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Part 3 Reading and Writing

VI. Reading comprehension

A. Choosing the best answer.

One day , when I was a librarian at View Ridge School, a fourth grade teacher came to me. She had a student who finished his work before all the others and needed a challenge.“Could he help in the library？” she asked. I said, “Send him along.”

Soon a boy in jeans and a T-shirt appeared.“Do you have a job for me？” he asked.

I told him about the system for putting books on the shelves .He picked up the idea immediately. Then I showed him a pile of cards for long-overdue books that I was beginning to think had actually been returned but were mis-shelved with the

wrong cards in them. He said，“Is it kind of a detective job?” I answered yes, and he began his work.

He had found three books with wrong cards by the time his teacher opened the door and announced，“Time for break!” He argued for finishing the finding job; she made the case for fresh air. She won.

The next morning, he arrived early. “I want to finish these books, ”he said. At the end of the day, when he asked to be a librarian on a regular basis, it was easy to say yes. He worked hard.

After a few weeks I found a note on my desk, inviting me to dinner at the boy’s home. At the end of a pleasant evening, his mother announced that the family would be moving to a nearby school district. Her son’s first concern, she said, was leaving the View Ridge library.“Who will find the lost books? ” he asked.

When the time came, I said a reluctant good-bye. Though at first he had seemed an ordinary kid, his zeal had set him

apart.

I missed him, but not for long. A few days later he popped in the door and joyfully announced, “The librarian over there doesn’t let boys work in the library. My mother got me moved back to View Ridge. My dad will drop me off on his way to work. And if he can’t, I’ll walk! ”

I should have sensed that such a strong will would take that young man wherever he wanted to go. What I could not have guessed, however，was that he would become a wizard(奇才) of the Information Age：Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft and America’s richest man.

69. From the beginning of the passage we know that __________. A. the writer was a fourth grade teacher at the school. B. the librarian wanted to send the boy the school. C. the boy in jeans wanted to be a school teacher. D. the boy finished his work ahead of his classmates.

70. When the writer told the boy what to do, he ___________.

A. picked up a pile of wrong cards B. was quick to understand it C. returned the long-overdue books D. looked for a detective book

71. The underlined “ She won” in the fourth paragraph actually means____________. A. the teacher came in with a case. B. the writer wanted fresh air C. the boy went on with his work D. the boy agreed to have a rest

72. What happened after a few weeks?

A. The writer didn’t allow the boy to help at the library B. The boy’s teacher invited the writer to dinner one day. C. The boy’s family moved to another nearby school area D. The boy didn’t want to find the lost books again.

73. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage? A. It was not long before the boy went back to the writer’s library B. The writer didn’t think that the boy was an ordinary kid at first.

C. The boy’s parents sent him back because he didn’t have a strong will D. The writer knew the boy would become a wizard of the Information Age.

74. Which of the following might be the best title for the this passage? A. A Strong Will B. View Ridge School Library C. An Ordinary Kid D. Founder of Microsoft

B. Choose the words or expressions and completer the passage (选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短文)

Is it boring to remember English idioms? Here’s an easier way---listening to music! Now let’s listen to some songs and learn some idioms.

The fool on the hill / by Beatles----“ Well on his way , head in a cloud, the man of a thousand voices talking perfectly loud.”

“ have one’s head in the clouds”

If you get distracted (分心的) from your class, your teacher might say this idiom to you. It means that someone isn’t _____75__of what is going on because of his/her imaginations or daydreams.---e.g. She always has her head in the clouds and no one knows what she is really ____76____.

You are the sunshine of my life by Khalil Fong---“ You are the apple of my eye, forever you’ll stay in my heart and soul.”

“ the apple of one’s/ the eye”

Does this idiom mean that someone is a big eater of apples? Or is he addicted to (沉溺于) his iPhone? Nah! It is ____77____ a famous and commonly used idiom in English, which stands for someone or something that one cherishes (珍惜) _____78___ all others .-----e.g. The lovely cat is the apple of my grandpa’s eye.

One timey by Justin Bieber---“ When I met you girl my heart went knock knock, now them butterflies in my stomach won’t stop stop.”

“ butterflies in one’s stomach”

Let’s imagine: what would you feel if there were some butterflies flying in your stomach? It must be itchy (痒的). So can you guess what the _____79_____ of this idiom is ? Here comes the answer. When someone is very _____80___ or anxious about something, we can say he has butterflies in his stomach.---e.g. –Whenever I have to speak in public, I have butterflies in my stomach. 75. A. aware B. proud C. fond D. afraid

76.A. worrying about B. communicating with C. asking for D. thinking about 77. A. completely B. especially C. hardly D. actually 78. A. behind B. above C. among D. with 79. A. importance B. difference C. purpose D. meaning 80. A. excited B. unhappy C. nervous D. crazy

C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with the proper words.

There was once a man called Mr. Flowers, and flowers were his only joy in life. He spent all his free time in one of his four glass-houses and grew flowers of every color, with l____81___ and difficult names, for competitions. He tried to grow a rose of a new c___82___ to win the silver cup for the Rose of the Year.

Mr. Flowers' glass-houses were very near to a middle school. Boys of around thirteen of age were often tempted (引诱) to throw a stone or two at one of Mr. Flowers' glass-houses. So Mr. Flowers did his best to be in or near his glass-houses at the b____83____ and end of the school day.

But it was not always possible to be on watch at those times. Mr. Flowers had tried in many ways to p____84___rotect his glass, but nothing that he had done had been useful. He had been to school to report to the headmaster; but this had not done any good. He had tried to drive away the boys that threw stones into his garden; but the boys could run faster than he could, and they laughed at him from far away. He had e___85___ picked up all the stones that he could find around his garden, so that the boys would have nothing to throw; but they soon found o_____86___.

At last Mr. Flowers had a good idea. He put up a large notice (布告) made of good, strong wood, some meters away from the glass-houses. On it he had written the words: DO NOT THROW STONES AT THIS NOTICE. After this, Mr. Flowers had no f___87____ trouble; the boys were much more tempted to throw stones at the notice than at the

glass-houses.

D. Answer the questions (根据短文内容回答下列问题)

My daughter Tina began to look for a job several months before she graduated from university. “Because of the financial crisis it is more difficult to get into a company than to take the college entrance exam.” I told her “You shouldn’t have too much hope or you would feel really disappointed.” Tina applied for a position in a company in the city center. The competition was fierce. The company was to employ only one among the twenty people. Tina said to me “I am not afraid of disappointment. As long as I try there will always be hope! ”

Everything seemed to go quite well and Tina passed the first round and entered the final in a week’s time.

On the day of the final interview Tina and two other candidates arrived on time waiting for the test. To their great surprise the interview was quite simple and the interviewer only chatted with them for a moment. The interviewer said to them “All of you are super. Please go home and wait for our answer. We will tell you the result in three days. Good luck to all of you!” On the third day Tina received the message from the company telling her that she was not employed. She felt upset. In order to comfort her I pretended to be relaxed and said “It does not matter! I believe you will have more opportunities in the future!”

Late in the afternoon Tina suddenly told me excitedly on the phone “Dad good news. I’ve made it! ” I could not wait to ask her “What’s the whole matter?” Tina told me that she received a second message saying that she was employed. She was so confused that she made a call to the company. In fact the message Tina got in the morning was also part of the test of the interview. The three candidates received the same message this morning and only Tina’s reply was satisfying to the company. “How did all of you reply?” I asked. “One did not reply. The other said ‘Goodbye’ and I said ‘Thank you’ .”

88. Has Tina graduated from university ?

89. In the writer’s opinion, which was more difficult, to get into a company or to take the college entrance exam?

90. How many people entered the final round of the competition?

91. Why did the writer pretend to be relaxed when he learned Tina was not employed? 92. What does the underlined sentence mean “ I’ve made it!” mean in English? It means ________________________. 93. What can we learn from Tina?

VII. Writing

94. Write a passage of at least 60 words about the topic “ I Gain_________from My Hobby/” (以“ 我从我的爱好中获得了——————”为题写一篇不少于60 个词的短文，标点符号占格)

（注意： 短文中不得出现考生的姓名、校名及其他相关信息，否则不予评分）

Use the following as a reference(以下内容供参考) What is you hobby?

What do you get from it ?

In which way has your hobby changed your life?