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            • 1. I’m a 34-year-old man,married,lived in a nice house,and have a successful career as an educational consultant.But my life was not always so great.I had a learning disability from an early age.I went to a special school where I got plenty of extra help.Still,I suffered the rest of my school days in public schools.
              My life improved remarkably when I discovered art.The art world gave me a chance to express myself without words.I went to a workshop and gradually got good at making things with clay(黏土).Here I learned my first important lesson:disabled as I was in language.I could still be smart and well express myself with clay.And my confidence came along.
              I got my next lesson from rock climbing.It was a fun thing but I was scared from the start.I soon noticed it wasn’t a talent thing; it was practice.So I did it more.After about five years of climbing,I found myself in Yosemite Valley on a big wall.I learned that if you fall in love with something and do it all the time,you will get better at it.
              Later I decided to apply my previous experience to learning how to read and write.Every day I practiced reading and writing,which I used to avoid as much as possible.After two hard years,I was literate.
              Having gone through the long process with art,rock climbing,and reading and writing,now I’ve got to a point in my life where I know I am smart enough to dive into an area that is totally unknown,hard,but interesting.

              56.What made the author’s school days difficult?(No more than 5words)    
              57.Why did art give the author confidence?(No more than 10words)    
              58.What lesson did the author learn from rock climbing?(No more than 15words)    
              59.What is the meaning of the underlined part in Paragraph 4?(No more than 5words)    
              60.How does the author’s story inspire you to overcome difficulties in life?Put it in your own words.(No more than 20words)    
            • 2. (2016•黄浦区一模)Rosalind Franklin always liked facts.She was logical and precise,and impatient with things that were otherwise.She decided to become a scientist when she was 15.She passed the examination for admission to Cambridge University in 1938,and it sparked a family crisis.Although her family was well-to-do and had a tradition of public service and charity,her father disapproved of university education for women.He refused to pay.An aunt stepped in and said Franklin should go to school,and she would pay for it.Franklin’s mother also took her side until her father finally gave in.
                 She was invited to King’s College in London to join a team of scientists.The leader of the team assigned her to work on DNA with a graduate student.Franklin’s assumption was that it was her own project.The laboratory’s second-in-command,Maurice Wilkins,was on vacation at the time,and when he returned,their relationship was puzzling.He assumed she was to assist his work; she assumed she’d be the only one working on DNA.They had powerful personality differences as well:Franklin direct,quick,decisive,and Wilkins shy,hesitant,and passive.
              In 1953,Wilkins changed the course of DNA history by disclosing,without Franklin’s permission,her Photo 51to competing scientist James Watson,who was working on his own DNA model with Francis Crick at Cambridge.Upon seeing the photograph,Watson said,“My jaw fell open and my pulse began to race,”according to author Brenda Maddox who wrote the book Rosalind Franklin:The Dark Lady of DNA.
              The two scientists did in fact use what they saw in Photo 51as the basis for their famous model of DNA,which they published on March 7,1953,and for which they received a Nobel Prize in 1962.Crick and Watson were also able to take most of the credit for the finding:they included a footnote acknowledging that they were“stimulated by a general knowledge”of Franklin’s and Wilkin’s unpublished contribution,when much of their work was rooted in Franklin’s photo and findings.Franklin didn’t know that these men based their article on her research,and she didn’t complain either,likely as a result of her upbringing.Franklin“didn’t do anything that would invite criticism…(that was) bred into her,”Maddox said.

              66.Wilkins’relationship with Franklin was characterized by    
              A.unity and harmony    
              B.confusion and competition
              C.cooperation and miscommunication
              D.misunderstanding and conflict
              67.What does Watson mean by saying“My jaw fell open and my pulse began to race”?    
              A.He was confused that Crick had not made this discovery.
              B.He was surprised that Wilkins had discovered this information.
              C.He was satisfied with the importance of Photo 51.
              D.He was anxious about the progress Wilkins and Franklin had made.
              68.What is Brenda Maddox’s main intention according to the quote in the last paragraph?    
              A.To re-evaluate the importance of the DNA model.
              B.To criticize King’s College and Cambridge.
              C.To emphasize Franklin’s importance in science.
              D.To deny Watson’s and Crick’s contribution to science.
              69.Franklin’s career as a scientist demonstrates    
              A.that her work was pointing at the most difficult problem
              B.that she was the only female scientist during the period
              C.the importance of DNA in modern science
              D.that perseverance leads to success and recognition of field scientists.
            • 3. For professional athletes,it's all about training,speed,strength,and endurance.It's no different for the homing pigeon (传信鸽)-the flying athletes,but they're not going for the gold with every race.They just want to go home.
              When you walk into Mike Beavers'pigeon loft (鸽棚) you'll hear the happy coo (咕咕叫) from his flock of homing pigeons.Beavers raises and races these birds near Kingsley,Iowa,USA.
              “Most people don't believe me,”says Beavers.“They ask,‘How do you do that?'Then once you start explaining it,it really kind of catches their interest and they say,‘Wow,that's pretty awesome.'”
              His love for the birds took off when he was a kid and he's spent the past 30years building his team of racing pigeons.It's a family hobby.“I got out of it for a few years and after I got married,my daughter came along and it was something that she and I could do together because I don't shop,”says Beavers.
              Beavers has about 150birds,but these aren't ordinary pigeons.They're born to race,conditioned to travel long distances,and they have the instinct (本能) to always return home no matter where they are.
              “They come back because this is home,”says Beavers.“This is where they were born and raised and it's just their instinct to go home.Nobody even really knows the reason.It's one of nature's secrets and nobody has found it yet.”
              These pigeons are kind of like a flying GPS.That's what makes them so special.If you take a wild pigeon you find under a bridge and take it out 100miles away,it is just going to find the closest bridge and that's going to be its new home.It is the instinct that is bred into these birds over centuries and centuries.

              31.What do most people think of Beavers'raising homing pigeons after his explanation?    
              A.Boring but acceptable.
              B.Interesting and acceptable.
              C.Surprising and unacceptable.
              D.Understandable but unacceptable.
              32.It can be inferred from the passage that Beavers    
              A.often goes shopping with his family
              B.has never stopped raising homing pigeons
              C.has raised homing pigeons for two decades
              D.shares this pigeon⁃raising hobby with his daughter
              33.In what way are homing pigeons different from ordinary pigeons?    
              A.They can locate their home.
              B.They are equipped with GPS.
              C.They like to live under a bridge.
              D.They can't travel long distances.
              34.The homing pigeons can fly back home because    
              A.they are well trained 
              B.they have the instinct
              C.they are equipped with GPS
              D.they don't travel long distance
              35.The main purpose of the passage is to    
              A.compare homing pigeons with other pigeons
              B.give advice on how to raise homing pigeons
              C.encourage people to find the secrets of homing pigeons
              D.introduce a man who raises and races homing pigeons.
            • 4. He was once referred to as the Picasso of poetry.Beloved by Chileans of all classes,he is one of the most widely read and respected poets in history.And this year is the 100th birthday of Pablo Neruda(1904-1973).
              Born with the name Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basolto,he was a tall,shy and lonely boy.He loved to read and started to write poetry when he was ten.The American poet Walt Whitman,whose framed picture Neruda later kept on his table became a major influence on his work.
              However,his father did not like the idea of having a poet for a son and tried to discourage him from writing.To cover up (掩饰) the publication of his first poem,he took the pen name Pablo Neruda.
              In 1924Neruda gained fame with his most widely read work“Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.”Yet his rich experience as a diplomat and exile(流犯) made him go beyond the theme of love.His work also reflected the political struggle of the left and development of South America.He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.
              Neruda loved the sea which he saw as creative,destructive and forever moving.He found inspiration in the power and freedom of the waves and the seabirds on the coast.“I need the sea because it teaches me,”he wrote.“I move in the university of the waves.”He loved how the sea forever renewed itself,a renewal echoed in his work.

              21.The underlined word“Picasso”can probably be replaced by“    ”.
              A.most important person           
              B.famous person from Picasso
              C.freedom fighter in Picasso        
              D.poem fans
              22.Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basolto took the pen name Pablo Neruda because    
              A.literary greats usually used the pen name
              B.his father encouraged him to use the name
              C.he wanted to prevent his father knowing the publication
              D.he was greatly influenced by other poets
              23.Which of the following is not the theme of his works?    
              A.Love.
              B.Political struggle.
              C.Social reform.
              D.Development of South America.
              24.The last paragraph mainly tells us    
              A.the sea gave Neruda vast writing inspiration
              B.the beautiful scenery along the Chile coast
              C.Neruda's poems were widely read overseas
              D.Neruda loved to write his poems near the sea.
            • 5. The high school grades of Tom Monaghan,who was born in 1937,were so low that he graduated at the bottom of his class.The local university turned down his application,but he managed to enter the University of Michigan.A few weeks later,he dropped out because he lacked money for school fees.In 1960,Monaghan agreed to buy a pizza store with his brother,who gave up a year later.
              For the first year,Monaghan worked all the time but hardly made any money.He soon found himself deep in debt.He began making the business simpler,selling only three sizes of pizza,instead of five.This change helped Monaghan make a profit,which allowed him to expand his three stores under a new name,Domino’s.
              However,during the following years Monaghan experienced a series of setbacks.In 1967,a fire destroyed his store in Ypsilanti,Michigan,which served as the company’s offices.Most of the damage was not covered by insurance.In an effort to recover his losses,Monaghan continued to expand his franchise,but was unable to keep up with the growth.Without Monaghan’s guidance,many of the new stores closed down.By 1970,Monaghan was 1.5 million in debt and facing law suits from nearly 150 debtors.In the following financial settlement,Monaghan lost 51 percen of his company to the bank.But Monaghan concentrated on building the 49 percent of the business he still owned.Slowly,he began to work his way out of his financial difficulties.He defended himself in court since he could not afford a lawyer.He sold his furniture and his car.In about a year,he managed to pay off all his debts.These hard times taught him avaluable lesson in how to run a business.By 1978,two hundred Domino’s stores had opened.Five years later,the number of stores was over a thousand;by 1989,the chain had more than five thousand stores.The company had more than six thousand pizza delivery stores when Monaghan sold it for 1 billion in 1998.

              56.What seemed to be the reason why the local university turned down Monaghan’s application?(No more than 10words)    
              57.How did Monaghan expand his three stores under a new name,Domino’s according to the second paragraph?(No more than 15words)    
              58.What does the underlined word“setbacks”mean in the third paragraph?(Only one word)
                  
              59.How did Monaghan finally succeed after he lost 51percent of his company?
              (No more than 15words)    
              60.What do you think of Monaghan?Give your reasons.(No more than 20words)    
            • 6. Lee Kuan Yew emerged onto the international stage as the founding father of the state of Singapore,then a city of about 1million.He developed into a world statesman who acted as a kind of conscience to leaders around the globe.
              Fate initially seemed not to have provided him with a stage on which to achieve more than modest local success.In the first phase of decolonization,Singapore emerged as a part of Malaya.It was cut loose because of tensions between Singapore’s largely Chinese population and the Malay majority and,above all,to teach the city a lesson of dependency,Malaya undoubtedly expected that reality would cure Singapore of its independent spirit.
              But great men become such through visions beyond material calculations.Lee challenged conventional wisdom by opting for statehood.The choice reflected a deep faith in the virtues of his people.He asserted that a city located on a sandbar with no economic resource to draw upon,and whose major industry as a colonial naval base had disappeared,could nevertheless thrive and achieve international reputation by building on its principal asset(财富):the intelligence,industry and dedication of its people.
              A great leader takes his or her society from where it is to where it has never been----indeed,where it as yet cannot imagine being.By insisting on quality education,by suppressing corruption and by basing governance on merit.Lee and his colleagues raised the annual per capita income of their population from 500atthetimeofindependencein1965toroughly55,000today.In a generation,Singapore became an international financial center.,the leading intellectual metropolis of Southeast Asia,the location of the region’s major hospitals and a favored site for conferences on international affairs.It did so by adhering to an extraordinary pragmatism:by opening careers to the best talents and encouraging them to adopt the best practices from all over the world..
              Superior performance was one component of that achievement.Superior leadership was even more important.As the decades went by,it was moving----and inspirational----to see Lee.,the mayor of a medium-size city,become a mentor of global strategic order.
              The great tragedy of Lee’s life was that his beloved wife was felled by a stroke that left her a prisoner in her body,unable to communicate or receive communication.Through all that time,Lee sat by her bedside in the evening reading to her.He had faith that she understood despite the evidence to the contrary.
              Perhaps this was Lee Kuan Yew’s role in his era.He had the same hope for our world.He fought for its better instincts even when the evidence was ambiguous.But many of us heard him and will never forget him.

              58.Why did Lee Kuan Yew choose to lead Singapore to be independent?    
              A.He intended to act as a kind of conscience to leaders around the globe.
              B.He determined his people shouldn’t be subjected to Malaya anymore.
              C.He had considerable confidence in the value of the city’s assets.
              D.He wanted Singapore to be the most powerful country worldwide.
              59.From the underlined sentence in Paragraph2,we can know that    
              A.Malaya expected Singapore to be powerful
              B.Malaya had a desire to kick off Singapore
              C.Malaya firmly believed Singapore would give in
              D.Malaya didn’t think Singapore possessed independent spirit
              60.The fourth paragraph is organized to    
              A.illustrate how advanced Singapore has been today
              B.demonstrate Lee Kuan Yew attached great importance to the talents
              C.prove what a crucial decision Lee Kuan Yew once made
              D.show the tremendous impact Lee Kuan Yew had on Singapore
              61.Which of the following can best describe Lee Kuan Yew?    
              A.Stubborn and arbitrary           
              B.Aggressive and affectionate.
              C.Demanding and bossy            
              D.Outspoken and humorous.
            • 7. It’s hard to find Alice Munro in the media.Even after she won the 2013Nobel Prize in Literature,the Canadian writer just appeared for a quick interview and then dropped out of sight.On Dec 29,she still didn't seek the spotlight(聚光灯)when she was named one of the five Women of the Year by the Financial Times.
              In Munro's eyes,ordinary lives always hide larger dramas.So she records what we casually think of as the everyday actions of normal people.She often focuses on life in her hometown,a small village in Ontario which she is most familiar with.She writes about the ordinary things in the village-fox forming,trees filled in the Ontario wilderness,poor country alcohol and long last illnesses.Above all,she talks about girls and women who have seemingly ordinary lives but struggle against daily misfortune.
              She has a special talent for uncovering the extraordinary in the ordinary.These are ordinary people,ordinary stories,but she has the magic.Her precise language,depth of detail and the logic of her storytelling have made her stories inviting.
              Runaway,one of Munro’s representative works,is a good example of her writing style.One of the stories centers on the life of an ordinary woman Carla,who lives in a small Canadian town with her husband Clark.The story slowly forms a picture of Carla,trapped in a bad marriage,her unhappiness building into desperation until she decided to flee.The story of Carla is a story of the power and betrayals of love.It is about lost children and lots of chances that we can all find in life,There is pain beneath the surface,like a needle in the heart.
              Since she published her first collection of short stories in 1968,Munro has won many awards,with the Nobel Prize being her biggest honor.On Oct 10,2013,the Nobel Prize committee named Munro the“master of the contemporary short story”.

              24.We learn from Paragraph 1that Alice Munro    
              A.didn't get on well with the media
              B.remained modest though very successful
              C.didn’t value the title of Women of the Year
              D.was surprised at winning the Nobel Prize
              25.What makes Alice Munro’s stories fascinating according to the text?    
              A.Her writing techniques                  
              B.The complicated plots
              C.The humorous language
              D.Her rich imagination
              26.In her representative work Runaway,Carla    
              A.leads a happy life with Clark
              B.is a faithful wife to her husband
              C.loses all hopes for a better life             
              D.tries to run away from her husband
              27.What is the text mainly about?    
              A.Alice Munro and her hometown
              B.The awards Alice Munro won
              C.Alice Munro and her writing style          
              D.Alice Munro’s literary life.
            • 8. When 19-year-old Sophia Giorgi said she was thinking of volunteering to help the Make-A-Wish Foundation(基金会),nobody understood what she was talking about.But Sophia knew just how important Make-A-Wish could be because this special organization had helped to make a dream come true for one of her best friends.We were interested in finding out more,so we went along to meet Sophia and listen to what she had to say.
              Sophia told us that Make-A-Wish is a worldwide organization that started in the United States in 1980.“It’s a charity(慈善机构) that helps children who have got very serious illnesses.Make-A-Wish helps children feel happy even though they are sick,by making their wishes and dreams come true,”Sophia explained.
              We asked Sophia how Make-A-wish had first started.She said it had all begun with a very sick young boy called Chris,who had been dreaming for a long time of becoming a policeman.Sophia said lots of people had wanted to find a way to make Chris’s dream come true-so,with everybody’s help,Chris,only seven years old at the time,had been a“policeman”for a day.“When people saw how delighted Chris was when his dream came true,they decided to try and help other sick children too,and that was the beginning of Make-A-Wish,”explained Sophia.
              Sophia also told us the Foundation tries to give children and their families a special,happy time.A Make-A-Wish volunteer visits the families and asks the children what they would wish for if they could have anything in the world.Sophia said the volunteers were important because they were the ones who helped to make the wishes come true.They do this either by providing things that are necessary,or by raising money or helping out in whatever way they can.

              31.Sophia found out about Make-A-Wish because her best friend had    
              A.benefited from it           
              B.volunteered to help it
              C.dreamed about it           
              D.told the author about it
              32.According to Sophia,Make-A-Wish    
              A.is an international charity     
              B.was understood by nobody at first
              C.raises money for very poor families
              D.started by drawing the interest of the public
              33.What is said about Chris in Paragraph 3?    
              A.he has been a policeman since he was seven.
              B.He gave people the idea of starting Make-A-Wish.
              C.He wanted people to help make his dream come true.
              D.he was the first child Make-A-Wish helped after it had been set up.
              34.Which of the following is true about Make-A-Wish volunteers?    
              A.They are important for making wishes come true.
              B.They try to help children get over their illnesses.
              C.They visit sick children to make them feel special.
              D.They provide what is necessary to make Make-A-Wish popular.
            • 9. (2015•怀化二模)   In Silicon Valley,it's never too early to become an entrepreneur.Just ask 13-year-old David Moore.The eighth-grader has launched a company last October to develop low-cost machines to print Braille (布莱叶盲文).David built a Braille printer with a Lego Mindstorms EV3kit as a school science fair project last year after he asked his parents a simple question:How do blind people read?“Google it,“they told him.David then did some online research and was shocked to learn that Braille printers cost at least 2,000dollars-too expensive for most blind readers.
              “I just thought that price should not be there.I know that there is a simpler way to do this,“said David,who demonstrated how his printer works at the kitchen table where he spent many late nights building it.David wants to improve the“Braigo”-a name that combines Braille and Lego-and develop a desktop Braille printer that costs around 350dollars and weighs just a few pounds,compared with current models that can weigh more than 20pounds.“My end goal would probably be having most of the blind people…using my Braille printer,“said David,who lives in the Silicon Valley suburb of Santa Clara,just minutes away from Intel headquarters.
               After the Braigo won numerous awards and enthusiastic support from the blind community,David started Braigo Labs last summer with an initial 35,000dollars investment from his dad.“We as parents started to get involved more,thinking that he's on to something and this new way process has to continue,“said his father,Matthew Moore,an engineer who works for Intel.
              Intel officials were so impressed with David's printer that in November they invested an undisclosed sum in his start-up.They believe he's the youngest entrepreneur to receive venture capital money invested in exchange for a financial stake in the company.“He's solving a real problem,and he wants to go off and challenge an existing industry,“said Edward Ross,director of Inventor Platforms at Intel.Now the company is using the money to hire professional engineers and advisers to help design and build Braille printers based on David’s ideas.It aims to have a prototype (样机) ready for blind organizations to test this summer and have a Braigo printer on the market later this year.

              66.Which of the followings is Not the description of Braigo?    
              A.The name“Braigo“comes from Braille and Lego.
              B.The blind are in favor of the new type of printer.
              C.It costs less money and weighs just a few pounds.
              D.David planned to improve Braigo and make it lighter but easier to use.
              67.Which of the following words can best describe David’s personalities?    
              A.Adventurous and enthusiastic.
              B.Trustworthy and active.
              C.Childish and outgoing.
              D.Creative and independent.
              68.Which of the following is the correct order?    
              ①.Intel officials invested money in David’s start-up.
              ②.David launched a company.
              ③.David got an initia l35,000dollars investment from his dad.
              ④.David created a new Braille printer model called Braigo.
              ⑤.Braigo Labs hired professional engineers and advisers to help design and build Braille
              Printers.
              A.④③②①⑤
              B.④②⑤①③
              C.③⑤④②①
              D.②①④⑤③
              69.What can we learn from Paragraph 4?    
              A.Intel didn’t announce the amount of money it invested.
              B.No one else has ever received venture capital from Intel.
              C.Intel purchased David’s ideas to design and build Braille printers.
              D.Braigo printers have been on the market and proved a great success.
              70.The passage is most probably taken from.    
              A.a sports section    
              B.a science section   
              C.a culture section  
              D.an entertainment section.
            • 10. “I will never marry”the future Elizabeth I declared at the age of eight,and,to the terror of her people,the Great Queen kept her word.
              For four centuries,historians have guessed why Elizabeth never married.In her own day,her decision to remain single was considered absurd and dangerous.A queen needed a husband to make political decisions for her and to organize and lead her military campaigns.More importantly,she needed male heirs (继承人) to avoid a civil war after her death.
              There was no shortage of suitors for the Queen,both English courtiers (朝臣) and foreign princes,and it was confidently expected for the best part of 30years that Elizabeth would eventually marry one of them.Indeed,although she insisted that she preferred the single state,she kept these suitors in a state of permanent expectation.This was a deliberate policy on the Queen's part,since by keeping foreign princes in hope,sometimes for a decade,she kept them friendly when they might otherwise have made war on her kingdom.
              There were,indeed,good political reasons for her avoiding marriage.The disastrous union of her sister Mary I to Philip II of Spain had had an unwelcome foreign influence upon English politics.The English were generally prejudiced against the Queen taking a foreign husband,particularly a Catholic(天主教的) one.Yet if she married an English,jealousy might lead to the separation of the court.
              She once pointed out that marriage seemed too uncertain a state for her.Her father,Henry VIII,had had her mother,Anne Boleyn,killed; her stepmother Catherine Howard later suffered the same fate.
              Elizabeth had to decide her priorities.Marriage or being single?Elizabeth was far too intelligent.The choice she made was courageous and revolutionary,and,in the long run,the right one for England.

              49.To the suitors including English courtiers and foreign princes,Elizabeth    
              A.held back the truth
              B.kept them expecting on purpose
              C.gave a definite answer“no”
              D.said she preferred the single state
              50.If Elizabeth had married a foreign prince,there might have been    
              A.prejudice against her
              B.separation of the court
              C.a negative impact on English politics
              D.jealousy among English courtiers
              51.Which of the following implications is right according to the passage
                  
              A.Elizabeth’s marriage seemed too certain a state for her.
              B.Some foreign princes made war on Britain.
              C.Catherine Howard was killed by Anne Boleyn.
              D.Queen Elizabeth was not a Catholic.
              52.What is the attitude of the author towards Queen Elizabeth never marrying in her life
                  
              A.Negative.
              B.Approving.
              C.Pitiful.
              D.Neutral.
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