A Small Event One afternoon in January 1989, Suzan Sharp, 43, and her 8-year-old son, David ,were walking hard across an icy parking lot, when Suzan’’s cane (手杖)slid on the ice . She 【51】 face fist into the mud . David 【52】 to her side . "Are you all right, Mom" 【53】 , Suzan put herself up. "I’’m okay, honey." she said. It had been nearly two years since Suzan had trouble walking. She was falling more 【54】 now. Every inch of ice was a 【55】 danger for her. " I could do something," the boy thought. David, too, was having 【56】 of his own. The boy had a speech defect. At school he 【57】 asked questions or read aloud. One day Davids teacher announced a 【58】 assignment. "Each of you is going to come up with an invention, "she said. This was for "INVENT AMERICA!", a national competition to encourage creativity in 【59】 . An idea hit David one evening. 【60】 only his mothers cane didn’t slip on ice ,he thought. "That’’s it!" David realized. "What if I fixed your cane to a nail stretched out of the bottom" he asked his mother. His mother told him," 【61】 it would scratch floors. " "It looks like a ball-point pen. You take your hand 【62】 the button and the nail returns back up." Hours later the cane was finished. David and his father, Jeff, 【63】 as Suzan used it to walk 50 feet across the 【64】 . "It works!" she said . In July 1989, David was declared national winner at the annual" INVENT AMERICA!" ceremony in Washington D.C.. As David began to make 【65】 appearances, he was forced to communicate more clearly. Today, David is nearly free of his cane which is waiting to be widely used. So the boy who once had trouble talking now hopes to start making canes for people who have trouble walking.
A. children
B. people
C. strange
D. common
Task 1Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements, numbered 36 through 40. For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A), B), C) or D). You should make the correct choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. China lies mainly in the northern temperate zone under the influence of monsoon(季风). From September and October to March and April next year monsoon blow from Siberia and the Mongolia Plateau into China and decrease in force as it goes southward, causing dry and cold winter in the country and a temperature difference of 40℃ between the north and south. The temperature in China is 5℃ to 18℃ lower than that in other countries on the same latitude in winter. Monsoon blows into China from the ocean in summer, bringing warm and wet currents, thus rain. Great differences in climate are found from region to region owing to China’s extensive territory and complex topography(地形). The northern part of Heilongjiang Province in northeast China has no summer, Hainan Island has a long summer but no winter; the Huaihe River valley features four clear seasons; the western part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is covered by snow all year round; the southern part of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau is spring-like all the year; and the northwestern inland region sees a great drop of temperature in the day. Which of the following statements about monsoon is true
A. Monsoon makes the temperature 5℃ to 18℃ lower.
B. Monsoon blowing from May to August brings rain.
C. Monsoon goes from Siberia and the Mongolia Plateau.
D. Monsoon causes dry and cold summer in the country.
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
A. One of his cousins is getting married.
B. The final exams are coming.
C. He hasn’t decided what to buy for his cousin.
D. He has little time to tour California.