The topic,        we devoted a full discussion, is to be presented to our teacher at class.

A．which            B．where           C．to which            D．for which

--- Oh, my God! We just missed the last bus back home.

--- I’m sure we            it, but you were not in any hurry.

A．could catch                                         B．had caught

C．would catch                                        D．could have caught

Some years ago when I was in my first year in college, I heard Salome Bey sing for the first time. The moment was exciting. Salome’s   1  filled the room and brought the theater to life. I was so   2   that I decided to write an article about her.

I   3   Salome Bey, telling her I was from Essence magazine, and that I wanted to meet her to talk her career. She   4   and told me to come to her studio next Tuesday. When I hung up, I was scared out of my mind. I   5   I was lying. I was not a writer at all and hadn’t even written a grocery list.

I interviewed Salome Bey the next Tuesday. I sat there   6  , taking notes and asking questions that all began with, “Can you tell me…” I soon realized that   7   Salome Bey was one thing, but writing a story for a national magazine was just impossible. The   8   was almost unbearable. I struggled for days   9   draft after draft. Finally I put my manuscript （手稿） into a large envelope and dropped it into a mailbox.

It didn’t take long. My manuscript   10 . How stupid of me! I thought. How could I   11   in a world of professional writers? Knowing I couldn’t   12   the rejection letter, I threw the unopened envelope into a drawer.

Five years later, I was moving to California. While   13   my apartment, I came across the unopened envelope. This time I opened it and read the editor’s letter in   14  :

Dear Ms Profit,

Your story on Salome Bey is fantastic. Yet we need some   15   materials. Please add those and return the article immediately. We would like to   16   your story soon.

Shocked, it took me a long time to   17  . Fear of rejection cost me dearly. I lost at least five hundred dollars and having my article appear in a major magazine. More importantly, I lost years of   18   writing. Today, I have become a full – time writer. Looking back on this   19  , I learned a very important lesson: You can’t   20   to doubt yourself.

1．A．joy                       B．voice                   C．speech                D．smile

2．A．proud                   B．active                  C．satisfied              D．moved

3．A．visited                   B．emailed                C．phoned                D．interviewed

4．A．agreed                  B．refused                C．hesitated              D．paused

5．A．replied                  B．discovered           C．explained             D．knew

6．A．seriously               B．patiently              C．nervously            D．quietly

7．A．blaming                 B．fooling                C．inviting                D．urging

8．A．hardship                B．failure                 C．comment             D．pressure

9．A．with                     B．by                       C．on                      D．in

10．A．disappeared         B．returned              C．spread                 D．improved

11．A．compare              B．struggle               C．survive                D．compete

12．A．ignore                 B．deliver                 C．face                    D．receive

13．A．decorating           B．repairing              C．cleaning              D．leaving

14．A．disbelief              B．anxiety                C．horror                 D．trouble

15．A．subjective            B．relevant               C．private                D．reliable

16．A．broadcast            B．create                  C．publish                D．assess

17．A．recover               B．prepare                C．escape                D．concentrate

18．A．energetic             B．endless                C．typical                 D．enjoyable

19．A．experience           B．success               C．benefit                D．accident

20．A．attempt               B．afford                 C．expect                 D．pretend

While I was in 9 th grade, I built a circuit （电路装置） for the traffic system of our city. After getting the first prize. I got this valuable advice from my father; “Do whatever interests you, and don’t let the work challenge you, make sure you are challenging that work.”

I have always preferred the projects which are challenging and related to real life problems. I clearly remember building a shipping program several years ago. I divided the whole project into several small sections. When I understood it clearly, used my brainstorming skill on it, and gave some basic ideas. Then I asked my professor for help before jumping into coding （编码）. At first, I did not know how to ask questions correctly and always asked the question “How do I do it?” As I kept working and discussed with my professor, I became more comfortable and those “how ”questions soon turned into “what if I do this and that” types of questions.

It took me four days to write the code. The desire to solve the problem kept me sleepless all nights brainstorming in even greater details. Every time I saw my program running smoothly, I exploded with joy. I still remember the last day of my work. I was getting some problem and didn’t know what to do. At that moment, a man came in to clean. He has headphones, and he was dancing while cleaning the room. Seeing this, I burst out laughing. That moment calmed me. I regained energy and interest and started to work again, and soon I fixed the problem.

My success in the project proved that breaking up a large problem into small parts could help find a possible solution. Discussing the problem with others was also very beneficial. Now I have gained the confidence to attempt any kind of project.

1．According to the passage, the writer was interested in          .

      A．developing traffic systems                    B．doing challenging projects

       C．winning great prizes                             D．writing different codes

2．The writer asked the question “how do I do it” at first because         .

       A．he had no clear idea about his program

       B．he was too shy to express himself

       C．he wanted to he understood easily

       D．he preferred this kind of question

3．We learn from the passage that the writer’s shipping program         .

       A．would benefit people a lot                     B．was done together with others

       C．was difficult and needed patience          D．cost much money and energy

4．What would be the best title of the passage?

       A．Do It Yourself                                      B．No Pains, No Gains

       C．Learning with interest                           D．Practice Makes Perfect

If you know exactly what you want, the best way to get a job is to get specialized training. A recent report shows that companies like graduates in such fields as business and health care who can go to work immediately with very little on-the-job training.

    That’s especially true of booming fields that are challenging for workers. At Cornell's School of Hotel Administration, for example, bachelor's degree graduates get an average of four or five job offers with salaries ranging from the high teens to the low 20s and plenty of chances for rapid advancement. Large companies especially like a background of formal education coupled with work experience. But in the long run, too much specialization does not pay off. Business, which has been flooded with MBAs, no longer considers the degree an automatic stamp of approval. The MBA may open doors and command a higher salary initially, but the impact of a degree washes out after five years.

As further evidence of the erosion of corporate faith in specialized degrees, Michigan State’s Scheetz cites a pattern in corporate hiring practices. Although companies tend to take on specialists as new hires, they often seek out generalists for middle and upper-level management. This sounds like a formal statement that you approve of the liberal-arts（文科） graduate. Time and again labor-market analysts mention a need for talents that liberal-arts majors are assumed to have: writing and communication skills, organizational skills, open-mindedness and adaptability, and the ability to analyze and solve problems. David Birch, manager of the Boston Red Sox, says that he does not hire anybody with an MBA or an engineering degree. “I hire only liberal-arts people because they have a less-than-canned way of doing things,” says Birch.

For a liberal – arts degree, students focus on some basic courses that include literature history, mathematics, economics, science, human behavior and a computer course or two. With these useful and important courses, you can feel free to specialize, “A liberal-arts degree coupled with an MBA or some other technical training is a very good combination in the marketplace,” says Scheetz.

1．The job market is in great need of people with          .

       A．special training in special fields

       B．a bachelor’s degree in education

       C．formal schooling and work experience

       D．an MBA degree from top universities

2．The underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 means         .

       A．an MBA degree does not help in future promotion

       B．MBA programs will not be as popular as they are now

       C．people will not forget the degree the MBA graduates have got

       D．most MBA programs fail to provide students with a foundation

3．David Birch says that he only hires liberal – arts people because          .

       A．they will follow others’ ways of solving problems

       B．they can do better in bundling changing situations

       C．they are well trained in a variety of specialized fields

       D．they have attended special programs in management

4．The author supports the idea that          .

       A．on – the – job training is less costly in the long run

       B．formal schooling is less important than job training

       C．specialists are more expensive to hire than generalists

       D．generalists will do better than specialists in management

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Brain Transplants

Research on the human brain has been attracting more and more scientists in recent years.   1   If we compare a human brain to a hard disc, what the scientists are doing is to make better use of the hard disc.

The idea that a human brain could be transplanted （移植） may come from Frankenstein. In 1999, an experiment turned a bear into a dolphin （海豚）.   2   They were made of the memory area in the dolphin’s brain containing information about swimming. They had a series of useful information, which was saved into a button – sized chip （芯片）. Later the information was transplanted into the action memory area in the bear’s brain.   3   It proved to be a highly successful experiment and a bear was turned into a dolphin.

Recently, another memory transplant was performed at the Motor Nerve Research Instance of the University of California. The experiment bad an entire transplant of the memory area.   4   The transplant was performed from a dog named Cenius to a dog named idiot. Cenius could follow up to 100 gestures and orders made by its master. It was a real genius in memorizing. However, Idiot had no contact with people since its birth. It because an animal with nothing in its brain, without any memory.

  5   When the two dogs woke up, Idiot had grasped all the abilities Cenius possessed; it was good at memorizing and sensible. It could follow every gesture and any command given by its master. But Cenius gave no response to its master, and did not recognize him at all.

       A．The experiment was a complete success.

       B．It included actions, moods, logic, words, images, etc.

       C．Then it was released （释放） by means of electric power.

       D．Different images have different meanings in the memory area.

       E．Using the most advanced technology, detailed images were produced.

       F．Discoveries show that messages are carried by the central nervous system in the brain.

       G．One of the latest topics is how to change the human brain or combine it with the computer.

We all know that,          , the situation will get worse．

A．not if dealt carefully with                             B．if not carefully dealt with

C．if dealt not carefully with                             D．not if carefully dealt with

---Bill, would you like to go camping sometime this month?

---                    ．

---Probably just the two of us．

A．Sure, Jack wants to go too．

B．I’d love to, but I heard it’s too crowed．

C．Fine, as long as it’s weekend．By the way, who’s going?

D．Sounds great, when can you get time off from work?

---Is there anything wrong, Bob? You look sad．

---Oh, nothing much．In fact, I        of my friends back home．

A．have just thought                                        B．was just thinking

C．would just think                                          D．will just be thinking

If we can          our present difficulties, then everything should be all right?

A．come across                                       B．get over

C．come over                                                 D．get off