It is believed that the temperature is ______ at around 2:00 pm in on day.

       A. in its highest                                  B. at its tallest

C. at its highest                                  D. in its tallest

I was in the kitchen making lunch when I saw my six-year-old son, Billy, walking toward the woods. I could only see his back. He  56   to be walking with a great effort, trying to be as  57  as possible.

    A few minutes after he disappeared into the   58  , he came running toward the house again. I went back to making sandwiches,   59   that whatever task he had been doing was completed. Moments later,  60  , he was once again walking slowly toward the woods.

      61  curiosity, I walked out and followed him on his journey. He was  62   both hands in front of him as he walked, being  63   not to spill the water he held in them. I secretly walked   64   behind him as he went into the woods and I saw the most amazing  65  .

    Several large deer loomed in front of him. Billy walked right up to them. I almost  66   at him to get away. A huge male deer with elaborate（精美的）antlers was   67   close. But they didn’t even move as Billy   68  . And I saw a small deer lying on the ground, obviously suffering from   69  and extreme heat, lift its head  70   to drink the water cupped in my beautiful boy’s hands.

    It was on this day that I learned the true lesson of  71  . You know, we hadn’t had any rain for three months and our crops were   72 . As the tears that rolled down my face began to hit the ground, they were suddenly   73   by other drops. I looked up at the sky. It was  74   God was moved to weep. The rain came that day and saved our farm, just like the  75  of one little boy who saved another.

A. happened B. seemed       C. managed    D. intended

A. quickly    B. secret  C. smoothly    D. still

A. distance   B. yard    C. woods D. park

A. wondering      B. thinking         C. studying     D. doubting

A. eventually       B. actually         C. however     D. therefore

A. Within     B. Out of     C. Beyond      D. In spite of

A. holding   B. waving   C. surrounding      D. cupping

A. careful    B. worried      C. eager  D. prepared

A. away       B. close   C. out     D. off

A. scene       B. story   C. view   D. game 

A. fought     B. signed C. screamed    D. waited

A. hardly     B. dangerously     C. easily  D. nearly

A. ran away B. turned out        C. knelt down D. settled down

A. hunger    B. disease       C. thirst   D. injury

A. in turn     B. in silence        C. with appreciation      D. with difficulty 

A. suffering B. supporting       C. sharing       D. depending

A. dying      B. reducing         C. harvesting  D. growing

A. hidden     B. covered      C. joined D. caught

A. when       B. as if    C. because      D. that

A. wish B. dream C. action D. expectation

I entered high school having read hundreds of books. But I was not a good reader. Merely bookish, I lacked a point of view when I read. Rather, I read in order to get a point of view. I searched books for good expressions and sayings, pieces of information, ideas, themes—anything to enrich my thought and make me feel educated. When one of my teachers suggested to his sleepy tenth-grade English class that a person could not have a “complicated idea” until he had read at least two thousand books, I heard the words without recognizing either its irony (嘲讽) or its very complicated truth. I merely determined to make a list of all the books I had ever read. Strict with myself, I included only once a title I might have read several times. (How, after all, could one read a book more than once?) And I included only those books over a hundred pages in length. (Could anything shorter be a book?)  

There was yet another high school list I made. One day I came across a newspaper article about an English professor at a nearby state college. The article had a list of the “hundred most important books of Western Civilization.” “More than anything else in my life,” the professor told the reporter with finality , “these books have made me all that I am.” That was the kind of words I couldn’t ignore. I kept the list for the several months it took me to read all of the titles. Most books, of course, I hardly understood. While reading Plato's The Republic, for example, I needed to keep looking at the introduction of the book to remind myself what the text was about. However, with the special patience and superstition (迷信) of a schoolboy, I looked at every word of the text. And by me time I reached the last word, pleased, I persuaded myself that I had read The Republic, and seriously crossed Plato off my list

On heating the teacher's suggestion of reading, the writer thought _______.

A. one must read as many books as possible

  B. a student should not have a complicated idea

  C. it was impossible for one to read two thousand books

  D. students ought to make a list of the books they had read

While at high school, the writer _______.    

  A. had plans for reading                            B. learned to educate himself

  C. only read books over 100 pages              D. read only one book several times

The underlined phrase “with finality” probably means _______.

  A. firmly              B. clearly                            C. proudly         D. pleasantly

The writer's purpose in mentioning The Republic is to _______.

  A. explain why it was included in the list

  B. describe why he seriously crossed it off the list

  C. show that he read the books blindly though they were hard to understand

  D. prove that he understood most of it because he had looked at every word

The writer provides two book lists to _______.

  A. show how he developed his point of view

  B. tell his reading experience at high school

C. introduce the two persons' reading methods   

  D. explain that he read many books at high school

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Dear Mr Smith,

　    Thank you very much for invite me to go and stay with                           1.       

you in Nanjing.It’s the most beautiful city,and I have been                              2.       

eager to see you again.So I’m very sorry to tell you that I can’t                      3.       

go this summer vacation,since I’ve already been promised                              4.       

to stay with my grandmother in the countryside.She has                                 5.       

already 65 years old and miss me so much that I have no choice                      6.       

but do it.I’m busy preparing for my college entrance exams                                   7.       

all these days and I feel quite sure of myself.I wish I can go,                          8.       

and see you and Tom at the end this year.                                                     9.       

Best wishes to both you and Tom!                                                               10.       

                                                                                    Yours sincerely,

                                                                                    Song Ping

Section D

Directions：Read the following passage and answer the questions. Write the answers on the answer sheet.

In 1817 one of the most well-known hauntings in American history took place in the small town of Adams, Tennessee. Known as the Bell Witch, the strange activity that caused fear in the small farming community has remained unexplained for nearly 200 years. Like many stories, certain details of who or what the Bell Witch was vary from version to version. The prevailing account is that it was the ghost of a woman named Kate Batts, a mean old neighbour of John Bell. Batts believed Bell cheated her in a land purchase and on her deathbed she swore that she would haunt John Bell and his family.

News of the Bell Witch spread quickly. When word of the haunting reached Nashville, one of its most citizens, General Andrew Jackson, decided to gather a group of friends and go to Adams to investigate. The future president wanted to come face to face with the phenomenon and either expose it as a trick or send the spirit away. According to one account, Jackson and his men were traveling over a smooth section of road when suddenly the wagon stopped. The men pushed and pushed, but the wagon could not be moved. The wheels were even removed and inspected. The came the sound of a voice from the bushes saying, “I will see you tonight.” The astonished men could not find the source of the voice. The horses then unexpectedly started walking on their own and the wagon moved along again. Jackson indeed encountered the witch that night and left early the next morning, claiming he would rather fight the British than the Bell Witch！

The haunting of the Bell house continued for several years, ending with ghost’s final act of revenge. On the morning of December 19, he failed to awake at his regular time. When the family noticed he was sleeping unnaturally, they attempted to rouse him. They discovered Bell couldn’t be completely awakened. John’s son went to the medicine cupboard to get his father’s medicine and noticed it was gone but a strange small bottle was in its place. No one claimed to have replaced the medicine with the bottle. John Bell died on December 20 and “Kate” was quiet until after the funeral.

A few explanations of the Bell Witch phenomena have been offered over the years. One is that the haunting was a trick created by Richard Powell, the schoolteacher of Betsy Bell and Joshua Gardner, the boy with whom Betsy was in love. It seemed Powell was deeply in love with Betsy and would do anything to destroy her relationship with Gardner. Through a variety of tricks, and with the help of several friends, it is believed that Powell created all of the ghostly effects to scare Gardner away. In fact, Gardner eventually did break up with Betsy and left area and Powell did come out winner. In the end, he married Betsy Bell.

81.John Well’s mean old neighbor haunted them because ______.

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82.On Jackson’s way to investigate the ghost, the ghost ______ and later, Jackson encountered the witch and left early the next morning.

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83.How did the haunting eventually end？

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84.What was one explanation for the haunting given in the reading？

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