The news of the mayor’s coming to our school for a visit was           on the radio yesterday. 

A. turned out                B. found out                 C. given out                  D. carried out

—Do you need any help, Lucy? 

—Yes, The job is           I could do myself.

A. less than                                                      B. more than                

C. no more than                                               D. not more than

It is none of your business           other people think about you. Believe yourself.

A. how                         B. what                        C. which                      D. when 

I grew up in a tiny Baltimore row house in a faraway mountain area. My parents    1    the necessities of life    2    they couldn’t give much more. If I asked my father    3    a pair of jeans, he would say, “If you want them, make the money and buy them    4   .” He wasn’t being mean; he just couldn’t    5    them. From age 12 on, I did part-time jobs after school.

       When I    6    from high school, I joined the navy. Soon I was in a boot camp(新兵训练营) at Parris Island, S. C., where I learned that life in the navy centered around completing daily    7   . These could be anything from cleaning the camp to conducting mock(模拟的) battles. Completing these tasks successfully    8    discipline, team-work and responsibility. It didn’t    9    whether you were black, white or Asian; everyone worked together for the    10  of the company.

I went    11    to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy and later became an officer in the navy. The part of my job I    12    most was the consulting(咨询) meeting I  13     with the family members of the men and women in my    14  , trying to help them deal with the long periods of  15  . These proved popular and word of them spread.  16   I was being asked to give encouraging    17    to business groups, educators and kids across the country.

But I consider the boot camp my first real    18   , and my life is still guided by the    19    lessons I learned there. It taught me discipline, friendship and the pride related to setting a task every day and working hard to    20    it.

1.A.provided                 B. got                    C. made                       D. bought

2.A.while                      B. but                    C. so                            D. or

3.A.about                            B. with                  C. for                           D. of

4.A.themselves              B. ourselves           C. yourself                   D. myself

5.A.pay                        B. find                   C. produce                   D. afford

6.A.came                      B. returned            C. escaped                    D. graduated

7.A.drills                      B. tasks                 C. exercises                  D. reports

8.A.included                 B. asked                C. required                   D. met

9.A.matter                    B. mean                 C. exist                        D. work

10.A.good                    B. boss                  C. rest                          D. right

11.A.out                       B. on                     C. away                       D. off

12.A.took                     B. hated                 C. enjoyed                    D. did

13.A.ended                   B. began                C. continued                 D. held

14.A.charge                  B. situation            C. position                    D. choice

15.A.lessons                 B. meetings            C. training                    D. separation

16.A.Long before          B. Before long        C. As usual                   D. Once again

17.A.performances        B. descriptions              C. speeches                  D. gifts

18.A.vacation                B. place                 C. job                           D. travel

19.A.important              B. bitter                 C. normal                            D. difficult

20.A.gain                      B. achieve              C. show                       D. match

When I met him, I had a lot of anger inside of me. I’ve lived my whole life in Spanish Harlem, but in my neighborhood, there are shoot-ups all the time. I know kids who have been shot or beaten up. I have friends who ended up in prison. I could have ended up that way, too, but  Mr. Clark wouldn’t let that happen.

Mr. Clark worked long hours, making sure I did my work. My grades rose. In fact, the scores of our whole class rose. One day, he took our class to see The Phantom of the Opera, and it was the first time some kids had ever been out of Harlem. Before the show, he treated us to dinner at a restaurant and taught us not to talk with our mouths full. We did not want to let him down.

Mr. Clark was selected as Disney’s 2000 Teacher of the Year. He said he would draw three names out of a hat; those students would go with him to Los Angeles to get the award. But when the time came to draw names, Mr. Clark said, “You’re all going.”

On graduation day, there were a lot of tears. We didn’t want his class to end. In 2001, he moved to Atlanta, but he always kept in touch. He started giving lectures about education, and wrote a bestselling book based on his classroom rules, The Essential 55. In 2003,

Mr. Clark took some of us on a trip to South Africa to deliver school supplies and visit orphanages (孤儿院). It was the most amazing experience of my life. It’s now my dream to one day start a group of women’s clubs, helping people from all backgrounds.

1. Without Mr. Clark, the writer           .

A. might have been put into prison                           

B. might not have won the prize

C. might have joined a women’s club                 

D. might not have moved to Atlanta

2. The Essential 55 is           .

A. a show                                                               B. a speech                  

C. a classroom rule                                                  D. a book

3. How many students’ names were finally drawn out of a hat by Mr. Clark?

A. None                       B. Three                       C. Fifty-five.                               D. All.

4. In the passage, the writer intends to tell us that           .

A. Mr. Clark went to South Africa because he liked traveling

B. Mr. Clark helped to set up a group of women’s clubs

C. a good teacher can help raise his or her students’ scores

D. a good teacher has a good influence on his or her students

A small town in southwest Britain is banning(禁止) plastic bags in an attempt to help the environment and cut waste－a step that environmentalists believe is a first for Europe.

       Shopkeepers in Modbury population 1,500, agreed to stop handing out disposable plastic bags to customers on Saturday. They said paper sacks and cloth carrier bags would be offered instead.

       Last month, San Francisco became the first U.S. city to ban plastic grocery bags. Internationally, Laws to discourage the use of plastic bags have been passed in parts of South Africa and Ireland, where government either tax shoppers who use them or fine companies that hand them out. Bangladesh already bans them, and so do at least 30 remote Alaskan villages.

       Modbury, about 225 miles southwest of London, has also declared a bag amnesty(宽限期), allowing local people to hand in plastic bags that have piled up at home. They will be sent for a recveling.

       The Modbury ban was the idea of Rebecca Hosking, who saw the effect of bags on manne life while working in the Pacific as a wildlife camerawoman. She said response(反应) in the town so far had been “really positive”.

       “Modbury is quite an old-fashioned town and a lot of people have wicker baskets to go out shopping anyway,” Hosking told Sky News Television.

The Worldwatch Institute, an environmental research agency, states that 100 billion plastic bags are thrown away each year in the United States alone. More than 500 billion are used yearly around the world.

1. What was Rebecca Hosking?

A. A lawyer.                                                            B. An environmentalist.        

C. A sailor.                                                              D. A photographer.

2. The underlined word “disposable” in the passage probably means        .

A. acceptable                B. valuable                           C. throw-away              D. long-lasting

3. It can be inferred from the passage that         .

A. most of the people in Modbury continue to use plastic bags

B. fewer and fewer plastic bags will be used in the world.

C. San Francisco is the first city to ban plastic bags in the world

D. most countries in the world have passed laws to ban plastic bags

4. Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?

A. Environmental Protection                                    

B. Big Cities Banning Plastic Bags

C. Effect of Plastic Fags on Sea Animals                   

D. British Town Banning Plastic Bags

Dogs wag(摇摆) their tails in different directions depending on whether they are excited and wanting to move forward or threatened and thinking of moving back, a study has found.

       Researchers in Italy  examined the tail wagging behavior of 30 dogs, catching their responses to a range of stimuli(刺激物) with video cameras. To conduct the study they chose 15 male dogs and 15 female ones aged between one and six years. The dogs were all family pets whose owners had allowed them to take part in the experiment at Bari University. The dogs were placed in a large wooden box with an opening at the front to allow for them to view various stimuli. They were tested one at a time.

       The researchers led by Professor Giorgio Vallortigara of the University of Trieste found that when the dogs were shown their owners—a positive experience—their tails wagged energetically to the right side. When they were shown an unfamiliar human they wagged to the right, but with somewhat less enthusiasm. The appearance of a cat again caused a right-hand side wag, although with less intensity again. The appearance of a large unfamiliar dog, similar to a German shepherd, changed the direction of tail wagging to the left. Researchers supposed the dog was thinking of moving back. When the dogs were not shown any stimuli they tended to wag their tails to the left, suggesting they preferred company. While the changes in the tail wagging were not easily noticed without the aid of video, it was thought that the findings could help people judge the mood (心情) of dogs. Computer and video systems, for example, could be used by professional dog trainers to determine the mood of dogs that they were required to approach.

1. The video cameras were used to catch the dogs’ responses because      .

A. it was easier to catch the dogs’ response changes in the tail wagging

B. the dogs were put in the wooden boxes and tested one at a time.

C. they enabled the dogs’ owners to know about their dogs’ habit

D. the dogs wagged their tails in different directions when they were in different moods

2. The underlined word “intensity” in the passage means        .

A. surprise                    B. worry                      C. excitement                D. interest

3. When there are no stimuli, a dog will         .

A. wag to the left                                             B. wag to the right

C. not wag at all                                               D. wag to the left and then to the right

4. The underlined word “they” refers to         .

A. the dogs                   B. the trainers               C. the systems                     D. the researchers

5. The purpose of doing the experiment is         .

A. to train dogs for their owners                        B. to help people judge the mood of dogs

C. to help dogs find company                                   D. to help people choose their pet dogs

Wouldn't it be great if we didn't have to remember passwords (密码) ever again？If we could just sit in front of our computers and be   1    logged in (登录)? Crave mentions how NECSoft BiodeLogon system uses face recognition technology to log you on to Windows, rather than using a  2  All you need is a webcam and your pretty face to   3   your PC. No more 4   , confusing passwords to remember or change every few months.

After doing a little research, I found this type of  5   already available to consumers via a relatively 6_ application called FaceCode. The  7 requires the use of a webcam to recognize and log PC users into their systems. You can add as many  8  as you want, provided they each have a Windows account. If the system   9   to recognize your  10  , you can recall the Windows user name and password by using a hot-key combination.

1. A. automatically  B. personally      C. correctly          D. occasionally

2. A. face                   B. password         C. software           D. system

3. A. access           B. connect           C. recognize          D. remember

4. A. simple           B. complicated     C. special                     D. useful

5. A. computer            B. technology       C. password          D. application

6. A. independent    B. infrequent        C. inexpensive        D. instant

7. A. account         B. consumer        C. designer            D. software

8. A. users             B. passwords              C. systems            D. computers

9. A. begins           B. tries                C. fails                  D. stops

10. A. account              B. name               C. password          D. face

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空.。

I was on my way to the Taiyetos Mountains. The sun was setting when my car   1  (break) down near a remote and poor village. Cursing my misfortune, I was wondering where I was going to spend the night when I realized that the villagers who had gathered around me were arguing as to 2  should have the honor of receiving me  3 a guest in their house. Finally, I accepted the offer of an old woman who lived alone in a little house. While she was getting me   4   (settle) into a tiny but clean room, the head of the village was tying up his horse to my car to pull it to  5  small town some 20 kilometers away   6   there was a garage.

   I had noticed three hens running free in my hostess's courtyard and that night one of them ended up in a dish on my table.  7  villagers brought me goat's cheese and hone. We drank together and talked   8    (merry) till far into the night.

    When the time came for me to say goodbye to my friends in the village, I wanted to reward the old woman   9   the trouble I had caused  10   .

How should one invest a sum of money in these clays of inflation (通货膨胀)? Left in a bank it will hardly keep its value, however high the interest rate. Only a brave man, or a very rich one, dares to buy and sell on the Stock Market. Today it seems that one of the best ways to protect your savings, and even increase your wealth is to buy beautiful objects from the past. Here I am going to offer some advice on collecting antique clocks, which I personally consider are among the most interesting of antiques.

   I sometimes wonder what a being from another planet might report back about our way of life. "The planet Earth is ruled by a mysterious creature that sits or stands in a room and makes a strange ticking sound. It has a face with twelve black marks and two hands. Men can do nothing without its permission, and it fastens its young round people's wrists so that everywhere men go they are still under its control. This creature is the real master of Earth and men are its slaves."

     Whether or not we are slaves of time today depends on our culture and personality, but it is believed that many years ago kings kept special slaves to tell the time. Certain men were very clever at measuring the time of clay according to the beating of their own hearts. They were made to stand in a fixed place and every hour or so would shout tire time. So it seems that the first clocks were human beings.

     However, men quickly found more convenient and reliable ways of telling the time. They learned to use the shadows cast by the sun. They marked the hours on candles, used sand in hour- glasses, and invented water-clocks. Indeed, any serious student of antique should spend as much time as possible visiting palaces, stately homes and museums to see some of the finest examples of clocks from the past.

    Antique clocks could be very expensive, but one of the joys of collecting clocks is that it is still possible to find quite cheap ones for your own home. After all, if you are going to be ruled by time, why not invest in air antique clock and perhaps make a future profit?

1. According to the passage, collecting antique clocks____.

A.can hardly keep the value of your savings

B. will cost much of your savings

C. may increase your wealth

D. needs your bravery

2. By quoting (引用) the remark of a being from another planet, the author intends to____.

A. suggest human beings are controlled by a clock

B. describe why clocks can rule the planet Earth

C. tell readers what clocks look like

D. compare chocks to human beings

3. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a way to measure the time?

A. Counting the beating of one's own heart.

B. Making use of candles, sand and water.

C. Observing shadows cast by the sun.

D. Keeping slaves busy day and night.

4. The underlined phrase stately homes in paragraph 4 means_________.

A. state-owned houses

B. houses in very good condition

C. grand houses open to the public

D. houses where statesmen meet regularly

5. The purpose of the passage is________.

A. to introduce the culture of antique clocks

B. to offer some advice on collecting antique clocks

C. to compare different ways to make a future profit

D. to explain convenient and reliable ways of telling time