It was days or even weeks since I had been left on the island. My only companion was a dog called Philly which had survived the shipwreck. Memories of what happened were still fresh.

       The magnificence of the ship had given us all a false sense of security. As the first signs of the storm started, our captain announced it’s nothing much, just another storm. Yet, he was wrong! The storm hit the ship so badly that large holes were made at the sides of the ship. As the freezing water started rushing in, our ship was consumed quickly by the dark water.

       My train of thought was disturbed by Philly licking my hand dearly. Are you hungry? I spoke my first words ever since the shipwreck occurred. Woof, woof! Barked Philly enthusiastically. At this moment, my stomach gave a loud growl, too. I could not remember when my last meal was, probably a ten-course dinner on the ship. As I had never fished before, I thought maybe I could try something simpler, like picking fruits. With Philly at my side, armed with a sharp branch, we walked into the forest on the island together. Suddenly I thought I heard noises. Could there be anyone else on this island? I wondered. As we were looking for fruit trees, we chanced upon one that bore yellow, juicy-looking fruit. Philly started barking-we had company. It was a dark-skinned woman, holding a sharp spear, dressed in fur and grass. I backed away from her, afraid that she would be aggressive. Then, I saw that she was trying to save us. Pointing her spear at the fruit tree, she shook her head strongly.

       I nodded at her to show I understood what she was saying. Signaling to us to follow her, she turned to walk along a small path that I had never noticed. At the end of the small path, there was a small village. Tears of joy filled my eyes.

24. What happened to the ship the writer had been on?

   A. It was frozen in the sea.                               B. It was turned over by the storm.

   C. It was deserted because it was insecure.           D. It sank due to the damage caused by the storm.

25. According to the passage, which of the following can best describe Philly?

   A. Active and friendly.                        B. Caring but aggressive.

   C. Smart and faithful.                          D. Noisy but enthusiastic.

26. Why did the writer walk into the forest?

   A. To take shelter from the storm.                    B. To go to a small village.

   C. To find someone for help.               D. To look for something to eat.

27. The woman most probably tried to tell the writer that ________________.

   A. the fruit tree wasn't the best choice              B. the fruit was unfit for eating

   C. the writer wasn't allowed to pick the fruit          D. she wasn't afraid of the writer

As we all know, what’s most needed ____ is to save the life of world economy.

A. at the moment       B.in a moment       C. for a moment  D.at any moment

 I love the job of selling guitars. That's        my strengths meet my passions for music.

A. what               B. which             C. where                     D. when

Proudly reading my words, I glanced around the room, only to find my classmates bearing big smiles on their faces and tears in their eyes. Confused, I glanced toward my stone-faced teacher. Having no choice, I slowly raised the report I had slaved over, hoping to hide myself. “What could be causing everyone to act this way?”

Quickly, I flashed back to the day Miss Lancelot gave me the task. This was the first real talk I received in my new school. It seemed simple: go on the Internet and find information about a man named George Washington. Since my idea of history came from an ancient teacher in my home country, I had never heard of that name before. As I searched the name of this fellow, it became evident that there were two people bearing the same name who looked completely different! One invented hundreds of uses for peanuts, while the other led some sort of army across America. I stared at the screen, wondering which one my teacher meant. I called my grandfather for a golden piece of advice; flip (掷) a coin. Heads—the commander, and tails—the peanuts guy. Ah! Tails, my report would be about the great man who invented peanut butter, George Washington Carver.

Weeks later, standing before this unfriendly mass, I was totally lost. Oh well, I lowered the paper and sat down at my desk, burning to find out what I had done wrong. As a classmate began his report, it all became clear, “My report is on George Washington, the man who started the American Revolution.” The whole world became quite! How could I know that she meant that George Washington?

Obviously, my grade was awful. Heartbroken but fearless, I decided to turn this around. I talked to Miss Lancelot, but she insisted: No re-dos; no new grade. I felt that the punishment was not justified, and I believed I deserved a second chance. Consequently, I threw myself heartily into my work for the rest of the school year. Ten months later, that chance unfolded as I found myself sitting in the headmaster’s office with my grandfather, now having an entirely different conversation. I smiled and flashed back to the embarrassing moment at the beginning of the year as the headmaster informed me of my option to skip the sixth grade. Justice is sweet!

9. What did the author’s classmates think about his report?

A. interesting        B. ridiculous.        C. boring.           D. puzzling.

10.Why was the author confused about the task?

A. He was unfamiliar with American history.  

B. He followed the advice and flipped a coin.

C. He forgot his teacher’s instruction.        

D. He was new at the school.

11.The underlined word “burning” in Para. 3 probably means _______.

A. annoyed            B. ashamed           C. ready                D. eager

12.In the end, the author turned things around _______.

A. by redoing his task                   

B. through his own efforts

       C. with the help of his grandfather          

D. under the guidance of his headmaster

Dear girls,

   The dream itself comes from hard work, some good luck and good timing. Here are some words of wisdom as you  41  your way in the world, from an entrepreneur(企业家)and your  42  .

   In high school, I wanted to be a politician. I left my hometown for college in Washington DC. There, I   43 that I loved to support women. It taught me that I’m a creative, strong leader and great at marketing.  44  , I moved to be the head of a national healthcare nonprofit. Becoming a mother opened my mind to  45  a breast pump bag(储奶袋)business. Now I  46  a highly successful company that I started up on my own.  47  what you are good at and what you are passionate about. Keep an open mind.

   Failure is  48  to your success. I won’t tell you to feel good about  49  . But I will tell you that every failure I’ve had along the way has absolutely made me  50 .

   Failing the big math exam in high school was   51  . I eventually passed, and I’ve   52  failed an exam again. I learned from that  53  to ask for help. Now I ask for help in business  54  .

   Being passed over for a significant job opportunity that I more than qualified  55 hurt me. I was so depressed  __56  soon I got a big job at a national organization. It’s okay to get angry! Take that and  57  it into positive action.

   I’m proud to be a role  58  to you as a mom and an entrepreneur. I hope I inspire you to believe that you can be  __59  you want and you can have everything on your list. It will be my pleasure to watch your life  60  before my eyes.

41. A. lose                  B. pay                         C. get                         D. make

42. A. aunt                  B. mama                     C. uncle                      D. papa

43. A. discovered         B. informed                 C. imagined                D. developed

44. A. However           B. Therefore                C. Otherwise               D. Meanwhile

45. A. pushing            B. taking                     C. launching                D. pulling

46. A. run                   B. close                      C. leave                      D. work

47. A. Come out           B. Work out                       C. Hold out                 D. Figure out

48. A. pleasant             B. convenient              C. critical                    D. different

49. A. justice               B. failure                     C. courage                  D. honesty

50. A. worse               B. bad                         C. well                        D. better

51. A. embarrassing     B. exciting                   C. amusing                  D. inspiring

52. A. ever                  B. always                    C. never                      D. often

53. A. accident            B. experience               C. feeling                    D. memory

54. A. all the time         B. of all time                C. at a time                 D. in no time

55. A. on                    B. to                           C. for                         D. with

56. A. or                     B. so                          C. while                      D. but

57. A. turn                  B. put                         C. make                      D. get

58. A. example            B. star                        C. symbol                   D. model

59. A. anything           B. nothing                   C. everything               D. something

60. A. fold                  B. unfold                     C. cover                     D. uncover

M: Excuse me, madam. Do you mind if I ask you some questions? I need your help to complete a survey.

W: Of course not.   51 

M: Could I have your opinion about modern pop music?

W: Modern pop music? Um..., well, I don’t really listen to pop music, or watch pop videos.

M: Well, why don’t you like it?

W:   52   And the songs are really nonsense.

M: But, you know, most young people are fond of it.

W:   53   My son, who’s fifteen, is a real pop music fan. He listens to it all the time at home, and it  really annoys both my husband and me.

M:   54 

W: Absolutely. My husband enjoys traditional folk music. He says it makes him calm and relaxed when listening to it, and he would get a headache whenever he hears modern pop music.

M:   55 

W: And believe it or not, the moment my son turns on his music, my husband always demands he put his headphones on, and so does my son when his father listens to his. Each calls the other’s music noise pollution, and the argument never ends. Ha ha ha...

You ___   pay too much attention to your reading skill，as it is so important．

A．must                      B．should                   C．cannot            D．needn't

假如你叫李华。最近，你收到英国交换生Tom发来的电子邮件，询问中国的餐桌礼仪。请根据下面的写作提纲，给他回一封电子邮件。内容包括：

1.写信的目的；

2. 介绍餐桌礼仪；

3. 表示祝愿。

注意：1. 词数100左右，开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；

         2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：餐桌礼仪  table manners

Dear Tom,

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                                                                     Yours,

                                                                     Li Hua

What will higher education look like in 2050? That was the question addressed Tuesday night by Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University.

“We’re at the end of the fourth wave of change in higher education,” Crow began, arguing that research universities followed the initial establishment of higher education, public colleges, and land-grant schools in the timeline of America.

In less than a half-century, he said, global market competition will be at its fastest rates of change ever, with several multitrillion-dollar economies worldwide. According to a recent projection, the nation’s population could reach 435 million, with a large percentage of those residents economically disadvantaged. In addition, climate change will be “meaningfully uncontrollable” in many parts of the world.

The everyday trends seen today, such as declining performance of students at all levels, particularly in math and science, and declining wages and employment among the less educated, will only continue, Crow maintained, and are, to say the least, not contributing to fulfilling the dream of climbing the social ladder mobility, quality of life, sustainable environment, and longer life spans that most Americans share.

“How is it that we can have these great research universities and have negative-trending outcomes?” Crow said in a talk “I hold the universities accountable. … We are part of the problem.”

Among the “things that we do that make the things that we teach less learnable,” Crow said, are the strict separation of disciplines, academic rigidity, and conservatism, the desire of universities to imitate schools at the top of the social ranks, and the lack of the computer system ability that would allow a large number of students to be educated for a small amount of money.

Since 2002, when Crow started being in charge at Arizona State — which he calls the “new American university” — he has led more than three dozen initiatives that aim to make the school “inclusive, scalable, fast, adaptive, challenge-focused, and willing to take risks.”

Among those initiatives were a restructuring of the engineering and life sciences schools to create more linkages between disciplines; the launch of the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the School of Sustainability; the start of a Teachers College to address K-12 performance and increase the status of the Education Department at the university; and broadened access, increasing the freshman class size by 42 percent and the enrollment of students living below the poverty line by 500 percent.

Universities must start, Crow noted, “by becoming self-reflective architects, figuring out what we have and what we actually need instead of what legend tells us we have to be.” Research universities today have “run their course,” he added. “Now is the time for variety.”

During a discussion afterward, Crow clarified and expanded on some of his points. He discussed, for example, the school’s distance-learning program. “Nearly 40 percent of undergraduates are taking at least one course online,” he said, which helps the school to keep costs down while advancing interactive learning technologies.

He said that Arizona State is working to increase the transfer and completion rates of community-college students, of whom only about 15 percent, historically, complete their later degrees. “We’ve built a system that will allow them to track into universities,” particularly where “culturally complex barriers” beyond finances limit even the most gifted students.

66.   The fourth wave of change in America’s higher education refers to _______.

A. public colleges                        B. land-grant schools

C. research universities                D. initial higher education

67. Which is NOT part of the American dream most people share?

A. People enjoy a quality life.        B. People live longer and longer.

C. The freedom to move around.  D. An environment that is sustainable.

68. Which is an initiative adopted by Crow at Arizona State University?

A. Restructuring the teachers College.

B. Launching the School of Life Sciences.

C. Ignoring the linkages between disciplines.

D. Enrolling more students from poor families.

69. Which one is similar to the underlined word “architect” in meaning?

A. The author of the guidebook is an architect by profession.                  

B. If you want to refurnish the house, consult the architect.

C. Deng Xiaoping is one of the architects of the PRC.              

D. Tom is considered one of the best landscape architect here.

70. With the distance-learning program, Arizona State University is able to ______.

A. enroll 40% of its students online

B. keep costs down without a loss of quality

C. provide an even greater number of courses

D. attract the most gifted students all over the world

Before 1840 architects and builders made buildings from stone, brick, or wood. The outside walls held up the weight of the building. A building that had more than a few stories became very heavy. A tall building, such as a castle, had very thick walls.

As time went by, architecture began to change. By 1850 builders had begun to use a metal called iron for the fronts of some large buildings. Iron is lighter than stone and stronger than wood. People dig raw iron from the ground, but raw iron is not enough to use in buildings. Builders must use another type of iron called an alloy.

An alloy is a metal that contains different metals and other compounds, or mixtures of chemicals. The metals and compounds are melted and mixed together to form the alloy. To make an iron alloy, workers use a blast furnace. This machine creates great heat. It has a tall chamber that is lined with brick and open at the top. Workers put limestone, raw iron, and coke (a substance made from coal) into the top of the furnace. They force hot air into the bottom of the furnace. The hot air and a chemical reaction turn the materials into a liquid mass. Workers pour off waste liquid, called slag, and save the iron. Then they form the hot iron into large blocks called pigs, which can be formed into objects. This formed iron is called cast iron.

Cast iron is strong, but it still contains unwanted materials. People wanted to remove these impurities. To do this, they needed to heat the iron to very high temperature. Blast furnaces could not make that much heat.

In England in 1855, Sir Henry Bessemer found the solution. He forced air through liquid pig iron. The oxygen in the air mixed with the impurities in the iron in a process called oxidation. Oxidation creates heat. The heat turns impurities into slag, which is poured off so that only pure steel remains. Pure steel is much stronger than iron. The Bessemer process took place in an egg-shaped machine called a converter. With this process, workers began to make large amounts of steel quickly and cheaply.

By the late 1800s, many people lived in big cities. The price of land increased, one way builders could lower costs was to build taller buildings, which used less land. In Chicago in 1889, George A. Fuller completed the Tacoma Buildings, which had steel beams to hold up its weight. Soon people built more tall buildings with 10 to 20 stories. These were the first skyscrapers.

50. Alloys are important because they ________.

A. have no impurities

B. are the raw materials that people use to make iron

C. may be more useful than the separate metals in the alloy

D. contain different metals

51. The Bessemer process was a success because it produced __________.

A. iron from steel

B. steel quickly and cheaply

C. less slag than a blast furnace

D. impurities in the iron

52. Sir Henry Bessemer probably __________.

A. avoided difficult problems

B. created slag into pure steel

C. was not familiar with metals such as steel

D. knew how to make cast iron

53. From the article, you can conclude that architects throughout history __________.

A. thought carefully about materials when they designed buildings

B. could not design creative buildings until steel was invented

C. disliked stone, brick, and wood

D. liked to design tall buildings

54. Which of the statements below expresses the main idea of the article?

A. Discoveries about iron and steel have allowed people to build taller buildings.

B. Sir Henry Bessemer developed a process to make steel.

C. Architects use many kinds of materials in buildings.

D. Changes about designing building.

    It’s natural to greet friends with a smile and a wave.    36    But what happens if your face and body send mixed messages? Would someone be more likely to believe the look on your face or the way you hold your body?

    Scientists have recently tackled these questions. They found that when a person is looking at your face, she might not believe what she sees if your body language doesn’t match the feeling that your face shows.

   37    Previously, they had found that the tone of a person’s voice can be more important than the words that are spoken. For example, most people tend not to believe a person who says in a flat voice, “I’m so excited.”

    When it came to emotions conveyed by facial expressions and body language, most scientists suspected that the face was more important. To test if this was true, psychologists from the Netherlands and Boston showed people a number of pictures of isolated(孤立的)faces and isolated bodies (with faces blurred out(模糊的)) that showed anger or fear.    38___

    An angry face had low eyebrows and tight lips. A scared face had high eyebrow and a slightly open mouth.    39    A scared body had arms forward and shoulders square, as if ready to defend.

    These results told the researchers that mixed signals can confuse people. Even when people pay attention to the face, body language subtly(微妙地) influences which emotion they read.

    40    If you want to be understood, it helps to avoid sending mixed messages.

A. Studying such mixed messages is nothing new for scientists.

B. So, your body language is important for telling people how you feel.

C. Scientists feel new to study the mixed message that confuses people.

D. An angry body had arms back and shoulders at an angle, as if ready to fight.

E. Body language can sometimes be misunderstood in different culture backgrounds.

F. When you do this, your face and body work together to show your friends that you’re happy to see them.

G. They also showed pictures in which angry or scared faces were paired with angry or scared bodies

Even when you’re extremely busy, you aren’t using your time with 100% efficiency. There are gaps in everyone’s schedule where they aren’t doing anything important. Even if your schedule has no gaps, there is probably lots of time where you aren’t working as fast or as effectively as you possibly could.

Why aren’t you completely efficient? It’s because time isn’t the limiting factor. If it were the limiting factor, people could work non-stop without breaks or any unproductive distractions(消遣). Instead, people, even those who are highly productive, need to take breaks, occasionally procrastinate(拖延) and slow down on tasks throughout the day.

The real and most important limiting factor for productivity is your energy levels to pay attention. Energy levels limit your productivity because when you’re tired, you can have ample time and still not get everything done. Your attention ability is also limited, because even if there are a million things that need to be done, you can only focus on one or two at a time.

You might not be able to insert another 4-5 hours into your schedule without making some sacrifices. But even extremely busy people can add an hour or two into their schedule without cancelling anything. The reason it’s hard to “find time” isn’t a lack of time. It’s because you don’t have enough energy left to focus on something else that needs to fit into your day.

I first suspected time wasn’t the real problem during an extremely busy period in my life over a year ago. I was insanely busy, but at that time I still exercised regularly. I had daily to-do lists with over twenty items, and I still found time to exercise. However, after a few weeks off, due to illness, I stopped exercising. I was not busy by any standards, in fact, my schedule was incredibly light. Despite this free time, I found it hard to find time to exercise. It seemed to get pushed later and later into my schedule until it was gone. How can I explain this odd experience? I believe you have known it.

26. If someone can’t work with 100% efficiency, the most important limiting factor is ________.

A．a schedule without gaps                          B．breaks and distractions

C．the limited time                                  D．the limited energy

27. According to paragraph 4, everyone, including the extremely busy people, can ___________.

A．work without any rest                            B．focus on many things at a time

C．find some more time in a day                         D．do some exercise regularly

28. After a few weeks off, what was the change of the writer’s life?

A．He had a longer daily to-do lists with over twenty items.

B．He stopped doing exercise because of the lack of energy.

C．He found it hard to find time to exercise because he was busier.

D．He pushed most of the things later and later in his schedule.

29. The writer gives the example of himself in the last paragraph in order to ___________.

A．prove what the real limiting factor is                

B．show us how busily he needs to work

C．explain how important a healthy body is         

D．tell us what an odd experience he has

30. What is the best title of the passage?

A．Are You Really Lack of Time?          B．How Can You Work Efficiently?

C．What Makes Your Energy Limitedd?     D．When Should You Do Exercise?

---What’s the matter?

--- The shoes don’t fit properly. They _______ my feet.

   A. are hurting       B. will hurt         C. have hurt           D. are hurt

 ______ in a top-level university abroad is what many students wish for.

   A. Educated      B. Being educated   C. To educate D. Educating

The next day, the group of villagers had not gone very far         they entered a very narrow passage between        two mountains．

     A．when                      B．while               C．until                D．after

 —Can you come to have lunch tomorrow?

    —_________. I will arrive on time.

   A. That’s nothing          B. That’s it               C. That’s cool             D. That’s the problem

 I was blessed with a happy childhood, ______ most people would want to have.

A. one                  B. that                    C. who                D. it

假定你是李华，在参加北京外国大学自主招生考试（BFSU’s pre-test）期间，于3月2日入住一家宾馆606房间，3月6日退房。你回家后发现把一个中等大小蓝色皮背包遗失在那里，内有几本备考书籍，一个红色限量版ipod，和一张信用卡。现请用英文给该宾馆经理写一封信，请他/她帮忙寻找并寄回。

信件要点包括：

·陈述写信原因.

·简要描述该背包

·说明其重要性

·期待回复并表示感谢

注意：1. 词数100左右。 2. 信件格式已为你给出。

 He was so busy then that after a long delay, she ____ replying to my application. 

A. got away with   B. got back at   C. got round to   D. got by