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“God knows, …I'm not myself—I'm somebody else—…and I'm changed, and I can't tell what's my name, or who I am.”

Questions:

46.Identify the work and the author.

47.The speaker says he is changed.Do you think he is changed, or the social environment has changed？

48.What idea does the quoted passage express？

Passage Four

"We're more than halfway (中途) now; it's only two miles farther to the tavern (客栈) ," said the driver.

"I'm glad of that," answered the stranger, in a more sympathetic way. He meant to say more but the east wind blew clear down a man's throat if he tried to speak. The girl's voice was quite attractive; however, later he spoke again.

"You don't feel the cold so much at twenty below zero in the Western country. There isn't such damp chill (潮冷)", he said, and then it seemed as if he had blamed the uncomplaining young driver. She had not even said that it was a bad day, and he began to be conscious of a warm hopefulness of spirit, and sense of pleasant adventure under all the woolen scarves.

"You'll have a cold drive going back," he said anxiously, and put up his hand for the twentieth time to see if his coat collar was as close to the back of his neck as possible.

"I shall not have to go back!" cried the girl, with eager pleasantness. "I'm on my way home now. I drove over early just to meet you at the train. We had word that someone was coming to the tavern."

46. How far was the drive from the train to the tavern？

A. One mile.

B. About four miles.

C. Two miles.

D. Less than four miles.

Section C

Directions: In this section you will hear a short recorded passage. The passage has some words or phrases missing. The passage will be read three times. During the second reading, you are required to put the missing words or phrases on the blank in order of numbered blanks according to what you hear. The third reading is for you to check your writing. Now the passage will begin.

Ladies and gentleman,

It's a great pleasure to have you visit us today. I'm very happy to have the opportunity to 【11】 our company to you.

The company was established in 1950. We mainly manufacture electronic goods and 【12】them all over the world. Our sales were about $100 million last year, and our business is growing steadily. We have offices in Asia,【13】and Europe. We have about 1000 employees, who are actively working to serve the needs of our 【14】. In order to further develop our overseas market, we need your help to promote (促销) our products.

I【15】doing business with all of you. Thank you.

【11】

He said,“Go to the telephone and call a ten-figure number,it must begin with 010.Got that—010？You can please yourself about the other seven figures.”I called the number 010 3612597.A few moments later I heard a man's clear voice at the other end.The voice said,“Kikri 2597.Don Flower speaking.”

I said,“Hello,Mr.Flower.I'm Robert West,and this call to you is one of my birthday presents.I'm thirteen today——”

“Oh,that's great.Many happy returns of the day!Where are you calling from,Robert？You sound very clear.”

“I'm at home in London.Where are you？”

“You're in London!Well,well——I've never had a call from London before.I live in Kikri,in Australia.About a hundred miles from Kikri,actually,but it's the nearest place.I've got a small farm here,with about ninety thousand sheep on it.You ought to come and visit me one day.”

“I'd like to,very much.Your farm must be very big,Mr.Flower,if you've got ninety thousand sheep on it.”

“Well,there may be only eighty thousand by now.I'm not too sure.There's not a lot of feed for them,you know,and two of my wells have gone dry this month.So we've been driving the sheep around a bit.If you go straight across the middle of my farm,it's a hundred and ten miles.That isn't a great size for a farm in Australia,but it's big enough for me!”

We talked for three minutes,and it was very interesting.I gave Mr.Flower my telephone number.He promised to ring me on my birthday next year.

31.“You can please yourself about the other seven figures”means _______.

A.say “please” when you call the number

B.feel pleased to make the call yourself

C.choose the other seven figures yourself

D.be pleasant when you dial the other seven figures

32.When Mr.Flower said “You're in London!Well,well—”,he was _______.

A.very surprised B.very well

C.very sorry D.out of breath

33.Mr.Flower has been driving his sheep around a bit because _______.

A.his farm was too small for ninety thousand sheep

B.his farm was only 110 miles straight across the middle

C.he was afraid someone would steal more of his sheep

D.there wasn't enough feed or water on his farm for the sheep

34.Which detail from the passage shows that Australia is a big country？

A.One must dial a 10-figure to reach Australia.

B.Mr.Flower lived one hundred miles from Kikri.

C.Mr.Flower now had only eighty thousand sheep on the farm.

D.Mr.Flower's farm isn't considered a big one in Australia.

35.The best title for this passage is perhaps _______.

A.London-Kikri B.A Birthday Present

C.Robert West and Don Flower D.A Phone Call

Passage 1

Back in the carefree days of the Noughties boom, Britain’s youngsters were swept along by the buy-now-pay-later culture embraced by consumers up and down the country. During a decade of near？full employment, many _1_ quickly from one job—and one credit card—to another, and rainy days were such a distant memory that they _2_ seemed worth saving for. But with the supply of cheap credit _3_ up and a generation of school and university leavers about to _4_ the recession-hit job market, thousands of young people with no memory of the early 1990s recession are shocked into the _5_ that the world of 2009 is very different. Katie Orme, 19，who lives in Birmingham, says she has decided never to get a credit card after seeing the problems that her parents and 22year-old sister have had with debt—just one of the _6_ lessons that she has had to learn. Orme finished her A-levels a year ago, and has been searching for a job—and living at home with her parents—ever since. She has had to _7_ on to support herself and is now on a 12-week internship (实习期）at the Prince’s Trust to improve her _8_ . The Trust says that the number of calls from _9_ people such as Orme has shot up by 50% over six months. “It’s so hard to get a job at the moment,” she says, “it’s better to go and get more qualifications so when more jobs are _10_ you will be better suited.”

A) sign

B) skipped

C) available

D) mostly

E) anxious

F) mug

G) hardly

H) remedy

I) realization

J) dynamic

K) resume

L) tough

M) neglected

N) drying

O) flood

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Passage 4

Many countries have a holiday to celebrate workers’rights on or around May 1, but Labour Day in Canada is celebrated on the first Monday of September. Canada&39;s Labour Day was _1_ celebrated in the spring but it was moved to the fall after 1894. The origins of Labour Day can be traced back to April 15, 1872, when the Toronto Trades Assembly organized Canada’s first significant _2_ for worker’s rights. The aim was to release the 24 leaders of the Toronto Typographical Union who were imprisoned for _3_ to campaign .for a nine-hour working day. At this time, trade unions were still illegal and what they did was seen as a criminal conspiracy to _4_ trade. In spite of this, the Toronto Trades Assembly was already a significant organization and encouraged workers to form. trade unions, _5_ in disputes between employers and employees and signaled the _6_ of workers. There was _7_ public support for the demonstration and the authorities could no longer deny the important role that the trade unions had to play in the _8_ Canadian democratic society. A few months later, a similar demonstration was organized in Ottawa and passed the house of Canada’s first prime minister, Sir John Macdonald. Later in the day, he appeared before the gathering and promised to _9_ all Canadian laws against trade unions. This happened in the same year and _10_ led to the founding of the Canadian Labour Congress In 1883. A similar holiday，Labor Day is held on the same day in the United States of America. Canadian trade unions are proud that this holiday was inspired by their efforts to improve workers’rights.

A) disrupt

B) enormous

C) lashed

D) muttering

E) striking

F) mediated

G) originally

H)perpetual eventually

J) emerging

K) gesture

L) mistreatment

M) abolish

N) parade

O) practically

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Passage Two

One day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to New York and the girl in the ticket office said, "I'm sorry, I can't sell you a ticket. Our computer is down."

"If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket."

"I can't write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so."

I looked down on the computer and every passenger was just standing there staring at the black screen. Then I asked her, "What do all you people do？'

"We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not."

"So when it goes down, you go down with it."

"That's good, sir. '

"How long will the computer be down？" I wanted to know.

"I have no idea. There's no way we can find out without asking the computer."

After the girl told me they had no backup (备用) computer, I said. "Let's forget the computer. What about your planes？ They're still flying, aren't they？"

"I wouldn't know," she said, pointing at the dark screen. "Only 'IT'knows. 'It'can't tell me.

By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The word soon spread to other travelers that the computer was down. Some people started to cry and still others kicked their luggage.

36. The best title for the article is______.

A. When the Computer Is Down

B. How to buy a ticket

C. The Computer of the Airport

D. Asking the Computer

d it was designed by special care. I don't know if you've ever seen the Statue of Liberty, but if you look closely, she's holding not one object, but two. In one hand is the familiar torch we call the "light of liberty."And in the other hand is a book of law.

We're a nation of laws. Our courts are honest and they are independent. The President -- me -- I can't tell the courts how to rule, and neither can any other member of the government. Under our law, everyone stands equal. No one is above the law, and no one is beneath it.

All political power in America is limited and only given by the free vote of the people. We have a Constitution, now two centuries old, which limits and balances the power of the three branches of our government, the judicial(法庭的)branch, the legislative(立法的)branch, and the executive branch, of which I'm a part.

Many of the values that guide our life in America are first shaped in our families, just as they are in your country.American moms and dads love their children and work hard and sacrifice for them, because we believe life can always be better for the next generation. In our families, we find love and learn responsibility and character.

America is a nation guided by faith. Someone once called us "a nation with the soul of a church." This may interest you -- 95 percent of Americans say they believe in God, and I'm one of them.

1、How many objects are held in the hands of the Statue of Liberty？()

A、One

B、Two

C、Three

D、Four

2、According the passage, all people are _____ under the law of the United States.

A、the same

B、different

C、sometimes different

D、sometimes equal

3、The Constitution mentioned in this passage is round _____ years old.

A、100

B、200

C、300

D、400

4、According to the author many of the values of life are first developed _____.

A、in school

B、in the family

C、in work

D、in college

5、From the passage we can easily see that _____.

A、the majority of Americans often go to church

B、the government plays a very important role in a law court

C、light music is popular with old people

D、parents have little influence over their children

Passage 6

The U.S. dollar was supposed to be at the end of its rope. Kicking the bucket. A dying symbol of a dying empire. Well, maybe not. The dollar continues to _1_ gloom-and-doom predictions. After a swoon (低迷）last year, the dollar is again enjoying a major _2_. The U.S. dollar index, which measures the dollar’s value against other major currencies, is just off an eight-month high. The main reason behind the dollar’s recovery is actually no real surprise at all. There is no _3_ able to replace the dollar as the world’s No.l currency. What makes currencies so fascinating is that their perceived value is always relative to other currencies. Sure, the U.S. budget deficit is _4_, the government’s debt is increasing, and Wall Street is still repairing itself. But the dollar remains the prettiest of a flock of ugly ducklings. Is any other major industrialized economy _5_ better off than the U.S.？ Not really. Just about the _6_ developed world is suffering with the same problems. That’s why when investors get nervous, they still rush to the good old dollar. The dollar wins because no one else is really in the game. The euro has been exposed as a _7_. Only a few months ago, economists truly believed the euro could _8_ the dollar as the top reserve currency. Now experts are questioning if the euro has a future at all. The Greek debt crisis has _9_ that the euro is only as strong as its weakest link. Maybe over the next 20 or 30 years，the dollar will slowly lose the _10_ status it holds today. That process, however, could well be driven by the appearance of new rivals.

A)fraud

B)consistently

C)dominant

D)expanding

E)entire

F)incentive

G)rival

H)alleged

I)defy

J)particularly

K)alternative

L)relative

M)revealed

N)intriguing

O)rally

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