Michael O’her lived alone with his father, and the two of them had a very special relationship. The father believed in encouragement.

Though Michael was the    21   of the class when he entered high school, his    22  continued to encourage him, but also made it very clear that he did not have to play    23   if he didn’t want to.

However, Michael loved football and was    24  to try his best at every practice. All through high school, he never   25  a practice or a game, but remained a bench warmer(替补队员) all four years. His   26  father was always in the stands, with words of   27  for him.

It was the end of the football season, and as Michael ran slowly onto the practice field shortly    28  the big final game, the coach met him with a telegram. Michael    29   the telegram and became deathly silent—his father died that morning, and the sad man left for    30  immediately.

In the third quarter,  when the team was ten points   31  , a silent young man eagerly 32 onto the sidelines. The coach and his players were shocked to see their team-mate back so    33 .

“Coach, please let me  34 . I have to play today,” said Michael. Feeling sorry for him, the coach   35  . Before long, nobody could believe their eyes. This small bench warmer played like a(n)    36 . He helped his team win finally.

When the team was cheering for their    37 , Michael was sitting in the corner all alone. The coach came to him and said, “You were fantastic! Tell me   38  you did it?”

Tears in eyes, Michael said, “Well, you knew my dad died, but did you know he was blind?” He    39  a smile, “Dad came to all my games, but today was the first time he could    40   me play, and I wanted to show him I could do it!”

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One night when my wife was preparing dinner, our little son took a piece of paper to her which read:  

For washing the car...........................................$5.00 

For making my own bed this week...................$1.00 

Going to the provision shop..............................$0.50 

Playing with little sister ...................................$0.25 

Taking out the rubbish......................................$1.00 

Getting a good report card................................$5.00 

And for sweeping the common corridor...........$2.00 

Total .......................................................... ......$14.75 

His mother looked at him standing there expecting payment. I could see a thousand memories flashed through her mind. So she picked up the pen and turning the paper over, this is what she wrote: 

For 9 months I carried you, growing inside me.....................................No Charge

For the nights I sat up with you, doctored and prayed for you..............No Charge

For the toys, food and clothes and wiping your nose............................No Charge

When you add it all up, the full cost of my love...................................No Charge

Well, when he finished reading, he had great big tears in his eyes. He looked at his mother and said, “Mummy, I love you.” Then he took the pen and in great big letters wrote on the “bill”“All paid.”.

1.What’s the best title for this passage?

2.The writer wrote the passage in order to ______.

3.How do you think of the mother in the passage?

4.From the last passage we know that ______.

HK’s Family Affair

　The 32nd Hong Kong Art Festival, to be held early next year, will be based on the theme of “family”.

　The art festival, considered to be Asia’s best, began in 1973.

　“We hope that people from Beijing and from all over the world will go to Hong Kong to enjoy the multiple performances in our art festival,”Douglas Gautier, the festival’s management director, said in a press conference in the capital.

　In the 29 days of the festival, which runs from February 8 to March 7, 2004, the audience can choose from 111 performances of 51 programmes staged by 700 foreign performers, 450 local artists and 160 actors from the mainland.

　Programmes vary from classical music, jazz, world music, Western and Peking opera, drama and dance to outdoor spectaculars.

　The programmes include Beethoven’s only opera Fidelio, Shakespeare’s drama Rromeo and Juliet, the ballet Mozartina and African dances, to name just a few.

　The lineup（阵容）includes the English Touring Theatre, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Zurich Ballet, The Spanish National Dance Troupe, as well as Europe Galante, the Petersen Quartet, pianists Angela Hewitt and Marc-Andre Hamelin, and saxophonist Jan Garbarek.

　In an effort to increase attendance, hotels and airlines are offering discount packages along with art festival ticket sales, most of which are at 20% and 30% discounts.

　　For more information, please check:

　　www. hk. artsfestival. org

1.The press conference must have been held ________.

2.By means of“discount packages”you can pay ________.

3.According to the text, we do NOT have any information about ________.

4.The main purpose in writing this text is ________.

That“Monday morning feeling”could be a crushing pain in the chest which leaves you sweating and gasping for breath. Recent research from Germany and Italy shows that heart attacks are more common on Monday mornings and doctors blame the stress of returning to work after the weekend break.

　The risk of having a heart attack on any given day should be one in seven, but a six-year study helped by researchers at the Free University of Berlin of more than 2, 600 Germans showed that the average person had a 20 percent higher chance of having a heart attack on a Monday than on any other day.

　Working Germans are particularly not protected against attack, with a 33 percent higher risk at the beginning of the working week. Non-workers, by comparison, appear to be no more at risk on a Monday than any other day.

　A study of 11, 000 Italians proved 8 a. m. on a Monday morning as the most stressful time for the heart, and both studies showed that Sunday is the least stressful day, with fewest heart attacks in both countries.

　The finding could lead to a better understanding of what is the immediate cause of heart attacks, according to Dr Stefan Willich of the Free University. “We know a lot about long-term risk factors such as smoking and cholesterol（胆固醇）but we don’t know what actually causes heart attacks, so we can’t give clear advice on how to prevent them, ”he said.

　Monday mornings have a double helping of stress for the working body as it makes a rapid change from sleep to activity, and from the relaxing weekend to the pressures of work.

　“When people get up, their blood pressure and heart rate go up and there are hormonal（内分泌）changes in their bodies, ”Willich explained. “All these things can have an unfavorable effect in the blood system and increase the risk of a clot（血凝块）which will cause a heart attack.”

　“When people return to work after a weekend off, the pace of their life changes. They have a higher workload, more stress, more anger and more physical activities,”said Willich.

1.Monday morning feeling, as this passage shows, ________.

2.To protect people from a heart attack, doctors have paid much attention to ________.

3.It can be learned from this passage that the heart attack has something to do with all the following EXCEPT ________.

4.If the researchers give us some advice to avoid Monday morning feeling, what might it be?

Some people believe that international sports create goodwill between the nations and that if countries play games together they will learn to live together. Others say that the opposite is true: that international competitions encourage false national pride and lead to misunderstanding and hatred. There is probably some truth in both arguments, but in recent years the Olympic Games have done little to support the view that sports encourage international brotherhood. Not only was there the tragic incident involving the murder of athletes, but the Games were also ruined by lesser incidents caused mainly by minor national competitions.

　One country received its second-place medals with visible indignation（愤慨）after a hockey final. There had been noisy scenes at the end of the hockey match, the loser’s objection to the final decision. They were sure that one of their goals should not have been disallowed and that their opponents’ victory was unfair. Their manager was very angry and he said, “This wasn’t hockey. Hockey and the International Hockey Federation are finished.” The president of the Federation said later that such behavior could result in the suspension（停赛）of the team for at least three years.

　The American basketball team announced that they would not give up the first place to Russia, after a disputable end to their competition. The game had ended in disturbance. It was thought at first that the United States had won, by a single point, but it was announced that there were three seconds still to play. A Russian player popped the ball into the basket. It was the first time the USA had ever lost an Olympic basketball match. An appeal jury discussed the matter for four and a half hours before announcing that the result would stand. The American players then voted not to receive the silver medals.

　Incidents of this kind will continue as long as sports are played competitively rather than for the love of the game. The suggestion that athletes should compete as individuals, or in non-national teams, might be too much to hope for. But in the present organization of the Olympics there is far too much that encourages aggressive patriotism（爱国主义）.

1.According to the author, recent Olympic Games have ________.

2.What did the manager mean by saying “Hockey and the International Hockey Federation are finished”?

3.By taking the basketball game for example, the author wants to prove that ________.

4.What conclusion can be drawn from the passage?

When other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station. When other teens were studying or going out, she struggled to find a place to sleep on the street. But she overcame these terrible setbacks to win a highly competitive scholarship（奖学金）and gain entry to Harvard University. And her amazing story has inspired a movie, “Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story”, shown in late April.

　Liz Murray, a 22-year-old American girl, has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination. Liz grew up in the shadow of two drug-addicted（吸毒）parents. There was never enough food or warm clothes in the house. Liz was the only member of the family who had a job. Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was just 15 years old. The effect of that loss became a turning point in her life. Connecting the environment in which she had grown up with how her mother had died, she decided to do something about it.

　Liz went back to school. She threw herself into her studies, never telling her teachers that she was homeless. At night, she lived on the streets.“What drove me to live on had something to do with understanding, by understanding that there was a whole other way of being. I had only experienced a small part of the society,”she wrote in her book Breaking Night.

　She admitted that she used envy to drive herself on. She used the benefits that come easily to others, such as a safe living environment, to encourage herself that “next to nothing could hold me down”. She finished high school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University. But Liz decided to leave her top university a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care of her father, who has also developed AIDS. “I love my parents so much. They are drug addicts. But I never forget that they love me all the time.”

　　Liz wants moviegoers to come away with the idea that changing your life is “as simple as making a decision”.

1.In which order did the following things happen to Liz?

　　a. Her mother died of AIDS.   　b. She worked at a petrol station.

　　c. She got admitted into Harvard.　d. The movie about her life was put on.

　　e. She had trouble finding a place to sleep.

2.The main idea of the passage is ________.

3.What actually made her go towards her goal?

4.When she wrote “What drove me to live on...I had only experienced a small part of the society”, she meant that ________.

根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。(本题共5分。)注意：请考生将此题答案涂在答题卡相应位置上。

Policeman：Now, Jimmy, did you get a good view(看清) of the accident?

Jimmy：Oh, yes. I was standing outside the bank building and I saw it quite clearly.

Policeman：Do you know what time it was?

Jimmy：Yes.___1.___ It was 2：45 exactly.

Policeman：Good. ___2.____

Jimmy：Well, quite slowly — about 10 miles an hour. It was coming up York Road. __3.___ But they were still red when he went over them.

Policeman：I see. ___4.____ was it also driving slowly?

Jimmy：It was coming along Union Street about 30 miles per hour. It was a blue Toyota. _5.__

Policeman：Did you see what colour his traffic(交通) light was?

Jimmy：Yes, it changed to yellow just before he crossed it.

E. Was the car going beyond the speed limit?

F. I suppose the truck driver knew the lights were going to change.

G. The driver stopped his car when he saw the truck crossing the street.

单词拼写（共10小题：每小题1分，满分10分）

1.She learned to survive in a _________(荒芜的) island.                      

2.The boy spoke in a very low voice, ________(承认) he had broken the glass.     

3. Now that we are all part of the   _____   (全球) village, everyone becomes a neighbor.

4.All these difficulties were caused by natural        (灾难).                 

5. The world is full of  _______(机遇)and challenges.                       

6. Each office will be   __________ (装备) with a computer soon              

7.      （青少年）are young people who are between 13and 19 years old.    

8.“Mind your ________ (行为) , ”the mother said to her young boy..            

9. Don’t be frightened by the television camera, Just speak  _________.(自然地)  

10.It is said that this show is going out _________(实况转播).

短文改错（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）

Nowadays college students have a little ways to pay their college fees.         1._______

Many students had their parents pay the fees. Some students may apply            2.———

to a bank loan and others will try to find part-time jobs in and out of               3.———

the campus. Apart from this, many good student can win a scholarship.            4.————

In this way they can pay at least part of the fees. As to me, I will let               5.________

my parents pay half of my fees because they are rich enough.             6.________

Beside my study, I will take up a part-time job by means of                7.________

teach some high school students maths, physics, chemistry and English.      8.________

The reason is why I’m very good at these important subjects. Of course I will       9._______

also work very hard at my lessons in order to I can easily win a scholarship.         10.______

As ______ child, Salk did not show any interest in ______ medicine or science in general．

    A．不填; 不填                           B．the; 不填         

    C．a; 不填                              D．a; the