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e often ask me how, as a man, I became so devoted to improving the quality of women’s lives. It wasn’t until age forty that I realized what had started me down my career path. One morning more than thirtyseven years ago, I was awakened by the passing school bus. I was thirteen years old, living at home with my two younger brothers and our mother, Doris Joy Heavin. She had just passed her fortieth birthday. She was a mother of five children and had suffered emotional and physical problems most of her life. Her doctor had tried various treatments on her with little benefit. As I awoke to the sound of the passing school bus, my brother Paul came in and told me that I’d better e quickly because mother was sick. As I knelt beside her bed, I could feel the absence of warmth. I put my arms around her, first to feel for a sign of life, and then as a final hug. I took my younger brothers, aged eight and nine, in my arms and gently told them that our mother was in heaven. Her death was unnecessary. The high blood pressure causing the blood clot(血栓 ) that took her life was unnecessary. Rather than medicate the symptoms, she could have dealt with the cause of her high blood pressure: we now know that exercise and proper nutrition will almost always reduce the causes of high blood pressure and most other chronic(慢性的 ) diseases. Many years later, while teaching a fitness and weight loss class to a group of about eighty women, I realized I was subconsciously(下意識地 ) searching the crowd for the face of my mother. 17. The underlined part “medicate the symptoms” in Paragraph 4 probably means _______ . A. provide proper nutrition B. take exercise regularly C. give up the treatment D. treat the disease using medicine 18. What made the author devoted to improving the quality of women’s lives. A. His mother’s illness and death. B. The early loss of both his parents. C. His support to the rights of women. D. His knowledge of high blood pressure. 19. From the passage we learn that ________ . A. the author was the oldest child in his family B. the author’s father died long before his mother C. high blood pressure is a kind of chronic disease D. many women were found with blood clot at the time 20. Why did the author think his mother’s death was unnecessary? A. Because her blood clot wasn’t a deadly disease at the time. B. Because his mother wouldn’t have died if she had a job. C. Because her high blood pressure could have been prevented. D. Because his mother was not treated in the local hospital. 附答案: 一、單選題(單選( 20 分)) 標(biāo)準(zhǔn)答案: 15 DDCCA 610 BBACA 1115 DCADA 1620 BBCAC 二、填空題 標(biāo)準(zhǔn)答案: 15 BCCAB 610 CDDAB 1115 DBACA 1620 BBCAC 三、 標(biāo)準(zhǔn)答案: C,G,A,E,D 四、 標(biāo)準(zhǔn)答案: 1. volunteervolunteers 3. 正確 4. latelater 5. helpto help 6. leadinglead until 前加 not 8. lastlasted 9. tiredtiring that 或在 it 后加 was 五、 作文(書面表達(dá)( 30 分)) 標(biāo)準(zhǔn)答案: Writing: One possible version: Dear Mr. Smith, I am very excited to learn that we are going to start a magazine together. It is indeed a wonderful idea and everyone hopes for its success. I would like the magazine to have three columns: News, Teachers’ Advice and Students’ Voice. From the news column we can learn about what is going on in both of our schools. In Teachers’ Advice, our teachers can give us such help as we may not be able to get in the classroom. Students’ Voice will allow us to freely express our thoughts and feelings about our lives and studies. I believe that this magazine will surely strengthen our ties, and I am looking forward to reading it. Sincerely, Fang Hua 六、 閱讀理解(閱讀理解( 40 分)) 標(biāo)準(zhǔn)答案: 15 CDDBA 610 CAD AA 1115 DB BAC 1620 A DACC