----How much should I pay for the ice cream?

---It’s my ________.

A. choice          B. treat          C. present            D. charge

----You must get there before six p.m. Can you make it?

----__________. I’ve got a car.

A. Out of the question                B. Without question

C. No problem                           D. I hope so

假设你是李华，请用英语写一篇短文描述高考期间你看到的以下种种现象，并简要发表自己的看法。

1.                   父母请假陪考，订旅馆房间休息。

2.                   报纸登载营养指南。 3. 车辆禁行，禁声。

4.                   警察警戒，防止意外。5. 附近娱乐场所禁声。

6．    航班改道。

请认真阅读下面的一篇短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。（每个空格填一个单词）

An allowance（零花钱）is an important tool for teaching kids how to budget, save and make their own decision. Children remember and learn from mistakes when their own dollars are lost or spent foolishly.  

How large an allowance is appropriate? Experts say there is not a right amount. Actually amounts differ from region to region, and from family to family.  

To set an appropriate allowance for your child, work up a weekly budget. Allow for entertainment expenditures such as movies and snacks. Next, include everyday expenses such as lunch money, bus fare, school supplies. “If you make the child responsible for these bills.” Says Josephine Swanson, a consumer specialist, “he or she will learn to budget for necessary expenditures.”

Finally, add some extra money to make saving possible. If you can, keep your child’s allowance in line with that of his friends. A child whose purchasing power falls away below his peer’s can feel left out.  

It can be tough, but avoid excusing your children when they make a mistake with their allowance. When Brooke Stephens was ten and growing up in Jacksonville, her

Mother gave her $1. 75 of which for bus fare and lunch. “If you lose your money,” Brooke’s mother told her, “you walk home.”

One week the girl spent all her allowance in a candy store, then she called home for a ride. “Mom made me walk home.” Recalled Stephens, now a financial planner in Brooklyn. “ At first I was angry. But I finally realized that she was trying to teach me an important lesson”

Experts advise that an allowance not be tied directly to child’s daily chores（日常家务）.  

Kids should help around and house not because they get paid for it but because they share responsibilities as members of a family. You might, however, pay a child for doing extra jobs at home that can develop his or her initiative.

Scholars and researchers have tried to discover what personality characteristics go along with success in intercultural experiences. Their findings have often been unclear or incomplete. But three characteristics stand out in their reports: patience, a sense of humor, and the awareness of being unclear.  

Patience, of course, is the ability to keep calm even when things do not go as one wants them to, or hopes they will, or has even been sure they will. Impatience sometimes brings improvements in relations with other people, but usually it does not.  

A person with a sense of humor is less likely to take things too seriously and more ready to see the humor in his own reactions than a humorless person. The value of a sense of humor really needs to be paid more attention to.  

“The awareness of being unclear” is a more difficult concept than patience or a sense of humor. Foreigners often find themselves in situations that are unclear to the newcomers. That is, they do not know what is happening in the situation. Perhaps they do not understand the local language well enough, or they do not know how some system or organization works, or they can’t be sure of different people’s roles in what is going on. “It’s like I just got here from the moon,” a Chinese graduate student who newly arrived in the United States said, “things are just so different here. ”

67. The passage mainly tells us_____.  

A.  some problems about communication.  

B. humor- an important thing in communication.  

C. some characteristics in communicating with foreigners.  

D. three useful ways of communicating with foreigners.  

68. From the third paragraph, we can infer that a humorous person_____.  

A. tends to treat everything carelessly   B. is optimistic about things.  

C. likes making fun of others.         D. is an impatient one

69. The underlined part “The awareness of being unclear” refers to “_______”.  

A. knowing the meaning of an exact situation.  

B. not stating clearly what happens.  

C. realizing the possible misunderstanding

D. being aware of the unclear situations.  

70. What can we know from the passage?

A. It is necessary to learn a language before you go abroad.  

B Americans are used to the culture of other countries.  

C. Patience usually improves the relationship with others.  

D. To live in a foreign land, one should get fully prepared.  

10345 N. Scottsdale Rd. , Scottsdale

（480）991-3866

The Buzz is a favorite among underage college students. The club, within a shopping center, has two levels. The downstairs is for everyone, while the upstairs is only for those over 21 years old. Open only on Friday and Saturday. Though it’s intended for the youth, it’s a wide age range.  

829 S. Rural Rd., Tempe

（480）517-1188

There really isn’t a ton to say about the Devil House. It’s located right near the crossing of Rural and University, making it an easy walk on foot. It’s a simple bar; not so expensive, not so big and not so concerned with anything other than offering beer drinkers and sports fans a homey place to meet up.  

5008 W. Northern Ave., Glendale

（623）937-0940

This bar is all about action and activity. You’re welcome, of course, to sit around and drink. You’ll come soon on stage for live music. It’s a fun, interactive atmosphere and their karaoke nights have been popular on the west side for quite a while.  

Casey Moore’s

850 S Ash Ave., Tempe

（480）968-9935

Casey Moore’s is really everything a college bar should be: comfortable, fun, reasonably-price and close to campus. The outside is pretty big and has plenty of tables, while inside is darker and equally comfortable and a big bar for sitting and chatting.  

64. If you want to relax your mind and muscles, it’s better for you to go to_____.  

A.    The Buzz.  B. Northern Lounge   C. Devil House.   D. Casey Moore’s

65. According to the passage, we know that_____.  

A.    people of different ages can go to The Buzz.  

B.    People can sit chatting in the outside of Casey Moore’s

C.    People often feel uncomfortable sitting and drinking in Northern Lounge.  

D.   There is a long way to get to Devil House.  

66. If you want to know more abut karaoke nights, you’d better call_____.  

A.（480）991-3866   B.（480）517-1188    C.（623）937-0940   D.（480）968-9935

Greg Lyons waited nine years for the opportunity to donate bone marrow（骨髓）. The man had to wait an additional year to finally meet the little girl whose life his donation helped save. That meeting finally too place earlier this fall in the Charlotte, Mich, home of Alissa Christie.  

Lyons first volunteered to donate bone marrow while giving blood for a boy in need. But nine years passed and Lyons admittedly forgot that he was on the donor list―until he got a call in May 2005.  

Lyons was informed that he was a perfect one-in-seven-million match for a 7-year-old girl. For the next seven weeks, Lyons went through a series of tests- including several blood tests as well as a lung x-ray to determine whether he was fit to donate.  

On July 7, 2005, Lyons was checked in to West Penn Hospital, where the bone marrow was taken. One half liter（升）of bone marrow was taken during the two-hour operation. The bone marrow was then immediately given to the girl.  

In August, Lyons received a telephone call from the mother of the girl, Monica Christie, who gave him permission to meet the girl

“Her mother cried on the telephone,” Lyons said.  

Late last month, Lyons made the 7-hour drive to Michigan to meet Alissa, who is now 8 years old and said he planned to stay in touch with the family.  

“One chapter ended and another chapter began,” said Lyons.  

60. When was Greg Lyons’ name included on the donor list?

A.    Nine years ago.   C. In the year 2005

A.    In the year 1996.  D. When Alissa was 7 years ago.  

61. According to the passage, to find a perfect match bone marrow for Alissa is____.  

A. easy.   B. time-saving   C. difficult    D. impossible

62. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

A.    Lyons volunteered to donate bone marrow because he was sympathetic with Alissa.  

B.    Lyons had already donated bone marrow to a boy in need.  

C.    The bone marrow, once taken out, was given to Alissa without delay.  

D.   Alissa and he mother made a long journey to meet Lyons in order to express their thanks.  

63. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph implies______.  

A.    Lyons is writing a book according to his experiences

B.    Lyons will keep in touch with Alissa.  

C.    Lyons will change his life.  

D.   Lyons will live with Alissa’s family.  

Sports shoes that work out whether their owner has done enough exercise to ensure time in front of the television have been invented in the UK.  

The shoes―dubbed Square Eyes contain an electronic pressure sensor and a tiny computer chip to record how many steps the wearer has taken in a day. A wireless transmitter passes the information to a receiver connected to a television, and this decides how much evening viewing time the wearer deserves, based on the day’s efforts.  

The design was inspired by a desire to combat the rapidly ballooning waistlines among British teenagers, said Gillian Swan, who developed Square Eyes as a final year design project at Brunel University in London. “ We looked at current issues and childhood obesity（过度肥胖）really stood out,” she told New Scientist. “And I wanted to tackle（解决）that with my design.  

Once a child has used up their daily allowance gained through exercise, the television automatically（自动地）switches off. And further time in front of the TV can only be earned through more steps.  

Swan calculated how exercise should translate to television time using the recommended daily amounts of both. Health experts suggest that a child take 12,000 steps each day and watch no more than two hours of television. So, every 100 steps recorded by the Square Eyes shoes equals precisely one minute of TV time.  

56. The best title for the passage might be_____.  

A.    New Shoes and watching TV in the UK.  

B.    A newly-invented type of shoes in the UK.  

C.    Smart shoes deciding on television time.  

D.   The problem of children’s obesity.   

57. Gillian Swan developed Square Eyes______.  

A.    to gain enough TV time

B.    to deal with childhood obesity.  

C.    to encourage TV watching.  

D.   to finish university design project.  

58. The underlined word “allowance”（ in Paragraph 4）probably means “___”.  

A.    the money given to children.  B. the money for watching TV.  

C. the steps to be taken.  D. the time of watching TV.  

59. If a child takes 2,25o steps on Saturday, he can earn____ of TV time.  

A. 22 minutes and 30 seconds.    B. 22 minutes and 50 seconds

C. 11 minutes and 25 seconds     D. 11 minutes and 15 seconds

I have the meanest mother in the world.  36 other kids ate candy for breakfast, I had to have eggs and toast. Others had Cokes and candy for 37 while I had to eat a sandwich. As you can guess, my supper was 38 other kids’. But at last, I wasn’t 39  in my sufferings. My sister and two brothers had the same mean mother as I did.  

My mother 40  on knowing where we were at all times. She had to know who our 41 were and where we were going. We had to wear 42 clothes every day. Other kids always wore their 43 for days. We reached the height of disgrace（不体面）because she made our clothes herself, just to 44 money.  

The 45 was yet to come. We had to be 46 by 9:00 each night and up at 7:45 the next morning. So while my friends slept, my mother actually had the courage to 47 Child Labor Law. She made us work. I believed she lay 48 all nights thinking up mean things to do to us. Through the years, our friends’ report cards had beautiful colors on them, black for passing, red for 49 . My mother, however, would merely be content with 50 marks. None of us was allowed the 51 of being a dropout（逃避现实的人）.  

She 52 us to grow up into educated and honest adults. Using this as a background, I’m now trying to 53 my three children. I’m filled with pride when my children think I am 54 because now I 55 God every day for giving me the meanest mother in the world.  

-The government should think about the medical reform again and take measures to improve the medical services.  

--______ . They are not good at the moment.  

A. You’re confusing me   B. I cannot agree more

C. That’s all right            D. Go ahead, please.