B

Since 1989, Dave Thomas, who died at age 69, was one of the most recognizable faces on TV. He appeared in more than 800 commercials (商业广告) for the hamburger chain named for his daughter. “As long as it works," he said in 1991, “I'll continue to do those commercials."

Even though he was successful, Thomas remained troubled by his childhood. “He still won't let anyone see his feet, which are out of shape because he never had proper fitting shoes," Wendy said in 1993. Born to a single mother, he was adopted(收养) as a baby by Rex and Auleva Thomas of Kalamazoo in Michigan. After Auleva died when he was 5, Thomas spent years on the road as Rex traveled around seeking construction work. “He fed me," Thomas said, “and if I got out of line, he'd beat me."

Moving out on his own at 15, Thomas worked, first as a waiter, in many restaurants. But he had something much better in mind. “I thought if I owned a restaurant," he said, “I could eat for free." A 1956 meeting with Harland Sanders led Thomas to a career as the manager of a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant that made him a millionaire in 1968.

In 1969, after breaking with Sanders, Thomas started the first Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers, in Columbus, Ohio, which set itself apart by serving made to order burgers. With 6,000 restaurants worldwide, the chain now makes $ 6 billion a year in sales.

Although troubled by his own experience with adoption, Thomas, married since 1954 to Lorraine, 66, and with four grown kids besides Wendy, felt it could offer a future for other children. He started the Dave Thomas Foundation (基金会) for Adoption in 1992.

In 1993, Thomas, who had left school at 15, graduated from Coconut Creek High School in Florida. He even took Lorraine to the graduation dance party. The kids voted him Most Likely to Succeed.

“The Dave you saw on TV was the real Dave," says friend Pat Williams. “He wasn't a great actor or a great speaker. He was just Joe Everybody."

61. What is the article mainly about?

A. The life of Dave Thomas. B. The dream of Dave Thomas.

C. The schooling of Dave Thomas. D. The growth of Dave Thomas's business. 62. What do we know about his childhood?

A. He lived a poor life. B. He had caring parents.

C. He stayed in one place. D. He didn't go to school. 63. Choose the right time order of the following events in Thomas's life.

a. graduated from high school b. started his own business c. became a millionaire d. started a foundation e. met Harland Sanders

A. e, b, c, d, a, B. a, e, c, b, d,

C. e, c, b, d, a, D. a, e, b, c, d,

64. “He was just Joe Everybody." (in the last paragraph) means__________.

A. Dave was famous B. Dave was ordinary

C. Dave was showy D. Dave was shy

65. What is the name of Dave Thomas's business?

A. Thomas's. B. Wendy's. C. Lorraine's. D. Rex's.

C

Next time you find yourself drenched (湿透) in an unexpected heavy rain, look on the bright side — it will be a memorable experience. While wet weather may make us feel gloomy, it sharpens the memory and improves our recall. But those who feel in a good mood because it’s a sunny day are able to remember less well, according to memory tests carried by Australian researchers.

Professor Joe Forgas, who led the research, said: “It seems strange but a little bit of sadness is a good thing. People performed much better on our memory test when the weather was unpleasant and they were in a slightly negative mood. On bright sunny days, when they were more likely to be happy, they flunked it.”

The tests were carried out on shoppers at a store in Sydney, where researchers randomly placed ten small objects on the check-out counter. On rainy days, sad music was played in the store. When it was bright and sunny, customers heard cheery music. This was done to further influence them towards negative or positive moods. After shopping, customers were asked how many of the objects they could remember. Their scores were three times higher when the weather was bad and they were feeling angry, compared with those tested on sunny days. The results were published in Journal of Experimental Psychology. A report on the findings said: “They point to a growing body of evidence that the way people think, the quality of their judgments and the accuracy of their memory are all significantly influenced by positive and negative moods.”

Professor Forgas said, “We found that weather-inducted negative mood improved memory accuracy. Shoppers in a negative mood showed better memory and higher discrimination ability.”

A worse mood helped to focus people’s attention on their surroundings and led to a more thorough and careful thinking style, while happiness increased confidence and forgetfulness.

Being happy tends to promote a thinking style that is less focused on our surroundings. In a positive mood we are less likely to make more snap (匆忙的) judgments about people we meet. Mild negative mood, in turn, tends to increase attention to our surroundings and produce a more careful, thorough thinking style.

Accurately remembering everyday scenes is a difficult task, yet such memories can be on importance in everyday life. Surprisingly, the influence of mood states on the accuracy of real-life memories is still poorly understood.

66. What’s the major function of Paragraph 1?

A. To attract readers’ interest.

B. To introduce the theme of the whole passage.

C. To generalize the whole passage.

D. To describe a memorable experience.

67. The underlined word “flunked” in Paragraph2 may mean “__________ ”.

A. conducted B. failed C. passed D. understood

68. In the research, researchers play different music to __________ .

A. make customers become sadder or happier B. help customers choose what they want

C. promote customers to buy more goods D. get customers to make a quick choice

69. According to the research, on sunny days, people __________ .

A. will make careful judgments on others

B. tend to pay more attention to their surroundings

C. will have more confidence

D. will have a better recall

70. What can we know from the research?

A. Forgetfulness is rather troublesome.

B. It’s important to feel in a good mood.

C. It’s memorable to experience a rainy day.

D. Gloomy days are good for memorizing things.

PART FOUR WRITING (45 marks)

SECTION A (10 marks)

Directions: Read the following passage. Complete the diagram by using the information for the passage. Write NO MORE THAN 3 WORDS for each answer.

Since it was founded a year ago, the babysitting pool has become increasingly popular in the United States. More and more mothers have joined it and have benefited from it. What attracts them most is the idea that you pay your babysitter not in cash, but in paper cards. When you join the babysitting pool, you are given thirty cards, which are worth 30-minute babysitting time each. For each half an hour while you are gone, the babysitter gets paid one card.

There are rules regulating this service. You should not watch more than three kids at a time including your own. On big holidays, such as Christmas and Thanksgiving, the babysitter should be paid twice as much, which means two cards for every half an hour. When you leave the babysitting pool, you should return all the cards. If you are out of cards, you cannot use money instead. You should have to baby-sit for others to earn enough cards so that you will have them handy when you yourself need a babysitter.

The advantages this mutual-babysitting service has over other kinds of babysitting is that it keeps children in constant touch with one another, and makes life easier for the mothers. Since in most cases, the babysitter is the mother who watches other kids at her own home, it is still possible for her to do her own things while the kids play with each other. In fact most mother babysitters find that their own kids are less of a monster and easier to watch when they are around other playmates. Moreover, since the babysitting pool service does not involve money, it will not be a financial loss to the family.

In the past year, the babysitting pool has helped so many mothers with their work that they all think that it is indeed a good community service worth keeping.

SECTION B (10 marks)

Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and the required words limit. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

Almost everybody in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart(购物手推车). They will, in a lifetime, push the chrome-plated contraptions many miles. But few will know—or even think to ask—who it was that invented them.

Sylvan N. Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937. At that time he was in the supermarket business. Every day he would see shoppers lugging(吃力地携带) groceries around in baskets they had to carry.

One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels. The wheeled baskets would make shopping much easier for his customers, and would help to attract more business.

On June 4, 1937, Goldman’s first carts were ready for use in his market. He was terribly excited on the morning of that day as customers began arriving. He couldn’t wait to see them using his invention.

But Goldman was disappointed. Most shoppers gave the carts a long look, but hardly anybody would give them a try.

After a while, Goldman decided to ask customers why they weren’t using his carts. “Don’t you think this arm is strong enough to carry a shopping basket?” one shopper replied.

But Goldman wasn’t beaten yet. He knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade people to give them a try. To this end, Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and pretend they were shopping! Seeing this, the real customers gradually began copying the phony(假冒的)customers.

As Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers of customers to his market. But not only did more people come—those who came bought more. With larger, easier-to-handle baskets, customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before.

Today’s shopping carts are five times larger than Goldman’s original model. Perhaps that’s one reason Americans today spend more than five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937—before the coming of the shopping cart.

81. What do the underlined words “chrome-plate contraptions” in Paragraph 1 refer to ? ( no more than 3 words)

82. What was the purpose of Goldman’s invention? (no more than 8 words)

83. Why was Goldman disappointed at first? (no more than 6 words)

84. Why did Goldman hire people to push carts around his market? (no more than 10 words)

SECTION C (25 marks)

Directions: Write an English composition according to the instructions given below in Chinese.

假如你班要就“如何为高考作准备”开一个班会，请你写一篇发言稿，谈谈你认为在高考备考过程中要注意的事项(三条以上)及理由：

注意: 1. 词数120以上，开头已为你写好(不计入总词数);

2. 参考词汇：明确的definite (adj.) 评价estimation (n.)

No doubt every Senior 3 student wishes to be successful in the National College Entrance Examination._____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

英语试卷参考答案

1—5 BCACC 6—10 ACABB 11—15 ACCAB

16. Nine 17. brothers 18. great energy 19. youthful and fun 20. 1979

21—25 BBCAD 26—30 CDADD 31—35 CBBAA

36—40 BADCA 41—45 BCDDB 46—47 AC

36. B 从下文可以推出：我本人(personally)不认识他们。

37. A 作者认为：他的行为赋予了善良和慷慨新的意义。

38. D 一位在街角乞讨的老人。search for寻找，搜寻;make for走向;blame for该受责备，应负责;beg for乞求，乞讨。

Possible version:

No doubt every Senior 3 student wishes to be successful in the National college Entrance Examination. Yet what should we do in order to achieve success? Here are some suggestions.

First, it’s very important to have a right attitude, for a normal state of mind and self-confidence not only helps us to relax but also enables us to overcome difficulties bravely. Meanwhile, we should have a definite goal and a correct estimation of ourselves. Only in this way will we not be easily pleased or disappointed with what we have known and done. Besides, we’d better sometimes talk with our parents, teachers or classmates, who may help us out when we’re in trouble. Finally, striking a proper balance between study and rest keeps us energetic and a healthy diet is useful as well.

With these done, I think we can greatly improve our performance.

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