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and turn it into a reservoir by using the dam to divert the river,” transforming corn fields into strip malls, drowning the valley under water, along with a way of life that has been perpetuating itself for generations. They’ll buy up homes and resettle everyone, insisting that new is so much better than old. At first the town stubbornly resists, except for Mimi’s mother, who announces, “Let the water cover the whole damn place.”

But Mimi is desperate to stay. She has no idea what else there is to want, or where else she could possibly live or who else she could possibly be other than a girl on a farm with her family. Her father, too, is tied to the land he loves, and Ruth balks at even stepping outside her house. But as the river is allowed in, dampening the ground, loosening ties, it seems to drown people little by little, forcing secrets to float up to the surface and change things in ways you might never expect.

Quindlen makes her characters so richly alive, so believable, that it’s impossible not to feel every doubt and dream they harbor, or share every tragedy that befalls them. Mimi’s mother is mysteriously bitter toward Ruth, and closemouthed about why. Eddie grows into an efficient man, more like a “friendly visitor” than a brother, who sees and seizes opportunity, becoming an engineer and building new homes for the displaced, as if the future were like a bright, shiny penny. Tommy, the sibling Mimi adores, gets by working odd jobs, car repair, and later selling drugs and going off to war and prison, a man who just tragically never found his place.

But what’s Mimi’s place? “I knew there was a world outside,” she says. “I just had a hard time imagining it.” When she gets highest honors in school, her mother insists, “This is your road to something better than this.” And then to Mimi’s astonishment, she gets a full scholarship to medical school. She doesn’t want to leave, but finally, slowly, she begins to move toward her future, to gather ambition and purpose, and to truly see beyond the confines of her life.

If there is a weak link at all, it’s Donald, a childhood friend of Mimi’s who moves away, but hasn’t made more effort to visit more often. Still, the novel is overwhelmingly moving. We experience how the land changes through the “foggy mist of summer” to “the dry-ice mist of winter.” And the floodwaters channel in, “so that on the evening of the third day the people in town thought Miller’s Valley was having its first earthquake.”

The ending fast-forwards like a tide, carrying all these lives we’ve come to deeply care for into middle age and beyond, as people marry, birth children, move on and, yes, die. Family bonds are restructured, and secrets are revealed that either wedge people apart or bind them together. But Quindlen also allows her characters mystery — and some of what’s unknown stays unknown, which polishes her story with a kind of haunting grace and truthfulness.

65. Anna Quindlen investigates the meaning of home through the following EXCEPT _______.

A. Mimi Miller and her life experiences B. the offence to the people in Miller’s Valley C. the invasion to the land in Miller’s Valley D. different outlooks on leaving the family farm

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66. The underlined word “perpetuating” in Paragraph 3 means _______.

A. existing

B. preserving

C. involving

D. keeping

67. What does the sentence “Ruth balks at even stepping outside her house.” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A. Ruth is reluctant to depart from her house B. Mimi’s Aunt is greatly attached to the family farm C. Mimi’s Aunt has a personality of natural reserve. D. Ruth cannot resist chalking around her house. 68. The characters in Quindlen’s novel are _______.

A. full of ambition and purpose B. weakly linked interpersonally C. strikingly lifelike and impressive D. clearly revealed to the public in the end 69. What might Mimi’s future fortune be like?

A. She is admitted to medical school through a full scholarship. B. She seizes opportunity to become a female engineer. C. She eventually finds her place beyond the confines of her life.

D. She steps into the road to something other than highest honors in school. 70. What could the passage most probably be classified into?

A. An anecdote. C. A news report.

B. A book review.

D. An Argumentative essay.

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第四部分：任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题l分，满分l0分）

请认真阅读下列短文，根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。 注意：请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。每个空格只填1个单词。

Silk Road Heads for the Hills

Famous for facilitating an incredible exchange of culture and goods between the East and the West, the ancient Silk Road is thought to have wandered across long horizontal distances in mountain foothills and the lowlands of the Gobi Desert. But new archaeological evidence hidden in a towering tomb reveals that it also ventured into the high altitudes of Tibet—a previously unknown arm of the trade route.

Discovered in 2005 by monks, the 1,800-year-old tomb sits 4.3 kilometers above sea level in the Ngari district of Tibet. When digging began in 2012, the research team examining the site was surprised to find a large number of typical Chinese goods inside. The haul lends itself to the idea that merchants were traveling from China to Tibet along a branch of the Silk Road that had been lost to history.

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“The findings are astonishing,” says Houyuan Lu, an archaeobotanist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Geology and Geophysics in Beijing. Among other artifacts, archaeologists unearthed delicate pieces of silk with woven Chinese characters wang hou (meaning “king” and “princes”), a mask made of pure gold, and ceramic and bronze vessels.

They also were taken aback by what looked like tea buds. The earliest documentation of tea in Tibet dates to the seventh century A.D., but these buds would be 400 to 500 years older. To confirm the identification, Lu and his colleagues analyzed the chemical components of the samples and detected ample amounts of caffeine and theanine（茶氨酸）, a type of amino acid abundant in tea. Moreover, the chemical fingerprints of the tea remainders were similar to those of tea found in the tomb of a Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty dated to 2,100 years ago, and both could be traced to tea varieties grown in Yunnan in southern China. “This strongly suggests that the tea (found in the Tibetan tomb) came from China,” Lu says. The findings were recently published in Scientific Reports.

Such early contacts between Tibet and China “point to a high-altitude component of the Silk Road in Tibet that has been largely neglected,” says Martin Jones, an archaeobotanist at the University of Cambridge. The evidence contributes to the emerging picture that the Silk Road—which the Ottoman Empire closed off in the 15th century—was a highly three-dimensional network that not only crossed vast linear distances but also scaled tall mountains.

Other studies, too, have documented signs of trade along mountain trails in Asia from around 3000 B.C.—routes now known as the Inner Asia Mountain Corridors. “This suggests that mountains are not barriers,” says Rowan Flad, an archaeologist at Harvard University. “They can be effective channels for the exchange of cultures, ideas and technologies.”

Silk Road Heads for the Hills Function of the Archaeological To promote (71) ▲ and commercial exchange between the East and the The ancient Silk Road ventured into the high altitudes of Tibet other than the ●The towering tomb, (75) ▲ 4.3 kilometers above sea level in Tibet, stores large quantities of typical Chinese goods. ●Archaeologists unearthed delicate pieces of silk with woven Chinese characters, a pure gold mask, and ceramic and bronze vessels. (74) ▲ ●The research team were (76) ▲ by the tea buds, the analysis of whose chemical (77) ▲ confirms they were 400 to 500 years older than the earliest documentation of tea showed. ●The chemical fingerprints of the tea (78) ▲ strongly suggested that the tea came from China. (79) ▲ The Silk Road not only crossed vast linear distances but also scaled tall mountains, which are not barriers to (80) ▲ cultures, ideas and technologies. 11

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第五部分 书面表达（满分25分）

One day a boy in rags asked a building contractor（承包商）who was at the construction site of a skyscraper, “ How can I become as rich as you when I grow up?”

With a glance at the boy, the contractor replied, “First I would like to tell you a story about three

brick layers(瓦工) . The first brick layer liked holding a spade instead of working hard. He said that he wanted to be a boss in the future. The second one always liked complaining about the long hours of work and his low salary. The third one kept laying quietly without making any claims. Several years later, the fist layer was still holding his spade in the original place and the second gave the excuse of work injury for early retirement. Only the last one became the boss of the building company.”

The contractor continued, “You know, that is also how I got to where I am now. I once worked harder than the others. Soon my day came, and my boss noticed me and promoted me to his assistant. After I earned enough money, I also became a boss eventually.”

He concluded, “If you want to stand out among people and be successful, there is no easy way for you to do it but work hard. ” 写作内容：

1.以约30个词概括上文的内容。

2.以约120个词就“努力与成功”这一话题谈谈你的认识，内容包括： （1）上述故事给你的启发；

（2）你认为哪些因素会阻碍一个人取得成功； （3）论述努力与成功的关系。 写作要求：

1.作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事；

2.阐述观点或提供论据时，不得直接引用原文语句； 3.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称； 4.不必写标题。[来源:学#科#网]

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