【正文】 o give it a shot. I didn’t think I’d regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all. After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion, and I’m proud of that choice. For all of us, in the end, we are our choice． 21． What inspired the author with the idea of building an online bookstore? A． His dream of being an inventor． B． The support of his wife． C． The greatly increasing usage of the Inter． D． Millions of exciting titles 22． Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined sentence? A． The idea of not trying would keep ing to his mind and disturb him． B． He would be very excited if he tried it out． C． He would be always having a doubt if he didn’t try． D． The decision to not try the online bookstore would terrify him． 23． Which of the following would be the best title for the passage? A． Cleverness and Kindness B． The Starting of Amazon C． Following My Passion D． We Are What We Choose 【答案】 【解析】 。聽每段對(duì)話或獨(dú)白前，你將有時(shí)間閱讀各個(gè)小題，每小題 5 秒鐘；聽完后，各小題將給出 5 秒鐘的作答時(shí)間。 4. 所有題目必須在答題卡上作答，在試卷上答題無效。 注意事項(xiàng)： 1. 答題前，務(wù)必將自己的姓名、考籍號(hào)填寫在答題卡規(guī)定的位置上。每段對(duì)話僅讀一遍。 10. What did the woman think of the house owner? A. Kind. B. Cold. C. Serious. 11. Why did the woman leave the flat? A. The rent was high. B. The room was too cold. C. The neighbors were noisy. 12. How did the woman’s neighbor act when they met one morning? A. Angrily. B. Sadly. C. Dishonestly. 聽第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 題。 【名師點(diǎn)睛】 如何歸納文章中心？歸納文章中心的關(guān)鍵是要抓關(guān)鍵詞。 考點(diǎn)：考查故事類閱讀 B Like many new graduates, I left university full of hope for the future but with no real idea of what I wanted to do. My degree, with honors, in English literature had not really prepared me for anything practical. I knew I wanted to make a difference in the world somehow, but I had no idea how to do that. That’s when I learned about the Lighthouse Project. I started my journey as a Lighthouse Project volunteer by reading as much as I could about the experiences of previous volunteers. I knew it would be a lot of hard work, and that I would be away from my family and friends for a very long time. In short, I did not take my decision to apply for the Lighthouse Project lightly. Neither did my family. Eventually, however, I won the support of my family, and I sent in all the paperwork needed for the application. After countless interviews and presentations, I managed to stand out among the candidates and survive the test alone. Several months later, I finally received a call asking me to report for the duty. I would be going to a small village near Abuja, Nigeria. Where? What? Nigeria? I had no idea. But I was about to find out. After pleting my training, I was sent to the village that was small and desperately in need of proper acmodation. Though the local villagers were poor, they offered their homes, hearts, and food as if I were their own family. I was asked to lead a small team of local people in building a new schoolhouse. For the next year or so, I taught in that same schoolhouse. But I sometimes think I learned more from my students than they did from me. Sometime during that period, I realized that all those things that had seemed so strange or unusual to me no longer did, though I did not get anywhere with the local language, and returned to the United States a different man. The Lighthouse Project had changed my life forever. 24. What do we know about the author? A. His university education focused on the theoretical knowledge. B. His dream at university was to bee a volunteer. C. He took pride in having contributed to the world. D. He felt honored to study English literature. 25. According to Paragraph 2, it is most likely that the author __________. A. discussed his decision with his family B. asked previous volunteers about voluntary work C. attended special training to perform difficult tasks D. felt frightened about having to leave his family and friends 26. In his application for the volunteer job, the author ___________. A. participated in many discussions B. went through challenging survival tests C. wrote quite a few papers on voluntary work D. faced strong petition from other candidates 27. What can we infer from the author’s experiences in Nigeria? A. He found some difficulty adapting to the local culture. B. He had learned to municate in the local language. C. He had overe all his weaknesses before he left for home. D. He was chosen as the most respectable teacher by his students. 【答案】 【解析】 試題分析： 本文是一篇記敘文。故選 A。做此類型的題目還要特別注意句子的邏輯關(guān)系。 。 考點(diǎn)：考查日常生活類閱讀 D What is the first thing you notice when you walk into a shop? The products displayed at the entrance? Or the soft background music? But have you ever noticed the smell? Unless it is bad， the answer is likely to be no． But while a shop’s scent may not be outstanding pared with sights and sounds， it is certainly there. And it is providing to be an increasing powerful tool in encouraging people to purchase． A brand store has bee famous for its distinctive scent which floats through the fairly dark hall and out to the entrance via scent machines． A smell may be attractive but it may not just be used for freshening sports goods pany once reported that when it first introduced scent into its stores, customers’ intention to purchase increased by 80 percent． When it es to the best shopping streets in Pairs, scent is just as important to a brand’s success as the quality of its window displays and goods on is mainly because shopping is a very different experience to what it used to be． Some years ago,the focus for brand name shopping was on a few people with sales assistants’ disproving