58. Which of the following may be the cause of the new bees' attacking personalities?

　　 A. Their production of honey.

　　 B. Their hard work.

　　 C. Their living environment.

　　 D. Their bad temper.

57. The experiment mentioned in this passage was designed to　 　　　　　　.

　　 A. increase the amount of honey in Brazil

　　 B. make Brazilian bees more easy-going

　　 C. increase the number of bees in Brazil

　　 D. make African bees less active

56. The results of the South American experiment　 　　　　　　.

　　 A. have caused a serious trouble

　　 B. have proved to be wrong

　　 C. are not yet certain

　　 D. are not important

63. Why did Kerrel write the passage?

　 A. To tell people about the sufferings of her father.

　 B. To show how little people knew about AIDS.

　 C. To draw people’s attention to AIDS.

　 D. To remembered her father.

答案　 60.D　 61.C　 62.A　 63.C

Passage 44

(06·广东A篇)

Scientific experiments can sometimes go wrong and when they do the results may range from the disastrous to the troubling. One such experiment took place in South America about fifty years ago. Whether its final consequences will cause serious damage or nothing more than a small trouble still remains to be seen.

　　　 The story began in 1956 when an American scientist working in Brazil decided to solve the problem of increasing the productivity of that country's bees. He imported a very active type of African bee from Tanzania and mated　 (交配)　 it with the more easy-going native variety to produce a new kind of bees. The new bees worked harder and produced twice as much honey. It seemed that Professor Kerr, for that was the scientist's name, had a total success on his hands.

　　　 Then things began to go wrong. For some reason as yet unseen, but perhaps as a result of something in their environment, the new bees began to develop extremely attacking personalities. They became bad-tempered and easy to be angry, attacked the native bees and drove them from their living places.

　　　 But worse was to follow. Having taken over the countryside, the new bees, with their dangerous stings (叮) , began to attack its neighbours -- cats, dogs, horses, chickens and finally man himself. A long period of terror began that has so far killed a great number of animals and about 150 human beings.

　　 This would have been bad enough if the bees had stayed in Brazil. But now they are on the move, heading northwards in countless millions towards Central and North America, and moving at the alarming speed of 200 miles a year. The countries that lie in their path are naturally worried because it looks as if nothing can be done to stop them.

62. Why did Kerrel keep her father’s disease a secret?

　 A. She was afraid of being looked down upon.

　 B. She thought it was shameful to have AIDS.

　 C. She found no one willing to listen to her.

　 D. She wanted to obey her mother.

61. What can we learn from the underlined sentence?

　 A. Kerrel couldn’t understand her teacher.

　 B. Kerrel had special difficulty in hearing.

　 C. Kerrel was too troubled to focus on the lesson.

　 D. Kerrel was too tired to bear her teacher’s words.

60. What does Kerrel tell us about her father?

　 A. He had stayed in the hospital since he fell ill.

　 B. He depended on the nurses in his final days.

　 C. He worked hard to pay for his medication.

　 D. He told no one about his disease.

52．After the computer was brought home, the author’s father　　　　　　 .

　　　 A．lost interest in cooking

　　　 B．took more phone calls

　　　 C．played　 more games

　　　 D．began to use it

答案　 49.B　 50.D　 51.C　 52.B

Passage 43

(06·北京B篇)

I was 9 years old when I found out my father was ill. It was 1994, but I can remember my mother’s words as if it were yesterday: “Kerrel, I don’t want you to take food from your father, because he has AIDS. Be very careful when you are around him.”

AIDS wasn’t something we talked about in my country when I was growing up. From then on, I knew that this would be a family secret. My parents were not together anymore, and my dad lived alone. For a while, he could take care of himself. But when I was 12, his condition worsened. My father’s other children lived far away, so it fell to me to look after him.

We couldn’t afford all the necessary medication for him, and because Dad was unable to work, I had no money for school supplies and often couldn’t even buy food for dinner. I would sit in class feeling completely lost, the teacher’s words muffled as I tried to figure out how I was going to manage.

I did not share my burden (负担) with anyone. I had seen how people reacted to AIDS. Kids laughed at classmates who had parents with the disease. And even adults could be cruel. When my father was moved to the hospital, the nurses would leave his food on the bedside table even though he was too weak to feed himself.

I had known that he was going to die, but after so many years of keeping his condition a secret. I was completely unprepared when he reached his final days. Sad and hopeless, I called a woman at the nonprofit National AIDS Support. That day, she kept me on the phone for hours. I was so lucky to find someone who cared. She saved my life.

I was 15 when my father died. He took his secret away with him, having never spoken about AIDS to anyone, even me. He didn’t want to call attention to AIDS. I do.

51．The author asked her mother to write her a letter　　　　　　　　 .

　　　 A．because her mother had stopped using the telephone

　　　 B．because she wanted to keep in touch with her mother

　　　 C．so that her mother could practice what she had learned

　　　 D．so that her mother could be free from housework

50．The author decided to give her mother a computer　　　　　　　　　　 .

　　　 A．to let her have more chances to write letters

　　　 B．to support her in doing her homework

　　　 C．to help her through the bad times

　　　 D．to make her life more enjoyable