After graduation I’d like to find a job _______ I can use what I have learnt at school.

— Little Tom broke a window in our class. 

— I would rather he            that.

One man was to meet his wife downtown and spend some time shopping with her. He waited 36  for 15 minutes. Then he waited impatiently for 15 minutes more. After that, he became  37 . When he saw a photograph booth (照相亭) nearby, he had  38 . He wore the most unhappy expression he could manage, which was not  39  in the situation. In a few moments, he was holding four small photos that  40  even him.

He wrote his wife’s name on the back of the photos and handed them to a  41  behind the desk in the booth. “ 42  you see a small, dark lady with brown eyes and an apologetic expression, obviously  43  someone, would you please give her this?” he said. He then  44  his office in Morrison Building,  45  that if a picture is worth a thousand words, then the four photos must be a good  46 ! He sat down with a smile.

His wife  47  those pictures. She carries them in her purse now and shows them to anyone who asks if she is married.

How are you with  48 ? One person calls it “wait training.” It seems that there is always something we are  49 . We wait on traffic and we wait in lines. We wait to hear about a new job. We wait to complete school. We wait for someone to change his or her mind.

Patience is an important  50  of a happy and rewarding life.  51 , some things are worth waiting for.  52  presents many opportunities for wait training.

We can hate waiting,  53  it or even get good at it! But one thing is  54  --- we cannot avoid it. How is your  55  coming along?

A jobless man applied for the position of “office boy” at Microsoft. The HR manager interviewed him and then watched him cleaning the floor as a test.

“You are employed,” he said. “Give me your e-mail address and I’ll send you the application to fill in, as well as date when you may start.”

The man replied，“But I don’t have a computer, neither an e-mail.”

“I’ m sorry，” said the HR manager.“If you don’t have an e-mail，that means , you do not exist. And who doesn’t exist cannot have the job.”

The man left with no hope at all. He didn't know what to do with only ten dollars in his pocket. He then decided to go to the supermarket and buy 10 kg tomatoes. He then sold the tomatoes from door to door. In less than two hours, he succeeded to double his capital. He repeated the operation three times, and returned home happily with 60 dollars.

The man realized that he could survive in this way, and started to go every day earlier, and return late. Thus, his money doubled or tripled every day. Shortly, he bought a cart, then a truck, and then he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles. Five years later, the man is one of the biggest food retailers(销售商) in the US.

He started to plan his family’s future and decided to have a life insurance. He called an insurance broker（经纪人）and chose a protection plan.

When the conversation was concluded the broker asked him his e-mail. The man replied, “I don’t have an e-mail.”

The broker answered curiously,“You don’t have an e-mail, and yet have succeeded to build an empire. Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an e-mail?" The man thought for a while and replied,“Yes，I’d be an office boy at Microsoft!”

1.The underlined word “tripled” can be replaced by             . 

2.According to the passage，which of the following is TRUE?

3.The man can be described as               .

4. Which proverb can best describe the story?

An 8-year-old girl was dragged about 900 feet by a school bus today in Livingston County.

According to State Police, the incident occurred about 2：40 pm on State Route 436 in the town of Ossian after three sisters were dropped off the bus.

As the last sister was leaving the bus, driver John Coley, 62 , of Wayland, Steuben County, told the police that he was not paying attention when he closed the door and trapped her backpack inside. Coley then continued 900 feet before he realized the girl was being dragged, State Police said.

The girl was hurt and was transported to Nicholas H Noyes Memorial Hospital in Dansville，Livingston County, by Dansville Ambulance.

Another 8-year-old child on the bus said he hit his head on the seat in front of him when the bus came to a sudden stop, causing an earache.

●Conservation staff in New Zealand have put down 33 stranded（搁浅的）whales after several attempts to refloat them failed.

The whales were shot on Farewell Spit on the South Island. Department of Conservation area manager John Mason says staff and hundreds of volunteers had tried all week to get the whales refloated.

He says they thought they were successful on Wednesday when they got the whales into deep water——but were saddened on Thursday to find that they had swum back ashore. He says the condition of the whales had significantly become worse.

As well as the 33 whales that were shot，36 had died naturally since Monday and 17 were successfully refloated. 13 remain unknown.

1.The last sister was dragged by the bus because______________.

2.It can be inferred from the first news that______________．

3.How many whales were trapped ashore in total?

4.The 33 refloated whales returned ashore on______________.

More than half of rich Americans have not shown their full wealth to their children, a new survey showed last Tuesday.

The survey, published by the Bank of America, studied the rich with＄3 million or more in possessions. It found that “surprisingly few of those surveyed have well-developed plans to preserve and pass on their possessions to their children”.

The majority of the 457 people surveyed are self-made, first-generation rich. Fifty-two percent of parents have not chosen not to tell their children just how wealthy they are，and 15 percent have given away nothing about the family wealth. One in three parents said they had never thought to do it.

They are worried that their children would become lazy, spend money freely，make bad decisions and even become a target for attractive women who use their looks to get money from rich men.

Only 34 percent strongly agreed that their children would be able to handle any inheritance（遗产）they plan to leave them.

“There is an expectation about the wealthy parents that they have a responsibility to pass down their fortune to the next generation,” said Sallie Krawcheck，president of the Global Wealth and Investment Management of the Bank of America. “Our research, however, uncovered changing views of what one generation owes the next.”

The trend is led by the world’s richest man Bill Gates, who promised in 2008 that he would leave his $58 billion fortune to the charity started by him and his wife, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation（基金会），and not to his children.

“ We want to give it back to society in the way that it will have the most positive effect,” he said.

Of his plans for his children , Gates said: “I will give the kids some money but not a meaningful percentage… they will need to work but they will feel reasonably taken care of.”

1.We can learn from the passage that              .

2.According to the survey, most rich Americans                   ．

3.The underlined word “they” in Paragraph 6 refers to                 ．

4.From the last paragraph，we can see that Bill Gates wants to show              .

What happens inside the skull of a soccer player who repeatedly heads a soccer ball? That question motivate a challenging new study of the brains of experienced players that has caused discussion and debate among soccer players, and some anxiety among those of us with soccer-playing children.

For the study, researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York selected 34 adults，men and women. All of the volunteers had played soccer since childhood and now competed year-round in adult soccer leagues. Each filled out a detailed questionnaire developed especially for this study to determine how many times they had headed a soccer ball in the previous year, as well as whether they had experienced any known concussions（脑震荡）in the past.

Then the players completed computerized tests of their memory and other learning skills and had their brains scanned, using a complicated new MRI technique which can find structural changes in the brain that can’t be seen during most scans.

According to the data they presented at a Radiological Society of North America meeting last month，the researchers found that the players who had headed the ball more than about 1,100 times in the previous 12 months showed significant loss of white matter in parts of their brains involved with memory，attention and the processing of visual information, compared with players who had headed the ball fewer times.

This pattern of white matter loss is “similar to those seen in traumatic（外伤的）brain injury” , like that after a serious concussion, the researchers reported，even though only one of these players was reported to have ever experienced a conc ussion.

The players who had headed the ball about 1,100 times or more in the past year were also generally worse at recalling lists of words read to them, forgetting or fumbling the words far more often than players who had headed the ball less.

1.The passage is most probably a _________________.

2.From the passage we can conclude that frequent heading may have  _________________.

3.What is likely to be the cause of memory loss?

4.The underlined word "fumbling" is closest in meaning to ________________.

People are often worried about going to other countries due to the

“language problems”.But as a matter of_____ , you can still have a

76. ______?

great time living a_____ without many language skills.Here are some tips.

77. ______

To begin with, take the time to learn a few basic _____ (表达) and

78. ______

how to c_____ from one to ten.Secondly, open your mouth and say“ahh”

79. ______

before _____ (问) the way, as if you were at the doctor’s.Follow“ahh”

80. ______

by the name of the place you’re going to, l_____“ahh Paris”.Lastly,

81. ______

speak simply.Say“Menu, please.”rather_____“I would like a menu,

82. ______

please.”If your vocabulary is_____ (有限), try to communicate by writing.

83. ______

Carry_____ and a pen, and get waiters or clerks to write down prices for

84. ______

you.Most importantly, give y_____ a chance to use body language.

85. ______

按要求写出下列符合句意的单词：（每句1分，满分10分）

1.I once studied some Japanese at college, but I’m afraid that I’ve e

         forgotten it now.  

2.Don’t scold them. After all, they are only                  （青少年）.

3.When we met many years later, I could hardly r                Lily at the airport.

4.Our                 (政府) must do something to stop the rising house prices.

5.My daughter is so s                 that she cannot easily change her mind.

6.Can you think of ways to                    （说服）him to give up the plan?

7.Most of the buildings were                     （毁坏）in the earthquake.

8.Never                     a person only by his clothes.

9.All my family are well e             , of whom my brother studied in Harvard University.

10.What really worries those parents is that there is too much            (暴力)on TV.

如今世界粮食短缺，粮价飞涨，甚至致使部分地区发生动乱。假设在你校开展的研究性学习中，你们小组以“The World Food Crisis”为题进行研究，现在请你代表你们小组向全体同学简要介绍你们的研究成果。主要内容如下：

 注意：1．内容包括以上要点，但不要逐句翻译；2．词数为120个左右，文章开头已给出，不计人总词数。请在规定的区域内习作！

参考词汇：   城市化 urbanization    生物燃料 biofuel   节约的 thrifty

Hello, everyone，

Now I'll tell you something about our research project “The World Food Crisis” on behalf of our group. As you know, food shortages have hit many countries in the world and even caused social unrest in some areas.                            

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