第二部分 阅读理解（共分两节,满分45分）

阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C、D中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Have you ever heard the story of the four-minute miles? Many years ago, people believed that it was impossible for a human being to run a mile in less than four minutes until Roger Banister proved it wrong in 1954.

What happens if you put an animal in a pond? Any animal, big or small, will swim its way through. What happens when someone, who doesn’t know how to swim, falls in deep waters? They drown. If an animal who has not learnt swimming could escape by swimming, why not you? Because you believe you will drown while the animal doesn’t.

Have you ever wondered why the letters are organized in a particular order on your keyboard? You might have thought it is to increase the typing speed. Most people never question it. But the fact is that this system was developed to reduce the typing speed at a time when typewriter parts would jam (堵塞) if the operator typed too fast.

These three cases show the power of our beliefs. There is no other more powerful directing force in human behavior than belief. Your beliefs have the power to create and to destroy. A belief delivers command to your nervous system.

I used a snake in my workshops for children to show them how unrealistic some of their beliefs are. Students of a school in India, said snakes are smooth and poisonous. After doing an exercise for changing beliefs, they handled my snake and found it to be dry and clean. They also remembered that only three types of poisonous snakes exist in India.

Did this story end the way you thought? Review your beliefs now and find out which ones you need to change.

41. In author’s opinion, if a person in deep water doesn’t know how to swim, he will drown because ______.

A. he is afraid of water.                          B. he hasn’t learnt to swim before.

C. he believes he will drown.                          D. he don’t want to live in the world.

42. The author thinks that the letters organized in a particular order on your keyboard in order to ________.

A. save more space                           B. satisfy the operator

C. increase one’s typing speed                  D. reduce one’s typing speed

43. The author’s experiment shows that ________.

A. snakes can be caught easily                  B. snakes are dry and clean

C. snakes are smooth and poisonous                     D. snakes in India aren’t poisonous

44. The main idea of this passage should be that ________.

A. beliefs are very powerful.                             B. beliefs make us seem stupid

C. changing your beliefs now is necessary           D. people should always believe in themselves.

II. 语法填空 (共10小题, 每小题1分, 满分10分)

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为1-10的相应位置上。

Chinese proverbs are rich and they are still widely used in Chinese people’s daily life. Behind these proverbs there are often interesting stories. For example, the proverb, “plucking up a crop 101 (help) it grow”, is based on the following story.

    _102_ is said that a short—tempered man in the Song Dynasty (960—1279) was very anxious to help his rice crop grow up quickly. He was thinking about this day and night. But the crop was growing much slower than he expected.

    One day, he came up with an idea 103 he would pluck up all of his crop a few inches. He did so _104_ next day.

    He was very tired 105 doing this for a whole day,   106 he felt very happy since the crop did “grow” 107 (high).

    His son had been told _108_ this and went to see the crop. Unfortunately the leaves of the crop began to wither.

This proverb is saying we have to let things go in their 109 (nature) course. Being too anxious to help an event develop often 110 (result) in the contrary to our intention.

27. I shall never forget those years _____ I lived on the farm with the farmers,

   ______ has a great effect on my life.

A. when; who           B. that; which        C. on which; that          D. when; which 

30. ---Which hotel are you in?

   ---I ___ in a hotel. A friend I met on the train from the south___ to put me up for a couple of nights.

   A. haven’t stayed; has offered       B. am not staying; offered

   C. am not staying; is offering        D. do not stay; offers

33. Nowadays people in the city enjoy a _____ of musical life.

  A. variety                   B. range               C. extent                 D. Width

3. Many a player who had been highly thought of has ________ from the tennis scene.

A) disposed          B) disappeared     C) discouraged        D) discarded

27. Mr. Bush is on time for everything. How ____ it be that he was late for the opening ceremony?

   A. can             B. should          C. may             D. Must

16．With a final conclusion _____, the meeting ended at 4:30 p.m. last Monday.

A．to draw    B．to be drawn      C．drawn       D．Drawing

SYDNEY: As they sat sharing sweets beside a swimming pool in 1999. Shane Gould and Jessicah Schipper were simply getting along well, chatting about sport, life and anything else that came up.

Yet in Sydney next month, they will meet again by the pool, and for a short time the friends will race against each other in the 50 – meter butterfly in the Australian championships at Homebu Bay.

Gould, now a 47 – year – old mother of four, has announced she will be making a return to elite competition (顶级赛事) to swim the one event, having set a qualifying (合格的)time of 30. 32 seconds in winning gold at last year’s United States Masters championships. Her comeback comes 32 years after she won three golds at the Munich Olympics.

Schipper, now a 17 – year – old girl from Brisbane with a bright future of going to Athens for her first Olympics, yesterday recalled (回忆) her time with Gould five years ago.

“I was at a national youth camp on the Gold Coast and Shane had come along to talk to us and watch us train.” Schipper explained. “It seemed as if we had long been good friends. I don’t know why. We just started talking and it went from there.”

“She had a lot to share with all of us at that camp. She old us stories about what it was like at big meets like Olympics and what it was like to be on an Australian team. It was really interesting.”

Next time, things will be more serious: “I will still be swimming in the 50 m butterfly at the nationals, so there is a chance that I could actually be competing against Shane Gould.” said Schipper, who burst onto the scene at last year’s national championships with second places in the 100 m and 200 butterfly.

46．What is the passage mainly about?

       A．Stories happening in swimming competitions.

       B．Two women swimmers winning Olympic golds.

       C．Lessons learned from international swimming championships.

       D．Friendship and competition between two swimmers.

47．Gould and Schipper are going to____________.

       A．talk about sport and life           B．go back to elite competition

       C．set a qualifying time and win gold  D．take part in the same sports event

48．Gould won her three Olympic golds when she was____________.

       A．15     B．17     C．22     D．30

49．The underlined word “it” in the fifth paragraph probably refers to         .

       A．the Olympics          B．the youth camp

       C．the friendship          D．the Australian team

50．What Schipper said showed that she___________.

       A．was no longer Gould’s friend          B．had learned a lot from Gould

       C．was not interested in Gould’s stories      D．would not like to compete against Gould

Many experts think the implications of the new legislation will need to be            .

A．looked at                 B．looked back        C．looked for                 D．looked on