Test 3

閱讀理解(一)

先讀文章，后看題目

有的考生在做閱讀理解題的時候，喜歡先看題目后讀文章。他們認為這樣會節(jié)省時間，但是

大多數(shù)情況下結果與他們的初衷相反。

實際上，在做閱讀理解題的時候先看題目不會節(jié)省時間，反而會浪費時間。這是因為如果你先看題目，在你閱讀文章的時候你的腦中就會充斥著這些題目，那么你就不能集中注意力。

你就會集中注意力尋找這些題目的答案，從而影響對文章整體的理解。因此在做閱讀理解時要先讀文章，后看題目。以下是一些具體的方法：

1．在閱讀文章時不要擔心時間不夠，否則就不能全神貫注于文章內(nèi)容。在閱讀文章開頭幾句時，你要聯(lián)想一下文章的大意：文章是關于什么內(nèi)容、寫的誰、談論什么事物等。

2．當你繼續(xù)閱讀文章時，要努力識別出文章的文體，即是科普文章、文學作品，還是新聞報道或是別的；同時要識別出作者的寫作手法，文章是寫給誰看的，作者是帶著一 種什么樣的感情寫這篇文章的。

3.在讀完文章一遍后，你會對文章的主題和文章的結構有了一定的印象，但是為了準

確起見，在你回答問題的時候一定要回過頭來再看一遍該文，以確認你的答案。不要根據(jù)自

己第一遍閱讀時的印象答題，也不要根據(jù)自己所掌握的文章以外的知識答題。

4．在閱讀題目的時候，要注意一些關鍵字眼，比如EXCEPT, CANNOT, NOT, INCORRECT

等出題者為了引起考生特別注意的大寫詞。

PART? Ⅰ ［15 MIN.］

Decide which of the choices given below would correctly complete the passage if

inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the correct choice for each blank on

your ANSWER SHEET.

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We all know that a magician does not really depend on “magic” to perform his

?tricks, but on his ability to act at great speed. ___ 1___, this does not pr

event us from enjoying watching a magician ___ 2___ rabbits from a hat.

___ 3___ the greatest magician of all time was Harry Houdini who died in

?1926. Houdini mastered the art of ___ 4___. He could free himself from the tightest

knots or the most complicated locks in seconds. ___ 5___ no one really

?knows how he did this, there is no doubt ___ 6___ he had made a close study

of every type of lock ever invented. He liked to carry a small steel needlelike

tool strapped to his leg and he used this in place of a key.

Houdini once asked the Chicago police to lock him in prison. They

___ 7 ___ him in chains and locked him up, but he freed himself___?

8? ____ an instant. The police ___ 9___ him of having used a tool and locked him up again. T

his time he wore no clothes and there were chains round his neck, waist, wrists,

?and legs; but he again escaped in a few minutes. Houdini had probably hidden his

“needle” in a waxlike ___? 10?? ____ and

?dropped it on the floor in the passage. ___ 11___ he went past, he step

ped on it so that it stuck to the bottom o

f his foot. His most famous escape, however, was ___ 12___ astonishing.

He was heavily chained up and enclosed in an empty wooden chest, the lid of

___? 13? ____ was nailed down. The ___ 14___ was dropped into the sea in New Yo

rk harbor. In one minute Houdini had swum to the surface. When the chest was___ 15___,

it was opened and the chains were found inside.

1. A. Generally?? B. However C. Possibly??? D. Likewise

2. A. to produce B. who produces

C. produce D. how to produce

3.? A. Out of the question??? B. Though

C. Probably??? D. Undoubted

4. A. escaping??? B. locking? C. opening? D. dropping

5. A. Surprisingly??? B. Obviously??? C. Perhaps? D. Although

6. A. if??? B. whether? C. as to? D. that

7. A. involved??? B. closed?? C. connected? D. bound

8. A. at??? B. by?? C. in?? D. for

9. A. rid?? B. charged? C. accused? D. deprived

10. A. candle???? B. mud??? C. something??? D. substance

11. A. As???? B. Usually? C. Maybe??? D. Then

12. A. overall??? B. all but? C. no longer? D. altogether

13. A. it?? B. which??? C. that?? D. him

14. A. chest??? B. body?? C. lid??? D. chain

15. A. brought up???? B. sunk?? C. broken apart???? D. snapped

PART?? Ⅱ ［30 MIN.］?

SECTION A ［25 MIN.］

In this section there are four passages followed by fifteen questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the correct answer.

Mark your choice on your ANSWER SHEET.

TEXT A

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? Glacier National Park in Montana shares boundaries with Canada, an American Indian reservation, and a national forest. Along the North Fork of the Flathead River, the park also borders about 17,000 acres of private lands that are currently used for ranching, timber, and agriculture. This land is an important part of the habitat and migratory routes for several endangered species that frequent the park. These private lands are essentially the only ones available for development in the region.

With encouragement from the park, local landowners initiated a landuse planning effort to guide the future of the North Fork. The park is a partner in an interlocal agreement that calls for resourcemanaging agencies to work together and with the more than 400 private owners in the area. A draft plan has been prepared, with objective of maintaining traditional economic uses but limiting new development that would damage park resources. Voluntary action by landowners, in cooperation with the park and the county, is helping to restrict smalllot subdivisions, maintain wildlife corridors, and minimize any harmful impact on the environment.

The willingness of local landowners to participate in this protection effort may have been stimulated by concerns that congress would impose a legislative solution. Nevertheless, many local residents want to retain the existing character of the area. Meetings between park officials and landowners have led to a dramatically improved understanding of all concerns.

16.? The passage mainly discusses ______.

A. the endangered species in Glacier National Park

B. the protection of lands surrounding Glacier National Park

C. conservation laws imposed by the state of Montana

D. conservation laws imposed by Congress

17. ?Why are the private lands surrounding Glacier National Park so important?

A. They function as a hunting preserve.

B. They are restricted to government use.

C. They are heavily populated.

D. They contain natural habitats of threatened species.

18.? The relationship between park officials and neighboring landowners may best be??? described as ______.

A. indifferent B. intimate

C. cooperative D. disappointing

19.? It can be inferred from the passage that a major interest of the officials of Glacier?

?? National Park is to ______.

A. limit land development around the park

B. establish a new park in Montana

C. influence national legislation

D. settle border disputes with Canada

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TEXT B

?

? As the merchant class expanded in the eighteenthcentury North American Colonies, the silversmith and the coppersmith businesses rose to serve it. Only a few silversmiths were available in New York or Boston in the late seventeenth century, but in the eighteenth century they could be found in all major colonial cities. No other colonial artisans rivaled the silversmiths’ prestige. They handled the most expensive materials and possessed direct connections to prosperous colonial merchants. Their products, primarily silver plates and bowls, reflected their exalted status and testified to their customers’ prominence. Silver stood as one of the surest ways to store wealth at a time before neighborhood banks existed. Unlike the silver coins from which they were made, silver articles were readily identifiable. Often formed to individual specifications, they always carried the silversmith’s distinctive markings and consequently could be traced and retrieved. Customers generally secure the silver for the silver object they ordered. They saved coins, took them to smiths, and discussed the type of pieces they desired. Silversmiths complied with these requests by melting the money in a small furnace, adding a bit of copper to form a stronger alloy, and casting the alloy in rectangular blocks. They hammered these ingots to the appropriate thickness by hand, shaped them and pressed designs into them for adornment. Engraving was also done by hand. In addition to plates and bowls, some customers sought more intricate products, such as silver teapots. These were made by shaping or casting parts separately and then soldering them together. Colonial coppersmithing also come of age in the early eighteenth century and prospered in northern cities. Copper’s ability to conduct heat efficiently and to resist corrosion contributed to its attractiveness. But because it was expensive in colonial America, coppersmiths were never very numerous. Virtually all copper worked by Smiths was imported as sheets or obtained by recycling old copper goods. Copper was used for practical items, but it was not admired for its beauty. Coppersmiths employed it to fashion pots and kettles for the home. They shaped it in much the same manner as silver or melted it in a foundry with lead or tin. They also mixed it with zinc to make brass for maritime and scientific instruments.

20.? According to the passage, which of the following eighteenth century?developments had strong impact on silversmiths?

A. A decrease in the cost of silver.

B. The invention of heatefficient furnaces.

C. The growing economic prosperity of colonial merchants.

D. The development of new tools used to shape silver.

21.? In colonial America, where did silversmiths usually obtain the material to make?silver articles?

A. From their own mines.

B. From importers.

C. From other silversmiths.

D. From customers.?

22.? The passage mentions all of the following as uses for copper in Colonial America

EXCEPT ______.

A. cooking pots

B. scientific instruments

C. musical instruments

D. maritime instruments?

23.? According to the passage, silversmiths and coppersmiths in colonial America were similar in which of the following ways?

A. The amount of social prestige they had.

B. The way they shaped the metal they worked with.

C. The cost of the goods they made.

D. The practicality of the goods they made.

TEXT C

? When I was growing up, the whole world was Jewish. The heroes were Jewish and the villains were Jewish. The landlord, the doctor, the grocer, your best friend, the village idiot, and the neighborhood bully: all Jewish. We were working class and immigrants as well, but that just came with territory. Essentially we were Jews on the streets of New York. We learned to be kind, cruel, smart and feeling in a mixture of language and gesture that was part street slang, part grade school English, part kitchen Yiddish.

One Sunday evening when I was eight years old my parents and I were riding in the back seat of my rich uncle’s car. We had been out for a ride and now we were back in the Bronx, headed for home. Suddenly, another car sideswiped us. My mother and aunt shrieked. My uncle swore softly. My father, in whose lap I was sitting, said out the window at the speeding car, “That’s all right. Nothing but a few Jews in here.” In an instant I knew everything. I knew there was a world beyond our streets, and in that world my father was humiliated man, without power or standing.

When I was sixteen,a girl in the next building had her nose straightened; we all went together to see Selma Shapiro lying in state, wrapped in bandages from which would emerge a person fit for life beyond the block. Three buildings away

?a boy went downtown for a job, and on his application he wrote “Arnold Brown” instead of “Arnold Braunowiitz”. The news swept through the neighborhood like a wild fire. A nose job? A name change? What was happening here? It was awful; it was wonderful. It was frightening; it was delicious. Whatever it was, it wasn’t standstill. Things felt lively and active. Selfconfidence was on the rise, passivity on the wane. We were going to experience challenges. That’s what it meant to be in the new world. For the first time we could imagine ourselves out there.

But who exactly do I mean when I say we? I mean Arnie, not Selma. I mean my brother, not me. I mean the boys, not the girls. My mother stood behind me, pushing me forward. “The girl goes to college, too,” she said. And I did. But my going to college would not mean the same thing as my mother’s going to college, and we all knew it. For my brother, college meant going from the Bronx to Manhattan. But for me? From the time I was fourteen I yearned to get out of the Bronx, but get out into what? I did not actually imagine myself a working person alone in

?Manhattan and nobody else did either. What I did imagine was that I would marry

, and that the man I married would get me downtown. He would brave the perils of

?class and race, and somehow I’d be there alongside him.

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24. In the passage, we can find the author was ______.

A. quite satisfied with her life

B. a poor Jewish girl

C. born in a middleclass family

D. a resident in a rich area in New York

25. Selma Shapiro had her nose straightened because she wanted ______.

A. to look her best

B. to find a new job in the neighborhood

C. to live a new life in other places

D. to marry very soon

26. Arnold Brown changed his name because ______.

A. there was racial discrimination in employment

B. Brown was just the same as Braunowiitz

C. it was easy to write

D. Brown sounds better

27. From the passage we can infer that ______.

A. the Jews were satisfied with their life in the Bronx

B. the Jewish immigrants could not be rich

C. all the immigrants were very poor

D. the young Jews didn’t accept the stern reality

TEXT D

Nature’s Gigantic Snow Plough?

On January 10, 1962, an enormous piece of glacier broke away and tumbled down the side of a mountain in Peru. A mere seven minutes later, when cascading ice finally came to a stop ten miles down the mountain, it had taken the lives of 4,000 people.

This disaster is one of the most ___devastating____ examples of a very common event: an avalanche of snow or ice. Because it is extremely cold at very high altitudes, snow rarely melts. It just keeps piling up higher and higher. Glaciers are eventually created when the weight of the snow is so great that the lower layers are pressed into solid ice. But most avalanches occur long before this happens. As snow accumulates on a steep slope, it reaches a critical point at which the slightest vibration will send it sliding into the valley below.

Even an avalanche of light power can be dangerous, but the Peruvian catastrophe was particularly terrible because it was caused by a heavy layer of ice. It is estimated that the ice that broke off weighed three million tons. As it crashed down the steep mountainside like a gigantic snow plough, it swept up trees, boulders and tons of topsoil, and completely crushed and destroyed the six villages that lay in its path.

At present there is no way to predict or avoid such enormous avalanches, but, luckily, they are very rare. Scientists are constantly studying the smaller, more common avalanches, to try to understand what causes them. In the future, perhaps dangerous masses of snow and ice can be found and removed before they take human lives.

28. The first paragraph catches the reader’s attention with a _____

A. firsthand report

B. dramatic description

C. tall tale

D. vivid world picture

29. In this passage ___devastating____ means ______.

A. violently ruinous

B. spectacularly interesting

C. stunning

D. unpleasant

30. The passage is mostly about ______.

A. avalanches??

B. glaciers?

C. Peru

D. mountains

SECTION B SKIMMING AND SCANNING? ［5 MIN.］? ??

In this section there are five passages followed by ten questions or unfinished statements. Skim or scan them as required and then mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.

TEXT E

First read the following questions.

31. Bush fires are most likely to occur in Australia in ______.

A. December and January

B. April

C. July, August and September

D. May and June

32. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a factor that contributes to?great fire? danger?

A. Sultry weather.

B. Cigarettes thrown out of car windows.

C. Pine forests.

D. Windstorm.

? Now read Text E quickly and mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.

? Every summer in Australia there is the danger of bush fires. Long periods of hot dry weather cause the grass and trees to become highly inflammable. As well as the dryness and high temperature, an important factor is the great amount of oil in the leaves of such trees as eucalyptus,? and gum? trees.

Fires start very easily, often spontaneously, but usually because of a carelessly thrown cigarette or match. If there is a high wind, the ample supply of air fans the flames into an inferno. The radiant heat vaporizes the oil in the leaves, and the fire travels very quickly, sometimes overtakes fleeing cars and burns passengers to death.

Great fires often occur around Christmas, in areas near big cities, causing great loss of life and property.

TEXT F

?First read the following questions.

? 33. According to the passage, how many people on earth spoke English twenty years ago?

A. About 300 million.

B. Roughly 500 million.

C. More than 600 million.

D. One seventh of the whole population.

34. What Burchfield says roughly means ______.

A. an educated person will be deprived of civil rights if he doesn’t learn?English

B. an educated person will be looked down upon if he knows not English

C. an educated person is hindered in his life if he does not know the language

D. knowledge of English helps him get rich in many ways

? Now read Text F quickly and mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.

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? The sun sets regularly on the Union Jack these days, but never on the English language. It was spread by British colonialists. It got a boost from American GI’s, and it was cemented by the multinational corporation. Today, like it or curse it, English is the closest thing to a lingua franca around the globe. Roughly 700 million people speak it——an increase of 40 percent in the last twenty years and a total that represents more than oneseventh of the world’s population.

?It has replaced French in the world of diplomacy and German in the field of science. It is the dominant language of medicine, electronics and space technology, of international business and advertising, of radio, television and film. Says Robert Burchfield, editor of the Oxford English Dictionary: “Any literate, educated person is deprived if he does not know English.”

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TEXT G

?First read the following questions.

?35. What is the main topic of the passage?

A. The mechanics of rain.

B. The weather patterns of North America.

C. How Earth’s gravity affects agriculture.

D. Types of clouds.

36. Ice crystals do not immediately fall to Earth because ______.

A. they are kept aloft by air currents

B. they combine with other chemicals in the atmosphere

C. most of them evaporate

D. their electrical charges draw them away from the earth

? Now read Text G quickly and mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.?

What makes it rain? Rain falls from clouds for the same reason anything falls to Earth. The Earth’s gravity pulls it. But every cloud is made of water droplets or ice crystals. Why doesn’t rain or snow fall constantly from all clouds? The droplets or ice crystals in clouds are exceedingly small. The effect of gravity on them is minute. Air currents move and lift droplets so that the net downward displacement is zero, even though the droplets are in constant motion.

Droplets and ice crystals behave somewhat like dust in the air made visible in a shaft of sunlight. To the casual observer, dust seems to act in a totally random fashion, moving about chaotically without fixed direction. But in fact dust particles are much larger than water droplets and they finally fall. The average size of a cloud droplet is only 0.0004 inch in diameter. It is so small that it would take sixteen hours to fall half a mile in perfectly still air, and it does not fall out of moving air at all. Only when the droplet grows to a diameter of 0.0008 inch or larger can it fall from the cloud. The average raindrop contains a million times as much water as a tiny cloud droplet. The growth of a cloud droplet to a size large enough to fall out is the cause of rain and other forms of precipitation. This important growth process is called “coalescence”.

TEXT H

?First read the following questions.

? 37. The 1030 bus leaving Miami at 5:45 p.m. arrives at Jacksonville at 2:35 a.m. after

a stop at ______.

A. Naples B. Sarasota

C. Orlando D. Daytona Beach

38. Judging from the bus time schedule, the cities which are most

?likely closest to one

?? another geographically are ______.

A. Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale

B. Orlando and Jacksonville

C. Miami and Hollywood

D. Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach

? Now read Text H quickly and mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.

Bus Schedule

? GREYHOUND

MIAMI TO JACKSONVILLE

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10301010

MIAMIA

JAXBOS

MIAMILv5:4511:45

HOLLYWOOD6:30

FT. LAUDERDALE6:55

WEST PALM BEACHLv8:10

Ft. Pierc

Melbourne

Cocoa

JACKSONVILLEAr

NaplesLv

Ft. MyersLv

SARASOTA

Bradenton

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ST. PETERSBURGLv

TAMPALv

Lakeland

ORLANDOLv11:55

Daytona BeachLv

St. Augustine

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JACKSONVILLEAr2:356:45

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TEXT I

?

?First read the following questions.

? 39.? The best title is ______.

A. How to use credit cards

B. Advantages and disadvantages of credit cards

C. How to spend less with credit cards

D. How to avoid the disadvantages of credit cards

40.? The passage is probably taken from ______.

A. a financial journal

B. a traveling guide

C. a shopping guide

D. newspapers

? Now read Text I quickly and mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.

CREDIT CARDS

? ADVANTAGES

1. Used for emergencies, when something expensive breaks and needs to be fixed or replaced immediately. Many people think that this is the most important reason for having credit cards.

2. Used to avoid inflation, when you want to buy now to get cheaper prices instead of waiting until later, when the price will go up.

3. Used as a shopping convenience, when you do not want to carry cash or checks, and you want to have a record of what you have spent every month. Credit cards also make it easier to shop by telephone or mail.

4. Used as a loan, when you want to spend more money than you now have, and you know you will have more money in the future to pay the money back.

DISADVANTAGES

1. Possibility of spending too much: Because you are using plastic cards instead of cash or checks, it is easy to forget how much you have spent. Keeping a written record each time you use the credit card can help you avoid this problem.

2. High cost of credit: The interest rate for credit cards is the highest of all types of loans. If you use credit cards as a way to borrow money, it is important to find the card with the lowest interest rate. You can also find out about consumer loans from banks that probably have a lower interest rate.

3. High credit payments in the future: The more you use credit cards now, the more money you will need to pay to the bank each month. That means less money will be available to spend on other things you want.

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重 點 詞 匯

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reservation: (印第安人的)保留地

ranching:?? 大農(nóng)場

habitat: 棲息地；居留地

frequent:?? 時常訪問

initiate: 發(fā)起

impose: 實施, 強迫

legislative:? 立法的

artisan:? 工匠; 技工

rival: 競爭

prestige: 聲望; 威望; 威信

exalt:?? 提升; 贊揚; 使得意

testify: ?證明; 聲明

prominence:? 突起; 顯著

retrieve:? 取回; 挽回; 恢復

alloy:合金

rectangular:?? 矩形的

ingot:錠; 鑄塊

engraving:雕刻

solder:?? 焊接

kettle:?? 水壺

maritime: 海的; 海事的

villain:?? 壞人; 惡棍

shriek:?? 尖叫

humiliate: 羞辱; 使蒙羞

passivity: 被動性

wane:衰微; 退潮

peril: 危險

tumble:?? 摔倒; 翻滾

devastate: 毀壞

avalanche: 雪崩

catastrophe:大災難

inflammable:?? 易燃的

eucalyptus:桉樹

ample:充足的

inferno:?? 地域

cement:?? 用水泥連接，固定

lingua franca:?? 佛蘭卡語

displacement:?? 轉移; 換位

shaft:? 軸

precipitation:凝結降水

coalescence: 結合; 合并

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參考答案及詳解

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1. B)? 根據(jù)上下文結構和句意,此空需要一個關聯(lián)性的

狀語, 而且根據(jù)句義需要一個表示轉折意義的副詞, 故選項B However 為正確答案。Generally 意為“廣泛地，普遍地，總的來說”，可作評述性狀語；Possibly意為“可能地”，也

可作評述性狀語和一般修飾性狀語；Likewise意為“同樣地，照樣地；又，也”，在句中可

作關聯(lián)性的狀語，但不是轉折意義的。

2. C)? 此空涉及到某些感官動詞如：see，hear，watch，feel等所接賓語

結構。這些動詞

后可接復雜賓語結構，即see，hear，watch，feel + sb. + do或see，hear，watch，feel +

?sb. + doing，因此此題正確答案為選項C。

3. C) 首先可知此空需要一個副詞，因此可排除B和D。Out of the questio

n意為“不可能”，意義不合適；Probably意為“很可能地”，用在此處表示作者比較肯定

的猜測。

4. A) 根據(jù)上下文可知，魔術家Houdini擅長“逃脫”，他可以輕易地打開

鎖頭，從被鎖處逃脫。因此此空的正確答案為A。

5. D) 通過閱讀上下文可知此處需要一個引導讓步狀語從句的連詞，只有選

項D符合。

6. D) 同位語從句用that引導。

7. D) Bound是bind的過去式，意為“捆綁”。其它三詞意義不符。

8. C) In an instant是固定搭配，意為“立刻，馬上”。

9. C) 四個選項中動詞charge一般不與of搭配使用。rid…of 意為“除掉”

,不符。deprive ... of意為“剝奪……”，意義不符。選項C accuse 和of 搭配意為“指

控 … ”，為正確答案。

10. D) Mud和something是不可數(shù)名詞，不符；像蠟一樣的candle

是不合邏輯的；因此只有選項D substance（物質）正確。

11. A) 通過閱讀本句可斷定此空需要一個從屬連詞引導時間狀語，四個選

項只有A as 正確。

12. D) Overall是形容詞，不符；All but意為“幾乎，差不多”，意義不

符；No longer意義不符。故只有altogether（總起來說）符合，故為正確答案。

13. B) 只有which才能用于介詞后來引導定語從句。

14. A) 根據(jù)上文可知此空應為chest。

15. A) 通過閱讀上下文可知，Houdini被裝進木桶扔進了海里，但他很快就

逃了出來，當木桶被撈上來時，人們發(fā)現(xiàn)桶被打開了，捆在木桶外面的鐵鏈子卻被放到了桶

里面，由此可知此空應選A brought up“把……弄上來”。

16. B) 這是一道主旨題。通過閱讀文章可知，為了保護冰川國家公園的瀕

危物種和資源，公園當局和地方土地所有者制訂了限制土地使用計劃，故答案為B。

17. D) 這是一道細節(jié)題。根據(jù)第一段第三句“This land is an important

?part of the habitat and migratory routes for several endangered species that fequent the park.”（這片土地是非常重要的，因為這里是幾種經(jīng)常光顧此公園的瀕危物種

的棲息地和遷徙路線。）可知選項D為正確答案。

18. C) 根據(jù)第二段可知，公園當局和地方土地所有者密切合作來保護資源

，因此他們的關系是“cooperative”（合作性的）。

19. A) 這是一道推理題。根據(jù)第二段第三句和閱讀全文，我們很容易就可

以得到這樣一個信息：為了保護自然資源和瀕危物種，公園管理者限制那些會破壞資源的土

地開發(fā)。因此選項A為正確答案。

20. C) 根據(jù)文章第一句“As the merchant class expanded in the eight

eenthcentury North American Colonies,...”可知，隨著在十八世紀的北美殖民地商人

階級膨脹起來，也就是說那時的商人財富有了很大的發(fā)展，銀匠銅匠們有機會發(fā)揮他們的專

長了，這與選項C正好相符。

21. D) 根據(jù)文章第十四、五行“Customers generally secures …object

they ordered. They saved coins, took them to smiths, and...”可知顧客要做銀器，

首先要積攢銀幣，然后拿到銀匠處加工成他們想要的形狀。選項D“來自客戶”與之相符。

22. C) 文章末尾在提到銅的用途時惟獨沒有提到樂器。

23. B) 根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第四行“They shaped it in much the same manner

as silver or melted it in a foundry with lead or tin.”可知銀匠和銅匠在銀器和銅

器的塑型方式上是一樣的，故選項B為正確答案。

24. B) 根據(jù)文章第一段和最后一段可以很明顯判斷出“I”是一位貧窮的猶

太小女孩。

25. C) 根據(jù)第三段第一句中“..., wrapped in bandages from which wou

ld emerge a person fit for life beyond the block.”可知這個女孩做鼻子美容是為了

使人們認不出她是猶太人，以適應猶太街區(qū)外邊的生活，也就是說她要在外面的世界過新的

生活。

26. A) 由于在美國招工時有種族歧視現(xiàn)象，因此這個男孩把猶太人的姓名

改成普通的姓名。

27. D) 年輕猶太人對現(xiàn)實不滿，更名、美容、嫁富人成了改變現(xiàn)狀的手段

，作者對種族歧視、性別歧視、貧富歧視深有感觸，文中到處可以見到。

28. A) 文章的第一段就像一個新聞報道，報道了在秘魯發(fā)生的雪崩的災難

性后果，一下子就吸引了讀者的注意力。

29. A) 根據(jù)語境線索可判斷出詞義為A。

30. A) 通讀全文可知，文章主要是講述雪崩的形成。

31. A)? 32. C)? 33. B)? 34.

B)? 35. A)? 36. A)? 37. C)

?38. A)? 39. B)? 40. A)