三、阅读理解(本题有5小题，每小题2分;共计30分)

阅读下面材料，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

I am off on a trip on my own. Yes ! Alone! I can't wait to get going to Europe to see     some cities I really want to visit. It is great because I can choose what I want to do in each     city. I am going to travel by train on the Eurorail.

The train trip was fast and the views of the countryside were amazing. Now 1 am in  Salzburg, Austria. The quiet hills of Austria are a great place to relax. The movie The       Sound of  Music was filmed around this area. Mozart, the famous musician, was from here.     I listened to some of his classical music.

The train ride to Amsterdam was a long one. It gave me time to write some postcards to  send back home. Amsterdam is a fun city, full of friendly locals and many tourists. I spent     the whole day visiting the art museums here. The museum about the famous Dutch artist      Van Gogh is filled with history and beautiful art. I took a boat ride and saw local people in   traditional dress. I even got to taste some delicious Dutch cheese.

Copenhagen, Denmark, is one of the safest places in the world. I spent a busy and nice   day at the Tivoli Amusement Park. It is a huge park which even has concerts and dance     shows. Hans Christian Anderson, a famous writer of children's books, was born in this        city. I found a lovely bookshop and bought two of his fairy tale books, The Little Mermaid    and The Ugly Duckling.

My travels alone are done! What an adventure this trip has been! I love it.

31. The passage is probably taken from the _____ part of a magazine.

A. Food        B. Travel         C. Society        D. Business

32. According to the passage, which of the following is true?

A. Salzburg is famous for Anderson, the great writer.

B. The movie The Sound of Music was filmed in Austria.

C. Local people in Copenhagen like wearing traditional dress.

D. Amsterdam has a park which has concerts and dance shows.

33. Which of the following words best describes the writer's feeling about the travel?

A. Bored.       B. Brave.         C. Lonely.        D. Excited.

B

● Our Needs

People are different, but they all have the same needs. Needs are things people must     have to live. Our bodies need food and water. We also need air to breathe. We need a place      to live to keep us safe. We need clothes to keep us warm. If we did not have these things,      we could not survive(生存).

Needs may be different for people who live in different areas. If you live where it is      cold, you may need special clothes to keep you warm. If you live where it is hot, you may    need more water.

People have found new ways to meet their needs. Farmers grow food that people eat.    They used to plant seeds by hand. They used to pick plants by hand. Now they have      machines that do this work.

● Our Wants

Wants are things people would like to have but do not need to live. Suppose you hope to   get a football for your birthday. A football is a want. You can live without it.

Sometimes we might want something so much that it feels like a need. We have to make choices, though. If you need a new coat for winter, you might not be able to get the football   you want. We must choose what we need over what we want.

Sometimes we must make choices between things we want. Suppose you want to go to a birthday party for your uncle. That day, a friend asks you to go to a movie. The movie is at     the same time as the party.

If you choose to go to the party, then what would you give up? What would you give up    if you went to the movie?

34. Needs are things that people______.

A. don't use every day    B. cannot live without

C. get to meet their interest   D. have to improve their life

35. Which of the following must be a want?

A. Air.          B. Water.   C. A coat.   D.A movie.

36. Which sentence shows the writer's opinion?

A. We must put what we need before what we want.

B. People from different areas must have different needs.

C. It's easy to make a choice between the things we want.

D. If we want something very much, it can become our need.

37. The writer tells the differences between needs and wants by ______.

A. giving examples                  B. doing research

C. making a survey                  D. having interviews

C

I once knew a man who was rich in his love for birds, and in their love for him . He lived   in a grove full of all kinds of trees. He had no wife or children in his home. He was an old    man with blue and kind eyes, and a voice that the birds loved.

While he was at work in the grove, the birds came close to pick up the worms(蠕虫) in    the fresh earth he dug up. At first, they kept their distance from him, but they soon found       he was a kind man, and would not hurt them, but liked to have them near him.

They knew this by his kind eyes and voice, which tell what is in the heart. So, day by     day their faith in his love grew in them.

All the birds of the grove were soon his fast friends. They were on the watch for him,    and would fly down from the green tree tops to greet him with their chirp(叽叽喳喳叫).

When he had no work to do, he took bread with him, and dropped the pieces on the   ground. Down they would dart(俯冲) on his head and feet to catch them as they fell from his   hand.

He showed me how they loved him, He put a piece of bread in his mouth, with one end    of it out of his lips, Down they came like bees at a flower, and flew off with it piece by     piece,

When they thought he slept too long in the morning, they would fly in and_____________.

They went with him to church, and while he sang his hymns in it, they sat in the trees,    and sang their praises.

So the love and trust of birds were a joy to the old man all his life long.

38. The birds didn't get close to the old man at first because_____.

A. he often hurt them             B. he disliked them near him

C. they knew little about him       D. they got no food from him

39. The underlined word "faith" in Paragraph 3 means______ in Chinese.

A.承诺          B.祝福         C.希望          D. 信任

40. Which of the following is the best expression to fill in the blank in the passage?

A. follow him here and there         B. call him up with their chirp

C. drop pieces of bread on him       D. look for worms in the house

41. It can be learnt from the story that______.

A. birds are human's best friends

B. everyone gets on well with animals

C. one can get love in return for giving love

D. a person who loves birds is warm-hearted

D

What can we learn from the special, very successful people in the world who make the impossible possible?

Lesson 1: Ways of creative thinking are needed

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg both dropped out of college. They prefer to teach  themselves because they like to develop their own ways of thinking. They think standard    ways of teaching might stop people from being creative and having new ideas.

Lesson 2: The answer might not be what you expect

Find your answers from facts — not start with an expectation of what you will find.  Stephen Jacobsen from Northwestern University believed what he was taught: that water on  Earth came from icy comets(彗星) or planets which hit into Earth.

However, by studying a special rock, he discovered that it acts like a sponge(海绵).     This suggests that Earth's water may have come from inside, driven to the surface to form     the oceans, by geological activity.

“I had a pretty hard time making others believe it,” he said. “But thinking about the fact that you may the first person to see something for the first time doesn’t happen very often. When it does, it’s amazing.”

Lesson 3: A little luck goes a long way

Years of planning went into a recent achievement in space travel. The European Space Agency’s “Philae”, a robot landing craft, met up with Comet 67P, which is 480 million kilometers away. The trip from Earth by “Philae” had taken ten years!

The scientists had no idea what the surface of the comet would be like. If the landing failed, it would be impossible to get information from the spacecraft. Twenty years of work would have been wasted.

When “Philae” tried to land, it bounced(弹起) away from the comet’s icy surface twice. Luckily, however, “Philae” landed successfully and began sending information back to Earth.

42.  Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn’t finish college because_________.

A. they preferred to learn by themselves

B. they needed standard ways of teaching

C. their teachers didn’t like their new ideas

D. their teachers weren’t able to teach them

43.  In Lesson 2, the writer mainly wants to tell us that _________.

A. we should get answers from facts

B. we can believe what we are taught

C. it’s hard to make others believe something

D. an expectation can help get an answer in research

44.  The example “Philae” in Lesson 3 shows that _________.

A. Comet 67P is not far away from Earth

B. it took “Philae” 20 years to reach Comet 67P

C. “Philae” landed on Comet 67P with a little luck

D. scientists know nothing about the surface of Comet 67P

45.  The best title for this passage is ______.

A. Ways of discovering   B. Lessons for success

C. Ways of being special   D. Lessons for experiments

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