55. According to the writer, what eventually brought about the disappearance of the park?
(A) The drought.
(B) The crime.
(C) The beggars and the rubbish.
(D) The decisions of the city.

51. People tend to make mistake when ____. (A) they perform several challenging tasks at a time. (B) new messages are processed one after another (C) their relationships with others are affected (D) the tasks require little thought

52. What is the main idea of the passage? (A) Multitasking has become a way of life. (B) Multitasking often leads to efficiency decline. (C) Multitasking exercises need to be improved. (D) Multitasking enables people to remember things better.

53.My family and I lived across the street from Southway Park since I was four years old. Then just last year they city put a chain link fence around the park and started bulldozing (用推土机推平) the trees and grass to make way for a new apartment complex. When I saw the fence and bulldozers, I asked myself, “Why don’t they just leave it alone?” Looking back, I think what sentenced the part to oblivion (别遗忘) was the drought (旱灾) we had about four years ago. Up until then, Southway Park was a nice green park with plenty of trees and a public swimming pool. My friends and I rollerskated on the sidewalks, climbed the tress, and swam in the pool all the years I was growing up. The park was almost like my own yard. Then the summer I was fifteen the drought came and things changed. There had been almost no rain at all that year. The city stopped watering the park grass. Within a few weeks I found myself living across the street from a huge brown desert. Leaves fell off the part tress, and pretty soon the trees started dying, too. Next, the part swimming pool was closed. The city cut down on the work force that kept the park, and pretty soon it just got too ugly and dirty to enjoy anymore. As the drought lasted into the fall, the part got worse every month. The rubbish piled up or blew across the brown grass. Soon the only people in the park were beggars and other people down on their luck. People said drugs were being sold or traded there now. The part had gotten scary, and my mother told us kids not to go there anymore. The drought finally ended and things seemed to get back to normal, that is, everything but the park. It had gotten into such bad shape that the city just let it stay that way. Then about six months ago I heard that the city was going to “redevelop” certain worn-out areas of the city. It turned out that the city had planned to get rid of the park, sell the land and let someone build rows of apartment buildings on it. The chain-link fencing and bulldozers did their work. Now we live across the street from six rows of apartment building. Each of them is three units high and stretches a block in each direction. The neighborhood has changed without the park. The streets I used to play in are jammed with cars now. Things will never be the same again. Sometimes I wonder, though, what changes another drought would make in the way things are today. How did the writer feel when he saw the fence and bulldozers? (A) Scared. (B) Confused. (C) Upset. (D) Curious.

54. Why was the writer told not to go to the park by his mother? (A) It was being rebuilt. (B) It was dangerous. (C) it because crowded. (D) it had turned into a desert.

56. the last sentence of the passage implies that if another drought came, ______. (A) the situation would be much worse (B) people would have to desert their homes (C) the city would be fully prepared in advance (D) the city would have to redevelop the neighborhood

57.I needed to buy a digital camera, one that was simply good at taking good snaps (快照), maybe occasionally for magazines. Being the cautious type, I fancied a reliable brand. So I went on the net, spent 15 minutes reading product reviews on good websites, wrote down the names of three top recommendations and headed for my nearest big friendly camera store. There in the cupboard was one of the cameras on my list. And it was on special offer. Oh joy, I pointed at it and asked an assistant, “Can I have one of those?” He looked perturbed (不安). “Do you want to try it first?” he said, It didn’t quite sound like a question. “Do I need to?” I replied ,“There is nothing wrong with it？”This made him look a bit insulted and I started to feel bad, “No, no, but you should try it,” he said encouraging ,“compare it with the others.” I looked across at the others: shelves of similar cameras placed along the wall, offering a wide range of slightly different prices and discounts, with each company selling a range of models based around the same basic box. With so many models to choose from, it seemed that I would have to spend hours weighing X against Y, always trying to take Z and possibly H into account at the same time. But when I had finished, I would still have only the same two certainties that I had entered the store with: first, soon after I carried my new camera out of the shop., it would be worth half what I paid for it; and second, my wonderful camera would very quickly be replaced by a new model. But something in the human soul whispers that you can beat these trups by making the right choice, the clever choice, the wise choice. In the end , I agreed to try the model I had chose. The assistant seemed a sincere man . So I let him take out of my chosen camera from capboard, show how it took excellent pictures of my fellow shoppers… and when he started to introduce the special features, I interrupted to ask whether I needed to buy a carry-case and a memory card as well. Why do we think that new options(选择)still offer us anything new? Perhaps it is because they offer an opportunity to avoid facing the fact that our real choices in this culture are far more limited than we would like to imaging. The shop assistant insisted that the writer should (A) try the camera to see if there was anything wrong with it. (B) compare the camera he had chosen with others. (C) get more information about different companies. (D) trust him and stop asking questions.

58. what does the writer man by “it would be worth half what I paid for it ”(paragraph 2) (A) He should get a 50% discount. (B) the price of the camera was unreasonably high. (C) the quality of the camera was not good. (D) the camera would soon fall in value.

59. The writer decided to try the model he had chosen because (A) knew very little about it. (B) didn’t trust the shop assistant. (C) wanted to make sure the one he chose would be the best. (D) had a special interest in taking pictures of his fellow shoppers.

60. I t can be inferred from the passage that in the writer’s opinion, (A). people waste too much money on cameras (B) cameras have become an important part of our daily life (C) we don’t actually need so many choices when buying a product (D) famous companies care more about profit than quality.

1图中的书法作品在书体上属于 (A)隶书 (B)楷书 (C)行书 (D)草书