55. A. limit B. help C. distance D. time
答案 36-40 BCDBD 41-45 CABCB 46 - 50 DADBC 51- 55 ABDAD
Passage 17
（贵州省兴义市清华实验学校2010届高三9月月考）
Begin doing the work you love as soon as possible, even if you don’t get paid for it, or if you can only work at it 36 . Albert Einstein was 37 to get a job as a physics professor. He could have said to himself, “Well, I just don't have the work relative to 38 . I should give up on it and settle for something else.” 39 , he wrote the two most famous papers while 40 as a patent（专利）office worker. After the 41 , there was not any major 42 in the world that would not have wanted him to work for them.
If you want to work as an artist and are 43 as a waiter, don’t think of yourself as a waiter who 44 one day to become an artist. That puts the 45 you love somewhere Off in the distant future. Rather, think yourself as 46 , supporting yourself by waiting tables and paint, or draw as much as you can. It is 47 to earn a living wage as a waiter working 24 hours a week. That 48 plenty of time to devote to training or developing your craft (手艺) in the 49 hours.
While seeking the work you love, 50 helps to expand your awareness into the universe of all possibilities. You don’t want to be 51 the ideas Of what you should do or what you have done before. Having opened 52 the possibilities, you can make a final 53 and select the work you love as your own.
Doing the work you love 54 that you be equally comfortable with the imaginative and the 55 . It requires the ability to dream big dreams and the ability to face and master all the little details that make dreams come true. 36. A. full-fime B. hard C. easily D. part-time 37. A. unable 38. A. science
B. able B. maths
C. unwilling C. physics C. Therefore C. worked C. successes C. university C. leading a life C. hopes C. person C. a waitress C. important C. leaves C. business C. that C. limited to C. few C. conclusion C. insists C. careful
D. anxious D. money D. And
D. recognized D. papers D. company D. chosen D. decides D. work D. a painter D. lucky D. takes D. off D. this
D. troubled by D. both D. judge
D. encourages D. honest
39. A. So B. Instead 40. A. employed B. regarded 41. A. inventions B. discoveries 42. A. city 43. A. known 44. A. thinks 45. A. man 46. A. an artist 47. A. impossible 48. A. sends 49. A. on 50. A. it
51. A. interested in 52. A. no 53. A. decision 54. A. suggests 55. A. necessary
B. factory B. making a living B. imagines B. woman B. a waiter B. possible B. spares B. office B. which B. devoted to B. all B. plan B. requires B. practical
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答案 36—40 DACBA 41—45 ACBCD 46—50 ABCDA 51--55 CBABB
Passage 18
（辽宁省沈阳二十中2010届高三上学期第一次月考）
What seemed impossible is possible nowadays. One spring afternoon last year a group of 36 attacked a 15-year-old girl in the Berlin district of K?penick. They hit her in the face and pushed her to the ground. When the victim 37 to hand over her money, some of them held her down and 38 her arms with a lighted cigarette. The 39 were not a gang of boys, but of 13- to 15-year-old girls.
While men are still responsible for the 40 of crimes in Germany, 41 violence is on the rise. Young girls and women of all 42 groups are becoming more violent, and that has been a 43 trend for several years. Last year in Berlin, the 44 of female suspects of violent crime under the age of 21 increased by almost 8%, while that of male suspects 45 slightly. Violent crimes like 46 and serious bodily harm have even shot up by 18% and 25% among young women.
Why are 47 women becoming more violent? Gender（性别） 48 may have something to do with it. Today's females are drinking and smoking more, and raising all sorts of 49 things. Girls and young women are generally less held back in adopting male forms of behavior. 50 , the same goes for the 51 of violence. The members of all-female gangs tend to be especially 52 . When particularly humiliating methods like burning or undressing are involved, the 53 will usually be girls. It seems to be all about showing the 54 , “Hey, we can do 55 than you. ”
36. A. terrorists 37. A. refused 38. A. twisted 39. A. fighters 40. A. majority 41. A. strong 42. A. working 43. A. worldwide
B. thieves B. tried B. beat B. attackers B. variety B. daytime B. activity
C. teenagers C. managed C. tied C. students C. most C. secret C. age
D. passers-by D. decided D. burned D. criminals D. few D. female D. interest D. family
B. nationwide C. school
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44. A. number 45. A. remained
B. degree B. changed
C. quantity C. happened C. robbery
D. quality D. dropped D. poisoning D. German D. roles D. useless D. Finally D. rise D. boyish D. performers D. people
46. A. drug taking B. theft 47. A. stupid 48. A. difference 49. A. dirty 50. A. However
B. uneducated C. homeless B. equality B. surprising B. Therefore
C. relations C. unbelievable C. Unfortunately
51. A. use B. belief C. love 52. A. beautiful B. cruel 53. A. watchers B. victims 54. A. parents B. teachers 55. A. faster B. better
C. young C. helpers C. boys
C. more easily D. more efficiently
答案 36-40CADBA 41-45DCBAD 46-50CDBAC 51-55ABDCB
Passage 19
（山东省济南市外国语学校2010届高三上学期开学检测）
Many adults see teens as energetic. Many of us see ourselves as proud. This thinking 31 many adults and us, too, to have the idea that if we can’t handle school or 32 life well, we’re just not trying.
But in my opinion that may not be 33 . Earlier this school year, I was leaving my class one Friday, 34 suddenly it felt like I had pulled a muscle in my back. I knew I was ill.
After a few days I stopped eating. This meant I lost 35 ; the clothes that I bought two weeks earlier began 36 loose. This time my parents got scared. 37 , I started sleeping less. My eyelids（眼皮）were constantly 38 . I refused to 39 that I was ill. I kept my job working 25 hours a week in a shop; I didn’t 40 any classes. When I was hurting, I didn’t mind and kept on going. 41 it kills you, it makes you stronger, right?
But now I find myself thinking. Is it 42 it? I’m taking the classes and writing for the newspaper because it looks good 43 college applications. And I’m working 25 hours a week so that, once I get into my dream school, I can 44 it.
Here I am, already sick from the 45 of work I’m doing in and out of school. So, what good is a(n) 46 application if I’m badly ill? What is the 47 of doing this work if I can’t enjoy the results?
In fact, by writing my 48 I’m telling all the people who 49 much about the future and worry about it now. This is my warning: Don’t climb the 50 dive if you don’t like the deep end.
31．A．makes
B．forces
C．causes
D．intends
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32．A．still 33．A．true 34．A．before 35．A．relief 36．A．hanging 37．A．In fact 38．A．weak 39．A．insist 40．A．lose 41．A．Unless 42．A．paid 43．A．at 44．A．control 45．A．amount 46．A．suitable 47．A．effect 48．A．time 49．A．wonder 50．A．high
B．even B．reasonable B．after B．hope B．holding B．In addition B．shut B．recognize B．drop B．If B．similar to B．to B．manage B．set B．impressive B．idea B．effort B．care B．deep
C．just C．useful C．until C．weight C．changing C．In disorder C．loose C．accept C．give C．Though C．equal to C．on C．support C．kind C．believable C．point C．feeling C．miss C．hard
D．yet D．valuable D．when D．direction D．dressing D．In general D．heavy D．consider D．take D．Before D．worth D．with D．afford D．crowd D．unusual D．tip D．story D．realize D．far
答案 31—35 CBADC 36—40 ABDCB 41—45 ADCDA 46—50 BCDBA
Passage 20
（安徽师大附中2010届高三第一次摸底考试）
Be careful of those who use the truth to deceive (cheat). When someone tells you something that is true, but 36 important information that should be included, he can create a false 37 .
For Example, a man once told me, “I just won a hundred dollars on the 38 . It was great. I 39 that ticket back to the store and turned it in 40 one hundred dollars!”
This guy is a winner, right? May be, may be not. Then 41 I discovered that he bought two hundred tickets, and only one was a 42 . He was 43 a big loser!
He didn’t say anything that was false, 44 he left out important information 45 . That’s called a half—truth. Half—truths are not technically 46 , but they are just as dishonest. Untrustworthy candidates in political campaigns often use this 47 . Let’s say that during Governor Smith’s last term, her 48 lost one million jobs and gained three million jobs. Then she sought another 49 . One of her opponents put an ad saying, “During Governor Smith’s term, the state lost one million jobs!” That’s 50 . However, an honest statement would have been quite different.
Advertisers will sometimes use half—truths. It’s 51 the law to make false claims, so they 52 to mislead you with the truth. An ad 53 blow its own horn, “Nine out of ten doctors lend Yucky Pills to cure nose pimples.” It fails to mention that they only ask ten 54 , and nine of them work for the Yucky Corporation.
This kind of 55 deception happens too often. It’s a fact of life: lies are lies, but sometimes the truth can lie as well. 36. A. makes out B. leaves out C. tries out D. puts out
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37. A. chance 38. A. spot 39. A. took 40. A. with 41. A. later
B. expression
B. lab B. turned B. as B. formerly
C. impression D. translation
C. competition D. lottery C. went D. looked C. like D. for C. hardly D. generally
42. A. loser
43. A. wrongly B. winner B. usually C. shame D. surprise
C. really D. right
C. therefore D. but
C. in time D. at first sight
C. failures
D. consequences D. entry
D. state D. service D. wrong D. across D. try
C. trick
44. A. since 45. A. on purpose 46. A. chats 47. A. fair
B. what’s more B. by accident B. lies
B. court
48. A. company 49. A. term 50. A. boring 51. A. for 52. A. regret
B. fellow C. country C. election C. true C. through C. fail
B. cooperation
B. shocking
B. against B. forget
B. need
B. patients B. critical
53. A. must 54. A. customers 55. A. attractive C. should D. might C. reporters D. doctors C. fair D. sad
答案 36—40 B C D A D 41—45 A B C D A 46—50 B C D A C 51—55 B D D D D
Passage 21
(江苏省扬州中学2010届高三上学期开学考试)
As an engineering student, I had a degree and three good job offers. I can’t help trembling when I hear about studies that show that women are at a 36 when it comes to math. However, I discovered: just because a subject is 37 to learn, it does not 38 you are not good at it. You just have to grit your teeth and work harder to get good at it. 39 you do, there’s a strong chance you will enjoy it more than anything else.
In eighth grade I took algebra（代数学）. On one test I got only 36 percent of the 40 answers. I failed the next one, too. I started to 41 . Maybe I’m just not good at this. I was lucky enough to have a teacher who didn’t take my bad grades as a judgment of my 42 , but 43 as an indication that I should study more. He 44 me aside and told me he knew I could do better. He let me 45 the tests, and I pulled my grade up to an A.
I studied a lot in college, too. I had moments of fear while sitting below the buzzing fluorescent lights in the 46 library on Saturday afternoons, when I 47 that the estrogen（雌性激素）in my body was 48 me from understanding thermodynamics（热力学）. But the 49 in my classes had to work just as hard, and I knew that I couldn’t 50 to lose confidence in
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