【正文】 ve. B. Angry. C. Positive. 第二部分閱讀理解 （共兩節(jié)，滿分 40 分） 第一節(jié) （共 15小題 。 A My Favourite Travel Books The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux Choosing my favorite Paul Theroux book is like picking my favorite place in the world: It’s impossible to settle on just one. But The Old Patagonian Express, which is about a train journey Theroux made from Boston ,USA to southern Argentina, is right up there at the top of my list. Theroux has a wicked sense of humor. He brings so much wisdom and experience to his travels. Walden by Henry David Thoreau If he were alive today, Thoreau would probably frown if he heard someone refer to Walden as a travel book. But I regard it as a travelwriting masterpiece. “I went into the woods,” he writes, “because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” That’s the same spirit of discovery that defines so many great contemporary travel records. The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac Like so many people, I fell in love with Kerouac’s novels in my late teens and early 20s. On the Road gets all the press, but I always love The Dharma Bums. Kerouac beautifully captures the romance of California trains, Berkeley, and backpacking in the Sierras. It’s hard to read this book without wanting to leave for the mountains to brainstorm bad haikus on the trail and cook canned macaroni and cheese over a crackling campfire. Confucius Lives Next Door by . Reid This is sort of A Year in Provence in Japan, only the crosscultural differences are much greater. Reid and his family moved to Tokyo when he became the chief for The Washington Post, enabling him to uncover truths about the country. Among the highlights are his observations about Japanese schools, including Yodobashi No. 6 Elementary School, where his daughters were greeted by the whole school staff. 21. Which book enables readers to experience great crosscultural differences? A. The Old Patagonian Express. B. Confucius Lives Next Door. C. On the Road. D. Walden. 22. What will people feel after reading Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums? A. A strong desire to follow. B. A love for novels. C. A wish to learn cooking. D. An excitement to write poems. 23. Which writer based his book on a train journey from home to abroad? A. . Reid. B. Henry David Thoreau. C. Paul Theroux. D. Jack Kerouac. 24. What features most modern travel books according to the author? A. Experience. B. Observation. C. Culture. D. Discovery. B Henrietta Lacks was born in 1920 in Virginia and raised on a tobacco farm. She married her first cousin, David Day and later settled near Baltimore in Turner Station where Day worked at a steel mill. After giving birth to her fifth child, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer. She was treated at Johns Hopkins, the only hospital within twenty miles that treated black patients and had been established as a charity hospital. In an attempt to grow everlasting cells, Dr. Gee Gey took samples of all women who came to Hopkins with cervical cancer. After taking a biopsy (活檢 ) of Henrietta39。s cells could not only reproduce, but thrive outside the bodya breakthrough that would change modern medicine. Actually, her cells doubled in size every 24 hours and Dr. Gey shared these cells for free with any researcher interested. Later, Dr. Stanley Gartler found that Henrietta39。ve been used in tens of thousands of research studies. Ms. Lacks died not too long after her diagnosis in 1951. She unknowingly held the key to unlocking medical advancements in her tumor cells. Now, decades after Henrietta39。選項中有兩項為多余選項。s a frightening word. Thankfully, it’s a condition that is totally preventable. Snow blindness is a painful, temporary loss of vision due to overexposure to the sun39。s UV rays are stronger. Combined, these factors can double your risk of getting sunburned eyes, pared with being outdoors at lower altitudes in the summertime. 38 Television journalist Anderson Cooper experienced snowfree snow blindness firsthand a few years ago when he spent a couple hours on a boat in Portugal without sunglasses and ended up blind for 36 hours, according to his report of the incident. Not only can you bee snowblind without snow it can happen without sunlight, too! 39 For example, sun lamps can cause temporary snow blindness if proper eye protection is not used. 40 To relieve pain or disfort from snow blindness, stay indoors and wear sunglasses. Keep your eyes wellmoistene