60. It can be inferred that Saunders’ journey to the North Pole ______.

A. was accompanied by his old playmates

B. set a record in the North Pole expedition

C. was supported by other Arctic explorers

D. made him well-known in the 1960s

　 答案　 56.B　 57.D　 58.A　 59.D　 60.B

Passage 21

(06·山東B篇)

November not only marks the publication of Toni Morrison’s eagerly anticipated(期待) eighth novel, Love, but it is also the tenth anniversary of her Nobel Prize for Literature. Morrison is the first black woman to receive a Nobel, and so honored before her in literature are only two black men:Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian playwright, poet and novelist, in 1986; and Derek Walcott, the Caribbean-born poet, in 1992. But Morrison is also the first and only American-born Nobel prizewinner for literature since 1962, the year novelist John steinbeck received the award.

Like Song of Solomon, Love is a multigenerational story, revealing the personal and communal legacy() of an outstanding black family. As Morrison scholars will tell you, Love is the third volume of a literary master’s trilogy(三部曲)investigating the many complexities of love. This trilogy began with Beloved(1988), which deals with a black mother’s love under slavery and in freedom. Jazzy(1993), the second volume, tells a story of romantic love in 1920s Harlem. This latest novel looks back from the 1970s to the 1940s and 50s.

The emotional center of Love is Bill Cosey, the former owner and host of the shabby Cosey’s Hotel and Resort in Silk, North Carolina, described in the novel as “the best and best-known vacation sport for colored folk on the East Coast.” We get to know Cosey through the memories of five women who survive and love him: his granddaughter, his widow, two former employees, and a homeless young girl.

The latest novel, Love, had been described in the promotional material from her publisher as “Morrison’s most accessible work since Song of Solomon.” This comparison to her third novel, published in 1977, was an effective selling point.

59. The underlined word “Intrigued” in the third paragraph probably means_____.

A. Excited　 　B. Convinced　 C. Delighted　　 D. Fascinated

58. What do we know about Saunders?

A. He once worked at a school in Scotland.

B. He followed Ridgway to explore the North Pole.

C. He was chosen for the school sports team as a kid.

D.He was the first Briton to ski alone to the North Pole.

57. We can learn from the text that Ridgway _______.

A. dismissed Saunders’ dream as fantasy

B. built up his body together with Saunders

C. hired Saunders for his cold-water experience

D. won his fame for his voyage across the Atlantic

56. The turning point in Saunders’life came when _____

A. he started to play ball games

B. he got a mountain bike at age 15

C. he ran his first marathon at age 18

D. he started to receive Ridgway’s training

48．Which of the following places has to do with the first telegram in history?

　　　 A．Washington, D.C.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B．New York City.

　　　 C．Kentucky　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D．Pennsylvania

答案　 45.B　 46.A　 47.D　 48.A

Passage 20

(06·山東A篇)

Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. “Football, tennis Cricket-anything with a round ball, I was useless, “he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the object of jokes in school gym classes in England’s rural Devonshire.

It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his mind building up his body, increasing his speed, strength and endurance. At age 18, he ran his first marathon.

The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the Atlantic Ocean. Saunders was hired as an instructor at Ridgway’s school of Adventure in Scotland, where he learned about the older man’s cold-water exploits(成就).Intrigued, Saunders read all he could about Arctic explorers and North Pole expeditions, then decided that this would be his future.

Journeys to the Pole aren’t the usual holidays for British country boys, and many peiole dismissed his dream as fantasy. “John Ridgway was one of the few who didn’t say, ‘You are completely crazy,’”Saunders says.

In 2001, after becoming a skilled skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition toward the North Pole. He suffered frostbite, had a closer encounter(遭遇) with a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit.

Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he’s skied more of the Arctic by himself than any other Briton. His old playmates would not believe the transformation.

This October, Saunders, 27, heads south to explore from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, an 1800-mile journey that has never been completed on skis.

47．In which year did the former first lady Jacqueline die?

　　　 A．1934　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B．1960

　　　 C．1964　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D．1994

46．What is the title of the first American political cartoon?

　　　 A．Join or Die　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B．Pennsylvania Gazette

　　　 C．What Hath God Wrought　　　　　　　　　　　 D．Kentucky Dorby

45．We know from the text that Buchanan is 　　　　　　　　.

　　　 A．Isaac’s father　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B．a(chǎn) winning horse

　　　 C．a(chǎn) slave taking care of horses　　　　　　　　　 D．the first racing horse in Kentucky

44.Which would be the best title for the text?　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

　　　 A.The Invention of the Jazz Music

　　　 B.The Father of the Jazz Style

　　　 C.The Making of a Musician

　　　 D.The Spread of Popular Music

答案　 41.B　 42.C　 43.C　 44.B

Passage 19

(06·全國ⅡB篇)

May: Happenings from the Past

May 5,1884

Isaac Murphy, son of a slave and perhaps the greatest horse rider in American history, rides Buchanan to win his first Kentucky Derby. He becomes the first rider ever to win the race three times.

May 9,1754

Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette produces perhaps the first American political cartoon(漫畫), showing a snake cutsin pieces, with the words “ Join or Dic ” printed under the picture.

May 11,1934

The first great dust storm of the Great Plains Dust Bowl , the result of years of drought(干旱), blows topsoil all the way to New York City and Washington, D.C.

May 19,1994

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, former first lady and one of the most famous people of the 1960s, died of cancer in New York City at the age of 64.

May 24, 1844

Samuel F.B Morse taps out the first message, “What Hath God wrought,” over the experimental long-distance telegraph line which runs from Washington, D,C, to Baltimore, Md.