After years of great effort their company developed into one of the large.（)

Beethoven wrote about 300 (12) of music. He wrote some of his most beautiful pieces after he became deaf. It is hard for anyone to be deaf. But it is even worse for a musician than for (13) else. Think of not being able to hear the music you have written!

As a child Beethoven did not have a happy life. His father drank (14) .When the boy was only four，his father decided to make a musician (15) him. Hour after hour he had to practice (16) the violin. He learned so fast that he was able to make a concert tour when he was eleven. When he was seventeen，the great Mozart praised him. After he studied with Haydn. Beethoven was writing a great deal of music (17) .

Beethoven had an ugly face and a bad temper. He was often invited (18) the homes of wealthy people. They forgave him when his temper flared up. Illness made him become deaf when he was (19) thirty-one.

Beethoven wrote long pieces and short ones，gentle ones and (20) ones.

A. hear

B. listen

C. listen to

D. hear of

Passage Three

For some time after the Spanish won Granada from the Moors, Spanish kings enjoyed visiting that delightful city. After many years, however, they were frightened away by a series of earthquakes, during which several houses fell to the ground, and the old towers shook to their foundations.

After that, many years passed without visits from royal guests. The noble palaces of Granada remained silent and closed, and that loveliest of palaces, the Alhambra, lay sadly alone with no one to care for its beautiful gardens. People no longer visited the tower where once three beautiful Moorish princesses had lived. Only birds and insects found their way to those tower rooms which had once been the home of the king's lovely daughters. Zayda, Zorayda, and Zorahayda. It was said that the spirit of the youthful princess Zorahayda, who had died in that tower, was often seen by moonlight, seated beside the fountain in the hall, or weeping beside the high stone wall. It was said that the music of her silver lute could be heard at midnight by travelers passing along the road.

After many years, the city of Granada was honored once again by royal guests. All the world knows that

King Philip V married Elizabeth or Isabella (for they are the same), the beautiful princess of Parma. For a visit of his famous couple, the Alhambra palace was repaired and made ready, with all possible speed, when the king and queen arrived with all the lords and ladies of their court, there was a great change in the lonely palace. Drums and roy- al music were heard, fine horses were ridden about the avenues and inner court, brightly colored flags again were flown above the ancient walls. Inside the palace, however, life was quiet and calm. There was the soft sound of long robes, and the careful steps and murmuring voices of those who respectfully served the king and queen. In the gardens there was soft music, and there was quiet talk among the young lords and ladies of the court.

44. According to the passage, which is not true during the earthquake？

A. Several houses fell to the ground.

B. The old tower shook to their foundations.

C. Spanish kings were frightened away.

D. Spanish won Granada.

his memories of the family farm led him into horticulture(园艺).the study habits he had acquired in the orphanage helped him a great deal because he did not care for the life outside his university， and gearhart saw many of his former classmates fall behind， then， as he puts it， he “fell in love with genetics.”

after earning his b. sc. in biological(生物的)science at penn in 1964，he moved to the university of new hampshire(新罕布什尔州)，where he got his m. sc in genetics in 1966. he received his ph.d. degree in genetics， development&embryology(胚胎学)from cornell university in 1970.

through all these years gearhart had only occasional contact with his mother . his studies had led him far from the farming concerns of his family in pennsylvania，when his mother became seriously ill，she came to johns hopkins hospital for treatment， and it was only then， in her last months of life， that gearhart felt he finally came to know the mother who had been forced to give him up so many years before.

on november 10， 1998， john gearhart reported his important findings in genetics. he is now one of the most famous scientists in the united states， a leader in the field of genetics research..

51、John Gearhart was sent to the orphanage because______.

A.his mother was ill

B.his father died

C.his father couldn't support his family

D.his mother didn't like him

52、it can be learned from the passage that ____contributed a lot to his success.

A.one of his brothers

B.his classmates in the orphanage

C.his memories of the family farm

D.his study habits developed in the orphanage

53、John Gearhart attended all the following universities EXCEPT____.

A.Cornell University

B.Pennsylvania State University

C.University of New Hampshire

D.Johns Hopkins University

54、John Gearhart is well-known for his important findings in______.

A.biology

B.horticulture

C.genetics

D.farming

55、John Gearhart didn't understand why his mother gave him up so many years before until ___

A.his mother’s death

B.his great success in his work

C.his mother's last months of life

D.his graduation from Cornell university

SECRET SHOPPERS

Tim Wright knows all about making companies more efficient. His firm, Check-up, sends 'secret shoppers' into retail and leisure companies (29) order to make sure that customers are receiving good service. After (30) visit, the secret shoppers prepare a report for the company to let them know (31) good or bad the service was.

Companies like to know,' says Mr Wright,' that (32) customers go into a store just a few minutes before closing time, they will (33) get good service.' Check-up (34) set up in the west of England in 1992 and (35) two years moved to London so it could offer a nationwide service. (36) the last three years, Check-up's profits have (37) dramatically as companies have come to realise (38) great importance of good customer service. Having started with just three employees, Check-up now has a staff (39) sixty-five and last week (40) an important new contract with a major supermarket chain.

(29)

A．in

B．by

C．on

Language is always changing. In a society where life continues year after year with few changes, the languages do not change either. The earliest known languages had difficult grammar but a small, limited vocabulary. Over the century, the grammar changed, and the vocabulary grew. For example, the English and Spanish people who came to America during the sixteenth century gave names to all the new plants and animals they found. In this way, hundreds of new words were introduced into English and Spanish vocabularies. Today life is changing very fast,and language is changing fast too.

There are several major language families in the world. Some scientists say there are nine main families, but other scientists divided them differently. The languages in each family are connected, and scientists think that they came from the same parent language. About 3% of the people in the world speak languages that are not in these major families.

1. The early language had many words and easy grammar.

A. T B. F

2. In the next few hundred years we can expect language to change a great deal.

A. T B. F

3. This article shows that language changes with changes in society.

A. T B. F

4. From this article we can know that language will become easier and easier.

A. T B. F

5. The first English and Spanish people arrived in America more than 400-500 years ago.

A. T B. F

The Greeks loved learning. Ptolemy believed that people needed to have written records of their thoughts and ideas. They needed to have a place to collect their books. For the first time in history, Ptolemy tried to collect together all the Greek books that had been written. To do this, he built the largest and the best library in ancient world.

Before this time, great writings were often hard to find, and many had been lost. Books were then written by hand on a kind of paper called papyrus. Sheets of papyrus were rolled around wooden sticks. The papyrus rolls were stored in deep shelves on the library walls.

All books brought in Egypt were taken to the library. There scholars studied them and corrected any mistakes. The books were copied over so they would be easier to read and store. They were listed in catalog.

The library at Alexandria grew to have over a half million books. It was a center of learning for over 700 years before it was destroyed by fire in A. D. 391.

32、In this passage the word “scholars” means ________ .

A.people who fought as soldiers

B.people with much learning

C.people who taught in schools

D.people who wrote the Greek books

33、The passage does not say so, but it makes you think that ________ .

A.it was hard to make papyrus

B.copying books took a long time

C.no one ever read books at Alexandria

D.books from all over the world were brought to the library

34、Why did Ptolemy build a large library atAlexandria？

A.Because he thought it would make him as famous as Alexander the Great.

B.Because he wanted a safe place to collect all Greek books.

C.Because he wanted a new way to print books.

D.Because he wanted to correct all the mistakes in the books.

【T11】

A.POSITIVE

B.BEHIND

C.RESULT A.AFRAID THEIR COUNTRIES WILL BE LEFT【T7】______

B.WHAT WAS LESS VISIBLE THEN, HOWEVER, WERE THE NEW,【T8】______FORCES

C.AS A【T9】______ A GREAT DEAL OF ATTENTION IS BEING PAID TODAY TO THE SO-CALLED DIGITAL DIVIDE—THE DIVISION OF THE WORLD INTO THE INFO (INFORMATION) RICH AND THE INFO POOR.AND THAT DIVIDE DOES EXIST TODAY.MY WIFE AND I LECTURED ABOUT THIS LOOMING DANGER TWENTY YEARS AGO.【T10】_____THAT WORK AGAINST THE DIGITAL DIVID

E. THERE ARE REASONS TO BE OPTIMISTI

C.THERE ARE TECHNOLOGICAL REASONS TO HOPE THE DIGITAL DIVIDE WILL NARROW.AS THE INTERNET BECOMES MORE AND MORE COMMERCIALIZED, IT IS IN THE INTEREST OF BUSINESS TO UNIVERSALIZE ACCESS—AFTER ALL, THE MORE PEOPLE ONLINE, THE MORE POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS THERE AR

E.MORE ANDMORE GOVERNMENTS,【T11】______,WANT TO SPREAD INTERNET ACCESS.WITHIN THE NEXTDECADE OR TWO, ONE TO TWO BILLION PEOPLE ON THE PLANET WILL BE NETTED TOGETHER.【T12】_____,I NOW BELIEVE THE DIGITAL DIVIDE WILL NARROW RATHER THAN WIDEN IN THE YEARSAHEA

D.AND THAT IS VERY GOOD NEWS BECAUSE THE INTERNET MAY WELL BE THE MOST POWERFUL TOOL FOR COMBATING WORLD POVERTY THAT WE"VE EVER HA

D.