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第二部分  阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)
第一节  （共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中, 选出最佳选项。
A
It was on the early afternoon of a mid-October day in 2012. Bismark Mensah, who came to America several months ago, was collecting carts (手推车) outside a Walmart in Federal Way. It was a part-time job for him. He earned $9.05 an hour in charge of getting carts out of the parking lot.
He was used to finding stuff in carts that customers had somehow forgotten — keys, credit cards, wallets. And he turned them into a customer service. But a particular item stood out. It was a white envelope with a clear window in the middle, and there was a lot of cash in it, around $20,000. Mensah turned them into customer services.
Because of what he did that afternoon, Mensah is now the winner of Walmart’s national 2013 “Integrity(正直) in Action Award”.
Bismark Mensah says that since the story ran, he has become the model the youth in Ghana (his native country).
He is now employed full-time at the Federal Way Walmart, earning $10.95 an hour, up from the $9.05 an hour he earned working part-time.
Mensah, 33, no longer collects carts and such. He is in the backroom, dealing with inventory(库存). “I want to learn everything about operating a store like Walmart store,” he says. He plans to return to Ghana to run some shops owned by his family. He also plans to go to college and earn a degree in business administration.
21. What does Mensah do in Walmart now?
   A. Collect carts.
   B. Deal with inventory.
   C. Checks out the groceries.
   D. Ensures Walmart’s security.
22. What’s Mensah’s future plan?
   A. To teach in college.
   B. To run his own shops.
   C. To earn a degree in arts.
   D. To work in a big factory.
23. What can be inferred from the passage?
   A. Mensah comes from a poor family in Ghana.
   B. Mensah can hardly make himself understood in America.
C. Mensah will help set up some Walmart branches in Ghana.
   D. Mensah has set an example for the youth in his own country.
24. What lesson can we learn from the story of Mensah?
   A. It’s never too late to learn.  
B. Don’t judge by appearance.
C. Honesty is a valuable quality. 
D. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
B
Since the invention of Guitar Hero and similar computer games, it is no longer necessary to imagine what it would be like to play along with the Beatles—you can come together with them in the virtual world.
Bill Wyman, former bass player(贝斯手) in the Rolling Stones, has pointed out that music video games discourage kids from learning to play real instruments. My own opinion suggest quite opposite.
Last year, I bought Guitar Hero Ⅲ for our 14-year-old son, Jack. Jack quickly mastered the process and entered an intense period of playing the game.
A few months later, while I was away on tour, a couple of his friends came around with a real electric guitar. Playing Guitar Hero had taught them how to play along the track. Now they wanted to see if they could apply that to the real thing. Jack’s friends taught him how to play along to his favorite songs using just his index finger (食指)on the bass string. He got it right away.
Guitar Hero had helped him over the first difficulty for guitar players—how to strum(拨弄) the strings with one hand while making chord(和弦) shapes with the other. He never plays Guitar Hero now, preferring to rock out in the garage with his mates.
Despite my attempts at getting him to learn an instrument, it was Guitar Hero that taught him the basics of playing and built up his confidence to the extent that he was able to make a recognizable sound the first time he played it.
So let’s not complain about a game that encourages kids to become music fans and, in our son’s case, gives them the basic skills needed to learn how to play guitar.
25. What’s Bill Wyman’s attitude towards music video games?
   A. Curious B. Approving. C. Negative. D. Unconcerned.
26. Which statement is TRUE about Jack’s first playing with a real electric guitar?
   A. He did it successfully.
   B. He taught his friends how to play.
   C. He didn’t know how to play along to a song.
   D. He didn’t know how to strum the instruments.
27. What can we infer from Jack’s case?
   A. parents should encourage their kids.
   B. computer games are harmful to kids.
   C. kids should learn an instrument.
   D. Guitar Hero is a useful game.
 
 
28. What’s the best title for the text?
   A. A new computer game
B. The story of a guitarist
   C. In defense of Guitar Hero
D. The best way to play guitar
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