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Part III: Reading Comprehension (40 minutes, 25 points)
Directions: There are five passages in this part. Each passage is followed by five questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.
Passage One
Andrea had never seen an old lady hitchhiking (搭车) before. However, the weather and the coming darkness made her feel sorry for the lady. The old lady had some difficulty climbing in through the car door, and pushed her big brown canvas shopping bag down onto the floor under her feet. She said to Andres, in a voice that was almost a whisper, “Thank you dearie —I’m just going to Brockbourne.”
Something in the way the lady spoke, and the way she never turned her head, made Andrea uneasy about this strange hitchhiker. She didn’t know why, but she felt instinctively that there was something wrong, something odd, something…dangerous. But how could an old lady be dangerous? It was absurd.
Careful not to turn her head, Andrea looked sideways at her passenger. She studied the hat, the dirty collar of the dress, the shapeless body, the arms with the thick black hairs… Thick black hairs? Hairy arms? Andres’s blood froze. This wasn’t a woman. It was a man. At first, she didn’t know what to do. Then suddenly, an idea came into her racing, terrified brain. Swinging the wheel suddenly, she threw the car into a skid (刹车), and brought it to a halt.
“My God!” she shouted, “A child! Did you see the child? I think I hit her!”
The “old lady” was clearly shaken by the sudden skid, “I didn’t see anything dearie,” she said. “I don’t think you hit anything.”
“I’m sure it was a child!” insisted Andrea. “Could you just get out and have a look? Just see
if there’s anything on the road?” She held her breath. Would her plan work?
It did. The passenger slowly climbed out to investigate. As soon as she was out of the vehicle, Andrea gunned the engine and accelerated madly away, and soon she had put a good three miles between herself and the awful hitchhiker.
It was only then that she thought about the bag lying on the floor in front of her. Maybe the bag would provide some information about the real identity about the man. Pulling into the side of the road, Andrea opened the heavy bag curiously.
It contained only one item—a small hand axe, with a razor-sharp blade. The axe and the inside of the bag were covered with the dark red stains of dried blood. Andrea began to scream.
46. Andrea allowed the hitchhiker to take a ride in her car mainly because ______.
A. the hitchhiker was an old woman B. she was curious about the old lady
C. the lady had a heavy bag D. she knew the old lady
47. What made Andrea afraid when she looked at the old lady?
A. She had a shapeless body. B. She had a harsh voice.
C. She wore a dirty dress. D. She had hairy arms.
48. Andrea suddenly stopped the car because ______.
A. she thought she had hit a child on the road
B. she skidded on some ice on the road
C. she wanted to trick the passenger into getting out
D. she couldn’t concentrate and nearly had a crash
49. Andrea looked in the passenger’s bag to ______.
A. examine what was in it. B. find out where the passenger lived.
C. use the passenger’s tools. D. find out who the passenger was.
50. Andrea screamed because ______.
A. she saw the hitchhiker come back B. she realized she could have been killed
C. she was scared at seeing blood D. she cut herself by the blade
Passage Two
Desperately short of living space and dangerously prone to flooding, the Netherlands plans to start building homes, businesses and even roads on water.
With nearly a third of the country already covered by water and half of its land mass below sea level and constantly under threat from rising waters, the authorities believe that floating communities may well be the future.
Six prototype wooden and aluminum floating houses are already attached to something off Amsterdam, and at least a further 100 are planned on the same estate, called Ijburg.
“Everybody asks why didn’t we do this kind of thing before,” said Gijsbert Van der Woerdt, director of the firm responsible for promoting the concept. “After Bangladesh we’re the most densely populated country in the world. Building space is scarce and government studies show that we’ll need to double the space available to us in the coming years to meet all our needs.”
Before being placed on the water and moved into position by tugboats (拖船), the houses are built on land atop concrete flat-bottomed boats, which encase giant lumps of polystyrene (聚笨乙烯) reinforced with steel. The flat-bottomed boats are said to be unsinkable and are anchored by underwater cables. The floating roads apply the same technology.
The concept is proving popular with the Dutch. The waiting list for such homes, which will cost between euros 200, 000—500, 000 to buy, runs to 5, 000 names, claims Van der Woerdt. With much of the country given over to market gardening and the intensive cultivation of flowers, planners have also come up with designs for floating greenhouses so that the water beneath them irrigates the plants and controls the temperature inside.
A pilot project, covering 50 hectares of flooded land near Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, is planned for 2005. The opportunities for innovative developers look promising. “We have 10 projects in the pipeline—floating villages and cities complete with offices, shops and restaurants,” Van der Woerdt said.
51. The Netherlands plans to start building floating communities on water because ______.
A. most parts of the country are covered by water
B. the country is constantly threatened by floods
C. it will promote the cultivation of flowers
D. people think it better to live on water
52. By citing “Everyone asks why didn’t we do this kind of thing before”, the author wants to
tell us that ______.
A. building floating communities is a very good idea
B. the director of the firm didn’t want to answer the question
C. the Netherlands should follow the example of Bangladesh
D. people are not satisfied with the government’s work
53. The floating houses will be ______.
A. reinforced with steel B. made of concrete
C. constructed in water D. built on boats
54. According to the author, the floating communities on water ______.
A. can promote market gardening B. are beyond the reach of most Dutch people
C. will increase the cost of gardening D. will be very popular by the year of 2005
55. “10 projects in the pipeline” in the last paragraph means ______.
A. “10 pipelines to provide gas” B. “10 companies to lay the pipelines”
C. “10 floating houses to be built on water” D. “10 building projects planned and started”

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