第四部分：阅读理解(第31~45题，每题3分，共45分)
下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题，每题后面有4个选项。请仔细阅读短文并根据短文回答其后面的问题，从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
第一篇 Three Ways to Become More Creative
Most people believe they don't have much imagination. They are wrong. Everyone has imagination, but most of us, once we become adults, forget how to access it. Creativity isn't always connected with great works of art or ideas. People at work and in their free time routinely think of creative ways to solve problems. Maybe you have a goal to achieve, a tricky question to answer or you just want to expand your mind! Here are three techniques to help you.
This technique involves taking unrelated ideas and trying to find links between them. First, think about the problem you have to solve or the job you need to do. Then find an image, word, idea or object, for example, a candle. Write down all the ideas/words associated with candles: light, fire, matches, wax: night, silence, etc. Think of as many as you can. The next stage is to relate the ideas to the job you have to do. So imagine you want to buy a friend an original present; you could buy him tickets to a match or take him out for the night.
Imagine that normal limitations don't exist. You have as much time/space/money, etc. as you want. Think about your goal and the new possibilities. If, for example, your goal is to learn to ski, you can now practice skiing every day of your life (because you have the time and the money). Now adapt this to reality. Maybe you can practice skiing every day in December, or every Monday in January.
Look at the situation from a different point of view. Good negotiators(谈判者) use this technique in business, and so do writers. Fiction writers often imagine they are the characters in their books. They ask questions: what does this character want? Why can't she get it? What changes must she make to get what she wants? What does she dream about? If your goal involves other people, put yourself "in their shoes". The best, fishermen think like fish!
31, According to the passage, when we become adults
A. most of us are no longer creative.
B. we are not as imaginative as children.
C. we can still learn to be more creative.
D. we are unwilling to be “creative”.
32. According to the first technique, if you need to solve a problem
A. you should link it with candles.
B. you could find an image and try to link it with the problem.
C. you have to think of buying a present for a friend.
D. you should link it with as many words as possible.
33. The second technique suggests that you just imagine
A. you have every resource to achieve your goal.
B. setting a goal is as simple as skiing.
C. new possibilities will soon appear.
D. December and January are the best months for skiing.
34. The phrase "put yourself in their shoes' in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to
A. dress yourself like them.
B. think as they would.
C. do as they ask you to.
D. put on their shoes,
35. We learn from the third technique that a good salesman should ask himself:
A. what do I usually do?
B. what did my boss tell me to do?
C. what are my customers' needs?
D. how should I sell my products?
第二篇 Oseola McCarty
LATE ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON in September 1999, Oseola McCarty, an elderly cleaning lady passed away in the little wooden frame house where she had lived and worked most of her life. It may seem like an ordinary end to a humble life, but there was something quite 1exceptional about this woman.
In the summer of 1995, McCarty gave $150, 000, most of the money she had saved throughout her life, to the University of Southern Mississippi in her hometown. The money was to help other African Americans through university. She had started her savings habit as a young child when she would return from school to clean and iron for money which she would then save.
She led a simple, frugal existence, never spending on anything but her most basic needs. 2 Her bank also advised her on investing her hard-earned savings.
When she retired, she decided that she wanted to use the money to give children of limited means the opportunity to go to university. 3 She had wanted to become a nurse, but had to leave school to look after ill relatives and work. When asked why she had given her life savings away, she replied, “I'm giving it away so that children won't have to work so hard, like I did. ” After news of her donation hit the media, over 600 donations were made to the scholarship fund. One was given by media executive, Ted Turner, who reputedly gave a billion dollars.
She didn't want any fuss made over her gift, but the news got out and she was invited all over the United States to talk to people. Wherever she went, people would come up to her to say a few words or to just touch her. She met the ordinary and the famous, President Clinton included. In the last few years of her life, before she died of cancer, McCarty was given over 300 awards: she was honoured by the United Nations and received the Presidential Citizen’s Medal. Despite having no real education, she found herself with two honorary doctorates: one from the University of Southern Mississippi and the other from Harvard University. Her generosity was clearly an inspiration to many and proof that true selflessness does exist.
36. This woman shocked and inspired the world because________.
A) she had managed to save so much money
B) she gave her money to African Americans
C) she gave her life savings to help others through university
D) she only spent money on cheap things
37. She managed to save so much money because________.
A) she had ironed and washed clothes all her life
B) she had worked hard, saved hard and invested carefully
C) she had opened a good bank account
D) she knew how to make money
38. She gave her money away because________.
A) she wanted to help the university
B) she wanted others to have the chance to become nurses
C) she wanted others to have the opportunity to escape a hard life
D) she want to be remembered after her death
39. When her generosity was made________.
A) people donated billions
B) hundreds of students got scholarships
C) hundreds of people put money into the fund
D) she was sent to university
40. McCarty became famous because________.
A) of her generosity
B) of her exceptional skills
C) she had saved $150, 000
D) she travelled all over America
第三篇 “Lucky” Lord Lucan — Alive or Dead
On 8th November 1974 Lord Lucan, a British aristocrat, vanished. The day before, his children's nanny had been brutally murdered and his wife had been attacked too. To this day the British public are still interested in the murder case because Lucan has never been found. Now, over 30 years later, the police have reopened the case, hoping that new DNA techniques will help solve this murder mystery. 1
People suspected that “Lucky”, as he was called by friends, wanted to kill his wife he no longer lived with. They say that Lucan entered his old house and in the dark, killed the nanny by mistake. His estranged wife heard noises, came downstairs and was also attacked, but managed to escape. Seven months after the murder, a jury concluded that Lucan had killed the nanny.
What happened next is unclear, but there are several theories which fall into one of three categories: he may have killed himself, he could have escaped or he might have been killed. It appears that the night after the murder, “Lucky” borrowed a car and drove it, Lucan's friend Aspinall said in an interview that he thought Lucan had committed suicide by sinking his boat in the English Channel.
Another version of events says that “Lucky” left the blood-soaked car on the coast and took a ferry to France. 2 He was met there by someone who drove him to safety in another country. However, after a time, his rescuers became worried that they would become involved in the murder too and so Lucan was killed.
A further fascinating theory was made in the book Dead Lucky by Duncan MacLaughlin, a former detective. He believes that Lucan travelled to Goa, India, where he assumed the identity of a Mr. Barry Haplin. Lucan then lived in Goa till his death in 1996. In the end the claim turned out to be a case of mistaken identity. The man who died in 1996 was really Haplin, an ex-schoolteacher turned hippy. So what is the truth about “Lucky”? DNA testing has solved many murder cases, but who knows if it can close the book on this one. 3
41. The public are still interested in the investigation because________.
A) of the terrible murder
B) of the use of new DNA techniques
C) Lord Lucan has never been found
D) Loard Lucan was famous
42. It is thought that Lucan killed the nanny because________.
A) she was looking after the children
B) she was a friend of Lucan's
C) it was dark and he thought she was Lady Lucan
D) Loard Lucan thought the nanny stole his car
43. Aspinall thought Lucan killed himself by________.
A) jumping into water
B) jumping out of his house
C) sailing his boat
D) sinking his boat
44. Lucan could have been killed because people________.
A) didn't want the police to catch him
B) thought he might talk to the police about them if he was caught
C) were unhappy with him
D) thought he was rich
45. Ex-detective MacLaughlin claimed that Mr. Barry Haplin________.
A) was an old schoolteacher
B) died in Goa, India
C) was really Lord Lucan in disguise
D) was a merchant
