三、阅读理解（40分）

Maps are our oldest literature(文献),older than books.People think a map was the first thing the human ever wrote to communicate each other.Perhaps one million years ago,with a stick in the mud of a lake bed,the earlier human drew some lines to stand for a lake,a river,a thick forest and some good hunting grounds beyond the forest.

It made so much sense that people took it for magic(魔术),they expressed the world in a picture.There was something so real about this new thing called "map" that it helped us believe we could get there.It not only strengthened belief that good hunting existed beyond the forest,but it strongly suggested that the future existed;it was a place we could go to and be there tomorrow.What a comfort.On maps all paths lead somewhere.

41.Which of the following statements is true?

A.Maps can't be used to communicate each other.

B.Maps have the same long history as books.

C.No matter how hard you study them,maps don't make any sense.

D.None of the above is true.

42.The earlier human used lines drawn in the mud to express_________.

A.the whole world                              B.real places

C.strong belief                                          D.great comfort

43.Now people regard some lines drawn by the earlier human as _________.

A.the beginning of maps           B.the chanting form of maps

C.real maps                      D.a part of maps

44.It can be concluded that _________.

A.maps are the most useful way of communicating each other

B.the first map showed somewhere far away

C.the first map showed somewhere very near

D.the first map showed all directions

 

A ______ person always tries to finish the job, no matter how hard it is.

A．stubborn

B．determined

C．reliable

D．remarkable

 

请阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。

首先，请阅读以下有关招聘教师的信息：

A Title: Primary in Guangzhou Position: Oral (口语)Teacher Vacancy(空缺): 1 Salary（工资）: 8,000 RMB（人民币） Qualification: TESOL Experience required: 1 year Workload（工作量）: 25 classes/week, 40 minutes/ class Medical Insurance Paid holiday: National holidays	B Title: Medical/High School in Jiangsu Position: Science Teacher Vacancy: 1 Salary: 10,000-12,000 RMB Qualification: BA/TESOL Experience required: More than 1 year Workload: 18-20 classes/week, 45 minutes/ class Medical Insurance Paid holiday: No
C Title: Primary/Middle in Shenzhen Position（职位）: Oral Teacher Vacancy: 5 Salary: 5,000 -7,000RMB Qualification: TEFL/TESOL Experience required: 4 years Workload:30classes/week, 40 minutes/ class	D Title: High School in Beijing Position: Science Teacher Vacancy: 2 Salary: 7,000-9,000 RMB Qualification: BA Experience required: 2 years Workload:16-18classes/week, 40 minutes/ class
Medical Insurance Paid holiday: All legal holidays Airfare reimbursement (退还)	Medical Insurance Paid holiday: Both National holidays and May holidays
E Title: Pre-University Training school in Tianjin Position: Training Teacher Vacancy: 2 Salary: 7,000-9,000 RMB Qualification: BA Experience required: 1 year or more Workload: 25 classes/week, 60 minutes/ class Spacious（宽敞的） single room provided Medical Insurance	F Title: High school in Sichuan Position: Oral English Teacher Vacancy: 2 Salary: 5,000 RMB Qualification: TEFL/TESOL Experience required: No Workload: 10 classes every week, 40 minutes every class Medical Insurance Paid holiday: All legal holidays Travel allowance

请阅读以下五位应聘者的具体信息，然后选择适合他们的职位。

1.Born in a rich family, Guo Jia is a spoiled beautiful girl, who never thinks about money. She speaks English very well and she likes nothing but traveling. She has to find a job as a teacher because her mother asked her to. So she wants to find a job that doesn’t take her too much time.

2.Wang Hao, a boy from a big family of four children, is a teacher of science. He has been teaching in his hometown for four years. But he is not satisfied with the salary, so he wants to find a better job. He wants to earn as much money as possible no matter how hard the work is.

3.Zhou Ming is a man of great responsibility. He is a trainer of much experience as he has taught in many training centers these years. But they do not offer him any housing. So he decided to find a new place where he can get a room for him to live in.

4.Liu Ke is a science teacher, who works in a town in Guangdong. He has been reading all kinds of books for these three years to enlarge his knowledge. In his opinion, Beijing is the best choice for working because it is the political and cultural center of China.

5.He Yong is an oral teacher who teaches in his hometown. Having been teaching in Shenzhen for many years, his best friend and classmate told him the salary in Shenzhen is high. So he wants to have a try. As he has to go back home very often, he wants as many holidays as possible. And it will be better if the school can pay the airfare.

 

Recently, one of my best friends, whom I've shared just about everything with since the first day of kindergarten, spent the week end with me. Since I moved to a new town several years ago, we've both always ___1___ the few times a year when we can see each other.

.Over the ___2___, we spent hours and hours, staying up late into the night, talking about the people she was ___3__ around with. She started telling me stories about her new boyfriend, about how he experimented with ___4___ and was into other ___5___ behavior. I was blown away! She told me how she had been ___6___ to her parents about where she was going and even sneaking out to see this guy because they didn't want her ___7___ him. No matter how hard I tried to tell her that she ___8__ better, she didn't believe me. Her self-respect seemed to have disappeared.

I tried to ___9___ her that she was ruining her future and heading for big trouble. I felt like I was getting ___10___. I just couldn't believe that she really thought it was ___11__ to hang with a bunch of losers, especially her boyfriend. w.w.w.k.s.5.u.c.o.m

By the time she left, I was really worried about her and ___12___ by the experience. It had been so frustrating, I had come ___13___ to telling her several times during the weekend that maybe we had just grown too far apart to ___14___ our friendship - but I didn't. I put the power of ___15___ to the ultimate test. We'd been friends for far too long. The chance was that she ___16___ me enough to know that I was trying to save her from hurting herself. I wanted to believe that our friendship could ___17___ anything.

A few days later, she called to say that she had thought long and hard about our ___18___, and then she told me that she had ___19___ with her boyfriend. I just listened on the other end of the phone with tears of joy running down my face. It was one of the truly ___20___ moments in my life. Never had I been so proud of a friend.

1. A. worried about              B. looked forward to C. paid attention to     D. think of

2. A. weekend               B. months    C. years                D. days

3. A. working               B. falling in love    C. hanging                 D. keeping in touch

4. A. books                   B. girls                  C. friends                     D. drugs

5. A. self-destructive      B. self-respecting  

C. self-confident           D. self-defensive

6. A. explaining            B. reasoning          C. declaring                  D. lying

7. A. on                        B. beside               C. around                     D. to

8. A. did                   B. deserved                C. had                        D. got

9. A. told                 B. convince               C. force            D. warn

10. A. somewhere   B. everywhere               C. nowhere     D. anywhere

11. A. acceptable    B. believable              C. reliable             D. admirable

12. A. exhausted     B. surprised                  C. satisfied            D. terrified

13. A. almost         B. nearly                      C. close          D. over

14. A. stop             B. continue                C. start           D. make

15. A. love            B. friendship   C. truth          D. justice

16. A. thought        B. remembered      C. valued             D. hated

17. A. mean           B. conquer             C. tell                  D. prove

18. A. friendship    B. relationship              C. quarrel              D. conversation

19. A. broken away       B. broken down     C. broken up   D. broken out

20. A. demanding   B. challenging   C. frustrating      D. rewarding

No matter how hard he worked, ___ ____

A．he could not do any better	B．and he could not do any better
C．so he could not do any better	D．but he could not do any better