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Michael Lewis writes about the inner strategies of sports to fans’ delight, and yet describes the personalities and worlds of his real-life characters with such depth that nonfans will enjoy his writing just as much. He looked successfully at baseball management with Moneyball. Now The Blind Side examines the increasing value placed on the left tackle(左后卫)position in football, the high pressure world of college football recruiting(招收队员), and in particular, the life of one promising young left tackle, Mike Oher.
Oher’s story’s attractive. The big boy was silent to the point that many people thought he was mentally disabled. Then, in a lucky break, Oher and a friend are admitted to a very white, private high school, far across town from their own poor African-American neighborhood. Oher is unbelievably far behind academically, but he’s taken under the wing of Sean Tuohy, one of the school’s coaches, a wealthy man whose family Oher eventually joins. Before long, though Oher almost completely lacks football experience, he leads him to new athletic heights and brings on a fierce competition from eager college coaches.
Lewis’s book brings on many interesting questions: How did a kid like Oher get so lost in the college recruiting system at first? How far should the system bend to meet the needs of a few student athletes? Are the Tuohys the most selfless, or are they using Oher themselves? If so, does it matter, if it benefits him? And what should we think of the college recruiting system that comes after him? These are just a few subjects raised by this highly readable book.
No fan of football should pass on this good one, but even if your interest in sports is only mild, consider tracking down the works of Michael Lewis.
72．Michael Lewis is ________.
A. a football player              B. a high school student       C. a book writer     D. a football coach
73．People thought Oher was mentally disabled because ________.
A. he was too tall and heavy                                     B. he seldom spoke with others
C. he was too academically poor                               D. he was an African-American
74．The third paragraph is intended to ________.
A. explore deep meanings of the book              B. tell how hard it is to understand the story
C. question the poor quality of the book                    D. show what a hot topic the book becomes
75．Which of the following would be the best title?
A. The Blind Side: Progress of a Game               B. Michael Lewis: Thinker of Real Life
C. Where Is College Recruiting System Going?   D. Where Are the African-Americans Going?

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试题【Michael Lewis writes about the inner strategies of sports to fans’ delight, and 】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]

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第二节根据短文内容，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项。
It may help you to know that there is no such thing as a perfect speech. At some point in every speech, every speaker says something that is not understood exactly as he has planned. __71__ Why? Because the listeners do not know what the speaker plans to say.　　72　　 If you lose your place for a moment, wrongly change the order of a couple of sentences, or forget to pause at a certain point, no one will be any the wiser. When such moments occur, don’t worry about them. Just continue as if nothing happened.
73 If you have ever listened to Martin Luther King’s famous speech--- “I have a Dream”, you may notice that he stumbles (结巴) over his words twice during the speech. 74 Why? Because you were fixing your attention on h

is message rather than on his way of speech-making.
People care a lot about making a mistake in a speech because they regard speech-making as a kind of performance rather than as an act of communication. They feel the listeners are like judges in an ice-skating competition. 75 They are looking fo

r a well-thought-out speech that expresses the speaker’s ideas clearly and directly. Sometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speaker’s attractiveness by making him more human.
As you work on your speech, don’t worry about being perfect. Once you free your mind of this, you will find it much easier to give your speech freely.

A．They only figure out what you are trying to say.

B．Most likely, however, you don’t remember.

C．But, in fact, the listeners are not looking for a perfect performer.

D．Even if you do make an obvious mistake during a speech, that doesn’t really matter.

E.Quite often, however, you just laugh his small mistakes off.
F.Fortunately, such moments are usually not obvious to the listeners.
G.They hear only what the speaker does say.

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第三部分：阅读理解（共12小题；每小题2分, 满分24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。
Every Christmas, we visit my parents who live nearly 400 miles away from us. It is always 9 to 10-hour drive, but we always try to make it because that’s the only time my parents get to see their grandchildren.
One year, I was the driver, my wife Adriana was in the passenger seat, my three kids----Jacob, Ethan and Caleb----sat in the back seat, and our

dog Susie was placed by the kids’ feet.
That year, we traveled at night to avoid the heavy holiday traffic. We

left the house at about 9:00 in the evening, so we could get to my parents’ house by about 6:00 the next morning.
The first three hours was fine. My wife and kids were all fast asleep, including Susie who was lying on Jacob’s lap. But by around 1 am, I was very sleepy. So I stopped at a small convenience store and tried to wake myself up with a cup of coffee. The coffee helped for several miles. But soon I was drifting in and out of sleep. I closed my eyes for what felt like a very short moment. What I didn’t know was that I was slowly driving towards the other lane and that a truck was coming quickly towards us.
I had fallen asleep at the wheel when Susie roughly woke me up by jumping onto my lap. When I opened my eyes, I saw the glaring headlights of the truck heading towards our car. I quickly drove the car back to our lane. I had narrowly missed hitting the truck and getting my family into what could have been a very serious accident.
I checked everyone to see if they were OK, and they were still fast asleep. I drove the rest of the distance very alert and awake. As soon as we got there, I told my wife, my kids and my parents what Susie had done and we could not have been more proud of our dog.
56. Why does the author visit his parents with his family every Christmas?
A. Because Christmas is the only time he can relax every year.
B. Because his parents don’t like the 400-mile travel.
C. Because he missed his parents very much.
D. Because his parents can only see their grandchildren at that time.
57. What did the author do to wake himself up during the journey?
A. He got off the car to breathe the fresh air.
B. He stopped to have a cup of coffee.
C. He talked with his wife and children.
D. He stopped every few miles.
58. It can be inferred from the passage that _____.
A. the author’s wife and kids had no idea about the narrow escape during the journey
B. the author was so frightened by the truck that he could hardly drive for the rest of the
journey
C. no one but Susie kept awake for the whole journey
D. the author had never experienced a car accident before
59. The passage tells us a story about ______.
A. a poor driver’s first driving experience
B. how the author’s family spent their Christmas
C. how a dog saved a whole family
D. the disadvantages of driving at night

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第Ⅱ卷（非选择题共21分）
第四部分：写作（共两节。满分21分）
第一节　任务型读写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的词。
注意：表格中的空格里只填入一个词。请将答案写在答题卷相应题号的横线上。
Culture means the pattern of human activity and the symbols that give importance to these activities. Culture expresses itself in terms of the art, literature, costumes, customs, language and religion. The word "culture" comes from the Latin word which means “to teach”.
Culture is shared, by which we mean that every culture is shared by a group of people. Depending on the areas they live

in, the climatic conditions they grow up in and their history, people form a set of values and beliefs. This set of rules of life shapes their culture. No culture belongs to a single person. It is rather shared among many people of a certain part of the world.
Culture is learned. Cultural values are imparted(传授) from one generation to another, thus leading to continual traditions that are a part of culture. The language, the literature and the art forms pass across generations. No single person is born with a sense of his/her culture.

He/she has to learn it.
Gradual change is a feature(特点) of almost every culture. Culture loses some of its features and gains new ones. With the passage of time, new technologies appear, new kinds of work come up, social thinking changes and so does culture. Every culture changes in time although the rate of change of every culture differs.
Studies have brought out a fact that no culture can remain in isolation(孤立). There is hardly any social group that is completely isolated from the rest of the world. Every culture, thus, is mostly affected by cultures of the surrounding areas. Cultural values are easy to be influenced by the values of nearby societies. The cultures, which appear during the same periods of time, often show certain similarities. Modern times have witnessed a mix of cultures. Cultures are combined together giving rise to shared cultures.
Title: Characteristics(特点) of 68. _________

A brief 69. ________ to culture	70. __________	The pattern of human activity and the symbols giving importance to these activities
	Forms	Art, literature, costumes, customs, language and religion
	Origin	The Latin word which means “to 71. _______ ”.
Features of culture	Being shared	No culture belongs to a 72. _______ person.
	Being 73. _________	●Cultural values are imparted across 74. _______. ●No one is born with a sense of his culture.
	75. _______ gradually	Culture loses some of its features and gains new ones with the passage of 76.______ .
	Not being isolated	●No society is completely isolated from the rest of the world. ●Cultural values are easily 77.________ .

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第二节：语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31—40的相应位置上。
For many environmentalists, the world seems to be getting worse. They have developed a it-list of our main fears: natural resources are running o

ut; the population 31 (grow), leaving less and less to eat; species are becoming 32 (extinction) in vast numbers, and the planet’s air and water are becoming dirty, 33 are ever more polluted.
34 a quick look at the facts shows a different picture. First, energy and other natural resources have become more abundant not less so. Second, 35 food is now at any time in history. Third, although species are indeed becoming extinct, only about 0.7% of them are expected 36 (disappear) in the next 50 years, not 25~50%, as has so often been predicted. And finally, most forms of environmental pollution 37 appear to ha

ve been predicted, or are too short– associated 38 the early stages of industrialization. 39 bigger problem may well turn out to be an inappropriate response to it. yet opinion polls suggest that many people develop the 40 (believer)that environmental standards are declining and some factors seem to cause this disjunction.

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III．阅读（共两节，满分40分）
第一节：阅读理解（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A serious problem for today"s society is who should be responsible for our elderly and how to improve their lives．It is not only a financial problem but also a question of the system we want for our society．I would like to suggest several possible solutions to this problem．
First, employers should take the responsibility for their retired employees．To make this possible, a percentage of profits should be set aside for this purpose．But when a company must take life-long responsibility for its employees, it may suffer from a commercial disadvantage due to higher employee costs．
Another way of solving the problem is to return the responsibility to the individual．This means each person must save during his working years to pay for his years of retirement．This does not seem a very fair model since some people have enough trouble paying for their daily life without trying to earn extra to cover their retirement years． This means the government mig

ht have to step in to care for the poor．
In addition, the government could take responsibility for the care of the elderly．This could be financed through government taxes to increase the level of pensions．Furthermore, some institutions should be created for senior citizens, which can help provide a comfortable life for them．Unfortunately, as the present situation in our country shows, this is not a truly viable answer．The government can seldom afford to care for the elderly, particularly when it is busy trying to care for the young．
One further solution is that the government or social organizations establish some working places especially for the elderly where they are independent．
To sum up, all these options have advantages and disadvantages．Therefore, it is reasonable to expect that some combination of these options may be needed to provide the care we hope to give to our elderly generations．
41．What is the passage mainly about?
A．The problems faced by the old in society．
B．Why we should take responsibility for the old．
C．How we can improve the lives of the old．
D．Where the old can go to get their pensions．
42．According to the passage, how can the government help to improve the lives of retired people?
A．Set aside some profits to help people with problems after they retire．
B．Increase savings levels of people during their working years．
C．Increase the discounts for food and transport for the old．
D．Make available pensions for those who have retired．
43．The underlined word "viable" most probably means"______________"．
A．impossible B．practical C．useful D．important
44．What can be concluded from the passage?
A．Taking care of the old is mainly an issue of money．
B．Employers should allow their workers to retire at a later age．
C．Becoming independent should be the goal of most old people．
D．There is no single solution to the problems of the old．
45．What is the writer"s main purpose in writing this article?
A．To point out the need for government support for old people．
B．To make general readers aware of the problems of retired people．
C．To discuss some possible solutions to an important social problem．
D．To instruct retired people on how they can have a happier life．

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