Betty shows great interest in this poet now, but she thought it boring ________ she read it.

A．a(chǎn)t the first time                                           B．the first time       

C．for the first time                             D．a(chǎn)t first

The advertisers had intended ___________ upset or turn their audience away, but __________ reach out and inform them.

A．to; not to            B．not to; not to          C．not to; to              D．to; to

My grandmother ___________ always _________ us stories that she has made up.

A．has; told   B．had; told   C．was; telling      D．is; telling

－Angelia looks blue today.

－Yes, but she won’t say _________ bothers her.

A．why is it that    B．that is why       C．it is what  D．what it is that

My father was just driving along, ____________ his own business, when suddenly a brick came through the window.

A．noticing    B．minding.   C．watching  D．caring.

Try It a Different Way

Bobby Moresco grew up in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen, a though working-class neighborhood on Manhattan’s West Side. By tradition he   1   have been, like his father or like most of his childhood pals, a construction worker or a policeman. But he wanted   2  . Attracted by the bright lights from the time Bobby was a teen, he tried to act. “I wasn’t a   3   actor, but I had a driving need to do something   4   with my life,” he says.

He moved to Hollywood, promising to find his   5  . but he didn’t make   6  . For almost 10 years, he drove a taxi and worked as a waiter,   7   at an actors’ workshop that he opened in Hollywood. But Moresco kept working at his   8   career.

In 1983 his younger brother was murdered in a mob-linked killing. Moresco moved back to his   9  neighborhood. In 1988 he finally wrote a play that was   10   to his life. Called Half-Deserted Streets, it was based on his brother’s   11   and staged at a small theater. A Hollywood producer   12   to see it and asked him to work on a screenplay.

His   13   grew, and he got enough assignments to move back to Hollywood. However, it was never easy. By 2003, he was   14   out of work and out of cash   15   he got a call from Paul Haggis, a director who had befriended him. The two worked on the script but every studio

  16   it down. Moresco believed so   17   in the script that he borrowed money, and sold his house. At last the writers found an independent film producer who would take a chance.

The movie, Crash,   18  into the theaters in May 2005, and quietly became both a hit and a critical success. It won three Academy Awards－Best Picture, Best Film Editing and Best Writing.

At the age of 54, Bobby Moresco became an   19   success. “If you have something you want to do in life, don’t think about the problems,” he says, “think about the   20  to get it done.”

1．A．must                     B．should                 C．can                     D．need

3．A．simple                   B．strict                   C．firm                    D．good

4．A．different                B．impressive           C．effective              D．special

5．A．occasion               B．treasure               C．fortune                D．possibility

6．A．it                          B．one                     C．this                     D．that

7．A．communicating      B．entertaining          C．practising            D．volunteering

8．A．a(chǎn)fforded                B．chosen                C．respected            D．offered

9．A．early                     B．worn                   C．old                      D．passed

10．A．turned                 B．pointed                C．belonged             D．related

11．A．a(chǎn)rresting              B．injuring                C．killing                  D．shooting

12．A．a(chǎn)dvised               B．happened             C．intended              D．planned

13．A．influence             B．a(chǎn)mbition              C．success               D．reputation

14．A．a(chǎn)gain                   B．even                    C．finally                 D．still

15．A．before                 B．when                  C．since                   D．while

16．A．let                       B．looked                 C．took                    D．turned

17．A．strongly              B．hardly                 C．deeply                 D．bravely

18．A．moved                B．slipped                C．fell                      D．put

19．A．effortless             B．enjoyable             C．overnight             D．optimistic

20．A．ways B．lines  C．manners   D．a(chǎn)ctions

Fitness isn’t just physical: Change your thoughts, and you change your world. Of course we can all agree that gaining and losing weight, exercise, diet, strength, and flexibility are all a part of fitness. But what about body image, self-esteem, aging, relationships, success and happiness? They are all related, all connected, and fitness in all areas is important if you want true and total fitness.

But you may say, “I just want to lose 20 pounds. If I do, I will feel better about myself and I will be happy.” Maybe in the short term, but honestly, if we don’t deal with our mental and emotional fitness while working on the physical fitness, there is very little chance of keeping the weight off, feeling good about yourself, and improving every other area of your life.

Let’s not waste time in changing our bodies when they will only change back if we don’t change our minds, too. Let’s work “out” and work “in” at the same time. Change your mind－and you must, because if you have been trying to lose weight, but cannot, there is something inside of you that is disallowing it. You can change this pattern, improve your self-esteem, increase your joy, and change your body for good by focusing on changing your mind, too. This is training of life.

Work-ins will recondition your mind, improve your attitude, change your perception(觀念) and stimulate motivation(動(dòng)機(jī)) at the same time you are conditioning your body for weight loss, shaping, strength and endurance.

If you repeat a positive statement over and over to yourself-like a mantra, your mind will change, the same way your body does, even if you don’t believe it. Like lifting a weight over and over, your muscle changes－even if you don’t believe it.

Try it－what have you got to lose? Say, “I am ready for my body to be healthier, leaner, and stronger. I love it already.” Say it over and over while you are walking or running or doing any exercise. Pick a statement that works for you－something positive and in the present tense.

1．The author will probably agree that _____________.

       A．mental health is the most important in weight loss

       B．working on physical fitness is sometimes harmful

       C．fitness is much more than gaining or losing weight

       D．lifting a weight over and over is the best way to keep fit

2．According to the passage, a positive “mantra” (in Paragraph 5) ___________.

       A．changes your muscle

       B．helps recondition your mind

       C．might cause great loss

       D．is something you must believe

3．What is the best title for this passage?

       A．Stop Wasting Time on Wight Loss         B．Health and Life Attitude

       C．Work Your Mind, Not Just Your Body    D．Real Training of Life

4．If work-ins can recondition your mind and improve your attitude, then work-outs probably can

    ______________.

       A．improve your looks                              B．cause you to gain more weight

       C．make you more motivated       D．benefit your physical reshaping

Sir William Osler has a few words for you: “In the life of a young man the most essential thing for happiness s the gift of friendship.” Truer words were never spoken. For what more could you ask than comradeship during the peaks and valleys of life? To whom else but a close, valuable friend can you brag(吹噓) about your successes and complain about your failures or losses?

What is a “good friend”? How is he best described? Well, it has been my observation that although many will cry with you, few can sincerely rejoice with you. Therefore, in my opinion, a good friend is one who can enjoy your successes without envy; one who can say, “That was wonderful! You can do it again, even better if you want!” and mean it. Nothing taxes a friendship more than the prosperity of one and not the other. Even the closest of friendships (and marriages) often cannot resist such pressure and fail. No wonder many minor friendships go down the drain(每況愈下) for the same reason.

A person of good character and sound moral fiber, of honor and humor, courage and belief is a friend to be sought and treasured－for there are few. Too often do we hear, “If you can count your good friends on more than one hand, consider yourself blessed.” And even then I would add, “Even if you have lost two fingers of that hand to the electric saw.”

What makes a friendship last? Well, I don’t know all the answers, but one of my observations is that most good friends usually have similar tastes. They generally like and dislike many of the same things. There also usually seems to exist a similarity of personality traits－especially in the fundamental values of life such as honesty, sincerity, loyalty, and dependability. More often than not, birds of a feather do fly together. I don’t think it matters a lot whether one prefers jazz or hockey to another’s Mazart or ballet. Much other matters far more: confiding(傾訴), relying, sharing, giving, getting, enjoying; a sympathetic ear always there; criticism when it can help; praise－even if only because it would help. With not many people on this earth will you find this much in common. When you find one, hang on to him, for a good friend found is a rare treasure.

1．The function of Paragraph 1 is to introduce _________.

       A．a(chǎn) famous saying                                  B．the topic for discussion

       C．a(chǎn) famous person                                  D．two different attitudes

2．What is the meaning of the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2?

       A．People don’t have to pay taxes to develop friendship with others.

       B．Good fortune and success of one person can promote his friendship with others.

       C．Friendship can be affected by the difference in fortune and success between friends.

       D．Nothing can affect friendship because it has gone through the peaks and valleys of life.

3．What is the main idea of Paragraph 3?

       A．One is lucky to have many friends.

       B．A friends should have a good character.

       C．We should count our friends on more than one hand.

       D．A true friend should be treasured because there are few.

4．According to the passage, which of the following plays the LEAST important role in a long-lasting friendship?

       A．Hobbies.   B．Tastes.      C．Personality.      D．Sympathy.

In Google’s vision of the future, people will be able to translate documents instantly into the world’s main languages, with machine logic, not expert linguists, leading the way.

Google’s approach, called statistical(統(tǒng)計(jì)的) machine translation, differs from past efforts in which it does without language experts who program grammatical rules and dictionaries into computers. Instead, they feed documents humans have already translated into two languages and then rely on computers to decide patterns for future translations.

While the quality is not perfect, it is an improvement on previous efforts at machine translation, said Franz Och, 35, a German who heads Google’s translation effort at its Mountain View headquarters south of San Francisco. “Some people who have been in machine translations for a long time see our Arabic-English output, and then they say, that’s amazing, that’s a breakthrough.” Said Och. “And then other people who have never seen what machine translation was read through the sentence and they say, the first mistake here in Line Five－it doesn’t seem to work because there is a mistake there.”

But for some tasks, a mostly correct translation may be good enough. Speaking over lunch this week in a Google cafeteria famed for offering free, healthy food, Och showed a translation of an Arabic Web news site into easily digestible English.

Two Google workers speaking Russian at a nearby table said, however, that a translation of a news site from English into their native tongue was understandable but a bit awkward. Och, who speaks German, English and some Italian, feeds hundreds of millions of words from parallel texts such as Arabic and English into the computer, using United Nations and European Union documents as key sources.

Languages without considerable translated texts, such as some African languages, face greater obstacles. “The more data we feed into the system, the better it gets.” said Och, who moved to the United States from Germany in 2002.

The program applies statistical analysis, an approach he hopes will avoid diplomatic embarrassing mistakes in diplomatic situations, such as when Russian leader Putin’s translator annoyed then German Chancellor(總理) Gerhard Schroeder by calling him the German “Fuhrer (“l(fā)eader” in English),” which is forbidden in that context because of its association with Adolf Hitler.

“I would hope that the language model would say, well, Schroeder is…very rare but Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schroeder is probably 100 times more frequent than Fuhrer and then it would make the right decision.” Och said.

1．What is the best title of this passage?

       A．Google Seeks World of Instant Translations.

       B．Google Starts a Revolution of Machine Translations.

       C．A Breakthrough Makes Google World Brighter.

       D．Surf Google and Try the New Computer System.

2．In what way is “Google’s machine translation” different from previous ones?

       A．Linguists guide the computer translation on Google.

       B．International official papers are programmed as its major sources.

       C．Rules and dictionaries are fed into computers to support it.

       D．Google daily updates the program of this computer translation.

3．We can learn from the passage that users ___________.

       A．think highly of Google’s new approach

       B．criticize it for its broken translation

       C．hope Google can perfect it before launching

       D．hold different opinions towards Google’s new approach

4．Why are there more troubles in translations relating to African languages?

       A．Most of the translated materials are not properly translated.

       B．Experts managing the program know poorly of African languages.

       C．It’s hard to find enough materials of African translation works.

       D．The UN and EU fail to provide translated African documents.

5．Statistical analysis in this passage is conducted by ___________.

       A．counting how frequently a word is used in the language

       B．hiring people who speak different languages

       C．using the computer with its own grammatical rules

       D．reminding users of the likely embarrassing mistakes

Most lions are 9.5 feet or less in length , including the       tail.

A．three feet        B．three-feet        C．three foot        D．three-foot