--- Do the Smiths live next door to you?

    --- No, but they          ．

       A．used to     B．used to do C．used to doing   D．used to be

The meeting___ last night was a great success and all the disagreements got ___.

A. to be held; settled                                 B. held; settled   

C. holding; settling                                   D. being held; settled

It is difficult for doctors to help a person with a damaged brain. Without enough blood, the brain lives for only three to five minutes. More often the doctors can’t fix the damage. Sometimes they are afraid to try something to help because it is dangerous to work on the brain. The doctors might make the person worse if he operates on the brain.

Dr. Robert White, a famous professor and doctor, thinks he knows a way to help. He thinks doctors should make the brain very cold. If it is very cold, the brain can live without blood for 30 minutes. This gives the doctor a longer time to do something for the brain.

Dr. White tried his idea on 13 monkeys. First he taught them to do different jobs, then he operated on them. He made the monkeys’ blood back to the monkeys’ brains. When the brain’s temperature was 10℃, Dr. White stopped the blood to the brain. After 30 minutes he turned the blood back on. He warmed the blood again. After their operations the monkeys were like they had been before. They were healthy and busy. Each one could still do the jobs the doctor had taught them.

The biggest difficulty in operating on the damaged brain is that        .

        A. the time is too short for doctors     B. the patients are often too nervous

        C. the damage is extremely hard to fix       D. the blood-cooling machine might break down

The brain operation was made possible mainly by        .

A. taking the blood out of the brain          B. trying the operation on monkeys first

C. having the blood go through a machine   D. lowering the brain’s temperature

With Dr. White’s new idea, the operation on the damaged brain        .

A. can last as long as 30 minutes       B. can keep the brain’s blood warm

C. can keep the patient’s brain healthy  D. can help monkeys do different jobs

What is the right order of the steps in the operations?

a. send the cooled back to the brain      b. stop the blood to the brain

c. have the blood cooled down      d. operate on the brain

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

Which of the following is not true?

A. If there isn’t enough blood, the brain can live for only three to five minutes.

B. If the brain is very cold, it can live without blood for half an hour.

C. Dr. White tried his idea for thirteen times.

D. After their operations, the monkeys were healthy and busy again.

The Blind Boy

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a    11       which said: I am blind, please help. There were only a few    12   in the hat.

A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his    13    and dropped them into the hat. He    14    took the sign, turned it around and wrote some words. He    15    the sign so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to    16   . A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy.

That afternoon the man who had     17    the sign came to see how things were. The boy     18     his footsteps and asked, “Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?”

The man said: “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said in a different way, though.” What he had written was: “Today is a (n)    19    day and I cannot see it.”

Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?

Of course both sign simply said the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were so    20    that they were not blind.

       Should we be surprised that the second sign was more    21    ?

Be thankful for what you have. When life gives you 100 reasons to cry, show life that you have 1,000 reasons to    22   . Face your past without regret(后悔).    23    your present with confidence(自信). Prepare for the    24    without fear. Keep the faith（信念）and    25  the fear.

A. cover          B. sign         C. board             D. note

A. cashes         B. treasures      C. pennies           D. coins

A. pocket         B. can          C. backpack          D. case

A. still           B. then          C. already           D. yet

A. put on         B. put out        C. put off           D. put back

A. mix up        B. show up       C. fill up            D. make up

A. changed       B. prepared       C. supported         D. reached

A. realized       B. recognized     C. felt               D. discovered

A. average       B. successful      C. harmonious        D. beautiful

A. happy        B. disappointed    C. lucky             D. strange

A. effective      B. brave          C. surprising         D. scientific

A. smile        B. exist          C. survive            D. prove

A. Look into     B. Search for       C. Deal with         D. Depend on

A. tomorrow     B. adventure       C. future            D. sunrise

A. preserve      B. charge          C. keep             D. drop

You will see this product made in this factory ______ wherever you go.

A. to be advertised   B. advertise   C. advertised  D. advertising

Complete the following passage by filling in each blank with one word that best fits the context.

On November 2nd San Francisco became the first major US city to pass a law on controlling give-away toys with unhealthy restaurant meals marketed at kids.

______law will take effect on December 1， 2011. It is required that kids’ meals

       meet certain nutritional standards        they can be sold with free toys.

McDonald’s officials were angry with the decision，       effectively bans their popular Happy Meals.

But supporters say       aims to promote healthy habits while combating child obesity(肥胖). “This is a challenge to the restaurant industry to think about children’s health first，” said San Francisco Supervisor Eric Mar.

About 15 percent of American             are overweight or obese， which puts them        risk of developing heart disease， cancer， etc. In some states， the childhood obesity rate is over 30 percent.

McDonald’s started to sell the Happy Meals in 1979 with toys. In 2006， fast-food companies spent more than $520 million on advertising and toys to promote meals   children， according to the US government.

Cheating can happen in a lot of different ways. When people cheat, it’s not fair to other people, like the kids who studied for the test or who were the true winners of a game.

Many people like the action of cheating. It makes difficult things seem easy, like getting all the right answers on the test. But it doesn’t solve the problem of not knowing the material and it won’t help on the next test --- unless the person cheats again.

Some people lose respect for cheaters and think less of them. The cheaters themselves may feel bad because they know they are not really earning that good grade. And, if they get caught cheating, they will be in trouble at school, and maybe at home, too.

Some kids cheat because they’re busy or lazy and they want to get good grades without spending the time studying. Other kids might feel like they can’t pass the test without cheating. Even when there seems to be a “good reason” for cheating, cheating isn’t a good idea.

If you were sick or upset about something the night before and couldn’t study, it would be better to talk with the teacher about this. And if you don’t have enough time to study for a test because of swim practice, you need to talk with your parents about how to balance swimming and school. A kid who thinks cheating is the only way to pass a test needs to talk with the teacher and his or her parents so they can find some solutions together. Talking about these problems and working them out will feel better than cheating.（291 words）

Some students like cheating mainly because_________.

       A. the material in the test is very difficult

       B. they want to do better than the others

       C. cheating can make hard things seem very easy

       D. they have little time to study their lessons

We can learn from the passage______.

A. cheaters are often thought highly of

B. people show no respect for those who cheat

C. parents whose kids cheat are often in trouble

D. kids cheat in the test because of swim practice

In the passage those cheaters are advised to_______.

       A. spend more time on school than on sports

       B. find good solutions instead of cheating

       C. try hard to be intelligent rather than lazy

       D. ask their classmates for good methods of study

苏格兰(Scotland)歌手“苏珊大妈”凭借选秀节目《英国达人》在2009年脱颖而出。她的故事仿佛一部现代童话，带给无数人启迪和激励。

请你根据下面的素材写一篇110词左右的英语短文，介绍苏珊大妈的经历，并谈谈她的成名经历给你的启发。

1. 苏珊·波伊儿（Susan Boyle）从小梦想成为职业歌手；

2. 苏珊多次参加选秀节目被拒，但她从不放弃梦想；

3．2009年4月，47岁的苏珊参加了《英国达人》（Britain’s Got Talent），一曲《我曾有梦》（I dreamed A dream）使她成名，并最终圆了她的歌手梦。

参考词汇：职业的professional;  激励inspire.

        选秀节目talent shows

She spoke very confidently because she wanted to make a great       on her employer.

A. influence            B. pressure          C. impression         D. Effect

Rather than ______ on a crowded bus, he always prefers　_____a bicycle．

A. ride; ride　  B. riding; ride  　 C. ride; to ride D. to ride; riding