Today, if you find something useful on the Internet , you can download and____it in your personal computer file (文檔).

A．save                B．spare        C．share           D．turn

Americans don't like using Mr. 、Mrs. or Miss . So , if they don't use your last name or titles ,that really doesn't mean any________.

A．lack respect                                             B．lacking respect 

C．lacking respecting                                       D．lack of respect

Mr. Brown has three children, one of whom is a child of six ,_____twins of twelve.

A．a(chǎn)nother        B．other          C．the others        D．others

—Let's hurry. Doctor Susan is coming!

—Oh, I was afraid that we _______.

A．will miss her                                B．a(chǎn)lready miss her

C．had already missed her                        D．have already missed her

All kinds of people come in to have their shoes shined .Most folks are friendly. But this man was different.

“How much do you make a week, boy?” he asked me. I felt he was 1 at me.

He kept giving a sharp 2 around every now and then. All the time I kept 3 where I'd seen his face. Suddenly I knew. I'd seen his 4 in the post office many times. He was the big robber: 5 by the police in three states!

“You know," he was saying. “It’s imagination people lack .You'll never get 6 as a shoeshine boy."

I kept brushing away on his shoes as 7 as I could. The sooner I finished, the better. He said, “When I was sixteen ,  I had 8  $ 2,500 of my own . "

That reminded me of something. Was it $ 2,500 or $ 5, 000 or $ 25,000? I wasn't 9. But I knew a big reward was 10 for him.

But what could I do about it? 11 him with a can of shoe polish? A man like his 12 could grind (碾碎) me into the floor . If only someone would come in!

He kept talking away. “Along with 13, it takes courage. The courage to take a chance. Start something on a shoes trings.

Suddenly I saw Officer Dailey 14 across the street. Then, really fast, I be­gan tightening the man's shoestrings.

The policeman was at the window when I cried out. “Officer Dailey, 15! This man is a robber. ”

“ 16,” the man shouted angrily . He started to jump off the stand. But he didn’t go the 17 he planned. He fell flat on his face and knocked himself out cold.

“That was pretty 18 of you.” the officer said. “You’ll get a reward of $ 7,500 for him.”

“Well, it really wasn't my 19 .” I said. “It was his .He told me if you had courage and imagination you could start something 20 on a shoestring.”

1．A．staring             B．looking                 C．laughing                   D．pointing

2．A．look                  B．walk                    C．word                      D．tongue

4．A．notice                B．picture                 C．mail                        D．warning

5．A．wanted              B．searched              C．caught                    D．shown

6．A．everything          B．something            C．a(chǎn)nywhere                D．somewhere

7．A．carefully            B．slowly                  C．well                        D．fast

8．A．made                 B．stolen                   C．borrowed                D．gathered

9．A．curious              B．sure                     C．interested                D．clear

10．A．a(chǎn)fforded           B．offered                 C．suggested                D．shown

11．A．Injure              B．Warn                   C．Hit                          D．Avoid

12．A．size                 B．a(chǎn)ge                      C．height                     D．kind

13．A．money             B．support                C．cleverness               D．imagination

14．A．wandering        B．looking                 C．coming                   D．speeding

15．A．help                 B．danger                 C．stop                        D．a(chǎn)ttention

16．A．Mind you         B．Shut up                C．Hurry up                 D．Hands up

17．A．method            B．position                C．manner                   D．way

18．A．clever              B．brave                   C．helpful                    D．lucky

19．A．business           B．idea                     C．reward                    D．praise

20．A．small              B．valuable               C．important                D．big

If it 's possible to see red about not seeing red , that is what I was doing . We had misjudged the timing of our autumn trip to see the changing leaves in the Great Lakes states, and I was really upset .No matter how I strained my eyes (使勁用眼), I couldn't spot red anywhere . Not even a bit of golden yellow broke through the dull greenery.

This vacation was a complete waste. I sat alone in the backseat of our rented car and got angry as we drove north through the dull, dark green. In the front seat my husband and father chatted merrily, obviously unconcerned.

Then a motto came to mind: “Happiness is a decision.” It must have been some­thing my mother said．She was always passing on words of advice. When I was a child she gave me a little black book with empty pages. On the flyleaf (扉頁) she had written, “Look for a beautiful thing and you will find it ."I was supposed to keep a record of the most beautiful thing I saw each day.

I remember spending hours debating what I'd write down. A baby's dimpled smile? A stone shining with fool's gold? Pictures in the clouds, or tulips, (郁金香) tipping their heads ? I found so many things it was impossible to pick just one.

Now, on the road，I played Mother's game again. I took in the all — green scenery. Thick forests lined both sides of the highway. The long conical ( 圓錐形的 ) pines and spruce (云杉)were seen here and there . Maple leaves danced in the gentle wind．I felt like a girl again —surrounded by beautiful things.

Later in the trip after we crossed the Upper Peninsula and drove into Canada, I found the bright fall plants I had been looking for. But by then I'd already seen a million shades of green, the infinite variety and beauty that only our heavenly Father can produce. And that we can always find — if we look closely enough.

1．What was the purpose of the author's trip?

A．To see the green forest.

B．To have a sightseeing across America.

C．To see red leaves in fall.

D．To try out the motto her mother gave her.

2．What's the point the author wants to show in the passage?

A．Nothing is too difficult if you put your heart into it.

B．No pains, no gains.

C．Failure is the mother of success.

D．Beauty exists if you have an eye for it.

3．Which of the following can best describe the author's feeling at the end of her trip?

A．Delighted             B．Angry                 C．Disappointed        D．Surprised

4．The underlined phrase “see red” in the first paragraph probably means________.

A．get discouraged                                B．get angry

C．get ashamed                           D．get excited

Japanese people, who never miss a chance to be photographed, were lining up to get their pictures on a postage stamp. Vanity (虛榮) stamps with personal photographs went on sale for the first time in Japan as part of an international postage stamp exhibition. The customer's photo is taken with a digital camera and then printed on stamp sheets, a process that takes about five minutes. Sold in a sheet of 10 stamps for $ 8.80, little more than the cost of lunch in Tokyo, each stamp printed a different scene from a traditional painting along with the photo.

The stamps can be used normally to mail a letter, and postal officials hope they will help encourage interest in letter-writing in the Internet age. “Certainly e-mail is a useful method of communication, but letters are fun in a different way.” said Hatsumi Shimizu, an official in the Post Ministry. “We want to show young people that letters can be fun, too.”

While similar stamp sheets appeared in Australia in 1999 and are now sold in some 12 nations and territories, Japan's fondness for commemorative photos is likely to make them especially popular here. Indeed, officials had prepared 1,000 sheets but they were sold out in less than 30 minutes. Although the stamps are currently only available as a special service during the exhibition, postal officials said they may start selling them on a regular basis in the future.

1．The best title of this passage might be_________.

    A．Never Miss a Chance to be Photographed

    B．Your Own Face on a Postage Stamp

    C．First Japanese Postage Stamps with a Photo

    D．Letters are as Fun as E-mails

2．By saying "little more than the cost of lunch in Tokyo" the author really means____.

     A．this service is not very expensive

    B．the cost of this service is very high

    C．food in Tokyo is very dear

    D．$ 8.80 is a very small amount of money

3．The purpose of this activity is_________.

    A．to make the international postage stamp exhibition more interesting

    B．to make more stamps for normal use

    C．to draw interest in writing letters

    D．to satisfy Japan's fondness of commemorative photos

4．Which of the following is true according to the passage?

    A．Japanese people like to take photos.

    B．This kind of stamps must be used to mail letters.

    C．Japanese people can get this kind of stamps easily after the stamp exhibition.

       D．This service is more popular in Japan than in other places.

The English language is changing, and fast, thanks to the rapid progress of technology. We all have a choice: We can either bury our heads in the sand and spend the rest of our lives wishing Shakespeare were alive and well. Or we can embrace the new English, enter into the spirit of the Internet age and call it Weblish.

“You can' t avoid it , for the simple reason that whenever a new variety of lan­guage comes along , it inevitably impacts (沖擊) on the language as a whole .” says Dr. David Crystal , honorary professor  of linguistics ( 語言學(xué)家 ) at the University of Wales in Bangor , whose book “Language and the Internet ” has just been published .

The trouble with keeping up with the new English is not so much that there are so many new words but that the old words no longer mean what we thought they did. In the past, if someone said they did not have Windows, you would have to suppose they lived in a cave .These days, it is probably because they use a Mac (which is a computer, not a raincoat). Spam is as disliked as it ever was, but whereas it once meant an unappetizing（引不起食欲的）canned meat , it now stands for unwanted “junk” e-mail. Spellings are changing, too. Not only is text-messaging playing “hvc wth vrbs”(havoc (混亂) with verbs) , but the conventions of e-mail communication place little emphasis on “perfect spelling .”

Weblish loves to see nouns happily become verbs (“Please bookmark this site”) , and verbs become nouns ( “Send me the download ”) . Verbs and prepositions are regularly thrown together to become new nouns or adjectives (dial-up, logon, print-out, pull- down ,upload ) ,while others are created from simply pairing nouns: cyberspace, Ethernet, Internet , hyperlink , metatag, netspeak.

1．The best title of this passage would be__________.

    A．Keep up with the latest weblish

   B．Keep up with the latest development in English      

   C．Newly-invented English words

   D．Technology and English

2．We can infer from the first paragraph that__________.

    A．some people wish Shakespeare were still alive

   B．people may have different attitudes towards weblish          

    C．a(chǎn)ll the people welcome weblish

    D．weblish causes fear among people

3．The third paragraph is mainly about__________.

    A．different meanings of English words

    B．the rapid changes of English words

    C．the difficulty in understanding words related to computer and the Internet

    D．the common words used on the Internet

4．Dr. David Crystal would probably agree that__________.

    A．people should not accept weblish

    B．weblish can cause misunderstandings among people

    C．weblish will destroy the English language

       D．people should know something about weblish

Women work harder than men at university and get better degrees as a result, according to a study carried out at Burnel University.

The research , which tracked 200 students over four years, found that women con sistently outperformed men  in further education  even though they  had started their courses with almost the same A—level results.

An analysis of the department's results showed that while 65 per cent of female graduates were awarded, only 35 per cent of males did that well.

Girls are known to outperform boys at school, but this research shows the trend continues at university.

Fiona Smith, the senior lecturer at Brunel who led the study, said , “The survey proved a previously held opinion wrong that the educational sex gap is purely a middle school phenomenon . "

It also makes the unfairness for working women in terms of pay .Women work harder at school, harder at university and do better in both, yet still receive less pay.      

The survey found that female students were harder working, less likely to miss lectures and more likely to believe their marks reflected their ability than their male competitors. Female students were also more likely to seek and receive support from teachers.

On the contrary , men were more likely than women to miss lectures due to “ la­ziness " and to believe that playing sport was an important part of university life.

Different from the popular argument that women's success is due to the in­creased emphasis on coursework, female geographers at Brunel did better in exams than in coursework, the research found.

The study, based on 180 questionnaires and interviews with more than 70 students, concluded that males underachieved because they felt working hard was not “macho”.

Dr Smith said, “Most women feel that getting good grades is the most important

part of university life .They believe they need to work harder in order to be able to compete in the male-controlled environment they will face at work : good grades are viewed as an “ insurance policy " for success .Men ,on the other hand , feel that it's not "macho" to work hard . They tend to put going out and playing sport higher than coursework.

1．The underlined word “It” in the sixth paragraph probably refers to________.

    A．the previously held opinion                   B．a(chǎn) middle school phenomenon

    C．the survey                                           D．the educational sex gap

2．The cause of women performing better at university than men is that ______ .

A．female students did better at school before entering university

    B．women will not find jobs unless working harder at university

    C．women get more help and support from the teachers

   D．most female students think good grades at university will benefit them in the future

3．The underlined word "macho" might have the same meaning as _______.

    A．proud            B．manly         C．brave              D．strong

4．Which of the following might be the best title of this passage?

    A．Women Outperform Men at University.

    B．Women Should Receive the Same Pay as Men.

    C．Males at University Perform too Badly.

       D．Females Do Better at School as Well as at University.

When the world was a simpler place, the rich were fat, the poor were thin, and right-thinking people worried about how to feed the hungry .Now, in much of the world, the rich are thin, the poor are fat, and right-thinking people are worrying about fatness.

Evolution (進(jìn)化) is mostly to blame . It has designed mankind to deal with lack, not plenty. People are perfectly fit to store energy in good years to see them through lean ones. But when bad times  never come , they are stuck  with that energy , stored around their expanding bellies (腹部).

Thanks to rising agricultural productivity, lean years are rarer all over the globe. According to the UN , the number of people  short of food fell from 920m in 1980 to 799m 20 years later , even though the world 's population increased by 1.6 billion over the period . This is mostly a cause for celebration. Mankind has won what was, for most of his time  on this planet , his biggest battle: to ensure that he and his offspring（后代） had enough to eat . But every silver lining has a cloud , and the result of prosperity (繁榮) is a new trouble.

Fatness is the world 's biggest public-health topic today —the main cause of heart disease, which kills more people these days than AIDS, malaria, war, the major risk factor in diabetes (糖尿病) ; heavily connected with cancer and other diseases . Since the World Health Organization labeled fatness an "epidemic (流行病)" in 2000, re­ports on its fearful results have come thick and fast .

Will public-health warnings, combined with media pressure, persuade people to get thinner, just as they finally put them off tobacco? Possibly. In the rich world, sales of healthier foods are booming and new figures suggest that over the past year Americans got very slightly thinner for the first time in recorded history. But even if Americans are losing a few ounces, it will be many years before the country solves the health problems caused by half a century ' s dining to overload . And, everywhere else in the world, people are still piling on the pounds. That's why there is now an agree­ment among doctors that governments should do something to stop them.

1．What's the main idea the writer intends to tell us in this passage?

    A．It's harmful to have enough to eat.

    B．It's better to be thin than fat.

    C．Fatness is the greatest danger in the world.

    D．Fatness has become a great health problem.

2．It can be inferred from the passage that the biggest problem in history is _______ .

    A．people were thin                        B．people smoked heavily

    C．there was not enough food to eat           D．people stored energy in good years

3．Why does the author compare smoking with the fatness problem in this passage?

    A．They are both problems difficult to settle.

    B．They both lead to the same diseases.

    C．They are both bad habits.

    D．They are both harmful to health.

4．Which of the following is true according to this passage?

    A．Man has got rid of lean years by raising agricultural productivity.

    B．Though difficult, man may break away from the fatness problem.

    C．Fatness may cause many diseases such as heart disease, AIDS and cancer.

       D．The doctors feel that they can do nothing about the fatness problem.