--How do you usually go to work? –– I usually drive, but if it is fine, I ______ by bike.

A. will go B. would go C. have gone D. had gone

I ______ to reach the manager for the last two hours but the line is always busy.

A. tried B. have tried C. had tried D. have been trying

--He didn’t feel a bit nervous when ________.

--No. He’d had a lot of time ________ for it after all.

A. interviewing; to prepare

B. interviewed; to prepare

C. interviewing; preparing

D. being interviewed; preparing

Though a typhoon is on the way, people are still looking forward _____ the outdoor concert.

A. to canceling B. not to canceling

C. not to cancel D. to not canceling

--Mary, how did your Math test go?

--I had thought I _________, but in fact I came in the top 10 in my class.

A. should have failed B. couldn’t have failed

C. might have failed D. shouldn’t have failed

Temperatures________ quite dramatically at night in mountains, so put on some warm clothes before going out.

A. are dropped B. drop

C. are being dropped D. have dropped

完形填空

In 1956, Phoenix, Arizona, was a city with boundless blue skies. One day as I walked around the house with my sister Kathy’s new parakeet on my finger. I wanted to show Perky _____ the sky looked like. Maybe he could make a little bird _____ out there. I took him into the backyard, and then, to my _______ , Perky flew off. The enormous blue sky swallowed up my sister’s blue _____ and suddenly he had gone, clipping its wings.

Kathy managed to _____ me. With fake optimism, she even tried to reassure me that Perky would find a new _____ . But I was far too clever to _____ that such a thing was possible.

Decades later, I watched my own _____ growing. We shared their activities, spending soccer Saturdays in folding chairs with the _____ of the kids’ friends, the Kissells. The two families went camping around Arizona together. We became the _____of friends. One evening, the game was to tell Great Pet stories. One person claimed to _____the oldest living goldfish. Someone else had a psychic dog. _____ Barry, the father of the other family, took the floor and _____ that the Greatest Pet of All Time was his blue parakeet, Sweetie Pie.

“The best thing _____ Sweetie Pie,” he said, “was the _____ we got him. One day, when I was about eight, out of the clear, blue sky, a little blue parakeet just_____ down and landed on my finger.”

When I was finally able to _____ , we examined the amazing evidence. The dates and the locations and the pictures of the bird all _____ . It seems our two families had been _____ long before we ever met. Forty years later, I ran to my sister and said, “You were_____ ! Perky lived!”

1.A. what B. how C. which D. where

2.A. food B. nest C. friend D. family

3.A. joy B. horror C. disappointment D. satisfaction

4.A. pleasure B. sadness C. treasure D. sense

5.A. forgive B. comfort C. help D. delight

6.A. parent B. home C. master D. life

7.A. imagine B. suppose C. doubt D. believe

8.A. birds B. happiness C. worries D. children

9.A. parents B. birds C. interests D. games

10.A. first B. best C. last D. happiest

11.A. catch B. find C. buy D. have

12.A. Suddenly B. Fortunately C. Then D. However

13.A. announced B. said C. told D. hoped

14.A. in B. about C. of D. on

15.A. day B. place C. way D. story

16.A. floated B. dived C. settled D. went

17.A. think B. speak C. interrupt D. explain

18.A. came up B. turned up C. turned out D. matched up

19.A. known B. fastened C. connected D. introduced

20.A. right B. wrong C. silly D. mad

First, you ought to know that I’m “only” fourteen. My mother points this out often. I can make my own decisions when I’m old enough to vote, she says. Second, I should tell you that she’s right — I’m not always responsible. I sometimes take the prize for grade-A dork（呆子）. Take last weekend for instance. I was staying at Dad’s, and I decided it was time I learned to drive. It was Sunday morning, 7 A.M., and I hadn’t slept well. I’d been up thinking about an argument, which I’ll tell you about in a minute. Well, nobody was up yet in the neighborhood, so I thought it couldn’t hurt to back the car out of the garage and drive around the block. But Dad has a clutch（離合器）car. The “R” on the shift handle was up on the left side, right next to first gear（檔位）. I guess you can guess the rest.

Dad’s always been understanding. He didn’t say, “Okay, little Miss Know-It-All, you can just spend the rest of the year paying this off,” which is what Mom would have said. Instead, Dad worried about what might have happened to me. And that made me feel more guilty than anything. I think he’d be a better number-one caregiver, but I can’t say things like that to Mom. To her, I have to say, “But Mom, Dad’s place is closer to school. I could ride my bike,” to which she replies, “Amy Lynn, you don’t own a bike. Remember? You left it in the yard, and it was stolen. And you haven’t got the patience to earn the money to replace it.”

1.The writer feels guilty because she ________.

A. made her dad worry

B. ruined the car

C. broke the law

D. didn’t tell her mom about the car incident

2.The main conflict between the writer and her mother is about whether she ________.

A. can make her own decisions

B. should live with her mom or her dad

C. should be allowed to drive

D. should pay for things she loses or breaks

3.The writer’s mother thinks the writer is ________.

A. too attached to her dad

B. too emotional

C. too shy

D. irresponsible

4.In the first sentence, the writer used “only” to suggest that she ________.

A. doesn’t want to grow old

B. thinks fourteen is old enough for some things

C. wishes she were older

D. thinks fourteen is an embarrassing age

Environment Awareness Week Regal Convention Centre, Halls 1-4

24-30 March 2011 10:00 am-9:00 pm

Free admission for all!

Save the environment, Save our future

Our environment needs help. With the participation of more than 50 organizations, Environment Awareness Week is the biggest public education event dedicated to environmental protection and conservation. Don’t miss it! Come and know more about:

The Threats to Earth (Hall 1) – What is global warming? How serious is pollution? Learn about different environmental problems from our university students. Protect our environment!

The Search for renewable Energy (Hall 2) – can we get electricity from wind, solar energy, waves, rivers and underground heat? Get the answers from Solar Ace, Tefron, Touch Wind Resources and other participants.

The Quest for Fresh water (Hall 3) – is the shortage of freshwater worsening? What are Singapore’s solutions for treating wastewater? Hear from Flow Technologies, HydroMax Solutions and other participants.

The 3 Rs and Save Earth (Hall 4) – How can we REDUCE, REUSE and RECYCLE to cut down household wastes? Find out from the Global Gala Network, Green Earth Foundation and other participants.

For more information, please call Mr. Philip Koh at 65531188, send an email to Mrs. Daisy Soh at daisy_soh@ief.org or visit the events web at http://www.ief.org/caw

1.The main aim of Environment Awareness Week is to ________.

A. educate the public on protecting the environment

B. discuss global warming and other environmental problems

C. explain ways for producing freshwater to save the environment

D. learn about renewable energy sources that protect the environment

2.The organizer of the event is ________.

A. Global Gaia Network B. Clean Energy Agency

C. Green Earth Foundation D. Global Environment Fund

3.Which of the following statements is NOT true of the event?

A. It will last a week and the halls will be open 11 hours a day.

B. You can send an email to Mrs. Daisy Soh for more information.

C. Each hall charges the same amount of money as the other.

D. Lectures in Hall 1 will be given by university students.

If asked if space exploration should continue, most Americans would give an immediate response either in favor of continuing or in favor of ending space exploration. A common response would be that space exploration is a waste of money. An average American, uneducated on the subject, might believe that the government is wasting billions of dollars on the research that has no merit. Someone strange to the subject might say that a space shuttle goes up once in a while and that is about all that happens. Research is ongoing and continues when there are no shuttles being launched. This also costs the government money. Does the extreme cost of space exploration make sense?

One argument is that the government is wasting money on the research not being used on Earth. Actually, the money goes to workers and scientists that support National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) missions (任務(wù)), and goes to major companies that play important roles in major sectors of the US economy. Boeing is a partner of NASA for aircraft, the same company that makes commercial aircraft for the airline industry.

Another benefit to continuing space exploration is the many spinoff (衍生的) technologies it provides. The artificial heart resulted from experiments on the space shuttle. The handheld Jaws of Life used to save victims from car accidents originated from the system used to separate the space shuttle from its booster rockets. Insulation in homes that keeps them warm and energy efficient is based on the technology used to insulate the space shuttle.

There are direct benefits to the economy provided by NASA missions as well as spinoff technologies. These advances are found in food, building materials, medical procedures and the vehicles we drive. While it can be proven that billions of dollars that could be used elsewhere is being spent on space exploration, the benefits it provides outweigh the terrible aspects. As a matter of fact, the money spent helps to improve the quality of our lives.

1.How is Paragraph 2 mainly developed?

A. By offering analyses.

B. By making comparisons.

C. By giving some examples.

D. By presenting research findings.

2.The function of Jaws of Life is to _____.

A. save people from traffic accidents

B. do experiments on the space shuttle

C. keep houses warm and energy efficient

D. separate the space shuttle from its booster rockets

3.In the author’s opinion, space exploration _____.

A. has changed our life completely

B. costs too much of our time

C. benefits us in many ways

D. has nothing to do with us

4.What would be the best title for the text?

A. Benefits of space exploration

B. Is space exploration worth the cost?

C. How to make space exploration affordable

D. Missions of the NASA space shuttle program