第二部分 阅读理解（共 20 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 50 分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
C
I’m reading a novel at the moment, a story set in Britain and India in the 19th century. It was written by an Indian author who now lives in Denmark, but neither in the language of Hindi nor Danish. Although the paperback edition I’m holding was published in New Delhi, India, four years ago, I (an American) purchased it recently from a second-hand bookshop in Tokyo, Japan.
That’s quite a history already. But there’s more.
The novel is a tale of various mysteries, all expertly put into a well-structured story by a very skillful author. Yet my particular copy presents even more mysteries than the tale.
One summer morning in the year of my paperback’s publication---on July 15, 2012---someone else was reading it while eating breakfast in a restaurant in Mumbai, India.
I know this because I found a receipt of coffee and bread inside. I also know that this person was not the owner of the paperback immediately before me.
In fact, the owner before me was not Indian at all, but Japanese.
I know this because in the book there are handwritten notes in Japanese---translations of English words with which the reader was unfamiliar.
Japanese being a language of characters, not letters, it is not easy to determine if the note writer was a man or a woman. But the care taken to write the translations neatly in the limited spaces available on each page bespeaks a woman’s hand.
So let us agree that it is a woman. What can we say of her? Well educated, clearly, and probably a university student, who would keep a dictionary at hand while reading a novel.
But why did she suddenly stop reading? The last translation in my paperback appears on Page 83, less than a third of the way through the novel. Did she give up because the book was proving too difficult? Or was there some other reason?
Many a novel presents mysteries, all of which are solved by the end of the tale. The mysteries presented by my little paperback, however, remain mysteries, all expertly put into a well-structuredstory, not by a skillful writer, but this time by the numberless vagaries (变幻莫测）of life itself.
46. What can we learn about the novel?
A. It is about a world trip. B. It is well written.
C. It was written in an American restaurant. D. It was first published in the 19th century.
47. In which language is the novel written?
A. Hindi. B. Danish. C. English. D. Japanese.
48. The author assumes the Japanese owner of the book was a woman based on .
A. the pretty handwriting. B. the food written on the receipt.
C. the good condition of the book. D. the effort taken in writing the notes.
49. Which of the following can best describe the author?
A. He is a great reader of historical fiction.
B. He is a hard-working university student.
C. He is a productive writer with sensibility.
D. He is a careful observe with imagination.
50. What’s the best title for the text.?
A. The Tale of a Paperback B. Different Life Experiences
C. Unsolved Mysteries of Life D. A Book’s Exciting Adventure
Keys: 46-50 BCDDA
第二部分阅读理解（百强校英语解析团队专供）（共20小题；每小题2.5分，满分50分）
阅读下列短文.从每题所给的B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
C
Since the 1970s, scientists have been searching for ways to link the brain with computers. Brain-computer interface (BCI) technology could help people with disabilities send commandsto machines.
Recently, two researchers, Jose Milan and Michele Tavella from the Federal Polytechnic school in Lausanne, Switzerland, demonstrated (展示) a small robotic wheelchair directed by a person’s thoughts.
In the laboratory, Tavella operated the wheelchair just by thinking about moving his left or right band. He could even talk as he watched the vehicle and guided it with his thoughts.
“Our brain has billions of nerve ceils. These send signals through the spinal cord (脊髓) to the muscles to give us the ability to move. But spinal cord injuries or other conditions can prevent these weak electrical signals from reaching the muscles,” Tavella says. “Our system allows disabled people to communicate with external world and also to control devices.”
The researchers designed a special cap for the user. This head cover picks up the signals from the scalp (头皮)and sends them to a computer. The computer interprets the signals and commands the motorized wheelchair. The wheelchair also has two cameras that identify objects in its path. They help the computer react to commands from the brain.
Prof. Milan, the team leader, says scientists keep improving the computer software that interprets brain signals and turns them into simple commands. “The practical possibilities that BCI technology offers to disabled people can be grouped in two categories: communication, and controlling devices. One example is this wheelchair.”
He says his team has set two goals. One is testing with real patients, so as to prove that this is a technology they can benefit from. And the other is to guarantee that they can use the technology over long periods of time.
46. BCI is technology that can .
A. help to update computer systems B. link the human brain with computers
C. help the disabled to recover D. control a person’s thoughts
47. How did Tavella operate the wheelchair in the laboratory?
A. By controlling his muscles. B. By talking to the machine.
C. By moving his hand. D. By using his mind.
48. Which of the following shows the path of the signals described in Paragraph 5?
A. scalp → computer → cap → wheelchair
B. computer → cap → scalp → wheelchair
C. scalp → cap → computer → wheelchair
D. cap → computer→scalp→wheelchair
49. The team will test with real patients to .
A. make profits from them B. prove the technology useful to them
C. make them live longer D. learn about their physical condition
50. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
A. Switzerland, the BCI Research Center
B. New Findings About How the Human Brain Works
C. BCI Could Mean More Freedom for the Disabled
D. Robotic Vehicles Could Help to Cure Brain Injuries
Keys: 46-50 BDCBC
第二部分阅读理解（百强校英语解析团队专供）（共20小题；每小题2.5分，满分50分）
阅读下列短文.从每题所给的B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
C
“Every day I make a difference in the life of children.” says financier-turned-math teacher Chuck Trader.
For more than two decades Chuck Trader enjoyed a highly successful career in corporate finance, a six-figure salary, and all the bonuses that went with his position. After that, Chuck recognized that he had stopped enjoying his work. To make matters worse, a few MBA graduates were entering the field, solving management problems by reducing the staff rather than by building relationships. With two young children, Chuck and his wife Peggy realized they were missing out get-together time. They expected to find a place called their “forever home” where they could become part of a community and watch their kids grow up in a stable environment. “It was time for a change,” he says.
In 2001, Chuck, then 45, quit the job and had it changed.
Today, he is a middle school math teacher in St. Marys, Georgia, a sleepy little coastal town at the southeastern tip of Georgia. The job pays just a little more than $40,000 per year. The couple that moved 12 times in the first 20 years of marriage has now held on to the same zip code (邮编）for a decade and they couldn’t be happier. And, to cap it all off, Chuck has been recently named by St. Marys Middle School“Teacher of the Year”.
While becoming active in his children’s school, Chuck realizes he has found his true calling: teaching. “There is no other profession where you have the opportunity to favorably affect the outcomes and the lives of so many young adults,” says Chuck. “Teaching is truly an opportunity to invest in the future of our society.”
In the classroom, Chuck is able to make lesson plans real by taking advantage of his experience in business. Chuck’s students scored a 96 percent pass rate on the mathematics portion of the recent statewide student assessment. “That is a very difficult achievement for any teacher,” notes Wooden, St. Marys Middle School’s principal, “not to mention one who has a large group of students who are considered at risk.”
41.What mainly made Chuck leave the corporation he had had for twenty years?
A.He was tired of working there． B.He tended to change his work
C.He desired the family reunion time. D.His interest had changed a lot
42.Before changing work, Chuck and Peggy________.
A.only met once a year for two decades B.got much more income than now
C.were satisfied with their separated life D.were too busy to care about their kids' growth
48. Chuck teaches his students at St. Marys Middle School by________.
A. making his classes active B. using his work experience
C. making detailed lesson plans D. teaching them much knowledge
49. The underlined words “to cap it all off” in Paragraph 4 mean _______.
A. to begin his work at the school B. to help him adapt to his school life
C. to encourage him to work better D. to make him even happier
50. What is the best title of the text?
A. From Financier to Teacher B. Why Dose Chuck Quit Finance
C. How Does Chuck Teaching D. Chuck Finds a “Forever Home”
Keys: 46-50 CBBDA
第二部分 阅读理解 (共20个小题，每小题2.5分，满分50分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项
C
After the death of my mother a few years ago I found myself struggling to deal with my grief, and that of my father. It was two days before Christmas when mum died and that made me feel heartbroken. Mentally, I became distanced from everything: I shut down my grief and focused on dealing with the practical stuff---just surviving each day. The problem was that every time I tried to ignore my grief, the pain and loss came back. I even started to avoid the places that my mother and I used to visit so much together.
I realized that was not a good way to be, and went looking for anything that could help me deal with it. I wanted to understand why I was acting the way I was. I visited many psychologists and the local priest. They were friendly and helpful people but I quickly realized that they simply put forward the same information over and over again, expecting me to just accept it and “get over” my grief. There was no information available about why I and my father were reacting, nor about what to do, how to understand and move forward.
I was determined to understand what my father and I were going through so I started to do my own research. I read many books on grief and spoke to other people who were also in the process of dealing with grief. As I did that, I came to understand that, at some stage in our lives, we all face the loss of someone, or something, that we care greatly about. I also realized that in almost every case, there is absolutely nothing that we can do to prevent that loss, or change the circumstances in which it occurs. Unavoidably, we all must deal with the fact that, no matter how painful we feel by the loss, the world around us will go on as if nothing has changed.
46. The main idea of the passage is about _____.
A. the experience of dealing with griefB. the pain of losing one’s loved person
C. the books about healing one’s griefD. the information from experts
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