A．Tiring. C．Easy.
31．What can we infer from the last paragraph? A．The migratory birds aren't big. B．The temperatures will be higher. C．The scientists will go on further study. D．The smaller animals will surely live longer.
B．Important D．Pleasant
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When you are sitting in the car, do you ever notice the drivers looking over their shoulders or side to side in the car? Well, they are doing this to check their blind spots! Blind spots take driving extremely difficult and increase the potential for car accidents.
Fourteen-year-old Alaina Gassler from Pennsylvania noticed her mother struggling with blind spots while driving their family car. So she came up with an ingenious solution that won the first place and $25,000 in the Broadcom Masters Competition.
Blind spots are the areas around the car that cannot be directly observed by the driver. There are two kinds of blind spots---on the back of the car that cannot be seen with mirrors, and blind spots at the front of the car as well.
When a driver is changing lanes, he has to look over his shoulder through the side windows to make sure that there is no vehicle in the blind spot. This invisible area is big enough to hide a car!
The other blind spot is created in the front by the A-pillar（柱子）---the material on either side on the windshield（挡风玻璃）that holds the glass and forms the frame of the car. In some cars, this pillar can be quite thick. Usually, people or cyclists can be hidden by this pillar.
Alaina's design was to get rid of the blind spot created by the front A-pillar of the car, the one that helps hold up the windshield.
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She put a camera on the outside passenger side of the car which then sent the photos to a projector above the drivers' head. Then, she covered the inside of the pillar in reflective fabric onto which the image was projected. Basically, her device made the pillar \car.
Alnina's solution is very creative and could be improved by using LCD displays that will make it easier to see during day time as well.
32．What can be learned about blind spots during driving? A．They call for careful driving. C．They are many in kinds.
B．They make driving thrilling. D．They can't be get rid of.
33．Which of the following can replace the underlined word \ A．interesting C．inspiring
34．How did Alaina solve the problem? A．By improving the A-pillar. C．By relying on LCD displays. 35．What's the best title for the text? A．An Introduction to Blind Spots
C．A Teen's Creative Solution to Blind Spots
B．A Warning About the Road Safety D．Scientific Research on Blind Spots
B．By using a mirror on the outside of the A-pillar. D．By using a camera to capture images. B．creative D．invisible
第二节 （共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Why Do Brides Wear White
In many societies the color white has been associated with purity and virtue, and that is one reason why
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some brides choose to wear white, especially in the West. Usually, you will hear that brides wear white because “it’s a tradition”. But, historically, white was not the only color considered for wedding dresses. 36．
For many centuries in Western societies, wedding dresses had different colors. 37． Brides tended to buy a wedding dress that could be worn again, or they simply wore the best dress they already owned. And white is not practical: it is difficult to keep clean and is therefore not ideal for many situations or for repeated wear.
Many brides chose to wear dresses of other colors for their wedding and beyond. 38． They do so largely thanks to a trend that started with Queen Victoria’s 1840 wedding to Prince Albert.
39． Although not in as many different media as we have now, they still had a tendency to be trendsetting. So Victoria chose to wear a white gown (女礼服)—reportedly to show off the fine detailed Honiton lace produced by the British lace industry, which was depressed at the time. Her fashion choice was widely reported in newspapers and magazines. 40． Eventually, the trend of a white wedding gown spread across all economic levels and it was strengthened as “tradition” in the 20th century. A．So why do so many of today’s brides wear white? B．But why are brides so particular about their dresses? C．Royal weddings in those years received a lot of reporting. D．It reflected the growth of the wedding industry at that time. E.It soon influenced domestic and international wedding trends. F.In fact, other colors were chosen far more frequently than white. G.This was for reasons of being practical as much as anything else. 第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分） 第一节 （共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Betty retired from teaching. Her gray hair and increasing wrinkles added 41 to her
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angelic(天使般的) face. Now and then, letters from her former students would come, and memories 42 .
Betty came to the town as a new 43 in a Sunday school. Before her, several teachers couldn’t 44 disrespect from the children and had to quit. Knowing nothing about the 45 for frequent chasing off(赶走) teachers in the school, Betty came into the classroom, 46 by the headmaster.
By the 47 of her dress on size too small, the students felt they had a(n) 48 target. Bets were taken how long Miss Betty would 49 . As was expected, the first two weeks saw her 50 experience with the students. 51 , she managed to be more than a teacher. Sunday after Sunday, Betty came to class, 52 her lessons to their everyday lives. Once, pulling up a long tube from her handbag, she 53 a map of the world. With her fingernail, she pointed to an odd-shaped continent, 54 the children she was born there. They craned(伸长) their necks and looked 55 , wanting to know more. “ All of us can do something to help others, wherever we are in this world.” Betty often told her children.
One day, she 56 her mailbox and pulled out an envelope with a 57 stamp. She tore it open, a 58 slid out and she recognized immediately the handsome young man as the naughtiest boy in the Sunday school class. Smiling among the broken rocks, in the city of Delhi, India, he stood with other 59 who had come to help the earthquake victims. A 60 on the back road, “Because of you, I am here now.” 41．A．character 42．A．continued 43．A．servant 44．A．realize 45．A．reputation 46．A．forced 47．A．guess 48．A．easy
B．courage B．faded B．graduate B．bear B．talents B．prevented B．thought B．exact
C．calmness C．followed C．applicant C．feel C．excuses C．affected C．look C．tough
D．color D．improved D．replacement D．admit D．excitement D．protected D．touch D．reliable
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