I’m considering _______ a washing machine, which is considered _______ a great help to my wife.

A. buying; to be                    B. buying; being

C. to buy; being                    D. to buy; to be

The revolutionaries sacrificed themselves _______ our country during the past years.

A. at                  B. in              C. of                D. for

有人提议高中学生毕业时把学过的课本留给下一届学生使用，你校的英语月报就此开设了”Is Recycling Textbooks a Good Suggestion?”的专题论坛，面向广大学生征文。请你写一篇100个词左右的短文谈谈自己的看法。

要点提示：

           1.毕业后大多数课本被扔掉     

           2.课本再利用可节省天然资源

           3.大大降低书的成本，减少家庭负担

           4.澳大利亚等其它国家已有先例给了我们好榜样

注意： 可适当添加内容，不得逐字翻译

       A spirit of adventure, curiosity about different cultures and the desire for a challenge can be found in young people everywhere. More and more students in China are backpacking around the country.

    According to the China Youth Travel Service, Hainan, Dalian, Zhangjiajie and Qingdao were among the most popular spots for young Chinese backpackers last year. Backpacking allows the traveler a greater sense of independence.

     “I can no longer put up with the instructions of a tourist guide,” said Huang Ye, a 19-year-old college student in Beijing. “They are always driving you to places that you do not want to go to and trying to make you buy local souvenirs.”

      Huang likes to travel as a backpacker. She prefers an independent trip that she took with two friends to Jiuzhaigou in Sichuan Province. There, they chose some scenic spots to visit and avoided the masses of (大量的) tourists.

           Backpackers see the difficulties of such travel as a challenge. Living on bread and water for days on end, wearing the same clothes over and over again and carrying a heavy bag on their backs while climbing a mountain are all character-building experiences.

       But perhaps the greatest challenge that a backpacker faces is not a physical one, but mental. They may face loneliness if they travel alone.

    Chen Xuewei, 21, suffered when he took off around China last year.“I felt very lonely at the beginning of my journey. A walkman didn’t make me feel better, but rather heightened the sense of loneliness I felt. I even called up my friends to tell them that I wanted to give up and go back to Beijing,” he recalled. But he kept going. He started to make friends and appreciate the local customs. He took lots of photos to record his trip and now he is glad he stuck it out.

    Backpackers generally find themselves to be mature after their experiences. “Their travel logs (旅行日志) track their development as people.” “When I feel frustrated, I read my travel log again,” said Tang Weifeng, a postgraduate at Peking University. “By reading it, I get a sense that I am better off now than I was when I wrote those words by the light of a torch in a hot tent.”

72. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as one of the advantages of backpacking according to the story?

   A. It builds up your character.

   B. Through the experience, you learn to live in a tent.

   C. Through the experience, you learn to rely on yourself.

   D. Through the experience, you learn to cope with loneliness.

73. What do you need most to stick a backpacking trip out, according to Chen Xuewei’s experience?

   A. A walkman.

   B. Making new friends.

   C. Taking lots of photos.

   D. The determination to do so.

74. What does the underlined word “frustrated” in the last paragraph mean?

   A. Disappointed.                 B. Happy.

   C. Tired.                           D. Excited.

75. What is the story mainly about?

   A. Some backpackers’ experiences.

   B. The advantages of backpacking.

   C. Young people’s love of backpacking.

   D. The increasing popularity of backpacking among Chinese students and its reasons.

       Jules Verne was a Frenchman who was born in 1828 and died in 1905. He read a great many scientific books and wrote a number of exciting books about the things which he thought that scientists and inventors would one day be able to do. Years later, many of the things really happened. At that time, however, his stories seemed like fairy tales.

       Jules Verne’s most famous book is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.（A league is an old word meaning a distance of about three miles）. In those days submarines had not been invented but he described an underwater ship very like a modern one.

       Many of the things Jules wrote about in his books more than a hundred years ago to look into the future, however, were surprisingly exact. In his book From the Earth to the Moon he wrote at the age of about forty, three men and a dog made a journey around the moon in a hollow ship fired from a gun. After going around the moon, they returned to the earth and splashed down into the sea not far from where the first real moon traveler landed in July, 1969.

68. Jules wrote a lot of exciting books partly because he _______.

     A. liked to do much reading on science    

     B. liked reading fairy tales

     C. was a great inventor

     D. was a famous scientist

69. Some of what Jules described in his books _______.

     A. is almost the same as what happened years later

     B. is quite different from what happened years later

     C. never comes true

     D. seems impossible to the people today

70. Many of the things really happened _______.

     A. as soon as Jules’ books were published

     B. some years after his books were published

     C. at that time

     D. when Jules was in his forties

71. The thing Jules described in his book From the Earth to the Moon is _______.

     A. as large as the spaceship today

     B. similar to the spaceship today

     C. a gun used to send up a ship

     D. an underwater ship

       With his standard Mandarin pronunciation, practiced skills on Chinese expressions and special humor with a Peking accent, Dashan has become a household name across China.

       People have always wondered how the 36-year-old Canadian can be so skillful in the Chinese language even though it is considered by many as one of the most difficult languages in the world. But to Dashan, the great challenge was a piece of cake due to his deep interest, proper method and the excellent environment he created for himself.

       “Interest is the best teacher.” That is a universal principle. Even if he hadn’t fully realized what attracted him to the Chinese department at the University of Toronto in Canada, he was already deeply interested in Chinese culture when he decided to have further study in Beijing.

       Entering the Chinese department of Peking University in 1988, Dashan felt like a duck in water. Study is always a hard job, no matter how much interest you have. Therefore, effective ways are necessary to improvement. “Learn for life and learn in life” is Dashan’s belief.

       As a freshman at the University of Toronto, the student did study the textbooks. They did help him build a solid (扎实的) foundation.

       However, that’s far from enough to grasp the Chinese language. Starting in his junior year, Dashan began to read original Chinese novels, Chinese newspapers and even the Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping. “Only the material for Chinese native readers could give me a proper sense of the language,” he said.

       That the language is the daily means of communication is the principle that Dashan always keeps in his mind. What you have really learned depends on what you can use, not necessarily your mastery of textbooks.

       To learn in daily life requires a favourable language environment, which is also necessary for improvement. Dashan admits it is hard for Chinese English learners to be brought into a good English speaking environment, but he insists, “To listen and speak as much as possible does help.”

64. Dashan could learn Chinese very well because of _______.

    A. his interest, method and study environment

    B. practiced skills on Chinese expression

    C. his cleverness

    D. special humour with a Peking accent

65. The sentence “Learn for life and learn in life” here means “_______”.

    A. learn things in our daily life, otherwise it will not last long

    B. we should study in practice all our lives

    C. life is difficult, so we’d better learn more to lead a better life

    D.language is the necessary part of our daily life, so we must practise it frequently

66. The underlined phrase “a piece of cake” here refers  to “_______”.

    A. 吸引人的事情                B. 容易的事情  

    C. 很难的事情                   D. 富有刺激性的事情

67. Dashan read the Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping because _______.

    A. he admired the former leader of the government

    B. he hoped to learn more of the spirits of it

    C. he wanted to give himself a proper sense of the Chinese language

    D. it is very popular in modern times     

       If you go to Brisbane, Australia, you can easily get a small book called Discover Brisbane free. The book tells you almost everything in Brisbane: the restaurants, the shops, the cinemas, the streets, the buses, the trains, the banks, etc. Here is something about banks on page 49:

     ANZ Banking Group

     Cnr. Greek && Queen Sts ……………… 228 3228

     Bank of New Zealand

     410 Queen Street ……………………… 221 0411

     Bank of Queensland

       229 Elizabeth Street …………………… 229 3122

       Commonwealth Banking Group

       240 Queen Street ……………………… 237 3111

       National Australia Bank Ltd

       225 Adelaide Street …………………… 221 6422

       Westpac Banking Corp

       260 Queen Street ……………………… 227 2666

      Banking hours are Mon.-Thu. 9:30 am to 4 pm. Fri. 9:30 am to 5 pm. All banks close Sat. Sun. && Public Holidays.

       Australia has a decimal currency(十进币制) with 100 cents to the dollar.

       Notes available are: $100, $50, $20, $10, $5

       Gold coins are: $2 && $1

       Silver coins are: 50, 20, 10&&5 cent

       Copper coins are: 2 && 1 cent

60. You can find ANZ Banking Group on ______.

   A. Queen Street             

   B. Elizabeth Street

   C. the corner of Greek Street and Queen Street

   D. the corner of Queen Street and Elizabeth Street

61. ______ seems to be the most important street in Brisbane.

   A. Greek Street                        B. Elizabeth Street 

   C. Queen Street                        D. Adelaide Street

62. On Saturdays, you can go to ______ to put your money in or take your money out.

   A. ANZ Banking Group      

   B. Bank of Queensland

   C. National Australia Bank Ltd        

   D. no bank

63. In Australia, the banks have their longest service hours on ______.

   A. public holidays                 B. Sundays 

   C. Saturdays                        D. Fridays

       Among the most popular books being written today are those which are usually classified as science fiction. Hundreds of titles are published every year and are 36   by all kinds of people. What’s 37, some of the most successful films of recent years have been 38 on science fiction stories.

       It is often 39 that science fiction is a fairly new development in literature, but its ancestors can be found in 40 written hundreds of years ago. These books often 41   for the presentation of some form of ideal 42, a theme which is 43 often found in modern stories.

       Most of the classics (名著) of science fiction, 44, have been written within the last one hundred years. Books 45 writers, such as Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, to mention just two well-known authors, 46 been translated into many languages. 47   science fiction writers don’t write about men from Mars or space adventure stories. They are more 48 in predicting the effect of 49 progress of society and the human mind, or in 50 future worlds which are a reflection of the world, in 51 we live now.

       Because of this, their 52 has obvious political undertones(含意). In an age when scientific fact frequently 53 science fiction, the writers may 54 it difficult to keep   55 of scientific advances.

There was something wrong with our car, so we had to go _______ on foot to the village.

    A. all the way                          B. at all times 

    C. all the places                       D. all the roads

― Excuse me, _______ you help me with the heavy thing? 

― Surely I _______.

   A. must; could                      B. can; could

   C. could; can                        D. would; need