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1、Name _Score _在 35 40 分钟内完成开始时间： _完成时间 _AMy grandmother often said to me,“You can count the number of your truefriends on the fingers of one hand.For a long ”time I thought this was true. However,I ve now discovered my grandmother was only half right. Maybe we do only make afew “best ”friends in our
2、lifetime, but those arentthe only people that we can callfriends. There are many different types. Let me tell you about a few of them.One type of friends is the type I call the“ footballmom friends ”.My neighbourSally is a good example. We both have kids who play football in a football club, and som
3、eone has to take them to practise and pick them up. Sally and I and two other mothers do this. We meet sometimes and have tea and talk about what our kids are doing, but those are the only times that we meet each other. I enjoy being with these women, but we don tdo anything else together.Another ty
4、pe is called the “hobby friend ”.Tha t sthe person you share an interest or a hobby with. Michael and Cater, who are brothers, are a good example of this type. We re all in a bird watching club. Every few weekends the members ofthe club go on a trip to watch different kinds of birds. There s nothing
5、 romantic about my relationship with Michael and Cater, of course. We just share interest in birds.Then there s the “other half the couple ”type of friends. Jim is married to Rose, a friend that I have known since college. When Rose married Jim, I realized that Iwould have to be Jim s friend if I wa
6、nt to continue to be Rose s. Jim and I don t share so many interests, but we do have a friendly relationship.36. What does the first paragraph tell us about? A. We need true friends in our lifetime.B. We have few best friends in our lifetime.C. A true friend is different from a best friend.Washingto
7、n PostD. We must be friendly to all our friends.37. Many people are mentioned in this passage. Who is the writer A. Sally. B. Michael. C. Jim.s true friend?D. None of these.38. Which of the following statement is TRUE according to the passage? A. Finally the writer agrees with her grandmother.B. Mic
8、hael and Cater both fall in love with the writer.C. The writer herself takes her kid to the football club.D. Sally and the writer are close friends.BHelen Keller was one of America-knownsbestwomen. She was admired for hercourage and achievements although she couldnt see or hear. She was also knownth
9、roughout the world for her self-sacrificing work to improve the condition of the blind, the deaf and the speechless. When she died on June 1, 1968, the newspaperwrote:“ Her life was truly oneof the most remarkable phenomenaof our time and her death just short of the age of 88 leaves the whole world
10、poorer.Helen Keller was born on June 27th, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. For the first 19 months of her life, she was a pretty and happy baby, normal in every way. Then a sudden illness destroyed her sight and her hearing. Because she could not hear sounds to imitate ( 模仿 ) , she could not speak. Hel
11、en used to say that her realbirthday was not June 27th, 1880, but March 3rd, 1887 the day when AnneSullivan entered her life. It was Anne Sullivan who taught Helen to spell certain words by a special system, Braille, and even to talk.Anne Sullivan could not teach Helen Keller to speak until some oth
12、er important things had been learned. The little girl had to learn to control her actions and feelings. She had to learn that she could not always do what she wanted to do. She had always been able to get what she wanted by using force. The teacher had tochange such habits without breaking the child
13、s spirit.Miss Sullivan s battle began. Sometimes, there was real fighting between the wild child and the strong young teacher. At last, however, the battle was won by Miss Sullivan, who succeeded in showing Helen that she loved her and wanted to help her. The child and her teacher became friends. Th
14、ey continued to be friends until the teacher sdeath, fifty years later.The day on which Helen finally accepted Miss Sullivan as her friend and teacher was a great day in Helen slife. After that, the teacher could begin to teach the child language.39. Helen Keller was admired by many people because.A
15、. she was very famous in AmericaB. she had great courage and gained lots of achievementsC. she went to college though she couldn t see or hearD. she had a good teacher40. Learningwas Helen Kellers first lesson before she was taught to speak.A. to sit all day longB. to make friends with her teacherC.
16、 to do a thing again and againD. to control actions and feelings41. We can infer from the passage that Anne Sullivan.A. was more than a teacher to HelenB. was very cleverC. a blind womanD. taught Helen how to write42. Which of the following statement is NOT mentioned in the passage?A. Helen Keller s
17、tayed in touch with Miss Sullivan for fifty years.B. Anne Sullivan took great trouble to show Helen that she loved her and wanted to help her.C. It was not until Helen had learned some other important things that Miss Sullivan could teach her to speak.D. Miss Sullivan met many difficulties in teachi
18、ng Helen how to speak.CThe Trip to Alishan in TaiwanIt was the fourth day of our trip to Taiwan, bright but cold. After a good breakfast we put on our jackets and gloves, pulled on our hats and got into a car. We travelled for about two hours, up, and up, and up the mountain road.We finally arrived
19、at the top of the mountain. It was Christmas Day. So imaginemy joy to see icicles( 冰柱 ) hanging form branches and the whiteness of the scenery.Indeed, it was my first Christmas in the northern hemisphere( 半球 ) and, guess what?It even started snowing too. How amazingly exciting for me to have Christm
20、as in my grandmother shometown, and to experience icicles and snow. Alishan is really beautiful, especially seen form this dizzy height. After Sun parked the car, we got outand looked down through the trees. It hadntsnowed hard enough so there was nosnow on the ground, just loads of pine needles. Th
21、ere was a most wonderful smell ofpine sap ( 松液 ) drifting up to us form the ground. It was very quiet, except for thetwittering of birds, and the odd car passing along the road. Quietness in Taiwan is something to treasure.Over the road was a small stall so we went over to it. They were selling some
22、 drink steaming hot in paper cups, too hot to hold immediately. We jumped around to get warm. There was a cool wind blowing up the side of the mountain, and the clouds above us were moving along quickly. I could imagine there was quite a strong wind blowing up there, so I was glad we were down on th
23、e ground! The drink cooled down fairly rapidly. I picked up my share and, wow, what a lovely smell was comingform it. It was the smell of ginger( 姜 ) . I took a sip. How delicious, and so this wasginger tea, which I had never tried before. It warmed my body so quickly that I could feel the heat trav
24、el right down to my fingers and to my toes. This was very good stuff. And then it was time to leave as we were going down to Hualian to attend a Buddha bi-bi, eat hot pot, and drink some Shaoxing rice wine.43. Why was the author excited and amazed to see icicles?A. Because she had never seen icicles
25、 before.B. Because she liked icicles very much.dinner ) andC. Because it was her first time to experience a cold Christmas.D. Because it was her first time to experience winter.44. Which of the following words can be used to describe Alishan?A. beautiful, cold, quiet B. high, white, quiet C. beautif
26、ul, cold, bright D. high, white, bright45. What did the author describe in the third paragraph?A. It was very cold at the top of the mountain.B. It was blowing strongly on the mountain.C. She enjoyed herself very much in the cold.D. She was greatly amazed by the ginger tea.46. From the text, we can
27、tell that the author is most probably _.A. a Chinese person in AustraliaB. a Chinese person inAmericaC. an AustralianD. an AmericanDI use tea to refer to a snack( 点心 ) taken in the late afternoon or early evening(ie after getting home from work but before the main meal, which I callI don t think tha
28、t( 罕见s rare)atall. I think the difference is when you originally hadyour main meal and Iwould agree that it s a class thing, not a north/south thing(I ve heard the midday meal referred to as bothlunch and dinner by different peoplein all areas of England).(or even at) home and came home for their ma
29、in meal at midday, and so that was their dinner . Middle class men worked in offices far from their homes (often workingin the city centre, and living outside the city) and so couldn t go home for a meal amidday. They therefore had a light meal at midday and had their main meal withtheir family in t
30、he evening after they go home from work, sodinner was in theevening. Because most children at state schools were working class, we still use dinner for school meals. For middle and upper class people, tea was a light snackserved in the mid-afternoon at which ladies (who didn t, of course, go out to
31、work)could entertain their friends. For working class people, however,tea was the lightsnack you had before going to bed.Supper, for all classes, was the light snack youhad before going to bed.started eating their main meal in the evening too,dinner , tea and supper started tobecome interchangeable
32、for them. Also many working class families have sincebecome middle class, so the terms have become less of a current class thing (if classstill exists at all) and more of a system of terminology inherited ( 家族术语 grandparents etc, different from family to family. When I was a child (Southern) fromEng
33、lish, middle class family, but with working class forebears( 祖先 ) ) we called themidday mealdinner and the evening mealtea, but when I was in my early teens Ihad a new stepfather (from a family that had always been middle class forgenerations) who usedlunch and dinner, and that s what I ve used ever
34、 since.47. The working class people in the past usually had _ in the evening.A. a snackB. some waterC. supperD. dinner48. What was the order of meals for the middle and upper class people in a day?A. Breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner, supper.B. Breakfast, dinner,supper.C. Breakfast, lunch, tea, supper,
35、dinner.D. Breakfast, dinner, tea.49. The underlined word“entertain ”in the text has the same meaning as the underlined part ofsentence _.A. He tried to please his friends with his songs and jokes.B. He could never consider the idea of living in the country.C. He invited his friends for a dinner at his home last Sunday.D. He showed his friend around his new house before dinner.50. At the end of the text, the author gave an example to show us mainly that people from different _ called meals by different names.A. timesB.C. directionsD. classes