32. —Mom, I can’t see any point in working hard at all the subjects at school.

— Come on, dear. Years of hard work will surely ____ in the future of your career.

A.make sure   B. pay off              C. bring back               D. pay back

HARTLAND, Wis. (AP) — Lauren Panos was surprised when she walked into her ninth-grade English class in the fall and saw there were no boys.

Her parents had not told her they had enrolled her in a new all-girls class at Arrowhead High School in Hartland. Panos still isn't sold on the idea.

"All the girls there, they can talk out of turn," the 14-year-old said. "We are bored of tasks and it's really upsetting."

More public school systems are looking at separating boys and girls, whether for certain classes or by total schools, after the federal government opened the door last fall. Supporters say separating students by sex helps them learn better and allows boys and girls to explore subjects they may not otherwise take.

"Boys just make a bigger trouble in the class," Panos' classmate, Alyson Douglas, 15, said “I likes not worrying about boys causing disruptions.”

Presently, nationwide, at least 253 public schools offer single-sex classes and 51 schools are entirely single sex, according to the National Association for Single Sex Public Education. In1995, just three public schools offered single-sex classes.

Critics of same-sex classrooms argue that proven methods of improving education should be carried out instead of one that divides boys and girls.

"Too many schools feel they can carry out a social experiment with students' education with really the weakest of theories," said Emily Martin, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Women's Rights Project.

Single-sex schools are an "illusionary(错觉的) silver bullet," said Lisa Maatz, director of public policy and government relations for the American Association of University Women. They distract(分散) from real problems and do not offer proven solutions such as lower class sizes and enough funding, she said.

"I would suggest that for many of our kids and families, especially in Milwaukee, it's a question of choice," Spence said. "We have a series of choices in Milwaukee and I just think this should be one additional choice."

66．What surprised Lauren Panos was that_______ when she walked into the class.

       A．her classmates were all boys.           B．her classmates were all girls.

       C．the boys were all absent from class.      D．she went into the wrong class.

67．From what Panos said we can learn that ______.

       A．Panos thinks that the idea is very good for they can talk freely.

       B．Panos doesn’t accept the fact that girls in her class have to finish many tasks.

       C．Panos doesn’t like the idea that boys and girls are in separate classes.

       D．Panos prefers to study in a class in which there are only boys.

68．The underlined word “disruptions” in the fifth paragraph most probably means ______.

       A．trouble          B．danger   C．interest         D．happiness

69．Critics don’t support the idea of single-sex schooling mainly because_______.

      A．boys will cause more trouble and girls will hate studying.

      B．single-sex schooling that is not a proven idea can leave out key problems

      C．it doesn’t help students develop fully and healthily

      D．it can excite students to explore the unknown

70．The passage is probably taken from_________.

      A．a newspaper                     B．a magazine   

       C．a book of education           D．A TV programme

There are about fifteen hundred languages in the world.But ___1___ a few of them are very ___2___. English is one of these. Many, many people use it, not only in England and the U. S. A, but in other parts of the world. About 200, 000, 000 speak it as their own language. It is difficult to say how many people are learning it as a ___3___ language. Many millions are ___4___ to do so.

Is it easy or difficult to learn English? Different people may have different ___5___. Have you ever ___6___ the ads of this kind in the newspapers or magazines?

“Learn English in six month, or your ___7___ back ...” “Easy and funny? Our records and tapes ___8___ you master your English in a month. ___9___ the first day your ___10___ will be excellent. Just send ...” Of course, it never ___11___ quite like this.

The only language that seems easy to learn is the mother tongue. We should ___12___ that we all learned our own language well when we were ___13___. If we could learn English in the same way, it would not seem so difficult. ___14___ what a small child does. He listens to what people say. He tries what he hears. When he is using the language, talking in it, and ___15___ in it all the time, just imagine how much ___16___ that gets!

So it is ___17___ to say that learning English is easy, because a good command of English ___18___ upon a lot of practice. And practice needs great effort and ___19___ much time. Good teachers, records, tapes, books, and dictionaries will ___20___. But they cannot do the student’s work for him.

1. A. not           B. quite          C. only           D. very

2. A. difficult       B. important      C. necessary      D. easy

3. A. native          B. foreign         C. useful        D. mother

4. A. learning       B. enjoying        C. trying         D. liking

5. A. questions            B. problems      C. ideas          D. answers

6. A. found          B. watched       C. noticed          D. known

7. A. knowledge     B. time          C. money              D. English

8. A. make           B. help           C. let              D. allow

9. A. From           B. On            C. Since         D. After

10. A. spelling      B. grammar       C. English          D. pronunciation

11. A. happened      B. know               C. seemed         D. felt

12. A. know        B. remember       C. understand    D. think

13. A. students           B. children          C. babies        D. grown-ups

14. A. Imagine           B. Mind           C. Do             D. Think of

15. A. using       B. thinking     C. trying         D. practicing

16. A. time         B. money          C. language        D. practice

17. A. hard        B. easy              C. funny         D. silly

18. A. depends     B. tries            C. has            D. takes

19. A. uses        B. takes             C. gets           D. costs

20. A. do         B. work            C. help           D. master

He has been called the “missing link.” Half-man, half-beast. He is supposed to live in the highest mountain in the world-Mount Everest.

He is known as the Abominable Snowman. The   1   of the Snowman has been around for    __2  . Climbers in the 1920s reported finding marks like those of human feet high up on the side of Mound Everest. The native people said they   3   this creature and called it the “Yeti,”and they said that they had   4   caught Yetis on two occasions   5   none has ever been produced an evidence（证据）.

Over the years, the story of the Yetis has   6   . In 1951, Eric Shipton took photographs of a set of tracks in the snow of Everest. Shipton believed that they were not   7   the tracks of a monkey or bear and   8   that the Abominable Snowman might really   9  .

Further efforts have been made to find out about Yetis. But the only things people have ever found were   10   footprints. Most believe the footprints are nothing more than   11   animal tracks, which had been made   12    as the melted（融化）and refroze in the snow.   13  , in 1964, a Russian scientist said that the Abominable Snowman was   14   and was a remaining link with the prehistoric humans. But,   15  . no evidence has ever   16   been produced.

These days, only a few people continue to take the story of the Abominable Snowman   __17  . But if they ever   18   catching one, they may face a real   19  : Would they put it in a   20   or give it a room in a hotel?

1. A. event                          B. story                      C. adventure               D. description

2. A. centuries                    B. too long                  C. some time              D. many years

3. A. heard from                 B. cared for                C. knew of                 D. read about

4. A. even                           B. hardly                    C. certainly                 D. probably

5. A. as                              B. though                   C. when                     D. until

6. A. developed                   B. changed                 C. occurred                D. continued

7. A. entirely                       B. naturally                 C. clearly                   D. simply

8. A. found                         B. declared                 C. felt                        D. doubled

9. A. exist                           B. escape                    C. disappear               D. return

10. A. clearer                      B. more                      C. possible                 D. rare

11. A. huge                         B. recent                    C. ordinary                 D. frightening

12. A. strange                     B. large                      C. deep                      D. rough

13. A. In the end                 B. Therefore               C. After all                  D. However

14. A. imagined                   B. real                        C. special                   D. familiar

15. A. so                            B. besides                   C. again                     D. instead

16. A. rightly                      B. actually                  C. normally                D. particularly

17. A. lightly                       B. jokingly                  C. seriously                D. properly

18. A. succeed in                B. insist on                 C. depend on              D. join in

19. A. decision                    B. situation                 C. subject                   D. problem

20. A. zoo                          B. mountain                C. museum                 D. laboratory

Evelyn Glennie was the first lady of solo percussion in Scotland. In an interview, she recalled how she became a percussion soloist (打击乐器独奏演员) in spite of her disability.

“Early on I decided not to allow the  36  of others to stop me from becoming a musician. I grew up on a farm in northeast Scotland and began  37  piano lessons when I was eight. The older I got, the more my passion (酷爱) for music grew. But I also began to gradually lose my  38 . Doctors concluded that the nerve damage was the  39  and by age twelve, I was completely deaf. But my love for music never  40  me.

“My  41  was to become a percussion soloist, even though there were none at that time. To perform, I  42  to hear music differently from others. I play in my stocking feet and can  43  the pitch of a note (音调高低) by the vibrations (振动). I feel through my body and through my  44 . My entire sound world exists by making use of almost every  45  that I have.

“I was  46  to be assessed as a musician, not as a deaf musician, and I applied to the famous Royal Academy of Music in London. No other deaf student had  47  this before and some teachers  48  my admission. Based on my performance, I was  49  admitted and went to  50  with the academy’s highest honours.

“After that, I established myself as the first full-time solo percussionist. I  51  and arranged a lot of musical compositions since  52  had been written specially for solo percussionists.

“I have been a soloist for over ten years.  53  the doctor thought a was totally deaf, it didn’t  54  that my passion couldn’t be realized. I would encourage people not to allow themselves to be  55  by others. Follow your passion; follow your heart, they will lead you to to the place you want to go.”

36．A．conditions        B．opinions          C．actions             D．recommendations

37．A．enjoying          B．choosing          C．taking              D．giving

38．A．sight            B．hearing            C．touch            D．taste

39．A．evidence          B．result            C．excuse             D．cause

40．A．left              B．excited            C．accompanied    D．disappointed

41．A．purpose           B．decision           C．promise           D．goal

42．A．turned             B．learned            C．used             D．ought

43．A．tell               B．see               C．hear             D．smell

44．A．carefulness       B．movement        C．imagination      D．experience

45．A．sense            B．effort                  C．feeling             D．idea

46．A．dissatisfied       B．astonished        C．determined       D．discouraged

47．A．done            B．accepted          C．advised            D．admitted

48．A．supported        B．followed          C．required           D．opposed

49．A．usually            B．finally             C．possibly           D．hopefully

50．A．study            B．research           C．graduate          D．progress

51．A．wrote              B．translated         C．copied             D．read

52．A．enough            B．some            C．many            D．few

53．A．However         B．Although         C．When              D．Since

54．A．mean            B．seem            C．conclude          D．say

55．A．directed           B．guided             C．taught              D．limited

---You speak very good English.  ---____.

A. Thank you    B. No, not at all   C.My English is poor   D.I don't think so

See the clouds! It ___ rain.

A. will   B. is going to   C. must     D. certainly

— I’m terribly sorry that I have forgotten the reference book you lent me yesterday.

    — ________!

       A．Never mind     B．Not at all  C．You’re welcome      D．With pleasure

Most people say “yes” much more readily than “no”.

A friend is moving house this weekend and would like some help, and you agree. But, what you really wanted was a couple of quiet days relaxing at home. Or a roommate spends the entire weekends playing video games and wants to borrow your homework for “reference”. But, you’ve just finished it after taking a whole day to work hard.

Many people say “yes” to these kinds of requests. They tend not to consider their own interests and feelings, and are often angry with themselves afterwards .

Saying “no” requires courage and considerable practice, in fact, according to psychologists .

“Everyone wants to be liked,” says Gabriele Steinki, a German psychologist. “Saying ‘no’ risks losing the affection of the person asking the favor or even a job.”

The result is that many people say “yes” just for keeping the peace. But experts say this is regrettable . Anyone should have the right to say “no”.

In fact, rejecting (拒绝) a request can even help to strengthen a relationship because it expresses a true feeling.

But, for people Used to agreeing to every request, changing can be a long and uncomfortable learning process.

Most people believe that “If I say ‘no’, I'll lose the affection of the person. But the affection is important to me.” This way of thinking can be replaced by this: “If he only likes me because I always do what suits him , then the price of his affection is too high in the long term.”

Steinki says the key is talking to the other person to find a mutual (相互的) solution. “One heeds to present the situation from one’s own point of view, and to suggest how the situation can be dealt with to the advantage of both parties. The other person must have the feeling that his interests are being considered.”

When the refusal is not accepted, Steinki advises giving the reasons calmly again until the person gets the message .

56. Most people say “yes” much more readily than “no” because ________.

A. they don’t care about their own interests and feelings

B. they don’t know they will regret afterwards

C. they have already been used to saying “yes”

D. they care more about others’ affection

57. In the opinion of experts, _________ .

A. people need a lot of practice to say “no”

B. people should say “yes” to keep the peace

C. saying “no” means losing a job

D. people have the right to be liked

58.According to the writer, what should you do if you want to refuse the other person’s request?

A. Just say you can’t help him.

B. Say sorry to him.

C. Refuse him clearly.

D. Talk to the other person to find a mutual way.

59.According to the writer, what should you do if your refusal is not accepted?

A. Say yes to him.                              B. Repeat your reason for his acceptance（接受，认可）

C. Just go away                                  D. Say no to him

60. What is the best title of the passage?

A. You Need Courage To Say “No”   B. “Yes” More Than “No”

C Anyone Has The Right To Say “No” D. It’s Hard To Say “No”

The meeting ________ in the hall tomorrow is about environment protection.

A．is being held   B．to be held        C．held  D．being held