【题目】I can't avoid __________ her.

A. seeing B. to see

C. being seen D. see

【题目】It was in the past two years that Aaron Segura was always sinking at West Mesa High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The16-year-old student was 【1】 in golf, but his 【2】 was another matter. Aaron was “just walking through the chapters hard “in courses like chemistry, his grades were low, and he was 【3】 to dropping out. It was not that Aaron didn't have 【4】 ； it simply didn't exist in his large, impersonal public high school.

Then his mother heard about Albuquerque's Charter Vocational High School(特立职业高中)，a place where students 【5】 plenty of one-on-one attention. Something else 【6】 Aaron even more. His one strong goal was to go into 【7】 ，and Charter Vocational had just the thing for him ： an architectural CAD ( computer-aided drafting ) program.

Aaron 【8】 school at the beginning of his junior year. For the first time, he 【9】 himself excited about learning. By the following summer, he had got a( n) 【10】 as a draftsman for an architectural firm. His plan was to 【11】 drafting professionally after he graduated this spring.

If Aaron has anyone to thank for his 【12】 of the fortune, it was Danny Moon, a long-time industrial arts teacher. Moon 【13】 a vocational apprenticeship (学徒）program in the mid-1990s 【14】 the Albuquerque school district couldn't pay for any longer.

But two years later, in 2000，Moon's phone rang. The state had recently 【15】 a charter school law, and a district wondered if Moon might be 【16】 in opening a vocational charter school. An easy 【17】 . With this sort of instruction, Moon knew he could 【18】 students like Aaron, who might have a 【19】 time in traditional high schools. He'd also be filling an increasing 【20】 across New Mexico for skilled labor.

A. average B. excellent C. curious D. different

A. ability B. ideal C. study D. mission

A. certain B. close C. cautious D. eager

A. ambition B. energy C. courage D. experience

A. pay B. gain C. draw D. bring

A. appealed B. attracted C. employed D. comforted

A. firm B. golf C. chemistry D. architecture

A. applied B. attended C. qualified D. admitted

A. recognized B. enjoyed C. found D. devoted

A. job B. condition C, situation D. occasion

A. pick up B. make up C. take up D. set up

A. change B. progress C. effort D. achievement

A. realized B. ran C. discovered D. offered

A. since B. until C. though D. after

A. passed B. made C. proved D. appeared

A. crazy B. fond C. interested D. aware

A. direction B. answer C. promise D. success

A. create B. worry C. regret D. target

A. royal B. tough C. free D. short

A. demand B. form C. order D. satisfaction

【题目】An unhappy childhood may have some negative effects on a person's character; however, they are not always __________.

A. practical B. avoidable

C. permanent D. beneficial

【题目】Though he is always thinking much of himself, he ______ be helpful when staying with others.

A. can B. must C. should D. need

【题目】More than three billion people are at risk from indoor air pollution because of the heating or cooking fuels they use. Most live in Africa, India and China. They use wood, crop waste, animal waste or coal. These solid fuels may be the least costly fuels available. But they are also a major cause of health problems and death.

The Aprovecho Research Center has been designing cooking stoves for the developing world. People having less money use wood or biomass for cooking; the richer people use oil and gas. It's estimated that wood is running out more quickly than oil and gas.

The group has made stoves using mud, bricks, sheet metal, clay, ceramics and old oil drums. Most of the stoves look like large, deep cooking pots. They have an opening at the bottom for the fire and a place on top to put a pot.

In the late 1970s, Aprovecho produced a popular stove called the Lorena. The Lorena was good at reducing smoke and warming homes. But new tests years later found that it was not efficient. The used twice as much wood as an open fire, and took much longer to heat food. Since then, they have experimented with count-less other designs.

Their goal is to make an inexpensive stove—let's say five dollars— that makes little smoke, and it's safe for health and reduces global warming and deforestation(采伐森林).

Aprovecho has now partnered with a stove manufacturer in China. The company is making Aprovecho's first mass produced stoves. They are said to use 40% - 50% less wood than an open fire, and produce 50% -70% less smoke. A company called Stove-Tec is selling them through its Web site for less than ten dollars. Dean Still says that more than one hundred thousand have been sold so far.

【1】 The underlined word " biomass " ，in Paragraph 2 refers to __________

A. oil and gas B. wood

C. coal D. crop waste or animal waste

【2】 The following sentence is taken from the passage, it is probably placed at the end of __________.

A World Health Organization estimate that over 1,500,000 people a year die from breathing smoke from solid fuels.

A. Paragraph 1 B. Paragraph 2

C. Paragraph 3 D. Paragraph 4

【3】 Which information about the Lorena mentioned in Paragraph 4is WRONG?

A. It was a popular stove which began to produce in 1970.

B. It was able to be used to bring down smoke.

C. It was good at heating houses.

D. It turned to consume more fuel later.

【4】 Stoves the Aprovecho Research Center has been designing should have the following characteristics ：__________.

（1）enormous （2）costly （3）efficient (4)low-carbon (5) cleaner

A. 1. 2. 4 B. 3. 4. 5.

C. 2. 3. 5. D. 1. 3. 4.

【5】 You can probably read the passage in a magazine about __________

A climate change

B. financial crisis

C. an environmentally-friendly life

D. commercial advertisement

【题目】We lived in a quiet neighborhood. One evening I heard a loud crash. Earlier my wife had asked me to the store for soft drinks. My teenage daughter Holly practiced her driving, so I sent her to the store in my truck.

At dinner my son talked about how much he liked my truck. I enjoyed having it, but I said ： “My heart is not set on that truck. I like it but it is just metal and won't last forever. Never set your heart on anything that won't last. "

After hearing the loud noise, the whole family ran outside. My son shouted, ‘ Holly crashed your truck. ’

The accident had occurred in my own driveway. Holly had crashed my truck into our other vehicle, the family van. In her inexperience, she had confused the brake and the gas pedal. Holly was unhurt physically, but she was crying, “Dad, I'm sorry. I know how much you love this truck. ，" I held her in my arms as she cried.

Later a friend asked what had happened to my truck. I told her the whole story. She said, “That happened to me when I was a girl. I borrowed my dad's car and ran into a log that had fallen across the road. I ruined the car. When I got home my dad knocked me to the ground and began to kick me. “Over 40 years later, she still felt the pain of that night. It was a deep wound on her soul.

I remembered how sad Holly was the night she crashed our truck, and how I comforted her. When Holly thinks back on her life, I want her to know that I love her a thousand times more than any piece of property.

I repaired the van, but the dent in my truck is still there to-day. Every day it reminds me of what really matters in my life.

【1】 The reason why the author sent Holly to the store was that ____

A. Holly liked soft drinks

B. he wanted to teach her a lesson

C. he was busy preparing the meal

D. it would be a good time to let her practice driving

【2】 We can infer from the passage that __________.

A. the truck is the only vehicle in the author's family

B. the author's son don't like driving the truck at all

C. we shouldn't blame someone after an accident

D. the friend admired the author's love to Holly

【3】 From Paragraph 4 we can learn that __________ caused the crash.

A. the lack of Holly's driving experience

B. something wrong with the brake

C. a log falling across the road

D. a van parking on the driveway

【4】 Which of the following statements is right?

A. When the author saw the crash, he was sorry for the damage to the truck.

B. The author shows love is more important than possessions by comforting his daughter.

C. Holly suffered physical pain for a long time and lost courage to drive.

D. The friend's father kicked her out of the house.

【5】 The best title for the passage is __________.

A. Don't Let a Teenager Drive

B. An Accident in a Quiet Neighborhood

C. A Friend's Painful Stories

D. What Really Matters

【题目】It is described in her new book, one about sea life, ______this kind of fish lives in the deep sea.

A. which B. that C. what D. who

【题目】I really appreciate __________ to help me out.

A. you for lending me the money

B. your lending me the money

C. you to lend me the money

D. it that you lend me the money

【题目】Greg Woodburn, a student at the University of Southern California, spends much time cleaning sneakers. Some once belonged to him; some were his friends. But soon they will have new owners; underprivileged children in the US and 20 other countries, thanks to Woodburn's Share Our Shoes (S. 0. S.) charity.

He was once a football star in high school. " I started thinking about all the things I got from running—the health benefits, the friendships, the confidence, " he says. “And I realized there are children who don't even have shoes.”

Woodburn gathered up his own slightly worn sneakers, then put out a call to teammates and the town. His goal was to have 100pairs by Christmas 2007. Surprisingly the count climbed to 500pairs. Back then, the sneakers came from donation boxes at the local sporting goods store and from door-to-door pickups. Woodburn has now set up collection boxes at two high schools. To date, S. 0. S. has collected and donated over 3，000 pairs.

Woodburn has cleaned almost all of them. “People think of it as dirty work, “He says.” But I like doing it. As I work, I imagine who will get each pair. “It takes three to five minutes to clean one pair, and he'll do up to 100 pairs at a time.

To ship the footwear, Woodburn teamed with Sports Gift, a nonprofit organization that provides soccer and baseball equipment to children around the world, whose founder and president said Greg's running shoes were a nice addition. For many recipients, the shoes represent opportunity. Two boys in Southern California attended school on alternate(间隔的）days because they shared a pair of shoes. They were too big for one boy and too small the other. Thanks to S. 0. S. ，each brother received his own pair of shoes. The boys now attend school daily. When they graduate, they say, they will help a stranger, just as Woodburn helped them.

【1】 The underlined word “underprivileged " in Paragraph I most probably means __________.

A. modest B. poor

C. naughty D. aggressive

【2】 According to the passage, which of the following statement is false of Greg Woodburn?

A. Greg Woodburn was a football star when he was a senior student.

B. Greg Woodburn is the founder of Share Our Shoes (S. 0. S.).

C. Greg Woodburn has donated more than 100 shoes so far.

D. Greg Woodburn spends a lot of time cleaning almost all the shoes.

【3】 We can infer from Paragraph 3 that __________.

A. many people support Woodburn's Share Our Shoes (S. 0. S.)charity

B. Greg Woodburn collects shoes only by setting up collection boxes

C. high school students don't value their sneakers

D. Greg Woodburn collected 3，000 shoes by Christmas 2007

【4】 In the last paragraph the author mainly wants to tell us __________

A. Sports Gift is a department of Woodburn's S. 0. S.

B. there are so many poor families in Southern California.

C. the shoes from S. 0. S. are too big for some children.

D. the shoes from span>S. 0. S. play an important part in some children's life.

【5】 According to the passage, which of the following words can best describe Greg Woodburn?

A. Do-nothing. B. Hot-headed.

C. Warm-hearted. D. Self-serving.

【题目】Chile is a country of southwest South America with a long Pacific coastline. Santiago is the capital and the largest city. The population of the country is about 11，329，736.

A long time ago, Chile belonged to Spain, a European country, because it was colonized by Spain in 1541，Many of Chileans, how-ever, did not want to be ruled by Spain.

Led by Bernardo O'Higgins, some of them formed a small army. They attacked the Spanish soldiers at different times and different places.

This made the King of Spain very angry. He sent more soldiers to Chile to deal with them.

Although there were far more Spanish soldiers than freedom fighters, they refused to surrender and fought bravely.

At last, however, in 1814，they were forced to retreat to the town of Rancagua near Santiago. There, O'Higgins and his men were surrounded by the Spanish army and O'Higgins was wounded by an enemy bullet.

It seemed as if their fight for freedom were over. But O'Higgins refused to surrender. Even though he was wounded, he ordered his men to collect as many mules, cows, sheep and dogs as possible. Shouting at the top of his voice, he rode into the animals. Frightened, they began to run. They ran straight at the Spanish soldiers. Now it was the Spaniards' turn to be frightened. They turned and run away from the animals as fast as they could, allowing O'Higgins and his men to escape to the mountains.

There he built up his army, and in 1818 he defeated the Spanish and the country declared its independence. He then became the first president of the new, free nation in the same year.

【1】 The first paragraph is written mainly to __________.

A. show the location of Chile

B. offer supporting details

C. stress the importance of capital

D. give a general introduction and lead to the topic

【2】 According to the passage, Spanish governed Chile for about __________ years.

A. 1541 B. 273

C. 277 D. 400

【3】 Which description about Chile is NOT right?

A. Spain ruled Chile at one time.

B. Chile borders on the Pacific.

C. Chile lies in the southwest of South America.

D. Chile is one colony which belongs to Spain.

【4】 We can infer from the passage that __________.

A. Bernardo O'Higgins became the first president of the new Chile

B. Bernardo O'Higgins was not only brave but also intelligent

C. Bernardo O'Higgins was good at raising animals

D. Rancagua is far from Santiago

【5】 What doesn't happened in 1818?

A. O'Higgins broke through the enemy by using terrible animals.

B. Eventually, O'Higgins defeated the Spanish army,

C. Chile broke away from the rule of the King of Spain.

D. O'Higgins turned the first president of the free country.