One of the viewers says he was deeply _____ by the White Cloud and Black Earth series performed by Zhao Benshan and Song Dandan. 

A．motivated         B．impressed          C．expressed          D．inspired

________ everyone else wouldn’t go to the mountain area, he went without a second thought.

A．As long as　　　　B．While　　     C．Where　　　　 D．In spite of

— Did you go to the party last night?

— Yes. And I’d rather ________. It was so________.

A．not go; tiresome　　　　　　　      　 B．not have gone; exciting

C．not have gone; tiring　　　　　　       D．go; interesting 

Much new and high technology has been introduced from America, thus _____ great increase in production of the company.

A．resulting in 　　　　B．resulted in  　　C．resulting from　　　　D．resulted from

---What’s happened to George?

---I don’t know. He _____.

A．must have got lost 　             B．should have got lost　  

C．may have got lost　              D．can’t be lost

A new Ministry of Education report says about half of middle school students do not weigh a______ amount.

A．common               B．usual              C．ordinary            D．normal

Mr. and Mrs Scott prefer a restaurant in a small town to ________ in so large a city as New York.

A．this　　　　　B．one　　　　　C．it　　　　　　D．that

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

                                                      --R. W. E, erson

    It was Mother’s Day, but the young mother was a little unhappy, because she was 800 miles away from her parents. In the morning she phoned her mother to   1   her a happy Mother’s Day, and her mother told her about the beautiful    2   in the garden.

    Later that day, when she told her husband about the lilacs（丁香）, he said, “I know where we can find   3   that you want. Get the children and come on.” So they went,  4   down the country roads.

    There on a small hill, they saw a lot of purple lilacs. The young woman ran quickly to    5    the flowers.   6   , she picked a few here and a few there. On their way home there was a smile on her face.

    When they were   7  a nursing home, the young woman saw an old granny sitting in a chair. She had no children with her. They    8   the car and the young woman walked to the old woman, put the    9   in her hands, and smiled at her. The old granny   10   her again and again. She smiled happily, too.

      11   the young mother came back to her car, her   12    asked her, “Who is that old granny?” “Why did you give our flowers to her?”

    “I don’t know her,” their mother said. “But it’s Mother’s Day, and she has no children. I have all of you, and I   13   have my mother. Just think how much those flowers   14   to her.”

     Hearing    15   their mother said, all the children were greatly   16  .

As we know, everyone needs love. In our society, only more love is   17   to the people, 18     those who are in great    19   , we will feel happy.   20   by this, can we have a better life, a more humorous world.

1．A．expect                     B．persuade          C．consider                 D．wish

2．A．nature                   B．lilacs                C．tree                        D．building

3．A．a(chǎn)ll                            B．something        C．a(chǎn)nything                 D．nothing

4．A．walking                    B．rolling              C．driving                    D．a(chǎn)dvancing

5．A．enjoy                     B．share               C．compare                 D．stress

6．A．Simply                     B．Contently         C．Immediately            D．Carefully

7．A．watching               B．passing                C．experiencing     D．finding

8．A．stopped                    B．exchanged            C．shook              D．started

9．A．sweets                         B．money                       C．flowers             D．care

10．A．thanked                  B．struck                     C．touched           D．communicated

11．A．While               B．When                     C．Because           D．Since

12．A．husband               B．friends                    C．children           D．mother

13．A．hardly                     B．never                   C．even                D．still

14．A．meant                     B．repeated               C．thought            D．expressed

15．A．how                    B．why                    C．what               D．which

16．A．separated             B．surprised              C．frightened        D．moved

17．A．combined             B．dragged               C．offered            D．a(chǎn)dvised

18．A．especially             B．particularly              C．luckily             D．finally

19．A．sorrow                   B．excitement              C．courage           D．need

20．A．Then                   B．Only                    C．So                   D．Or

The case for college has been accepted without question for more than a generation. All high school graduates ought to go, because college will help them earn more money, become “better” people, and learn to be more responsible citizens than those who don’t go.

    But college has never been able to work its magic for everyone. And now that close to half our high school graduates are attending, those who don’t fit the pattern are becoming more and more, and more obvious. College graduates are selling shoes and driving taxis; college students get in the way of each other’s experiments and write false letters of recommendation in the competition for admission to graduate school. Others find no interest in their studies, and drop out –often encouraged by college administrators. Some observers say the fault is with the young people themselves—they are spoiled and they are expecting too much.

    But that is a condemnation（譴責(zé)）of the students as a whole, and does not explain all campus unhappiness. Others blame the state of the world, and they are partly right. We’ve been told that young people have to go to college because our economy cannot take in an army of untrained 18 year-olds. But disappointed graduates are learning that it can no longer take in an army of trained 22-year-olds, either.

    Some adventuresome educators and campus watchers have openly begun to suggest that college may not be the best, the proper, the only place for every young person after the completion of high school. We may have been looking at all those surveys upside down, it seems, and thinking of the rosy glow of our own remembered college experiences. Perhaps college does not make people intelligent（clever）, ambitious, happy, liberal, or quick to learn things—maybe it is just the other way round, and intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, quick-learning people are only the ones who have been attracted to college in the first place. And perhaps all those successful college graduates would have been successful whether they had gone to college or not. This is heresy （異端邪說(shuō)） to those of us who have been brought up to believe that if little schooling is good, more has to be much better. But opposite evidence is beginning to mount up.

1．According to the passage all of the following statements are true EXCEPT_______.

A．a(chǎn)bout half of the high school graduates continue their studies at school

B．college graduates are believed to be able to earn more money

C．a(chǎn)dministrators often encourage college students to drop out

D．more and more young people are found unfit for college.

2．Which of the following is one of some observers’ opinions?

A．The students expect so much that they are not satisfied with the hard college life.

B．The economic situation is so discouraging that the youth have to attend college.

C．College should improve because of so much campus unhappiness.

D．Colleges provide more chances of good jobs than anywhere else.

3．What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．Our college experience proves that those surveys are incorrect.

B．The surveys may remind us of our beautiful college experiences.

C．The surveys should all be re-examined according to our college experiences.

D．Our college experiences may make us misunderstand the results of the surveys.

4．What is the main purpose of this passage?

A．To argue against the idea that college is the best place for all young people.

B．To put forward an idea that college should not be the first choice.

C．To value young people’s further education in colleges.

D．To persuade young people into working after the completion of high school.

WASHINGTON （Reuters） - Two-thirds of the world's polar bear population could be gone by 2050 if predictions of melting sea ice hold true, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Friday.

The fate of polar bears could be even worse than that estimate, because sea ice in the Arctic might be disappearing faster than the available computer models predict, the geological survey said in a report aimed at determining whether the big white bear should be listed as a threatened species.

"There is a definite link between changes in the sea ice and the welfare of polar bears," said Steve Amstrup, who led the research team. He says Arctic sea ice is already at the lowest level this year and is expected to retreat（退卻）farther this month.

That means that polar bears -- some 16,000 of them -- will disappear by 2050 from parts of the Arctic where sea ice is melting most rapidly, along the north coasts of Alaska and Russia, researchers said in a telephone briefing（簡(jiǎn)報(bào)）.

Other polar bear populations could survive beyond that date but many of those could be gone by 2100, Amstrup said. By century's end, the only polar bears left might live in the Canadian    Arctic islands and along the west coast of Greenland.

"It is likely to result in loss of approximately two-thirds of the world's current polar bear population by the mid 21st century," the report summary said.

"Because the observed trajectory（軌跡）of Arctic sea ice decline appears to be underestimated（低估） by currently available models, this assessment of future polar bear status may be conservative（保守的）."

In January, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service suggested listing the polar bear as a threatened species, noting polar bears depended on sea ice as a platform to hunt seals, their main food.

Without enough sea ice, polar bears would be forced onto land, but they are inefficient hunters once they get out of the water and ice, the researchers said. The bears' disappearance would probably take place as young cubs（幼獸） failed to survive to adulthood and females were unable to reproduce successfully.

1．What was the U.S. Geological Survey intended to do?

  A．To determine whether the polar bear was in danger.

  B．To measure how fast the sea ice melts in the Arctic．

  C．To check the prediction of the computer models.

  D．To find out the exact number of the polar bear.

2．Which is responsible for the polar bears disappearing by 2050?

  A．The pollution of the Arctic region.         B．The temperature getting warmer.

  C．Fewer food sources being left.            D．The sea ice melting at a high speed. 

3．The underlined word "assessment” in Paragraph 7 means _________.

   A．evaluation     B．prediction       C．calculation        D．a(chǎn)ssignment

4．What is the best title of the text?

   A．Polar Bears In Danger Now                 B．The Sea Ice Is Melting Rapidly

C．Molar Bears Could Be Lost by 2050          D．The U.S. Geological Survey