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第4部分：阅读理解（第31~45题，每题3分，共45分）www.test99.com
下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题，每道题后面有4个选项。请根据文章的内容，从每题所给的4个选项中选择个最佳答案，涂在答题卡相应的位置上。www.test99.com
第一篇Test99Test99Test99Test99Test99Test99Test99New Foods and the New Worldwww.test99.com
In the last 500 years, nothing about people---not their clothes, ideas, or languages—has changed as much as what they eat. The original chocolate drink was made from the seeds of the cocoa tree（可可树）by South American Indians. The Spanish introduced it to the rest of the world during the 1500’s. And although it was very expensive, it quickly became fashionable. In London, shops where chocolate drinks were served became important meeting places. Some still exist today.www.test99.com
The potato is also from the New World. Around 1600, the Spanish brought it from Peru to Europe, where it soon was widely grown. Ireland became so dependent on it that thousands of Irish people starved when the crop failed during the “Potato Famine(饥荒)”of 1845—1846, and thousands more were forced to leave their homeland and move to America.www.test99.com
There are many other foods that have traveled from South America to the Old World. But some others went in the opposite direction. Brazil is now the world’s largest grower of coffee, and coffee is an important crop in Colombia and other South American countries. But it is native to Ethiopia, a country in Africa. It was first made into a drink by Arabs during the 1400’s.www.test99.com
According to an Arabic legend, coffee was discovered when a person named Kaldi noticed that his goats were attracted to the red berries on a coffee bush. He tried one and experienced the “wide-awake” feeling that one-third of the world’s population now starts the day with.www.test99.com
31的According to the passage, which of the following has changed the most in the last 500 years?www.test99.com
A Foodwww.test99.com
B Clothingwww.test99.com
C Ideologywww.test99.com
D Languagewww.test99.com
32的“some” in the last sentence of the first paragraph refers to www.test99.com
A some cocoa treeswww.test99.com
B some chocolate drinks.www.test99.com
C some shopswww.test99.com
D some South American Indianswww.test99.com
33的Thousands of Irish people starved during the “Potato Famine” becausewww.test99.com
A they were so dependent on potatoes that they refused to eat anything elsewww.test99.com
B they were forced to leave their homeland and move to Americawww.test99.com
C the weather conditions in Ireland were not suitable for growing potatoeswww.test99.com
D the potato harvest was badwww.test99.com
34的Which country is the largest coffee producer?www.test99.com
A Brazilwww.test99.com
B Colombiawww.test99.com
C Ethiopiawww.test99.com
E Egyptwww.test99.com
35的Which of the following statements is NOT true, according to the passage?www.test99.com
A. One third of the world’s population drinks coffee.www.test99.com
B. Coffee is native to Colombiawww.test99.com
C. Coffee can keep one awake.www.test99.com
D. Coffee drinks were first made by Arabs.www.test99.com
第二篇Test99Test99Test99Test99Test99的 Teaching poetrywww.test99.com
No poem should ever be discussed or “analyzed”, until it has been read aloud by someone, teacher or student. Better still, perhaps, is the practice of reading it twice, once at the beginning of the discussion and once at the end, so the sound of the poem is the last thing one hears of it.www.test99.com
All discussions of poetry are, in fact, preparations for reading it aloud, and the reading of the poem is, finally, the most telling “interpretation” of it, suggesting tone, rhythm, and meaning all at once. Hearing a poet read the work in his or her own voice, on records or on film, is obviously a special reward. But even those aids to teaching can not replace the student and teacher reading it or, best of all, reciting(背诵) it.www.test99.com
I have come to think, in fact, that time spent reading a poem aloud is much more important than “analyzing” it, if there isn’t time for both. I think one of our goals as teachers of English is to have students love poetry. Poetry is “ a criticism of life”, and “ a heightening(提升) of life”. It is “an approach to the truth of feeling”, and it “ can save your life”. It also deserves a place in the teaching of language and literature more central than it presently occupies.www.test99.com
I am not saying that every English teacher must teach poetry. Those who don’t like it should not be forced to put that dislike on anyone else. But those who do teach poetry must keep in mind a few thing s about its essential nature, about its sound as well as its sense, and they must make room in the classroom for hearing poetry as well as thinking about it.www.test99.com
36 To have a better understanding of a poem, one shouldwww.test99.com
A discuss it with others.www.test99.com
B analyze it by oneself.www.test99.com
C copy it down in a notebookwww.test99.com
D practise reading it aloudwww.test99.com
37 Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a function of poetry?www.test99.com
A Extending your life.www.test99.com
B Saving your life.www.test99.com
C Criticizing life.www.test99.com
D Heightening life.www.test99.com
38 According to the writer, one of the purposes of teaching English is to get studentswww.test99.com
A to understand life.www.test99.com
B to enjoy poetry.www.test99.com
C to become teachers.www.test99.com
D to become poetswww.test99.com
39 What does the last sentence in the third paragraph imply?www.test99.com
A More stress should be laid on the teaching of poetry.www.test99.com
B Poetry is more important than any other subject.www.test99.com
C One cannot enjoy life fully without an understanding of poetrywww.test99.com
D Poetry is the foundation of all language and literature courseswww.test99.com
40 The phrase “make room” in the last paragraph could be best replaced by www.test99.com
A “build a booth”www.test99.com
B “provide equipment”.www.test99.com
C “leave a certain amount of time”.www.test99.com
D “set aside enough space”.www.test99.com
第三篇 “ Salty” Rice Plant Boosts Harvestswww.test99.com
British scientists are breeding a new generation of rice plants that will be able to grow in soil containing salt water. Their work may enable abandoned farms to become productive once more.www.test99.com
Tim Flowers and Tony Yeo, from Sussex University’s School of Biological Sciences, have spent several years researching how crops, such as rice, could be made to grow in water that has become salty.www.test99.com
The pair have recently begun a three-year programme, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, to establish which genes enable some plants to survive salty conditions. The aim is to breed this capability into crops, starting with rice.www.test99.com
It is estimated that each year more than 10m hectares(公顷) of agricultural land are lost because salt gets into the soil and stunts(妨碍生长)plants. The problem is caused by several factors. In the tropics, mangroves(红树林) that create swamps（沼泽） and traditionally formed barriers to sea water have been cut down. In the Mediterranean, a series of droughts have caused the water table to drop, allowing sea water to seep(渗透)in. in Latin America, irrigation often causes problems when water is evaporated(蒸发) by the heat, leaving salt deposits behind.www.test99.com
Excess salt then enters the plants and prevents them functioning normally. Heavy concentrations of minerals in the plants stop them drawing up the water they need to survive.www.test99.com
To overcome these problems, Flowers and Yeo decided to breed rice plants that take in very little slat and store what they do absorb in cells that do not affect the plants’ growth. They have started to breed these characteristics into a new rice crop, but it will take about eight harvests before the resulting seeds are ready to be considered for commercial use.www.test99.com
Once the characteristics for surviving salty soil are known, Flowers and Yeo will try to breed the appropriate genes into all manners of crops and plants. Land that has been abandoned to nature will then be able to bloom again, providing much needed food in the poorer countries of the world.www.test99.com
41 Which of the following statements about Flowers and Yeo is true?www.test99.com
A They are students at Sussex University.www.test99.com
B They are rice breeders.www.test99.com
C They are husband and wife.www.test99.com
D They are colleagues at an institution of higher learning.www.test99.com
42 Flowers and Yeo have started a programmewww.test99.com
A to find ways to prevent water pollution.www.test99.com
B to identify genes that promote growth in salty soil.www.test99.com
C to breed rice plants that taste salty.www.test99.com
D to find ways to remove excessive salt from soil.www.test99.com
43 Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a cause of the problem discussed in the passage?www.test99.com
A Natural barriers to sea water have been destroyed.www.test99.com
B the water table has gone down after droughts.www.test99.com
C Sea level has been continuously rising.www.test99.com
D Evaporation of water leaves salt behindwww.test99.com
44 The word “affect” in Paragraph 6 could be best replaced by www.test99.com
A “influence”www.test99.com
B “effect”www.test99.com
C “stop”www.test99.com
D “present”www.test99.com
45 The attitude of the author towards the research project is www.test99.com
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B negative.www.test99.com
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D indifferent. www.test99.com
5部分：的补全短文（第46~50题，每题2分，共10分）www.test99.com
阅读下面的短文，文章中有5处空白，文章后面有6组文字，请根据文章的内容选择5组文字，将其分别放回文章原来位置，以恢复文章原貌。请将答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。www.test99.com
Like fine food, good writing is something we approach with pleasure and enjoy from the first taste to the last._______(46) Quite the contrary, just as the cook has to undergo an intensive training, mastering the skills of his trade, the writer must sit at his desk and devote long hours to achieving a style in his writing, whatever its purpose-school work, matters of business, or purely social communication.___________(47)www.test99.com
There are still some remote places in the world where you might find someone to do your business or social writing for you, for a fee. There are a few mangers who are lucky enough to have the service of that rare kind of secretary who can take care of all sorts of letter writing with no more than a quick note to work from._____________(48)www.test99.com
We have to write school papers, business papers or home papers. We are constantly called on to put words to paper. It would be difficult to count the number of such words, messages, letters, and reports put to the mails or delivered by hand, but the daily figure must be enormous.__________(49) We want to arouse and hold the interest of readers. We want whatever we write to be read, from first word to last, not thrown into some “letters-to-be-read” file or into a wastepaper basket._____________(50)www.test99.com
A But for most of us, if there is any writing to be done, we have to do it ourselves.www.test99.com
B However, the managers may sometimes cause the writers a lot of trouble.www.test99.com
C Any good writers, like good cooks, do not suddenly appear full-blown(成熟的)www.test99.com
D What is more, everyone who writes expects, or at least hopes, that his writing will be read.www.test99.com
E This is the reason we bend our efforts toward learning and practicing the skills of interesting, effective writing.www.test99.com
F You may be sure that the greater the effort, the more effective the writing, and the more rewarding. www.test99.com
第6部分：的完形填空（第51~65题，每题1分，共15分）www.test99.com
阅读下面的短文，文中有15处空白，每处空白给出了4个选项同，请根据短文的内容从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案，涂在答题卡相应的位置上。www.test99.com
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In the American family the husband and wife usually share important decision making. When the children are _________(51) enough, they take part as well. Foreigners are often surprised by the permissiveness（宽容） of American parents. The old rule that “children should be seen and not heard” is rarely_____________(52), and children are often allowed to do _________(53) they wish without strict control of their parents. The father seldom expects his children to listen to him_________(54) question, and children are encouraged to be ___________(55) at an early age. Some people believe that American parents carry this freedom_____________(56) far. Others think that a strong father image would not ____________(57) the American values of equality and independence. Because Americans emphasize the importance of independence, young people are expected to_____________(58) their parental families by the time they have _________(59) their late teens or early twenties. Indeed, not to do so is often regarded as a __________(60), a kind of weak dependence.www.test99.com
This pattern of independence often results in serious_____________(61) for the aging parents of a small family. The average American is expected to live ___________(62) the age of 70. The job-retirement age is _____________(63) 65. The children have left home, married, and ____________(64) their own households. At least 20 percent of all people over 65 do not have enough retirement incomes.__________(65) the major problem of many elderly couples is not economic. They feel useless and lonely with neither an occupation nor a close family group.www.test99.com
51 A senior B junior C old D youngwww.test99.com
52 A watched B followed C understood D graspedwww.test99.com
53 A what B that C which D whenwww.test99.com
54 A for B on C without D inwww.test99.com
55 A dependent B independent C sure D securewww.test99.com
56 A too B almost C nearly D sowww.test99.com
57 A gain B welcome C suit D estimatewww.test99.com
58 A break up B break into C break through D break away fromwww.test99.com
59 A reached B come C arrived D developedwww.test99.com
60 A reward B criticism C failure D successwww.test99.com
61 A events B problems C matters D affairswww.test99.com
62 A on B up C from D beyondwww.test99.com
63 A only B usually C sometimes D seldomwww.test99.com
64 A set forth B set aside C set up D set downwww.test99.com
65 A But B Therefore C In contrast D On the other hand www.test99.com
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满分的100分，其中：1-30每题1分；1-45每题3分；6-50每题2分；51-65每题1分。www.test99.com
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21B的22C的23D的24C的25A的26E的27D的28B的29E的30Fwww.test99.com
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