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，选出选项，并在答题卡上．将该项涂黑。
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BALTIMORE -When 15-year-old Michael Thomas left home for school last May, he couldn't have been prouder. On his feet, thanks to his mother's hard work, were a pair of new Air Jordans-＄100 worth of leather, rubber and status that to today's youth are the Mercedes-Benz of athletic footwear.
The next day it was James David Martin, 17，who was walking down the street in Thomas' new sneakers, while Thomas lay dead in a field not far from his school. Martin was arrested for murder.
For.the Baltimore school system, Thomas' death was the last straw. He was the third youngster to have been killed over his clothes in five years. Dozens of others had been robbed of brand-new sneakers, fashionable jogging suits, leather jackets and jewelry.
This fall, the school board announced a dress code preventing leather shirts and jackets, jogging suits, gold chains and other expensive items. Joseph Smith, Board President, said,”Clothes have just gotten out of hand".
Across the nation, parents, school officials, psychologists and even some children agree. They say that today's youngsters, throughout the nation, have become clothes concerned. They worry about them, compete over them, neglect school for them and sometimes even rob and kill for them．
In many cases, students are so concerned about what they and their classmates ar ewearing, they forget what they come to school for, educators said. In response, many public schools, mainly in eastern cities, have adopted school uniforms to cut down on competition. Educators say, in the current fashion climate dressing students alike allows them more freedom to be normal individuals.
56. Why was Michael so proud of himself?
A. He got a new car-Mercedes-Benz.
B. He wore expensive clothes worth＄100.
C. He was in a pair of famous brand-new shoes.
D. He had a very hard-working mother.
57. Martin was arrested for
A. stealing expensive things in a street in Baltimore
B. robbing several students of expensive clothes
C. killing Michael Thomas for his expensive shoes
D. murdering another two students for their clothes
58. The underlined word climate in the last paragraph means
A. weather B. popularity C. situation D. atmosphere
59. The main purpose to adopt school uniforms in public schools is to help students
A. decrease their concern for clothes B. get simple-dressed
C. become more disciplined D. become normal persons
B
At the beginning of the twentieth century, many people thought that the American family was falling apart. A century later, we know that this was not the case. However, although the family is still alive in the United States, its size and shape were very different 100 years ago.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, there were mainly two types of families in the United States: the extended and the nuclear. The extended family usually includes grandparents, parents, and children living under the same roof. The nuclear family consists of only parents and children.
Today there are many different kinds of families. Some people live in “traditional” families, that is, a stay-home mother, a working father, and their own biological children. Others live in two-paycheck families, single-parent families, adoptive or foster, families, blended families (where men and women who were married before marry again and combine the children from previous marriages into the new families），child less families, and so on.
What caused the structure of the family to change? In the early 1900s the birthrate began to fall and the divorce rate began to rise. Women were suddenly choosing to go to college and take jobs outside the home. In the 1930s and 1940s, many families faced serious financial, or money problems during the Great Depression, when many people lost their jobs. During World War II（1939-1945)，5 million women were left alone to take care of their homes and their children. Because many men were at war, thousands of these "warwidows" had to go to work outside their home.
During the next ten years, the situation changed. There were fewer divorces, and people married at a younger age and had more children than the previous generation. It was unusual for a mother to work outside the home during the years when her children were growing tip. Families began leaving cities and moving into single-family homes in the suburbs. The traditional family seemed to be returning.
In the years between 1960s and 1990s, there were many important changes in the structure of the family. From the 1960s to the early 1970s, the divorce rate doubled and the birthrate fell by half. The number of single-parent families tripled, and the number of couples living together without being married doubled again. In fact, the single-parent household, once unusual, has replaced the "traditional" family as the typical family in the States. If we can judge from history, however, this will probably change again in the twenty-first century.
60. According to the author, the American family ________.
A. is quickly falling apart B. is disappearing slowly
C. is changing greatly D. is changing bit by bit
61. Tom's father works for IBM and his mother works for another big company. Tom has ______,
A. a blended family B. a two-paycheck family
C. an adoptive family D. a traditional family
62. The main type of today's American family is＿．
A. the two-paycheck family B. the nuclear family
C. the single-parent family D. the extended family
63. The title of this passage is most likely to be
A. Six Types of the American Family
B. The Strange American Families
C. The Structures of the American Family
D. The Changes of the American Family
C
As a common practice, high school leavers ought to go to college, because college will help them earn more money, become”better" people, and learn to be more responsible citizens than those who don't.
But college has never been able to work its magic for everyone. And now that close to half our high school graduates are attending college, those who don't fit the pattern are becoming more numerous, and more obvious. Some college graduates are selling shoes or driving taxis. Others find their studies boring and then drop out一often encouraged by college administrators.
Some observers say the fault is with the young people themselves一they are lazy and they are expecting too much. But this cannot explain all campus unhappiness. Others blame the state of the present world, and they are partly right. We have been told that young people have to go to college because our economy can't accept an army of untrained eighteen-year-olds. But disappointed graduates are learning that it can no longer accept an army of trained twenty-two-year-olds, either.
Some educators and campus watchers have openly begun to suggest that college may not be the best, or the only place for every young person after the completion of high school. Perhaps college does not make people intelligent, ambitious,, happy, or quick to learn things-maybe it is just the other way around, and intelligent, ambitious, happy, or quick-learning people are merely the ones who have been attracted to college in the first place. And perhaps all those successful high school graduates would have been successful whether they have gone to college or not.
64. According to the author, ____________.
A. people used to doubt the value of college education
B. people used to believe in higher education of college
C. nearly half of the high school graduates went to college
D. fewer high school graduates had the chance to go to college
65, In the second paragraph, "those who don't fit the pattern" refers to
A. high school graduates who aren't suitable for college education
B. college graduates who are selling shoes and driving taxis
C. college students who aren't any better for their higher education
D. high school graduates who failed to be admitted to college
66. From this passage we could know the main problem with college education is that
A. society can't provide enough jobs for the trained college graduates
B. more and more students don't fit the pattern of college education
C. today's college students are lazy and they are expecting too much
D. some college students want to drop out because of the boring study67. In this passage the author argues that
A. college education may not be the best thing for high school leavers
B. college education is not enough if one wants to become successful
C. college education attracts all the intelligent and quick-learning people
D. intelligent people may not learn quicker unless they can go to college
D
Birds flock to parks in up-market neighborhoods, avoiding those in the poorer parts of town, researchers have discovered.
Anne Kinzig and her colleagues at Arizona State University studied 15 parks in Phoenix and found the most diverse bird populations in the smartest parts of town. To their surprise, the socio-economic factors explained bird diversity better than anything about park ecology, such as tree diversity and vegetation structure. In fact, parks in the poorest parts of town had the highest tree and vegetation diversity, but the lowest bird diversity. "We wouldn't have guessed it.” says Kinzig.”It's telling us we need to look further into a field for the answer.”
Her team is now trying to track down exactly what it is about luxurious neighborhoods that the. birds like. One possibility is that rich people have bigger gardens so there are more habitats, surrounding the parks. Also, they may be more likely to feed the birds or perhaps offer a better menu. Mike Thomas of the British Trust for Ornithology is not surprised by the results.”The area around gardens and parks determines which birds visit,”he says that larger gardens tend to contain a greater variety of habitats and so can support different bird species.
A spokesperson for the Royal Society for the Protection for Birds adds that two thirds of UK households put food out for their garden visitors: "It's arguably the nation's biggest pastime-certainly more popular than watching football.”
68. Which of the following can be concluded from the text?
A. People in UK are very happy with the visitors to their gardens
B. Watching football used to be more popular than bird-watching.
C. Many families in UK enjoy feeding birds in their gardens.
D. Rich people like to provide food to the birds in their gardens.
69. By saying "We wouldn't have guessed it.”，the writer meant that the team didn't expect
A. birds always gathered around the parks in rich areas of town
B. the park ecology could affect the bird diversity so greatly
C. the answer for bird diversity needed their further research
D. the least diversity of birds was found in the highest trees
70. What causes birds to gather around the rich areas?
A. The tall trees and the vegetation there.
B. The large population living there.
C. The big parks and the large lawns there.
D. The better food and the richer habitats there.
71. The main idea of the passage should be ________.
A. Birds-are close friends for British families
B. Birds like to visit rich families
C. Birds have got used to living a rich life
D. Birds tend to have a rich life
E
The alarm clock implanted in Klek 's brain went off an hour earlier. He wished he could turn over and go back to sleep, but the alarm was programmed to ring until he got up.
Down in the kitchen, Klek entered “wheat toast/yogurt/orange” on the computer. The refrigerator doors opened, and two metal trays suddenly stretched out forward, shooting a cup of strawberry yogurt and an orange into the air.’‘Watch it！”Klek was frightened. He smelled burning toast. The whole system seemed to be out of order today. "All right,”complained Klek. "I'll go into manual. "
First he had to clean up the yogurt spreading on the floor. Then he had to bend over, pick up his orange, and peel it himself. At last he put two slices of wheat bread into the toaster and popped them. He sat down at the table, sweating and breathing hard.
After breakfast, he was ready for school. He swallowed a brain improvement pill and turned on the learning screen.”Good morning，”smiled a woman with red hair.”This morning we will learn about Earth.”The teacher had a loud and rough voice. Immediately Klek turned the Instructor Selection knob, erasing the woman from the screen and replacing her with a man with green skin.”Good morning,”smiled the man.”This morning we will learn about Earth.”
"Earth,”Klek sighed. "How boring！”．But the green skin man continued,”Earth was once a rich planet inhabited by thousands of species, including. human beings. Unfortunately, the humans polluted the planet so badly that they were forced to leave it and establish colonies here on Mars. Today, Earth shiguh shoomahc blaak gh.. .”Klek smiled and hit cancel, Something had gone wrong with the sound again; there would be no more school for hire until the machine was repaired, and that could take weeks.
With school out of the way, there was no reason not to play. Klek considered the alternatives. He could play chess with Klingsor, the Robotic Chess Master. The only problem was that before he began a game he had to tell the system whether he wanted to win or lose, so no matter how exciting the game was, he knew how it would end.
He decided to play with his spaceship instead. Unfortunately, operating the toy required so much scientific knowledge that once Klek turned on Mission Control, the computer took over. He pushed the on button and watched the countdown. At "Zero!”the spaceship lifted off the floor and shot up to the ceiling, where it smashed to pieces. Klek sighed again; it always happened that way, just when he was ready for a really exciting interplanetary voyage. He typed "Model Rocket Repair”into the telephone directory file, and the number came up on the screen.
72. Klek was breathing hard and sweating when. he sat down at the table because
A. he was tired from making his breakfast
B. he was afraid of making his breakfast
C. he was unhappy with making his breakfast
D. he was nervous about making his breakfast
73. According to what we've read, the whole passage is more like＿．
A. a mysterious story B. a spaceship tour
C a science fiction D. a strange experience
74. The word that can be used to describe Klek best could be ________.
A. crazy B. careless C. stubborn D. lazy
75. In this passage, the writer is trying to tell us that
A. modern machines may always bring troubles to man
B. it's not wise to depend too much on modern machines
C. people can not live without the help of modern machines
D. without great patience, man can not solve any problems