【正文】 ’ plans for invention 60. What is the main idea of this paragraph? D. Oppositions to Stephenson the inventor. （二） As a young girl, Elizabeth Barrett (Browning英國(guó)作家勃朗寧 ) ruptured a blood vessel on the lungs which did not heal. The physician consigned her to a milder climate for the winter and she went Devonshire for restoration. Among the members of her family who acpanied her to those healing shores was her eldest a whole year they lived side by side in affectionate panionship, she all the while being greatly benefited by mild sea breezes of Torquay. One summer morning her brother went board a small sailboat with two friends for a trip of several hours around the coast. Just as the vessel came in sight of the window where Miss Barrett sat watching, the boat struck a sunken reef。 and all who were in it went down and perished in the sea, before assistant could be rendered. None of the bodies were ever found although the whole village, full of sympathy, assembled in search. This was the tragedy which utterly prostrated for some years afterwards the health and soul of Elizabeth Barrett. Somehow she felt that she herself had in some measure been the cause of all this horror, and she suffered accordingly. Her whole being seemed shattered, and a year longer elapsed before, she was able to be more to London. This fatal event, which so saddened her youth gave also a still deeper devotional feeling to hue of sorrow so apparent in many of her earlier pieces. sort of climate did Elizabeth’s doctor prescribe? A. Temperate. many people were drowned when the boat sank? C. Three 63. How did the tragedy affect Elizabeth? D. It affected her both physically and emotionally. 64. Whom did she blame for the accident? B. Herself. 65. The incident had _____ on her poetry. D. a strong influence （三） SYDNEY: As they sat sharing sweets beside a swimming pool in 1999 , Shane Gould and Jessicah Schipper were simply getting along well , chatting about sport , life and anything else that came up . Yet in Sydney next month , they will meet again by the pool , and for a short time the friends will race against each other in the 50meter butterfly（蝶泳） in the Australian championships at Homebush Bay . Gould , now a 47yearold mother of four , has announced she will be making a return to elite petition（頂級(jí)賽事） to swim the one event , having set a qualifying（合格的） time of seconds in winning gold at last year’s United States Masters championships . Her eback es 32 years after she won three golds at the Munich Olympics . Schipper , now a 17yearold from Brisbane with a bright future of going to Athens for her first Olympics , yesterday recalled（回憶） her time with Gould five years ago . I was at a national youth camp on the Gold Coast and Shane had e along to talk to us and watch us train , Schipper explained . It seemed as if we had long been good friends . I don’t know why . We just started talking and it went from there . She had a lot to share with all of us at that camp . She told us stories about what it was like at big meets like the Olympics and what it’s like to be on an Australian team . It was really interesting . Next time , things will be more serious . I will still be swimming in the 50m butterfly at the nationals , so there is a chance that I could actually be peting against Shane Gould , said Schipper , who burst onto the scene at last year’s national championships with second places in the 100m and 200m butterfly . 66. What is the passage mainly about ? D. Friendship and petition between two swimmers . 67. Gould and Schipper are going to . D. take part in the same sports event 68. Gould won her three Olympic golds when she was . A. 15 3 69. The underlined word it in the fifth paragraph probably refers to . C. the friendship 70. What Schipper said showed that she . B. had learned a lot from Gould （四） Giving Back Fair Way The Westborough High School golf team had taken the official photos with the state prize. The other teams, disappointed, were on the bus heading home. And then Westborough instructor Greg Rota noticed something wrong with one of the scor