For those who don’t have          to safe water, life is a constant struggle.

    A. approach     B. access               C. way              D. passage

 

 

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　　It is difficult for a visitor to India to avoid noticing the poverty, which surrounds him. The truth is that the land will yield only enough food to support two thirds of India's 480 million people. In a frank examination of Indian poverty, Ronald Segal in The Crisis of India observes, “Not only is the Indian economy overwhelmingly agricultural, it is less productive, land measure for land measure, than the agricultural economies of most other states too marry people struggle to wrest survival from the earth, and the earth yields far too little in return.”

　　“The stark consequence is that India produces only enough to feed a little less than two thirds of its population adequately. In a recent year, with a population of 438 million, food production reached 78 million tons. Together with three million tons of imported food, this permitted an average consumption of ounces a day, or ounces less than the essential minimum recommended nutritionists. If a diet necessary to sustain health was provided for as many people as possible, some 150 million people in India would have nothing whatsoever to eat. If everyone received the same food, 438 million people would eat less than two thirds of what their bodies required. As it is, a few are able to buy more food than they need, some can just afford the necessary diet, most live in constant—if manageable—want, and many ( no one knows how many, but they are numbered in tens of millions)exist in a state of starvation.”

　　And time is not on India's side. While production moves barely perceptibly, the population gallops along at something like 9,400,000 a year.

1．If sufficient food could be imported, how many people in India would it have to support to make up for the shortage of food?

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A．160 million people.

B．480 million people.

C．438 million people.

D．9,400,000 people.

2．According to the second paragraph, if 150 million people did not eat anything, ________.

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A．the remainder would probably die

B．they would all have 8.5 ounces less than the minimum diet

C．the rest would have 25 ounces a month

D．they would have a diet necessary to sustain their health

3．The current increase in the production of food ________.

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A．will gradually remedy the shortage

B．is not less than the rate of increase in the population

C．is a factor which will improve the situation eventually

D．is inadequate to cope with the rising population

4．The writer uses Segal's statement ________.

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A．to back up his own remarks

B．to appeal for foreign assistance

C．to stress the need for family planning

D．to refute the statement made in the last paragraph

5．The article suggests that agricultural methods in India ________ .

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A．are comparatively inefficient

B．are likely to improve in time

C．provide an average of 16.5 ounces a day for each person

D．less wasteful than those of most other countries

 Hi, I am Jane. I like the book named The Story of My Life by Helen Keller, which is the most influential book in my life. It is filled with courage, struggle and faith throughout. Helen Keller was once in deep despair in her childhood, but finally she decided to overcome her physical defects and live happily. Furthermore, she showed great patience in her long and hard learning period. I have learned, above all, three lessons from her story. First, she taught me that often the road to success is to face hardships bravely. Maybe you are born under a star yet you can stand a better chance than others. It is therefore important that you screw up your courage when courage is needed. Second, the destruction of part of her senses did not prevent her from learning: on the contrary, she had made continual efforts to go deeper into the realm of knowledge, and her perseverance had thus helped her overcome many handicaps. Third, she advised that we should make the most of our sense-organs as if we would lose them soon because in this way we would observe the world more carefully than ever before.

   The book is inspiring in that it is one brimming over with the unbending will of a gallant woman set with seemingly insurmountable (不可克服的) difficulties. I hope I can be as courageous as she.

 [写作内容]

   听完Jane的发言之后，请你以“The Most Influential Book in My Life”为题，准备一份发言稿。要包括以下内容：

    1．以约30个词概括Jane的发言要点；

    2．然后以约120个词谈谈影响你的一生的某一本书，内容包括：

    1)这本书令你印象最深的是什么?  2)这本书如何影响你的人生?    3)你的感想。

  [写作要求]

    1．作文中可使用自己的亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子；标题自定。

    2．作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

 

John Milton was born in 1606. his father expected him to enter the church of England, but Milton wanted to be a poet. At twenty-nine Milton set off for a travel on the continent. He traveled in France, Switzerland and Italy, winning the friendship of many artists and scientists, including Galileo, the famous Italian scientist who suffered for his discovery in prison. In 1639, he was planning to go on this journey when the news reached him of the break between the king and Parliament(国会). Milton returned to England immediately, and put himself into the struggle against the king, for which he had long been prepared. During the Civil war, Milton worked as the spokesman of the revolution. By the beginning of 1652, Milton had become completely blind, yet he didn’t stop fighting. After the Restoration(复辟), his books were burnt, and he himself avoided being killed because of his blindness.

John Milton was not only a brave revolutionary but also a great poet. His famous poem Paradise Lost(失乐园) was an immediate success. But, for its publication (being published), Milton received only 18 pounds. He died in 1671.

1.Milton set off for a travel on the continent here “continent” means ________.

A. Asia      B. Europe       C. America    D. Africa

2.It was ______ who was put in prison in Italy.

   A. Milton    B. the king    C. Galileo      D. Milton’s father

3.Milton would have been killed if ________________.

   A. he had been the spokesman of the revolution

   B. his books hadn’t been burnt

   C. he hadn’t written the poem Paradise Lost

   D. he hadn’t been completely blind

4.Which of the following sentences is TRUE?

   A. John Milton was an ordinary poet, who wasn’t interested in politics.

   B. John Milton spent many years traveling around the world.

   C. John Milton wrote the poem Paradise Lost, which was liked by the King.

   D. John Milton was a fearless revolutionary and a famous poet.

 

 

Throughout the history of the arts,the nature of creativity has remained constant to artists.No matter what objects they select,artists are to bring forth new forces and forms that cause change—to find poetry where no one has ever seen or experienced it before.

Landscape(风景) is another unchanging element of art.It can be found from ancient times through the 17th-century Dutch painters to the 19th-century romanticists and impressionists.In the 1970s Alfred Leslie,one of the new American realists,continued this practice.Leslie sought out the same place where Toomas Cole,a romanticist,had produced paintings of the same scene a century and a half before.Unlike Cole who insists on a feeling of loneliness and the idea of finding peace in nature,Lealie paints what he actually sees.In his paintings,there is no particular change in emotion,and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background.He also takes advantage of the latest developments of color photography(摄影术) to help both the eye and the memory when he improves his painting back in his workroom.

Besides,all art begs the age-old question:What is real?Each generation of artists has shown their understanding of reality in one form or another.The impressionists saw reality in brief emotional effects,the realists in everyday subjects and in forest scenes,and the Cro-Magnon cave people in their naturalistic drawings of the animals in the ancient Forests.To sum up,understanding reality is a necessary struggle for artists of all periods.

Over thousands of years the function of the arts has remained relatively constant.Past or present,Eastern or Western,the arts are a basic part of our immediate experience.Many and different are the faces of art,and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings.

1.The underlined word “poetry” most probably means ______.

A.an object for artistic creation

B.a collection of poems

C.an unusual quality

D.a natural scene

2.Leslie’s paintings are extraordinary because ______.

A.they are close in style to works in ancient times

B.they look like works by 19th-century painters

C.they draw attention to common things in life

D.they depend heavily on color photography

3.What is the author’s opinion of artistic reality?

A.It will not be found in future works of art.

B.It does not have a long-lasting standard.

C.It is expressed in a fixed artistic form.

D.It is lacking in modern words of art.

4.What does the author suggest about the arts in the last paragraph?

A.They express people’s curiosity about the past.

B.They make people interested in everyday experience.

C.They are considered important for variety in form.

D.They are regarded as a mirror of the human situation.

5.Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?

A.History of the arts.

B.Basic questions of the arts.

C.New developments in the arts.

D.Use of modern technology in the arts.四、写作(共两节，满分35分)