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第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节 语法和词汇知识（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
        从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
        阅读下面短文，从36－55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
         In Glasgow, Scotland, a young lady, like a lot of teens today, got tired of home. The daughter objected to her family's   36   lifestyle and said, "I don't want your God. I am leaving!"
        She left home. Before long, she was disappointed and unable to find a job, so she took to the streets to do everything she could to   37  . Many years passed by, her father died, her mother grew   38  , and the daughter became more and more entrenched ( 固执) in her way of life.
        No contact was made between mother and daughter during these years. The mother, having   39   her daughter's whereabouts, went to the poor part of the city in   40   of her daughter. She stopped at each of the rescue missions with a simple   41  . "Would you allow me to   42   this picture?" It was a picture of the smiling, gray-haired mother with a handwritten   43   at the bottom: "I love you still. . . come home!"
        One day the daughter wandered into a rescue mission for a hot meal. She sat   44   listening to the service, all the while letting her   45   wander over to the bulletin board. There she saw the picture and thought, could that be my mother?
        She couldn't   46   until the service was over. She stood and went to look. It was her mother, and there were those words, "I love you still... come home!"   47   she stood in front of the picture, she wept. It was too   48   to be true.
        It was night, but she was so   49   by the message that she started walking home.   50   the time she arrived it was early in the morning. She was afraid and   51   her way timidly. As she knocked, the door   52   open on its own. She thought someone must have broken into the house. Concerned for her mother's   53  , the young woman ran to the bedroom and shook her mother awake and said, "It's me! It's me! I'm home!"
        The mother couldn't believe her eyes. They fell into each other's arms. The daughter said, "I was so worried and   54   someone had broken in." The mother replied gently, "No, dear. From the day you left, that door has never been   55  ."

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

        阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

        People with less education suffer fewer stressful days, according to a report in the current issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
        However, the study also found that when less-educated people did suffer stress it was more severe and had a stronger effect on their health.
        From this, researchers have concluded that the day-to-day factors that cause stress are regular. Where you are in society determines the kinds of problems that you have each day, and how well you will cope with them.
        The research team interviewed a national sample of 1,031 adults daily for eight days about their stress level and health. People without a high school diploma (毕业文凭) reported stress on 30 percent of the study days, people with a high school degree reported stress 38 percent of the time, and people with college degrees reported stress 44 percent of the time.
        "Less advantaged people are less healthy on a daily basis and are more likely to have downward turns in their health." leading researcher Dr. Joseph Grzywacz of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, said in a prepared statement. "The downward turns in health were connected with daily stressors (紧张刺激物), and the effect of daily stressors on their health is much more damaging for the less advantaged."
        Grzywacz suggested follow-up research to determine why less-educated people report fewer days of stress when it is known that their stress is more acute and chronic (急性和慢性).
        "If something happens every day, maybe it's not seen as a stressor" Grzywacz says. "Maybe it is just life."

B

        The eruption of Mount St. Helens, in the state of Washington, is only the latest in a long line of spectacular volcanic eruptions (喷发) that have occurred over the past hundred years. Let's look at previous eruptions. In 1902, Mount Pelee in Martinique exploded, shooting out a huge cloud of burning gas and ashes that killed the 30, 000 citizens of St. Pierre. An 1883 eruption, which blew the top off the island of Krakatoa, near Sumatra, created a tidal wave in the sea that killed 36, 000 people, when Mount Bezumyannaya erupted in Siberia in 1956, it spit out 2.4 billion tons of rock－enough debris to bury the city of Paris. Although its ashes were carried over 250 miles, no one was killed, because the volcano was in a remote area.
        In February of 1943, near the Mexican village of Paricutin, a man watched a volcano emerge in his cornfield. Dionisio Pulido was working in his field when a small crack in the ground began to expand and the earth started to shake. The stunned farmer watched until the danger forced him to leave. Out of the rift poured a cloud of smoke and sparks so large that at night it created a fireworks display that was visible for over fifty miles. By late March, the cloud had grown to a 20, 000-foot column of smoke that was raining ashes on Mexico City, 200 miles away. Before the newborn volcano finally subsided (平息), in 1952, it had created a mountain 1200 feet high, where Pulido's cornfield had been.

C

        Space is a dangerous place, not only because of meteors but also because of rays from the sun and other stars. The atmosphere again acts as our protective blanket on earth. Light gets through, and this is necessary for plants to make the food that we eat. Heat, too, makes our environment endurable. Various kinds of rays come through the air from outer space, but enormous quantities of radiation from the sun are screened off .As soon as men leave the atmosphere they are exposed (暴露) to this radiation but their spacesuits or the walls of their spacecraft, if they are inside, do prevent a lot of radiation damage.
        Radiation is the greatest known danger to explorers in space. The unit of radiation is called "rem." Scientists have reason to think that a man can put up with far more radiation than 0.1 rem without being damaged; the figure of 60 rems has been agreed on. The trouble is that it is extremely difficult to be sure about radiation damage. A person may feel perfectly well, but the cells of his or her sex organs may be damaged, and this will not be discovered until the birth of deformed children or even grandchildren. Missions of the Apollo flights have had to cross belts of high radiation and, during the outward and return journeys, the Apollo crew accumulated (积累) a large amount of rems. So far, no dangerous amounts of radiation have been reported, but the Apollo missions have been quite short. We simply do not know yet how men are going to get on when they spend weeks and months outside the protection of the atmosphere, working in a space laboratory. Drugs might help to decrease the damage done by radiation, but no really effective ones have been found so far.

D

        It is natural for young people to be critical of their parents at times and to blame them for most of the misunderstandings between them. They have always complained, more or less justly, that their parents are out of touch with modern ways, that they do not trust their children to deal with difficulties, that they talk too much about certain problems--and that they have no sense of humor, at least in parent-child relationships.
        I think it is true that parents often underestimate their teenage children and also forget how they themselves felt when young.
        Young people often irritate their parents with their choices in clothes and hairstyles, in entertainers and music. This is not their motive. They feel cut off from the adult world into which they have not yet been accepted. So they create a culture and society of their own. Then, if it turns out that their music or entertains or vocabulary or clothes or hairstyle irritate their parents, this gives them additional enjoyments. They feel they are superior, at least in a small way, and that they are leaders in style and taste.
        Sometimes you are resistant, and proud because you do not want your parents to approve of what you do. If they approve, it locks as if you are betraying (背叛、出卖) your own age group. But in that case, you're assuming that you are the underdog; you cannot win but at least you keep your honor. This is a passive way of locking at things. It is natural enough after long years of childhood when you were completely under your parents' control. But it ignores the fact that you are now beginning to be responsible for yourself.
        If you plan to control your life, cooperation can be part of that plan. You can charm others, especially your parents, into doing things the way you want. You can impress others with your sense of responsibility and practical abilities, so that they will give you the right to do what you want to do.

E

        "Earthquake!" The word thudded in my brain. A roaring sound filled my ears. I tried to slide beneath my desk. The desk did a wild tap dance, slipping and sliding towards the center of the room. I twisted my body and grabbed at the windowsill (窗台) behind me, somehow kicking free of my dancing chair. I tried to stand. My legs skated away as if on a bucking escalator (电动扶梯).
        My fingers fumbled, grasped and held the windowsill tightly. Somewhere through the roar sounded the terrified scream of some wounded animal. I looked behind me and tried to fix my eyes on the other kids but the scene was a dizzy nightmare. Some of the class were sitting in the middle of the room, surrounded by chairs and desks. One girl was screaming. A boy was trying to claw his way across the floor to the door in a crazy overarm crawl.
        My grip froze me to the windowsill.
        I babbled aloud, "I'm going to die. I'm going die. Save me, I'm not ready to die, I'm not ready!"
        I bent myself, climbed forward on my knees and pressed my face against my clenched fingers. I looked at the backs of my fingers and stupidly noticed the fragile (脆的) pale hairs growing out of the pores (毛孔). The fingers would some cease to exist. Somehow the impending (迫近) horror of my death was too terrible to even cry about.
        Suddenly, I became aware that the rocking had ceased. Perhaps I wasn't going to die.