第三部分：阅读理【解析】
（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中，选出最佳选项。
(A)
What makes a house a home? A home is a place of companionship with people in it who love each other, who are harmonious (和谐的) and closer with one another than with those in the workplace or with classmates at school. A home is a place that’s so magnetic（有吸引力的） that it’s difficult to leave. In a home there is love, sharing and appreciation, and the members help one another.
I have seen families on the street. But if they live, sleep, talk, and eat together, they are a family, even if they are poorly off. You don’t need a roof to make a home. The truly homeless are some of the rich people who build multi-million-dollar houses and are too busy to really live in them. The truly homeless are those who have turned their home into a hotel lobby. The parents work and the children misbehave. They don’t talk and eat together every day. They rarely see each other. The truly homeless people are those with babysitters, caretakers, gardeners and maids. However, people are unaware of this, as they are too busy making money outside the home that they don’t live in. This is another way of looking at the rich and the homeless. Who is to be pitied?
Control of the computer and the Internet is also important to make a house into a home. If the computer is on all the time, the house turns into an office, even if everyone is at home. Many homes these days are just offices. Human communication has stopped. The computer eats up all the time that one should be giving to others within the home. Using the computer moderately gives us time for play and communication, not with a screen, but with other people.
56. Which of the following may serve as the best title for this passage?
A. How to make a house a home?
B. What makes a house a home?
C. Who are truly homeless?
D. What is a home for?
57. The purpose of the first paragraph is to _________.
A. tell us that where there is home there is love
B. tell us what people think a home is
C. tell us the author’s concept（理解）of home
D. tell us how to have a happy home
58. The underlined word “those” refers to ________.
A. people who build multi-million-dollar houses
B. people who have lost their family members
C. people who don’t spend time with the family
D. homeless families living on the street in America
59. Which of the following is FALSE according to the passage?
A. A home is a place where you are willing to stay.
B. Even the poorest people can have a happy home.
C. Computers and the Internet are important for a happy home.
D. Sometimes it’s the rich that should be pitied.
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，然后从各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。
One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town, saying that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole world. A large crowd 36 and they all admired his heart, for it was 37 .There was not a mark or a flaw (瑕疵) in it. They all agreed it was 38 the most beautiful heart they had 39 seen. The young man was very 40 and boasted (自夸) more loudly about his beautiful heart.
Suddenly, an old man 41 at the front of the 42 and said, “Your heart is not as beautiful as mine.” The crowd and the young man looked at the old man’s heart. It was beating 43 , but it was full of 44 . It had places where pieces had been 45 and other pieces put in, but they didn’t 46 quite right and there were several rough and pointed edges.
The people stared. “How can he say his heart is more beautiful?” they thought. The young man looked at the old man’s heart and laughed. “You must be 47 ,” he said. “Compare your heart with mine. Mine is perfect and yours is a mess of scars.”
“Yes, yours 48 perfect, but I would never trade with you,” said the old man. “Every scar 49 a person to whom I have given my love. I 50 a piece of my heart and give it to them, and often they give me a piece of their heart which fits into the 51 place in my heart, but because the pieces aren’t 52 in shape, I have some rough edges, which I 53 .They remind me of the love we shared. So now do you see what true 54 is?”
The young man was moved. He stood there silently with 55 running down his cheeks.
36. A. stopped B. came C. agreed D. gathered
37. A. clean B. exciting C. happy D. perfect
38. A. probably B. truly C. likely D. luckily
39. A. never B. seldom C. ever D. sometimes
40. A. proud B. regretful C. happy D. angry
41. A. appeared B. cried C. showed D. listened
42. A. man B. crowd C. street D. town
43. A. quickly B. strongly C. slowly D. heavily
44. A. tears B. water C. scars D. love
45. A. burnt B. changed C. removed D. cut
46. A. place B. fit C. jump D. see
47. A. joking B. tricking C. dreaming D. playing
48. A. looks B. smells C. sounds D. feels
49. A. explains B. helps C. presents D. represents
50. A. tear down B. turn down C. tear out D. throw out
51. A. clean B. scary C. empty D. painful
52. A. normal B. big C. fine D. exact
53. A. want B. dislike C. fear D. value
54. A. kindness B. happiness C. beauty D. love
55. A. water B. sweat C. tears D. Blood
—How much is the rent of the house, Mrs. Sandra?
—One hundred dollars, the electricity and telephone fee ____.
|
A．contained |
B．included |
C．containing |
D．Including |
How ________ they learn anything when they spend all their spare time watching television?
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A．must |
B．should |
C．may |
D．Can |
— The man is always behaving rudely.
— That I guess is ________ people avoid him.
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A．because |
B．how |
C．why |
D．Whether |
— Do you want to come with us?
— No, thank you. I’d rather ____.
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A．not to |
B．not |
C．not doing |
D．not to come |
