47. A. insist B. assume C. suppose D. promise

48. A. said B. asked C. told D. persuaded

49. A. excitement B. relief C. regret D. disappointment

50. A. determined B. agreed C. prepared D. refused

51. A. smiled B. insisted C. demanded D. cried

52. A. Luckily B. Honestly C. Personally D. Unfortunately

53. A. shut B. exit C. remove D. loosen

54. A. untie B. undress C. uncover D. unburden

55. A. led B. accepted C. followed D. consulted

第三部分: 阅读理解 (共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Louis Braille, Alphabet Maker

Blind people can read. They do so by running their fingers along a line of raised points or dots on paper. Of course, they first have to learn the code. Here are some examples of it. One dot stands for the letter “A.” Two dots side by side mean "C." Four dots arranged to look like a box (: :) stand for the letter "G." By placing the dots in special patterns, all the letters of the alphabet can be formed.

This code was made up by a Frenchman called Louis Braille. Though he could see at birth, he became sightless when he was only three. Braille was cutting leather in his father's shop. His knife slipped and cut his eye. Infection spread to both eyes, and he became blind.

At 10, he was placed in a home for the blind. But young Louis had great talent. He became a skilled musician and soon got a job as a church organist(风琴弹奏者) in Paris.

Because he had talent and was quick, he became a teacher at a school for the blind. While there, he heard that an army captain had sent messages to his gun crews so they could read them at night without light. His messages were in the simple form of raised dots and dashes. This was the clue Louis needed. At the age of 15, he worked out his own six-dot code. Each group of dots is called a cell. The cells are three dots high and two dots wide. For the rest of his life, Braille taught his young flock to read both written and musical works using his code.

For the last 17 years of his life, Braille was ill with tuberculosis(肺结核). He died at the age of 43. France honored him by placing his remains in the famous Pantheon in Paris.

56. What is the passage mainly concerned with?

A. Louis Braille developed a reading method for blind people.

B. Louis Braille became blind as he was a child.

C. Blind people can read any books they like.

D. Louis Braille’s remains were buried in the famous Pantheon in Paris

57. Louis Braille developed an alphabet for blind people after he ________.

A. became blind as a young child.

B. worked as an organist.

C. learned that soldiers could read messages from raised dots.

D. became a skilled musician.