A. Mistake. B. Drawback. C. Difficulty. D. Burden.
28. Why did the teacher ask the students to talk about their dreams?
A. To help them to see their creativity. B. To find out about their sleeping habits. C. To help them to improve their memory. D. To find out about their ways of thinking.
C
Reading can be a social activity. Think of the people who belong to book groups. They choose books to read and then meet to discuss them. Now, the website BookCrossing.com turns the page on the traditional idea of a book group.
Members go on the site and register the books they own and would like to share. BookCrossing provides an identification number to stick inside the book. Then the person leaves it in a public place, hoping that the book will have an adventure, traveling far and wide with each new reader who finds it. Bruce Pederson, the managing director of BookCrossing, says, “The two things that change your life are the people you meet and books you read. BookCrossing combines both.”
Members leave books on park benches and buses, in train stations and coffee shops. Whoever finds their book will go to the site and record where they found it.
People who find a book can also leave a journal entry describing what they thought of it. E-mails are then sent to the BookCrossing to keep them updated about where their books have been found. Bruce Pederson says the idea is for people not to be selfish by keeping a book to gather dust on a shelf at home.
BookCrossing is part of a trend among people who want to get back to the “real” and not the virtual(虚拟). The site now has more than one million members in more than one hundred thirty-five countries.
29. Why does the author mention book groups in the first paragraph?
A. To explain what they are.
B. To introduce BookCrossing.
D. To encourage readers to share their ideas.
C. To stress the importance of reading.
30. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. The book.
B. An adventure.
C. A public place. D. The identification number.
31. What will a BookCrosser do with a book after reading it?
A. Meet other readers to discuss it. C. Pass it on to another reader. 32. What is the best title for the text?
A. Online Reading: A Virtual Tour
B. Electronic Books: A new Trend D. A Website Links People through Books D
A. new collection of photos brings an unsuccessful Antarctic voyage back to life.
Frank Hurley?s pictures would be outstanding ― undoubtedly first-rate photo-journalism ― if they had been made last week. In fact, they were shot from 1914 through 1916, most of them after a disastrous shipwreck (海难), by a cameraman who had no reasonable expectation of survival. Many of the images were stored in an ice chest, under freezing water, in the damaged wooden ship.
The ship was the Endurance, a small, tight, Norwegian-built three-master that was intended to take Sir Ernest Shackleton and a small crew of seamen and scientists, 27 men in all, to the southernmost shore of Antarctica?s Weddell Sea. From that point Shackleton wanted to force a passage by dog sled(雪橇) across the continent. The journey was intended to achieve more than what Captain Robert Falcon Scott had done. Captain Scott had reached the South Pole early in 1912 but had died with his four companions on the march back.
As writer Caroline Alexander makes clear in her forceful and well-researched story The Endurance, adventuring was even then a thoroughly commercial effort. Scott?s last journey, completed as he lay in a tent dying of cold and hunger, caught the world?s imagination, and a film made in his honor drew crowds. Shackleton, a onetime British merchant-navy officer who had got to within 100 miles of the South Pole in 1908, started a business before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie and still photography. Frank Hurley, a confident and gifted Australian photographer who knew the Antarctic, was hired to make the images, most of which have never before been published.
33. What do we know about the photos taken by Hurley?
A. They were made last week. B. They showed undersea sceneries.
B. Keep it safe in his bookcase. D. Mail it back to its owner.
C. A Book Group Brings Tradition Back
C. They were found by a cameraman. D. They recorded a disastrous adventure.
34. Who reached the South Pole first according to the text?
A. Frank Hurley. C. Robert Falcon Scott.
B. Ernest Shackleton. D. Caroline Alexander.
35. What does Alexander think was the purpose of the 1914 voyage?
A. Artistic creation. C. Money making.
B. Scientific research. D. Treasure hunting.
第二节 （共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
A garden that’s just right for you
Have you ever visited a garden that seemed just right for you, where the atmosphere of the garden appeared to total more than the sum(总和) of its parts? ___36___. But it doesn?t happen by accident. It starts with looking inside yourself and understanding who you are with respect to the natural world and how you approach the gardening process.
●___37___ Some people may think that a garden is no more than plants, flowers, patterns and masses of color. Others are concerned about using gardening methods that require less water and fewer fertilizers(肥料). ___38___. However, there are a number of other reasons that might explain why you want to garden. One of them comes from our earliest years.
●Recall(回忆) your childhood memories
Our model of what a garden should be often goes back to childhood. Grandma?s rose garden and Dad?s vegetable garden might be good or bad, but that?s not what?s important. ___39___ ― how being in those gardens made us feel. If you?d like to build a powerful bond with your garden, start by taking some time to recall the gardens of your youth. ___40___. Then go outside and work out a plan to translate your childhood memories into your grown-up garden. Have fun.
A. Know why you garden
B. Find a good place for your own garden C. It?s our experience of the garden that matters
D. It?s delightful to see so many beautiful flowers
E. Still others may simply enjoy being outdoors and close to plants F. You can produce that kind of magical quality in your own garden, too G. For each of those gardens, write down the strongest memory you have 第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节 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，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Hundreds of people have formed impressions of you through that little device(装置) on your desk. And they?ve never actually __41__ you. Everything they know about you __42__ through this device, sometimes from hundreds of miles away. __43__ they feel they can know you __44__ from the sound of your voice. That?s how powerful the __45__ is.
Powerful, yes, but not always __46__. For years I dealt with my travel agent only by phone. Rani, my faceless agent whom I?d never met __47_, got me rock-bottom prices on airfares, cars, and hotels. But her cold voice really __48__ me. I sometimes wished to __49__ another agent. One morning, I had to __50__ an immediate flight home for a family emergency. I ran into Rani?s office __51__. The woman sitting at the desk, __52__ my madness, sympathetically jumped up. She gave me a __53__ smile, nodded while listening patiently, and then printed out the __54__ immediately. “What a wonderful lady!” I thought.
Rushing out __55__ I called out over my shoulder, “By the way, what?s your name?” “I?m Rani,” she said. I turned around and saw a __56__ woman with a big smile on her face waving to wish me a safe trip. I was __57__! Why had I thought she was cold? Rani was, well, so __58__. Sitting back in the car on the way to the airport, I figured it all out. Rani?s __59__ ― her warm smile, her nods, her ?I?m here for you? __60__ ― were all silent signals that didn?t travel through wires.
41. A. accepted 42. A. came 43. A. Thus 44. A. rather 45. A. telephone
B. noticed B. moved B. Yet B. also B. voice
C. heard C. ran C. Then C. just C. connection
D. met D. developed D. Indeed D. already D. impression
46. A. direct 47. A. in person 48. A. annoyed 49. A. promote 50. A. arrange
B. useful B. by myself B. interested B. train B. postpone
C. easy C. in public C. discouraged C. find C. confirm
D. accurate D. on purpose D. confused D. know D. book
51. A. for the first time B. at any time 52. A. expecting 53. A. shy 54. A. bill
B. seeing B. comforting B. form
C. from time to time D. in good time C. testing C. familiar C. ticket
D. avoiding D. forced D. list D. regretfully D. pleasant D. speechless D. clever D. skillfulness D. behavior
55. A. hopefully B. disappointedly C. gratefully 56. A. careful 57. A. amused 58. A. calm
B. serious B. worried B. nice
C. nervous C. helpless C. proud C. friendliness C. concept
59. A. forgiveness B. eagerness 60. A. explanation B. attitude
第二节 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。 If you feel stressed by responsibilities at work, you should take a step back and identify (识别) those of __61__ (great) and less importance. Then, handle the most important tasks first so you?ll feel a real sense of __62__ (achieve). Leaving the less important things until tomorrow __63__ (be) often acceptable.
Most of us are more focused __64__ our tasks in the morning than we are later in the day. So, get an early start and try to be as productive __65__ possible before lunch. This will give you the confidence you need to get you through the afternoon and go home feeling accomplished.
Recent __66__ (study) show that we are far more productive at work if we take short breaks __67__ (regular). Give your body and brain a rest by stepping outside for __68__ while, exercising, or dong something you enjoy.
If you find something you love doing outside of the office, you?ll be less likely __69__ (bring) your work home. It could be anything ― gardening, cooking, music, sports — but whatever it is, __70__ (make) sure it?s a relief from daily stress rather than another thing to worry about.