第三项：完形填空(共20小题;每小题1分，满分20)

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Nowadays 36  children go to school  37  few of them have ever asked themselves  38  they go there. Some children think that they go to school just to learn their mother tongue, English and other foreign languages, history, science,   39 and a few other  40 . But why do they learn these things? Are these the only things they should learn at school?

Actually children go to school to  41  themselves for the time when they will be grown up and will have to  42  themselves. They learn foreign language   43 they will be able to  44 with people in foreign countries, make friends with them and learn  45  about their culture and history. They learn mathematics in order to be able to measure the things around them and calculate sums.  46 helps them understand something about the world around them and history teaches them about the past and people. Nearly everything they study at school has some   47   use in their  48 , but there is one more  49 reason why children go to school.

It is more important to receive education than just learning  50  .We go to school  51 to learn how to learn. Learning is not just for school but for life. So even after we have left school, we have to continue to learn. A man who  52 knows how to learn will always be  53  because whenever he is faced with a completely new task or problem, he will teach himself how to deal with it in the best way.  54 , children do not go to school just to learn languages, mathematics, geography, etc. They go to school to  55 how to learn.

36. A. some             B. most            C. few           D. all

37. A. but               B. so              C. and           D. because

38. A. how              B. when            C. why          D. that

39. A. cooking           B. sowing          C. playing       D. geography

40. A. subjects           B. skills            C. languages     D. games

41. A. make             B. prepare          C. teach         D. study

42. A. teach             B. support          C. live           D. work

43. A. and               B. in order to       C. so as to       D. so that

44. A. communicate       B. work            C. talk         D. study

45. A. everything         B. anything         C. something    D. nothing

46. A. Foreign languages   B. Mathematics     C. History       D. Geography

47. A. practical           B. special          C. different      D. importance

48. A. work              B. lives            C. study        D. communication

49. A. difficult           B. unusual          C. important     D. kind

50. A. foreign languages   B. science           C. mathematics   D. facts

51. A. above all          B. at all             C. in all         D. for all

52. A. doesn't            B. never            C. really         D. may

53. A. unsuccessful       B. calm             C. successful      D. useful

54. A. Although          B. But              C. However       D. Therefore

55. A. begin             B. work             C. live           D. learn

第四项： 阅读理解 (共15小题。每小题2分满分30分)

第一节 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

The English are often considered as unfriendly people who don't talk to strangers, but not London taxi drivers. I once asked a cabbie to describe his life to me and he didn't stop talking until I arrived home half an hour later. He told me many interesting stories and this is one of them: “Some very strange things happen late at night. The other day I was taking a woman home from a party. She had a little dog with her. When we got to her house she found that she'd lost her key. So, I waited in the cab with the dog while she climbed up the window.” “I waited … and waited … After half an hour of ringing the bell I decided to find out what was going on. I tied the dog to a tree and started to climb up the window. The next thing I knew was that the police came. They thought that I was trying to rob the house! Luckily, the woman came downstairs, she'd gone to sleep and forgotten about me and the dog. I was in such a hurry to get away that I forgot to ask her for the fare.”?

56.In the writer’s opinion, London taxi drivers are _____________.

A. unfriendly        B. talkative          C. helpful       D. strange enough

57. From the passage we guess that the writer ______.

A. is the driver of the taxi     B. often travels by taxi

C. is a foreigner visiting London    D. lives in London

58. What does the underlined word “cabbie” mean in this passage?

A. conductor.       B. stranger.      C. taxi driver.    D. porter.

59. The man was waiting outside the woman's house because ______.

A. he began to like the woman and her dog at the first sight

B. the woman had not paid him

C. he wanted to know what would happen when the police came

D. he was trying to go on talking with her

B

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.

60. 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

61. 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

62. 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

63. 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