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Youth volunteers from Beijing University visited Songtang Hospital,a care clinic for the aged and dying patients,during the second Global Youth Service Day on April 21.
Thirty student volunteers from the university’s School of International Studies sat at the beds of the patients in their specially-decorated “careful huts”.They talked with them and gave massages to patients kept in their beds.
“I felt sorry that I could not offer more to these people than talking with them and trying to cheer them up,”said Deng Yetao,20,a third-year student.“But it occurred to me that they need more care and love than babies.They are afraid of the coming death.Their loneliness is worse than physical pains.”
“Even though they are suffering a lot,the majority of the elderly people want to talk to us.Each of them has a lot of life experiences and philosophies to share.Instead of doing them a favor,I felt I was gaining a valuable lesson,”said Mao Xiaohua,another third-year student.
The fact that most of the patients in the 80-room clinic are aged people with diseases which will lead to death soon made the volunteers hearts heavy.
Ninety-one percent of the patients will spend the last days of their lives in the clinic,according to a survey by the hospital.“For people at this stage of their lives,loneliness is even more dreadful than death itself,”said Li Wei,president of the hospital.
Daily visits and services by social workers and youth volunteers are a very important part of their programme.A total of 330 000 Beijing students from 119 universities and colleges have visited the hospital.Many continue to offer services in their spare time.Some of them volunteer to hold the hands of dying patients during the last minutes of their lives.
Yin Hang,a student from Beijing Medical College,said he felt “the glory of life”as he saw the fading smile on the face of the old man who passed into a deep unconsciousness while he was holding his hands.
64.Youth volunteers from Beijing University went to Songtang Hospital to _____.
A.pay a visit to the aged
B.talk to the aged
C.show their love for the aged
D.help the aged out
解析：青年志愿者为这些老人所做的事如交谈、按摩等都是在献爱心。
答案：C
65.What the aged are most worried about is _____.
A.loneliness
B.death
C.physical pains
D.wealth
解析：从第三段最后一行和第六段医院院长的话里可知:老人们的孤独感比死亡更可怕。
答案：A
66.When volunteers know most of the aged people are dying patients,they feel _____.
A.sad
B.worthless
C.satisfied
D.disappointed
解析：从第五段可知。
答案：A
67.After reading the passage,we know _____.
A.the youth are fond of doing popular things
B.the Second Youth Service Day is started by the Chinese government
C.91% of the aged in China are facing death
D.the volunteers are taking an active part in the act
解析：从这些青年志愿者的谈话里可知，他们积极热心地参加这项活动。
答案：D
D
A poor traveler stopped under the tree to eat the boiled rice and vegetable which he had brought with him.A few meters away,there was a small shop by the side of the road where a woman was frying fish and selling it to travelers.The woman watched the poor traveler carefully,and when he finished his food and began to go,she shouted rudely,“You haven’t paid me for the fried fish!”
“But I have not had any fried fish!” he said.
“But everyone can see that you enjoyed the smell of my fried fish with your rice and vegetables,” said the woman.“If you had not smelled the fish,your meal would not have been so pleasant!”
Soon a crowd collected,and although they supported the poor traveler,they had to admit that wind was blowing from the shop to the place where he had eaten,and that it had carried the smell of the fried fish to him.
Finally,the woman took the poor traveler to a judge,who said,“The woman says that the traveler ate his meal with the smell of her fried fish.The traveler agrees that the wind was blowing from the woman’s shop to the place where he ate his rice and vegetables and that it carried the smell of her fried fish to his nose while he was eating,so he must pay for it.What does your fried fish cost?” he asked the woman.
“Twenty-five cents a plate,” she answered,delighted.
“Then go outside together,”said the judge.There the traveler must hold up a twenty-five-cent piece so that its shadow falls on the woman’s hand.The price of the smell of a plate of fried fish is the shadow of twenty-five cents.
68.Why did the traveler refuse to pay the woman for the fried fish?Because _____.
A.he was poor
B.he was rude
C.he was supported by a crowd
D.he hadn’t eaten her fried fish at all
解析：这是一道判断题。道理很简单，过路人没有吃煎鱼。
答案：D
69.When the judge asked the woman a question,she felt _____.
A.excited
B.anxious
C.glad
D.angry
解析：这是一道推断题。法官的问话好像一开始就在帮助这位女士。
答案：C
70.Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A.The traveler bought the boiled rice and vegetables and ate them by the side of the road.
B.The judge had no idea what the woman meant.
C.In the fifth paragraph,the first “it” has the same meaning as the second “it”.
D.The woman got nothing but the shadow of twenty-five cents in the end.
解析：这是一道细节判断题。要从全局考虑，由第一段可知道A项不对;由最后一段知道B项不对，C项的第一个it指wind，第二个it指smell，所以C项不对，由最后一段可知D项符合文章内容。
答案：D
71.What do you think of the judge after reading the passage?
A.He was foolish.
B.He was clever.
C.He was neither foolish nor clever.
D.He was kind enough to give the woman twenty-five cents.
解析：这是一道推断题。根据法官的所作所为，可以知道法官很聪明。
答案：B
E
Large companies need a way to reach the savings of the public at large.The same problem,on a smaller scale,faces practically every company trying to develop new products and create new jobs.There can be little hope of raising the money needed from friends and people we know,and while banks may agree to provide short-term finance,they are generally unwilling to provide money for long-term projects.So companies turn to the public,inviting people to lend them money,or take a share in the business in exchange for a share in future interests.They do this by issuing stocks and shares in the business through the Stock Exchange.By doing so they can put into circulation the savings of single persons and institutions,both at home and abroad.
When the saver needs his money back,he does not have to go to the company with whom originally placed it.Instead,he sells his shares through a stockbroker to some other saver who is seeking to invest his money.
Many of the services needed both by industry and by each of us are provided by the government or by local organizations.Without hospitals, roads, electricity, telephones, railways,this country could not work.All these require continuous spending on new equipment and new development if they are to serve us properly,frequently need to borrow money to finance major capital spending,and they,too,come to the Stock Exchange.
These is hardly a man or woman in this country whose standard of living does not depend on the ability of his or her employers to raise money to finance new development.In one way or another this new money must come from the savings of the country.The Stock Exchange exists to provide a channel through which these saving can reach those who need finance.
72.The money which enables these companies to go ahead with their projects is _____.
A.exchanged for part ownership in the Stock Exchange
B.financed wholly by rates and taxes
C.repaid to its original owners as soon as possible
D.invested in different companies on the Stock Exchange
解析：A项有较大干扰性。从 “...,or take a share in the business in exchange for a share in future interests”可以看出可交换的是赚得的利益，而不是投资的钱，因此A项不合题意。选项B是对 “inviting people to lend them money,or take a share in the business in exchange for a share in future interests”的总结。
答案：B
73.All the basic services on which we depend are _____.
A unable to provide for the needs
B.financed wholly by rates and taxes
C.in constant need of financial support
D.run by the government or our local organizations
解析：首先我们应该理解basic services指 hospitals, roads, electricity, telephones, railways等，从第三段“The government,local organizations, and nationalized industries therefore frequently ned to borrow money to finance major capital spending,...”得知 basic services需要持续不断的财政支持。
答案：C
74.The Stock Exchange makes it possible for the government,local organizations and nationalized industries _____.
A.to make certain everybody saves money
B.to borrow as much money as they wish
C.to make certain everybody lends money to them
D.to raise money to finance new development
解析：从最后一段首句得此答案。在这一句中 “his or her employers”既指本题中的“Government,local organizations,nationalized industries”。
答案：D
75.The underlined word “invest”here probably means _____.
A.lose more money with
B.provide less money with
C.borrow less money with
D.buy shares in order to make a profit
解析：买股票的人都想赚钱，invest his money意思是“投资;入股”，因此D项为最佳答案。
答案：D
第二卷（共35分）
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 短文改错（共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分）
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断:如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个（√）;如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正:
此行多一个词:把多余的词用斜线（/）划掉，在该行右边的横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。
此行缺一个词:在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该词。
此行错一个词:在错的词下画一横线，在该词右边横线上写出改正后的词。
注意:原行没错的不要改。
It was a half past five in the afternoon when 76._____
Mr Jones closed his shop,buying a paper and 77._____
then walked to nearest bus stop.When a bus 78._____
came,Mr Jones got in.He found a empty seat 79._____
near the front of the bus and sit down in it.He 80._____
opened his paper and began read it.After a 81._____
little minutes a lady got into the bus.She came and 82._____
stood in the front of Mr Jones.He saw her 83._____
and got out of his seat,but the lady pushed him 84._____
to back into it again. 85._____
答案与解析：
76.去掉a 表示钟点的词之前无须用冠词，常用half past，而a half指被割成两半的物品的其中一半。
77.buying→bought 表示动作的并列时，若干动词须用相同的时态或对等的词形;a paper意“一张报纸”。
78.nearest前加the 形容词最高级之前常用定冠词。
79.a→an 以元音开头的词前若使用不定冠词时，用an而不用a。
80.sit→sat 因为sat与found是并列的动作。
81.read前加to begin/start之后接动名词或不定式。
82.little→few 因为a little后接不可数名词，a few后接可数名词复数。
83.去掉the in front“在前方”，in front of“在……前面”，而in the front of指“在……（里面的）前部”。
84.√
85.去掉to back是副词，其前不用介词。
第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
假如今天是2005年9月8日，星期日，天气晴朗。你去北京火车站遇到了下列情况，请你用英语写一篇日记。
1.早晨去北京火车站为你姐姐送行。
2.在候车室里看到一位双目失明的老太太在哭，因为丢了钱而无力再买车票而伤心哭泣。
3.你正要去帮忙，却见一位解放军叔叔走上前去安慰老人，并给她买了票。并领着她进入火车。
4.老人很感动，问解放军的地址和姓名，他没有回答，笑着走了。
5.见到这一情景，你为无私帮助残疾人这一行动而感动，决心要向解放军叔叔学习。
注意:1.用日记形式写出来；
2.词数100左右。
参考答案：
September 8 Sunday Fine
This afternoon I saw my sister off at the Beijing Railway Station.In the waiting room I saw an old lady who is blind in both eyes crying,because she had lost her ticket and did not have enough money to buy another one.
I was considering helping her when a PLA man came up to comfort her.And he bought her a ticket with his own money and then led her to the train.The old lady was so moved and she wanted to know the PLA man’s name and address,but he only smiled.Then he left.
I was greatly moved by the deed of helping the disabled man unselfishly,I must learn from the PLA man.
文化导游
William S.Porter “O.Henry”(1862-1910)
Born William Sidney Porter,this master of short stories is much better known under his pen name “O.Henry”.He was born on September 11,1862 in North Carolina,where he spent his childhood.His only formal education was received at the school of his Aunt Lina,where he developed a lifelong love of books.In his uncle’s pharmacy,he became a licensed pharmacist and was also known for his sketches and cartoons of the towns—people of Greensboro.At the age of twenty,Porter came to Texas primarily for health reasons,and worked on a sheep ranch and lived with the family of Richard M.Hall,whose family had close ties with the Porter family back in North Carolina.It was here that Porter gained a knowledge for ranch life that he later described in many of his short stories.
In 1834,Porter moved to Austin,for the next three years,where he roomed in the home of the Joseph Harrell family and held several jobs.It was during this time that Porter first used his pen name,O.Henry,said to be derived from his frequent calling of “Oh，Henry”the family cat.By 1887,Porter began working as a draftsman in the General Land Office,then headed by his old family friend,Richard Hall.In 1891 at the end of Hall’s term at the Land Office,Porter resigned and became a teller with the First National Bank in Austin.After a few years,however,he left the bank and founded the Rolling Stone,an unsuccessful humor weekly.Starting in 1895 he wrote a column for the Houston Daily Post.
O.Henry wrote with realistic detail based on his first hand experiences both in Texas and in New York City.In 1907,he published many of his Texas stories in the The Heart of the West,a famous volume in the USA.Another highly acclaimed Texas writer,J.Frank Dobie,later referred to O.Henry’s “Last of the Troubadours” as “the best range story in American fiction”. Porter died on June 5,1910 in New York at the age of 48.An alcoholic,he died virtually penniless.