2011年

第二节 完形填空（共20小题：每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

In our discussion with people on how education can help them succeed in life,a woman remembered the first meeting of an introductory__36__course about 20 years ago. The profedssor __37__the lecture hall,placed upon his desk a large jar filled with dried beans（豆）, and inbited the students to _38_how many beans the jar contained.After __39__shouts of wildly wrong guesses the professor smiled a thin,dry smile,announced the __40__ answer,and went on saying,‖You have just __41__an important lesson about science.That is Never__42__ your own senses.‖ Twenty years later,the __43__could guess what the professor had in mind.He __44__himself,perhaps,as inviting his students to start an exciting __45__into an unknown world Invisible（无形的）to the 46 ,which can be discovered only through scientific 47 .But the seventeen-year-old girl could not accept or even 48 the invitattion.She was just 49 to understand the world.And she 50 that her firsthand experience could be tne 51 .The professor,however,said that it was 52 .he was taking away her only 53 for knowing and was providing her with no substitute.―I remember feeling small and 54 ,‖the women says,―and I did the only thing I could do.I 55 the course that afternoon,and I haven’t gone near science since.‖ 36．A.art

B.history

C.science C.got through C.report C.turning away C.correct C.taught C.sharpen C.speaker C.saw C.change

D.math D.marched into D.watch D.listening to D.difficult D.taken D.show D.woman D.served D.rush

37．A.searched fo B.looked at 38．A.count 39．A.warning 40．A.ready 41．A.learned 42．A.lose 43．A.lecturer 44．A.described 45．A.voyage

B.guess B.giving B.possible B.prepared B.trust B.scientist B.respected B.movement

46.A.professor B.eye C.knowledge D.light 47.A.model B.senses C.spint D.methods 48.A.hear B.make C.present D.refuse 49.A.suggesting B.beginning C.pretending D.waiting

50.A.believed B.doubted C.proved D.explained 51. A.growth B.strength C.faith D.truth 52.A.firm B.intersting C.wrong D.acceptable 53.A.task B.tool C.success D.connection 54.A.cruel B.pround C.frightened D.brave 55.A.dropped B.started C.passed D.missed 第三部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（共15小题：每小题2分，满分30分）

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

A

When milk arrived on the doorstep

When I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, we had a milkman delivering milk to our doorstep. His name was Mr. Basille.

He wore a white cap and drove a white truck. As a 5-year-old boy, I couldn’t take my eyes off the coin changer fixed to his belt. He noticed this one day during a delivery and gave me a quarter out of his coin changer.

Of course, he delivered more than milk. There was cheese, eggs and so on. If we needed to change our order, my mother would pen a

note-―Please add a bottle of buttermilk next delivery‖-and place it in the box along with the empty bottles. And then, the buttermilk would magically appear.

All of this was about more than convenience. There existed a close relationship between families and their milkmen. Mr. Basille even had a

key to out house, for those times when it was so cold outside that we put the box indoors, so that the milk wouldn’t freeze. And I remember Mr. Basille from time to time taking a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his delivery.

There is sadly no home milk delivery today. Big companies allowed the production of cheaper milk, thus making it difficult for milkmen to compete. Besides, milk is for sale everywhere, and it may just not have been practical to have a delivery service.

Recently, an old milk box in the countryside I saw brought back my childhood memories. I took it home and planted it on the back porch

（门廊）. Every so often my son’s friends will ask what it is. So I start telling stories of my boyhood, and of the milkman who brought us friendship along with his milk.

56. Mr Basille gave the boy a quarter out of his coin changer____. A. to show his magical power. B. to pay for the delivery C. to satisfy his curiosity. D. to please his mother.

57. What can be inferred from the fact that the milkman had the key to the boy’s house? A. He wanted to have tea there.

B. He was a respectable person. C. He was treated as a family member. D. He was fully trusted by the family.

58. Why does home milk delivery no longer exist? A. Nobody wants to be a milkman now. B. It has been driven out of the market. C. Its service is getting poor. D. It is forbidden by law.

59. Why did the author bring back home an old milk box? A. He missed the good old days. B. He wanted to tell interesting stories. C. He missed it for his milk bottles. D. He planted flowers in it.

B

While small may be beautiful, tall is just plain uncomfortable it seems, particularly when it comes to staying in hotels and eating in restaurants.

The Tall Persons Club Great Britain (TPCGB), which was formed six months ago to campaign for the needs of the tall, has turned its

attention to hotels and restaurants. Beds that are too small, showe heads that are too low, and restaurant tables with hardly any leg-room all make life difficult for those of above average height, it says.

But it is not just the extra-tall whose needs are not being met. The average night of the population has been increasing ye the standard size of beds, doorways, and chairs has remained unchanged.]

―The bedding industry says a bed should be six inches larger than the person using it, so even a king-size bed at 6′6″(6 feet and 6 inches) is

falling short for 25% of men, while the standard 6′3″ bed caters for less than half of the male population.‖ Said TPCGB president Phil Heinricy, ―seven-foot beds would work fine.‖

Sililarly, restaurant tables can cause no end of problems. Small tables, which mean the long-legged have to sit a foot or so away from them, are enough to make tall customers go elsewhere.

Some have already taken note, however. At Queens Moat Houses′Caledoman Hotl in Edinburgh, 6′6″beds are now put in as standard after requests for longer beds from taller visitors, particularly Americans. 60. What is the purpose of the TPCGB campaign? A. To provide better services.

B. To rebuild hotels and restaurants.

C. To draw public attention to the needs of the tall. D. To attract more people to become its members.

61. Which of the following might be a bed of proper length according to Phil Heinricy? A. 7′2″. B. 7′ C. 6′6″ D. 6′3″ 62.What may happen to restaurants with small tables? A. They may lose some customers. B. They may start businesses elsewhere.

C. They have to find easy chairs to match the tables. D. They have to provide enough space for the long-legged. 63. What change has already been made in a hotel in Edinburgh? A. Tall people pay more for larger beds. B. 6′6″beds have taken the place of 6′3″beds. C. Special rooms are kept for Americans. D. Guest rooms are standardized.

C

Cassandra Feeley finds it hard to manage on her husband’s income. So this year she did something more than a hobby: She planted

vegetables in her yard. For her fist garden, Ms Feeley has put in 15 tomato plants, and five rows of a variety of vegetables. The family’s

old farm house has become a chicken bourse ,its residents arriving next month. Last year, Ms.Rita Gartin kept a small garden. This year

she has made it much larger because, she said ,―The cost of everything is going up and I was looking to lose a few pounds too; so it’s a win-win situation all around.‖

They are among the growing number of Americans who, driven by higher living costs and a falling economy(经济), have taken up

vegetable gardening for the first time. Other have increased the size of their existing gardens. Seed companies and garden shops say no

since the 1970s have there been such an increase in interest in growing food at home. Now many gardens across the country hacek been sold out for several months. In Austin, Tex., some of the gardens have a three-year waiting list.

George C.Ball Jr, owner of a company, said sales of vegetable seeds and plants are up by 40%, over last year, double the average growth of

last five years. Mr.Ball argues that some of the reasons have been building for the last few years. The big one is striking use in me cost on

food like bread and milk, together with the increases in the price of fruit and vegetables. Food prices have increase of higher oil price. People are driving less, taking fewer vacations, so there more time to garden. 64. What does the word ―residents‖ in Paragraph 1 probably refer to?