They own two cars, not to _____ a motorbike.?

　　A. speak      B. say?     C. talk       D. mention

He was sentenced to death ______ what he has stolen from the bank.

A. that    B. since   C. because    D. because of

以下是某个英语杂志有关专家对一些读者反映问题的建议：

A. Feel Grateful!

B. Tame the beast!

C. Good effort and goodwill makes it!

D. Calm down!

E. Move your line away!

F. Speak out and breathe easily together!

以下是一些读者在生活中反映的问题。请匹配问题及对应的建议。

56. Allan: My friend Jim was out of work and I helped him find a job in my company. But recently I have found he is very lazy and doesn’t do his work well. Besides, he often tells me that our employer is too bad.

57. Mary: Cathy and I were good friends. But two years ago she moved and left me because we had an argument. Now I hear she has come back to this town and lives about a mile away. I hope to visit this old friend, but I really don’t know what to do.

58. Mrs. Green: My eight-year-old son used to be obedient. But recently he’s become wild and crazy like a barbarian and doesn’t want to stay at home. My husband and I get worried. Now I find he likes to play with another boy who is also a barbarian.

59. Mike: I live with my mother, who works night and day so that she can support my schooling. I’m grateful but sometimes I get even more annoyed because she seems to be always unsatisfied with me and complains about my faults.

60. Eileen: My friend Jim is a helpful young man, and he has taken me downtown in his car several times. But every time he drove his car so crazily that I felt horrible. “I’ve got used to driving fast,” he says.

In the United States there was an unusual tale telling of the daughter of a mechanic (技工). One day while walking along the bank of a lake, the girl 36 to see 20 eggs laid by a wild goose. After some time the girl 37 the mother would not return to her eggs and she 38 to take them home. There she carefully 39 the eggs in the heat of a lamp. Several days 40 the eggs broke and the baby geese came into the 41.

Geese are known to take the first living thing they see as their mother. 42，to these young geese, the girl was their mother.

As they 43, the girl was able to 44 her birds to run across the grass, but she could not teach them to 45,. The girl became increasingly worried about this, both when 46 and in her dreams. later, she had an 47 She would pilot a plane to guide them in 48 . She asked her father for a plane and he assembled (组装) a small aircraft for her.

Caring about 49 safety, the father decided to pilot the plane himself. However, the birds did not 50 or follow him, and 51 slept in the grass.

One day, the girl 52 into the plane, started it and soon left the 53, Seeing their mother take to the air, the birds 54 flapped (拍打) their wings and 55. She flew the plane freely in the sky, her young birds following.

A. managed    B. attempted    C. happened    D. supposed

A. realized    B. expected    C. imagined   D admitted

A. helped    B. decided    C. afforded    D. meant

A. placed    B. protected    C. treated    D. examined

A. ago    B. out    C. later    D. long

A. family    B. lake    C. home    D. world

A. But     B. Also     C. Thus    D. Still

A. increased    B. improved    C. rose    D. grew

A. ask    B. lead    C. want    D. allow

A. fly    B. race    C. swim    D. sing

A. asleep    B. away    C. around    D. awake

A. idea    B. opinion    C. explanation    D. excuse

A. sky    B. heaven    C. flight    D. plane

A. his    B. her    C. their    D. its

A. respect    B. remember    C. recognize    D. receive

A. so    B. instead    C. hardly    D. too

A. climbed    B. looked    C. reached    D. fell

A. house    B. floor    C. water    D. pound

A. secretly    B. disappointedly    C. patiently    D. eagerly

A. looked away    B. set out    C. went by    D. turned back

One day a girl gets a package in the mail. It contains US$3,000___31__cash and a letter from ????her late (去世的) Aunt Peg. Aunt Peg has something useful to pass __32___to her niece, but a rather unusual way of going about it. The girl __33___ (give) a set of instructions: "Go to an address in New York and pick up a package, get a passport and buy yourself a one-way ticket to London." ___34___ she flies she is told to make sure she only takes ___35___she can fit into a backpack. No money, credit cards, camera. No mobile phone ___36____ laptop. And once she gets to Europe she can't call or even e-mail home. On the plane, Ginny opens the New York package. It sends her to a flat in London where a man___37__ (name) Richard seems to be expecting her.

This is __38____ US author Maureen Johnson's hit teen novel, "13 Little Blue Envelopes" opens. ___39____ heroine (女主人公) is Ginny, a quiet, 17-year-old girl , __40___ has a great adventure ahead of her.

Many Chinese students studying abroad like to stay with host families to learn their language and culture. Nowadays, many Shanghai white-collar workers have received native English speaking ___31___(nation) students as their host families, too, in order to learn English from them.

It is usually free for foreign students to stay in a host family in Shanghai, but he/she must take __ 32__ the responsibility of teaching English to at least one certain members of the family. Miss Li has always worried about her ___33___   (limit) English. “I never knew what to say to an English-speaking person,” said she. She has taken a number of English courses, but ___34___ has proved to be useful. Last year, she saw ___35___ advertisement recruiting（征募）host families for foreign students, and that was how Carey (from Chicago, US) came to her home.  Carey is actually not a student, but a manager. She stays in Li's apartment for free,  ___36___ has to teach Li oral English for 1 hour every day. “She could hardly speak Chinese at the beginning, and we had to guess ___37___ each other meant through gestures,” said Li.

Two months later, they could talk to each other    38    gesticulating. Now, Li can communicate with any English-speaking person freely. About one hundred Shanghai families have received foreign boarding students, and the figure ___39___ (rise). However, foreign boarding students can only help improve oral English, but ___40 ___ examination skills.

A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.

   A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises(出现) from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.

There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so peculiar(奇怪的) that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl-friend.

No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.

41. The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is _______.

A. repeated without any change          B. treated as a joke

C. made some changes by the parent      D. set in the present

42. According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is _______.

A. in a realistic setting                   B. heard for the first time

C. repeated too often                       D. told in a different way

43. The advantage claimed(提出) for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it _______.

A. makes them less fearful

B. develops their power of memory

C. makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of

D. encourages them not to have strange beliefs

44. The author’s mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that _______.

A. fairy stories are still being made up

B. there is some misunderstanding about fairy tales

C. people try to modernize old fairy stories

D. there is more concern for children's fears nowadays

45. One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that _______.

A. they are full of imagination

B. they just make up the stories which are far from the truth

C. they are not interesting

D. they make teachers of history difficult to teach

Four in 10 Chinese complain about the great gap between large investments in education and its returns, a recent nationwide survey has showed.

The Horizon Research Consultancy Group polled 3,355 residents aged 16 to 60 in both urban and rural areas, including Beijing and Shanghai.

The survey found that only 16 percent of respondents believed their investments on education gave good returns.

Those with higher education voiced greater disappointment at the quality of education received, the survey showed.

People in the rural areas generally gave more positive feedback（反馈）on the quality of education than those from the cities, the survey found.

"Our education has been focusing on an examination-oriented system," Huo Qingwen, the deputy director of language education testing service center under the Beijing Foreign Studies University, told China Daily yesterday.

"The survey result doesn't surprise me, as I had heard complaints not only from the students, but also from the teachers who have been asked to focus more about the exam-passing rate," Huo said.

"The job market is still hungry for talented staff, but many graduates are not competent(胜任的) because the posts require more practical experience and creative ability of workers," Huo added.

Most university graduates prefer jobs in large cities, causing an imbalance in human resources between urban and rural areas, Hong said.

The graduates would get better job options if they chose to work at the grassroots (基础的) level because of the government's preferential policies, including the waiving of tuition for those willing to work in the country's rural and western regions, he added.

About 580,000 graduates last year found county- or village-level jobs, and more than 550,000 got jobs in the central and western regions, Ministry of Education figures showed.

"Because many graduates focus only on jobs with high salaries and that are directly relevant to their specialties, they miss other good work opportunities," Kong Xiang, a Beijing graduate who works as an English teacher in a college located at a remote area in Yunnan province, said.

The recent survey showed that education costs form one-quarter of an urban family's income, while it forms one-third of a rural family's income.

46．According to the passage, most people think that _______

A. the investments in education gave them good returns.

B. the investments in education don’t bring them good results.

C. college students are satisfied with their the education received.

D. People in the cities are more satisfied with the quality of education than those in the rural areas.

47．Which of the following is NOT mentioned?

A. China’s education has been focusing on an examination-oriented system.

B. Both the teachers and students are asked to pay more attention to the exam-passing rate.

C. The job market now does not lack university graduates.

D. Most university graduates enjoy hunting jobs in large cities.

48. What would happen to the graduates if they chose to work at the grassroots level?

A. They would get higher salaries.

B. They would get lower salaries.

C. Their tuition would be free.

D. They would get better job choices.

49. How much does the education cost according to the survey?

A. One-third of a family's income.

B. one-quarter of a rural family's income.

C. 25% of an urban family's income.

D. Three in ten a rural family's income.

50. Which of the following can be the best title of this passage.

A. The gap between investments in education and its returns

B. Education and university graduates

C. China’s higher education

D. Education costs

阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

There was a very special teacher who made a far –reaching difference in my life

Fall ,1959,the first day of class at Bethesda Chevy Chase High School was about begin .“Who”，I asked a senior , “is Mrs McNamara,my 10th grade English teacher?”He just _31  and said something about my being in __32__Soon ,I understood what he meant. Mrs. McNamara had a pattern of ___33___that she repeated again and again. We would have a literature reading task for_34__. The next day ,when we came to class, there would be two or three topics on the blackboard ____35____ to the homework reading. We were_____36__to write an in –class essay about one of the topics. The following day ,she would ___37__thd corrected and graded essays and each person would be called ___38__ to stand in front of the class and to _____39____ his\her essay. The class were required to criticize(评论)that essay, ___40__the grade of everyone in class would be reduced

The first time that I_41__her read–write–criticize method, I had not ___42to do the homework and had written something without knowing what it meant. _____43___the extreme embarrassment I suffered, standing before my classmates, _____44____myself. No one laughed at me, no one would be ___45_____enough ,or foolish enough, to do that in Mrs. McNamara’s class. The embarrassment came from ___46_____and along with it came a strong ____47____not to let it happen again

Mrs. McNamara kept all of our written work in files, it was easy to see the ____48____in writing that had occurred. What was not so easy to see was the inner transformation that had taken place, at least for me. What Mrs. McNamar______49_____me to do was to see myself as others see me and, having done that, I could improve myself. And I _____50__. Thank you, Mrs. McNamara.

A. nodded    B. laughed      C. apologized  D. shouted Ks

A. trouble    B. sorrow       C. danger       D. anger Ks5

A. behavior  B. evaluation  C. activity      D. thought Ks5u

A. review     B. performance      C. practice      D. homework

A. added      B. related       C. contributed D. advised Ks5u

A. expected  B. persuaded   C. allowed      D. advised Ks5u

A. collect     B. return C. send    D. receive Ks5u

A. on purpose      B. at first C. by chance   D. in turn Ks5u

A. talk through    B. hand over   C. read out     D. show off Ks5u

A. so  B. and     C. but     D. or

A. tried      B. adopted      C. examined   D. experienced Ks5u

A. undertaken    B. attempted   C. examined   D. experienced Ks5

A. remember     B. attempted   C. bothered     D. hesitated

A. playing jokes on   B. making a fool of       C. trying a trap for of    D. taking advantage

A. brave     B. careless      C. proud  D. selfish Ks5u

A. above    B. within C. behind       D. below Ks5u

A. tendency       B. preference  C. determination        D. sense Ks5u

A. improvements      B. pains   C. difficulties  D. advantages Ks5u

A. trusted     B. invited     C. forced    D. permitted

A. did    B. could    C. had    D. would

 It was quite a long time ________ I made it out what had happened.

A. after     B. before    C. when   D. since