Read the advertisements carefully. Then answer the questions that follow.

41. You may find the above advertisements   .

A. in a store window                   B. in a school magazine

C. in a newspaper                     D. on a company notice-board

42. The position of a(n)    is a part-time job.

    A. florist              B. artist        C. preschool teacher     D. dental nurse

43. Which of the following is the most important for the childcare job?

    A. Cooking skills.                      B. Childcare experience.

C. The ability to start work in two weeks.   D. The ability to work well with other people.

44. The office cleaners will be required to work about   hours a week.

    A.5               B.10              C.15            D.20

Many schools across the US hold graduation ceremonies this time of year. In some schools, even 5 and 6-year-olds observe their graduation from kindergarten. And so can older people, much older. Meet 70-year-old Jerry Reid, who just graduated from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He earned a bachelor’s degree.

Mr. Reid might not look like the average college student; his hair is definitely grayer. But still Jerry Reid’s age is easy to forget, other UVA students know him as one of their own.

Mr. Reid sat into the “Hoo Crew,” a group that cheers loudly for the school at sports events. He also joined a men's group on campus. He sang drinking songs along with many other students. Mr. Reid’s school friends say they can talk to him just about anything.

About a half century ago, in his 20s, Mr. Reid was not in school. Instead, he was racing cars and chasing girls. But he says his friend Bill invited him to UVA parties.

“Bill told me what a terrible life I had unless I came up here and went to school with him,” said Reid.

That was in 1963. Jerry Reid says it took him 48 years to take that advice. In 2011, he entered college. UVA Professor Luke Wright says Mr. Reid influences students. He opened the minds of the young adults. The teacher says Mr. Reid showed them that life does not end at 40. Instead, the 70-year-old college graduate believes that getting older can be the beginning of a dream.

“Remember that path that you left waits for you. It’s there. It’s yours. All you must do is to get out of your own way and get back to it. And, that's exactly what I did,” said Reid.

Mr. Reid says that he and his wife Susan now would take some time off to enjoy his college degree. Then, he’ll return to UVA to begin studying for his graduate degree.

28. Which of the following is true of Mr. Reid?

A. He was laughed at by other students.

B. He was interested in study in his youth.

C. He enlarged the views of young people.

D. He got his graduate degree in 2011.

29. From the third paragraph, we can infer that Mr. Reid was _________.

   A. considerate          B. independent              C. intelligent    D. energetic

30. What does Paragraph 6 mainly discuss?

A. How Mr. Reid realizes his dream.    B. What teachers think of Mr. Reid.

C. When Mr. Reid entered college.     D. Why the students likes Mr. Reid.

31. What lesson can we learn from the story of Jerry Reid?

A. It is never too late to learn.        B. Two heads are better than one.

C. Actions speak louder than words.   D. A friend in need is a friend indeed.

   One morning, I was waiting at the bus stop, worried about __31___ (be) late for school. There were many people waiting at the bus stop, ___32____ some of them looked very anxious and ___33__(disappoint) . when the bus finally came, we all hurried on board. I got a place next ____34___ the window, so I had a good view of the sidewalk. A boy on a bike ____35___ (catch ) my attention. He was riding beside the bus and waving his arms. I heard a passenger behind me shouting to the driver, but he refused ____36___(stop) until we reached the next stop. Still, the boy kept ____37___(ride). He was carrying something over his shoulder and shouting. Finally, when we came to the next stop, the boy ran up the door of the bus. I heard an excited conversation. Then the driver stood up and asked,“____38___ anyone lose a suitcase at the last stop?” A woman on the bus shouted, “Oh, dear! It ‘s ____39___ (I )”. She pushed her way to the driver and took the suitcase thankfully, Five others on the bus began talking about what the boy had done and the crowd of strangers   ___40__(sudden) became friendly to one another.

   When I was 13 my only purpose was to become the star on our football team. That meant  41  Miller King, who was the best  42  at our school.

   Football season started in September and all summer long I worked out. I carried my football everywhere for  ___43  .

   Just before September, Miller was struck by a car and lost his right arm. I went to see him after he came back from ___44  . He looked very  45  , but he didn’t cry.

   That season, I  46  all of Miller’s records while he  47  the home games from the bench. We went 10:1 and I was named most valuable player,  48   I often had crazy dreams in which I was to blame for Miller’s  49  .

   One afternoon, I was crossing the field to go home and saw Miller  50  going over a fence—which wasn’t  51  to climb if you had both arms. I’m sure I was the last person in the world he wanted to accept  52  from. But even that challenge he accepted. I  53  him move slowly over the fence. When we were finally  54  on the other side, he said to me, “You know, I didn’t tell you this during the season, but you did  55  . Thank you for filling in for  56  .”

   His words freed me from my bad  57  . I thought to myself, how even without an arm he was more of a leader. Damaged but not defeated, he was  58  ahead of me. I was right to have  59  him. From that day on, I grew  60 and a little more real.

41. A. cheering for             B. beating out          C. relying on           D. staying with

42. A. coach                    B. student              C. teacher          D. player

43. A. practice                 B. show                     C. comfort          D. pleasure

44. A. school                   B. vacation                 C. hospital             D. training

45. A. pale                     B. calm                     C. relaxed          D. ashamed

46. A. held                     B. broke                    C. set              D. tried

47. A. reported                 B. judged               C. organized            D. watched

48. A. and                  B. then                     C. but              D. thus

49. A. decision                 B. mistake              C. accident             D. sacrifice

50. A. stuck                    B. hurt                     C. tired                D. lost

51. A. steady                   B. hard                     C. fun              D. fit

52. A. praise                   B. advice               C. assistance           D. apology

53. A. let                  B. helped               C. had              D. noticed

54. A. dropped              B. ready                    C. trapped          D. safe

55. A. fine                     B. wrong                C. quickly          D. normally

56. A. us                   B. yourself                 C. me               D. them

57. A. memories                 B. ideas                    C. attitudes            D. dreams

58. A. still                    B. also                     C. yet              D. just

59. A. challenged               B. cured                    C. invited          D. admired

60. A. healthier                B. bigger               C. cleverer             D. cooler

 ________ opinions on the travel schedule for the next week, we finally came to an agreement.

  A. Having exchanged         B. Exchanging               C. Exchanged                      D. To exchange

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。

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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。

Dear teachers and students,it’s great pleasure for me to be here today and share my experience of learning English with you.I spend a lot of time learn English because I believe English is very important nowadays.As for me,the following learning methods are very effect.

First,I always prepare lessons careful before class,so it easy that for me to keep up with the teacher in class.Second,I listen closely in class and do exercise immediately after class,which helps me gain a deep understanding of which I learned.Third,I read English novels in my spare time so that I can learn more about western cultures and enlarge my vocabulary.Instead,listening to English songs helps correct my pronunciation

The more I learn English,the easy it becomes.I wish you will enjoy learning English as well.

I don’t know how he made his money _______. I only know now he is really rich.    

A. steadily                     B. originally                C. apparently         D. permanently

I am traveling home. It is bitterly cold and snowy, but the warm train is right on time. I feel pleasantly satisfied as I look out at the rush hour traffic on the motorway. I feel more satisfied as the smell of fresh coffee announces the arrival of the drinks service. Swiss friends often tell me, proudly, that their rail service is the best in the world, but recently, one experience has proved that the great Swiss love affair with their railway has turned a little sour.

It all began with the decision to end ticket sales on trains. One cold morning I arrived at my local station only to find that the ticket machine was broken. No matter, I thought, I have got a smart phone, and I hurriedly set about buying my ticket that way. This was not as easy as I had expected, busying myself between credit card and phone with freezing cold fingers, but, by the time I got on the train to Geneva I had an e-ticket and I proudly showed it to the conductor. Unfortunately she told me that my ticket was not valid. Several weeks later a letter arrived from Swiss railways together with a fine

190 francs($210).

The good people there tell me the formal payment for my ticket from my credit card company arrived four minutes after my train left the station. That means, they say, that I bought my ticket on the train--and that is strictly prohibited

Swiss railways say their policy is designed to protect honest ticket-paying passengers, but a quick look at their balance sheet suggests something else. The company is making about $2 million a month from fines.

Although train travel is still popular, those seats do not feel as comfortable; the coffee does not smell quite so good--because Swiss railways have lost, for now anyway, something far more precious than $2 million a month: good  relations with their customers.

1. What can we learn from paragraph 1?

A. The Swiss trains usually come late.

B. Traffic on the motorway goes smoothly.

C. The author hates traveling on the Swiss train.

D. The author is generally pleased with the Swiss rail service.

2. Why did the conductor say that the author's e-ticket was invalid?

A. It was purchased online.

B. If was paid for after the train’s departure.

C. It was purchased on a ticket machine.

D. It was paid on a smart phone.

3. What does the author want to show by telling the experience?

A. The fine was unfair.

B. The conductor was impolite

C. E-tickets are getting popular.

D. Credit cards can be inconvenient.

4. What does the author think of the new policy of Swiss railways?

A. It attracts more people to travel by train.

B. It makes the company lose a lot of money.

C. It damages company-customer relations.

D. It protects honest ticket-paying passengers

 A lake project, which will be a landmark construction of the city, _______ on land that only one year ago was mostly farmland.

  A. is built           B. was built       C. has been built       D. is being built

 I watched the girl step off the sidewalk, ____the road, and ___ into the post office.　　

A. crossed; disappear                           B. cross; disappear　　

C. to cross; to disappear                      D. crossed; disappeared

Last Friday a storm  61  (sweep) through two villages in the New Territories,  destroying fourteen homes. Seven others were so  62  (bad) damaged that their owners had to leave them, and fifteen others had  63 (break) windows or roofs. One person was seriously hurt and taken to hospital, and some other people received   64     (small) hurt. Altogether over two hundred people were homeless  65  the storm.

A farmer, Mr. Tan, said that the storm began early in the morning and lasted for over an hour. “I was eating with my wife and children   66  we heard a loud noise.” he said, “A few minutes later our house fell down on top of us. We tried our best   67    (climb) out but then I saw one of my sons was   68   (miss). I went back inside and found     69    , safe but very frightened.”

Mrs. Woo Mei Fong said that her husband had just finished his breakfast and left   70   work when she felt that her house was moving. She ran outside at once with her children.

The idea of being able to walk on water has long interested humans greatly. Sadly, biological facts prevent us ever accomplishing such a thing without artificial aid--we simply weigh too much, and all our mass pushes down through our relatively small feet, resulting in a lot of pressure that makes us sink.

However, several types of animals can walk on water. One of the most interesting is the common basilisk Basilicus basilicus, a lizard（蜥蜴）native to Central and South America. It can run across water for a distance of several meters, avoiding getting wet by rapidly hitting the water's surface with its feet. The lizard will take as many as 20 steps per second to keep moving forward. For humans to do this, we'd need huge feet that we could bring up to our ears in order to create adequate "hitting."

But fortunately there is an alternative: cornflour. By adding enough of this common thickening agent to water（and it does take a lot）. you can create a "non-Newtonian" liquid that doesn't be have like normal water. Now, if the surface of the water is hit hard enough, particles（微粒）in the water group together for a moment to make the surface hard. Move quickly enough and put enough force into each step, and you really can walk across the surface of an adequately thick liquid of cornflour.

Fun though all this may sound, it's still rather messy and better read about in theory than carried out in practice, if you must do it, then keep the water wings handy in case you start to sink--and take a shower afterward!

32. Walking on water hasn't become a reality mainly because humans         .

A. have biological limitations       B. are not interested in it

C. have not invented proper tools  D. are afraid to make an attempt

33. What do we know about Basiilins basilicus from the passage?

A. It is light enough to walk on water.

B. It can run across water at a certain speed.

C. Its huge feet enable it to stay above water.

D. Its unique skin keeps it from getting wet in watch

34. What is the function of the cornflour according to the passage?

A. To enable the water to move rapidly.         B. To turn the water into solid.

C. To help the liquid behave normally.     D. To create a thick liquid.

35. What is the author's attitude toward the idea of humans' walking on water?

A. It is risky but beneficial.

B. It is interesting and worth trying.

C. It is impractical though theoretically possible.

D. It is crazy and cannot become a reality.

 In accordance to the latest news report, two hundred people died in the accident, ________, which made the parents cry their heart out.

A. many of them children      B. many of them were children

C. and many of them children  D. many of which were children

I would, however, be perfectly satisfied if you would kindly replace the camera or ______

my money, whichever is more convenient. 

A. chase                                B. exchange                  C. swap                D. refund 

 — I’ve nothing on me except this ten yuan to donate, I’m afraid.

— Never mind. ________. We really appreciate your assistance.

A. Every little helps                     B. The more, the better

C. It’s better to give than to receive         D. No one is perfect.

 ________ tourism, Ohio is a place full of natural beauty and many vacation spots worth visiting.

   A. On top of                B .In terms of          C. In spite of      D. On account of

With these increased pressures and difficulty in ensuring a graduate job, more people are turning to recruitment(招聘) agencies for help. Luke Harper wrote for the Independent warning students to be cautious when using graduate recruitment agencies in their job hunt. The article’s main argument against graduate recruitment agencies is that they are looking to sign people up to the agency and harvest data, without having any real intention to personally find them a job. 

The fundamental problem with this approach is a basic misunderstanding of how the recruitment sector works. One of the more common ways is that recruitment agencies aim to find you a job to secure a fee from their clients. Recruitment agencies operate as a business, not a careers service and are not expected to find you a job while you wait around. 

There is no denying that amongst the recruitment agencies, there are some CV(简历) hungry, cut and shut agencies that are uninterested in the candidates they have on their books. However, nowadays these are in the minority and don’t tend to last very long. 

Paul Farrer, Chief Executive of a leading recruitment agency is worried that a few bad apples are ruining the reputation of what is an excellent sector. Farrer said “The trouble with such an imbalanced and misleading article is that some graduates may now be put off approaching recruitment agencies who may well be able to help them.”

Professionals in the industry are cautious of how some of the less respectable agencies operate. Earnest recruiters believe that graduates should be aware that some of these agencies will take on graduates for all their details rather than helping them find a job, like Harper mentioned. To fight this, Farrar advises that “Graduates should have a simple checklist before approaching any agency. Has the agency taken the time to talk to me? Have they invited me to a face-to-face meeting? Have they guaranteed not to forward my CV to any employer without my permission? These three steps will safeguard every application.”

Farrer also pointed out that that is not the only safety net that graduates can rely on. He said “Graduates can also check to see if the agencies are members of either APSCo or the REC, the two trade bodies they can make an official complaint to. The vast majority of recruitment agencies are professional organisations that help place thousands of graduates every year and poorly researched articles help no one.”

61. The main purpose of this passage is _______________ graduate recruitment agencies.

 A. to advise readers to be cautious of

 B. to argue against some misjudgment against    

 C. to explain why there is a prejudice against 

D. to seek the solutions to the problems caused by  

62. Which of the following is right according to the passage?

 A. Luke Harper holds the same idea about jobs with Paul Farrer. 

B. Recruitment agencies actually do the same work as a careers service.

 C. Job hunters’ detailed information is of value to recruitment agencies. 

 D. A member of APSCo or the REC will not cheat its clients.    

63. What advice does Paul Farrer give graduates to avoid less respectable agencies?

 A. Consulting professionals before giving their personal details to an agency.   

B. Making a face-to-face investigation into an agency before approaching it.  

C. Guaranteeing that the agency will not forward their CV to any employer.

D. Selecting some agencies that are monitored by official trade bodies.

64. What is the author’s attitude towards graduate recruitment agencies?

 A. Neutral.   B. Positive.   C. Negative.   D. Not Clear.

 —Mike, when shall we have dinner together, Thursday or Friday?

—　　　.I’ll be off to Beijing then. 

A. Either　　     B. Neither　　 C. Both　　　                            D. None

The hotel was terrible, and not at all what we _______ to expect in the advertisement.  

A. had led                          B. had been led         C. had been leading       D. would be led