第二部分  阅读理解 （共25小题。 第一节每小题2分，第二节每小题1分；满分45分）

第一节  阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

（A）
   I know what you’re thinking: pizza（比萨饼）？ For breakfast? But the truth is that you can

have last night’s leftovers in the a.m. if you want to.

   I know lots of women who skip breakfast (不吃早饭), and they have a ton of different excuses

for doing it. Some say they don’t have time, others think they’re “saying” calories (卡路里)，

still others just don’t like breakfast food .

  But the bottom line is that eating in the morning is very important when you’re trying to lose

weight .  “Eating just about anything from 300 to 400 calories would be better than nothing at

all,” says Katherine Brooking, R.D. ,  who developed the super-easy eating plan for this year’s

“SELF CHALLENGE”. And even pizza can be healthy if it’s loaded with vegetables, and you stick

to one small piece.

   Breakfast is one meal I never miss, and the same goes for most weight loss success stories.

Research shows that eating breakfast keeps you from overeating later in the day. Researchers at

the University of Southern California found that breakfast skippers have a bigger chance of

gaining weight than those who regularly have a morning meal.

   So eat something in the morning, anything. I know plenty of friends who end up having no

breakfast altogether, and have just coffee or orange juice. I say, try heating up last night’s

leftovers – it may sound crazy, but if it works for you, do it! I find if I tell myself, “You

can always eat it tomorrow.” I put away the leftovers instead of eating more that night. Try it

… you may save yourself some pre-bedtime calories. And watch your body gain the fat-burning

effects.

41. The word “leftovers” in paragraph I probably means  ______.

43. According to the last paragraph, it is important to _______.

                                                               B
   Having a husband means an extra seven hours of housework each week for women, according to a

new study. For men, getting married saves an hour of housework a week. “It’s a well-known

pattern,” said lead researcher Frank Stafford at University of Michigan’s Institute for Social

Research. “Men usually work more outside the home, while women take on more of the housework.”
   He points out that differences among households (家庭) exist. But in general, marriage means

more housework for women and less for men. “And the situation gets worse for women when they have

children.” Stafford said.
   Overall, times are changing in the American home. In 1976, women busied themselves with 26

weekly hours of sweeping-and-dusting work, compared with 17 hours in 2005. Men are taking on more

housework, more than doubling their housework hours from six in 1976 to 13 in 2005.
   Single women in their 20s and 30s did the least housework, about 12 weekly hours, while married

women in their 60s and 70s did the most – about 21 hours a week.
   Men showed a somewhat different pattern, with older men picking up the broom more often than

younger men. Single men worked the hardest around the house, more than that of all other age

groups of married men.
   Having children increases housework even further. With more than three, for example, wives took

on more of the extra work, clocking about 28 hours a week compared with husbands’ 10 hours.

C
GUATEMALA CITY（Reuters）---- A fish that lives in mangrove swamps（红树沼泽）across the Americas

can live out of water for months at a time, similar to how animals adapted（适应）to land millions

of years ago, a new study shows.
   The Mangrove Rivulus, a type of small killifish, lives in small pools of water in a certain

type of empty nut or even old beer cans in the mangrove swamps of Belize, the United States and

Brazil. When their living place dries up, they live on the land in logs（圆木）, said Scott

Taylor, a researcher at the Brevard Endangered Lands Program in Florida .
   The fish, whose scientific name is Rivulus marmoratus, can grow as large as three inches. They

group together in logs and breathe air through their skin until they can find water again.
   The new scientific discovery came after a trip to Belize.
   “We kicked over a log and the fish just came crowding out,” Taylor told Reuters in

neighboring Guatemala by telephone. He said he will make his study on the fish known to the public

in an American magazine early next year.
   In lab tests, Taylor said he found the fish can live up to 66 days out of water without eating.
   Some other fish can live out of water for a short period of time. The walking catfish found in

Southeast Asia can stay on land for hours at a time, while lungfish found in Australia, Africa and

South America can live out of water, but only in an inactive state. But no other known fish can be

out of water as long as the Mangrove Rivulus and remain active, according to Patricia Wright, a

biologist at Canada’s University of Guelph.
   Further studies of the fish may tell how animals changed over time.
   “These animals live in conditions similar to those that existed millions of years ago, when

animals began making the transition（过渡）form water onto land, ” Wright said.

D

The American newspaper has been around for about three hundred years. In 1721, the printer James Franklin, Benjamin’s older brother, started the New England Courant, and that was what we might recognize today as a real newspaper. He filled his paper with stories of adventure, articles on art, on famous people, and on all sorts of political subjects.

　　E
It’s only 4 hours flying time from Sydney, but a world away. What better place to rest than a  country where the only place people hurry is on the football field and things are done in “Fiji  time”?
　　Viti Levu – Great Fiji – is the largest island. Here you’ll find the capital Suva and the  international airport at Nadi. Vatoa, on the other hand, is a tiny island in the farthest part of  Fiji. Then there are 331 other islands, many of them with places to stay.
　　Whit less than a million people living on islands, you’ll never feel crowded. And with a  climate(气候) that changes only for five degrees between seasons, there’s never a bad time to  come.
　　From cities to villages, from mountains to beaches, from water sports to wooden artworks, Fiji  can give you more adventures and special experiences than you could find almost anywhere in the  world.
　　Whenever you come, wherever you go, you’re sure to see some unforgettable events. From war  dances to religious(宗教的) songs. From market days to religious days. It’s not just staged for  tourists; it’s still a part of everyday life in Fiji. And any one of us can enjoy Fiji’s spirit  by being part of the traditional(传统的) sharing of yaqona,  a drink made from the root of a Fiji  plant.
　　So why not join us for the experience of a life me?

第三节 书面表达（满分30分）
    假定你是李华，你的美国朋友 Sarah打算暑期来北京旅游，来信询问改建后前门大街的情况。请你写封回信

，简单介绍以下内容：
1. 简况：长800余米、600多年历史、300余家商铺；
2. 位置：天安门广场南面；
3. 交通：公共汽车17、69、59等路，地铁2号线；
4. 特色：步行街、当当车、茶馆、剧院等。
参考词汇：步行街 pedestrian street
          当当车 trolley car
          地铁  subway
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头语已为你写好，请将完整的回信书写在答题卡上。
Dear Sarah,
    Thank you for your letter asking about the rebuilt Qianmen Street. Here is something about it.
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Yours,                                                          Lihua