单选题

　　[阅读理解]“Longer life would give us a chance to recover from our mistakes and promote long term thinking，” says Dr Gregory Stock of the University Of California School Of Public Health. “It would also raise productivity by adding to the year we can work.”

　　Longer lives don‘t just affect the people who live them. They also affect society as a whole. “We have war， poverty， all sorts of issues around， and I don’t think any of them would be at all helped by having people live longer，” says US bioethicist Daniel Callahan. “The question is ‘What will we get as a society’s suspect it won‘t be a better society.”

　　Which of the following is NOT mentioned as one of the things that living longer might enable an individual to do

　　A、Spending more time with his family.

　　B、Having more education.

　　C、Realizing more dreams.

　　D、Working longer.

　　正确答案：B

　　答案解析：答案选B。长寿使个人能做的事主要在以上两段里讲到，作者没有提到长寿可以让人更多地接受教育。

　　[阅读理解]I was searching for just the right word to describe this book; a word that describes something that is perhaps somewhat sad， but in a good way. I couldn‘t find quite the right word， but I do know the feeling.

　　This book does make me feel a bit sad. Sad for the way that childhood passes so quickly， sad for days that go by， faster than we‘d like them to. But it also makes me feel the sweetness of these things and helps me remember that childhood imagination， freedom and joy are things that we can carry with us still， long after our days as children have passed.

　　Which of the following is true about the author‘s feeling of the book?

　　A、It makes him feel sad for his childhood is sad.

　　B、It makes him feel sad because he didn‘t remember his happy childhood.

　　C、He couldn‘t describe the book， for he doesn’t know the feeling.

　　D、He realizes that childhood imagination， freedom and joy are things that he can carry even when he is an adult.

　　正确答案：D

　　答案解析：答案选D。细节理解题。 通过本段第二句I couldn’t find quite the right word, but I do know the feeling...可排除C。通过第四句Sad for the way that childhood passes so quickly可以知道他感觉悲伤是因为童年时光匆匆而过，而不是因为他的童年是悲伤的，文中并未提及。所以A不对。同理文中也并未提及他感到悲伤是以为他没有了童年的回忆，故B也不对。而可以通过最后一句话得出D是对的。

　　[阅读理解]Young musicians in African countries are creating a new kind of pop music. The tunes and the rhythms of their music combine African traditions with various forms of music popular today， such as hip-hop， rap， rock， jazz， or reggae. The result is music that may sound familiar to listeners anywhere in the world， but at the same time is distinctly African. It is different also in another way Many of the songs are very serious and they deal with important social or political issues in Africa today.

　　This passage is about how African pop music is_______.

　　A、usually about love and romance

　　B、more serious than most pop music

　　C、popular with young people in Africa

　　D、mostly written just for entertainment

　　正确答案：B

　　答案解析：答案选B。本题的问题是：非洲流行音乐的不同之处是什么?由本段倒数第一句可以得出答案。“It is different also in another way Many of the songs are very serious and they deal with important social or political issues in Africa today.” AD项错误，C项未提及。

　　[阅读理解]It had been boring hanging about the hotel all afternoon. The road crew were playing a game with dollar notes. Folding them into small planes to see whose would fly the furthest. Having nothing better to do， I joined in and won five， and then took the opportunity to escape with my profit. Despite the evil-looking clouds， I had to get out for a while.

　　Why did the writer want to leave the hotel

　　A、To enjoy the good weather.

　　B、To have a change of scene.

　　C、To spend all his winnings.

　　D、To get away from the crew.

　　正确答案：B

　　答案解析：答案选B。本题的问题是：为什么作者想要离开宾馆?由本段第一句可以得出答案。在宾馆是十分无聊的，最后一句也写出作者不顾天气不好而想要出去走走，AC选项错误，D选项未提及。

　　[阅读判断]Although no other game is exactly like baseball， perhaps the one most nearly like it is the English game of cricket(板球)。

　　Q： Baseball shares many features with the English game of cricket.

　　A、True

　　B、False

　　C、Not Given

　　正确答案：A

　　答案解析：答案选A。本题对应的语句为：the one most nearly like it is the English game of cricket，因此是正确的。

　　单选题

　　[阅读判断]The UK is portioned at No. 29， a much lower position chiefly because of the social and family breakdown recorded in official statistics. The US， which has the second highest per capita GDP(人均国内生产总值)after Luxembourg， took the 13th place in the survey.China was in the lower haft of the league at 60th.

　　Q： The United States of America is among the top 10 countries in the survey.

　　A、True

　　B、False

　　C、Not Given

　　正确答案：B

　　答案解析：答案选B。问题句说“美国位于前十个国家的行列”。The US, which has the second highest per capita GDP (人均国内生产总值) after Luxembourg, took the 13th place in the survey. 该句说“美国的人均国内生产总值排名第2，仅位于卢森堡之后，因此美国在这项调查中位于第13位。”显然问题句的说法与该句的说法不一致，因此判断问题句“错误”。

　　[阅读选择]Late one Sunday afternoon in September 1999， Oseola McCarty， an elderly cleaning lady passed away in the little wooden frame house where she had lived and worked most of her life. It may seem like an ordinary end to a humble life， but there was something quite exceptional about this woman.

　　In the summer of 1995， McCarty gave $ 150，000， most of the money she had saved throughout her life，to the University of Southern Mississippi in her hometown. The money was to help other African Americans through university. She had started her savings habit as a young child when she would return from school to clean and iron for money which she would then save.

　　This woman shocked and inspired the world because _______.

　　A、she had managed to save so much money

　　B、she gave her money to African Americans

　　C、she gave her life savings to help others through university

　　D、she only spent money on cheap things

　　正确答案：C

　　答案解析：答案选C。only是绝对词，在选项D中出现，根据经验排除D;对照原文第一自然段最后一句话there was something quite exceptional about this woman说她有些特别的地方，接着第二自然段就讲In the summer of 1995, McCarty gave $ 150,000, most of the money she had saved throughout her life，to the University of Southern Mississippi in her hometown.她把大部分积攒的钱捐献给了家乡的大学，A和B表达都不全面，答案是C。

　　[阅读选择]Helping the planet is a big part of what our world trip is all about and that‘s exactly what we did this past week. We helped get a hydroponics farm started in a local village. This farm will be a model for the local villagers so they can start their very own self sustaining farm. Hydroponics is a type of farming that uses a third of the water needed in an average farm and uses no soil.

　　A hydroponics farm _______________.

　　A、is difficult to build

　　B、is a type of farm without soil

　　C、will cost lots of money

　　D、was started in the village before they came

　　正确答案：B

　　答案解析：答案选B。词义理解题。根据关键词hydroponics farm迅速锁定本段。再通过排除法可以判定B项是正确的。因为A和C表述的内容文章并没有提到过。D项表述是错误的，因为那个村庄在他们去之前并没有这种hydroponics farm。是他们到了之后，帮忙建立了一个模型。