It’s too late; tomorrow morning will be a        time for you to visit him.

A．good B．better C．best   D．great

Scientists say that many factors     changes in the weather.

A．call for     B．draw on    C．bring about      D．make out

We grow our own fruits and vegetables,       saves money, of course.

A．what                          B．where                 C．that                     D．which

When I was a kid, my brother dropped the bomb: “No Santa Claus (Father Christmas)!” I fled to Grandma because I knew she would  1  me the truth. I told her everything. “No!” she said. “Ridiculous（荒唐的；可笑的）！Don’t   2  it.”

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After dinner, we went to General Store. Grandma handed me ten   3  . “Take it and buy something for whoever needs it. I’ll wait in the  4  .” I’d often gone shopping with Mother, but never had I shopped 5  . For moments, I stood there, confused,  6  what to do with it. I thought of everybody I knew.  7  I thought of Bobbie Decker. His mother always wrote a note, telling the teacher that he had a cough. We all knew that Bobbie would have no cough  8  he had a thicker coat. So I decided to buy Bobbie one. “Is this a present for   9  ?” the saleslady asked me kindly. I  10 shyly. She smiled, handed it to me and wished me a merry Christmas. Then Grandma helped me wrap the coat in Santa Claus  11  and ribbons and write “To Bobbie, From Santa Claus ”on it. Then she   12 me over to Bobbie’s house. Grandma parked down the street from Bobbie’s house. We  13  noiselessly and hid in the  14 by his front walk. “All right, Santa Claus,” she   15 , “get going.” I rushed out, threw the present down at his front door,  16 his doorbell and flew back to the safety. Together we   17  breathlessly in the darkness for the front door to open.

Forty years I haven’t forgotten those   18  I spent shivering（颤抖）in Bobbie’s bushes. That night, I realized that the stories about Santa Clause were really “ridiculous”. Santa Claus was alive,  19 we were on his   20  .

1．A．tell                        B．teach                   C．take                    D．advise

2．A．trust                     B．believe                 C．understand          D．consider

3．A．bags                     B．keys                    C．coats                  D．dollars

4．A．home                    B．store                   C．car                     D．bus

5．A．separately              B．apart                   C．singly                  D．alone

6．A．wondering             B．worrying             C．expecting            D．looking

7．A．Luckily                 B．Surprisingly         C．Suddenly             D．Firstly

8．A．unless                   B．since                   C．as                       D．if

9．A．anyone                  B．someone              C．others                 D．another

10．A．nodded                B．smiled                 C．replied                 D．denied

11．A．gift                     B．name                   C．paper                  D．needle

12．A．sent                    B．drove                  C．walked                D．guided

13．A．stole                   B．struggled             C．stepped               D．searched

14．A．cars                    B．buildings              C．stairs                  D．bushes

15．A．sighed                 B．whispered            C．called                  D．shouted

16．A．knocked              B．pushed                C．pounded              D．switched

17．A．rushed                B．laughed               C．paused                D．waited

18．A．nights                 B．feelings               C．moments             D．bills

19．A．and                     B．but                      C．then                    D．therefore

20．A．side           B．team               C．part           D．staff

Not being able to fall asleep or stay asleep is not a disorder in itself but a sign of some other problems, often a physical one.

If you have trouble sleeping, the American Sleep Disorders Association suggests that, for a week or two, you put down the time you go to bed, get up, exercise, and drink coffee, tea or wine. The purpose is to find the habits that may affect your sleep.

Then:

a．Don’t drink coffee in the six hours before going to bed.

b．Stop smoking and drinking at bedtime.

c．Don’t sleep during the day.

d．Go to bed at the same time every night. Set your alarm clock for the same time every morning and get up at that time, whether or not you sleep well.

e．Use the bedroom only for sleep. Read, watch TV, eat and talk elsewhere.

f．Take sleeping pills according to your doctor’s directions and don’t take them for longer than three weeks at a time.

g．If you haven’s fallen asleep within 15 minutes of going to bed, don’t turn over worrying about it. Get up and read or watch TV until you are sleepy, then return to bed.

If you continue to have trouble sleeping, ask your doctor for help or go to a sleep – disorders center.

1．According to the passage, there is probably         if you are not able to fall asleep or stay asleep.

      A．a bad way of sleeping                           B．a disorder in sleep

       C．a physical reason                                 D．a problem caused by the brain

2．If you have trouble sleeping, you should try to         .

       A．ask a doctor for help or go to a sleep – disorders center

       B．put down the time you do things every day

       C．do more physical exercise

       D．find out the cause first

3．According to the passage, which of the following would be the best way to help you sleep well?

       A．Taking some sleeping pills every day.

       B．Reading books before you go to bed.

       C．Setting your alarm clock at night.

       D．Forming good living habits.

4．The author writes this article in order to         .

      A．tell us not being able to fall asleep is a serious disease

       B．provide us with some suggestions on sleep problem

       C．persuade us not to go to see the doctors when we are ill

       D．help the American Sleep Disorders Association to find the causes of not being able to fall sleep

Every human being, no matter what he is doing, gives off body heat. The usual problem is how to get rid of it. But the designers of the Johnstown campus（校园）of the University of Pittsburgh set themselves the opposite problem – how to collect body heat. They have designed a collection system which uses not only body heat, but the heat given off by such objects as light bulbs and refrigerators as well. The system works so well that no fuel is needed to make the campus’s six buildings comfortable.

Some parts of most modern buildings – theaters and offices as well as classrooms, are more sufficiently heated by people and lights and sometimes must be air – conditioned（使用空调的）even in winter. The technique of saving heat and redistributing（再分配）it is called “heat recovery”. A few modern buildings recover heat, but the University’s system is the first to recover heat from buildings and reuse it in others.

Along the way, Pittsburgh has learned a great deal about some of its producers. The harder a student studies, the more heat his body gives off. Male students send out more heat that female students, and the larger a student is, the more heat he produces. We may conclude that the hottest prospect for the Johnstown campus would be a hard working overweight male genius（天才）.

1．What is the characteristic of the buildings on Johnstown campus of the University of Pittsburgh?

       A．They collect body heat to control the temperature inside.

       B．They are more comfortable to live in than other buildings.

       C．They use the light bulbs to heat the classroom.

       D．They use less fuel to keep the classroom cool.

2．According to the passage, the technique of heat recovery is used         .

       A．to find the producers of heat

       B．to provide heat for the hot water system

       C．to make the campus more beautiful

       D．to collect heat and reuse it

3．The underlined phrase “the hottest prospect” in this passage refers to         .

       A．the person who suffers most from heat

       B．the person who needs more heat that others

       C．the person who gives off most heat

       D．the person who makes better use of heat

4．Which of the following may be the best title for this passage?

      A．Recovery of Body Heat

       B．Modern Building’s Heat System

       C．Body Heat and Its Producers

       D．Ways of Heating Building

That afternoon Molly almost danced along the street, as she walked home with her father from the station. They had seen Mrs. Gibson and Cynthia off to London. She wished her stepmother would take herself off to London much more often.

“Well now, Dad.” she said, “I’m going to have you all to myself for a whole week. You must be very obedient（服从的，听话的）.”

“I hope you aren’t going to boss me, Molly. You’re walking me out of breath already. We mustn’t pass Mrs. Goodmays in our hurry.” They crossed the street to speak to Mrs. Goodmays, one of the doctor’s patients. “We’ve just been seeing my wife and daughter off to London. They’ve gone up for a week.”

“Dear me, to London, and only for a week!” said Mrs. Goodmays, with surprise. “It seems hardly worth the packing. It’ll be lonely for you,  Molly, without your stepsister.”

“Yes,” said Molly, suddenly feeling as if she ought to have taken this view of the case “I’ll miss Cynthia.” 

“And you, Dr. Gibson, I hope you won’t feel like widower(鳏夫) once again. You must come and have supper with me one evening. What about Tuesday?”

Dr. Gibson felt a sharp blow on his leg from the toe of Molly’s shoe, but even so he accepted the invitation, much to the old lady’s satisfaction.

A moment later Molly said to him, “How could you go and waste one of our precious evenings! We’ve only go five now. I’ve been planning all sorts of things for us two tonight.” “What sort of things?”

“Oh, I don’t know. Things you used to like.” She looked at him fearlessly. “Forbidden things now.”

Her father’s eyes lit up, but his face remained serious. “I’m got going to be pulled down, Molly. With hard work and sensible guidance I’ve reached a very height of civilized behavior, and there I’m going to stay.”

“Oh, no, you are not. We’re having bread and cheese for supper tonight, in armchairs in front  of the TV! And you shall wear you dressing-gown at breakfast tomorrow-and every morning for a week! And you shall read the paper at the dining table! That’s only a start. I haven’t finished by a long way yet.”

1．What were Molly’s feelings as they walked home?

A．She wished she had gone to London too.

B．She was pleased to be alone with her father.

C．She was looking forward to meeting Mrs. Goodmays.

D．She hated being apart from Cynthia.

2．From the underlined sentence in the 4th paragraph, we can know that Mrs. Goodmays thought

    _____________.

A．Mr. Gibson should have gone with them

B．Mr. Gibson would be a widower again

C．Mrs. Gibson should stay in London longer

D．Mrs. Gibson should have taken Molly with them

3．From the passage we can be certain that ____________.

A．Mrs. Gibson is strict with her husband and daughters

B．Mrs. Gibson has no children of her own

C．Mrs. Gibson never treated Molly well

D．Mr. Gibson is not satisfied with his present life

4．When Molly kicked her father, ___________.

A．she wanted him to turn down the invitation

B．she meant she didn’t expect the return of Cynthia

C．it seemed to have been a pure accident

D．it showed she was pleased to have been invited

Every artist knows in his heart that he is saying something to the public. Not only does he want to say it well, but also he wants it to be something which has not been said before. He hopes the public will listen and understand－he wants to teach them, and he wants them to learn from him.

What visual artists like painters want to teach is easy to make out but difficult to explain, because painters translate their experiences into shapes and colors, not words. They seem to feel that a certain selection of shapes and colors, out of the countless billions possible, is exceptionally interesting for them and worth showing to us. Without their work we should never have noticed these particular shapes and colors, or have felt the delight which they brought to the artist.

Most artists take their shapes and colors from the world of nature and from human bodies in movement and rest; their choices indicate that these aspects of the world are worth looking at, and that they contain beautiful sights. Contemporary artists might say that they merely choose subjects that provide an interesting pattern, and that there is nothing more in it. Yet they do not choose them without reference to the character of their subjects.

If one painter chooses to paint a gangrenous(生疮的) leg and another a lake in moonlight, each of them is directing our attention to a certain aspect of the world. Each painter is telling us something－all of which means that, consciously or unconsciously, he is trying to teach us.

1．It is hard to explain what a painter is saying, because ___________.

A．painters do not express themselves well

B．painters use shapes and colors instead of words

C．painters use unusual words and phrases

D．painters do not say anything actually

2．The contemporary art contains ____________.

A．totally imaginary subjects

B．merely the subjects from nature

C．uninteresting aspects of the world

D．subjects chosen partly for their meaning

3．Compared with a painter of unpleasant subjects, a painter who draws a lake in moonlight is

_______________.

A．better to communicate with

B．more skilled at expressing himself

C．pointing at different things

D．showing more meaning

4．From the passage we can get the information that _____________.

A．paintings are not difficult to understand

B．painters intend to make the paintings hard to understand

C．artists don’t care about the public

D．one must look beyond shapes and colors to find what the artist is saying

Perhaps a parent’s most important contribution toward raising a trustful child is to develop a relationship founded on trust. A child of any age will feel proud and grown-up if parents frequently show their trust. In court a defendant(被告) is innocent until proved guilty. But in the family, a teenager “defendant” is too often assumed guilty.

Even when the child is caught in a complete lie, this should not be the end of trust. A parent can tell a child that a single lie is forgivable. Yet it should be clear that if lies continue, the child, like the boy who cried wolf, will suffer loss of trust.

When my wife and I discovered that our son Tom, then 13, had lied about throwing a party while we were away, we grounded him for a month. We also told Tom that we could no longer trust him, and we could not allow him to stay alone overnight again. This loss of freedom was an important lesson; he learned how hard it is to live with people when they don’t trust him. As a result, now more than three years later we can again trust Tom to stay alone overnight.

Parents must always remember there is no easy answer to this universal problem of lying. We can set a good example, allow for privacy, monitor friendship, develop trust and punish wrong doing, but still we discover our child has lied to us. Finally that’s why there is a need for trust on both sides of a parent-child relationship. Lying destroys closeness and friendship. For that reason, parents should always try to give a child the feeling that they can be trusted with the truth. Parents may start with a child’s trust, but as the child grows older, parents must earn it.

1．When the writer and his wife discovered that their son had lied, they _________.

A．took him from all his freedom

B．decided that they could never trust him again

C．forbade him to stay alone overnight for more than three years

D．arranged for him to live with people who do not trust him for more than three years

2．We can infer from the passage that very often ________.

A．parents don’t trust their child as they should

B．defendants are usually proved not guilty in court

C．parents have too much trust in their child

D．some children are founded guilty in court

3．According to the passage, the writer believes that _____________.

A．parents shouldn’t punish their children even if they lie

B．it is not easy to deal with the problem of lying as parents

C．there are many effective ways to prevent children from lying

D．a child will stop telling lies as he grows up

4．What does the underlined word “ground” mean in the passage?

A．To teach someone the basic things they should know in order to be able to do something.

B．To stop a child going out with their friends as a punishment for behaving badly.

C．To put someone on the ground and beat him.

D．To ask someone to stay on the ground and not to move.

—Did you manage to park in town?

—It took me ages to find          .

A．a space     B．the space  C．spaces      D．space