第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15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。

AWhat' s On?Electric Un dergr ound7.30pm —1.00am Free at the Cyclops TheatreDo you know who?s play ing in your area? We?re bringing you an eve ning of live rockand pop music from the best local ban ds. Are you in terested in beco ming a musicia n andgett ing a record ing con tract（合同）? If so, come early to the talk at 7.30pm by Jules Skye, a successful record producer. He?s going to talk about how you can find the right p erson to produce your music.Gee Whizz8.30pm-10.30pm Comedy at KaleidoscopeCome and see Gee Whizz perform. He?s the funni est sta nd -up comedia n on the comedy sce ne. This joyful show will please every one, from the youn gest to the oldest.Gee Whizz really knows how to make you laugh! Our bar is ope n from 7.00pm for drinks and snacks（快餐）.Simon?s Workshop5.00pm-7.30pm Wed nesdays at Victoria StageThis is a good cha nee for anyone who wants to lear n how to do comedy. The workshop looks at every kind of comedy, and practices many differe nt ways of making people laugh. Simon is a comedia n and actor who has 10 years? experie nee of teach ing comedy. His workshops are excit ing and fun. An eve ning with Sim on will give you the con fide nee to be funny.Charlotte Sto ne8.00pm-11.00pm Pizza WorldFine food with beautiful jazz music; this is a great evening out. Charlotte Stone will perform songs from her new best-selli ng CD, with James Pickeri ng on the pia no. The menu is Italian, with excellent meat and fresh fish, pizzas and pasta（面食）.Book early to get a table. Our bar is open all day, and serves cocktails, coffee, beer, and white wine.21. Who can help you if you want to have your music produced?A. Jules Skye.B. Gee Whizz.C. Charlotte Stone.D. James Pickeri ng.22. At which place can people of differe nt ages enjoy a good laugh?A. The Cyclops TheatreB. Kaleidoscope23. What do we kn ow about Simo n?s Workshop? A. It requires membership status. time.C. It is run by a comedy club.Wedn esday.24. Whe n will Charlotte Stone perform her son gs? A. 5.00pm-7.30pm. C. 8.00pm-11.00pm.Five years ago, whe n I taught art at a school in Seattle, I used Tin kertoys as a testat the beg inning of a term to find out someth ing about my stude nts. I put a small set of Tin kertoys in front of each stude nt, and said: ” Make somethi ng out of the Tin kertoys. Youhave 45 minu tes today -and 45m inu tes each day for the rest of the week. ”A few students hesitated to start. They waited to see the rest of the class would do.Several others checked the in structi ons and made someth ing accord ing to one of the model pla ns provided. Ano ther group built someth ing out of their own imag in ati ons.Once I had a boy who worked experimentally with Tinkertoys in his free time. Hisconstructions filled a shelf in the art classroom and a good part of his bedroom at home. I was delighted at the prese nee of such a stude nt. Here was an excepti on ally creative mindat work. His prese nee meant that I had an un expected teach ing assista nt in class whose creativity would infect （感染 ）other students.Encouraging this kind of thinking has a downside. I ran the risk of losing thosestude nts who had a differe nt style of thinking. Without fail one would declare, not creative. ”“ Doyou dream at ni ght whe n you?re asleep? ”Oh, sure.“ So tell me one of your most in terest ing dreams.” The stude nt would tell somethingwildly imaginative. Flying in the sky or in a time machine or growing three heads. pretty creative. Who does that for you? ”“ Nobody. I do it. ”B. It lasts three hours eachD. It is held everyB. 7.30pm— 1.00am.D. 8.30pm-10.30pm.But I?m justThat?s“ Really-at ni ght, whe n you?re asleep? ”Sure.“ Try doing it in the daytime, i n class, okay? ”25. The teacher used Ti nkertoys in class in order to _______ ?A. know more about the stude ntsB. make the less ons more excit ingthat cha nge your life are the people you meet and books you read. BookCross ing comb ines both.”Members leave books on park ben ches and buses, i n train stati ons and coffee shops. Whoever findstheir book will go to the site and record where they found it.People who find a book can also leave a journal entry describ ing what they thought of it. E-mails arethe n sent to the BookCross ing to keep them updated about where their books have bee n found. Bruce peters on says the idea is for people not to be selfish by keep ing a book to gather dust on a shelf at home.BookCross ing is part of a trend among people who want to get back to theand not the virtual(). The site now has more tha n one millio n members in more tha nC. raise the students? interest in artD. teach the stude nts abouttoy desig n26. What do we know about the boy men ti oned in Paragraph 3? A. He liked to help his teacher. B. He preferred to studyalone.C. He was active in class.D. He was imag in ative.27. What does the un derli ned word dow nside ” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?A. Mistake.B. Drawback.C. Difficulty.D. Burde n.28. Why did the teacher ask the stude nts to talk about their dreams? A. To help them to see their creativity. B. To find out about theirsleep ing habits.C. To help them to improve their memory.D. To find out about their ways of thinking.Read ing can be a social activity. Think of the people who bel ong to book groups. They choose books to read and the n meet to discuss them. Now, the website BookCross in turns the page on the traditi onal idea of a book group.Members go on the site and register the books they own and would like to share. BookCross ing provides an ide ntificati on nu mber to stick in side the book. The n the pers on leaves it in a public place, hop ing that the book will have an adve nture, traveli ng far andwide with each new reader who finds it.Bruce Peders on, the managing director of BookCross ing, says,The two thingsrealone hun dred thirty-five coun tries.29. Why does the author mention book groups in the first paragraph?A. To expla in what they are.B. To in troduce BookCross ing.C. To stress the importa nee of read ing.D. To en courage readers to share their ideas. 30. What does the un derli ned word “ it ” in Paragraph 2refer to?A. The book.B. An adve nture.C.A public place.D. The ide ntificati on nu mber.31. What will a BookCrosser do with a book after reading it?A new collecti on of photos brings an un successful An tarctic voyage back to life Fra nk Hurley?s pictures would be outsta nding----un doubtedly first-ratephoto-journalism---if they had bee n made last week. In fact, they were shot from 1914 through 1916, most of them after a disastrous shipwreck （海滩 ）,by a cameraman who hadno reas on able expectati on of survival. Many of the images were stored in an ice chest, un der freez ing water, i n the damaged woode n ship.The ship was the En dura nee, a small, tight, Norwegia n-built three-master that wasintended to take Sir Ernest Shackleton and a small crew of seamen and scientists, 27 men in all, to the souther nm ost shore of An tarctica?s Weddell Sea. From that point Shacklet onwan ted to force a passage by dog sled （ 雪橇 ）across the con ti nent. The journey was inten ded to achieve more tha n what Capta in Robert Falc on Scott had done. Capta in Scott had reached the South Pole early in 1912 but had died with his four compa nions on the march back.As writer Caroli ne Alexa nder makes clear in her forceful and well-researched story The Endura nee, adve nturi ng was eve n the n a thoroughly commercial effort. Scott?s last jour ney, completed as he lay in a tent dying of cold and hun ger, caught the world?s imag in ati on, and a film made in his honor drew crowds. Shacklet on, a on etime British mercha nt-n avy officer who had got to within 100 miles of the South Pole in 1908, started a bus in ess before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie and still photography. Frank Hurley, a con fide nt and gifted Australia n photographer who knew the An tarctic, was hired to make the images, most of which have n ever before bee n published.A. Meet other readers to discuss it. bookcase.C. Pass it on to another reader. 32. What is the best title for the text? A. Online Reading: A Virtual Tour TrendC. A Book Group Brings Tradition Back through BooksB. Keep it safe in hisD. Mail it back to its owner.B. Electro nic Books: A newD. A Website Li nks People33. What do we know about the photos take n by Hurley?A. They were made last weekB. They showed un dersea sce neriesC. They were found by a camerama nD. They recorded a disastrous adve nture34. Who reached the South Pole first according to the text?A. Frank HurleyB. Ernest Shacklet onC. Robert Falcon ScottD. Caroli ne Alexa nder35. What does Alexa nder think was the purpose of the 1914 voyage?A. Artistic creati onB. Scie ntific researchC. Money makingD. Treasure hun ti ng第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。