第二节 完型填空 通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从所给的A、B、C 三个选项中选出一个最佳答案。(共10小题，计10分)

　　Thousands of years ago, human didn't live in towns. Sometimes they would live in caves(山洞)or build camps (宿营地) in the forest.

　　Only about thirty people 31 in each camp. The men would go hunting(打猎) while the women and children 32 food from the trees around the camp. All the food was 33 between everyone in the group. Every few weeks they moved to another place to find more food. It was a simple life, but people had to be 34 . They had to make everything that they needed, and they had to know a lot about plants and animals.

　　Nowadays most people live in towns and cities, and they work in offices and fACTories. Life is 35 than in the old days. There are fewer 36 , but there is less excitement. Some people go 37 excitement-sailing round the world, climbing mountains, or exploring caves. Most people look forward to the 38 , a time when they can enjoy a change from their normal life. For some this means going camping. But camping today is 39 from camping in the past. Gas cookers, ready-made food and air-beds mean people can camp much more 40 than they did in the old times.

　　31. A. lived B. talked C. came

　　32. A. planted B. collected C. watched

　　33. A. found B. used C. shared

　　34. A. polite B. kind C. careful

　　35. A. worse B. faster C. easier

　　36. A. dangers B. stories C. people

　　37. A. waiting for B. looking for C. turning on

　　38. A. dreams B. gifts C. holidays

　　39. A. away B. different C. free

　　40. A. slowly B. terribly C. comfortably

　　第二部分　阅读技巧　(共四节，计50分)

　　第一节 阅读下面的图表，选出唯一的正确答案。(5小题，计10分)

　　1. In the summer of 1963, Clinton won a drama contest(戏剧比赛), so he went to visit the city of Washington.

　　2. Clinton was born in a poor family in 1946 . Three months before he was

　　born, his father died.

　　3.There he met President Kennedy. Then he decided to become a president.

　　4. Bill Clinton took office on January 20th 1993 and became the 42 nd U.S.

　　president . He is the first U.S. president who was born after World WarⅡ.

　　5. When he was small, his mother got married again.

　　Among all the GREatest people in the world, I like Edison most. He was so creative that he had 1,093 inventions in his life. He was born in 1847 and died in 1931. The most famous of his inventions was the light bulb.

　　Edison developed the phonograph and the “kinetoscope,”a small box for

　　seeing moving films. He also improved the design of the telephone. He believed in hard work. Sometimes he worked twenty hours a day.

　　The name of Helen Keller is known around the world. She spent her life

　　helping others,

　　Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, in 1880, she had a fever that made her

　　blind and deaf at the age of 19 months. When she was seven years old ,

　　Anne Mansfield Sullivan became her teacher.

　　Helen Keller quickly learned to read and write. By the age of 10 she began to speak. At the age of 20 she entered Radcliffe College, with Miss Sullivan at her side to spell textbooks letter by letter into her hand. Four years later Helen Keller graduated, and she began her life’s work of helping blind and deaf-blind people.

　　She traveled around the world and wrote many books and articles. She met every U.S. president from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon Johnson and played an important part in helping the blind.

　　41. Which is the correct order about Clinton’s life story?

　　A. 2,5,1,4,3 B.3,4,1,5,2 C. 2,5,1,3,4

　　42. We can learn all of the following about Edison except ______.

　　A. the writer likes Edison more than Bill Clinton and Helen Keller.

　　B. Edison received a very good school education

　　C. being hard-working makes Edison a success.

　　43. From the passage about Helen Keller we know that ______.

　　A. many blind and deaf-blind people got help from her.

　　B. her teacher, Miss Sullivan, was from a deaf-blind school.

　　C. she got married after she graduated from the college.

　　44. Bill Clinton, Edison and Helen Keller all _______.

　　A. met the presidents of the U.S.

　　B. had many GREat to study

　　C. went to college to study

　　45. Which of the following is RIGHT?

　　A. Clinton was the only president who was born in a poor family.

　　B. Edison invented the telephone by himself and improved it later.

　　C. Helen finished her college education with the help of her teacher.