If only I _____ a few days ago！Then I wouldn’t have been feeling so worried now.

       A．looked ahead           B．could look ahead   

       C．were to look ahead     D．had looked ahead

My mother was a household servant. Through her work, she observed that successful people spent a lot more time reading than they did watching television. She announced that my brother and I could only watch two to three pre-selected TV programs during the week. With our free time, we had to read two books each from the Detroit Public Library and write book reports. She would mark them up with check marks. Years later we realized her marks were a ruse. My mother had only received a third-grade education. Although we had no money, between the covers of those books, I could go anywhere, do anything and be anybody.

When I entered high school, I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went form being an A- student to a B- student to a C-student, but I didn’t care.

One night my mother came home and I complained about not having enough shirts. She said, “Okay, I’ll give you all the money I make this week cleaning floors and bathrooms, and you can buy the family food and pay the bills. With everything left over, you can have all the shirts you want.”

I was very pleased with that arrangement but once I got through allocating(分配) money, there was nothing left. I realized my mother was a financial genius to be able to keep a roof over our heads and any kind of food on the table, much less buy clothes.

I also realized that immediate satisfaction wasn’t going to get me anywhere. Success required intellectual(理智的) preparation. I went back to my studies and became an A-student again. I dreamed of becoming a doctor when I was just a kid. And now I have achieved my dream.

Over the years my mother’s changeless faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I found myself faced with my own medical illness. A few years ago I discovered I had a very serious cancer; I was told it might have spread to my spine(脊柱). My mother believed in God very much. She never worried. She said that God would never throw me away forever; there was no way that this was going to be a major problem. The abnormality in spine turned out to be not bad; I was able to have surgery and am cured.

My story is really my mother’s story －a woman little formal education or worldly goods who used her position as a parent to change the lives of her children.

The underlined word “ruse” in the first paragraph probably means           .

A. discovery  B. success  C. trick   D. pleasure

When the author asked his mother to buy him shirts, she           .

A. advised him to earn money by himself

B. asked him to try to manage their money

C. persuaded him not to buy them patiently

D. agreed to buy them for him immediately

What do we learn about the author?

A. He now works as a doctor.

B. He disliked watching TV as a kid.

C. He received little formal education.

D. He often did housework when young.

The underlined word “this” in the last but one paragraph refers to        .

A. God’s throwing me away

B. my own medical illness

C. the operation on my spine

D. my mother’s changeless faith in God

In writing the passage, the author mainly shows us         .

A. the happy relationships in his family

B. the benefits of reading for young children

C. the importance of formal education for adults

D. his mother’s great influence on his development

Individuals should pay for their higher education. A university education is of huge and direct benefit to the individual.

Graduates earn more than non-graduates. Meanwhile, social mobility is ever more dependent on having a degree. However, only some people have it. So the individual, not the taxpayers, should pay for it. There are pressing calls on the resources of the government. Using taxpayers’ money to help a small number of people to earn high incomes in the future is not one of them.

    Full government funding is not very good for universities. Adam Smith worked in a Scottish university whose teachers lived off student fees. He knew and looked down upon 18^th century Oxford, where the academics lived comfortably off the income received from the government. Guaranteed salaries, Smith argued, were the enemy of hard work; and when the academics were lazy and incompetent, the stduents were similarly lazy.

    If students have to pay for their education, they not only work harder, but also demand more from their teachers. And their teachers have to keep them satisfied. If that means taking teaching seriously, and giving less time to their own research interests, that is surely something to celebrate.

    Many people believe that higher education should be free because it is good for the economy. Many graduates clearly do contribute to national wealth, but so do all the businesses that invest and create jobs. If you believe that the government should pay for higher education because graduates are economically productive, you should also believe that the government should pay part of business costs. Anyone promising to create jobs should receive a gift of capital from the government to invest.

     Therefore, it is the individual, not the government, who should pay for their university education.

The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 2 refers to             .

   A. taxpayers      B. pressing calls              C. college graduates  D. government resources

The author thinks that with full government funding             .

   A. teachers are less satified                               B. students are more demanding

C. students will become more competent             D. teachers will spend less time on teaching

The author mentions businesses in Paragraph 5 in order to             .

   A. argue against free university education      B. call on them to finance students’ studies 

C. encourage graduates to go into business   D. show their contribution to higher education

Just as Professor Scotti often _____ it, success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude.

A.gets                   B.makes                C.puts                 D.means

He came to my class every week, but his attitude _______he was not really interested in the subject.

    A. expressed   B. described  C. explained  D. suggested

—You made her angry just now..

   — I know, but I didn't do it           .

      A. in advance     B. in conclusion

      C. on demand    D. on purpose

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My 14-year-old son, John,  and I                        

 Spotted（挑出，察觉） the coat at the same time.  It was               

hanging at a （an）  36    clothing store. 

The coat had a black velvet collar（天鹅绒衣领）,  delightful

tailoring,  a Fifth Avenue label （标签） and a （an） 37    price of  $28.

We looked at   38   , saying nothing, 39   John’s eyes shone.  Dark, woolen topcoats were popular just then with   40  ,  but could    41   several hundred dollars new.

    John  42   the coat.  He turned from side to side, eyeing himself in the mirror with a serious,  studied 43  that soon changed into a smile.  The   44   was perfect.  John wore the coat to school the next day and came home wearing a big smile.  “How did the kids like your coat? ”  I asked.  “They love it. ” He said, carefully    45  it over the chair and smoothing it flat.

Over the next few weeks, the 46  came over John.  Quiet, reasoned discussion was 47  argument.  He became more thoughtful and eager to  48    .  “Good dinner,  Mum, ” he would say every evening.  One day when I suggested that he might start on homework before dinner,  John said,  “You are right,  and I guess I will. ”

When I    49   this to one of his teachers and remarked that I didn’t know   50  caused the changes,  she said with laughter,  “It must be his coat! ” At the library,  we  51  to meet a friend who had not seen our children for a long time.  “  52  this be John? ” He asked,  looking up to John’s new height and coat,  and extending his hand,  one gentleman to another.

John and I both knew we should never 53  a person’s clothes for the real person within them.  But there is something to be said for   54   a standard of excellence for the world to see,  for practicing standard of excellence in thought,  speech and behavior,  and for   55 what is on the inside with what is on the outside.

A. second-hand        B. expensive       C. big           D. cheap

A. reasonable         B. unbelievable     C. special        D. average

A. each other         B. one another      C. the other       D. others

A. therefore          B. however         C. but           D. thus

A. adults            B. people           C. parents        D. teenagers

A. spend            B. cost             C. pay           D. take

A. touched          B. buttoned          C. held          D. obtained

A. gesture           B. expression        C. attitude        D. feeling

A. color             B. price             C. fit           D. style

A. pressing         B. taking            C. hanging       D. folding

A. happiness        B. satisfaction        C. change          D. generosity

A. because of           B. instead of         C. aware of           D. full of

A. please                 B. understand        C. complain          D. apologize

A. mentioned           B. wrote            C. reported           D. explained

A. when            B. how              C. what           D. that

A. happened         B. came             C. intended        D. decided

A. Should           B. Would            C. Must           D. Could

A. watch            B. judge             C. mistake         D. consider

A. doing            B. showing           C. speaking        D. wearing

A. comparing        B. connecting         C. combining       D. matching

A serious problem for today’s society is who should be responsible for our elderly and how to improve their lives.It is not only a financial problem but also a question of the system we want for our society.I would like to suggest several possible solutions to this problem.

First,employers should take the responsibility to the individual.This means each person must save during his working years to pay for his years of retirement.This does not seem very fair model since some people have enough trouble paying for their daily life without trying to earn extra to cover their retirement years.This means the government could take responsibility for the care of the elderly.This could be financed through government taxes to increase the level of pensions.Furthermore,some institutions should be created for senior citizens,which can help provide a comfortable life for them.Unfortunately,as the president situation in our country shows,this is nota truly viable answer.The government can seldom afford to care for the elderly,particularly when it is busy trying to care for the young.

One further solution is that the government or social organizations establish some working places especially for the elderly where they are independent.

To sum up, all these options have advantages and disadvantages.Therefore,it is reasonable to expect that some combination of these options may be needed to provide the care we hope to give to our elderly generations.

What is the passage mainly talk about?

A.The problems faced by the old in society.

B.Why we should take reponsibility for the old.

C.How we can improve the lives of the old.

D.Where the old can go to get their pensins.

According to the passage,how can the government help to improve the lives of retired people?

A.Set aside some profits to help people with problems after they retire.

B.Increase savings levels of people during their working years.

C.Increase the discounts for food and transport for the old.

D.Make available pensions for those who have retired.

The underlined word “viable” most probably means____.

A.impossible      B.practical     C.useful      D.successful

What can be concluded from the passage?

A.Taking care of the old is mainly an issue of money.

B.Empoyers should allow their workers to retire at a later age.

C.Becoming independent should be the goal of most old people.

D.There is no single solution to the problems of the old.

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文,文中共有10处语言错误,每句最多有两处.错误涉及一个单词的增加,删除和修改.

增加:把缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在其下面写出该词.

删除:把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉.

修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词.

注意:1.每处错误极其修改均限一词.

2.只允许修改10处,多者从第11处不记分.

I had a interesing dream last night. I dreamed that I took part in a race.At first, I could not to run very fast and fell behind. So I didn’t lose heart and kept running.All the students on the playground cheer me on, “Come on!”I was so encouraged that I ran faster and fast till I caught up all the other runners. I felt as if flying like a superman. In the end,I got to the finishing line at first. I won the race. I felt very proudly of myself. Many of my classmate threw me up into the air. Just at that time I woke up and found me still in bed.

He ___ in Nanjing where he ____ by his aunt.

grow,grow up B.grew up, grown C.grew up , was brought up D. grew,fed up