My father was in the navy, which meant that my mother was married to both my father and the sea. As was often the case, we had to pack our belongings into boxes and  21  those we had grown to love. We would arrive at our new home and find ourselves once again  22  at the pier (码头) waving good-bye to my father as his  23  pulled him away from us. My mother would turn my brother and I around before the ship was out of  24 , wipe our tears, and take us back home to start the process of

 25  in the new environment again.

Throughout the years of changing  26 , schools and friends, there remained one constant in my childhood — my mother. For both my  27  and I, she was the cook, maid and teacher. She played these roles while  28  some type of part-time job. Leaving a promising career is just one of the  29  which my mother made for my family as we moved around the world with our father every three years or so.

 30  she had to deal with only a small budget, my mother,  31 , managed to make each house to be the very home that is safe and  32 .

This probably sounds like a depressing way to live,  33  with two small children: “single” parenthood, short-term friendships, and the inability (无能) to  34  a career or establish a home. But it was not for my mother. She turned this  35  into adventure for us all! Each relocation (变换位置) was a

chance to  36  another part of the world. My mother greeted each new culture, climate and neighborhood. Each new house was a  37  to rearrange furniture, make curtains and  38  pictures. Every part-time job was an opportunity to learn something new and work with interesting people.

No matter how difficult the life was, she was always having a  39  attitude.She always had strength in the face of struggle and change. My mother was so  40  all those years during my childhood — she was my island in a sea of change. She is my hero.

A. leave behindB. leave out       C. leave off    D. leave for

A. living     B. staring       C. standing     D. going

A. car   B. ship    C. train   D. plane

A. range      B. shape  C. sight   D. control

A. adapting  B. suiting       C. matching    D. fitting

A. names     B. jobs    C. addresses    D. directions

A. father      B. classmates  C. brother       D. relatives

A. performing     B. seeking      C. waiting   D. applying

A. programs B. sacrifices    C. contribution          D. cooperation

A. Once     B. While C. When  D. Unless

A. somewhere    B. somewhat   C. sometime   D. somehow

A. romantic       B. comfortable       C. mysterious  D. wealthy

A. generally      B. actually      C. especially   D. unfairly

A. desert    B. develop      C. affect  D. limit

A. lifestyle B. value  C. journey      D. opportunity

A. acquire  B. explore      C. occupy       D. realize

A. load      B. sadness       C. result  D. challenge

A. hang      B. draw   C. take    D. sell

A. changeable    B. cautious     C. positive      D. negative

A. experiencedB. brave     C. ordinary     D. annoyed

The goal is to make higher education available to everyone who is willing and capable, ______

his financial situation.

A. with respect to  B. in accord with               C. regardless of            D. in terms of

The audience were deeply impressed by his speech with tears _________ their eyes.

      A. to fill                          B. filling                   C. filled                    D. to be filled

When the boss got to the factory ________ midnight, he found it ________ ruins.

A. on; in               B. at; under            C. at; in                       D. on; under

There are still many things that Peter Cooke would like to try his hand at — paper-making and feather-work are on his list. For the moment, though, he will stick to the skill that he has been delighted to make perfect over the past ten years: making delicate and unusual objects out of shells.

As he leads me round his apartment showing me his work, he points to a pair of shell-covered ornaments(装饰品) above a fireplace. “I shan’t be at all bothered if people don’t buy them because I have got so used to them, and to me they’re lovely. I never meant to sell my work commercially. Some friends came to see me about five years ago and said, ‘You must have an exhibition — people ought to see these. We’ll talk to a man who owns an art gallery’”. The result was an exhibition in London, at which 70 per cent of the objects were sold. His second exhibition opened at the gallery yesterday. Considering the enormous prices the pieces command —around ￡2,000 for the ornaments — an empty space above the fireplace would seem a small sacrifice for Cooke to make.

There are 86 pieces in the exhibition, with prices starting at￡225 for a shell-flower in a crystal vase. Cooke insists that he has nothing to do with the prices and is cheerily open about their level: he claims there is nobody else in the world who produces work like his, and, as the gallery-owner told him, “Well, you’re going to stop one day and everybody will want your pieces because there won’t be any more.”

“I do wish, though,” says Cooke, “that I’d taken this up a lot earlier, because then I would have been able to produce really wonderful things — at least the potential would have been there. Although the ideas are still there and I’m doing the best I can now, I’m more limited physically than I was when I started.” Still, the work that he has managed to produce is a long way from the common shell constructions that can be found in seaside shops. “I have a miniature(微型的) mind,” he says, and this has resulted in boxes covered in thousands of tiny shells, little shaded pictures made from shells and baskets of astonishingly realistic flowers.?

Cooke’s quest(追求) for beautiful, and especially tiny, shells has taken him further than his Norfolk shore: to France, Thailand, Mexico, South Africa and the Philippines, to name but a few of the beaches where he has lain on his stomach and looked for beauties to bring home. He is insistent that he only collects dead shells and defends himself against people who write him letters accusing him of stripping the world’s beaches. “When I am collecting shells, I hear people’s great fat feet crunching(嘎吱嘎吱地踩) them up far faster than I can collect them; and the ones that are left, the sea breaks up. I would not dream of collecting shells with living creatures in them or diving for them, but once their occupants have left, why should I not collect them?” If one bases this argument on the amount of luggage that can be carried home by one man, the beauty of whose work is often greater than its natural parts, it becomes very convincing indeed.

What does the reader learn about Peter Cooke in the first paragraph?

A. He has produced hand-made objects in different materials.?

B. He hopes to work with other materials in the future.?

C. He has written about his love of making shell objects.?

D. He was praised for his shell objects many years ago. 

When mentioning the cost of his shell objects, Cooke ____.

       A. cleverly changes the subject.

       B. defends the prices charged for his work.

       C. says he has no idea why the level is so high.

       D. notes that his work will not always be so popular.

The “small sacrifice” in Paragraph 2 refers to _________.?

A. the loss of Cooke’s ornaments?          B. the display of Cooke’s ornaments?

C. the cost of keeping Cooke’s ornaments    D. the space required to store Cooke’s ornaments

What does Cooke regret about his work?

A. He is not as famous as he should have been.?B. He makes less money than he should make.

C. He is less imaginative than he used to be.?    D. He is not as skillful as he used to be. ?

What does the reader learn about Cooke's shell-collecting activities?

A. Not everyone approves of what he does.

B. Other methods might make his work easier.

C. Other tourists get in the way of his collecting.

D. Not all shells are the right size and shape for his work

Michael ________ football regularly for many years when he was young.

A. was playing          B. played    C. has played       D. had played

Can you tell me ____ the Olympic Village?

       A. how I can get to                             B. how can I get to

       C. where I can get to                          D. where can I get to

Warning: reading too much Cinderella to your daughter may damage her emotional health in later life. A paper to be developed at the international congress of cognitive psychotherapy(认知心理疗法) in Gothenburg suggests a link between the attitudes of women abused by their parents and early exposure to the wrong sort of fairy tales. It says girls who identified with Cinderella, Rapunzel and Beauty in Beauty and the Beast were more likely to say in destructive relationships as adults.

The theory was developed by Susan Darker Smith, a psychotherapist at the University of Derby. She interviewed 67 female abuse survivors and found that 61 put up with severe abuse because they believed they could change their partners with patience, composition and love. The same view was taken by male survivors who had been abused as children. Hardly any of the women in a control group, who had not experienced abuse, thought they could change their partners in this way.

    The same view was taken by male survivors who had been abused as children. These women and men said they would leave a relationship rather than put up with abuse from a partner. Ms Darker Smith found the abused women were much more likely to identify with Cinderella and other submissive female characters in fairytales, who were later rescued by a stranger prince or hero.

Although most girls heard the stories, damage appeared to be done to those who adopted the characters as role models. “They believe if their love is strong enough they can change their parents’ behaviors,” she said.” Overexposure in children to stories that emphasize the transformational qualities of love may make women believe they can change their partners.” For example, they might never have understood the obvious flaw in the story of Rapunzel, who remained locked in a high tower until rescued by a knight on a white horse, who broke the door down. “The question,” said Ms Darker Smith, “is why she did not break the door down herself.”

The passage is especially intended for _________.

       A．parents with young daughters

       B．girls who like reading fairy stories

       C．girls who think they can change their partners

       D．parents with grown-up daughters

Cinderella, Rapunzel and Beauty in Beauty and the Beast are similar in that _________.

       A．They all married some princes

       B．They all changed their partners with love

       C．They were all abused by their partners

       D．They all put up with abuse

Which of the following statements is true of the women in a control group?

       A．They don’t believe in fairy tales.

       B．They don’t believe in the transformational qualities of love.

       C．They have also experienced abuse.

       D．They survived abuse.

What does the underlined word “submissive”in the 3rd paragraph probably mean?

       A．kind-hearted    B．passive     C．gentle      D．easy-going

Shanghai is          most beautiful city and we are excited that the 2010 World Expo has been             great success.

       A．a; a   B．the; a      C．a; the      D．the; the

Everyone was silent as the organizer ________ the result of the speech competition.

A. announced  B. pronounced       C. arranged     D. instructed