King Solomon, the most powerful and the most respected Israeli king, once said, “Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value a man who speaks the truth.” He wrote a book called Proverbs, which is part of the Bible and studied carefully even today.

There was a college graduate in Wuhan who shared his own experience about being truthful. It is a good lesson for everyone who reads of his experience.

Mr. Lou went to work for a factory making electrical machines. On the first day of his job, he accidentally broke an electrical machine because of his inexperience. Since it was very expensive, it caused Mr. Lou to become frightened about what his boss might say to him. The machine was worth his six months’ salary.

He decided to try and repair it. After working on it for about 2 hours, he could make it function, but it didn’t work as well as it should.

After spending a restless night, Mr. Lou felt he must tell his boss the truth. The next morning, he showed the broken machine to his boss nervously, for he didn’t know what the result would be. To his great surprise, the boss praised him for being truthful and even later gave him a rise.

Mr. Lou never forgot this dramatic experience. He had to make the choice of hiding his mistake by saying nothing or of telling the truth. The boss had found an honest new employee who would prove later to be of great value to the company.

Being honest makes a person worthy of trust, which is so important for a family, a company, and even a country.

60. The underlined part “honest lips” (in Paragraph 1) most probably refer to “_____”.

   A. people who speak the truth               B. lips of honest people      

   C. people loyal to their king                  D. lips of people loyal to the king

61. What did Mr. Lou do first after he broke the electrical machine?

   A. He hid it in a secret place.                B. He reported it to the boss at once.

   C. He repaired it himself.                    D. He replaced it with a used one.

62. What can we learn from the passage?

   A. Mr. Lou was excited and happy to have the machine repaired.

   B. Mr. Lou told the boss the truth in order to get a rise later.

   C. The boss was disappointed and sad about the broken machine.

   D. The boss thought honest employees were of great value to the company.

63. By telling the story of Mr. Lou, the author wants to show that _____.

   A. mistakes can sometimes bring good luck to a person

   B. being truthful is a most important character of a person

   C. employees should always be careful with their work

   D. experience is important for an employee to do his work well

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(A)

Once an American and a Frenchman decided to cross the

sea _____ France and England in balloon in 1784. When they flew                        81. ________

high over the w     , they suddenly discovered a hole in the                                82. ________

balloon. What was_____ (更糟糕), the hole became bigger and bigger.                  83. ________

The air keeping the balloon_____ was escaping quickly and the                              84. ________

balloon was coming down. _____ (看到) this, the two men threw                          85. ________

a      their equipment away to make the balloon lighter. It started                             86. ________

to r     higher again. But soon it again was too close to the water.                       87. ________

   Finally, the men had _____ choice but to throw away most of                          88. ________

their clothes to s      themselves. The crowd was very surprised                         89. ________

to see this when the balloon_____(降落)in front of them.                                     90. ________

Children are keen Internet shoppers with more than half having bought something online, research has shown.

   Around 53 percent of children aged between 7 and 16 said they had bought something over the Internet, 10 percent more than in 2004, according to Halifax.

   Boys were more likely to be Internet shoppers than girls, with 60 percent of boys saying they had bought items online, compared with just 46 percent of girls.

   Unsurprisingly, older children were more likely to use the Internet to shop than younger ones, with nearly three quarters of 12-16-year olds shopping online, compared to just 29 percent of 7-to-11-year olds who said they had bought something.

  More than half of children preferred buying things over the Internet to buying them on the high street, while 61 percent of those who had bought things online said it was easier to buy certain items over the Internet than in shops.

   However, boys were more likely to always prefer buying things online, while girls were more likely to still like the actual high street shopping experience.

   The most common items for young people to buy over the Internet were CDs, tapes and computer games and equipment. Some children had bought DVDs and videos, while some had bought gifts.

Children spent most money on computer games and equipment, with 13 percent saying they spent more than $20 online on these items a year, followed by 12 percent who spent more than $20 a year on mobile phones and 11 percent who spent the same amounts on clothes.

Cheryl Millington, head of savings at Halifax, said, “ We are not only seeing the emergence of a generation of young consumers, but also keen cyber-consumers. While children often lead the way in Internet use within the family home, parents have an important role to play in ensuring they stay safe while online.”

73. From the passage, which of the following is NOT correct?

A. Children are keen on internet shopping          

B. Boys are more likely to buy things over the Internet than girls

C. Older children want to buy things in actual streets              

D. Children like to buy some fashionable items over the Internet

74. We can infer from the last paragraph that ________

A. Cheryl Millington is against children’s online shopping         

B. parents should play an active role in ensuring their children’s safety

C. Cheryl Millington holds a conservative (保守的) view about children’s online shopping              

D. children will become the main composition of online shopping

75. Which of the following can best show the organization of the text?

a. the number of children’s online shopping      b. items bought over the Internet

c. money spent on online shopping             d. safety problems

A. a, b, c, d       B. a, d, c, b      C. a, c, d, b       D. d, a, c, b

I ________along the street looking for a place to park when the accident_______.

A. went; was occurring     B. went; occurred  

C. was going; occurred     D. was going; had occurred

. If I had got back 5 minutes earlier, I _________ him.

  A. would see      B. would have seen      C. will have seen     D. had seen

 ______ time ______, what the scientist said finally proved to be true.

      A. With; went by                                    B. With; going by      

C. As; goes by                            D. As; going by

. If I ______ plan to do anything I want to，I’d like to go to Tibet and travel through as much of it as possible.

A. would                  B. could            C. had to                  D. ought to

 — Have you heard the latest news?

   —No, what______?

    A. is it            B. is there        C. are they        D. are those

 Is__________ with these troubles in mind__________ the Royal Society called for the world's governments to investigate geo-engineering as a “Plan B”?

A. it,that          B. that,it            C. that,what         D. what,that

He seldom has time with his family,so they complain___him____it.

A.with,about   B.to,about    C.on,at    D.to ,at