My wife passed away a few years ago, and I went through the worst time in my life. I even wanted to
kill myself. Just for kids, I had to continue to live and work as small-town doctor at my medical clinic in
Hawaii. My kids had gone to live on the mainland, and I was alone. Then they asked me to have a family trip.
      On our trip, we turned on the TV at the motel and saw the second plane crash into the World Trade
Center. Seeing it falling down, I said to my kids:"I'm going to Afghanistan". And a few weeks later,
international Medical Corps sent me to set up 20 clinics in provinces where people had no health care.
     In these field clinics surrounded by frightening shoots or deadly bombs, we were eventually serving
27,000 patients a month in a very busy schedule. Tired and nervous, I gradually had a sense of achievement,
a sense of purpose, and my depression went away. In the years to follow, I went to Indonesia after the
tsunami, Pakistan after the earthquakes, Sudan after the civil warm and Iraq after more and more bombs.
Each time after disasters one after another, hundreds of people were killed, wounded and many more had to
flee. We once set up movable clinics in an area with 19,000 refugees, and it was supposed to hold 13,000
originally. Flu broke out, one of the biggest killers of kids in refugee camps, and it spread like wildfire. Water
and food were also serious problems."Adventures or not?" I often asked myself.
     When my wife passed away, I thought my life was done. But in reality, it was just getting started. At the
end of her life, she went unconscious. I held her head in my hands and told her of all the places we would
visit and the exciting adventures we would have.
      I think about the moment many times during my "adventures". I didn't know how predictive those words
would be. But I know that she is still with me.

1. Where has the doctor been in the past few years?

A. Some countries where he could set up clinics.
B. Some African countries where flu broke out.
C. The places where the earthquakes happened.
D. The places that the horrible disasters struck.

2. How would the doctor describe his life after he had worked in Afghanistan?

A. Tired and troublesome.
B. Busy and risky.
C. Meaningful and helpful
D. Frightening and depressing.

3. The underlined word "refugees" means people ______.

A. who are robbed, killed, or wounded
B. who suffer from flu in movable clinics
C. who like to take adventures
D. who have lost homes because of disasters.

4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? 

A. the doctor's wife encouraged him to work in foreign countries.
B. What the doctor said to his wife before her death became reality.
C. The doctor's adventures made him understand the love of his wife.
D. With the true love of his wife, the doctor started to change his life.

     It was a winter morning, just a couple of weeks before Christmas 2005. While most people were warming
up their cars, Trevor, my husband, had to get up early to ride his bike four kilometers away from home to work.
On arrival, he parked his bike outside the back door as he usually does. After putting in 10 hours of labor, he
returned to find his bike gone.
     The bike, a black Kona 18 speed, was our only transport. Trevor used it to get to work, putting in 60-hour
weeks to support his young family. And the bike was also used to get groceries (食品杂货), saving us from
having to walk long distances from where we live.
     I was so sad that someone would steal our bike that I wrote to the newspaper and told them our story.
Shortly after that, several people in our area offered to help. One wonderful stranger even bought a bike, then
called my husband to pick it up. Once again my husband had a way to get to and from his job. It really is an
honor that a complete stranger would go out of their way for someone they have never met before.
     People say that a smile can be passed from one person to another, but acts of kindness from strangers are
even more so. This experience has had a spreading effect in our lives because it strengthened our faith in
humanity (人性) as a whole. And it has influenced (影响) us to be more mindful of ways we, too, can share
with others. No matter how big or how small, an act of kindness shows that someone cares. And the results
can be everlasting.

1. Why was the bike so important to the couple?

A. The man's job was bike racing.
B. It was their only possession.
C. It was a nice Kona 18 speed.
D. They used it for work and daily life.

2. We can infer from the text that _____.

A. the couple worked 60 hours a week
B. people were busy before Christmas
C. the stranger brought over the bike
D. life was hard for the young family

3. How did people get to know the couple's problem?

A. From radio broadcasts.
B. From a newspaper.
C. From TV news.
D. From a stranger.

4. What do the couple learn from their experience?

A. Strangers are usually of little help.
B. One should take care of their bike.
C. News reports make people famous.
D. An act of kindness can mean a lot.

     No one is glad to hear that his body has to be cut open by a surgeon (外科医生) and part of it taken out.
Today, however, we needn't worry about feeling pain during the operation. The sick person falls into a kind
of sleep, and when he awakes, the operation is finished. But these happy conditions are fairly new. It is not
many years since a man who had to have operation felt all its pain.
     Long ago, operation had usually to be done while the sick man could feel everything. The sick man had to
be held down on a table by force while the doctors did their best for him. He could feel all the pain if his leg or
arm was being cut off, and his fearful cries filled the room and the hearts of those who watched.
     Soon after 1770, Josept Priestley discovered a gas which is now called "laughing gas". Laughing gas
became known in America. Young men and women went to parties to try it. Most of them spent their time
laughing, but one man at a party, Horace Wells, noticed that people didn't seem to feel pain when they were
using this gas. He decided to make an experiment on himself. He asked a friend to help him.
     Wells took some of the gas, and his friend pulled out one of Well's teeth. Wells felt no pain at all. As he
didn't know enough about laughing gas, he gave a man less gas than he should have. The man cried out with
pain when his tooth was being pulled out.
     Wells tried again, but this time he gave too much of the gas, and the man died. Wells never forgot this
terrible event.

1. It is _______since a man being operated felt all the pain.

A. a few more years
B. not long
C. few years
D. two thousand years

2. Long ago, when the sick man was operated on, he ________.

A. could feel nothing
B. could not want anything
C. could feel all the pain
D. could do anything

3. Using the laughing gas, the people did not seem to ________.

A. be afraid of anything
B. feel pain
C. want to go to the parties
D. be ill

4. If a man took less laughing gas than he should have when an operation went on he _______.

A. felt nothing
B. felt very comfortable
C. still felt pain
D. would die

     I lived in Amsterdam in the Netherlands 1._______ World War II. My family was Jewish, so we had to
hide away 2._______ a year and a half in order 3._______ (not catch) by the German Nazis. During that time
I wasn't able to go outdoors for so long that I grew so crazy 4._______ everything 5._______ (do with) nature.
Once, I decided to look at the moon at midnight 6._______ myself.
     But I didn't dare 7._______ (open) the window 8._______ ( see) the night face to face because I was afraid
of 9._______ (discover) by the Nazis.
     I felt very lonely without 10._______ (see) my old friends. So I had to make a new friend-my diary Kitty,
whom I could tell everything to. Sadly, at last my family was discovered and 11._______ (catch) by the
German Nazis some time later.

     A German taxi-driver, Franz Bussman, recently found a brother who was thought to have been killed
twenty years before.
     While on a walking tour with his wife, he stopped to talk to a workman. After they had gone on, Mrs
Bussman commented on the workman's close resemblance to her husband and even suggested that he
might be his brother. Franz poured scorn on the idea, pointing out that his brother had been killed in action
during the war. Though Mrs. Bussman was fully acquainted with this story, she thought that there was a
chance in a million that she might be right.
     A few days later, she sent a boy to the workman to ask him if his name was Hans Bussman, Needless
to say, the man's name was Hans Bussman and he really was Franz's long-lost brother. When the brothers
were re-united, Hans explained how it was that he was still alive.
     After having been wounded towards the end of the war, he had been sent to hospital and was separated
from his unit. The hospital had been bombed and Hans had made his way back into Western Germany on
foot. Meanwhile, his unit was lost and all records of him had been destroyed. Hans returned to his family
home, but the house had been bombed and no one in the neighborhood knew what had become of the
inhabitants. Assuming that his family had been killed during an air-raid (空袭), Hans settled down in a Village
fifty miles away where he had remained ever since.

1. Which of the following can be used as the best title of the passage?

A. Living Not Far
B. A Chance in a Million
C. Coming Back to Life
D. Back after the War

2. Why did Franz laugh at his wife's idea?

A. Because Franz believed that his brother had already been killed in the war.
B. Because Franz believed that many people looked closely like his brother.
C. Because Franz thought that his wife was just joking.
D. Because Franz believed there was a chance in a million that the workman was his brother.

3. Which of the following orders is right?
    a. He walked back to Western Germany.
    b. He was wounded when the war was coming to the end.
    c. The hospital was destroyed by bombs.
    d. He came back to his family house.
    e. He was sent to hospital. f. His unit of German didn't exist any longer.

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

     The clock struck eleven at night. The whole house was quiet. Everyone was in bed except me. Under the
strong light, I looked sadly before me at a huge pile of that troublesome stuff (东西) they call "books".
     I was going to have my examination the next day."When can I go to bed?" I asked myself. I didn't answer,
In fact I dared not.
     The clock struck twelve."Oh, dear!" I cried."Ten more books to read before I can go to bed!" We pupils
are the most unhappy creatures in the world. Dad does not agree with me on this. He did not have to work so
hard when he was a boy.
      The clock struck one. I was quite desperate (绝望的) now. I forgot all I had learned. I was too tired to go
on. I did the only thing I could. I prayed, "Oh, God, please help me pass the exam tomorrow. I do promise to
work hard afterwards, Amen." My eyes were so heavy that I could hardly open them. A few minutes later,
with my head on the desk, I fell asleep.

1. When the author was going over his lessons, all the others in the house were _____.

A. asleep
B. outside
C. working in bed
D. quietly laughing at him

2. Reviewing his lessons didn't help him because ______ .

A. it was too late at night
B. he was very tired
C. his eyes lids were so heavy that he couldn't keep them open
D. he hadn't studied hard before the examination

3. What do you suppose happened to the author the second day?

A. He went to a church to pray again
B. He got an A in the exam
C. He failed in the exam
D. He was punished by his teacher

4. The best title for the passage would be ______.

A. The Night Before the Examination
B. Working Far into the Night
C. A Slow Student
D. Going Over My Lessons