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一、趣文导读齐人偷金齐人有欲得金者，请旦被衣冠，往鬻金者之所，见人操金，攫而夺之。吏搏而束缚之，问曰：“人皆在焉，子攫人之金，何故？”对吏曰：“殊不见人，徒见金耳。” （选自选自秦国丞相吕不韦的《吕氏春秋》）（译文）有父子俩，性格刚烈，不肯让人。一天，父亲留客人饮酒，派儿子入城买肉。儿子提着肉回家，将要出城门，正巧一个人迎面走来，两人不肯相让，横眉竖眼，挺着身子面对面地站在那里，僵持了很久。父亲见第二部分阅读理解（共分两节,满分45分）阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C、D中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AHave you ever heard the story of the four-minute miles? Many years ago, people believed that it was impossible for a human being to run a mile in less than four minutes until Roger Banister proved it wrong in 1954.What happens if you put an animal in a pond? Any animal, big or small, will swim its way through. What happens when someone, who doesn’t know how to swim, falls in deep waters? They drown. If an animal who has not learnt swimming could escape by swimming, why not you? Because you believe you will drown while the animal doesn’t.Have you ever wondered why the letters are organized in a particular order on your keyboard? You might have thought it is to increase the typing speed. Most people never question it. But the fact is that this system was developed to reduce the typing speed at a time when typewriter parts would jam (堵塞) if the operator typed too fast. These three cases show the power of our beliefs. There is no other more powerful directing force in human behavior than belief. Your beliefs have the power to create and to destroy. A belief delivers command to your nervous system.I used a snake in my workshops for children to show them how unrealistic some of their beliefs are. Students of a school in India, said snakes are smooth and poisonous. After doing an exercise for changing beliefs, they handled my snake and found it to be dry and clean. They also remembered that only three types of poisonous snakes exist in India.Did this story end the way you thought? Review your beliefs now and find out which ones you need to change.41. In author’s opinion, if a person in deep water doesn’t know how to swim, he will drown because ______.A. he is afraid of water.                          B. he hasn’t learnt to swim before.C. he believes he will drown.                         D. he don’t want to live in the world.42. The author thinks that the letters organized in a particular order on your keyboard in order to ________.A. save more space                           B. satisfy the operatorC. increase one’s typing speed                  D. reduce one’s typing speed43. The author’s experiment shows that ________.A. snakes can be caught easily                 B. snakes are dry and cleanC. snakes are smooth and poisonous                    D. snakes in India aren’t poisonous44. The main idea of this passage should be that ________.A. beliefs are very powerful.                            B. beliefs make us seem stupidC. changing your beliefs now is necessary           D. people should always believe in themselves.