四、阅读理解 (每小题1.5分，满分30分)
 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C或D）中，选出最佳选项
A
Millions of people pass through the gates of Disney’s entertainment parks in California, Florida and Japan each year. What makes these place an almost universal attraction? What makes foreign kings and queens and other important people want to visit these Disney parks? Well, one reason is the way they’re treated once they get there. The people at Disney go out of their way to serve their “guests”, as they prefer to call them, and to see that they enjoy themselves.
All new employees, from vice presidents to part-time workers, begin their employment by attending Disney University and taking “Traditions（传统）I”. Here, they learn about the company’s history, how it is managed, and why it is successful. They are shown how each department relates to the whole. All employees are shown how their part is important in making the park a success.
After passing “Traditions I”, the employees go on to do more specialized training for their specific（具体的）jobs. No detail（细节）is missed. A simple job like taking tickets requires four eight-hour days of training. When one ticket taker was asked why it took so much training for such a simple, ordinary job, he replied, “What happens if someone wants to know where the restrooms are, when the parade starts or what bus to take back to the campgrounds?…We need to know the answers or where to get them quickly. Our constant aim is to help our guests enjoy the party.”
Even Disney’s managers get involved in the daily management of the park. Every year, the mangers leave their desks and business suits and put on special service clothes. For a full week, the bosses sell hot dogs or ice cream, take tickets or drive the monorail（单轨车）, and take up any of the 100 jobs that make the entertainment park come alive. The managers agree that this week help them to see the company’s goals more clearly.
All these efforts to serve the public well have made Walt Disney Productions famous. Disney is considered by many as the best mass service provider in America or the world. As one longtime business observer once said, “How Disney treats people, communicates with them, rewards them , is in my view the very reason for his fifty years of success… I have watched, very carefully and with great respect and admiration, the theory and practice of selling satisfaction and serving millions of people on a daily basis, successfully. It is what Disney does best.”
56. The first day they come to Disney parks, all new employees      .
  A. begin by receiving on-the-job training
  B. must learn several jobs
  C. begin as ticket takers
  D. have already attended Disney University
57. Each year, managers wear special service clothes and work in the park to      .
  A. set a good example for employees
  B. remind themselves of their beginnings at Disney
  C. gain a better view of the company’s objectives
  D. replace employees on holiday
58. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
  A. Tourists learn the history of Disney in its entertainment parks.
  B. Disney attracts people almost from all over the world.
  C. Parades are regularly held in Disney’s entertainment parks.
  D. Disney’s managers are able to do almost all kinds of work in the Disney parks.
59. This passage is mainly about      .
  A. how Disney employees are trained
  B. the history and traditions of the Disney enterprises
  C. why Disney enterprises make a lot of money
  D. the importance Disney place on serving people well

B
Habits, whether good or bad, are gradually formed. When a person does a certain thing again, he is driven by some unseen force to do the same thing repeatedly, then a habit is formed. Once a habit is formed, it is difficult, and sometimes impossible, to get rid of. It is therefore very important that we should pay great attention to the formation of habits. Children often form bad habits, some of which remain with them as long as they live. Older persons also form bad habits lasting as long as they live, and sometimes become ruined by them.
　　There are other habits which, when formed in early life, are of great help. Many successful men say that much of their success has something to do with certain habits in early life, such as early rising, honesty and so on.
　　Among the habits which children should not form are laziness, lying, stealing and so on. These are all easily formed habits. Unfortunately older persons often form habits which could have been avoided(避免).
　　We should keep away from(远离) all these bad habits, and try to form such habits as will be good for ourselves and others.
　60. ________ are formed little by little.
　　A. Good habits                        B. Bad habits
　　C. Both good habits and bad habits        D. Either good habits or bad habits
　61. The underlined word "them" in the first paragraph refers to ________.
　　A. bad habits       B. good habits       C. children         D. other persons
　62. Generally speaking, it's difficult for one ________ and easy for them ________ which should be avoided.
　　A. to form bad habits; to form good habits
　　B. to form good habits; to form bad habits
　　C. to form such habits as will be good; to get rid of bad habits
　　D. to get rid of bad habits; to form good habits
　63. Why should we pay much attention to the formation of habits?
　　A. Because habits are of great help to every one of us.
　　B. Because a man can never get rid of a habit.
　　C. Because it's hard and sometimes even impossible to throw away bad habits.
　　D. Because we are forced to do them again and again.
　64. According to the passage, early rising ________.
　　A. has something to do with success      　    B. is an easily formed habit
　　C. is such a habit as should have been avoided    D. is such a habit as will be kept

C
The child of today owes much of its pleasant school life to the work of Maria Montessori and others who felt as she did.
　Maria Montessori was born in 1870 in northern Italy. Both her parents were well educated.
　While Maria was a student, she took great interest in the study of the particular nature of the child's mind. It came to her that small children should have freedom(自由) to learn.
　Maria became a doctor and a professor at Rome University. In 1907, after working with backward students, she was given a chance to try out her ideas on children. There were sixty children, aged three to six, in the Children's House. The rooms were bright and colorful. Maria let the children make their own choice of what they wanted to do and work with their own speed. They became busy, peaceful and happy.
　　Maria Montessori was one of the world's great teachers. She traveled in Europe, America and Far East. She thought that true education, providing(提供) for the real needs of the child, would produce wise and happy grown-ups and therefore a peaceful world. Her original way of education has changed our whole idea of what childhood is.
　　Maria Montessori died in Holland at the age of eighty-two.
　65. The short passage is mainly about .
　　A. the education of backward students      B. a new idea of education
　　C. the importance of proper education      D. the life of Maria Montessori
　66. Maria traveled a lot in the world to .
　　A. teach the backward students           B. enjoy her life in real nature
　　C. spread her ideas of teaching            D. study the situation of education
　67. In what way did Maria teach the children in the Children's House?
　　A. She taught them the best way of learning well.
　　B. She let them learn in a very pleasant way.
　　C. She taught them by showing them how to do things.
　　D. She just let them choose the most interesting subjects.
　68. We learn from the passage that ________.
　　A. Maria left her homeland in order to study abroad
　　B. Maria didn't get married
　　C. Maria's own parents were her teachers
　　D. Maria fully understood the child's mind
　69. Which of the following best explains why Maria was one of the world's great teachers?
　　A. She created a new way in teaching, which changed the old idea of children's education.
　　B. She taught the backward students very successfully and produced a peaceful world.
　　C. She showed great love for the children and trained them in a new way.
　　D. She taught backward students in many different countries and let them learn freely.

D
A German taxi-driver, Franz Bussman, recently found his brother who was thought to have been killed twenty years before.
　　While on a walking tour with his wife, he stopped to talk to a workman. After they had gone on, Mrs. Bussman said that the workman was closely like her husband and even suggested that he might be his brother. Franz laughed at the idea, pointing out that his brother had been killed in action during the war. Though Mrs. Bussman knew this story quite well, she thought that there was a chance in a million that she might be right.
　　A few days later, she sent a boy to the workman to ask him if his name was Hans Bussman. Needless to say, the man's name was Hans Bussman. And he really was Franz's long-lost brother. When the brothers were reunited, Hans explained how it was that he was still alive.
After having being wounded towards the end of the war, he had been sent to hospital and was separated from his unit. The hospital had been bombed and Hans had made his way back into Western Germany on foot. Meanwhile, his unit was lost and all records of him had been destroyed. Hans returned to his family house, but the house had been bombed. Guessing that his family had been killed during an air-raid(空袭), Hans settled down in a village fifty miles away where he had remained ever since.　
70. Which of the following can be used as the best title of the passage?
　　A. Living Not Far                    B. A Chance in a Million
　　C. Coming Back to Life               D. Back after the War
　71. How to understand the sentence "There was a chance in a million that she might be right. "?
　　A. There was a little possibility of what she suggested, though little.
　　B. It was impossible for her to be right.
　　C. She had no chance to meet his brother any more.
　　D. There were many chances for her to meet his brother again.
　72. Which of the following orders is right?
　　a. He walked back to Western Germany.
　　b. He was wounded when the war was coming to the end.
　　c. The hospital was destroyed by bombs.
　　d. He came back to his family house.
　　e. He was sent to hospital.
　　f. His unit of German didn't exist any longer.
　　A. b, a, e, d, f, c  B. b, e, c, a, f, d        C. b, e, a, c, d, f   D. b, c, f, d, a, e
E
　How many men do housework? Recently a European commission (委员会) tried to find out people's ideas and reactions to the women's movement. As part of their survey (调查), they asked many men and women the question: “Who does the housework?” The men answered very differently from the women!
　　The housework they asked people about were: preparing meals, washing dishes, cleaning the house and babysitting. 48% of British husbands said they did these things. 37% of Danish men helped in the house. But only 15% of Italian men said they did the housework; many of them said they never helped at all.
　　But there was an interesting point of view from the wives. According to British wives, only 38% of their husbands helped in the house. And Italian wives said that their husbands hardly ever helped. The Italian and British men did not tell the truth! The Commission found that Danish men were the most trustful husbands; their answers were the same as their wives' answers.
　　Do the men you know help in the house? Do you think the survey gives a true picture in your experience?
　　73. The subject for the survey is _______ .
　　A. how many boys do the housework      B. who does the housework at home
　　C. how many women do the housework    D. who are more diligent, wives or husbands
　　74. More _______ husbands help in the house than _______ husbands.
　　A. British; Danish 　B. Italian; Danish   C. Danish; British   D. Italian; British
　　75. The survey shows that _______ husbands were the most honest.
A. Italian          B. Danish          C. British          D. Both A and B

五、书面表达 (满分15分)
下面是有关中学生睡眠情况的调查表，请据此写一篇100词左右的英语短文。 

  注意:
1. 可以适当增加细节,使短文连贯、完整；
2. 参考词汇：调查 survey;   有……负担 be burdened with
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