( )49. A. happy B. healthy C. remaining D. past ( ( ( (

)50. A. doubt B. lose C. abandon D. value

)51. A. directing B. describing C. damaging D. discovering )52. A. socialize B. select C. support D. blame )53. A. enjoy B. resist C. repeat D. control

( )54. A. influence B. quit C. continue D. break

( )55. A. put up B. pick up C. make up D. turn up

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。

A

East Coast－USA Bestway Travel

U－S－A, U－S－A! Just $ 899 for 8 action－packed days touring the East Coast. Includes 7 nights of 4 & 5 star accommodation, tours, transport & more. Valued at $ 2，388—incredible $1，489 saving!

Deal Highlights

● Tour NYC, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Boston, New Jersey & Niagara Falls. ● Includes transfers，accommodation & most admission fees. ● Day 1: Meet your tour guide and be transferred to your hotel.

● Day 2: New York－Philadelphia. Visit Chinatown，Wall St，Ground Zero，Empire State Building，Rockefeller Center，Fifth Ave，Times Square and more.

● Day 3: Philadelphia－Washington DC including Independence Hall，Liberty Bell, Lincoln Memorial，National Museum of Natural History，White House and more.

● Day 4: Washington DC－Hershey's Chocolate World－Corning Museum of Glass－Niagara Falls.

● Day 5：Maid of the Mist (seasonal) and IMAX Theatre. Travel to Boston and enjoy a lobster dinner (optional)．

● Day 6: Boston－New York City including Boston city and Lower Manhattan tours.

● Day 7: West Point Military Academy, Woodbury Common Premium Outlets and Broadway performance.

● Day 8: Upper Manhattan tour including Harlem，Central Park and Museum Mile. Includes airport transfers for your return flight.

Terms of This Deal

● Bookings essential and subject to availability.

● Valid for departure dates in 2013: March 23，April 10，20，27, May 4，11，25，29, June 12，22, July 7，10, August 14，24, September 4, October 16. ● Must book before 15 February, 2013.

● Airport pickup provided for flights that arrive 9 am to 10 pm only. Outside those hours a surcharge of $ 35pp applies，payable direct to Bestway Travel.

● Airport transfers provided for outgoing flights booked after 7 pm on tour end date.

● All tour admission fees payable direct to Bestway Travel. Compulsory tipping of $ 6/day payable direct to tour guide.

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● Deal excludes daily optional activities，meals，tipping fees，and travel insurance. ● Limit of two people per room. Single supplement available at $ 720 payable direct to Bestway Travel.

● No booking changes/cancellations permitted.

● Flights not included. Not valid in conjunction with any other offer. No partial redemption or refunds.

( )56. Which of the following is right according to the Deal Highlights? A. Customers will stay in America for 8 nights for this deal. B. Passengers will depart from America at New York Airport. C. Customers will be treated with a free lobster dinner in Boston. D. Travelers will visit eight cities in the USA for this deal.

( )57. We can learn from the terms of this deal that ________．

A. The $ 899 fee does not include air tickets to and back from the United States.

B. The deal is valid throughout the whole 2013 once one books before February 15，2013. C. Passengers will be transferred around the clock from and to the airport(s) free of charge. D. All the passengers must tip the guide 6 dollars every time for each of his or her service. ( )58. Suppose A and F are both in New York，and the itinerary route(旅行路线) is from A to B to C to D to E and to F in the following picture，then which place must C and E stand for?

A． C: Washington DC； E: Boston. B. C: Philadelphia; E: Niagara Falls. C. C: Niagara Falls; E: Boston. D. C: Boston; E: Washington DC.

B

Are extraverts really better leaders? Can an introvert be a good leader?

Research has shown a consistent positive relationship between extraversion and leadership. In groups of strangers，such as a jury(评审团), extraversion predicts who will be selected foreperson of the jury. It's actually likely to be the person who talks the most，and that person is probably an extravert. So, extraverts are more likely to be chosen for leadership positions (what we call leader “emergence”)．

There is also a positive relationship (although a weaker one) between extraversion and leader effectiveness, particularly evaluated effectiveness of leaders. So it appears that extraverts have_an_edge,_but does this mean that introverts can't be good leaders? Of course not !

Many successful leaders are introverted, for example Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi, and in business, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. One of the best company presidents that I've known was easily the most introverted person among his executive team, but he was very successful and his colleagues admired his “quiet reserve and confidence”. So what is the critical factor that both extraverts and introverts need to emerge as a leader and to be effective?

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Our research has suggested that the key element is good interpersonal, or social, skills. In one study，we looked at the relationship of extraversion to leadership emergence and effectiveness and found that the advantage that extraverts had disappeared when we put social skills into the equation(方程式). In other words，only extraverts who possessed social skills were effective leaders. Good interpersonal skills are critical whether the leader is an extravert or an introvert.

In addition，we know that we are more likely to choose leaders who look like their prototypes of leaders—they speak well, interact well with others, and just look “leader－like”. Extraverts just naturally look more like a prototypical(典型的) leader, particularly political leaders, than do introverts. Think of the U．S. presidential campaign where presidential hopefuls were evaluated for how much each looked like he or she could be the Commander－in－Chief. The key to leadership success then is to develop the people skills needed to look like a leader, but to also develop the good leader－follower relationships that are necessary for success. If you possess these skills，introversion and extraversion don't matter very much.

( )59. What do the underlined words “have an edge” in the third paragraph mean?

A. Lack effectiveness. B. Have an advantage. C. Are less confident. D. Are more aggressive. ( )60. What can we infer from the passage?

A. There is a positive relationship between introversion and leadership.

B. The more introverted leaders in a team are，the more admired they will be. C. Good interpersonal skills play a key role in making people effective leaders. D. Political leaders are more likely to be extroverts than introverts.

( )61. Why does the author mention the U．S. presidential election campaign? A. To indicate the importance of developing people skills. B. To show the advantages of being introverted people. C. To tell readers how to become a prototypical leader. D. To suggest the uniqueness of being political leaders.

( )62. The author writes the passage mainly to ________． A. compare the differences of introversion and extroversion B. encourage its readers to be more introverted C. argue that introverts can also be good leaders D. inform readers how to become a good leader

C

It was a sunny holiday Monday. Olivier Ferrante was cooking sausages on the barbecue and entertaining friends in his garden north of Paris when the phone rang. The call came from the BEA, France's air accidents investigation bureau(调查局), where the 38－year－old former football player and driver was an investigator. The news was grim. “An Airbus is missing over the Atlantic: we need you.”

As a safety investigator，Ferrante and his teams had participated, directly and indirectly，in the recovery of crashed planes from the Red Sea, the Black Sea，and every ocean. But this investigation would be his toughest ever: the plane had disappeared without a witness, or a trace on radar(雷达)．

At least eight ships and a dozen military aircraft gathered on the plane's last known position,

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about halfway between Brazil and Western Africa. After six days the aircraft's tail fin(尾翼) and 50 bodies were spotted on the surface and the first burning questions were answered.

The plane wreckage(残骸) and passenger injuries indicated the doomed Airbus was unbroken when it hit the water. It was not exploded apart by a bomb or lightning, now broken up by violent weather. Strangely, no mayday(求救) message had been sent by its pilots.

Ferrante worked energetically with his team：collecting offers of help from around the world, consulting navy ministries and research organizations in France and elsewhere, and contracting suitable ships and high－tech equipment. He would not return home for another 29 days.

His team used the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle(AUV) operated around the clock, searching about 400 square kilometers a day. But the race against time was lost and no signals were heard and no more wreckage was found.

Day after day, the screen remained bare except for objects that turned out to be stones or garbage from ships.

Stressed by media attention and painful meetings with victims' relatives，Ferrante went jogging one day to clear his head. Then he had an idea.

He decided to look at what had happened to nine other planes that crashed after something abruptly went wrong while flying at high altitude. He found that none had traveled more than 30 km before hitting the sea; most covered less than half that distance.

AUV operations continued but now they focused on a 30 km circle around the plane's last known position.

On the ninth day of the new－strategy searching, after searching for 22 months, their hard work paid off finally. The first thing they saw was a woman's handbag. Next，they saw bits of twisted aircraft parts and a panel(平板) with “AF” painted on it. Without a doubt，this was the missing Aribus，lying 11 km northeast of its last known position, but nobody felt much like cheering the discovery. “The screen also exposed well－preserved human bodies，and for some of us they were hard to look at，” says Ferrante.

( )63. What happened to the plane?

A. It exploded 11 km northeast of its last known position. B. It was seen crashed over the Atlantic Ocean.

C. Something was wrong with its tail fin so that it went missing. D. It was flying at high altitude before going missing.

( )64. What made it take so long a time to find the missing Airbus? A. The investigators were not working hard as it was holiday time. B. No mayday message was sent by its pilots before crashing. C. Not enough investigating force was put into the searching work. D. The strategy used in the first stage of the search was not effective.

( )65. Which of the following about Olivier Ferrante can NOT be evidenced in the story? A. Devoted. B. Intelligent. C. Experienced. D. Considerate.

( )66. Based on the passage，which of the following is most probably true? A. All of the people on the plane did not survive this air crash. B. The crashed Airbus plane belonged to Air France. C. No media were watching the search after many failures. D. The bodies of victims were hard to recognize.

D

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