As a child, I was told that a wise person is the one who learns from everyone. It is a great way to live by this  1  ----One begins to look at people very  2  and he no longer puts others  3 in order to feel good about himself.

Living in China  4  me with many wonderful opportunities to put this theory (理论) into practice, China is quite   5  and as a Westerner, it’s easy for me to consider many of the local habits as “strange” and even “rude”. However, slowly I began to   6  a lot about the culture and about where many of their    7  came from. I decided to make an effort to meet people and  8  from them.

I am living in Harbin now, a city in the Northern part of China, near Russia. Yesterday I  9  to get money from the ATM and have a good cup of coffee after lunch. But I can’t speak Chinese yet and there are no signs in English   10  the nearest supermarket or coffee shop. There are signs in Russian.   11 “espaciba” which means thanks, I don’t know much else.   12  I decided to smile at my every attempt（尝试) to  13  and ask for information that would 14  me to an ATM and a coffee shop. It turned out that my efforts and my  15 were met with more smiles. I learned that   16  is to be found everywhere even17  I cannot communicate, and that people will  18  depending on what I give.

Look around you for opportunities to learn from the most   19  people. You will be surprised at what they can  20  you!

1.                A．principle        B．plan           C．strength  D．reason

2.                A．excitedly       B．doubtfully       C．anxiously D．differently

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

4.                A．helps          B．compares       C．impresses D．provides

5.                A．special         B．modern         C．beautiful  D．powerful

6.                A．ignore         B．forget          C．understand    D．create

7.                A．names         B．habits          C．behaviors D．beliefs

8.                A．escape         B．suffer          C．hear D．learn

9.                A．needed        B．refused         C．managed  D．failed

10.               A．heaving for      B．setting up       C．looking for D．pointing to

11.               A．Except for      B．As for          C．According to   D．Instead of

12.               A．Yet            B．Or            C．So   D．Besides

13.               A．relax          B．command       C．explain    D．discuss

14.               A．force          B．lead           C．transport  D．follow

15.               A．thanks         B．signs           C．questions  D．smiles

16.               A．illness          B．weakness       C．kindness   D．happiness

17.               A．before         B．when          C．because   D．after

18.               A．react          B．gain           C．doubt D．benefit

19.               A．famous         B．useful          C．unexpected    D．familiar

20.               A．charge         B．teach          C．lend  D．require

There is an English saying: “Laughter is the best medicine.” Until recently, few people took the saying seriously. Now, however, doctors have begun to look into (调查) laughter and the effects it has on the human body. They have found that laughter really can improve people’s health. Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their heart, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise. It increases blood pressure, the heart beating and breathing; it also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach, and even the feet. If laughter exercises the body, it must be beneficial (有益的).

Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effect of pain on the body. In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs. The group that tolerated (忍受) the pain for the longest time was the groups which listened to a funny program. The reason why laughter can reduce pain seems to be that it helps to produce a kind of chemicals in the brain which reduce both stress (紧张；压力) and pain.

As a result of these discoveries, some doctors in the United States now hold laughter clinics (诊所), in which they help to improve their patients’ condition by encouraging them to laugh. They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce beneficial effects similar to those caused by laughter.

1.The underlined phrase “took the saying seriously” in the first paragraph probably means “________”.

A．treat the saying as important               B．treat the saying as interesting

C．treat the saying as dangerous              D．treat the saying as funny

2.The main idea of the passage is _______.

A．laughter and physical exercises have similar effects on the human body

B．smile can produce the same effects as laughter

C．pain can be reduced by laughter

D．laughter is the best medicine

3.Doctors hold laughter clinics _______.

A．to give better condition to their patients

B．in order to improve patients’ health

C．to make patients smile

D．to prove smile and laughter have the same effect

With the possible exception of equal rights, perhaps the most heated argument across the United States today is the death penalty (死刑). Many argue that it is an effective deterrent (威慑) to murder（谋杀）, while others think there is no enough proof that the death penalty reduces the number of murders. The argument advanced by those who are against the death penalty is that it is cruel and inhuman punishment, that it is a mark of a bad society and finally that it is of questionable effectiveness as a deterrent (威慑物) to crime (罪行) anyway.

In our opinion, the death penalty is a necessary action. Throughout recorded history there have always been those peculiar persons in every society who made terrible crimes such as murder. But some are more dangerous than others. For example, it is one thing to take the life of another in time of blind anger, but quite another to coldly plan and carry out the murder of one or more people in the style of a butcher. Thus, murder, like all other crimes, is a matter of different degree. While it could be argued with some reason that the criminal in the first instance should be merely kept from society, such should not be the fate of the latter type murderer.

The value of the death penalty as a deterrent to crime may be open to discussion. But the majority of people believe that the death penalty protects them. Their belief is proved by the fact that the death penalty prevents murder. For example, from 1954 to 1963, when the death penalty was carried out from time to time in California, the murder rate remained between three and four murders for each 100, 000 population. Since 1964 the death penalty has been done only once, and the murder rate has risen to10.4 murders for each 100, 000 population. The sharp climb in the state's murder rate, which began when killings stopped, does not happen by chance. It certainly shows that the death penalty does stop many murderers. If the law about death penalty is vetoed (否决), some people will be murdered----some whose lives may have been saved if the death penalty were in effect. This is really a life or death matter. The lives of thousands of people must be protected.

1.The main purpose of this passage is to _________.

A．speak for the majority

B．argue against the value of the death penalty

C．speak ill of the government

D．argue for the value of the death penalty

2.Which of the following is among the heated arguments across the USA besides death penalty?

A．Air pollution.                           B．The war against Iraq.

C．Equal rights.                           D．Election of president.

3.The numbers in the last paragraph show that ______.

A．if they stick to death penalty, the number of murders will be reduced

B．death penalty almost stopped from 1954 to 1963

C．the population of California has risen

D．death penalty is of little value

4.It can be inferred that the writer thinks that ______.

A．the death penalty is the most important problem in the United States today

B．the second type of murderers (in Paragraph 2) should be sentenced to death

C．the veto of the law about death penalty is of little importance

D．the value of the death penalty as a deterrent to crime is not to be discussed

Technology has been an encouragement of historical change. It acted as such a force in England beginning in the eighteenth century, and across the entire Western World in the nineteenth. Rapid advances were made in the use of scientific findings in the manufacture (制造) of goods, which has changed ideas about work. One of the first changes was that other forms of energy have taken the place of human power. Along with this came the increased use of machines to manufacture products in less time. People also developed machines that could produce the same parts for a product: each nail was exactly like every other nail, meaning that each nail could be changed for every other nail. This means that goods could be mass production, although mass production required breaking production down into smaller and smaller tasks.

Once this was done, workers no longer started on the product and labored to complete it. Instead, they might work only one thousandth of it, other workers completing their own parts in certain order. There is nothing strange about this manufacturing work by today's standards. Highly skilled workers were unable to compare with the new production techniques, as mass production allowed goods of high standard to be produced in greater number than could ever be done by hand. But the skilled worker wasn't the only loser, the common workers lost too. Similar changes forced farmer away. The increased mechanization (机械化) of agriculture freed masses of workers from ploughing the land and harvesting its crops. They had no choice but to stream toward the rapidly developing industrial centers. Increasingly, standards were set by machines. Workers no longer owned their own tools, their skill was no longer valued, and pride in their work was no longer possible. Workers fed, looked after and repaired the machines that could work faster than humans at greatly reduced cost.

1.In this passage, which of the following is NOT considered as a change caused by the use of scientific findings in the production of goods?

A．Other forms of energy have taken the place of human power.

B．The increased exploitation (剥削)of workers in the 19th century.

C．The increased use of machines to make products in less time.

D．The use of machines producing parts of the same standard.

2.The underlined word “this ”in the second paragraph refers to the change that ______

A．each nail could be taken the place of by every other nail

B．each nail was exactly like every other nail

C．producing tasks became smaller and smaller

D．goods could be mass produced

3.According to the writer, highly skilled workers ______

A．completely disappeared with the coming of the factory system

B．were dismissed(解散) by the boss

C．were unable to produce goods of high standard

D．were unable to produce fine goods at that same speed as machines

4.According to the passage, what did the farmers have to do with the coming of mechanization of agriculture?

A. Many of them had to leave their farmland for industrial centers.

B. They stuck to their farm work.

C. They refused to use machines.

D They did their best to learn how to use the machines.

A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what is on the printed text in the actual situation, so much the better.

A charge (指责) made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises (出现) from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.There are also people who are against fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two -- headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so strong that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men trying to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl -friend.

No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.

1.The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is ___________ .

A．repeated without any change              B．treated as a joke

C．made some changes by the parent          D．set in the present time

2.According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is ________ .

A．in a realistic setting (背景)                 B．heard for the first time

C．repeated too often                      D．told in a different way

3.The advantage claimed (提出) for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it _______.

A．makes them less fearful

B．develops their power of memory

C．makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of

D．encourages them not to have strange beliefs

4.One of the reasons why some people are against fairy tales is that __________.

A．they are full of imagination

B．they just make up the stories which are far from the truth

C．they are not interesting

D．they make teachers of history difficult to teach

仔细阅读下列10个句子，根据所给的首字母和中文意思提示在答题卷的相应位置写出所需单词

1.If you turn on the lights when there is full of gas in the room , the house may__________. (爆炸)

2.The old man dressed in black is one of my __________ (亲戚), so I must go to say hello to him.

3.Traffic is getting heavier and heavier, people should be encouraged to use public ____________. (运输)

4.It is no pleasure __________ (定居) in a place where there are no neighbors around.

5.When he entered the meeting room, nobody said hello to him. He felt _________. (忽视)

6.Lucy goes to school by bike every day, she says that c__________ is a good form of exercise.

7.She looked calm, but a_________ she was very nervous.

8.It s__________ me a lot to see how my neighbor treated their children.

9.As we all know, one li is e___________ to half a kilometer.

10.When you have a high fever, you will probably s__________ from a headache.

仔细阅读下列10句句子，根据所给动词在答题卷的相应位置写出该动词的恰当形式。

1.People who ______________(share) offices with smokers may become ill as a result of other people’s smoking.

2.The selfless teacher devoted all his life to ______________ (teach) the poor children in the mountainous areas.

3.What the chief editor said at the meeting ________________ (set) down and printed.

4.It is great fun _________________ (walk) through the clouds in the setting sun.

5.The pilot asked all the passengers to remain _____________ (seat) as the plane was making a landing.

6.__________(use) your head and you will find a way to solve the problem.

7.How anxious we were while_________(sit) in the classroom waiting for the results of the entrance examination.

8.The film ___________ (be) on for 30 minutes when we reached the cinema.

9.The visitor was badly injured. I insisted that a doctor ___________ (send) for immediately.

10.You can hardly imagine the silly woman ________________ (fall) in love with an advanced robot.

根据下列所给的5句中文句子在答题卷的相应位置写出英语译文。

1.毫无疑问, 这鞋子是为运动员设计的。（be designed for）

2.这位年轻的艺术家下定决心去帮助那些失业的人。（ make up one’s mind）

3.三分之一的国民感觉到了地震；看上去似乎世界末日来了。（as if; at an end）

4.现在，青少年不喜欢面对面的交流。(be fond of)

5.正是曼德拉的决心和斗争最终帮助黑人实现了梦想。(Mandela; 强调句型 )

假如你是李华，请你根据以下提示给某报社编辑写一封信，谈谈我国农村儿童失学的原因以及你的看法。

失学原因：

1．学费太高，使许多贫困家庭的孩子不得不辍学；

2．许多家长希望孩子能帮助大人早点赚钱；

3．一些人认为女孩上学无用。

你的看法：儿童是祖国的未来，社会和家长都要重视儿童的学校教育。

注意：1.文章应包括以上要点，可以适当增加细节，使行文连贯，但不要逐字翻译。

2.词数100左右。       3.文章开头已给出，但不计字数。

Dear Editor,

Now in the countryside of China, many children are dropping out of school. …………

……………………………………………………………………………………………………

Yours,

Li Hua

There was _____ time when he was crazy about everything to dowith____ nature because of many years’ imprisonment.

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