三、閱讀理解（共20小題；每小題2分，滿分40分）
請閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該選項的標(biāo)號涂黑。
Going back to school is a very exciting event for my two boys. It means getting new school bags and books, and seeing friends again after the summer holiday.
My oldest son, 9-year-old Salem, asked me several times where we would go to buy a backpack, while my other son, 6-year-old Abdullah, asked what school would be like this year.
For the last three years, school was a nightmare for many children and their parents as violence increased and there were more attacks on schools and teachers. As a result, many parents prevented their children from going to school. One of six children in this country did not attend primary school in 2009. Many kids who did attend school were accompanied by a parent for the entire day to make sure nothing happened to their children.
For poor families or those with large families, back to school can be an expensive time. The government gives some help to those living in poor neighborhoods, and school bags, note books and other items(商品) are given for free.
Most of the merchants who sell notebooks and pens now sell their products out on the street instead of in stores. They sit on the ground and lay their items on the ground or they have a small table to sell their goods.
The bags cost between $10 and $20, while clothes and shoes cost between $20 and $30. I found all the things I needed for my sons and even bought something for myself. I spent about $50 on each of them, including school uniforms.
At the end of the day, we returned to our home carrying many shopping bags filled with items that made my children happy and excited to go back to school. I just hope this school year will be a peaceful one.
56．The author’s children are ________ to go to school.
A. eager                       B. afraid                              C. unwilling                 D. surprised
57．The underlined word “nightmare” is the closest in meaning to ________.
A. fantasy                     B. dream world                    C. prison                      D. terrible situation
58．Many children are not going to school mainly because of ________.
A. the terrible education system                         B. security problems and poverty
C. parents’ distrust in schools                             D. the government’s inability
59．As a parent, the author ________.
A. is unable to afford his kids’ schooling   B. is unwilling to send his kids to school
C. hopes his kids have a happy school life        D. complains school education costs too much
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Reading for thorough comprehension is carefully reading in order to understand the total   meaning of the passage. At this level of comprehension the reader is able to summarize the author’s ideas小題4:.
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（1）------易題
Doing Favours Can Be Dangerous
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C. our government to take proper measures to make the “Low-carbon economy” benefit more
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B. Putting forward the “Low-carbon economy” costs much.
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D. Now that it’s hard for us to make the “Low-carbon economy” into practice, our government
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B. has led to widespread public grievance
C. can be realized when pigs fly in the sky
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閱讀下列應(yīng)用文及相關(guān)信息，并按要求匹配信息，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將對應(yīng)題號的選項字母涂黑。
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59．For Dave and his wife, they would rather book a suite where they can enjoy the ocean view, concerned less about the price of the room.
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    73     If you have ever listened to Martin Luther King’s famous speech--- “I have a Dream”, you may notice that he stumbles (結(jié)巴) over his words twice during the speech.     74    Why?  Because you were fixing your attention on his message rather than on his way of speech-making.
People care a lot about making a mistake in a speech because they regard speech-making as a kind of performance rather than as an act of communication. They feel the listeners are like judges in an ice-skating competition.    75  They are looking for a well-thought-out speech that expresses the speaker’s ideas clearly and directly. Sometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speaker’s attractiveness by making him more human.
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D．Even if you do make an obvious mistake during a speech, that doesn’t really matter.
E.Quite often, however, you just laugh his small mistakes off.
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A. every first lady has appeared on the cover of Vogue
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C. herself is a clothes designer and model
D. doesn’t like to be watched changing clothes
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How should we view the changes that wait for us in the future? Should we be optimistic about the years ahead, or worried about what the future holds? Some scientists and experts are having a discussion about how technology, science and society will develop in the future.
“I’m looking forward to the day when more technology will come to my life,” says John Searle, a professor at the University of California Berkeley Philosophy, “because I think further research in such areas as genetics, physics, chemistry and medicine will help us to overcome poverty, improve health, and
make life longer.”
Hugh Herr, at MIT’s Biomechatronics Group, considers very powerful weapons (武器) as concern (擔(dān)心) over the future. Another is the growing role of technology in our lives. “Machines taking over what humans do is not a good thing,” Herr says.
That is a similar concern shared by Daniela Cerqui, a social and cultural scientist. “I am afraid that the long-term future we are building will have no space left for human beings,” says Cerqui. “The main values of our society are related to information that must progress as quickly as possible, and computers are much better than humans in these tasks.”
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A. how science will develop in the next two centuries 
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C. what life would be like in the future  
D. what computers will bring to our society
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A. the poverty problem in the future           
B. machines taking over what humans do
C. the technology of weapons
D. the health problem of humans
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The Michelangelo virus waits until the artist’s birthday comes around, and then it will wake up to do very bad things like destroying you files (毀壞文檔) . So next time when you turn on your computer, look out for computer viruses!
56. The Italian artist Michelangelo ____________.
A. was born six centuries ago                            B. was born on March 3, 1475
C. died six centuries ago                            D. died on March 3, 1564
57. Why are computer users full of fear on March 3?   Because _________.
A. it is the birthday of a famous Italian artist.
B. a kind of computer virus will be produced on that day
C. “the Michelangelo virus” will wake up and then cause damages on that day.
D. everything will go wrong with computers on that day.
58. In fact, a computer virus is __________.
A. a program which can be put into computers with some damages to them.
B. a kind of real-life virus.
C. a kind of virus like AIDS virus
D. a kind of program which is placed into other programs and which makes damages
59. In fact, a computer virus is ready to cause damages _________
A. on any day                                    B. only on March 3   
C. on Fridays                                     D. only on some famous artists’ birthdays
60. What should we do to protect our computers from virus according to the passage?
A. Don’t turn any computer on.    
B. Be careful.
C. Destroy our files before viruses. 
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