41. A. before 42. A. honest 43. A. piling up by

44. A. watched collected 45. A. kept 46. A. sent

B. though B. loyal

C. because C. ripe

D. when D.

humorous

B. giving away B. turned

C. showing off D. passing

C. got

D.

B. made

C. checked C. lost

D. promoted D. generated

D. joy

D.

B. disliked

47. A. respect thanking 49. A. amount decent

B. repentance C. tension C. offending

48. A. comforting

B. congratulating B. present B. ethical

C. envelope

D. option

D.

50. A. sufficient C. important

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题分2分，满分40分）

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

A

My mother is the only living person who has never communicated via email or text. She has never turned on a computer, registered an email account, used data storage media or searched the Internet. Since 1955, she has settled in Silicon Valley, married to an extremely technical specialist in applied physics and engineering, designing photometric systems for NASA. Only when Dad suffered from cancer could we convince her she needed a cell phone. Mom’s being separated from the information age is voluntary and deliberate.

Mom is still that farm girl, and she takes the most pride in it. She sees her neighbor and her community “real”. She shows no interest in the digital and virtual life. My mother saw Depression, World War II and the beginning of the Cold War before reaching voting age. She enjoyed country music on “The Sons of the Pioneers”, a Canadian broadcast. The battery was so precious a resource that radio was limited to the barn because Grandma thought it helped cows produce milk. In the age when Churchill moved millions for the first time with radio broadcasts, she only experienced live media monthly, if at all.

In her early twenties, Mom completed nurses’ training and worked in that field before marriage, family and church became her life’s concerns. She never really warmed up to television, though I think she appreciated a few of the series we watched, comedies like All in the Family. Computers, the Internet and mobile apps are simply not part of her experience.

Mom disagrees with the opinion that technology simplifies life. In her life, she sees online records, email and paperless systems as mysteries in which no written

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reference can assist her.

However, I can partly understand: I like such kind of experience and relationship one has with physical books. I am a child of television who only recently switched to online viewing. I’ve written down my awkward, love-hate relationship with my devices. Mom’s technophobia surely played a role here, but it works for her. She’s happiest as she is.

51. The author’s mother began to use mobile phone when . A. she found it hard to contact with her husband B. she settled in Silicon Valley for fifty years C. she got marred to a technical specialist D. her husband suffered from cancer

52. What is the author’s mother most proud of according to the passage? A. Having so many close neighbors. B. Experiencing too much all her life.

C. Living simply and in her own style. D. Being involved in modern technology.

53. What is the author’s attitude towards his mother’s such kind of experience? A. Critical. B. Positive. C. Neutral. D. Negative.

54. It is implied in the underlined sentence that . A. the author should make efforts to learn from his mother B. the author prefers watching movies online to watching TV C. Mom’s attitude towards technology has an effect on the author D. Mom should also set down the relationship with physical books

B

Listening to your favorite music can make a person feel great and can make their emotions change. The song you are listening to can affect how you feel. Different types of music may make you cry, laugh, or even feel anger. According to researches, music is a complex sound that causes a large variety of emotional responses in listeners.

The nature of emotions created by music has been a matter of much debate. Researches have shown that basic emotions, such as happiness, anger, fear, and sadness, can be recognized in and created by musical stimuli (刺激) in humans. I know from experience that when I am in a bad mood, I’ll listen to my favorite CD. I don’t know what it is about the music but it just makes me feel better almost instantly. All of you have CDs or songs that make you feel great when you’re feeling down. Music has that power and none of us realize that until we really think about it. The physical effects that music has on us are almost the same as the emotional ones.

Music can change you in many ways, depending on the kind of music you are being exposed to. According to “Music and Emotions”, electronic music with loud sounds

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will physically affect you more easily than any other type of music. Certain types of music can give you courage and strengthen your willpower, while other types can make you relaxed. I can think of a good example for music bringing willpower and strength to you, when you are getting ready before a sport. The sport I play is football and I know that if I don’t listen to a certain mix of songs, my head is all over the place. If I listen to some certain songs I become very energized and feel better about things.

Music affects your emotions in many ways. It also affects your physical status. Music also is the key to your enjoying of a movie. Music affects your emotions by being able to change your state of mind from a sad mood to a happy one. It can also make a person feel great before a competition. Music is also the key to Movies. Without music in movies there would be no suspense, no horror and no excitement. It makes movies what they are to us.

55. The main idea of Paragraph l is . A. the effects of different types of music B. music can affect our emotions

C. how music affects our emotions is complex

D. why people laugh, cry or become angry when listening to music

56. The underlined sentence in the 2nd paragraph probably means “ ”. A. people have different opinions in what is the best kind of music B. people can’t agree with each other in what is the nature of music C. people have been arguing about the effects of music on our emotions D. people have been discussing about what causes our emotions 57. The main purpose of the last paragraph is to illustrate . A. music will also be accepted by movies B. music can change us in many ways

C. music can be popular with music lovers forever D. music will give the common people excitement

58. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A. Music may cheer you up, but it can’t let you down. B. Music used to comfort sport players in games. C. Electronic music can affect our emotions much less. D. Different music will cause different emotions in us.

C

Three Yale University professors agreed in a discussion that the automobile was what one of

them called “Public Health Enemy No. 1 in this century”. Besides polluting the air and overcrowding the cities, cars are involved in more than half the disastrous accidents, and they contribute to heart disease “because we won’t walk anywhere any more,” said Richard Weeinaman, professor of medicine and public health.

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Speaking of many of those man-made dangers of the automobile, Arthur W. Galson, professor of biology, said it was possible to make a kerosene-burning turbine car that would “lessensmog by a very large factor”. But he expressed doubt whether Americans were willing to give up moving about the countryside at 90 miles per hour in a large vehicle. “America seems wedded to the motor car—every family has to have at least two, and one has to be a convertible (敞篷汽车) with 300 horsepower,” professor Galson continued. “Is this the way of life that we choose because we treasure these values?”

For professor Sears, part of the blame lies with “a society that regards profit as a supreme value, under the illusion that anything that’s technically possible is, therefore, morally justified”. Professor Sears also called the country’s dependence on its modern automobiles “terrible economics” because of the large horsepower used simply “moving one individual to work”. But he admitted that Americans have painted themselves into a corner by allowing the national economy to become so dependent on the automobile industry.

“The solution,” Dr Weeinerman said, “is not finding a less dangerous fuel but a different system of inner city transportation. Because of the increasing use of cars, public transportation has been allowed to wither (衰弱) and grow worse, so that if you can’t walk to where you want to go, you have to have a car in most cities,” he declared. This, in turn, Dr Weeinerman contended, is responsible for the “arteriosclerosis (动脉硬化)” of public roads, for the pollution of the inner city and for the middle-class movement to the suburbs. 59. The main idea of the passage is that . A. Americans are used to travelling by cars B. American public transportation is growing worse C. American car industry caused disastrous road accidents D. American people’s health is threatened by automobiles 60. It can be inferred from the passage that .

A. Americans prefer cars to anything else B. Americans are interested in fast automobiles C. kerosene-burning engines cause more problems D. kerosene-burning engines are green transportation 61. In Paragraph 3, Professor Sears implies that . A. technology is always good for people B. technology is a sword with two sides

C. more attention should be paid to social effects D. US doesn’t care about the environment at all

62. According to Dr Weeinerman, the best solution is .

A. to look for a fuel alternative B. to improve public

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