B I spent my childhood collecting and pressing four-leaf clovers (四叶草)into books at my mother's house.I started with big cloth-and leather-bound books.When I ran out of bound vol- umes,I began to slip my treasures into anything I could find, such as old fiction paperbacks and cookbooks.The same is true in my house today.Shake a book,and a treasure just might fall into your hand. A few years ago,in Nova Scotia,my husband and I pulled off the road for a picnic.The ground was thick with clovers. Some shoots had four,five,or even six leaves.I lined them up on the picnic table to admire.To me,it was simple.The differ- ences in their shapes made them stand out,breaking the pretty

one car. M:That's a good idea.How do you join carpooling? W:Well,there is a special phone number you can call.You leave a message with your address and phone number,and then someone calls you back with the names and phone numbers of the other people in your area who want to carpool. M:How do you know so much about this? W:I called the number for the first time about five years ago. Carpooling is a great way to go to work.I've already got a ride for tomorrow. M:I'm going to do that tomorrow,too.I don't want to be the driver.

B I just had a snowstorm that piled up eight inches of snow.It truly was a winter wonderland,and there was white beauty eve- rywhere.Since I didn't have anything to do that day,I really en- joyed it. But then the second snowstorm arrived that night,piling ad- ditional inches of snow on top of the snow banks that were al- ready there.And then on the evening news,the weathercast gave us a notice that still another snowstorm was headed our way.Then I felt despondent.I had things to do and places to go. After days of being snowbound,I felt like I was under house ar- rest.I was stuck. A place stuck isn't a fun place to be,whether it's from a

A.The future of green farming. B.Consumers'worry about food. C.People's respect for farmer's work. D.People's access to the information of food. 31.What does the text mainly talk about? A.A company. B.A person. C.A farming machine. D.A kind of food.

第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最 佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Imagine that a close friend ignores you when you arrive at his/her party.36 But if you think about the situation differ- ently,you would calm down.Using a particular emotion man- agement strategy called reappraisal,which involves viewing an upsetting event in a positive light,is often effective in contribu- ting to positive outcomes. 37 The research showed that if people believed feelings were malleable(可塑造的)，they used reappraisal more frequent ly,and in return they had greater emotional health and life satis faction.