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For generations here in the deepest South, there had been a great taboo（禁忌）: publicly crossing the color line for love. Less than 45 years ago, marriage between blacks and whites was illegal, and it has been forbidden for much of the time since.
So when a great job about an hour’s drive north of the Gulf Coast attracted him, Jeffrey Norwood, a black college basketball coach, had reservations. He was in a serious relationship with a woman who was white and Asian.
“You’re thinking about a life in South Mississippi?” his father said in a skeptical voice, recalling days when a black man could face mortal（致命的） danger just being seen with a woman of another race, regardless of intentions. "Are you sure?"
But on visits to Hattiesburg, the younger Mr. Norwood said he liked what he saw: growing diversity. So he moved, married, and, with his wife, had a baby girl, who was counted on the last census（人口普查） as black, white and Asian. Taylor Rae Norwood, three, is one of thousands of mixed-race children who have made this state home to one of the nation's most rapidly expanding multiracial populations, up 70 percent between 2000 and 2010, according to new data from the Census Bureau.
In the first comprehensive accounting of multiracial Americans since statistics were first collected about them in 2000, reporting from the 2010 census, made public in recent days, shows that the nation’s mixed-race population is growing far more quickly than many researchers had estimated, particularly in the South and parts of the Midwest. That conclusion is based on the bureau’s analysis of 42 states; the data from the remaining eight states will be released soon.
In North Carolina, the mixed-race population doubled. In Georgia, it grew by more than 80 percent, and by nearly as much in Kentucky and Tennessee. In Indiana, Iowa and South Dakota, the multiracial population increased by about 70percent.
Census officials estimated the national multiracial growth rate was about 35 percent since2000 according to the known result, when seven million people ----- 2.4 percent of the population chose more than one race.
72. If a black man married a white woman 50years ago, the worst result was that _____.
A. he was sentenced to death B. he was considered to be immoral
C. he was criticized by the public D. he was treated as a lawbreaker
73. The underlined word “serious” in Paragraph 2 can be replaced by “____”.
A. stable B. bad C. mixed D. dangerous
74. What can we infer from Paragraph 4?
A. Jeffrey Norwood was born in Hattiesburg and grew up there.
B. Taylor Rae Norwood’s mother is a white-Asian.
C.70 percent of the people in Mississippi are multiracial.
D. Mississippi has the largest multiracial population in the US.
75. Which of the following states had the fastest growth rate of mixed-race population?
A. Georgia. B. Tennessee. C. North Carolina. D. South Dakota.
第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）
短文填词（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下列短文，根据以下提示：1）汉语提示，2）首字母提示，3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。
For 25 years Terry Comm. was a policeman, but for the last 17 years he has been 76 （行走）up and down five miles of beach every day, looking for things that might be u 77 to someone. Terry’s a beachcomber（海滩拾荒者）.
Nearly everything in his cottage has come 78 the sea – chairs, tables, even tins of food. “I even found a box of beer just before Christmas. That was nice,” he remembers. He finds lots of bottles with messages in them, 79 （主要地）from children. They all get a r 80 if there’s an address in the bottle. Shoes? “If you find one, you’ll find the 81 the next week,” he says.
But does he really m 82 a living? “Half a living,” he smiles. “Anyway I have my police pension. But I don’t actually need money. My life is rich in 83 （多样性）.” Terry is happy. “You have to find a way to live a simple life.”
“Some people say I’m mad,” says Terry. “ 84 there are much more who’d like to do 85 I do. Look at me. I’ve got everything I could possibly want.”
书面表达（满分25分）
前不久，中央电视台“焦点访谈”栏目曾就“中国式过马路”现象进行了不少采访和评论。请用英语写一篇100-120 词的短文，结合自己的所见所闻或亲身经历描述“行人闯红灯”(pedestrians run the red light)引发的若干问题，并就此提出一些解决措施。 注意;短文的开头已给出(不计词数)。
Not long ago, CCTV “Focus Talk” carried out many interviews and made some relevant comments on the phenomena---“Crossing roads in the Chinese style”._________________________________________________
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