Looking out of the window of my room, ___ a tall tree in the yard.

    A. there was   B. there were  C. I saw   D. there stood

He’s making            great progress in his lessons that everyone else in his class can’t believe it.

The couple went through all their pockets _______ their passports.

A. in honor of      B. in search for        C. in search of    D. in memory of

Mr. Glen is a millionaire. Five years ago, after returning from abroad to his motherland, he    36  up his small company. Speaking of success, Glen often tells us a story about his ___ 37    expensive “school” fee. He always owes his success to it.

At that time, Glen, who already got a Ph. D. degree, decided to return to the homeland, starting a company. Before   38   , he bought a Rolex watch with the    39   made through years of work after school and the scholarships. At the airport he had to accept the routine customs check. The watch on his wrist was also demanded to be   40   down for inspection. Glen knew that carrying the   41   goods out had to pay the tax. And he worried about paying    42   for his watch. So when he was checked, he told a lie that his watch was a worthless    43   . When he was    44   of his “smarts”, immediately,    45   the presence of Glen, the officers hit the watch, which   46   nearly 100,000, into pieces on hearing Glen’s words. Glen was amazed,    47   he understood why, he was taken to the office to be    48   strictly. For many times of entry-exit   49   he knew that only those people in the “blacklist” would “enjoy” this special treatment. The officers looked out every thing carefully in the box, and warned him no matter

   50 time of entry and exit he must accept the check and if    51   reusing and carrying fake and shoddy(劣质的) goods, he would be charged according to law! Suddenly, his face turned red, and he had nothing in mind after   52   the plane for long.

After returning to the homeland, he often told the story to his family, and his employees, too. He said that this made a deep    53   on him, because the additional high “school” fee that he had ever paid made him realize the value of 54   , which he would    55   as the secret of his success forever.

A. set                  B. came            C. went            D. called

A. good                B. bad             C. extra            D. few

A. staying               B. leaving         C. living           D. coming

A. books                B. things           C. savings         D. pounds

A. put                 B. looked         C. taken            D. lied

A. ordinary              B. common       C. specific        D. many

A. one                  B. it               C. them            D. these

A. present             B. trade            C. toy             D. fake

A. afraid                B. proud            C. well            D. hard

A. in                   B. on          C. before          D. after

A. paid               B. spent            C. took             D. cost

A. Before               B. After            C. If            D. Though

A. appreciated          B. beaten          C. spoken         D. examined

A. conditions            B. experiences   C. experiments D. chances

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

A. came out             B. found out     C. sent out        D. set out

A. landing              B. flying           C. catching       D. boarding

A. expression            B. idea             C. thought         D. impression

A. honesty             B. lies              C. goods           D. things

A. remember            B. learn            C. revise           D. read

When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Dr. Gibbs. He didn’t look like any doctor I’d ever known. He never yelled at us for playing in his yard. I remember him as someone who was a lot nicer than most of the adults in our community.

When Dr. Gibbs wasn’t saving lives, he was planting trees. His house sat on ten acres, and his life’s goal was to make it a forest.

The good doctor had some interesting theories concerning plant care and growth. He never watered his new trees, which flew in the face of conventional wisdom. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants spoiled them so that each successive tree generation would grow weaker and weaker. So you have to make things rough for them and weed out(淘汰) the weaker trees early on. He talked about how watering trees made for shallow roots, and how trees that weren’t watered had to grow deep roots in search of moisture. I took him to mean that deep roots were to be treasured.

So he never watered his trees. He planted an oak and, instead of watering it every morning, he beat it with a rolled-up newspaper. Smack! Slap! Pow! I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree’s attention.

Dr. Gibbs passed away a couple of years after I left home. Every now and again, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I’d watched him plant some twenty-five years ago. They’re extremely tall, big and robust since they have deep roots now. However, the trees in my garden trembled in a cold wind although I had watered them for several years.

It seems that adversity(逆境) and suffering benefit these trees in ways comfort and ease never could. I stood there deep in thought.

Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. I stand over them and watch their little bodies, the rising and falling of life within. I often pray for them. Mostly I pray that their lives will be easy. But I think that it’s time to change my prayer(祷词) because now I know my children are going to encounter hardship.

According to Dr. Gibbs’ theories, trees will become weaker if they _________.

A. are lack of care　　　　　B. are watered      C. are weeded out　　　　　D. are beaten

According to Para.3 and Para.4, we can infer that Dr. Gibbs’ motto(座右铭) may be       .

A. “Seeing is believing”                                    B. “Put everything in proper use”

C. “Practice makes perfect”                               D. “No pain, no gain”

The underlined word robust in Para.5 most probably means _________.

A. strong　　                      B. strange　　       C. deep　　                        D. old

Which of the following may be the author’s best prayer for his two sons now?

A. I wish them strong wings, with which they can fly higher and touch the sky.

B. I wish them nice fortune so that they can meet people like Dr. Gibbs in the future.

C. I wish them deep roots into the earth since the rains fall and the winds blow often.

D. I wish them great shades under the tree since the sunlight is always sharp and bitter.

Which of the following can be the best title of this passage?

A Nice Doctor  B. The Deep Roots  C. Adversity and Suffering  D. My Childhood Memory

I wish I ____ clever enough to work out the ____ geometry problem.

  A. can be; abstract     B. could be; abstract  

C. can be; easy        D. could be; easy

I think she would__________ it if we could all help out a bit more.

       A. thank                B. appreciate                 C. employ                    D. use

He has called several times this morning, ____ there is something very urgent.

A. really                B. especially                 C. obviously                 D. terribly

最近，你班组织全班同学进行了一场英语讨论。讨论的主题是：中国是否应该发展私家车？请你根据下表所提供的信息，给报社写一篇报道，客观地介绍讨论的结果。

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Recently, our class have had a discussion about whether China should develop its private car industry. The results are as follows:______________________________________________

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_____ the great efforts we had made three years before, we failed to carry our plans through.

A. While               B. Although                  C. Even if                    D. In spite of