B

Edmund Halley was an English scientist who lived over 200 years ago. He studied the observations of comets which other scientists had made. The orbit of one particular comet was a very difficult mathematical problem. He could not figure it out. Neither could other scientists who dealt with such problems.

However, Halley had a friend named Isaac Newton, who was a brilliant mathematician. Newton thought he had already worked out that problem, but he could not find the papers on which he had done it. He told Halley that the orbit of a comet had the shape of an ellipse.

Now Halley set to work, He figured out the orbits of some of the comets that had been observed by scientists. He made a surprising discovery. The comets that had appeared in the years 1531, 1607 and 1682 all had the same orbit. Yet their appearances had been 75 to 76 years apart.

This seemed very strange to Halley. Three different comets followed the same orbit. The more Halley thought about, the more he thought that there had not been three different comets, as people thought. He decided that they had simply seen the same comet three times. The comet had gone away and had come back again.

It was an astonishing idea! Halley felt certain enough to make a prediction of what would happen in the future. He decided that this comet would appear in the year 1758. There were 53 years to go before Halley's prediction could be tested.

In 1758 the comet appeared in the sky. Halley did not see it, for he had died some years before. Ever since then that comet had been called Halley's comet, in his honour.

语篇解读：本文讲述科学家哈雷发现哈雷彗星的运行轨迹和特点。

31.Halley made his discovery________.

A.by doing experiments

B.by means of his own careful observation

C.by using the work of other scientists

D.by chance

解析：细节理解题。从第一段第二句可以看出，哈雷的发现是在研究其他科学家的观察中得出来的，其他选项与本文内容不符。

答案：C

32.Halley made a surprising but correct prediction in the year________.

A.1704　　B.1705

C.1706　　D.1707

解析：计算推理题。首先确定彗星下次出现的时间是l758年，然后确定这一时间距离他预测的时间是53年，1758-53=1705。

答案：B

33.This text in general is about________.

A.Halley and other scientists

B.the orbit of a comet

C.Newton and Halley

D.Halley and his discovery

解析：主旨大意题。通读全文，就可以看出文章的每一段都在介绍哈雷及他的发现，另外也可以从文章的首尾句看出本文的大意。

答案：D

34.Which of the following is TRUE?

A.Edmund Halley was an American scientist.

B.Halley made his discovery by doing experiment.

C.Isaac Newton was a famous mathematician.

D.The orbit of a comet had the shape of an around.

解析：辨别正误题。本文第一句说哈雷是一个英国科学家，所以A项是错误的。从第二句话可以看出，哈雷的发现是在研究其他科学家的观察中得出来的，所以B项是错误的。从第二段最后一句话可以得知哈雷彗星的轨道是椭圆形的，所以排除D项。

答案：C

35.This passage is probably written to________.

A.general readers  B.college students

C.scientists        D.astronomers

解析：可以用排除法。文章没有特别说明写给谁，故推理是一般的读者。

答案：A

C

Someday a stranger will read your e­mail without your permission or scan the websites you've visited. Or perhaps someone will casually glance through your credit card purchases or cell phone bills to find out your shopping preferences or calling habits.

In fact, it's likely some of these things have already happened to you. Who would watch you without your permission? It might be a girlfriend, a marketing company, a boss, a policeman or a criminal. Whoever it is，they will see you in a way you never intended to be seen—the 21st century equal to being caught naked(裸露的).

Psychologists tell us boundaries are healthy, though it's important to reveal(透露) yourself to friends, family and lovers in stages, at appropriate times. Actually few boundaries remain. The digital bread crumbs (面包屑) you leave everywhere make it easy for strangers to reconstruct who you are，where you are and what you like. In some cases，a simple Google search can reveal what you think. Like it or not， increasingly we_live_in_a_world_where_you_simply_cannot_keep_a_secret.

The key question is: Does that matter? For many Americans, the answer apparently is “no”.

When opinion polls ask Americans about privacy, most say they are concerned about losing it. A survey found a majority of people are pessimistic about privacy, with 60 percent of respondents saying they feel their privacy is “slipping away, and that bothers me”.

But people say one thing and do another. Only a small part of Americans change any behaviors in an effort to preserve their privacy. Few people turn down a discount at tollbooths(收费亭)to avoid using the EZ­Pass system that can track(跟踪) automobile movements. And few turn down supermarket loyalty cards. Privacy economist Alessandro Acquits has run a series of tests that reveal people will submit personal information like Social Security numbers just to get their hands on a pitiful 50­cents­off coupon(优惠券).

But privacy does matter at least sometimes. It's like health：when you have it，you don't notice it. Only when it's gone do you wish you'd done more to protect it.

语篇解读：在这个信息化、高科技化的时代，我们变得越来越“透明”——几乎没什么隐私。多数人对此抱有忧虑，但实际上却很少有人在现实生活中去保护自己的隐私。专家指出，隐私犹如健康，不要等到失去了才后悔。

36.From Paragraph 2，we can infer________.

A.criminals are easily caught on the spot with advanced technology

B.people tend to be more frank with each other in the information age

C.in the 21st century people try every means to look into others' secrets

D.people's personal information is easily accessed without their knowledge

解析：考查推理判断。根据第二段“they will see you in a way you never intended to be seen”可知。

答案：D

37.What would psychologists advise on the relationships between friends?

A.There should be a distance even between friends.

B.There should be fewer quarrels between friends.

C.Friends should always be faithful to each other.

D.Friends should open their hearts to each other.

解析：考查具体细节。根据第三段“Psychologists tell us boundaries are healthy...”可知与朋友保持适当距离是有益的。

答案：A

38.Why does the author say “we live in a world where you simply cannot keep a secret”?

A.There are always people who are curious about others' affairs.

B.Many search engines profit by revealing people's identities.

C.People leave traces around when using modern technology.

D.Modern society has finally developed into an open society.

解析：考查猜测句意。根据第三段“...bread crumbs you leave everywhere make it easy...”可知在这个高科技化的时代人们几乎没有秘密。

答案：C

39.What do most Americans do with regard to privacy protection?

A.They change behaviors that might disclose their identity.

B.They talk a lot but hardly do anything about it.

C.They rely more and more on electronic equipment.

D.They use various loyalty cards for business deals.

解析：考查具体细节。根据倒数第二段第一句“But people say one thing and do another”可知。

答案：B

40.According to the passage，privacy is like health in that________.

A.its importance is rarely understood

B.it is something that can easily be lost

C.people will make every effort to keep it

D.people don't treasure it until they lose it

解析：考查主旨大意。根据文章大意和最后一段可知，隐私和健康的相似点在于，人们直到失去了才知道珍惜。

答案：D

D

Franz Kafka wrote that “a_book_must_be_the_ax_(斧子)_for_the_frozen_sea_inside_us”.I once shared this sentence with a class of seventh graders, and it didn't seem to require any explanation.

We'd just finished John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men. When we read the end together out loud in class, my toughest boy, a star basketball player, wept a little, and so did I. “Are you crying?” one girl asked, as she got out of her chair to take a closer look. “I am，” I told her, “and the funny thing is I've read it many times.”

But they understood. When George shoots Lennie, the tragedy is that we realize it was always going to happen. In my 14 years of teaching in a New York City public middle school, I've taught kids with imprisoned parents, abusive(辱骂的)parents, irresponsible parents; kids who are parents themselves; kids who are homeless; kids who grew up in violent neighborhoods. They understand，more than I ever will, the novel's terrible logic-the giving way of dreams to fate (命运).

For the last seven years, I have worked as a reading enrichment teacher, reading classic works of literature with small groups of students from grades six to eight. I originally proposed this idea to my headmaster after learning that a former excellent student of mine had transferred out of a selective high school-one that often attracts the literary­minded children of Manhattan's upper classes-into a less competitive setting. The daughter of immigrants, with a father in prison, she perhaps felt uncomfortable with her new classmates. I thought additional “cultural capital” could help students like her develop better in high school, where they would unavoidably meet, perhaps for the first time, students who came from homes lined with bookshelves, whose parents had earned Ph.D.'s.

Along with Of Mice and Men, my groups read: Sounder, The Red Pony, Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. The students didn't always read from the expected point of view.About The Red Pony, one student said, “it's about being a man, it's about manliness.”I had never before seen the parallels between Scarface and Macbeth, nor had I heard Lady Macbeth's soliloquies (独白) read as raps (说唱), but both made sense; the interpretations were playful, but serious. Once introduced to Steinbeck's writing, one boy went on to read The Grapes of Wrath and told me repeatedly how amazing it was that “all these people hate each other, and they're all white”. His historical view was broadening, his sense of his own country deepening. Year after year, former students visited and told me how prepared they had felt in their first year in college as a result of the classes.

Year after year, however, we are increasing the number of practice tests. We are trying to teach students to read increasingly complex texts, not for emotional punch (碰撞) but for text complexity. Yet, we cannot enrich (充实) the minds of our students by testing them on texts that ignore their hearts. We are teaching them that words do not amaze but confuse. We may succeed in raising test scores, but we will fail to teach them that reading can be transformative and that it belongs to them.

41. The underlined words in Paragraph 1 probably mean that a book helps to________.

A.realize our dreams       B.give support to our life

C.smooth away difficulties  D.awake our emotions

答案：D

42. Why were the students able to understand the novel Of Mice and Men?

A.Because they spent much time reading it.

B.Because they had read the novel before.

C.Because they came from a public school.

D.Because they had similar life experiences.

答案：D

43.The girl left the selective high school possibly because________.

A.she was a literary­minded girl

B.her parents were immigrants

C.she couldn't fit in with her class

D.her father was then in prison

答案：C

44. To the author's surprise, the students read the novels________.

A.creatively  B.passively  C.repeatedly  D.carelessly

答案：A

45. The author writes the passage mainly to________.

A.introduce classic works of literature

B.advocate teaching literature to touch the heart

C.argue for equality among high school students

D.defend the current testing system

答案：B

第二节：信息匹配(共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分)

阅读下列应用文及相关信息，按照要求匹配信息。

A.Chemistry Club：The Chemistry Club promotes students' interest in several basic sciences，which include chemistry，physics and various engineering disciplines.Members of the club have a desire to apply textbook knowledge to real world experiments.One goal of the organization is to create “experiment assemblies(集会)” for lower，middle and upper school students.

B.Ecology Club：The Ecology Club is an award winning organization at the state level.Students in this organization participate in numerous energy education activities，including an extensive on­campus recycling program.Emphasis is placed on environmental awareness，science education，and special projects，including upkeep(维修)of the school's trails(小路).

C.Young Einsteins：Students interested in science have the opportunity for hands-on experience and field trips related to a wide range of scientific topics.The club meets after school with the Lower School science lab coordinate(同等的人).