Xu Shu was much valued by Liu Bei for his strategic talents. After several victories on the battleground against Cao Cao, Xu was made the chief military advisor. Cao Cao was greatly surprised at the news. “If you want this person,” one of his advisors said, “you can bring his mother to Xuchang and send a forged letter in his mother's handwriting, asking Xu Shu to desert Liu Bei and come here. As Xu is well-known for a strong filial（孝順的） affection, surely he will come.” This plot worked. For Xu, on receiving the letter, cried tearfully, asking Liu Bei for an immediate departure. Feeling sad, though, Liu persisted in his stay for another night, during which the two aired their sad feelings.

The next day Liu laid a banquet outside the city for Xu. Holding the latter's hand, Liu said,  “After we separate today, only heaven knows when and where we will meet again.” He wept bitter tears.

After setting off on his way, Xu suddenly turned his horse and returned. “I almost forgot an important matter.” He said to Liu. “Ten kilometers from Xiangyang City, in a place called Long zhong, there is a talent called Zhuge Liang. Do you want to meet him？” Liu expressed his willingness at once, but also aired doubt about whether Zhuge Liang was as talented as Xu. “He tells positions of stars in the heavens,” Xu assured him, “and recognizes everything on earth. He knows a person's real nature at the first meeting----the number one talent under the heaven. If you have him as your military advisor, you'll have the country under your name.” Liu suggested a visit to Zhuge by Xu on his behalf. At this, the latter shook his head in disapproval. “You must go and offer your invitation personally, and his acceptance depends entirely on your sincerity.” With these words said, Xu turned his horse and left. Later, Liu paid three trips to Zhuge's straw house, another favorite story among Chinese people.

46. The underlined word “forged” in Paragraph 1 probably means ________.

A. forced   B. false   C. friendly   D. touching

47. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. Zhuge was able to tell a person’s personality at first sight.

B. No sooner did Xu receive the letter than he departed for Cao Cao.

C. Liu showed little interest in visiting Zhuge because he was doubtful of the stranger’s ability.

D. Liu showed his disapproval when Xu advised him to call on Zhuge in person.

48. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 probably means __________.

A. There was no doubt that Zhuge was competent as a military advisor

B. No one would be better than Zhuge in terms of giving military advice

C. Zhuge was such a talent that he could make the country named after Liu

D. With the help of Zhuge, Liu would be able to rule the whole country

49. The paragraph following the last one most probably deals with ___________.

A. why people considered Zhuge as a talent

B. the difficulty Xu met with on the way to meet his mother

C. the plot Cao Cao made to bring Xu’s mother to Xuchang

D. how Liu sincerely invited Zhuge to assist him in military affairs

50. The text is developed in the order of ___________.

A. space   B. logic   C. time    D. cause and result

Healthy eating begins with learning how to “eat smart”. It's not just what you eat,     31 ____ how you eat. Pay attention to what you eat and choosing foods that are both nourishing and    32___ (enjoy) helps support an overall healthy diet.

Take time to chew your food: Chew your food slowly, savoring every bite. We tend to rush through our meals,    33__ (forget) to actually taste the flavors and feel the textures of     34___ is in our mouths. Reconnect with    35__ joy of eating.

Avoid stress while eating: Avoid eating while working, driving, arguing, or watching TV. Try taking some deep    36__ (breathe) before beginning your meal, or light candles and play soothing music to create a relaxing atmosphere.

Listen to your body: Ask    37____ if you are really hungry. You may really be thirsty, so try drinking a glass of water first. During a meal, stop eating before you feel full. It actually takes a few minutes    38 _ your brain to tell your body that it    39__ (have) enough food, so eat slowly.

Eat early: Starting your day    40___ a healthy breakfast can jumpstart your metabolism, and eating early in the day gives your body time to work those calories off.

On March 17 there will be an explosion of green colour across the world in celebration of St Patrick’s Day. The Irish ___21___wear something coloured green on this day as the colour is ____22___ with Ireland. Another St Patrick’s Day tradition is for the non-Irish to make ___23___ about the Irish. Usually they will be about Irish stupidity or their famous ___24___ for alcohol, or their reputation for telling untrue stories. These characteristics are all part of the famous Irish stereotype (成見(jiàn)) that Irishman are ___25___ drinkers, who love to fight and will do anything to avoid a day’s work.

     The real joke, however, is that this __26__ Irish stereotype still exists. The stereotype might have had some truth back in the 19^th century when Irish was poverty-stricken and starving. Many Irish moved to the United States to escape famine(饑荒), but there they had to __27___, occasionally with their fists , for jobs and housing  with other immigrant groups. It was on America’s streets the Irish earned their reputation for street fighting.

     However, it was far from truth today, with the __28__ of the drinking perhaps. Today, the Irish are ___29___ for their story telling gifts and musical talents. It is no accident that several of the greatest writers of the 20^th century were Irish. Or that many of today’s most popular music groups such as singer Enya and rock band U2, are Irish born and bred. Lonely Planet（介紹旅行指南的一本書） readers even ranked Ireland as the ___30___ country in the world.

Some years ago, leaving the farm to work in the city, three brothers were employed by the same company and on the same pay. But three years later, they received different wages. So their father was confused and decided to pay a visit to the boss, who told him that he would let his sons explain for themselves.

The three brothers were asked by the supervisor to go to the airport to get a cargo inventory at different times. Jim, who received 500 dollars a month, got the information on the phone instead of going to the airport himself. Frank, the 1000 dollars a month brother with a list of more cargoes. George, the 1500 dollars a month brother came back with detailed information and also did something extra without being told.

[寫作內(nèi)容]

1．概括該故事的內(nèi)容要點(diǎn)，該部分的字?jǐn)?shù)大約30詞左右；

2．就“態(tài)度決定一切”這個(gè)主題發(fā)表你的看法，至少包含以下的內(nèi)容要點(diǎn)，該部分的字?jǐn)?shù)大約120詞左右。

1）你認(rèn)為是什么導(dǎo)致三兄弟的薪酬差異;

2）你從這個(gè)故事得到什么啟示;

3）你對(duì) “態(tài)度決定一切”如何理解?

4）舉一對(duì)比事例說(shuō)明不同的學(xué)習(xí)態(tài)度產(chǎn)生不同的結(jié)果。

[寫作要求]

你可以使用實(shí)例可其他論述方法支持你的論點(diǎn)，也可以參照閱讀材料的內(nèi)容，但不要抄襲閱讀材料中的句子。

學(xué)校讀書俱樂(lè)部想在剛?cè)雽W(xué)的高一學(xué)生中招募新的會(huì)員。假設(shè)你是李華，請(qǐng)你代表讀書俱樂(lè)部寫一份招聘通知，通知包括以下內(nèi)容：

1．招聘的目的：使更多同學(xué)能加入到俱樂(lè)部中來(lái)，以豐富他們的課外生活。

2．應(yīng)聘者的條件：在讀書比賽中獲過(guò)獎(jiǎng)，愿意為俱樂(lè)部出力的高一級(jí)學(xué)生。

3．應(yīng)聘者需注意的事項(xiàng)：帶上自己獲獎(jiǎng)作品和證書。

4．讀書俱樂(lè)部的介紹：現(xiàn)有會(huì)員150人。定期舉辦讀書活動(dòng)，邀請(qǐng)有經(jīng)驗(yàn)的老師和學(xué)者舉行講座。

5．應(yīng)聘的時(shí)間和地點(diǎn)：本周五下午2：00，教學(xué)樓的206室．

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1．只能使用5個(gè)句子表達(dá)全部?jī)?nèi)容；

2．不得在信中使用自己的真實(shí)姓名和地址；

[評(píng)分標(biāo)準(zhǔn)]

句子結(jié)構(gòu)準(zhǔn)確，信息內(nèi)容完整，篇章結(jié)構(gòu)連貫。

Here are five letters from readers listed in 1-5. All the greetings and signatures are left out. Suppose you are a secretary of the magazine CR（Crazy English Reader）, for each one find a suitable reply from A-F. Mark the correct letter（A-F）on your answer sheet. There is one extra reply which you don’t need to use.

1. I am a reader of CR. Recently I found students translate some articles of CR. I appreciate your offering an opportunity to us beginners to practise using English. So I want to ask how they can obtain these articles and translated them for you, and what qualities you require. Thank you.

2. I love your Crazy English Reader magazine! It provides valuable data for work in our English teaching. My wife and I are teaching Conversational English so I’ve been giving you a bit of a plug at our middle school. I told the students to “get a copy!” It’s good stuff! Fantastic!

3. I’m one of Yao’s fans from Guangzhou. I have read the Yao Ming articles in No.7 Crazy English Reader. I want to know his correspondence address and the official website. Could you please tell me? Thank you very much indeed.

4. First of all, I must say thank you very much to all the CE Reader editors who gave us a really good English magazine. Secondly, I want to give you a piece of advice. In each passage, you gave us some new words with their Chinese translation. However, as far as my knowledge, I think you should give us not only the Chinese meaning but also the English meaning so as to know the words more accurately. Thank you!

5. I am an editor of the English Monthly of our school. I have a question that is how to say the position of the paper e.g., 總編 責(zé)任編輯 and so on. I hope you can help me to tell me the word in English. The more the better. Thank you so much! I love the book very much. Now, I do this work, I need study more information about this work, if you have time, please email me. Thank you.

A．   Thank you for your suggestion. We may try that in some future issues of CR. I think the best way to improve your reading vocabulary is to be able to guess the meaning of the word from the other words around it. Also, if you have an English dictionary, it’s good to look up the words and then mark them down in a notebook and review them later on. Then if you really want to learn how to use the words, try using them in conversation or in writing. Hope this helps.

B．   The best way for you to learn the different positions in a newspaper or magazine is to get a copy of an all-English magazine or newspaper and then copy down the different positions. There are also titles such as Managing Editor, reporter, Copy Editor, Photo Editor and Layout Editor. I hope this helps. If you have some more specific questions, you can send them to me and I’ll try to answer.

C．The best way to reach Yao directly is through his home team, the Shanghai Sharks. You can write him at 2570 Xietu Road, Shanghai. For more information on Yao, you can look at the sports section in sina. com. I hope this helps. Another idea is that you can try to write Yao while he’s living and playing in Houston. You can try to reach Yao in the US at: Yao Ming Compaq Centre 10 Houston, TX 77046

D．  Thank you for being such a careful reader of CR. Yes, you’re right we made a mistake in the writing of that Chinese word. Each issue we try to read very carefully each article and its translation to make sure there are no mistakes, but unfortunately a few mistakes always get by. But you encourage us to keep improving, so thank you.

E．   Yes, we do have several students who help us translate some of the articles in our magazine. We contact these translators directly after interviewing their translation work. Afterwards we assign the articles to them for translation. If you are interested in being one of our translators you can send us some information about yourself and a sample of your translation work.

F．   Thank you for helping us to promote CR. We’re glad it’s helpful to your students. We always try to include articles that reflect real life. It’s our hope that CR will not only improve student’s English but also open up a different worldview.

Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. He was a natural motivator. He told people how to look on the positive side of the situation.

One day I went up to Michael and asked him, " How can you be a positive person all of the time?"

Michael replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or ... you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood."

"Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live your life."

Several years later, Michael was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Michael was released from the hospital. I saw Michael about six months after the accident.

Michael told me, "When they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man'. I knew I needed to take action."

" There was a big burly（魁偉的）nurse shouting questions at me.”

"She asked if I was allergic（過(guò)敏的）to anything.”

“'Yes’, I replied.'”

“The doctors and nurses stopped to wait for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Gravity'."

“Over their laughter, I told them, ‘I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead!’"

Michael lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully.

LIVE IS ABOUT THE LITTLE CHOICES WE MAKE EVERY DAY

51. What does it mean “In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man'”?

A. He realized how seriously he was injured from their expressions.

B. He was so seriously injured that he lost consciousness for a while.

C. He knew the doctors and nurses had decided to give up saving him.

D. In the doctors’ eyes all the patients in danger are going to die.

52. What was the real reason why Michael said that he was allergic to gravity?

A. Falling down from the high place made him become afraid of gravity since then.

B. He was allergic to nothing so he decided to make people laugh at his answer.

C. He used humour to show his determination to live and cheer up the medical staff.

D. It is gravity that caused the accident from the aspect of physics.

53. Michael survived at last due to ____________.

A. the fact that the injuries he received were not deadly.

B. the doctors’ skill and his positive attitude.

C. his good luck and his right choice.

D. the developed medical equipment and staff

54. What’s the moral of Michael’s story?

A. Life is full of choices and we shouldn’t be misled to the wrong way.

B. Unlucky things can even happen to the most optimistic person.

C. A positive attitude can make us live a full life.

D. Perseverance can help us to win the success at last.

55. Which can be the best title of the passage?

A. Make the right choice in your life   B. Change your life into a better one

C. Life and the choices                     D. Life is all about choices

Michele Langlois is a young Canadian who works for the police as a handwriting expert. She has helped catch many criminals by using her special skill.

When she was only fourteen, Michel was already so interested in the differences in her school friends’ handwriting that she would spend hours studying them. After finishing college she went to France for a special two-year class to learn how to analyze handwriting at the School of Police Science. On her return, she began her work for the Quebec police.

Michele says that it is impossible for people to disguise（偽裝）their handwriting. She can discover most of what she needs to know simply by looking at the writing with her own eyes, but she also has machines that help her analyze different kinds of paper and ink. This knowledge is often of help to the police.

Michele also believes that handwriting is a good sign of the kind of person the writer is. “I wouldn’t go out with a fellow if I didn’t like his handwriting,” she says. But she adds that she fell in love with her future husband, William Smith before she studied his handwriting. It later proved to be all right, however.

46. The best title for the text would be __________.

A. Police Science          B. Friends of Police

C. Handwriting Reader   D. Art of Handwriting

47. Where did Michele learn to analyze people’s handwriting?

A. At work                    B. In Quebec Police Station

C. In the middle school   D. In a police school

48. Michele usually analyzes handwriting by __________.

A. looking at it                B. using a machine

C. studying the ink used   D. examining the paper used

49. Besides helping the police Michele uses her skill to __________.

A. teach her friends  

B. look for a husband

C. decide if a person will do something wrong

D. told what kind of person the writer is from his handwriting

50. The underlined word “it” in the last sentence refers to _________.

A. Michele’s job                    B. William’s handwriting

C. Michele’s analyzing skill     D. William’s love for Michele

If music makes you smarter, and exercise helps brain function, can exercising to music really boost brainpower? Some researchers said it could.

Volunteers who listened to Vivaldi~ "Four Seasons" while working out on a treadmill did much better on a test of verbal ability than when they exercised without music, a team at Ohio State University found. "Evidence suggests that exercise improves the cognitive（認(rèn)知）performance of people with coronary artery disease（冠心病）," said psychologist Charles Emery, who led the study. "And listening to music is thought to enhance brainpower. We wanted to put the two results together," Emery added in a statement.

Writing in the latest issue of the journal Heart & Lung, Emery and colleagues said they studied 33 men and women taking part in a cardiac（強(qiáng)心劑）rehabilitation program（康復(fù)計(jì)劃）after having bypass surgery,  angioplasty or other procedures to treat clogged（障礙的）arteries.  The volunteers said they felt better emotionally and mentally after working out with or without the music. But their improvement on the verbal fluency test doubled after listening to music on the treadmills（跑步機(jī)）.”Exercise seems to cause positive changes in the nervous system, and these changes may have a direct effect on cognitive ability," Emery said.  "Listening to music may influence cognitive function through different pathways in the brain. The combination of music and exercise may stimulate and increase cognitive arousal（覺(jué)醒）while helping to organize cognitive output."

Emery said he now wanted to test people using music of their own choice. "We used The Four Seasons' because of its moderate tempo and positive effects on medical patients in previous research," Emery said. "But given the range of music preferences among patients, it's especially important to evaluate the influence of other types of music on cognitive outcomes."

41. The underlined expression" the two results"（para2）refers to _

A. verbal ability and coronary artery disease

B. the two results of men and women taking part in a cardiac rehabilitation program

C. exercise improves the cognitive performance and listening to music enhances brainpower

D. cognitive performance and coronary artery disease

42. According to the latest issue of the journal Heart & Lung, which of the following is tree?

A. The volunteers only didn't feel better mentally after working out with out the music.

B. Improvement on the verbal fluency（言辭流利）can be achieved by working out with the music.

C. improvement on the verbal fluency can be achieved by working out without the music.

D. The volunteers only felt better emotionally and mentally after working out with the music.

43. If we can combine music and exercise, we can __       

A. stimulate and increase cognitive arousal while have difficulty in organizing cognitive output

B. neither stimulate and increase cognitive arousal nor help to organize cognitive output

C. help to organize cognitive output at the expense of cognitive arousal

D. stimulate and increase cognitive arousal as well as help to organize cognitive output

44. We can infer that Emery's next step will be

A. to let the volunteers to listen to music of their own choice

B. to choose volunteers of different ages

C. to let the volunteers to listen to moderate tempo music

D. to test whether music can help recovery

45. The best title of this passage is __           

A. Music's Function in Helping Recovery

B. Exercising to Music Pumps up Brain Power

C. "Four Seasons" Helps Cognitive Output

D. Always Music

Valentine’s Day is the time of the year when couples show their love for each other by sending cards, flowers and chocolates. Its origins are   31 （clear）and hidden in the river of time. Nobody knows exactly   32   St. Valentine was, although some historians suggest he was   33   Roman killed in the third century AD by a Roman Emperor. It is said that the first   34 （record）Valentine’s card was sent by the imprisoned Duke of Orleans in 1415.   35   is believed that he tried to find comfort from his imprisonment by writing love poems to his wife.

Now, Valentine’s Day    36  （celebrate）in many countries around the world. However, the traditions often differ from place to place. In Japan, for example, it is normal for the woman to send chocolates to the man,   37   in Korea April 14th is known   38   “Black Day” and is when the unfortunate men who received nothing on Valentine’s Day gather to eat noodles and show sympathy for each other.

Technological   39 （develop）have also played their part   40   keeping Valentine’s Day relevant in the 21st century. Valentine’s e-cards have been very popular in recent years.