2013重庆三峡名校联考英语试题及答案(5)

　　But I finally stopped drinking. I was on the care team of my dentist Russell. A lot of people in New York knew him. At the time he was the most famous dentist in the city. He drank heavily and was also with AIDS， so I was selected to be on his care team. Everybody on the team was sober （清醒） but me. He went through dementia （痴呆） and died so quickly before my eyes. I stopped drinking and I’ve been with the disease for 35 years now.

　　56. Why did the author’s father give him the bottle of medicine？

　　A. He wanted him to cure his illness.

　　B. He was trying to keep him dying.

　　C. He thought the medicine could make him sick.

　　D. He believed it could prevent him drinking.

　　57. What did the priest mean by saying to the author “…you’d be lucky to live another six months” in the second paragraph？

　　A. The author would die after six weeks.

　　B. The author was too lucky to live for six months.

　　C. The author could hardly live for six months.

　　D. The author’s luck was only six months.

　　58. How did the author stop drinking？

　　A. The dentist Russell helped him to stop it.

　　B. He was persuaded by the dentist Russell’s death.

　　C. His care team managed to inspire him.

　　D. His little brother’s soul saved him.

　　59. What can we learn from the above story？

　　A. Drinking heavily increases AIDS patients’ illness.

　　B. Priests can cure many AIDS patients’ illnesses.

　　C. Drug taking and heavily drinking can cure AIDS patients.

　　D. Team work and patience can cure AIDS patients.

　　B

　　Aggie Bonfire （篝火） was a long-standing tradition at Texas A&M University as part of the college rivalry （竞争） with the University of Texas at Austin. For 90 years， Texas A&M students—known as Aggies—built and burned a bonfire on campus each autumn. Known to the Aggie community simply as ”Bonfire“， the annual autumn event symbolized Aggie students‘ ”burning desires”。 The bonfire was traditionally lit around Thanksgiving in connection with festivities surrounding the annual college football game.

　　Although early Bonfires were little more than piles of trash， as time passed， the annual event became more organized. Over the years the bonfire grew bigger， setting the world record in 1969. Bonfire remained a university tradition for decades until， in 1999， a collapse during construction killed twelve people—eleven students and one former student—and injured twenty-seven others.

　　The accident led Texas A&M to declare a pause on an official Bonfire. However， in 2002， a student-sponsored-and-off-campus “Student Bonfire” came up.