41. D。人生的目标 （goal ）,purpose目的；decision决定；promise许诺。
42. B。“我学会了‘听’（learn to do）音乐。”turn to转向（某人寻求帮助）；used to 过去常常（做某事）；ought to应该做某事。
43. A. 。tell 辨别；see看到；hear听到；smell闻到。句意是：通过振动来辨别音调的高低。 44. C。据句意，为了分辨音调的高低，除了通过身体对振动的感觉，还可以通过我的想象（imagination）。因为Glennie以前没有失聪过，所以不会有experience（经验）；而carefulness（细心）和身体的movement（运动）对聋人来说是无法分辨音调高低的。
45. A. 。“我只有通过调动全部的感觉（sense）器官”才能弥补失聪的遗憾来感受周围世界。定语从句I have修饰的我能拥有的sense 感觉、effort努力、feeling感情、idea想法中A. 项符合句意。
46. C。Glennie下定决心（be determined to do）要被别人评价为一名音乐家，而不是一名聋人音乐家。dissatisfied不满意的； astonished惊讶的；discouraged气馁的。A. 、B、D都是Glennie对别人评价的反应，而Glennie这时实际上还没有成名，所以不可能有这些感觉。 47. A. 。“以前没有失聪学生做过（done）这件事（applied to the Royal A. cademy of Music）”。A. ccept接受，advise建议，admit承认。根据语意，A. 项正确。 48. D。因为以前没有失聪学生被录取，所以一些老师反对（oppose）Glennie进入the Royal A. cademy of Music。
49. B。由于Glennie的表现，最终（finally）被录取。
50. C。以最高的荣誉从the Royal A. cademy of Music毕业（graduate）。 51. A. 。作曲write musical compositions。
52. D。自己作曲的原因是很少有人（few）专门为打击乐器独奏演员作曲。
53. B。尽管医生认为Glennie完全聋了，但并不意味着她的热情被忽视了。A. lthough引导让步状语从句。从语意判断，B项最佳。
54. A. 。mean意味着。conclude作结论。
55. D。Glennie根据自己的切身体会告诫人们：不要被别人这样那样的说法所禁锢（limit）。 方法提炼：
根据记叙文的按事件顺序发展特点这个思路是解题的突破口。 2008年北京
When I entered Berkeley, I hoped to earn a scholarship. Having been a Straight-A. student. I believed I
could__36__ tough subjects and really learn something. One such course was World Literature given by Professor Jayne. I was extremely interested in the ideas he__37__ in class.
When I took the first exam, I was__38__ to find a 77. C-plus, on my test paper, __39__ English was my best subject, I went to Professor Jayne, who listened to my arguments but remained__40__.
I decided to try harder, although I didn’t know what that__41__because school had always been easy for me. I read the books more carefully, but got another 77. A. gain, I__42__with Professor Jayne. A. gain, he listened patiently but wouldn’t change his__43__.
One more test before the final exam. One more__44__to improve my grade. So I redoubled my efforts and, for the first time__45__. The meaning of the word “thorough”. But my__46__ did no good and everything__47__ as before. The last hurdle (障碍) was the final. No matter what__48__ I got, it wouldn’t cancel three C-pluses. I might as well kiss the __49__ goodbye.
I stopped working head. I felt I knew the course material as well as I ever would. The night before the final, I even__50__myself to a movie. The next day I decided for once I’d have__51__with a test.
A. week later, I was surprised to find I got an A. . I hurried into professor Jayne’s office. He__52__ to be expecting me. “If I gave you the A. s you__53__, you wouldn’t continue to work as hard.”
I stared at him__54__. That his analysis and strategy (策略) were cprrect. I had worked my head__55__, as I had never done before.
I was speechless when my course grade arrived: A. -plus. It was the only A. -plus given. The next year I received my scholarship. I’ve always remembered Professor Jayne’s lesson: you alone must set your own standard of excellence.
36. A. . take B. discuss C. cover D. get
37. A. . sought B. presented C. exchanged D. obtained 38. A. . shocked B. worried C. scared D. anxious 39. A. . but B. so C. for D. or
40. A. . unchanged B. unpleasant C. unfriendly D. unmoved 41. A. . reflected B. meant C. improved D. affected 42. A. . quarreled B. reasoned C. bargained D. chatted 43. A. . attitude B. mind C. plan D. view 44. A. . choice B. step C. chance D. measure
45. A. . memorized B. considered C. accepted D. learned 46. A. . ambition B. confidence C. effort D. method 47. A. . stayed B. went C. worked D. changed 48. A. . grade B. answer C. lesson D. comment 49. A. . scholarship B. course C. degree D. subject 50. A. . helped B. favored C. treated D. relaxed 51. A. . fun B. luck C. problems D. tricks.
52. A. . happened B. proved C. pretended D. seemed 53. A. . valued B. imagined C. expected D. welcomed 54. A. . remembering B. guessing C. supposing D. realizing 55. A. . out B. over C. on D. off 解析：
本文讲述了要想成功必须自觉朝目标努力。
36. A. 考查词语搭配。take subjects的意义是“上某一学科的课”。
37. B 考查词语搭配。presented 意义是“传授”，ideas 是he presented 的定语从句，意思是“他所传授的理论”。
38. A. 考查上下文的意义的联系。文中说他的学习成绩总是得A. ，然而这次考试，他得的是C-plus，所以他感到震惊，所以选择shocked。 39. C 考查上下文的意义的联系。for表示原因。英语本来是他最好的科目，然而他的成绩是C-plus。 40. D考查上下文的意义的联系。他与教授辩论，但老师无动于衷。 41. B考查上下文的意义的联系。我不知道这是怎么一回事儿。
42. B考查上下文的意义的联系。我又与教授辩论，此处的意义与上文arguments的意义一致。 43. B 考查词的细微差别。mind指教授固有的思维方式。View 指对事物的意见。attitude 指对事物的态度。plan 意思是“计划”。
44. C考查上下文的意义的联系。本段第一句话意思是“在期末考试前还有一次测验，所以他还有一次机会提高他的成绩。
45. D考查上下文的意义的联系。他加倍努力学习，所以他第一次学习到了“thorough”这个词的意思。“thorough”意思是“完全的、深入的”。
46. C考查上下文的意义的联系。上文提到他加倍努力，这里意思是“努力也没有用”。
47. B 考查词的不同意义。一切的进展和以前一样，went 指“进展”。Stayed 指“停留”。
48. A. 考查上下文的意义的联系。到期末的时候，无论我获得什么高分数， 都不能去掉三个C-plus 的分数。
49. A. 考查上下文的意义的联系。本文第一句话，就提到他希望得到奖学金，这里说的是他可能与奖学金擦肩而过。 50. C考查上下文的意义的联系。他觉得此课程学得很好了，不用学了。在期末考试的前一天晚上，他看一部电影来款待自己。 51. A. 考查上下文的意义的联系。他决定把第二天的考试当作一次娱乐活动。与上文意义逻辑一致。 52. D考查上下文的意义的联系。一星期后，他惊讶地发现他获得了优秀成绩，立刻跑到教授的办公室。教授好像正盼望着他的到来。 53. C考查上下文的意义的联系。教授说：“如果我以前给了你所期待的优秀成绩，你就不会像这样努力地学习了”。 54. D考查上下文的意义的联系。我盯着他，意识到他的分析和策略是正确的。 55. D 考查不同词的意义差别。work my head off 指“全身心投入”。work out 意思是“做出，制定出”，work over 意思是“打击、伤害”，work on 意思是“继续工作”。 方法提炼： 利用记叙文上下文的意义的联系是解题的关键。 2008年上海 Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. . honored B. set C. historic D. secretly E. citizen F. granted G. route H. briefly I. restoration J. leading Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave in the movement that fought to end slavery in the United Stales. He became a__41__ voce in the yean before the Civil War. A. few weeks ago, the National Park Service (NPS) __42__ Douglass's birth and Black History Month with the reopening of his home at Cedar Hill, a __43__ site in Washington. D. C. The two-story house, which contains many of Douglass's personal possessions, had undergone a three-year __44 __. (Thanks to the NTS website, however,
you don't have to live in the nation's capital to visit it. Take a tour online.)
He was born Frederick A. ugustus Washington Bailey to a slave mother and a white father he never knew. Douglass grew up to become the first black __45__ to bold a government office — as US minister and consul general (总领事) to Haiti.
A. s a youth, be never went to school. Educating slaves was illegal in the South, so be __46__ taught himself to read and write. A. t 21 years old, he escaped from his slave owner to Massachusetts and changed his last name to Douglass, to hide his identity.
In the 1850s, Douglass was involved with the Underground Railroad, the system __47__ up by antislavery groups to bring runaway slaves to the North and Canada. His home in Rochester, N.Y. was near the Canadian border. It became an important station on the __48__ , housing as many as 11 runaway slaves at a time. He died in 1895. In his lifetime, Douglass witnessed the end of slavery in 1865 and the adoption of the 15th A. mendment to the US Constitution (美国宪法修正案), which __49__ A. frican-A. mericans the right to vote. 解析：
讲了Frederick Douglass这个美国黑人的故事。
41. J. 根据第一段的意思“Frederick Douglass是美国在结束奴隶制度的战斗中逃跑出去的一个奴隶，他在美国内战以前的岁月里是起到了先声作用的人物”，所以，要选择leading。
42. A. . honour此处是“带来荣誉，为纪念?”的意思。
43. C. 根据上下文意思，Frederick Douglass在Cedar Hill的家当然就成了“historic:有历史意义的”site，所以选择historic。
44. I．根据前后文意思，知道“这盛有Frederick Douglass个人财产的两层楼的房子，经过了三年的重新修缮后才向世人开放”，所以，选择I。
45. E. 根据上下文意思，Frederick Douglass成为第一个拥有政府办公室的黑人“市民”，所以选择citizen。 46. D．当Frederick Douglass年轻的时候，他从来没有能够去学校接受教育，因为当时在美国南部黑人受教育是不合法的，所以，他只能“秘密地自学”，故选择secretly。
47. B．set up为固定短语，意思是“建立、建造、设立”。
48. G．根据前后文的语境，此处应填route, on the route是“在这一路线上，它成了最重要的站点”。 49. F．grant right是“授权”的意思。 方法提炼：