21. Which of the following has little influence on Disneyland’s schedule? A. Holidays. Annual passholders.

22. What is the best time for a visit to Disneyland during the summer vacation? A. Around July 8. C. Around August 8.

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B. School schedules. C. Seasons. D.

B. Around July 18.

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D. Around August 18.

23. Where can we probably find this passage? A. In a newspaper.

D. In a textbook.

B

When my son was about five or six, I traveled a lot on business. I worried all the time about what the absence might mean to him. I knew how important it was for a boy to have his father near. When I was small, the times I loved most were the special moments I shared with my father. I cherished these special moments and, to this day, hold

those memories dear. I decided to create those kinds of special times for my son.

In one of my letters home, I promised my son that I would teach him how to fly a kite and that we could go to a nearby beach and fly it as high as it would go. Through my travels I would pick up things for our kite adventure and send them to him. In my trip to Japan, I found the most beautiful blue silk with gold threads（线）woven through it. Perfect kite materials! I sent it home with a picture book that would serve as a weight.

When I got home at night, I found him sleeping sound, surrounded by all the items I had sent him for our kite. For the next week, we started to work on our masterpiece. We had our time together in the garage, after dinner. Finally, it was finished. The blue silk made it so beautiful. He was obviously eager to fly it soon. “We’ll fly it tomorrow, right, Dad?” “Yes, if the weather is right,” I explained that we needed wind to lift the kite off the ground. I was afraid that it might rain. “We’ll fly it because I’m going to pray with all my heart for the best kite weather.”

B. On a webpage.

C. In a novel.

He was right. I will never underestimate（低估）the power of a child’s prayer any more.

My son is a dad now, with children of his own. Though we are both busy, we still try to make time for each other. The other day, we met for coffee. While paying for our coffee, his wallet dropped on the ground and something fell out. Suddenly, a flood of memories washed over us as he put back his treasure into wallet—the blue silk with gold threads woven through it.

24. What does the underlined word “cherished” in Paragraph 1 mean? A. kept spent

25. Which of the following did the author think was important to a child? A. Giving special gifts.

B. Spending time together.

D. Teaching a special skill.

B. celebrated

C. valued

D.

C. Sending emails during the trip.

26. What did the author buy in his trips? A. Kite materials.

D. Picture books.

B. Travel books.

C. Foreign kites.

27. What can be inferred from the last paragraph? A. People enjoy each other’s company. B. Men have the habit of keeping family gifts. C. Parents should take good care of their kids. D. The father’s love was well treasured.

C

In 2006, a New York City English teacher named Ms Lockwood asked her students to write to their favorite authors and persuade them to visit the school. Five of those pupils chose novelist Kurt Vonnegut who was the author of 14 novels. He was the only author to reply. Though he never made the trip to their school, Vonnegut responded to the students with the following letter.

Dear Xavier High School, Billy, Sally, Jonny, Maurer and Kathy,

I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up an old man (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances anymore. I’d like to

advise you to do the following things: Practice any art—music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, poetry, fiction, essays—no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.

Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms Lockwood and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower, and on and on. Pretend that you’re Count Dracula. Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms Lockwood will not let you pass the test if you don’t do it.

Write a six-line poem about anything. Make it good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents, or Ms Lockwood. OK? Tear it up into pieces and throw them into dustbins. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learnt a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.

God bless you all.

Kurt Vonnegut

28. What did Ms Lockword encourage her students to do? A. Try to become a novelist. others.

C. Write a letter to their favorite author. student at school.

29. Which of the following would Kurt Vonnegut NOT want the students to do? A. Experience becoming. C. Make their soul grow.

B. Get money and fame.

D. Find out what’s inside them.

D. Become an excellent

B. Do something different from

30. What would the students do as an assignment from Kurt Vonnegut? A. Play the role of Count Dracula. teacher.

C. Dance home after school.

D. Write a poem of six lines.

B. Draw a picture of their

31. Which would be the best title for the passage?

A. Letter From Kurt Vonnegut. Students.

C. How to Become A poet?

B. Ms Lockwood and Her

D

D. A Well-known Novelist.

In his research work, Philosophical Investigations（哲学调查）, Ludwig Wittgenstein tries to clarify（澄清）some of the problems in people’s thinking about how the mind works.

Imagine, he says, that everyone has a small box in which they keep a beetle（甲壳虫）. No one is allowed to look in anyone else’s box, only in their own. Over time, people talk about what is in their boxes and the word “beetle” comes to stand for what is in everyone’s box. Through this example, Wittgenstein point out that the beetle is very much like an individual’s（个体的）mind; no one can know exactly what it is like to be another person or experience things from another’s point of view—look in someone else’s “box”—but it is general considered that the mental working of another person’s mind is very similar to that of our own. However, it does not really matter—he argues—what is in the box or whether everyone indeed has a beetle, since there is no way of checking or comparing. In a sense, the word “beetle” simply means “what is in the box”. From this point of view, the mind is simply “what is in the box”, or rather “what is in your head”.

Wittgenstein considers language to have meaning because of public usage. In other words, when we talk of having a mind—or a beetle—we are using a term that we have learned through conversation. The concept might be perceived（感知）differently in each of our minds, so the word “mind” cannot be used to refer specifically to some entity（本质）outside of our own conception（概念）, since we cannot see into other people’s boxes.

32. Wittgenstein clarifies the concept of the mind by ________. A. explaining details

B. giving an example

C. drawing a conclusion D. describing the concept

33. What does “beetle” refer to according to Wittgenstein? A. A kind of insect.

B. Something in everyone’s box.