Dear Laura,
I just heard you tell an old story of gift giving and unselfish love in your program. You doubted that such unselfish love would happen in today’s world. Well, I’m here to give you 36 .
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I wanted to do something very 37 for my fifteen-year-old son, who has always been the perfect child. He 38 all summer to earn enough money to buy a used motorcycle. Then, he spent hours and hours on it 39 it looked almost new. I was so 40 of him that I bought him the shiniest helmet and a riding outfit.
I could 41 wait for him to open up his gift. In fact, I barely slept the night before. Upon a wakening, I went to the kitchen to 42 the coffee, tea, and morning goodies. In the living room was a beautiful keyboard with a 43 :” To my wonderful mother, all my love, your son.”
I was so 44 . It had been a log-standing joke in our family that I wanted a piano so that I could 45 lessons. “ Learn to play the piano, and I’ll get you one” was my husband’s 46 .
I stood there shocked, crying a river, asking myself how my son could 47 this expensive gift.
Of course, the 48 awoke, and my son was thrilled with my reaction. Many kisses were __49 , and I immediately wanted him to 50 my gift.
AS he saw the helmet and outfit, the look on his face was not 51 what I was expecting. Then I 52 that he has sold the motorcycle to get me the keyboard.
Of course I was the proudest mother 53 on that day, and my feet never hit the ground for a month.
So I wanted you to know, that kind of love still 54 and lives even in the ever-changing world of me, me, me!
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I thought you’d love to 55 this story.
Yours, Hilary
P.S. The next day, my husband and I bought him a new “used” already shiny motorcycle. 36. A. hope B. advice C. support D. courage 37. A. polite B. similar C. special D. private 38. A. played B. studied C. traveled D. worked
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39. A. after 40. A. sure
B. before B. fond B. really B. cook B. notice
C. unless C. proud C. almost C. set C. word C. astonished C. draw C. comment C. find C. home C. expected
D. until D. confident D. hardly D. serve D. sign D. inspired D. teach D. response D. order D. house D. exhibited
41. A. perhaps 42. A. start 43. A. note 44. A. disturbed 45. A. give 46. A. reason 47. A. present 48. A. neighbor 49. A. exchanged
B. confused B. take B. request B. afford B. building B. experienced
50. A. tear B. open C. check D. receive 51. A. purely B. basically C. obviously D. exactly 52. A. realized B. remembered C. imagined D. supposed 53. A. only B. still C. ever D. even 54. A. works B. exists C. matters D. counts 55. A. send B. publish C. share D. write 阅读理解
A (2005北京C篇)
How could we possibly think that keeping animals in cages in unnatural environments－mostly for entertainment purposes---is fair and respectful?
Zoo officials say they are concerned about animals. How ever, most zoos remain “collections” of interesting “things” rather than protective habitats. Zoos teach people that it is acceptable to keep animals bored, lonely, and far from their natural bones.
Zoos claim to educate people and save endangered species, but visitors leave zoos without having learned anything meaningful about the animals’ natural behavior, intelligence, or beauty. Zoos keep animals in small spaces or cages, and most signs only mention the species’ name, diet, and natural range. The animals’ normal behavior is seldom noticed because zoos don’t usually take care of the animals’ natural needs.
The animals are kept together in small spaces, with no privacy and little opportunity for mental and physical exercise. This results in unusual and self-destructive behavior called zoochosis. A worldwide study of zoos found that zoochosis is common among animals kept in small spaces or cages. Another study showed that elephants spend 22 percent of their time making repeated head movements or biting cage bars, and bears spend 30 percent of their time walking back and forth, a sign of unhappiness and pain.
Furthermore, most animals in zoos are not endangered. Captive breeding(圈养繁殖)of endangered big cats, Asian elephants, and other species has not resulted in their being sent back to the wild. Zoos talk a lot about their captive breeding programs because they do not want people to worry about a species dying out. In fact, baby animals also attract a lot of paying customers. Haven’t we seen enough competitions to name baby animals?
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Actually, we will save endangered species only if we save their habitats and put an end to the reasons people kill them. Instead of supporting zoos, we should support groups that work to protect animals’ natural habitats.
56. How would the author describe the animals’ life in zoos?
A. Dangerous. B. Unhappy. C. Natural
D. Easy.
57.. In the state of zoochosis, animals _________. A. remain in cages B. behave strangely C. attack other animals D. enjoy moving around 58. What does the author try to argue in the passage?
A. Zoos are not worth the public support. B. Zoos fail in their attempt to save animals. C. Zoos should treat animals as human beings. D. Zoos use animals as a means of entertainment.
59The author tries to persuade readers to accept his argument mainly by _____.
A. pointing out the faults in what zoos do B. using evidence he has collected at zoos
C. questioning the way animals are protected D. discussing the advantages of natural habitats
60 Although he argues against zoos, the author would still agree that _______.
A. zoos have to keep animals in small cages B. most animals in zoos are endangered species
C. some endangered animals are reproduced in zoos
D. it’s acceptable to keep animals away from their habitats B(2006年北京B篇)
I was 9 years old when I found out my father was ill. It was 1994, but I can remember my mother’s words as if it were yesterday: “Kerrel, I don’t want you to take food from your father, because he has AIDS. Be very careful when you are around him.”
AIDS wasn’t something we talked about in my country when I was growing up. From then on, I knew that this would be a family secret. My parents were not together anymore, and my dad lived alone. For a while, he could take care of himself. But when I was 12, his condition worsened. My father’s other children lived far away, so it fell to me to look after him.
We couldn’t afford all the necessary medication for him, and because Dad was unable to work, I had no money for school supplies and often couldn’t even buy food for dinner. I would sit in class feeling completely lost, the teacher’s words muffled as I tried to figure out how I was going to manage. I did not share my burden with anyone. I had seen how people reacted to AIDS. Kids laughed at classmates who had parents with the disease. And even adults could be cruel. When my father was moved to the hospital, the nurses would leave his food on the bedside table even though he was too weak to feed himself.
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I had known that he was going to die, but after so many years of keeping his condition a secret. I was completely unprepared when he reached his final days. Sad and hopeless, I called a woman at the nonprofit National AIDS Support. That day, she kept me on the phone for hours. I was so lucky to find someone who cared. She saved my life.
I was 15 when my father died. He took his secret away with him, having never spoken about AIDS to anyone, even me. He didn’t want to call attention to AIDS. I do. 61. What does Kerrel tell us about her father?
A. He had stayed in the hospital since he fell ill. B. He depended on the nurses in his final days. C. He worked hard to pay for his medication. D. He told no one about his disease. 62. What can we learn from the underlined sentence? A. Kerrel couldn’t understand her teacher. B. Kerrel had special difficulty in hearing.
C. Kerrel was too troubled to focus on the lesson.
D. Kerrel was too tired to bear her teacher’s words. 63. Why did Kerrel keep her father’s disease a secret? A. She was afraid of being looked down upon.
B. She thought it was shameful to have AIDS. C. She found no one willing to listen to her.
D. She wanted to obey her mother. 64 Why did Kerrel write the passage?
A. To tell people about the sufferings of her father.
B. To show how little people knew about AIDS. C. To draw people’s attention to AIDS.
D. To remembered her father.
C （2007年北京D篇）
The Best of Friends
The evidence for harmony may not be obvious in some families. But it seems that four out of five young people now get on with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly held image of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.
An important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more harmonious than it has ever been in the past.” We were surprised by just how positive today’s young people seen to be about their families, “said one member of the research team.” They’re expected to be rebellious and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds; they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well. There’s more negotiation and discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process. They don’t want to rock the boat.”
So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends.” My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me,” says 17-years-old Daniel Lazal.” I always tell them when I’m going out clubbing. As long as they know what I’m doing, they’re fine with it.” Susan Brown, who is now 21, agrees. “Looking
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back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call negotiation .For example, as long as I’d done all my homework, I could go out on a Saturday night. But I think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that.”
Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected. It is possible that the idea of teenagers rebellion is not rooted in real facts. A researcher comments, “Our surprise that teenagers say they get along well with their parents comes because of a brief period in our social history when teenagers were regarded as different beings. But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled. The normal situation throughout history has been a smooth change from helping out with the family business to taking it over.”
65. What is the popular images of teenagers today?
A. They worry about school B. They dislike living with their parents
C. They have to be locked in to avoid troubles D. They quarrel a lot with other family members 66 The study shows that teenagers don’t want to ______
A. share family responsibility B. cause trouble in their families C. go boating with their family D. make family decisions 67 Compared with parents of 30 years age, today’s parents______.
A. go to clubs more often with their children B. are much stricter with their children C. care less about their children’s life D. give their children more freedom 68. According to the author, teenage rebellion_______. A. may be a false belief B. is common nowadays C. existed only in the 1960s D. resulted from changes in families 69. What is the passage mainly about?
A. Negotiation in family B. Education in family C. Harmony in family D. Teenage trouble in family
D（2007年北京E篇）
Hunting
The days of the hunter are almost over in India. This is partly because there is practically nothing left to kill, and partly because some steps have been taken, mainly by banning tiger-shooting, to protect those animals which still survive.
Some people say that Man is naturally a hunter. I disagree with this view. Surely our earliest forefathers, who at first possessed no weapons, spent their time digging for roots, and were no doubt themselves often hunted by meat-eating animals.
I believe the main reason why the modern hunter kills is that he thinks people will admire his courage in overpowering dangerous animals. Of course, there are some who truly believe that the killing is not really the important thing, and that the chief pleasure lies in the joy of the hunt and the beauties of the wild countryside. There are also those for whom hunting in fact offers a chance to prove themselves and risk death by design; these men go out after dangerous animals like tigers,
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even if they say they only do it to rid the countryside of a threat. I can respect reasons like these, but they are clearly different from the need to strengthen your high opinion of yourself.
The greatest big-game hunters expressed in their writings something of these finer motives. One of them wrote.
“You must properly respect what you are after and shoot it cleanly and on the animal’s own territory. You must fix forever in your mind all the wonders of that particular day. This is better than letting him grow a few years older to be attacked and wounded by his own son and eventually eaten, half alive, by other animals, Hunting is not a cruel and senseless killing --- not if you respect the thing you kill, not if you kill to enrich your memories, not if you kill to feed your people.”
I can understand such beliefs, and can compare these hunters with those who hunted lions with spears and bravely caught them by the tail. But this is very different from many tiger—shoots I have seen, in which modern weapons were used. The so—called hunters fired from tall trees or from the backs of trained elephants. Such methods made tigers seem no more dangerous than rabbits. 70 There is no more hunting in India now partly because________.
A. it is dangerous to hunt there B. hunting is already out of date C. hunters want to protect animals D. there are few animals left to hunt 71. The author thinks modern hunters kill mainly____.
A .to make the countryside safe B .to earn people’s admiration C. to gain power and influence D. to improve their health 72. What do we learn about the big-game hunters?
A They hunt old animals B. They mistreat animals C .They hunt for food D. They hunt for money 73. What is the author’s view on the tiger-shoots he has seen?
A .Modern hunters lack the courage to hunt face-to-face B. Modern hunters should use more advanced weapons C. Modern hunters like to hunt rabbits instead of tigers D. Modern hunters should put their safety first
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