New York City consists of five boroughs：Manhattan，Brooklyn，Queens，the Bronx and Staten Island．The population is about 7.5 million living in Manhattan．Manhattan，the center of the city，is on an island between the Hudson River and the East River．Most of the famous buildings such as the Empire State building and the United Nations building and other skyscrapers are in Manhattan．Some of its districts are Broadway，which has many theaters and cinemas；Fifth Avenue，with stores and apartments；Greenwich Village，where many artists and writers have lived and Central Park，with a small zoo and a skating rink．From Manhattan you have to cross to the other boroughs through a tunnel or over a bridge．The bridge from Brooklyn to Staten Island is the longest in the world．

New York is the second largest port in the world and it has two airports：Kennedy Internalional for internalional flights and La Guardia for flights inside the USA．Its temperature goes from very cold in winter（sometimes twenty degrees below zero）to very hot in summer （sometimes 40 centigrade）．The people who l ive there come from all over the world and speak realjy different languages：there are Germans and Poles as well as people from Greece，Scotland，Ireland．Hungary，Italy and Romania．People call one district“Little Italy”and another “Chinatown”．

1．What do we know about Manhattan?

    A．Manhattan is in the east of the city of New York．

    B．There are lots of high-rises in Manhattan。

    C．Manhattan is not a place for artists to live in．

    D．Manhattan is connected to the other parts of New York by highways．

2．If you want to see wonderful plays，you should go to_______．

    A．the Fifth Avenue                                      B．Central Park

    C．Broadway                                               D．the Empire State Building

3．According to the passage，which bridge is the longest in the world?

    A．The bridge between Manhattan and Brooklyn．

    B．The bridge between Staten Island and Brooklyn

    C．The bridge between Manhattan and Staten Island．

    D．The bridge between Broadway and Brooklyn．

4．One district of New York is called Chinatown because________

    A．it is part of China and is administered-by the Chinese government

    B．the main citizens there are mainly from Chinatown

    C．it is a district that has a large number of Chinese people

    D．it iS a district that is famous for Chinese

5．If you go from Italy，you are supposed to get to New York through _______Airport.

    A．Kennedy International                               B．La Guardia 

    C．either of the above two                             D．neither of the above two

President Obama，s plan last week to overhaul(改善)former president George W．Bush’s No Child left Behind program is an improvement on a good thin9．But it doesn’t go far enough.

    Obama outlined a goal that by 2020，all grade school and high school students ale on a path toward college and career readiness．

    However, what we need is a practical plan that not only requires all high school graduates to take at least two years of college but also makes it financially possible for them to do so. We’ve provided a free public education through the l2th grade．If we’re going to keep up—or catch up—with some other countries(1ike China)in preparing young people for careers，a 12-year education program no longer is enough．

    About 3 million students across the USA will graduate from high school this spring. But only 2 million will go on to college, according to a survey by the National Center for Education Statistics(NCFES)．For the more than l million who won’t go on，money is a major factor．If tuition(學(xué)費(fèi))were free，about half of them could make up other COSTS from family or part—time jobs．

    Critics(批評(píng)家)of free college tuition will say we can’t afford it because of the federal deficit(聯(lián)邦赤字)and other rising costs．Let’s see some government spending in detail：

  In the last nearly 10 years．the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost us $1 trillion(that’s $1，000 billion，or an average of$100 billion a year)．Federal money spent on public elementary and secondary education in the last year for which figures are available was$47 billion．If we end costly and unnecessary wars and nation—building efforts abroad，the federal government could provide more money on public education，for which state and local governments now carry most of the burden(負(fù)擔(dān))．

1.According to President Obama’s plan，in 10 years，    ．

   A．there will be no expensive and unnecessary Wars

   B．a(chǎn)ll grade and high school students can go to college

   C．the U．S．will catch up with China in career preparation

   D．students Call enjoy a l2-year public free education

2.If tuition were not charged．

A．a(chǎn)bout 2．5 million students could afford college education

B．a(chǎn)bout 2 million students could be provided chances of college education[來源:Zxxk.Com]

C．over l million students still could not afford college education

D．a(chǎn)bout 3 million students could graduate from high school

3.The author may agree that President Obama’s plan

    A．has little to do with Gorge W．Bush’s program

    B. does not agree with the survey by NCFES

C．does not contain practical measures to achieve its goal

D．will lighten the burden of state and local governments

4.It can be inferred from the passage that

A．the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are expensive but necessary

B．the federal Can not provide more money on education

C，critics of free college tuition think little of the plan

D．President Obama’s plan might be hard to carry out

 

單詞拼寫：（共10小題，每小題1分）。

The factory is l__________ (坐落于) in the west of the city .                  1. ____________

P_________ (貧窮) prevented the boy from continuing his education .          2. ____________

Careful examination of the ruins showed new e________ (證據(jù)) .             3 ______________

I look down upon anyone who always r_______(依靠，依賴) on others .        4. _____________

F_________(幸運(yùn)地), the passengers escaped being injured in the accident .     5. _____________

He survived the plane c__________(飛機(jī)失事) only to die in the desert .        6. ____________

He had to r_____ (辭職) his position as manager of the company owing to his illness . 7. _________

No smoking will be allowed within a future city’s l_________ (范圍，限制) .    8. ____________

Come to see me whenever it is c________ (方便的) to you .                   9. ___________

You can take these apples as many as you like because they are free of c____(免費(fèi)). 10.__________

  I still remember the days when l was a youthful student in an engineering school．I lived a casual life，without caring about the future．I smoked，drank with friends and made girl friends．Little did I realize that casualness would certainly lead to loss．

    Two years had passed and l was staring down a report card that highlighted FAII in more than half the subjects．I didn’t care，at least not till my dad found out about it．You see．I studied in India and unlike the United States where the students are expected to finance their own education，my dad financed me．

    Then came the day when my dad found out my habit of smoking．He lost his temper but he just told me，“Son，your allowance is cut in half from this moment on”．It hit me like a roundhouse kick（回旋踢） from Bruce Lee．I was jolted（震搖）out of my bones！I couldn’t comprehend how to pay off the debts that I had accumulated in college．I owed everybody money：the grocery store，the bars．the restaurants，my friends，etc．I was living a life filled with credit．

    When I went back to college，I knew that if I don’t change the way I live my life I won’t be able to pay everybody off．So I decided to make some changes．drastic changes．I quit smoking，cut off from my friends who led me down the wrong road，starting hanging out in libraries and reading my engineering books．

    One year later，I went from a miserable failure to a magna curn laude（優(yōu)等成績(jī)）．Life was never the same again．This incident made me know that anything is possible if you take action and do something about it，however small or large．Even today it still motivates me when I feel that l’m about to lose or give up．It reminds me that I can do it！

The author wrote this text with the purpose of       ．

    A．introducing his university life to the teenage readers

    B．showing you can overcome any difficulty if you take action

    C．calling on the readers not to develop bad habits in college

    D．introducing his university life to the teenage readers

The author didn’t care about his study until      ．

    A．he was in heavy debt he couldn’t bear  B．he decided to give up smoking

    C．his allowance was cut in half   D．he entered the engineering school

The underlined sentence in the last paragraph means that the author      ．

    A．removed his bad habits and didn’t lead a casual life

    B．never hung out with his friends but studied all day

    C．began to live a happy life due to his good grades

    D．paid off his debt and life wasn’t hard for him any more

Which of the following statements is TRUE？

    A．The author did well in making good friends in the school．

    B．The author made great progress with the help of his friends．

    C．Students were encouraged to do part-time jobs in Indian schools．

    D．Students tended to earn money for college expenses in America．

When I opened my e-mail the other day, a pretty woman named Rachel appeared on my computer screen. She greeted me by name and started talking with great enthusiasm. Every now and then she stopped to smile at me or blow a kiss. She was reading to me an e-mail from my brother, and a lot of it was about his getting the phone company to give him a high-speed Internet connection. It was pretty cool.

Rache

l was there thanks to a new technology called Facemail. Facemail lets you send e-mail that gets ready to the receiver by an attractive male or female form or by a clown(小丑). The software, which is free, can be downloaded at www. Facemail.com.

Facemail faces are lifelike, and they simulate(模擬) emotions based on emotions that you put in your text. For example, type in-X, and Rachel blows a kiss.

LifeFX, the company that develops the Facemail, is sure there are broad business uses. The reason e-business is not popular, the company says, is that buying over the Internet lacks the human touch. But what if you went to the Nike website and Michael Jordan greeted you by name, waited on you and personally closed the sale? And it is talking with Whirl(惠而浦公司) about using the technology in a computer screen on a fridge. Then if Morn can't be home when the kids get back from school, she can leave a note with voice and image telling them what there is to eat.

Facemail could get hot fast. Personally, I'm a fan. But Facemail should be used with care. The clown looks lively and funny at first. But if you select the clown, put a few rude words in an e-mail and add some angry emotions, you've got a Psycho-mail(瘋?cè)诵碗娮余]件).

The pretty woman that appears on the writer's computer screen was ______.

   A. a woman working on the Internet      B. his brother's girlfriend

  C not a real person                    D. the picture of his pen-friend

The main advantage of Facemail is that ______.

   A. you can hire a beautiful woman to read the e-mail to you

   B. you can see the person who sends you the e-mail

   C. yon can send an e-mail free of charge

   D. e-mail can be attractive in a more lovely way

The writer mentioned Nike website and Michael Jordan to show that _______.

   A. Famous people like Michael Jordan also like to use Facemail

   B. Facemail can make shopping on the Internet more interesting

   C. Nike website will increase its sales by Jordan

   D. Michael Jordan will serve you himself on Nike website

What is the writer's attitude towards Facemail?

   A. He thinks it needs further improvement.  

B. He thinks it cool and funny.

   C. He thinks it a danger to the Internet.     

D. He thinks people should be careful with Facemail.