【正文】 ghter D. relatives 53. A. if B. because C. until D. though 54. A. condition B. pain C. courage D. trouble 55. A. understood B. remembered C. touched D. respected 第三部分： (共兩節(jié)，滿分 40分 ) 第一節(jié) 閱讀理解（共 15 小題；每小題 2 分，滿分 30 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 。 A The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn?t know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being. She said, “Hi, girl! My name is Rose. I?m 87 years old. Can I give you a hug?” I laughed and enthusiastically（熱情地） responded, “Of course you may!” and she gave me a giant squeeze. “Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?” I asked. She jokingly replied, “I?m here to meet a rich husband, get married, have a couple of children, and then retire and travel!” “No seriously,” I said. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age. “I always dreamed of having a college education and now I?m getting one!” she told me. Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up. At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I?ll never fet what she taught us. “We do not stop playing because we are old。 we grow old because we stop playing. There are only two secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor everyday. You?ve got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die!” she said. “There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are nieen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don?t do one productive thing, you will turn 20 years older. If I am 87 years old, and stay in bed for a year, and never do anything, I will turn 88. Anybody can grow older. But every minute counts for young men,” she added. “The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change. Have no regrets. The elderly usually don?t have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets.” She concluded her speech by courageously singing “The Song of Rose”. She challenged each of us to study the lyrics（歌詞） and live them out in our daily lives. At the year?s end, Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. 56. Rose made herself known to the author in a ______ manner. A. serious B. cold C. humorous D. crazy 57. From the information provided in the passage, we know ______. A. Rose finished the college degree within a year B. Rose did realize her dream of meeting a rich husband and getting married through college education C. Rose enjoyed her campus life very much D. Rose grew so old that she stopped playing 58. Rose delivered the speech ______. A. at the graduation B. ended with “The Song of Rose” C. which she prepared carefully D. to challenge all the other speakers 59. According to her speech, ______. A. whenever you have a dream, you succeed B. all people don?t grow up while growing older C. Rose usually regretted having done something D. a nineyearold is as old as a 87yearold if he doesn?t do anything 60. The best title of the passage is _______. A. A speech delivered by an old student B. Rose graduated when she was 87. C. Realizing a dream D. An 87yearold college student B Space is a dangerous place, not only because of meteors(流星 ), but also because of rays from the sun and other stars. The atmosphere again acts as our protective blanket on earth. Light gets through, and this is necessary for plants to make the food which we eat. Heat, too, makes our environment endurable(可忍的 ). Various kinds of rays e through the air from outer space, but enormous(巨大的 ) quantities of radiation from the sun are screened off. As soon as men leave the atmosphere they are exposed to this radiation but their spacesuits or the walls of their spacecraft, if they are inside, do prevent a lot of radiation damage. Radiation is the greatest known danger to explorers in space. The unit of radiation is called “rem”. Scientists have reason to think that a man can put up with far more radiation than rem without being damaged。 the figure of 60 rems has been agreed on. The trouble is that it is extremely difficult to