, Obama’s health care reform hasn’t been accepted by all the people in the USA yet.

A．Reasonable as may it sound                         B．As it may sound reasonable

C．As reasonable it may sound                          D．Reasonable as it may sound

Taiwan’s former leader Chen Shui – bian, who was sentenced to       in prison on Friday for corruption,        a new round of punishment.

A．living, facing             B．life, face           C．living, faced           D．life, faces

--- Shall we go out for a walk around Prague?

--- I’m afraid not. We can’t go out         our work is being done.

A．before            B．until            C．as          D．after

The number 9.11 is special number,       , I think, that will be remembered by the Americans forever.

A．what          B．it            C．which         D．one

--- Do remember to take this medicine three times a day with warm boiled water.

---        .

A．Heard it           B．Made it             C．Got it            D．Taken it

Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy trying to   1   in order to pay the high tuition （学费） for my brother and me. They don’t act in the __2__ ways that I read in books or I see on TV. In their opinion, “I love you” is too __3__ for them to say. Sending flowers to each other on Valentine’s Day is even more out of __4__.

One day, my mother was sewing a quilt. I sat down beside her. “Mom, I have a question to ask you. Is there __5__ between you and Dad?” I asked her in a very low voice. She didn’t answer immediately. She __6__ her head and continued to sew the quilt.

I was very worried because I thought I had _7_ her. I was _8__ and I didn’t know what I should do. But at last I heard my mother say the following words:

“Susan,” she said thoughtfully, “Look at this thread．Sometimes it __9_, but most of it disappears in the quilt. The thread really makes the quilt __10__. If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread．It can hardly be seen __11_, but it’s really there. Love is __12__.”

I listened carefully but I __13__ her until the next spring. At that time, my father suddenly __14_ seriously. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month. When they returned from the hospital, they both looked __15 _. It seemed both of them had had a serious illness. After they were back, every day in the morning and dusk, my mother helped my father __16__ on the country road．

“Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.

“Susan, don’t __17__ me.” he said gently. “To tell you the truth, I just like walking with your mom.”__18__ his eyes, I know he loves my mother deeply.

Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and __19__. But from this experience, I understand that love is just __20__ in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm.

1．A．keep fit            B．rise early          C．earn money     D．collect money

2．A．magic            B．romantic         C．fantastic         D．attractive

3．A．simple            B．easy              C．relaxing          D．luxurious （奢侈）

4．A．the question           B．problem          C．interest             D．control

5．A．feeling                  B．love             C．quarrel           D．smile

6．A．raised                   B．shook           C．nodded            D．bowed

7．A．hurt                      B．injured            C．wounded         D．harmed

8．A．in great surprise                                    B．in a great embarrassment

       C．with deep depression                         D．at extreme sorrow

9．A．happens           B．comes about       C．appears           D．occurs

10．A．warm and soft    B．hot and hard        C．thin and cool      D．strong and durable

11．A．somewhere and sometime               B．anywhere or anytime

       C．more or less                      D．here and there

12．A．inside               B．outside          C．faraway           D．nearby

13．A．could believe                                      B．couldn’t understand

       C．wouldn’t recognize                          D．might know

14．A．got sick         B．got stuck        C．lay down          D．became disabled

15．A．quite healthy       B．very pale          C．fairly red         D．much surprised

16．A．jump high          B．go hurriedly       C．run fast          D．walk slowly

17．A．think about         B．talk with          C．worry about      D．laugh at

18．A．Reading          B．Seeing            C．Saying           D．Writing

19．A．fresh roses         B．gold ring           C．sweet kisses       D．beautiful jewelry

20．A．a thread        B．a needle        C．the cloth        D．the cotton

Do you know who invented the slide – fastener, or rather, the zipper （拉链）? No one thought of anything like the zipper until Whitcomb Judson came along. Judson’s slide-fastener was an out-of-blue invention. No one knows what gave him the idea．No one even knows much about him, except that he was a mechanical engineer living in Chicago and that he patented other inventions to do with a street railway system and motorcars.

Judson invented the first zipper in 1891. This ingenious little device looks very simple, and the principle behind it is simple, too; yet it took a lot of years, together with another inventor to make the zipper really practical.

The zipper had to be produced cheaply, because no one would pay a lot of money for it．Judson invented a machine to mass-produce his slide-fastener．But the machine was terribly complicated and kept on breaking down. So in 1905 Judson invented a new fastener, the C-curity, which was easier to manufacture. Clothing manufacturers, however, were not the least bit interested in trying out the fasteners, so the only way Judson could get them on to the market was by letting pedlars（小贩）sell them from door to door．Moreover, the C-curity fastener was clumsy and had a bad habit of bursting open at inconvenient times.

Then a young Swedish engineer called Sundback came to work for Judson’s struggling company. He thought hard and decided that the interlocking parts needed to be much smaller to give the fastener greater flexibility and to stop it bursting open．After several attempts, Sundback invented a really practical fastener in 1913. It is in all important ways the same as the one we use today.

Clothing manufacturers still refused to use the fastener. But in 1918 an inventor showed the American army a flying suit he had invented．It happened to use the slide-fastener．The army put the suit through such tough tests that it disintegrated（分裂）---all except the fastener! A Navy officer happened to see the tests, and Judson’s unknown little company got an order for ten thousand fasteners．Later, Judson’s invention was used in the manufacture of rubber galoshes（橡胶套鞋） by a big company. They called the galoshes `Zippers´. This is how the slide-fastener got it s popular name.

1．What does the sentence “Whitcomb Judson’s slide-fastener was an out-of-blue invention” in the first paragraph mean?

       A．That it was blue in color.                      B．That it was totally unexpected.

       C．That it was excellent in quality.              D．That it was not practical.

2．How many years did it take for a really practical zipper to be invented?

     A．22                  B．18                 C．19                D．13

3．What do we know about Whitcomb Judson according to the passage?

     A．It took Judson a lot of years to invent the first zippers.

     B．Judson, together with Sundback invented a really practical fastener in 1913.

     C．Judson invented a lot of things, not only including zippers but also a street railway system and motorcars.

     D．People know little about Whitcomb Judson except a few facts.

4．What is the writer’s purpose of writing the passage?

       A．To tell us how the zipper works.

       B．To give a brief introduction about the inventors of the zipper.

       C．To give us information about the invention of the zipper.

       D．To argue who the real inventor of the zipper was.

TOKYO – The number of domestic （国内） infections cases of influenza A/H1N1 in Japan hits 42 on Sunday after a total of 34 people in Osaks and Hyogo counties were confirmed to have been infected, local media reported.

The total number of the infection in the country now stands at 46, including the first four cases contracted abroad.

The country is now facing the risk of grass-root outbreak which could lead the WHO to raise its new flu pandemic alert（传染病预警）to the highest level of 6 from the current 5, experts has warned.

The 34 newly confirmed domestic cases, 11 in Osaka and 23 in Hyogo, included high school students, college students and teachers, the health ministry and local governments said Sunday.

Japan on Saturday confirmed the first eight cases of domestic infection on students of a Kobe high school. The later confirmed cases in Osaka are said to have contacted（感染） the Kobe students in a volleyball match. Osaka and Hyogo are neighboring in the Kansai region.

All of the 42 people had no record of overseas travel. Meanwhile, a total of 143 students at the Kansai Okura Senior High School where many infections in Osaka were found, have shown symptoms of influenza since around Monday, according to local media reports. The privately run school said it will be closed from Monday through Saturday. More than 1,000 educational facilities -- kindergartens, and elementary, junior and senior high schools -- in Osaka and Hyogo counties have decided to suspend （暂停） classes for certain periods following the confirmation of new flu infections in the counties, Kyodo News reported.

The two counties have requested private schools to follow suit. Osaka Governor Toru Hashimoto held a meeting of a new flu task force on Sunday and decided to ask facilities such as movie theaters to suspend operations to prevent the spread of the flu. TV clips showed people in Kansai region started to wear masks in public spaces and rushed to drug stores for buying medicines.

The Japanese government on Saturday shifted the stage of its new-flu action program from “a period of overseas outbreak” to “a period of domestic outbreak” and called for companies and schools in the areas concerned to allow individuals to avoid commuting（出行）during rush hours.

The Kyodo News quoted Masato Tashiro, a member of the World Health Organization's emergency committee, as saying that several hundred people in Japan already may have been infected with the new flu.

1．According to the passage, the total number of the A/H1N1 infection in Japan now is _______.

       A．42                B．34                  C．46                   D．143

2．The reasons for the happening of the later confirmed cases in Osaka are the following except

_______

A．143 students at the Kansai Okura Senior High School have shown symptoms of influenza.

       B．Some students in a Kobe High school got infected.

       C．Osaka and Hyogo are next to each other in the Kansai region.

       D．The later infected people contacted the Kobe students in a volleyball match.

3．What is the implied meaning of what Masato Tashiro said in the last paragraph?

       A．The real situation about the new flu in Japan may be worse than it has been reported.

       B．Several hundred people have been infected but they don’t know it.

       C．The WHO has to raise its new flu pandemic alert to the highest level.

4．The purpose of the passage is ______.

       A．to introduce the domestic infection cases in Japan.

       B．to draw people’s attention to the worsening situation of influenza A / H1N1

       C．to give some advice on preventing the spread of the flu.

       D．to call for educational facilities in Japan to suspend classes for some time.

As I was reading a recent story in Slate on 20-somethings complaining about how the economy was ruining their life plans, I couldn’t help but think the 20-somethings sounded like a bunch of spoiled （宠坏） children who grew up expecting everything to be easy for them. As a 20-something myself, I certainly share their disappointment: my husband and I probably won’t be able to buy a house until we’re in our 40s, and we too are burdened by student loans（贷款）. But why should it be any different? Being young persons in America, shouldn’t they take up all of the challenges and opportunities that this country offers?

Consider some of these views shared in the Slate story: Jennifer, 29, owner of a two-bedroom apartment with her husband, worries that she won’t be able to have children for at least a decade because they can’t afford to buy a house yet.

I read that, and I thought, what planet is she living on where you need to own a house in order to have kids? Has she ever visited a developing country, or even downtown areas in this one? Home ownership is a luxury（奢华）, not a fertility requirement.

A 26-year-old in the story despairs（绝望） that he can’t afford to get a Ph.D. in literature. Well, that sounds a bit like expressing disappointment that no one will pay you to write poetry on the beach in Thailand for five years.

Yes, it’s sad that these young people feel so lost. But I think the problem is their extremely high expectations, not economic reality. Beth Kobliner, author of Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties, says that she thinks people’s expectations are slowly adjusting, but today’s 20-somethings grew up at a time when everyone’s wealth appeared to be expanding. Their parents probably saw their home values rise along with their investments.（投资） “So you have people who have grown up in an environment where people had great expectations of what living well means,” says Kobliner.

This recession（衰退） will certainly play a role in forcing those expectations into more realistic group. In the meantime, it seems a lot better for our mental health to focus on being grateful－for our one-bedroom apartments, for living in modern cities, or perhaps just for being able to eat three meals a day－than on longing for some kind of luxury life.

1．What makes the author think the 20-somethings sound like a bunch of spoiled children?

       A．They expect everything to be easy for them.

       B．They complain that the economy is spoiling their life plans.

       C．They are reluctant （不愿） to face all of the challenges.

       D．They are burdened by student loans.

2．The underlined word “fertility” in Paragraph 3 probably means        .

       A．baby production                             B．pleasant

       C．baby comfort                                D．essential

3．What’s the author’s attitude towards the 20-somthings with high expectation in Paragraph 5?

       A．Intolerant.           B．Negative.             C．Unbelieving.         D．Understanding.

4．What is the best title for this passage?

       A．How Young People Afford to Continue Their Study

       B．Why Young People Can’t Afford to Buy a House

       C．When Young People’s High Hopes Create Despair

       D．What the 20-somethings’ High Expectations Are

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We students want to attend college for various reason. In      1．       

my opinion, there are main the following ones: Above all,              2．       

attending college means getting good works in the future.             3．       

As we know, it’ll be difficulty to get good jobs without                 4．       

knowledge in the future. So we must attend college, there             5．       

we can receive the knowledge and learn to live on our                  6．       

own; and learn to co – operate with students from different          7．       

places. It will be the first time that you                                        8．       

will have been away from home, we will have to learn                  9．       

to solve questions and make decisions on our own.                      10．