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　　、完形填空

　　It was pouring outside. We all stood there

　　1, some patiently；others annoyed

　　2nature messed up their hurried day. I got lost in the sound and sight of the heavens

　　3away the dirt and dust of the world.

　　“Mom, let’s run through the rain,” a girl’s voice

　　4me.

　　“No, honey. We’ll wait until it

　　5down a bit,” Mom replied.

　　The young girl waited about another minute and

　　6: “Mom, let’s run through the rain.”

　　“We’ll get wet if we do,” Mom said.

　　“No, we won’t, Mom. That’s not what you said this morning,” the young girl said as she

　　7her Mom’s arm.

　　“This morning?

　　8did I say we could run through the rain and not get wet?”

　　“Don’t you remember? When you were talking to Daddy about his cancer, you said, ‘If God can get us through this, he can get us through

　　9.’”

　　The entire crowd turned

　　10. Mom paused and thought for a moment about

　　11she would say. Now some would laugh it off and scold her for being silly.

　　12then, we heard, “Honey, you are

　　13. Let’s run through the rain. If we get wet, maybe we just need washing,” Mom said. Then

　　14they ran.

　　We all stood

　　15, smiling and laughing as they ran past the cars. Yes, they got wet. But they were

　　16by a few who screamed and laughed like children all the

　　17to their cars. Circumstances or people can take away your material possessions, and they can even take away your

　　18. But no one can take away your precious

　　19. So, don’t forget to make time and take the

　　20to make memories every day! I hope you still take the time to run through the rain.

　　1.A. talking

　　B. waiting

　　C. complaining

　　D. expecting

　　2.A. as if

　　B. even if

　　C. because

　　D. that

　　3.A. taking

　　B. putting

　　C. driving

　　D. washing

　　4.A. caught

　　B. broke

　　C. impressed

　　D. called

　　5.A. keeps

　　B. comes

　　C. pushes

　　D. slows

　　6.A. asked

　　B. repeated

　　C. required

　　D. added

　　7.A. pulled

　　B. touched

　　C. waved

　　D. felt

　　8.A. Why

　　B. How

　　C. When

　　D. Where

　　9.A. rain

　　B. disease

　　C. anything

　　D. something

　　10.A. still

　　B. angry

　　C. serious

　　D. silent

　　11.A. what

　　B. how

　　C. whether

　　D. if

　　12.A. However

　　B. But

　　C. After

　　D. Though

　　13.A. stupid

　　B. wrong

　　C. right

　　D. clever

　　14.A. off

　　B. along

　　C. on

　　D. over

　　15.A. sighing

　　B. joking

　　C. discussing

　　D. watching

　　16.A. followed

　　B. guided

　　C. respected

　　D. praised

　　17.A. time

　　B. way

　　C. same

　　D. best

　　18.A. house

　　B. money

　　C. health

　　D. time

　　19.A. children

　　B. experience

　　C. courage

　　D. memories

　　20.A. possibilities

　　B. opportunities

　　C. risk

　　D. challenge

　　、閱讀理解

　　A

　　In its early history, Chicago had floods frequently, especially in the spring, making the streets so muddy that people, horses, and carts got stuck. An old joke that was popular at the time went something like this: A man is stuck up to his waist in a muddy Chicago street. Asked if he needs help, he replies, "No, thanks. I've got a good horse under me."

　　The city planner decided to build an underground drainage (排水) system, but there simply wasn't enough difference between the height of the ground level and the water level. The only two options were to lower the Chicago River or raise the city.

　　An engineer named Ellis Chesbrough convinced me the city that it had no choice but to build the pipes above ground and then cover them with dirt. This raised the level of the city's streets by as much as 12 feet.

　　This of course created a new problem: dirt practically buried the first floors of every building in Chicago. Building owners were faced with a choice: either change the first floors of their buildings into basements, and the second stories into main floors, or hoist the entire buildings to meet the new street level. Small wood-frame buildings could be lifted fairly easily. But what about large, heavy structures like Tremont Hotel, which was a six-story brick building?

　　That's where George Pullman came in. He had developed some house-moving skills successfully. To lift a big structure like the Tremont Hotel, Pullman would place thousands of jackscrews (螺旋千斤頂) beneath the building's foundation. One man was assigned to operate each section of roughly 10 jackscrews. At

　　Pullman's signal each man turned his jackscrew the same amount at the same time, thereby raising the building slowly and evenly. Astonishingly, the Tremont Hotel stay open during the entire operation, and many of its guests didn't even notice anything was happening. Some people like to say that every problem has a solution. But in Chicago's early history, every engineering solution seemed to create a new problem.

　　Now that Chicago's waste water was draining efficiently into the Chicago River, the city's next step was to clean the polluted river.

　　21.The author mentions the joke to show ______.

　　A. horses were fairly useful in Chicago

　　B. Chicago's streets were extremely muddy

　　C. Chicago was very dangerous in the spring

　　D. the Chicago people were particularly humorous

　　22.The city planners were convinced by Ellis Chesbrough to_______.

　　A. get rid of the street dirt

　　B. lower the Chicago River

　　C. fight against heavy floods

　　D. build the pipes above ground

　　23.The underlined word "hoist" in Paragraph 4 means "_______".

　　A. change

　　B. lift

　　C. repair

　　D. decorate

　　24.What can we conclude about the moving operation of the Tremont Hotel?

　　A. It went on smoothly as intended.

　　B. It interrupted the business of the hotel.

　　C. It involved Pullman turning ten jackscrews.

　　D. It separated the building from its foundation.

　　25.The passage is mainly about the early Chicago's ______.

　　A. popular life styles and their influences

　　B. environmental disasters and their causes

　　C. engineering problems and their solutions

　　D. successful businessmen and their achievements

　　B

　　The oddness of life in space never quite goes away. Here are some examples.

　　First consider something as simple as sleep. Its position presents its own challenges. The main question is whether you want your arms inside or outside the sleeping bag. If you leave your arms out, they float free in zero gravity, often giving a sleeping astronaut the look of a funny balled （芭蕾）dancer. “I’m an inside guy,” Mike Hopkins says, who returned from a six-month tour on the International Space Station. “I like to be wrapped up.”

　　On the station, the ordinary becomes strange. The exercise bike for the American astronauts has no handlebars. It also has no seat. With no gravity, it’s just as easy to pedal violently. You can watch a movie while you pedal by floating a microcomputer anywhere you want. But station residents have to be careful about staying in one place too long. Without gravity to help circulate air, the carbon dioxide you exhale (呼氣) has a tendency to form an invisible （隱形的）cloud around you head. You can end up with what astronauts call a carbon-dioxide headache.

　　Leroy Chiao, 54, an American retired astronaut after four flights, describes what happens even before you float out of your seat,”Your inner ear thinks your’re falling . Meanwhile your eyes are telling you you’re standing straight. That can be annoying—that’s why some people feel sick.” Within a couple days —truly terrible days for some —astronauts’ brains learn to ignore the panicky signals from the inner ear, and space sickness disappears.

　　Space travel can be so delightful but at the same time invisibly dangerous. For instance, astronauts lose bone mass. That’s why exercise is considered so vital that National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) puts it right on the workday schedule. The focus on fitness is as much about science and the future as it is about keeping any individual astronauts return home, and, more importantly, how to maintain strength and fitness for the two and a half years or more that it would take to make a round-trip to Mars.

　　26.What is the major challenge to astronauts when they sleep in space?

　　A. Deciding on a proper sleep position

　　B. Choosing a comfortable sleeping bag

　　C. Seeking a way to fall asleep quickly

　　D. Finding a right time to go to sleep.

　　27.The astronauts will suffer from a carbon-dioxide headache when _____.

　　?A. the y circle around on their bikes

　　B. they use microcomputers without a stop

　　C. they exercise in one place for a long time

　　D. they watch a movie while pedaling

　　28.Some astronauts feel sick on the station during the first few days because _____.

　　A. their senses stop working

　　B. they have to stand up straight

　　C. they float out of their seats unexpectedly

　　D. whether they are able to go back to the station

　　29.One of the NASA’s major concerns about astronauts is _____.

　　A. how much exercise they do on the station

　　B. how they can remain healthy for long in space

　　C. whether they can recover after returning home

　　D. whether they are able to go back to the station

　　C

　　Technological change is everywhere and affects every aspect of life, mostly for the better. However, social changes are brought about by new technology are often mistaken for a change in attitudes.

　　An example at hand is the involvement of parents in the lives of their children who are attending college. Surveys (調(diào)查) on this topic suggests that parents today continue to be “very” or “somewhat” overly-protective even after their children move into college dormitories. The same surveys also indicate that the rate of parental involvement is greater today than it was a generation ago. This is usually interpreted as a sign that today’s parents are trying to manage their children’s lives past the point where this behavior is appropriate.

　　However, greater parental involvement does not necessarily indicate that parents are failing to let go of their “adult” children.

　　In the context (背景) of this discussion, it seems valuable to first find out the cause of change in the case of parents’ involvement with their grown children. If parents of earlier generations had wanted to be in touch with their college-age children frequently, would this have been possible? Probably not. On the other hand, does the possibility of frequent communication today mean that the urge to do so wasn’t present a generation ago? Many studies show that older parents - today’s grandparents - would have called their children more often if the means and cost of doing so had not been a barrier.

　　Furthermore, studies show that finances are the most frequent subject of communication between parents and their college children. The fact that college students are financially dependent on their parents is nothing new; nor are requests for more money to be sent from home. This phenomenon is neither good nor bad; it is a fact of college life, today and in the past.

　　Thanks to the advanced technology, we live in an age of bettered communication. This has many implications well beyondthe role that parents seem to play in the lives of their children who have left for college. But it is useful to bear in mind that all such changes come from the technology and not some imagined desire by parents to keep their children under their wings.

　　30.The surveys inform us of ______.

　　A. the development of technology

　　B. the changes of adult children’s behavior

　　C. the parents’ over-protection of their college children

　　D. the means and expenses of students’ communication

　　31.The writer believes that ______.

　　A. parents today are more protective than those in the past

　　B. the disadvantages of new technology outweigh its

　　advantages

　　C. technology explains greater parental involvement with their

　　children

　　D. parents’ changed attitudes lead to college children’s delayed

　　independence

　　32.What is the best title for the passage?

　　A. Technology or Attitude

　　B. Dependence or Independence

　　C. Family Influence or Social Changes

　　D. College Management or Communication Advancement

　　33.Which of the following shows the development of ideas in this passage?

　　I:Introduction

　　P:Point

　　Sp:Sub—point(次要點(diǎn))

　　C：Conclusion

　　D

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