阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I decided not to bring in home any other things with the words Made in China on a dark Monday, two days after last Christmas, though I still keep some in my house.
At work my boss, Mr. White, points out that I am 36 myself if I think I have been 37 Chinese products, in spite of the obvious facts in daily life.
“Chinese 38 are everywhere,” he says, “You can’t avoid those, no matter how hard you try. It is impossible.”
That is the 39 , which I have been considering for months, since I have kept the American car with the Chinese 40 in it. This week I was 41 again of the difficulty of avoiding China when I bought earrings from a local artist. I was feeling pleased with myself 42 I got home and noticed the free gift box made in China.
My boss continues, “You know what you are doing? You are 43 your dependence on China, not 44 it,” he says, “You are just cheating yourself.”
The boss, a frequent complainer, doesn’t slow down when I 45 to stop him to 46 that I am writing a 47 of stories on the Boycott for the business magazine.
“Maybe you can 48 it a year without Chinese products, 49 sooner or later you will even 50 Chinese dishes,” the nice boss says, “There is no getting around it.”
I 51 at him as he turns to leave, quite 52 . “Thanks for your support,” I say to his 53 .
The year is nearly half over. I can 54 without them. 55 , it is a little inconvenient to live without a DVD player, a DV camera or a printer made in China. But a better question might be: How hard could it be to live without Made in China with the whole family?
36. A. fooling 37. A. keeping 38. A. advertisements 39. A. story 40. A. parts 41. A. asked 42. A. as 43. A. delaying 44. A. escaping 45. A. mean 46. A. describe
B. persuading B. accepting B. items B. plan B. engines B. reminded B. when B. losing B. obeying B. manage B. suggest
C. beating C. avoiding C. materials C. suggestion C. wheels C. troubled C. since C. catching C. objecting C. try C. declare
D. enjoying D. refusing D. businesses D. point D. goods D. puzzled D. until D. lacking D. hating D. intend D. state
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47. A. copy 48. A. do 49. A. but 50. A. wash 51. A. laugh 52. A. annoyed 53. A. honour 54. A. work 55. A. Finally
B. book B. get B. or B. break B. glance B. surprised B. back B. rescue B. Honestly
C. set C. make C. and C. serve C. nod C. delighted C. kindness C. survive C. Generally
D. series D. have D. for D. enjoy D. stare D. satisfied D. face D. stay D. Directly
第三部分：阅读理解（共两节，40分） 第一节：（共15小题；每小题2分，共30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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The sun shone in through the dining room window, lighting up the hardwood floor. We had been talking there for nearly two hours. The phone of the “Nightline” rang yet again and Morrie asked his helper, Connie, to get it. She had been taking down the callers’ names in Morrie’s small black appointment book. It was clear I was not the only one interested in visiting my old professor—the “Nightline” appearance had made him something of a big figure — but I was impressed with, perhaps even a bit envious of, all the friends that Morrie seemed to have.
“You know, Mitch, now that I’m dying, I’ve become much more interesting to people. I’m on the last great journey here — and people want me to tell them what to pack.” The phone rang again.
“Morrie, can you talk?” Connie asked.
“I’m visiting with my old friend now,” he announced. “Let them call back.”
I cannot tell you why he received me so warmly. I was hardly the promising student who had left him sixteen years earlier. Had it not been for “Nightline,” Morrie might have died without ever seeing me again.
What happened to me?
The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happened. I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it. Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I’d simply been on a long vacation. “Have you found someone to share your heart with?” he asked. “Are you at peace with yourself?”
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“Are you trying to be as human as you can be?”
I felt ashamed, wanting to show I had been trying hard to work out such questions. What happened to me? I once promised myself I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, and that I would live in beautiful, inspirational places.
Instead, I had been in Detroit for ten years, at the same workplace, using the same bank, visiting the same barber. I was thirty-seven, more mature than in college, tied to computers and modems and cell phones. I was no longer young, nor did I walk around in gray sweatshirts with unlit cigarettes in my mouth. I did not have long discussions over egg salad sandwiches about the meaning of life. My days were full, yet I remained, much of the time, unsatisfied. What happened to me?
56. When did the author graduate from Morrie’s college? A. In the eighties. B. In the nineties. C. When he was sixteen. D. When he was twenty-one.
57. What do we know about the “Nightline”? A. Morrie started it by himself. B. It helped Morrie earn a fame. C. The author helped Morrie start it. D. It was only operated at night. 58. What can we infer from the passage? A. Both the author and Morrie liked travelling.
B. Morrie liked helping people pack things for their journeys. C. The author envied Morrie’s friends the help they got from him. D. The author earned a lot of money at the cost of his dreams. 59. What’s the author’s feeling when he writes this passage? A. Regretful. B. Enthusiastic. C. Sympathetic. D. Humorous.
B
Would you eat a ready meal from the fridge rather than cook by yourself? Have you been doing Internet shopping rather than going to the stores? What can’t you be bothered to do?
A study into how lazy British people are has found more than half of the adults are so idle (懒散
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的) that they’d catch the lift rather than climb two flights of stairs.
Just over 2000 people were quizzed by independent researchers at Nuffield Health, Britain’s largest health center. The results were extremely surprising.
About one in six people questioned said if their remote control was broken, they would continue watching the same channel rather than get up.
More than one third of those questioned said they would not run to catch a bus. Worryingly, of the 654 respondents with children, 64% said they were often too tired to play with them.
This led the report to conclude that it’s no wonder that one in six children in the UK are classified as obese (very fat) before they start school.
Dr Sarah Dauncey, medical director of Nuffield Health, said, “People need to get fitter, not just for their own sake, but for the sake of their families, friends and evidently their pets too. ”
“If we don’t start to take control of this problem, a whole generation will become too unfit to perform even the most fundamental tasks.”
And Scotland’s largest city, Glasgow, was shamed as the most idle city in the UK, with 75% questioned admitting they do not get enough exercise, followed closely by Birmingham and Southampton, both with 67%.
The results bring serious challenges for the National Health Service, where obesity-related illnesses such as heart disease and cancer have been on a steady increase for the past 40 years and are costing billions of pounds every year.
60. How many people questioned don’t play with their children?
A. 1280. B. More than 333. C. 654. D. About 420.
61. The study leads us to believe that __________.
A. the pets in the UK will be in trouble if their owners keep their way of life B. Glasgow people feel ashamed because they don’t get enough exercise C. British people are the laziest around the world D. five sixths of the British children are healthy 62. How does the author convince the readers?
A. By presenting the results of a study. B. By providing answers to questions. C. By interviewing some experts. D. By telling a story.
63. What is the passage mainly about?
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