閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從41—60各題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項,并在答題紙上將該選項標號涂黑。

My father was in the navy, which meant that my mother was married to both my father and the sea. As was often the case, we had to pack our belongings into boxes and  41  those we had grown to love. We would arrive at our new home and find ourselves once again  42  at the pier（碼頭）waving good-bye to my father as his  43  pulled him away from us. My mother would turn my brother and I around before the ship was out of  44  , wipe our tears, and take us back home to start the process of  45  in the new environment again.

Throughout the years of changing  46  , schools and friends, there remained one constant in my childhood—my mother. For both my   47  and I, she was the cook, maid and teacher. She played these roles while  48  some type of part-time job. Leaving a promising career is just one of the  49  which my mother made for my family as we moved around the world with our father every three years or so.  50  she had to deal with only a small budget, my mother  51  managed to make each house to be the very home that is safe and  52  .

This probably sounds like a depressing way to live,  53  with two small children: “single” parenthood, short-term friendships, and the inability to  54  a career or establish a home. But it was not for my mother. She turned this  55  into adventure for us all! Each relocation was a chance to  56  another part of the world. My mother greeted each new culture, climate and neighborhood. Each new house was a  57  to rearrange furniture, make curtains and  58  pictures. Every part-time job was an opportunity to learn something new and work with interesting people.

No matter how difficult the life was, she was always having a  59  attitude. She always had strength in the face of struggle and change. My mother was so  60  all those years of my childhood—she was my island in a sea of change. She is my hero.

A．leave behind      B．leave out        C．leave off        D．leave for

A．living            B．staring           C．standing         D．going

A．car             B．ship            C．train                  D．plane

A．range             B．shape          C．sight              D．control

A．adapting         B．suiting           C．matching        D．fitting

A．names            B．jobs            C．addresses        D．directions

A．father            B．classmates      C．brother          D．relatives

A．performing        B．seeking          C．waiting           D．applying

A．programs          B．sacrifices       C．contribution     D．cooperation

A．Once            B．While            C．When            D．Unless

A．somewhere      B．somewhat      C．sometime          D．somehow

A．romantic         B．comfortable     C．mysterious        D．wealthy

A．generally         B．actually         C．especially          D．unfairly

A．desert           B．pursue           C．affect             D．limit

A．lifestyle           B．value          C．journey          D．opportunity

A．acquire         B．explore          C．occupy           D．realize

A．load             B．sadness          C．result             D．challenge

A．hang            B．draw          C．take            D．sell

A．changeable      B．cautious         C．positive          D．negative

A．experienced     B．brave          C．ordinary         D．annoyed

In China, ______ pressure to pass _____ exams tends to cause lack of students’ creativity.

A  /; the               B  a; the         C. the; /                 D. / ; the

Lang Ping, who is said to have started her coaching career in Turkey,       volleyball in China for almost twenty years.

       A．played         B．have played      C．was playing     D．had played

— Would you like to spend the vacation in Paris with me?

   — I' d like to      you pay for me.

        A. unless      B. because      C. Provided     D. as

The survey shows that a large number of teenagers are ________ cigarettes nowadays.

A. devoted to   B. related to   C .connected to   D. addicted to

Now you may think the nation’s high unemployment rate is the_______for these leaders.However,that’s not the case.

A.debt             B.behalf                C.blame          D.privilege

One of the best-known American writers of children’s books is Alfred Strong, or Doctor Strong, as he is better known to readers everywhere. Now, an art show called “Doctor Strong from then to now” is traveling around the United States. The pictures and drawings show the history of Doctor Strong.

Doctor Strong first became famous almost fifty years ago when his first children’s book was published. Since then, he has written forty-five books that have sold more than hundred million copies around the world.

Doctor Strong’s books are known for their easy use of words and colorful, hand-drawn pictures. These drawings bring life to his imaginary creatures. The Cat in the Hat, Horton the elephant, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, and hundreds of others.

The San Diego Museum, in California, organized the art show. It included about three hundred Doctor Strong’s original(最早的) drawings and some of his writings.

Most of Doctor Strong’s books, although written in a funny way, have serious messages. For example, in Mc Elligot’s Pool, he describes the danger of pollution. He discusses the arms race in The Butter Battle Book, written in 1984.

Doctor Strong is almost eighty-four years old now. He says he never planned to write stories just for children. He says he uses easy words so that everyone, even a child, can understand.

Alfred Strong is a famous __________ in the United States.

A. doctor         B. artist           C. writer          D. reader

Doctor Strong first became famous in __________.

A. his eighties when an art show was traveling around the United States

B. his fifties when his drawings and writings were published

C. 1984 when his book McElligot’s Pool was published

D. his thirties when his first book was published

Doctor Strong’s books are very popular in America because _________.

A. they are stories about animals such as cats, elephants and so on

B. they are written in easy words with colorful pictures

C. he organized the art show in California

D. they are written in a funny way

His purpose in writing many such books is _________.

A. to show his original pictures and drawings

B. to organize a special art show of his own

C. to make his readers laugh or smile when they read his books

D. not only to interest people but to expose(揭露) some serious social problems

People have been painting pictures for at least 30,000 years. The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunted animals. They used to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill. Pictures of this kind have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain. No one knows why they were painted there. Perhaps the painters thought that their pictures would help them to catch these animals. Or perhaps human beings have always wanted to tell stories in pictures.

About 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures as kind of writing. They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas, and also to represent the sounds of their language. The signs these people used became a kind of alphabet.

The Egyptians used to record information and to tell stories by putting picture-writing and pictures together. When an important person died, scenes and stories from his life were painted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried. Some of these pictures are like modern comic strip stories. It has been said that Egypt is the home of the comic strip. But, for the Egyptians, pictures still had magic power. So they did not try to make their way of writing simple. The ordinary people could not understand it.

By the year 1,000 BC, people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea had developed a simpler system of writing. The signs they used were very easy to write, and there were fewer of them than in the Egyptian system. This was because each sign, or letter, represented only one sound in their language. The Greeks developed this system and formed the letters of the Greek alphabet. The Romans copied the idea, and the Roman alphabet is now used all over the world.

These days, we can write down a story, or record information, without using pictures. But we still need pictures of all kinds: drawing, photographs, signs and diagrams. We find them everywhere: in books and newspapers, in the street, and on the walls of the places where we live and work. Pictures help us to understand and remember things more easily, and they can make a story much more interesting.

Pictures of animals were painted on the walls of caves in France and Spain because ______.

A. the hunters wanted to see the pictures    

B. the painters were animal lovers

C. the painters wanted to show imagination

D. the pictures were thought to be helpful

The Greek alphabet was simpler than the Egyptian system for all the following reasons      EXCEPT that _______.

   A. the former was easy to write    

B. there were fewer signs in the former    

C. the former was easy to pronounce

D. each sign stood for only one sound

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. The Egyptian signs later became a particular alphabet.

B. The Egyptians liked to write comic-strip stories.

C. The Roman alphabet was developed from the Egyptian one.    

D. The Greeks copied their writing system from the Egyptians.

In the last paragraph, the author thinks that pictures ___________.

A. should be made comprehensible

B. should be made interesting

C. are of much use in our life     

D. have disappeared from our life

最近國家教育部門就“是否取消中學文理分科”面向全國征求意見。下面是騰訊網就“中學文理是否分科”這一話題進行調查的結果。

請你結合上表，寫一篇英語短文，并談談自己的看法。

注意：1. 次數(shù) 120-150

      2. 開頭已給出，不計入總詞數(shù)

      3. 參考詞匯：全面發(fā)展:all-round development

Recently, the Tencent Website launched an online survey on the topic whether science and arts education should be separated.

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They tried to convince her _______ his innocence.

of        B. about      C. to        D. in