One day my math teacher asked me to help him save back-up copies of his work in the computer. I then realized I was able to  36  the grades for all of his classes. I showed him how to copy files from one disk to another and he  37  me.

A few days later be asked me to help him again, because he   38  how to do it. when I began to show this to him, some students in my class   39  and began to talk among themselves   40  . Later that day, at lunch time, I was   41  by several of them.

“Hey, could you help us change our grades in math? We’ll  42  you…”

I could not believe what I was hearing．I could get paid for something very   43  ．" All right．I'll do it．" The next day my math teacher   44  me to help him out．When he was not paying attention, I began to change their grades from F's to A's．

I soon became very   45   among my friends．They began to treat me like a god with a magical  46  ．I began to change the grades of students．Word   47   quickly and I became very rich．

Everything was going fine   48   I was called into the headmaster's office．When I got there, my teacher was mad, and the headmaster had an angry   49   in his eyes．  "I have known you for three years now．I don't want to  50   what your teacher said, but I'm afraid that I must．He has too much   51   , " he said．" Do you have anything to say   52   yourself?" he asked．

"No．" I said finally．I did not realize how serious my actions had been．I had violated the      53  of my teacher, and the headmaster．And there was no way   54  ．I was forced to leave my school．

That was a good   55  for me．

1.A．a(chǎn)ccess           B．a(chǎn)ssess         C．change         D．mark

2.A．guided           B．supported      C．thanked        D．a(chǎn)ccepted

3.A．doubted          B．remembered     C．reminded       D．forgot

4.A．hid              B．noticed        C．complained     D．a(chǎn)greed

5.A．disappointedly B．quietly          C．freely         D．a(chǎn)ngrily

6.A．a(chǎn)ppointed        B．a(chǎn)pproved       C．a(chǎn)pproached     D．a(chǎn)ppreciated

7.A．pay              B．praise         C．follow         D．inspire

8.A．familiar         B．simple         C．interesting    D．pleasant

9.A．forced           B．a(chǎn)dvised        C．encouraged     D．got

10.A．optimisticB．popular              C．sensitive      D．grateful

11.A．energy          B．strength       C．right          D．power

12.A．escaped         B．slipped        C．spread         D．fled

13.A．until           B．since          C．a(chǎn)s             D．a(chǎn)fter

14.A．sight           B．look           C．light          D．feeling

15.A．believe         B．ignore         C．oppose         D．influence

16.A．experienceB．pressure             C．confidence     D．evidence

17.A．to              B．by             C．for            D．of

18.A．intention       B．honor          C．promise        D．trust

19.A．on              B．in             C．back           D．down

20.A．lesson B．skill    C．story    D．example

 

Levi Strauss was born in Bavaria (巴伐利亞) in Europe in 1829. He emigrated（移居）to the United States of America when he was seventeen years old. His brothers sold cloth, and he worked for them even though he could not speak English very well. At this time many people were moving to California because gold was discovered there. Strauss went to look for gold, too.
Strauss took a lot of cloth with him to San Francisco. He thought that he could make tents out of the cloth and sell them to people working in the gold fields. But when he got there, he saw that people had a greater need for clothes than tents. Clothes did not last very long in the gold fields. At first Strauss made pants out of canvas（帆布）. They were very strong ---- much stronger than other pants. Soon everyone was wearing them , so he decided only to make pants. He opened a small store and made a lot of money from selling pants.
After a while, Strauss found a material even stronger than canvas. It came from a town in France called Nimes. The French called the material serge de Nimes, which means “cloth from Nimes”. The Americans called it denim. Strauss also bought some cloth from Genoa, a town in Italy. To Americans this name sounds like “jeans”, so they called his pants jeans. The cloth that Strauss used was always blue, so people also called his pants blue jeans and blue denims. Other people called them Levi’s. Levi Strauss jeans are some of the best-selling jeans in the world today. They last a long time and are very comfortable.
56. 【小題1】When Levi Strauss went to San Francisco for the first time, he wanted to ______.

A．find a strong material to make pants

B．work for his brothers

C．make money by selling tents

D．open a store to make pants

57. 【小題2】In the beginning Strauss made pants from ______.

A．serge de Nimes	B．silk
C．denim	D．canvas

58. 【小題3】The name “jeans” was first used by ______.

A．Bavarians	B．Americans
C．Italians	D．Frenchmen

59. 【小題4】The story is about ______.

A．where cloth came from

B．the man who first made jeans

C．how to make lots of money

D．life on the gold fields

I was very disappointed not to be able to go to the jazz concert last Friday. The announcement in the paper said that you could buy tickets at the theater box office in Richland Hills any day between 10:00 and 4:00. Since I work from 9 o’clock to 5:30, the only time I could go to the theater was during my 45-minute lunch break. Unfortunately, the theater is on the other side of the town, and the bus service between my office and Richland Hills is not very good. But if you are lucky, you can make the round trip in 45 minutes. Last Monday, I stood at the bus stop for fifteen minutes waiting for a bus. By the time I saw one come around the corner, there was not enough time left to make the trip—so I gave up and went back to the office. The same thing happened on Tuesday, and again on Wednesday. On Thursday, my luck changed. I got on a bus right away and arrived at the theatre in exactly twenty minutes. When I got there, however, I found a long line of people at the box office. I heard one man say he had been waiting in line for over an hour. Realizing I would not have enough time to wait in line, I caught the next bus and headed back across the town. By Friday I realized my only hope was to make the trip by taxi. It was expensive, but I felt it would be worth hearing the concert. The trip by taxi only took 10 minutes, but it felt like an hour to me. When I got to the theatre, I was relieved to see that nobody was waiting in line. The reason, I quickly discovered, was that they had already sold all the tickets.

1.The writer is probably ______.

    A. a worker                             B. a college teacher   

    C. a boss of a company                  D. a secretary

2.He learned ______ that there would be a concert last Friday.

    A. from his friends                         B. from one of his colleagues

    C. over the radio                              D. from the newspaper

3.He could go and buy the ticket ______.

    A. any day before work hours                B. both before and after work hours

    C. only during lunch time                   D. on Saturday and Sunday

4.The word “relieved” in the last two sentences may best be replaced by “______”.

    A. surprised            B. pleased          C. puzzled          D. sorry

5.  The story is about ______.

    A. a good concert      

    B. someone enjoying a good concert

    C. someone trying to buy concert tickets for his friends

    D. someone failing to buy the concert ticket

 

I was very disappointed not to be able to go to the jazz concert last Friday. The announcement in the paper said that you could buy tickets at the theater box office in Richland Hills any day between 10:00 and 4:00. Since I work from 9 o’clock to 5:30, the only time I could go to the theater was during my 45-minute lunch break. Unfortunately, the theater is on the other side of the town, and the bus service between my office and Richland Hills is not very good. But if you are lucky, you can make the round trip in 45 minutes. Last Monday, I stood at the bus stop for fifteen minutes waiting for a bus. By the time I saw one come around the corner, there was not enough time left to make the trip—so I gave up and went back to the office. The same thing happened on Tuesday, and again on Wednesday. On Thursday, my luck changed, I got on a bus right away and arrived at the theatre in exactly twenty minutes. When I got there, however, I found a long line of people at the box office. I heard one man say he had been waiting in line for over an hour. Realizing I would not have enough time to wait in line, I caught the next bus and headed back across the town. By Friday I realized my only hope was to make the trip by taxi. It was expensive, but I felt it would be worth hearing the concert. The trip by taxi only took 10 minutes, but it felt like an hour to me. When I got to the theatre, I was relieved to see that nobody was waiting in line. The reason, I quickly discovered, was that they had already sold all the tickets.

1.The writer is probably ______.

A．worker	B．a(chǎn) college teacher
C．manager of a company	D．a(chǎn) clerk

2.He learned ______ that there would be a concert last Friday.

A．from his friends	B．from one of his colleagues
C．over the radio	D．from the newspaper

3.He could go and buy the ticket ______.

A．a(chǎn)ny day before work hours	B．both before and after work hours
C．only during lunch time	D．on Saturday and Sunday

4.The word “relieved” in the last two sentences may best be replaced by “______”.

A．surprised

B．pleased

C．puzzled

D．sorry

5.The story is about ______.

A．a(chǎn) good concert

B．someone enjoying a good concert

C．someone trying to buy concert tickets for his friends

D．someone’s disappointment at not being able to go to the concert

 

A MENTORING (導(dǎo)師制) program is giving life changing opportunities to Banbury youth.

Young Inspirations was founded two years ago to provide mentoring sessions for students and unemployed young adults aged 11 to 21.

Alex Goldberg, the program's founder, said; "We set up Young Inspirations because we wanted to give young people experiences which will potentially be life changing and broaden their outlook.

"We try to create work experience opportunities that will really make a difference to our youth. For example, we've secured internships (實(shí)習(xí)) with world-famous firms such as Honda.

"At a time of funding cutbacks where schools are finding it more and more difficult to offer this kind of mentoring, it is extremely important that these opportunities are available both to help youth with their school work and grades and to give them opportunities which may help shape their futures. " Kieran Hepburn, 14, is one of a group of Banbury youth who has benefited from the program so far. In October the Banbury School pupil was accompanied by Young Inspirations staff to Paris where he was an observer at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) International Youth Forum (論壇).

The event was held for young people from around the world, to seek their views on how the future of youth and education should look. Kieran joined several hundred observers mostly in their 20s and was the only UK school pupil to attend the event. Kieran thinks the trip was a life changing experience. " Before we left I didn't quite know what to make of it but when we got there we didn't stop, it was amazing," he said, " We went to three or four hours of debates each day and then did something cultural each afternoon."

The main theme of the forum was how youth can drive change in political and public life. It dealt with issues such as drug abuse, violence and unemployment.

Kieran said: " It has really helped me to improve my confidence and social skills as well as my school grades and I was voted most improved pupil at school in August. "

The Young Inspirations mentoring sessions take place each Friday in Banbury. For details visit www.younginspirations.com.

1.66.The Young Inspirations mentoring program aims to _____.

A. train staff for world-famous firms

B. provide youth with unique experiences

C. offer job opportunities to young adults

D. equip the unemployed with different skills

2.67.According to Alex Goldberg, it is difficult for schools to offer the mentoring due to ______.

A. the shortage of money                  B. the cultural differences

C. the effect of unemployment              D. the lack of support from firms

3.68.According to the passage, the forum focused on how youth can ______.

A. build up their confidence at school

B. find work experience opportunities

C. improve their social skills for the future

D. play an active role in the change of society

4.69.We can learn from the passage that _____.

A. the visit to the United Kingdom was amazing 

B. the youth have found a way to solve their problems

C. Kieran has made great progress in many aspects

D. the mentoring sessions are held every day except Friday

5.70.What would be the best title for the passage?

A. Alex Goldberg, Founder of Young Inspirations

B. Kieran, Banbury School Pupil to Paris

C. Young People Find a World of Opportunity

D. Debates Help Youth with Their Grades