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Humans are naturally drawn to other life forms and the worlds outside of our own. We take delight in the existence of creatures and even whole socicties beyond our everyday lives.

This sense of wonder is universal look at the efforts that scientists have made to find out whether life of some kind exists on Mars, and the popularity of fantasy(幻想) litcrature or movies like The lord of the Rings, This sense of wonder drous us to each other, to the world around us, and to the world of make-believe. But have we gone to far in creating worlds of fantasy that we are missing the phcasure of other worlds that alrewly exist all around us?

Human beings, as biologists have suggested, possess an inborn desire to connect with and understand other life forms, However, people, especially in big cities, often lead rather isolated lices. In a study of British schoolchildren, it was found that children bye age eight were much more familiar with hurmans for television shows and cideo games than with common wildlife. Without modern technology ,a amall pond could be an amazing world filled with strange and beautiful plants, insects,birds,and animals. When we lack meaningful interaction (交互) with the world around us, and sometimes ecen with our families and friends , we seek to understand and communicate with things that exist only in our imaginations or on a computer screen

The world of make-believe is not neccsanly bad, But when the world of  famsity becomes the only outlet (出路) our sense of wonder ,then we are really missing something, We are missing a connection with the living world. Other wonderful worderful worlds exist all around us. But even more interesting is that if we look closely enough ,we can see that these worlds, in a broad sense , are really part of our own.

72.The popularity of  The Lord of the rings proves     

  A.the close connestion between man and the fantasy world

  B.the wonderful achievements of fantasy literature

  C.the fine taste of moviegoers around the world

  D.the general existence of the sense of curiosity

73.What can we infer from the underlineed sentence in Paragraph 3?

  A.People are fra less familiar with the world of fantasy.

  B.The world around us could serve as a sound of  wonder.

  C.The world of fantasy can be mirred by  a small and lively pond.

  D.Modern technology prevents us from developing our sense of wonder.

74. If our sense of wonder relics totally on the world of make-believe. we will_______.

A.fail to appreciate the joy in our lives

B.be confused by the world of make-believe

C.miss the chance to recognizc the fantas world

D.be tranped by other worlds exsting all around us

75. What is the main purpose of the passage?

A.To show us the hidden beauty in our world.

B.To warn us not to get lost in the fantasy wonder

C.To argue against the misuse of the sense of wonder

D.To discuss the influence of the world of make-believe

 

 

I remember a day when I was a little kid. I was making a sandwich in the kitchen when I noticed the date on one of the wine bottles.
“ Dad, dad!” I cried. “This wine is too old to drink.”
“ Son, hold on,” he said.
“ No, you can’t drink this tonight! This bottle of wine was made 10 years ago.”
“ Wait, let me tell you…”
“ Would you like me to throw it away from you?” I asked.
“ Son, wait a second,” he said. “Son, some wines get better over time. The longer you wait to drink it, the better it will be. Although this may seem strange, it is true.”
When I was young, I didn’t have any understanding of what this meant, but now, this would have been very helpful to remember as I went through my teenage years.
In our society, we forget this simple rule: The longer you want for certain things, the better they will be. But we want the best job as quickly as possible; we want to graduate from college in as few years as possible; we even speed through our homework just to chat with friends. When we do this, we lose something of great importance.
We all want to get to the next step so quickly that perhaps we don’t get ready enough to get there. This has a negative effect on our society. When trying to go to the right college, we will do anything to get in and when we rush through our class-work, we may not study enough for the test, and end up failing. We need to be ready for whatever comes, ready for the unexpected. Wine gets better over time, so do the things in our paths of life.
【小題1】Why did the author tell his father not to drink the bottle of wine?

A．Because it smelt terrible.

B．Because it was mixed with something else.

C．Because his father drank too much that night.

D．Because it had been kept for years.

【小題2】What the author’s father said __________.

A．made the author puzzled when he was a little child.

B．was too simple a rule to be meaningful to the author.

C．threw the author into deep thought then.

D．was an excuse to drink the wine.

【小題3】 In the author’s opinion, if we do things too quickly, we will __________.

A．do it better	B．save much time
C．graduate from college more quickly	D．miss something useful to us in life

【小題4】 Which of the following best reflects the main idea of the passage?

A．Well begun is half done.	B．More haste（匆忙）, less speed.
C．Failure is the mother of success.	D．Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

I remember a day when I was a little kid. I was making a sandwich in the kitchen when I noticed the date on one of the wine bottles.

“ Dad, dad!” I cried. “This wine is too old to drink.”

“ Son, hold on,” he said.

“ No, you can’t drink this tonight! This bottle of wine was made 10 years ago.”

“ Wait, let me tell you…”

“ Would you like me to throw it away fro you?” I asked.

“ Son, wait a second,” he said. “Son, some wines get better over time. The longer you wait to drink it, the better it will be. Although this may seem strange, it is true.”

When I was young, I didn’t have any understanding of what this meant, but now, this would have been very helpful to remember as I went through my teenage years.

In our society, we forget this simple rule: The longer you want for certain things, the better they will be. But we want the best job as quickly as possible; we want to graduate from college in as few years as possible; we even speed through our homework just to chat with friends. When we do this, we lose something of great importance.

We all want to get to the next step so quickly that perhaps we don’t get ready enough to get there. This has a negative effect on our society. When trying to go to the right college, we will do anything to get in and when we rush through our class-work, we may not study enough for the test, and end up failing. We need to be ready for whatever comes, ready for the unexpected. Wine gets better over time, so do the things in our paths of life.

1.Why did the author tell his father not to drink the bottle of wine?

A．Because it smelt terrible.

B．Because it had been kept for years.

C．Because it was mixed with something else.

D．Because his father drank too much that night.

2.What the author’s father said __________.

A．made the author puzzled when he was a little child.

B．was too simple a rule to be meaningful to the author.

C．threw the author into deep thought then.

D．was an excuse to drink the wine.

3.In the author’s opinion, if we do things too quickly, we will __________.

A．do it better

B．save much time

C．graduate from college more quickly

D．miss something useful to us in life

4.Which of the following best reflects the main idea of the passage?

A．Well begun is half done.

B．More haste, less speed.

C．Failure is the mother of success.

D．Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

 

三、閱讀理解（共20小題；每小題2分，滿分40分）

閱讀下面短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A．B．C和D）中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項的標(biāo)號涂黑。

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I remember a day when I was a little kid. I was making a sandwich in the kitchen when I noticed the date on one of the wine bottles.

"Dad, dad!" I cried. "This wine is too old to drink."

"Son, hold on," he said.

"No, you can't drink this tonight! This bottle of wine was made 10 years ago."

"Wait, let me tell you..."

"Would you like me to throw it away for you?" I asked.

"Son, wait a second," he said. "Son, some wines get better over time. The longer you wait to drink it, the better it will be. Although this may seem strange, it is true."

When I was young, I didn't have any understanding of what this meant, but now, this would have been very helpful to remember as I went through my teenage years.

In our society, we forget this simple role: The longer you wait for certain things, the better they will be. But we want the best job as quickly as possible; we want to graduate from college in as few years as possible; we even speed through our homework just to chat with friends. When we do this, we lose something of great importance.

We all want to get to the next step so quickly that perhaps we don't get ready enough to get there. This has a negative effect on our society. When trying to go to the right college, we will do anything to get in and when we rush through our class－work, we may not study enough for the test, and end up failing. We need to be ready for whatever comes, ready for the unexpected. Wine gets better over time, so do the things in our paths of life.

56．Why did the author tell his father not to drink the bottle of wine?

A．Because it smelt terrible.

B．Because it was mixed with something else.

C．Because his father drank too much that night.

D．Because it had been kept for years.

57．What the author's father said______.

A．made the author puzzled when he was a little child

B．was too simple a rule to be meaningful to the author

C．threw the author into deep thought then

D．was an excuse to drink the wine

58．In the author's opinion, if we do things too quickly we will______.

A．do it better                                                                 B．save much time

C．graduate from college more quickly          D．miss something useful to us in life

59．Which of the following best reflects the main idea of the passage?

A．Well begun is half done.                       B．More haste, less speed.

C．Failure is the mother of success.       D．Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

 

Beijing had its biggest snowfall since 1951. Britain is suffering through its longest cold snap (寒潮) since 1981. And freezing weather is hitting the Deep South, including Florida’s orange groves and beaches.

Whatever happened to global warming?

Such weather doesn’t seem to fit with warnings from scientists that the Earth is warming because of greenhouse gases. But experts say the cold snap doesn’t contradict global warming at all—it’s just a temporary phenomenon in the long-term heating trend. “It’s part of natural variability,” said Gerald Meehl, a senior scientist. With global warming, he said, “we’ll still have record cold temperatures. We’ll just have fewer of them.”

Scientists say man-made climate change does have the potential to cause more frequent and more severe weather extremes. But experts did not connect the current cold snap to climate change.

 So what is going on?

“We basically have seen just a big outbreak of Arctic air over populated areas of the Northern Hemisphere”, Arndt said.

In the atmosphere, large rivers of air travel roughly west to east around the globe between the Arctic and the tropics. This air flow acts like a fence to keep Arctic air restricted. But recently, this air flow has become bent into a zigzag (之字形) pattern, wandering north and south. If you live in a place where it brings air up from the south, you get warm weather. In fact, record highs were reported this week in Washington state and Alaska.

But in the eastern United States, like some other unlucky parts of the globe, Arctic air is coming from the north. And that’s how you get a temperature of 3 degrees in Beijing, a reading of minus-42 in mainland Norway, and 18 inches of snow in parts of Britain. The zigzag pattern arises naturally from time to time, but it is not clear why it’s so strong right now.

What is the best title of the text?

A. Freezing weather is hitting the Deep South.

B. We’ll still have record cold temperatures.

C. The air flow has become a zigzag pattern.

D. Cold snap doesn’t contradict global warming.

With global warming, we will ______.

A. also meet with severe cold snap

B. have more hot temperatures forever

C. never experience cold temperatures

D. have more cold temperatures

According to experts, the current cold snap ______.

A. suggests that the climate has changed greatly

B. is not related to the climate change

C. shows that the climate will turn cold

D. is affected by global warming

Beijing had its biggest snowfall since 1951 because of ______.

A. a fence from the Arctic                   B. a cooling trend in climate

C. a big outbreak of Arctic air              D. its large population

We can conclude that ______.

A. not all the parts of the Northern Hemisphere are cold in face of the cold snap

B. the zigzag pattern arises naturally accidentally

C. Beijing will get cold weather next year

D. Washington state and Alaska will not face cold weather next year