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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，并标在答题卷的相应位置。用答题卡的考生，先选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Dogs Don’t Tell Jokes—By Louis Sachar
Twelve-year-old Gary Boone knows he was born to be a comedian. He never stops joking, regardless of the fact that nobody laughs much and his classmates think he is stupid. Therefore he had no real friends at school. Due to being laughed at by his classmates, Gary Boone thought winning the school talent show would be his dream of proving himself to be a real comedian, but on the big night his dream backfires with funny results. Winners Never Quit—By Mia Hamm
Mia Hamm, American soccer champion, tells a true-to-life inspired story of learning that winning and losing aren’t as important as being part of a team. More than anyone, soccer superstar Mia Hamm knows the value of teamwork. She shares this lesson, paired with energetic illustrations by Carol Thompson, in this story perfect for soccer kids and their soccer moms.
Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage—By Alfred Lansing
The astonishing adventure of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s survival for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as Time magazine put it, “defined heroism”. To write the authoritative story, Lansing consulted with ten of the surviving members and gained access to diaries and personal accounts by eight others. The book has a first-hand account, expanded with maps and illustrations especially for this edition. The Alchemist—By Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho continues to change the lives of its readers forever. It tells the magical story of Santiago, an Andulusian shepherd-boy （牧童） who desires to travel in search of treasure. The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts and above all, following our dreams.
56. Why did Gary Boone want to win the school talent show?
A. To develop his comedy skills.
B. To please his classmates.
C. To make more friends.
D. To realize his dream.
57. From Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, we know the main character _______.
A. is regarded as the greatest explorer in America
B. is one of the survivals in that exploration
C. has left a lot of diaries and accounts
D. has formed a close friendship with Alfred Lansing
58. If you want to know more about teamwork, you can read _______.
A. Dogs Don’t Tell Jokes
B. Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage
C. Winners Never Quit
D. The Alchemist
59. What do we know about the book The Alchemist?
A. It has a life-long influence on its readers.
B. It gives people magical power over their dreams.
C. It tells a story of how to find treasures.
D. It is mainly about the wisdom of listening to others.
B
Severely disabled people may soon be able to use their noses to write, drive a wheelchair or surf the Internet, thanks to a device(装置) developed by doctors in Israel.
The device will be used by breathing in and out through the nose, according to a study.
Healthy people who tested the device quickly learned to play computer games and write sentences by sniffing. Encouraged by the results, the researchers decided to test their device on people who are paralyzed（瘫痪）but whose intelligence remains normal. Ten paralyzed who tested the device quickly learned to use their noses to write words, open a webpage, copy words and put them into a search engine.
With their success in helping severely disabled people to communicate, the researchers decided to make use of the new technology to design an electric wheelchair to be driven by sniffs.
Ten healthy people easily mastered sniff-driving a wheelchair through a maze（迷宫）, and a 30-year-old man who had been paralyzed from the neck down for six years was as good a sniff-driver as the healthy participants at his second attempt. In other words, a paralyzed person could use the sniff controller to drive an electric wheelchair.
At the moment, sniff-controlled technology is still in the stage of development, and the Weizmann Institute has already applied for a patent on the device. “I’ll be very happy if it can help us to make money, but the real problem is that I hope someone will develop it, because this would help a lot of people,” said Sobel, one of the lead researchers of the study.
60. What’s the purpose of the passage?
A. To introduce a new invention.
B. To equip the disabled with life skills.
C. To show the nose’s special functions.
D. To instruct doctors to apply for a patent.
61. In the test, the paralyzed people with normal intelligence can _______.
A. type a lot of words quickly
B. play computer games easily
C. enter a website without much difficulty
D. copy long sentences from a webpage
62. With the help of the sniffing device, a 30-year-old paralyzed man _______.
A. spent six years learning how to drive a wheelchair
B. went through the maze skillfully at his first attempt
C. controlled the wheelchairs for other participants
D. managed to drive an electric wheelchair
63. From the last paragraph, we can infer that the sniff-controlled technology _______.
A. will be applied to other fields
B. needs further developing to serve more people
C. has become an important patent
D. shows the wisdom and talents of Israel doctors
