thing from me and left me torn bare, an empty page at the end of a(n) 53 written book. It had also given me a 54 , either to leave that page 55 or to keep writing the story with hope. I chose hope.” 36. A. drawn up 37. A. mild 38. A. cure 39. A. business 40. A. expected 41. A. budget 42. A. frequent

B. used up B. common B. luck

C. backed up C. preventable C. care C. bus

D. kept up D. serious D. promise D. rail D. surprising D. allowance

B. walking B. frightening B. revenue B. occasional B. lawful

C. disappointing C. compensation

C. abundant

D. constant

D. illegal D. slowly D. funnier D. trembled D. research D. increased

43. A. unpopular 44. A. soon 45. A. harder 46. A. rolled 47. A. struggle

C. attractive C. late C. cheaper C. ached

B. early B. easier B. bled

B. progress B. controlled B. Eventually B. kept

C. excitement C. reduced

48. A. developed 49. A. Initially

C. Temporarily

D. Consequently

D. lost D. ironed

50. A. gained 51. A. sewn 52. A. Doctors 53. A. well 54. A. choice 55. A. loose

C. wounded C. worn

B. washed B. Hiking B. partly B. reward B. full

C. Lawyers

D. Homelessness

D. originally D. break D. missing

C. neatly C. promise C. blank

第三部分: 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, 从短文后各题所给的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

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1000 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10028 2 Avenue at 82nd Street Hours

Open 7 days a week. Sunday-Thursday 10:00-17:30 Friday and Saturday 10:00-21:00

Closed Thanksgiving Day, December 25,January 1,and the first Monday in May. Admission

$ recommended for adults, $ recommended for students, includes the Main Building and The Cloisters(回廊）on the same day; free for children under 12 with an adult.

Free with Admission

All special exhibitions, as well as films, lectures, guided tours, concerts, gallery talks, and family/children's programs are free with admission.

Ask about today's activities at the Great Hall Information Desk. The Cloisters Museum and Gardens

The Cloisters museum and gardens is a branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to the art and architecture of Europe in the Middle Ages. The extensive

collection consists of masterworks in sculpture, colored glass, and precious objects from Europe dating from about the 9th to the 15th century. Hours: Open 7 days a week. March-October 10:00-17:15 November-February 10:00-16:45

Closed Thanksgiving Day, December 25,and January 1.

56. How much may they pay if an 11-year-old girl and her working parents visit the museum

A. $12.

B. $37.

C. $ 50.

D. $ 62

57. The attraction of the Cloisters museum and gardens lies in the fact that ________.

opens all the year round

B. its collections date from the Middle Ages has a modern European-style garden sells excellent European glass collections

B

In the 1760s, Mathurin Roze opened a series of shops that boasted(享有）a special meat soup called consomme.

Although the main attraction was the soup, Roze's chain shops also set a new standard for dining out, which helped to establish Roze as the inventor of the modern restaurant.

Today, scholars have generated large amounts of instructive research about restaurants. Take

visual hints that influence what we eat: diners served themselves about 20 percent more pasta(意大利面食）when their plates matched their food. When a dark-colored cake was served on a black plate rather than a white one, customers recognized it as sweeter and more tasty.

Lighting matters, too. When Berlin restaurant customers ate in darkness, they couldn't tell how much they'd had:

those given extra-large shares ate more than everyone else, but were none the wiser—they didn’t feel fuller, and they were just as ready for dessert.

Time is money, but that principle means different things for different types of restaurants. Unlike fast-food places.

fine dining shops prefer customers to stay longer and spend. One way to

encourage customers to stay and order that extra round: put on some Mozart(莫扎特）.When classical, rather than pop, music was playing, diners spent more. Fast music hurried diners out. Particular scents also have an effect: diners who got the scent of lavender(薰衣草）stayed longer and spent more than those who smelled lemon, or no scent.

Meanwhile, things that you might expect to discourage spending—\

high prices — don't necessarily. Diners at bad tables — next to the kitchen door, say — spent nearly as much as others but soon fled. It can be concluded that restaurant keepers need not \that they're profitable. As for crowds, a Hong Kong study found that they increased a restaurant's reputation, suggesting great food at fair prices. And doubling a buffet's price led customers to say that its pizza was 11 percent tastier. 58. The underlined phrase \ customers were .

A. not aware of eating more than usual B. not willing to share food with others C. not conscious of the food quality D. not fond of the food provided

59. How could a fine dining shop make more profit

A. playing classical music. B. Introducing lemon scent. C. Making the light brighter, D. Using plates of larger size.

60. What does the last paragraph talk about

A. Tips to attract more customers. B. Problems restaurants are faced with. C. Ways to improve restaurants' reputation. D. Common misunderstandings about restaurants.

C

If you want to disturb the car industry, you'd better have a few billion dollars: Mom-and-pop

carmakers are unlikely to beat the biggest car companies. But in agriculture, small farmers can get the best of the major players. By connecting directly with customers, and by responding quickly to

changes in the markets as well as in the ecosystems(生态系统）, small farmers can keep one step

ahead of the big guys. As the co-founder of the National Young Farmers Coalition (NYFC, 美国青年农会）and a family farmer myself. I have a front-row seat to the innovations among small farmers that are transforming the For example, take the Quick Cut Greens Harvester, a tool developed just a couple of years ago by a young farmer, Jonathan Dysinger, in Tennessee, with a small loan from a local Slow Money group. It enables small-scale farmers to harvest 175 pounds of green vegetables per hour—a huge improvement over harvesting just a few dozen pounds by hand—suddenly making it possible for the little guys to compete with large farms of California. Before the tool came out, small farmers couldn't touch the price per pound offered by California farms. But now, with the combination of a better price point and a generally fresher product, they can stay in business.

The sustainable success of small farmers, though, won't happen without fundamental changes

to the industry. One crucial factor is secure access to land. Competition from investors. developers, and established large farmers makes owning one's own land unattainable for many new farmers.

From 2004 to 2013, agricultural land values doubled, and they continue to rise in many regions.

Another challenge for more than a million of the most qualified farm workers and managers is a non-existent path to

citizenship — the greatest barrier to building a farm of their own. With farmers over the age of 65 outnumbering(多于）farmers younger than 35 by six to one, and with two-thirds of the nation's farmland in need of a new farmer, we must clear the path for talented people willing to grow the nation's food.

There are solutions that could light a path toward a more sustainable and fair farm economy,

but farmers can't clumsily put them together before us. We at the NYFC need broad support as we urge Congress to increase farmland conservation, as we push for immigration reform, and as we seek policies that will ensure the success of a diverse and ambitious next generation of farms from

all backgrounds. With a new farm bill to be debated in Congress, consumers must take a stand with young farmers. 61. The author mentions car industry at the beginning of the passage to introduce .

A. the progress made in car industry B. a special feature of agriculture C. a trend of development in agriculture

D. the importance of investing in car industry

62. What does the author want to illustrate with the example in paragraph 2

A. Loans to small local farmers are necessary. B. Technology is vital for agricultural development. C. Competition between small and big farms is fierce D. Small farmers may gain some advantages over big ones.

63. What is the difficulty for those new famers