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本试卷满分120分。考试用时100分钟。 第部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分0分） 第一节(共15小题每小题分，满分分） 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。 ADavid George Haskell, The Songs of Trees Haskell makes repeated visits to a dozen trees around the world. “The forest presses its mouth to every 1iving creature and breathes,” he writes in the Amazonian rainforest in Ecuador, a place of plant diversity. There he climbs to the crown of a giant ceiba (木棉) tree at least 150 years old and traces its connections to plant, animal, bacteria and fungal (真菌) life. He visits an olive farm in Jerusalem, and tracks seasons of new growth after a green ,ash falls on the Cumberland plateau (高原) in Kentucky. On New York’s Upper West Side he has a Gallery pear planted above the subway, describing how the city’s sounds affect the tree’s growth. Each highly observed essay is resonant (共鸣) as a poem. Meg Howrey, The Wanderers Howrey’s new novel was inspired by a 2011 news report on Mars 500, a 520-day simulation (模拟训练) of a space trip to Mars with a six-member crew from Russia, China and Europe. She gives equal time to Yoshi, Sergei and Helen, a crew of three astronauts from Japan, Russia and the US, who hope to be chosen for the Mars trip sponsored by a private company. As they endure a 17-month simulation; each must prove to have the power to stand the enforced training and the series of calculated failures created by the “SIM” team. The key question for each: “Does it feel real?” Douglas Coupland, Bit Rot Canadian writer, designer and artist Coupland names his new collection of stories and essays for a digital archiving term describing how files can be freely sorted. With characteristic intelligence, he develops that term to describe “the way my brain has been feeling since 2000, as I have older and weaker neurons（神经元）, and create and improve new and unexpected ones.” Bit Rot offers priceless insights. Few people are better at explaining the consequences of the digital age. Elif Batuman, The Idiot Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants,