48.A. Luckily   B. Fortunately   C. Generally  D. Unluckily

49.A. whom    B. which    C. he   D. who

50.A. were kept busy  B. was busy with  C. kept busy with D. were busy with

51.A. exciting   B. tired    C. pleased  D. disappointed

52.A. dishes    B. food    C. order   D. menu

53.A. good presents  B. good news   C. bad news  D. bad presents

54.A. Looking   B. Seeing    C. Looked  D. Found

55.A. no meat or fish  B. no meat and fish  C. meat and fish D. not meat or fish

第三节：阅读理解(共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分)

请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

A long time ago, there was a seed and because he was only a seed, nobody noticed him. Thus, feeling inferior(低等的),the seed gave no importance to his existence(存在).

Then one day, a wind picked him up and threw him on an open field under the sun. Later, he was given rain.

Years later he saw a traveler sitting by his side.“Thank God for this. I really need some rest,”he heard the traveler say.

“What are you talking about?”the seed quickly asked. He thought the man was making fun of him. No one ever spoke to him like that.

“Who just spoke?”the shocked man asked.

“It is me. A seed.”

“A seed?”The man looked at the big tree.“Are you joking? You are not a seed. You are a big tree!”

“Really?”

“Yes! Why else do you think people come here?”

“What do they come here for?”

“To feel your shade(树荫)! Don’t tell me you didn’t know you had grown over time.”

A moment passed before the traveler’s words brought him pride.

The seed thought and smiled for the first time in his life. The years of torture(折磨) by the sun and the rain finally helped him grow up.

“Oh! That means I’m not a little seed anymore! I was actually born to make people feel comfortable. Wow! That’s great!”

56. The seed didn’t realize the importance of his existence because ___________.

A. nobody looked after him    B. he was thrown into the open air

C. he was such a small seed    D. he didn’t believe in himself

57. The traveler sat by the seed’s side to ______________.

A. escape from the rain     B. thank God for offering him a tree

C. have a rest and enjoy the shade   D. talk with the big tree

58. The author’s purpose of writing the passage is to ___________.

A. tell us that we should help each other  B. praise the seed for his strength

C. teach us not to laugh at others   D. tell us never to lose hope

59. Where does the passage most probably come from?

A. A history book. B. A science book.  C. A storybook.  D. A novel.

B

When I was 15, I had an enemy, a girl who liked to point out my short-comings(缺点). Week by week her list grew. I was skinny(瘦的), I talked too loud, I was too proud, and so on. I put up with(忍受)her as long as I could. At last, I ran to my father in tears and anger. He listened to my outburst quietly. They he asked, “Are the things she says the true or not?”True? I wanted to know how to strike back. What did truth have to do with it?

“Mary, didn’t you ever wonder what you are really like? Well, you now have that girl’s opinion. ”Go and make a list of every thing she said and mark the points that are true. You needn’t pay attention to the other things she said.

I did as he told me and discovered to my surprise that about half the things are true. Some of them I couldn’t change(like being skinny), but a good number I could and suddenly wanted to change. For the time in my life I began to get a quiet clear picture of myself.

I brought the list back to Daddy, but he wouldn’t take it.“That’s just for you,”he said.“You know better than any else the truth about yourself, once you hear it. But you’ve got to learn to listen, not close your ears in anger or hurt. When someone says something about you, you’ll know if it’s true or not. If it is ,you’ll find it will echo(共鸣)inside you.”

“I still don’t think it very nice of her to talk about me in front of everybody.”

“Mary, there is one way you could stop others talking about you ever again, and criticizing(批评) you—just say nothing and do nothing. But then, if you do that, you’d find you were nothing. You wouldn’t like that now, would you?”

“No, I admitted(承认)”

60. One day the writer ran to her father in tears and anger because__________.

A. she found she talked too much.    B. she found she was too proud.

C. her classmates were not friendly to her.   D. a girl pointed out many of her shortcomings.

61. The writer’s father asked her ____________.

A. to pay attention to all that her“enemy”said about her.

B. not to pay attention to what her“enemy”said about her.

C. to pay attention only to the points that were true about her.

D. to  pay attention only to the points that were not true about her.