(06·广东B卷)

The survey about childhood in the Third World shows that the struggle for survival is long and hard. But in the rich world, children can   36   from a different kind of poverty—of the spirit.  37   , one Western country alone now sees 14, 000 attempted suicides (自杀)every year by children under 15, and one child   38   five needs psychiatric(心理)advice.

There are many good things about   39   in the Third World. Take the close and constant relation between children and their parents, relatives and neighbours for example.In the West,the very nature of work puts distance between   40   and children.But in most Third World villages mother and father do not go miles away each day to work in offices.   41   ,the child sees mother and father, relations and neighbours working   42   and often shares in that work.

A child   43   in this way learns his or her role through joining in the community's   44   ：helping to dig or build,look after animals or babies--rather than   45   playing with water and sand in kindergarten, keeping pets   46   playing with dolls.

These children may grow up with a less oppressive sense of space and time than the   47   children. Their sense of days and time has a lot to do with the change of seasons and positions of the sun or the moon in the sky. Children in the rich world,   48   , are provided with a watch as one of the   49   signs of growing up, so that they can   50   along with their parents about being late for school times, meal times, bed times, the times of TV shows…

Third World children do not usually   51   to stay indoors, still less in highrise apartments(公寓).Instead of dangerous roads,"keep off the grass" signs and "don't speak to strangers",there is often a sense of   52   to study and play. Parents can see their children outside rather than observe them   53   from ten floors up.

  54   , twelve million children under five still die every year through hunger and disease.But childhood in the Third World is not all   55  .

36. A. come            B. learn               C. suffer             D. survive

37. A. As usual          B. For instance         C. In fact            D. In other words

38. A. by               B. in                 C. to                D. under

39. A. childhood         B. poverty            C. spirit             D. survival

40. A. adults            B. fathers             C. neighbours        D. relatives

41. A. Anyhow          B. However           C. Instead           D. Still

42. A. away             B. alone              C. along            D. nearby

43. A. growing up        B. living through       C. playing          D. working

44. A. activity           B. life                C. study            D. work

45. A. by               B. from               C. through          D. with

46. A. and              B. but                C. or               D. so

47. A. Eastern           B. good               C. poor            D. Western

48. A. at any moment     B. at the same time      C. on the other hand  D. on the whole

49. A. easiest            B. earliest             C. happiest         D. quickest

50. A. care              B. fear                C. hurry           D. worry

51. A. dare              B. expect              C. have           D. require

52. A. control            B. danger             C. disappointment   D. freedom

53. A. anxiously          B. eagerly             C. impatiently      D. proudly

54. A. Above all          B. In the end           C. Of course       D. What's more

55. A. bad               B. good               C. rich            D. poor

  

 (06·广东A篇)

Scientific experiments can sometimes go wrong and when they do the results may range from the disastrous to the troubling. One such experiment took place in South America about fifty years ago. Whether its final consequences will cause serious damage or nothing more than a small trouble still remains to be seen.

      The story began in 1956 when an American scientist working in Brazil decided to solve the problem of increasing the productivity of that country's bees. He imported a very active type of African bee from Tanzania and mated  (交配)  it with the more easy-going native variety to produce a new kind of bees. The new bees worked harder and produced twice as much honey. It seemed that Professor Kerr, for that was the scientist's name, had a total success on his hands.

      Then things began to go wrong. For some reason as yet unseen, but perhaps as a result of something in their environment, the new bees began to develop extremely attacking personalities. They became bad-tempered and easy to be angry, attacked the native bees and drove them from their living places.

      But worse was to follow. Having taken over the countryside, the new bees, with their dangerous stings (叮) , began to attack its neighbours -- cats, dogs, horses, chickens and finally man himself. A long period of terror began that has so far killed a great number of animals and about 150 human beings.

     This would have been bad enough if the bees had stayed in Brazil. But now they are on the move, heading northwards in countless millions towards Central and North America, and moving at the alarming speed of 200 miles a year. The countries that lie in their path are naturally worried because it looks as if nothing can be done to stop them.

56. The results of the South American experiment              .

     A. have caused a serious trouble

     B. have proved to be wrong

     C. are not yet certain

     D. are not important

57. The experiment mentioned in this passage was designed to              .

     A. increase the amount of honey in Brazil

     B. make Brazilian bees more easy-going

     C. increase the number of bees in Brazil

     D. make African bees less active

58. Which of the following may be the cause of the new bees' attacking personalities?

     A. Their production of honey.

     B. Their hard work.

     C. Their living environment.

     D. Their bad temper.

59. The last paragraph implies that             .

     A. the bees have been driven to Central and North America

     B. the bees may bring about trouble in more countries

     C. the bees must be stopped from moving north

     D. the bees prefer to live in Brazil

  

 (06·广东B篇)

He's an old cobbler  (修鞋匠)  with a shop in the Marais, a historic area in Paris. When I took him my shoes, he at first told me: “I haven't time. Take them to the other fellow on the main street ; he'll fix them for you right away.”

     But I'd had my eye on his shop for a long time. Just looking at his bench loaded with tools and pieces of leather, I knew he was a skilled craftsman  (手艺人).  “No,” I replied, “the other fellow can't do it well.”

      “The other fellow” was one of those shopkeepers who fix shoes and make keys “while-U-wait” -- without knowing much about mending shoes or making keys. They work carelessly, andwhen they have finished sewing back a sandal strap (鞋带) you might as well just throw away the pair.

      My man saw I wouldn't give in, and he smiled. He wiped his hands on his blue apron ( 围裙), looked at my shoes, had me write my name on one shoe with a piece of chalk and said, “Come back in a week.”

      I was about to leave when he took a pair of soft leather boots off a shelf.

      “See what I can do?” he said with pride.  “Only three of us in Paris can do this kind of work.. ”

      When I got back out into the street, the world seemed brand-new to me. He was something out of an ancient legend, this old craftsman with his way of speaking familiarly, his very strange, dusty felt hat, his funny accent from who-knows-where and, above all, his pride in his craft.

      These are times when nothing is important but the bottom line, when you can do things any old, way as long as it “pays”, when, in short, people look on work as a path to ever-increasing consumption  (消费) rather than a way to realize their own abilities. In such a period it is a rare comfort to find a cobbler who gets his greatest satisfaction from pride in a job well done.

60. Which of the following is true about the old cobbler.'?

     A. He was equipped with the best repairing tools.

     B. He was the only cobbler in the Marais.

     C. He was proud of his skills.

     D. He was a native Parisian.

61. The sentence “He was something out of an ancient legend.” ( paragraph 7 ) implies that      

     A. nowadays you can hardly find anyone like him

     B. it was difficult to communicate with this man

     C. the man was very strange

     D. the man was too old

62. According to the author, many people work just to           .

     A. realize their abilities

     B. gain happiness

     C. make money

     D. gain respect

63. This story wants to tell us that            .

     A. craftsmen make a lot of money

     B. whatever you do, do it well

     C. craftsmen need self-respect

     D. people are born equal

  

(2009陕西宝鸡质检)People eat        vegetables per person today as they did ten years ago.

       A．as twice many                                     B．as twice as many

       C．twice as many as                                  D．twice as many

New York: when the first jet struck, World Trade Center at 8:48 am on Tuesday, the People in 2 World Trade Center with a view of the instant damage across the divide had the clearest sense of what they, too, must do: get out fast.

Katherine Hachinski, who had been knocked off her chair by the blast of heat exploding from the neighboring tower, was one of those. Despite her 70 years of age, Ms Hachinski, an architect working on the 91st floor of 2 World Trade Centre, the south tower, went for the stairs. Twelve floors above her, Judy Wein, an executive (经理), screamed and set off too.

But others up and down the 110 floors, many without clear views of the damage across the way and thus unclear about what was happening, were not so sure. And the 18 minutes before the next plane would hit were ticking off.

Amid the uncertainty about what was the best thing to do, formal announcements inside the sound tower instructed people to stay put, assuring them that the building was sound and the threat was limited to the other tower.

Some left, others stayed. Some began to climb down and, when met with more announcements and other cautions(警告) to stop or return, went hack up. The decisions made in those instants proved to be of great importance, because many who chose to stay were doomed(注定死亡) when the second jet crashed into the south tower, killing many and stranding(使某物留在) many more in the floors above where the jet hit.

One of those caught in indecision was the executive at Fuji Bank UAS.

Richard Jacobs of Fuji Bank left the 79th floor with the other office workers, but on the 48th floor they heard the announcement that the situation was under control. Several got in the lifts and went back up, two minutes or so before the plane crashed-into their floor.

“I just don’t know what happened to them,” Mr. Jacobs said.

1. From the passage, we know that the south tower was hit by the plane_______.

A. at 8: 30                   

B. 18 minutes earlier than the north tower

C. at around 9:06

D. at 8:48

2. The underlined words “stay put” means_______.

A. stay in the building                        B. leave at once

C. put everything back and then leave   D. keep silent

3. Which floor was hit by the second jet?

A. the 91st floor                                 B. the 103rd floor

C. the 60th floor                                D. the 79th floor

4. Fewer people would have died if_______.

A. more announcement had been made

B. people hadn’t used the lifts

C. the incident had happened on a weekend

D. the people had obeyed the office rules