The nervous-looking young man had waited for a few moments―outside the jeweler’s before he got enough courage to enter. He was warmly greeted by a young assistant. James felt a rush of blood to his face as he explained he would be bringing in his future wife to choose a birthday present. The assistant listened carefully and told him he’d better buy a necklace. He wasn’t used to buying jewellery and was a little worried about over-spending. After some discussion as to a reasonable price and the type, the assistant showed him dozens of necklaces and helped him to choose. At last James chose one and left the shop promising to return at five o’clock. When, half an hour later than planned, James did return to the shop with his future wife, Laura, the assistant acted as if she had never seen him before. When she was asked to show them some necklaces, she first brought out some inexpensive ones for them to choose, and then gave them the one she had prepared. A choice was soon made and they went away satisfied. James would certainly come back to buy what he wanted.

52. A good title for this passage is________.

A. A Clever Assistant                       B. Buying a Birthday Present

C. How to Choose a Necklace          D. A Brave Young Man

53.The word “overspending” in this passage means__________.

A. spending too much money

B. spending too much time

C. spending more time than he planned

D. spending too much time and too much money

54. When James told the assistant why he wanted to buy a present, his face_______.

A. turned pale                   B. turned  red        C. turned yellow                 D. turned black

55. James and Laura reached the shop at        .

A. 4:30       B.5:00         C.5:30         D.6:00

56. James would come back to buy what he wanted because_______.

A. the assistant knew how to satisfy the people who came to buy things

B. the necklace was good

C. Laura liked the necklace

D. the assistant who served James was very beautiful

An advertisement

49. Who might buy the house after reading the above advertisement?

A. Some young students.              B. A couple with little money

C. A big rich family                      D. A big poor family

50. What room has several possible uses?

A. The living room.                      B. The bedroom.

C. The dining room.                     D. The kitchen.

51. What is emphasized（强调）in the description of each room?

A. Floor.           B. Entrance.         C. Size.                    D. Windows.

Recently a Beijing father sent in a question at an Internet forum（论坛）asking what "PK" meant.

"My family has been watching the 'Super Girl' singing competition TV program. My little daughter asked me what 'PK' meant, but I had no idea," explained the puzzled father.

To a lot of Chinese young people who have been playing games online, it is impossible not to know this term. In such Internet games, "PK" is short for "Player Kill", in which two players fight until one ends the life of the other.

In the case of the "Super Girl" singing competition, "PK" was used to refer to the stage where two singers have to compete with each other for only one chance to go up in competition ranking.

Like this father, Chinese teachers at high schools have also been finding their students' compositions using Internet jargons which are difficult to understand. A high school teacher from Tianjin asked her students to write compositions with simple language, but they came up with a lot of Internet jargons that she didn't understand.

"My 'GG' came back this summer from college. He told me I've grown up to be a 'PLMM'. I loved to 'FB' with him together; he always took me to the 'KPM'," went one composition. "GG" means Ge Ge（Chinese pinyin for brother）. "PLMM" refers to Piao Liang Mei Mei（beautiful girl）. "FB" means Fu Bai（corruption）. "KPM" is short for KFC, Pizza Hut and McDonald's.

Some specialists welcome Internet jargons as a new development in language.

If you do not even know what a Kong Long（dinosaur, referring to an ugly looking female）or a Qing Wa（frog, referring to an ugly looking male）is, you will possibly be regarded as a Cai Niao!

45. By writing the article, the writer tries to ________.

A. explain some Internet language           B. suggest common Internet language

C. laugh at the Beijing father                   D. draw our attention to Internet language

46. What does the writer think about the term "PK"?

A. Fathers can't possibly know it.            B. The daughter should understand it.

C. Online game players may know it.       D. "Super Girl" shouldn't have used it.

47. The examples of the Beijing father and the Tianjin teacher are used to show that Internet jargons ________ .

A. are used not only online                    B. can be understood very well

C. are welcomed by all the people          D. cause trouble to our mother tongue

48. The underlined word "jargons" means “________ “in Chinese.

A. 行话               B. 粗口              C. 歌词               D. 趋势

One day Mrs. Perry said to her husband “Jack, there is a meeting of our ladies’ club at Mrs. Young’s house at lunch time today. And I want to go to it. I’ll leave you some food for your lunch. Is that all right?”

“Oh, yes,” her husband answered, “that’s quite all right. What are you going to leave for my lunch?”

“This tin of fish.” Mrs. Perry said. “And there are some cold boiled potatoes and some beans here, too.”

“Good,” Mr. Perry answered. “I’ll have a good lunch.”

So Mrs. Perry went to her meeting. All the ladies had lunch at Mrs. Young’s house, and at three o’clock she came home.

“Was your fish nice?” she asked.

“Yes, but my feet are hurting,” he answered.

“Why are they hurting?”

“Well, the words on the tin were ‘Open the tin and stand in hot water for five minutes.’”

41．Mrs. Perry left home some food for Jack’s lunch because     .

A．she didn’t cooking                               B．Jack knew nothing about cooking

C．she wanted Jack to have a good time       D．she wanted to go to the meeting very much

42．Which of the following is not true?

A．Mrs. Perry arrived at Mrs. Young’s before lunch

B．Mr. Perry had a good lunch

C．Mrs. Perry wanted to test her husband

D．Mr. Perry liked fish

43．Jack had his feet hurt     .

A．when he was opening the tin                 B．when he was helping himself to the fish

C．before he opened the tin                       D．after he opened the tin

44．“Open the tin and stand in hot water for five minutes” means     .

A．you should open the tin and stand in hot water for 5 minutes

B．you should open the tin but not stand in hot water for 5 minutes

C．you should not open the tin but stand in hot water for 5 minutes

D．you should open the tin and let it stand in hot water for 5 minutes

Last summer I was a volunteer（志愿者）at a shelter for the homeless, a place for homeless people to sleep at night. I wasn’t working that summer and was  21   only two classes in summer school, so I had some  22  time.

Three nights a week, I  23 in the kitchen of the shelter along with four other volunteers. We planned and  24 for 10 people hot meals  25  vegetables, chicken, fish and fruit. The homeless people  26  this good food because many of them usually didn’t eat well.

I  27  this volunteer work, making  28  with the four volunteers in the kitchen. One was a very nice elderly housewife, one a movie actor, another a young teacher, and the other a college student,   29 me.

I talked to a lot of the homeless people at the shelter. Their life stories  30  me with sympathy（同情）. Some of them had  31 with alcohol（酒）or drugs while others only had bad  32  . One woman worked for almost 30 years for a small company, and  33  she lost her job. She looked for a  34  job, but couldn’t find one, for she was too  35  . She could do nothing but sell her furniture ― sofas, chairs, and tables  36  she could pay for her food. The woman  37  on job hunting, but she 38   couldn’t find one. She had no money for her  39  and had to sleep in her car. Then she had to sell her car. Alone,   40  , and homeless, she finally came to the shelter.

---Mr. Yang, everything is ready for the meeting.

---I’m sorry, I ___to tell you the meeting had been put off.

A. should phone                           B. ought to have phoned

C. need to phone                          D. should have been phoned

I ____a story over the radio when my friend came to see me yesterday afternoon.

A. heard                                       B. was hearing

C. listened to                                D. was listening to

---I’d like to buy a new computer.

---Well, we have several models_____________

A .to choose from    B. to choose    C. for choosing    D. for choice

---Do you know anything about the talk between the two countries?

---They ______ to reach an agreement.

A .have so far failed     B. had so far failed   C. so far failed  D. were so far failing

She has four _______ and they are all_____________

A. girls friends ; tickets collectors         B. girl friends; ticket collectors

C. girls friend; ticket collectors             D. girl friends; tickets collectors