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和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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JSC Boggs is an artist who makes money.To be exact,he draws money.In the United States he draws dollars,in Britain pounds and in France francs.Each are almost perfect reproductions,apart from the fact that he writes "Bank of Boggs" or another humorous message on them.
When Boggs goes shopping or for a meal,he offers "Boggs dollars" in the payment for what he wants.He also offers real money.It is up to the people selling the goods to take whichever they prefer.
When a shopkeeper or a restaurant owner takes a "Boggs dollar",he or she gives a receipt in return for the things bought.Boggs then sells the receipt at face value to art collectors.This is how he makes actual money for the times when people will not accept his drawings.
The collector uses the receipt to find the person holding the actual "Boggs dollar" and the two talk over what they think would be a fair price.This gives the shop or restaurant owner the chance to make another profit on the goods he or she sold to Boggs.It means Boggs actually gets paid for buying things.And it means that the collector has a unique work of art---each "Boggs dollar" is separately drawn.
Artists like to make us think.What Boggs wants us to think about is the nature of value and money. What is money really worth? Is value of money the same as personal value? Once "Boggs dollars " have been given away by the artist,they often continuew to circulate and grow on value A "Boggs one dollar bill" may have bought the artist a cup of coffee in New York.Now it may be worth a car or an expensive meal.It all depends on that value a person chooses to give it.
Money used to be worth a certain weight in gold or silver.Now it is just worth whatever the government or the banks.JSC Boggs is trying to start another type of money.People can choose "Boggs dolars" or not.And their value is up to whoever uses them.In a way,"Boggs dollars" are "people's money".
56.How much will Boggs get if he buys a cup of coffee with a "Boggs one dollar bill"?
A.One dollar. B.More than one dollar.
C.Less than one dollar. D.Much more than one dollar.
57.According to the text,the main difference between"value of money "and "personal value" is that ______.
A.they rise or fall separately B.they refer to different people
C.they are decided by different people D.they are decided by different banks
58.What does the writer mean by saying "Boggs dollars are people's money"?
A.They are two different types of money.
B.In fact they are not real money.
C.People can share them and use them among themselves.
D.People are free to use them and deck their value.
59.Choose the girht order in which Boggs gets paid.
a.He buys things with his dollars.
b.He sells the receipt to an art collector.
c.He araws dollars.
d.The art collector finds the shopkeeper to buy his dollars.
e.The shopkeeper gives him a receipt.
A.c - a - e - b - d
B.c - e - b - d - a
C.e - c - b - d - a
D.e - b - c - a - d
第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、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。
Columnist Dave Barry says this about his father:"My dad would try anything - carpentry(木匠活),electrical wiring,roofing and so on.From watching him,I learned a lesson that still 36 to my life today:no matter how difficult a task may seem, 37 you're not afraid to try it,you can do it."
I learned from my parents the value of "going for it"." 38 ventured(冒险),nothing lost" is the motto of too many of us.Many people are so afraid to 39 that they never venture beyond the familiar."Better to be safe than sorry",has 40 too many people in the cocoon(保护膜) of their 41 zones.
A delightful 42 tells that Col.Robert Johnson of Salem,New Jersey,announced that he would take a 43 risk.He let the town know that he would 44 a wolf peach on the steps of the country courthouse at noon on September 26,1820. "Why would he take such a chance?" asked the 45 people.
Scientists and doctors had long declared the wolf peach to be 46 .If the wolf peach was too ripe and warmed by the sun,they told him he would be exposing himself to brain fever.Should he somehow 47 the experience,the skin of the 48 would stick to the lining of his stomach(他的胃黏膜) and 49 cause cancer.
Nearly 2,000 people 50 the square to see Col.Johnson eat the "poisonous" peach - now known as the tomato.
Col.Johnson believed his 51 was small,but it must be take if the 52 about the peach were to be 53 .Who has accompished anything worthwhile 54 taking a risk?
Much like the tortoise it makes 55 only when it sticks its neck out.
36.A.refers B.applies C.tends D.leads
37.A.if B.since C.although D.unless
38.A.Anything B.Something C.Nothing D.Everything
39.A.fail B.win C.succeed D.leave
40.A.turned B.trapped C.forbidden D.orced
41.A.comfortable B.miserable C.surprising D.unimportant
42.A.novel B.message C.joke D.story
43.A.private B.public C.secret D.national
44.A.buy B.sell C.eat D.cut
45.A.puzzled B.disappointed C.angry D.happy
46.A.delicious B.smelly C.salty D.poisonous
47.A.enjoy B.survive C.understand D.know
48.A.wolf B.seed C.peach D.body
49.A.eventually B.firstly C.lately D.hardly
50.A.reached B.decorated C.surrounded D.crowded
51.A.audience B.risk C.fruit D.size
52.A.myths B.ingredients C.truths D.prices
53.A.changed B.adopted C.removed D.grasped
54.A.without B.for C.with D.except
55.A.sense B.trouble C.room D.progress
It was only _____ I read the poem ______ I began to appreciate its beauty.
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A．when,that |
B．so,that |
C．before,that |
D．when,until |
When the journalists caught up with the soldiers along the broken road finally,they ___ towards the earthquake - hit town at high speed.
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A．advanced |
B．were advancing |
C．are advancing |
D．were advanced |
No matter when ther your job is important,you can contribute to social harmony that will, ______ ,benefit the reconstructioon effort in the quake - hit region.
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A．in turn |
B．in return |
C．in short |
D．in brief |
Long,long time ago,there was a mountain.At the top of the mountain _______ ,in which an old monk used to tell stories.
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A．a temple stood |
B．is there a temple |
C．stood a temple |
D．a temple was there |
