--- What is your strongest memory of the bombing attack?

--- If I ______ rightly, we were about to approach the finish line when a big bang struck my ears.

A．will remember     B．had remembered   C．remember         D．remembered

______ herself in looking after the newly-born twins, she had to sacrifice her career to stay with her kids.

A．Occupied                             B．Being occupied

C．Having been occupied                    D．Occupying

Life is more than merely trying to achieve thestandards of society but trying to be a good person ______ one’s own standards.

A．at               B．in                C．on               D．by

Delta, the American airline, is sometimes jokingly explained “Don’t expect your luggage to arrive” because it ______ be very slow.

A．should            B．must             C．can              D．will

Don’t ______ life’s small joys while searching for the big ones.

A．contradict         B．overlook          C．obtain            D．confirm

Knowledgeable as he is, the expert was unwilling to offer advice to ______ he thought was not qualified.

A．whoever          B．who              C．whom            D．which

--- How about the debate held in your class?

--- ______

A．Why ask?                             B．Sounds great!

C．It was really hot!                        D．I am really looking forward to it.

My father was in the navy, which meant that my mother was married to both my father and the sea. As was often the __1__, we had to pack our belongings into boxes and __ 2__ those we had grown to love. We would arrive at our new home and find ourselves once again __3__ at the pier（码头）waving good-bye to my father as his ship pulled him away from us. My mother would turn my brother and me around before the ship was out of __4__, wipe our tears, and take us back home to start the process of __5__ in the new environment again.

Throughout the years of changing __6__, schools and friends, there remained one constant in my childhood — my mother. For both my __7_ and me, she was the cook, maid and teacher. She played these roles while __8__ some type of part-time job. Leaving a promising career is just one of the __9__ which my mother made for my family as we moved around the world with our father every three years or so. __10__ she had to deal with only a small budget, my mother __11__ managed to make each house the very home that is safe and __12__.

This probably sounds like a depressing way to live, __13__ with two small children: “single” parenthood, short-term friendships, and the inability to __14__ a career or establish a home. But it was not for my mother. She turned this __15__ into adventure for us all! Each relocation was a chance to __16__ another part of the world. My mother __17__ each new culture, climate and neighborhood. Each new house was a __18__ to rearrange furniture, make curtains and hang pictures. Every part-time job was an opportunity to learn something new and work with interesting people.

No matter how difficult the life was, she was always having a __19__ attitude. She always had strength in the face of struggle and change. My mother was so __20__all those years of my childhood — she was my island in a sea of change. She is my hero.

1.                A．situation        B．case           C．matter    D．rule

2.                A．leave behind    B．leave out        C．leave off  D．leave for

3.                A．arriving         B．staring          C．standing  D．looking

4.                A．range          B．shape          C．sight D．control

5.                A．adapting        B．suiting          C．matching D．fitting

6.                A．names         B．jobs            C．addresses D．directions

7.                A．father          B．classmates       C．brother   D．relatives

8.                A．performing      B．seeking         C．waiting   D．applying

9.                A．programs       B．sacrifices        C．contributions  D．cooperations

10.               A．Once          B．While          C．When     D．Unless

11.               A．somewhere     B．somewhat       C．sometime D．somehow

12.               A．romantic       B．comfortable     C．mysterious D．wealthy

13.               A．generally       B．actually         C．especially  D．unfairly

14.               A．desert         B．pursue         C．affect D．limit

15.               A．lifestyle        B．value          C．journey   D．opportunity

16.               A．acquire        B．explore        C．occupy    D．realize

17.               A．met           B．greeted        C．agreed    D．suspected

18.               A．load           B．sadness        C．result D．challenge

19.               A．changeable     B．cautious        C．positive   D．negative

20.               A．experienced    B．brave          C．ordinary   D．annoyed

When Debbie Parkhurst choked on a piece of apple at her Maryland home, her dog jumped in, landing hard on her chest and forcing the piece of apple to pop out of her throat. Debbie Parkhurst’s husband, Kevin, was at his job at a Wilmington, Del., chemical firm when she took a midday break from jewelry and bit into an apple. When the Keesling family of Indiana were about to be overcome by carbon monoxide(CO), their cat clawed(抓) at wife Cathy’s hair until she woke up and called for help.

　　For their timely acts, Toby, a golden 2 1/2-year-old dog, and Winnie, a gray-eyed American shorthair, were named Dog and Cat of the Year by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Neither Parkhurst nor Keesling could explain their pets’ timely heroics,though Parkhurst suggested it might have been guided by God intervention(干预). “That’s what our veterinarian(兽医) said,”she said. “He wasn’t making a joke; he’s very spiritual, and now I have to agree with him.” 

But both pets were themselves rescued in baby, Toby as a 4-week-old baby thrown into a garbage bin to die, and Winnie as a week-old orphan hiding under a barn, so helpless that Keesling’s husband, Eric, had to feed her milk.

As the Keeslings recalled it, a gas-driven pump spread carbon monoxide through the house. By the time Winnie moved into rescue spot, the couple’s 14-year-old son, Michael, was already unconscious. “Winnie jumped on the bed and was clawing at me, with a kind of angry noise,” Cathy Keesling said. “When I woke up I felt like a T-bar had hit me across the head.”

State police and officers responding to her 911 call said the family was only minutes from death, judging by the amount of poisonous gas in the house.

1.We can know Debbie Parkhurst _________.

A．works in a Wilmington, Del.,chemical firm

B．was making jewelry when she had the accident

C．might have died but for her pet’s help

D．was unconscious when her pet found her

2.Both pet’s heroic acts most probably connected with _________.

A．God arrangements                      B．their being once helped

C．their sense of danger                    D．their veterinarians’ training

3.Why did Winnie try to wake Cathy Keesling up?

A．Because a T-bar was going to hit him.

B．Because he was hungry and wanted milk.

C．Because Debbie choked something in her throat.

D．Because there was danger in her house.

4.From the passage we can infer that _________.

A．if you love me love my animals

B．all pets are useful to people

C．we can’t never be too careful in our daily life

D．to help others sometimes can get reward

When students and parents are asked to rate subjects according to their importance, the arts are unavoidably at the bottom of the list. Music is nice, people seem to say, but not important. Too often it is viewed as mere entertainment, but certainly not an education priority（优先）. This view is shortsighted. In fact, music education is beneficial and important for all students.

Music tells us who we are. Because music is an expression of the beings who create it, it reflects their thinking and values, as well as the social environment it came from. Rock music represents a lifestyle just as surely as does a Schubert song. The jazz influence that George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into their music is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions. Music expresses our character and values. It gives us identity as a society.

Music provides a kind of perception（感知）that cannot be acquired any other way. Science can explain how the sun rises and sets. The arts explore the emotive（情感的）meaning of the same phenomenon. We need every possible way to discover and respond to our world for one simple but powerful reason: No one way can get it all.  

The arts are forms of thought as powerful in what they communicate as mathematical and scientific symbols. They are ways we human beings “talk” to each other. They are the language of civilization through which we express our fears, our curiosities, our hungers, our discoveries, our hopes. The arts are ways we give form to our ideas and imagination so that they can be shared with others. When we do not give children access to an important way of expressing themselves such as music, we take away from them the meanings that music expresses.

Science and technology do not tell us what it means to be human. The arts do. Music is an important way we express human suffering, celebration, the meaning and value of peace and love.

So music education is far more necessary than people seem to realize.

1.According to Paragraph 1, students _________.

A．regard music as a way of entertainment

B．disagree with their parents on education

C．view music as an overlooked subject

D．prefer the arts to science

2.In Paragraph 2, the author uses jazz as an example to _________.

A．compare it with rock music

B．show music identifies a society

C．introduce American musical traditions

D．prove music influences people’s lifestyles

3.According to the passage, the arts and science_________.

A. approach the world from different angles

B. explore different phenomena of the world

C express people’s feelings in different ways

D. explain what it means to be human differently

4.What is the main idea of the passage?

A．Music education deserves more attention.

B．Music should be of top education priority.

C．Music is an effective communication tool.

D．Music education makes students more imaginative.