It's time for your family to relax and have fun! The following family adventures have links for you to get more information.

Take the Rides of Your Life

Visit Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, to seek thrills "Even though it's located off the beaten track, experts regularly praise Cedar Point as the best overall theme park of the country," says U.S. News & World Report. The park calls itself the roller coaster capital of the world, and with 16 to choose from, it's hard to argue. It's open daily from May 10 through Labor Day; weekends only from Labor Day through November 2.

Tickets start at $ 48.99 per person if purchased online.

http://www.cedarpoint.com.

Wander Free on a Dude farm

Dust off your cowboy boots and ready your cowboy hats for a visit to this Rocky Mountains paradise. Located in Augusta, Montana, "The farm has everything an aspiring cowboy or girl could long for," says Sunset magazine, including hiking trails, fishing trips, campfires with sing-alongs, and, of course, horseback rides. The large farm operates from June through September; kids-only and adults-only programs are available.

Total cost starts at $ 1,360 per adult, $ 1,276 per teen, and $ 1,168 per child.

http://www.Triplejranch.com.

Dig for Dinosaurs

Most kids （and adults） love dinosaurs, and to make their wildest dreams come true, head to Fruita, Colorado. The Museum of Western Colorado offers Dino Digs for children ages five and older. You can choose from one-, three-, and five-day expeditions. "Imagine how your child will feel when she helps unearth the fossilized（化石） bones of ancient species," says Outside magazine. It lasts from May to October.

Digs start at $ 125 per person.

http://www.museumofwesternco.com.

Surf Sand Dunes

Swap your snowboard for a sand-board, and head to Sand Master Park in Florence, Oregon. Real Simple recommends learning the basics at this private dune park, "which offers board rentals and lessons ---- often taught by world-champion sand boarders." Then you can hit the "slopes" to test your skills. From March to June, and September to November.

Rentals for a sand-board start at $ 10 per day; lessons start at $ 45 an hour per person.

http:/'www.sandmasterpark.com.

33．What is special about Cedar Point?

A. You can visit Cedar Point on weekends.

B. It has 16 roller coasters for you to choose from.

C. You can help unearth the fossilized bones of dinosaurs.

D. It offers lessons taught by world-champion sand boarders.

34．If you have a 3-day holiday in April, which of the following may interest you most?

A. Take the Rides of Your Life

B. Wander Free on a Dude farm

C. Dig for Dinosaurs

D. Surf Sand Dunes

Should we stay or should we go? This is a question that Scottish people have been facing recently, as they decide whether or not to stay in the UK.

Scotland has been part of the United Kingdom for more than 300 years. However, many Scottish people want to leave the UK and Scotland to be an independent country, which will be decided in the referendum on Sept 18.

Opinion polls as of August 28 put the percentage of votes for “yes” to independence on 42 percent and “no” on 48 percent, with 11 percent still undecided, according to whatscotlandthinks.org. Although the Better Together campaign has talked about Scotland and UK’s shared history, saying, “We are proud that we fought together to defeat fascism, and worked together to build a welfare state,” many Scottish people would still like to leave.

The idea of a separate Scotland has been talked about for a long time. Scotland was originally independent, and fought several wars against England from the 13^th to 16^th centuries. In 1707, Scotland joined the United Kingdom to save itself from economic troubles by signing the Acts of Union with England.

    However, the question of Scotland’s separation from the UK has been around since then. In 1998 the Scotland Act gave Scotland its own Parliament. This meant Scottish people could vote on issues such as education, transportation, health care, culture and environmental protection in Scotland alone. The next step could be a completely independent Scotland as its own country.

Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond said in an interview with The Economist that if people voted “yes” in the referendum, England would lose a “surly lodger”(傲慢的房客) and gain a “good neighbor”. And to many Scottish people, Scotland has a completely separate identity, especially from English. You can perhaps see this most clearly at the soccer World Cup, when Scotland fans usually support any team that England plays against.

There are also economic reasons why Scotland would like to be independent. Alex Salmond has often spoken of Scotland’s oil reserves and how the country would be able to support itself using them if they were separate from the rest of the UK. He once said that the oil reserves could help save”300,000 pounds” for every man, woman and child in Scotland”, though others said this figure was untrue.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron doesn’t agree with those who want an independent Scotland, however. He said in a speech that “centuries of history hang in the balance” and “we must do whatever it takes” to stop Scotland leaving the UK. He added simply:” We want you to stay.”

74. It seems that whether Scotland should be independent is resolved by ___________.

   A. UK Prime Minister David Cameron       B. what Scotland thinks organization

   C. the result of opinion polls                            D. Scottish people themselves

75. Many Scottish people would like to leave the UK ___________.

   A. as they don’t accept the idea that they would be a “good neighbor”                         

B. though they admit they once fought together for the country

   C. although the Better Together campaign calls on people to vote “no”

D. because in history Scotland defeated England in several wars

76. Which of the following statements is not true according to the passage?

   A. Scotland fans used to support England team at the soccer World Cup but not now.

   B. Scotland joined the UK for economic reasons about hundreds of years ago.

   C. What Alex Salmond once said about the oil reserves was unlikely to be the fact.            

   D. Prime Minister David Cameron would like to stop Scotland leaving the UK.

77. In the article, the author suggests that __________.

   A. losing a “surly lodger” is much better than “gaining a good neighbor”

B. the percentage of votes for “yes” or “no” to independence doesn’t matter

C. fighting together for the benefit of the state is the most important of all       

D. there has been a rooted idea of separation ever since Scotland joined the UK

Places to go for Halloween fun in Chengdu

One of the most fun and fulfilling things during the season is to throw a Halloween party and boogie through the night with friends and family. When pumpkins, witch’s hats and spiders make their annual appearance you can tell Halloween is approaching.

Whether it’s a party for children or just one for adults, there are so many great treats, games, music and activities that you can enjoy yourselves in the city.

Dark Mirror-themed Party

With a scary theme — Dark Mirror (黑暗之镜), Lan Kwai Fong Chengdu this year will host a big Halloween party on October 31^st with these elements: Ghost Parade, Haunted House, Costume Contest and so on. Participants could enjoy live music show, dance and play “trick or treat” games in the public outdoor area.

Venue：Lan Kwai Fong Chengdu, 1 Shuijing Street

Halloween Carnival Party

The Chengdu Happy Valley Amusement Park is to host a Halloween Carnival Party that features magic performances, live rock bands performance and lots of wicked events for participants. The Halloween season in the park will last till November 11 with admission from 80 to 150 yuan.

Venue: 16 Xihua Avenue

Beer Nest Halloween Party

The Beer Nest I and Beer Nest II will be decorated in a haunted(闹鬼的) house style and there will be scary movies playing on the big screens of the Beer Nest II. Entertaining activities, such as food & drink specials, live DJs, cool music and Spooky Kids Workshops, will be held and a professional markup artist from Sweden will be there for those who want to make an impression Halloween night.

Halloween E-sports Night Party

The Halloween E-sports Night to take place on October 31 is one of the highlights of the E-sports Cartoon and Animation Festival to be held in Chengdu Eastern Suburb Memory on October 31-November 1. It will offer relevant activities including cosplay showcases, e-sports competition and live music shows as a platform to communicate with celebrated anime artists and cartoon lovers.

Venue: 4 Mid-section, South Jianshe Road

51. How can we tell Halloween is approaching?

A. People are eating pumpkins.          

B. Witch’s hats are sitting on the head.

C. Spiders are weaving nets at the corner.  

D. Families or friends are getting together.

52. Which party offers special activities for children to enjoy themselves?

A. Beer Nest Halloween Party.           B. Dark Mirror-themed Party.

C. Halloween Carnival Party.              D. Halloween E-sports Night Party.

53. What is the common element of the four parties?

A. Cosplay.                 B. Music.                   C. Food.                    D. Magic.

54. What can participants do at Halloween E-sports Night Party?

A. Make cartoon shows.                      B. Attend E-Game competitions.

C. Learn to arrange cosplay shows.             D. Exchange ideas with anime artists.

55. What can we infer from the Beer Nest Halloween Party?

A. The party will be held in two places one after another.

B. Scary movies will be played in the public outdoor area.

C. The Sweden artist is expected to bring joy to the party.

D. The party will be decorated in a traditional Chinese way.

 It is in this very village, where Lily was born 30 years ago____ she will build her first art school, ____ involves many people to help her.

     A. that; where     B. which; that      C. that; which      D. where; which

Hemophilia(血友病)results when a gene fails to produce the protein(蛋白质) needed for the blood to clot(凝结), or change from a liquid to a solid. The fault gene is passed from parents to children. People with hemophilia suffer uncontrollable bleeding. This can result in pain, tissue swelling(肿胀)and permanent damage to joints and muscles.

     One in every ten thousand males has the most common kind of hemophilia. It’s extremely rare for females to have it. Patients can be treated with the missing clotting substance. They generally can lead normal lives.

      Scientists say gene treatment may be a possible way to cure hemophilia in the future. Researchers consider hemophilia the best disease for gene treatment because it is caused by a single fault gene. Also, only a small increase in the missing clotting substance could provide good results. They tested gene treatment in six patients with severe hemophilia.

      First, they removed skin ceils from the patients’ arms. The researchers grew the cells in the laboratory. They added copies of the needed gene taken from healthy people. Then they created hundreds of millions of genetically  changed cells. They placed these cells into the patients’ stomachs. After four months, the amount of blood clotting substance in the blood increased in four of the six patients．Some of the patients reported a decrease in bleeding problems. However, ten months later, the clotting substance was no longer in the patients’ blood. It is not clear if the implanted cells died or the added genes stopped working.

The researchers say the study showed that gene treatment is safe for people with the most common kind of hemophilia. But others expressed concern about the treatment because the effects were only temporary.

32. Which of the following statements is NOT true about hemophilia?

A. It is caused by a fault gene and is passed from parents.

B. It suffers uncontrolled bleeding.

C. People with hemophilia don't have any physical damage and can lead normal lives.

D. It doesn’t succeed in making protein needed for blood to form into clots.

33. People with hemophilia can live normally when 　　　　　　.

A. they are treated with the missing clotting substance

B. they accept the scientists’ help

C. good copies of gene are placed in their bodies

D. they place some genetically changed cells into their stomachs

34. By carrying out the experiment, scientists conclude that    .

A. the effects of treatments are excellent and last long

B. gene treatment is a safe and possible way to treat hemophilia

C. people with hemophilia can recover completely with gene treatment

   D. hemophilia is a disease that can be treated easily

35. The passage is mainly about______.

A. Whether people with hemophilia can live normally.

B. how to control the bleeding for hemophilia patients.

C. how the researchers remove skin cells from patients.

    D. The gene treatment for hemophilia.

　　When I left home for college, I sought to escape the limited world of farmers, small towns, and country life. I long for the excitement of the city, for the fast pace that rural life lacked, for adventure beyond the horizon. I dreamed of exploring the city, living within a new culture and landscape, and becoming part of the pulse of an urban jungle.

Yet some of my best times were driving home, leaving the city behind and slipping back into the valley. As city life disappeared and traffic thinned, I could see the faces of the other drivers relax. Then, around a bend in the highway, the grassland of the valley would come into being, offering a view of gentle rolling hills. The land seemed permanent. I felt as if I had stepped back in time.

I took comfort in the stability of the valley. Driving through small farm communities, I imagined the founding families still rooted in their grand homes, generations working the same lands, neighbors remaining neighbors for generations. I allowed familiar farmhouse landmarks to guide me.

Close to home, I often turned off the main highway and took a different path, testing my memory. Friends lived in those houses. I had eaten meals and spent time there; I had worked on some of these farms, lending a hand during a peak harvest, helping a family friend for a day or two. The houses and lands looked the same, and I could picture the gentle faces and hear familiar voices as if little had been changed. As I eased into our driveway I’d returned to old ways, becoming a son once again, a child on the family farm. My feelings were honest and real. How I longed for a land where life stood still and my memories could be relived. When I left the farm for college, I could only return as visitor to the valley, a traveler looking for home.

Now the farm is once again my true home. I live in that farmhouse and work the permanent lands. My world may seem unchanged to casual observers, but they are wrong. I know this: if there’s a constant on these farms, it’s the constant of change.

The good observer will recognize the differences. A farmer replants an orchard (果园) with a new variety of peaches. Irrigation is added to block of old grapes, so I imagine the vineyard has a new owner. Occasionally the changes are clearly evident, like a FOR SALE sign. But I need to read the small print in order to make sure that a bank has taken possession of the farm. Most of the changes contain two stories. One is the physical change of the farm, the other involves the people on that land, the human story behind the change.

I’ve been back on the farm for a decade and still haven’t heard all the stories behind the changes around me. But once I add my stories to the landscape, I can call this place my home, a home that continues to evolve and changes as I add more and more of my stories.

A poet returns to the valley and says, “How closed–minded you all are!” He comments about the lack of interest in the sorts of social and environmental issues in the poverty and inequality of our life. “Little has changed in the valley.” He was born and raised here, so he might have the right to criticize and lecture us. Yet he speaks for many who think they know the valley. How differently would others think of us if they knew the stories of a grape harvest in a wet year or a peach without a home?

67．The most important reason why the writer wanted to move to the city is that_________.

A. he did not want to work on the farm

B. he wanted to make new friends

C. he was eager for a different life there

D. there were more things to do there

68．When he was in college, why was the writer sad when he returned to his family home?

A. He remembered how hard he used to work.

B. He realized that he was only a visitor.

C. He recognized the old housed and land.

D. He remembered his next door neighbors.

69．Which of the following most likely indicates that there is a sad human sotry behind a physical change on the farm?

   A. A new variety of peach is being planted.

   B. Irrigation is being added to a grape operation.

   C. A piece of land is being sold by a bank.

   D. A farm is being sold to a large corporation.

70．The fact that most upsets the writer with the poet is that________.

A. the poet prefers to live in the urban area

B. the poet thinks that the folk people are backward

C. the poet says that little has changed in the valley

D. the poet’s criticism and comments are not objective

It was the beginning of the school year a few years ago. I had a little boy in my class who was very quiet and   21   . I wasn’t sure how much he understood during the school day and I was especially  22  that he just stood by himself at   23  time and did not play. If I tried to talk to him, he would turn away and   24   shut his eyes to   25  from me.

After a couple of days, I decided to seek   26   from one of my outgoing and   27    little girls. I called he over and asked her if she would get him to    28    , and I started talking about all the   29   on how she could start communication with him. I   30   she could try this or that idea. She   31   my arm to stop my talking and looked up at me in that   32   way that only a six-year-old can, and said, “Don’t   33  . I speak kid.” And she ran off.

I stood there all alone,    34    watching her. It took less than a minute for the two new friends to run off, hand in hand,    35    joining a game of tag.

I often think of that small   36  , about what I learned and how   37   it is for all teachers to speak kid. I knew my   38  should be on teaching students how to think and how to   39   solutions. We must be ready to learn from our   40  because those “teachable moments” during the school days are for us, the teachers, as well as our kids.

21. A. slow              B. clever                   C. shy                       D. lazy  

22. A. concerned       B. curious                 C. doubtful                D. disappointed   

23. A. lunch             B. break                    C. school                   D. sports  

24. A. closely           B. suddenly               C. slightly                  D. tightly  

25. A. hide               B. keep                     C. flee                       D. separate  

26. A. advice           B. help                      C. confidence            D. technique  

27. A. brave             B. casual                  C. friendly                 D. hard-working  

28. A. operate           B. study                   C. move                          D. play  

29. A. suggestions       B. opinions                C. problems              D. possibilities  

30. A. knew             B. understood           C. realized                 D. explained  

31. A. caught           B. felt                       C. touched                 D. pulled  

32. A. special           B. good                    C. strange                 D. effective  

33. A. care               B. talk                      C. hurry                    D. worry  

34. A. anxiously        B. seriously              C. silently                 D. excitedly  

35. A. quietly            B. carefully               C. hopefully               D. difficultly  

36. A. boy               B. girl                      C. moment                D. difficulty  

37. A. interesting        B. important              C. awkward              D. funny   

38. A. focus             B. lesson                   C. advice                   D. problem  

39. A. look for          B. get in                    C. make up                D. figure out  

40. A. friends           B. students                C. teachers                D. parents   

 These computers don't work ______; they are connected with each other, so everyone can reach his friend's computer.

   A. partly  B. briefly   C. separately  D. automatically  

     Nearly 5 million dog bites occur in the US each year, according to the American Humane Association. Ms. Stilwell, CEO of Victoria Stilwell Positively Dog Training, offers some advice on how to read dog behavior to avoid an attack on a person or the other dog.
    People are usually attacked by a dog they know, "It happens when the relative has brought his dog over, or it happens at a friend's house," says Ms. Stilwell, "We just let our guard down here."
   “Obvious signs include barking, growling, if the dog's ears are flat or suddenly prick up. Some dogs salivate(流口水) when they are stressed, others cower(畏缩),” says Ms. Stilwell. "Dogs will wag(摇) their tails when they are upset or over-aroused." Similarly, if an unfamiliar dog rolls on its back to expose its belly(腹部), it doesn't necessarily want to be petted. It might be asking you to move away.
   A dog that attacks is often acting out of fear, says Ms. Stilwell. Those signs of fear may include a dog yawning, turning its head away when someone approaches, tensing up or staring. Some dogs will slightly lift what Ms. Stilwell calls "the anticipatory paw (先行爪)," because it shows that they think something negative is about to happen. Another subtle warning sign is when a dog slightly lifts its lip to show teeth. Also, when a dog’s flat tongue is relaxed or curved at the sides, it means there is tension.
   "If a dog is on a child and you're pulling it off, you're making the wound on the child deeper," Ms. Stilwell says. Instead, "take a coat or T-shirt and put it over the dog's head," she says. When dogs can't see, they panic and open their mouths.
46. We can conclude from Paragraph 2 that we ________.
A. should watch out for dogs we are familiar with
B. should stay with our friends in case of dog bites

C. shouldn't be frightened of dogs we know well
D. shouldn't carry anything when staying with dogs
47. According to the passage, when a dog is biting a child, we should ___________.
A. cover its head with something              B. pull it off from the child at once
C. pull open the dog’s mouth quickly           D. frighten it away with a coat or T-shirt
48. According to the passage, when a dog _____________.
A. wags its tail, it is showing its friendliness    B. shows its teeth, it means it is relaxed
C. lifts its front paw, it wants you to leave      D. stares at you, it might feel frightened
49. The purpose of the passage is mainly to ______________.
A. inform us of dog bites that happen in the US B. prevent people from being attacked by a dog
C. warn people of the harm that dogs do to people D. change the way people think about a dog

    “Don’t you want to consider studying business?” It was 2003 and I was in Class 10. Why did Papa ask me that? He knew I wanted to be a    41   .

     “If you’re thinking of studying mass media after class 12,” Papa added, “   42    should be more helpful than science.”

    “But I    43    to be a cardiologist（心脏病学家), Papa!” I protested.

    “   44    that’s where your heart really lies, I’m sorry I    45   this up,” he said.

    In 2006, after I had spent two difficult years trying to study science, I brought up the   46    again with my father, a teacher who   47   his own training institute in Ujjain, MP. “What made you    48    I’d make a better journalist than a doctor?” I asked Papa.

    “You have been my    49    , too,” he said, smiling.

    I was just eight years old when I    50    evening classes at his institute. It was very different from regular school. We shared anecdotes, made presentations, staged plays, listened to and watched tapes from the BBC.

    Always thinking about his students, Papa    51    takes leave but when he absolutely has to, he feels guilty. It    52    him when a student doesn’t show the same enthusiasm.

    Every year, Teacher’s Day, the 5^th of September, is like a   53   in our house. The phone     54     ringing. Papa takes every call     55    it were the only one he got.

    It turned out to be journalism and not cardiology for me. In June 2006, when I joined St Xavier’s College, Mumbai, for my   56  degree in mass media, it felt like Papa’s classes. Soon I was writing regularly for the news magazine Outlook. In 2009, it was Papa again who    57    me decide not take a postgraduate degree in mass media.

    “You’ll only study the    58    things again,” Papa explained. “Sociology is such a lively subject, and if you want to be a good journalist you    59    know about society and people.”

    I got my MA in sociology two years later.

This Father’s Day, June 21, when I called him, I will have completed nearly four fruitful years working as a journalist, thanks to Papa’s    60   .

41.   A. journalist         B. doctor         C. businessman   D. sociologist

42.   A. business          B. literature      C. sociology       D. communication

43.   A. hesitate           B. refuse          C. want           D. agree

44.   A. If                    B. So            C. When         D. But

45.   A. picked          B. put           C. brought       D. gave

46.   A. concept           B. project         C. question         D. subject

47.   A. supports          B. runs         C. holds          D. shares

48.   A. feel              B. doubt       C. hope           D. prefer

49.   A. son              B. student        C. fellow         D. friend

50.   A. chose           B. taught          C. attended         D. received

51.   A. sometimes       B. always         C. never          D. hardly

52.   A. hurts           B. defeats        C. strikes        D. amuses

53.   A. show          B. lecture         C. meeting       D. festival

54.   A. keeps          B. begins         C. continues       D. stops

55.   A. in case                B. as if         C. even if        D. now that

56.   A. bachelor’s        B. master’s      C. doctor’s             D. graduate’s

57.   A. saw             B. let            C. found        D. helped

58.   A. different          B. same        C. general       D. boring

59.   A. may             B. could       C. would         D. must

60.   A. patience       B. power         C. guidance       D. understanding

Three Boys and a Dad

    Brad closed the door slowly as Sue left home to visit her mother. Expecting a whole day to relax, he was thinking whether to read the newspaper or watch his favourite TV talk show on his first day off in months. "This will be like a walk in the park," he'd told his wife. "I'll look after the kids, and you can go visit your mom."

    Things started well, but just after eight o'clock, his three little "good kids"—Mike, Randy, and Alex—came down the stairs in their night clothes and shouted "breakfast, daddy." When food had not appeared within thirty seconds, Randy began using his spoon on Alex's head as if it were a drum. Alex started to shout loudly in time to the beat(节拍). Mike chanted "Where's my toast, where's my toast," in the background. Brad realized his newspaper would have to wait for a few seconds.

    Life became worse after breakfast. Mike wore Randy's underwear on his head. Randy locked himself in the bathroom, while Alex shouted again because he was going to wet his pants. Nobody could find clean socks, although they were before their very eyes. Someone named "Not Me" had spilled a whole glass of orange juice into the basket of clean clothes. Brad knew the talk show had already started.

    By ten o'clock, things were out of control. Alex was wondering why the fish in the jar refused his bread and butter. Mike was trying to show off his talent by decorating the kitchen wall with his colour pencils. Randy, thankfully, appeared to be reading quietly in the family room, but closer examination showed that he was eating apple jam straight from the bottle with his hands. Brad realized that the talk show was over and reading would be impossible.

    At exactly11:17, Brad called the daycare centre(日托所). "I suddenly have to go into work and my wife's away. Can I bring the boys over in a few minutes? " The answer was obviously "yes" because Brad was smiling.

41. When his wife left home, Brad expected to __________.

   A. go out for a walk in the park

   B. watch TV talk show with his children

   C. enjoy his first day off work

   D. read the newspaper to his children

42. Which of the following did Randy do?

   A. Drawing on the wall.            B. Eating apple jam

   C. Feeding the fish            D. Reading in a room

43. Why did Brad ask the daycare centre for help?

   A. Because he wanted to clean up his house

   B. Because he suddenly had to go to his office.

   C. Because he found it hard to manage his boys.

   D. because he had to take his wife back home.

44. This text is developed _________.

   A. by space        B. by comparison       C. by process        D. by time

When other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station. When other teens were studying or going out, she struggled to find a place to sleep on the street. But she overcame these terrible setbacks to win a highly competitive scholarship and gain entry to Harvard University. And her amazing story has inspired a movie, “Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story” shown in late April.

    Liz Murray, a 22-year-old American girl, has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination. Liz grew up in the shadow of two drug-addicted parents. There was never enough food or warm clothes in the house. Liz was the only member of the family who had a job. Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was just 15 years old. The effect of that LOSS became a turning point in her life. Connecting the environment in which she had grown up with how her mother had died, she decided to do something about it.

    Liz went back to school. She threw herself into her studies, never telling her teachers that she was homeless. At night, she lived on the streets. “What drove me to live on had something to do with understanding, by understanding that there was a whole other way of being. I had only experienced a small part of the society,” she wrote in her book Breaking Night.

    She admitted that she used envy to drive herself on. She used the benefits that come easily to others, such as a safe living environment, to encourage herself that “next to nothing could hold me down”. She finished high school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University, but Liz decided to leave her top university a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care of her father, who has also developed AIDS. “I love my parents so much. They are drug addicts. But I never forget that they love me all the time.”

    Liz wants moviegoers to come away with the idea that changing your life is “as simple as making a decision”.

9. The main idea of the passage is __________.

  A. what a hard time Liz had in her childhood

B. how Liz managed to enter Harvard University

C. how Liz struggled to change her life

D. why Liz loved her parents so much        

10. What actually made her go towards her goal?

  A. Willpower and determination.   B. Envy and encouragement.     

  C. Decisions and understanding.   D. Love and respect for her parents.

11. When she wrote “What drove me to live on… I had only experienced a small part of the society”, she meant that _________.

A. she needed to travel more around the world

  B. she would do something for her own life

C. she could hardly understand the society

  D. she had little experience of social life  

 With the word “ PM2.5” _________ appearing in media reports, people pay greater attention to it and seek health tips for smoggy days.

A. constantly             B. consequently               C. permanently            D. immediately

       It is widely known that any English conversation begins with The Weather. Such a fixation with the weather finds expression in Dr.Johnson’s famous comment that “When two English meet, their first talk is of weather.” Though Johnson’s observation is as accurate now as it was over two hundred years ago, most commentators fail to come up with a convincing explanation for this English weather-speak.

Bill Bryson, for example, concludes that, as the English weather is not at all exciting, the obsession with it can hardly be understood. He argues that “To an outsider, the most striking thing about the English weather is that there is not very much of it.” Simply, the reason is that the unusual and unpredictable weather is almost unknown in the British Isles.

       Jeremy Paxman, however, disagrees with Bryson, arguing that the English weather is by nature attractive. Bryson is wrong, he says, because the English preference for the weather has nothing to do with the natural phenomena.”The interest is less in the phenomena themselves, but in uncertainty.” According to him, the weather in England is very changeable and uncertain and it attracts the English as well as the outsider.

       Bryson and Paxman stand for common misconceptions about the weather-speak among the English. Both commentators, somehow, are missing the point. The English weather conversation is not really about the weather at all. English weather-speak is a system of signs ,which is developed to help the speakers overcome the natural reserve and actually talk to each other. Everyone knows conversations starting with weather-speak are not requests for weather data. Rather, they are routine greetings, conversation starters or the blank “fillers”, In other words, English weather-speak is a means of social bonding.

57. The author mentions Dr.Johnson’s comment to show that________.

       A. most commentators agree with Dr.Johnson

       B. Dr.Johnson is famous for his weather observation

       C. the comment was accurate two hundred years ago

       D. English conversations usually start with the weather

58. What does the underlined word “obsession” most probably refer to?

       A. A social trend.

       B. An emotional state.

       C. A historical concept.

       D. An unknown phenomenon.

59. According to the passage, Jeremy Paxman believes that________.

       A. Bill Bryson has little knowledge of the weather

       B. there is nothing special about the English weather]

       C. the English weather attracts people to the British Isles

       D. English people talk about the weather for its uncertainty

60. What is the author’s main purpose of writing the passage?

       A. To explain what English weather-speak is about.

       B. To analyze misconceptions about the English weather.

       C. To find fault with both Bill Bryson and Jeremy Paxman.

       D. To convince people that the English weather is changeable.

1. Weather          (允许), we will have a picnic by the seaside tomorrow.

2. To our delight, the president came to          (权力) last week.

3. This story reminds me of the          (愉快的) old days I had with my family.

4. The government should take effective measures to _________(阻止) environmental pollution.

5. He is so stubborn that no one can          (说服) him once he has made a decision.

6. Driving after drinking is illegal and thus is strictly           (禁止).

7.           (练习) makes perfect, as the saying goes.

8. Mr. Wang is very          (受欢迎) with all of his students because he is so responsible.

9. Only by working hard and gaining more experience can you get          (升职).

10. Sunglasses can          (保护) our eyes from the strong sunlight.

11. We are          (骄傲的) of him because he made great contributions to our country.

12. It’s not          (礼貌) to talk with your mouth full.

13. To tell you the truth, I          (更喜欢) physics to psychology(心理学).

14. Failing in this exam, we should still hold          (积极的) attitude towards study.

15. It is a           (遗憾) that you can’t come to my birthday party this weekend.

16. If you are in danger,          (按) the red button in no time to seek help.

17. The environment has become worse and worse in the          (过去的) few years.

18. There’s not          (大量) of time left for us to prepare for the College Entrance Exam.

19. He was          (表扬) by his teacher for what he had done.       

20. If the          (人口) keeps rising at the present rate, there won’t be enough food soon.

21. Nowadays many parents send their children to          (私人的) schools for education. 

22. Schools should          (提供) nutritious food for students to build up their bodies.

23. We make it our duty to          (保护) endangered wildlife from dying out.

24. Yesterday I interviewed          (教授) Li on shortsightedness among Chinese students.

25. To my joy, I have made great          (进步) in learning English recently.

    Styrofoam, or polystyrene, is a light-weight material, about 95 percent air, with very good

  insulation(隔热) properties, according to Earthsource.org. It is used in products from cups that

  keep your drinks hot or cold to packaging material that protects items during shipping.

    With the above good features, Styrofoam still enjoys a bad reputation. It cannot be recycled

  without releasing dangerous pollution into the air. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

  says it is the fifth-largest creator of harmful waste.

    But now the common worms which are usually disgusting can come to the rescue,

  specifically, mealworms. Scientists from the U.S. and China have discovered that mealworms can

  digest plastic. One mealworm can digest a pill-sized amount of plastic a day. Study co-author Wei-

  Min Wu says that in 24 hours, the plastic is turned into carbon dioxide.

    Since Styrofoam has no nutrition at all, are the worms hurt by eating plastic? Much to the

  scientists’ surprise, the study found that worms eating Styrofoam were as healthy as worms eating

  bran(谷糠).

    The researchers will study the worm’s eating habits and digesting system, looking to copy the

  plastic breakdown but on a larger scale. Once the way can be put into practice, it will make a

  revolutionary difference to the disposal of plastic.

    “Solving the issue of plastic pollution is important”, says Wu, a Stanford University

  environmental engineering instructor. After all, our earth is small and landfill space is becoming

  limited with too much garbage waiting to be dealt with, he says.

    About 33-million tons of plastic are thrown away in the United States every year. Plastic

  plates, cups and containers take up 25 percent to 30 percent of space in America’s landfills. One

Styrofoam cup takes more than 1 million years to recycle in a landfill, according to Cleveland

  State University.

  66. What do we know about Styrofoam?

  A. It    can be used to cool drinks.     B. It is a weightless material.

  C. It is harmful when recycled.     D. It is usually used on ships.

  67. What can we infer from the third paragraph?

  A. Mealworms have amazing digesting power.    B. Mealworms are not bad in their nature.

  C. Mealworms can rescue people’s lives.  D. People misunderstood mealworms in the past.

  68. Why will researchers study the worm’s eating habits and digesting system?

  A. To find ways to help mealworms grow larger.

  B. To imitate their ways of breaking down plastic.

  C. To help develop their digesting ability.

  D. To make sure of their safety after eating plastic.

  69. In the future, plastic may be recycled ________.

  A. by raising amounts of mealworms     B. by environmental engineering instructors

  C. using a method inspired by eating mealworms  D. without sending out dangerous pollution

  70. What’s the main idea of this passage?

  A. Styrofoam is widely used in daily life.

  B. Mealworms are genius at eating plastic.

  C. Plastic recycling may be no more a problem.

  D. Plastic can be turned into carbon dioxide.

God wants you to be happy. It’s a simple idea, but a complicated reality.

When traveling to Rwanda to find out the   21   of a new orphanage(孤儿院)，I found children who had been injured physically and   22   from their families. But I also found something   23  : children who seemed to be truly happy. No   24   they had shed(流)many tears,   25   most of them were not sad or angry. They played, sang, and   26   the company of their fellow orphans.

I also met Fred Nkunda, a Ugandan man who was   27   with joy despite his poverty, and long hours of working for a small salary. A few years later, he   28   cancer, but while he lived, he wore a big   29   as he selflessly gave himself to others. The same was true for a young Canadian couple who   30   their lives to the mission work(布道).

When I came home, I noticed a sharp   31  . Most Americans lacked the   32   that those Rwandan children and mission workers owned. Despite great wealth, modern conveniences and other endless material blessings, people here were   33   to each other, exhibited impatience, and expressed their   34  . How could this be?

Somewhere along the way, many of us in America have   35   something. We have   36 

experience happiness— real happiness that comes from within and flows to others. And it’s not just missing in “the world”. It’s in short   37   in our homes, businesses, and churches.

  38   is actually a personal character. We understand the   39   of love, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. But happiness? It is   40   ignored or considered as unachievable in this life.

21. A. secrets                B. directions                  C. situations                 D. choices

22. A. learned                B. separated                  C. protected                  D. judged

23. A. unchallenged       B. unconcerned             C. uncivilized                 D. unexpected

24. A. doubt                  B. matter                       C. wonder                     D. way

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

26. A. ignored                B. enjoyed                     C. forgot                       D. sought

27. A. impressed            B. concerned                 C. blessed                     D. filled

28. A. called for            B. suffered from            C. worried about            D. escaped from

29. A. smile                   B. sign                          C. watch                       D. ring

30. A. reduced               B. donated                     C. devoted                    D. returned

31. A. difference            B. disagreement             C. similarity                   D. agreement

32. A. fortune                B. talent                        C. courage                    D. joy

33. A. honest                 B. cold                          C. close                        D. sincere

34. A. independence       B. appreciation              C. discontent                D. uncertainty

35. A. lost                     B. created                     C. learned                     D. achieved

36. A. managed to          B. struggled to               C. hurried to                  D. failed to

37. A. supply                 B. education                  C. pride                        D. interest

38. A. Kindness             B. Failure                      C. Happiness                 D. Regret

39. A. result                  B. necessity                   C. existence                  D. source

40. A. hardly                 B. purposely                  C. partly                       D. easily

250 Drive-Thru（汽车穿梭）Customers Pay It Forward at McDonald’s

In Florida, one McDonald’s customer started a pay-it-forward chain that inspired other 249 customers to be generous and do the same. ABC News reports that (25)__________ spirit of giving is in the air as 250 drive-thru customers at a local McDonald’s paid for the meals of the people next to them. A Lakeland customer, Torie Keene (26)__________ (pay) for her food on Wednesday morning when she decided to pay for the meal of the car next to her.

Keene then purposely told McDonald’s cashier Marisabel Figueroa (27)__________ (greet) the other customer “Merry Christmas” and not “Happy Holidays.” The next customer was moved when Figueroa said her food was already paid by the previous car. That’s when she thought that she would love to do the same.

It kept going and going. Figueroa, (28)__________ worked from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, said that the chain reaction almost lasted for her entire shift. “I just kept (29)__________(give) everyone the same message, and they were all so surprised and so happy,” she continued. “One lady even paid for the meals of the next three cars (30)__________ her.”

While people were amazed by how generous they could get, Figueroa said she had the (31)__________ (unforgettable) Christmas experience in her 12 years of working for McDonald’s. “I feel very (32)__________ (bless) to have been a part of all that,” the cashier said. And Keene said that she was surprised by the number of people who continued her good deed when she was “only trying to brighten someone’s day.” 

    People are always asking what the most important element to a healthy relationship is.

The    41    is there are many. But there is one really important thing that all great and

healthy relationships have in common-_42  .  Yes, of course, there are some little    43

lies even in the best of relationships-44  surprises or unexpected birthday parties-but

the truth is that happy couples communicate honestly and don't    45    to protect their own

interests. So how can you have more open    46    in your own relationship?

    First, remember that honesty is the best policy even    47    your partner might not like

what you have to say. Yes, it may be    48    to tell your guy that you don't like one of his

friends. But Lying or holding things    49    will make things worse in the long run.

    The next thing to be    50    is to say what you have to say    51  .  If your partner feels

  52  ,he will be less    53    to what you have to say and may even become defensive. Your

delivery is of utmost importance when you are discussing sensitive issues.  Think through what

you want to say  54    before you bring it up.  You don't want to    55    the person that you

love. You just want them to be    56    0f the truth.

    One last thing to keep in mind about communicating openly is that it enhances your

relationship. If you aren't honest about any dirty little    57    you may have, they will

probably come up eventually and    58    you in the backside. And if you keep things to

yourself, your relationship will not be based on the truth, which    5 9    a solid foundation.

Hard    60    the truth may be sometimes, honesty really is the best policy.

41.A.phenomenon    B.truth    C.theory    D.evidence

42.A.honesty    B.enthusiasm    C.cooperation    D.persistence

43.A.red    B. purple    C.white    D.black

44.A security    B.privilege    C.anniversary    D.ambition

45.A.lie    B.bargain    C.complain    D.interact

46.A.appreciation    B.reputation    C.selection    D.communication

47.A.why    B.when    C.how    D.where

48.A.tough    B.immediate    C.complicated    D.plain

49.A.in    B.on    C.above    D.back

50.A.serious about    B.proud of    C.expert at    D.worthy of

51.A.obviously    B.rudely    C.nicely    D.smoothly

52.A. puzzled    B.attacked    C.astonished    D.satisfied

5 3.A. creative    B.relative    C.sensitive    D.receptive

54.A.slightly    B.thoroughly    C.frequently    D.briefly

55.A.suspect    B.convince    C.insult    D.frighten

5 6.A.  afraid    B.aware    C.ashamed    D.capable

5 7.A.  uniforms    B.secrets    C.blankets    D.courts

58.A.  train    B.consult    C.understand    D.bite

59.A.picks out    B.turns on    C.makes for    D.comes across

60.A.although    B.while    C.until    D.as

    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处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误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。  

Last Sunday, it was my father’s funny day. After supper, my father went to see the film. But in our surprise, he came back just about half an hour later. I asked him what was the matter. He smiled and told us about the funny thing what had happened in the cinema. He was sitting in his seat while a woman came to her and said the seat was hers. Surprising, they looked at their ticket carefully, only to find the seats shown in their tickets were the same while the colors were different. So they looked at the tickets carefully. After a while, my father apologized to the woman, saying, “Sorry, I make a mistake. Take this seat, please.” The fact was that his ticket found out under the glass on his desk was for the film a month ago.