It is the test system,        the teachers, that is to blame for the heavy burden of middle school students.

A．rather than            B．or rather          C．other than          D．more than

My deskmate, Chen Qing has been guaranteed to Zhejiang University, learning French,        , of course, made the others envy her.

A．what         B．that           C．who          D．which

Many volunteers rushed to Sichuan      they heard that a serious earthquake had just hit that area.

A．a(chǎn)t the moment                   B．for the moment     

C．the moment                       D．in a moment

I believe in my mother, My belief began when I was just a kid,  1  I dreamed of becoming a doctor.

       My mother was a __2__. Through her work, she observed that ___3__ people spent a lot more time __4__ than they did watching television. She _5__ that my brother and I could only watch two or three pre-selected TV programs during the week. In our free time, we had to read two books each time from the Detroit Public Library and__6__ written book reports to her. She would mark them up with check marks and underline the important ___7__. Years later we realized her marks were a___8_. My mother was illiterate （不識字的）. Although we had no money, between the covers of those books, I could go anywhere, do anything and be _9__.

       When I entered high school I was an A-student, ___10__ not for long. I wanted fancy clothes. I wanted to hang about with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn’t __11__. I was cool.

       One night my mother came home from her jobs and I __12_ about not having enough Italian knit shirts. She said, “Okay, I’ll give you all the money I make this week by scrubbing floors and ___13__ bathrooms, and you can buy the family food and pay the bills. With everything left over, you can have all that you want. ” I was very __14___ with that arrangement but__15__ I got through allocating （支配）the money, there was nothing left. I realized my mother was a financial genius to be able to keep a __16 __ over our heads and any kind of food on the table, but much less buy clothes. I also __17__ that immediate satisfaction wasn’t going to get me anywhere. Success __18__ intellectual preparation. I went back to my studies and became an A-student ___19___, and eventually I fulfilled my dream and I became a __20__.

1．A．where                  B．which                 C．when                 D．who

3．A．maidservant          B．teacher               C．worker               D．nurse

3．A．healthy                 B．successful          C．powerful            D．clever

4．A．searching             B．reading               C．working             D．training

5．A．ordered                B．promised             C．suggested           D．a(chǎn)nnounced

6．A．hand in                 B．turn over            C．pick up               D．write down

7．A．titles                    B．ideas                  C．books                 D．parts

8．A．game                   B．trick                   C．pleasure              D．task

9．A．a(chǎn)nybody               B．nobody               C．somebody           D．everybody

10．A．a(chǎn)nd                    B．so                      C．but                     D．or

11．A．know                 B．care                   C．face                   D．stop

12．A．thought              B．chatted               C．complained         D．worried

13．A．repairing             B．cleaning              C．rubbing              D．watching

14．A．encouraged         B．puzzled               C．moved                D．pleased

15．A．a(chǎn)s soon as          B．if                       C．once                  D．since

16．A．wall                   B．house                 C．window              D．roof

17．A．realized               B．imagined              C．believed              D．noticed

18．A．suited                 B．required              C．made                  D．matched

19．A．even                   B．forever               C．before                D．a(chǎn)gain

20．A．professor              B．expert           C．doctor           D．boss

On May 8, last Thursday morning, the Olympic flame was lit on the top of Mount Qomolangma! It was a historic moment for China exactly three months ahead of the Beijing Games.

       Tibetan female climber Cering Wangmo reached the summit with a special extreme-altitude Olympic torch. This event is what China has promised to the world as the high point of the torch relay, the longest and most challenging of all time.

       Five torchbearers(火炬手) finished the highest relay ever—three of the climbers are Tibetan athletes.

       Team members said “Beijing welcomes you!” in Chinese, English and Tibetan, as they stood at the summit celebrating, with the event broadcast on national television.

       “I finally fulfilled the last dream of my husband,” said Gyigyi with tears in her eyes. She was the first torchbearer. Her husband lost his life in an attempt to climb all 14 mountains in China more than 8,000 meters three years ago.

       “We are on top of the world! One world, one dream,” shouted Nima Cering, at the top of his voice. He said that although he had climbed the peak（峰頂）several times, this was the most significant ascent(登高). “As a Tibetan and a Chinese I pray for the success of Beijing 2008,” he added.

       The special torch is different from the one currently touring the Chinese mainland, after an around-the-world relay. Officials organizing the trek up the peak had earlier set an April 26 target to begin the ascent, but high winds and heavy snow had delayed the mission.

       The Xinhua News Agency said that the Qomolangma leg of the torch relay represents the Olympic motto, “higher, faster and stronger,” in practice and will promote unity among all 56 ethnic groups in China.

1．It was a historic moment because ______.

     A．some Tibetan torchbearers took part in the torch relay

     B．the Olympic flame was lit three months before the Olympic Games were held

       C．the Olympic flame was lit on the top of Mount Qomolangma for the first time

       D．the torch relay was the longest attempt in history

2．Which is RIGHT according to the whole passage?

       A．All the five torchbearers are men.

       B．Only the five torchbearers reached the summit.

       C．Team members said “Beijing welcomes you!” in their native language.

       D．At least two of the five torchbearers are females.

3．What does the word “l(fā)eg” underlined in the last paragraph refer to?

       A．one part of a journey or race

       B．one of the long parts that connect the feet to the rest of the body

       C．the leg of an animal, especially the top part, cooked and eaten

       D．the part of a pair of trousers that covers the leg

4．What would be the best title for the text?

       A．One world, one dream

       B．Relay reaches its highest point

       C．Qomolangma, the highest summit in the world

       D．The special torch and the brave torchbearers

5．Where can you read about this passage?

       A．In the English textbook.                    B．In the newspaper.

       C．In the science report.                  D．On the street wall.

Now, it’s time for some brief news items.

       Teens Go Online

       Some 13 million European children under 18 use the Internet for schoolwork, games and music according to research done by Nielsen’s “Net-rating”. The study covered Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Experts advised parents to limit the time their kids spend on line and keep them away from chat rooms.

       Chat to the magic Mum

       British author J. K. Rowling, mother of magic boy Harry Potter, will do an Internet interview about her new book “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” on June 26. Before the event, children are invited to send their questions about Harry to the website. The book will hit stores in the US and UK on June 21 and will arrive in China in August.

       School Soldiers

       Russian school students will have to do basic military training in their final year of school, the government has decided. The lesson will include learning to fire guns, marching drills and how to deal with a chemical, nuclear or biological attack. The activity is seen as part of a drive toward the education of their love for their country.

       Is it hard for you to get up early and get ready for classes? Some students at Winter Park High School just roll out of bed in their pajamas (睡衣) and go to class in their own bedrooms, Of course, their teachers and classmates do not see them because all their class work is on the computer. The Florida High School, the state’s only online school, has 250 students who are taking classes at home by computer. Students in this first online program take classes in algebra (代數(shù)), American government, chemistry, computer, economics, and web-page design. They also have to go to regular school to attend other classes.

1．What is the second news item mainly about?

       A．Children will meet Harry Potter’s mother.      

       B．J. K. Rowling will have an Internet interview.

      C．The Harry Potter book will be available on the Internet.

D．The Harry Potter book will arrive in China in early June.

2．Why will Russian school students have basic military training?

      A．To get ready for a military parade.

       B．To learn to protect themselves.

       C．To gain some military knowledge.

       D．To develop their love for the country.

3．The news from Florida can be given a title “____________”.

       A．Get up Late                                    B．No Teachers 

       C．Magical Computers                   D．Online School     

Scientists now know that people are born with a general tendency toward a certain level of happiness, and that they tend to maintain that mood in their day-to-day lives.

       About half of a person’s “happiness quotient (份額)” comes from the personality he or she is born with. So, what about the other half of the happiness quotient? About 10 percent of that quotient depends on outside circumstances, such as how much money people make or how healthy they are. The remaining 40 percent, says psychologist and happiness researcher Sonja Lyubomirsky of the University of California, is entirely up to themselves.

       In one recent study, she and her colleagues assigned more than 300 college students to complete one of three activities. For 15 minutes a week over 8 weeks, the first group of these students wrote about what their lives would be like in the future if all their hopes and dreams came true. The second group spent the same amount of time writing letters to people who had done things in the past that the letter writers were grateful for. The third group of students simply listed everything they had done in the past seven days.

       The purpose of this experiment was to find out whether expressing optimism about the future or gratitude for the past could make a person happier.

       Results backed previous research, which had shown that expressing optimism and gratitude led to an improved sense of well-being.

       In other words, only people who really wanted to be happier were able to make that happen.

1．According to the passage, how many factors are there in deciding people’s happiness?

     A．Three.                 B．One.                   C．Four.                  D．Five.

2．Which group of the students needs imagination in the experiment?

       A．The second group.                               B．The third group.  

       C．The first and third groups.                    D．The first group.

3．According to the text, if you want to be happier, you should _____________.

     A．laugh when you were born

     B．try to make more money and improve your health condition

       C．imagine what your life would be like in the future and write to people who have done things for you every day.

     D．be optimistic about the future and grateful for the past

4．The writer of the passage intends to tell us that _____________.

       A．happiness is mostly decided by your birth

       B．optimism and gratitude equal happiness

       C．happiness can be decided by yourself  

       D．happiness decides your success

The government of Norway is planning to build an unusual storage center on an island in the Arctic Ocean. The place would be large enough to hold about two million seeds. The goal is to present all crops known to scientists. The British magazine New Scientist published details of the plan last month. The structure will be designed to protect the world’s food supply against nuclear war, climate change and other possible threats. It will be built in a mountain on the Norwegian island of Spits Bergen. The mountain is less than one thousand kilometers from the North Pole, the northernmost position on earth.

    An international group called the Global Crop Diversity Trust is working on the project. The director of the group, Cary Fowler, spoke to New Scientist. He said the project would let the world rebuild agriculture if, in his word, “the worst came to the worst”. Norway is expected to start work next year. The project is expected to cost three million dollars. Workers will drill deep in the side of a sandstone mountain. Temperatures in the area never rise above 0ºC. The seeds will be protected behind concrete walls a meter thick and high-security door.

    The magazine report says the collection will represent the products of ten thousand years of farming. Most of the seeds at first will come from collections at seed banks in Africa, Asia and Latin America. To last a long time, seeds need to be kept in very low temperatures. Workers will not be present al the time. But they plan to replace the air inside the storage space each winter. Winter temperatures on the island are about eighteen degrees below 0ºC. The cold weather would protect the seeds even if the air could not be replaced.

Mr. Fowler says the proposed structure will be the world’s most secure gene bank. He says the plant seeds would only be used when all other seeds are gone for some reason. Norway first proposed the idea in the 1980s. But security concerns delayed the plan.

1．The project is meant to ______.

       A．increase the world’s food output in the future

       B．carry out some scientific experiments on plant genes

       C．protect crop seeds from dying out in case of possible disasters

       D．build an exhibition centre of the world’s plant seeds

2．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the above passage?

       A．The government of Norway will perform the project alone.

       B．Seeds to be collected there were produced ten thousands years ago.

       C．Spits Bergen is chosen because it is free of the threat unclear war forever.

       D．Temperature is a major consideration when choosing the storage place.

3．We can infer from the text that _______.

       A．People will get newly-developed seeds from the center every year.

       B．The storage center will greatly promote world agriculture

       C．Norway had meant to build the storage centre about 20 years before.

       D．There haven’t been any seed storage centres in the world before.

4．What is probably the best title of the passage?

       A．The Best Place to Store Seeds    

       B．Noah’s Ark（諾亞方舟）of Plant Seeds in Plan

       C．Concerns of World Food Supply  

       D．A New Way to Feed the World

A study of art history might be a good way to learn more about a culture than is possible to learn in general history classes. Most typical history courses concentrate on politics, economics, and war. But art history focuses on much more than this because art reflects not only the political values of a people, but also religious beliefs, emotions and psychology. In addition, information about the daily activities of our ancestors can be provided by art. In short, art expresses the essential qualities of a time and a place, and a study of it clearly offers us a deeper understanding than can be found in most history books.

       In history books, objective information about the political life of a country is presented: that is, facts about politics are given, but opinions are not expressed. Art, on the other hand, is subjective: it reflects personal emotions and opinions. The great Spanish painter Franciso Goya was perhaps the first truly “political” artist. In his well-known painting The Third of May,1808, he criticized the Spanish government for its abuse of power over people.

       In the same way, art can reflect a culture’s religious beliefs. For hundreds of years in Europe, religious art had been almost the only type of art that existed. Churches and other religious buildings were filled with paintings that described people and stories from the Bible. Although most people couldn’t read, they could still understand the Bible stories in the pictures on church walls. By contrast, one of the main characteristics of art in the Middle East was (and still is) its absence of human and animal images. This reflects the Islamic belief that statues are unholy.

1．We learn from the first paragraph that           .

       A．history class concentrates on religious beliefs and emotion

       B．history books focus on personal emotions and opinions

       C．a(chǎn)rt history shows us something about emotions and beliefs

       D．a(chǎn)rt history shows us nothing but the political values

2．According to the passage, it is true that           .

       A．history teachers must be quite subjective

       B．a(chǎn)rtists paint people from the Bible to show their political beliefs

       C．you can hardly find animal and human images in Islamic paintings

       D．painters in Europe only painted Bible stories for centuries

3．Francisco Goya and his painting are used as an example to show          .

       A．a(chǎn)rt is subjective, which is different from history books

       B．Spanish government abused its power over people

       C．in history books, facts about politics are given

       D．Francisco Goya was the first“political” artist

4．The text mainly discusses         .

       A．the development of art history

       B．what can we learn from art

       C．the influence of art history

       D．the difference between general history and art history

此題要求改正所給短文中的錯(cuò)誤。對標(biāo)有題號的每一行做出判斷：如無錯(cuò)誤，在該行右邊橫線上畫一個(gè)勾（√）；如有錯(cuò)誤，（每行只有一個(gè)錯(cuò)誤），則按下列情況改正：

       該行多一個(gè)詞：把多余的詞用斜線（\）劃掉，在該行右邊橫線上寫出該詞，并也用斜線劃掉.

       該行缺一個(gè)詞：在缺詞處加一個(gè)漏字符號（∧），在該行右邊橫線上寫出該加的詞.

       該行錯(cuò)一個(gè)詞：在錯(cuò)的詞下劃一橫線，在該行右邊橫線上寫出改正的詞.

       注意：原行沒有錯(cuò)的不要改. 

       As the population of the world keeps on grow, it gets                   1．         

more and more difficult feed everyone. The United                              2．         

States is one of the lucky countries so it grows                                   3．         

enough food for itself and still has enough to export                           

to another parts of the world.                                                            4．         

       One reason for this is why the United States                                5．         

is a large country with different kind of climate?                                 6．         

Most of the central part of the country is especial fit                            7．         

for growing grain. Wheat and corn are

the most important crops in this district. The Untied                            8．         

States exports millions tons of grain every year.                                  9．         

       Wheat is used to make bread, a basic food throughout in               10．         

the world. Most of the corn is used to feed animals, which in turn become food themselves.