【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 由第三段可知兩個候選人分別是女性和黑人，這在美國歷史上是第一次，因此引起了人們的關(guān)注。由此可知C項符合題意。42．B。由第五段最后一句話“However, many people believe that 2008 will be the year that this changes.”可知。43．A。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第四段可知，有很少的女性可以取得領(lǐng)導(dǎo)地位；根據(jù)倒數(shù)第三段可知，自從美國內(nèi)戰(zhàn)以來，只有少數(shù)的幾個黑人取得了領(lǐng)導(dǎo)地位。因此，A項正確。44．A。由第二段最后一句話可得出答案。B(2009南通調(diào)研測試)It was graduation day at Etihad Training Academy, where the national airline of the United Arab Emirates held a seven－week training course for new flight attendants.Despite her obvious pride, Ms. Fathi, a 22－year－old from Egypt, was amazed to find herself here. “I never in my life thought I’d work abroad，” said Ms. Fathi, who was a university student in Cairo when she began noticing newspaper advertisements employing young Egyptians to work at airline based in the Persian Gulf.A decade ago, unmarried Arab women like Ms. Fathi, working outside their home countries, were rare. But just as young men from poor Arab nations poured into the oil－rich Persian Gulf states for jobs, more young women are doing so.Flight attendants have bee the public face of the new mobility for some young Arab women, just as they were the face of new freedoms for women in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. They have bee a subject of social anxiety and fascination in much the same way.For many families, allowing a daughter to work may call her virtue into question. Yet this culture is changing, said Musa Shteiwi, a sociologist at Jordan University in Amman. “We’re noticing more and more single women going to the gulf these days，” he said. “It’s still not exactly mon, but over the last four or five years it’s bee quite an observable phenomenon.”Many of the young Arab women working in the Persian Gulf take delight in their status as pioneers, role models for their friends and younger female relatives. Young women brought up in a culture that highly values munity, have learned to see themselves as individuals. The experience of living independently and working hard for high salaries has forever changed their beliefs about themselves, though it can also lead to a painful sense of separation from their home countries and their families.—From New York Times(December 22, 2008)45．It can be inferred from the passage that young Arab women ______.A. go to work abroad after American women’s exampleB. didn’t start to work abroad until the late 20th centuryC. are monly used to living and working separatelyD. expect to take the same family responsibilities as men46．According to the passage, the Arab women flight attendants can be described as ______.A. proud, homesick or independentB. honest, outstanding or optimisticC. mature, enthusiastic or energeticD. painful, desperate or conservative47．How do the public respond to young Arab women’s new mobility?A. The public think highly of it.B. The public care very little about it.C. The public show both interest and anxiety.D. The public are strongly against it.48．The author intends to tell the readers that ______.A. Arab women can hardly find any workB. flight attendants are badly needed in the gulfC. flight attendants lead quite a different lifeD. young Arab women’s values are changing[答案]隨著社會的發(fā)展，人們的觀念也在改變。10年前，外出務(wù)工的阿拉伯婦女很是罕見。如今，她們和男子一樣走進了時代的大潮。45．B。推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章第三段“A decade ago...”與文章結(jié)尾的時間：“December 22, 2008”可知阿拉伯婦女在二十世紀末才開始外出務(wù)工。46．A。細節(jié)歸納題。根據(jù)文章第二段和最后一段可以得出答案。47．C。細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第四段最后一句“They have bee a subject of social anxiety and fascination in much the same way.”可知答案為C。48．D。寫作意圖題?？v觀全文可知本文是想告訴讀者阿拉伯婦女的價值觀在發(fā)生著變化。C(2009重慶)How to Be a WinnerSir Steven RedgraveWinner of 5 Olympic Gold Medals“In 1997 I was found to have developed diabetes(糖尿病). Believing my career(職業(yè)生涯) was over, I felt extremely low. Then one of the specialists said there was no reason why I should stop training and peting. That was it—the encouragement I needed. I could still be a winner if I believed in myself. I am not saying that it isn’t difficult sometimes. But I wanted to prove to myself that I wasn’t finished yet. Nothing is to stand in my way.”Karen PickeringSwimming World Champion“I swim 4 hours a day, 6 days a week. I manage that sort of workload by putting it on top of my diary. This is the key to success—you can’t follow a career in any field without being well－organized. List what you believe you can achieve. Trust yourself, write down your goals for the day, however small they are, and you’ll be a step closer to achieving them.”Kirsten BestPoet amp。 Writer“When things are getting hard, a voice inside my head tells me that I can’t achieve something. Then, there are other distractions,_such as family or hobbies. The key is to concentrate. When I feel tense, it helps a lot to repeat words such as ‘calm’， ‘peace’ or ‘focus’， either out loud or silently in my mind. It makes me feel more in control and increases my confidence. This is a habit that can bee second nature quite easily and is a powerful psychological(心理的) tool.”49．What does Sir Steven Redgrave mainly talk about?A. Difficulties influenced his career.B. Specialists offered him medical advice.C. Training helped him defeat his disease.D. He overcame the shadow of illness to win.50．What does Karen Pickering put on top of h