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COPENHAGEN—The world is gathered in Copenhagen for the U.N. climate summit, but Denmark’s bicycle-friendly capital has also given its name to a movement of cities trying to find a kinder way to travel to and from work.

Nearly 40 percent of Copenhagen’s population cycle to work or school on ubiquitous（無處不在的） paved cycle paths. Many residents take to their bikes year-round, braving rain and snow through the winter in a city where the bicycles outnumber the people.

Amsterdam and Beijing too are known for their bicycles, but the Danish capital is where urban planners from around the world have been looking for ways to get their people out of cars and up onto bikes, an effort known as Copenhagenisation.

Klaus Bondam, Copenhagen’s technical and environmental chief, calls himself a “mega cyclist” and says the bike’s popularity stems partly from high taxes on cars which meant working-class Danes could not afford to drive in the 1930s and 1940s. “Today you’ll meet everybody on the bicycle lanes — women and men, rich and poor, old and young.” Bondam said.

The local government has during the last three years invested more than 250 million crowns ($49.42 million) in bicycle lanes and to make the traffic safer for bicyclists. Today around a third of the population drive cars to work or study, another third take public transport, while 37 percent cycle -- a figure the city aims to increase to 50 percent by 2015.

There are many benefits when citizens choose bicycles over cars: pollution and noise decline, public health improves, and more people on bikes or walking creates a sense of safety in the city. Fewer parked cars leaves more space for playgrounds, parks, shopping areas and other useful public places.

53. According to the first paragraph, Copenhagen is better known as ___________.

   A. a city without cars                B. a bicycle-friendly city

   C. Denmark’s capital                D. the U.N. climate summit

54. We can learn from the second and the third paragraph, __________.

A. there is no path for cars during rainy and snowy days

B. citizens are limited to have only one bike for each person

C. two-thirds of people in Copenhagen cycle to work or school

D. city planners try their best to encourage more citizens to ride bikes

55. Bikes are popular in Copenhagen partly because ___________.

   A. the citizens are unable to afford to buy a car

   B. the rich tend to keep fit by cycling to work

   C. young people regard cycling a fashion to follow

   D. high taxes were paid for cars in the 1930s and 1940s

56. We can learn from the passage that __________.

   A. cars are forbidden to park in Copenhagen

   B. more citizens tend to choose cars in Copenhagen

   C. Copenhagen becomes a model for cities’ traffic

   D. living standards in Copenhagen are greatly declining

Whenever he was asked why he was late for class, he would answer carefully, always______the same thing.

A. saying                        B. said                      C. to say               D. having said

Before going to the party, _____ of us was given a ticket.

A. everyone     B. each         C. every          D. all

22. Of the seven days in a week, Saturday is said to be the most popular______for a wedding in some countries.

A. way                 B. situation               C. event                D. Choice

第三部分：閱讀理解（共20小題；每小題2分；滿分40分）

閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C、D）中選出最佳選項。

A

Mr. Brozina is a single father and an elementary school librarian who reads aloud for a living. When his daughter, Kristen, hit fourth grade, he proposed The Streak: to see if they could read together for 100 straight bedtimes without missing once.

When The Streak reached 100, they celebrated with a pancake breakfast, and Kristen whispered, "I think we should try for 1,000 nights."

      Mr. Brozina was delighted, but what he was thinking was, a thousand nights?! "I thought, we'll never do it," he recalled. "And then we got to 1,000, and we said, 'How can we stop?' "

For 3,218 nights (and some mornings, if Mr. Brozina was coming home too late to read). The Streak went on. It progressed from picture books to middle-school classics to Harry Potter, Agatha Christie, Dickens and Shakespeare, continuing on, until Kristen's first day of college.

In those nine-plus years, they survived many close calls. When Kristen was still in elementary school, her father went to Washington. "The phone rang at 10:45 at the hotel and it was Kristen," Mr. Brozina recalled. "She said, 'Dad, we forgot The Streak!' Fortunately, I always traveled with several books and we read right then and there."

This spring, Kristen graduated from Rowan' University. She has performed as you'd expect for a product of The Streak, an English major with a 3.94 average. She also won two national writing contests, was an editor of the humor arid literary publications and won the annual English department award.

56. According to the passage, Mr. Brozina and his daughter read together for          .

A. 100 bedtimes                             B. 1000 nights                          C. over nine years                      D. nearly 3000 nights and some mornings

57. In the passage, the underlined phrase in Paragraph 1 probably means _____.

A. the period of time for reading together    B. me children's book                    C. the special night                      C. the school work

58. How has Kristen benefited from reading with her father?

A. She has grown closer to her father.        

B. She has become a school librarian herself. 

C. She has performed well at university.     

D. She has won many reading awards.

59. This passage is about a father who _____.

A. is very strict in his work          B. enjoys reading when travelling        

       C. makes his daughter love reading D. has a hard time bringing up his daughter

An election year is one in which all four numbers can be divided by four (1944, 1948, etc.). Since 1840, American presidents elected in years ending in zero have been noticed to die in office. William H. Harrison, the man who served the shortest term, died of a kind of deadly illness several weeks after he took office.

        Abraham Lincoln was one of the four presidents who were murdered. He was elected in 1860, and his death came just five years later.

James A Garfield, a former Union Army general from Ohio, was shot during his first year in

office (1881) by a man to whom he wouldn't give a job.

While in his second term of office (1901), William McKinley, another Ohioan, attended the

Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, New York. During the reception, he was killed while shaking hands with some of the guests.

Three years after election in 1920, Warren G. Harding died in office. Although it was never

proved, many believed he was poisoned.

     Franklin D. Roosevelt had been elected four times (1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944), the only man to serve so long a term. He had suffered from poliomyelitis(小兒麻痹)in 1921 and died of the illness in 1945.

John F. Kennedy, the last of the line, was shot in 1963, only three years after his election.

67. Which of the following was an election year?

       A. 1962                    B. 1928                      C.  1890                   D. 1846

68.          served the shortest term in office.

       A. Abraham Lincoln               B. Warren G. Harding

C. William McKinley              D. William H. Harrison

69. Which of the following statements is true?

    A. All presidents elected in years ending in zero have died in office.

    B. Only presidents from Ohio have died in office.

    C. Franklin D. Roosevelt completed four times as president.

    D. President Abraham Lincoln died in the year of 1865

70. How many presidents elected in years ending in zero since 1840 have died in office?

    A. 7             B. 6            C. 5            D. 4

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Cao Cao’s tomb is reported ________ in China, which attracts nationwide attention.

A. being found                                                        B. to be found                   

C. having been found                                             D. to have been found

26．With the college entrance examination ______near, both the parents and the students are more and more anxious.

A. draws        B. drawn        C. drawing      D. is drawing

35．Goods must be fit for any particular purpose________to the seller, which is rated as honest in the trade．If the seller says a glue will mend china, then it should．

       A．known      B．to be known     C．being known    D．having been known