I am a person who doesn’t like waiting. I don’t like to wait in line, being put on hold when making a phone call, or arriving at an apartment to find that my companion will be         . And of course, I don’t like waiting rooms.
      , I realize that my agony(痛苦) will not be good for me, as an         crowded world can only mean one thing – more waiting.
       this, I have taken an action and decide to turn my frustration to productive ends. In short, I am looking for what I call “waiting-in-line”        .
These are volumes that contain materials         for being read in shortened words, so there is no extended story line to lose track of. Another          is that they be         enough to slip neatly into my back pocket.
The other day I went to the supermarket.         that the rain would keep most people away, I was         to see that the place was filled with        . Every checkout was open – and jammed! But I can         my pocket book and go to work.
The more the world demands that I        , the more I learn from my waiting library. Look at the followings: One Hundred Things Every American Should Know; The Poetry of Robert Frost; Living Thoughts of Leading Thinkers; Still More Toasts. I have learned interesting and enriching things and much         from these books.
On a recent visit to the general store, I placed my order at the         along with six or seven people. The old female employee seemed to have her hands full as she rushed        . “Young man, just be        ,” she said to me.
No problem. I quietly opened my dictionary prose(散文) and poetical quotations. Perhaps the other customers         me as a bookish, lonely soul. But         did they realize that I was enjoying the         of Shakespeare, Thoreau, Homer and Ben Johnson.
小題1:
A．dismissedB．delayedC．disappearedD．delighted
小題2:
A．FurthermoreB．HoweverC．DespiteD．Besides
小題3:
A．a(chǎn)ctuallyB．importantlyC．increasinglyD．a(chǎn)ccurately
小題4:
A．Instead ofB．Apart fromC．Rather thanD．Owing to
小題5:
A．roomsB．goodsC．reasonsD．books
小題6:
A．searchedB．a(chǎn)ffordedC．designedD．charged
小題7:
A．convenienceB．requirementC．a(chǎn)greementD．distinction
小題8:
A．smallB．prettyC．a(chǎn)ctiveD．vivid
小題9:
A．BelievedB．DeterminedC．PuzzledD．Convinced
小題10:
A．surprisedB．worriedC．excitedD．satisfied
小題11:
A．shoppersB．readersC．employeesD．volunteers
小題12:
A．put outB．set downC．send forD．take out
小題13:
A．sufferB．waitC．watchD．read
小題14:
A．a(chǎn)dvantageB．benefitC．knowledgeD．patient
小題15:
A．counterB．pocketC．marketD．service
小題16:
A．a(chǎn)boutB．a(chǎn)wayC．overD．a(chǎn)cross
小題17:
A．politeB．patientC．carefulD．helpful
小題18:
A．thoughtB．lookedC．regardedD．treated
小題19:
A．certainlyB．obviouslyC．secretlyD．hardly
小題20:
A．relationB．momentC．companyD．novel

小題1:B
小題2:B
小題3:C
小題4:D
小題5:D
小題6:C
小題7:B
小題8:A
小題9:D
小題10:A
小題11:A
小題12:D
小題13:B
小題14:C
小題15:A
小題16:A
小題17:B
小題18:C
小題19:D
小題20:C

試題分析：文章介紹作者不喜歡等待，但是現(xiàn)在的擁擠的社會要等待的時候越來越多，作者想到一個好辦法，在等待的時候看書，既不覺得時間漫長，也能夠獲取很多知識。
小題1:考查動詞辨析：A. dismissed解雇，B. delayed拖延，C. disappeared消失，D. delighted高興，根據(jù)上文的內(nèi)容：I am a person who doesn’t like waiting. I don’t like to wait in line, being put on hold when making a phone call,可知作者不喜歡等待，不喜歡約會的時候，朋友被耽擱了，選B.
小題2:考查副詞辨析：A. Furthermore  還有，B. However然而，C. Despite雖然，D. Besides此外，根據(jù)下文的：I realize that my agony(痛苦) will not be good for me,可知作者的痛苦對他沒有好處，所以和上文是轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系，選B
小題3:考查副詞辨析：A. actually實(shí)際上，B. importantly重要地，C. increasingly日益增加的，D. accurately精確地，越來越擁擠的世界只能意味著更多的等待，選C
小題4:考查詞組辨析：A. Instead of相反地，B. Apart from除了，此外，C. Rather than而不是，D. Owing to由于，因?yàn)�，根�?jù)下文的句子：I have taken an action and decide to turn my frustration to productive ends.可知因?yàn)樯衔奶岬降脑颍髡咭呀?jīng)采取行動，決定將自己的挫折變成多產(chǎn)的結(jié)果，選D
小題5:考查名詞辨析：A. rooms房間，B. goods商品，C. reasons 原因，D. books書，根據(jù)下文的內(nèi)容：These are volumes that contain materials    41    for being read in shortened words,可知作者尋找的是等待時候看的書，選D
小題6:考查動詞辨析： A. searched尋找，B. afforded負(fù)擔(dān)，C. designed設(shè)計，D. charged要價，有的書中含有材料是為用縮短的句子而設(shè)計的。選C
小題7:考查名詞辨析：A. convenience  方便，B. requirement要求，C. agreement 同意，D. distinction辨別，識別，區(qū)分，另外一個要求是他們應(yīng)該是足夠小可以放進(jìn)我的后面的口袋。選B
小題8:考查形容詞辨析：A. small小的，B. pretty漂亮的，C. active積極的，D. vivid生動的，根據(jù)下文要可以放進(jìn)后面的口袋那就是要小了，選A
小題9:考查動詞辨析：A. Believed相信，B. Determined決定，C. Puzzled困惑的，D. Convinced相信的，幾天前，我去超市，相信很多人因?yàn)橛陼怀鰜�。這里用形容詞convinced做狀語，believe應(yīng)該是現(xiàn)在分詞，選D
小題10:考查形容詞辨析：A. surprised驚訝的，B. worried擔(dān)心的，C. excited興奮的，D. satisfied滿意的，上文說作者以為因?yàn)橄掠�，人們會不出來，現(xiàn)在看見超市擠滿了人一定是驚訝了，選A
小題11:考查名詞辨析：A. shoppers購物者，B. readers 讀者，C. employees雇員，D. volunteers志愿者，超市里面肯定是擠滿了購物者，選A
小題12:考查動詞短語辨析：. A. put out撲滅，B. set down記下，C. send for派人請，D. take out拿出，我可以拿出書去看，選D
小題13:考查動詞辨析：. A. suffer遭受，B. wait等待，C. watch觀看，D. read讀，這個時間要求我等的越多，我就可以從閱讀中獲得越多的知識。因?yàn)樽髡叨际堑却臅r候看書的，選B
小題14:考查名詞辨析：A. advantage   優(yōu)勢，B. benefit利益，C. knowledge知識，D. patient病人，我從這些書中學(xué)到了很多方法的知識。選C
小題15:考查名詞辨析：A. counter柜臺，B. pocket 口袋，C. market市場，D. service服務(wù)，我和六七個人將訂單放在柜臺上，選A
小題16:考查介詞辨析：A. about關(guān)于，B. away離開，C. over超過，D. across穿過，上年紀(jì)的女職員在四處跑的時候好像手里都是拿滿了東西。選A
小題17:考查形容詞辨析：A. polite禮貌的，B. patient耐心的，C. careful仔細(xì)的，D. helpful有幫助的，因?yàn)橐却�，女職員讓作者要耐心些，選B
小題18:考查動詞辨析：A. thought想，B. looked看，C. regarded 認(rèn)為，D. treated對待，可能其他顧客認(rèn)為我是書呆子，選C
小題19:考查副詞辨析： A. certainly當(dāng)然，B. obviously   顯然地，C. secretly秘密地，D. hardly幾乎不，但是他們幾乎不能意識到我在享受Shakespeare, Thoreau, Homer 和 Ben Johnson的陪伴，選D
小題20:考查名詞辨析：A. relation關(guān)系，B. moment時刻，C. company公司，陪伴，D. novel小說，因?yàn)樽髡咴诳磿�，所以是與這些作者為伴，選C
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小題3:We can know from the third paragraph that ___________ ．
A．we can bring kings and queens back to life
B．it is very good for us to stay alone for some hours
C．what we read can be useful in our daily life
D．we can make friends with people in the stories
小題4:The underline word “erudite” in Paragraph 4 probably means “ _______”．
A．learnedB．enthusiasticC．smartD．creative
小題5:What is the author’s purpose by writing the passage?
A．To share his own reading experience．
B．To distinguish the true readers．
C．To attract people to literature．
D．To stress the importance of imagination．

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Former Irish President Mary Robinson was just making a polite conversation with an Ethiopian (埃塞俄比亞的) teenager about her wedding day. The 16­year­old had already been married for a year. “She looked at me with the saddest eyes and said, ‘I had to drop out of school’，” Robinson said in a telephone interview. “That conveyed to me the reality，” said Robinson, the first woman to serve as Ireland's president and former U．N. high commissioner for human fights. “Her life, as far as she is concerned, had more or less ended.”
Robinson said keeping girls in school was one of the most important things policymakers could do to address the coming challenges of an ever-increasing population, predicted by the United Nations to reach 7 billion soon. “European countries are concerned about aging populations as is Japan, but this is much less of an issue than the huge number of people which we are going to see over the next 40 years when the population goes from 7 billion to 9 billion，” she said. “Almost all of that increase will be in poor developing countries, so that we have a very big challenge.”
Family planning experts worry in particular about the future population explosion in sub­Saharan Africa. In May, the United Nations projected the world population would reach 9.3billion in 2050 and 10.1 billion by 2100. Much of that growth will come from Africa, where the population is growing at 2.3 percent a year—more than double Asia's 1 percent growth rate. If that rate stays consistent, which is not certain, Africa's population will reach 3.6 billion by 2100 from the present 1 billion.
Joel Cohen, a professor of population studies at Rockefeller University and Columbia University in New York, said universal secondary education offered a way to reduce population in high birth­rate regions. In addition to providing information about birth control, a secondary education teaches women to reduce their own fertility (生育力), improve the health of their children and allows them to move from a mind­set of having many children, in the hopes that some will survive to improving the quality of each child's life, Cohen wrote in the journal Nature.
小題1:In the first paragraph, the author introduces his topic by ________.
A．explaining the author's opinions
B．giving an example
C．describing the poor education system
D．coming straight to the topic
小題2:What can we learn from the passage?
A．Robinson is happy after talking to the Ethiopian girl.
B．Robinson is a successful expert in population studies.
C．Robinson is worried about population growth.
D．Robinson encourages female education.
小題3:What is Joel Cohen's view about secondary education?
A．It provides basic knowledge of health.
B．It improves the health of children.
C．It makes people pay more attention to education.
D．It can change people's parenting ideas.
小題4:According to Robinson, what is one of the most important things policymakers can do to prevent the population from increasing rapidly?
A．Keeping girls in school.
B．Letting girls go away from Africa.
C．Letting young girls remain single.
D．Keeping girls in families.

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My oldest child, Emma, just returned to campus after a long holiday break to finish up her last period of ______. These days, friends and family have begun _____ me with one question: What is she going to do after _____?
The job market is, after all, awfully ______. Just this month the Federal Reserve Bank _____ a study showing that “recent graduates are ______ working in low-paid jobs or working part-time.” The ______ spot, according to the study, is for students who majored(主修) in STEM— science, technology, engineering and ______— areas in which recent graduates “have______ to do relatively well”.
But Emma is a student of the humanities(人文) at a small college. She’s an American Studies major with a（an） ______ on the politics and culture of food. For quite a while, I think her field of study is so fashionable right now that I’m not the least bit ______ she will find a good job. Yet the more I’ve thought about it, the more I’ve decided to be honest. “I’m not sure what Emma is going to do,” I now say. “But she’s gotten a great education and has really found her ______. — and I know those things will serve her well over the _____ of her life.”
Nowadays, more and more universities and colleges are being ______ by the salaries of their recent graduates. In this climate, ______ your kid to study the humanities, seems, at best, unwise or, at worst, unconcerned with ______ a living. But a college is not a vocational(職業(yè)) school. And promoting STEM subjects should not be society’s only answer to helping the next generation grow in a competitive world.
From the beginning, we never urged Emma to ______ a college or a major with an eye on its expected return on money, ______ more and more families are doing. To Emma, what really ______ will be something that we may not be able to measure for quite a long time: Emma’s ______ to the world and how happy she is in it.
小題1:
A．work B．collegeC．trainingD．project
小題2:
A．fillingB．coveringC．floodingD．meeting
小題3:
A．classB．schoolC．lunchD．graduation
小題4:
A．toughB．fairC．excitingD．mild
小題5:
A．wroteB．publishedC．came outD．printed
小題6:
A．surprisinglyB．doubtfullyC．jokinglyD．increasingly
小題7:
A．darkB．usefulC．brightD．weak
小題8:
A．mathematicsB．literatureC．philosophy D．humanities
小題9:
A．intendedB．tendedC．decidedD．pretended
小題10:
A．interestB．a(chǎn)ttitudeC．focusD．point
小題11:
A．worriedB．a(chǎn)stonishedC．pleasedD．touched
小題12:
A．skillB．potentialC．wishD．interest
小題13:
A．programB．chanceC．courseD．way
小題14:
A．decidedB．measuredC．dependedD．a(chǎn)ttracted
小題15:
A．discouragingB．forcingC．remindedD．encouraging
小題16:
A．earningB．raisingC．providing D．a(chǎn)chieving
小題17:
A．searchB．considerC．getD．pick
小題18:
A．whileB．thoughC．a(chǎn)sD．when
小題19:
A．worksB．mattersC．a(chǎn)ttachesD．fixes
小題20:
A．contributionB．enthusiasm C．desperationD．creativity

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