阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A.B.C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
When Josephine Cooper was growing up, she learned the importance of charity from her parents. Although they made a modest living for their family of 10, they insisted on sharing with those less fortunate.
Half a century later, Mrs Cooper became a beloved volunteer at the San Diego Food Bank, where she devoted herself to helping others. She organized and ran a distribution center from a church, helping it become the organization’s largest emergency food distribution center in San Diego. She was one of 25 outstanding senior volunteers in the nation selected and invited to Washington D.C. to receive the award.
“She was the main person who helped us make that program grow,” said Mike Doody, former director of the Food Bank. “She had a way of getting people to work together and to work hard. She was determined and stubborn, but in a good way. She had a good heart.” People knew her as “Grandma” because of her selflessness and her devotion to helping hungry children and families. “She reminded people of their Grandma.” Doody said.
As a widow with a young child in 1979, Mrs. Cooper was helped through a difficult financial time when the Food Bank provided her with groceries. “She dedicated her life to giving back,” said her daughter, Monica Cooper. It wasn’t unusual for a local church to call Mrs Cooper to ask her to aid a needy family. “She would give people food out of her cupboard. Sometimes we would cook a meal for a family living out of their can,” Cooper said.
Although Mrs Cooper was honored to receive the national award for her volunteer work, she said being able to help others was her reward. She died of liver disease and kidney failure, aged 93.
4. What can we learn about Mrs Cooper?
A. She lived a miserable life.
B. She refused the national award.
C. She was kind and devoted.
D. She was difficult to get along with.
5. Mrs Cooper’s story suggests that
.
A. everyone needs a Grandma nearby
B. a sound mind is in a sound body
C. children are what their parents are
D. a mother’s love never changes
【参考答案】1—5、BADCC
阅读理解
Tykoon is an online website that allows you to teach your child financial principles through allowances, assignment of tasks and daily chores. As the parent, you can assign a cash value to the things you want your child to do. Then, your child can go in, accept the task and add to their wish list of what they would like to purchase with the money that they earn.
Let’s start with the parent side of things. The parent must be the one to set up the account. You simply enter your information and your child’s information to get started. You are then able to assign allowance amounts to your child.
Then you can add tasks for your child to accept and link them to either their weekly allowance or a pre-determined amount. Your child is then able to accept or decline their tasks. They can see how much each task earns, how often they need to do it and what they will get if they do! They can add items that they are working toward earning and can even earn nn-cash incentives such as extra TV time or staying up late!
Tykoon is a great way to start teaching your child about responsibility and financial principles in fun and safe way. Through the creation of their own profile and the ability to accept or decline tasks, they are taught the skills that they will need later in life when they are managing their own budgets! So, head over and sign up for a free account today and watch your child get excited about doing their chores!
And right now, as a special reward, if you share Tykoon with your friends and have five friends sign up and stay active for more than a month, you’ll earn a ＄25 Amazon.com gift card! So get your child enrolled(注册), tell your friends and let’s start teaching all our kids about the important financial principles today!
66.The purpose of the text is to___________.
A. make an advertisement
B. share teaching experience
C. describe an online website
D. present a way of making money
【答案】A
【解析】第一段介绍Tykoon，二，三，四段介绍怎样操作以及所带来的好处， 最后一段是奖励措施。因此， 本文的目的是做广告，吸引大家都来参与。
67.The underlined word“incentives” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to “_________”.
A. promises
B. rewards
C. gifts
D. tasks
【答案】B
【解析】根据下文such as extra TV time or staying up late!，可见，“incentives”表示的是一种奖励。
68.What can kids learn from Tykoon?
A. The ability to manage their budgets.
B. The responsibility to do daily chores.
C. The skills to earn their own living.
D. The tricks to accept or refuse tasks.
【答案】A
【解析】根据第四段they are taught the skills that they will need later in life when they are managing their own budgets!他们被教给在以后生活中他们自己管理自己财务时需要的技巧。
69.It can be inferred from the last paragraph that_________.
A. no parents will resist the special reward
B. Amazon is a very popular website
C. Tykoon wants to attract more visitors
D. friends should share information
【答案】C
【解析】如果你能分享给5个朋友，让他们也签约并且保持活跃至少一个月，你就会得到价值25美元的亚马逊礼品卡。
70.What is the best title of the text?
A. Tykoon—A Safe Way to Manage Your Financial Issues
B. How to Create Funny Tasks for Your Kids on the Website
C. Opening an Online Account with the Help of Tykoon
D. Teaching Your Kids Financial Principles with Tykoon
【答案】D
【解析】纵观全文可知。
Survivors searched for loved ones on Monday in emergency centers across the northeast coast of Japan, with thousands of people still missing after an earthquake and tsunami that probably killed more than 10,000 people.
“I’m looking for my parents and my elder brother,” Yuko Abe, weeping, said at an emergency center in a nearly flattened town of 24, 500 people. “I also cannot tell my relatives who live away that I am safe, as mobile phones and telephones are not working.”
Many people spent another freezing night huddling（蜷缩）in blankets around heaters in shelters along the coast, a scene of devastation after the earthquake sent a 10-meter wave surging（冲击） through towns and cities in the Miyagi region, including its main coastal city of Sendai.
About 2,000 bodies were found on the shores of Miyagi. The nation struggled with the worst disaster since World War Ⅱ. Almost two million households were without power in the freezing north. There were about 1.4 million people without running water.
Emiko Ohta, 52, wearing a mask and plastic gloves, searched through the remnants of her home in the port town of Kuji. The house had been reduced to a pile of dirt-covered rubble（碎石）. “I came to see if there’s anything usable. All my kimonos（和服）are destroyed, but there are maybe some items of emotional value here. I did find a bit of jewellery. Just a little,” she said.
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said food, water and other necessities such as blankets were being delivered by vehicles but because of damage to roads, authorities were considering air and sea transport.
A few employees at a factory in Kuji that manufactured shipping parts showed up for work on Monday, even though it had been reduced to rubble. One young worker said he came because it was a workday. Factory Chief Teruo Nakano said everyone who worked there was safe and they were awaiting instructions from their leaders. He planned to send workers home.
6. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as the damage caused by the earthquake and tsunami?
A. Electricity cut off
B. Lack of drinking water
C. Road destruction
D. Breakdown of air transport
7. The underlined word “remnants” in the fifth paragraph probably means “_______”.
A. ruins
B. neighborhoods
C. dustbins
D. drawers
8. What is TRUE about the earthquake according to the passage?
A. It’s the worst one in Japanese history.
B. It caused yet another natural disaster.
C. It killed 24, 500 people by flattening the town.
D. It has caused the extreme weather in the northeast.
9. We can infer from the passage that ______.
A. kimonos and jewellery at this time are useless
B. there are enough necessities in disaster-struck areas
C. disaster-struck areas are accessible by ship and air
D. the government is not doing its best to deliver supplies
10. The purpose of the last paragraph is to show ______.
A. how important the factory was
B. how serious the damage to the factory was
C. there is still hope after the destructive earthquake
D. the Japanese value their work more than their life
【参考答案】6—10、DABCC
C
In 1995, Susan Boyle went to Glasgow to audition (试演) for My Kind of people, a televised talent show popular in the UK．She was immediately rejected. She was nervous during the audition, and felt she didn't perform well, but her brother said that she was rejected because of her plain looks. Boyle was not discouraged and continued to sing at church and at the karaoke nights in a local pub.
Boyle suffered a personal loss in 1997, when her father passed away. After his death, Boyle put her big dreams on hold to care for her sick mother Bridget Boyle. The mother and daughter often talked of Susan's possible fame．Bridget Boyle encouraged her daughter to take part in singing competitions. “She was the one who said I should enter Britain's Got Talent．We used to watch it together.” Susan later told reporters．“She thought I would win.”
In 1999, Boyle used all of her savings to pay for a professional demo (样本唱片) tape ,which she sent to record companies. In 2002, Boyle began taking singing lessons from voice coach Fred O'Neil.
In 2007, Boyle’s mother passed away at the age of 91. A neighbor reported that when Bridget Boyle died, her daughter “wouldn't come out for three or four days or answer the door or phone.” She lived alone with her cat, Pebbles．For over a year, she refused to sing．But in August of 2008, O'Neil urged her to try out for Britain's Got Talent．Convinced that the performance would be an honor to her mother, Boyle auditioned in Glasgow, Scotland．She sang I Dreamed A Dream, a hit song from the musical Les Miserables (《悲惨世界》), in the first round of the show, which was aired on April 11, 2009.
The 47-year-old Scottish woman's plain looks provided a sharp contrast (对比) to her powerfully beautiful voice．The performance astonished the audience and the judges．Online videos of her performance totaled over 40 million views within a week．Although she failed to win the final of Britain's Got Talent, Susan Boyle became globally popular．Her first album I Dreamed A Dream has sold over five million copies.
11. Bridget Boyle's attitude towards her daughter’s musical talent can be described as _________.
A. critical
B. doubtful
C. indifferent
D. optimistic
12. From Paragraph 4 we learn that Susan ___________.
A. was slightly discouraged by her voice coach
B. entered Britain's Got Talent to prove her ability
C. decided to give up her singing career
D. was deeply affected by her mother’s death
13. Which of the following is TRUE about Susan Boyle?
A. Her international fame grew rapidly in 2008.
B. Her audition for My Kind of People failed.
C. She has never stopped singing since 1995.
D. She was the winner of Britain's Got Talent.
14. Which of the following inferences makes sense according to the passage?
A. Susan Boyle was convinced by her brother that her plain looks were disadvantageous to her success.
B. It was at the age of forty that Susan Boyle established a student-teacher relationship with O’Neil.
C. Susan Boyle was so struck by her father’s death that she shut herself out from the neighborhood.
D. The online views of Les Miserables numbered over 40 million within a week in 2009.
15.
In writing this passage, the author mainly intends to _____________.
A. tell us how Boyle's dream came true
B. let us know more about Boyle's personal life
C. show how Boyle was influenced by her family
D. explain how to enter and win a talent show
【参考答案】11—15、DDBBA
阅读理解--------D
How far would you be willing to go to satisfy your need to know? Far enough to find out your possibility of dying from a terrible disease? These days that’s more than an academic question, as Tracy Smith reports in our Cover Story.
There are now more than a thousand genetic（基因的）tests, for everything from baldness to breast cancer, and the list is growing. Question is, do you really want to know what might eventually kill you? For instance, Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson, one of the first people to map their entire genetic makeup, is said to have asked not to be told if he were at a higher risk for Alzheimer’（老年痴呆症）.
“If I tell you that you have an increased risk of getting a terrible disease, that could weigh on your mind and make you anxious, through which you see the rest of your life as you wait for that disease to hit you. It could really mess you up.” Said Dr. Robert Green, a Harvard geneticist.
“Every ache and pain,” Smith suggested, could be understood as “the beginning of the end.”“That ’s right. If you ever worried you were at risk for Alzheimer’s disease, then every time you can’t find your car in the parking lot, you think the disease has started.”
Dr. Green has been thinking about this issue for years. He led a study of people who wanted to know if they were at a higher genetic risk for Alzheimer’s. It was thought that people who got bad news would, for lack of a better medical term, freak out. But Green and his team found that there was“no significant difference”between how people handled good news and possibly the worst news of their lives. In fact, most people think they can handle it. People who ask for the information usually can handle the information, good or bad, said Green.
71.The first paragraph is meant to__________.
A. ask some questions
B. introduce the topic
C. satisfy readers’ curiosity
D. describe an academic fact
【答案】B
【解析】通过两个问题引出话题。
72.Which of the following is true of James Watson？
A. He is strongly in favor of the present genetic tests.
B. He is more likely to suffer from Alzheimer’s disease.
C. He believes genetic mapping can help cure any disease.
D. He doesn’t want to know his chance of getting a disease.
【答案】D
【解析】根据第二段Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson, one of the first people to map their entire genetic makeup, is said to have asked not to be told if he were at a higher risk for Alzheimer’。“James Watson要求如果他的基因表明他有很高的老年痴呆症的可能不要告诉他。”
73.According to Paragraphs 3 and 4, if a person is at a higher genetic risk, it is__________.
A. advisable not to let him know
B. impossible to hide his disease
C. better to inform him immediately D. necessary to remove his anxiety
【答案】A
【解析】根据这两个自然段可知，如果你提前被告知你将来可能患某种可怕的疾病会mess you up。
74.The underlined part“freak out”in Paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to“_________”.
A. break down
B. drop out
C. leave off
D. turn away
【答案】A
【解析】根据下文But的转折，以及no significant difference可知，freak out的意思是A（精神垮掉）。
75.The study led by Dr. Green indicates that people__________.
A. prefer to hear good news
B. tend to find out the truth
C. can accept some bad news
D. have the right to be informed
【答案】C
【解析】根据第五段内容 In fact, most people think they can handle it可知答案选C.