We can’t get the machine to run. There must be ___ with it.

A．something wrong serious                         B．something seriously wrong 

C．something serious wrong                        D．something wrong seriously

Shopping online can provide ______ convenience and choice, but not ______ websites are safe enough for shopping.

A．either; both      B．neither; any      C．both; both D．both; all

—I’m sorry, but the boss isn’t here yet. Shall I have her call you when she comes back?

—No, I’ll call her back. If I call again in half an hour, do you think she ______?

A．arrives      B．has arrived       C．will arrive D．will have arrived

Never laugh at failure of _____, because ______ enjoys being laughed at.

A．others; nobody                                           B．the others; everyone

C．the others; anyone                                      D．others; someone

She was educated at Beijing University, ________she went on to have her advanced study abroad.

A．after which          B．from which        C．from that      D．after that

One day, a poor boy who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods from door to door found that he only had one dime left. He was hungry so he decided to    1    for a meal at the next house.

However, he lost his nerve     2    a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked    3    so she brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it     4    , and then asked, “How much do I owe you?”

“You don’t owe me anything,” she    5   . “Mother has taught me never to accept pay for a __6  .” He said, “Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart.” As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger    7   , but it also increased his faith in God and human race. He was about to give up and quit before this point.

Years later the young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled(困惑). They finally sent her to the big city, where specialists can be called     8    to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard Kelly, now    9    , was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from,  a strange light    10    his eyes. Immediately, he    11 and went down through the hospital hall into her room.

    12    in his doctor’s gown he went in to see her. He     13    her at once. He went back to the consultation room and     14     to do his best to save her life. From that day on, he gave    15__attention to her case.

After a long     16     the battle was won. Dr. Kelly    17     the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it and then wrote something on the side. The bill was sent to her room. She was afraid to open it because she was    18     that it would take the rest of her life to pay it off. Finally she looked, and the note on the side of the bill caught her     19   . She read these words…

“Paid in full with a glass of milk. ”

(Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly

Tears of joy flooded her eyes as she    20     silently. “Thank you, God. Your love has spread through human hearts and hands.”

1．A．call                       B．make                   C．beg                     D．prepare

2．A．while                    B．when                  C．though                D．unless

4．A．slowly                  B．unexpectedly        C．steadily               D．hurriedly

5．A．announced            B．shook                  C．replied                 D．doubted

6．A．reward                  B．kindness              C．hand                   D．value

7．A．physically              B．mentally              C．normally              D．properly

8．A．up                        B．for                      C．on                      D．in

9．A．rich                      B．famous                C．observant            D．vivid

10．A．fixed                   B．consulted             C．filled                   D．concentrated

11．A．rose                    B．raised                  C．got                     D．left

12．A．Worn                  B．Having                C．putting                D．Dressed

13．A．recognized           B．knew                  C．spared                 D．regained

14．A．desired                B．declared              C．determined          D．declined

15．A．special                B．ordinary              C．normal                D．no

16．A．decision              B．preparation          C．struggle               D．debate

17．A．ordered               B．requested             C．confused             D．compressed

18．A．negative              B．uncertain             C．positive               D．obvious

19．A．presentation         B．preference           C．attention              D．arrangement

20．A．praised              B．pretended            C．pressed              D．prayed

You’re busy filling out the application form for a position you really need; let’s assume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isn’t it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University?

More and more people are turning to utter deception like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university. Registrars at most well-known colleges say they deal with deceitful claims like these at the rate of about one per week.

Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms, then. If it turns out that an applicant is lying, most colleges are reluctant to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school calls them “impostors 骗子”; another refers to them as “special cases.” One well-known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says that these claims are made by “no such people.”

To avoid outright (彻底的) lies, some job-seekers claim that they “attended” or “were associated with” a college or university. After carefully checking, a personnel officer may discover that “attending” means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that “being associated with” a college means that the job – seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century – that’s when they began keeping records, anyhow.

If you don’t want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a phony (假的) diploma. One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of nonexistent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from “Smoot State University.” The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the “University of Purdue.” As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.

1．The main idea of this passage is that _________.

       A．employers are checking more closely on applicants now

    B．lying about college degrees has become a widespread problem

C．college degrees can now be purchased easily

D．employers are no longer interested in college degrees

2．According to the passage, “special cases” refers to cases where___________.

A．students attend a school only part-time

B．students never attended a school they listed on their application

C．students purchase false degrees from commercial firms

D．students attended a famous school

3．This passage implies that __________.

A．buying a false degree is not moral

B．personnel officers only consider applicants from famous schools

C．most people lie on applications because they were dismissed from school

D．society should be greatly responsible for lying on applications

       A mysterious “black cloud” approaches the earth – our planet’s weather is severely affected.

       Throughout the rest of June and July temperatures rose steadily all over the Earth. In the British isles the temperature climbed through the eighties, into the nineties, and moved towards the hundred mark. People complained, but there was no serious disaster.

       The death number in the U. S. remained quite small, thanks largely to the air-conditioning units that had been fitted during previous years and months. Temperatures rose to the limit of human endurance throughout the whole country and people were obliged to remain indoors for weeks on end. Occasionally air-conditioning units failed and it was then that fatalities(不幸) occurred.

       Conditions were utterly desperate throughout the tropics (热带地区) as may be judged from the fact that 7943 species of plants and animals became totally extinct. The survival of Man himself was only possible because of the caves and cellars (地窖) he was able to dig. Nothing could be done to reduce the hot air temperature. More than seven hundred million persons are known to have lost their lives.

       Eventually the temperature of the surface waters of the sea rose, not so fast as the air temperature it is true, but fast enough to produce a dangerous increase of humidity (湿度). It was indeed this increase that produced the disastrous conditions just remarked. Millions of people between the latitudes of Cairo and the Cape of Good Hope were subjected to a choking atmosphere that grew damper and hotter from day to day. All human movement ceased. There was nothing to be done but to lie breathing quickly as a dog does in hot weather.

       By the fourth week of July conditions in the tropics lay balanced between life and total death. Then quite suddenly rain clouds appeared over the whole globe. The temperature declined a little, due no doubt to the clouds reflecting more of the Sun’s radiation back into space, But conditions could not be said to have improved. Warm rain fell everywhere, even as far north as Iceland. The insect population increased enormously, since the burning hot atmosphere was as favorable to them as it was unfavorable to Man and many other animals.

1．In the British Isles the temperature_________.

       A．stayed at eighty

       B．ranged from eighty to ninety

       C．approached one hundred

       D．exceeded the hundred mark

2．Few people in the United States lost their lives because_________.

       A．the temperature was tolerable

       B．people remained indoors for weeks

       C．the government had taken effective measures to reduce the hot temperature

       D．people were provided with the most comfortable air-conditioners

3．Millions of people in Cairo and the Cape of Good Hope were subjected to a choking atmosphere because_________.

       A．the temperature grew extremely hot

       B．the temperature became damper and hotter as the humidity of the surface waters of the sea increased

       C．their conditions were too dangerous

       D．nothing could be done with the hot temperature

4．By the fourth week of July conditions in the tropics were such that　

       A．human survival would be impossible

       B．more and more people would lose their lives

       C．fewer people could be saved

       D．survival or death was still undecided

Most young people enjoy some form of physical activity. It may be walking, cycling or swimming, or in winter, skating or skiing. It may be a game of some kind football, hockey(曲棍球), golf, or tennis, it may be mountaineering.

Those who have a passion for climbing high and difficult mountains are often looked upon with astonishment. Why are men and women willing to suffer cold and hardship, and to take risks on high mountains? This astonishment is caused probably by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity to which men give their leisure.

Mountaineering is a sport and not a game. There are no man-made rules, as there’re for such games as golf and football. There are, of course, rules of a different kind which it would be dangerous to ignore, but it is this freedom from man-made rules that makes mountaineering attractive to many people. Those who climb mountains are free to use their own methods.

If we compare mountaineering and other more familiar sports, we might think that one big difference is that mountaineering is not a ‘team game’. We should be mistaken in this. There are, it is true, no ‘matches’ between ‘teams’ of climbers, but when climbers are on a rock face linked by a rope on which their lives may depend, there is obviously teamwork.

The mountain climber knows that he may have to fight forces that are stronger and more powerful than man. He has to fight the forces of nature. This sport requires high mental and physical qualities.

A mountain climber continues to improve in skill year after year. A skier is probably past his best by the age of thirty, and most international tennis champions are in their early twenties. But it is no unusual for a man of fifty or sixty to climb the highest mountains in the Alps. They may take more time than younger men, but they probably climb with more skill and less waste of effort, and they certainly experience equal enjoyment.

1．Mountaineering is a sport which involves_________.

A．hardship　          B．physical risk        C．cold　　　         D．all of the above

2．The main difference between a sport and a game lies in_________.

A．uniform　　       B．activity               C．rules　　            D．skills

3．Mountaineering is also a team sport because_________.

A．it involves rules

B．it involves matches between teams

C．it requires mental and physical qualities

D．mountaineers depend on each other while climbing

4．Which of the following is NOT true?

A．Mountaineers compete against each other.

B．Mountaineers compete against other teams.

C．Mountaineers compete against nature.

D．Mountaineers compete against international standard.

The traditional tent cities at festivals such as Glastonbury may never be the same again. In a victory of green business that is certain to appeal to environmentally-aware music-lovers, a design student is to receive financial support to produce eco-friendly tents made of cardboard that can be recycled after the bands and the crowds have gone home.

Major festivals such as Glastonbury throw away some 10,000 abandoned tents at the end of events each year. For his final year project at the University of the West of England, James Dunlop came up with a material that can be recycled. And to cope with the British summer, the cardboard has been made waterproof.

Taking inspiration from a Japanese architect, who has used cardboard to make big buildings including churches, Mr. Dunlop used cardboard material for his tents, which he called Myhabs.

The design won an award at the annual New Designers Exhibition after Mr. Dunlop graduated from his product design degree and he decided to try to turn it into a business.

To raise money for the idea, he toured the City’s private companies which fund new business and found a supporter in the finance group Mint. He introduced his idea to four of Mint’s directors and won their support. Mint has committed around £500,000 to MyHab and taken a share of 30 per cent in Mr. Dunlop’s business. The first Myhabs should be tested at festivals this summer, before being marketed fully next year.

Mr. Dunlop said that the design, which accommodates two people, could have other uses, such as for disaster relief and housing for the London Olympics.

For music events, the cardboard houses will be ordered online and put up at the sites by the Myhab team before the festival-goers arrive and removed by the company afterwards. They can be personalized and the company will offer reductions on the expense if people agree to sell exterior (外部的) advertising space.

The biggest festivals attract tens of thousands of participants, with Glastonbury having some 150,000 each year. Altogether there are around 100 annual music festivals where people camp in the UK. The events are becoming increasingly environmentally conscious.

1． “Eco-friendly tents” in paragraph 1 refer to tents _______.

   A．economically desirable                       B．favorable to the environment

   C．for holding music performances          D．designed for disaster relief

2．Mr. Dunlop established his business ______.

   A．independently with an interest-free loan from Mint

   B．with the approval of the City’s administration

   C．in partnership with a finance group

   D．with the help of a Japanese architect

3．It is implied in the passage that _______.

   A．the weather in the UK is changeable in summer

   B．most performances at British festivals are given in the open air

   C．the cardboard tents produced by Mr. Dunlop can be user-tailored

D．cardboard tents can be easily put up and removed by users.

4．The passage is mainly concerned with ______.

A．an attempt at developing recyclable tents

B．some efforts at making full use of cardboards

C．an unusual success of a graduation project

   D．the effects of using cardboard tents on music festivals