42．The mother insisted that her daughter go to the graduation dance because _________.

　　　 A．she could take care of things herself

B．she hoped she would find a boyfriend

　　　 C．she wanted her to be happy and strong

D．she thought education was most important

41． Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

　　　 A．A childhood Dream.

B．A Mother’s Love.

　　　 C．A Graduation Party.

D．A Special Birthday.

48.Which of the following is TRUE about Eddy and Anna according to the text?

A.Eddy proposed to Anna on the phone and Anna accepted.

B.Anna stayed in Australia waiting for Eddy’s arrival.

C.Anna bad a good time touring Sydney with Dddy.

D.Eddy met Anna in the airport waiting room by chance.

答案　 45.C　 46.A　 47.B　 48.A

Passage 53

(05·全国ⅠE篇)

“Soon, you’re going to have to move out!” cried my neighbor upon seeing the largest tomato plant known to mankind, or at least known i: exactly; tab-stops: 105.0pt 189.0pt 273.0pn my neighborhood. 　 One tiny 9-inch plant, bought for $1. 25 in the spring, has already taken over much of my rose bed, covering much of other plants, and is well on its way to the front door. 　 Roses require a good deal of care, and if it weren’t for the pleasure they give, it wouldn’t be worth the work. As it is, I have a garden full of sweet-smelling roses for most of the year. bushes must be pruned(剪枝) in early spring, leaving ugly woody branches until the new growth appears a few weeks later. It was the space available(可用的) in the garden that led me into planting just one little tomato plant. A big mistake. 　 Soil conditions made just perfect for roses turn out to be even more perfect for tomatoes. The daily watering coupled with full sun and regular fertilizing(施肥) have turned the little plant into a tall bush. The cage I placed around it as the plant grew has long since disappeared under the thick leaves. 　 Now the task I face in harvesting the fruit is twofold; First, I have to find the red ones among the leaves, which means I almost have to stand on my head, and once found I have to reach down and under, pick the tomatoes and withdraw(缩回) my full fist without dropping the prize so dearly won. I found two full-blown white roses completely hidden as I picked tomatoes in June, but they were weak and the leaves already yellow for lack of light. 　 Here I am faced with a painful small decision: To tear up a wonderful and productive tomato plant that offers up between ten and twenty ripe sweet tomatoes each day or say goodbye to several expensive and treasured roses. Like Scarlett in Gone With the Wind, I’ll think about th painful at tomorrow. 71. What ate the requirements for the healthy growth of roses? 　 A. A lot of care and the right soil. 　 B. Frequent pruning and fertilizing. 　 C. Tomato plants grown alongside. 　 D. Cages placed around the roots. 72. The writer planted the tomato because ______. 　 A. it cost only $1. 25 　 B. the soil was just right for it 　 C. there was room for it in the garden 　 D. the roses’ branches needed to be covered 73. This year the writer’s roses were ______. 　 A. removed from the rose bed 　 B. picked along with the tomatoes 　 C. mostly damaged by too much sunlight 　 D. largely hidden under the tomato plant 74. By saying “the prize so dearly won” in paragraph 5, the writer wants to ______. 　 A. show the difficulty in picking the tomatoes 　 B. show the hardship of growing the roses 　 C. express her liking for the roses 　 D. express her care for the tomatoes 75. In the situation described in the text, one good thing is that ______. 　 A. the roses cost the writer little money 　 B. the writer has a daily harvest of tomatoes 　 C. someone will help the writer make the decision 　 D. the writer can now enjoy both the roses and tomatoes

答案　 71.A　 72.C　 73.D　 74.A　 75.B

Passage 54

(05·全国ⅡA篇)

Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned 12, a white gardenia was delivered to my house. No card came with it Calls to the flower-shop were not helpful at all. After a while I stopped trying to discover the sender’s name and just delighted in the beautiful white flower in soft pink paper.

But I never stopped imagining who the giver might be. Some of my happiest moments were spent daydreaming about the sender. My mother encouraged these imaginings. She’d ask me if there was someone for whom I had done special kindness. Perhaps it was the old man across the street whose mail I’d delivered during the winter. As a girl, though, I had more fun imagining that it might be a boy I had run into.

One month before my graduation, my father died. I felt so sad that I became completely uninterested in my upcoming graduation dance, and I didn’t care if I had a new dress or not. But my mother, in her own sadness, would not let me miss any of those things. She wanted her children to feel loved and lovable. In truth, my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gar-denia-lovely, strong and perfect with perhaps a bit of mystery(神秘)

My mother died ten days after I was married. I was 22. That was the year the gardenia stopped coming.

47.Eddy got a job on a Sydney building site because he________.

A.wanted to travel round Australia

　　 B.needed monev to pay his daily cost

C.was an engineer at this building site

D.hoped to make money from this job

46.The underlined word“miss”in paragraph 2 most probably means_______.

A.escape from　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B.fail to understand

C.fail to meet　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　D.long to see

45.What does the last sentence of the first paragraph tell us?

A.Anna flew to Britain from Australia to marry him.

B.Anna flew to Australia from Britain to marry him.

C.Anna flew to Britain from Australia to propose to him.

D.Anna flew to Australia from Britain to propose to him.

58.What can be inferred about the writer?

A. He was least favoured in his family.

B. He had much difficulty in talking with others.

C. He had an unhappy childhood for lack of care.

D. His loneliness resulted in his interest in writing.

答案　 56.B　 57.B　 58.D

Passage 52

(06·陕西B篇)

LONDON Thursday Just Read-Eddy missed his girlfriend so made he flew back to Britain from Austrahe to propose(求婚)　to her.The pooblem is she did the same in the opposite diffion.

He and Anna crea manaed to miss each other when the the same airporr waiting room in Singaoore at he same time to wait for connecting mghrs.

Anna,heartbrok,when she arrived at Eddy’s Sydney flat lind he had flow to London,told times,“It was as though someone was playing a cruel joke on. ”

“He is the most romantic person I have ever known.I think our problem is that we are both quite impulsive(冲动的)people.We are always trying to surprise each other.”

After an 11,000-mile flight across gome,she wa greeted by Eddy’s astonished　 roommate asking what she was doing.

Eddy,a　 27-year-old enginee taken year off to travel round Austr be he was　 missing Anna,a 26-year sece,so much he got a job on a Syd　 (工地)and started savir for a surprase.

He then flew bome no　 and went to her flat armed with　 engegerment(订婚)　ring,wine

and thougens.

“I really miseed Anna and I’d been thinking about her all the come I was so excited　 when she phoned me flom Ausrralia,”he said.

Eddy then asked Anna to marry him on tbe phone .“I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry but I accepted,”she said.

Anna was given a tour of Sydney by Eddy’s friends before going back home.Eddy and to stav in Britain for two weeks beean a could not change his ticket.

57.From the text, we learn that as a little boy the writer　　　　　 .

A. had no playmates

B. showed his gift for writing

C. put out lots of poems and stories

D. got his first poem published in 1916

56.The underlined word “it” in paragraph 2 refers to 　　　 .

A. the quantity of serious writing

B. the writer’s first poem

C. the writer’s childhood

D. the tiger in the poem

67. Which of the following best describes the boy?

　　 A. Brave and polite.　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. Kind and smart

　 　C. Honest and thankful.　　　　　　　　　　 D. Shy and nervous.

答案　 64.B　 65.A　 66.B　 67.C

Passage 51

(06·四川A篇)

I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I hardly saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely. I had the onely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions(文学志向) were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated(孤独) and undervalued. I knew that I had a natural ability with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life. 　　 However, the quantity of serious writing which I produced all through my childhood would not add up to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation. I cannot remember anything about it except that it was about a tiger and the tiger had “chair-like teeth” - a good enough expression. At eleven, when the war of 1914-18 broke out, I wrote a poem which was printed in the local(地方的) newspaper, as was another, two years later, on the death of Kitchener. From time to time, when I was a bit older, I wrote bad and usually unfinished “nature poems”. I also, about twice, attempted a short story which was a failure. That was the total of the would-be serious work that I actually set down on paper during all those years.