第三部分阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
Spiders are actually useful. They do not harm plants, as some people think. Instead, they protect plants by controlling insects. If you see spiders in a garden, it doesn’t mean the garden is unhealthy. It means the spiders are helping the garden stay healthy.
If you spend some time watching spiders, you may be surprised by what you see. There are many wonderful webs. They may perform skillfully on their thin silk threads. However, some spiders spin (织) no webs at all. They follow insects on the ground with all the skill and cruelty of a tiger hunting big game.
Scientists have named about 30,000 species of spiders, but they think this is only one-fourth of all the different kinds of spiders in the world. In most species, people can easily tell the female spider from the male because the female is much bigger. For example, the female black widow (黑寡妇) weighs about one hundred times as much as the male.
Female spiders lay eggs. After hatching (孵), most spiders live less than a full year, but some don’t. Tarantulas (狼蛛) do not become adults until they are 10 or 11 years old. Female tarantulas often live an extra 10 years! The baby spiders that hatch from the eggs are called spiderlings.
56. The underlined in Paragraph 2 part “a tiger hunting big game” refers to “______.”
A. laying eggs B. hatching baby spiders
C. spinning webs D. catching insects
57. How many kinds of spiders are there in the world according to the passage?
A. About 30, 000. B. About 60, 000. C. About 90, 000. D. About 120, 000.
58. What can we know from the passage?
A. If there are spiders in your garden, it means it is unhealthy.
B. All spiders can spin webs.
C. Normally, a male spider is smaller than a female one.
D. All spiders can live 10 or 11 years after hatching.
59. What will be probably talked about after the last paragraph?
A. The way spiders spin webs. B. Something about spiderlings.
C. How the spiders protect plants. D. The way spiders stay healthy.
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和D）中选出可以填入空白的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
It was getting dark and snow was coming down. Joe was driving home. He’d been unemployed since the factory 36 . Most of his friends had left, but he stayed on. 37 , he was born here.
Suddenly he saw a lady standing on the side of the road and 38 . She was worried. No one had stopped to 39 for the last hour. Joe knew 40 she felt and said, “My name is Joe and I’m here to help you.” All she had was a flat tyre, 41 for an old lady, that was bad enough. Joe changed the 42 , but he got dirty and his hands hurt. She wanted to pay Joe and said any 43 would have been all right. Joe never thought twice about the money and there were many people who had 44 him a hand in the past. He had lived his life that way. He told her that if she really wanted to pay him 45 , the next time if she saw someone who needed help, she could give that person the assistance that he 46 .
Later the lady went in a 47 decorated restaurant to eat in a hurry. The cashier(出纳员) was like the telephone of an out-of-work actor----it didn’t 48 much. However, the waitress, who was nearly eight months pregnant(怀孕的), brought a clean towel to her with a 49 smile. The old lady 50 Joe. After the waitress brought the change from a 100-dollar bill, she found the lady 51 and something written on a napkin, “ 52 once helped me out, the way I’m helping you. 53 you really want to pay him back, don’t let the chain of love 54 with you.”
That 55 the waitress gave her sleeping husband a soft kiss and whispered, “ Everything’s going to be all right, Joe.”
36 A opened B invited C refused D closed
37 A In all B After all C For all D At all
38 A pulled in B pulled out C pulled up D pulled down
39 A leave B stay C ask D help
40 A how B what C when D that
41 A however B but C and D so
42 A car B seat C tyre D type
43 A amount B money C time D change
44 A got B won C given D awarded
45 A off B out C down D back
46 A asked B needed C gave D hoped
47 A poorly B well C widely D narrowly
48 A read B ring C cost D send
49 A excited B satisfied C sweet D cold
50 A thanked B thought C praised D remembered
51 A gone B disappear C left D lost
52 A Anyone B Everyone C Someone D Anybody
53 A After B As C Though D If
54 A keep B end C last D continue
55 A day B night C morning D week
I had not been reading for half an hour _____ I heard the steps outside.
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A．when |
B．while |
C．as |
D．since |
. ---Call me at 9:00. I can’t afford to miss such a conference.
---Don’t worry. I’ll surely_____ you.
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A．remind |
B．warned |
C．inform |
D．remember |
Try this jacket on; it will be perfect ______ you.
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A．in |
B．on |
C．by |
D．for |
Ripe apples________, as an experienced farmer once told.
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A．are picked easy |
B．pick easy |
C．are picked easily |
D．pick easily |
