Billy is fourteen years old and in the ninth grade. He has a  36  job which gets him  37  at five o'clock every morning. He is a  38  .

Each morning, Billy leaves the house at 5: l5 to go to the corner  39  the newspapers are. The newspapers are delivered （递）to the  40  by truck at midnight. He always takes a wagon (手推车) to carry them.

In  41  , it is still dark and cold when he gets up, but during the rest of the year it is bright and warm. Billy must deliver the newspapers to the houses of people on his route (线路) in all kinds of weather. He tries to put each  42  on the porch (门廊) where it will be protected from  43  , rain or snow. His  44   think he does a good job. Sometimes they give him  45  .

Billy  46  about $70 per month, and he is saving some of the money to go to college. He spends the rest  47  records and clothes. Once a month, he has to  48  money from his customers. Since many of them  49  during the day, Billy has to collect the money  50  . Sometimes, when Billy is   51  , his older brother has to  52  the newspapers. Once  Billy's father had to help as well.

Billy has seventy customers now,  53  he hopes to get more soon. Some day, if he gets many more customers, Billy might win a prize for being an outstanding(杰出的) newspaper boy. He wants to win a  54  to Europe, but he will also be happy  55  he wins a new bicycle.

C
The unknown world's mystery
The sea is the biggest unknown part of our world. It covers seventy-one percent of the earth. There is still much to be discovered about this vast blanket of water. If the waters of the ocean could be removed, the sea floor with its wide valleys, irregular, mountains and rivers in the sea. would be an unbelievable sight.
Tourism under the deep blue sea
Tourists an now explore the world beneath the waves without ever getting wet. From tourist submarines to underwater dining, undersea tourism is making a big splash.
Tourist submarines(潜艇）
The popularity of submarine tours has grown rapidly in the last decade. Now, tourist submarines operate in more than 20 locations worldwide, including the waters around Okinawa and Taiwan' s Green Island. The submarines carry nearly 2 million tourists each year. Large windows offer passengers spectacular views as the submarines explore colorful coral reefs and sunken ships. Most one-hour tours cost about US $ 80.
Underwater dining
For a more upscale experience, tourists can enjoy fine dining under the sea.  Last summer the Hilton Maldives Resort opened the world's first underwater restaurant, Ithaa.  Diners walk down a staircase into the restaurant, which rests 35 feet beneath the waves of the Indian Ocean. Transparent walls surround the dining area, and you can treat guests to a panoramic(全景)ocean view.
But this excellent view doesn't come cheap. The tasting menu costs US $ 200 per person. Be sure to make reservations early, too. The restaurant seats only 14 people.
66. What does the author want to tell us in Paragraph 1?
A. The sea is the biggest unknown part of our world.
B. The sea covers seventy-one percent of the earth.
C. Some information about the sea floor.
D. The reasons for researching undersea tourism.
67. What does the author really mean by saying "undersea tourism is making a big splash" in Paragraph 2?
A. Undersea tourism is a new fashion in travelling.
B. Your clothes will be made wet by the water splash.
C. Undersea tourism is dangerous.
D. There is still a long way for undersea tourism to go.
68. Which of the following statements about tourist submarines is RIGHT?
A. Tourist submarines only have a history of about 10 years.
B. There are tourist submarines in every part of the world now.
C. Tourist submarines' have carried about 2 million tourists so far.
D. People can enjoy tourist submarines in the waters around Okinawa.
69. The walls of the restaurant Ithaa are most probably made of            .
A. stone       B. brick   C. glass    D. steel
70. From the passage,, we can infer that the author            .          .
A. doesn't think underwater tourism is a good idea
B. shows great interest in underwater tourism
C. is worried about underwater tourism
D. is probably a scientist who studies the sea

阅读下面短文，回答后面的问题。(共5小题；每小题2分，共10分。)

[1]The cigarette industry began in the 1870s with the development of the cigarette manufacturing machine. This made it possible to produce great numbers of cigarettes very quickly. And it reduced the price.

[2] Today cigarette smoking is a wide –spread habit . About forty percent of the adult men and thirty –one percent of the adult women in the US smoke cigarettes regularly. It’s encouraging to note, however, that millions of people have given up smoking habit. Seventy-five percent of the male population and forty-six percent of the female population have smoked cigarettes at some time during their lives, but twenty-six percent of these men and eleven percent of the women have stopped smoking. The number of the persons who have given up smoking is increasing.

[3]Income. education, and occupation all play in determining a person’s smoking habit. City people smoke more than people living on farms. Well-educated men with high incomes are less likely to smoke cigarettes than men with fewer yeas of schooling and lower income. On the other hand. If a well-educated man with a higher income smokes at all, he is likely to smoke more packs of cigarettes per day.

 [4]                     . There are slightly more smokers among women with higher family incomes and higher education than among the lower incomes and lower education group, These more highly educated women tend to smoke more heavily,

 [5]Among teenagers the picture is similar. High school students who are preparing for college are less likely to smoke than those who do not plan to continue their education after high school. Children are most likely to start smoking if one or both of their parents smoke.

What is the reason for the cigarette industry’s fast growth?(no more than 11words)

Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 into Chinese.

.What’s the general idea of Paragraph2 (no more than 10 words)

Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with proper words.(no more than 8words)

Which sentence in the text is closest in meaning to the following one?

More and more people in the US have given up smoking.

第二节：完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

I was told just now in the hospital that I was having a Bell's palsy attack, a condition in which the face muscles tighten because of stress. During the long car ride home, all I could think about was my coming interview. But now I could not even    31  myself in the mirror and my lips was unable to open normally, surely all the other applicants would have the    32  , I concluded.

However, I wouldn’t let my own self-consciousness    33  me. Not now, not when I had   34    so hard for so long to be given this opportunity. This was the kind of position I'd dreamed of for all these years.  “Mom,    35  me off on Jacob Street. I'm going to the    36  .”

“Honey, I don't think you should. You look...  37  ,” she said, ever so gently.

I knew she was   38  . But if I didn't, I'd always   39  if I could have gotten my dream job.

"No, Mom, take me there.”

40  , she took me where I wanted to go.

"Hello,” a gray-haired man sitting behind the large desk   41  me. “Miss Jenkins?”

“Yes. Please excuse me. I'm having a Bell's palsy attack. My doctor explained to me that it would last a few days. I came right from the   42  .”

“You're very    43  to come when you're in such a state,” he   44  , after a pause.

He spent a few minutes looking through my   45  . “Is everything on here   46  ?” he asked.

“Yes, but I    47  to mention I type seventy-five words per minute.”

“Well, you have an impressive background with related experience, you are    48  qualified. When are you    49  ?” he asked. 

I took a deep breath and asked, “You're hiring me?”

“Not only have you got the skills I'm looking for, you also have the   50  .” He gave me a big smile.

31.   A．forgive                    B．recognize               C．believe                    D．control

32.   A．chance                    B．advantage                C．courage                  D．sympathy

33.   A．pardon                     B．stop                        C．help                        D．transform

34.   A．driven                   B．turned                     C．prepared                 D．worked

35.   A．take                     B．pull                         C．drop                   D．send

36.   A．supermarket             B．interview                 C．doctor                    D．office

37.   A．weak                    B．annoying              C．angry                            D．strange

38.   A．right                        B．kind                        C．wrong                    D．sensitive

39.   A．regret                     B．believe                    C．wonder                   D．quit

40.   A．Hopefully                 B．Unwillingly              C．Fortunately             D．Unexpectedly

41.   A．doubted                   B．greeted                   C．examined                D．discouraged

42.   A．hospital                    B．home                   C．office                       D．work

43.   A．determined               B．crazy                      C．disrespectful           D．funny

44.   A．stressed                   B．interrupted              C．commented             D．complained

45.   A．face                        B．health                     C．application              D．situation

46.   A．correct                    B．normal                    C．incredible                D．contradictory

47.   A．pretended                 B．demanded               C．focused                 D．failed

48.   A．narrowly                  B．possibly                  C．impossibly              D．certainly

49.   A．accessible                      B．convenient              C．energetic                 D．available

50.   A．qualification             B．appearance              C．character                      D．disadvantage

  A higher reading rate, with no loss of comprehension (理解), will help you in other subjects as well as in English, and the general principle (原则) apply to any language. Naturally, you will not read every book at the same speed. You would expect to read a newspaper, for example, much more rapidly than a physics or economics textbook—but you can raise your average reading speed over the whole range of materials you wish to cover so that the percentage (百分比) gained will be the same whatever kind of reading you are concerned (有关的) with.

  The reading passages which follow are all of an average level of difficulty for your stage of instruction. They are all about five hundred words long. They are about topics of general interest which do not require a great deal of specialized knowledge. Thus they fall between the kind of reading you might find in your textbooks and the much less demanding kind you will find in a newspaper or light novel. If you read this kind of English, with understanding at four hundred words per minute, you night skim (浏览) through a newspaper at perhaps 650-700, while with difficult textbooks you might drop to two hundred or two hundred and fifty.

  Perhaps you would like to know what reading speeds are common among native English-speaking university students and how those speeds can be improved. Tests in Minnesota, U.S.A., for example, have shown that students without special training can read English of average difficulty, for example, Tolstoy’s War and Peace in translation, at speeds of between 240 and 250 words per minute with about seventy percent comprehension. Students in Minnesota claim (自称) that after twelve half-hour lessons, once a week, the reading speed can be increased, with no loss of comprehension, to around five hundred words per minute.　　　　

1．According to the passage, the purpose of effective reading with higher speed is most likely to help you　　   .

A. only in your reading of physics textbook

B. improve your understanding of an economics textbook

C. not only in your language study but also in other subjects

D. choose the suitable material to read

2．Which of the following does not describe the types of reading materials mentioned in the second paragraph?

A. Those beyond (超越) one’s reading comprehension.

B. Those concerned with common knowledge.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 

C. Those without the demand for specialized knowledge.

D. Those with the length of about five hundred words

3．The average speed of untrained native speakers in the University of Minnesota is　　   .

A. about three hundred words per minute

B. about two hundred and forty-five words per minute

C. about sixty words per minute

D. about five hundred words per minute

4．According to the passage, how fast can you expect to read after you have attended twelve half-hour lessons in the University of Minnesota?

A. You can increase your reading speed by three times.

B. No real increase in reading speed can be achieved.

C. You can increase your reading speed by four times.

D. You can double your reading speed.

5．Where do you think the passage is taken from?

A. The introduction to a book on fast reading.

B. A local newspaper for young people.

C. A school newspaper run by students.

D. The introduction to an English textbook.