Eating moon cakes is a traditional_____ in China, which goes back centuries.

A. habit            B. behavior      C. custom         D. action

Monty owns a horse ranch（農(nóng)場） in San Sedro. Once when asked about his __1__ , he told the story about a young man, son of a horse trainer.

  One day at high school the boy was asked to write a paper about what he wanted to be and do when he __2__. That night he wrote a seven-page paper describing his __3__ of someday owning a horse ranch. He __4__ about his dream in great detail and __5_ drew a diagram of 200-acre ranch , __6__ the location of everything important there.

  The next day he handed it in to his teacher. Two days later he got his paper back. On the front page was a large red F with a __7__ that read, “See me after class.”

  The boy went to the teacher. The teacher said, “ This is an unrealistic dream__8__ a young boy like you. You come from a __9_ family. Owing a ranch requires a lot of money. There is __10__way you could ever do it.” Then he added, “_11_ you will rewrite this paper with a more _12__ goal, I will reconsider your _13__.

  The boy went home and thought about it long and_14__. Finally, the boy turned in the same paper, making no __15__ at all. He said, “ You cam keep the F and I will keep my __16__.”

  Monty said, “I was the boy. And the __17_ part of the story was that two summer ago that __18__ teacher brought 30 kids to camp out on my ranch for a week. When he was leaving, the teacher said, ‘When I was your teacher, I was something of a dream stealer. During those years I __19__ a lot of kids’ dreams. _20__ you had enough courage not to give up yours.’”

1. A. life                B. success             C. family               D. education

2. A. got up           B. came up            C. turned up          D. grew up

3. A. idea        B. change                   C. goal                  D. design

4. A. thought          B. argued              C. reported         D. wrote

5. A. still         B. even                  C. only                  D. nearly

6. A. finding           B. reaching           C. describing       D. showing

7. A. suggestion     B. warning             C. article               D. notice

8. A. for                B. as                     C. about                D. in

9. A. special           B. poor                  C. noble                D. successful

10. A. no               B. one                   C. some                D. another

11. A. Since           B. Unless               C. Though             D. If

12. A. challenging   B. exciting             C. practical                 D. important

13. A. article          B. future                C. hope                      D. grade

14. A. far               B. hard                  C. wide                      D. late

15. A. answers              B. comments         C. changes                 D. mistakes

16. A. dream          B. paper                C. word                       D. decision

17. A. saddest        B. latest               C. best                         D. funniest

18. A. same           B. friendly             C. rude                         D. familiar

19. A. valued          B. realized              C. had                          D. stole

20. A. Clearly         B. Hopefully          C. Fortunately             D. Confidently

BOURNEMOOUTH, England-lazy parents who refuse to force their truant(逃學(xué)的) children to attend school could face heavier fines under new measures announced by the British Government.

Fines would be more than double from 1,000 to 2,500 pounds (US $ 1,640 to 4,100) per parent per child --- or, 5,000 per couple, Education Secretary Davis Blunkett told the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth.

Failure to ensure full attendance could become an arrestable offence, ensuring that parents who break the law would need to attend court and not just be fined in their absence.

At the moment, 80 per cent of parents prosecuted (告發(fā)) by local education officials do not show up at the court hearing. It is said that 60 such prosecutions are undertaken each year by the officials, in an effort to deal with the trend that has seen 16 million half-day sessions at school missed yearly, according to figures provided by the Department of Education.

Blunkett called for a “partnership” between parents, school and communities (a group of people living together).

But the plan did not get support from all.

Liberal Democrat Education spokesman Don Foster said the plan was “a further example of the government announcing simplistic solutions to complex problems.”

“Many truant school children are already beyond the control of parents. Such parents need help, not fines,” he explained.

Margaret Morrisey, a spokesman for National Confederation of Parent Teacher Association, also said heavier fines for lazy parents was not the answer to truancy.

“Careful parents accept their part in ensuring their children get to school and sometimes it is difficult for them to control whether they stay there.”

As for the others, “Fining them more will not change the situation,” she said.

1．It is clear that pupils’ absence from school without any reasons ________.

       A．is very reasonable in England

       B．is against the law in England

       C．is nothing serious in England

       D．a(chǎn)ttracts parents’ attention in England

2．The reason that the British government raised fines is that _________.

       A．it is the best way to solve the problem

       B．the pupils’ parents are too careless

       C．the number of truant children is large

       D．the teachers required the government to do so

3．According to Don Foster’s opinion, heavier fines on parents are _________.

       A．reasonable           B．unreasonable        C．too strict             D．foolish

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

       A．It is school’s duty to ensure children’s full attendance.

       B．It is parents’ duty to ensure the children’s full attendance.

       C．The Government plays the most important part in teaching children.

       D．Teaching children needs help from parents and communities.

A lot of management training each year for Circle K Corporation, a national chain of convenience stores. Among the topics we address in our course is the retention（保護(hù)力） of quality employees----a real challenge to managers when you consider the pay scale（標(biāo)準(zhǔn)）in the service industry. During these discussions, I ask the participants（參加者）, “What has caused you to stay long enough to become a manager?” Some time back a new manager took the question and slowly, with her voice almost breaking, said, “It was a ＄19 baseball glove.”

Cynthia told the group that she originally took a Circle K clerk job as an interim（臨時的） position while she looked for something better. On her second or third day behind the counter, she received a phone call from her nine-year-old son, Jessie. He needed a baseball glove for Little League. She explained that as a single mother, money was very tight, and her first check would have to go for paying bills. Perhaps she could buy his baseball glove with her second or third check. When Cynthia arrived for work the next morning, Patricia, the store manager, asked her to come to the small room in the back of the store that served as an office. Cynthia wondered if she had done something wrong or left some part of her job incomplete from the day before. She was concerned and confused.

Patricia handed her a box. “I overheard you talking to your son yesterday,” she said, “and I know that it is hard to explain things to kids. This is a baseball glove for Jessie because he may not understand how important he is, even though you have to pay bills before you can buy gloves. You know we can’t pay good people like you as much as we would like to; but we do care, and I want you to know you are important to us.”

The thoughtfulness, empathy and love of this convenience store manager demonstrates vividly that people remember more how much an employer（雇主） cares than how much the employer pays. An important lesson for the price of a Little League baseball glove.

1．Among many of the problems in the service industry ,talked about in this passage, is         .

       A．how to ensure his employees’ high pay

       B．how to attract more customers

       C．how to look carefully after the employees

       D．how to keep the good employees from leaving

2．Although a new manager, Cynthia would do her job well in keeping quality employees because she         .

       A．had mastered all the courses for the manager

       B．had already formed good relationship with the employees

       C．know the way how to deal with her employees

       D．had her own personal experience

3．This passage shows us that to run a business well it is necessary for managers to let their employees know         .

       A．how much they can get for their job.

       B．what good positions they can get later

       C．they are very necessary to the business 

       D．they are nice as well as useful

4．The story told in this passage tells us that employees care about         .

       A．only how large a pay they can get

       B．love from the managing people rather than only money

       C．if their children could be properly taken care of

       D．what position they can be offered

Whatever our differences as human beings are, we all think we’re more like the rest of the animal world than we realize. It is said that we share 40 per cent of our genetic（遺傳的）structure with the simple worm.

But that fact has helped Sir John Sulston win the 2002 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Sir John is the founder of the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, which was set up in 1992 to get further understanding of the human genome（染色體組）.

To help them do this, they turned to the worm. The nematode（線蟲類的）worm is one of the earliest creatures on planet earth. It is less than one millimeter long, completely transparent and spends its entire life digging holes through sand. But it still has lots to say about human life, and what can be done to make it better.

What the worm told Sir John and his colleagues was that each of cells in the human body is programmed like a computer. They grow, develop and die according to a set of instructions that are coded in our genetic make-up.

Many of the diseases that humans suffer from happen when these instructions go wrong or are not obeyed. When the cell refuses to die but carries on growing instead, this leads to cancer. Heart attacks and diseases like AIDS cause more cell deaths than normal, increasing the damage they do to the body. Sir John was the first scientist to prove the existence of programmed cell death.

1．Sir John Sulston got a Nobel Prize for Medicine because he has         .

       A．found that human beings are similar to the worn

       B．got the fact we share 40% of our genetic structure with the simple worm

       C．found the computer which controls each of the cells in the human body

       D．proved that cell death is programmed

2．People might be seriously ill if the cells in their body         .

       A．grow without being instructed              

B．die regularly

       C．fail to follow people’s instructions        

D．develop in the human body

3．The underlined word “they” (paragraph 5) refers to         .

       A．cell death       B．diseases                  C．instruction      D．cells

4．What is the subject discussed in the text?

       A．The theory of programmed cell deaths.

       B．A great scientist—Sir John Sulston.

       C．The programmed human life.

       D．Dangerous diseases.

People used to say, “The hand that rocks the cradle（搖籃）rules the world ” and “Behind every successful man there’s a woman.”

Both of these sayings mean the same thing. Men rule the world, but their wives rule them. Most of the American women like making their husbands and sons successful, but some of them want more for themselves. They want good jobs. When they work, they want to be better paid. They want to be as successful as men.

The American women’s liberation movement was started by women who don’t want to stand behind successful men. They want to stand beside men, with the same chance for success. They don’t want to be told that certain jobs or offices are closed to them. They refuse to work side by side with men who do the same work for a higher pay.

A liberated woman must be proud of being a woman and believe in herself. If somebody says to her, “You’ve come a long way, baby,” she’ll smile and answer, “not nearly as far as I’m going to go, baby!”

The movement is quite new, and many American women do not agree. But it has already made some important changes in women’s lives---in men’s lives, too.

1．“The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world” here means          .

       A．the world is now ruled over by women

       B．women play an important role in men’s lives and work

       C．a(chǎn) man can’t succeed without a woman in his office

       D．a(chǎn) woman used to rule her husband

2．Those American women wish to         .

       A．have the same chance for success as men

       B．get better jobs than the men working together

       C．earn more money than their husbands

       D．devote more to their work than to their family

3．A liberated woman must          .

       A．take pride in her husband’s success

       B．be fond of and devote herself to her children

       C．be proud of being a woman and trust herself

       D．stand before or beside her husband

4．“You’ve come a long way, baby” here probably means          .

       A．you’ve come quite a long way to see your baby

       B．your baby is far from where you work

       C．there is still a long way for women to go

       D．you’ve achieved great success in freeing yourself

IN the office of the German Chancellor (總理) Angela Merkel, there is a picture of Catherine the Great, the legendary Russian Empress. When asked why she has the picture, Merkel says, “She was a strong woman”. Many say the same of Merkel.
  The most powerful woman in the world, according to US Forbes (福布斯) magazine, was in China last week. She came to discuss trade and environmental issues with China’s top leaders.
  Germany’s first woman leader is known as a brave and down-to-earth statesman . Even since her time at school, she had the habit of getting everything in order. Every day before doing her homework she would　clean the desk and think about what to do next. “I prefer a long time for full preparations to make my decision. But once I decide, I will stand up for what I believe,” Merkel said.
   Perhaps it was good habits that helped her do well in her studies. At 32, she got a doctorate (博士學(xué)位) in physics and then she worked as a researcher.
  However, the life of a scholar (學(xué)者) couldn’t put her off a love of politics. While working in labs, Merkel took time off to read political books and at last join a political party. “Her calmness helped her stand out in the party. She could always find a way out while others felt hopeless,” said one of her old friends. In her first big political job as Minister for the Environment in 1994, her scientific background proved very useful. In 2005 she became Germany’s youngest chancellor since World War II.
   Now half way through her four-year term, the 53-year-old woman has made a name for herself both in Germany and abroad. At the EU summit (峰會) in 2005 when France quarreled with Britain over the EU budget , some people believed the EU was close to breaking down. But Merkel didn’t give up. She shuttled (穿梭) between the heads of the two powers and got them to compromise (妥協(xié)). “Many people say I am a strong woman. But I would rather say I have perseverance ,” said Merkel.

1. Angela Merkel _____.

    A. used to be a Russian Empress   

B. Admires Catherine the Great ,very much

    C. is now Minister for the Environment of Germany

    D. once worked for France and Britain

2. A full term of Angela Merkel’s position is _____.

    A. Two years                      B. Three years 

    C. Four years                     D. About ten years 

3. When Angela Merkel took the position as Germany’s chancellor, she was ____.

    A. 32 years old                   B. 51 years old    

C. 53 years old                   D. the youngest chancellor in Germany.

4. The best title for this passage

A. Germany's Iron Lady            B. A Kind and Warm-hearted Woman

C. A Famous President             D. Germany’s Youngest Chancellor

Yesterday evening. I went to see a film calling            1. ________

“The Living Forest”. I heard people say that it a         2. ________

good film, but I went to see it. At first, we could         3. ________

see the great land of the Africa continent. There          4. ________

were still much places undeveloped. We could see       5. ________

African natives living in the forest. Their life             6. ________

were very hard. In some particular ways, we                  7. ________

could understand them at all. Some people                 8. ________

even sharpened their tooth and they thought it was              9. ________

very beautiful. Africa is also very famous of its           10. ________

animals. We saw many lions and other wild beasts.

It was in People’s Park      they first met 50 years ago.

A．where             B．that            C．when            D．what

Do you know what time ____?

A. does the football match begin     B. begins the football match

C. the football match begins         D. will the football match begin