【正文】 do, his aunt told him that she was going to send for her lawyer. So she was going to make a new will. Hilary thought she might leave all her money to someone else. Soon he reached a clear decision． He must do a great kindness to the poor old woman. One night when the old servant who had been nursing his aunt went off, he doubled the amount of some medicine. The total amount was too great and it could just put her to sleep forever. “Thank you,” his aunt took the glass from his hand with a grateful look. “I want, more than anything, to sleep, and never to wake up again. Is that what you wish, Hilary? I have given you your chance. Don?t blame me if I have some doubts about what you intended to do. Sick people get these ideas, you know. One thing I ought to explain to you. Mr. Parks never married me. He already had a wife and couldn?t marry again. That made your foolish father very angry with me… Well, if I am 7 alive tomorrow I shall make another will in your favor. If I die tonight, you?ll get nothing… No, Hilary, don?t try to take the glass away. If you do that, I shall know。 b。 a。 b。 a。re less likely to listen to them and take their suggestionswe even rebel against them. Why? It may be the socalled “generation gap”. A generation gap appears when we begin to feel 4 our parents are ignoring us, don?t understand us, and we feel we can no longer share our feelings with them. The key reason is our desire for independence. In senior high school, we start to want to take responsibility for our own lives and make our own decisions. But parents resist this. They still want to control us and try to force us to do things they think we should do. Debate and discussion often e to nothing. Gradually, we talk with them less, and keep our feelings locked up inside. Zhang Xiaoyun, 16, of Ningbo, Zhejiang, has talked less and less with her mother since she started senior high school. “She believes studies should be my priority, not my inner world,” Zhang said. “Each day, she asks me the same old questions like, ?How was your last exam?? or ?Have you made any progress in physics??” To Zhang, these questions are annoying and so she always tries to ignore them and answers perfunctorily. “Sometimes, when I get upset, I quarrel with her. After, she es to apologize and fort me. But I know, she doesn?t pletely understand me,” Zhang said. Now, a home that was once full of laughter has fallen into gloom and silence. The generation gap can be harmful. Because of the lack of munication, our parents no longer know what we are thinking about. There are quarrels, even over trivial things. When that happens, we may not be able to concentrate on our studies. Some of us even bee afraid to go home after schoola very serious situation for the whole family. 46. Which of the following is not included in the passage? A. The causes of generation gap. B. The effects of generation gap. C. One example of generation gap. D. Ways of narrowing generation gap. 47. Which of the following is one reason for the generation gap according to the passage? A. Modern society changing very fast. B. Parents having unrealistic hopes of their children. C. Parents and kids not understanding and respecting each other. D. Young people liking to escape from the control of their parents. 48. Which of the following words has the closest meaning to the underlined word “perfunctorily”? A. attentively B. indifferently(冷淡地 ) C. flatteringly(奉承地 ) D. seriously 49. In the view of the author, ________. A. parents should allow their children more freedom B. parents and children should not stay together C. the younger generation should value the older generation D. academic records are more important than one?s inner world C Bobby Moresco grew up in New York?s Hell?s Kitchen, a tough workingclass neighborhood on Manhattan?s West Side. But Hell?s Kitchen lies right next door to Broadway, and the bright lights attracted Bobby from the time he was a teen. Being stagestruck was hardly what a street kid could admit to his partners. Fearing their ridicule, he told no one, not even his girlfriend, when he started taking acting lessons at age 17. If you were a kid from the neighborhood, you became a cop, construction worker, longshoreman or criminal. Not an actor. Moresco struggled to make that long walk a few blocks east. He studied acting, turned out for all the cattle calls, and during the decade of the 1970s made a total of $2,000. “I wasn?t a good actor, but I had a driving need to do something different with my life,” he says. He moved to Hollywood, where he drove a cab and worked as a bartender(酒保 ). “My father 5 said, ?Stop this craziness and get a job。 what C. whose。 that C. laid。 不填 C. an。 the B. a。 what B. lay。 what B. whose。 my neighbor had written viola(中提琴 ). He had to be 36 almost anyone would know more about music than I did. I changed my 37 . A few days later, looking at the answers to the exam and the final grades posted on the professor?s office 38 , I understood the meaning of poetic justice. The instrument had been a violin. That one answer had 39 my exam grade to a C, which 40 a C for the course. 21. A. it B. what C. where D. that 22. A. Science B. Literature C. Poetry D. Music 23. A. grade B. interest C. career D. choice 24. A. always B. never C. almost D. sometimes 25. A. exposure B. education C. explanation D. relation 26. A. interesting B. easy C. hard D. fantastic 27. A. after B. until C. while D. since 28. A. produce B. perform C. make D. play 29. A. poser B. instrument C. title D. singer 30. A. crowded B. separated C. thrown D. invited 31. A. wood B. floor C. ice D. boat