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III阅读理解 (共两节， 满分40分) 第一节 (共15小题，每小题2分，满分30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。 A I suddenly heard an elephant crying as though frightened. Looking down I immediately recognized that something was wrong and ran down to the edge of the near bank. There I saw Ma Shwe with her three-month-old calf struggling in the fast-rising water and it was a life-and-death struggle. Her calf was floating and screaming with fear. Ma Shwe was as near to the far bank as she could get, holding her whole body against the rushing water and keeping the calf pressed against her huge body. Every now and then the rushing water would sweep the calf away. There was a sudden rise in the water and the calf was washed clean over the mother’s body and was gone. Ma Shwe turned quickly to reach it and pressed the calf with her head and trunk(象鼻)against the rocky bank. Then with a huge effort she picked it up in her trunk and tried until she was able to place it on a narrow shelf of rock. Just at this moment she fell back into the river. If she were carried down it would be certain death. I knew， as well as she did ,that there was one spot(地点)where she could get up the bank， but it was on the other side from where she had put her calf. While I was wondering what I could do next. I heard the sound of a mother’s love. Ma Shwe had crossed the river and got up the bank and was making her way back as fast as she could roaring(吼叫)all the time， but to her calf it was music. 36.The moment the author got down to the river bank he saw______. A.the calf was about to fall into the river B.Ma Shwe was placing the calf on the rock C.the calf was washed away by the rising water D.Ma Shwe was holding the calf against the rushing water 37.How did Ma Shwe manage to save her calf from the fast-flowing water? A.By putting it on a safe spot B.By pressing it against her body C.By taking it away with her D.By carrying it on her back 38.How did the calf feel about the mother elephant’s roaring? A.It was a great comfort B.It was a sign of danger C.It was a call for help D.It was a musical note B Is it possible that people of the world today could agree upon a single international language that everyone would be able to speak and understand? In the United Nations there are five official languages----English, Chinese, Russian, Spanish. How about making one of them into an international language? English has been worked on for this purpose. A basic word list of 850 English words named Basic English was made. These are the only verbs in the entire list: “come, go, give, keep, let, do, put, make, say, be, seem, may, will, have, send”. Writing in Basic English may require you to use a greater number of words--- as in having to say “it comes to my ears” instead of “I heard”---- but you can still say anything you want to with just 850 different words and a few suffixes(后缀)and prefixes(前缀). This is a much smaller number of the words to have to memorize than the ordinary number offered to the students of a foreign language, but people have always had a need to do more than simply “tell it as it is”. Language is for reporting not only one’s work. For this, a language needs idioms, needs all kinds of grammar and style that reflect its history and development just as a person needs eyebrows. Is there some special reason why our lips should be a different colour from the rest of our face? Perhaps not, but this is how people—real people--- are. For communication between people, languages in all diversity will remain to reflect the growth and soul of the societies that speak them. 39. In this passage “tell it as it is ” means”______” A. people can use Basic English to say want they to B. people think Basic English can express what they see or hear C. people say what they want to according to the fact D. tell something they like to 40. If we write a composition in Basic English, it will be _____. A .longer than usual B. shorter than usual C. hard to express what we want to D. able to express ourselves in different style as we like 41. This passage begins with a question. According to the writer’s opinion, the answer to the question may be “_____” . (责任编辑：admin) |