第三部分：阅读理解（共两节，40分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，共30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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Skydive Greene County
Come out and let us teach you how to skydive today! We are located in Xenia, Ohio and is within a reasonable driving distance of major cities in Ohio. Situated on a private airport, Skydive Greene County offers world-class training. We didn’t start skydiving but we are Ohio’s oldest skydiving school which opened in 1961!
Tandem Skydiving

Tandem skydiving is required if this is your first time skydiving. After filling out paperwork and watching a short video, you will be ready to make your skydive. Somewhere around 11,500 feet you will be secured to your tandem instructor. The door will open and you exit the plane.
Your freefall with your instructor will last for approximately 40-50 seconds. We can almost guarantee this will be the most exciting minute of your life as you reach the speed of around 120 mph, falling for about two miles back to the earth!
  Don’t forget to have a video taken of your skydive to show all those that didn’t think you would jump from an airplane! 
Static Line Courses
Once you have made your tandem skydiving, you can move on to our Static Line Program. The Static Line Jump is the traditional way to learn to skydive. We have classes throughout the year. Every student will be led through the entire day by a licensed instructor. Never does the student feel unattended.
Once training is over, students will make their first jump on that very same day! If the weather does not cooperate, you can come back the next day, or we will re-schedule a time to make your skydive.
Price 
$165.00 Tandem skydiving only
$175.00 Static Line Course only 
Invite one of our professional videographers on your skydive: 
$125.00 DVD with photos  
Booking
To book your tandem skydive or skydiving course, call us at (937) 372-0700. We just ask for a call if you cannot keep your scheduled appointment. And you must be at least 18 years old to make a skydive at SGC.
Come to learn with the best and make a skydive today! For further information, please call us at (937) 372-0700 or visit our website www. greenecounty.com!   
56.  Skydive Greene County ________. 
A. offers training in major cities in Ohio
B. is the oldest skydiving school in the USA
C. guarantees every skydiver a freefall experience
D. requires all the students to receive one-day training 
57. Skydivers doing tandem skydiving will have to________. 
A. practise before skydiving
B. jump with a professional coach
C. have a video taken while skydiving
D. show others how to skydive from a plane
58. What will a student probably do after training in Static Line Course? 
A. Make a tandem skydiving. 
B. Receive a skydive license.
C. Pay 165 dollars to SGC. 
D. Try the freefall at once. 
59. To book a skydive in SGC, one must________. 
A. telephone SGC 
B. fill in some forms
C. visit SGC’s website
D. keep the appointment
B
Rescue
The girl was hanging by her hands from the railings of a balcony(阳台的栏杆). The balcony was on the twelfth floor of the high-rise block next to his. His flat was on the ninth floor and he had to look up to see her. It was half-past six in the morning. He had been awakened by the sound of an aircraft flying dangerously low overhead, and had got out of bed to look. His sleepy eyes, moved from the blue sky which was empty of cloud, empty of anything but the bright disappearing arrow of the aircraft, and then rested on the hanging figure. 
He really thought he must be dreaming, for this sunrise time was the hour for dreams. Then, when he knew he wasn’t, he decided it must be a scene in a film. There were cameramen down there, a whole film unit, and all the correct safety precautions had been taken. Probably the girl wasn’t even a real girl, but a dummy(假人). He opened the window and looked down. The car park, paved courts, grass spaces between the blocks, all were deserted. On the balcony rail one of the dummy’s hands moved, desperately. He had to believe then what was obviously happening. The girl was trying to kill herself. She had lost her courage and now was trying to stay alive. All these thoughts and conclusions of his occupied about thirty seconds. Then he acted. He picked up the phone and dialed the emergency number for the police. 
The arrival of the police cars and the rescue of the girl became the focus of talk for the people of the two blocks. Someone found out that it was he who had called the police and he became an unwilling hero. He was a modest, quiet young man, and was in relief when the talk began to die away. Again he was able to enter and leave his flat without being pointed at as a kind of St George and sometimes even congratulated. 
About a fortnight after that morning, he was getting ready to go to the theatre, just putting on his overcoat, when the doorbell rang. He didn’t recognize the girl who stood outside. He had never seen her face. She said, “I’m Lydia Simpson. You saved my life. I’ve come to thank you.”
60. What did the man do first after he got up? 
A. He looked down from the window. 
B. He went to see the noisy aircraft. 
C. He called the police to save the girl. 
D. He hurried to check who was outside.
61. The moment the man saw the girl hanging there, he felt it was _________. 
A.  scaring     B. desperate    C. unbelievable       D. dangerous 
62. We can learn from the passage that __________. 
A. the man disliked to be talked about 
B. the girl was unwilling to be rescued 
C. the police arrived quickly on the scene
D. the girl was actually an actress in a film
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