People say teenagers are no good. They make too much noise in shopping malls; they drive carelessly up and down America’s main streets. And at least some of the time those things are true. But we shouldn’t forget that there are hard moments in the life of a teenager too.

　　I watched such a moment not long ago at a woman’s funeral which happened in a church. A teenage grandson stepped forward. Softly he began: “I want to share a few values that Nana taught me. She never failed to see light in any situation. When our family dog would attack her, what would Nana say? ‘Oh, what beautiful markings that dog has.’ That was Nana.

“She was a strong woman who often lived in the shadow of my grandpa, who was a successful businessman in this city. But she was the one behind the scenes who provided the strength and support for Grandpa’s career,” he said, with a voice now trembling. “That was Nana’s way.”

Finally, in a voice breaking free of sorrow, he looked up and said, “Nana taught me courage. She put up a fight to the end, when she died peacefully, which is how she lived her life. That was Nana’s way, and I hope I can carry on in the same manner.”

　　There are no hearts as sensitive as those of teenagers, because everything is happening to them for the first time. The trouble with teenagers is that they haven’t learned to be controlled. When that boy rose to speak about the woman who had been his dearest friend, his honest voice dragged each of us out into the open where we could no longer hide. I was moved and learned a lot.

72. According to the first paragraph, ______.

A. young people are living a hard life

B. people don’t think highly of the teenagers

C. people shouldn’t forget the young people

D. young people should keep quiet before the public

73. From the boy’s speech, we know his grandmother ______.

A. was a weak woman living in the shadow of his grandpa

B. liked dogs very much even if they often attacked her

C. could see everything around her though she was old

D. had great influence over the boy when she was alive

74. We can infer from the passage that the boy ______.

A. was filled with sadness and gave up finishing his talk

B. was always very good at expressing himself

C. practiced a lot in order to give a moving speech

D. had great difficulty in accepting the loss of Nana

75. The writer wanted to tell the readers ______.

A. the young people were too weak to face certain facts

B. the young people have learned to control themselves

C. the adults could learn something valuable from the young

D. the adults should teach the young how to deal with the death

People believe that climbing can do good to health. Where can you learn the skill of climbing then? If you think that you have to go to the mountains to learn how to climb，you’re wrong.  Many Americans are learning to climb in city gyms. Here，people are learning on special climbing walls．The climbing wall goes straight up and has small holding places for hands and feet．

How do people climb the wall? To climb，you need special shoes and a harness(保护带)around your chest to hold you．There are ropes tied to your harness．The ropes hold you in place so that you don’t fall．A beginner’s wall is usually about 15 feet high，and you climb straight up．There are small pieces of metal that stick out for you to stand on and hold on to．Sometimes it’s easy to see the new piece of metal．Sometimes, it’s not．The most difficult part is to control your fear. It’s normal for humans to be afraid of falling, so it’s difficult not to feel fear. But when you move away from the wall，the harness and the ropes hold you，and you begin to feel safe．You move slowly until you reach the top．

Climbing attracts people because it’s good exercise for almost everyone. You use your whole body，especially your arms and legs. This sport gives your body a complete workout. When you climb，both your mind and your body can become stronger．

68. What can we infer from the passage?   

A. People are very interested in climbing nowadays. 

B. It is impossible to build up one’s body by climbing.   

C. People can only learn the skill of climbing outdoors.  

D. It is always easy to see holding places in climbing.

69. The most difficult thing to do in wall climbing is _______.   

A. to tie ropes to your harness        B. to control your fear   

C. to move away from the wall          D. to climb straight up

70. The word “workout” underlined in the last paragraph most probably means _________.   

A. settlement           B. exercise       C. excitement        D. tiredness

71. Why does the author write this passage? 

A. To tell people where to find gyms.       B. To prove the basic need for climbing   

C. To encourage people to climb mountains.   D. introduce the sport of wall climbing

Community service is an important component of education here at our university. We encourage all students to volunteer for at least one community activity before they graduate. A new community program called "One On One" helps elementary students who've fallen behind. Your education majors might be especially interested in it because it offers the opportunity to do some teaching, that is, tutoring in math and English.

　　You'd have to volunteer two hours a week for one semester. You can choose to help a child with math, English, or both. Half-hour lessons are fine, so you could do a half hour of each subject two days a week.

　　Professor Dodge will act as a mentor to the tutors-he'll be available to help you with lesson plans or to offer suggestions for activities. He has office hours every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. You can sign up for the program with him and begin the tutoring next week.

　　I'm sure you'll enjoy this community service…and you'll gain valuable experience at the same time. It looks good on your resume, too, showing that you've had experience with children and that you care about your community. If you'd like to sign up, or if you have any questions, stop by Professor Dodge's office this week.

　64. What is the purpose of the talk? ________

　　A. To explain a new requirement for graduation.

　　B. To interest students in a new community program.

　　C. To discuss the problems of elementary school students.

　　D. To recruit（招募） elementary school teachers for a special program.

　65. What is the purpose of the program that the speaker describes? ________

　　A. To find jobs for graduating students.

　　B. To help education majors prepare for final exams.

　　C. To offer tutorials to elementary school students.

　　D. To provide funding for a community service project.

　66. What does Professor Dodge do? ________

　　A. He advises students to participate in certain program.

　　B. He teaches part-time in an elementary school.

　　C. He observes elementary school students in the classroom.

　　D. He helps students prepare their resumes.

　67. Whom do you think the speaker talks to? ________

　　A. Teachers.  B. Students.　C. Residents. D. Parents.

　　In 1939 two brothers, Mac and Dick McDonald, started a drive–in restaurant in Sna Bemadino, California. They carefully chose a busy corner for their location. They had run their own businesses for years, first a theater, then a barbecue restaurant, then another drive-in. But in their new operation, they offered a new, shortened menu: French fries, hamburgers, and sodas. To this minimal selection they added one new concept: quick service, no waiters or waitresses, and no tips.

　　Their hamburgers sold for fifteen cents. Cheese was another four cents. Their French fries and hamburgers had a remarkable uniformity(一致性), for the brothers had developed a strict routine（常规） for the preparation of their food, and they insisted on their cook’s sticking to the routine. Their new drive-in became incredibly popular, particularly for lunch. People drove up by the hundreds during the busy noontime. The self-service restaurant was so popular that the brothers had allowed ten copies of their restaurant to be opened; they were content with this small success until they met Ray Kroc.

　　Kroc was a salesman who met the McDonald brothers in 1954, when he was selling milk shake mixing machines. He quickly saw the unmatched appeal of the brother’s fast food restaurant and bought the right to franchise( 经销)other copies of their restaurants. The agreement signed included the right to copy the men, the equipment, and even their red and white buildings with the golden arches.

　　Twenty years after the day Ray Kroc watched people rush up to order fifteen–cent hamburgers, McDonalds had over $ 1 billion in total sales a year. Today McDonalds is a world famous name. Its first twenty-two years is one of the most incredible success stories in modern American business history.

60. Mac and Dick McDonald had experience in managing all of the following business except ________.

　A. a theater   B. a drive–in   C. an ice-cream shop　　 D. a barbecue restaurant

61. What is this passage mainly about?________

　A. Ray Kroc’s business abilities.

　B. The development of fast-food service.

　C. The life of Mac and Dick McDonald.

　D. How McDonalds became a billion-dollar business.

62. How did the McDonald brothers keep the uniformity of the hamburgers? ________

　A. They asked help from Ray Kroc.

　B. They allowed other copies of their restaurant.

　C. They had strict rules for the preparation of the food.

　D. They added a new concept to the selection of the food.

63. We can conclude from this passage that ________.

　A. Ray Kroc had great sense of business.

　B. forty years ago there were a lot of fast-food restaurants

　C. Mac and Dick McDonald never became wealthy because they sold their idea to Ray Kroc

　D. the location the McDonalds chose was the only source of the great popularity of their drive-in

I was in a strange city I didn’t know at all, and what’s more, I could not speak a word of the language. On my second day I got on the first bus that passed, rode on it for several stops, then got off and walked on. The first two hours passed pleasantly enough, then I decided to turn back to my hotel for lunch. After walking about for some time, I decided I had better ask the way. The trouble was that the only word I knew of the language was the name of the street in which I lived, and even that I pronounced badly. I stopped to ask a newspaper-seller. He handed me a paper. I shook my head and repeated the name of the street and he put the paper into my hands. I had to give him some money and went on my way. The next person I asked was a policeman. He listened to me carefully, nodded and gently took me by the arm. There was a strange look in his eyes as he pointed left and right and left again. I nodded politely and began walking in the direction he pointed.

About an hour passed and I noticed that the houses were getting fewer and fewer and green fields were appearing on either side of me. I had come all the way into the countryside. The only thing left for me to do was find the nearest railway station.

56. The writer preferred to walk back to his hotel because.

　A. he had no money to buy a ticket　 　B. he wanted to lose himself in the city

　C. he tried to know the city in this way　 D. it was late and there were no buses passing by

57. From the story we know that the policeman______.

　A. was kind but didn’t understand the writer　B. told the writer where to take a train

　C. knew what the writer really meant　 　D. was cold-hearted and didn’t help the writer

58. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A. The writer got close to the hotel where he stayed.　

B. The writer got to the hotel with the policeman’s help.

　C. The writer found he was much farther away from the hotel.

　D. The writer found the hotel in the direction the policeman pointed.

59. In your opinion, what was the writer’s real trouble?

A. He didn’t know the city at all.　 B. He couldn’t speak the language.

　C. He went too far in the wrong bus. D. He followed the policeman’s direction.

  Mr. West wanted to buy his wife a Christmas present, but he was always very ­­­__36___, so he was never able to find time to go to the shops. At last, when it was the week ___37___ Christmas, and the shops were very crowded, he decided that he could not ___38___ any longer. He worked in an office, and ___39___ had lunch in a restaurant, but one day he bought some sandwiches, ate them ___40___ and went out to a big shop near his ___41___ during his lunch

The shop was full of women, who were also buying ___42___ during their lunch hour. Mr. West stood ___43___ at the edge of a crowd of ___44___ who were pushing forward to try to get to the people who were ___45__ necklaces and earrings. He tried to move forwards slowly, taking his turn with the others, but more and more women were ___46___ into the shop the whole time and pushing selfishly __47____ him. After half an hour, he was just as ___48___ from the people who were selling the necklaces as he had been when he came in, and his lunch hour was coming to ___49___, so he decided to change his ___50___ of doing things: he put his head down, gave a sudden loud shout and started to ___51___ his way towards the ___52___ of the crowd as hard as he could. The women around him became very __53____ when they saw what he was doing, and began to scold him.” Why can’t you behave like a ___54___?” they shouted.

“Ladies,” he answered them,” I have been behaving like a gentleman for the past half hour, and it has got me ___55___, so now I am starting to behave like a lady!”

36. A. busy             B. lazy                       C. unwilling                  D. forgetful

37. A. behind                  B. around                  C. before                   D. after

38. A. work             B. stay                      C. think                        D. wait

39. A. never             B. seldom                  C. sometimes                D. usually

40. A. slowly                  B. quickly                     C. quietly                   D. happily

41. A. car                    B. house                C. office                    D. restaurant

42. A. clothes          B. presents                   C. food                         D. sandwiches

43. A. politely           B. quietly               C. pleasantly              D. freely

44. A. men                   B. women                     C. children                        D. strangers

45. A. examining      B. choosing               C. selling                   D. buying

46. A. going             B. coming                     C. entering                        D. running

47. A. past               B. behind               C. over                             D. against

48. A. near                  B. far                           C. next                             D. opposite

49. A. an end                  B. a stop                C. the top                         D. the limit

50. A. idea                  B. way                         C. measure                       D. plan

51. A. step                  B. go                            C. push                         D. pull

52. A. center            B. edge                      C. back                         D. front

53. A. surprised        B. angry            C. afraid                      D. nervous

54. A. woman                 B. lady                         C. man                         D. gentleman

55. A. nowhere           B. anywhere                C. somewhere            D. everywhere

 The new machine，if _________ properly，will work at least ten years.

A. use        B. using　　   C. being used        D. used

 A good teacher must         to his students how important a proper learning method is.

       A．get through           B．get across           C．get away              D．get over

—Is this the first time you　　 Shanghai?

—No, but the first time I　　 here, there weren’t so many high-rise buildings.

A．visited…came　　　　　　　 B．have visited…came

C．have visited…have come　　 D．visited…have come

 My car happened to ______in the middle of the street, ______a road block.

A. break up; caused        B. break down, causing  C. break down, so caused    D. break up, which caused