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I完形填空
How do you spend your summer holidays? Do you have a _36__or stay at home?
_37__ good use of the summer holidays is very important for students.When
I was young, I always spent my holidays_38_ the country where my
grandparents lived. The blue sky and the clean river gave me a refreshing （令人精神振作的）39__ from living in the city.
Sometimes I went swimming or fishing and sometimes I just enjoyed_40_ on the grassy field. Sometimes I __41_ the villagers and had a talk with them. This 42__ of village life broadened my views and strengthened my health.The younger generation living in the city has limited living_43 and how to spend the holidays_44_ a troublesome problem.
Many children spend their holidays entirely at home in tall buildings, 45__they get up late, play electronic 46_ and watch TV. They seldom think of _47_with the housework or even leaving the room. After two or three ___48 of this sort of holidays, they are 49__both in mind and body. A lack of discipline(纪律) leads them to _50 bad habits.
Holiday is not a time for students to just lie around “resting”.
It is a good _51_for parents to ask their children_52 household duties. Some schools also 53__students to take part in many kinds of activities such as 54__volunteers working for people like guiding tourists. Such experiences give students a wider knowledge of the _55_they live in.
36. A. trip B. shopping C. visit D. call
37. A. Having B. Making C. Taking D. Getting
38. A. on B. in C. with D. for
39. A. break B. time C. stay D. business
40 A. laying B. to lie C. lying D. lain
41. A. called at B. called in C. called on D. called up
42. A. practice B. expression C. experience D. experiment
43. A. place B. space C. room D. seat
44. A. does B. gives C. is D. gets
45. A. where B. there C. if D. because
46. A. sports B. games C. matches D. race
47. A. helping out B. doing C. catching D. connecting
48. A. weeks B. years C. days D. months
49.A. laziest B. hard C. lazier D. hardly
50. A. picking up B. giving up C. using D. making
51. A. advice B. idea C. mind D. thought
52. A. to share B. to make C. to pay D. to take
53. A. have B. force C. organize D. make
54. A. serving B. to serve C. to serve as D. serving as
55. A. home B. country C. society D. state
II阅读理解
Beijing ---- A recent Chinese blockbuster (轰动的作品) “A World Without Thieves” is based on the experiences of a young migrant worker (民工)carrying 60,000 yuan on a train packed with thieves. But while the image(形象) of a warm-hearted but somewhat naive migrant worker may have made film fans chuckle（偷着乐）, it’s a sure bet that most of China’s migrant workers are yet to step into a cinema to admire it.
“Forty yuan a ticket? I can’t afford it,” said Shen Jie, a migrant worker at a construction site in Dongzhimen, east Beijing.
Shen found it hard to remember when he last watched a film, or what it was about. “It must be 10 years ago,” he said.
Though they are the builders of the nation’s theaters and cinemas, a limited cultural life is common among China’s 120 million migrant workers. Shen arrived from East China’s Zhejiang Province in1991. Life was better then; money seemed to come more easily. “Now, as more and more workers are rushing to the capital, it’s too hard to earn money, and none of us dare think abou t watching films,” he said.
For many like Shen, the dream is earning enough to pay for their children’s education so they can find jobs in the cities and say goodbye to the hardships of rural life forever. This drives them to work hard and save as much as possible.
With a monthly salary of less than 500 yuan, Shen has to send money home to his little son and silver-haired parents.
In Shen’s small dormitory, which he shares with seven other co-workers, there is a well-thumbed copy of a magazine published in 1998.
A recent survey by local media revealed（显示） that 80 percent of migrant workers spent their spare time sleeping and chatting because of exhaust and a lack of income. The same survey found that 47 percent of migrant workers have to work for more than 10 hours a day. Around 40 percent do not even possess a book, and nearly 60 percent say they are dissatisfied with their cultural life.
Like many of Shen’s co-workers, reading newspapers and hanging out in Beijing’s streets provide evening entertainment.
From China Daily
56. We can infer from the passage “A World Without Thieves” is a film that __________.
A. talks about experiences of a group of thieves
B. deals with the life of migrant workers
C. explains how to catch thieves on trains
D. attracts many migrant workers
57. As for the migrant worker, Shen Jie, ____________.
A. life was harder when he first came to work in Beijing
B. he enjoyed a lot of films ten years ago
C. his wish was to pay for his son’s education
D. the capital is too hard a place for him to make any money
58. According the passage, which of the following is TRUE _________.
A. the workers enjoy reading very much, no matter how old the magazines are
B. the workers have so little to read that they often read the same magazine
again and again
C. the workers enjoy magazines because they are easy to understand
D. the workers think highly of the copy of the magazine published in 1998
59. The main idea of this passage is that migrant workers _________.
A. lack cultural experiences
B. are not very well-paid in Beijing
C. are looked down upon by city people
D. need the government’s attention
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