47. A. appeared B. came C. were D. did 48. A. dreadful B. critical C. unfortunate D. happy 49. A. secretly B. easily C. eventually D. actually 50. A. obviously B. immediately C. really D. fortunately
51. A. out B. in C. away D. down 52. A. wallet B. suitcase C. receipt D. ticket 53. A. slipped B. broke C. passed D. dropped 54. A. raising B. shaking C. nodding D. turning 55. A. often B. never C. just D. already
四. 阅读理解 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Larry Ellison came from the slums to co-found Oracle.
Larry Ellison was born on the Lower East Side of New York during World War II, back when that district was still poor and filled with immigrants striving to survive. At an early age, Ellison caught pneumonia（肺炎） and was sent to the South Side of Chicago to live with relatives. Despite these obstacles, he was able to educate himself and join Software Development Laboratories, in 1977.
This was an important move, because in 1982 the company became Oracle. This is a company that brings in $38 billion every single year, and along the way, Ellison — who stepped down（辞职） as CEO in 2014 — managed to accumulate over $46.2 billion in net worth（净值）.
Zdenek Bakala flees Communist Czechoslovakia with $50.
Zdenek Bakala happens to be one of the leading coal entrepreneurs in the United States. Originally from Czechoslovakia, he fled that country when he was just 19. He arrived in Lake Tahoe with just $50 in his pocket. Once there, he got a job washing dishes at Harrah’s casino.
Fast-forward a few years: Bakala attended the famous University of California-Berkeley and acquired his undergraduate degree. That higher education gained him entry into the banking world. And returning to his homeland, in 1994 he opened the Credit Suisse office
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in Prague.
Due to his enormous wealth, Bakala has managed to acquire huge shares in both coal and iron ore, which he still holds to this day. Do Won Chang worked three jobs to survive.
Do Won Chang is the famous face behind Forever 21, who immigrated to the United States from South Korea, in 1981. Before he founded Forever 21, he worked three jobs simultaneously（同时地）, as a gas station clerk, a janitor（守卫） and a coffee shop employee. That period lasted for three years before he founded the company and opened its first clothing store, in 1984.
This family business grew quickly by taking advantage of the benefits of \fashion\Forever 21 is now multi-national and has 480 locations across the world. It has also managed to bring in $3 billion per year. And the next generation has been taken into the company, as Chang has brought his two daughters on board.
56. Which played the most important role in Zdenek Bakala’s success? A. His family background. C. His friends selfless help.
B. The education he received.
D. The huge share he holds.
57. What do the three persons have in common? A. They all changed from rags to riches. B. They are all immigrants to the US. C. They all managed to graduate from college. D. They all worked three jobs to survive.
B
Sugar is so much a part of our modern life that we only really think about it when, for some reason, we cannot obtain it. It has been known to man for at least 3,000 years, but has come into common use only in modern times. Until quite recently it was considered as a medicine and as a luxury for the very rich only.
Sugar is, then, very important to our civilization. But what exactly is it? Of course, most of us recognize sugar immediately as the sweet material which we put in coffee or cakes. This common form of sugar is derived from two plants: the sugar cane (a type of grass which grows to a height of twenty feet) and the sugar beet (which grows underground). But there are in fact many types of sugar, and the chemist recognizes hundreds of different
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varieties, each coming from a different source.
About 90 % of the sugar is produced as food. Only 10% is used in industry for purposes other than food production. Yet, sugar has great possibilities for use as the basis of chemicals. It can even be used for making plastics. In the future these potential uses will certainly be developed more than in the past.
There are many reasons why we should increase the production of sugar. Most important is that it is one of the most highly concentrated of energy foods. Thus sugar cane and beet produce an average of 7,000,000 calories per acre. In this way they have the advantage over potatoes which give only 4,000,000, while the figure for wheat and beans is 2,000,000 each. So three acres of land growing wheat, beans and potatoes give only slightly more energy than one acre of sugar. 58. The heading of Paragraph 1 may be _____. A. What Sugar Is
B. Sugar Through the Ages C. The Advantages of Sugar D. Present and Future Uses of Sugar 59. The third paragraph emphasizes _____. A. about 90% of sugar used as food B. only 10% of sugar used in industry C. sugar used for making plastics D. future uses of sugar
60. The main reason why we should increase the production of sugar is that _____. A. It tastes sweet
B. We can save plenty of land C. We can get more food
D. It’s one of the most highly concentrated of energy foods
C
The need for a surgical operation, especially an emergency operation, almost always comes as a severe shock to the patient and his family. Despite modern advances, most people still unreasonably fear hospitals and anesthetics (麻醉药). Patients do not often believe they really need surgery---cutting into a part of the body as opposed to treatment with drugs.
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In the early years of this century there was little specialization in surgery. A good surgeon was capable of performing almost every operation that had been devised up to that time. Today the situation is different. Operations are now being carried out that were not even dreamed of fifty years ago. The heart can be safely opened and its valves (阀门;心脏或血管的瓣膜) repaired. Clogged blood vessels can be cleaned out, and broken ones mended or replaced. A lung, the whole stomach, or even part of the brain can be removed and still permit the patient to live a comfortable and satisfactory life. However, not every surgeon wants to, or is qualified to carry out every type of modern operation.
The scope (范围, 广度, 机会) of surgery has increased remarkably in this century. Its safety has increased too. Deaths from most operations are about 20% of what they were in 1910 and surgery has been extended in many directions, for example to certain types of birth defects (缺陷) in newborn babies, and, at the other end of the scale, to life-saving operations for the octogenarian (八旬老人). The hospital stay after surgery has been shortened to as little as a week for most major operations. Most patients are out of bed on the day after an operation and may be back at work in two or three weeks.
Many developments in modern surgery are almost unbelievable. They include the replacement of damaged blood vessels with simulated ones made of plastic; the replacement of heart valves with plastic substitutes; the transplanting of tissues such as the lens of the eye; the invention of the artificial kidney to clean the blood of poisons at regular intervals and development of heart and lung machines to keep patients alive during very long operations. All these things open a hopeful vista (前景，远景) for the future of surgery.
One of the most revolutionary areas of modern surgery is that of organ transplants. Until a few years ago, no person, except an identical twin, was able to accept into his body the tissues of another person without reacting against them and eventually killing them. Recently, however, it has been discovered that with the use of x-rays and special drugs, it is possible to graft tissues from one person to another which will survive for periods of a year or more. Kidneys have been successfully transplanted between non-identical twins. Heart and lung transplants have been reasonably successful in animals, though rejection problems in humans have yet to be solved.
‘Spare parts’ surgery, the simple routine replacement of all worn-out organs by new ones, is still a dream of the distant future. As yet, surgery is not ready for such miracles. In the meantime, you can be happy if your doctor says to you, ‘Yes, I think it is possible to
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operate on you for this condition.’
61. Surgeons in the early years of this century, compared with modern ones, _____. A. had less to learn about surgery B. needed more knowledge
C. could perform every operation known today D. were more trusted by their patients 62. Modern surgeons_____.
A. do not like to perform operations of the new type B. are not as highly qualified as the older ones
C. are required to specialize more than their predecessors (前任们) D. often perform operations which are not really needed 63. The main difficulty with organ transplants is _____. A. it is difficult to find organs of exactly the same size
B. only identical twins can give permission for their organs to be exchanged C. the body’s tendency to reject alien tissues D. the patient is not allowed to use drugs after them 64. ‘Spare parts’ surgery _____. A. has yet to become a reality B. will be available in the near future C. is only possible for animals
D. has been replaced by modern drug treatments
65. You can be happy if your surgeon can operate because it means _____. A. he thinks your condition may be curable B. he is a good doctor C. he knows you will survive D. you are getting better already
五. 任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
请阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填一个单词。
Where would we be without the Internet? We certainly wouldn't be at once messaging someone we met six years ago. We also wouldn’t be able to form a sentence using only
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