2013-2014学年高一英语人教版必修三Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank Note单元练测（含答案解析）（

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Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank Note
单元练测卷（一）
（时间：100分钟 满分：120分）
Ⅰ. 单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分, 满分15分）
1. —Do you mind if I use your car
—________.
A. No, go ahead B. Sure, please do
C. Yes, of course not D. No, you may not
2. You shouldn’t speak to her in ________ rude manner, and you’d better make ________ apology to her.
A. a; an B. an; /
C. the; a D. the; the
3. “I don’t think it is my ________ that the TV blew up. I just turned it on, and that’s all. ”said the boy.
A. error B. manner
C. fault D. shortcoming
4. Not believing their eyes, the visitors on the spot ________ the flying plane, doing some most difficult and dangerous tricks in the sky.
A. glared at B. stared at
C. glanced at D. caught sight of
5. She has been ________ in a family with four children, and has learned to share with others.
A. brought up B. brought on
C. brought along D. brought about
6. I don’t think the man over there ________ be our headmaster, for just now I saw him going out in his car.
A. must B. can
C. will D. may
7. It is in the stadium ________ is being built now ________ the sports meet will be held.
A. where; that B. which; that
C. what; that D. that; there
8. If you stand on the top of the mountain, you can get a better ________ of the city.
A. view B. sign
C. sight D. scene
9. Look at the man who is ________. He must be a beggar.
A. in rags B. in debt
C. in order D. in good condition
10. Mr. Blake is very popular because of his good ________ of humor.
A. sense B. emotion
C. feeling D. thought
11. ________ the water pollution, the local government has done something about it.
A. As with B. As for
C. According to D. Because of
12. Will you pay cash or shall I charge it to your ________
A. bill B. counter
C. account D. pocket
13. It is reported that some wild animals were found ________ in a big cave in the mountain.
A. to hide dead B. hidden dead
C. hiding dead D. hidden death
14. In this area, hunting is not ________, so you’d better not hunt here.
A. permitted B. promised
C. asked D. wanted
15. —Are you disappointed with the result of the exam
—No, ________, I am satisfied with it.
A. on the contrary B. on the opposite
C. with the contrary D. for the contrary
Ⅱ. 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分, 满分30分）
What would life be like without television Would you spend more time __16__ outside, reading, or studying Well, now it’s your chance to turn off your TV and __17__!TV-Turnoff Week is here.
The goal of TV-Turnoff Week is to let people leave their TV sets __18__ and participate in activities __19__ drawing to biking. The event was founded by TV-Turnoff Network, a non-profit organization which started the event in 1995. In the __20__, only a few thousand people took part. Last year more than 7. 6 million people participated, __21__ people in every state in America and in more than 12 other countries! This is the time when __22__ are asking people to“turn off the TV and turn on __23__. ”
According to the TV-Turnoff Network, the average __24__ in the US spend __25__ time in front of the TV(about 1, 023 hours per year) than they do in school (about 900 hours per year). Too much TV __26__ has made many kids grow fat. __27__, in 2001’s TV-Turnoff Week, US Surgeon General David Satcher said, “We are raising the most __28__ generation of youngsters in American history. This week is about saving lives. ”
Over the years, studies have shown that watching a lot of TV __29__ poor eating habits, too little exercise, and violence. Frank Vespe of the TV-Turnoff Network said that turning off the TV“is or __30__, part of a healthy lifestyle”.
“One of the great lessons of __31__ TV-Turnoff Week is the realization that __32__ I turn on the TV, I’m deciding not to do something else, ”Vespe said.
TV-Turnoff Week seems to be making a __33__: Recent US Census（人口普查）data __34__ that about 72 percent of kids under 12 have a limit on their TV time. That’s __35__ about 63 percent ten years ago.
16. A. drinking B. sleeping
C. washing D. playing
17. A. find out B. go out
C. look out D. keep out
18. A. away B. alone
C. off D. beside
19. A. like B. as
C. from D. with
20. A. end B. event
C. beginning D. total
21. A. besides B. on
C. including D. except
22. A. governments B. parents
C. organizers D. businessmen
23. A. the light B. the radio
C. life D. the Internet
24. A. grown-ups B. kids
C. clerks D. parents
25. A. less B. enough
C. little D. more
26. A. programmes B. screen
C. hours D. watching
27. A. In case B. On the contrary
C. In fact D. As a result
28. A. overweight B. overeating
C. overgrown D. overseeing
29. A. leads to B. results from
C. develops D. keeps away
30. A. will be B. should be
C. may be D. could be
31. A. organizing B. taking part in
C. participating D. asking for
32. A. the moment B. every day
C. every time D. this time
33. A. living B. choice
C. difference D. sense
34. A. shows B. says
C. reads D. writes
35. A. apart from B. down from
C. up to D. up from
Ⅲ. 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
A
·Ms Tan, you’ ve referred to your new novel as your eighth book.
That’s because it took me six or seven attempts at a second novel before I started and completed this one.
·Why do you think you had so many false starts
I would say that my reasons were wrong: I was trying to prove that I wasn’t just a mother-daughter storyteller, or I was trying to prove that I didn’t just have to write about things that were strictly Chinese or Chinese-American. Those were never the right reasons for writing those early stories. And I could never come up with other better reasons for continuing them.
·What kept you going on this book
This book was different because it was based on my mother’s real life. The reason for writing it became more personal and emotional. After The Joy Luck Club came out, my mother was always explaining to people that she wasn’t any of the mothers in that book. And at one point she said to me, “Next book tells my true story. ”And then she started telling me things I never knew before. She also told me many, many stories, because my mother doesn’t generalize. The book really grew out of that.
·Have you ever visited China
Yes. I’ve been there twice: about three years ago and then again last November, both times with my mother and my husband.
·Was it difficult to capture the Chinese- American dialect without sounding like a parody（拙劣的模仿）
No, because it’s the language I’ve heard all my life from my mother. She speaks English as it’s direct translation from Chinese. But it’s more than that: Her language also has more imagery than English.
·Can you think of an example
Somebody might say to me, “Don’t work so hard. You’ll kill yourself. ”My mother will say to me, “Why do you press all your brains out on this page for someone else ”So it’s very vivid. That’s the way she talks.
·Have many readers told you that the Chinese mother in your book reminded them of the typical Jewish mother
Many people have told me that. I think the mother-daughter relationship is very intense in both cases. Culturally there is an acceptance that mothers have the power to tell their children, especially their daughters, how to conduct their lives—not simply up until the time they are 18, but for the rest of their lives. However, when children grow up in a different culture from their parents’, they tend to keep more secrets from their parents. The children think, “They just wouldn’t understand that I had to do this. ”And that can really create a gap, and it can grow as the number of secrets grows.
36. Based on the questions in this interview, what do you think Ms Tan’s profession is
A. A journalist. B. A storywriter.
C. An interviewer. D. An interviewee.
37. What’ s TRUE about Tan’ s second book
A. It’s about her real life in America.
B. The name of the book is The Joy Luck Club.
C. It is the result of many times of careful thought.
D. It includes many works of her mother.
38. Which question is NOT answered in the interview
A. How does she think of her mother's language
B. How many books does she plan to write
C. When did she visit China
D. How is generation gap created
39. We can infer that ________.
A. Tan’s mother is a good storyteller
B. Tan plans to write another book about her mother
C. Tan plans to return to China
D. Tan’s mother is hard to communicate with because of personality
40. The last paragraph mainly talks about ________.
A. how to keep secrets from parents
B. how to deal with the mother-daughter relationship
C. how to conduct the lives
D. how the generation gap comes about
B
Among various programs, TV talk shows have covered every inch of space on daytime television. And anyone who watches them regularly knows that each one is different in style. But no two shows are more opposite in content, while at the same time standing out above the rest, than the Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey shows.
Jerry Springer could easily be considered the king of“rubbish talk”. The topics on his show are as surprising as possible. For example, the show takes the ever-common talk show titles of love, sex, cheating, and hate, to a different level. Clearly, the Jerry Springer show is about the dark side of society, yet people are willing to eat up the troubles of other people’s lives.
Like Jerry Springer, Oprah Winfrey takes the TV talk show to its top. But Oprah goes in the opposite direction. The show is mainly about the improvement of society and different qualities of life. Contents are from teaching your children lessons, managing your work week, to getting to know your neighbors.
Compared to Oprah, the Jerry Springer show looks like poisonous waste being poured into society. Jerry ends every show with a“final word”. He makes a small speech about the entire idea of the show. Hopefully, this is the part where most people will learn something very valuable.
Clean as it is, the Oprah show is not for everyone. The show’s main audience are middle-class Americans. Most of the people have the time, money and ability to deal with life’s tough problems. Jerry Springer, on the other hand, has more of a connection with the young adults of society. These are 18 to 21 year-olds whose main troubles in life include love, relationship, sex, money and drug. They are the ones who see some value and lessons to be learned through the show's exploitation.
41. Compared with other TV talk shows, both the Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey shows are ________.
A. more interesting
B. unusually popular
C. more detailed
D. more formal
42. Though the social problems Jerry Springer talks about appear unpleasant, people who watch the shows ________.
A. show disbelief in them
B. are ready to face up to them
C. remain cold to them
D. are willing to get away from them
43. Which of the following is likely to be a topic of the Oprah Winfrey show
A. A new type of robot.
B. National hatred.
C. Family income planning.
D. Street accidents.
44. We can learn from the passage that the two talk shows ________.
A. have become the only ones of its kind
B. explore the weaknesses in human nature
C. appear at different times of the day
D. attract different people
45. What is the advantage of the Jerry Springer show
A. The show exposes the dark sides of society.
B. The show pours poisonous waste into society.
C. Jerry sums up the whole idea of the show.
D. Jerry talks about the improvement of society.
C
Roslyn High School on Long Island recently started a pilot program using iPads in some classrooms.
A growing number of schools across the U. S. would like to use the iPad as the latest tool to teach Kafka in multimedia, history through games and math with step-by-step cartoon of complex problems.
As part of a pilot program, Roslyn High School handed out 47 iPads on Dec. 20, 2010 to the students and teachers in two humanities（人文学科）classes. The school district hopes to provide iPads eventually to all 1, 100 of its students.
The iPads are to be used in class and at home during the school year to replace textbooks, allow students to correspond with teachers and turn in papers and homework tasks, and preserve a record of student work in digital files.
“It allows us to extend the classes beyond these four walls, ”said Larry Reiff, an English teacher at Roslyn who now posts all his course materials online. But educators are still divided over whether practices to give every student a laptop have made a difference academically.
“There is very little evidence that kids learn more, faster or better by using these machines, ”said Larry Cuban, a retired professor of education at Stanford University. “iPads are excellent tools to attract kids, but then the freshness wears off and you get into hard-core problems of teaching and learning. ”
But school leaders say the iPad is not just a cool new toy but rather a powerful and multifunctional tool with a number of applications, including thousands of educational uses. “If there isn’t an application that does something I need, there will be sooner or later, ”said Mr. Reiff, who said he now used an application that includes all of Shakespeare’s plays.
46. The passage mainly wants to tell us ________.
A. iPads will be used in more and more schools in the U. S.
B. students have achieved a lot after using iPads
C. teaching will become less important with the help of iPads
D. a program of a school to allow students to use iPads in the classroom
47. The program of using iPads in class is ________.
A. widely accepted by most schools in the United States
B. encouraged and organized by the iPad company
C. carried out by the U. S. government
D. only an experimental one carried out in some schools
48. We can use iPads to do the following at school except ________.
A. judging the teachers’ teaching
B. keeping digital record of homework
C. replacing the school textbooks
D. communicating with teachers
49. The underlined part“these four walls”in Paragraph 5 refers to ________.
A. school dormitory
B. school classroom
C. teacher’s office
D. school campus
50. According to the passage, who are in favour of the program
A. The school leaders and the writer.
B. Larry Cuban and Larry Reiff.
C. The school leaders and Larry Reiff.
D. Larry Cuban and the school leaders.
D
Do American children still learn handwriting in school In the age of the keyboard, some people seem to think handwriting lessons are on the way out. 90% of teachers say they are required to teach handwriting. But studies have yet to answer the question of how well they are teaching it. One study published this year found that about three out of every four teachers say they are not prepared to teach handwriting. Some teachers are teaching handwriting by providing instruction for 10~15 minutes a day, and then other teachers who basically teach it for 60 to 70 minutes a day—which really for handwriting is pretty much.
Many adults remember learning that way—by copying letters over and over again. Today’s thinking is that short periods of practice are better. Many experts also think handwriting should not be taught by itself. Instead, they say it should be used as a way to get students to express ideas. After all, that is why we write.
Handwriting involves two skills. One is legibility, which means forming the letters so they can be read. The other is fluency—writing without having to think about it. Fluency continues to develop up until high school.
But not everyone masters these skills. Teachers commonly report that about one fourth of their kids have poor handwriting. Some people might think handwriting is not important any more because of computers and voice recognition programs.
But Steve Graham at Vanderbilt says word processing is rarely done in elementary school, especially in the early years. American children traditionally first learn to print, and then to write in cursive, which connects the letters. But guess what we learned from a spokeswoman for the College Board, which administers the SAT college admission test. More than 75 percent of students choose to print their essay on the test rather than write in cursive.
51. We can learn ________ from Paragraph 1.
A. teaching handwriting is a basic requirement in teaching job
B. most teachers prefer to teach handwriting
C. teachers spend little time in teaching handwriting
D. a keyboard has taken the place of the handwriting entirely
52. Which of the following is WRONG for traditional handwriting in the USA
A. The students are taught by practicing a long period.
B. The letters are repeated many times.
C. Handwriting includes two skills.
D. To write in cursive is taught first.
53. The underlined word“legibility”in Paragraph 3 means ________.
A. easy to read B. complex
C. unexpected D. unreadable
54. The best title for the passage is ________.
A. How to improve handwriting in school
B. Right or wrong: the death of handwriting
C. Handwriting involves two skills
D. Handwriting lessons are on the way out
55. The author’s attitude towards whether still to learn handwriting in school is ________.
A. negative B. objective
C. critical D. optimistic
Ⅳ. 书面表达（满分35分）
《百万英镑》是美国著名作家马克·吐温的短篇小说，深受人们的喜爱。学习了这篇课文后，你们学校的戏剧社决定排演这出短剧。经过三个星期的排练，校戏剧社近期将推出一场根据《百万英镑》（The Million Pound Bank Note）改编的英文短剧。该剧将在下周与广大师生见面。请你用英文为本次活动写一则100词左右的海报。
要点如下：
1. 该剧由学生根据原著改编，并有新的创意，很值得观看；
2. 演员、导演和其他工作人员一律由学生自己担任；
3. 学生辛苦排练了三周；
4. 演出时间：下周四（11月15日）下午3点；地点：音乐厅；
5. 届时将请广大师生评选最佳演员；
6. 请大家积极参与。
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答案与解析
1. A 考查情景交际。句意：“我用你的车你介意吗？”“不介意，用吧。”go ahead说吧，用吧，符合句意。
2. A 考查冠词。句意：你不应该那么粗暴地和她说话，你最好向她道歉。in a rude manner以一种粗暴的方式；make an apology to sb. 向某人道歉。
3. C 考查名词词义辨析。句意：“我认为电视机坏掉不是我的过错。我只是把它打开了，就这样。”这个男孩说。fault过错，失误，过失。
4. B 考查短语辨析。句意：在场的游客不相信自己的眼睛，瞪着眼睛看飞机在空中做一些高难度的危险动作。stare at盯着，瞪着，看；glare at怒目而视；glance at一瞥；catch sight of看见。
5. A 考查动词短语辨析。句意：她在有四个孩子的家庭里长大，并学会了与他人分享。bring up抚养；bring about造成，引起或导致；bring along领来或带来；bring on导致；使发展。结合句意应选A。
6. B 考查情态动词。句意：我认为在那边的那个人不可能是我们的校长，因为刚才我看见他坐车出去了。此句为否定前移的句子，而真正否定的是宾语从句。
7. B 考查强调句和定语从句。句意：就是在正在被建的体育馆里将要举行运动会。第一空是which引导的定语从句；第二空是that引导的强调句。
8. A 考查名词词义辨析。句意：如果你站在山顶，你能更好地欣赏这个城市的风景。view强调从高处欣赏到的风景。
9. A 考查短语辨析。句意：看那个衣衫褴褛的人。他一定是个乞丐。in rags衣衫褴褛；in debt负债；in order有序；in good condition状况良好。结合句意选A。
10. A 考查名词词义辨析。句意：布莱克先生非常受欢迎是因为他的幽默感。sense感觉；emotion情感，情绪；feeling感情；thought思想。
11. B 考查短语辨析。句意：至于水污染，当地政府对此已采取了措施。as for至于，符合句意，故选B。
12. C 考查名词词义辨析。句意：你是付现金，还是我把它记在你的账上？account账户，符合句意，故选C。
13. B 考查非谓语动词。句意：据报道一些野生动物被发现藏在一个大山洞里面，死了。hide与animals之间是动宾关系，须用过去分词表被动；dead是形容词作状语，表示事物的状态。
14. A 考查动词词义辨析。句意：这个地区不允许打猎，所以你最好不要在这里打猎。permit允许；promise答应；ask要求；want想要。结合句意应选A。
15. A 考查交际用语。句意：“你对考试结果失望吗？”“不，正相反，我对它很满意。”on the contrary相反，符合句意。
16. D 根据上下文考查合适的动名词。从文章大意可知是希望人们有健康的生活方式，参加一些activities（第二段中），因此选playing最合适。后面的reading和studying都是室内活动。
17. A 根据上下文考查合适的动词短语。上文提出了一个问题，所以选find out“发现，找到（答案）”。
18. C 根据上下文考查意义正确的搭配。leave...off “关掉”。
19. C 考查常用短语搭配。from...to…是固定短语，结合句意和后文的“to”可以得知C项是正确答案。
20. C 根据上下文考查合适的词组。这两句话讲的是参与这个活动的人数的变化，因此先说的是in the beginning“一开始”。
21. C 根据上下文考查意义正确的词。这句话是对前一句话的补充说明，根据后文的and in more than 12 other countries可知是对所有参与者的一个说明，用including“包括”。
22. C 考查符合上下文的名词。由上文可知是“a non-profit organization”。government政府；parent家长；businessman商人，都不符合，所以选C。
23. C 考查符合文章中心思想的词义选择。组织者的目的就是希望人们有健康的生活方式，用turn on life“点亮生活”很形象地阐明了中心。
24. B 考查符合上下文的名词。下文的数据明显是针对学生而言，因此用kids。
25. D 根据上下文提供的数据，当然看电视的时间更多。
26. D 考查符合上下文的词。这里表示“看电视过多”。
27. C 考查符合上下文的关联词组。下文是对上文作更具体的说明，in fact“实际上”。
28. A 根据上文的grow fat可知这里应该是overweight“超重的”。overeating“吃得过多”是导致肥胖的一个方面（还有缺乏锻炼），overgrown“成长过快的”和overseeing“监督”不合文意。
29. A 根据上下文及搭配考查合适的动词词组。从逻辑上看首先排除result from“由于”；keep away“不接触”；再根据后面的too little exercise，and violence从搭配上排除develop。lead to导致，引起。
30. B 根据中心思想，组织者认为从道理上说这样做 “应该是”健康生活的一部分。
31. B 从下文来看Vespe是作为一个电视观众，即一个参与本次活动的参与者，讲自己的体会，而不是一个组织者，因此选taking part in，而participating后面需要加in。
32. C 结合句意考查名词引导的时间状语从句。从主句的现在进行时可以判断选every time“每次”最合适。而every day后面要加when，this time“这次”不合题意。
33. C 结合上下文考查固定搭配。make a difference “产生了影响”。
34. A 根据句意考查名词与动词搭配。下文不是列举data“数据”具体是多少，所以不能用says或reads，应该用shows表示数据说明的情况。
35. D 根据上下文考查词义。从前后数字来看是在63 percent的基础上上升，故选up from。
【语篇解读】这是一篇人物访谈纪实。通读这篇访谈录，我们可以了解华裔美国作家Ms Tan创作第二部作品的经历。
36. B 推理判断题。根据文中的“your new novel, a second novel”等关键信息及访谈内容可知，Ms Tan是一名小说家。C、D两项有一定的干扰性，注意题干中问的是“profession（职业）”。
37. C 细节理解题。根据文中的“. . . it took me six or seven attempts at a second novel before I started and completed this one. ”可知，Tan在完成这部书的写作之前曾历经过六七次尝试，说明这本书是她经过多次深思熟虑的作品。
38. B 细节理解题。“她计划写几本书？”这个问题在文中找不到答案，其他三项文中均有涉及。
39. A 推理判断题。根据文中的“She also told me many, many stories, because my mother doesn’t generalize. ”和“So it’s very vivid. That’s the way she talks. ”可知，Tan的母亲是一位善于讲故事的人。
40. D 主旨大意题。此段大意是：从传统意义上来说，母亲有教育孩子们一生如何生活的权力，而孩子们随着年龄的增长，他们不愿将自己的秘密告诉父母，从而产生了代沟。因此本段主要阐述的是代沟是如何产生的。
【语篇解读】本文主要介绍美国两种不同的电视节目。
41. B 推理判断题。根据文章第一段最后一句“But no two shows are more...while at the same time standing out above the rest...”可知选B。
42. B 细节理解题。从第二段最后一句可以看出。注意动词短语eat up的同义转换。
43. C 细节理解题。根据第三段最后一句话可推知。
44. D 推理判断题。从文章对这两种节目的描述可知，A、B两项太片面，C项文中没有提及。
45. C 细节理解题。根据倒数第二段最后两句得知。
【语篇解读】美国长岛的Roslyn High School启动一个试点项目，在一些课堂中使用iPads。
46. D 主旨大意题。本篇文章是一则新闻，第一段就是文章的主要内容。
47. D 细节理解题。从第一段中的in some classrooms和第三段中…Roslyn High School handed out 47 iPads on Dec. 20, 2010 to the students and teachers in two humanities classes. The school district hopes to provide iPads eventually to all 1, 100 of its students. 可知这只不过是一个处于试验阶段的项目。
48. A 细节理解题。从第四段可知只有A项没有提到。
49. B 细节理解题。第五段中“It allows us to extend the classes beyond these four walls, ”意为：这就允许我们将课堂延伸到教室之外，由第四段中的The iPads are to be used in class and at home…可知B项正确。
50. C 细节理解题。根据第五段和第七段可知Larry Reiff的观点（支持）。从第六段可知Larry Cuban的观点（反对）。从第七段可知the school leaders的观点（支持）。
【语篇解读】文章介绍了在键盘普及的年代美国的书法教学情况。
51. A 推理判断题。根据第一段中“90% of teachers say they are required to teach handwriting. ”可知书法教学是基本的教学要求，A项为正确推论。根据“One study published this year found that about three out of every four teachers say they are not prepared to teach handwriting. ”可知，很多老师不愿意教书法课，B项错误；根据第一段末句可知C项错误；根据全段判断，只是说键盘普及使一些人认为书法渐渐过时了，D项错误。
52. D 细节理解题。根据第二段可知，传统的书法教学重复很多遍并且持续时间长，因此A、B两项正确。根据第三段第一句可知C项正确；根据最后一段第二句可知D项错误。
53. A 词义猜测题。根据下文“which means forming the letters so they can be read”可推测画线词的意思是“清楚，易读”。
54. B 主旨大意题。作者对美国书法教学的现状作了叙述，没有自己的主观评论，故选择B，A项没有涉及；C项只是其中一部分内容；D项只是一部分人的观点。
55. B 态度判断题。根据全文的叙述，作者只是将美国书法教学的现状和不同人的观点呈现出来，并没有发表自己的见解，因此作者持客观的态度。
One possible version:
A new English playlet The Million Pound Bank Note will be put on by our School Drama Troupe. It will be shown in the Music Hall at 3:00 pm next Thursday on November 15th. The playlet is adapted from the original by students with new ideas and therefore is well worth seeing. All the cast, including the director, actors and actresses, are selected from the students. They have been working hard for three weeks for this new playlet.
After the playlet is shown, we would like you to choose the best actor or actress. Welcome to join us. See you next Thursday afternoon.
单元练测卷（二）
（时间：100分钟 满分：120分）
Ⅰ. 单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分, 满分15分）
1. Last week he promised ________ today, but he hasn’t arrived yet.
A. that he would have come
B. what would he have come
C. which he would come
D. that he would come
2. She is strict ________ discipline.
A. in the matter of B. in the event of
C. on behalf of D. on account of
3. I don’t know ________ the problem, so I have to ask Mr Gao.
A. what to deal with B. what to be dealt with
C. how to deal with D. how to be done with
4. I met my friend Jim ________ yesterday.
A. in chance B. by chance
C. to chance D. with chance
5. Our manager gets angry, but I don’t ________ that.
A. care to B. care for
C. care about D. care with
6. I don't mind ________ the decision as long as it is not too late.
A. you to delay making
B. your delaying making
C. your delaying make
D. your delay to make
7. —I’m thinking of the test tomorrow. I’m afraid I can’t pass this time.
—________! I’m sure you’ll make it.
A. Go ahead B. Good luck
C. No problem D. Cheer up
8. One advantage of playing the guitar is ________ it can give you a great deal of pleasure.
A. how B. why
C. that D. when
9. ________ of coal ________ used in this plant last year.
A. A plenty; was B. Large amounts; was
C. A large number; was D. A large amount; was
10. It is rude ________ you ________ with your mouth full.
A. of; to talk B. for; to talk
C. of; talking D. for; talking
11. Agents will raise the ________ of prize-money for next year’s world championships.
A. question B. stuff
C. matter D. issue
12. I looked up to see a young woman ________ standing at the side of the road, begging.
A. in rag B. in turn
C. in rags D. in truth
13. He is very friendly ________, and we become friends at once.
A. at all B. in all
C. as well D. indeed
14. ________ the cost, that will be very little.
A. As for B. As regard
C. As of D. As respect to
15. After the explosion, the factory was a ________ of total confusion.
A. scene B. situation
C. view D. occasion
Ⅱ. 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1. 5分，满分30分）
Once upon a time there was one storyteller who wanted to search for a real-life story.
He reached a village and took a cottage for rent. After __16__ in the village throughout the month, the storyteller couldn’t find one. __17__, he decided to stop his search.
The next day, while sitting in the cottage, he suddenly heard a voice—a woman was __18__ someone. The voice was coming from the big __19__ behind his cottage.
It sounded like the woman was abusing her __20__. The storyteller didn’t like it, __21__ he was happy to finally get his story. __22__ the conversations each day, he added them to his story. Though he couldn’t __23__ the characters of his story, he started __24__ the mother-in-law, as she seemed to be a bad woman.
Before he finished his __25__, the storyteller wanted to see the __26__ once, so he climbed the wall. There he saw the mother-in-law sitting in a __27__. It seemed that she was disabled.
He saw the old lady trying to __28__ a food item on the table near her wheelchair. But because of her __29__, she couldn’t reach it and the daughter-in-law looked like she was enjoying the old lady’s __30__ nearby.
Suddenly the old lady fell from the wheelchair and started __31__ her daughter-in-law. The storyteller went back and __32__ changed the ending of the story and was surprised at how __33__ it was compared to what he once thought it would be.
Truly he found both a real-life story and a real-life __34__:Never judge a situation unless you know all the aspects well. Sometimes you can’t imagine your __35__ from the reality.
16. A. running B. recognizing
C. judging D. wandering
17. A. Disappointed B. Frightened
C. Bored D. Worried
18. A. looking at B. pointing at
C. shouting at D. staring at
19. A. loudspeaker B. wall
C. village D. tree
20. A. father-in-law B. mother-in-law
C. son-in-law D. daughter-in-law
21. A. and B. but
C. so D. then
22. A. Writing B. Telling
C. Listening to D. Making up
23. A. imagine B. forget
C. find D. see
24. A. hating B. liking
C. appreciating D. missing
25. A. conversation B. story
C. adventure D. scene
26. A. hostess B. results
C. evidence D. characters
27. A. wheelchair B. cottage
C. yard D. bed
28. A. eat B. get
C. put D. hold
29. A. hand B. arm
C. condition D. shortcoming
30. A. foolishness B. happiness
C. carelessness D. helplessness
31. A. abusing B. doubting
C. laughing at D. deciding on
32. A. hardly B. gradually
C. quickly D. frequently
33. A. different B. familiar
C. obvious D. violent
34. A. fault B. lesson
C. trick D. motto
35. A. confidence B. mistake
C. knowledge D. distance
Ⅲ. 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
A
My name is M-m-m-adison. That has always been a particularly difficult word for my lips to form, especially on unexpected occasions. In my mind I know exactly what I want to say and when and how I want to say it, but every now and then my words come out in repetitive longer syllables（音节）.
I have dealt with stuttering（口吃）my entire life, but people around me seldom notice my problem， since I have this speech impediment（缺陷）to a very limited degree and experience it only in certain situations. However, it has the same effect on my life as if I had it to its full degree. For many years I have worn a mask, one giving the appearance of fluency. I’ve made a relatively successful attempt to hide my stutter.
However I exhausted myself. I reached a breaking point, unable to bear the pressure of pretending to be somebody I was not. After years of refusing to seek help, I was forced to admit that there was a problem.
My doctor is a woman who stutters severely herself but she is not ashamed when speaking at her slow pace. Entering her office the first time, I watched a videotape of her giving a speech in a college class, stuttering uncontrollably for ten minutes. It reminded me of myself. I discovered that I really wasn’t alone after all.
Her office is a place of safety, a place where I will not be judged for my imperfect speech. It’s a safe place where I won’t receive curious or impolite stares from those who don’t understand what it’s like to struggle with the simplest daily task—a place where I can stutter freely.
I accept that I have this disability and consider myself lucky. I feel honored to be among those who are disabled because we are able to value certain abilities normally taken for granted by others.
36. According to the passage, what troubled Madison
A. He couldn’t express himself well.
B. He had difficulty speaking fluently.
C. He suffered from a serious stutter.
D. He couldn’t spell words correctly.
37. From the underlined sentence, we can infer that ________.
A. Madison attempted to hide his true feelings
B. Madison protected himself with a covering on his face
C. Madison tried to pretend to be fluent in speaking
D. Madison appeared to speak easily and well with a mask
38. Why was Madison asked to watch a videotape
A. To find out how to deal with his stutter.
B. To understand why people may suffer from stuttering.
C. To prove that a man who stutters can also make a speech.
D. To encourage him to accept his disability bravely.
39. What did Madison learn from the woman doctor
A. A disabled person knows how to value normal abilities.
B. One should struggle with impolite stares.
C. A disabled person should be respected by others.
D. One shouldn’t be judged by his or her imperfect speech.
B
In Toano’s fitness lab, the students are playing video games, but it isn’t something out of the ordinary—it’s encouraged, especially when it allows students to become active, said Norm Brungot, physical education teacher and athletic director at the Williamsburg-James City County middle school.
It isn’t unusual to see students playing baseball or bowling using the lab’s Wii（一种游戏机）or breaking into sweat dancing along with a game.
“It’s all about getting students to move around, and the Wii and many video games allow students to do that, ”said Brungot.“This definitely isn’t your parents’ gym class. ”
Toano’s fitness lab, which opened last fall, is the latest addition to the middle school’s physical education program. The lab, which is located in a rebuilt athletic place, is equipped with modern equipment such as exercise bikes, rowing machines and elliptical machines（椭圆机），in addition to the video games.
He said getting students more active was one of the reasons that he and Trainum decided to develop the fitness lab. “We knew the middle school schedule was going to change, and we wanted a new way of keeping students interested in fitness, ”Brungot said.
“As soon as we knew we had a room available, we decided to move ahead with the project, ”he said. Trainum agreed. “Our final goal at this school is to build kids into lifelong learners, which not only means teaching them how to add and multiply, but to be healthy citizens as well, ”said Trainum, who said students are already getting the benefits of the lab.
Seventh-grader Travis Sink said working out in the center has encouraged him to work out in his spare time. “My dad signed us up to use the gym at the center and I love it, ”Travis said. “I already know how to use the equipment and everything. ”
40. In Toano’s fitness lab, students take exercise by ________.
A. playing baseball
B. dancing together
C. playing bowling
D. playing video games
41. From Paragraph 3, we can learn that ________.
A. parents aren’t allowed to exercise in the fitness lab
B. playing video games is surely not suitable for parents
C. the activities are different from those in your parents’ PE class
D. parents would certainly not come to the fitness lab
42. Brungot and Trainum founded the fitness lab to ________.
A. make kids become interested in lessons
B. help kids solve maths problems in class
C. keep students active in class
D. provide a way for students to keep healthy
43. What is the main idea of this passage
A. New PE activities attract students’ parents.
B. A fitness lab inspires students to stay active.
C. New ways to exercise help kids lose weight.
D. Kids are encouraged to play video games.
C
It all started off with five. It was slightly drizzling（下毛毛雨），and my dad had told me that I had to make five free throws（罚球）in a row before I could go home. I was ten at the time and I couldn’t believe he wanted me to make that incredible amount. So I stood and shot until I made five free throws in a row. After every practice, no matter how long it took, I made five free throws in a row. Pretty soon the number of free throws increased from twenty to fifty, until I got to high school and I had to make seventy-five in a row before I could leave the gym.
One memorable afternoon, there was a hole in the ceiling of the gym and apparently there was a beehive on the roof. The floor was covered with bees and occasionally one would just start flying out of nowhere. I was on number seventy-three and a bee decided to fly into my ear right before the ball left my fingertips. I shrieked and grabbed my ear and completely missed the shot. My dad just looked at me and said I had to start over. When I started to argue, he just looked at me, saying“What are you going to do at game time ”I wanted to ask him, “Would there be many beehives in the stands "，but I decided to hold my tongue. And fifteen minutes later I finally made seventy-five in a row.
My high school team was playing Royal High School in the Nike Tournament of Champions. We had played Royal High School a week earlier and had lost to them by twenty points, so this game was all about revenge（复仇）. Royal had one girl on their team who was incredible. Her name was Kelly and she could score at will. Whenever we were at the free throw line she would act as if she was so good it didn’t matter if we made free throws, her team was still going to win.
With two minutes left in the game, my team was up by six and their coach ordered them to foul（犯规）. Our coach, seeing this, immediately called a time out and drew out a brilliant game plan. Give the ball to me—every time. I was a little shocked. I wasn’t a standout player. I did my job, got my ten points and called it a day. My best friend and fellow teammate pulled me aside and told me I was the best free throw shooter on the team. I could do it. I said, “Okay, I guess. ”
44. The author owed the high percentage of the author’s free throws against Royal High School to ________.
A. her coach B. her competitor
C. her teammates D. her father
45. According to the second paragraph, it can be inferred that ________.
A. the author’s father was very strict
B. the author made 150 free throws in fact
C. the author didn’t get along well with her father
D. the author was afraid of bees very much
46. The underlined words“called it a day”in the last paragraph mean the author ________.
A. was very shocked
B. finished off the game
C. called for a sudden stop
D. tried her best
47. The text is most likely to be found in a column about“________”.
A. Inspiration B. Entertainment
C. Home D. Love
D
Even before I had my own kids, whenever I went into a bookstore, I’d end up in the children’s section. Once there, I’d pass by the novels and stories quickly, take a good look at the picture books, then I’d be in front of the children’s poetry books. Soon, I’d be reading and laughing and lost in thought and happy and wondering why all the customers in the store weren’t right there with me.
I don’t think that good children’s poetry is for children only. It’s written for them, but cupcakes are intended to be for kids, too. I grew up learning and studying classic poems in school, and I’ve read famous works by contemporary poets as well, so I’m not talking about children’s poetry at the exclusion（排斥）of other works. But I find something absolutely magical in the best poetry written for kids—that wonderful poetic ability to see and explore the world freshly, to find humor and truth and express it through perfect words perfectly placed. I’ve seen the great effect the poetry has on its target audience.
A few years ago, I became a volunteer elementary school librarian. I decided that before every read-aloud book, I’d read a poem because I loved kids’ reactions to the poems. I’ve had children come up to me weeks after hearing a poem and repeat it nearly whole.
This year, to celebrate National Poetry Month, an event called 30 Poets/30 Days was started at my blog（http://gottabook. ). Every day in April, I’ll be posting a previously unpublished poem by a different children’s poet. These 30 poets have published over 700 books for children and teens, and the poetry promises to be wonderful.
I’d love to hear if you already have favorite poems/poets and if the month ahead ends up adding new names to your list. I encourage everyone to visit and read a poem to yourself or with a child.
48. What do we know about the author from the first paragraph
A. She didn’t like novels and stories at all.
B. She liked children’s poetry books very much.
C. She often went to the bookstore to buy picture books.
D. She wasn’t interested in children’s books before she had her own children.
49. What does the author mean by the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2
A. Adults also like cupcakes.
B. Cupcakes are for children only.
C. Cupcakes are not good for children.
D. Kids don’t like cupcakes.
50. What does the underlined phrase“its target audience”in Paragraph 2 refer to
A. Librarians. B. Teachers.
C. Poets. D. Children.
51. According to Paragraph 4, we learn that ________.
A. National Poetry Month is in April this year
B. poems to be posted on the author’s blog are chosen from 700 books
C. poems to be posted on the author’s blog are from some new poets
D. 30 poems will be posted on the author’s blog every day in April
E
American teens are setting an example for their parents through their volunteer work, according to a new survey by Harris Interactive. They found that more teens volunteer to support a charitable cause(慈善事业)—56 percent—than have a part-time job—39 percent.
Parents said 82 percent of the teens in their lives do something to support charitable causes, including volunteering, recruiting(招募)others to a cause, wearing a button or T-shirt or donating(捐赠) money. Forty-six percent of the adults surveyed said they volunteer their time, but they also take credit for inspiring their children to volunteer.
Sara Johnson is a teacher who advises students at a private school. She says she’s seen an enthusiasm among teens for joining in social causes since President Barack Obama was elected in November last year.
The Harris Interactive survey found a quarter of teens have become more involved in charitable causes or organizations as a result of the economic downturn (经济衰退). But the economy has also led to cuts in income, and has teens working more hours at a paying job.
Unlike many public high schools across the nation, Illiana Christian High School does not require its students to clock public service hours. Senior Melissa Martin said some kids are too busy with other things like sports and music, but most of her classmates do volunteer work.
Alynn Woodson, director of volunteer engagement at Habitat for Humanity International, said she has noticed a new enthusiasm among teen volunteers for the organization. It is expected that more than 12, 000 young people will help build homes for low-income people around the nation this year.
52. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage
A. Helping find new people to work for charitable causes.
B. Donating clothes.
C. Donating money.
D. Helping build homes for low-income people.
53. Melissa Martin is most probably a ________.
A. teacher B. parent
C. student D. surveyor
54. Due to the economic downturn, American teens ________.
A. find it harder to do part-time jobs
B. spend less time doing volunteer work
C. get more money from their parents
D. work harder at their studies
55. What’s the best title for this passage
A. Teens in the economic downturn
B. Charitable causes in America
C. More teens volunteer than work part-time
D. More parents inspire their children to volunteer
Ⅳ. 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
One of the main purposes of newspapers are to provide news. If 56. ________
you examine newspapers closely, you find that there are 57. ________
all sort of news: accidents, floods, fires, wars, sports, books, etc. 58. ________
The news cover everything that happens to people and 59. ________
their surroundings. Sometimes there are news items which are very interesting. 60. ________
A news report is usually very short, except it is very important, 61. ________
and thus has a lot of information. It is also writing in short paragraphs. 62. ________
The first paragraph is in the fact a summary of the news item. It 63. ________
gives all the necessary information, what, when, where, how or 64. ________
why. The other paragraphs give full details of a subject. 65. ________
Ⅴ. 书面表达（满分25分）
据调查，中国城市居民电脑的拥有率达30%。很多农村居民对电脑也越来越感兴趣，有的家庭也买了电脑。请参考下表写一篇题为Computers in China的短文，词数为100左右。
家庭使用电脑的目的 中学生使用电脑的情况
类别 比率 类别 比率
孩子学习需要 70% 查询资料 30%
家长工作需要 20% 玩游戏 60%
娱乐 10% 听音乐、看碟 10%
Computers in China
According to a recent investigation, about 30% of the city families have computers.
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答案与解析
1. D 因为主句是过去时，所以宾语从句表示的将来应用过去将来时。
2. A in the matter of意为“就……而论”；in the event of意为“如果……发生”；on behalf of意为“代表……”；on account of意为“由于……”。
3. C deal with与how连用，而do with与what连用。
4. B by chance偶然。
5. C care about意为“关心，在乎”。
6. B mind, delay后面只接动名词，不接不定式短语，故选B项。
7. D 由后句“I’m sure you’ll make it. （我相信你会成功的）”可知，应是对对方的鼓励和信任。cheer up可用于表达“鼓励，促进”的意思，相当于come on。go ahead意为“做吧”，用以表达对前面说话人的提议的支持。
8. C 由句式结构可知，空格处应为引导表语从句的连接词。
9. D a large amount of与large amounts of修饰不可数名词作主语时，谓语动词的形式取决于amount的单复数。plenty of可修饰可数名词和不可数名词，但前无冠词a; a large number of修饰可数名词的复数。
10. A rude是指人的性格特征的词，构成It is rude of sb. to do sth. 结构。
11. D 句意：代理商们会提出明年世界锦标赛的奖金问题。question“问题”，指一般性的提问；stuff“东西，材料”；matter“事情，问题”；issue“（争论的、意见不一的）问题”，强调争论。
12. C 由句尾的begging（在乞讨）可知，应选in rags “衣衫褴褛的”，此处作定语，修饰woman, in turn“依次，轮流”；in truth “事实上，实际上”。
13. D 句意：他确实很友好，我们立刻成了好朋友。indeed“真正地，确实，实际上”；at all“根本，完全”；in all“总共，总计”；as well“也，又”。
14. A 句意：关于成本，那会很低。as for至于，关于；B项应改为As regards；C项应改为As to；D项应改为With respect to。
15. A 句意：爆炸之后，整个工厂陷入完全混乱之中。scene意为“现场，场面”，常指展现在面前的情景，符合题意。situation“情形，境遇”；view“视野，风景”，常指人从一定的角度看到的景色；occasion“场合”。
【语篇解读】本文通过一个讲故事的人在一个村子里搜寻真实的故事的经历，告诉我们一个道理：对任何事情不要轻易下结论，尤其是你没有全面了解一件事情时，你草率的结论可能和真实的情况大相径庭。
16. D 从文章首段可知，这个storyteller是为了寻找真实的故事而来的，因此这一个月他都在村子里到处游走(wandering)，目的就是想遇上真实的生活故事。
17. A 因为他一个故事也没找到，所以感到很失望（Disappointed）。
18. C 从下文可知，是一位老妇人在骂她的儿媳妇，故此处听到的是对某人的吼骂（shouting at）声。
19. B 根据下文so he climbed the wall可推知选B项。
20. D 从下文的叙述可知，身有残疾、坐在轮椅上的老妇人受到儿媳妇的虐待，故她在骂自己的儿媳妇。
21. B 虽不喜欢，但他还是很高兴终于找到了故事。
此处表示转折关系，故用but。
22. C 这个storyteller每天隔墙听（Listening to）老妇人和她儿媳妇的谈话。
23. D 因为是隔墙听，故他不能看见（see）故事中的人物。
24. A 这个storyteller根据自己目前所听到的而作出的判断是：这个老妇人很坏，故他开始讨厌（hating）她。
25. B 他在结束他的故事（story）之前想看一下故事里的两个人物（characters）。
26. D
27. A 从下文“It seemed that she was disabled.”和“on the table near her wheelchair”可知选A项。
28. B 从下文“she couldn’t reach it”可推知，她想要去拿（get）放在桌子上的食物。
29. C 从上文介绍可知，她是残疾人，故行动不便。所以此处表示“因为她的身体状况（condition），她够不着食物”。
30. D 儿媳对于婆婆的无助（helplessness）无动于衷，似乎看到婆婆这样还很开心。
31. A 突然老妇人从轮椅上摔下来，便开始骂（abusing）她的儿媳妇。
32. C 此处指讲故事者的态度转变，感到很惊讶。因此应该是很快地（quickly）改变了故事的结局。
33. A 讲故事者惊叹：事实与之前的想法是多么的不同（different）啊！
34. B 根据下文可知，他不仅获得了真实的人生故事，还学到了真正的人生一课，一个教训（lesson）。
35. D 你有时不能想象你离现实有多远。故选distance（距离）。
【语篇解读】Madison患有轻微的口吃，尽管他竭力掩饰住了自己的缺陷，最终却发现这种“戴着面具的生活”让他更遭罪……
36. B 细节理解题。根据第一段和第二段的介绍可知，作者患有口吃，但口吃的程度并不严重。
37. C 句意理解题。结合第二段的“I've made a relatively successful attempt to hide my stutter. ”和第三段的“unable to bear the pressure of pretending to be somebody I was not”可知，作者一直在假装自己没有口吃的毛病。
38. D 推理判断题。从倒数第三段的“It reminded me of myself. I discovered that I really wasn’t alone after all.”以及最后两段的介绍可推知，让作者观看这个女医生的录像，目的是激励他要有自信，要勇敢地面对自己的缺陷。
39. A 推理判断题。根据最后一段的“I feel honored to be among those who are disabled because we are able to value certain abilities normally taken for granted by others.”可推知，作者认为正是由于自己口吃才使自己学会珍惜正常人认为是理所当然的能力。
【语篇解读】在一所中学，体育课采取了全新的上课方式，学生们可以玩游戏来锻炼身体。
40. D 细节理解题。从文章的首句和第二段的介绍可知，在这个健身实验室，学生们使用新式游戏机Wii，把运动和游戏结合在一起来达到锻炼身体的目的。
41. C 细节理解题。从该段中Brungot所说的话“This definitely isn’t your parents’ gym class. ”可知C项正确。在这个实验室中，学生们从事的活动和他们的父母那时所上的体育课是不一样的。
42. D 细节理解题。根据倒数第二段的“which not only means teaching them how to add and multiply, but to be healthy citizens as well”可知D项正确。
43. B 主旨大意题。本文主要介绍了一所中学的fitness lab。在这个健身实验室老师采取了新的方式来上体育课，从而使学生们提高了对活动的兴趣，促使他们积极参与活动和锻炼的情况，所以B项符合文章主旨。
【语篇解读】本文是记叙文，作者从小就在父亲的严格训练下，练就了罚球投球时百发百中的本事。因此，在后来高中时期，与另一学校的篮球比赛中，因为罚球而为自己的球队的获胜做出了突出的贡献。
44. D 细节理解题。根据文章最后一段和第一段，在比赛最后阶段，对方决定用犯规战略，结果作者的教练将计就计，让作者持球，结果作者屡屡得到罚球权。但是，作者只是得到机会，而高命中率是由于小时父亲对作者的严格训练。
45. A 推理判断题。从文章第二段可以看出，那天，作者是投到第73个球时又重新开始的，所以实际投了148个球，因此B项错误；作者并不怎么害怕蜜蜂，否则就不在那儿练球了，D项错；作者不敢顶嘴并不意味着他们二人相处不好，而是说明父亲很严格。
46. B 词义猜测题。根据最后一段可知，作者完成了任务，得到了10分，然后结束了比赛。
47. A 主旨大意题。本文讲述了作者经过努力训练然后取得成功的故事，属于鼓舞人心的一类故事。
【语篇解读】儿童诗歌是为儿童而写，但对大人来说也是非常好的读物。本文的作者就对儿童诗歌非常感兴趣，她鼓励人们多阅读儿童诗歌。
48. B 细节理解题。根据第一段的内容可知，作者对儿童读物很感兴趣，特别爱读儿童诗歌类读物，故选B项。
49. A 推理判断题。根据第一段最后一句话及第二段第一句话可知，其他的顾客似乎对儿童诗歌不感兴趣，但作者认为好的儿童诗歌不只适合儿童阅读。此处作者想用cupcakes来说明这一点，故这句话暗含的意思是：cupcakes也是为儿童设计的，但大人们也喜欢。
50. D 指代题。I’ve seen. . . its target audience.一句话起承上启下的作用。根据上文对儿童诗歌魅力的描述及第三段的内容——作者在数周前给孩子们朗诵的儿童诗歌，有些孩子几乎还能把整首诗背诵出来——可知，这里的its指的是“儿童诗歌的”, its target audience指的是儿童。
51. A 细节判断题。由该段第一句及第二句中的in April可知A项正确。这些诗歌的作者已经出版了700多本适合儿童和青少年的书，故不能称为新作者，同时这些诗歌是之前没有出版的，故B、C两项不正确。根据第二句的描述可知是每天上传一首来自不同作者的诗歌，故D项不正确。
【语篇解读】一项调查发现，越来越多的美国青少年乐于参加志愿活动，其比例超过了愿意做兼职工作的人数比例。
52. B 细节判断题。结合第二段和最后一段可知，孩子们所从事的志愿活动中并未提到“捐赠衣物”，故选B项。
53. C 推理判断题。根据倒数第二段中的Senior（高年级学生）及her classmates可推出Melissa Martin是一名学生。
54. A 推理判断题。从第四段中的“But the economy has also led to cuts in income, and has teens working more hours at a paying job. ”可知，由于经济衰退导致收入的减少，所以现在青少年做兼职更加辛苦，故选A项。由该段第一句中的more involved in可知B项不正确，C、D两项在文中没有依据。
55. C 归纳标题题。本文属于新闻报道，其第一段即点明了文章的主题：比起做兼职工作，更多的美国青少年乐于从事志愿活动。
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Computers in China
According to a recent investigation, about 30% of the city families have computers. Besides, many village people are more and more interested in computers and some of them even have bought computers. About 70% of the parents bought computers for their children to study, and some for their work. And even some people bought them for entertainment. The fact how the middle school students use the computers really surprises us. Only about 30% of them use computers to search for information on the Internet. What is worse, about 60% use computers to play games and 10% use computers to watch VCDs or listen to music. In my opinion, we should make better use of our best invention—computers.
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