When it comes to hard, noisy traveling, we’ve found that sometimes we’d rather read about it than actually go. Here are some bestsellers for armchair travelers.

The Station by Robert Byron. In 1928, the 22-year-old man made a journey to Mount Athos, resulting in one of the best travel books ever written, matched only by Byron’s own, much more famous The Road to Osciana.

In Darkest Africa by Henry Monton Stanley. It’s about his great efforts to save an unlucky German doctor Eduard Schnitzer, who had no desire to be rescued at all.

A Traveler’s Alphabet: Partial Memoirs by Sir Steven Runciman. A to Z and around the world. He provides priceless information of long-gone princesses, priests, and places.

South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage by Sir Ernest Shackleton. As the planet started the global war, Shackleton and his brave group of explorers made an unsuccessful but heroic journey to cross Antarctica from 1914 to 1917.

The Michelin Red Guide: France 2005 Reading through this final listing of all the nice hotels and wonderful restaurants in France is better than going there, listening to Chirac talk about the poisonous American culture, and spending the price of this book for a tiny cup of tea and a cookie the size of your thumb.

The Past Is a Foreign Country by David Lowenthal. This great book of an armchair exploration tells us what has happened in the past and shows the relationship between us and the past travelers.

1.This passage is written            .

A. to warn readers against traveling     

B. as an introduction to famous travelers

C to sell more books about travels

D. to tell people where to travel

2.The underlined phrase “armchair travelers” in the first paragraph refers to those who                .

A. like to read about travels instead of travel themselves

B. find fun teaching others how to travel to other places

C. like to write about their strange traveling experiences

D. can only travel with special equipment for the disabled

3. which of the books has a very low price according to the passage?

A. A Traveler’s Alphabet: Partial Memoirs.

B. South: A Memoir to the Endurance Voyage.

C. The Michelin Red Guide: France 2005.

D. The Past Is a Foreign Country.

4.What can we learn from the passage?

A. Henry Monton Stanley, was saved by a German doctor in Africa.

B. In his book, Lowenthal focuses more on history than the present.

C. It took Shackleton and his men 3 years to cross Antarctica.

D. The Station is no more famous than The Road to Osciana.

第三部分：閱讀理解（共20小題；每小題2分，滿分40分）
閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項。
On the evening of June 21, 1992, a tall man with brown hair and blue eyes entered the beautiful hall of the Bell Tower Hotel in Xi’an with his bicycle. The hotel workers received him and telephoned the manager, for they had never seen a bicycle in the hotel ball before though they lived in “the kingdom of bicycles”.
Robert Friedlander, an American, arrived in Xi’an on his bicycle trip across Asia which started last December in New Delhi, India.
When he was 11, he read the book Marco Polo and made up his mind to visit the Silk Road. Now, after 44 years, he was on the Silk Road in Xi’an and his early dream were coming true. Robert Friedlander’s next destinations(目的地) were Lanzhou, Dunhuang, Urumqi, etc. He will complete his trip in Pakistan.
1. The best headline (標題) for this newspaper article would be ___________.
A. The Kingdom of Bicycles            B. A Beautiful Hotel in Xi’an
C. Marco Polo and the Silk Road         D. An American Achieving His Aims 
2. The hotel workers told the manager about Friedlander coming to the hotel because ___________.
A. he asked to see the manager          
B. he entered the hall with a bike
C. the manager had to know about all foreign guests
D. the manager knew about his trip and was expecting him
3. Friedlander is visiting the three countries in the following order, _________.
A. China, India, and Pakistan            B. India, China, and Pakistan
C. Pakistan, China, and India            D. China, Pakistan and India
4. What made Friedlander want to come to China?
A. The stories about Marco Polo.         B. The famous sights in Xi’an.
C. His interest in Chinese silk.           D. His childhood dreams about bicycles.

第二節(jié) 完形填空（共15小題；每小題1分，滿分15分）
閱讀下面短文，從短文后面所給各題的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項。
23-year-old Ann is a traditional working class woman who is happily married to her husband Don and who has given birth to two lovely daughters Patsy and Penny. Ann   26   her work with her colleague Laurie because they can   27   to each other while cleaning the buildings their work requires them to. One   28  thing about Ann is that she listens to recordings of foreign languages—Spanish, French and even Chinese—   29   driving and even working. In Laurie’s eye, Ann is not normal, but Ann   30   that nobody is normal; everyone is different in   31   ways. Laurie’s specific problem is not an unusual one: the   32   between a strong appetite for food and an equally strong   33   to keep in shape by dieting. She envies Ann who   34  slim while seeming to eat as much as she likes.
In fact, Ann’s character is   35  . One morning,   36   after Don had taken the kids to school Ann   37  just as she was about to go to work. She was   38  by her divorced mother, who stays alongside her. She rushed her to   39  .
The doctor discovered that there are tumors(腫瘤) in both her ovaries(卵巢) .   40  can be done about the cancer. Ann   41 from the doctor that she has only two or three months to   42  .
Shaken   43  Ann was by this news, she decided not to tell her mom and husband, and to go on living as if nothing has happened.   44  in a cafe, Ann began to write down all the things she   45   to do before her death:
“1. Tell my daughters several times a day that I love them;
2. Find Don a new wife who the girls like;
3. Record Birthday Messages for the girls for every year until they are 18;
4. Go to Whalebay Beach together and have a big picnic;
5. Smoke and drink as much as I want;
6. Say just what I’m thinking;
7. Go and see Dad in jail.
…”
26. A. shares      B. spares           C. enjoys        D. completes
27. A. talk       B. work            C . affect        D. help
28. A. ordinary     B. strange         C. special        D. perfect
29. A. although     B. until           C. unless         D. while
30. A. insists       B. disagrees        C. imagines      D. hopes   
31. A. his          B. some          C. any           D. no
32. A. relation      B. struggle         C. difference     D. fight
33. A. desire       B. difficulty        C. design        D. delight
34. A. shocks      B. remains          C. realizes       D. becomes
35. A. abstract      B. attractive        C. abnormal      D. absolute
36. A. only         B. even           C. ever          D. just
37. A. blacked out   B. turned out       C. make out      D. came out
38. A. brought      B. discovered      C. taken          D. ordered
39. A. garage       B. college         C. school         D. hospital
40. A. Everything    B. Something      C. Anything      D. Nothing
41. A. informed     B. learned         C. took           D. told
42. A. leave        B. live           C. stay           D. die
43. A. since        B. because         C. as            D. for
44. A. Arriving     B. Getting          C. Finding       D. Sitting
45. A. instructs     B. supposes        C. intends        D. Imagines

How many times have you got upset because someone wasn't doing his job，because your child isn't behaving？How many times have you been irritated (惱怒的) when you've planned something carefully and things didn't go as you'd hoped?

This kind of anger and irritation happens to all of us—it’s part of the human experiences.

One thing that irritates me is when people talk during a movie，or cut me off in traffic. Actually, I have a lot of these little annoyances—don't we all？And it isn’t always easy to find peace when you’ve become upset or irritated.

Let me tell you a little secret to finding peace of mind: see the glass as already broken .

See, the cause of our stress, anger and irritation is that things don't go the way we like, the way we expect them to. Think of how many times this has been true for you. And so the solution is simple：expect things to go wrong, expect things to be different than we hoped or planned，expect the unexpected to happen. And accept it.

One quick example: on our recent trip to Japan, I told my kids to expect things to go wrong—they always do on a trip. I told them, “See it as part of the adventure.”

And this worked like a charm. When we inevitably(不可避免地) took the wrong train on a foreign­language subway system, or when it rained on the day we went to Disney Sea, or when we took three trains and walked 10 blocks only to find the National Children's Castle closed on Mondays...they said, “It's part of the adventure！” And it was all OK—we didn't get too bothered.

So when the nice glass you bought inevitably falls and breaks some day, you might get upset. But things will be different, if you see the glass as already broken, from the day you get it. You know it'll break some day, so from the beginning, see it as already broken. Be a time­traveler, or someone with time­traveling vision, and see the future of this glass, from this moment until it inevitably breaks. And when it breaks, you won't be upset or sad—because it was already broken, from the day you got it. And you’ll realize that every moment you have with it is precious.

1.The author’s children could enjoy their trip to Japan because________.

A. everything went smoothly

B. they had a lot of adventures

C. they had expected things to go wrong

D. they could soon get used to the customs there

2.The author would probably agree that________.

A. we should control our anger and irritation

B. we must get well prepared for the future

C. optimism can help us overcome our anger and irritation

D. anger and irritation is a natural part of our life

3.The purpose of the author is to________.

A. tell us his own experience in life

B. advise us how to find peace of mind

C. tell us a happy trip he took with his children

D. ask us to see things from both sides

4.By the underlined part (in Para.3), the author tells us to________.

A. get ready for the worst result of things

B. enjoy the process of things

C. expect little from life

D. find the relationship between cause and effect

5.We can learn from the passage that the author________.

A. often gets angry in his life

B. can adjust his state of mind accordingly

C. always expects others to act in his way

D. always suffers from his anger and irritation

第二節(jié)信息匹配（共5小題；每小題2分，滿分10分）

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