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第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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One night after she had been in Toomba six weeks, Linda had a terrible dream. She dreamed she was in a high tower in the middle of an empty field. Because she was alone, she was frightened, so she ran to the bottom of the tower and locked the front door. The she pushed a heavy bookcase in front of the door as an extra precaution. After that she climbed back up the stairs to the room at the top of the tower and began to do her homework. Before long she began to get hungry and she knew she had to get some food soon or she’d die.
In her dream she suddenly heard banging on the front door. She looked down from her window at the top of the tower and saw her mother and Steve and all the students from her class standing1 outside the door. Steve was banging at the door, trying to open it.
“Don’t do that, ” she yelled2. “I’ve got a basket here. I’ll tie a rope to it and lower it out the window. Just put some food in it.”
“We can’t do that,” a student shouted back. “WE have to come in and see that you’re all right.”
But Linda wouldn’t open the door and eventually they all went away, leaving Linda alone and hungry in her tower.
Then Linda woke up, she felt more lonely and unhappy than ever. She had a nice warm shower to try to shake away the bad feelings and decided3 she had to do something about her situation.
56. Linda’s dream was ____.
A. funny B. happy C. worrying D. pleasant
57. When she woke up, Linda decided to _____.
A. stay in bed B. make some changes
C. go back to the city D. talk to her mother
58. In her dream, Linda locked herself into the tower and wouldn’t let any one in. This could mean that Linda _____.
A. is making her situation worse by not letting other people help her
B. likes being on her own and doesn’t want any one to get close to her
C. has a good imagination and should become a writer when she’s older
D. has seen the tower before when she lived in the city and remembers it
59. The people at the bottom of the tower could mean that Linda ____.
A. must protect herself from all the people who want to hurt her
B. is a greedy person who wants to keep all the food for herself
C. should learn to live without friends and stop being so unhappy
D. knows a lot of people who would like to help her if she would let them
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In the late 1960s, southern Africa was very different from today. South Africa and Southern Rhodesia（罗得西亚） ( now Zimbabwe（津巴布韦）) were both controlled by the white people living in the country. Although the majority of the people in both of these countries were black, their governments were controlled by the white minority; they were not independent. Two independent countries a little independent as well; these two countries were Tanzania and Zambia.
Zambia had very big problems importing the goods that it needed to buy. The reason was the most important railway lines ran South through Rhodesia and South Africa. Both of these countries were unfriendly to Zambia but Zambia was landlocked and had no ports. Zambia wanted a railway line that ran north through friendly Tanzania to the port of Dar es Salaam4. Tanzania also wanted the railway as it would help in the development of the south of the country. Both countries wanted to build a railway line from the capital of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, to the capital of Zambia, Lusaka.
Tanzania and Zambia had very good relations with China. In addition, China wanted to assist the independent countries of Africa. The three countries discussed the project and in 1967 China agreed to build the railway.
60. In the 1960s, _____ in South Africa and Rhodesia wanted independence.
A. everyone B. some people
C. the majority of the people D. the white people
61. Zambia wanted the railway line because ____.
A. it could buy goods in a friendly country
B. it could import goods through a friendly country
C. its railway going south was old
D. it didn’t want to be landlocked
62. Tanzania wanted the railway because _____.
A. it wanted to open the south part of the country to development
B. it wanted to help its neighbor in the north
C. it wanted to build a line from Dar es Salaam to Lusaka
D. it wanted to import goods from Zambia
63. China was not a rich country at that time; _____ it provided the money for the railway.
A. and B. so C. nevertheless D. since
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In the past, only a few specialists in a company were needed to communicate with foreign businesses. However, in these days of multinational5 companies, where workers are required to communicate with other employees from several countries, a common language is essential—and English has become the logical choice.
Nowadays, even blue-collar workers in many companies are required to speak English. For example, just over three years ago, a Dutch company, United Pan-European Communications (UPC), was contracted to build a TV studio in Amsterdam. The job involved many electricians6—more than the company could find I the Netherlands. There were plenty of qualified7 electricians in nearby France and Belgium, but the American and Dutch executives8 of UPC wanted everyone on the job to speak and understand the same language. So, the UPC hired British electricians and flew them to Amsterdam every Monday, accommodating9 them in hotels all over the city, and flying them home Friday evenings.
Increasingly, workers who can speak English earn salaries 25-35% higher than those who can’t. They are also eligible10 for a wider range of high-level jobs.
The problem is that, while the ability to speak English is fast becoming essential for getting a good job, there is a shortage11 of people who can speak it. According to a recent European Commission12 report, only about 41% of continental13 Europeans can speak English, and only 29% speak it well enough to carryon a conversation. Many companies are solving this problem by setting up English language schools within the workplace. English language schools all over Europe are expanding at a huge rate, and governments are looking at ways to improve English tuition14 in schools.
One result of this modern urge to lean English is that a generation gap is appearing. According to a European Union study, 67% of Europeans between 15 and 24 say they can speak English while only 18% of those over
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