All books on sale in the bookstore are available for sharing. Returned books that are damaged are sold at a discount. The bookstore also provides a bonus for bookworms. People who finish reading 12 books in three months receive eight percent of their deposit back, and members can be rewarded one yuan for every book read.
“We want to bring down the cost of reading so people could read more books,” Xu Xinwei, who helps run the bookstore, told Thepaper.cn.
Some parents buy a lot of books for their children, but they usually end up collecting dust as their children grow up. Similarly, some popular novels for young people also fall out of fashion, according to Xu.“Books are more effectively circulated when they’re shared.” 24. The bookstore becomes a shared one . A. to inspire more people to read B. to make more money
C. to make more room for new books D. to recommend new books
25. What does the underlined phrase “risen to fame” in Paragraph 1 probably mean? A. Broken up B. Settled down C. Become well-known D. Taken over
26. What can we infer from the passage?
A. The bookstore was once the best in Anhui province. B. The cost of reading can be reduced by sharing the books. C. The books that are sold here can’t be borrowed.
D. More than 4,000 books were taken home on July 16 in 2013.
C
Each time I see a balloon, my mind flies back to a memory of when I was a six-year-old girl. It was a rainy Sunday and my father had recently died. I asked my mom if Dad had gone to heaven. \\
She paused, the longest pause of my short life, and answered, \Does the mailman go there?\
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\I have an idea.\asked her what it was for. \wait, honey. You'll see.\Mom told me to write my letter. Eagerly, I got my favorite pen, and poured out my six-year-old heart in the form of blue ink. I wrote about my day, what I learned at school, how Mom was doing, and even about what happened in a story I had read. For a few minutes it was as if Dad were still alive. I gave the letter to Mom. She read it over, and a smile crossed her face. She made a hole in the corner of the letter to tie it to the balloon. We went outside and she gave me the balloon. It was still raining. \count of three, let it go. One, two, three. \balloon, carrying my letter, flew upward against the rain. We watched until it was swallowed by the clouds. Later I realized, like the balloon, that Dad had never let his sickness get him down. He was strong. No matter what he suffered, he'd keep on, fly up, and finally go beyond this cold world and his sick body. He rose into sky and became something beautiful. I watched until the balloon disappeared into the gray and white and I prayed that his strength was passed on. I prayed to be a balloon.
27．When the girl asked her mother if they could write to her father, her mother ______. A. found it easy to lie
B. thought her a creative girl C. believed it easy to do so D. felt it hard to answer
28．When the girl was told that she could send a letter to her father, she ______. A. became excited B. jumped with joy
C. started writing immediately
D. was worried that it couldn't be delivered
29．In the eyes of the author, what was the rain like? A. An incurable disease. B. The hard time her father had. C. An unforgettable memory.
D. The failures her father experienced. 30．What would be the best title for the passage? A. An unforgettable experience B. A great father
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C. Fly to heaven D. The strong red balloon
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。
Getting less sleep has become a bad habit for most American kids. According to a new survey(调查) by the National Sleep Foundation, 51% of kids aged 10 to 18 go to bed at 10 pm or later on school nights, even though they have to get up early. 31 And 15% said they had fallen asleep at school.
32 Babies need a lot of rest: most of them sleep about 18 hours a day! Adults need about eight hours. For most school-age children, ten hours is ideal(理想的). But the new National Sleep Foundation survey found that 35% of 10- to 12-year-olds get only seven or eight hours. 33 Watch TV.
“More children are going to bed with TVs on, and there are more chances to stay awake, with more homework, the Internet and the phone,” says Dr. Mary Carskadon, a sleep researcher at Brown University Medical School. She says these activities at bedtime can get kids all excited and make it hard for them to calm down and sleep. 34 Changing levels of body chemicals called hormones not only make teenagers' bodies develop adult characteristics, but also make it hard for teenagers to fall asleep before 11 pm.
Because sleepiness is such a problem for teenagers, some school rules have decided to start high school classes later than they used to. Three years ago, schools in Edina, Minnesota, changed the start time from 7:25 am to 8:30 am. 35
A. Other experts say part of the problem is chemical. B. How much sleep you need depends a lot on your age. C. Students, parents and teachers are pleased with the results. D. Do you have any idea what the surveyed kids like to do most? E. Compared with adults, newly-born babies naturally sleep more hours. F. And guess what almost half of the surveyed kids said they do before bedtime?
G. Last year the Foundation reported that nearly 60% of 7- to 12-year-olds said they felt tired during the day.
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第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分） 第一节 完型填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）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。
“Who can ever have imagined that someone like me would make it this far?” asked Chad Wood last week during his high school graduation speech as the best student. Chad offered 36 to his fellow classmates to never give up—and the words 37 much more to himself. That’s because Chad is deaf, and he told the story of the serious troubles he 38 to graduate first in his class at Harrison High school in Kennesaw, Georgia.
Chad didn’t start to 39 until he was 5, according to his mother, Pam Wood.
Although her son had such a big 40 , she was determined not to treat him 41 .“I’ve expected him to do everything every other kid does, and I saw no 42 why he couldn’t,” she told ABC News. “And if he 43 the first time, we just tried again.”
Chad, 17, worked hard throughout school, 44 no special treatment but sitting at the front of the class and using a special audio system so he could hear the teacher. All his hard work 45 . He received full school fare to Vanderbilt University. “Deafness had taught me a lesson to never 46 ,” he said in the speech. “Not when the experts tell you it cannot be done. Not when you have 47 so far behind that escaping seems the only way 48 . Not when achieving your dreams seems an entire 49 .”
Chad spoke for about four minutes, after which he received a standing applause from the class and 50 messages from family, friends and strangers. “They’ve been sending me messages on Facebook, email; they’ve been talking to me in person telling me how it had a 51 on their lives and how they’re really 52 by it,” Chad told ABC News. “It feels 53 . Seeing that my words 54 have a power on someone and that they want to work harder because of my words makes me feel 55 .” 36．A. advice 37．A. realized 38．A. needed 39．A. cry
B. description B. meant B. faced B. write
C. warning C. recognized C. foresaw C. smell C. shame
D. information D. persuaded D. considered D. hear D. disadvantage D. cruelly
40．A. advantage B. comfort 41．A. kindly
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B. differently C. similarly
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