阅读理解

阅读下列短文，掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出最佳选项。

　　Parties held by the wealthy seldom welcome poor guests. But last week China made it through the doors into a gathering of the world's richest countries.

　　Jim Renqing, China's finance minister, and Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People's Bank of China, joined a meeting of the Group of Seven (G7) on October 1,2004. It is the first time that China has had direct talks with the club. It was a good chance to share the world powers' thoughts about critical economic issues and promote understanding.

　　China's participation is a natural part of its increasingly important role in the global economy. China is the world's factory and the biggest market.

　　America and China made up almost half of global economic growth last year.“If American consumers and Chinese producers were to reduce their activities at the same time, global growth would drop greatly,”said the Economist, a leading British economics magazine.

　　Up to now Chinese economic stability has been closely related to world development.“The increasingly connected global economy means that China should be a part of the meeting.”said Stephen Roach, a world famous economist.

　　During the meeting, China represented developing countries. It called on the world's developed nations to increase their spending on aid to poorer countries. Jin said that overall official help form developed countries is only 0.23 percent of their Gross Domestic Product (国内生产总值), much lower than the 0.7 per cent UN target. And this should be changed.

1．According to the passage, China participates in the meeting of G7 because _____.

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A．China has become one of the richest countries of the world

B．China is playing a more and more important part in the world economy

C．China has more factories than any other countries in the world

D．developing countries want China to speak for them

2．Which of the following is true?

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A．China's participation in the meeting of G7 is the first time that China talks with the developed countries.

B．The stable economy of China has clone a great deal to the development of the world.

C．The developed nations are trying their best to help the poorer countries at present.

D．America has as large a market as China has.

3．From the passage we can infer that _____.

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A．Chinese producers as well as American consumers contribute a lot to the growth of the world economy

B．the author doesn't think it necessary for China to participate in the meeting

C．China produces a lot but consumes a little

D．the economist thinks that American consumers and Chinese producers will reduce their actives at the same time

4．The underlined word“promote”in the second paragraph means _____.

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A．to make better　　　　B．to make worse

C．to share　　　　　　 D．to make clear

阅读理解。

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每小题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳答案。

　　People in the United States honor their parents with two special days, Mother's Day, on the second Sunday in May, and Father's Day, on the third Sunday in June.

　　Mother's Day was proclaimed(宣布) a day for national celebration by President Woodrow Wilson in 1915. Ann Jarvis from Grafton, West Virginia, had started the idea to have a day to honor mothers. She was the one who chose the second Sunday in May and also began the custom of wearing a carnation(康乃馨).

　　In 1909, Mrs. Dodd from Spokane, Washington, thought of the idea of a day to honor fathers. She wanted to honor her own father, William Smart. After her mother died, he had the responsibility of raising a family of five sons and a daughter. In 1910, the first father's Day was celebrated in Spokane. Senator Margaret Smith helped to set up Father's Day as a national celebration day, in 1972.

　　These days are set aside to show love and respect for parents. They raise their children and educate them to be responsible citizens. They give love and care. These two special days are celebrated in many different ways. On Mother's Day people wear carnations. A red one shows that the mother is alive. A white one shows that the mother is dead. Many people attend churches to honor parents. It is also a day when people whose parents are dead visit the cemetery(墓地)．On these days families get together at home, as well as in restaurants. They often have outdoor barbecues for Father's Day. These are days of fun and good feelings and memories.

　　Another tradition is to give cards and gifts. Children make them in school. Many people make their own presents. These are valued more than the ones bought in stores. It is not the value of the gift that is important, but is “the thought that counts”. Greeting card stores, florists, candy makers, bakeries, telephone companies, and other stores do a lot of business during these holidays.

1．When was Father's Day became national celebration day?

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2．Who suggested the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day?

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A．President Woodrow Wilson.

B．Mrs. Dodd.

C．Ann Jarvis.

D．Senator Margaret Smith.

3．People do the following things to celebrate the two special days except ________.

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A．wear carnations

B．make fun of each other

C．give flowers, cards or gifts

D．get together at home or in restaurants

4．In the last paragraph, the underlined word “counts” means “ ________”.

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第三部分阅读理解 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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Why You Should Celebrate Your Mistakes
When you make a mistake, big or small, cherish (珍视) it like it’s the most precious thing in the world. Because in some ways, it is.
Most of us feel bad when we make mistakes, beat ourselves up about it, feel like failures, get mad at ourselves.
And that’s only natural: most of us have been taught from a young age that mistakes are bad, that we should try to avoid mistakes. We’ve been scolded when we make mistakes—at home, school and work. Maybe not always, but probably enough times to make feeling bad about mistakes an unconscious reaction.
Yet without mistakes, we could not learn or grow. If you think about it that way, mistakes should be cherished and celebrated for being one of the most amazing things in the world: they make learning possible; they make growth and improvement possible.
By trial and error—trying things, making mistakes, and learning from those mistakes—we have figured out how to make electric light, to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, to fly.
Mistakes make walking possible for the smallest toddler, make speech possible, make works of genius possible.
Think about how we learn: we don’t just consume information about something and instantly know it or know how to do it. You don’t just read about painting, or writing, or computer programming, or baking, or playing the piano, and know how to do them right away. Instead, you get information about something, from reading or from another person or from observing usually … then you construct a model in your mind … then you test it out by trying it in the real world … then you make mistakes … then you revise the model based on the results of your real-world experimentation … and repeat, making mistakes, learning from those mistakes, until you’ve pretty much learned how to do something. That’s how we learn as babies and toddlers, and how we learn as adults. Mistakes are how we learn to do something new—because if you succeed at something, it’s probably something you already knew how to do. You haven’t really grown much from that success—at most it’s the last step on your journey, not the whole journey. Most of the journey was made up of mistakes, if it’s a good journey.
So if you value learning, if you value growing and improving, then you should value mistakes. They are amazing things that make a world of brilliance possible.
56. Why do most of us feel bad about making mistakes?
A. Because mistakes make us suffer a lot.
B. Because it’s a natural part in our life.
C. Because we’ve been taught so from a young age.
D. Because mistakes have ruined many people’s careers.
57. According to the passage, what is the right attitude to mistakes?
A. We should try to avoid making mistakes.
B. We should owe great inventions mainly to mistakes.
C. We should treat mistakes as good chances to learn.
D. We should make feeling bad about mistakes an unconscious reaction.
58. The underlined word “toddler” in Paragraph Six probably means _______.
A. a small child learning to walk             B. a kindergarten child learning to draw
C. a primary pupil learning to read                     D. a school teenager learning to write
59. We can learn from the passage that _______.
A. most of us can really grow from success
B. growing and improving are based on mistakes
C. mistakes are the most precious things in the world 
D. we read about something and know how to do it right away