第二部分：阅读理解

第一节：阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

Almost 40 years ago , a community servies organization started providing eye care in Gujarat State , in western India .

The Rgtary Club of Navsari operates an eye hospital and 9 area eye centers in and around Navssri , whose services are for the poorest people . The group opened the hospital , the Rotary Eye Institute of Navsari , in 1970 . India has only about one ophthalmologist for every 120,000 people . The Institute , however , has ten such specially trained eye doctors . It has restored or improved the eyesight of thousands of patients . Many people with eye problems cannot easily get to a big city for examinations and treatment . They live in villages and have no transportation. The Institute established eye centers called camps in places far from the city . Teams from it travel as far as 150 kilometers to see patients . People go to their nearest camp , where medical workers examine their eyes . The workers look for conditions including glaucoma , night blindness and other problems.Some people are found to have cataracts ,abnormal growths on the eye that can lead to loss of eyesight . India has about 13 million people with the condition . Cataract patients get free operations to correct the problem.

Rotary groups also operate eye banks . Doctors at these centers replace damaged eyes with the healthy eyes of donors who have just died . One such center is the Rotary Rajah Eye Bank . It operates in cooperation with the Rajah Eye Care Hospital in Chennai . The Eye Bank opened in 1996 . Hundreds of patients have received new corneas from donors since then . The cornea is the clear front part of the eye that transmits light . 2 million people in India are blind because of problens of the cornea . The Rotary Rajah Eye Bank holds continuing eye donation campaigns . It urges people to leave the gift of sight to others when they die .

1. Which of the following is True about the Rotary Club of Navsari ?

A.The Rotary Club of Navsari is a community service organization .             

B.The Rotary Eye Institute of Navsari has only one eye doctor .                

C.The Rotary Club of Navsari includes 9 area eye centers in big cities .                                                          

D.The Rotary Club of Navsari offers free operations to all the poor patients .

2.The underlined word “ophthalmologist” in Paragraph 2 refers to ______.

A.a physician who specializes in eyes   B.a worker working in countryside

C.a patient suffering eye problems       D.a volunteer working in eye centers

3.We can infer from the passage that      .

A.there are 13 million Indians having eye problems in total

B.the Rotary Eye Institute of Navsari is located in the center of India

C.the medical treatment is convenient for the local residents

D.communications in Navsari are difficult   

4.According to the last paragraph ,the Rotary Rajan Eye Bank gets new corneas mainly by_____.

A.cloning          B.donating          C.cooperating          D.forcing

5.The author develops the passage mainly by ______.

A.providing typical examples

B.making a definition

C.comparing two different areas

D.presenting two examples and drawing a conclusion

 

Is early childhood education really necessary? Early childhood education primarily focuses on learning through playing to develop the child’s physical, sensory, communicational and social development．Early childhood education has become a concern of the government, who pushes poor children to be formally trained before they are old enough for kindergarten．

There are good reasons for the government to push early childhood education．Studies have shown that orphaned children who did not receive good care and education become developmentally delayed causing failure in school, and even in life．Further studies show that poor children who take part in Head Start programs are more prepared for school, less likely to end up in Special Education classes, and are less likely to receive public help or go to prison．

There are also negative parts to putting a child in formal education programs too early．Time Magazine online explains that “the younger the child the less his chances of catching up with first-grade work．” I have personally witnessed many children of my generation who went to Head Start programs become frustrated and bored with school before they finished high school．Yet parents have been sure that the earlier the child starts school, the better off he or she is, so they push to start children earlier．

Actually while early formal education of poor children does show great gains in the early elementary years, studies also show that this head start is really a “false start”, as the gains are lost in middle and high school years．It seems that environment is a bigger factor on life’s success than early education．Head Start programs have not achieved its original goal in closing the achievement gap in poor and middle school children．Perhaps it is time to find other ways to close that gap．

1.The purpose of the government valuing the early childhood education is ________．

A．to develop the children’s communication

B．to give orphaned children good care and education

C．to get the children prepared for the kindergarten

D．to train the children formally and regularly

2.According to the studies, which of the following is True?

A．Children with good early education may have a rich life．

B．The orphaned children are usually unhappy in their life．

C．Children without early education can do well at school．

D．Head Start programs are helpful to the poor children．

3.The underlined part suggests that _________．

A．the early childhood education is helpless to the child’s grade

B．it is good for the young children to receive early education

C．the early education can help the children follow the grade

D．the younger the children are, the cleverer they will be

4.The author’s attitude toward the early childhood education is _________．

A．puzzling       B．negative       C．indifferent      D．approving

5.The main idea of the last passage is that __________．

A．the early childhood education is very necessary

B．Head Start programs have helped the children a lot

C．environment is the most important to life’s success

D．better ways should be found to help the poor children

 

There were many people standing by, but _____ of them were willing to help the poor boy.

A．neither           B．none             C．all               D．both

 

 

. The doctor was so kind that he devoted all his spare time he had _______the poor boy.

A. to helping    B. helped    C. helping     D to help

 

第Ⅱ卷（共48分）

第四部分（共三节，满分48分）

第一节 单词拼写（共8小题；每小题1分，满分8分）

1. Look! There’s a stone in the middle of the road. We’d better r_________ it at once or it will be dangerous.

2. A_________ from all over the world will come to attend the Games every four years.

3. Many of the students take their c______________ into the classroom to help them do some maths work, which is not preferred by the teachers.

4. She didn’t like the plan, but p_______________ I see nothing wrong with it.

5. I’d _______________(感激) it if you could drive me downtown.

6. The story of Hong Zhanhui ______________(感动，影响) millions of Chinese.

7. The poor girl was kneeling on the ground, begging money from the p_________.

8. Have you ever d___________ of being in front of thousands of people at a concert, with everyone clapping and enjoying your singing？