The bread you bought at the supermarket today was at least ______ the bread you bought in the nearby bakery yesterday.

A. as worse as   B. as better than

C. no worse than       D. not better as

As senior three students, it is important to ______ a good state of mind.

A. keep up         B. carry out       C. get in    D. take off

It is a good plan in theory, but it remains _______ whether it works in practice.

A. seeing  B. to see   C. seen      D. to be seen

_______ has been known that ______ other waste found in the ocean, the plastic  does not break down.

A. As; dislike     B. It, unlike

C. What, unlike D. That, dislike

_______ children get older, they become more and more interested in everything.

A. Once    B. Whether       C. With      D. As

---May I look at the menu for a little while?

--- Of course, _______, sir.

A. don’t worry  B. it doesn’t matter

C. enjoy yourself       D. take your time

Adventure is in my blood. And I had been considering how I was going to celebrate my high school graduation. I didn’t just want a small __21___ in the backyard. I started thinking about doing a solo ___22___ somewhere out of the ordinary. I took out ___23___ and drew the 1,500-mile route along which I would be ___24___ from the northernmost point in Norway to the southernmost section of Sweden. When I ___25___ my plans with my dad, he ___ 26___ as I thought he would. Because I get my adventurous ___27___ from him, he was all for it.

   I had only been away from my ___28___ three days now, but there was an inner ___29___ going on inside of me. Part of me was homesick and doubting whether I ___30___ could make it. The other part of me was ready to ___31___ to myself and my family that I could do it by myself.

   On the road, I met another ___32___ who was quite a bit older than I was. He had started his journey ___33___ by bike at the southern part of Norway and had just finished. I could tell he had a great sense of ___34___. It encouraged me not to ___35___.

  As I listened to my ___36___ artists on my MP4 player, I pedaled (踩踏板) with my feet. There was ___37___ around me for miles. ___38___, that wasn’t entirely true. There were mosquitoes--- millions of them. My arms were so dotted with ___39___ that they looked like a topographical map (地形图). But, however ___40___ it would be, nothing could stop my advance towards the destination. As you know, adventure is in my blood.

1.A. party          B. meeting         C. conversation          D. lecture

2.A. flight  B. interview       C. performance         D. trip

3.A. instructions        B. maps     C. magazines     D. newspapers

4.A. walking       B. flying     C. biking    D. running

5.A. compared  B. shared  C. prepared       D. changed

6.A. agreed       B. sighed   C. left        D. cried

7.A. stories        B. spirits    C. skills      D. hobbies

8.A. hotel B. school C. home    D. office

9.A. battle          B. activity  C. request          D. discussion

10.A. certainly  B. really    C. usually  D. reasonably

11.A. turn B. reply     C. prove    D. adapt

12.A. driver       B. jogger   C. bicyclist         D. pilot

13.A. alone        B. slowly   C. patiently        D. worriedly

14.A. humour   B. direction       C. balance          D. satisfaction

15.A. calm down        B. break down  C. speed up       D. give up

16.A. favourite B. personal        C. professional  D. successful

17.A. nobody    B. everybody    C. anything        D. everything

18.A. Firstly       B. Actually         C. Eventually    D. Fortunately

19.A. wounds    B. cuts       C. bites      D. dots

20.A. boring      B. confusing      C. complex        D. difficult

Once upon a time, on an isolated island in the Java sea, lived short people who dominated(支配, 占优势) the food chain. Standing no more than three and a half feet tall, these human ancestors hunted giant rats, lumbering lizards（笨拙的蜥蜴), and miniature elephants.  

   It sounds a bit like a fairy tale, but it's true. Unearthed relics on the island uncovered the remains of a race of tiny human ancestors. Homo floresiensis, as the newly discovered species has been named, apparently could date back to 13,000 years ago. This means they have a lot in common with modern humans.

  So how and why did these people get so small? Scientists suspect that it's due to the fact that this race lived on an isolated island with limited resources. Take the miniature elephants for example. When elephants first came to the island either by swimming or by some kind of natural land raft, they were probably close to full size. But since there wasn't much to eat, over time smaller elephants lived longer and better. The smaller the elephant was, the less it had to eat to stay strong and healthy.

  Scientists call this the "island role", and it can apply to humans as well as animals. Given the island's sparse(稀少) food supply, it makes sense that the early humans living there would have evolved (进化) a body size requiring less food to survive. So bigger isn't always better.

In the floresiensis, at least, getting smaller was the way to go.

1.According to the passage, the fact Homo floresiensis are very small is based on________.

A. the islanders in the Java Sea B. the human ancestors

C. the unearthed relics      D. a newspaper report

2. The underlined word "miniature" in the first paragraph most probably means______.

A. tiny       B. active    C. rare       D. wild

3.People on the island got so small because____________.

A. they did not have enough food to eat.

B. they gradually developed for lack of food.

C. they shared less food with elephants.

D. they remained alive as the elephants.

4. What might be the most suitable title of the passage?

A. The history of short people

B. Short people from a fairy tale

C. The proofs on short people

D. Short people on an isolated island

5.According to the passage, getting smaller can make people and animals ____

A. run quickly   B. live longer     C. live weaker   D. run slowly

Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman. A man goes shopping because he needs something. His purpose is settled and decided in advance. He knows what he wants, and his objective is to find it and buy it; the price is a secondary consideration. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it in stock, the salesman promptly shows it, and the business of trying it on follows at once. All being well, the deal can be and often is completed in less than five minutes, with hardly any chat and to everyone's satisfaction.

For a man, slight problems may begin when the shop does not have what he wants, or does not have exactly what he wants. In that case the salesman, as the name implies, tries to sell the customer something else, he offers the nearest he can to the article required. No good salesman brings out such a substitute(替代品)impolitely; he does so with skill: "I know this jacket is not the style you want, sir, but would you like to try it for size? It happens to be the colour you mentioned. Few men have patience with this treatment, and the usual response is: “This is the right colour and may be the right size, but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on.”

Now how does a woman go about buying clothes? In almost every respect she does so in the opposite way. Her shopping is not often based on need. She has never fully made up her mind what she wants, and she is only "having a look round". She is always open to persuasion; indeed she sets great store by what the saleswoman tells her, even by what companions tell her. She will try on any number of things. Uppermost in her mind is the thought of finding something that everyone thinks suits her. Contrary(相反的) to a lot of jokes, most women have an excellent sense of value when they buy clothes. They are always on the lockout for the unexpected bargain. Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one rail to another, to and fro(来回地), often retracing her steps, before selecting the dresses she wants to try on. It is a laborious process, but apparently an enjoyable one. Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.

1.According to the passage, when a man is buying clothes, ________.

A. he buys cheap things, regardless of quality

B. he chooses things that others introduce

C. he does not mind how much he has to pay for the right things

D. he buys good quality things, so long as they are not too dear

2.What does the passage tell us about women shoppers for clothes?

A. They welcome suggestions from anyone.

B. Women rarely consider buying cheap clothes.

C. Women often buy things without giving the matter proper thought.

D. They listen to advice but never take it.

3.What does a man do when he can not get exactly what he wants?

A. He buys a similar thing of the colour he wants.

B. He usually does not buy anything.

C. At least two of his requirements must be met before he buys.

D. So long as the style is right, he buys the thing.

4.Many jokes make fun of women shoppers by saying that________.

A. they waste money on inferior(劣质的) goods

B. they should buy only the best clothes

C. they are much more sensible than men

D. they think of the price of clothes and nothing else

5.What is the most obvious difference between men and women shoppers?

A. The fact that men do not try clothes on in a shop.

B. Women bargain for their clothes, but men do not.

C. Women stand up to shop, but men sit down.

D. The time they take over buying clothes.

The unwanted disturbing of a mobile phone ringing at a critical moment has led to some famously strong reactions

    British actor Richard Grif-fiths，stopped a performance at the National Theatre and ordered The offending party to leave

    Judge Robert Restaino went considerably further．He was hearing a session of domestic violence offenders in a court when proceedings were interrupted by rings of a phone．

   “Everyone is going to jail unless I get that instrument now,” he shouted．

    Over the next two hours，the judge entered a period of “incredible madness”．He began by ordering the doors of the court locked，and set the officers to searching for the phone．

    When that failed to find the offending item he ordered each of the defendants(被告) present in the room up to his bench and in turn asked them if they  had no idea, he sent each in turn to jail(监狱).   

All 46 of them．

    When a defendant protested the judge’s actions were not fair to those who didn’t possess the phone，Restaino replied：“I know it isn’t．

    Judge’s actions caused chaos．Extra officers had to be drafted into the court to control the crowd．and booking officers at the city jail were at full stretch．“We were playing Twister in here”, one said at the time．

Fourteen of the defendants were shackled(束缚 )in irons and sent to the county jail．

    The judge cooled off and later that afternoon released all 46．

    The “two hours of viral lunacy（疯狂）”, has probably cost Restaino his job．The commission ruled that he should be removed from his $14,000 job．Restaino now has 30 days to appeal(上诉)．

    His lawyer pointed out that until that moment he had served 11 years as a judge without any disciplinary issues．“With the exception of two hours．his record is spotless．”

1.The underlined sentence in the passage means _____．

A．we are just playing games

B．we are struggling to control the crisis here

C．we can hardly survive the crisis

D．we’re searching casually

2.Why is British actor Richard mentioned?

A．To indicate the disadvantage of mobile phone．

B．To scold the misusage of mobile phone．

C．To provide an excuse for Richard’s offence．

D．To support the opinion above

3.Two hours of viral lunacy will_____

A．make Robert pay a large sum of money

B．make no difference to Robert

C．most likely make Robert lose his job

D．make him world famous

4.What’s the best title of the passage?

A．Phone-rage(狂怒) judge    B．Judge，prisoner and mobile phone

C．The story in court     D．Mobile phone in court

5.From the passage we can find_____．

A．Robert is always challenging the disciplines

B．Robert is now in jail

C．judge is not a well-paid job

D．all the defendants didn’t follow Robert’s instructions willingly