honest

A.host         B.hour         C.habit          D.husband

He hurried to the booking office only_________that all the tickets had been sold out.

A.to tell                      B.to be told

C.telling                      D.told

As you worked late yesterday, you_________have come this morning.

A.mayn’t          B.can’t       C.mustn’t        D.needn’t

This is a very interesting book. I’ll buy it,__________.

A. how much may it cost           B. no matter how it may cost

C. however much it may cost        D. how may it cost

The child in the hospital bed was just waking up after having a throat(喉嚨)　operation.His throat  1  ,and he was afraid.However.the young nurse  2  By his bed  smiled so  3  hat the little boy smiled back.He  4  to be afraid.The young  nurse  was  May Paxton  5   e was deaf　(聾的).May Paxton graduated  6   the Missouri School for the Deaf near the year 1909.Three years   7  she went to see Dr.Richard son about   8  nurse.Dr Richardson was one of the founders of  Mercy Hospital of Kansas City.  9  had never heard of a deaf nurse.She told May that her  10  would be very low and that the work would be   11   . However,May said that hard work did  not frighten her.Dr. Richardson was  12  her,and accepted May as a student nurse.

Dr.Richardson never  13  her decision  14  ,she was so pleased with May’s work that she later accepted two other deaf women as student nurses.The  15  was Miss Marian Finch,who was hard of  16  .The second was Miss Lillie Bessie.These three were   17  “the silent angles(天使) of Mercy Hospital”during the  1  they worked there.

Dr.Richardson often  19  her faith in the girls’ ability to learn nursing.She wrore to May,“For three years,you have been with us… It is wonderful to me that no man.  20   or child ever,to my knowledge,made a complaint(投訴)　against you…”

1.A.cut          B.burt             C.wounded         D.darnaged

2.A.standing      B.jurnping         C.lying            D.crying

3.A.shyly        B sadly            C.cheerfully        D.weakly

4.A.continued     B.began           C.stopped          D.forgot

5.A.for           B.so              C.and             D.but

6.A.as            B.from           C.with            D.in

7.A.later          B.before          C.ago             D.then

8.A.seeking        B.changing       C.hiring           D.becoming

9.A.You           B.She           C.We             D.He

10.A.money         B.check        C .pay             D.price

11.A.easy           B.disappointing   C.joyful           D.difficult

12.A.angry with      B.sagtisfied with  C.sorry for        D.ashamed of

13.A.regretted       B.thought of      C.liked           D.believed

14.A.In fact         B.In a hurry      C.In surprise       D.In public

15.A.one            B.others         C.first          D.other

16.A.reading         B.hearing        C.listening      D.writing

17.A.offered         B.chosen         C.told          D.called

18.A.year            B.month         C.time         D.term

19.A.spoke of         B.said          C.heard of      D.noticed

20.A.person          B.wornan        C.boy         D.girl

For centuries,the only form of written correspondence (通信)was the letters were,and are,sent by some form of postal service,the history of which goes back a long way .indeed,the egyptians began sending letters from about 2000 BC,as did the Chinese a thousand years later.

Of course,modern postal service now are march more developed and faster.depending as they do on cars and planes fore delivery.Yet they are stell too slow for some people to send urgent documents (緊急文件)and letters.

    The invention of the fax (傳真) machine increased the speed of delivering documents even more.When you send a fax you are sending a copy of a piece of correspondence to someone by telephone service.It was not until the early 1980s that such a service was developed enough for bussinesses to be able to fax documents to each other.

    The fax service is still very much in use when copies of documents require to be sent ,but,as a way of fast correspondence,it has been largely taken the place of by email ,Email is used to describe messages sent form one computer user to another.

    There are advantages and disadvantages with emails.ifyou send some one an email ,then he will receive it extremely quickly .Normal postal services are rather slow as far as speed of delivery is concerned.

However,if you write something by email,which you might later regret ,and send it immediately,there is no chance for second thoughts.at least,if you are have to address and seal(封)the envelope and take it to the post box..there is plenty of time to change your mind .The message is think before you email!

1. We can learn from the tex that__________.

A.email is less popular than the fax service   

B.the postal service has over the years become faster

C.the postal service has over the years become slower

D.the fax service has a history as long as the postal service does

2. It can be inferred from the text that_________.

A.the fax service had been fully developed by the 1980s

B.letters have been used in China for about 1,000 years

C.the fax machine was invented after the 1980s

D.letters have been used in Egypt for about 2,000 years

3. In the last paragraph,the wrin intentings think before you email”to show then________.

A. you may regret if you than’t your envelope

B. you may regre l before you send something by email

C. you’d better  not send your email in a hurry

D. you regrse before you on time to send an email

4. The text madtry deal with_________.

A. the  progress in correspondence

B. the advantage of fax machines

C. the advantage of emails

D. the invention of fax machines

LONDON Thursday Just Read-Eddy missed his girlfriend so made he flew back to Britain from Austrahe to propose(求婚)　to her.The pooblem is she did the same in the opposite diffion.

He and Anna crea manaed to miss each other when the the same airporr waiting room in Singaoore at he same time to wait for connecting mghrs.

Anna,heartbrok,when she arrived at Eddy’s Sydney flat lind he had flow to London,told times,“It was as though someone was playing a cruel joke on. ”

“He is the most romantic person I have ever known.I think our problem is that we are both quite impulsive(沖動的)people.We are always trying to surprise each other.”

After an 11,000-mile flight across gome,she wa greeted by Eddy’s astonished  roommate asking what she was doing.

Eddy,a  27-year-old enginee taken year off to travel round Austr be he was  missing Anna,a 26-year sece,so much he got a job on a Syd   (工地)and started savir for a surprase.

He then flew bome no   and went to her flat armed with  engegerment(訂婚)　ring,wine and thougens.“I really miseed Anna and I’d been thinking about her all the come I was so excited  when she phoned me flom Ausrralia,”he said.

Eddy then asked Anna to marry him on tbe phone .“I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry but I accepted,”she said.

Anna was given a tour of Sydney by Eddy’s friends before going back home.Eddy and to stav in Britain for two weeks beean a could not change his ticket.

1. What does the last sentence of the first paragraph tell us?

A. Anna flew to Britain from Australia to marry him.

B. Anna flew to Australia from Britain to marry him.

C. Anna flew to Britain from Australia to propose to him.

D. Anna flew to Australia from Britain to propose to him.

2. The underlined word“miss”in paragraph 2 most probably means_______.

A. escape from                     B. fail to understand

C. fail to meet                    D. long to see

3. Eddy got a job on a Sydney building site because he________.

A. wanted to travel round Australia

B. needed money to pay his daily cost

C. was an engineer at this building site

D. hoped to make money from this job

4. Which of the following is TRUE about Eddy and Anna according to the text?

A. Eddy proposed to Anna on the phone and Anna accepted.

B. Anna stayed in Australia waiting for Eddy’s arrival.

C. Anna bad a good time touring Sydney with Daddy.

D. Eddy met Anna in the airport waiting room by chance.

In many countries the standard of living enjoyed by their peole has increased rapidly in recent years. Sadly,not everyone in these coyntries is so fortunate and many people in rich contries are homeless.

The reasons for homelessness are various, but poverty（貧窮）is undoubtedly one of the main causes. The homeless people may have become jobless and then been unable to pay their rent and so no longer have a roof over their heads. Often, the fact that unemployed people get help from the government prevents this from happening, but not always.

    Some homeless people are mentally ill and have no one to look after them. Some are young people who, for one reason or another , have left home and have nowhere to live. Many of them have had a serious disagreement with their parents and have left home, choosing to go to a city and live on the streets. Sometimes they have taken such action because they have been unable to get on with a step-parent.

    Many homeless people get into the habit of begging to get enough money to stay alive, but many of the general public tefuse to give anything to beggars. Often they are moved on by the police, being accused （指控），whether rightly or wrongly, of forceful begging . There are many who disrespect homeles people.

    Some cynics（憤世嫉俗的人）declare that homeless people choose to live the life which they lead. But who would willingly choose to live in z shop doorway, under a bridger or in a cardboard box?

1.According to the text, what causes some people to be homeless?

A.Lack of money.                    B.The increased standard of living.

C.No government help.               D. Agreement with their parents.

2.It can be inferred from the text that________.

A. the homeles are willing to live under a bridge or in a cardboard box

B.you will not find homeless people in countries with a high standard of living

C.the mentally ill live on the stress becausethey want the company of other homeless people

D.the unemployed who receive help may still be among the homeless

3.In paragraph 2 , “a roof over their needs ”most probably means _________.

A.a cap                           B. a car

C.a home                          D.a covering

Among rich countries , people in the United States work the longest hours. They work much longer than in Europe. This difference is quite surprising because productivity per hour worked is the same in the United States as it is in France, Spain and Germany, and it is growing at a similar speed.

In most countries and at most times in history, as people have become richer they have chosen to work less. In other words they have decided to “spend”a part of their extra income on a fuller personal life. Over the last fifty years Europeans have continued this pattern, and hours of work have fallen sharply. But not in the United States. We do not fully know why this is. One reason may be more satisfying work,or less satisfying personal lives.

Longer hourd do of course increase the GDP (國內(nèi)生產(chǎn)總值). So the United States has produced more per worker than, say,France.The United States also has more of its people at work,while in Frence many more mothers and older workers have decided to stay at home.The overall result is that American GDP per head is 40% higher than in France,even though productivity per hour worked is the same.

It is not clear which of the two situations is better.As we have seen, work has to be compared with other values like family life, which often get lost in interest.It is too erly to explain the different trends（趨勢）in happiness over time in different countries. But it is a disappointingidea that in the United States happiness has made no progress since 1975, while it has resen in Europe. Could this have anything to do with trends in the work-life balance (平衡) ?

1.From the text we know that the autor      .

A.believes that longer working hours is better

B.prefers shorter working hours to longer ones

C.says nothing certain about which pattern is better

D.thinks neither of the patterns is good

2.Which of the following countries has mone of its pcople at work?

A.Spain.                  B.France.

C.Germany.               D.America.

3.In the last paragraph,the underlined word“which”refers to_______.

A.family life                     B.situations

C.other  values                  D.trends

4.What message can we get from the text?

A.The GDP of Europe is higher than that of America.

B.Two possible reasons are given for working longer hours in the US.

C.People all over the world choose to work less when they are richer.

D.Amerleans are happler than Europeans.

5.Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

A.Americans and Europeans       B.Staying at Home

C.Work and Productivity          D.Work and Happiness

根據(jù)對話內(nèi)容，從對話后的選項(xiàng)中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。選項(xiàng)中有兩項(xiàng)為多余選項(xiàng)。

―Can I help you?

－Yes,I’m looking for a sweater.

－     1   

－I’m an extra large.

－     2   

－Yes,that’s nice.      3   

－Certainly,there is a changing room over there.

－Thank you.

－     4   

―It’s too large.Do you have a large?

―  5  

―Thank you.I’ll have it,please.

A.   How does it fit?

B.   How about this one?

C.   Can I try it on?

D.   Yes,let me have a look.

E.   What size are you?

F.   How would you like to pay?

G.   Yes,here you are.