-How do you deal with the disagreement between the company and the customers?

-The key_______the problem is to meet the demand ______ by the customers.

A. to solving; making

B. to solving; made

C. to solve; making

D. to solve; made

-It’s been a wonderful evening. Thank you very much

--________.

 A. My pleasure

 B. I’m glad to hear that

 C. No, thanks

 D. It’s OK         

As a child, I was truly afraid of the dark and of getting lost; these fears were very real and caused me some uncomfortable moments.

Maybe it was the strange  1 things looked and sounded in my familiar room at night that  2  me so much. There was chair take on the  5  of a wild animal. Out of the corner of my   6 ,I saw the curtains seem to move when there was no  7 . A tiny sound in the floor would seem a hundred times louder than in the daylight. My  8 would run wild, and my heart would beat fast. I would  9  very still so that the “enemy” would not discover me.

Another of my childhood fears was that I would get lost,  10 on the way home from school. Every morning I got on the school bus right near my home-that was no  11  . After school,  12  ,when all the buses were  13 up along the street, I was afraid that I’d get on the wrong one be taken to some  14  neighborhood. On school or family trips to a park or a museum ,I wouldn’t  15 the leaders out of my sight.

Perhaps one of the worst fears  16  all I had as a child was that of not being liked or  17  by others. Being popular was so important to me  18  ,and the fear of not being liked was a   19  one.

One of the processes(过程)of growing up is being able to   20  and overcome our fears. Understanding the things that frightened us as children helps us achieve greater success later in life.

1. A. way                      B. time                          C. place                   D. reason

2. A. wounded               B. destroyed                  C. surprised                   D. frightened

3. A. quietness               B. darkness                    C. emptiness                  D. loneliness

4. A. got                        B. forced                       C. made                              D. caused

5. A. spirit                     B. height                        C. body                   D.shape

6. A. eye                        B. window                     C. mouth                       D. door

7. A. breath                    B. wind                    C. air                            D. sound

8. A. belief                     B. feeling                       C. imagination                D. doubt

9. A. lay                       B. hide                     C. rest                    D. lie

10. A. especially            B. simply                       C. probably                    D. directly

11. A. discussion       B. problem                    C. joke                          D. matter

12. A. though                 B. yet                            C. although                    D. still

13. A. called                   B. backed                      C. lined                    D. unfamiliar

14. A. old                      B. crowded                    C. poor                   D. unfamiliar

15. A. leave                    B. let                             C. order                              D. send

16. A. above                  B. in                              C. of                             D. at

17. A. protected        B. guided                       C. believed                     D. accepted

18.A. then                     B. there                    C. once                    D. anyway

19. A. strict                   B. powerful                   C. heavy                        D. right

20. A. realize                  B. remember                  C. recognize                  D. recover

One of the greatest killers in the Western world is heart disease, The death rate (率) from the disease has been increasing at an alarming speed for the past thirty years. Today in Britain, for example, about four hundred people a day die of heart disease. Medical experts know that people can reduce their chances of getting heart disease by exercising regularly, by not smoking, by changing their diets, and by paying more attention to reducing stress(压力)in their work.

However, Western health-care systems are still not paying enough attention to the prevention of the disease. There is a need for more programs to educate the public about the causes and prevention of heart disease. Instead of supporting such programs, however, the U. S. health-care system is spending large sums of money on the surgical (外科的) treatment of the disease after it develops. This emphasis(强调)on treatment clearly has something to do with the technological advances that have taken place in the past ten to fifteen years. In this time, modern technology has enabled doctors to develop new surgical techniques. Many operations that were considered impossible of too risky(有风险的)a few years ago are now performed every day in U. S. hospitals. The result has been a huge increase in heart surgery.

Although there is no doubt that heart surgery can help a large number of people, some people point out that the emphasis on the surgical treatment of the disease has three clear disadvantages. First, it attracts interest and money away from the question of prevention. Second, it causes the costs of general hospital care to rice. After hospitals buy the expensive equipment that is necessary for modern heart surgery, they must try to recover the money they have spent. To do this, they raise costs for all their patients, not just those patients whose treatment requires the equipment. The third patients, not just those patients whose treatment requires the equipment. The third disadvantage is that doctors are encouraged to perform surgery-even on patients for whom an operation is unnecessary-because the equipment and expert skills are there. A government office recently stated that major heart surgery, for example, only 15 percent of patients improved their conditions after the surgery. However, more than 100,000 of these operations are performed in the United States every year.

1. What effect has modern technology had on medicine?

A. It has reduced the costs of medical treatment.

B. It has helped save the lives of most patients.

C. It has encouraged doctors to do more heart surgeries.

D.  It has helped educate people about the prevention of heart disease.

2. “To do this”(in Paragraph 3) means_______.

A. to help patients recover

B. to increase the number of heart surgeries

C. to get back the money spent on the equipment

D. to buy new equipment for the treatment of heart disease

3. The author would agree that ________.

A. more money should be spent on the prevention of heart disease

B. heart surgery has helped most patients improve their conditions

C. modern technology has made heart surgery more risky than before

D. the public have known a great deal about the causes of heart disease

4. What would be the best title for the passage?

A. The Greatest Killer in the West

B. Heart Disease: Treat or Prevent

C. Modern Technology and Heart Surgery

D. Heart Surgery: Advantages and Disadvantages

What am I doing with my daughter at home? Rather than read aloud from books, we go to dinner and have a very good time. This is usually when her Mom isn’t around, and this is when my little girl and I relate better. They’re alone together so much. We’re learn about each other. She learns that I’m her father. I learn that she’s my daughter. It’s a strange feeling, but any parent knows what I’m talking about when I say that I often look at my daughter and wonder just whose kid she is. Where’d she suddenly come from? And why on earth did she pick Laura and me for parents?

When my daughter and I are alone she’ll hold my hand and say, “I just love you so much, Daddy!” She gets this great look on her face and says, “We’ve got so much to do, Dad!” There’s nothing like it in the world.

I want my relationship with my daughter to keep growing, so I’ve been giving my wife a couple of hundred dollars each week and making her go to the shopping center with her girlfriends, or something-anything!

But this closeness is not without its problems. When I’m sitting there playing with her Barbie doll(巴比娃娃), washing her hair, a voice in me suddenly says, “I’ve got to get a drink and get out of here.” Right in the middle of all this pleasantness, the voice goes, “Look at yourself! You’re washing dolls!”

1. Why does the husband give his wife xo much money each week”

A. He wants her to buy more things for the family.

B. She can do whatever she likes with the money.

C. He can spend more time with his daughter.

D.She can spend more time with her friends.

2. Which of the following statements is true?

A. The father spends more time with the daughter than the mother does.

B. The daughter is happy when the father tells her he will be away.

C. The father is happy, hearing “We’ve got so much to do, Dad!”

D.The father is sure that the daughter is not his own.

3. What does the last paragraph tell us about the father?

A. He doesn’t enjoy being with his daughter.

B. He doesn’t like washing his daughter’s hair.

C. He likes to enjoy himself by going out for a drink.

D.He has mixed feelings when he is with his daughter.

Since 1989, Dave Thomas, who died at age 69, was one of the most recognizable faces on TV. He appeared in more than 800 commercials(商业广告)for the hamburger chain named for his daughter.”As long as it works,”he said in 1991,”I’ll continue to do those commercials.”

Even though he was successful, Thomas remained troubled by his childhood. “He still won’t let anyone see his feet, which are out of shape because he never had proper fitting shoes,” Wendy said in 1993. Born to a single mother, he was adopted(收养) as a baby by Rex and Auleva Thomas of Kalamazoo in Michigan. After Auleva died when he was 5, Thomas spent years on the road as Rex traveled around seeking construction work. “He fed me,” Thomas said, “and if I got out of line, he’d beat me.”

Moving out on his own at 15, Thomas worked, first as a waiter, in many restaurants. But he had something much better in mind. “I thought if I owned a restaurant,” he said, “I could eat for free.” A 1956 meeting with Harland Sanders led Thomas to a career as the manager of a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant that made him a millionaire in 1968.

In 1969, after breaking with Sanders, Thomas started the first Wendy’s Old Fashioned hamburgers, in Columbus, Ohio, which set itself apart by serving made-to- order burgers. With 6, 000 restaurants worldwide, the chain now makes ＄6 billion a year in sales.

Although troubled by his own experience with adoption, Thomas, married since 1954 to Lorraine, 66, and with four grown kids besides Wendy, felt it could offer a future for other children. He started the Dave Thomas Foundation（基金会）for Adoption in 1992.

In 1993, Thomas, who had left school at 15, graduated from Coconut Creek High School in Florida. He even took Lorraine to the graduation dance party. The kids voted him Most Likely to Succeed.

“The Dave you saw on TV was the real Dave,” says friend Pat Williams.” He wasn’t a great actor or a great speaker. He was just Joe Everybody.”

1. What is the article mainly about?

A. The life of Dave Thomas.

B. The dream of Dave Thomas.

C. The schooling of Dave Thomas.

D.The growth of Dave Thomas’s business.

2. What do we know about his childhood?

A. He lived a poor life

B. He had caring parents.

C. He stayed in one place.

D.He didn’t go to school.

3. Choose the right time order of the following events in Thomas’s life.

a. graduated from high school

b. started his own business

c. became a millionaire

d. started a foundation

e. met Harland Sanders

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

4.”He was just Joe Everybody.”(in the last paragraph)means___________.

A. Dave was famous

B. Dave was ordinary

C. Dave was showy

6. What is the name of Dave Thomas’s business?

A. Thomas’s

B. Wendy’s

C. Lorraine’s

D.Rex’s

What should you do when your parents become angry? If your       1. _______

parents got mad, try to have a conversation with them              2. _______

about it. Remembering not to shout at them. They usually           3. ______ 

will try to change, but they will take some time because             4. _______

they get angry all their life, and that is all they know. You           5. _______

might have to change for your method a couple of times.            6. _______

Do any nice things for your parents that they don’t expect           7. _______

---like cooking, doing the dishes, washing clothes, or clean          8. _______

the floors. If this doesn’t work, bring in friend that you             9. _______

feel comfortable,. and have him or her help you.                  10. _______

Researchers are placing robotic dogs（机器狗）in the homes of lonely old people to determine whether they can improve the quality of life for humans. Alan Beck, an expert in human-animal relationship, and Nancy Edwards, a professor of nursing, are leading the animal-assisted study concerning the influence of robotic dogs on old people’s depression, physical activity, and lefe satisfaction. “No one will argue that an older person is better off being more active, challenged, or stimulated（刺激）,”Edwards points out. “The problem is how we promote（使……成为现实）that,especially for those without riends or help. A robotic dog could be a solution.”

In the study, the robot, called AIBO, is placed for six weeks in the houses of some old people who live alone. Before placing AIBO in the home, researchers will collect baseline data for six weeks. These old people will keep a diary to note their feelings and activity before and after AIBO. Then, the researchers will review the data to determine if it has inspired any changes in the life of its owner.

“I talk to him all the time, and he responds to my voice,” says a seventy-year-old lady, “When I’m watching TV, he’ll stay in my arms until he wants down. He has a mind of his own.”

The AIBOs respond to certain orders. The researchers say they have some advantages over live dogs, especially for old people. Often the elderly are disabled and cannot care for an animal by walking it or playing with it. A robotic dog removes exercise and feeding concerns.

“At the beginning, it was believed that no one would relate to the robotic dog, because it was metal and not furry.” Beck says. “But it’s amazing how quickly we have given up that belief.”

“Hopefully, down the road, these robotic pets could become a more-valuable health helper. They will record their masters’ blood pressure, oxygen levels. Or heart rhythms. ASIBOs may even one day have games that can help stimulate older people’s minds.”

1. The purpose of Beck and Edwards’ study is to        .

A.understand human-animal relationship

B.make lonely old people’s life better

C.find the causes of old people’s loneliness

D.promote the animal-assisted research

2. In the research, the old people are asked to        .

A.note the activities of AIBOs

B.keep AIBOs at home for 12 weeks

C.record their feelings and activity

D.analyze the collected information

3. What is the advantage of AIBO over live dogs?

A.It is easier to keep at home.

B.It can help the disabled people.

C.It responds to all the human orders.

D.It can watch TV with its owner.

4. The author seems to suggest that the future robotic dogs may        .

A.cure certain diseases

B.keep old people active

C.change people’s beliefs

D.look more like real gods

Attitubde is an internal（内在的）state that influences the choices of personal action made by the individual（个人）. Some researchers consider that attitudes come from defferences between beliefs and ideas; others believe that attitudes come from emotional states. Here, we focus on the effects of attitudes upon behavior, that is, upon the choices of action made by the individual.

The kinds of actions taken by human beings are obviously influenced greatly by attitudes. Whether one listens to classical music or rock, whether one obeys the speed limit while driving, whether one encourages one’s husband or wife to express his or her own ideas－all are influenced by attitudes. These internal states are acquired（获得） throughout life from sitations one is faced with in the home, in the streets, and in the school.

Of course, the course of action chosen by an individual in any situation will be largely determined by the particulars of that situation. An individual who has a strong attitude of obeying laws may drive too fast when he is in a hurry and no police cars in sight. Achild who has a strong attitude of honesty may steal a penny when she thinks no one will notice, But the internal state which remains unchanged over a period of time, and which makes the individual behave regularly in a variety of situations, is what is meant by an attitude.

Attitudes are learned in a variety of ways. They can result from single incidents, as when an attitude toward snakes is acquired by an experience in childhood at the sudden wovement of a snake. They can result from the individual’s experiences of success and pleasure, as when someone acquires a positive attitude toward doing crossword puzzles by being able to complete some of them, And frequently, they are learned by copying other people’s behavior, as when a child learns how to behave toward foreigners by observing the actions of his parents. Regaudless of these differences, there is something in common in the learning and modihcation（修正）of attitudes.

1. According to the passage, attitudes          .

A. come from different situations in one’s life

B. are largely affected by one’s behavior

C. remain unchanged in one’s daily life

D. could be chosen according to one’s will

2. The author uses the examples in Paragraph 3 to show         .

A.people often make mistakes when they are not noticed

B.people with good attitudes may sometimes do bad deeds

C.particulars of a situation may influence an individual’s action

D.an individual may change his or her attitude fairly easily

3. Which of the following is TRUE about the learning of attitudes?

A.Attitudes are only learned through one’s success.

B.Attitudes learned in danger will last longer.

C.Copying others behavior is not a good idea.

D.Attitudes can be learned from one’s parents.

4. What would be the best title for the passage?

A.Differences of Attitudes.

B.Nature of Attitude.

C.Choices of Attitudes.

D.Modification of Attitude.

Dear Ms. Smith,

I apprecite  your help very well. On the first day of                           1.     

Camp, you came up to myself while I was sitting alone. After                    2.     

That, you always gave me specially attention and inspired                           3.     

to me to join in activities. As a result, I gradually got to know                4.     

The other campers. Because the help you gave me that summer,                 5.     

My life changed. I gained so much confidence that I go back             6.     

To school as new person. My grades improved. I became                     7.     

Very active but made new friends. Today, I got a letter that                       8.     

Said I had been admitting to a college. I am proud of it. I just                 9.     

Want to thank you for helping me becoming a different person.                   10.     

                                                                        Yours,

                                           Bob