【正文】 hat the author _______. A. is in great despair B. is trying to find a wife C. feels dissatisfied with her life D. feels her sacrifice paid for 45. What is the general tone of the essay? A. Sad B. Cheerful. C. Ironical. D. Arrogant. Passage Four One day as Walt Disney was sitting on a bench at an amusement park, watching his daughters play, he noticed how old and dirty the small amusement park was. He also noticed how children’s parents had nothing to do while their children were playing. “ Why can’t there be a place where the parents and the kids can spend the day together? ” He had an idea of building“ a magical park” where children and parents could have fun together. In 1953, he had the Stanford Research Institute search for a vast place, outside of Los Angeles. He needed space to build rivers, waterfalls, mountains, a fairytale castle and a railway。 didn’t get B. drove。 can’t B. mustn’t。 what B. What。 that C. That。 may C. shouldn’t。 wouldn’t get C. were driving。 all inside a magic kingdom he called “ Disneyland” . The search for the best place finally ended in Anaheim, Southern California. Construction for Disneyland began on July 21, 1954, only 12 months before the park was planned to open. Walt paid attention to every detail of the Park’s construction, and he visited Anaheim several times a week. Gradually, Disneyland got ready for Opening Day. The staff worked around the clock to get ready. 7 Opening day was a day to remember. Six thousand invitations to the opening had been mailed. By midafternoon over 28,000 ticket holders were gathering at the Magic Kingdom. Most of the tickets were not real. Opening Day was a terrible disaster. A 15day heat wave raised temperatures up to 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Also, due to a workers’ strike, few water fountains were operating in the hot weather. Asphalt（瀝青） was still steaming, because it had been laid the night before. In spite of the terrible opening day conditions, the park did finally succeed. By 1965, ten years after opening day, 50 Million visitors had e through the gates. 46. The idea of building“ a magical park” came to Walt Disney’s mind _______. A. when he was traveling with his daughters around America. B. when he was with his daughters at a small amusement park. C. when he was working with his colleagues in the office. D. when he was visiting Anaheim with his colleagues. 47. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the text? A. Walt Disney himself searched for a suitable place for the amusement park. B. Walt Disney thought a park should be built for both the parents and the children. C. Walt Disney visited the park during its construction several times a week. D. Walt Disney asked the Stanford Research Institute to search a place for the park. 48. How long did it take to build Disneyland? A. 6 months B. 12 months C. 18 months D. 24 months 49. By 1965, about _______ people had visited Disneyland. A. 6,000 B. 28,000 C. 5,000,000 D. 50,000,000 50. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the text? A. The workers worked 12 hours a day to get Disneyland ready to open. B. The workers went on strike on the opening day. C. Among the 28,000 tickets, 6,000 of them were not real. D. Everything went well on the opening day. Passage Five Every country tends to accept its own way of life as being the normal one and to praise or criticize others as they are similar to or different from it. And unfortunately, our picture of the people and the way of life of other countries is often a distorted one. Here is a great argument in favor of foreign travel and learning foreign languages. It is only by traveling in or living in a country and getting to know its inhabitants and their language that one can find out what a country and its people are really like. And how different the knowledge one gains this way frequently turns out to be from the second－ hand information gathered from other sources! How often we find that the foreigners whom we though to be such different people from ourselves are not very different after all! Differences between peoples do, of course, exist and, one hopes, will always continue to do so. The world will be a dull place indeed when all the different nationalities behave exactly alike, and some people might say that we are rapidly a