43. A. above all B. not to mention C. on the whole D. in other words 44. A. if B. until C. though D. unless 45. A. test B. emphasize C. share D. promote 46. A. decision B. quality C. status D. success 47. A. found B. studied C. chosen D. identified 48. A. inspired B. expressed C. conducted D. secured 49. A. put B. got C. took D. gave 50. A. instead B. then C. ever D. rather 51. A. selected B. passed C. marked D. introduced 52. A. below B. after C. above D. before 53. A. jump B. float C. flow D. drop 54. A. stronger B. weaker C. better D. worse 55. A.rejection B. reception C.reputation D. recreation
Section B
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have read.
（A）
Roald Dahl – the author who entertained people with classics like Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach – would have been 100 years old this year. Roald Dahl is most famous for the books he wrote for children, but he also wrote novels and short stories for adults, screenplays, and non-fiction, too!
Roald Dalh was born near Cardiff, in Wales in 1916. His parents were from Norway, and they named him after Roald Amundsen, the famous Norwegian explorer. Ronald was sent off to boarding school when he was only nine years old. He was very homesick, and had a hard time obeying the strict teachers and the headmaster. In those days, teachers would sometimes hit their teachers! Later on, Ronald integrated this fear and distrust of adults into many of his children’s books.
During World War II, Ronald joined the Royal Air Force and flew missions over Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East. At one point, his plane crashed in the Libyan Desert. He was temporarily blinded, and stranded in the middle of nowhere with a cracked skull and a broken
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nose. Fortunately, he was rescued, and within a few months had made a complete recovery. After his injuries forced him to leave the Air Force, Roald began writing. His first published piece was a magazine article about his plane crash. During the 1950s, he became an accomplished writer of short stories for adults. These stories usually featured mystery, suspense, and a twist ending.
In 1961, Roald published James and the Giant Peach, which tells the story of a young boy who attempts to escape from his two nasty, abusive aunts. The boy finally gets away by sailing across the ocean inside a magical giant peach and befriends the giant bugs that live inside it. James and the Giant Peach was promoted by the bedtime stories Roald would make up for his young daughters. He said that it was a challenge to keep them interested and attentive -- he had to make his stories funny, exciting, and original. In 1964, he wrote his most famous book -- charlie and the Chocolate Factory, in which a poor boy wins a ―golden ticket‖ to tour a mysterious world.
56. How did Roald Dahl’s experiences in World War II influence his later writing?
A. He was a pilot, and his first publication was about a plane crash.
B. He was in Navy, and his first publication dealt with life aboard a ship.
C. He was in the Army, and his first publication was set in Nazi-occupied Europe. D. He worked in a military factory, and his first publication was about factory life.
57. Many of Roald Dahl’s children’s stories were inspired by _________ .
A. a vacation he took with his grandparents B. his relationship with his parents C. his time in the military
D. his time away at boarding school
58. What led Roald Dahl to write James and the Giant Peach ?
A. His lifelong love of peaches.
B. The bedtime stories he told his daughters. C. The insects he found in his garden.
D. The cruelty he experienced at the hands of his aunts.
59. Which of these statements is an opinion about Roald Dahl?
A. He was the greatest children’s author of the 20th century. B. He published more than a dozen books for children.
C. James and the Giant Peach was his first book for children. D. Several of his books were adapted into successful movies.
(B)
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60. Which holiday location doesn’t welcome young children? A. Mountain Lodge B. Pelican Resort C. Cedar Lodge D. None of the above
61. According to the holiday advertisement, which of the following is NOT TRUE? A. Both Mountain Lodge and Pelican are close to the coast.
B. Tourists can’t visit Pelican Resort in May because of the restoration. C. All meals are included if tourists choose to go the Pelican Resort. D. Canoeing and cycling are provided at no extra cost at Cedar Lodge.
62. A holiday in Mountain Lodge for a couple with 12-year-old twin girls and a 3-year-old boy
costs______.
A. $825 B. $990 C. $1320 D. $1650
(C)
France，which prides itself as the global innovator of fashion, has decided its fashion industry has lost an absolute right to define physical beauty for women. Its lawmakers gave
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preliminary approval last week to a law that would make it a crime to employ ultra-thin models on runways. The parliament also agreed to ban websites that ―incite excessive thinness‖ by promoting extreme dieting.
Such measures have a couple of uplifting motives. They suggest beauty should not be defined by looks that end up impinging on health. That’s a start. And the ban on ultra-thin models seems to go beyond protecting models from starving themselves to death –as some have done. It tells the fashion industry that it must take responsibility for the signal it sends women, especially teenage girls, about the social tape-measure they must use to determine their individual worth. The bans, if fully enforced, would suggest to women (and many men) that they should not let others be arbiters of their beauty. And perhaps faintly, they hint that people should look to intangible qualities like character and intellect rather than dieting their way to size zero or wasp-waist physiques.
The French measures, however, rely too much on severe punishment to change a culture that still regards beauty as skin-deep-and bone-showing. Under the law, using a fashion model that does not meet a government-defined index of body mass could result in a $85,000 fine and six months in prison.
The fashion industry knows it has an inherent problem in focusing on material adornment and idealized body types. In Denmark, the United States, and a few other countries, it is trying to set voluntary standards for models and fashion images that rely more on peer pressure for enforcement.
In contrast to France’s actions, Denmark’s fashion industry agreed last month on rules and sanctions regarding the age, health, and other characteristics of models. The newly revised Danish Fashion Ethical Charter clearly states:‖We are aware of and take responsibility for the impact the fashion industry has on body ideals, especially on young people‖. The charter’s main tool of enforcement is to deny access for designers and modeling agencies to Copenhagen Fashion Week (CFW), which is run by the Danish Fashion Institute. But in general it relies on a name-and -shame method of compliance.
Relying on ethical persuasion rather than law to address the misuse of body ideals may be the best step. Even better would be to help elevate notions of beauty beyond the material standards of a particular industry.
63. According to the first paragraph，what would happen in France? A. Physical beauty would be redefined. B. New catwalks would be constructed. C. Websites about dieting would boom. D. The fashion industry would decline.
64. The phrase ―impinging on‖(Line 2，Para.2) is closest in meaning to A. increasing the value of B. indicating the state of C. losing faith in D. doing harm to
65. Which of the following is true of the fashion industry? A. The French measures have already failed. B. New standards are being set in Denmark. C. Models are no longer under peer pressure.
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D. Its inherent problems are getting worse.
66. Which of the following may be the best title of the text? A. Just Another Struggle for Beauty
B. A Prospect for the Starving models in France
C. A Challenge to the Fashion Industry’s Body Ideals D. Threats to the Fashion Industry
Section C
Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given m the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. A. More than a quarter are in sub-Saharan Africa. B. There are many reasons for world hunger. C. It takes the effort of every country to fight against world hunger. D. In those places, obesity is a far bigger problem than hunger. E. Those places need far more food than they actually get. F. By the end of this year, more than 35 million people will have died as a result of not having enough to eat.
In 2009, the number of hungry people in the world reached one billion for the first time. It is difficult not to be shocked by the fact that more than one in seven people on the planet do not have enough to eat. 67 _______. Hunger kills more people per year than diseases such as AIDS, malaria (疟疾) and TB(肺结核) combined.
The UN estimates that almost two thirds of the world’s hungry people are in Asia., which is of course the world’s most populous continent. 68 _______.Although this region has a much lower population than Asia, it has the highest percentage of hungry people. Almost all of the rest are in Latin America, North Africa and the Caribbean. In the richest regions of the world there are only a tiny number of people who don’t have enough to eat.
69 _______. They include wars, droughts, floods and the overuse of farming land. All these factors affect food production. Many people also blame greedy businessmen for pushing up the prices of basic foods in the global market.But the most important reason, quite simple, is poverty — which has increased recently due to the economic effects of the financial crisis of 2008. Although many people make the obvious point that there would be less hunger if the global population were smaller, few people would argue that there is not enough food to go around. The basic problem seems to be not a lack of food, but its distribution. In the last 50 years, global food production has risen even more quickly than the global population and there are areas of the world in which people generally have more than enough food. 70 _______.The answer to world hunger, therefore, may be a balanced food distribution around the whole world. Everyone will have enough to eat, but not overeat.
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