In face of the low employment, a great many graduates, when hunting for a position, would rather______ a potential career future first than a high salary, which is a sensible choice.

A．go with          B．a(chǎn)gree with           C．a(chǎn)llow for        D．provide for

---Since this is an important task, why don’t you appoint Rose to carry it out?

---She may forget ---she is not very____.

A．loyal         B．patient         C．powerful          D．reliable

Now in view of the bad economic situation, most people think it_____ that the price og houses will continue to go down.

A．ridiculous            B．a(chǎn)ccurate           C．stable         D．reasonable

Nowadays food safety is a big problem and nobody can guarantee all foods are secure to us, but food produced in the normal companies is______ better.

A．strictly       B．a(chǎn)bsolutely         C．relatively          D．exactly

Owing to heavy traffic jams, many people would like to choose the train____ driving.

A．in preference to               B．in addition to          C．a(chǎn)s with         D．a(chǎn)s well as

In order to experience everlasting love in life, you ought to first figure out what is missing in your life and then fill in the   1  . People fall in and out of love because they  2   their lovers to be everything to them and do everything for them. They then become dissatisfied when the partner fails to   3   all their requirements. If you have a dream of 4   everlasting love, you’d better create your own life   5   by hobbies, interests and helpful passions. This makes you a    6   lover when you enjoy a completes, interesting life on your own. Create a world of your own. On your to-do-list adds forgiveness. It is always  7   to forgive while you can, for disappointment and sadness is apart of life.

Some people find it hard to forgive their partners,    8   if they happened to catch them cheating on them. Seek   9   help from a marriage and relationship adviser. This is an important move towards   10   for everlasting love. Most buried hatred and anger are the cause to failed marriages and   11   relationships. To find a smooth sail in your love life, you have to learn to forgive. Accept changes when they arrive instead of   12    the reality. In life, change is certain to happen. You should 13   the happenings in life and move through them  14  . No matter how settled you might be, it is good to know that things can change in an instant.

Always accept the unexpected．Always find Happiness in what you have and be  15    to own what you have. It is a great   16   to everlasting love. Despite the greatest fear and uncertainties of the unknown, when the unavoidable things happen you will 17  on the good old time and wish that you had been more grateful when things were more colorful. To   18  your love life, you should give thanks every moment and learn to appreciate all the small problems  19   we experience, because, unknown to us, they can get  20   and sometimes they probably will.

1. A．gaps                   B．losses                     C．shames                  D．minds

2. A．hope                   B．think                       C．rank                       D．expect

3. A．make                  B．meet                       C．balance                   D．realize

4. A．a(chǎn)chieving             B．proving                   C．respecting               D．taking

5. A．perfected             B．raised                     C．chosen                   D．included

6. A．lonely                  B．holy                        C．final                       D．full

7. A．vain                   B．formal                    C．healthy                   D．tough

8. A．specially              B．particularly              C．especially                D．surely

9. A．standard              B．normal                    C．ordinary                  D．professional

10. A．a(chǎn)ppeal               B．search                    C．plan                        D．a(chǎn)rrangement

11. A．improved           B．faded                      C．broken                    D．separated

12. A．turning              B．escaping                 C．leaving                    D．facing

13. A．a(chǎn)ppreciate          B．refuse                    C．a(chǎn)void                      D．a(chǎn)bsorb     

14. A．strongly            B．simply                    C．slowly                    D．willingly

15. A．lucky                B．grateful                   C．skillful                    D．sincere

16. A．result                B．symbol                   C．secret                     D．explanation

17. A．look up              B．look down               C．look forward           D．look back

18. A．control             B．recognize               C．enjoy                     D．a(chǎn)djust

19. A．which               B．that                        C．what                      D．when

20. A．better                B．worse                     C．more                      D．fewer

Put a little love in your life

I remember growing up, my mom always said，“Half the fun of doing anything is sharing it with others.” It is so true. Friends and mates allow us to enjoy our success and our joys, comfort us in our challenging moments, and provide a mirror for us to learn more about ourselves. I’ve always looked at friends as the family we choose. They enrich our lives. As Robert Louis Steven once said, “A friend is a present which you give yourself.”

   To be a good friend or partner, it’s importable be a good listener. Hear what your friend or mate has to say first rather than jumping to conclusions or getting defensive. Sometimes it is useful to be their mirror, for when they hear their words repeated back to them，it can help them to realize that what they said was not exactly what they meant to say.

Patience, compassion and empathy are also important traits in being a good friend or partner. You know the old golden rule, “Care for others the way you would like them to care for you.” The support of a friend during a tough time could make the difference between success and failure. Encouragement and confidence are priceless gifts that can help change a person’s life.

Take care, though, with whom you choose to have close relationship, for they can have a tremendous impact on your self-esteem and life path. As someone once told me, “the attitude of your friends are like the buttons on an elevator. They will either take you up or down.”

1. In order to make good friends, you should do the following except

     A．Be a good listener

     B．Be patient, compassionate

     C．Be careful

     D．Be generous to your friends

2. What will you do to your friends according to the passage?

     A．Buy your friend a mirror.

     B．Point out their mistakes if there is any

     C．Give them encouragement and confidence.

     D．Pay attention what they do

3. What does the underlined sentence in the passage mean?

     A．It is different whether you have friends or not.

     B．The support of friends counts when you have difficulties.

     C．A friend in need is a friend indeed．

     D．You are certain to succeed if you get the support of friends.

4. Which of the following statements is not right according to the passage?

     A．It is good to share your fun with other.

B．The friend is a mirror for us to learn more about others.

C．You’d better be a good listener if you want to be a good friend．

D．Be careful to choose your friend．

About 6,000 doctors in the Philippines are studying to become nurses so they can find higher-paying jobs abroad, Health Secretary Francisco Duque says.

This was up from 2,000 doctors who studied to become nurses last year, Duque said．

The exodus of doctors and nurses had created a “threatening situation for our health care system” and a task force had been established to examine the potential impact, he said．

The team was working on a bill which would require doctors to practice in the Philippines for at least three to four years before they were able to work abroad．

“I think the problem really is the migration of doctors. We have so many nurses now, more than enough to fill up（vacancies）. But our doctors are leaving,” Duque said．

A study by the University of the Philippines had found that between 2000to 2003 more than 50,000 Filipino nurses went abroad to work. A doctor working in a government hospital in the Philippines earns only about 25,000 pesos（446 dollars） a month. A doctor could earn around 8,000dollars a month while working as a nurse overseas. Even lawyers, accountants and engineers are enrolling to brain as nurses.

Filipino nurses are in demand in Europe, the United States, the Middle East and even closer to home, such as in Singapore and Japan.

However, Health officials have warned the country faces a “medical apocalypse” if it continues to lose its health professionals to jobs abroad．

1. The word “exodus” in Para 3 can be probably explained by__   

   A．return of lots of people             B．leave of many people at one time

C．fight between different people       D．exchange of positions between people

2. Which of the following statements about the doctor in the Philippines is true?

   A．Many doctors started to study to become nurses this year.

   B．More than 50,000Filipino doctors went abroad to work between 2000to 2003.

   C．A doctor could earn as much as a nurse overseas in a government hospital at home.

   D．Many doctors went abroad because of the poor working conditions at home.

3. According to the passage, why do so many doctors leave to work abroad as nurses?

   A．Because they don’t like the working surroundings at home.

   B．Because they like to be nurses and live abroad．

   C．Because they can make much more money abroad．

   D．Because the government hospitals at home never value them.

4. What is the aim of this short passage?

   A．To criticize the Philippine government.

   B．To show pity on the doctors in the Philippines.

   C．To call on people to change their jobs and work as nurses.

   D．To call attention to the problems with lack of doctors in the Philippines.

The first day of school our professor introduced someone we didn’t know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being. She said, “Hi, handsome man. My name is Rose. I’m eighty-seven years old．Can I give you a hug?” I laughed and enthusiastically responded, “of course you may!” and she gave me a giant squeeze.

“Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?” I asked．She jokingly replied, “I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, and have a couple of kids, and then retire and travel.”

“No seriously,’ I asked．I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age. “I always dreamed of having college education and how I’m getting one!” she told me.

Over the course of the school year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled（盡情享受）in the attention bestowed（給予）upon her from the other students. She was living it up.

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. She leaned into the microphone and simply said, “we do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humour every day. You’ve got to have a dream, When you lose your dreams, you die. There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. Anybody can grow older. That doesn’t take any talent or ability.”

She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives. At year’s end, Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep.

1. What qualities did Rose have according to the passage?

     A．Humourous and determined

     B．Critical and humourous

     C．Hard-working but indifferent

     D．Pretty but old

2. Why was Rose in college at such an age?

     A．To find a rich husband at such an age.

     B．To realize her dream of having college education.

     C．To further her education for a better job．

     D．To make more young friends.

3. Rose once made a great speech.

     A．a(chǎn)t the graduation ceremony.

     B．a(chǎn)t a football banquet

     C．a(chǎn)t an annual meeting

     D．a(chǎn)t a baseball banquet

4. From what Rose said, we learn that

     A．everyone will end up growing older.

     B．we can’t stay young successfully.

     C．we can achieve much if we want to.

     D．dream is the key to success.

Seated on a rock, she could be waiting for a bus. But if so, she could be in for a terribly long wait.

A photo of what looks remarkably like a female figure with her arm outstretched was among several taken on Mars and sent back to Earth by NASA’s Mars explorer Spirit, Britain’s Daily Mail reported yesterday. Though no official confirmation has come from NASA on whether the figure is an alien or an optical illusion（視錯覺）caused by landscape on Mars, it has set the Internet an excited discussion whether there really is life on Mars.

As one enthusiast put it on the newspaper’s website: “These pictures are amazing. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw what appears to be a naked alien running around on Mars.” Another wrote: “If you show me another rock in another photo from Mars that naturally looks like that, I will reconsider.” A third contributor, who came closer to the majority’s view, said: “Ah, the human eye can be tricked so easily.”

The news of the mystery woman on Mars came just days after a team of French scientists claimed to have discovered a proof that Mars has high dense clouds of dry ice, which float quickly across its orange sky, Indian newspaper Hindustan Times reported．

Using data obtained by OMEGA spectrometer on board European Space Agency’s Mars Express, the team found the existence of ice clouds which sometimes become so dense（密集）that they throw quite dark shadows on the dusty surface of the planet.

1. What does “she” in the first paragraph refer to?

   A．a(chǎn)n unknown woman            B．a(chǎn) mystery alien

   C．a(chǎn)n optical illusion                 D．a(chǎn) lady-shaped image

2. According to the passage, what’s the majority’s view of the female-shaped photo?

   A．They think it must be a photo a mystery woman on Mars.

B．They think it couldn’t be a photo from a mystery woman on Mars.

   C．They are not sure that it is a photo from a mystery woman on Mars.

D．They don’t express their opinions on the female-shaped photo.

3. From the passage, we can know that     .

   A．there must be water existing on Mars.       B．there must be a certain of life on Mars.

   C．there is low dense clouds of dry ice on Mars.  D．the surface of Mars is orange and rocky.

4. The first paragraph mainly serves to.

   A．a(chǎn)ttract readers’ attention

   B．describe a mystery woman

   C．introduce the mystery photo

   D．prove the discovery of life on Mars