After his journey abroad, Richard Jones returned home, ___.

A. excited B. exciting

C. being excited D. having excited

The exact year Angela and her family spent together in China was 2008.

A. When B. where C. why D. which

The meaning of the word “nice” changed a few times it finally came to include the sense “pleasant”.

A. before B. after C. since D. while

— I get at least half an hour of exercise almost every day.

— Oh great! .

A. Good luck B. Cheer up

C. Same to you D. Keep it up

About 20 years ago, I was lucky to teach a disabled young woman named Audrey. Not only was she good at math and science, but she was also very in art. She could draw and paint beautifully. When Audrey graduated from university, she got two , one in fine arts and one in chemistry. Not too many people do well in two such areas of study. 根據(jù)上文：one in fine arts and one in chemistry.

Just before her high school graduation, Audrey me a wonderful gift. It was a watercolour painting of a mother and her baby. A tear from the mother’s eye as she looked at her child. Under the painting, Audrey had these words: “The deep love from Mother, me, touches another.” What a beautiful gift! I had the piece of art framed and in my office.

Years passed with many from one office to another and I the painting. Last year, after about eight years of not knowing where it was, I a phone call from a former colleague who said she had of mine. It was the picture Audrey had painted for me 18 years earlier. When cleaning out a storage room, she had my gift.

I was struck that the gift came back. I knew Audrey very well. When she was four years old, Audrey had a serious . What’s worse, her father left the house. It was her mother who brought her up with much trouble. She it but was disabled.

To , it is just a painting, but to me it shows how a mother’s love has helped a talent and how its pushes me ahead.

1.A. interestedB. talentedC. buriedD. absorbed

2.A. degreesB. choiceC. chancesD. jobs

3.A. similarB. distinguishingC. differentD. scientific

4.A. gaveB. promisedC. affordedD. presented

5.A. sankB. floodedC. escapedD. fell

6.A. quietlyB. lovinglyC. warmlyD. gently

7.A. describedB. markedC. writtenD. signed

8.A. pastB. onC. withD. through

9.A. hungB. decoratedC. paintedD. added

10.A. migrationsB. movesC. turnsD. circles

11.A. leftB. forgotC. lostD. ignored

12.A. acceptedB. madeC. dialedD. received

13.A. somethingB. booksC. giftsD. letters

14. A. searchedB. discoveredC. observedD. touched

15.A. ancientB. colorfulC. preciousD. abstract

16.A. symptomB. faultC. heartD. disease

17.A. survivedB. recoveredC. struggledD. managed

18.A. someone elseB. anyone elseC. everyone elseD. nobody else

19.A. encourageB. becomeC. developD. practise

20.A. energyB. forceC. strengthD. power

Recordings of angry bees are enough to send big, tough African elephants running away, a new study says. Beehives (蜂窩)—either recorded or real—may even prevent elephants from damaging farmer’s crops.

In 2002, scientist Lucy King and her team found that elephants avoid certain trees with bees living in them. Today, Lucy wants to see if African honeybees might discourage elephants from eating crops. But before she asked farmer to go to the trouble of setting up beehives on their farms, she needed to find out if the bees would scare elephants away.

Lucy found a wild beehive inside a tree in northern Kenya and set up a recorder. Then she threw a stone into the beehive, which burst into life. Lucy and her assistant hid in their car until the angry bees had calmed down. Next，Lucy searched out elephant families in Samburu National Reserve in northern Kenya and put a speaker in a tree close to each family.

From a distance, Lucy switched on the pre-recorded sound of angry bees while at the same time recording the elephants with a video camera. Half the elephant groups left the area within ten seconds. Out of a total of 17 groups, only one group ignored the sound of the angry bees. Lucy reported that all the young elephants immediately ran to their mothers to hide under them. When Lucy played the sound of a waterfall (瀑布) instead of the angry bees to many of the same elephant families, the animals were undisturbed. Even after four minutes, most of the groups stayed in one place.

Lucy is now studying whether the elephants will continue to avoid the sound of angry bees after hearing it several times. She hasn’t tested enough groups yet to know, but her initial (最初的) results were promising enough to begin trials with farmers. She has now begun placing speakers in the fields to see if elephants are frightened away.

1.We know from the passage that elephants may be frightened of .

A. loud noises B. some crops

C. video cameras D. angry bees

2.As mentioned in the passage, Lucy .

A. works by herself in Africa

B. needs to test more elephant groups

C. has stopped elephants eating crops

D. has got farmers to set up beehives on their farms

3. Why did Lucy throw a stone into a wild beehive?

A. To record the sound of bees.

B. To make a video of elephants.

C. To see if elephants would run away.

D. To find out more about the behavior of bees.

4.Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A. Young elephants ignore African honeybees.

B. Waterfalls can make elephants stay in one place.

C. Elephants do not go near trees with bees living in them.

D. Farmers do not allow Lucy to conduct tests in their fields.

You wake up in the morning, the day is beautiful and the plans for the day are what you have been looking forward to for a long time. Then the telephone rings, you say hello, and the drama starts. The person on the other end has a depressing tone in his voice as he starts to tell you how terrible his morning is and that there is nothing to look forward to. You are still in a wonderful mood? Impossible!

Communicating with negative people can wash out your happiness. It may not change what you think, but communicating long enough with them will make you feel depressed for a moment or a long time.

Life brings ups and downs, but some people are stuck in the wrong idea that life has no happiness to offer. They only feel glad when they make others feel bad. No wonder they can hardly win others’ pity or respect.

When you communicate with positive people, your spirit stays happy and therefore more positive things are attracted. When the dagger（匕首） of a negative person is put in you, you feel the heavy feeling that all in all, brings you down.

Sometimes we have no choice but to communicate with negative people. This could be a co-worker, or a relative. In this case, say what needs to be said as little as possible. Sometimes it feels good to let out your anger back to the negative person, but all this is to lower you to that same negative level and they won’t feel ashamed of themselves about that.

Negativity often affects happiness without even being realized. The negative words of another at the start of the day can cling to（附著） you throughout the rest of your day, which makes you feel bad and steals your happiness. Life is too short to feel negative. Stay positive and avoid negativity as much as possible.

1.The purpose of the first paragraph is to __________.

A. make a comparison B. offer an evidence

C. introduce a topic D. describe a daily scene

2.How can negative people have effect on us?

A. By changing our ways of thinking

B. By telling us the nature of life

C. By influencing our emotion

D. By comparing their attitudes to life with ours

3.According to the passage, to reduce negative people’s influence on us, we are advised to __________.

A. show our dissatisfaction to negative people

B. communicate with negative people as little as possible

C. change negative people’s attitudes to life

D. make negative people feel ashamed of themselves

Larry was on another of his underwater expeditions(探險(xiǎn))but this time, it was different. He decided to take his daughter along with him. She was only ten years old. This would be her first trip with her father on what he had always been famous for.

Larry first began diving when he was his daughter’s age. Similarly, his father had taken him along on one of his expeditions. Since then, he had never looked back. Larry started out by renting diving suits from the small diving shop just along the shore. He had hated them. They were either too big or too small. Then, there was the instructor. He gave him a short lesson before allowing him into the water with his father. He had made an exception. Larry would never have been able to go down without at least five hours of theory and another similar number of hours on practical lessons with a guide. Children his age were not even allowed to dive.

After the first expedition, Larry’s later diving adventures only got better and better. There was never a dull moment. In his black and blue suit and with an oxygen tank fastened on his back, Larry dived from boats into the middle of the ocean. Dangerous areas did not prevent him from continuing his search. Sometimes, his was limited to a cage underwater but that did not bother him. At least, he was still able to take photographs of the underwater creatures.

Larry’s first expedition without his father was in the Cayman Islands. There were numerous diving spots in the area and Larry was determined to visit all of them .Fortunately for him, a man offered to take him around the different

Spots for free. Larry didn’t even know what the time was how many spots he dived into or how many photographs he had taken. The diving spots afforded such a wide array of fish and sea creatures that Larry saw more than thirty varieties of creatures.

Larry looked at his daughter. She looked as excited as he had been when he was her age. He hoped she would be able to continue the family tradition. Already, she looked like she was much braver than had been then. This was the key to a successful underwater expedition.

1.In what way was this expedition different for Larry?

A. His daughter had grown up.

B. He had become a famous diver.

C. His father would dive with him.

D. His daughter would dive with him.

2.What can be inferred from Paragraph2?

A. Larry had some privileges.

B. Larry liked the rented diving suits.

C. Divers had to buy diving equipment.

D. Ten-year-old children were permitted to dive.

3.What can be learned from the underlined sentence?

A. Larry didn’t wear a watch.

B. Larry was not good at math.

C. Larry had a poor memory.

D. Larry enjoyed the adventure.

Once children reach the grades where homework and tests are part of the curriculum, there are many things parents can do to encourage good study habits.

1. _____________

Parents should decide with their children what time each day homework is to be done. While children are in the lower grades, one hour a day will probably enough. As homework and responsibilities increase, more time will be needed. It is important that children take part in these decisions. Children need to know that they are able to make decisions about their studying. Once children and parents have decided on a schedule, they should stick to it. If there is no home work to be done on a given day, parents can have their children use this time as quiet time to read or work on long term projects. It’s important for children to get used to studying every day.

2. ______________

Parents should offer their children a quiet, comfortable place to study in. It’s a good idea that studying is done in the same place every day. Parents should make sure their children have the supplies they need (for example, paper, pencils, a pencil sharpener). Sometimes children’s bedrooms are not the best place to study in. There are often lots of distractions in children’s rooms.

3.______________

Parents should give their children a calendar on which to record assignments and to check them off when they are completed. Parents can also show their children how to keep their work and materials organized and how to prioritize assignments.

4.______________

Parents should be available to answer any questions that might come up. They should try to provide information without actually doing the homework for their children.

5._______________

Parents cannot force their children to study. Nagging (嘮叨) and threatening don’t work. Children need to know that they are responsible for doing their homework and for studying. Parents should give their children the responsibility, and let them suffer the consequences if they, for example, fail to turn in an assignment. The parents’ role is to provide support.

Remember, children must learn that they are responsible or their own learning. Parents can make the difference by giving their children the tools to do so.

1.He sat _________(對(duì)面)to Marion during the discussion.

2.She ________(猶豫)about the choice between the two pairs of shoes.

3.We_______________ (祝賀) him on having passed the exam.

4.Most ________(申請(qǐng)人)know that they have little chance of getting a visa.

5.Before you can make a loaf, you need to get some ______(面粉).

6.My friend ,______(出生)in India, moved to England when she was five years old.

7. Tom offered me an______________ (道歉) for losing my book.

8.______(總共) there were 20 people absent from the meeting.

9.Students in the _______(第九)grade have just had a major exams.

10.The sun is shining brightly, _____ (使)everything around us look more beautiful.