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2013年3月份百题精练（2）英语试题第二部分：阅读理解（共两节。第一节20小题，第二节5小题；每小题2分，满分50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。ait was a cold night in september. the rain was drumming on the car roof as george and marie winston drove through the empty country roads towards the house of their friends, the harrisons, where they were going to attend a party to celebrate the engagement of the harrisons daughter, lisa. as they drove, they listened to the local radio station, which was playing classical music. they were about five miles from the harrisons house when the music on the radio was interrupted by a news announcement: the cheshire police have issued a serious warning after a man escaped from colford mental hospital earlier this evening. the man, john downey, is a murderer who killed six people before he was captured two years ago. he is described as large, very strong and extremely dangerous. people in the cheshire area are warned to keep their doors and windows locked, and to call the police immediately if they see anyone acting strangely.” marie shivered. a crazy killer. and hes out there somewhere. thats frightening.” dont worry about it,” said her husband. were nearly there now. anyway, we have more important things to worry about. this car is losing power for some reason it must be that old problem with the engine. if it gets any worse, well have to stay at the harrisons tonight and get it fixed before we travel back tomorrow.” as he spoke, the car began to slow down. finally they rolled to a halt, as the engine died completely. just as they stopped, george pulled the car off the road, and it came to rest under a large tree, blast!” said george angrily. now well have to walk in the rain.” but thatll take us an hour at least,” said marie, and i have my high-heeled shoes and my nice clothes on. theyll be ruined!” well, youll have to wait while i run to the nearest house and call the harrisons. someone can come out and pick us up, said george. but george! have you forgotten what the radio said? theres homicideal maniac out there! you cant leave me alone here!”youll have to hide in the back of the car. lock all the doors and lie on the floor in the back, under this blanket. no one will see you. when i come back, ill knock three times on the door. then you can get up and open it. dont open it unless you hear three knocks, george opened the door and, slipped out into the rain. he quickly disappeared into the blackness. very tired, she fell asleep. hours later, she heard the sound of three or four vehicles, recing quickly down the road. all of them pulled up around her ,their tired screeching on the road. at last! someone had come! marie sat up quickly and looked out of the window.the three vehicles were all police cars. several policemen leapt out. one of them rushed towards the car as marie opened the door. he took her by the hand. get out of the car and walk with me to the police vehicle. miss! youre safe now. look straight ahead. keep looking at the police car. dont look back. just dont look back.” something in the way he spoke filled marie with cold horror. she could not help herself. about ten yards from the police car, she stopped, turned and looked back at the empty vehicle. george was hanging from the tree above the car, a rope tied around his neck. 41where were the winstons going before this incident happened?ato the mental hospital to visit their friend.bto the police station to report the murder.cto their friends home for the party.dto the radio station for the programme.42unlike his wife, the husband was worried about .athe state of the car enginebthe escaped criminalcthe place to put up the nightdthe stormy weather43the underlined part “homicidal maniac” in the passage refers to .aterrible stormbcrazy killercbusy roaddpoliceman44why did marie stay in the car when george left? ashe wanted very much to get some sleep. bshe didnt dare to go out on a dark night. cshe was afraid that the car would be stolen.dher clothes werent suitable for the weather.45why did the policeman tell her not to look back when he brought her out of the car? ahe didnt want her to see the body of her husband. ba man acting strangely was waiting behind her. che wanted her to forget everything that had happened.dhe didnt want her to see the damage done to the car.bbelow is a page adapted from an english dictionary.subjectnoun of conversation/book 1 a thing or person that is being discussed, described or dealt with: an unpleasant subject of conversation/ we seem to have got off the subject were meant to be discussing./ cliniate change is still very much a subject for debate. at school/college 2 an area of knowledge studied in a school, college, etc: biology is my favouritc subject. of picture/photograph 3a person or thing that is the main feature of a picture or photograph, or that a work of art is based on: classical landscapes were a popular subject with many 18th century painters. of experiment 4 a person or thing being used to study sth grammar 5 a noun, noun phrase or pronoun representing the person or thing that performs the action of the verb (i in i sat down. ), about which sth is stated（the house in the house is very old）of country 6 person who has the right to belong to a particular country, especially one with a king or queen: a british subject adjective（formal） 1 to sth likely to be affected by set, especially sth bad: flights are subject to delay because of the fog. 2 to sth depending on sth in order to be completed or agreed: all the holidays on offer are subject to availability. 3 to sth/sb under the authority of sth/sb all nuclear installations are subject to international safeguards.4only before noun controlled by the government of another country: subject peoplesverb (formal) to bring a country or group of people under your control, especially by using force: the roman empire subjected most of europe to its rule.subject sb/ sth to sth often passive to make sb/sth experience, suffer or be affected by sth, usually sth unpleasant to be subjected to ridicult: the defence lawyers claimed that the prisoners had been subjected to cruel and degrading treatment.submitverb 1 sth (to sb/sth) to give a document, proposal, etc, to sb in authority so that they can study or consider it: to sb in authority so that they can study or consider it: to submit an application/ a claim/ a complaint/ completed projects must be submitted by 10 march. 2 (formal) to accept the authority, control or greater strength of sh/sth; to agree to sth because of this: (to sb/sth) she refused to submit to treats.yourself (to sn/sth) he submitted himself to a search by the guards. 3that(law or formal) to say or suggest sth: the president submitted that the evidence was inadmissible.subscribeverb 1 (to sth) to pay an amount of money regularly in order to receive or use sth: which journals does the library subscribe to? 2(to sth) to pay money regularly to be a member of an organization or to support a charity: he subscribes regularly to amnesty international. 3(for sth) (finance) to apple to buy shares in a company 4 usually passive sth to apply to take part in an activity, use a service, etc: the tour of edinburgh is fully subscribed.subscribe to sth(formal) to agree with or support an opinion, at theory, etc. the authorities no longer subscribe to the view that disabled people are unsuitable to the view that disabled people are unsuitable as teachers.suchverb 1sth (+adv./ prep.) to take liquid, air, etc, into your mouth by u sing the muscles of you lips: to such the juice from an orange 2 to keep sth in your mouth and pull on it with your lips and tongueat/on sth stop sucking your thumb! 3 to take liquid, air, etc. out of sth 4sb/sth+ adv. /prep, to pull sb/sth with great force in a particular direction: the canoe was sucked down into the whirlpool. 5 sth sucks（slang） used to say that sth is very annoying: their new cd sucks.suck it up(name, informal) to accept sth bad and deal with it well, controlling your emotions such sb in i such sb into sth usually passive to involve sb in an activity or a situation, especially one they do not want to be involved in such up (to sb)(informal, disapproving) to try to please sb in authority by praising them too much ,helping them, etc, in order to gain some advantage for yourselfsuggestverb 1 to put forward an idea or a plan for other people to think about sth(to sb) may 1 suggest a white wine with tis dish, sir? itself (to sb) a solution immediately suggested itself to me (= i immediately thought of a solution), it is suggested that t has been suggested that bright children take their exams early. 2 to tell sb about a suitable person, thing, method, etc, for a particular job or purpose sb/sth for sth who would you suggest for the job? sb/sth can you suggest a good dictionary? how, what, etccan you suggest how i might contact him? 3 to put an idea into sbs mind; to make sb think that sth is true(that)all the evidence suggests(that) he stole the money. sth the symptoms suggest a minor heart attack. sth to sb what do these results suggest to you? 4 to state sth indirecly(that) are you suggesting (that) im lazy?46what does the word “subject” mean in “we need subjects between 18 and 25 for the experiment?”aa topicba courseca personda citizen47when you hear the announcement “your flight is subject to change in bad weather conditions” at the airport, you know that .athe plane you are taking has been delayedbyou should have checked the weathercthe plane is likely to be delayeddthe weather has changed for the worse48when sally says “my mom asks me to do all of the chores, which sucks”, she thinks it is .aunpleasantbinformalccooldchallenging49when zita says “i was not prepared to submit to this painful course of treatment”, she suggests that .ashe subscribed to the idea of the treatmentbshe didnt want the treatment to happen to hercshe hated being treated as the centre of attentiondshe accepted that the treatment has to be painfulcwith only a click of the mouse, rumors（传言） can be forwarded between microblogs very quickly. as an example, recently, perceptive netizens discovered that some photos displayed on microblogs depicting beijngs june rainstorm had actually been fabricated. s is one of the major internet portals in china with hundreds and thousands of users, and a majority of celebrities and renowned citizens have their microblog accounts on this portal. as recently as six months ago, the website decided to establish a specialized team to verify rumors and provide accurate information for its users. tan chao is in charge of the team. before i took the job, i usually couldnt identify what information was real and what was fake. but during the rumor verification process, we discovered that a lof of information was false, including fake photos, fake news stories and rumors that had been spread through microblogs.its not just website portals which are taking on fact-checking responsibilities, but also a number of civic-minded netizens, who recently set up a rumor verification federation on ss microblog system to help netizens identify fake information online. dian zizheng is the team leader of the federation. he says theyve publicized more than 150 pieces which refute rumors, which attracted more than 10 thousand visitors within two months.we live in an age of new media, so we cant use the old methods to verify rumors. we cant wait for the media to verify the facts with related administrative departments and then release a formal announcement. we cant allow rumors to run rampant and then deal with it, we need to fight rumors while theyre spreading. i think that this is the best way to deal with rumors nowadays.some experts say this demonstrates the advantages of the internet compared to other traditional media. the open platform allows information to be examined and clarified by netizens. but experts like ding wenguo, president of the journalism and communication college at the china university of political science and law says this self-correction function of the internet is still quite limited.its still quite difficult to tell which information is true in such an open environment by just reading a number of different opinions on the same issue. this is something which we need to pay attention to. if society is deluged with too much false information, and its allowed to spread in such a fast manner, then people will be suspicious of all kinds of information including important information from authorities. it also exacerbates problems relating to social communications and mutual-understanding, which in turn harms society as a whole.experts suggest that the government should react more quickly in the internet age. once a rumor begins to spread, administrative departments should make announcements as early as possible to dispel rumors before they lead to bad outcomes.50sina. com decided to found a specialized team to .aprevent the spread of rumors on the internetbadvance the development of microblogsclimit thenumber of microblogsdurge the government to react quickly to the rumors51which of the following is true according to the text?aall the rumors have been spread through microblogs.bsina. com is the most popular internet portal in china.ctraditional media dont prove rumors to spread.dthe photos displayed on microblogs might have side effects.52the underlined word “fabricated” in the first paragraph can be replaced by .amade upbdug outcgot rounddgiven away53what is the best way to prove rumors on microblogs?ashutting down the website immediately.bsubstituting the internet for traditional media.cexamining and checking while they are spreading.dmaking announcements after they are spreading.54the writer cited ding wenguos words in paragraph 8 to .adraw a conclusionbintroduce a topiccsrpport an argumentddescrible a scene55whats the writers attitude towards the rumors from microblogs according to the passage?anegative.bsympathetic.csupportive.dchangeable.dtwo people sit down opposite each other to play a game called go（围棋）. one of the players is an old man, he is now 89 years old. he had been playing go since he was a small child. he is now the most famous player of go in the world. people from all over the world call him “the master”. the master thinks that the game of go is an art, and he thinks that he is an artist.his opponent is a young woman. they young woman has only been playing go for three years. before this, the woman was an expert at playing computer games. she played to win. she thought of the game as a science. she calculate all the possible variations, using a computer to analyze techniques and strategies. she became a human computer when she played. she played go the same way she had played computer games by becoming a machine herself.“when! was your age, it would have been impossible for us to play together, ” he says to her. they speak very little during the game.“why? ” she asks.“young lady, you have not studied the history of this game. in the past, women did not play go.” there is silence again. she might be irritated by the old mans comment, but now she is playing go, and so she feels no emotions. her mind is not listening to the man, but calculating all the possible way of placing her next stone. the old man, on the movements of her hands and of her face. this is not only because he thinks that she is very beautiful, it is also because by understanding a person he knows how they will play. when he understands how a person moves, he understands their character. and when he understands their character, he understands their game. this has always helped him to win.he wins the first game, and the second, and the third. the womans face shows no emotion, and the man is confused. he agrees to continue playing. she wins the next game, and the man is shocked. this has never happened to him before. he rarely loses, and he has never lost to a woman.the old man worries about the way the young woman is playing the game. he does not recognise her style, her strategy. he cant read her face; he does not understand her. sometimes, he thinks that he does not understand the world around him any longer.“the way i think about the game” says the woman, “is that it is a series of steps for getting what i want.” again, the old man is surprised. for him, the game is a way of life, life itself, and not a model of life. he worries about the dignity of the game, the elegance of the board. she worries about getting points.“there is no more beauty any longer. everything is science and rules. everything is about winning. nothing is about playing” he says.“what sense does a game have if you dont win?” “the playing is the sense” replies the man. “this game was invented by generals. they used it to work out strategies for war. they used the stones to map out positions” he tells her. “and then they decided that is was better to have a game than have a war.”“are we at war now?” she asks. he wants to say no, but does not know how to reply.“there is another story” says the young woman. “go began when witches threw stones to tell fortunes.”“will this game tell our fortune?”“it is better to play a game than try to tell the future” she says, and he is surprised again. this time he is surprised by how wise her words are.“the future is a game that has already started. the