Peter Ball was at a college when the war broke out. He was astute （精明的）and was afraid to lose his life in the fights. So he tried his best to escape joining the army. But he failed and as soon as he left it, he was forced to be a soldier and was flown to Europe. There he made friends with an officer and he was told to manage a shop which supplied daily necessities to the army. And he got some money and was rich. When the war finished, he returned to his homeland. He found a job at a police station. And about ten years later he became a head of the station. So he often used his head and tried to get more money.

   The streets in the town where Mr. Ball worked were narrow and the drivers often broke the traffic regulations（規(guī)則）. The police often fined them before. But It seemed the drivers weren’t afraid of it at all, and the accidents weren’t contained（遏制）and some people were killed for it every year.

   Mr. Ball thought and thought and at last he had a way. He advised stopping fining the drivers  who broke the traffic regulations. Instead, he told his policemen to take the drivers to the village about thirty kilometers away from the town by car. And then they were forced to go back on foot. It was hard for the drivers who seldom walked and few could reach the town in a day. They had to eat something in the restaurants and stay at the hotels between the village and the town. But they didn’t know all the restaurants and hotels belonged to Mr. Ball!

59. Peter Ball tried to escape joining the army because________.

   A. he wouldn’t stop studying 

B. he liked to lead a quiet life

   C. he hoped to receive a doctor’s degree

D. he was afraid to be killed in the fights

60. Peter got rich______.

   A. when he left college                   B. after he left the army

   C. when he managed the shop in the army    D. before the war broke out

61. The accidents often happened in the town because_______.

A. the drivers were all careless  

B. the drivers hated the policemen

   C. the streets were very narrow

   D. the drivers weren’t afraid to be fined

62. Which one is true according to the passage?

   A. Mr. Ball was friendly to the drivers.

   B. Mr. Ball hoped to get more money in his restaurant and hotel.

   C. Mr. Ball forced the drivers to practice walking.

   D. Mr. Ball wanted to contain the traffic accidents.

When I met him, I had a lot of anger inside of me. I’ve lived my whole life in Spanish Harlem, but in my neighborhood, there are shoot-ups all the time. I know kids who have been shot or beaten up. I have friends who ended up in prison. I could have ended up that way, too, but Mr. Clark wouldn’t let that happen.

Mr. Clark worked long hours, making sure I did my work. My grades rose. In fact, the scores(分?jǐn)?shù)) of our whole class rose. One day, he took our class to see The Phantom of the Opera, and it was the first time some kids had ever been out of Harlem. Before the show, he treated us to dinner at a restaurant and taught us not to talk with our mouths full. We did not want to let him down.

Mr. Clark was selected as Disney’s 2000 Teacher of the Year. He said he would draw three names out of a hat; those students would go with him to Los Angles to get the award. But when the time came to draw names, Mr. Clark said, “You’re all going.”

On graduation day, there were a lot of tears. We didn’t want his class to end. In 2001, he moved to Atlanta, but he always kept in touch. He started giving lectures about education, and wrote a bestselling book based on his classroom rules, The Essential 55. In 2003, Mr. Clark took some of us on a trip to South Africa to deliver school supplies and visit orphanages (孤兒院). It was the most amazing experience of my life. It’s now my dream to one day start a group of women’s clubs, helping people from all backgrounds.

66. Without Mr. Clark, the writer _________.

   A. might have been put into prison                   B. might not have won the prize

   C. might have joined a women’s club       D. might not have moved to Atlanta

67. The Essential 55 is ___________.

   A. a show      B. a speech                 C. a classroom rule      D. a book

68. How many students’ names were finally drawn out of a hat by Mr. Clark?

   A. None             B. Three              C. Fifty-five               D. All

69. In the passage, the writer wants to tell us that ___________.

   A. Mr. Clark went to South Africa because he liked traveling

   B. Mr. Clark helped to set up a group of women’s clubs

   C. a good teacher can raise his or her students’ score

   D. a good teacher has a good influence on his or her students

70. What is the writer’s attitude（態(tài)度）towards Mr. Clark?

   A. He speaks highly of Mr. Clark.

   B. He looks down upon Mr. Clark.

   C. He doesn’t show his attitude towards Mr. Clark.

   D. He takes a neutral (中立的) attitude towards Mr. Clark.

        John Smith was a writer, who wrote detective stories for magazines, though he never dealt with criminal(罪犯). One evening he couldn’t finish an end for a story. He sat in his study, but he had no idea. So he decided to go to the cinema.

    When he came back, he found that he had had a visitor. Someone had broken into his house. The visitor had had a drink, smoked several of his cigarettes and had read his story. The visitor left him a note.

   “I have read your story and I don’t think it is very good. Please read my suggestion and you can finish it. By the way, I am a thief. I am not going to steal anything tonight. But if you become a successful a writer, I will return.”

   John read the thief’s suggestions. Then he sat down and finished the end of the story. He is still not a successful writer, and he is waiting for his “visitor” to return. Before he goes out in the evening, he always leaves a half-finished story in his study.

61. Detective stories are stories about        .

A. science     B. children    C. the future     D. the police

62. John went to the cinema because       

he was too tired.

he wanted to look for a thief.

he could not finished his story and hoped to get some ideas.

he wanted to enjoy himself in the cinema.

63. The visitor went to John’s house in order to       .

A. steal something   B. read the story  C. have a drink   D. visit the writer

64. The visitor       

stayed in John’s house for a long time.  B. Took some of John’s things away

C.  left John some advice               D. Was a good friend of John’s

65. John would like to        

have a talk with his visitor.      B.  get more ideas from the visitor.

C. make friends with the visitor.     D. catch the visitor and take him to the police.

In his lowest days when few people bought his records, Taiwan singer Steve Chou lived alone in Canada and did little. One day, he passed by a local CD store and heard a song that greatly attracted him.

“My heart tells me that music is the thing I truly want to do, not for fame（名譽(yù)）or money,” Chou said. That’s how we luckily have such a music genius, who has since then composed（作曲）lots of hits for the pop music charts (排行榜). 

“Sometimes we need to get close to nature to look deeply into our souls and see what we really want to follow,” he said.

Recently he has made public his latest work Lovers Genesis. In this album（集）he explores human relationships in the Internet age. “Technology itself is a good thing, but it depends on how you’re going to use it,” is Chou’s advice to teenagers.
    Chou often gets his music ideas from trips. He has traveled to many places around the world and believes that learning a country’s language is the fastest way of experiencing the culture behind it.
    Chou has worked hard on learning English to push forward his music career(事業(yè)). He has flown to the UK to attend months-long English training schools three times. There he lives with local families and practices daily conversations.
    “So I could easily read the English instructions on recording machines and communicate with the local music producers,” said Chou, “The music reviews of the US or British singers that I appreciate could help me learn and grow with them.”

60. Which of the following about Steve Chou is the correct order?

a. He made public his work Lovers Genesis.

b. He passed by a local CD store and heard a song that greatly attracted him.

c. He composed lots of hits for the pop music charts.

d. Few people bought his records.

A. abcd                       B. dbca                        C. acbd                        D. dacb

61. Why has Chou flown to the UK to learn English?

A. Because he wants to live in the UK.

B. Because his record company asks him to.

C. Because he wants to sell his album in the UK.

D. Because he thinks it will be helpful for his music career.

62. Steve Chou may agree with the following except that __________.

A. taking trips gives him some ideas of music

B. what we really want to follow is the most important

C. music is a thing that can bring him fame and money

D. in International age, technology itself is not a bad thing

63. What is Steve Chou like according to the passage?

A. Kind and helpful.                         B. Proud and confident.

C. Active and hard-working.                    D. Calm and disappointed.

During my travels through the mountains of Greece I was only ever scared once. It was dusk and as I walked alone I came across six large wolves（狼）that were feeding on the body of a dead animal. I had heard many stories about wolves as a child and it was this animal that I feared more than any other. The wolves before me were huge, at least 6 feet long and covered with thick grey fur.

As I went near, the wolves left the blood-covered snow that surrounded the body and started walking towards me, one after another. They stopped about 20 metres from me and stared. The lead wolf raised his head into the air and took in a deep breath, as if he was smelling my presence. The animals looked both beautiful and frightening, but I knew I could not show them my fear. As I drew nearer, the lead wolf raised its head once more but this time let out a long, loud cry. The awful cry rang out across the silent valley. I had never heard a more frightening sound. I was almost certain it was a sign to be death.

Every moment I expected to see the pack of wolves dash（沖）at me. I knew my only hope was to pretend I had no fear. I walked past the line of wolves, like a general（將軍）moving among his soldiers. They cried out loud again. But when they saw that their cry did not cause me to change my direction or make me run they feared to come after me, so they let me pass and returned to the dead animal.

If I had turned back or tried to run away when they marched out to meet me, I am certain the whole pack would have attacked（進(jìn)攻）me in a moment. But my show of false courage intimidated them and kept them back.

64. Why didn’t the wolves attack the man?

A. They were no longer hungry when they saw him.

B. The man was already known to the wolves.

C. They were too far away to catch the man.

D. The man showed no fear as he passed by.

65. The underlined word “ intimidated” in the last paragraph probably means “         ”.

A. encouraged             B. scared                     C. doubted                        D. hurt

66. What is the author’s intention in writing this story?

A. To show that mountains can be dangerous places.

B. To discuss the habits of mountain wolves.

C. To make people aware of the danger of wolves.

      D. To stress the need for courage when in danger.

67. Which is the best title for this story?

A. In Face of Fear                                               B. My Trip to Greece

C. My Mountain Travels                                 D. A Man Without Fear

In the summer of 1978 an English farmer was driving his tractor through a field of wheat when he discovered that some of his wheat was lying flat on the ground. The flattened(變平的) wheat formed a circle about six meters across. Around this circle were four smaller circles of flattened wheat. The five circles were in a formation(構(gòu)造) like five dots （點(diǎn)）. During the following years, farmers in England found the strange circles in their fields more and more often.

       The circles are called “crop circles” because they appear in the fields of grain—usually wheat or corn. The grain in the circles lies flat on the ground but is never broken; it continues to grow, and farmers can later harvest it .Farmers always discover the crop circles in the morning, so the circles probably form at night. They appear only in the months from May to September.

       At first, people thought that the circles were a hoax. Probably young people were making them as a joke ,or farmers were making them to attract tourists .To prove that the circles were a hoax, people tried to make circles exactly like the ones that farmers had found. They couldn’t do it .They couldn’t enter a field of grain without leaving tracks, and they couldn’t flatten the grain without breaking it.

       Many people believe that beings from outer space are making the circles to communicate（交流）with us from far away and that the crop circles are messages from them.

       Scientists who have studied the crop circles suggested several possibilities. Some scientists say that a downward rush of wind leads to the formation of the circles—the same downward rush of air that sometimes causes an airplane to crash（墜毀）.Other scientists say that forces within the earth cause the circles to appear. There is one problem with all these scientific explanations: crop circles often appear in formations, like the five-dot formation. It is hard to believe that any natural force could form those.

61. In the summer of 1978 , an English farmer discovered in his field that______.      

       A．some of his wheat had been damaged

       B．his grain was growing up in circles

       C．his grain was moved into several circles

       D．some of his wheat had fallen onto the ground

62. According to the text, the underlined part “hoax” (line 1, para.3 ) probably means       .

       A．a(chǎn)n action made to fool people

       B．a(chǎn) special way to plant crops

       C．a(chǎn) research on the force of winds

       D．a(chǎn)n experiment for the protection of crops

63. Which of the following may prove that the crop circles are not made by man？

       A．The farmers couldn’t step out of the field.

       B．The farmers couldn’t make the circles round.

       C．The farmers couldn’t leave without footprints.

       D．The farmers couldn’t keep the wheat straight up.

64. That the crop circles are made by       is probably true.

       A．a(chǎn)ir movement                               B．a(chǎn)irplane crashes

       C．new farming techniques                 D．unknown flying objects

Mother Teresa was born in Yugoslavia (南斯拉夫),on August 27,1910. She attended the government school near her home until she was eighteen. At that time, some doctors and nurses from Yugoslavia were working in India, and they often wrote to the school about their work. She decided to join them one day.

When she left school, she went first to Britain. Then a year later she went to India, where she began to train to be a teacher. After training, she was sent to Calcutta, where she taught geography at a school and soon after became headmistress (校長).

However, although she loved teaching, in 1946 Mother Teresa left the school and went to work in the poor parts of Calcutta. Later she trained to become a nurse in Patna, and then began her work helping the poor and comforting the dying in the streets of the city. Slowly, others came to help her, and her work spread to other parts of India.

Mother Teresa is now a well-known person. Many photos have been taken of her, as she travels the world to open new schools and hospitals in poor countries. In 1979, she was given the Nobel Peace Prize for the lifetime of love and service she has given to the poor.

65. Where did Mother Teresa receive her education?

A. In Yugoslavia and India.                 B. In Yugoslavia and Britain.

C. In Britain and India.                    D. In Yugoslavia, Britain and India.

66. What first made Mother Teresa work in India?

A. Her visit to the poor parts of Calcutta.

B. Her visit to Britain after she finished school.

C. The medical workers’ letters to her school.

D. The work of the nurse in the city of Patna.

67. In which order did Mother Teresa do the following things?

a. Trained to be a nurse                         b. Went to India

c. Helped the dying                            d. Studied to be a teacher

e. Went to Britain                             f. Worked as a headmistress

A. b, a, c, e, d, f                                            B. e, b, d, f, a, c

C. b, f, a, d, e, c                                         D. e, a, b, c, d, f

68. Mother Teresa gave up teaching because she wanted _______.

A. to look after the poor                  B. to travel to poor countries

C. to build hospitals for the poor           D. to train nurses to care for the poor

Last week my youngest son and I visited my father at his new home in Tucson, Arizona. He moved there a few years ago, and I was eager to see his new place and meet his friends.

My earliest memories of my father are of a tall, handsome successful man devoted to his work and family, but uncomfortable with his children. As a child I loved him; as a school girl and young adult I feared him and felt upset about him. He seemed unhappy with me unless I got straight A’s and unhappy with my boyfriends if their fathers were not as “successful” as he was.

Whenever I went out with him on weekends, I used to struggle to think up things to say, feeling on guard.

       On the first day of my visit, we went out with one of my father’s friends for lunch at an outdoor cafe. We walked along that afternoon, did some shopping, ate on the street table, and laughed over my son’s funny facial expressions. Gone was my father’s critical (挑剔的) air and strict rules. Who was this person I knew as my father? Who seemed so friendly and interesting to be around? What had held him back before?

The next day my dad pulled out his childhood pictures and told me quite a few stories about his own childhood. Although our times together became easier over the years, I never felt closer to him at that moment. After so many years, I’m at last seeing another side of my father. And in doing so, I am delighted with my new friend. My dad, in his new home in Arizona, is back to me from where he was.

64. What does the author think of her father before her visit to Tucson?

A. He was strict and hard-working.                         B. He was interesting and humorous.

C. He loved his children very much.                  D. He cared little about her schoolwork. 65. 65.When the author went out with her father on weekends, she would feel _______.

A. sorry                                                          B. nervous            

C. tired                                                                  D. curious

66. What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph probably mean?

A. The author’s father has moved back to stay with her.

B. The author’s father got lost and has been found back.

C. The author has found the great love back from her father.                                       

D. The author’s father has come back to his new home. 

Justin’s bedroom was so full of flat bicycle tires, bent tennis rackets, deflated（癟掉的）basketballs, and games with missing pieces that you could barely get in the door. His parents pleaded with him to clean out his room.

       “What use is a fish tank with a hole in the bottom?” his father asked. But Justin simply smiled and repeated his motto, “Never throw anything out, you never know when it might come in handy.”

       When Justin was away from home, he always carried his blue backpack--a smaller version of his bedroom--a place to store the many objects that he collected. It was so worn and stretched that it hardly resembled a backpack anymore.

       Justin had earned a reputation for figuring things out and getting people out of otherwise hopeless situations. Many of his classmates and neighbors sought him out when they needed help with a problem. On the first day of school, his friend Kenny, came looking for Justin.

       “Do you think you have something in your bag that could help me remember my locker combination?” he asked. “I lost the piece of paper it was written on. I have a science class in two minutes and if I'm late on the first day it’ll make me look bad for the rest of the year.” Kenny looked really worried.

       “Relax,” Justin said, taking his backpack off and unzipping the top. “Remember how you borrowed my notebook in homeroom to write the combination down? Well, I know how we can recover what you wrote.”

       He took the notebook and a soft lead pencil out of his bag. The page that Kenny had written on had left faint marks on another page in the notebook. Justin held the pencil on its side and rubbed it lightly over the marks. Slowly but surely the numbers of the locker combination appeared in white, set off by the gray pencil rubbings.

       “That's amazing!” Kenny said. “I owe you one.” And he dashed off to open his locker.

       It was just another day in the life of the boy whose motto was “Never throw anything out, you never know when it might come in handy.”

56. Why is Justin's room such a mess? WWW.K**S*858$$U.COM

    A. He always forgets to clean it.               B. He shares the room with his brother.

    C. He has no time to clean it.                 D. He never throws anything away.

57. In what way is Justin’s backpack a smaller version of his bedroom?

    A. He uses it as a place to store objects.

    B. He uses it to carry his books and sports equipment.

    C. His parents tell him to clean it all the time.

    D. He's had it for as long as he can remember.

58. The underlined phrase "pleaded with" means

    A. ignored               B. asked             C. pushed              D. Ordered

59. How does Kenny feel toward Justin?

A. Annoyed.     B. Disinterested.             C. Grateful.         D. Angry.

Having driven almost thirty hours, I decided to stay in South Carolina for a few days. The next morning, I purchased a three-day fishing license and bait (餌料) before heading to the lake.

Opening my trunk, I carefully took out my fishing gear (用具), put it on the lake’s edge, baited up and began to fish.

       “Good morning,” said someone, walking up from behind me.

       Turning around, I saw a game warden (獵場管理員) with a clip-board.

       “Good morning,” I said, nodding my head.

      “Catch any fish?” he asked.

       “No sir, just relaxing and killing time.”

       “Can I see your fishing license?”

       I handed him the license I had purchased at the bait shop.

       “Can I see your driver’s license, too?” he requested.

       “I see the name on the driver’s license is spelled Kiser and the name on the fishing license is Kaiser,” said the warden.

       “The gentleman at the bait shop must have written it wrong,” I told him.

       “Well, I’m afraid I’ll have to write you up for fishing with an invalid license and take away your fishing gear.”

       “You’ve got to be kidding,” I responded, with a surprised look on my face.

       Sure enough I was written up and my fishing gear taken away. I was told that I would have to pay a fine and that my stuff would be sold at auction（拍賣）.

       I stood there almost in tears as he drove away. Those rods and reels were very special to me. I had used them over twenty years, fishing with my friends, who were now all dead.

       After returning home in Georgia, I telephoned South Carolina trying to explain the situation,

but no one would listen. I was told that the Department of Fish and Game had a “zero tolerance” for fishing and hunting violations. Finally, in tears I paid the fine and gave up the fight.

       Nine months later, I received a letter. I had no idea who it was from as there was no return address. On a plain piece of notebook paper was written “Auction for the Department of Fish and Game held this Saturday at 11:00 am.”

       On Saturday, at six in the morning I headed to South Carolina. By ten o’clock I had found the auction. There were numerous boats and piles upon piles of fishing equipment. All at once, there it was—my wonderful stuff all thrown in a pile as if it was worth nothing.

       As the auction began I took my seat. In my wallet was twenty-seven dollars. For more than an hour I waited for my property to be brought to the auction block.

       “We have three rods and reels here. I guess we will sell this as a unit,” said the auctioneer.

       “50 dollars,” yelled someone in the crowd.

       “51 dollars,” yelled another man.

       I rose from my seat and walked out of the auction.

       “66 dollars,” I heard as the bidding continued.

       “100 dollars,” came another bid. The auction became silent.

       “100 dollars once, 100 dollars twice, 100 dollars three times. Sold for 100 dollars,” went the auctioneer.

I walked to my truck, got in and just sat there. Suddenly I heard something hit the side of my truck. Turning around, I saw the back of a man putting my three rods and reels into my truck. It was the same game warden who wrote me the ticket almost a year ago!

       As I got out of the truck he stuck out his hand and said, “I wasn’t wrong. It’s the law that is wrong.”

       I shook his hand, thanked him and drove away. I cried as I crossed the South Carolina Georgia state line.

68. Who wrote a letter to the writer telling him about the auction?

A. The Department of Fish and Game.                  B. The game warden.

C. A person unmentioned in the passage.                      D. The auction organizers.  

69. Why did the writer walk out of the auction while it was going on?

   A. He realized he was unable to get back his fishing gear.

   B. He was too nervous to stay inside till the auction ended.

   C. He couldn’t bear hearing people selling his fishing gear.

   D. He knew the game warden was waiting for him outside.

70. What did the game warden mean by saying “It’s the law that is wrong”?

A. It didn’t make any sense to prohibit people from fishing freely in South Carolina.

B. The writer did break the law by fishing with an invalid license whatever the reason.

C. The writer should have been allowed a chance to explain and get his things back.

D. The auction should not have been held to sell the boats and fishing equipment.