A

Since I started working part-time at a grocery store, I have learned that a customer is more than someone who buys things. To me, a customer is a person whose memory fails entirely once he or she starts to push a shopping cart. One of the first things customers forget is how to count. There is no other way to explain how so many people get in their express line, which is clearly marked 15 items(件) or less, with 20, 25 or even a cart load of items.

Customers also forget why they came to the store in the first place. Just as I finish ringing up an order, a customer will say, “Oops, I forgot to pick up a fresh loaf of bread. I hope you don’t mind waiting, while I go to get it.”Five minutes later, he’s back with the bread, a bottle of milk, and three rolls of paper towels. What is strange is that customers also seem to forget that they have to pay for their groceries. Instead of writing a check or looking for a credit card while I am ringing up the groceries, a customer will wait until I announce the total. Then, in surprise, she says, “ Oh no, what did I do with my check book?” After 5 minutes of digging through her purse, she borrows my pen because she has forgotten hers. But I have to tolerate customers because they pay my salary, and that’s something I can’t afford to forget.

1.What does the author say about his customers?

A .They cannot count numbers.

B. They sometimes jump the queue.

C. They don’t know how to express themselves.

D. They behave as if their memories had totally failed.

2.According to the text, who are supposed to be in the express line?

A .Customers with nothing purchased.

B. Customers with not more than 15 items.

C. Customers with items between 16 and 25

D. customers with 25 or even a cart load of items.

3.When customers arrive at the check-out counter, they_______

A. find their pens lost

B. go back and get more items

C. cannot wait to pay for their groceries.

D. prefer paying by check to paying with a credit card.

4.We can infer from the text that ________

A. business in the grocery store runs well

B. the author finds his present job full of fun

C. the author’s part-time job calls for patience

D. customers go to grocery stores without planning.

E

Manners nowadays in big cities like London are particularly non-existent. It’s nothing for a big, strong schoolboy to elbow an elderly woman aside in the dash for the last remaining seat on the tube or bus, much less stand up and offer his seat to her.

This question of giving up seats in public transport is much argued by young men, who say that, since women have claimed equality, they no longer deserve to be treated with courtesy(謙恭有禮) and that those who go out to work should take their turn in the rat race like anyone else. Women have never claimed to be physically as strong as men. Even if it’s not agreed, however, that young men should stand up for older women, the fact remains that courtesy should be shown to the old, the sick and the burdened. Are we really so lost to all ideals of unselfishness that we can sit there indifferently reading the paper or a book, saying to ourselves “ First come, first served”, while a gray-haired woman, a mother with a young child or a cripple stands? Yet this is too often seen.

Older people, tired and easy annoyed from a day’s work, aren’t angels, either—far from it. Many a brisk argument or an insulting quarrel breaks out as the weary queues push and shove each other to get on buses and tubes. One cannot commend(推崇) this, of course, but one does feel there is just a little more excuse.

If cities are to remain pleasant places to live in at all, however, it seems necessary, not only that communication in transport should be improved, but also that communication between human beings should be kept smooth and polite. Shop assistant won’t bother to assist, taxi drivers growl at each other as they dash dangerously round corners, bus conductors pull the bell before their desperate passengers have had time to get on or off the bus, and so on. It seems to us that it’s up to the young and strong to do their small part to stop such deterioration (惡化).

1.What is the writer’s opinion concerning courteous manners towards women?

A. They no longer need to be treated differently from men.

B. Young men should give up their seats to young women.

C. “Lady first” should universally practiced.

D. Special consideration ought to be shown to them in some cases.

2.What does “ the rat race” in paragraph 2 probably mean in the passage?

A. A race that involves many people

B. A well-paid job

C. A fierce competition

D. A race for rats

3.According to the passage, communication between human beings would not be smoother unless ____.

A. people become more considerate towards each other

B. people are not so tired and easily annoyed

C. women are treated with more courtesy

D. public transport is improved

4.The main purpose of the passage is to ______.

A. call on people in big cities to pay more attention to politeness

B. blame the schoolboy’s rude behavior towards elderly women on tube or bus

C. criticize the fast pace of life in most of the big cities

D. tell young men to give their seats to elderly people and women

______our students need in the process of their preparations for NMET is time, health

and perseverance，the teachers stress.

A. That B. What C. As D. Whether

She is always the first staff to go to the office and the last to leave，______ I guess is why she is promoted so quickly.

A. who B. which C.that D.what

---Why was it ______ you were so angry？

---Because we failed to take part in the basketball match.

A. which B. that C. how D. when

A

About ten years ago when I was an undergraduate in college, I was working as an intern（實習(xí)生） at my University’s Museum of Natural History. One day while working at the cash register in the gift shop, I saw an old couple come in with a little girl a wheelchair.

As I looked closer at this girl, I saw that she was almost on her chair. I then she had no arms or legs, just a head, neck and body. She was wearing a little white dress with red dots. As the couple her up to me I was looking down at the register. I turned my head toward the girl and gave her a wink（眨眼）. As I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back at the girl, who was giving me the cutest, largest smile I have ever seen.

All of a sudden her was gone and all I saw was this beautiful girl, whose smile just me and almost instantly gave me a completely new of what life is all about. She took me from a poor, unhappy college student and brought me into her world: a world of , love and .

That was ten years ago. I’m a successful business person now and I get down and think about the troubles of the world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable（非凡的）lesson about life that she me.

1.A. in B. on C. up D. over

2.A. lain B. remained C. set D. thrown

3.A. struck B. hit C. realized D. understood

4.A. top B. upper C. bottom D. lower

5.A. dragged B. headed C. wheeled D. approached

6.A. strength B. advantage C. disability D. happiness

7.A. affected B. infected C. melted D. frightened

8.A. command B. sense C. understand D. control

9.A. smiles B. laughters C. tears D. sweat

10.A. sorrow B. excitement C. warmth D. indifference

11.A. whenever B. whatever C. however D. whichever

12.A.offered B. taught C. gained D. drew

C

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寫作一 （滿分15分）

請結(jié)合材料，按要求用英語寫作。

Two friends of mine with a ten-year good co-operation got separated last week just because of a lie.

(1)就此材料發(fā)表你的看法

(2)緊扣材料，有明確的觀點

(3)詞數(shù)不少于60詞

Come on! Anybody here can learn to do a rock climb. There is _____ to it really.

A. everything B. anything

C. nothing D. something

—What a pity! I missed The Voice of China last night.

—Don’t worry. It _____ again this weekend.

A. broadcasts

B. will be broadcasted

C. is broadcasted

D. will broadcast