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，然后从各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项，并将该答案写在答卷上。                     A

Everyone has got two personalities—the one that is shown to the world and the other that is secret and real. You don't show your secret personality when you're awake because you can control your behaviour, but when you're asleep, your sleeping position shows the real you. In a normal night, of course, people frequently change their position. The important position is the one that you go to sleep in.

If you go to sleep on your back, you're a very open person. You normally trust people and you are easily influenced by fashion or new ideas. You don't like to upset people, so you never express your real feelings. You're quite shy and you aren't very confident.

If you sleep on your stomach, you are a rather secretive(不坦率的)person. You worry a lot and you're always easily upset. You're very stubborn(顽固的), but you aren't very ambitious. You usually live for today not for tomorrow. This means that you enjoy having a good time.

If you sleep curled up(卷曲), you are probably a very nervous person. You have a low opinion of yourself and so you're often defensive. You're shy and you don't normally like meeting people. You prefer to be on your own. You're easily hurt.

If you sleep on your side, you have usually got a well-balanced personality. You know your strengths and weaknesses. You're usually careful. You have a confident personality. You sometimes feel anxious, but you don't often get depressed. You always say what you think even if it annoys people.

56. According to the writer，you naturally show your secret and real personality _______.

A. only in a normal night

B. only when you go to sleep

C. only when you refuse to show yourself to the world

D. only when you change sleeping position

57. Which is NOT mentioned in the second paragraph about a person's personality?

A. He or she is always open with others.

B. He or she always likes new ideas earlier than others.

C. He or she is always easily upset.

D. He or she tends to believe in others.

58. Point out which sentence is used to show the personality of a person who is used to sleeping on his or her stomach?

A. He or she is careful not to offend others.

B. He or she doesn't want to stick to his or her opinion.

C. He or she can't be successful in any business.

D. He or she likes to bring others happiness.

59. Maybe you don't want to make friends with a person who sleeps curled up. Why?

A. He or she would rather be alone than communicate with you.

B. He or she is rarely ready to help you.

C. He or she prefers staying at home to going out.

D. He or she wouldn't like to get help from you.

60. It appears that the writer tends to think highly of the person who sleeps on one side because __________.

A. he or she always shows sympathy for people

B. he or she is confident，but not stubborn

C. he or she has more strengths than weaknesses

D. he or she often considers annoying people

B

O. Henry was a pen name used by an American writer of short stories. His real name was William Sydney Porter. He was born in North Carolina in 1862. As a young boy he lived an exciting life. He did not go to school for very long, but he managed to teach himself everything he needed to know. When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas, where he tried different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank, when some money went missing from the bank O. Henry was believed to have stolen it.

Because of that, he was sent to prison. During the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and continued writing. He wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because simple as the tales were, they would finish with a sudden change at the end, to the reader's surprise.

61. In which order did O. Henry do the following things?

a. Lived in New York.   b. Worked in a bank.    c. Travelled to Texas.

d. Was put in prison.   e. Had a newspaper Job.  f. Learned to write stories.

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

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

62. People enjoyed reading O. Henry's stories because_______.

A. they had surprise endings            B. they were easy to understand

C. they showed his love for the poor   D. they were about New York City

63. O. Henry went to prison because       ___ .

A. people thought he had stolen money from the newspaper

B. he broke the law by not using his own name

C. he wanted to write stories about prisoners

D. people thought he had taken money that was not his

64. What do we know about O. Henry before he began writing?

A. He was well-educated.              B. He was not serious about his work.

C. He was devoted to the poor.       D. He was very good at learning.

65. Where did O. Henry get most material for his short stories?

A. His life inside the prison.         B. The newspaper articles he wrote.

C. The city and people of New York.   D. His exciting early life as a boy.

C

It doesn’t matter when or how much a person sleeps, but everyone needs some rest to stay alive. That’s what all doctors thought, until they heard about AI Herpin. AI Herpin, it was said, never slept, Could this be true? The doctors decided to see this strange man themselves.

AI Herpin was 90 years old when the doctors came to his home in New Jersey. They thought for sure that he got some sleep of some kind. So they stayed with him and watched every movement he made. But they were surprised . Though they watched him hour after hour and day after day, they never saw Herpin sleeping , In fact, he did not even own a bed. He never needed one.

The only rest that Herpin sometimes got was sitting in a comfortable chair and reading newspapers. The doctors were puzzled by this strange continuous sleeplessness. They found only one answer that might explain his condition. Herpin remembered some talk about his mother having been injured several days before he was born. But that was all. Was this the real reason? No one could be sure. Herpin died at the age of 94.

66. The main idea of this passage is that _______.

A. a person was found who actually didn’t need any sleep

B. large numbers of people do not need sleep

C. everyone needs some sleep to stay alive

D. people can live longer by trying not to sleep

67. The doctors came to visit Herpin , expecting to ______.

A. cure him of his sleeplessness

B. find that his sleeplessness was not really true

C. find a way to free people from the need of sleeping

D. find out why some old people didn’t need any sleep

68. After watching him closely, the doctors came to believe that AL Herpin ________.

A. was too old to need any sleep    B. often slept in a chair

C. needed no sleep at all        D. needed some kind of sleep

69. One reason that might explain Herpin’s sleeplessness was ________.

A. that he hadn’t got a bed

B. that he had gradually got rid of the sleeping habit

C. his mother’s injury before he was born

D. his magnificent physical condition

70. AI Herpin’s condition could be regarded as ______.

A. a common one           B. one that could be cured

C. very healthy           D. a rare one

第四部分：写作技能 ( 共三节 ，满分45分 )

第一节 阅读填空(共10小题; 每小题1分，满分10分)

阅读短文，根据所读内容, 在下表中的空格处填上适当的单词和短语，每空不超过3个单词。

“Flying saucer” refers to strange objects which travel through the air at very high speeds. Thousands of people all over the world claim to have seen them. Some believe them to be spaceships form other planets. Others insist that they are a secret type of planes being built on earth. Many people believe that they are only natural phenomena happening under special weather conditions.

In the United States, the first flying saucers were reported on June 4, 1947 by a private plane pilot. He saw nine objects traveling in the sky. Each was disk-shaped and very bright. Because their movements were compared to those of a “saucer skimming across the water”, newspaper recorders called them “flying saucers”.

Some weeks after the first reported sighting, the United States Air Force was given the job of looking into all the reports of flying saucers. Since the Air Force officials began their investigation of flying saucers, they have recognized most of the objects as stars, planes, man-made satellites, experimental missile(导弹), or weather phenomena. Some of the UFO reports, including photographs, were tricks made to cheat people.

All the research so far has failed to prove that UFOs are spaceships coming from the outside the earth.

Flying Saucers

71. ___________

about UFOs ●Some people believe UFOs to be 72. __________ from other planets.

●Others insist that they are73. ______________ being built on earth.

●Many think that they are only74.__________________.

Reports of the first sight of UFOs ●Place: 75. __________

●76. ________: June 4, 1947

●Witness: 77. ________________

●Shape:78. ______________

79.__________of the investigation

(调查) ●Most of the objects are stars, planes, man-made satellites,

experimental missile or weather phenomena.

●Some were80. _______ made to cheat people

第二节 简答题(共4小题; 10分)

阅读短文，根据所要求的字数回答问题。

It was a winter morning, just two weeks before Christmas 2005. While most people were warming up their cars, Trevor, my husband, had to get up early to ride his bike four kilometers away from home to work. On arrival, he parked his bike outside the back door as he usually does. After putting in 10 hours of labor, he returned to find his bike gone.

The bike was our only transport. Trevor used it to get to work, putting in 60-hour weeks to support his young family. I was so sad that someone would steal our bike that I wrote to the newspaper and told them our story. Shortly after that, several people in our area offered to help. One wonderful stranger even bought a bike, then called my husband to pick it up. Once again my husband had a way to get to and from his job. It is really an honor that a complete stranger would go out of their way for someone they have never met before.

People say that a smile can be passed from one person to another, but acts of kindness from strangers are even more so. This experience has had a spreading effect in our lives because it strengthened our faith in humanity as a whole. And it has influenced us to be more mindful of ways we, too, can share with others. No matter how big or how small, an act of kindness shows that someone cares. And the results can be everlasting.

81. Why was the bike so important to the couple? (Within 10 words))

________________________________________________.(3分 )

82. How did people get to know the couple’s problem? (Within 3 words)   _________________________________.(2分 )

83. We can infer from the text that life was __________for the young family. (one word)( 2分 )

84. What do the couple learn from their experience? (Within 12 words)

__________________________________________________.  (3分 )

第三节 书面表达(25分)

请以 “The Importance of Water” 为题，写一篇120词左右的短文。要点如下：

1. 水与生命的关系    2. 水资源的现状    3. 怎样保护水资源

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