Recently，I flew to Las Vegas to attend a meeting. As we were about to arrive，the pilot announced with apology that there would be a slight __1__ before setting down. High desert winds had __2__ the airport to close all but one runway. He said that we would be __3__ the city for a few minutes waiting to __4__. We were also told to remain in our seats meanwhile with our seat belts fastened __5__ there might be a few bumps(顛簸)．We11，that few minutes turned into about forty－five minutes，including a ride that would make a roller coaster(過山車) __6__ by comparison. The movement was so fierce that several passengers felt __7__ and had to use airsickness bags. As you might guess，that's not a good thing to have happen in a(n) __8__ space because it only __9__ to increase the discomfort of the situation.

About twenty minutes into the adventure，the entire airplane became very __10__.There was now a sense of anxiety and fear that could be __11__ noticed.Every passenger simply held on for dear life...except one. A __12__ was having a good time! With each bump of the __13__， he would let out a giggle(咯咯的笑)of delight. As I observed this，I __14__ that he didn't know he was supposed to be afraid and worried about his  __15__. He neither thought about the past nor about the future. Those are what we grown－ups have learned from __16__.He was __17__ the ride  because he had not yet been taught to fear it. Having  understood this，I took a deep breath and __18__ back into my seat，pretending I was __19__ on a roller coaster. I smiled for the rest of the flight. I even  __20__ to  giggle once or twice，much to the chagrin(懊惱)of the man sitting next to me holding the airsickness bag.

1. A. mistake　　B. delay　　C. change 　　D. wind

2. A. forced     B. warned  C. swept      D. reminded

3. A. watching  B. visiting  C. circling     D. crossing

4. A. arrive     B. enter  C. stop         D. land

5. A. if       B. though  C. because      D. while

6. A. light    B. pale    C. easy         D. quick

7. A. sick     B. nervous  C. angry      D. afraid

8. A. empty   B. narrow  C. secret      D. open

9. A. happens  B. continues  C. fails     D. serves

10. A. quiet   B. hot   C.  dirty        D.  crowded  

11. A. partly  B.  gradually  C. shortly  D. clearly

12. A. pilot   B. baby  C.  guard  D.  man

13. A. seats         B.  passengers

C. flight         D. airplane

14. A. realized  B.  hoped      C.  agreed       D.  insisted

15. A. health   B. safety        C. joy           D. future

16. A. teachers  B. books       C.  experience    D.  practice

17. A. learning   B.  taking    C.  missing       D.  enjoying

18. A. sat       B. lay         C. went          D. rode

19. A. nearly     B.  finally    C.  really        D.  suddenly

20. A. attempted  B.  managed   C.  wanted      D.  decided

  　　Recently some American scientists have given a useful piece of advice to people in industrialized nations.They say people should eat more of the same kind of food eaten by humans living more than 10,000 years ago. __1__

The scientists say that the human life has changed greatly.Our bodies have not been able to deal with these changes in lifestyle and this had led to new kinds of sicknesses. __2__ So they are called “diseases of civilization”．Many cancers and diseases of the blood system are examples of such diseases.

Scientists noted that people in both the Old Stone Age and the New Stone Age enjoyed very little alcohol or tobacco, probably none. __3__ However, a change in food is one of the main differences between life in ancient times and that of today.

Stone Age people hunted wild animals for their meat, which had much less fat than domestic ones.They ate a lot of fresh wild vegetables and fruits.They did not have milk or any other dairy products, and they made very little use of grains. __4__ We eat six times more salt than our ancestors.We eat more sugar.We eat twice as much fat but only one third as much protein and much less vitamin C.

__5__ But scientists say that we would be much healthier if we eat much the same way the ancient people did, cutting the amount of fatty, salty and sweet food.

A. Stone Age people lived a simple life.

B. But today, we enjoy eating a lot of these.

C. In that case, they would live much healthier.

D. Ancient people also got lots of physical exercise.

E. These new sicknesses were not known in ancient times.

F. People today probably don't want to live like our ancestors.

G. Modern people used to suffer from “diseases of civilization”．

1. ________ 2. ________ 3. ________ 4. ________

5. ________

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　　The main purpose of newspapers are to provide news. If you examine newspapers closely, you would find there are all sort of news: accidents, floods, fires, wars, sports, books, etc. The news cover everything happens to people and their surroundings. Sometimes there is some news which is very interested. A news report is usual short, except when it is very important, but has plenty of information. It is also writing in short paragraphs. The first paragraph is in the fact a summary of the news. It gives all the necessary information, what, when, where, how, and why.

A vuvuzela is a horn，about a meter long，usually made of a colourful cheap plastic.________ When it's blown by thousands of supporters at the same time，it's loud，very loud. It sounds a bit like an air horn and you can hear it a lot during the 2010 World Cup.

 The vuvuzela was originally made from a kudu horn and was traditionally used to summon people to gatherings. But the horn you see at soccer matches in South Africa today originated from a tin horn that became popular with South African soccer fans around 15 years ago. A sports company began to mass－produce a plastic version in the South Africa colours，and this is what you see (and hear)at every soccer match. Now it's become an official symbol of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and more popular around the world.

 The vuvuzela will be ubiquitous during the 2010 World Cup. There was a call for FIFA to ban the vuvizela during the Confederations Cup that took place in South Africa in June 2009，European journalists got into a tizzy(緊張)about the noise. The Guardian reported: “It sounds like extremely terrible.” But FIFA stood its ground，as Mr. Blatter，F(xiàn)IFA's president says “Vuvuzelas，drums and singing are part of Africa football culture. It is part of their celebration，it is part of their culture，so let them blow the vuvuzelas.”

Adam Carnegie，a graphic artist from Cape Town，founded the Kelp Environmental Learning Project. The project employs local men and women to collect kelp，dry it and then hand paint colourful designs on it. The mission is simple. “We want to create jobs，make a noise，make people laugh，remind people to be in the moment.”

Like most trumpets，getting any noise from a vuvuzela requires significant pursing of the lips and the ability to blow with force. Your cheeks will be zinging afterward. You can personalize your vuvuzela blowing, with a lot of practice，but generally it produces one big sound.

6. Which of the following sentences can be used to fill in the blank in the first paragraph?

A. It was chosen by FIFA as the unique musical instrument.

B. It has been used at soccer matches for thousands of years.

C. It is the choice of noise－maker for South African football fans.

D. It is a traditional instrument South African soccer fans use to celebrate victory.

7. The vuvuzela ________.

A. is usually made of metal

B. has a length of two and a half feet

C. was first used in a local sports game

D. is one of the official symbols of the 2010 World Cup

8. The underlined word “ubiquitous” in the 3rd paragraph probably means “________”．

A. banned               B. heard everywhere

C. extremely expensive     D. strictly limited

9. Why did FIFA stand its ground on the issue of the vuvuzela? 

A. Because the vuvuzela is typical of African football culture. 

B. Because it is the host country's right to make their choice. 

C. Because the vuvuzela will make the 2010 World Cup special. 

D. Because more member countries support the use of the vuvuzela.

10. What can we learn from the passage?

A. It requires effort to get noise from vuvuzela.

B. Vuvuzela will be banned after the 2010 World Cup because it is too noisy. 

C. The Kelp Environmental Learning Project employs many people to sell vuvuzela. 

D. Vuvuzela is too noisy for both the players and the audience.

Local police will begin pulling over drivers and cyclists tomorrow so they can fill out a survey to help the city better understand and improve its traffic situation.

The survey, which will run from tomorrow until the end of the year, is the biggest of its kind in the city's history. It will be used to gather information about traffic patterns to help future urban planning, particularly for the World Expo in 2010.

“The survey is to determine the city's daily and weekly traffic situations，” Zhang Yan, a senior engineer at the Shanghai Urban Planning and Design Research Institute, said yesterday. This is the third time the city has conducted a large－scale traffic survey. The other two surveys were conducted in 1986 and 1995.

Officials will send questionnaires to pedestrians and drivers, record traffic jams in major areas, and analyze the information from electronic traffic signs.

The Road Administrative Office will also survey traffic outside the Outer Ring Road, paying particular attention to vehicles entering or exiting the city.

“With more vehicles from neighboring provinces, we have to find it out how many, when and for what purposes those vehicles are coming to the city，” said Dong Hui, a spokeswoman for the Road Administrative Office.

Officials from her office will stop about half of the vehicles passing by 53 major venues (場所) tomorrow and ask drivers to fill out questionnaires about where they are coming from, where they are headed and whether their trip is for private or business purposes.

1. Who is likely to be stopped by the police for the questions?

A. A student returning home from school.

B. A dustman cleaning a parking lot.    

C. A customer shopping in a market.

D. A garage worker repairing a car.

2. Shanghai has decided to start such a survey because it wants to ________.

A. reduce traffic accidents

B. satisfy the future need

C. make the road users happy

D. make more money

3. Where are the 53 major venues mentioned in the last paragraph?

A. Outside the Outer Ring Road.         

B. We're not told about it in the passage.

C. Inside the Outer Ring Road.

D. Both outside and inside the Outer Ring Road.

4. It seems that Shanghai's large traffic survey is ________.

A. mainly about vehicles going in and out           

B. done by just collecting public opinions

C. done at the request of the World Expo

D. held quite regularly

5. We are NOT told about the ________ of the survey in the passage.

A. contents                     B. time

C. steps                          D. purpose 

After my 21 second－graders finished reciting the text, they settled back in their seats. But Duane remained __1__. Duane was a bright and lovable student, __2__ his mother, a single parent, had many problems such as drinking. __3__ that he might have had a bad night, I walked over to him to see what was wrong. As he looked up, I could see the __4__ in his dark eyes.

“ Mrs. Brown, aren't you going to open my present？” he asked __5__. “I put it on your desk.”

Getting back his gift from my desk, he handed it to me. I noticed my gift __6__ to be a matchbox. Duane told me that this was really a jewelry box __7__ a matchbox. As I opened it, the __8__ of two beer caps surprised me. Duane __9__ me that they were two silver earrings. He had noticed that I  __10__ wore earrings and wanted me to have some pretty ones.

I was __11__ by Duane's creativity and thoughtfulness. __12__ birth, one of my ears was slightly deformed (畸形的). Fearing that wearing earrings might __13__ to the ear, I avoided wearing them. But how could I __14__ to wear these precious earrings given by this __15__ child?

As I placed the earrings on my ears, my __16__ clapped, and Duane stood proudly beside me.

Since then, the matchbox remained on my desk. It __17__ me of Duane's act of kindness and the lessons he taught me. Although his __18__ at home was bad,  Duane continued to see the good in life. Although poor, he still wanted to __19__. Whenever I see Duane's gift on my desk, I feel encouraged. If I am having __20__ reaching a student, I'll try to be like Duane and give that student a piece of my heart.

1. A. sitting            B. crying          C. standing       D. speaking

2. A. unless            B. though          C. so           D. since

3. A. Wondering         B. Thinking       C. Finding       D. Pointing

4. A. hope              B. joy             C. hurt         D. determination

5. A. disappointedly      B. angrily          C. happily      D. shyly

6. A. happened          B. appeared        C. used         D. ought

7. A. as well as          B. more than       C. except for   D. rather than

8. A. shape             B. color           C. design       D. sight

9. A. persuaded         B. fooled          C. told         D. encouraged

10. A. only             B. often           C. once         D. never

11. A. frightened        B. touched         C. knocked      D. influenced

12. A. Since             B. Until          C. Before       D. By

13. A. do harm           B. draw attention

C. add weight         D. have an effect

14. A. refuse            B. offer           C. agree         D. wait

15. A. generous          B. honest          C. special       D. sad

16. A. hands             B. class           C. audience      D. friends

17. A. convinced          B. reminded

C. proved            D. showed

18. A. performance       B. experience

C. situation           D. health

19. A please             B. take            C. give          D. accept

20. A. chance            B. possibility       C. intention      D. difficulty

　Being healthy means taking care of yourself physically and mentally. Here are some of my best tips on how to do both：

Break a bad habit.

You don't really “break” habits. __1__ So if your problem is that you eat too much when you get home from work, find something new to do that is incompatible(不能共存的)with what you usually do. You can't walk around the track at the school and pig out in your kitchen at the same time.

Grow your marriage.

__2__ It's always a give－and－take, always requires work. It's like if you planted a garden and came back six months later — you wouldn't even be able to find it. __3__

Beat stress.

My dog, Maggie, is the best anti－stress tool I have. A few minutes petting, scratching or playing with her, and __4__ Exercise also helps. Just about every day, I'm on the tennis court. It's a great workout, and if I don't have that, I don't cope as well, sleep as well or think as well.

Refocus your anger.

Expressing your anger is just not that good an idea. You say things you don't mean. __5__ When you do that, you're a problem solver.

Don't medicate with food.

It never, ever works. You're denying your issue by eating your way through it, instead of saying, “Hey, I've got a problem.”

A. You replace the unwanted behavior with something that prevents you from doing it and that doesn't have unhealthy side effects.

B. I'll feel easy.

 C. If there is a problem, you needn't deal with it immediately.

D. You have to tend it, feed it, weed it, deal with the problems.

E. Instead, recognize that anger is usually a symptom of hurt, fear or frustration, and deal with the causes rather than blow up.

F. Relationships are negotiated(協(xié)商), and the negotiation never stops.

G. You do something without any good effect on your health during the time when you usually do something harmful to your body.

1. ________ 2. ________ 3. ________ 4. ________

5. ________

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　　Music is the international language.The songs sung or playing by instruments are beautiful to people everywhere. Popular music in America is that every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphones, but listen to music before class, after class, and at lunch.There are other kinds music that are important to Americans.One is called folk music, it tells stories about common life of Americans.Another is called western or country music, started by cowboys whom would sing to the cows they were watching out.  Today, any music about the love between a country boy and his girl friend are called western or country music.

Let us suppose it is now about A．D.2060. Let's make believe it is about sixty years from now. Of course, things have changed and life is very different.

Voyages to the moon are being made every day. It is as easy to take a holiday on the moon today as it was for the people in 1960 to take a holiday in Europe. At a number of scenic spots on the moon, many hotels have been built, the hotels are air－conditioned, naturally. So that everyone can enjoy the beautiful scenery on the moon. Every room has at least one picture window. Everything imaginable is provided for entertainment of young and old.

What are people eating now? People are still eating food. They haven't yet started to take on their supply of energy directly as electrical current or as nuclear power. They may be some day. But many foods now come in pill form, and the food that goes into the pill continues to come mainly from green plants.

Since there are several times as many people in the world today as there were a hundred years ago, most of our planet's surface has to be filled. The deserts are irrigated with water. Crops are no longer destroyed by pests. The harvest is always good.

Farming, of course, is very highly developed. Very few people have to work on the farm. It is possible to run the farm by just pushing a few buttons now and then.

People are now largely vegetarians. You see, as the number of people increased, the number of animals decreased. Therefore, the people have to be vegetarians and we are healthier in both our bodies and our minds, too, and we know the causes and cure of diseases and pain, and it is possible to get rid of disease. No one has to be ill any more.

Such would be our life in 2060.

6. What are the hotels on the moon used for in 2060?

A. Scientific experiments.

B. People who have no houses.

C. Astronauts.

D. Holiday people.

7. Which of the following is WRONG?

A. In the story, the population of the world has increased.

B. Voyages to the moon are being made every day.

C. A great number of people work on the farm.

D. The food comes mainly from green plants.

8. According to the passage, why are people largely vegetarians?

A. Because most people like vegetables better.

B. Because the number of people increased and the number of animals decreased.

C. Because people think meat is unhealthy.

D. Because there are no animals at all.

9. According to the passage, what about the people's health in 2060?

A. Because the people have to be vegetarians, they are very thin.

B. The people have no illness.

C. The doctor don't know how to treat the diseases and pain.

D. The people are less healthier in our bodies than in our minds.

10. When was the passage written?

A. In about A．D. 2060.

B. In about 1960.

C. In about 2000.

D. In about 2004.

What will man be like in the future－in 5,000 or even 50,000 years from now? We can only make guesses, of course, but we can be sure that he will be different from what he is today. For man is slowly changing all the time.

Let us take an obvious example. Man, even five hundred years ago, was shorter than he is today. Now, on average, men are about three inches taller. Five hundred years is relatively short period of time, so we may assume that man will continue to grow taller. Again, in the modern world we use our brains a great deal. Even so, we still make use of only about 20% of the brain's capacity. As time goes on, however, we shall have to use our brains more and more, and eventually we shall need larger ones! This is likely to bring about a physical change to the head, in particular the forehead, will grow larger.

Nowadays our eyes are in constant use. In fact, we use them so much that very often they become weaker and we have to wear glasses. But over very long period of time it is likely that man's eyes will grow stronger.

On the other hand, we tend to make less use of our arms and legs. These, as a result, are likely to grow weaker. At the same time, however, our fingers will grow more sensitive because they are used a great deal in modern life.

But what about hair? This will probably disappear from the body altogether in course of time because it does not serve a useful purpose any longer. In the future, then, both sexes are likely to be bald.

Perhaps all this gives the impression that future man will not be a very attractive creature to look at! This may well be true. All the same, in spite of all these changes, future man will still have a lot in common with us. He will still be a human being, with thoughts and emotions similar to our own.

1. The passage mainly tells us that ________.

A. man's life will be different in the future          

B. future man will look quite different from us

C. man is growing taller and uglier as time passes

D. man's organs' functions will be on the wane

2. What serves as the evidence that man is changing?

A. Man has got stronger eyes now than he ever had.

B. Man's hair is getting thinner and thinner.

C. Man's arms and legs have become lighter and weaker.

D. Man has been growing taller over the past 500 years.

3. The change in man's size of forehead is probably because ________.

A. he makes use only 20% of the brain's capacity

B. his brain has grown larger over the past centuries

C. the other 80% of his brain will grow in due time

D. he will use his brain more and more as time goes on

4. What is true about a human being in the future?

A. He is hairless because hair is no longer useful.

B. He has smaller eyes and wears better glasses.

C. His fingers grow weaker because he doesn't have to make use of them.

D. He thinks and feels in different way.

5. It is implied that ________.

A. human beings will become less attractive in the future

B. less use of a bodily organ may lead to its degeneration   

C. human beings hope for a change in the future life

D. future life is always predictable