In ________ most countries, a university degree can give you _______ flying start in life.

   A. the; a                         B. the; /                        C. /;/                         D. /; a

 — Are you planning to take American History by Mr. Johnson next semester?

—______________ I might not have enough time.

   A. It depends.                 B. So what?                  C. Sounds great.           D. Why not?

随着人们生活水平的提高，小汽车越来越多地进入家庭。它的优越性是显而易见的，但同时也带来了不少问题。以下是部分市民的看法，请你据此给某英文报纸写一篇报道。

字数：100字左右

假定英语课上老师要求同学之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的一下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（˄），并在其下写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意： 1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。

       2. 只允许修改10，多者（从11处起）不计分。

Dear Li Hua,

   Your problem is a common one among middle school students. Maybe the following advices can help you. First in all, believe in yourself. Your greatest problem is that you lack self-confidence. The first thing you must do is to smile at your classmates. One smile speaks loud about your wish to make friends than any word. Your smiles will show that you are friendly to him. Next, trying talking with a student who is as shy as you or who share the same interest as you. You can discuss your studies with a classmate, and you can talk your hobbies as well. Unless anyone is in trouble, you should be ready to help him or her. Once if you have confidence, you can make as many friends as possibly.

根据短文内容，从短文后的的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。

   71  Do you look up every new word in the dictionary? If so, bad move. All that does slow you down. Even electric or CD-ROM dictionaries can get in the way of your reading progress. A dictionary is like a road map. It can help you if you get lost and point you in the right direction.  72     

   On you English learning “journey”, a dictionary can be a helpful “travel company”--- if it is not overused. To help you start thinking in English, use an English-English dictionary.  73   

A good dictionary can help you in more than just find the meaning of a word.   74    Some dictionaries even provide exercises to teach you how to use their resources.

Take time to get to know your dictionary. Learn the pronunciation symbols. Understand what the abbreviations(缩略词)mean. Become familiar with the grammar codes that explain the usage for each word. Look for charts, diagrams and lists that might be useful in the future.   75   And as the say, “A friend in need is friend indeed”.

A.      While reading a book in English, every few lines of text, you may run across a word or two that you don’t know.

B.      It can also help you verify(test and check) spelling, check word forms and grammar usage, find example sentences and learn pronunciation.

C.      But if you stop to look at the “map” each time you take a step, you’ll get nowhere fast.

D.     Dictionary in not only useful but also easy to carry about.

E.      Otherwise, you’ll always depend on your native language and end up translating in your head.

F.      Looking up words in the dictionary needs patience.

G.     You’ll discover how rewarding it can be to make friends with your dictionary.

Have you ever been talking to somebody at the party? Do you focus entirely on the person you are speaking with or does your attention keep jumping around the room to all the other people there? Generally speaking, if the person is someone you really want to talk to you will focus on them. Most other people will only get about half of your attention.

You may think that this is OK, because if you don’t really want to talk to them then what does it matter if you don’t give them your full attention? Consider two things. First, you may just not realize the importance of that conversation. If you are at a networking meeting and you hope to meet the CEO of Company X but you end up talking to someone who has a low-level job at a different company, then you may let your attention wander as you speak to him. But maybe you don’t realize that this person has already met the CEO and could introduce you. Do you think he will do that if he feels you don’t really care about speaking to him? This doesn’t mean you need to spend the entire time talking to him. Five or ten minutes of real attentive conversation can be worth 30 minutes to an hour of partial attention interaction.

Second, whether you want to speak to someone changes based on the situation. You love your spouse(配偶), but if he or she tries to talk to you while you are watching something you like on TV, where is your attention going? Make your own decision, but if you want them to feel valued, give them your 100% attention. “The nice thing is that in many cases you can give them your attention for a few minutes and then return to what you were doing. You miss very little, they feel valued, and all is good.”

68. Generally speaking you would like to focus on someone______.

A. who is friendly to you                     B. who is active at the party

C. who you want to talk to                  D. who you are speaking with

69. If your spouse wants to talk to you when you are busy you should _______.

A. go on with what you are doing

B. stop doing anything immediately

C. decide according to the situation

D. stop to talk to him or her at once

70. What would be the best title for this passage?

A. Be Always Friendly to Others at the Party

B. Improve Your Communication by Paying Attention

C. It Is Important for You to Be Active at the Party

D. Your Spouse Should Be Respected Any Time

If You Decide to Go to the Moon

By Faith Mcnulty, Steven Kellogg(illustrator)---This book is written in the second person and tells you the most important information you need to know if you go to the moon. I especially appreciate the information on how to get home. You know, just in case…

Discover Space

By Cynthia Pratt Nicolson, Bill Slavin---Like its companion book in this series, Discover the Planets, this delightful book provides a fun and educational look at the “final frontier”. This book should surely be added to your young reader’s library.

This Rocket

By Paul Collicutt---Here’s an excellent book dealing with rockets from where they came from to where they are going. The illustrations will capture younger readers while older kids will enjoy the story.

Voyage to the Planet and Beyond

By Tim Haines, Christopher Riley---Published to accompany the Discovery television series of the same title, this book is about space travel (based on the experiences of real astronauts) to tell the imagined story of a 6-year space mission. Your future astronaut will get a joy from following the adventures in this book.

Space (Our Planet)

By Eduardo Banqureri---From the origin of the universe to the international space station, this book gives readers an up-close look at planet Earth and its solar system. Add this one to your space library, in the solar system section.

The Planets

By Gall Gibbons (illustrator)---This is an excellent kids book that discusses the movements, location, and characteristics of the known planets of our solar system.

64. This passage is mainly to _____.

A. tell us something important about space

B. introduce some books about astronomy

C. show some planets discovered recently

D. explain something secret in the universe

65. If you want to enjoy something interesting in space you’d better read ______.

A. The Planets              B. Discover Space         C. This Rocket       D. Our Planet

66. The underlined word “accompany”(in Paragraph 4), means _____.

A. match        B. introduce           C. explain              D. create

67. Which of the following tells us something about the earth?

A. This Rocket and The Planets

B. If You Decide to Go to the Moon

C. Voyage to the Planet and Beyond

D. The Planets and Space

Some people don’t mind being fat. Other people can keep slim（苗条）without any effort. But a lot of people do put on too much weight and don’t like it. The question is, what can they do about it?

Some believe exercise can be helpful. But the trouble is that it only makes you want to eat more. You might sweat out a couple of pounds playing tennis or climbing a mountain, but you put it all back on again with a big steak or bread and jam.

A helpful way is food choosing. But what sort of food should you choose? Some believe that the less they eat, the slimmer they will be. They don’t eat anything until they become weak with hunger. Some stick to milk and bananas. You’ll find you need a lot of bananas, and unless you live where they grow, they aren’t cheap. Others say that if you eat things like hard-boiled eggs, and apples with their skins on which are hard for your stomach to digest, the more you eat, the thinner you get. This is because you use up the fat in your body to get the energy to digest the food.

For most of us these methods are too extreme. The simplest way is just to cut down on the carbohydrates（含碳水化合物的食物）that means not eating bread, potatoes, cakes, sugar, rice, and so on and eating anything else you like. It’s straight forward and often quite effective.

60. According to the passage, the best way to keep slim is ______.

A. Exercising                            B. Hunger             

C. Food-choosing                        D. Eating milk and bananas

61. There seems nothing wrong with exercise except ______.

A. it makes you sweat                  B. it’s hard work

C. it tires you out                        D. it makes you eat more

62. The practical method suggested here is ______.

A. sticking to bananas                 

B. not eating many carbohydrates

C. eating as little as possible         

D. eating things that are hard to digest

63. Which of the following do you think is the best title for the passage?

A. Don’t Eat Too Much                      B. Various Ways of Losing Weight

C. Ways to Keep Fit                           D. Food and Health

Many children act in TV shows. They work several hours every day, so they cannot go to a regular school. How do they get an education?

In Hollywood, where many TV shows are made, about forty teachers are working. The teacher’s job is very important. She is responsible for making sure that the children work only the permitted hours each week. She is also responsible for making sure that children learn the required subjects. She makes sure too, that the children get enough rest and play, gives lessons to the children in the shows. She teaches wherever the children are working.

Children actors are required to attend classes twenty hours each week. California law says that they must be taught from September to the middle of June. If they do not get good marks in school, they are not permitted to continue working in TV shows.

TV children are usually good pupils, and most of their teachers like this special kind of work. Their classes are held in many interesting places. Sometimes the “classroom” is a Mississippi riverboat. Sometimes it is the inside of a spaceship. Often the pupils become famous stars.

56. TV children have classes ________.

A. at a regular school                                 B. wherever they are working

C. wherever the teacher likes                      D. at the school in Hollywood

57. What else does the teacher do besides teaching?

A. Make sure that the children don’t overwork.

B. Act in some important shows.

C. Make sure that the children have enough rest and play.

D. Both A and C.

58. If they fail in the required subjects, TV children ______.

A. are allowed to study for another year

B. must go to a good school

C. must be taught from September to the middle of June

D. are not allowed to work in TV shows any longer

59. What is this talk mainly about?

A. The education of TV children.

B. Child actors in TV.

C. How good pupils become TV children.

D. A special kind of school in TV.

I was tired and hungry after a long day of work. When I walked into the living room, my 12-year-old son looked  36  at me and said, “I love you.” I didn’t know what to say. For several seconds all I could do was standing there and  37  down at him. My first thought was that he must need  38  with his homework or he was trying to  39  me for some news.

Finally I asked, “What was that all about?” “  40  .” he said, “My teacher said we should  41  our parents that we love them and see what they say. It’s a (an)  42  .

The next day I called his teacher to find out more about this “experiment” and how the other parents had  43  .

“Basically, most of the fathers had the  44  reaction as you did.” The teacher said, “When I first  45  we try this, I asked the children what they thought their parents would say. Some of them thought their parents would have heart trouble.”

“The  46  is,” the teacher explained, “feeling loved is an important part of  47  . It’s something all human beings  48  . What I am trying to tell the children is that it’s too  49  that we don’t all express those feelings. A boy should be  50  to tell his dad that he loves him.”

The teacher, a middle-aged man, understands how  51  it is for some of us to say the things that would be good for us to say.

When my son came to me that evening, I held on to him for a(n)  52  second. And just  53  he pulled away, I said in my deepest, most manly voice, “Hey, I love you, too.”

I don’t know if saying that made either of us healthier, but it did feel pretty good. Maybe next time one of my children says “I love you”, it would not take me a whole  54 to think of the right  55  .

36. A. down                 B. away                 C. out                   D. up

37. A. glancing              B. glaring               C. staring                     D. watching

38. A. patience                     B. time                  C. help                  D. paper

39. A. report                 B. prepare              C. answer                     D. apologize

40. A. Nothing                     B. OK                   C. Something         D. Love

41. A. help                    B. tell                    C. ask                   D. make

42. A. thing                  B. experiment         C. word                D. sentence

43. A. said                    B. reacted              C. done                 D. explained

44. A. same                  B. different            C. usual                 D. ordinary

45. A. suggested           B. agreed               C. allowed             D. planned

46. A. point                  B. idea                   C. way                  D. cause

47. A. body                  B. health                C. search               D. study

48. A. have                   B. know                C. take                  D. require

49. A. bad                    B. good                 C. late                   D. early

50. A. fit                      B. polite                 C. nice                  D. able

51. A. easy                   B. much                C. often                 D. difficult

52. A. more                  B. full                    C. exact                D. extra

53. A. before                B. after                  C. because             D. if

54. A. day                    B. week                 C. afternoon          D. morning

55. A. answer               B. key                   C. reason               D. experiment