四、阅读理解(共15小题，计30分)
阅读下列材料，然后从每小题A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。
A
Do you want to get home from work knowing you have made a real difference in someone’s life?
If yes, don’t care about sex or age! Come and join us, then you’ll make it!
Job: Volunteer Social Care Assistant
(No Pay with Free Meals)
Place: Manchester
Hours: Part Time
We are now looking for volunteers to support people with learning disabilities to live active lives! Only 4 days left. Don’t miss the chance of lending your warm hands to help others!
Role：
You will provide people with learning disabilities with all kinds of help in their daily life. You will help them to develop new skills. You will help them to protect their rights and their safety. Most important of all, you should let them know they are valued.
Skills and Experience Required：
You will have the right values and great listening skills. You will be honest and patient. You should have the ability to drive a car and to communicate in excellent written and spoken English, since you’ll help those people with different learning disabilities. Previous (先前的) related experience will be a great advantage for you.
46. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 2 mean?
A.You’ll make others’ life more meaningful with this job.
B. You’ll arrive home from work just in time.
C. You’ll make much money from this job.
D. You’ll succeed in getting this job.
47. The volunteers’ key role is to help people with learning disabilities _____________.
A. get some support B. protect themselves
C. learn some living skills D. know their own value
48. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. The volunteers needn’t work all day long.
B. Free meals are provided for the volunteers.
C. The volunteers should be over sixteen.
D. Only four days are left for those who want to get the job.
49. Which of the following can first be chosen as a volunteer?
A. The one who can drive a car.
B. The one who has done similar work before.
C. The one who can speak English very well.
D. The one who has patience to listen to others.
50. The passage is meant to _____________.
A. offer a notice B. give a report
C. carry an advertisement D. send an invitation
B
In 1959, when Jean Harper was in the third grade, her teacher asked them to write a report on what they wanted to be when they grew up. She poured her heart into her report and expressed her dream of becoming an airline pilot. Her paper came back with an “F” on it. The teacher told her it was a “fairy tale”. Jean was completely disappointed. As the years went by, Jean was beaten down by the discouragement. “Girls can’t become airline pilots; never have, never will. You’re crazy.” Finally Jean gave up.
In her senior year of high school, her English teacher was Mrs. Dorothy Slaton, a strict teacher with high standards. One day Mrs. Slaton asked this question, “What will you do in the future?” Jean felt a rush of the old enthusiasm (热情), and with excitement she wrote down the very old dream right away.
The next thing that Mrs. Slaton said changed the course of Jean’s life. “I have a little secret for you. You do have unlimited (无限的) abilities and talents. When you leave school, if you don’t go for your dream, no one will do it for you. You can have what you want if you try!”
The hurt and fear of years of discouragement disappeared suddenly. Jean felt thrilled and told her teacher about her dream of becoming a pilot. Mrs. Slaton slapped (敲) the desk top, “Then do it!” she said.
So Jean did. It didn’t happen overnight. In her l0 years of hard work, even facing all kinds of difficulties, she never gave up her dream.
Eventually, Jean Harper became a Boeing 737 captain (机长) of the United Airline Company.
51. Jean’s third-grade teacher thought her dream to be _____________.
A. great B. impossible C. challenging D. reasonable
52. Mrs. Slaton may think that _____________.
A. Jean is not a nice girl
B. only some of her students have great abilities
C. a belief helps to realize one’s dream
D. her students are good enough to enter the best schools
53. According to the passage, we can infer that _____________.
A. Jean’s dream was always in her deep heart
B. Jean didn’t go for her dream
C. most people around Jean were for her dream
D. Jean achieved her dream overnight
54. What does the underlined word thrilled in Paragraph 4 mean?
A. excited B. surprised C. disappointed D. relaxed
55. What’s the best title of the passage?
A. Face Difficulties B. Dream the Future
C. Voice Your Dream D. Go for It
C
Do you use Facebook, MySpace or Twitter? If so, then you are part of a social network. Social networking sites allow us to see our social connections.
When you create a profile (a description of somebody that gives useful information) on a social networking site, you open up a number of possible social connections. You can look up old friends, make new friends, and share music, photos and videos with them. You can also join groups according to your interests or hobbies, favorite TV shows or music.
Setting up a social networking account (帐号) is simple. You just create and post a personal profile. For this you need a login name, password, and an e-mail account. Then you add some personal information such as name, age, sex, location, interests, etc. You can also add a photo of yourself. You can control who sees your profile. The next step is to look for new ones, and add them to your network. Then you can search your friends’ connections for anyone else you’d like to add to your network.
Different social networking sites allow people to communicate in different ways. There are sites that allow you to enlarge your personal community such as Facebook. Then there are ones that include media (媒体) sharing, such as YouTube, where members upload and look at other people’s pictures and videos. There are also ones that specialize in sharing music, such as Last FM, and finally, ones that allow bloggers to form online communities, such as Live Journal.
The latest trend (趋势) in social networking is to create your own independent social network. Companies do this to make their products sell well and people do it to create their own communities.
56. What’s the writer’s purpose in writing Paragraph1?
A. To raise a question. B. To lead in the topic.
C. To introduce some sites. D. To advertise a social network.
57. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in Paragraph 2?
A. Make new friends. B. Share videos with others.
C. Open a net shop. D. Join groups you like.
58. What does the third paragraph mainly tell us?
A. It’s easy to build a social networking account.
B. It’s easy to search your friends’ connections.
C. It’s possible to add a photo of yourself.
D. It’s simple to control a social network.
59. Last FM is a networking site where _____________.
A. you can upload videos
B. bloggers can form online communities
C. you have the largest personal community
D. sharing music is specialized
60. What’s the best title of the passage?
A. Social Networks B. Personal Profiles
C. Networking Trends D. Networking Accounts
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