that tears came to her eyes.

A．She was so deep moved                              B．She was so moved deeply

C．So deeply was she moved                            D．So deeply she was moved

I was just eighteen years old when I entered nursing school, easily the   1  member of my class. Consequently, I was the   2  of a great deal of teasing from my classmates, many of whom were single mothers and older women  3  back to school for second career.

  4  , I became ill one week and   5  a very important test on the subject of mental health. This was   6  important to me since I planned to enter the mental-health field   7  I became a full-developed nurse. Being a serious student and after getting well, I   8  scheduled a time to retest and began  9  for it. My fellow classmates knew how important this exam was to me and   10  me as much as possible.

On the day of the test, I came to the classroom an hour  11  where one of my teachers   12  the test. It was indeed a difficult exam, with more than one hundred questions   13  to brain development and the latest trends in mental health. My good preparations   14  me well, and in less than forty minutes, I passed the test with flying colours.

Anxious to  15  my test results with my fellow students, I ran to the hospital coffee shop where we students spent our free time with members of the hospital support staff. As soon as I entered the coffee shop, I cried out in a loud   16  , “I passed my test!”

As I   17  the busy coffee shop, I couldn’t find any of my classmates.  18  , a group of maintenance men, with  19  looks on their faces, rose to give me a standing   20  .

1．A．youngest               B．poorest                C．shortest               D．ugliest

2．A．title                       B．centre                 C．subject                D．question

3．A．attending               B．starting                C．returning             D．going

4．A．Surprisingly           B．Actually               C．Unfortunately       D．Presently

5．A．lost                       B．missed                C．forgot                 D．failed

6．A．seriously               B．particularly          C．badly                  D．naturally

7．A．until                      B．while                   C．once                   D．though

8．A．immediately           B．eventually            C．firstly                  D．hopefully

9．A．waiting                 B．reviewing            C．preparing             D．working

10．A．encouraged          B．persuaded            C．convinced           D．praised

11．A．later                    B．before                 C．ago                     D．earlier

12．A．took                    B．graded                 C．managed             D．checked

13．A．added                  B．joined                  C．attached              D．related

14．A．suited                  B．served                 C．tested                  D．challenged

15．A．report                 B．compare              C．exchange             D．share

16．A．voice                  B．noise                   C．sound                 D．mood

17．A．looked into          B．broke into            C．wandered about   D．looked round

18．A．However             B．Instead                C．Thus                   D．Therefore

19．A．confused             B．excited                C．disappointed        D．funny

20．A．smile                   B．hand                   C．applause              D．congratulation

A month after Hurricane Katrina, I returned home in New Orleans. There lay my house, reduced to waist-high ruins, smelly and dirty.

Before the trip, I’d had my car fixed. When the office employee of the garage was writing up the bill, she noticed my Louisiana license plate. “You from New Orleans?” she asked. I said I was. “No charge,” she said, and firmly shook her head when I reached for my wallet. The next day I went for a haircut, and the same thing happened.

As my wife was studying in Florida, we decided to move there and tried to find a rental house that we could afford while also paying off a mortgage（抵押贷款） on our ruined house. We looked at many places, but none was satisfactory. We’d begun to accept that we’d have to live in extremely reduced circumstances for a while, when I got a very curious e-mail from a James Kennedy in California. He’d read some pieces I’d written about our sufferings for Slate, the online magazine, and wanted to give us  a new house across (“no conditions attached”)the lake from New Orleans.

It sounded too good to be true, but I replied, thanking him for his exceptional generosity, that we had no plans to go back. Then a poet at the University of Florida offered to let his house to me while he went to England on his one-year paid leave. The rent was rather reasonable. I mentioned the poet’s offer to James Kennedy, and the next day he sent a check covering our entire rent for eight months.

Throughout this painful experience, the kindness of strangers has done much to bring back my faith in humanity. It’s almost worth losing your worldly possessions to be reminded that people are really nice when given half a chance.

1．The garage employee’s attitude toward the author was that of ___  ____.

A．unconcern                B．sympathy          C．doubt                D．tolerance

2．What do we know about James Kennedy?

A．He was a writer of an online magazine.

B．He was a poet at the University of Florida.

C．He offered the author a new house free of charge.

D．He learned about the author’s sufferings via a newspaper.

3．It can be inferred from the text that _______.

A．the author’s family was in financial difficulty

B．rents were comparatively reasonable despite the disaster

C．houses were difficult to find in the hurricane-stricken area

D．the mortgage on the ruined house was paid off by the bank

4．The author learned from his experience that _______.

A．possessions can be given up when necessary

B．generosity should be encouraged in some cases

C．people benefit from their sad stories

D．human beings are kind after all

Thanksgiving Day is the most truly American of the national Holidays in the United States and is most closely connected with the earliest history of the country.

In 1620, the settlers, or Pilgrims, sailed to America on the May flower, seeking a place where they could have freedom of worship. After a tempestuous two-month voyage they landed at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts in icy November.

During their first winter, over half of the settlers died of starvation or epidemics（传染病）. Those who survived began sowing in the first spring.

All summer long they waited for the harvests with great anxiety, knowing that their lives and the future existence of the colony depended on the coming harvest. Finally the fields produced a yield rich beyond expectations. And therefore it was decided that a day of thanksgiving to God was fixed. Years later, President of the United States proclaimed the fourth Thursday of November as Thanksgiving Day every year. The celebration of Thanksgiving Day has been observed on that date until today.

The pattern of the Thanksgiving celebration has never changed through the years. The big family dinner is planned months ahead. On the dinner table, people will find apples, oranges, and grapes. There will be plum pudding, other varieties of food and cranberry juice and squash(a kind of drink). The best and most attractive among them are roast turkey and pumpkin pie. They have been the most traditional and favorite food on Thanksgiving Day throughout the years.

Everyone agrees the dinner must be built around roast turkey stuffed（塞满） with a bread dressing to absorb the tasty juices as it roasts. But as cooking varies with families and with the regions where one lives, it is not easy to reach an agreement on the right kind of stuffing for the royal bird.

Thanksgiving today is, in every sense, a national annual holiday on which Americans of all faiths and backgrounds join in to express their thanks and ask for continued blessings.

1．According to the passage, Thanksgiving Day             .

       A．was first celebrated in America

       B．falls on the first Thursday of November

       C．is celebrated only in America

       D．is a time for Americans to show respect to Pilgrims

2．We can know from the passage that            .

       A．the way of celebrating Thanksgiving Day varies from place to place

       B．the most important foods on Thanksgiving Day are roast turkey and pumpkin pie

       C．people of all faiths and backgrounds join together to celebrate this holiday

       D．the roast turkey must be eaten with some bread according to the tradition

3．The settlers thought that their good harvest            .

       A．came naturally                                     B．was due to their hard work

       C．was linked with good weather               D．was got from God

4．The best title of this passage can be           .

       A．Thanksgiving Day                                B．The Origin of Thanksgiving Day

       C．An Important Holiday                           D．The Foods on Thanksgiving Day

On average, America kids aged 3 to 12 spent 29 hours a week in school, eight hours more than they did in 1981. They also did more household work and participated in more of such organized activities as soccer and ballet. Involvement in sports, in particular, rose almost 50% from 1981 to 1997: boys now spend an average of four hours a week playing sports; girls half that time. All in all, however, children's leisure time dropped from 40% of the day in 1981 to 25%

“Children are affected by the same time crisis that affects their parents,” says Sandra Hofferth, who headed the recent study of children’s timetable. A chief reason, she says, is that more mothers are working outside the home. (Nevertheless, children in both double-income and “male breadwinner” households spent 19 hours and 22 hours with their parents respectively（各自的）. In contrast, children spent only 9 hours with their single mothers.)

All work and no play could make for some very messed-up kids. "Play is the most powerful way a child explores the world and learns about himself," says T. Berry Brazelton, professor at Harvard Medical School. Unstructured play encourages independent thinking and allows the young to develop their with their parents relationships with their peers, but kids aged 3 to 12 spent only 12 hours a week engaged in it.

The children sampled spent a quarter of their rapidly decreasing "free time" watching television. But that, believe it or not, was one of the findings parents might regard as good news. If they’re spending less time in front of the TV set, however, kids aren't replacing it with reading. Despite efforts to get kids more interested in books, the children spent just over an hour a week reading. Let's face it, who's got the time?

1．By mentioning “the same time crisis” (in Para. 2), Sandra Hofferth means_________.

A．children have little time to play with their parents

B．children are not taken good care of by their working parents

C．both parents and children suffer from the lack of leisure time

D．both parents and children have trouble managing their time

2．According to the author, a child develops better if           .

A．he has plenty of time reading and studying

B．he is left to play with his peers in his own way

C．he has more time participating in school activities

D．he is free to interact with his working parents

3．The author is concerned about the fact that American kids__________.

A． are engaged in more and more structured activities

B．are increasingly neglected by their working mothers

C．are spending less time watching TV

D．are involved more and more in household work

4．We can infer from the passage that___________.

A．extracurricular（课外活动）activities promote children's intelligence

B．most children will turn to reading with TV sets switched off

C．efforts to get kids interested in reading have been fruitful

D． most parents believe reading to be beneficial to children

Supermarkets are trying out new computers that make shopping carts more intelligent. They will help shoppers find cups or toilet soap and keep a recorder of the bill.

The touch-screen devices are on show at the Food Marketing Institute’s exhibition here this week, “These devices are able to create value and get you around the store quicker,” said Michael Alexander, manager of Springboard Retail Networks, which makes a smart cart computer called the Concierge.

Canadian stores will test the Concierge in July. A similar device, IBM’s “Shopping Buddy”, has recently been tested at Stop & Shop stores in Massachusetts.

Neither device tells you how many fat grams or calories are in your cart, but they will flash you with items on sale. The idea is to make it easier for people to buy, not to have second thoughts that maybe you should put something back on the shelf.

People can use a home computer to make their shopping lists. Once at the store, a shopper can use a preferred customer card to start a system that will organize the trip around the store. If you’re looking for toothpicks, you type in the word or pick it from a list, and a map will appear on the screen showing where you are and where you can find them.

The devices also keep a record of what you buy. When you finished, the devices figure out your bill. Then you go to the checker or place your card into a self-checkout stand and pay.

The new computerized shopping assistants don’t come cheap. The buddy devices will cost the average store about $160,000, and the Concierge will cost stores about $500 for each device.

1．The underlined word “they” (in paragraph 1) refers to ___  ___.

A．supermarkets            B．shop assistants  C．shopping carts      D．shopping managers

2．Which of the following is the correct order of customers shopping with computerized shopping carts?

a．start the system.                                    b．make a shopping list.

c．find the things they want.                         d．go to a self-checkout stand.

e．the screen tells their location

A．a,b,e,d,c                  B．b,a,e,c,d           C．b,a,e,d,c           D．a,e,b,c,d

3．What might be the most suitable title of the passage?

       A．New Age for Supermarkets

       B．Concierge and Shopping Buddy

       C．Computers Make Shopping Carts Smarter

       D．Touch-Screen Devices Make Shopping Enjoyable

4．All of the following about the devices are right except that             .

       A．they can tell you how much you will pay for your bill before you check

       B．they can tell you where you can find the things you want

       C．they will cost a large sum of money

       D．they are widely used in American and Canadian stores

The population of the earth goes on increasing at its present rate and there will eventually not be enough resources left to sustain life on the planet. By the middle of the 21st century, if present trends continue, we will have used up all the oil that drives our cars, for example. Even if scientists develop new ways of feeding the human race, the crowded conditions on earth will make it necessary for us to look for open space somewhere else. But none of the other planets in our solar system are capable of supporting life at present. One possible solution to the problem, however, has recently been suggested by an American scientist, Professor Carl Sagan.

Sagan believes that before the earth’s resources are completely exhausted it will be possible to change the atmosphere of Venus（火星）and to create a new world almost as large as earth itself. The difficulty is that Venus is much hotter than the earth and there is only a tiny amount of water there.

Sagan sugges that algae（藻类）organisms, which can live in extremely hot or cold atmospheres and at the same time produce oxygen, should be developed in conditions similar to those on Venus. As soon as this has been done, the algae will be placed in small rockets.     Spaceships will then fly to Venus and fire the rockets into the atmosphere. In a fairly short time, the algae will break down the carbon dioxide into oxygen and carbon.

When the algae have done their work, the atmosphere will become cooler, but before man can set foot on Venus it will be necessary for the oxygen to produce rain. The surface of the planet will still be too hot for men to land on it but the rain will eventually fall and in a few years something like earth will be reproduced on Venus.

1．In the long run, the most difficult problem caused by population growth on earth will probably be the lack of         .

       A．food                   B．oil                       C．space                  D．resources

2．Carl Sagan believes that people might live on Venus because         .

       A．it might be possible to change its atmosphere

       B．its atmosphere is the same as the earth’s

       C．there is a good supply of water on Venus

       D．the days on Venus are long enough

3．Algae can be developed on Venus because they are able to         .

       A．live in very hot temperatures                 B．live in very cold temperatures

       C．produce oxygen                                   D．all of the above

4．According to the writer, the most key condition for man to land on Venus eventually is that         .

       A．the algae have done their work              B．the atmosphere becomes cooler

       C．there is enough oxygen                         D．it rains there

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

此行多一个词：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。

此行缺一个词：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。

此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

Dear manager,

I am writing to tell you something that happened on me                       1．       

in your department store the other day. I came there to                       2．       

buy a shirt. I chose one and paid it. However, when                            3．       

I got home with it, I find the front part and the back                           4．       

were of different colour. At once I went back to                                5．       

your store and hoped that I could have it change.                                   6．       

Unlucky, the shop assistant refused to do that for me.                         7．       

She said that she should have chosen it more carefully.                       8．       

Now that I can only do is to write you for help. I believe                     9．       

you will try your best to settle the question.                                       10．       

Jefferson

假设你叫李华，你将参加学校举行的学生会主席竞选活动。请你根据下列提示写一篇竞选发言稿。

1．你认为自己具备什么条件（组织能力、性格、爱好等）可以胜任这一职务？

2．如果你当选，你将做些什么？

3．不要使用自己真实学校名称。

A Campaign Speech

Today I am very glad to run for the president of the students’ Union.

We should never forget the severe snow storm in early 2008 and the sufferings      caused to the southern Chinese people.

A．they                           B．it                        C．what                   D．that