BEIJING Jan 7, 2009: China's Liu Xiang will probably not defend his world 110m hurdles title in Berlin later this year because of the injury that forced him out of the Beijing Olympics, his coach told local media on Wednesday.

The 25-year-old former world record holder and Olympic champion had surgery on the injured foot last month but will not be back in competitive form in time for the August 15-23 world championships, Sun Haiping told Titan Sports.

"Liu will not attend the worlds unless he is able to run at least 13.20 seconds before that, otherwise it makes no sense for us to go to Berlin," said Sun.

"That is likely to be too difficult for him ... He might be eliminated after the first heat and that would be terribly damaging to his confidence."

The Athens Olympic gold medallist Liu was robbed of the chance of defending his title on home soil last August by the Achilles' injury.

He has been away from the track since his dramatic departure from the Bird's Nest stadium on August 18 and is currently undergoing rehabilitation in the U.S.

Liu could be back in training as early as April, but the highly competitive world championships need at least half a year to prepare for, Sun said.

"He will probably return to competitive running at the Shanghai Grand Prix in September," he said. "Our key target is the London Olympics."

Cuban Dayron Robles, who took the world record and Olympic title away from Liu last year, will be favourite to win his first 110 metres hurdles world title in Berlin. He finished fourth behind Liu in Osaka in 2007.

1．Why will Liu Xiang probably not attend the Berlin World Championships in August?

       A．Because he will have surgery on his injured foot.

       B．Because he is afraid to lose the game to Dayron Robles.

       C．Because he is afraid to lose confidence as he is still not so competitive.

       D．Because he is too ashamed quitting in the Beijing Olympics.

2．What does the underlined word “eliminated” mean in Paragraph 4?

       A．lost                B．removed                C．discriminated              D．executed

3．Who is holding the current world record of 110m hurdles?

       A．Liu Xiang            B．Sun Haiping         C．Dayron Robles        D．Not mentioned

A young man learns what’s most important in life from the guy next door.

It had been some time since Jack had seen the old man. College, girls, career, and life itself got in the way. In fact, Jack moved clear across the country in pursuit of his dreams. There, in the rush of his busy life, Jack had little time to think about the past and often no time to spend with his wife and son. He was working on his future, and nothing could stop him.

Over the phone, his mother told him, “Mr. Belser died last night. The funeral is Wednesday.” Memories flashed through his mind like an old newsreel as he sat quietly remembering his childhood days.

“Jack, did you hear me?”

“Oh, sorry, Mom. Yes, I heard you. It’s been so long since I thought of him. I’m sorry, but I honestly thought he died years ago,” Jack said．

“Well, he didn’t forget you. Every time I saw him he’d ask how you were doing. He’d reminisce about the many days you spent over ‘his side of the fence’ as he put it,” Mom told him.

“I loved that old house he lived in,” Jack said.

“You know, Jack, after your father died, Mr. Belser stepped in to make sure you had a man’s influence in your life,” she said

“He’s the one who taught me carpentry,” he said．“I wouldn’t be in this business if it weren’t for him. He spent a lot of time teaching me things he thought were important…Mom, I’ll be there for the funeral,” Jack said．

As busy as he was, he kept his word．Jack caught the next flight to his hometown. Mr Belser’s funeral was small and uneventful. He had no children of his own, and most of his relatives had passed away.

The night before he had to return home, Jack and his Mom stopped by to see the old house next door one more time.

Standing in the doorway, Jack paused for a moment. It was like crossing over into another dimension, a leap through space and time. The house was exactly as he remembered．Every step held memories. Every picture, every piece of furniture….Jack stopped suddenly.

“What’s wrong, Jack?” his Mom asked.

“The box is gone.” he said．

“What box?” Mom asked．

“There was a small gold box that he kept locked on top of his desk. I must have asked him a thousand times what was inside. All he’d ever tell me was ‘the thing I value most’.” Jack said.

It was gone. Everything about the house was exactly how Jack remembered it, except for the box. He figured someone from the Belser family had taken it.

“Now I’ll never know what was so valuable to him.” Jack said.

“I better get some sleep. I have an early flight home, Mom.”

It had been about two weeks since Mr. Belser died. Returning home from work one day, Jack discovered a note in his mailbox “Signature required on a package. No one at home. Please stop by the main post office within the next three days.” the note read.

Early the next day Jack retrieved the package. The small box was old and looked like it had been mailed a hundred years ago. The handwriting was difficult to read, but the return address caught his attention. “Mr. Harold Belser” it read．Jack took the box out to his car and ripped open the package. There inside was the gold box and an envelope. Jack’s hands shook as he read the note inside.

“Upon my death, please forward this box and its contents to Jack Bennett. It’s the thing I valued most in my life.” A small key was taped to the letter. His heart racing, as tears filling his eyes, Jack carefully unlocked the box. There inside he found a beautiful gold pocket watch.

Running his fingers slowly over the finely etched casing, he unlatched the cover. Inside he found these words engraved:

“Jack, Thanks for your time! -Harold Belser.”

“The thing he valued most was…my time”

Jack held the watch for a few minutes, then called his office and cleared his appointments for the next two days. “Why?” Janet, his assistant asked．

“I need some time to spend with my son,” he said, “Oh, by the way, Janet, thanks for your time!”

1．Why did Jack think Mr. Belser died years ago?

     A．College and career prevented him from remembering Mr. Bleser.

     B．Jack was too busy with his business and family to think about Mr. Belser.

     C．Jack was too busy realizing his dreams to think about Mr. Belser.

     D．His present busy life washed away his childhood memories.

2．Jack’s mother told him on the phone about Mr. Belser EXCEPT that ______.

     A．Mr. Belser often asked how Jack was doing

     B．Mr. Belser’s funeral would take place on Wednesday

     C．Mr. Belser had asked for Jack’s mailing address

     D．Mr. Belser had pleasant memories of their time together

3．Why did Belser send Jack his gold watch?

     A．Because he was grateful for Jack’s time with him.

     B．Because he had no children or relatives.

     C．Because he thought he had to keep his word.

     D．Because Jack had always wanted it during his childhood.

4．Why did Jack say he needed some time to spend with his son?

     A．He was very tired of his work and wanted to have a good rest.

     B．He had promised to spare more time to stay with his son.

     C．He had missed his son and his family for days.

     D．He came to realize the importance of the time with his family.

From now on, never spend your precious time thinking of reasons for your failures and shortcomings. Instead, realize that the seeds of success were planted within you when you were born. Only you have the power to make those seeds grow.

The seeds, and the power to grow them, are contained in the most awesome machine ever created：the human mind. Success is a choice and not a chance. You were born a winner. You were born rich. You can be a success if only you make the right choice.

You cannot be successful without first developing your self-esteem. Your level of self-esteem is always based on the degree of control that you are able to exercise over yourself, and thus over your life. People with low self-esteem are people who do not believe that they have any power, or responsibility for their lives. They are the perennial（长期的） victims and martyrs. They are leaves tossed（摇摆） by the winds of chance blown about with any sudden change in the weather.

You can exercise control over your life only to the degree that you believe that you are responsible for everything that happens in your life. Failures think that everything happens by accident and chance. Successful people realize that they are responsible.

Everything happens as a result of something. If we can identify the cause, we can control the effect. We are responsible for what we choose to think and believe. One generally rises to the level that one expects. We are responsible for setting our expectations. Our success is dependent upon our level of confidence.

If you associate with positive-thinking people, you are definitely going to achieve success. On the contrary, the opposite happens. We are responsible for finding, planting, and nurturing the seeds that contain future victory, born from setbacks.

In short, in all areas of your life, whether they be financial, physical, emotional, or spiritual, you are responsible. Once you recognize this, accept it, and firmly believe it, you are on the road to success.

1．People with low self-esteem are compared to leaves because they     ___________.

       A．are ready to change their minds

       B．are easily affected by windy weather

       C．don’t have the power to face their fate

       D．can’t exercise control over themselves

2．Losers would think that       .

       A．success is the result of hard work

       B．working hard will lead to success

       C．their failure is only because of bad luck

       D．they don’t make efforts to succeed

3．It can be inferred from paragraph 5 that       .

       A．whether we will succeed depends on our attitudes

       B．developing confidence is the key to future success

       C．thoughts and beliefs are the result of creative mind

       D．setting our expectations is essential before taking action

4．The last paragraph serves as      .

       A．the proof of the author’s points             B．the conclusion of the argument

       C．an introduction to another topic             D．a comparison between two views

5．Which is the best title for the text?

       A．Success is a choice.                             B．The secrets of success.

       C．Develop our confidence.                       D．How to achieve success.

A long-awaited final report from the Food and Drug Administration（FDA）concludes that foods from healthy cloned animals and their offspring（后代）are as safe as those from ordinary animals, effectively removing the last US regulatory（监管的）barrier to the marketing of meat and milk from cloned cattle, pigs and goats.

The 968-page final report, not yet released but obtained by The Washington Post, finds no evidence to support people’s concerns that food from clones may have hidden risks.

But, recognizing that a majority of consumers are wary of food from clones—and that cloning could damage the good image of American milk and meat—the report includes hundreds of pages of raw（原始的） data so that others can see how it came to its conclusions.

The report also admits that human health concerns are not the only subject raised by the coming-out of cloned farm animals.

“Moral, religious and ethical concerns have been raised,” the agency notes in a document accompanying the report. But the report is “exactly a science-based evaluation.” It reports, because the agency is not authorized by law to consider those subjects.

In practice, it will be years before foods from clones make their way to store shelves in large quantities, in part because the clones themselves are too valuable to kill for meat or milk. Instead, the expensive animals—replicas（复制品） of some of the finest farm animals ever born—will be used firstly as breeding stock to create what supporters say will be a new generation of superior farm animals.

When food from those animals hits the market, the public may yet have its say. FDA officials have said they do not expect to require food from clones to be labeled as such, but they may allow foods from ordinary animals to be labeled as not from clones.

1．What can we infer from the first paragraph?

       A．FDA has waited for a long time to get this final report.

       B．Products from cloned animals have been put into the market before.

       C．People are having the products from cloned animals safely.

       D．There have been once opposite opinions against cloned products.

2．What does the underlined word “wary” mean?

       A．Disappointed.                                      B．Careful.

       C．Fond.                                                  D．Proud.

3．It will be a few years before foods from clones come into the market, partly because _____.

       A．people have little knowledge of the cloned animals

       B．supporters can’t give powerful evidence to support that

       C．the few cloned animals will first be used to create superior animals

       D．they are a new generation for the customers and are too valuable for the customers

4．What can we conclude from the passage?

       A．FDA officials encourage people to eat more food from clones.

       B．FDA officials think the food from clones will sell better than ordinary food.

       C．People only worry about the health problems when it comes to foods from the clones.

       D．All the foods will not have detailed labels on them.

阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。以下是请求帮助者的资料：

A．As we know, the 2010 World Expo will be held in Shanghai and many people from other countries will come to visit China．The taxi drivers in Dongfeng Taxi Company think the way to show kindness is to be able to greet the foreigners in their languages. They need someone who can teach them languages and the best time is at night when they are not so busy.

B．Tom is so addicted to on-line games that he cannot concentrate on his study like before. Now he often misses school in order to play games, thus telling lies to his teachers and parents again and again. Though he realizes what he does is wrong, he just can't stop it. How badly he needs someone's help.

C．Mane, a 44-year-old single mother of three, has to walk two miles to the nearest supermarket twice a week because she doesn't know which bus to take. What's worse, since she does not know words, she can not write out a shopping list. Also, she can only recognize items by sight, so if the product has a different label, she will not recognize it as the product she wants.

D．"Helping hand" organization will hold an event to help the starving children in Africa．The event starts in August and those taking part in will go without food for 30 hours. In this way, it is expected that money will be raised for the poor children.

E．"Green Earth" cares a lot for the animals in danger. Still many people in the world don't know much about the importance of animal protecting. This summer vacation a lot of events will be organized to call on people to live in harmony with our earth.

F．A group of young children in a remote village in southwest China are in great need of teachers. Because of the low salary, many teachers came and then went. The villagers hope to have a teacher who can stay for at least a year, because they know knowledge can make a difference to the children's future.

以下是乐于提供帮助的人员信息介绍，请匹配他们与所对应的帮助对象。

___1．Stephen: Last summer I went through a training program and became a literacy volunteer. When I began to discover what other people's lives were like because they could not read, I realized the true importance of reading.

___2．Ben: After graduation, I don't want to apply for a job at once. Instead, I plan to spare one year to help those who need help most and try my best to improve their lives. You know, education is essential to poverty relief and at the same time I'll get valuable experience for my future career.

___3．Susan: I'm a girl from England and has studied French for years. I'm here in Fudan University studying Chinese. I like China as it is full of mysteries. So I hope the voluntary work will help me to get in touch with Chinese people and get to know about China．Although my study is busy, I can be free at night and at the weekends.

___4．Tim: Since I myself have overcome a lot of difficulties in my life, I understand young people's problems and I know how to listen patiently to others and offer some advice. I'm working now in the daytime so I can only spend two to three hours a day at night to help others.

___5．Lisa: I burst into tears when I saw those children in a TV programme. What a sight. They are only bone and skin left. What's worse, every day the children are dying because of lack of food．I realized how lucky I am with enough food and a good chance to get education. The summer vacation is coming and I hope I can do something for them.

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行做出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：

该行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

该行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

It may seem frightening at first, but that      machine slithering（爬行）across the floor is just a robot—a snake robot.

After disasters such as Hurricane Katriana, in                               1．_________________

which buildings often fell down, rescue workers have                      2．_________________

trouble reaching survivors. The problem is their                               3．_________________

equipment is often too large to get through the ruin.                         4．_________________

A robot that move in and out of broken concrete                                    5．_________________

and metal can help save the lives of survivors or                                    6．_________________

limit the risk of injure for rescue workers. In addition                       7．_________________

to be able to cross gaps, turn around corners, and                           8．_________________

climb over small hills, the snake robot’s ability of                             9．_________________

climb pipes makes them are very useful.                                      10．________________

---Which is ____ house the great man once lived?

---An unusual one with____ big round roof on the hillside over there.

A．a; a           B．the; the         C．the; a             D．a; the

_____ I could express my thanks to the traveler, he had already disappeared in the rain.

A．Before          B．When        C．Until          D．While

---Do you think the weather is good enough for an outing?

---Yes, you couldn’t hope for _____at the time of the year.

A．a nice day         B．the nicer day          C．a nicer day         D．the nicest day

--- Is there any possible way to help them get rid of such a bad habit?

--- To tell the truth, it’s very hard. But we ____ on this problem trying to improve the situation.

A．worked          B．had worked          C．are working          D．had been working