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24．Which position is most suitable for a retired person?

    A．Part-time Shop Assistant．

    B．Teaching Assistant in Hania's Playschool．

    C．Weekend Work in Rubberlast Group Ltd．

    D．Teaching Assistant in the University of Bristol．

25．If you have good computer skills and recently graduated from university （English degree）, which jobs can you apply for?

    A．Job 1, 2 and 7                                     B．Job 2, 3 and 5

    C．Job 4, 6 and 7                                     D．Job 3, 4 and 6

26．Which is the only position that has a formal educational requirement?

    A．University Positions at the University of Bristol．

    B．Home Delivery Representative for Yorkshire

    C．Teaching Assistant at Hania's Playschool．

    D．Full-time Secretary position at United Business Ltd．

 The famous singer expressed particular ________for those children suffering from AIDS and said she would contribute some money for them.

A. apology                 B. satisfaction             C. concern                       D. appreciation

  When people first walked across the Bering Land Bridge thousands of years ago, dogs were by their sides, according to a study published in the journal Science.

   Robert Wayne of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Jennifer Leonard of the Smithsonian Institute, used DNA material—some of it unearthed by miners in Alaska—to conclude that today’s domestic dog originated in Asia and accompanied the first humans to the New World about 10,000 to 15,000 years ago. Wayne suggests that man’s best friend may have enabled the tough journey from Asia into North America. “Dogs may have been the reason people made it across the land bridge,” said Wayne. “They can pull things, carry things, defend you from fierce animals, and they’re useful to eat.”

   Researchers have agreed that today’s dog is the result of the domestication(驯化) of wolves thousands of years ago. Before this recent study, a common thought about the precise origin of North America’s domestic dog was that Natives domesticated local wolves, the descendents(后代) of which now live with people in Alaska, Canada, and the Lower 48.

   Dog remains from a Fairbanks-area gold mine helped the scientists reach their conclusion. Leonard, an evolutionary biologist, collected DNA from 11 bones of ancient dogs that were locked in permafrost(永冻层) until Fairbanks miners uncovered them in the 1920s. The miners donated the preserved bones to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where they remained untouched for more than 70 years. After borrowing the bones from the museum, Leonard and her colleagues used radiocarbon techniques to find the age of the Alaska dogs. They found the dogs all lived between the years of 1450 and 1675 A.D., before Vitus Bering and Aleksey Chirikov who were the first known Europeans to view Alaska in 1741. The bones of dogs that wandered the Fairbanks area centuries ago should therefore be the remains of “pure native American dogs,” Leonard said. The DNA of the Fairbanks dogs would also expose whether they were the descendents of wolves from North America.

   Along with the Fairbanks samples, the researchers collected DNA from bones of 37 dog specimens(标本) from Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia that existed before the arrival of Columbus. In the case of both the Alaska dogs and the dogs from Latin America, the researchers found that they shared the most genetic material with gray wolves of Europe and Asia. This supports the idea of domestic dogs entering the New World with the first human explorers who wandered east over the land bridge.

   Leonard and Wayne’s study suggests that dogs joined the first humans that made the adventure across the Bering Land Bridge to slowly populate the Americas. Wayne thinks the dogs that made the trip must have provided some excellent service to their human companions or they would not have been brought along. “Dogs must have been useful because they were expensive to keep,” Wayne said. “They didn’t feed on mice; they fed on meat, which was a very guarded resource.”

41. The underlined word “remains” is closed in meaning to ______.

  A. leftover food     B. animal waste     C. dead bodies    D. living environment

42. According to the study described in Paragraph 4, we can learn that ______.

  A. ancient dogs entered North America between 1450 and 1675 AD

  B. the 11 bones of ancient dogs are not from native American dogs

  C. the bones discovered by the gold miners were from North American wolves

  D. the bones studied were not from dogs brought into North America by Europeans

43. What can we know from the passage?

  A. Native Americans domesticated local wolves into dogs.

  B. Scientists discovered some ancient dog remains in 1920s.

  C. Latin America’s dogs are different from North America’s in genes.

  D. Ancient dogs entered North America across the Bering Land Bridge.

44. The first humans into the New World brought dogs along with them because ______.

  A. dogs fed on mice

  B. dogs were easy to keep

  C. dogs helped protect their resources

  D. dogs could provide excellent service

45. What does the passage mainly talk about ______.

  A. the origin of the North American dogs

  B. the DNA study of ancient dogs in America

  C. the reasons why early people entered America

  D. the difference between Asian and American dogs

       For ages, sailors have said that it is a good luck to see dolphins swum alongside boats. Their presence meant that land is near, which will be vital informations if a boat and her crew are in danger. Some dolphins have even protected sailors which suffer shipwreck from sharks. There is no wonder that these unique and fascinating creatures have long known as our friends. Dolphins are thought to be intelligent animals because of its quick ability to learn. They seem to communicate with each other through a combination of whistles and clicks. While scientists don’t know exact what they are talking about, it is thought that dolphins are telling each other that food is nearby, or warning each other for approaching dangerous.

    Imagine this: You’re at the movies seeing the latest box-office hit. The leading actor Chases down(找到) the film’s bad guy before winning over the beautiful leading lady. What does he do next? He sucks on a cigarette.

    What’s wrong with this picture? Doesn’t the beautiful woman see her hero’s yellow teeth? Doesn’t she smell his smoky breath? And wouldn’t the good guy have trouble chasing, since smoking causes a person to cough?

    But you don’t see any of that when someone smokes cigarettes in the movies. And there is a lot of smoking in movies. Actors light up in more than 50 percent of youth-rated (G,PG,PG-13) movies, according to the American Legacy Foundation, which aims to put an end to smoking among young people. That means that Hollywood is showing 14 billion images of smoking to young people every year.

    All that exposure to on-screen smoking can influence teens to smoke. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) argues that 44 percent of teens who begin smoking do so because they’ve seen smoking in movies. The CDC reports that teens are two to three times more likely to start smoking after seeing repeated smoking scenes in movies than teens who are lightly exposed to smoking in movies.

    Several organizations are working to remove smoking in youth-rated movies. And adults are not the only ones who care about this issue. Many teens are actively involved. Livia Clandorf, 16, of Chatham, New York, is a member of Reality Check, an organization that educates teens about what it considers to be the manipulative(巧妙处理的)practices of tobacco companies. Livia participated in an event called a “movies stomp(跺脚).” Reality Check rents out a movie theater and screens a youth-rated film that shows smoking. Every time audience members see smoking, they stomp their feet and show disapproval by shouting”boo”.

28. What is the picture you are asked to imagine like according to the author?

        A. It’s touching            B. It’s beautiful.

        C. It’s frightening          C. It’s Unreasonable

29. What does the underlined part “light up” in paragraph 3 mean?

      A. Guide with a light.        B. Begin to smoke

      C. Show pleasure.             D.  Provide light.

30.What can be inferred from the CDC’s words?

    A. Over 50 percent of teens smoke.     

    B. Teens should watch more movies.

    C. Many movies cause teens to smoke.

    D. Teens are less likely to smoke than adults.

31. When will participants in a “movies stomp” stomp their feet?

  A. When they are active.           B. When they are excited.

  C. When they feel like smoking     D. When they see smoking scenes.                     

For most people, graduation is an exciting day, but my graduation day was not.

   I remember that weekend two years ago. Family and friends had flown in from across the country to   1   the celebration. But just like everyone else in my class, I had watched the   2   turn from bad to worse in my senior year. Almost all of us graduates had degrees, but very   uncertain   3  .

   The weeks ahead weren’t   4  . I knew my small university town couldn’t offer me any opportunities,   5   I packed up my car and drove to Southern California to find work. But what I thought would take a   6   dragged into two, and then four, and 100 job applications later, I found myself in the exact same   7   as I was before.

   You know that feeling when you wake up in   8  ? That feeling became a constant in my life. Days felt like weeks, weeks like months, and those many months felt like everlasting   9  . And the most annoying part was no matter how much I tried, I just couldn’t seem to make any   10  .

   So what did I do to keep my good sense? I decided to   11  . Something about putting words on a page made everything seem a little clearer — a little brighter. Something about writing gave me   12  . And if you want something badly enough, sometimes a little hope is all you   13  !

   I put my   14   into a children’s book. Beyond the River was the story of an unlikely hero, a little fish, who   15   to give up his dream.

   And then one day, without any sort of writing degree or contacts in the writing world — just a lot of hard work and determination — I was offered a   16   contract (合同) for my first book! After that, things slowly began to fall into   17  . I was offered a second book deal. Then, a few months later, I got an interview with the Walt Disney Company and was   18   shortly after.

   Don’t give up. Even if things look   19   now, don’t give up. If you work hard, things will always get better. Often times our dreams lie in wait just a little further upstream ... all we need is the   20   to push beyond the river.

1. A. attend                    B. hold                               C. prepare                         D. enjoy

2. A. environment          B. economy                       C. opportunity             D. climate

3. A. choice                   B. danger                           C. desire                            D. future

4. A. quiet                      B. busy                              C. easy                              D. long

5. A. so                          B. but                          C. for                                 D. or

6. A. day                        B. week                              C. month                     D. year

7. A. town                      B. direction               C. situation                        D. habit

8. A. surprise                 B. fear                                C. delight                           D. peace

9. A. glory                      B. complaint                      C. love                              D. pain

10. A. appointment        B. progress                       C. commitment                  D. decision

11. A. read                     B. think                       C. write                       D. paint

12. A. hope                    B. wisdom                          C. pleasure                       D. inspiration

13. A. lack                     B. find                         C. bury                      D. need

14. A. disapproval  B. disagreement                C. dissatisfaction               D. disadvantage

15. A. refused                B. managed                       C. failed                      D. decided

16. A. writing           B. translating                     C. publishing               D. reviewing

17. A. ruin                      B. place                      C. pieces                           D. despair

18. A. rewarded             B. paid                        C. fired                               D. hired

19. A. different               B. unimportant                   C. strange                   D. tough

20. A. courage               B. chance                          C. time                               D. dream

I consider ____ a good idea to be trained in a special way to improve my spoken English

A. that    B. this

C. he    D. it

Modern inventions have speeded up people's lives amazingly．Motor﹣cars cover a hundred miles in a little more than an hour．Aircrafts cross the world a day，while computers operate at a lightning speed．Indeed，this love of speed seems never﹣ending．Every year motor﹣cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boasts （吹嘘）of saving precious seconds in handling tasks．

All this saves time，but at a price．When we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane，our bodies tell us so．We get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet﹣lag（时差）； our bodies feel that they have been left behind in another time zone．Again，spending too long at computers results in painful wrists and fingers．Mobile phones also have their dangers according to some scientists； too much use may transmit harmful radiation into our brains，a consequence we do not like to think about．

However，what do we do with the time we have saved？Certainly not relax，or so it seems．We are so accustomed to constant activity that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing，or even just one thing at a time．Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio，letting imagination take us into another world．

There was a time when some people's lives were devoted simply to the cultivation of the land or the care of cattle．No multi﹣tasking there； their lives went on at a much gentler pace，and in a familiar pattern．There is much that we might envy about a way of life like this．Yet before we do so，we must think of the hard tasks our ancestors faced：they farmed with bare hands，often lived close to hunger，and had to fashion tools from wood and stone．Modern machinery has freed people from that primitive existence．

8．The new products become more and more time﹣saving because　   　．

A．our love of speed seems never﹣ending       

B．time is limited

C．the prices are increasingly high                

D．the manufacturers boast a lot

9．What does"the days"in Paragraph 3refer to？　   　

A．Imaginary life                           

B．Simple life in the past

C．Times of inventions                         

D．Time for constant activity

10．What is the author's attitude towards the modern technology？　   　

A．Critical           

B．Objective             

C．Optimistic          

D．Negative

11．What does the passage mainly discuss？　  　

A．The present and past times              

B．Machinery and human beings

C．Imaginations and inventions           

D．Modern technology and its influence．

On a foggy evening, Steven took his old father to a restaurant for dinner. His father was very old and weak. While eating, he  41  dropped food on his shirt and trousers. Other  42  watched him in disgust while his son was   43  .

The whole restaurant fell   44  . All the diners turned away from the father and son one after another while Steven   45  his father in a soft voice of a man, “Eat as   46   as you can, father. It will be weeks before I   47   back from my business trip.”

At that moment, the old father nodded with  48 , tears full of his eyes.

After he finished eating, Steven, his son, who was not at all  49  , quietly took him to the wash room,  50  the food particles(饭粒), removed the stains, combed his hair and  51   his glasses firmly.

When they came out, the entire restaurant was  52   them in dead silence, not able to understand   53  someone could embarrass themselves publicly like that. The son  54   the bill and started walking out with his father.

At that time, an old man among the diners called out to the   55    and asked him, “Don’t you think you have   56   something behind?”.

The son replied, "No sir, I haven't".

The old man insisted, “Yes, you have! You left a(n)   57   for every son and hope for every   58  ”.

The restaurant went silent. All behind looked at Steven with regret and then, with great respect at both father and son, who were  59   into the fog.

To care for those who once cared for us is one of the  60   honors. We all know how our parents cared for us for every little thing. Love them, respect them, and care for them.

 He suggested to Tom that he ______ the problem another way, and his expression    

   suggested that he______.
   A. should solve; agreed   B. solve; agree   C. solved should agree   D. solved; agreed

A developer edition of Sony’s augmented reality smart glasses will go on sale in ten countries next month, the tech giant has announced.

Pre-orders for the SmartEyeglass, costing $840 (£620), are now being taken in the UK and Germany, with Japan and the US to follow shortly. The black-framed glasses are compatible (兼容的) with recent Android operating systems. Last month Google announced that it was withdrawing its smart glasses for redevelopment. Sony’s initial model will come with a software development kit to encourage people to design apps for it, the company said.

  The glasses, which weigh 77g, contain an accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, image and brightness sensors, 3-megapixel camera and a microphone. They also come with a controller, designed to be attached to clothing, which contains a speaker, touch sensor and the device’s battery. Text is displayed in front of the wearer in monochrome green.

  Apple chief executive Tim Cook has been open about his dislike of glasses as a wearable device. “We always thought that glasses were not a smart move, from a point of view that people would not really want to wear them,” he told the New Yorker. “They were intrusive (闯入的), instead of pushing technology to the background, as we’ve always believed.”

  Stuart Miles, founder of tech site Pocket-lint, said: “I think 1Sony is] wasting their time, energy and effort.”

  “Google Glass obviously needed a complete rethink... I can’t see how something thick-rimmed and more invasive-looking than Google Glass is going to catch on.

“People are keen on wearables like fitness bands and watches, but they care about their faces. Wearing something on your head is a lot stronger than wearing something on your arm,” he added. “The industry keeps pushing it but consumers just don’t want it.”

29. In which countries people can get the SmartEyeglass first?

A. The US and Japan.    B. The US and the UK.  

C. The UK and Japan.    D. Germany and the UK.

30. The purpose of this passage is to __________.

A. introduce an accelerometer developed by the Google company

B. tell the people that the SmartEyeglass will go on sale

C. people like the glasses very much

D. the SmartEyeglass is less than 840 yuan

31. What can be inferred from what Stuart Miles said?

A. He supports Sony’s efforts to develop the SmartEyeglass.

B. He cares more about his clothes and face.

C. He dislikes the SmartEyeglass.1111]

D. He really wants to wear them.

Noise pollution in cities is causing out health to suffer, according to the World Health Organization. Recently, researchers at the Free University of Brussels in Beigium have developed an applocation: NoiseTube. It allows everyone who downloads it the ability to measure the amount of noise they are exposed to by transforming their smart phone into a sound level meter.

NoiseTube works by recording sound levels and GPS locations. Once launched the app shows decibel(分贝) levels of green or red depending on the level of noise. That information is then sent to the NoiseTube server via the Internet where a "noise map" is produced and then made available to the user.

Since its launch, the app has been popular with community groups who want to monitor their own noise levels. According to D’hondt of the Noise Tube project, these groups don’t think that city produced noise maps give an adequate interpretation of the level of noise they’re experiencing. City produced noise maps are based on statistical models involving very few actual measurements.

NoiseTube on the other hand gives a detailed account of the level of noise experienced at a specific time and location. "Ten people walking the same area from 9 to 10 am every day for one week can make a valid(有效的) and detailed map for an area of a couple of blocks," D’Hondt said. “It’s reasonable effort by the community groups to produce these maps, and with it they can go to the authorities and have real evidence about what they’re experiencing.”

So far these sorts of noise maps have been produced for a number of European cities. The app has been downloaded by 10,000 people with 2,700 people registered on the NoiseTube website.

32. How does NoiseTube produce a “noise map?”

A. The NoiseTube server analyzes noise information vis the Internet.

B. The NoiseTube server analyzes noise information via GPS devices.

C. Decibel levels of noise are transformed by a unique device.

D. It produces a “noise map”automatically when it collects enough information.

33.The reliability of city produced noise maps is questionable because __________.

A. the research is based on only a few actual measurements

B. they can only be used at a specific time and location

C. their operating principles are not clear

D. the collected information isn’t enough to prove it

34. Why are community groups producing noise maps?

A. To make more people use noise maps

B. To prove they are useful tools to control noise pollution

C. To make the authorities aware they are experiecing noise pollution

D. To collect valid information for the researchers

35. This passage is most likely to be found in ________.

A. a geograph textbook                     B. a piece of newspaper

C. a reserch report                         D. a story-book

Jenny was a pretty five-year-old girl. One day when she and her mother were checking out at the grocery store, Jenny saw a plastic pearl (珍珠) necklace priced at $2.50. Her mother bought the necklace for her on condition that she had to do some housework to pay it off. Jenny agreed. She worked very hard every day, and soon Jenny paid off the necklace. Jenny loved it so much that she wore it everywhere except when she was in the shower. Her mother had told her it would turn her neck green!

Jenny had a very loving daddy. When Jenny went to bed, he would read Jenny her favorite story.

One night when he finished the story, he said, “Jenny, could you give me your necklace?”

“Oh! Daddy, not my necklace!” Jenny said. “But you can have Rosy, my favorite doll. Remember her? You gave her to me last year for my birthday. Okay? ”

“Oh no, darling, that’s okay.” Her father brushed her cheek with a kiss. “Good night, little one.

A week later, her father once again asked Jenny for the necklace after her favorite story. “Oh, Daddy, not my necklace! But you can have Ribbons, my toy horse. Do you remember her? She’s my favorite.”

“No, that’s okay,” her father said and brushed her cheek again with a kiss. “God bless you, little one. Sweet dreams. ”

Several days later, when Jenny’s father came in to read her a story, Jenny was sitting on her bed and her lip was trembling. “Here, Daddy,” she said, holding out her hand. She opened it and her beloved pearl necklace was inside. She let it slip into her father’s hand.

With one hand her father held the plastic pearl necklace and with the other he pulled out of his pocket a blue box. Inside the box was a real, beautiful pearl necklace. He had had it all along. He was waiting for Jenny to give up the cheap necklace so he could give her a real one.

21. What did Jenny have to do to get the plastic pearl necklace?

A. She had to listen to her father tell a story every night.

B. She had to help her mother do some housework.

C. She had to ask her father to pay for the necklace.

D. She had to give away her favorite toys to the poor children.

22. From the text we know that ______.

A. Jenny’s mother paid a lot for the plastic pearl necklace

B. Jenny got a real pearl necklace from her father

C. Jenny didn’t like Rosy and Ribbons any longer

D. Jenny wore the necklace everywhere even in the shower

23. Jenny’s father asked for her plastic pearl necklace repeatedly in order to ______.

A. get it for himself                   B. train her character  

C. donate it                     D. put it away

24. What can be the best title for the text?

A. A Lovely Girl                        B. Father and Daughter

C. An Unforgettable Childhood           D.A Pearl Necklace

On a very cold winter day, there was a drunken guy ___41___decided that he would go fishing on the ice in the lake.

He packed up all his fishing tools and set out in search of a ___42___ (suit) spot. Eventually he came across a huge area of ice and decided that since he ___43___ (come) to the lake, he would stop there and gave it ___44___ go. He took out a saw(锯) from his tool box, and started to saw a hole in the ice. ___45___ (sudden), a loud voice beside him, “There is no fish here.” came. The drunken man looked ___46___ but he couldn’t find anyone. So he decided to ignore the voice and carried on ___47___(saw). Again, the voice sounded, “I’ve told you once, there is no fish here!” He looked at the surroundings again, but there were still no people there. So he returned to his task. “Stop it!” shouted the very sounding voice, “You’d better get out of here quickly ___48___ you will get into trouble.” “Who are you?” The drunken guy shouted. “You don’t scare me!” “Watch out and listen to me,” ___49___(reply) the voice, “I’m the ___50___(manage) of this Skating Rink!(溜冰场)”

文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号()，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

One of a most challenging experiences that I had so far is moving to Miami from Paraguay when I was fifteen years old. On my first day of school, I became extremely nervously, because several uncertain thought occurred to me. Would people treat to me nicely? Would I like the school? However, before I got there, I felt something amazed about that place. All my nervous thoughts went away and I was totally relaxed because the teachers and the students were very friendly for me. Also, thanks to modern technology, it was easy for us to keep in touch with my friends and family back home, which helped me overcame the feeling of homesickness to some extent.

No one understood cholera and every time it came, thousands died. Neither its cause 61.______ its cure was understood. Queen Victoria's doctor, John Snow, wanted to find 62.______ how it was caused. When the disease came to London again in 1854, Snow noticed that most of the 500 people 63.______ died had drunk water from a water pump in Broad Street.

Two other deaths were linked to the Broad Street outbreak. A woman and her daughter used the water from Broad Street pump and died. With the 64.________(support) evidence, he was able to announce 65._______ certainty that the water carried the virus.

He concluded that the water was 66.___________(blame) and found that the pump's water came from a river 67.__________(pollute) by the dirty water from London dirty. After he told the 68.____________ (astonish) people to remove the handle from the pump and stopped people from using the pump, people 69.___________ (gradual) stopped dying.

Snow suggested all source of water should be checked and water companies take care not to supply people with dirty water. In this way, cholera ___________(defeat).

The Way We Do Things Round Here

        Some years ago, I was hired by an American bank. I received a letter from the head of the Personnel Department that started, "Dear John, I am quite pleased that you have decided to join us." That "quite" saddened me. I thought he was saying "we're kind of pleased you decided to join us although I wish we had hired someone else." Then I discovered that in American English "quite" sometimes means "very", while in British English it means "fairly".

        So the first lesson about working in other countries is to learn the language and by that I don't just mean the words people speak. It is body language, dress, manners, ideas and so on. The way people do things highlights many of the differences we see between cultures.

        Some of these differences may be only on the surface—dress, food and hours of work—while others may be deeper and take longer to deal with. Mostly, it is just a question of getting used to the differences and accepting them, like the climate, while getting on with business.

        Some of the differences may be an improvement. People are more polite; the service is better; you ask for something to be done and it happens without having to ask again. However, other differences can be troubling, like punctuality(准时). If you invite people to a party at 7 o'clock your guests will consider it polite to turn up exactly on time in Germany, five minutes early in the American Midwest, an hour early in Japan, 15 minutes afterwards in the UK, up to an hour afterwards in Italy and some time in the evening in Greece. I prefer not to use the word "late" because there is nothing wrong with the times people arrive. It is simply the accepted thing to do in their own country.

32. The author was unhappy as mentioned in Paragraph 1 because he thought                 .

   A. the American bank didn't think much of him

   B. the American bank might hire another person

   C. it's difficult to get used to American culture

   D. it's easy to misunderstand Americans

33. The word "highlights" in Paragraph 2 probably means                 .

   A. encourages                           B. helps to narrow

   C. increases                            D. draws attention to

34. According to the author, what should we do with most cultural differences?

   A. Ask the native people for help.

   B. Understand and accept them.

   C. Do things in our own way.

   D. Do in-depth research.

35. When invited to a party the people who are usually punctual are                 .

   A. Italians         B. Greeks           C. Germans          D. the British

I hear many parents saying that their teenage children are rebellion(反叛的). I wish it were so. At your age you ought to be growing away from your parents. You should be learning to stand on your own two feet. But take a good look at the present rebellion. It seems that teenagers are all taking the same way of showing that they degree with their parents. Instead of striking out bravely on their own, most of them are trying to seize at one another’s hands for safety.

　　They say they want to dress as they please. But they all wear the same clothes. They set off in new directions in music. But somehow reason for thinking or acting in thus-and-such a way is that the crowd is doing it. They have come out of their cocoon(蚕茧) -----into a larger cocoon.

　　It has become harder and harder for a teenager to stand up against the popularity wave and to go his or her own way. Industry has firmly opened up a teenage market. These days every teenager can learn from newspapers and TV what a teenager should have and be. And many of today’s parents have come to award(奖励) high marks for the popularity of their children. All this adds up to great difficulty for the teenager who wants to find his or her own path.

　　But the difficulty is worth getting over. The path is worth following. You may want to listen to classical music instead of going to a party. You may want to collect rocks when everyone else is collecting records. You may have some thoughts that you don’t care to share at once with your classmates. Well, go to it. Find yourself. Be yourself. Popularity will come-----with the people who respect you for who you are. That’s the only kind of popularity that really counts.

　　29. The writer’s purpose in writing this passage is to tell_______.

　　   A. readers how to be popular in the word

　　   B. parents how to control and guide their children

　　   C. teenagers how to learn to decide things for themselves

　     D. people how to understand and respect each other

　　30. According to the writer, many teenagers think they are brave enough to act on their own, but, in fact, most of them______.

　　   A. have much difficulty in understanding each other

　　   B. dare not do things　

C. are not sure of themselves

　   　D. are very much afraid of getting lost

　　31. Which of the following is NOT true according to passage?

　   　A. There is no popularity that really counts.

　　   B. What many parents are doing is actually keeping their children from finding their own paths.

　  　C. It is not necessarily bad for a teenager to disagree with his or her classmates.

　　   D. Most teenagers say they want to do what they like to, but in fact they are doing the same.

　　32. During the teenage years, one should learn to_____.

　   　A. become different from others in as many ways as possible

　   　B. get into the right reason and become popular

　　   C. rebel against parents

D. find one’s real self

That afternoon，a disease forced Diana to experience an emergency operation to deliver the couple’s new daughter．At 12 inches long and  41  only one pound and nine ounces，she was a premature baby．

But the doctor’s soft words dropped like  42 ．“I don’t think she’s going to make it” he said．“There’s only a 10-percent  43  she will pull through the night，and even then，if by some chance she does make it，her future could be a very  44  one．”

David and Diana listened as the doctor  45  the serious problems the newly—born baby，Anna，would  46  face if she survived．She would never walk；she would never  47  ；she would probably be blind；and so on．

“No! No!” was all Diana could  48 ．She and David，with their 5-year-old son Dusfin，had long  49  the day they would have a daughter to become a  50  of four．Now，within a matter of hours，that dream was slipping away. But Diana insisted，“I don’t care what the doctors say! One day she will be coming home with us!”

Certainly，there was  51  a moment when Anna suddenly grew  52  ．But as the weeks went by，she did  53  gain an ounce of weight here and an ounce of  54  there. At last，when Anna turned two months old，her parents were able to  55  her in their arms for the very first time though  56  continued to gently but coldly  57  that her chances of surviving，much less living any kind of normal life，were next to zero．

Finally，Anna went home from the hospital，just as her mother had  58  .Today，five years later，Anna is a little but lively young girl with bright gray eyes  59  a strong interest for life. She shows no  60  of any mental or physical injuries. Simply，she is everything a little girl can be．

41．A．showing              B．counting      C．measuring     D．weighing

42．A．gifts                    B．bombs         C．orders           D．comforts

43．A．chance               B．right            C．time             D．result

44．A．easy                   B．common      C．cruel              D．peaceful

45．A．solved                 B．collected    C．created         D．described

46．A．bravely               B．likely         C．completely     D．firmly

47．A．talk                     B．taste            C．breathe         D．see

48．A．act                      B．consider      C．say                D．refuse

49．A．gone through      B．given up      C．relied on               D．dreamed of

50．A．family                  B．group          C．team              D．unit

51．A．ever                   B．even            C．never                 D．still

52．A．happier               B．stronger      C．quieter          D．calmer

53．A．strangely            B．sharply        C．particularly    D．slowly

54．A．strength              B．progress    C．skill                D．wisdom

55．A．hold                    B．grasp                 C．touch             D．defend

56．A．nurses                    B．parents       C．relatives               D．doctors

57．A．notice                     B．warn            C．judge             D．urge

58．A．doubted              B．feared         C．hoped           D．accused

59．A．but                      B．and             C．so               D．or

60．A．effects                B．marks          C．signs                  D．evidences

 We must work hard to___________ a good knowledge of English.

    A. take       B. acquire      C. catch        D. hold