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第三部分:阅读理解
What happens to old school buses when they can no longer safely carry kids to school? Most go to waste factories to be changed into pieces of metal. But a few of the old vehicles (车辆) find new lives in the center of Africa. Most of those buses end up on the streets of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Kinshasa buses are that yellow color, which makes them stand out (突出) in the city’s heavy traffic, but the buses don’t look at all as they did in the United States. In Kinshasa their taillights(尾灯) are almost all missing or broken. They don’t obey traffic rules and often race around the city very fast. The buses compete with motorcycles, cars, trucks, and other vehicles for space on the road. They make loud sounds when moving, and they are packed with people carrying loads of goods, such as fish, milk, beans and onions.
However, Kinshasa business people love the old, yellow buses, which they buy from American companies, because the vehicles are strong, reliable (可依靠的) and inexpensive. A used bus sells for about $2,000 in Congo. A new bus is more expensive. In the United States, a new school bus with all its lights working costs about $80,000.
The fare (票价) to travel across the city is usually about 30 US cents. “Transport is a big problem in Kinshasa,” says passenger Bruce Kingambo. “But the yellow buses help people here get around.”
56．The underlined sentence in the first paragraph means “In the center of Africa some old US school buses can be_________.”
A．useful B．expensive C．free D．new
57．Before the school buses leave America for Congo, they_________
A．have broken taillights
B．don’t obey the traffic rules and move at full speed
C．carry many people and goods
D．don’t compete with other vehicles
58．How many used buses can you buy in Congo for the price of a completely new school bus in the USA?
A．10. B．20. C．30. D．40.
59．The passage mainly tells us _________
A．how to use old school buses
B．about new lives for old school buses
C．to try to take old school buses
D．how to drive old school buses
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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,掌握其大意,然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
I was working in a store three years ago. I remember one girl who started 36 there a few months after me. I remember always meeting her. I don’t know 37 but for a strange reason we would never talk. We would just see each other and smile.
She would 38 smile in a really happy way until one day when we got to work in the 39 department again. She 40 as if she was the happiest girl in the world. But I had a strange feeling. So I went up to her and asked,“What’s wrong with you?”She answered, “Why?”I said,“I could feel you’re very 41 today and you’re trying to hide it.”
She was shocked(震惊的) as if I had 42 her deepest secret, so we started 43 .
She told me why she was feeling like that and why she was 44 to hide it and we had a good time together. Time 45 and we became good friends. She’d always tell me I had changed her 46 in so many ways, but I could not 47 how it had happened. I would just smile, not understanding what she 48 by that.
Today this girl is one of my best 49 . I really don’t know what I would do 50
her. She has been there for me in every possible way a friend could be.
I guess what I’m trying to say is you 51 know when you’re helping yourself. I
52 this girl never knowing that at the same time I was helping myself by finding a(n)
53 friend.
So the next time you see a 54 and he looks as if he needs 55 who will listen to him, listen to what he has to say. You never know, you might just end up helping yourself.
36．A．playing B．learning C．working D．living
37．A．why B．when C．where D．how
38．A．secretly B．hardly C．perhaps D．always
39．A．great B．same C．modern D．small
40．A．shouted B．cried C．spoke D．smiled
41．A．happy B．angry C．proud D．sad
42．A．kept B．told C．discovered D．watched
43．A．talking B．quarrelling C．discussing D．arguing
44．A．planning B．trying C．refusing D．failing
45．A．went off B．went by C．went up D．went down
46．A．life B．hobby C．habit D．manner
47．A．introduce B．promise C．suggest D．imagine
48．A．meant B．wanted C．offered D．received
49．A．classmates B．sisters C．friends D．workers
50．A．with B．without C．through D．besides
51．A．often B．sometimes C．forever D．never
52．A．helped B．accepted C．recognized D．praised
53．A．kind B．rich C．true D．honest
54．A．student B．stranger C．manager D．listener
55．A．someone B．anyone C．none D．everyone
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New York_________was the land of the Indians. Yet today there are very few Indians among New York’s millions of people.
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A．temporarily |
B．eventually |
C．racially |
D．originally |
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．— Do you know Jim quarrelled with his brother?
— I don’t know, _________ .
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A．nor don’t I care |
B．nor do I care |
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C．I don’t care neither |
D．I don’t care also |
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China is one of the countries in the world which_________astronauts to space so far.
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A．have sent |
B．has sent |
C．sent |
D．sending |
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The reason_________ Hollywood was a good place for making movies was_________the sun shines there every day.
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A．which; that |
B．what; what |
C．why; that |
D．why; what |
