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Our meeting room is ______ theirs.

A. three times as bigger as               B. bigger than three times

C. three times as the size of              D. three times the size of

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Once upon a time, there was a seed and because he was only a seed, nobody cared to notice him. Thus, feeling kind of inferior, the seed gave no importance to his existence.

Then one day, a wind picked him up and threw him on an open field under the hot sun. He wanted to know why. But instead of any answer, he was provided with rain besides sunlight, sometimes small and sometimes heavy.

Time flew and years later he saw a traveler sitting by his side. "Thank God for this. I really need some rest," he heard the traveler say.

"What are you talking about?" the seed soon asked. He thought the man was making fun of him. Sure, he had seen many people sitting by his side but no one ever spoke to him like that.

"Who's this?" the man was surprised.

'It's me. The seed."

"The seed?" the man looked at the big tree. "Are you kidding me? you're no seed. You're a big tree?

"Really?"

"Yes! Why do you think people come here? To feel your shade!"

A moment passed before the traveler's words touched the chord (心弦)  in him. The seed, now a great tree, smiled for the first time in his life. Years of sufferings from the sun and the rain finally made sense to him.

"Oh! That means I'm not a small seed anymore!  I didn't die unnoticed but was born to help people with tiredness. Wow! Now that's a life worth a thousand gems (宝石)!"

60. What does the underlined word "inferior" (in Paragraph 1) probably mean?

       A. Not funny.     B. Not weak.   C. Not good.  D. Not interesting.

61. The seed thought the man sitting by his side was laughing at him because _______.

    A. the man didn't think the seed was important

    B. the seed never thought he could be noticed

    C. the man was talking about God with him

    D. the man really wanted some rest near him

62. When the seed first heard that he had been a big tree, he felt _______.

    A. disappointed        B. excited    C. doubtful       D. satisfied

63. The passage mainly tells us that ________.

    A. every life is of some value           B. one's existence is in need of a finder

    C. life goes on no matter what happens    D. failure is the mother of success

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Have you ever been at a meeting while someone was making a speech and realized suddenly that your mind was a million miles away? You probably felt sorry and made up your mind to pay attention and always have been told that daydreaming is a waste of time.

“On the contrary,” says L. Giambra, an expert in psychology, “daydreaming is quite necessary. Without it, the mind couldn’t get done all the thinking it has to do during a normal day. You can’t possibly do all your thinking with a conscious（有意识）mind. Instead, your unconscious mind is working out problems all the time. Daydreaming then may be one way that the unconscious and conscious states of mind have silent dialogues.”

Early experts in psychology paid no attention to the importance of daydreams or even considered them harmful. At one time daydreaming was thought to be a cause of some mental illnesses. They did not have a better understanding of daydreams until the late 1980s. Eric Klinger, a professor of psychology, is the writer of the book Daydreaming. Klinger says, “We know now that daydreaming is one of the main ways that we organize our lives, learn from our experiences, and plan for our futures. Daydreams really are a window on the things we fear and the things we long for in life.”

Daydreams are usually very simple and direct, quite unlike sleep dreams, which may be hard to understand. It’s easier to gain a deep understanding of your life by paying close attention to your daydreams than by trying to examine your sleep dreams carefully. Daydreams help you recognize the difficult situations in your life and find out a possible way of dealing with them.

Daydreams cannot be predicated（预料）. They move off in unexpected directions which may be creative and full of ideas. For many famous artists and scientists, daydreams were and are a main source of creative energy.

72．The writer of this passage considers daydreams__________.

       A．hard to understand B．important and helpful

       C．harmful and unimportant D．the same as sleep dreams

73．The writer quoted（引用）L. Giambra and Eric Klinger to__________

       A．point out the wrong ideas of early experts   B．list two different ideas

       C．support his own idea                    D．report the latest research on daydreams

74．Which of the following is TRUE?

       A．An unconscious mind can work all the problems out.

       B．Daydreaming can give artists and scientists ideas for creation.

       C．Professor Eric Klinger has a better idea than L. Giambra.

       D．Early experts fully understood what daydreams were.

75．What is the main difference between daydreams and sleep dreams?

       A．People have daydreams and sleep dreams at different times.

B．Daydreams are the result of unconscious mind while sleep dreams are that of conscious mind.

C．Daydreams are more harmful. 

D．Daydreams are more helpful in solving problems.

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.-How do you find Xiamen,Cathy?

-It’s beautiful coastal city. I have ____ it for my next holiday.

   A. tried on  B. decided on  C. carried on   D. taken on

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 I don’t want to go _______ I am tired of any party.

   A. because of    B.in order to    C. because      D. in order that

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 Listen, Mike. She ________________ have done it. She's been with me at the shop all day.

    A. couldn't        B. shouldn't      C. needn't         D. wouldn't

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 “ We can’t go out in this weather,” said Bob,______ at the desk.

   A. seating        B. seated           C. sat            D sit

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In April, 2009, President Hu inspected the warships in Qingdao, ______ the 60th anniversary of the founding of the PLA Navy.

A. marking         B. marked          C. having marked    D. being marked

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It is no use ________ about the cuisine of our school canteen .

A  complaining  B complained C  to complain  D complains

During the twentieth century there has been a great change in the lives of women. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which chance and health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman’s youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and can be expected to live another thirty-five years and she is likely to take paid work until sixty.

This important change in women’s life has only recently begun to have its full effect on women’s economic（经济的） position. Even a few years ago most girls left school and took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen; many girls stay at school after that age, and though women marry younger, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Many more afterwards return to full-time or part-time work. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life.

63. We are told that in a typical family in about 1900________.

     A. few children died before they were five

B. seven or eight children lived to be more than five

C. the youngest child would be fifteen

D. four or five children died when they were five

64. One reason why the woman of today may take a job is that she _______________.

A. is younger when her children are old enough to look after themselves

B. does not like children herself

C. needn’t worry about food for her children

D. can be free from family duties when she reaches sixty

65. Many girls are now likely to _______________________.

A. give up their jobs after they are married

B. leave school as soon as they can

C. marry so that they can get a job

D. continue working until they are going to have a baby

66. According to the passage, it is now quite common for women to______________.

A. stay at home after leaving school

B. marry men younger than themselves

C. start working again later in life

D. marry while still at school