[1] My name is Amy. I’m a 25-year-old graduate student who likes yoga, home-decorating shows and eating spoonfuls of peanut butter straight from the jar. Oh yeah, and I’m an iPhone addict.

[2] I wasn’t always an addict. In fact, for many years I told myself I didn’t want a fancy cellphone. They seemed like too much work, always beeping, ringing and demanding attention. I was perfectly content with my simple antique, and I didn’t anticipate changing my mind any time soon.

[3] However, about a year ago, I found myself envious of all those proud iPhone owners, cradling their shiny new phones and showing them off to, all their friends.

[4] Eventually I couldn’t ignore my iPhone instinct any longer, and I welcomed my new iPhone into my life. I instantly fell in love with the little bundle of joy, and could no longer imagine a life without it.

[5] To my surprise, I suddenly found myself with a whole new circle of friends—other iPhone owners I could go to for advice and support as I learned the various functions of my new device. They responded to my iPhone-related questions when my other friends couldn’t, and didn’t roll their eyes when I boasted (自夸) about all the things it could do.

[6] My iPhone became my best friend. It slept right beside me and was the first thing I reached for in the morning. I checked my e-mail about 20 times a day. I also experienced attachment anxiety when I left it in the change room at the gym. _________ she beeped and needed my response? Or, even worse, what if a careless gym-goer knocked her out of my bag and caused her screen to crack (I hardly dared to imagine it)?

[7] Reflecting upon the past few months, I couldn’t believe I was addicted to my iPhone.

76. List Amy’s favorite things before becoming an iPhone addict. (no more than 10 words)

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77. Why, for many years, didn’t Amy consider buying an iPhone? (no more than 15 words)

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78. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 5 refer to? (no more than 3 words)

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79. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 6 with proper words. (2 words)

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80. What’s the proper title of this passage? (no more than 4 words)

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You are given many opportunities in life to choose to be a victim or creator. When you choose to be a victim, the world is a cold and difficult place. “They” did things to you which caused all of your pain and suffering. “They” are wrong and bad, and life is terrible as long as “they” are around. Or you may blame yourself for all your problems, thus internalizing (内化) your victimization. The truth is, your life is likely to stay that way as long as you feel a need to blame yourself or others.

Those who choose to be creators look at life quite differently. They know there are individuals who might like to control their lives, but they don’t let this get in the way. They know they have their weaknesses, yet they don’t blame themselves when they fail. Whatever happens, they have choice in the matter. They believe their dance with each sacred (神圣的) moment of life is a gift and that storms are a natural part of life which can bring the rain needed for emotional and spiritual growth.

Victims and creators live in the same physical world and deal with many of the same physical realities, yet their experience of life is worlds apart. Victims relish (沉溺) in anger, guilt, and other emotions that cause others—and even themselves—to feel like victims, too. Creators consciously choose love, inspiration, and other qualities which inspire not only themselves, but all around them. Both victims and creators always have choice to determine the direction of their lives.

In reality, all of us play the victim or the creator at various points in our lives, one person, on losing a job or a special relationship, may feel as if it is the end of the world and sink into terrible suffering for months, years, or even a lifetime. Another with the same experience may choose to first experience the grief, then accept the loss and soon move on to be a powerful creative force in his life.

In every moment and every circumstance, you can choose to have fuller, richer life by setting a clear intention to transform the victim within, and by inviting into your life the powerful creator that you are.

71. What does the word “they” in Paragraph 1 probably refer to?

A. Victims and their sufferings.          B. Opportunities and problems.  

C. Creators and their choices.             D. People and things around you.        

72. According to paragraph 2, creators _________. 

A. handle ups and downs of life wisely

B. possess the ability to predict future life

C. have potential to create something new

D. seem willing to experience failures in life

73. What can we learn from Paragraph 3?

A. Creators and victims are masters of their lives.

B. Victims can influence more people than creators.

C. Compared with victims, creators are more emotional.

D. Creators and victims face quite different things in life.

74. The examples mentioned in Paragraph 4 show that _________.

A. one’s experiences determine his attitude toward life.

B. it takes creators quite a long time to get rid of their pains.

C. people need family support to deal with challengers in life.

D. strong attachment to sufferings in life pulls people into victims.

75. What is the author’s purpose in writing this passage?

A. To define victims and creators.

B. To evaluate victims against creators.

C. To suggest the transformation from victims to creators.

D. To explain the relationship between victims and creators.

Many of us use them several times a day without really noticing. And yet the way we behave in lifts, or elevators as they are known in the US, reveals a hidden anxiety.

Passengers seem to know instinctively(本能地) how to arrange themselves in an elevator, like the dots on a die. With each additional passenger, the bodies shift, going into the open spaces.

On your own, you can do whatever you want—it’s your own little box. If there are two of you, you take different corners, creating the greatest distance. When a third person enters, you will unconsciously form a triangle. And when there is a square, with someone in every corner, a fifth person is probable going to have to stand in the middle.

Why are we so awkward in lifts?

“You don’t have enough space,” says Professor Babette Renneberg, a clinical psychologist at the Free University of Berlin. “Usually when we meet other people we have about an arm’s length of distance between us. And that’s not possible in most elevators, so it’s a very unusual setting. It’s unnatural.”

But perhaps there is more to it than just social awkwardness.

“In the back of our minds we are a little anxious,” says Nick White, an officer in New York who was unfortunate enough to be trapped in a lift for 41 hours. “We don’t like to be locked into a place. We want to get out of the elevator as soon as possible, you know, it’s a frightening place to be.”

During his terrible experience, he began to think of another enclosed space—a tomb.

Dr. Lee Gray agrees that a sense of powerlessness is the main cause of lift anxiety.

“You’re in a machine that’s moving, over which you have no control. You cannot see the elevator engine, you don’t know how it’s working.” he says.

66. Which of the following best shows how passengers arrange themselves in lifts?

67. Professor Babette Renneberg believes people feel uneasy in lifts because _________.

A. they can’t move themselves                  B. they cannot talk with one another

C. they are afraid of accidents           D. they have to stay too close together

68. Which of the following is true of Nick White?

A. He had been kept in a tomb for some time.

B. He was trapped in a lift for 41 hours.

C. He discussed lift anxiety with Dr. Lee Gray.

D. He was a scientist studying people’s lift behaviors.

69. The last paragraph best explains _________.

A. hidden anxiety                       B. lift anxiety

C. sense of disempowerment            D. social awkwardness

70. What does the text mainly talk about?

A. People’s behavior in lifts.             B. Accidents in lifts.

C. The function of lifts.                 D. Differences between lifts and elevators.

Mapping Your World

Different forms of maps are appearing. They allow independent travelers to get local knowledge of places they are visiting, from the official to the unusual. Meanwhile, hi-tech developments are creating new ways for us to map the world. Here are two of our favorites:

Green Maps

Green Maps allows people to share with the world their knowledge of environmentally friendly places and attractions in the local areas. Users add information with a set of icons (图标), making it easy to read any map, whatever the nationalities of those who produce it. At present there are over five hundred map projects being developed in 54 countries. Green Maps’ advertised idea is “think global, map local”. It is a wonderful way of gaining all sorts of information of a place, ranging from community gardens to good places of birdwatching.

Green Maps is not specifically intended for travelers. Not all of its maps are online, so it may be necessary for some users to communicate with producers through the Green Maps website.

Maps Mashups

Many people use online maps developed by Google, but not many know about the mashups of them. Working in a similar way to Green Maps, Maps Mashups allows people to add icons of their own to existing maps to express a certain topic. The mashups is so called because it combines all the knowledge you could ever need. It ranges from the extremely useful, such as where all the World Heritage Sites are, to the most bizarre, such as where America’s drunkest cities are. With the mashups added to the basic Google Maps, a multi-layered (多层的) map can be created.

61. According to the passage, which of the following is a characteristic of Green Maps?

A. Aiming at environmental protection.

B. Offering advice to independent travelers.

C. Introducing local attractions with icons.

D. Collecting icons worldwide for local maps.

62. Which of the following icons is most probably NOT used in Green Maps?

63. Map Mashups is named with the word “mashups” because _________.

A. it is a branch of Google Maps

B. it shares icons with Green Maps

C. it gathers various kinds of information

D. it is produced by users all over the world

64. What does the underlined word “bizarre” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

A. common      B. distinct          C. usual           D. strange

65. What do Green Maps and Map Mashups have in common?

A. They are created by local people.

B. Users can edit maps on the Internet.

C. They are environmentally friendly.

D. Users need to communicate with produces.

A year after graduation, I was offered a position teaching a writing class. Teaching was a profession I had never seriously considered, though several of my stories had been published. I accepted the job without hesitation, as it would allow me to wear a tie and go by the name of Mr. Davis. My father went by the same name, and I liked to imagine people getting the two of us confused. “Wait a minute,” someone might say, “are you talking about Mr. Davis the retired man, or Mr. Davis the respectable scholar?”

The position was offered at the last minute, and I was given two weeks to prepare, a period I spent searching for a briefcase and standing before my full-length mirror, repeating the words, “Hello, class. I’m Mr. Davis.” Sometimes I would give myself an aggressive voice. Sometimes I would sound experienced. But when the day eventually came, my nerves kicked in and the true Mr. Davis was there. I sounded not like a thoughtful professor, but rather a 12-year-old boy.

I arrived in the classroom with paper cards designed in the shape of maple leaves. I had cut them myself out of orange construction paper. I saw nine students along a long table. I handed out the cards, and the students wrote down their names and fastened them to their breast pockets as I required.

“All right then,” I said. “Okay, here we go.” Then I opened my briefcase and realized that I had never thought beyond this moment. I had been thinking that the students would be the first to talk, offering their thoughts and opinions on the events of the day. I had imagined that I would sit at the edge of the desk, overlooking a forest of hands. Every student would yell. “Calm down, you’ll all get your turn. One at a time, one at a time!”

A terrible silence ruled the room, and seeing no other opinions, I instructed the students to pull out their notebooks and write a brief essay related to the theme of deep disappointment.

56. The author took the job to teach writing because _________.

A. he wanted to be respected

B. he wanted to please his father

C. he had published some stories

D. he had dreamed of being a teacher

57. What can we learn about the author from Paragraph 2?

A. He was well-prepared for his first class.

B. He would be aggressive in his first class.

C. He got nervous upon the arrival of his first class.

D. He waited long for the arrival of his first class.

58. Before he started his class, the author asked the students to _________.

A. write down their suggestions on the paper cards

B. cut maple leaves out of the construction paper

C. cut some cards out of the construction paper

D. write down their names on the paper cards

59. What did the students do when the author started his class?

A. They stayed silent.

B. They began to talk.

C. They raised their hands.

D. They shouted to be heard.

60. The author chose the composition topic probably because _________.

A. he thought it was an easy topic

B. he wanted to calm down the students

C. he had prepared the topic before class

D. he got disappointed with his first class

Several years after Ivy Priest was appointed treasurer (财务长) of the United States, she returned to her hometown. The warm welcome she received made her think of her teenage   36 .

When Ivy was a teenager, she had pictured herself returning after achieving   37   and fortune. Secretly she had dreamed of becoming a (n)   38  . So when she learned that roles in a movie to be   39   in Salt Lake City would be given to those who   40   the largest number of subscriptions to a newspaper, Ivy went to work. She tried her best and won second prize. This   41   her the chance of dancing in a beautiful dress during a short   42   in the movie. The night the movie was to be shown,   43   kept her from eating. But when she saw herself on the screen, acting   44  , she slipped out of the theater and went home to   45   herself to sleep. 

However, Ivy was not to be defeated by that. She became interested in politics at high school and wanted to study   46   after graduation, but her family could not afford to send her to college. To   47   her own expenses, Ivy had to work as a ticket   48   during the day and a telephone operator at night.   49  , Ivy had the dream of achieving fame and fortune.

Ivy’s interest in politics   50   her down a new path. She took part in a lot of challenging activities of the Republican Party,   51   which was her extraordinary effort in helping Eisenhower   52   the presidential election. Mr Eisenhower said to Ivy, “I   53   you to be the treasurer of the United States.”

Ivy was born into a (n)   54   family, but her dreams, her faith and her hard work   55    her a life of success.

36. A. dignity             B. friends               C. dreams         D. classmates

37. A. fame               B. harvest         C. extension       D. standard

38. A. lawyer             B. editor           C. politician        D. actress

39. A. watched           B. made           C. reserved      D. shown

40. A. bought             B. persuaded     C. succeeded      D. sold

41. A. gave              B. cost          C. attached        D. paid

42. A. interval             B. scene           C. show           D. piece

43. A. celebration         B. disappointment   C. expectation      D. entertainment

44. A. beautifully         B. unequally        C. wonderfully     D. unnaturally

45. A. cry               B. go              C. hold            D. calm

46. A. theater            B. law            C. acting          D. medicine

47. A. spare              B. receive          C. earn            D. avoid

48. A. seller              B. holder          C. counter         D. officer

49. A. No longer          B. So far          C. Even so         D. Ever since

50. A. set              B. let             C. founded        D. led

51. A. beyond             B. among              C. throughout    D. inside

52. A. win               B. beat            C. gain            D. manage

53. A. regard             B. want          C. promise        D. settle

54. A. lawyer’s           B. rich            C. ordinary        D. artist’s

55. A. offered            B. took            C. achieved        D. brought

 After three months’ association with her boyfriend, Jane came to know that beneath the _________ calm surface is a man of fierce temper, so she decided to break up with him.

A. suddenly      B. apparently     C. stealthily         D. absolutely

 The plane was _________ to arrive at 9:30, but was an hour late.

A. certain         B. likely           C. about            D. supposed

 There’s no doubt that I’ll _________ for the trick he played on me.

A. pay back      B. pay for         C. pay off          D. pay out

 She had a strong objection _________ up so early.

A. to get          B. to getting       C. to be gotten      D. to be getting