A Welcome Gift

Dario and his mother loved their new apartment. The living room was large enough for their piano. That night, the two of them  __41__  side by side at the piano. They played jazz music to celebrate their new home. The loud  __42__  filled the room and made them feel very happy.

The next morning, _43___ , their happiness disappeared. Someone had left a __44___ under their door during the night. One of their neighbor had written to complain(抱怨) about the sound of the piano. Dario’s mother asked the building superintendent(管理员) if he knew anything about it. But he said that they were all __45__people and he couldn’t imagine any of them had done that. Later that morning, Dario suggested that they write a letter to their __46__and apologize for their playing.

“Maybe we could go and __47___  everyone in person.” his mother said.

“What if we invited them to come here for a __48___ instead? Dario asked.

They both loved the __49__ . Over the next few days, they sent out invitations and prepared desserts__50___their guests. They decorated the apartment with streamers(彩带) and party lights.

Finally, the day of the party __51___. Some guests brought presents. Others brought flowers. Some even brought desserts to __52__. One woman, Mrs. Gilbert,__53___ Dario’s mother with a book of piano music by Chopin.

“I heard you playing the other night,” she said. “The sounds woke me out of bed. I___54_that you might play like this every night. So I wrote a short note. I hope you don’t think I disliked the playing.”

Dario’s mother smiled at Mrs. Gilbert. “I think maybe we __55__ you an apology.” she said. “I didn’t _56__ how late it was when we were playing. Maybe we should play some quieter music at night.

“You play, you play!” Mrs. Gilbert said. “I like what you play! Just not so loud at night.” She pointed to the book she had given them. “These songs are not such_57___music.”

“These songs are beautiful music.” Dario’s mother said. “We will be __58__ to play them in the evening.”

“And we won’t play so loud or late!” Dario said. He was already looking forward to __59__  the new music. More than that, however, he was happy to see the big smile on his mother’s face. It gave him a feeling of _60___and made him feel that they were home at last.

41.A. sat                            B. stood                      C. lay                          D. walked

42.A. voice                        B. ring                         C. music                      D. cry

43.A. therefore               B. however                  C. otherwise                D. instead

44.A. note                         B. poster                      C. bill                          D. report

45.A. proud                       B. rich                         C. lucky                       D. nice

46.A. neighbors                B. friends                    C. relatives                 D. audience

47.A. blame                      B. instruct                   C. question                 D. visit

48.A. party                        B. concert                  C. show                       D. play

49.A. experience               B. idea                        C. performance           D. action

50.A. to                         B. with                         C. for                          D. from

51.A. continued                B. arrived                    C. passed                          D. finished

52.A. order        B. sell                          C. share                      D. advertise

53.A. treated                 B. presented               C. helped                           D. served

54. A. promised               B. admitted                 C. agreed                          D. worried

55. A. give                       B. send                       C. offer                       D. owe

56. A. realize                B. remember               C. understand                    D. accept

57. A. sweet                 B. strange                   C. funny                      D. loud

58. A. brave                  B. sorry                       C. happy                            D. afraid

59. A. changing               B. practicing                C. recording                      D. writing

60. A. equality                 B. freedom               C. warmth                   D. sympathy

Located just behind Amsterdam Central station, Al Ponte is a popular cafe serving people on their way to and from the nearby ferry port. Not all Al Ponte’s customers pay for their coffees, however.

Al Ponte is one of the businesses taking part in Wasted, a project running in Amsterdam’s Noord district. It encourages households to recycle their plastics by rewarding them with discounts at local businesses.

When people sign up, they are given bags with unique QR codes, enabling the project’s organizers to give the correct credit to each household once the filled bags have been collected. For every bag of plastic, households earn one green coin.

At Al Ponte, one coin earns users a free second coffee. Meanwhile, at Beekhoven Bikes, three coins earn users 50% off bike repairs.

Silvia Salani, who owns Al Ponte, says there are days when only one or two customers have a coin to exchange free coffees. As well as improving her standing in the community, Salani believes being part of the project has been positive for business growth. Those who first came in with friends for free coffees usually return as paid customers.

Since Wasted was set up in early 2015 by a non-profit organization, Cities Foundation, more than 700 households have signed up. In a recent survey, 52% of users said they improved their waste disposal (处理) habits as a result of using Wasted and 23% said they reduced their plastics consumption.

Broader research shows schemes that reward people to recycle have mixed long-term results. A study shows the project caused different results. While the organizers acknowledge the long-term challenge, they believe that creating awareness can help bring positive effects, “We want to engage those who don’t usually care about recycling. At the same time, we can build a social contract between the community and business owners that goes beyond the traditional consumer relationship,” she says.

32. What’s the purpose of Wasted?

A. To encourage plastic recycling.

B. To promote sales in local businesses.

C. To advertise local tourist attractions.

D. To help win discounts at local stores.

33. Who can have a free second coffee at Al Ponte?

A. The organizers of Wasted.

B. People to and from the ferry port.

C. Those who have “green coins”.

D. People from nearby households.

34. Why does Silvia favor the project?

A. It has helped her earn many green coins.

B. It has improved her habits of dealing with waste.

C. It has reduced the plastic consumption in her cafe.

D. It is beneficial both to her reputation and her business.

35. What do the organizers think of the project?

A. It is worth all the efforts.

B. The results are discouraging.

C. It won’t make much difference.

D. It’s more challenging than promising.

  Outside her shabby cottage, old Mrs. Tailor was hanging out laundry on a wire line, unaware that some children lay hidden in the leaves of a nearby tree watching her every move. They were determined to find out if she really was a witch.

   They watched as she took a broomstick to clean the dirt from her stone steps. But, much to their disappointment, she did not mount the broomstick and take a flight. Suddenly, the old lady’s work was interrupted by the cackling of her hen—a signal that an egg had been laid in the warm nest on top of the haystack.

   The old broomstick was put aside as she hobbled off towards the haystack followed by Sooty, a black cat she had rescued from a fox trap some time back. With only three legs, it was hard for Sooty to keep up with the old lady. The cat provided proof—the children were sure that only a witch could own a black cat with three legs.

    There, standing on a wooden box, was Mrs. Tailor, stretching out to gather her precious egg. Taking the egg in one of her hands, she began to climb down when, without warning, the box broke and the old lady fell.

 “We have to got and help her,” whispered Amy.

 “What if it is a trick?” replied Ben.

 “Don’t be silly, Ben. If she were a witch, she would have turned us into frogs already,” reasoned Meg. “Come on, Amy, let’s go.” The girls climbed down the tree and ran all the way to the haystack.

   Approaching carefully, they could see a wound on the old lady’s face. She had knocked her head on a stone and her ankle was definitely broken. “Go and get Dad,” Amy yelled to her brother. “Tell him about the accident.”

   The boys did not need another excuse to leave. They ran as fast as they could for help, hoping that Mrs. Tailor would not wake and turn the girls into frogs.

21. Why were the children hiding in the tree?

 A. They wanted to watch Mrs. Tailor do her housework closely.

 B. They were playing a hide-and-seek game

 C. They wanted to find out if the rumors about Mrs. Tailor were true

 D. They were pretending to be spies

22. Mrs. Tailor stopped sweeping when____

 A. her front steps were clean             B. she noticed the children in the tree

 C. she was ready to take a flight          D. she heard the hen cackling

23. Ben did not rush in help Mrs. Tailor because_____

   A. he thought that she could be tricking them

   B. he knew that they could not have been in the tree

   C. he did not see the old lady fall down

   D. he was afraid of the three-legged cat

24. Which of these old sayings best suits the story’s lesson for us?

   A. Make hay while the sun shines.

   B. Never judge a book by its cover.

   C. People in glasshouses should not throw stones.

   D. A bird in the hands worth two in the bush.

The “freshman fifteen”

You may not have heard the words “freshman fifteen” before, but they are very important for students who are entering university.  36  “Fifteen” refers to fifteen pounds(磅)----the fifteen pounds added to a student’s weight in his or her first year. There are a number of reasons why first-year university students put on weight, but it’s encouraging to know that freshmen don’t have to add these harmful fifteen pounds.

Mistakes choosing food

__37  Some students choose unhealthy food, because now their parents are not nearby to help them choose. Some students visit the kitchen many times while studying. Late at night, some students get harmful fast food such as French fries and chicken nuggets(鸡块) with Coke to drink.

Eating right

__38  Here are some ideas:

·Think more about what you eat.

·Eat plenty of vegetables and healthy meats.

·Don’t eat desserts(甜食) full of sugar;  have fruit after dinner.

·  39 

·It’s all right to have a little fast food —but not often.

Remember that the “freshman fifteen” can happen to anyone.   40   Together, try to eat healthy food and not to eat junk food. Walking, running, and playing sports is always more fun with friends. Help each other and you can have a healthy and happy freshman year.

A. Talk to your friends about it.

B. Take a long trip and you will feel better!

C. A freshman is a first-year college student.

D. University kitchens serve many kinds of food.

E. Try not to eat so much junk food when you study.

F. If you are careful, you don’t have to add fifteen pounds.

G. Students also find that they have less time to do exercise.

Middle Island, off the coast of southern Victoria, Australia, is home to the world’s smallest penguins—fairy penguins. There used to be hundreds of them on Middle Island before foxes got to them. “We went from a point where we had around 800 penguins down to where we could only find four.” says Peter Abbott from the Penguin Preservation Project. “Once 360 birds were killed over about two nights.”

        That particular incident happened in 2005, but the problem had been building up for several years. Middle Island, where no people live, is separated from the mainland by a stretch of water measuring no more than 20 or 30m deep. At low tide, and when sand builds up in the narrow channel, foxes can cross from the mainland barely getting their paws（爪子）wet.

        A chicken farmer suggested sending his Maremma dogs to the Island. The first dog which was sent to Middle Island is called Oddball. The dogs operate in the penguins’ breeding（繁殖）season, from October to March, spending five or six days a week on the island. Even when the dogs are not there, the smell they left is enough to keep foxes away. The fairy penguin population has gone back up to almost 200.

        The project has been such a success that a movie called Oddball has been made about it. It has increased tourism, and in the summer months people can visit the island on a “Meet the Maremma Tour.” Many locals appeared as characters in the film. “My character was played by an American actor,” says Peter Abbott.“ I tell people it’s because they couldn’t find an Australian as good-looking as me.”

8. What happened to the fairy penguins after foxes appeared on Middle Island?

    A. They were frightened away from the island.

    B. They almost became extinct.

    C. They stopped breeding in breeding seasons.

    D. They daren’t go out at night.

9. How did the foxes reach Middle Island?

    A. By walking directly from the mainland.

    B. By following the tracks left by people.

    C. By swimming across the stretch of water.

    D. By building up sand in the stretch of water.

10. Why were Maremma dogs sent to the island?

    A. To kill more foxes.           

    B. To guard the islanders.

    C. To leave their smell there.     

    D. To protect the fairy penguins.

11. What made Middle Island famous?

    A. The movie Oddball.     

    B. The fairy penguins.

    C. Maremma dogs.      

    D. Meet the Maremma tour.

"How are you?" is a nice question. It's a friendly way that people in the United States greet each other. But "How are you?" is also a very unusual question. It's a question that often doesn't need an answer. The person who asks "How are you?" hopes to hear the answer "Fine", even if the person's friend isn't fine. The reason is that "How are you?" isn't really a question and "Fine" isn't really an answer. They are simply other ways of saying "Hello" or "Hi".

     Sometimes, people also don't say exactly what they mean. For example, when someone asks "Do you agree?" the other person might think, "No, I disagree. I think you're wrong…" But it isn't very polite to disagree so strongly, so the other person might say "I'm not sure." It's a nicer way to say that you don't agree with someone.

     People also don't say exactly what they are thinking when they finish talking with other people. For example, many talks over the phone finish when one person says "I have to go now." Often, the person who wants to hang up gives an excuse: "Someone's at the door." "Something is burning on the stove." The excuses might be real, or not. Perhaps the person who wants to hang up simply doesn't want to talk any more, but it isn't polite to say that. The excuse is more polite, and it doesn't hurt the other person.

     Whether they are greeting each other, talking about an idea, or finishing a talk, people don't say exactly what they are thinking. It's an important way that people try to be nice to each other, and it's part of the game of language.

29. When a person says "I have to go now" "Someone's at the door", the person may be _______.

A. giving an excuse        

B. hurting someone's feeling

C. ill in bed              

D. asking you a question

30. What does the rule of the game of language probably mean?

A. Be polite.                 

B. Don't disagree with people.

C. Always say what you mean.   

D. Never say exactly what you are thinking.

31. When a person in the United States asks "How are you?, he or she wants to hear " _______".

A. How are you?    B. Hello.    C. I don't know.     D. Fine.

32. When a person disagrees with someone, it is polite to say "_______".

A. You're wrong. I disagree.          B. I'm not sure.

C. I'm sure I disagree.               D. No, I disagree.

AIDS researchers say they still have much work to do on a vaccine (疫苗) against HIV. But the first reports of some success have raised hopes.    1  

The study was designed to test for two abilities. One was the ability of the vaccine to prevent HIV infections. The other was its ability to reduce the amount of virus in the blood of people who became infected during the study.

Volunteers received vaccinations over a period of six months and were tested for HIV for an additional three years. The study began in 2003. It was the largest AIDS vaccine trial yet.  2    Half received the vaccine. The other half received a placeho, an inactive substance (物质). The volunteers did not know which they were getting.

Seventy-four people in the placeho group became infected during the study.    3    Doctor Supachai Rerks-Ngarm, who led the study for the Thai Ministry of Public Health, called it a scientific breakthrough.

The National Institutes of Health also took part. Doctor Anthony Fauci at NIH called the findings an important step forward.    4    But he also said additional research was needed to better understand how the vaccine reduced the risk in those individuals.

The vaccine did not lower the amount of virus in the blood of volunteers who became infected during the study. The study was based on versions of HIV commonly found in Thailand. The volunteers received a combination of two vaccines.    5   The second, or booster, vaccine was developed by VaxGen. The nonprofit group Global Solution for Infectious Diseases now has rights to it.

Neither vaccine had been successful by itself when tested earlier. More detailed results of the study are expected to be presented at an AIDS vaccine conference in Paris next month.

Twelve years ago yesterday, my mother gave birth to the most beautiful girl.    1   , we were later given the       2    that this little girl, who was three and a half months old, would only have 14 days on the earth. It’s hard to understand what kind of    3   you have when you find out that you’re   4   something that you don’t even know.
    As time went on, the number of days kept growing, which gave us   5   . When the doctors said that we could take her home, that was   6   reality hit. We had no   7  .
    I am from a small town with   8   hospitals, but when you don’t have money, you just don’t have it. My mother tried for days to get the money, but nothing   9  each time. A caseworker(社会工作者) was even doing her best. It’s   10  that it almost felt as if we had to  11   a baby from the hospital.
    One day the caseworker walked into her boss’s office to   12  again. As she walked out,    13   down yet again, out of nowhere a man walked up to her. He   14   her a handful of money and said, “Please give this to the lady in   15  , so she can take her daughter home.” She looked down at her hand with tears in her eyes. As she looked back up to thank him, he was   16  . They searched all over that hospital and he was nowhere to be  17  .
    Thanks to the guy that I will   18  know, we could take home that   19  baby girl that was only given 14 days to live, and celebrated her 12th birthday yesterday. I am grateful to this man and feel that his act of   20   should be shared with everyone.

       London’s newest skyscraper (摩天大楼)is called the Shard and it cost about 430 million pounds to build. At a height of almost 310 metres, it is the tallest building in Europe. The Shard has completely changed the appearance of London. However, not everyone thinks that it is a change for the better.

       The Shard was designed by the famous Italian architect Renzo Piano. When he began designing the Shard for London, Piano wanted a very tall building that looked like a spire (尖顶). He wanted the glass surfaces to reflect the sky and the city. The sides of the building aren’t regular. So the building has an unusual shape. It looks like a very thin，sharp piece of broken glass. And that is how the building got the name: the Shard. Piano says that the spire shape of the Shard is part of a great London tradition. The shape reminds him of the spires of the churches of London or the tall masts(桅杆) of the ships that were once on the river Thames.

       The Shard has 87 floors. At the top, there is an observatory. At the moment the building is empty, but eventually there will be a five-star hotel. There will also be top quality restaurants, apartments and offices.

       Before building work began, a lot of people didn’t want the Shard though the plans were approved. Now they are still unhappy about the Shard. Some critics say that such a tall skyscraper might be good in a city like New York, but not in London. They say that the best thing about the Shard is its spire shape. But that is the only thing. There is no decoration, only flat surfaces. The Egyptians did that 4,500 years ago. They also think the Shard is too big for London. It destroys the beauty of the city.

       Other critics don’t like what the Shard seems to represent. They say that the Shard shows how London is becoming more unequal. Only very rich people can afford to buy the expensive private apartments and stay in the hotel. But the people who live near the Shard are among the poorest in London. So the Shard seems a symbol of the division in society between the very rich and the poor.

       The Shard now dominates the London skyline. It is not certain, however, that ordinary London citizens will ever accept it as a valuable addition to the city.

4.London’s newest skyscraper is called the Shard because of      .

       A. its cost                                                                     B. its size

       C. its shape                                                                 D. its height

5.When he designed the Shard, Piano wanted it to      .

       A. change London’s skyline                                                B. inherit London’s tradition

       C. imitate the Egyptian style                                               D. attract potential visitors

6.The critics who refer to social division think the Shard      .

       A. is only preferred by the rich                                     B. is far away from the poor area

       C. is intended for wealthy people                                        D. is popular only with Londoners

7.Which would be the best title for the passage?

       A. The Shard: Cheers and Claps                                        B. The Shard: Work of a Great Architect

       C. The Shard: New Symbol of London?                              D. The Shard: A Change for the Better?

假如英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及单词的增加、删除或修改。

Life is complicated. We can’t avoid anything annoy or stressful. However, what is of great importance is that we should keep a good state of mind.

An experience never fades from my memory. With a vital exam drawing near, I felt such nervous that I even couldn’t eat or sleep, thus make me very sleepy in class. Seeing this, my teacher comes to my help. With her aid, I adjusted myself and felt confidence again. In the meantime, a detailed plan was made go over my lessons. In the end, I managed to pass the exam.

It was a good state of mind which helped me get through the exam. A good state of 

mind is what it takes to realize our goal. Whenever your emotion is out of the control, just keep in mind that only with possessing a good state of mind can you attain success.

Modern life can be stressful. It’s full of pressure and hardships, worries and annoyances. But after years of being dosed up by doctors and seeking solutions on the self-help shelves, can most common complaints be cured through your next holiday?

The festival doctor will see you now.

21. When celebrating the festival Just for Laughs in Montreal, you will _________.

A. empty your mind with meditation sessions  

B. be thrilled and your depression will not be removed  

C. burst into tears by watching comedy films  

D. have discussions on the meaning of life

22. If you are thinking too much about work, you can spend a few days at ___________.  

A. Wanderlust Festival          B. How The Light Gets In  

C. Just For Laughs             D. Ireland’s Matchmaking Festival

23. According to the passage, we can learn the festival doctor specializes in ________.  

A. treating people falling ill during festivals  

B. listening to people’s complaints during festivals  

C. offering a cure through the festival form  

D. celebrating the festivals with the patients

 The boy ______ in the exam is a student in Class Nine.

A. catching cheating                B. caught cheated    

C. catching cheated                 D. caught cheating

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。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：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），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：在错的词下画一横线，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。

I’m very glad to have the chance to run after the president of the student union. I am student in Grade Three. Since I come to the high school, I have always been the monitor of my class. I have done a very good job for my classmate and my teachers give me good praise. I’m good in communication and organizing but always ready to help others. Moreover, I have some hobbies and I’m sure that I am well to fit for this position. If I became president, I’ll try my best to make the union attractive by organizing differently activities. I’ll do many things for you to meet my demands as well. I hope you will give me a chance.

There are several reasons why cats climb trees, mostly to do with defensive purposes. Cats, as predators(捕食者)，like to understand their environment well. Cats climb trees to get a better view or their surroundings, to help them see any potential dangers or potential prey（被掠食者）.

While cats are predators, they can also be easily attacked by larger animals. A tree often provides a safe hiding place. In the wild, cats climb up trees to give them a resting place that is out of predators’ range. It also helps disguise their presence, which can prevent any prey from noticing that there is a cat nearby.

Sometimes some cats may climb trees for fun, or possibly to work on improving their climbing abilities. Kittens frequently test out their claw skills by trying to climb up everything, from bookcases to trees to a person’s leg. Climbing practice is good for cats; it can improve their strength and flexibility and teach them an important defensive skill. To prevent them from practicing indoor climbing of your furniture, however, owners may wish to buy a carpeted cat tree for climbing.

If a cat has gotten up a tree and cannot get down, the owner may wonder why its remarkable climbing abilities only work in one direction. A cat’s claws curve（弯曲）inward, allowing it to take hold of surfaces while going up head first. Unfortunately, this useful climbing curve does nothing to help the animal get back down again. Eventually, most trapped kittens will either jump out of the tree or realize that they can get down by going tail first. Either way, a cat up a tree is usually nothing to panic about unless it is injured; they are intelligent animals and will find out how to get down sooner or later.

29. In most cases, cats climb trees in order to           

   A. have fun                  B. seek food

   C. defend themselves         D. please their owners

30.What does the underlined word “disguise” in Paragraph 2 mean?

   A. Find out                  B. Focus on

   C. Make clear                D. Cover up

31. Why do people want to buy carpeted cat trees              

A. To train their cats in climbing.     B. To help protect their furniture.

   C. To improve their cats' claw skills.   D. To keep their cats warm in winter.

32. Seeing your cat up a tree, you are supposed to       

   A. just take it easy             B. lead it down slowly

   C. feed some food to it at once      D. keep an eye on it all the time

Last Friday,I learned a lesson about telling lies.Early in morning,I didn't want to go to school,but I pretended to feel ill.My mother was very worrying when I told her.She left quickly and.I thought she has gone to work.But soon, she came back with a bottle of pill.She said that she had asked fora day off work to look for me.I felt a little guilty but I dared not tell the true.That afternoon,my teacher came to visit to me.I felt so regretfully for telling lies.I had wasted anybody's time.Finally,I admitted had lied and promise never to do it again.

We discuss the issue of when to help a patient die. Doctors of our generation are not newcomers to this question. Going back to my internship（实习）days, I can remember many patients in pain, sometimes in coma(昏迷), with late, hopeless cancer. For many of them, we wrote an order for heavy medication—morphine(吗啡)by the clock. This was not talked about openly and little was written about it. It was essential, not controversial.

The best way to bring the problem into focus is to describe two patients whom I cared for. The first, formerly a nurse, had an automobile accident. A few days later her lungs seemed to fill up; her heart developed dangerous rhythm disturbances. So there she was: in coma, on a breathing machine, her heartbeat maintained with an electrical device. One day after rounds, my secretary said the husband and son of the patient wanted to see me. They told me their wife and mother was obviously going to die; she was a nurse and had told her family that she never wanted this kind of terrible death, being maintained by machines. I told them that while I respected their view, there was nothing deadly about her situation. The kidney(肾) failure she had was just the kind for which the artificial kidney was most effective. While possibly a bit reassured, they were disappointed. Here was the head surgeon seemingly determined to keep everybody alive, no matter what.

Within a few days the patient's pacemaker(起搏器) could be removed and she awoke from her coma. About six months later, the door of my office opened and in walked a gloriously fit woman. After some cheery words of appreciation, the father and son asked to speak to me alone. As soon as the door closed, both men became quite tearful. All that came out was, "We want you to know how wrong we were."

The second patient was an 85-year-old lady whose hair caught fire while she was smoking. She arrived with a deep burn; I knew it would surely be deadly. As a remarkable coincidence there was a meeting for discussion going on at the time in medical ethics(道德). The speaker asked me if I had any sort of ethical problem I could bring up for discussion. I described the case and asked the students their opinion. After the discussion, I made a remark that was, when looking back, a serious mistake. I said, "I'll take the word back to the nurses about her and we will talk about it some more before we decide." The instructor and the students were shocked: "You mean this is a real patient?" The teacher of ethics was not accustomed to being challenged by actuality. In any event, I went back and met with the nurses. A day or two later, when she was making no progress and was suffering terribly, we began to back off treatment. Soon she died quietly and not in pain. As a reasonable physician, you had better move ahead and do what you would want done for you. And don't discuss it with the world first. There is a lesson here for everybody. Assisting people to leave this life requires strong judgment and long experience to avoid its misuse.

50. In the early days when a patient had got a deadly, hopeless illness, _____.

A. doctors used to ask the patient to go back home and wait for death

B. doctors would write all their treatment plan on the patient’s medical record

C. doctors would talk about their treatment plan openly

D. usually doctors would inject more morphine into the patient to end his life

52. In the second paragraph, why were they disappointed?

A. Their wife and mother was going to die.                          

B. They doctor didn’t do as they asked to.

C. Their wife and mother had to receive a kidney transplant.

D. The doctor scolded them for their cruelty                                

53. At the meeting, the author discussed with the students_____.

A. how to help patients end their lives

B. the importance of mercy killing

C. the relationship between mercy killing and ethics

D. the case about an old lady

54. The author suggested that doctors_____ before they assist a patient in killing himself.

A. discuss it with the others first

B. make sure there is no other choice left

C. be required to do so first by the patient

D. give the patient enough morphine

55. Which of the following can best describe the author?

A. Cruel.        B. Determined.     C. Experienced.         D. Considerate.

 I’ll take seriously ___________ advice you put forward.

A. whatever         B. however                C. whichever       D. whenever

Mr. Smith ________ these days. I think he should take a holiday before he burns out.

A. has been overworking       B. overworked

C. had overworked             D. was overworking

April 23 marks the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death. Organizations in Britain have planned numerous events to honor him.

    In Stratford-upon-Avon, his birthplace, the tourism organization has a great number of free events, including performances of Shakespeare’s plays, and a dazzling fireworks display. And the BBC is broadcasting a live show from Stratfore-upon-Avon, celebrating Shakespeare’s widespread influence on the world. In England’s capital, the London Shakespeare Centre is holding a series of public performances, exhibitions and activities. It isn’t just England that honors the anniversary of the death of this extraordinary writer. In Washington, D.C., the Folger Shakespeare Library, which houses the world’s largest collection of documents relating to William Shakespeare, is displaying a series of exhibitions.

     Shakespeare is probably one of the most famous authors and is considered a genius. He wrote around 37 plays and 154 sonnets(十四行诗), and his work has been translated into over one hundred languages! He penned beautiful metaphors(暗喻), serious dramas and amusing tales.

     Shakespeare also invented many new terms and phrases. If someone’s behavior suggested they were not being honest and should not be trusted, Shakespeare called their actions suspicious. If someone was being silly and perhaps looking like a fool, Shakespeare found their actions laughable. And Shakespeare called people who offered their opinions on the quality of something critics. Today, for instance, food critics and film critics give audiences their opinions of foods and films. The familiar phrase “break the ice” comes from Shakespeare’s play The Taming of the Shrew. “The ice is broken” when a difficult conversation or meeting is calmed by some basic introduction, such as a simple game. More common words coined by Shakespeare include road, gossip, lonely, bump and hurry.

Four hundred years after his death, Shakespeare surely lives on，in everyday speech, as the most famous writer of all time!

24. The passage is mainly about ______.

A. the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death

B. the influence Shakespeare has on written English

C. the friends of William Shakespeare

D. Shakespeare’s colorful and fruitful life

25. Shakespeare is honored in the following ways except ______.

A. a great number of free events in Stratford-upon-Avon

B. a series of activities in the London Shakespeare Centre

C. a series of exhibitions in the Folger Shakespeare Library

D. a live show of Shakespeare in Washington, D.C.

26. According to the text, a simple game to make a difficult conversation easy is called ______.

A. an ice-breaker  B. a suspicious man  C. a critic  D. a laughable man

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。

I used to feel sleepy in class and I couldn’t focus to my lessons. As a result, not only did I do badly in our studies, but also my health went from bad to worse, for that I was often scolded by my parents. I decide to change my situation. Half a year ago, followed my teacher’s advice, I began to join some sports activities. I now play the basketball for 45 minutes every day. My health has improved, but at the same time, I’ve made lots of progresses in my studies. Physical exercise has changed me into an entire new person.