In this lecture, I can only give you a purely         view of how we can live life to the full and make some suggestions about the future.

A. private          B. personal         C. unique        D. different

. -- What does the sign on the wall read?

   --“ No person ______ enter it without permission.”

A. will         B. may          C. shall           D. must

Part two: Cloze (20 items, 20 pts.)

School was over and I was both mentally and physically tired. I sat at the very front of the bus because of my   16  to get home. Sitting at the front makes you  17  out like a shiny coin in a pile of dull pennies.

Janie, the driver, tries to break the  18  atmosphere by striking the match of   19 .

I try to mind my manners and   20  listen, but usually I am too busy thinking about my day. On this day,   21  , her conversation was worth listening to.

“My father's sick,” she said to no one in  22  . I could see the anxiety and fear in her eyes. With a sudden change of attitude and interest, I asked,“What's wrong with him?"

With her eyes wet and her voice tight from  23  the tears, she responded,“Heart trouble.”Her eyes lowered as she  24  . “I've already lost my mum, so I don't think I can stand losing him.”

I couldn't respond. I was  25  . My heart ached for her. I sat on the old, smelly seat thinking of the great  26  my own mother was thrown into when her father died. I saw how hard it was,   27  still is, for her. I wouldn't like anyone to go  28  that.

Suddenly I realized Janie wasn't only a bus driver. That was  29  her job. She had a whole world of family and concerns too. I had never thought of her as  30  but a driver.

I suddenly felt very  31  . I realized I had only thought of people as  32  as what their purposes were in my life. I paid no attention to Janie because she was a bus driver. I had judged her by her job and brushed her off as  33  .

For all I know, I'm just another person in  34  else's world, and may not even be important. I  35  not have been so selfish and self-centered. Everyone has places to go, people to see and appointments to keep. Understanding people is an art.

16. A. anxiety    B. determination    C. decision     D. attempt

17. A. find       B. make          C. think        D. stand

18. A. unpopular  B. uncomfortable   C. unusual      D. unforgettable

19. A. fire        B. topic          C. conversation  D. discussion

20. A. politely    B. devotedly       C. carelessly     D. sincerely

21. A. however    B. therefore       C. thus         D. otherwise

22. A. surprise    B. common        C. silence      D. particular

23. A. fighting   B. avoiding        C. clearing     D. keeping

24. A. told      B. lasted           C. repeated     D. continued

25. A. for sure   B. at ease          C. in shock     D. in despair

26. A. mercy     B. pain           C. pity         D. disappointment

27. A. but       B. yet            C. and          D. or

28. A. over      B. round          C. through      D. without

29. A. almost    B. nearly          C. ever         D. just

30. A. something  B. anything      C. nothing      D. everything

31. A. sad        B. embarrassed    C. selfish      D. worried

32. A. far        B. long           C. much      D. well

33. A. unfit      B. unselfish        C. unnecessary  D. unimportant

34. A. everyone   B. someone       C. anyone       D. no one

35. A. must      B. may           C. can          D. should

       Learners report two main difficulties in reading, which may be linked. There are too many unknown words and as a result reading is simply not a pleasure. For some students, even reading in their own language is a chore.

　　Having a wide vocabulary is essential to making sense of written language. Of course, this is a circular argument, because the more you read the more vocabulary you learn and the more words you know the more easily you can read. Don’t make the mistake of reading with your dictionary beside you, looking up every single new or doubtful word. This is laborious and prevents you from practicing the skill of prediction.

　　Sometimes in reading you find a word you know but the sense doesn’t seem to fit in. This is not surprising because words have so many meanings and degrees of meaning. What is more, part of their meaning is shaped by the words around them. Keep looking at the surrounding words and asking yourself “what sort of meaning would make sense here?”

　　The more that people study the reading process, the better they can pass on to language learners a range of advice to choose from. People have learned to read in all kinds of ways. Here is some information that could help you plan to be a better reader in the foreign language you are studying.

　　1）Work out the general meaning first

　　When people read in a new language they often feel they must take a detailed approach, focusing on every word, particularly those they don’t know. They read as if they were using a microscope, looking carefully at each of the small pieces（the individual words）, but not necessarily seeing the whole picture at first. This is called the “bottom-up” approach. Other readers try to look first at the big picture（the “top-down” approach）, attending to individual bricks only as necessary, a process that involves some intelligent guesswork. Generally this second approach is recommended by successful learners.

　　2）Interactive reading

　　Another way of thinking about reading is to describe it as an interactive process, where the text brings something to you and you bring something to the text. Readers bring together all their knowledge of the world with what they see on the page in front of them. That is why, when reading in our own language, we don’t need to read every word. We add meaning which is not actually stated.

　　3）From supported reading to independent reading

　　Language learners start by needing considerable support as they read. Textbooks supply this support in the form of introductions that summaries the contents, glossaries, pictures, explanations of new grammar points. In your reading you need to move gradually from this support to reading more the text itself.

1. According to the author, ________.

A. looking up the dictionary is of great help for the understanding

B. reading more promotes the gaining of vocabulary

       C. the more you read, the less useful the dictionary will be

       D. the amount of vocabulary is the key to reading

2. Successful learners recommend ________.

A. trying to look first at the big picture       B. looking carefully at each of the small pieces

C. focusing on every word           D. “bottom-up” approach

3. The word “chore” in the first paragraph maybe means ________.

A. an important aspect          B. a difficult and tiring thing

C. an easy question        D. something special

4. You come across a new or doubtful word when you are reading, you can ________.

A. just miss it and let it be            B. keep looking at the surrounding words

C. look it up in the dictionary each time      D. make sense of it with the help of dictionary

 Broadly speaking, I would agree with Shirley, though not ____________.

   A. widely  B. entirely      C. extremely   D. eventually

The reason for his success is ______ he worked very hard.

     A. why               B. that              C. whether          D. how

I must go there earlier. John has suggested that I ________ an hour before the discussion begins.

A. go                         B. shall go                  C. will go               D. would go

 ----Who is going to ______ prizes  to  the  winners?

   ----- The headmaster,  of  course .

    A. gather   B. award  C. admire   D. gain

 Many children, __parents are away working in big cities, are taken good care of in the village.

A. that           B. whose          C. which          D. whom

Have you ever heard anyone say “It’s raining cats and dogs”? It means “It’s raining hard!”

 But sometimes cats and dogs do drop from the sky! Here’s how it happens.

    Not so long ago, a country far away had many large rats. The people there said, “ We need cats!” So cats were sent to them by airplane. But the country had many mountains. It was hard for an airplane to land. So the cats came down by parachute(降落傘). Did the cats like the ride? They didn’t say they didn’t! And today they are still catching rats!

    In another country far away, there is snow the year around. People sometimes got lost in it.

   “We need big dogs!” the people said, “The dogs could find people lost in the snow. The dogs could help bring them home. Where can we get big dogs?”

   A man across the sea had big dogs to sell. “I will send dogs to you,” he said. “ I have some very big ones. They can find people lost in the snow.”

   He sent the dogs by airplane.

   But the airplane did not land in the snow. The dogs came down by parachute ---- you guessed it !

   Did the dogs like the ride? They didn’t say they didn’t! And today they are well and happy.

They find anyone who gets lost in the snow. Then they help him get home. Good dogs!

   Remember it, so you can say, “ Yes, it does rain cats and dogs sometimes. They came down by parachute!”

1.The underlined word “ it” In Paragraph  2  refers to __________.

A．the weather 

B．the saying “It’s raining cats and dogs.”

C．the saying “It’s raining hard.”

D．the fact that real cats and dogs drop from the sky.

2. Cats and dogs drop from the sky because ______.

A．there are many mountains in the country.

B. it snows the year around in the country.

C. was hard for a plane to land in the two countries.

D. coming down by parachute could save money.

3．The main purpose of the passage is to _________________.

A．tell the readers cats and dogs do drop from the sky

B．tell the readers of a new meaning about an old saying.

C．show cats and dogs are our good friends.

D．show parachute is an important