A Leap（跳跃）to Honor

Leaping on a narrow balance beam（平衡木） is not easy. But Lola Walter, a 13-year-old gymnast, is an expert at it.

To perfect her skills, Lola   36   for four hours a day, five days a week. At the state championships in March, she finished seventh out of 16 girls.

That’s especially impressive,          37    she is legally blind, born with a rare condition that causes her eyes to shift constantly. She often sees double and can’t _38   how far away things are.

When she was little, her mom   39  that even though she couldn’t see         40   , she was fearless. So her mom signed her up for gymnastics when she was three. She loved the    41    right away and gymnastics became her favorite.

Though learning gymnastics has been more    42   for her than for some of her tournaments, she has never quit. She doesn’t let her _43  stop her from doing anything that she wants to.

She likes the determination it takes to do the sport. Her biggest          44_ is the balance beam. Because she has double vision, she often sees two beams. She must use her sense of touch to help her during her routine. Sometimes she even closes her eyes. “You have to          45_ your mind that it’ll take you where you want to go,” says Lola.

To be a top-level gymnast, one must be brave. The beam is probably the most   46  for anyone because it’s four inches wide. At the state competition, Lola didn’t fall      47  the beam. In fact, she got an 8.1 out of 10---- her highest score yet.

Lola doesn’t want to be          48    differently from the other girls on her team. At the competitions, the judges don’t know about her vision _49 _. She doesn’t tell them, because she doesn’t think they need to know. Her mom is amazed by her _50          attitude.

Lola never thinks about   51__. She is presently at level 7 while the highest is level 10 in gymnastics. Her   52         is to reach level 9. She says she wants to be a gymnastics coach to pass down what she’s learned to other kids    53  she grew up.

Lola is   54  of all her hard work and success. She says it’s helped her overcome problems in her life outside gymnastics, too. Her   55        for others is “just believe yourself”.

1.                A．runs           B．teaches         C．trains D．dances

2.                A．since           B．unless          C．after D．though

3.                A．tell            B．guess          C．assume   D．predict

4.                A．suspected       B．remembered    C．imagined D．noticed

5.                A．deeply         B．well            C．ahead    D．closely

6.                A．task           B．sport           C．event    D．show

7.                A．boring         B．enjoyable       C．difficult   D．unsatisfactory

8.                A．talent          B．quality          C．nature   D．condition

9.                A．doubt          B．advantage       C．challenge D．program

10.               A．examine        B．express        C．open D．trust

11.               A．fearful         B．harmful        C．unfair D．inconvenient

12.               A．to             B．on            C．off   D．against

13.               A．greeted        B．treated         C．served    D．paid

14.               A．pains          B．stresses        C．injuries    D．problems

15.               A．positive        B．friendly        C．flexible    D．caution

16.               A．defending      B．quitting         C．winning   D．bargaining

17.               A．standard        B．range          C．view  D．goal

18.               A．until           B．as             C．when D．before

19.               A．proud          B．tired           C．ashamed   D．confident

20.               A．plan           B．advice         C．reward    D．Responsibility

A Magical Experience
One hot August afternoon, Deena Hoagland and her son Joe sat on a floating platform at Dolphins Plus, a marine（海洋）center near their home in Florida. Nearby, a large, powerful, six-hundred-pound dolphin circled to study the mother and her child. Suddenly, it splashed the Hoaglands with water. That is when something amazing happened. Three-year-old Joe Hoagland smiled. Sitting with Joe on her lap, Deena smiled, too, as her heart leapt with joy. It was the first sign of hope she had seen in Joe since his stroke（中风）six weeks earlier.
Joe Hoagland was born with a rare heart condition that had forced him to spend much of his first three years of life in hospitals. After a series of open-heart surgeries, Joe seemed to be doing better, but the last surgery on his heart resulted in a stroke, which left him unable to move one side and to see out of one eye.
Worse still, the spirit of the child, who had bravely battled his illness until then was seemingly broken. Afraid of his doctors and unwilling to participate in efforts at physical therapy（治疗）, Joe grew listless, losing interest even in his favorite toys.
Having heard of a new therapeutic approach termed “dolphin-assisted therapy,” Deena phoned Dolphins Plus and asked permission to bring her son along. There Joe met Fonzie, the playful dolphin. With each passing visit, Joe seemed to make more progress. Before long, he was regaining some movement on his left side. Dolphins Plus trainers urged Joe to get into the water and swim with his new friend. Joe, however, was reluctant. Gradually, though, Joe became more comfortable with the large dolphin, and by mid-September, Joe was swimming with his friends.
Over the next two years, Joe fully recovered from the paralysis and partial blindness that his doctors thought irreversible. Now a healthy, active teenager, Joe lives a life similar to any of his friends. He visits and swims frequently with his friend Fonzie and helps his parent with Island Dolphin Care. Deena started Island Dolphin Care to work with Dolphins Plus to share the benefits of dolphin therapy with other special-needs children and their parents.

1. 1.

   Deena Hoagland smiled when Fonzie splashed Joe with water because             .

   1. A.
      the dolphin’s action is amazing            
   2. B.
      Joe’s reaction brought her hope
   3. C.
      she was affected by Joe’s joy              
   4. D.
      she realized Joe recovered
2. 2.

   Paragraph 2-4 are written to           .

   1. A.
      expose the dangers of strokes
   2. B.
      identify the problems Joe faced
   3. C.
      describe Joe’s recovery from beginning to end
   4. D.
      show readers the process of “dolphin-assisted therapy”
3. 3.

   What does the underlined word mean in paragraph 3?

   1. A.
      angry and inflexible                       
   2. B.
      more mature and silent
   3. C.
      lacking energy and concern                 
   4. D.
      cautious and shy
4. 4.

   Which statement about Joe is Not True?

   1. A.
      Joe received several surgeries on the heart when he was a little child.
   2. B.
      Joe was the first one to receive dolphin-assisted therapy.
   3. C.
      Doctors used to think that Joe could not recover.
   4. D.
      Now Joe worked with his parents in the Island Dolphin Care.
5. 5.

   We may conclude from the passage that            .

   1. A.
      dolphin therapy has helped many children to improve their lives
   2. B.
      Joe recovered faster because of his desire to live with Fonzie
   3. C.
      doctors’ mistake during his surgeries brought Joe great pain
   4. D.
      his mother’s company contributes greatly to Joe’s recovery

Since the beginning of history, man has been attracted by the idea of living forever, of wining the fight against death and disease. So far, this has only remained a dream, though a very powerful one. Many people have wondered whether it would be possible to find a way to preserve(保存) human bodies, and what would be the best way to preserve human bodies.

It has long been known that meat or fruit can be kept fresh for long periods by freezing; in ancient China, for example, food was stored with ice to keep it fresh. This method could also be useful for preserving humans, and in fact many people have explored this possibility.

However, most living beings that exist under warm conditions die when frozen. This is because of the harmful effects of freezing ice crystals（晶体）, which form sharp cutting shapes that harm the cells.

In the 1940s, Dr B．J. Luyet and a group of scientists in England were working on the problem of freezing cells without damaging them. Since the harm caused by ice crystals was the main cause of the damage, Luyet suggested removing some or all of the water from the cells before freezing them.

Using living cells from chicken, Luyet and his assistants discovered that they could partly dry the chicken cells, using a mixture of the white part of an egg and glycerin(甘油). Some success was achieved．The chicken cells were dried, frozen for a period of time, and then carefully unfrozen. Almost all the cells recovered when they reached normal temperatures.

Since then, the cooling of whole animals to a temperature very much below freezing point for later unfreezing has become more of a possibility, and the glycerin method would probably be used to do this. When this can be done completely and successfully, science will have moved much closer to its aim of freezing and storing incurable patients until the day they can be cured.

56．The passage is mainly about ___________.

      A．the possibility of preserving human bodies by freezing

      B．the practice of preserving food by freezing

      C．the harmful effects of freezing

      D．how to remove water from living cells

57．The idea of freezing human bodies to preserve them ___________.

      A．comes from that of keeping meat and fruit fresh by freezing

      B．was invented in ancient China

      C．could hardly be realized by people

      D．is widely accepted by the scientific world

58．According to the passage, freezing is___________.

      A．the best way of preserving food

      B．a way of removing water from living cells

      C．a way of realizing the idea of preserving human bodies

      D．harmful to living cells and cannot be used to preserve them

59．Glycerin can be used ___________.

      A．to freeze only chicken’s living cells

      B．to unfreeze living cells

      C．to remove water from living cells

      D．to change the shapes of crystals

60．The success achieved by Dr Luyet and his helpers was a long step towards ___________.

      A．keeping meat or fruit fresh

      B．living forever

      C．changing the shapes of ice crystals

      D．preserving human bodies for long periods

Section B
（A）
Taiwan will finalize a plan by the end of June to open up the island to tourists from mainland China, though no date has been fixed for formal implementation（执行）, an official at the Mainland Affairs Council（MAC） said on Monday．
The official said the reports in the local press on Monday that the MAC has decided to postpone its plan to announce the implementation of the new plan on July 1 were inaccurate．
The official said cooperation between different organizations was still underway．The United Daily news quoted the director of the MAC’s legal affairs department, Liu Thehsun, as saying the plan to open up to mainland tourists would not be implemented as scheduled due to a lack of cross-strait communication．
Although relevant authorities, including the Bureau of Immigration and the Tourism Bureau, have complete reports on how to deal with visitors from mainland China, the decision has been taken not to press, ahead with announcement of the plan’s implementation on the first of July, Liu was quoted as saying．
The report also said that while no restrictions would be imposed on the mainland visitors in terms of age or residence in China, the visitors would need to hold a steady job or have more than 50,000RMB（about 6,000, U．S．dollars）in bank savings before they would be eligible（有资格的）to visit Taiwan．
In addition, Taiwan bound mainland tourists would have to come as part of a tour group and would be allowed to stay a maximum of 10 days each time．
The number of mainland tourists allowed to enter the island would also initially be limited to 1,000 people a day．
Although most people from Taiwan are free to travel to China, only a small number of mainland Chinese have been able to visit the island due to restrictions imposed by both sides of the Taiwan Strait after the end of a civil war in 1949．
65．At the moment, according to the passage,     ．
A．no mainland Chinese can visit Taiwan now
B．any mainland Chinese can visit Taiwan now
C．many mainland Chinese have ever visited Taiwan since 1949
D．a few mainland Chinese have ever visited Taiwan since 1949
66．When Taiwan opens up the island to tourists from mainland China,．
A．there will be no restrictions to mainland visitors
B．mainland visitors who want to travel in Taiwan must have at least ￥50,000 in the bank savings account
C．there will be no age restrictions to the mainland visitors
D．mainland visitors will be free to travel to Taiwan
67．We can infer from the passage that get（s） involved in the implementation of the plan．
A．MAC                    B．United Daily
C．several organizations        D．Bureau of Immigration
68．Which of the following statement is TRUE?
A．The implementation of the plan has not been fixed．
B．It was originally fixed on July 1 to announce the plan’s implementation．
C．For lack of cross-strait communication, the plan will not be officially completed until July．
D．When the plan is finalized, it will be announced immediately．

Section B

（A）

Taiwan will finalize a plan by the end of June to open up the island to tourists from mainland China, though no date has been fixed for formal implementation（执行）, an official at the Mainland Affairs Council（MAC） said on Monday．

The official said the reports in the local press on Monday that the MAC has decided to postpone its plan to announce the implementation of the new plan on July 1 were inaccurate．

The official said cooperation between different organizations was still underway．The United Daily news quoted the director of the MAC’s legal affairs department, Liu Thehsun, as saying the plan to open up to mainland tourists would not be implemented as scheduled due to a lack of cross-strait communication．

Although relevant authorities, including the Bureau of Immigration and the Tourism Bureau, have complete reports on how to deal with visitors from mainland China, the decision has been taken not to press, ahead with announcement of the plan’s implementation on the first of July, Liu was quoted as saying．

The report also said that while no restrictions would be imposed on the mainland visitors in terms of age or residence in China, the visitors would need to hold a steady job or have more than 50,000RMB（about 6,000, U．S．dollars）in bank savings before they would be eligible（有资格的）to visit Taiwan．

In addition, Taiwan bound mainland tourists would have to come as part of a tour group and would be allowed to stay a maximum of 10 days each time．

The number of mainland tourists allowed to enter the island would also initially be limited to 1,000 people a day．

Although most people from Taiwan are free to travel to China, only a small number of mainland Chinese have been able to visit the island due to restrictions imposed by both sides of the Taiwan Strait after the end of a civil war in 1949．

65．At the moment, according to the passage,     ．

A．no mainland Chinese can visit Taiwan now

B．any mainland Chinese can visit Taiwan now

C．many mainland Chinese have ever visited Taiwan since 1949

D．a few mainland Chinese have ever visited Taiwan since 1949

66．When Taiwan opens up the island to tourists from mainland China,．

A．there will be no restrictions to mainland visitors

B．mainland visitors who want to travel in Taiwan must have at least ￥50,000 in the bank savings account

C．there will be no age restrictions to the mainland visitors

D．mainland visitors will be free to travel to Taiwan

67．We can infer from the passage that get（s） involved in the implementation of the plan．

A．MAC                    B．United Daily

C．several organizations        D．Bureau of Immigration

68．Which of the following statement is TRUE?

A．The implementation of the plan has not been fixed．

B．It was originally fixed on July 1 to announce the plan’s implementation．

C．For lack of cross-strait communication, the plan will not be officially completed until July．

D．When the plan is finalized, it will be announced immediately．