【題目】Tomb-Sweeping Day

A well-known poem by Tang Dynasty writer Du Mu tells of a sad scene in early April: "Rains fall heavily as Qing Ming comes， and passers-by with lowered spirits go. "Qing Ming Day, the traditional tomb-sweeping day, falls on April 4—6 each year. It is a time for remembering loved ones who have departed. People visit their ancestors' graves to sweep away the dirt.

Its origin dates back to the Spring and Autumn Period. Jin prince Chong'er ran away from the country with his supporters due to persecution. They were homeless for 19 years and things got so bad that Chong'er began to starve to death. One of the prince's faithful followers, Jie Zitui, cut a piece of muscle from his own leg and served it to his master. Chong'er was saved and, in 636 BC, he took back the throne.

He rewarded the officials who had stayed loyal to him but he forgot about Jie Zitui. By the time Chong'er remembered him, a heartbroken Jie Zitui had traveled deep into the mountains. Chong'er wanted to persuade Jie to come home， so he had the hills set on fire. But Jie was later found beside a large tree, with his old mother on his back. Both were dead.

Saddened by the tragedy, Chong'er ordered that fires could not be lit on the day of Jie Zitui's death. From this comes Hanshi Day, or Cold Food Day. People visited Jie Zitui's tomb the next day to pay their respects. Over time, Hanshi Day was replaced with tombsweeping day.

【1】 This passage is mainly about ______ .

A. a poem called Qingming which was written by Du Mu

B. the story between Chong'er and Jie Zitui

C. the origin of Qingming Day

D. Chong'er rewarded his loyal followers

【2】 According to the passage, which statement is NOT right?

A. Hanshi Day has another name, Cold Food Day.

B. Chong'er was forced to leave his country in 617 BC.

C. Qingming Day is a traditional festival, which is on April 5 every year.

D. Qingming Day dates back to the Spring and Autumn Period.

【3】 Cold Food Day started from ______.

A. the Tang Dynasty

B. the Ming Dynasty

C. 617 BC

D. the Spring and Autumn Period

【題目】Liu Xiang trained hard before the Asian Games in Guangzhou, and it __________. He won the gold medal in 110 meters' hurdles.

A. worked out B. paid off

C. marked out D. got through

【題目】 My friend had mentioned the other day that her father had a lot of children's toys he was looking to give away. She knew I have a three-year-old daughter so she thought of me first. I told her I would love it if I could get some nice things for my daughter, which I wouldn't otherwise have been able to afford.

When I met her father, he began to explain he was too poor once and that he would hate to throw away things that can be very useful.

Before he showed me what he was giving away, I thought the toys would be mostly lego's(樂高積木) or things like that. When he was showing me around I saw a bed, a slide, a kitchen set and many other things that just blew my mind. He told me to write a list of everything my daughter could use and as my eyes were wide, he told me not to feel guilty. He said I was helping him by getting rid of the stuff.

As I was looking around I did feel guilty, but I tried to remain more grateful than guilty. Every time I tried to thank him for giving me and my daughter all this wonderful stuff he would thank me right back. I wanted to believe that he was just thanking me so that I wouldn't feel so guilty but in reality I believe that he was as grateful as I was that these toys would be put to good use.

In the eyes of charity, it makes sense to feel grateful, but guilt is just as normal. I know that we could have lived without a slide, which is why I do feel guilty, but I am grateful all the same because my daughter really does enjoy all these nice things!

【1】Why did the old man want to give away his toys?

A. He wanted to help those poor children.

B. He was wealthy enough to buy new toys.

C. He wanted to make full use of those toys.

D. He needed some space for more useful things.

【2】In the writer's opinion, the old man felt grateful because

A. he wanted to make her more guilty

B. he wanted her to take the toys quickly

C. the toys would be put to good use

D. he finally got rid of the stuff

【3】What can we know from the passage?

A. The writer took all the toys home.

B. The old man was a kind and thoughtful person

C. The writer wanted to refuse the stuff when she first saw them.

D. The writer's daughter enjoyed the slide most among all the stuff.

【4】How did the writer feel when given the stuff?

A. Guilty and honored. B. Grateful and respected.

C. Honored and respected. D. Guilty and grateful.

【題目】Alone in the darkness under layers of rubble (碎石)，Dan Woolley felt blood streaming from his head and leg.

Woolley, an aid worker, husband, and father of two boys, followed instructions on his cell phone to survive the January 12 earthquake in Haiti.

"I had an app that had pre -downloaded all this information about treating wounds. So I looked up excessive bleeding and I looked up compound fracture(斷裂)，" Woolley told CNN.

The application on his iPhone (網(wǎng)絡(luò)電話)is filled with information about first aid and CPR from the American Heart Association. "So I knew I wasn't making mistakes," Woolley said. "That gave me confidence to treat my wounds properly."

Trapped in the ruins of the Hotel Montana in，he used his shirt to bandage his leg, and tied his belt around the wound. To stop the bleeding on his head, he firmly pressed a sock to it. Concerned he might have been experiencing shock，Woolley used the app to look up what to do. It warned him not to sleep. So he set his phone alarm to go off every 20 minutes.

Once the battery got down to less than 20 percent of its power， Woolley turned it off. By then, he says, he had trained his body not to sleep for long periods, drifting off only to wake up within minutes.

With his injuries tended to，he wrote a note to his family in his journal: "I was in a big accident, an earthquake. Don't be upset at God. He always provides for his children even in hard times. I'm still praying that God will get me out, but he may not. But even so he will always take care of you."

After more than 60 hours, Woolley was pulled from the rubble. "Those guys are rescue heroes," he said of the crew that pulled him out.

【1】 Which of the following best summarizes the passage?

A. How to Deal with the Wound

B. Try to Get in Touch with Outside

C. How to Stay Awake under the Ground

D. An Unforgettable Experience in the Earthquake

【2】 When Woolley treated his wounds, ______.

A. he kept looking through information about first aid

B. he carried out the process with much confidence

C. he felt nervous without the nurse's help

D. he had to operate by the light of iPhone

【3】 Woolley set his phone alarm to go off every 20 minutes because ______.

A. he tried his best to communicate with rescuers

B. he was forced to stay awake to check his wounds

C. he was afraid that sleep might do harm to him

D. he needed to use the app to look up what to do

【4】 The underlined sentence suggests that ______.

A. he turned off his iPhone to save power

B. the battery of his iPhone doesn't last long

C. he didn't want his iPhone to disturb him

D. his iPhone went off because of lack of power

【題目】Readers of many different periods have considered Du Fu to be the greatest poet of the Chinese tradition. Such general agreement can partially be explained by the immense variety of his work, which holds up quite well to different tastes and historical changes in fashion. Like Shakespeare in English tradition, Du Fu's poetry came to be so deeply bound up with the constitution of literary value that generation after generation of poets and critics rediscovered themselves and their interests in some aspect of the poet.

Chinese critics from the Song Dynasty referred to Du Fu as the "poet-historian". Du Fu witnessed a typically political and social situation; the common people still lived in poverty while the emperor and his top officials enjoyed a foolishly luxurious life. He composed many poems，which expressed his dissatisfaction with the government and his great pity for the common people. Du Fu used his poems to comment on current events and historical images. Du Fu became the historian by creating his responses to particular situations.

Du Fu was talented. When he was young, he wanted to get a good job in the government. Unfortunately Du Fu was refused several times. He was in his fifties when he began to serve as a minor official in Changan( Xi'an).

Du Fu was dismissed in the form of a transfer to the post of personnel administrator in Huazhou and so he left Changan. And in 759 he arrived in Chengdu. He set up a modest cottage with some money he borrowed from his friend who served as a local governor. In the cottage he had a simple and peaceful life for three years, writing about 240 poems.

Du Fu left Chengdu after 762 and wandered in the southern provinces and eventually died of illness in 770. After his death, the people in Chengdu built a shrine (神殿)on the site of his garden to honor him, which is known as part of Du Fu Thatched Cottage now.

【1】 Why does the author compare Du Fu to Shakespeare?

A. Du Fu's poetry was written following Shakespeare's style.

B. Du Fu's poetry referred to the social change critically.

C. Du Fu and Shakespeare were best friends.

D. Shakespeare read a lot of Du Fu's poems.

【2】 Du Fu ______ when he was young.

A. didn't want to be an official

B. was worried about the education

C. wasn't liked by the emperor

D. wasn't offered an opportunity to work in the government

【3】 What did Du Fu describe in most of his poems?

A. The luxurious life that the emperor and his top officials enjoyed.

B. His happy life.

C. His responses to particular situations.

D. His dissatisfaction with the government and his great pity for the common people.

【4】 What did the people do after Du Fu died according to the passage?

A. They destroyed his cottage.

B. They rebuilt the cottage he had lived into a high building.

C. They built a shrine to honor him.

D. They made a carved statue of him.

【5】 What's the title of the passage?

A. Du Fu—the Most Important Politician in Tang Dynasty

B. The Origin of Du Fu Thatched Cottage

C. Du Fu—One of the Greatest Poets in Tang Dynasty

D. Du Fu Was Not a Skilled Survivor in Government Politics

【題目】Don't ______ your dictionary when you do this exercise.

A. consult B. look up

C. insult D. result

【題目】Teachers are now aware of the difficulty that some students have __________ attention.

A. paid B. to pay C. paying D. pay

【題目】To our ______, Geoffrey's illness proved not to be as serious as we had feared.

A. anxiety B. relief

C. view D. judgment

【題目】Tiny transmitters(發(fā)射機(jī)) fixed on the backs of the blue-green bees have allowed scientists to follow the insects as they fly for miles in search of rare flowers.

Working in Panama, scientists caught 17 bees of the common species and fixed a 300 milligram radio light onto the back of each. The signals they sent out were used to follow their movements in and around the forest where they lived.

Professor Martin, from Princeton University, US, and the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany, said, “By following the radio signals, we discovered that male bees spent most of their time in small centre areas, but could take off and visit areas farther away. One male even crossed over the shipping lanes in the Panama Canal, flying at least 5km, and returned a few days later.”

Researchers have struggled to follow the movements of bees before, following bees marked with paint or using radar which doesn’t work well in forests.

“Carrying the transmitter could reduce the distance that the bees travel, but even if the flight distances we record are the shortest distances that these bees can fly, they are impressive, long-distance movements,” said Dr. Roland Kays, from New York State Museum, a co-author of the research published today in the on-line journal. “This result helps to explain how these bees’ pollination(授粉) can be so rare.” Pollination by bees and other insects is the key to the diversity and continued growth of flowers and trees in some forests.

The new study is the first to use radio transmitters to follow bees in a forest. Similar research may now be carried in temperate forests, where bees also play a vital role.

【1】The main purpose of the passage is to___

A.call on people to protect the bees for the environment

B.explain why the bees fly far away in search of flowers

C.introduce a modern way to follow the bees to readers

D.encourage the public to support the scientists’ research

【2】What was the problem when researchers tried to follow the bees in the past?

A. It was quite difficult to mark the bees

B. The radar itself didn’t work very well

C. The bees weren’t easy to be recognized

D. Environmental limits were hard to solve

【3】What Dr. Roland Kays said implied that____

A.he didn’t expect bees could fly so long a distance

B.The transmitter didn’t have any effects on bees at all

C.He wanted to know how far bees could travel badly

D.The record was in fact as exact as he had thought

【4】Researchers follow the movements of bees mainly to___

A.learn how far they can fly at most

B.discover how they affect the plants

C.correct some wrong ideas about bees

D.get to know where they enjoy living

【題目】書面表達(dá)（滿分25分）

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