45.A. reminds B.equips C. requires D.permits

46.A.brief B. graceful C.simple D.courageous

47.A.measure B. rule C. tool D.guide

48.A.decision B. request C.difference D.comment

49.A.encourage B. entitle C. allow D. appoint

50.A. attempt B.purchase C.publication D. adoption

51.A.submit B.contribute C. pass D.provide

52.A.written B.sold C.read D.bought

53.A.release B. recovery C.reservation D.registration

54.A.eventually B. annually C.currently D.permanently

55. A. organization B. community C. corporation D. government

第三部分阅读理解(共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分)

请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡该项涂黑。

56. Why did Dr. Cherukuri invent his MD HearingAid AIR?

A. He meant to prevent diseases such as depression and social isolation.

B. He intended to provide patients with low-priced hearing aid of high quality.

C. The expense of the hearing aid isn’t covered in health insurance policies.

D. High-priced hearing aid couldn’t be easily assessed on the market.

57. According to the passage, which of the following about MD HearingAid AIR is True?

A. Its price is approximately $3,500.

B. Patients can pay for it after they have tried it for 45 days.

C. Annoying background noise doesn’t exist in the hearing aid.

D. It’s not easy for others to notice a patient wearing the hearing aid.

B

In 1880, the traveller and journalist Lafcadio Hearn was living in New Orleans and writing for a couple of local papers, Daily City Item and Times-Democrat. Hearn sensed that New Orleans exists in a state of insidious disintegration (蜕变) — “crumbling into ashes” — thanks to its dangerous geography and its “frauds and maladministrations.” And yet, Hearn wrote to a friend, “It is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.” New Orleanians have always resembled New Yorkers; they tend to share the sense that to live anywhere else would lead inevitably to a stupid and pitiable existence beyond the bounds of understanding.

In part, the spirit of New Orleans is rooted in the city’s below-sea-level unsteadiness, the condition of looking out — and even up — at the water all around you, the knowledge that water saturates (浸透) the ground yostand on. Katrina, the fierce hurricane that destroyed the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005, tested the self-possession of every citizen who survived it. More than eighteen hundred people did not survive it, and hundreds of thousands lost their homes. The stormand the terrible flooding that followed — a natural disaster worsened by a range of man-made disasters — revealed much that had been fragile, or rotten, in Hearn’s time and grew worse with every decade: shabby civil engineering; corrupt and inefficient government institutions; and it turned out thatan Administration in Washington witnessedfor days a city drowning — a largely black city drowning — and reacted with annoying indifference. And yet, in the face of abandonment — in hospitals, on rooftops, on highway overpasses — the residents of New Orleans behaved with resilience (不折不挠). Rebecca Solnit, an acute observer of Katrina and its aftermath, has written, “The belief that a Hobbesian war of all-against-all had broken loose justified treating the place as a crime zone or even an unfriendly country rather than a place in which grandmothers and children were trapped in frightful conditions, desperately in need of food, water, shelter and medical attention.”

Alec Soth, a photographer who lives in Minneapolis and travels the Midwest and the South with the energy of a latter-day Walker Evans, did not join the artists who came to New Orleans a decade ago to capture what he calls the “eye candy of rot and ruin.” Instead, he waited, preferring to capture the city of water ten years later, a city in a state of both persistent suffering and persistent renewal. Soth shows us the upsetting image of a freestanding column — all that is left of a house in the hard-hit Lower Ninth Ward — but he moves toward a vision of promise, a lonely figure at his leisure, staring into the waters of today’s New Orleans.

58. New Orleanians are similar to New Yorkers in that ______.

A. they refuse to leave their homeland B. they exist in insidious disintegration

C. they possess dangerous geography D. they have a sense of boring existence

59. What can we know from the hurricane Katrina and its damaging consequences?

A. A range of man-made disasters led to the fierce hurricane.

B. The hurricane happened following a terrible flooding.

C. The American government failed to provide help and support.

D. The residents of New Orleans have a deep hatred for governors.

60. Why did Alec Soth refuse to join other artists to take photos of New Orleans a decade ago?

A. He also treated New Orleans as a crime zone.

B. He had high expectations of the future of New Orleans.

C. He couldn’t put up with the suffering the hurricane caused.

D. He was traveling the Midwest and the South with Walker Evans.