The place ______ the bridge is supposed to be built should be_____ the cross-river traffic is the heaviest.

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

________（为了赶上早班车）, he got up very early. (catch)

 People think it quite _______delight when the computer was first wildly used in _______1990s.

A. a; 不填      B.不填;the       C. a; the       D.不填；不填

W: Jack, why do you have a Band-Aid on your arm.

M:      6   

W: You did? That’s great.     7      But every time I get close to a needle, I’ll

faint.

M: I’m used to it. I’ve donated blood many times lately.     8   

W: You’re so brave.     9      I know how important it is for patients in

operations.

M: Thank you, but I don’t think it’s a big deal.

W: No, it is a big deal. If the Red Cross doesn’t have enough blood when doctors

travel to disaster areas, they can’t help the injured people there.    10     

M: Well…there’s a particularly pretty nurse who works in the blood station.

A.     That’s very admirable.

B.     Because I donated blood today.

C.     Do you donate blood often?

D.     The needle doesn’t bother me.

E.     I’d like to do that, too.

F.     How can we help the Red Cross?

G.     I’m sure that’s why you do it, right?   

Qigong,_61_(call) "Life Energy Cultivation" in China,is a practice of focusing on breath,movement,and a awareness for exercise,and healing.If you have taken Chinese lessons,you must be familiar with Confucius（孔子）, according to_62_qigong provides a means to become a Junzi (gentleman) through awareness of morality.Taoism considers qigong a way to achieve spiritual improvement.Qigong is_63_(tradition) viewed as a practice to balance qi (inner life energy),which is now practiced throughout China and worldwide._64_a form of gentle exercise,qigong is made up of movements that are repeated,strengthening the body.Qigong_65_(believe) to help develop human potential,allow access to higher degrees of awareness,and awaken_66_(one) "true nature".

What makes qigong special is that it can also be done_67_(lie);thus it is_68_(access) for disabled persons, seniors and people recovering from injuries.Qigong practitioners on prevention and self-healing,which has been widely used in China as part of traditional Chinese medicine,and is included in the curriculum of Chinese_69_ (university).Besides,qigong is practiced for self-cultivation as a means to get rid of_70_complexity of life.

As a man was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains, and no cages either. It was obvious that the elephants could, at any time, break away from their bonds but for some reason, they did not.

He saw a trainer nearby and asked why these animals just stood there and made no attempt to get away. “Well,” trainer said, “when they are very young and much smaller we use the rope of the same size to tie them and, at that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away.”

The man was amazed. These animals can break free from their bonds at any time, but because they believe they can’t, they are stuck right where they are.

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1.这个故事有什么寓意?

2.你如何解决这样的问题？

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Only after they had carried out over ten experiments ______ the decision.

A. they reached      B. they reach         C. did they reach    D. do they reach

 The new technology, if _____ to farming, will help increase the grain output.

A. applying                      B. to apply                    C. applied                 D. having applied

    Sometimes the targets we set 61  (us) are just too high. We think that we will be better people in the future. Just as we are 62  (easy) taken over by the planning fallacy(谬见)，believing that we can complete a large project for work in an afternoon,  we think in the future we will be better-organised and more self-disciplined.

    One of the most  63  (fame) examples of the planning fallacy is  64

of the Oxford English Dictionary. In 1860 plans were in place to complete it within three years. In 1879 there was a new deal to publish in within a decade, but after five years they had only got so far 65   the word "ant". It Was finally completed in 1928. by 66   time it was considered out of date and revisions began at once.

    The same thing happens when it comes to  67  ( try) to change our lifestyles. We read about a new idea and that optimism fires up all over again. At the University of Toronto Janet Polivy has been studying what she calls. " false hope syndrome".                    

She found that People set themselves unrealistic targets which they undoubtedly failed to reach, leaving them feeling even 68  (bad) about themselves. Some of the students she studied had tried and failed for 10 years to make the same  69  (change) in their lives, but each year they  70  (convince) that this time it would work.

Peter:   6

Monica: Yes, but not here．7   I don’t like eating standing up．

Peter: There is another restaurant over there．

Monica:  8．Only the rich can afford to eat there．Besides, 9   I’m not going into a restaurant that doesn’t have a menu．

Peter: We just passed a café that does snakes．

Monica:   10

Peter: You’re one of those people that are never satisfied, aren’t you?

A．Shall we have something to eat?

B．Do you come here very often?

C．I don’t like café without tables

D．It is expensive and charges very high prices．

E．Oh, I don’t like the look of it．

F．It serves very good coffee．

G．I can’t see a menu．

       —Can I have an apple, Uncle Pal?

—______. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

A. It doesn’t matter     B. It’s a deal    C. You’re welcome  D. Help yourself

America's greatest technological achievement, the Hoover Dam, now has a companion piece, a bridge held up by the longest arch in the Western Hemisphere(半球).The Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, connects the US states of Arizona and Nevada, crosses the vast chasm (峡谷) 890 feet above the Colorado River that is controlled by the dam.

The striking 1,900-foot-long structure will improve traffic in the region and help protect the dam from being destroyed. It is the seventh highest bridge in the world, behind four in China，one in Papua New Guinea and one in the US state of Colorado.

"The Hoover Dam is the greatest civil engineering achievement in America's history,” said the bridge project manager Dave Zanatell. "Our goal was not to outdo or outshine it. Our goal was to，in a respectful way，do something that would be great for our generation and that would stand besides Hoover Dam in a respectful and quality way that would become a part of Hoover's legacy (遗产)."

Just as the Hoover Dam was built in the heart of the Great Depression (大萧条) and was seen as an example of the nation's can-do spirit, some hope this project can also provide some uplift.

The bridge is surprising: at 1，050 feet， its support arch holds up a roadway that lies on 300-foot-Iong concrete pillars (柱子), some of the tallest in the world. It contains 16 million pounds of steel.

The idea of the bridge came into being in the 1960s because the top of the Hoover Dam has been a narrow two-lane road that is the fastest route from Arizona to Las Vegas and then the Pacific Northwest and Canada.

Access to the dam from each direction is a dangerously winding route，but massive trucks and passenger vehicles shared it for decades. During the day，when thousands of tourists travel to the dam from Las Vegas three times as many accidents as on a normal road will happen.

The bridge has a sidewalk on the side facing the dam. The wall on both sides is 54 inches high，so walkers can take photos there.

56.Which of the following is true of the Hoover Dam?

A. It was completed recently.                         B. It was built during the hard times.

C. It has the longest arch.                               D. It's the seventh highest dam in the world.

57.What is one of the purposes of building the bridge?

A. To protect the dam.                               B. To save the cultures.

C. To outdo the dam.                                 D. To develop the tourism.

58.The underlined word "uplift" in Paragraph 4 means"______",

A.lift of the heavy object                                   B.support in money

C.spiritual encouragement                                 D.instruction in technology

59.Which of the followings shows the right position of the bridge and dam?

60.The text is mainly about_____.

A.the Hoover Dam                                B.American western development

C.a tour along the Colorado River           D.a recently built bridge

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保持健康的重要性。

保持健康的方法。

多吃水果蔬菜，保持饮食平衡，避免高糖、高脂肪的食物;

多锻炼，健身强体;

摒弃不良习惯。

你自己的看法。

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词数：120左右。

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--____________?    

-- We are looking for a pair of sports shoes.

 A. What do you do  B. What do you like  C. Can I help you  D. Do you need help

Country music is one of the most popular kinds of music in the United States today because it is about simple but strong human feelings and events-love, sadness, good times, and bad times. It tells real-life, stories and sounds the way people really talk. As life becomes more complicated(复杂), it is good to hear music about ordinary people.

Country music, sometimes called country-western, comes from two kinds of music. One is the traditional music of the people in the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern Unite States. The other is traditional cowboy music from the west. The singers usually play guitars, and in the 1920s they started using electric guitars. At first city people said country music was low class. It was popular mostly in the South. But during World War II, thousands of Southerners went to the Northeast and Midwest to work in the factories. They took their music with them. Soldiers from the rest of the country went to army camps（军营）in the South. They learned country music. Slowly it became popular all over the country.

Today country music is also popular everywhere in the United States and Canada—in small towns and in New York City, among black and white, and among educated and uneducated people. About 1, 200 radio stations broadcast country music twenty-four hours a day. English stars sing it in British English, and people in other countries sing it in their own languages. The music that started with cowboys and poor southerners is now popular all over the world.

36. It can be learned from the passage that country music comes from_________-

  A. the Northeast and Midwest

  B. factories and army camps in the South

  C. the Appalachian Mountains and the West

  D. real-life stories in small towns

37. Before World War II country music was popular mainly in________.

  A. the south           B. the north

  C. the Midwest        D. the Northeast

38. During World War II many Southerners went to the Northeast and the Mid-west because____.

  A. they wanted to take music with them

  B. they wanted to make other people like country music

  C. they wanted to work in the factories there

  D. they wanted to make country music popular

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

  A. Country music is about human feelings and events.

  B. Country music is sung by stars all in English.

  C. Country music is popular among city people today.

  D. City people didn’t like country music at first.

So many of us hold on to little complaints that may have come from an argument, a misunderstanding, the way we were raised, or some other painful event. Stubbornly, we wait for someone else to reach out to us—believing this is the only way we can forgive or rekindle a friendship or family relationship.

A friend of mine, recently told me that she hadn’t spoken to her son in almost three years. She said that she and her son had had a disagreement about his wife and that she wouldn’t speak to him again unless he called first. When I suggested that she be the one to reach out, she said, “I can’t do that. He’s the one who should apologize.” After a little gentle encouragement, however, she did decide to be the first one to reach out. To her amazement, her son was grateful for her willingness to call and offered an apology of his own. As is usually the case, when someone takes the chance and reaches out, everyone wins.

Whenever we hold on to our anger, we turn “small stuff（问题）” into really “big stuff”in our minds. We start to believe that our positions are more important than our happiness. They are not. If you want to be a more peaceful person you must understand that being right is almost never more important than allowing yourself to be happy. The way to be happy is to let go, and reach out. /Let other people be right. This doesn’t mean that you’re wrong. Everything will be fine. You’ll experience the peace of letting go, as well as the joy of letting others be right.

You’ll also notice that, as you reach out and let others be “right,” they will become less defensive and more loving toward you. They might even reach back. But, if for some reason they don’t, that’s okay too. You’ll have the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your part to create a mor e loving world, and certainly you’ll be more peaceful yourself.

21. The underlined word “rekindle” in Paragraph 1 probably means “______”.

A. recover      B. develop      C. accept      D. replace

22. In the author’s opinion, we hold on to our anger often because we think ______.

A. we can turn small issues into big ones

B. our positions are higher than others

C. our own opinions matter most

D. others will be less defensive

23. The best thing to do after a quarrel is to_________.

A. let go of our own rights

B. realize that you are wrong

C. expect others to give in

D. apologize to others first

24. What is the main idea of the passage?

   A. People should keep peaceful when facing small stuff

   B. Reaching out and apologizing wins one peace and happiness

   C. We should tell apart small and big stuff in our daily life

   D. It’s necessary to enjoy our friendship and family relationship

Christmas，Easter and Birthday parties can be difficult times for grandmothers and parents as they rush around trying to arrange the perfect celebration or making everyone as happy as possible! What's better than a birthday party that makes your grandchild smile throughout or a celebration that impresses relatives and close friends?

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21.From the text，we know that “Granny Look” is         .

A.a person who guides you to make your yearly celebration a real success

B.a magazine that helps the family to prepare for special occasions

C.a company that sells all sorts of products on the Internet

D.a website that helps you to prepare for special occasions

22.The purpose of the text is         .

A.to make children have a memorable holiday        B.to show you how to shop on the Internet

C.to give you some information about Granny Look   D.to introduce some goods

23.You will fail to find any information at Christmas when you need         .

A.Christmas cards    B.fun Advent Calendars    C.Christmas gifts        D.tickets for theatres