2 . As the sun set he remembered, to give himself more confidence, the time in the tavern at Casablanca when he had played the hand game with the great negro from Cienfuegos who was the strongest man on the docks. They had gone one day and one night with their elbows on a chalk line on the table and their forearms straight up and their hands gripped tight. Each one was trying to force the other’s hand down onto the table. There was much betting and people went in and out of the room under the kerosene lights and he had looked at the arm and hand of the negro and at the negro’s face. They changed the referees every four hours after the first eight so that the referees could sleep. Blood came out from under the fingernails of both his and the negro’s hands and they looked each other in the eye and at their hands and forearms and the bettors went in and out of the room and sat on high chairs against the wall and watched. The walls were painted bright blue and were of wood and the lamps threw their shadows against them. The negro’s shadow was huge and it moved on the wall as the breeze moved the lamps.

The odds would change back and forth all night and they fed the negro rum and lighted cigarettes for him. Then the negro, after the rum, would try for a tremendous effort and once he had the old man, who was not an old man then but was Santiago El Campeon, nearly three inches off balance. But the old man had raised his hand up to dead even again. He was sure then that he had the negro, who was a fine man and a great athlete, beaten. And at daylight when the bettors were asking that it be called a draw and the referee was shaking his head, he had unleashed his effort and forced the hand of the negro down and down until it rested on the wood. The match had started on a Sunday morning and ended on a Monday morning.

Many of the bettors had asked for a draw because they had to go to work on the docks loading sacks of sugar or at the Havana Coal Company.

Otherwise everyone would have wanted it to go to a finish. But he had finished it anyway and before anyone had to go to work.

For a long time after that everyone had called him The Champion and there had been a return match in the spring. But not much money was bet and he had won it quite easily since he had broken the confidence of the negro from Cienfuegos in the first match. After that he had a few matches and then no more. He decided that he could beat anyone if he wanted to badly enough and he decided that it was bad for his right hand for fishing. He had tried a few practice matches with his left hand. But his left hand had always been a traitor and would not do what he called on it to do and he did not trust it.

Quoted from The Old Man and the Sea

1. Since the old man is the main character, in the hand game, why does Hemingway put more efforts in describing his opponent the negro?

A．Because Hemingway himself is an anti-racist who wants to support the colored race.

B．By doing so, he indirectly shows how strong and determined the old man is to readers.

C．He shifts readers’ attention to a new character to neutralize the nervous atmosphere.

D．There is no need to describe the old man because he is well-known to all readers.

2. What does the underlined word “unleashed” in paragraph 2 mean?

A．spare

B．restrict

C．reduce

D．loose

3. Which of the followings is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Many bettors were afraid of losing their money so they wanted to call the game a draw.

B．The old man had owed his victory over the negro more to his will than to his strength.

C．The referee had been convinced by the bettors that the game be considered a draw

D．Regular hand games should be a good practice to enhance the old man’s fishing skills

4. What can be inferred from the whole passage?

A．The old man defeated the negro more than once in the matches with his will power

B．Many workers working on the docks had showed no respect towards the old man.

C．The old man had to self-feed himself a lot so as to stay competitive in the game.

D．The negro was not as strong and athletic as the old man had expected him to be.

5 . For centuries, people have had a strong sense that it is absolutely beneficial to read fairy tales to children. However, the benefits might have been ____. Some researchers are reassessing this long-established belief and after years of surveys and observations, they are sending out the message: reading too much Cinderella to your daughter may ____ damage her in later life. A paper to be developed at the international congress of cognitive psychotherapy (认知心理疗法) suggests a link between the ____ of women abused (虐待) by their partners and early exposure to the wrong sort of fairy tales. It says girls who ____ Cinderella, Rapunzel and Beauty in Beauty and the Beast were more likely to stay in ____ relationships as adults.

The theory was developed by Susan Darker Smith, a psychotherapist at the University of Derby. She interviewed sixty-seven female abuse survivors and found that sixty-one ____severe abuse because they believed they could change their partners with patience and love. The same view was ____ by male survivors who had been abused as children. Hardly any of the women and men in a control group, who had not ____ abuse, thought they could change their partners in this way. These women and men said they would ____ a relationship rather than suffer the abuse from a partner. Ms. Darker Smith found that these abused women were much more likely to sympathize with Cinderella and other female characters who tended to obey instead of ____.

Although most girls heard the stories, damage appeared to be done to those who ____the characters as role models. “They believe if their love is strong enough they can change their partners’ ____,” she said. “____ in children to stories that emphasize the transformational qualities of love may make women believe they can change their partners.” For example, they might never have understood the obvious ____ in the story of Rapunzel, who remained locked in a high tower until rescued by a knight on a white horse, who broke the door down. “The question,” said Ms. Darker Smith, “is why she did not break the door by herself? After all, being ____ is a desirable characteristic that children should learn to possess from the early age and prevail in the life time. ”

1.

A．enhanced

B．overestimated

C．highlighted

D．justified

2.

A．physically

B．intellectually

C．academically

D．emotionally

3.

A．attitude

B．conflict

C．uncertainty

D．coincidence

4.

A．acted as

B．identified with

C．turned to

D．accounted for

5.

A．imaginary

B．deceiving

C．destructive

D．mysterious

6.

A．made up for

B．had control over

C．fell off into

D．put up with

7.

A．shared

B．disclosed

C．contrasted

D．argued

8.

A．exploded

B．challenged

C．undergone

D．blamed

9.

A．restore

B．leave

C．restrict

D．survive

10.

A．resisting

B．enduring

C．concealing

D．adapting

11.

A．excluded

B．revealed

C．imposed

D．adopted

12.

A．prejudice

B．fate

C．behavior

D．ignorance

13.

A．Overexposure

B．Contribution

C．Access

D．Commitment

14.

A．plot

B．conclusion

C．moral

D．weakness

15.

A．confident

B．independent

C．innocent

D．optimistic

6 . Westley said to me in a whisper: "God damn! I'm tired of sitting here. Let's get up and be saved." So he got up and was saved.

Then I was left alone on the mourners' bench. My aunt came and knelt at my knees and cried, while prayers and songs circled, all around me in the little church. The whole room prayed for me alone. And I kept waiting quietly for Jesus, waiting, waiting―but he didn't come. I want to see him, but nothing happened to me. Nothing!

"Langston, why don't you come? Why don't you come and be saved? Oh. Lamb of God! Why don't you come?"

Now it was really getting late. I began to be ashamed of myself, holding everything up so long. I began to wonder what God thought about Westley, who certainly hadn't seen Jesus either, but who was now sitting proudly on the platform, swinging his legs and grinning down at me, surrounded by deacons(教堂执事) and old women on their knees praying. God had not struck Westley dead for lying in the temple. So I decided that maybe to save further trouble, I'd better lie, too, and say that Jesus had come, and get up and be saved. So I got up.

Suddenly the whole room broke into a sea of shouting, as they saw me rise. Waves of rejoicing swept he place. Women leaped in the air. My aunt threw her arms around me. The minister(牧师) took me by the hand and led me to the platform.

When things quieted down, in a hushed silence, interrupted by a few joyous "Amens," all the new young lambs were blessed in the name of God. Then happy singing filled the room.

That night, for the last time in my life but one―for I was a big boy twelve years old-I cried. I cried in bed alone, and couldn't stop. I buried my head under the quilts, but my aunt heard me. She woke up and old my uncle I was crying because the Holy Ghost had come into my life, but I was really crying because I couldn't bear to tell her that I deceived everybody in the church, that I hadn't seen Jesus, and that now I didn't believe there was a Jesus any more, since he didn't come to help me.

1. I attended a special ceremony ________.

A．to be saved by Jesus and blessed	B．to become a member of the church
C．to celebrate the appearance of Jesus	D．to be given judgment for my sin

2. ________, I got up at last.

A．Afraid of being struck dead by God

B．Eager to join Westley sitting on the platform

C．Ashamed of delaying the coming of God

D．Guilty of causing trouble to all the others

3. What can be inferred about the new young lambs in the service?

A．There were all saved by the God.

B．They all committed a sin.

C．They all saw Jesus except Westley and me.

D．They all deserved God's blessing.

4. I cried that night because I was ________.

A．forced to accept a merciless God

B．conscience-stricken at cheating before God

C．more a saved lamb than a liar

D．deprived of my belief in the existence of Jesus

7 . Directions：Fill in the blanks according to the text. One word for each blank only.

Furthermore, the work flow was     1    . There was one especially absent-minded young man in the assembly line who     2         3     buttons. After a while I recognized him as“Big Jim”who used to sit behind me in math class in high school. He was very slow and all the shirts were held up at his position. Workers     4     him in line on his shift had to wait with nothing to do; therefore a great deal of time and efficiency were lost as Big Jim daydreamed while he worked. All week I wondered why he wasn’t fired.

8 . Questions are based on the following passage.
1.

A．16 years old.

B．11years old.

C．5 years old.

D．6 years old.

2.

A．The life in London during World War II.

B．Figuring out how to cry on cue(暗示).

C．Changing his Australian accent.

D．Working with the famous actors

3.

A．The possibilities that acting provides.

B．The excitement that playing guitar brings.

C．The life of being accompanied by his mother.

D．The applause he is getting from the audience.

9 . Directions： Read the following passage. Summarize, the main idea and the main point (s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

The baby elephant, Sheila, was moved out of Belfast Zoo because of fears that she might be hit by bombers (轰炸机) during the Bel fast Blitz (贝尔法斯特闪电战) of 1941.

She was one of the lucky ones. A lot of animals were killed because of fears that they might escape during the bombing and attack people. These included a tiger，a black bear, a lynx, a hyena, and two polar bears.

But Sheila was walked down the road by zoo-keepers to a nearby house where a woman gave her sanctuary (庇护)in her backyard for several months until the bombing was over.

As the zoo celebrates its 75th birthday, the bosses have decided to try to identify the woman Mark Challis is the manager of Belfast Zoo. He explained a bit more about Sheila’s story.

“Well we know that Sheila，the elephant that was in the zoo at that time, spent some time living with a lady relatively near to the zoo and we have one sweet photograph, you can see it on our zoo website,”

“We have a photograph of the elephant with the lady and her friend, honestly and literally in her back garden and that roughly all we know. ”

“So we’re just trying to find a little bit more information and maybe, not sure that the lady might be alive, but maybe her relatives or somebody will recognize the back of that house and we can fill in some detail on this story.”

Once the bombing was over，Sheila went back to the zoo and lived for another quarter of a century. She died of a skin disease in 1966.