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• 31Section B (18 marks)    Directions: For each blank in the passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.    This is a story of the lake and the three big fish that were in it, one of them intelligent, another half-intelligent, and the third, stupid.    Some fishermen came to the edge of the lake with their  32  . The three fish saw them.    The intelligent fish decided at once to leave, to make the long,  33  trip to the ocean. He thought, “I won’t  34  those two on this. They will only weaken my resolve (决心), because they love this place so much. They call it home. Their ignorance will  35  them here.”    Then he left. The half-intelligent fish thought, “My guide has gone. I should have gone with him, but I didn’t, and now I’ve  36  my chance to escape. I wish I’d gone with him.”He mourned the  37  of his guide for a while, and then thought, “What can I do to38  myself from these men and their nets、 Perhaps if I pretend to be already  39  ! I’ll belly up on the surface and float like weeds float, just giving myself totally to the water. To die before I die.”    So he did that. He moved up and down, helpless, within arm’s  40  of the fishermen.“Look at this! The best and biggest fish is dead.” One of the men lifted him by the tail and threw him up on the ground. He  41  over and over and slid secretly near the water, and then, back in.     42  , the third fish, the dumb one, was smartly jumping about, trying to escape with his smartness.     The net, of course, finally closed around him, and as he lay in the terrible frying-pan bed, he thought, “If I get out of this, I’ll never live again in the limits of the lake. Next time, the    43  ! I’ll make the infinite (无限的) my home.”

  A.nets

  B.fishing poles

  C.fishing boats

  D.fish

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• 32Every year in January, you can        .

  A.enjoy Japan’s national holiday, Keiro No Hi

  B.attend the international Kite festival in India

  C.have the 850-mile drive in South Africa

  D.have a lot of rain in Malta

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• 33Which is the best place for people to spend their elderly life、

  A.Spain.

  B.India.

  C.Japan.

  D.Malta.

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• 34What does the underlined phrase “make house calls” mean、

  A.Come to one’s house to help him.

  B.Help somebody keep the house.

  C.Make the phone call for sombody.

  D.Receive the phone call for somebody.

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• 35When you have a road trip in South-Africa, you can      .

  A.see some ancient Bushman paintings

  B.meet the winds known as xlokk

  C.get seven months’ leave

  D.eat the delicious paella

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• 36What can be the best title for the passage、

  A.The World’s Best Place to Fly a Kite

  B.The World’s Best Place for a Road Trip

  C.The World’s Best Places to Dine and Be Old

  D.The World’s Best places for Particular Pleasures

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• 37What is the “standard of living”、

  A.Wealth and money.

  B.A country capacity to produce wealth.

  C.Good food, clothing, transport and entertainment.

  D.The average share of the goods and services for peopl

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• 38A country’s wealth depends upon ______.

  A.its money

  B.its standard of living

  C.its ability to provide goods and services

  D.its ability to provide transport and entertainment

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• 39The main idea of the second paragraph is that______.

  A.the Sahara Desert is a very poor region

  B.a country’s wealth depends on many factors

  C.the USA is one of the wealthiest countries in the world

  D.natural resources are an important factor in the wealth or poverty of a country

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• 40What does the underlined word “her” in Paragraph 3 refer to、

  A.The Sahara Desert.

  B.An old country.

  C.China.

  D.The USA.

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