When other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station. When other teens were studying or going out, she struggled to find a place to sleep on the street. But she overcame（克服）these terrible problems to win a highly competitive scholarship（獎學(xué)金）and gain entry to Harvard University. And her amazing story has inspired a movie, “Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story”, shown in late April.

Liz Murray, a 22-year-old American girl, has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination. Liz grew up with two drug-addicted parents. There was never enough food or warm clothes in the house. Liz was the only member of the family who had a job. Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was just 15 years old. The effect of that loss became a turning point in her life. Connecting the environment in which she had grown up with how her mother had died, she decided to do something about it.

Liz went back to school. She threw herself into her studies, never telling her teachers that she was homeless. At night, she lived on the streets. “What drove me to live on had something to do with understanding, by understanding that there was a whole other way of being. I had only experienced a small part of the society,” she wrote in her book Breaking Night.

She admitted that she used envy to drive herself on. She used the benefits that come easily to others, such as a safe living environment, to encourage herself that “next to nothing could hold me down”. She finished high school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University. But Liz decided to leave her top university a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care of her father, who has also developed AIDS. “I love my parents so much. They are drug addicts. But I never forget that they love me all the time.”

Liz wants moviegoers to come away with the idea that changing your life is “as simple as making a decision”.
1. In which order did the following things happen to Liz?

a. Her mother died of AIDS.            b. She worked at a petrol station.

c. She got admitted into Harvard.        d. The movie about her life was put on.

e. She had trouble finding a place to sleep.

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

2. The main idea of the passage is ________.

A. how Liz managed to enter Harvard University

B. what a hard time Liz had in her childhood

C. why Liz loved her parents so much

D. how Liz struggled to change her life

3. What actually made her go towards her goal?

A. Envy and encouragement.　　　　    B. Willpower and determination.

　    C. Decisions and understanding.　　     D. Love and respect for her parents.

4. When she wrote “What drove me to live on ... I had only experienced a small part of the society”, she meant that ________.

A. she had no place in the world           B. she could hardly understand the society

C. she would do something for her own life  D. she needed to travel more around the world

Happy Vacations at the Hotel of Your Choice

The Bay Motel

l         Quality and Economy, everything you need; nothing you don’t!

l         80 rooms with color TV

l         Restaurant and bar

l         5 miles from downtown San Francisco

l         Free parking service!

l         Modern ─ opened 1995

l         $29, single! $39 double!

The Welcome Inn

l         A tradition for wise travelers since 1932

l         54 rooms, color TV

l         Heated swimming pool

l         Restaurant, bar, room service

l         In the heart of San Francisco!

l         Fantastic rates: $35 for 1 person, $45 for 2 persons

1. “The Bay Motel” is most probably ________.

A. a hotel specially for traveling drivers   

B. a traditional hotel that is near the sea

C. a large hotel that provides the best service but charges more

D. a nice hotel that provides everything the customers need

2. It can be learned from the two advertisements that _________.

  A. aged travelers will usually choose the Welcome Inn

  B. guests in the Bay Motel only pay a little for parking

  C. guests in the Welcome Inn can have food or drinks in their rooms

  D. wise travelers always put up at the Welcome Inn

3. The most possible reason why the Bay Motel is cheaper than the Welcome Inn is that _________.

  A. it has been opened for only a few years   B. it has a parking place

  C. it has more rooms for customers            D. it is not in the center of the city

4. How much will Mary and Joan, who are fond of swimming, probably pay for two nights?

  A. $39                      B. $45                   C. $58                   D. $70

If we are asked exactly what we were doing a year ago, we might have to say that we could not remember. But if we had kept a book and written it in account（陳述）of what we did each day, we should be able to give an answer to the question.

    It is the same in history. Many things have been forgotten because we do not have any written account of them. Sometimes men did keep record of the important happenings in their country, but often it was destroyed by fire or in a war. Sometimes there was never any written record at all because the people of that time and place did not know how to write. For example, we know a great deal about the people who lived in China 4000 years ago, because they could write and leave written records for those who lived after them. But we know almost nothing about the people who lived even 200 years ago in central Africa, because they had not learned to write.

    Sometimes, of course, even if the people cannot write. They may know something of the past. They have heard about it from older people, and often songs and dances and stories have been made about the most important happenings, and those have been sung and acted and told for many generations (代), for most people are proud to tell what their fathers did in the past. This we may call “remembered history”. Some of it has now been written history, because words are much more easily changed when used again and again in speech than when copied in writing. But where there are no written records, such spoken stories are often very helpful.

1. Which of the following ideas is not talked in the passage above? _________.

A.      Remembered history is less reliable（可靠的） than written history.

B.      Written records of the past play a most important part in our learning of the human history.

C.      Where there are no written records, there is no history.

D.     A written account of our daily activities（活動） helps us to answer some questions.

2. “Remembered history” refers to _________.

A.      history based on a person’s imagination（想象）.

B.      Stories of important happenings passed from mouth to mouth.

C.      Songs and dances about the most important events（事件）.

D.     Both B and C.

3. Remembered history is regarded as valuable only when _________.

A. it is written down                B. there is no written account

C. it proves to be true                D. people are interested in it

4. It can be inferred（推斷） from the passage that we could have learned much more about our past than we do now if our ancestors（祖先）had _________.

A. kept a written record of every past event

B. not burned their written records in wars

C. told exactly stories of the most important happenings

D. made more songs and dances

   Fire fighting is a serious matter. Knowing what to do during a fire can save people’s lives. It is important to know the ways you can use and show them to everyone else in the family, such as stairways and emergency exits, but not elevators.(電梯)

   From the lower floors of buildings, to escape from windows is possible. Learn the best way to get out of a window with the least chance of serious injury.

   The second floor window is usually not very high from the ground. An average(平均高度) person, hanging by the fingertips（手指尖） will have a drop of about 6 feet to the ground. It is about the height of an average man. Of course, it is safer to jump a short way down than to stay in a burning building.

    Windows are also useful when you are waiting for help. Be sure to keep the door closed before opening the window. Otherwise, smoke and fire may be drawn into the room. Keep your head low at the window to be sure you get fresh air rather than smoke that may have leaked（泄，漏） into the room.

    On the second or the third floor, the best windows for escape are those that open onto a roof. From the roof a person can drop to the ground more safely. Dropping onto cement （水泥地面） might end in injury. Bushes and trees can help you to have a soft landing.

1. Which of the following should not be used when trying to escape from a fire?

  A. Windows         B. Elevators            C. Fire exits                D. Stairways

2. How far from the ground is the second floor window?

  A. About the height of an average man           B. About 6 feet       

  C. About 12 feet                                          D. Nearly 10 feet

3. When there is a fire, the windows are _______ of escaping a fire.

  A. the only way                                                  B. the best way     

C. safer than any other way                    D. one of the possible ways

4. The writer suggests that ________.

A.      breathing in smoke might be harmful

B.      smoke will enter the room through an open window

C.      fresh air can’t reach the second floor window

D.     to keep your head low will help you to escape a fire

McDonald’s has been bothered by people blaming it for making them fat and by animal-rights protesters（抗議者）,  so it has responded with a good deed. It is telling its main meat suppliers to slowly stop using antibiotics (抗生素) by 2004.

       The fast food chain is one of the biggest US meat buyers and it may be causing an end to the age of dangerous overuse of antibiotics. The cattle industry began using the drugs in the 1950s and soon became a practice. Antibiotics can help fatten animals. Animals fed by antibiotics grow faster and so space is saved. That helps solve the problem of crowded condition on farms.

       Today, 70 percent of all antibiotics used in the US are mixed into animal feed. That amounts to 24 million pounds of drugs a year and good earnings for the companies that make the drugs.

       Humans eat the meat of animals fed by antibiotics regularly, and bacteria (細菌) in humans tend to develop immunity (免疫力) to antibiotics over time. So, doctors have to use larger amounts of antibiotics to cure bacterial diseases. Even more worrying, cattle that have been fattened with antibiotics can spread other infections that resist antibiotics to humans. The first time they are used, antibiotics wipe out most of their bacteria. But the few that survive begin growing toward drug resistance. And they may become more deadly in the process.

       The medical magzine Clinical Infectious Diseases has concluded that agricultural use of antibiotics “increase the number, cruelty and duration (持續(xù)時間) of infections.” McDonald’s worked closely with the nonprofit group US Environmental Defence and other organizations over the last year to try to cut out antibiotics. It is right to insist that farmers need to end a practice that harms animals and humans. With its 30,000 restaurants in 118 countries, the chain has real influence in the cattle industry.

       If consumers respond favorably, the rest of the fast food industry will no doubt follow. Obviously, there’s great publicity value in the McDonald’s action. This gives the company an image of environmental concern（關(guān)心）. It also removes customers’ focus from the fat and salt problem of its food. So the praise for stopping meat antibiotics is entirely worth the effort.

1. To answer people’s criticizing, McDonald’s has ______.

A. paid for the loss of the customers           B. stopped the practice for some time

C. turned to the law for help                       D. taken some measures to satisfy them

2. The basic goal that the cattle industry uses antibiotics lies in ________.

A. reducing costs   B. the popular taste      C. preventing diseases    D. its high nutrition

3. Paragraph 4 mainly tells us ______.

       A. the animals using antibiotics to speed up weight have two bad effects

       B. overuse of antibiotics can cause resistance of antibiotics to humans

       C. bacteria in humans will affect the immunity to antibiotics

       D. antibiotics might be stopped using in human life

4. The author _______ stopping the use of antibiotics when raising animals.

       A. is for                B. is against                  C. is uncertain about D. shows no opinion of

— How is your headache?

— It’s getting worse. And I feel short of breath.

—    1   .

— For a couple of days.

—    2   .

— No. Only those you prescribed last time.

— Please unbutton your shirt. I want to listen to your heart. Breathe deeply and hold it. ...Right. It seems to be normal. Let me take your blood pressure. Well, I can see nothing wrong.    3   .

—    4   .

— It’s very hard for me to make any diagnosis (診斷) now.    5   .

A. I’ll send you to Dr. Smith, a specialist in heart disease and we’ll see what he has to say.

B. How long have you been feeling that way?

C. So don’t worry. You can go to work now.

D. What’s the problem?

E. Did you take anything for it?

F. We’ve already done something about your illness.

G. I’m afraid you’ll have to do some further tests.

根據(jù)下列句子及所給漢語注釋，在相應(yīng)題號的橫線上寫出空缺處各單詞的正確形式。（每空只寫一詞）

1. We can at least be _______ (希望) that our efforts to

improve the world will be successful.                                               1. ____________

2. Because of the Internet, shopping in real shops is

no longer a _______ (必須的事情).                                                        2. ____________

3. The ______ (致命的) disease – SARS once hit parts of China.                    3. ____________

4. A perfect ______ (陌生人) waved to me in the street this morning.             4. ____________

5. All kinds of ______ (商品) are available in China now.                        5. ____________

6. The boy was punished for ______ (作弊) in the exam.                        6. ____________

7. This engine is ______ (設(shè)計) to be repaired at low cost.                      7. ____________

8. ______ (蜂蜜) is the favorite food a bear loves.                                  8. ____________

9. In ______ (一般說來), I prefer fish to chicken.                                         9. ____________

10. Marry goes to take exercise ______ (定期地) to keep fit .                  10. ____________

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

    此行多一個詞：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。

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

    此行錯一個詞：在錯的詞下劃一橫線，在該行右邊橫線上寫出改正后的詞。

注意： 原行沒有錯的不要改。

I used to be dissatisfied with my English teacher                1. ____________

poor English. I was also tired in her teaching methods,                     2. ____________

they were always slow and boring. However, my attitude          3. ____________

towards her began to change one afternoon. It was raining       4. ____________

heavy and I didn't attend school. At 5:30 pm, I received                 5. ____________

a phone call. "Were you all right?" asked my teacher in a         6. ____________

quiet noise. On hearing her words, I was shocked and my      7. ____________

heart was filling with mixed feelings. She was showing           8. ____________

her concern for me though I had been happy with her!           9. ____________

Was she just acting, and had I really misunderstood her?         10. ____________

2040年一天的生活

【內(nèi)容提示】讓你的想象力飛往2040年，用英語描述那一天的生活情景。內(nèi)容要點如下：

1．早上7點趕緊起床，因為9點鐘在天津有一個重要會議。

2．讓機器人去準(zhǔn)備早飯，你自己去沖了個澡。

3．走出別墅(villa)，開出上海牌轎車，定好目的地和到達時間就出發(fā)了。時速180公里，公路很暢通。

4．太空中心發(fā)來e-mail說你的申請報告已通過，如果再通過體檢，就可遷往月球。你打電話告訴了媽媽，并說回家吃她親手做的可口晚飯。

（字?jǐn)?shù)：100-120）

A Day of Life in 2040

從A、B、C、D四個選項中，找出其劃線部分與所給單詞的劃線部分讀音相同的選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

例：have

       A．gave              B．save              C．hat                D．made

答案是C。

1．consideration              

       A．a(chǎn)llowance            B．operation             C．consult                D．a(chǎn)ppoint

2．shallow                                                   

       A．a(chǎn)ppointed            B．adopt                 C．appropriate          D．packet

3．selfish                    

       A．cosy               B．a(chǎn)ccuse                C．bonus                 D．a(chǎn)cquisition

4．motherland              

A．throat                  B．southern              C．thirst                   D．through

5．existence               

       A．expense         B．excited         C．experiment       D．exactly