---- Did you remember to pay the gas bill?

   ---- The gas bill? _______

 A. Please remember the amount.      B. Are you sure?   

C. My gas is running out.            D. That isn’t due yet.

Bill wasn’t happy about the delay of the report by Jason, and _______.            

       A  I was neither        B I was either       C either was I       D neither was I

On 27th February 2008, something very unusual happened in the UK; there was a rather large earthquake. It was the biggest earthquake in 25 years in the UK. There have been very small tremors in the past but they pale into insignificance compared to this one.

It was felt in a large area across the country too, from as far north as Edinburgh in Scotland to as far south as Plymouth on the south coast of England.

The epicenter of the earthquake was in a small town in Lincolnshire, which is an area about two and a half to three hours north of London by car. A magnitude of 5.2 was registered on the Richter scale.

There were lots of reports in the news from people who felt the earth move. One man said, "We had loads of vibrating and wall shaking and stuff, noise coming off the roof. I came outside – the chimney's on the floor!"

A collapsed chimney was the cause of what was probably the worst injury from the earthquake; a man broke his pelvis when the chimney fell on him.

Another man who spoke to the BBC described the moment the earthquake occurred, "Everything was shaking. As soon as it happened we all went outside and saw everyone else down the street, coming out and just realized it was an earthquake." O%M

The huge rumble, which was felt by a lot of people, surprisingly caused very little structural damage to property.

Most British people would be surprised to learn that there are 200-300 earthquakes in Britain every year, but most of them are so small, they go unnoticed. The magnitude of this earthquake is fairly small in comparison to some other natural disasters that have made international news, but for the people affected, it certainly came as quite a surprise.

60. Before this earthquake _______.

   A. there was no signs of any shakings at all.

   B. people did not feel anything unusual.

   C. many people realized there would be a bigger one to come.

   D. some small quakes were only too small to be ignored.

61. From this passage we know ______ is in the south of Great Britain.

   A. Lincolnshire                       B. Edinburgh

   C. Plymouth                         D. Scotland

62. This earthquake  _____.

   A. hardly caused any damages to the people’s belongings..                

B. brought down many buildings in England.

   C. scared many people to death.

   D. made the world greatly surprised.

63. After reading this passage we can infer_______.

   A. people in England faced the earthquake bravely.

   B. this earthquake seemed to be felt all over Great Britain.

   C. this earthquake is the biggest one in history.

   D. the chimneys in Britain are the most poorly built parts of the houses.

The news _____the president was killed soon spread over the country.   

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

    There is a wonderful story about a young girl who had no family and no one to love her.

    One day， feeling very sad and lonely， she was walking through a grassland when she noticed a small butterfly caught in a thorn （荆棘） bush. The young girl carefully released (放走)the Butterfly. Instead of flying away， the little butterfly changed into a beautiful fairy（仙子）. The young girl rubbed her eyes in disbelief.

    “For your wonderful kindness，” the good fairy said to the girl， “I will give you any wish you would like.” The little girl thought for a moment and then replied， “I want to be happy.”

    The fairy leaned toward her and whispered in her ear. Then the fairy disappeared.

    As the little girl grew up， there was no one in the land as happy as she. Everyone asked her secret of happiness .She would only smile and answer， “The secret of my happiness is that I listened to a good fairy when I was a little girl.”

    When she was very old and on her deathbed， the neighbors all gathered around her， that her unbelievable secret of happiness would die with her. “Tell us， please，” they begged， “Tell us what the good fairy said.” The lovely old woman simply smiled and said， “She told me that everyone， no matter how secure they seemed， no matter how old or young， how rich or poor， had need of me.”

61. ______ the girl felt sad and lonely.

        A. There were many friends but

        B. There was nobody to love her so

        C. There was nothing to do

        D. Seeing the butterfly was caught

62.Noticing the butterfly was caught by the thorn， the orphan girl ______.

        A. helped the butterfly escaped from the thorn

        B. felt sorrow，but she didn’t go up to help it

        C. fell down on it too

        D. failed to help it release from the thorn

63. The butterfly ______ after it was saved by the little girl.

        A. flied away           B. still died

        C. changed into a fairy   D. was more beautiful than before

64. The only thing that the little girl wanted was________.

        A. to be rich             B. to have her own parents

        C. to have a lot of friends   D. happiness 

65.The neighbors all gathered around the old happy woman when she was dying， because ______.

        A. they loved this woman deeply and they didn’t want her to die

        B. the woman had lots of money to be shared as soon as she died

        C. they wanted to know the secret of her lifetime happiness

        D. they wanted to pray for her after her death

Is a mouse that can speak acceptable? How about a dog with human hands or feet? Scientists, the people with the know-how to make such things happen, are now thinking about whether such experiments are morally right or not.

    On Nov. 10, Britain’s Academy of Medical Sciences launched a study on the use of animals with human materials in scientific research. The work is expected to take at least a year, but its leaders hope it will lead to guidelines for scientists in Britain and around the world on how far they can go mixing human genes into animals in search of ways to fight human diseases.

“Do these constructs (构想) challenge our idea of what it is to be human?” asked Martin Bobrow, a professor of medical genetics at Cambridge University and chair of a 14-member group looking into the issue. “It is important that we consider these questions now so that appropriate boundaries are recognized.”     

Using human material in animals is not new. Scientists have already created monkeys that have a human form of the Huntingdon’s gene so they can study how the disease develops; and mice with livers (肝) made from human cells are being used to study the effects of new drugs.

However, scientists say the technology to put ever greater amounts of human genetic material into animals is spreading quickly around the world --- raising the possibility that some scientists in some places may want to go further than is morally acceptable.

     Last year in Britain there was a lively debate over new laws allowing the creation of human-animal embryos (胚胎) for experiments. On one side of the debate were religious groups, who claimed that such science interferes with nature. Opposing them were scientists who pointed out that such experiments were vital to research cures for diseases.

The experts will publish reports after the end of the study, in which they will give definitions for animal embryos with human genes or cells, look at safety and animal welfare issues, and consider the right legal framework to work within. 

72. What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

   A. Scientists in Britain and around the world.                 

B. Leaders of the research.

   C. Guidelines for scientists.                          

D. Scientific experiments.

73. Scientists do research of mixing human genes into animals in order to ____.

   A. test new drugs on animals

   B. to find ways to fight human diseases

   C. prove the research is morally acceptable

   D. create monkeys and mice with livers made from human cells

74. We can infer from the passage that ____.

   A. the experts will release reports after the study

   B. scientists have never doubted the use of animals with human materials

   C. the creation of human-animal embryos for experiments is legal in Britain

   D. religious groups hold that cures for diseases have to be done through experiments

75. What would be the best title of the passage?

A. Morally right or not?                   B. A debate about new laws

C. Cures for diseases                      D. Animal embryos with human genes

--- I’m not good at singing, you know.

   --- _____. It’s just for fun.

       A. All right    B. No problem       C. Come on    D. Cheer up

Three fourths of the homework _______ today.

      A. has finished     B. has been finished   C. have finished           D. have been finished

-- How are you getting on with your deskmate?

    -- She is the last one I want to talk to .  __________ .

   A  She has turned me in              B  She is always turning me off

   C  She had said bad words behind me   D  She turns me out

The hospital in Harbin is already _________ of shocking mistreatment, as a 74-year-old man died of heart failure, after 67 days of treatment which cost the family 5.5 million yuan.   

    A. acquired     B. charged          C. accused          D. punished