Ⅲ 阅读 (共两节，满分50分)

第一节 阅读理解 (共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)

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

A

It’s a man’s world, and many women don’t like it.

The women say they are treated like second-class citizens and therefore feel that their anger is justified. Women everywhere, they say, earn less money than men for the same kind of work. Women have less power in their communities than men, and in most cities and towns the political decisions are made by men. There are few women mayors or city officials. The same thing is true in labor unions, and religious groups. Even in unions where the members are almost all women, the heads of the unions are men. The presidents of almost all the big corporations in the country are men. There are few women ministers and no women priests.

Many women have been aware of these inequalities for a long time. Only recently, however, a drive for women’s rights made many more women and men, too, interested in fair treatment for women. Groups have formed to demand equal pay for equal work, changes in abortion laws, and round-the-clock day-care centers for children. Women have even started their own newspapers to fight for their cause. They have written books and marched in parades protesting their second-class place in society.

56. What is the main idea of this passage?

A. Women want to make more money. B. Women hate the man’s world.

C. Women are organizing to demand their rights. D. Women’s liberation.

57. What is the important problem explained in this passage?

A. Women have joined protest groups. B. The heads of most unions are men.

C. Women are treated unfairly in their work, communities, and religious groups. D. Women don’t like men. 58. What is the purpose of this passage?

A. To persuade women to join women’s rights groups. B. To explain why a drive for women’s rights has started. C. To explain how it feels to be a woman in a man’s world. D. To help more women get equal treatment with men. 59. In this passage the words “second-class citizens” mean _______.

A. people who are treated as foreigners B. people who are not citizens

C. people who are not treated fairly in their life and work D. people who don’t want to be first-class citizens 60. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Women don’t like to be treated as second-class citizens.

B. Women make the same amount of money as men for the same kind of work. C. Men make political decisions in most places in U. S. A.

D. Women started their own newspapers and wrote books to fight for their equal rights.

B

\when he wrote books. His father was a lawyer, but a poor one, who lived at Florida, Missouri. The family was so poor that Samuel did not receive much teaching. He had to learn all that he could from the people whom he met. His father died when he was very young, and then there was even less money than before.

Many of the men in this part of America worked in the ships on the great River Mississippi, and he did this himself at one time (1857).

Where did he find the name \was part of one of the cries used by men who worked in the ships. When a man called \say, six feet deep ( \

heard these words when he was young, and he used them as a penname all his life. During his work on the Mississippi he met travelers of all kinds, and this helped him a great deal when he started to write. But the number of travelers became smaller when war started in America in 1861. Many of the great ships on the river stopped work. Samuel left then and went to Nevada with his brother, who was at that time Governor of Nevada. There, near the town of Carson, Samuel became a gold miner, but he never made much money at the time. He soon saw that life in the gold mines was not for him. He also tried writing for the newspapers in Nevada, and this seemed more hopeful. He found that he could write.

He went to Europe in 1867 and visited France and Italy. In 1870 he married Olivia Langdon, and two years later he was spending nearly all his time writing. Among his books is his own story (1908).

He is now always known as Mark Twain, and many people do not even know that his family name was Clemens. He traveled in America and in England, and went to Oxford in 1907. He was one of the greatest American writers of the time, and could ake his readers laugh – a thing which few writers can do. He died in 1910. 61. \

A. a famous American writer B. name of a book C. a great river in America D. a large ship

62 As a child, Samuel did not get much education because _________. A. his father died too early B. the family was very poor C. he disliked school very much

D. he could learn what he liked from the people he met 63. What gave him a great deal when he started writing? _______ A. His poor childhood B. The Mississippi river C. All kinds of travelers he met D. His brother 64. We can infer from the passage that ________. A. Samuel loved writing from his early age B. Samuel did not love writing at the beginning

C. his writings to the newspaper were successful D. his brother encouraged him to write more

65. According to the writer of the passage, a good writer could _________. A. write a lot for his readers B. make a lot of money for his family C. cause his readers to laugh D. travel everywhere he wanted

C

They say that Mexico is a country no one ever leaves. Every year, millions of tourists pass through, and Mexicans happily warn that a part of them will remain behind forever. Most visitors are vacationing North Americans who end up on the brilliant beaches of Cancun, Acapulco, Mazatlan, and Puerto Vallarta. The beaches, of course, are among the world’s best – but those who venture (探险) inland are rewarded with the true soul of Mexico.

And it is a big soul. The Republic of Mexico is vast, consisting of nearly two million square miles of coastline, desert, rain forest, mountains, and fertile plains. From the American borderlands of the wide, agriculturally rich north, the country narrows gently as it sweeps south and east. The two main mountain ranges, the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Sierra Madre Oriental, hug the west and east, finally merging into the volcanically active central highlands and the capital, Mexico City – the most populous city in the world. Further south, the country narrows to only 100 miles, then broadens again before reaching the Guatemalan border. There are two major peninsulas (半岛) in Mexico: the Baja Peninsula to the west and the Yucatan peninsula to the east.

The population is about 106 million, and the generosity (慷慨大方) of the Mexican people is unsurpassed. Knowing a few simple sentences in Spanish will win hearts.

Mexico has been graced with an unusually temperate (适度的) climate all year round. The most important thing to remember is that the Mexican summer is also the rainy season, although the rain rarely lasts more than a few hours, and typically arrives in the late afternoon. Extremes are present only in the north and in Baja, both