Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, made his first public appearance since going on medical leave six weeks ago, taking the stage at a San Francisco media event to introduce the iPad 2, the second generation of the company’s tablet computer.
Thin but energetic, Mr. Jobs showed off a thinner iPad. “ We’ve been working on this product for a while and I just didn’t want to miss this day,” he said.
His absence has concerned investors, especially since the group has given no details of his condition. He was diagnosed with cancer in 2004 and had a liver transplant during almost six moths of medical leave in 2009. People close to him said last month his health had been changing.
Apple’s stock rose more than 2 percent in the minutes after Mr. Jobs began speaking, then gave up some of its gain as he detailed the iPad 2.
The iPad 2 will go on sale in black and white versions in the US on March 11 and in 26 other countries, including the UK and Germany, on March 25. The table is Apple’s biggest product launch since the iPhone three years ago, and is comparable to the iPhone as the most expected in Apple’s history.
Most of the improvements in the latest version had been expected, including front and rear-facing video, which allows video conferencing between iPads, Mac computers and the most recent iPhones and iPods, a larger speaker, a faster processor and other upgrades. The iPad 2 is one-third thinner than the original tablet and slightly lighter, with a 9.7-inch touchscreen. It can run movies, books, games and a complete range of applications. In the US it will work with AT&T and Verizon, the top two mobile carriers. The pricing will be the same to the 2010 iPad at its introduction, ranging from $499 to $829 in six models. But Apple dropped prices on the older iPad on Wednesday by $100 across the board.
Apple has made the most of its year-long head start in tablets, selling 15,000,000 units of the older iPad last year and taking about 85 percent of the market. Forrester predicted that the iPad 2 would clain 80 percent of the US market this year, or 20,000,000 out of 24,000,000 total shipped. This prediction was based on both the technical improvements to the iPad 2, and the distribution difficulties and higher prices for Apple’s rivals.
Motorola, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion, Samsung and others have brought out competing tablets, many based on Google’s Android software.
Mr. Jobs said the rest of the field was still catching up with the first iPad and their markets for applications designed for tablets had, at best, 100 small programs. This compares with 65,000 on Apple’s applications store.
小題1:Why are the investors of Apple worried according to the text?
A．Apple’s stock price changes a lot
B．Steve Jobs’ health condition is not stable
C．The iPad 2 has some technical drawbacks
D．Apple faces strong competition from other companies.
小題2:In what respect are the iPad 2 and the 2010 iPad exactly alike?
A．the weightB．the speaker
C．the thicknessD．the pricing at the introduction
小題3:How many tablet computers were sold in the market last year?
A．a(chǎn)bout 15,000,000B．a(chǎn)bout 17,000,000
C．a(chǎn)bout 20,000,000D．a(chǎn)bout 24,000,000
小題4:What makes Apple’s tablets superior to the competing tablets of other companies?
A．the low price
B．the Android software
C．the full kinds of models
D．the tens of thousands of applications
小題5:What is the best title for the text?
A．Jobs on Stage to Introduce iPad 2
B．iPad 2 Better than the Original
C．Best Applications for iPad 2
D．iPad 2 vs. Competitors

小題1:B
小題2:D
小題3:B
小題4:D
小題5:A
文章介紹的喬布斯宣布Ipad上市，并介紹相關(guān)功能。
小題1:B 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)第三段最后一句People close to him said last month his health had been changing.可知他的身體情況一直都在變化，故B正確。
小題2:D 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)第六段倒數(shù)2,3行The pricing will be the same to the 2010 iPad at its introduction, ranging from $499 to $829 in six models.可知D正確。
小題3:B 計(jì)算題。根據(jù)第七段Apple has made the most of its year-long head start in tablets, selling 15,000,000 units of the older iPad last year and taking about 85 percent of the market.可知15,000，000占據(jù)了百分之85的比例。那么一共賣掉了大約about 17,000,000臺(tái)。故B正確。
小題4:D 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章最后一段內(nèi)容their markets for applications designed for tablets had, at best, 100 small programs. This compares with 65,000 on Apple’s applications store.可知新的Ipad有成百上千的應(yīng)用，故D正確。
小題5:A 主旨大意題。文章介紹的喬布斯宣布Ipad上市，并介紹相關(guān)功能。
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One day a heavy storm hit a village. Nothing was ____41____ but a rock fell from the nearby mountain. The rock rolled down from the mountain and __42_____ in the middle of the main oad in the village. It was very big and shaped more or less __43__ a ball. The villagers decided to move it away since it was blocking the street. Several of the ___44___ men came to try to lift it out of the road. No matter _____45____ they tried, they couldn’t move it.
All of this time a young boy was ___46_____ the men trying to move the rock.. “Excuse me,” he said, “but I think I could move it.” “You,” they shouted, “____47___ are you talking about? All of us have just tried and can’t ___48_____ move it a little.” They all ____49______ the boy.
The next ___50_____ some villagers came to the street. To their great __51____, the rock was gone. More people ran out to see for themselves. It was true the rock was not in the road any more. The little boy stood in the street, smiling, “ I told you I could move it. I did it last night.” ___52_____ he walked over to ___53____ the rock had been and ____54_____ some dirt with a shovel( 鏟 ) “You see,” he said, “ I dug a hole __55____ the rock and it rolled down into the hole by itself. Then I covered it with dirt.”
小題1:
A．hurtB．foundC．destroyedD．broken
小題2:
A．layB．stoppedC．stoodD．placed
小題3:
A．a(chǎn)sB．forC．a(chǎn)likeD．like
小題4:
A．happiestB．biggestC．weakestD．strongest
小題5:
A．whatB．how hardC．how manyD．how long
小題6:
A．seeingB．hearingC．watchingD．staring
小題7:
A．whomB．howC．whereD．what
小題8:
A．still notB．a(chǎn)lreadyC．evenD．will
小題9:
A．smiled atB．praisedC．joked withD．laughed at
小題10:
A．nightB．eveningC．a(chǎn)fternoonD．morning
小題11:
A．joyB．interestC．satisfactionD．surprise
小題12:
A．At lastB．ThenC．FinallyD．So
小題13:
A．whereB．in whichC．thereD．place
小題14:
A．gaveB．coveredC．uncoveredD．put
小題15:
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In the general election at the end of the war, the Conservative Party, of which he was leader, was defeated. But he became Prime Minister again in 1951. He resigned as Prime Minister in 1955. However, he remained a member of parliament until 1964. Some time later, in 1965, he died.
小題1:Before World War I, Churchill worked for his country as ____.
A．headmaster of Harrow SchoolB．a(chǎn) leader of the Britain Navy
C．a(chǎn) leader of the Conservative Party D．Prime Minister of Britain
小題2:How many times was Churchill elected Prime Minister?
A．One. B．Two. C．Three. D．Four.
小題3:What can we learn from Para. 4?
A．In 1938 Churchill left the parliament.
B．Churchill's closest friends were against his attitude toward war.
C．Churchill's closest friends always inspired him to seek higher office.
D．Churchill and his closet friends served in the army before World War II.
小題4:We can know all the following from the text EXCEPT that ____.
A．Churchill gave up as Prime Minister in 1955
B．Churchill once became a soldier, fighting in France
C．Churchill's speeches encouraged the British people to keep on fighting
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小題1:According to the passage, Michelle Obama ____________．
A．graduated from Anderson College
B．paid her first visit to the UK this time
C．was confident when she entered the college
D．came from a family without good background
小題2:It is implied in the passage that these 40 young girls ____________．
A．were all from the United States
B．were students of Oxford University
C．came from different cultural backgrounds
D．stayed with Mrs． Obama because of hard work
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A．working hardB．believing in yourself
C．good opportunitiesD．facing failure without fear
小題4:What can we learn from the underlined sentence?
A．The British pupils couldn’t understand her message．
B．Her message reached the British pupils successfully．
C．Repetition is not the British way to give a message．
D．All effective messages are not conveyed in British．

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There’re women 　53　 side by side with the President of our country, so why not side by side with the boys 　54　 the football team or out in the water surfing? Give girls a chance to __55　, and they will.?
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A．tell　　　B．a(chǎn)nswer　　C．give　　　D．realize
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A．levelsB．pointsC．stepsD．parts
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小題18:
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小題19:
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Everybody has had at least one experience from which he knows the meaning of life．This time, which took place several years ago, but seems as if it just happened．
On an afternoon several years ago, my brother-in-law opened the bottom drawer of my sister's dress and picked out a beautiful skirt．"Jan bought this the first time we went to New York, at least 8 or 9 years ago．She never wore it．She was saving it for a special occasion．" he said．I guess this was the occasion: it was the funeral (葬禮) of my sister, after her unexpected death．
He took the shirt and put it on bed, with the other clothes we were taking to the funeral．Then he closed the drawer and turned to me, "Don't ever save anything for a special occasion．Every day you're alive is a special occasion．"
I'm thinking about his words, and they've changed the way I live my life．I'm spending more time with my family and friends and less time in committee meetings．Whenever possible, life should be a kind of experience to enjoy, not to suffer．"Someday" and "one of these days" are losing their importance on my vocabulary．If it's worth seeing or hearing or doing,I want to see and hear and do it now．
Ever since that day, I have been trying very hard not to put off, hold hack or save anything that would add laughter and color to our lives．Every morning when I open my eyes．I tell myself that every day, every minute, every breath, truly is a gift．So cherish every day and find the true meaning of your life．
小題1:Why did Jan buy the beautiful skirt but didn't wear it?
A．She waited for a special occasion to wear it on．
B．She wanted to keep it for someone else．
C．She saved it till she grew up．
D．She would give it to herself as a gift some day．
小題2:What does the underlined word "cherish" mean?
A．Treasure．B．Waste．C．Own．D．Save．
小題3:From his experience, the author learns that _______．
A．everybody can have a happy life through efforts
B．every day in our lives is worth cherishing
C．enjoying ourselves is the most important thing in our lives
D．everybody will have some things left to do after his death
小題4:What does the author write this passage for?
A．To show how to make good use of every day in life．
B．To explain the true meaning of his brother-in-law's words．
C．To tell people to cherish every day and find the meaning of life．
D．To encourage people to waste time and enjoy themselves in life．
小題5:What's the best title for this passage?
A．Every Day Is a Gift
B．My Sister Jan
C．What Is the Meaningful Life Like
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Everyone agrees that all the creatures want happiness and are afraid of pain and grief. The question, however, is “What is real happiness?” The desire for happiness has no meaning without understanding the real nature of happiness.
Generally, ordinary beings consider sensual（感覺的） pleasures as happiness, and their actions are directed toward gaining these. According to them, searching for happiness means searching for pleasures of the senses. The question, “What is happiness?”, does not arise（出現(xiàn)） in their hearts, because in their hearts they think of a life full of sensual joys as a happy life.
Some thinkers say, “Happiness does not lie in the objects of enjoyment; happiness or unhappiness lies in the imagination.” To prove their belief they give examples like the following one. A man has a two-storey house. When he thinks of those who have a house with three storeys or more, he feels unhappy. When he thinks of those who have just a cottage, he feels happy. Such happiness does not lie in possessions（占有物）, but in the imagination. They advise people to take inspiration from those who have few possessions but are quite happy. If you only consider people wealthier than yourself, you will always be unhappy.
If you want to be happy, they say, look at the poor. But it is unreasonable to hold that happiness lies in the imagination. And it is inappropriate to think that someone is happy if he only imagines himself better than the poor and the unhappy. This attitude also satisfies the sense of pride of possession. This can never be called happiness. Unless we find out where happiness lies, we cannot really become happy.
Some ask people to do this or that, and say, “This way your desires will be satisfied. That way you will get what you want and become happy.” People holding these views regard happiness as satisfaction of desires and unhappiness as denial(否定) of such satisfaction.
小題1:What kind of life can make common people feel happy?
A．Life without pain and grief.
B．Life full of sensual pleasures.
C．Life with desire for possessions.
D．Life full of imagination.
小題2:The underlined word “cottage” in Paragraph 3 probably refers to ________.
A．a(chǎn) house in one’s imaginationB．a(chǎn) modern building
C．a(chǎn) desired objectD．a(chǎn) small house
小題3:The author may agree that ________.
A．by comparing themselves with the poor, people will feel happy
B．people won’t feel happy without a desire for happiness
C．possessing wealth may lead to a sense of pride
D．people have to experience pain and grief before finding happiness
小題4:The best title for this passage would be “________”.
A．What Is Happiness?B．How to Get Happiness
C．Happiness and DesireD．Happiness and Imagination

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I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty two. I can slightly remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a calamity(災(zāi)難) can do strange things to people. It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn't been blind. I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, otherwise. I don't mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left.
Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. I was totally confused and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me--a potential to live, you might call it--which I didn't see, and they made me want to fight it out with blindness.
The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was basic. If I hadn't been able to do that, I would have collapsed (崩潰) and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: an assurance（確信） that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the sweeping, intricate（錯(cuò)綜復(fù)雜的） pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. It had to start with the simplest things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making fun of me and I was hurt. "I can't use this." I said. "Take it with you," he urged me, "and roll it around." The words stuck in my head. "Roll it around! "By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball. At Philadelphia's Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.
All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good to try for something I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.
小題1:We can learn from the beginning of the passage that _______
A．the author lost his sight because of a car crash.
B．the author wouldn't love life if the disaster didn't happen.
C．the disaster made the author appreciate what he had.
D．the disaster strengthened the author's desire to see.
小題2:What's the most difficult thing for the author?
A．How to adjust himself to reality.
B．Building up assurance that he can find his place in life.
C．Learning to manage his life alone.
D．How to invent a successful variation of baseball.
小題3:According to the context, "a chair rocker on the front porch" in paragraph 3 means that the author __________
A．would sit in a rocking chair and enjoy his life.
B．would be unable to move and stay in a rocking chair.
C．would lose his will to struggle against difficulties.
D．would sit in a chair and stay at home.
小題4:According to the passage, the baseball and encouragement offered by the man _____
A．hurt the author's feeling.
B．gave the author a deep impression.
C．directly led to the invention of ground ball.
D．inspired the author.
小題5:What is the best title for the passage?
A．A Miserable LifeB．Struggle Against Difficulties
C．A Disaster Makes a Strong PersonD．An Unforgetable Experience

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JK Rowling, the Harry Potter author, has signed a deal with Little, Brown and Company, to publish her first ever novel for adults, which is set to become one of the most anticipated (期望的) book in years.
The deal means that Rowling’s long-standing relationship with Bloomsbury, the London-based publisher that launched (發(fā)行) the Harry Potter books, has come to an end, at least in terms of new works by the author.
Rowling is keeping her fans guessing about the characters and plot of her new book. She only said that the new novel will be nothing like the Harry Potter series, which was sold over 30 million copies in the UK alone. She thought that with the move from children’s to adult fiction, a switch to a new publisher seemed like a natural and reasonable step.
She said, "Although I've enjoyed writing it every bit as much, this book will be very different from the Harry Potter series. The freedom to explore a new field is a gift that Harry’s success has brought me."
Ian Rankin, the Edinburgh-based author whose highly-successful detective novels are also set in the city, suggested Rowling’s book will be a crime novel.
"Wouldn’t it be funny if JK Rowling’s first novel for adults turned out to be a crime story set in Edinburgh?" he said.
Industry insiders guessed that the deal is worth more than ￡5 million and the new book is expected to come out later this year.
A spokesman said, "JK Rowling’s audience is vast and her position is unique. Harry Potter books were a global success and her fans are very loyal. Children that were eight, nine, or ten when the books first came out in the 1990s are now in their 20s. Plenty of adults, loved the books regardless of whether they had children, so the potential market for her is huge."
小題1:What does the text mainly tell us?
A．JK Rowling has signed a deal with a new publisher.
B．JK Rowling's new book will be more successful than her Harry Potter series.
C．JK Rowling’s first book for adults will be published later this year.
D．JK Rowling has to switch to a new publisher in order to publish her new book.
小題2:JK Rowling’s new book for adults       .
A．has been sold 30 million copies in the UK alone
B．is poorly thought of by the London-based publisher Bloomsbury
C．has nothing in common with the Harry Potter series
D．is expected to bring her more money than the Harry Potter series
小題3:The author used Ian Rankin’s words in order to         .
A．tell us that some famous novelists offer to give Rowling some advice
B．show that many readers are curious about Rowling’s new book
C．tell us that many readers prefer to read detective or crime novels
D．prove that a crime story set in Edinburgh is sure to be successful
小題4:We can learn from the text that         .
A．Little, Brown and Company is specialized in publishing adult books
B．the author has no doubt about the success of Rowling’s new book
C．JK Rowling will be a crime novelist as good as Ian Rankin
D．it was in Edinburgh that Ian Rankin got to know JK Rowling

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