【正文】 she pressed. ―Probably someone older,‖ I said, ―and could use some money.‖ Her eyes lit up. ―Can we order a wakeup?‖ she asked. ―We don’t need it.‖ I picked it up and headed for the recycling bin. ―Wait!‖ she shrieked. ―I feel sorry for the wakeup man, if he needs some money,‖ she said, tearing up. ―Can’t we order?‖ I looked at the flyer with its drawing of a rotary phone. I remembered, again, my greataunt Sara and her rotary phone. As a kid, I’d visited her over Labor Day, when Jerry Lewis would host his charity event for the disabled kids. Aunt Sara would squeeze my hand, then reach for the rotary phone, dialing the number on the screen. Holding the receiver between us, we’d announce to the operator, ―We’d like to help those kids.‖ Now here was my own child, showing the same big heart I’d once been encouraged to have, and how could I ignore her? I googled the flyer’s return address. The address belonged to a man called Raymond. He was in his mid60s. We called him and, holding the receiver between us, the way Aunt Sara and I used to, told him we needed his services. ―Great!‖ Raymond said in a shaky but friendly voice, clearly amazed at receiving an order from a child. When I asked how to pay the $, he answered, ―Mail a check.‖ Genie was happy all week. Friday night, I put the phone by her pillow so she could answer Raymond’s call. She bounded to my bedroom to tell me all about how he’d wished her a good morning and told her to have a great day, which she did. Technology has made some things outdated. But there are still other things the world will always require. In the rush and hustle of my daily life, I’d temporarily fotten that. I guess I just needed a wakeup call. 28. The author laughed at the mail because ________. A. it was printed roughly B. the drawing in it was poor C. the wakeup call cost too much D. the service it offered was outdated 29. What did the author want to do with the flyer at first? A. Throw it away. B. Let Genie read it. C. Find out who sent it. D. Keep it away from Genie. 30. What made the author finally decide to order a wakeup call? A. Her own childhood experience. B. The less fortunate wakeup man. C. Genie’s curiosity about the service. D. The information she found on Google. 31. What might ―other things‖ in the last paragraph refer to? A. Bravery and curiosity. B. Confidence and patience. C. Honesty and humor. D. Generosity and kindness. D As researchers conclude in Science, the love of music is not only a universal feature of the human species, but is also deeply fixed in plex structures of the human brain, and is far more ancient than previously suspected. In the articles that discuss the field of biomusicology, the study of the biological basis for the creation and appreciation of music, researchers present various evidence to show that musicmaking is at once an original human business, and an art form with skillful performers throughout the animal kingdom. The new reports stress that humans hold no copyright on sound wisdom, and that a number of nonhuman animals produce what can rightly be called music, rather than random sound. Recent indepth analyses of the songs sung by humpback whales show that, even when their an would allow them to do otherwise, the animals converge on the same choices relating to sounds and beauty, and accept the same laws of song position as those preferred by human musicians, and human ears, everywhere. For example, male humpback whales, who spend six months of each year doing little else but singing, use rhythms (節(jié)奏 ) similar to those found in human music and musical phrases of similar length — a few seconds. Whales are able to make sounds over a range of at least seven octaves (八度音階 ), yet they tend to move on through a song in beautiful musical intervals, rather than moving forwards madly. They mix the sounds like drums and pure tones in a ratio (比例 ) which agrees with that heard in much western music. They also use a favorite technique of human singers, the socalled ABA form, in which a theme is stated, then developed, and then returned to in slightly revised form. Perhaps most impressive, humpback songs contain tunes that rhyme. This suggests that whales use rhyme in the same way we do: as a technique in poem to help them remember plex material, the researchers write. 32. The underlined words converge on in Paragraph 3 probably means__________. A. tend towards B. refer to C. turn into D. put forward 33. Which of the following shows the advanced musical ability in humpback whales? A. They can remember plex material. B. They can create pleasing patterns of music. C. They can make sounds like drums continuously. D. They can sing along with rhythms of western music. 34. What is the main idea of the article? A. Animals are able to pose and enjoy music like humans. B. Human beings borrow ideas in music from humpback whales. C. Humpback whales are skillful performers in the animal kingdom. D. Musicmaking is an ancient activity of both humans and animals. 35. The main purpose of the passage is to __________. A. argue and discuss B. inform and explain C. pare and advertise D. examine and assess 第三節(jié) 完形填空 （每小題 分，共 30 分） ―Today is the day I start the big diet,‖ I told my wife as I raised my ha