I bought a dress for only 10 dollars in a sale; it was a real ______________.

A．exchange       B．bargain          C．trade          D．business

The weather was warm, the food was inviting and the view was pretty — ____ we had a pleasant holiday.

A．exactly       B．meanwhile           C．finally         D．altogether

Children find meanings in their old family tales．

When Stephen Guyer’s three children were growing up, he told them stories about how his grandfather, a banker,    1   all in the 1930s, but did not lose sight of what he valued most．In one of the darkest times   2   his strong-minded grandfather was nearly   3   , he loaded his family into the car and   4   them to see family members in Canada with a 5   ,“there are more important thins in life than money．”

The  6   took on a new meaning recently when Mr. Guyer downsized to a  7    house from a more expensive and comfortable one．He was  8   that his children ,a daughter, 15, and twins, 22, would be upset．To his surprise, they weren’t．  9     , their reaction echoed （共鸣） their great-grandfather’s．What they   10    was how warm the people were in the house and how  11     of their heart was accessible．

Many parents are finding family stories have surprising power to help children   12    hard times．Storytelling expects say the phenomenon reflects a growing  13    in telling tales, evidenced by a rise in a storytelling events and festivals．

A university   14   of 65 families with children aged from 14 to 16 found kids’ ability to 15   parents’ stories was linked to a lower rate of anger and anxiety．

The  16    is telling the stories in a way children can  17     ．We’re not talking here about the kind of story that   18   , “When I was a kid, I walked to school every day uphill both ways, barefoot in the snow．” Instead, we should choose a story suited to the child’s  19   , and make eye contact（接触）to create “a personal experience”．We don’t have to tell children 20   they should take from the story and what the moral is ．”

1．A．missed                B．lost                   C．forgot                D．ignored

2．A．when                  B．while                 C．how                  D．why

3．A．friendless            B．worthless           C．penniless            D．homeless

4．A fetched                  B．allowed             C．expected            D．took

5．A．hope                   B．promise             C．suggestion          D．belief

6．A．tale                    B．agreement          C．arrangement       D．report

7．A．large                   B．small                 C．new                  D．grand

8．A．surprised             B．annoyed             C．disappointed       D．worried

9．A．Therefore            B．Besides              C．Instead               D．Otherwise

10．A．talked about       B．cared about        C．wrote about        D．heard about

11．A．much                 B．many                 C．little                  D．few

12．A．beyond             B．over                  C．behind                D．through

13．A．argument           B．skill                   C．interest               D．anxiety

14．A．study                B．design               C．committee         D．staff

15．A．provide             B．retell                 C．support              D．refuse

16．A．trouble              B．gift                    C．fact                   D．trick

17．A．perform            B．write                  C．hear                   D．question

18．A．means               B．ends                  C．begins                D．proves

19．A．needs                B．activities             C．judgments          D．habits

20．A．that                  B．what                 C．which               D．whom

Zoe Chambers was a successful PR （Public Relations） consultant and life was going well — she had a great job, a beautiful flat and a busy social life in London．Then one evening in June last year, she received a text message telling her she was out of work．The first two weeks were the most difficult to live through." she said．"After everything I'd done for the company, they dismissed me by text! I was so angry and I just didn't feel like looking for another job．I hated everything about the city and my life."

Then, Zoe received an invitation from an old school friend, Kathy, to come and stay．Kathy and her husband, Huw, had just bought a farm in north-west Wales．Zoe jumped at the chance to spend a weekend away from London, and now, ten months later, she is still on the farm.

"The moment I arrived at Kathy's farm, I loved it and I knew I wanted to stay." said Zoe．"Everything about my past life suddenly seemed meaningless."

Zoe has been working on the farm since October of last year and says she has no regrets．"It's a hard life, physically very tiring." she says．"In London I was stressed and often mentally exhausted．But this is a good, healthy tiredness．Here, all I need to put me in a good mood is a hot bath and one of Kathy's wonderful dinners."

Zoe says she has never felt bored on the farm．Every day brings a new experience．Kathy has been teaching her how to ride a horse and she has learnt to drive a tractor．Since Christmas, she has been helping with the lambing — watching a lamb being born is unbelievable, she says, "It's one of the most moving experiences I've ever had．I could never go back to city life now."

1．When working as a PR consultant in London, Zoe thought she lived a______life.

       A．satisfying                                            B．tough

       C．meaningless                                       D．boring

2．The most important reason why Zoe went to visit Kathy's farm is that______.

       A．Zoe lost her job as a PR consultant        B．Kathy persuaded her to do so

       C．Zoe got tired of the city life                  D．Zoe loved Wales more than London

3．How does Zoe feel about the country life according to the passage?

       A．Tiresome and troublesome．                 B．Romantic and peaceful

       C．Mentally exhausting but healthy             D．Physically tiring but rewarding.

4．Which of the following is closest to the main idea of the passage?

       A．A friend in need is a friend indeed．      B．Where there is a will, there is a way.

       C．A misfortune may turn out a blessing．  D．Kill two birds with one stone.

A study involving 8,500 teenagers from all social backgrounds found that most of them are ignorant when it comes to money．The findings, the first in a series of reports from NatWesl that has started a five-year research project into teenagers and money, are particularly worrying as this generation of young people is likely to be burdened with greater debts than any before.

University tuition fees （学费） are currently capped at £3,000 annually, but this will be reviewed next year and the Government is under enormous pressure to raise the ceiling.

In the research, the teenagers were presented with die terms of four different loans but 76 per cent failed to identify the cheapest．The young people also predicted that they would be earning on average £ 31.000 by the age of 25, although the average salary for those aged 22 to 29 is just £ 17,815．The teenagers expected to be in debt when they finished university or training, although half said that they assumed the debts would be less than £ 10.000．Average debts for graduates are £ 12，363.

Stephen Moir, head of community investment at the Royal Bank of Scotland Group which owns NatWest, said．"The more exposed young people are to financial issues, and the younger they become aware of them, the more likely they are to become responsible, forward-planning adults who manage their finances confidently and effectively."

Ministers are deeply concerned about the financial pressures on teenagers and young people because of student loans and rising housing costs．They have just introduced new lessons in how to manage debts．Nikki Fairweather aged 15 from St Helens, said that she had benefited from lessons on personal finance, but admitted that she still had a lot to learn about money.

1．Which of the following can be found from the five-year research project?

       A．Students understand personal finances differently.

       B．University tuition fees in England have been rising.

       C．Teenagers tend to overestimate their future earnings.

       D．The students' payback ability has become a major issue.

2．The phrase "to raise the ceiling" in paragraph 2 probably means "______".

       A．to raise the student loans

       B．to improve the school facilities

       C．to increase the upper limit of the tuition

       D．to lift the school building roofs

3．According to Stephen Moir, students_______.

       A．are too young to be exposed to financial issues

       B．should learn to manage their finances well

       C．should maintain a positive attitude when facing loans

       D．benefit a lot from lessons on personal finance

4．What can we learn from the passage?

       A．Many British teenagers do not know money matters well

       B．Teenagers in Britain are heavily burdened with debts.

       C．Financial planning is a required course at college．

       D．Young people should become responsible adults.

A car that runs on coffee is unveiled（shown to the public for the first time）today but at between 25 and 50 times the cost of running a car on petrol, the invention won’t please any motor industry accountants．

Nicknamed the Car-puccino, it has been created using a 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco bought for £400 and it was chosen because it looked like the time-traveling DeLorean in the movie Back To The Future．The car will be driven the 210 miles between Manchester and London powered only by roasted coffee granules （颗粒）．It has been built by a team from the BBC1 science programme Bang Goes The Theory and will go on display at the Big Bang science fair in Manchester to show how fuels other than traditional petrol can power vehicles．

The team calculates the Car-puccino will do three miles per kilo of ground coffee （咖啡粉） — about 56 cups of espressos （浓咖啡） per mile．The journey will use about 70 kilos of ground coffee which, at supermarket prices of between £13 and £26 a kilo depending on brand and quality, will cost between £910 and £1,820, or between 25 and 50 times the £36 cost of petrol for the journey．In total, the trip will cost 11,760 espressos, and the team will have to take ‘coffee breaks’ roughly every 30 to 45 miles to pour in more granules．They will also have to stop about every 60 miles to clean out the ‘coffee filters’ to rid them of the soot and tar which is also generated by the process．So despite a top speed of 60mph, the many stops mean the going will be slow, with the journey taking around ten hours．

Sadly, the inventors will still have to pay duty on their coffee fuel---even though tax collectors at Her Majesty’s Revenue and Custom haven’t yet worked out how much．

Nick Watson, producer of Bang Goes The Theory, said, “Coffee, like wood or coal, has some carbon content so you can use it as a fuel．The coffee needs to be very dry and in granules to allow the air to move through the pile of coffee as it burns．The brand doesn’t matter．” He said the same technology could be used to power a car on other unusual fuels, such as woodchips or nut shells, construction or agricultural waste．

1．Which is the right way to choose the coffee used as fuels to run the Car-puccino?

       A．It should be very dry．

       B．The stronger, the better．

       C．The smaller the granules are, the better．

       D．It should be of a certain brand．

2．What can be inferred from the passage?

       A．All kinds of materials can be used as fuels．

       B．The Car-puccino will be put into the market soon．

       C．Nick Watson is the designer of the Car-puccino

       D．Much remains to be improved for the Car-puccino．

3．The Car-puccino has its disadvantages EXCEPT that ________．

       A．it makes a lot of noise

       B．it runs at a very high cost

       C．it has to stop to be refueled very often

       D．it’s not good enough for long-distance journey

4．How much ground coffee will be used to cover a distance of 126 miles in this car?

       A．About 70 kilos                                      B．About 42 kilos．

       C．About 32 kilos                                     D．About 30 kilos

5．Why can coffee be used as a fuel?

       A．It looks like wood or coal．

       B．It contains some carbon content.

       C．It is very cheap．

       D．It is much better than woodchips or nut shells.

阅读下面六项活动的介绍（A、B、C、D、E和F），为每一位选出符合各人需求的最佳活动。选项中有一项是多余选项。

1．Sam who came from America two months ago is now teaching oral English in Dongfang

Middle School．He can only understand and speak a few Chinese words．He is adventurous

and sporting and would like to try something new to kill his time on Sunday．

2．Julie coming from Australia is an exchange student in Shaoguan University．She majors in

Chinese Art and likes Chinese culture very much．But now what worries her most is her

overweight because of the delicious Chinese food．So she’d like to find someone to guide her

to keep fit．

3．Mrs. Yang is very busy with her job in the company as well as the housework at home．As a

result of the long-term strain, she often feels oppressed, restless and tired．So she hopes to do

some suitable exercise to lessen and relax such disturbances of physical and mental system at

weekends．

4．Some of Ted’s Net friends will go to Beijing to visit him around Christmas．How excited he is! He plans to take them to some places of interest and entertain them．Now he is looking through China Daily to find something fit for them．

5．Benny has just graduated from No．16 Middle School．Luckily, he has been admitted into South China Agricultural University．Since childhood, he has been interested in trees, flowers, birds and animals．Now in the summer holiday, he is eager to find something exciting and something he is keen on to do．

  A．Flashlight Adventure: Put on your warm clothes, bring a flashlight and a pair of glasses, and come for a night walk along the Great Valley．A guide will lead the tour．Many of the animals you’ll see on this trip can only be seen at night．The guide will tell you about the lives of the animals you see．Cost: 50 yuan．Time:8: 00—10: 30 pm, every Saturday．Tel: 83321239．

  B．Taichi with English Narration: An experienced Taichi teacher, about 38, teaches the basic 24 movements, pushing-hands and self-defense techniques．It is fit for the beginners and intermediate level．Time:10: 00—12: 00 am, every Sunday．Place: Bamboo Garden Hotel, Jiu Gulou Street．Fee: 60 yuan each time．Tel: 65287750．

C．Chinese Ink & Painting Class: It is to learn the techniques of painting a bird, flower, or lady with brushes．The Chinese philosophy and culture will also be included．Tools and materials are provided．Time: 7: 00—9: 00 pm, every Friday．Fee: 50 yuan each week．Tel: 38876788．

D．Great Wall Party: The latest Great Wall Party is sponsored by the Club and Elektrobeat and held at Jinshanling．Local DJ Mark, as well as guests Slab from Australia, Usami and Bobby from Hong Kong will spin the sounds．All drinks are priced at 20 yuan．Ticket: 200 yuan, including bus ride there and back plus entrance fee to the Great Wall．Time:8: 00 pm—2: 00 am, Dec．20—30．Pre-sale tickets are available at Public Space．Tel: 64160759．

E．Healthy Diet Program: The 8-week program helps you discover how to be healthy, slim and beautiful! It is unlike other diet regimes in that it focuses on proper nutrition first and weight loss second．It offers control over stomach and continuing hunger with a calorie dense diet allowing 1,700 to 2,000 calories a day．Call to get more information: 75763457．

F．Lotus Yoga: The word Yoga means combination and harmony, whose true sense refers to the perfect unity of a person’s body and mind．It is a way to maintain highly natural and relaxed state and purify your body and mind, a way to lessen the tiredness in the waist and back and keep fit while heightening the body’s ability to keep coordinated and balanced．Booking for any course, please access http: //www．Lotusyoga．cn．

下面短文中共有10处语言错误，请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写上该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。

注意：

1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2．只允许修改10处，多者 （从第11处起） 不计分。

During the summer holidays this year, I thought I should do anything meaningful instead of staying at home, so I have got a job at a KFC fast food restaurant, worked there as a cleaner．I worked seven hours a day for three weeks．

The job was hard and bored and seemed endless, which made me so tired that I nearly gave it in half way, but I stuck to it with determinations．Every day I started off for work early in the morning and got home lately in the evening．Finally I finished the job before the new term begins．

Now, I understand that labor means．I think it is really successful experience．

某英语报社拟成立“微笑俱乐部”，现向全球征募会员，要求申请者提交一篇题为“I want to Smile”的英语短文。请你以申请者的身份，根据以下提示用英语写一篇短文。 

词数：120左右。

内容要点：1．微笑的优点；

2．想对其微笑的人物（如：父母或朋友等）并给出理由；

3．对自己微笑的理由；

4．总结。

注意：文章写在方框内，超出边框的内容无效。

—I enjoyed the food very much.

—I’m glad you like it．Please drop in any time you like.

—________

A．Is it all right?                  B．I'm afraid I won't be free.

C．Yes, I will．                    D．That's great.