40. A. friendly B. bad C. poor D. difficult

　　第三部分 閱讀理解(共20小題，滿分35分)

　　第一節(jié)：閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項A、B、C、D中選出最佳選項。(共15小題，每題兩分，滿分30分)

　　A

　　Do you have a mobile phone? Do you send text messages to your friends and family?

　　Text messaging or “texting” is becoming very popular. But, scientists have discovered that texting can give us problems with our hands. Be careful! Too much texting can cause swelling in our thumbs and wrists. Our thumbs are not made for pushing small buttons, over and over. Scientists call this problem RSI.

　　We spoke to a doctor called Harriet Wilson, who treats many patients with RSI. She said we needed to see how much time we were spending in typing text messages. If we are spending more than 10-15 minutes at once, we could have problems in the future.

　　We also talked with Dr Harjeet Deepa who treats RSI patients. He told us that the youngest patient she had treated was a five-year-old girl. She wasn’t doing well at school, so her parents took her for treatment. It was found that she had such bad RSI in her hands, she couldn’t hold a pencil.

　　As mobile phones develop, they are getting smaller with buttons closer together. Texting with a smaller phone is worse than using a larger phone with bigger buttons. Using a computer keyboard and playing video games can also cause the same problem. So, more and more people could find themselves with RSI.

　　Many university students and teenagers have RSI, as they do not know the risks of spending so much time using computers, video games and mobile phones. If we don’t do something about this, too many young people could grow up in terrible pain.

　　41. What causes the problem RSI?

　　A. More people have mobile phones. B. Texting is becoming very popular.

　　C. People type too many text messages. D. Our thumbs were made for pushing buttons.

　　42. _______ were interviewed about the problem RSI in this passage.

　　A. The writer and a little girl B. Harriet Wilson and Harjeet Deepa

　　C. Three scientists D. Four doctors

　　43. The little girl who Dr. Harjeet Deepa treated couldn’t hold a pencil because ________.

　　A. she didn’t go to school B. she was only five years old

　　C. she had no thumbs at all D. she suffered a lot from RSI

　　44. The underlined part “at once” in the third paragraph means “________”.

　　A. right away B. at one time

　　C. finally D. immediately

　　45. From the passage we know _________.

　　A. it is better to use a larger phone with bigger buttons

　　B. it is worse to spend less time typing the text messages

　　C. using the computer keyboard will never cause the problem RSI

　　D. university students who have RSI know it’s dangerous to do too much texting.

　　B

　　Take a look at teenagers around, dressed in baggy-pants (寬松褲), drinking soft drinks such as coke, reading Japanese cartoons. Whether you are in Beijing, Wuhan or Hong Kong, you will get the same impression. But should we copy others or should we maintain (保留) our differences?

　　It sounds convenient that people around the world speak the same language, dress in the same style, eat the same food and play the same games. If the world was like this, you won’t feel strange in any corner of world. But just imagine living in such a strange world. How dull and colorless it would be!

　　Different kinds of food that people can taste, the colorful and fashionable clothes that we dress in and different languages we speak are all part of the different cultures that our ancestors left us. These differences represent their creativity (創(chuàng)造力) and talent. And we all enjoy different cultures in our daily lives. When you travel to other places, you want to see different things. When you talk to foreigners you expect to listen to interesting stories. These differences in culture are what make life colorful.

　　But the whole world is shrinking into a small village as globalization (全球化) takes effect and many different cultures are disappearing. In most big cities around the world people wear the same clothes. Fast food stores are everywhere. Hollywood movies are kicking traditional performing arts out of our lives. The colors of our life are disappearing.