Passage 2
Grief
There is one kind of pain for which nobody has yet found a cure—the pain that comes from the ending of a relationship. The relationship could be a marriage, a love affair, or a deep friendship; in fact, any strong emotional tie between two people. Such a relationship may come to an abrupt end; or it may simply fade away slowly as people and circumstances change.
Although there is no cure for grief, we cannot help looking for one, to ease the pain and to make us forget our tears. We seek refuge in other relationships, we keep ourselves busy with work, we try to immerse(淹沒(méi)) ourselves in our hobbies. Perhaps we start to drink more than we should to “drown our sorrows,” or we follow the conventional advice and join a club or society. But these things only relieve the symptoms of the illness; they cannot cure it. Moreover, we are always in a hurry to get rid of our grief. It is as if we were ashamed of it. We feel that we should be able to “pull ourselves together.” We try to convince ourselves, as we bite on the pillow, that we are much too old to be crying. Some people bury their grief deep inside themselves, so that nobody will guess what hey are going through. Others seek relief by pouring their hearts out to their friends, or to anyone else who can offer a sympathetic shoulder to cry on. But after a while, even our friends start to show their impatience, and suggest with their reproachful glances that it is about time we stopped crying. They, too, are in a hurry for the thing to be over.
It is not easy to explain why we adopt this attitude to emotional pain, when we would never expect anyone to overcome physical pain simply by an effort of will power. Part of the answer must lie in the nature of grief itself. When the love affair dies, you cannot believe that you will ever find another person to replace the one who has gone so completely out of your life. Even after many, many months, when you think that you have begun to learn to live without your lost love, something—a familiar place, a piece of music, a whiff of perfume — will suddenly bring the bitter-sweet memories flooding back. You choke back the tears and desperate, almost angry, feeling that you are no better now than the day the affair ended.
And yet, grief is like an illness that must run its course. Memories do fade eventually, a healing skin does start to grow over the wound, the intervals between sudden glimpses of the love you have lost do get longer. Bit by bit, life resumes its normal flow. Such is the complexity of human nature that we can even start to feel guilty as these things start to happen, as if it were an insult to our lost love that we can begin to forget at all.
56. Relationships often come to an end because
A. human feelings are changeable.
B. people do not stay the same.
C. people want to develop new relationships.
D. few people realize the pain of ending a relationship.
57. In paragraph 2, “drown our sorrows” means
A. taking our lives by drowning.
B. enduring our pain by swimming.
C. getting drunk to forget our trouble.
D. forgetting our sorrows in our work.
58. When your friends get tired of listening to you they will
A. help you to get over your grief.
B. tell you to pull yourself together.
C. criticize you for crying for such a thing.
D. show by their expression that they have had enough.
59. We are upset by reminders of our lost love because they come so
A. rarely.
B. rapidly.
C. unexpectedly.
D. occasionally.
60. The main idea of this passage is that
A. grief is not easy to get over.
B. grief only affects the weak-minded.
C. grief can be relieved in many different ways.
D. grief will eventually fade way, no matter how strong it is.
Ⅴ.詞形轉(zhuǎn)換。將括號(hào)里提供的詞轉(zhuǎn)換成適當(dāng)?shù)脑~形填入答題紙上相應(yīng)的位置。(本大題共10小題， 每小題1分，共10分)
Complete each of the following sentences with a (compound) word derived from the one(s) given in brackets.(10 points)
61. Many people have a ______. Some need glasses to read, or do not hear very well. Others may have difficulty in moving.(ability)
62. Primitive people believed that a ______ could gain control over an event by imitating it. (magic)
63. Many, many years ago, the bold and daring Norse explorers who lived in Norway were so strong and courageous that even the stormy seas could not ______ them.(fright)
64. We are all distressed by reports of mine disasters. Sometimes it is several days before we learn whether any of the victims will be brought out ______. (live)
65. Newspapers are more than a source of ______ for their readers. For many people, newspapers provide a wealth of information.(amuse)
66. Reader's Digest is a ______ that has one of the highest circulations in the world. (month)
67. Modern ______ methods made possible the production of a large amount of food by relatively few people.(agriculture)
68. Are these egg-plants ______ or did you buy them in the market place?(home, grow)
69. The ______ of their marriage shocked their friends. (break, up)
70. Newspapers have become sizable ______ enterprises.(finance)
Ⅵ.句子翻譯。將下列句子譯成英語(yǔ)，譯文寫(xiě)在答題紙上相應(yīng)的位置。如括號(hào)內(nèi)有特定要求，請(qǐng)按要求答題(本大題共5小題，每小題3分，共15分。)
Translate the following sentences into English.(15 points)
71. 人們通常認(rèn)為過(guò)分嬌寵的孩子比起其他孩子創(chuàng)造力往往要差一些。(被動(dòng)語(yǔ)態(tài))
72. 她在旅游途中對(duì)所見(jiàn)所聞做了大量的筆記。
73. 黎明到來(lái)之前往往是黑暗的時(shí)刻。(happen)
74. 如果我們沒(méi)有乘出租車(chē)來(lái)機(jī)場(chǎng)，肯定會(huì)誤了航班。
75. 不少科學(xué)家已經(jīng)意識(shí)到威脅生存環(huán)境的事實(shí)，多次向全國(guó)人民發(fā)出了警告。(sound)
Ⅶ.作文。根據(jù)所學(xué)的一篇課文，寫(xiě)出150字的短文。(本大題要求寫(xiě)成短文形式，15分)
Write a short composition based on one of the texts you have learned in about 150 words. (15 points)
Topic: List two of the things Carl Sagan mentions in his article “Twelve things I Wish They Taught Me at School” and explain why you think them important.
Grief
There is one kind of pain for which nobody has yet found a cure—the pain that comes from the ending of a relationship. The relationship could be a marriage, a love affair, or a deep friendship; in fact, any strong emotional tie between two people. Such a relationship may come to an abrupt end; or it may simply fade away slowly as people and circumstances change.
Although there is no cure for grief, we cannot help looking for one, to ease the pain and to make us forget our tears. We seek refuge in other relationships, we keep ourselves busy with work, we try to immerse(淹沒(méi)) ourselves in our hobbies. Perhaps we start to drink more than we should to “drown our sorrows,” or we follow the conventional advice and join a club or society. But these things only relieve the symptoms of the illness; they cannot cure it. Moreover, we are always in a hurry to get rid of our grief. It is as if we were ashamed of it. We feel that we should be able to “pull ourselves together.” We try to convince ourselves, as we bite on the pillow, that we are much too old to be crying. Some people bury their grief deep inside themselves, so that nobody will guess what hey are going through. Others seek relief by pouring their hearts out to their friends, or to anyone else who can offer a sympathetic shoulder to cry on. But after a while, even our friends start to show their impatience, and suggest with their reproachful glances that it is about time we stopped crying. They, too, are in a hurry for the thing to be over.
It is not easy to explain why we adopt this attitude to emotional pain, when we would never expect anyone to overcome physical pain simply by an effort of will power. Part of the answer must lie in the nature of grief itself. When the love affair dies, you cannot believe that you will ever find another person to replace the one who has gone so completely out of your life. Even after many, many months, when you think that you have begun to learn to live without your lost love, something—a familiar place, a piece of music, a whiff of perfume — will suddenly bring the bitter-sweet memories flooding back. You choke back the tears and desperate, almost angry, feeling that you are no better now than the day the affair ended.
And yet, grief is like an illness that must run its course. Memories do fade eventually, a healing skin does start to grow over the wound, the intervals between sudden glimpses of the love you have lost do get longer. Bit by bit, life resumes its normal flow. Such is the complexity of human nature that we can even start to feel guilty as these things start to happen, as if it were an insult to our lost love that we can begin to forget at all.
56. Relationships often come to an end because
A. human feelings are changeable.
B. people do not stay the same.
C. people want to develop new relationships.
D. few people realize the pain of ending a relationship.
57. In paragraph 2, “drown our sorrows” means
A. taking our lives by drowning.
B. enduring our pain by swimming.
C. getting drunk to forget our trouble.
D. forgetting our sorrows in our work.
58. When your friends get tired of listening to you they will
A. help you to get over your grief.
B. tell you to pull yourself together.
C. criticize you for crying for such a thing.
D. show by their expression that they have had enough.
59. We are upset by reminders of our lost love because they come so
A. rarely.
B. rapidly.
C. unexpectedly.
D. occasionally.
60. The main idea of this passage is that
A. grief is not easy to get over.
B. grief only affects the weak-minded.
C. grief can be relieved in many different ways.
D. grief will eventually fade way, no matter how strong it is.
Ⅴ.詞形轉(zhuǎn)換。將括號(hào)里提供的詞轉(zhuǎn)換成適當(dāng)?shù)脑~形填入答題紙上相應(yīng)的位置。(本大題共10小題， 每小題1分，共10分)
Complete each of the following sentences with a (compound) word derived from the one(s) given in brackets.(10 points)
61. Many people have a ______. Some need glasses to read, or do not hear very well. Others may have difficulty in moving.(ability)
62. Primitive people believed that a ______ could gain control over an event by imitating it. (magic)
63. Many, many years ago, the bold and daring Norse explorers who lived in Norway were so strong and courageous that even the stormy seas could not ______ them.(fright)
64. We are all distressed by reports of mine disasters. Sometimes it is several days before we learn whether any of the victims will be brought out ______. (live)
65. Newspapers are more than a source of ______ for their readers. For many people, newspapers provide a wealth of information.(amuse)
66. Reader's Digest is a ______ that has one of the highest circulations in the world. (month)
67. Modern ______ methods made possible the production of a large amount of food by relatively few people.(agriculture)
68. Are these egg-plants ______ or did you buy them in the market place?(home, grow)
69. The ______ of their marriage shocked their friends. (break, up)
70. Newspapers have become sizable ______ enterprises.(finance)
Ⅵ.句子翻譯。將下列句子譯成英語(yǔ)，譯文寫(xiě)在答題紙上相應(yīng)的位置。如括號(hào)內(nèi)有特定要求，請(qǐng)按要求答題(本大題共5小題，每小題3分，共15分。)
Translate the following sentences into English.(15 points)
71. 人們通常認(rèn)為過(guò)分嬌寵的孩子比起其他孩子創(chuàng)造力往往要差一些。(被動(dòng)語(yǔ)態(tài))
72. 她在旅游途中對(duì)所見(jiàn)所聞做了大量的筆記。
73. 黎明到來(lái)之前往往是黑暗的時(shí)刻。(happen)
74. 如果我們沒(méi)有乘出租車(chē)來(lái)機(jī)場(chǎng)，肯定會(huì)誤了航班。
75. 不少科學(xué)家已經(jīng)意識(shí)到威脅生存環(huán)境的事實(shí)，多次向全國(guó)人民發(fā)出了警告。(sound)
Ⅶ.作文。根據(jù)所學(xué)的一篇課文，寫(xiě)出150字的短文。(本大題要求寫(xiě)成短文形式，15分)
Write a short composition based on one of the texts you have learned in about 150 words. (15 points)
Topic: List two of the things Carl Sagan mentions in his article “Twelve things I Wish They Taught Me at School” and explain why you think them important.