they can fly higher and touch the sky.

  B.I wish them nice fortune so that they can meet people like Dr. Gibbs in the future.

  C.I wish them deep roots into the earth since the rains fall and the winds blow often.

  D.I wish them great shades under the tree since the sunlight is always sharp and bitter.

Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

   A. A Nice Doctor                      B. The Deep Roots  

C. Adversity and Suffering              D. My Childhood Memory

    请阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项的标号涂黑。

　　Eleven-year-old Angela had something wrong with her nervous system(神经系统）.She was unable to 1. In fact, she could hardly make any  2.Although she believed that she had a 3chance of recovering, the doctors said that 4, if any, could come back to normal after getting this disease. Having heard this, the little girl was not  5. There, lying in her hospital bed, she  6that no matter what the doctors said, her going back to school was  7.

    She was moved to a specialized health center, and whatever method could be tried was used. Still she would not  8. It seemed that she was  9.The doctors were all fond of her and taught her about  10that she could make it. Every day Angela would lie there,  11doing her mental exercise.

    One day,  12she was imagining her legs moving again, it seemed as though a miracle(奇迹）happened: The bed began to  13!“Look, what I'm doing! Look! I can do it! I moved! I moved!" she  14.

    Of course, at this very moment everyone else in the hospital was  15. More importantly, they were running  16safety.

    People were crying, and equipment was  17. You see, it was an earthquake. But don't 18that to Angela. She has  19that she did it ,just as she had never doubted that she would recover. And now only a few years later, she's back in school. You see, to such a person who can  20the earth, such a disease is a small problem, isn't it?

1.A. see            B. hear             C. talk             D. walk

2.A. progress       B. difference       C. movement     D. achievement

3.A. poor           B. good             C. little           D. special

4.A. few           B .all          C. some             D. most

5.A. satisfied      B. delighted        C. surprised        D. discouraged

6.A. insisted       B. sighed       C. feared       D. promised

7.A. true           B. doubtful         C. certain      D. impossible

8.A. get up         B. give up      C. turn up      D. stand up

9.A. disappointed   B. proud        C. troubled         D.  undefeatable

10.A. thinking      B. expecting        C. pretending       D. imagining

11.A. sadly             B. madly        C. carefully        D. faithfully

12.A. as            B. since            C. after            D. before

13.A. fly           B. move             C. roll             D. speak

14.A. jumped        B. wondered         C. screamed         D. recovered

15.A. frightened        B. pleased      C. touched      D. encouraged

16.A. in            B. by           C. for          D. with

17.A. rising        B. falling      C. missing      D. gathering

18.A. tell          B. do           C. give             D. show

19.A. noticed       B. supposed         C. believed         D. discovered

20.A. push          B. shock        C. shake            D. save

　　Once upon time there was a man named Lord Ye. 1. ________

　　It was said that he was very fond of                    2. ________

　　dragons that he had them painting all over               3. ________

　　his house. When the real dragon in the heaven heard of this, 4. ________

　　it decided fly down and pay                          5. ________

　　a visit to him. It put it's head through one               6. ________

　　of Lord Ye's windows. If the lord saw                  7. ________

　　the dragon, he got up immediately and runs away,        8. ________

　　frightened nearly out of his wits.

　　                                                9. ________

　　This shows that the lord was not real fond of dragons.    10. ________

第三部分阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
　　Many people will remember the flight of the space shuttle（航天飞机）challenger，in June，1983. The achievement of Sally Ride，America’s first woman astronaut to fly into space，made this flight especially memorable. Students from two Camden, New Jersey, high schools, however, are probably to remember Norma rather than Sally whenever they think about the flight.
　　Norma didn’t travel alone. She brought about 100 companions along with her. Norma was an ant，a queen ant who，with her subject，made up the first ant colony（群体）to travel into space. The ants were part of a science experiment designed by students to test the effects of weightlessness on insects.
　　The equipment designed by the students for their colony functioned perfectly throughout the long space trip. The young scientists and their teachers were very sad to find that their insect astronauts had all died at some point before the container was returned to the school and opened. The problem didn’t occur in space，but on the ground after challenger had landed. The container remained in the desert for nearly a week before the ant colony was moved. The hot，dry desert air dried out the colony’s container and the ants died from lack of moisture（水分）.
　　The project was termed success because it did provide useful information. Students will continue their efforts to pinpoint（精确找到）what went wrong. They will try to prevent the same difficulties from reoccurring on future missions. They don’t want to be discouraged either by the demise of the ants or by the $ 10,000 shuttle fare they will have to pay to send the next colony of ants into space.
51．What does the passage mainly tell us？
A．Sally Ride，America’s first woman astronaut.
B．How to keep ants alive in space.
C．How to make equipment for insects in space.
D．An experiment with ants in space.
52．According to the passage, we know that the underlined word“demise”is another word for“_____”.
A．death 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　B．colony
C．insect　　　　　　　　　　　　　　D．moisture
53．We don’t think the project was a failure. This is because_____.
A．everything went as smoothly as expected
B．the students had pinpointed exactly the reason
C．something important had been learned
D．the students had succeeded in the experiment
54．We can conclude that ants _____ on the next space trip.
A．will have to be kept alive in a container full of water
B．will have to be sent into space with the first woman astronaut
C．should be put into a container where there is enough food
D．should be put into a container which is not too dry

信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）。
下面是一篇应用文及其应用场合的信息，请阅读下列应用文和相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。(答案写在答题卡上)
首先请阅读下列应用文：
HOW TO BOOK (预定)
Booking tickets for an important play on September 8.
A  By Telephone
For credit card (信用卡) bookings. Calls are answered.
Box office (售票处) 
01789-95623 9a.m.-8p.m.(Mon.-Sat.)
0541-541051 (24 hours, 7 days, no booking charge)
B  By Fax
For credit card bookings. Please allow at least 48 hours for reply, if required.
Box office　01789-261974 or 01862-387765
C  By Post
　  Please enclose(附上) a cheque (支票) details together with 50p to the total amount (总额) to cover postage. Please send to the Box Office, RST, Stratford-upon-Avon, CV376BB.
　　Booking opens for all the plays.
D In Person
　  Box office
　  RST hall, 9:30a.m.-8p.m.(Mon.-Sat.)
　  9:30a.m.-6p.m.when theatres are closed (Sun.)
E  Overseas Booking
　  The easiest method of payment is by credit card.
　  CREDIT CARDS
　　We accept Visa, Master Card, American Express and Diners Club. Please give the card number, name and address of the card holder.
F  By E-mail
Please visit the website http://www.bigcitytheatre.com and you will get the ticket in no time. Book the ticket online through the online payment system. 10p would be charged for each ticket.
请阅读以下购票者的信息，为他们匹配最合适的购票方式。
【小题1】Mr. Wallet is a retired man and has lots of free time. Watching plays is one of his favorites. The theatre is not far from his home.
【小题2】 Mrs. Bright is a business woman. There is a fax machine in her office but she wants to get the ticket as soon as possible. She doesn’t want to pay extra money for the ticket.
【小题3】Anna is a college student. At the beginning of this term, she is busy in all kinds of things. Thus, she can not afford to go to the theatre to book the ticket by herself. And she has no credit card at hand right now.
【小题4】 Shelly studies in Beijing University now. She will fly back to her country this weekend, before which she must book the ticket for the play.
【小题5】Mr. William works in a company as a computer programmer and has an easy access (机会) to the Internet. He wants to get the ticket as soon as possible.