-----I heard that many westerners prefer vegetables to meat．

       -----It is true．Americans eat ___ vegetables each person today as they did 20 years ago．

       A．more than twice                               B．as twice as many                      

       C．twice as many                                  D．that twice as many

 Mrs．Green took up the story at the point ____the thief had just made off with the jewels．

       A．where              B．which              C．as                  D．when

 ___ I feel pity on hurricane victims  in Southeast Asia, I can’t really do very much to help them but contribute my pocket money．

       A．As long as        B．When               C．While                D．Even

 -----I don’t know what I _____ without the suitcase you lent me．

       -----Glad to have been of some help to you．

       A．would have done                              B．would do          

       C．should have done                               D．should do

 The murderer was brought in, with his hands ___behind his back．

       A．being tied          B．having tied        C．tied                D．to be tied

       The Hand

       Thanksgiving Day was near．The first grade teacher gave her class a fun assignment to draw a picture of ___1____ for which they were thankful．

       Most of the class might be _2___  economically disadvantaged, but still many would __3___ the holidays with turkeys and other traditional goodies of the season．These, the teacher thought, would be the ___4___ of most of her students’ art．And they were．

       But Douglas made a（n） __5___ kind of picture．Douglas was a different kind of boy．He was the teacher’s true child of misery,__6_____ and unhappy．As other children played at recess, Douglas was likely to stand close by her side．One could only guess the pain Douglas felt ___7___those sad eyes．

       Yes, his picture was different．When__8____ to draw a picture of something for which he was thankful, he drew a____9____．Nothing else．Just a empty hand．

       His abstract image captured the _10_____ of his classmates, Whose hand could it be ? One child guessed it was the hand of a farmer, because farmers__11_____ turkeys．Another suggested a police officer, because the police protect and __12____ people．And so the discussion went ------ until the teacher ___13__  forgot the young artist himself．

       __14____ the children had gone on to other assignments, she_15_____ at Douglas’ desk, bent down, and asked him whose hand it was．The little boy looked away and murmured, “It’s yours, teacher．”

       She recalled the __16___ she had taken his hand and walked with him here and there, as she had other student．How _17_____ had she said, “Take your hand, Douglas, we’ll go outside．” Or, “Let me show you how to hold your pencil．” Or, “Let’s do this together．” Douglas was most ____18__ for his teacher’s hand．

       Brushing aside a tear, she went on with her work．

       In fact, people __19___ not always say “thanks”．But they will remember the hand that ____20___ ．

1.A．anything              B．something        C．nothing        D．everything

2.A．suggested            B．affected         C．encouraged     D．considered

3.A．celebrate             B．share            C．like             D．avoid

4.A．purposes             B．subjects         C．motivations     D．examples

5.A．good                B．encouraging      C．different            D．exciting

6.A．merry                B．naughty        C．weak          D．lively

7.A．behind                B．beside                C．before           D．around

8.A．ordered               B．asked                 C．forced           D．persuaded

9.A．gift                  B．person              C．hand            D．wonder

10.A．thought            B．description        C．respect          D．imagination

11.A．raise               B．need                 C．buy           D．sell

12.A．look at              B．care for            C．take away         D．drive off

13.A．always             B．almost              C．usually                D．therefore

14.A．Before              B．Now that     C．Since               D．When

15.A．stared               B．aimed               C．paused                                  D．glanced

16.A．chances            B．forms               C．ways          D．times

17.A．seldom             B．often                 C．soon            D．much

18.A．thankful            B．calm                C．pleased          D．comfortable

19.A．could               B．must               C．should           D．might

20.A．move on            B．stick above         C．reaches out     D．help out

       Blogs are being used more and more by teachers．Many Internet services now offer free and easy ways to create personal Web pages．

       Through comments on blogs, or Web logs, teachers can share their classroom experiences．They can exchange ideas and discuss successes and failures．They can debate educational policies．Or they can just sympathize with each other．

       A teacher in the American state of North Carolina recently wrote on her blog: “Apparently the teachers at my school use too much paper．So my principal yelled at everyone at the last staff meeting for, like, ten minutes．Now, I’ve just been told, we are not getting anymore paper for the rest of the year．”

       This unidentified blogger is now in her third year of teaching, but still calls her site firstyearteacher．blogspot．com．[来源:Z§xx§k．Com]

       A blogger who calls himself Minister Lawrence works as a substitute teacher．In April he wrote about a disputed plan to split the Omaha, Nebraska, public schools into separate systems for black, Latino and white students．Supporters say minority parents do not have enough power over their children’s education．

       But Minister Lawrence wrote at teachersparadise．blogspot．com: “I’m afraid that what this says’ to a lot of people is that blacks, whites and Hispanics are not equal, and “reinforces” racist beliefs among people．”

       Educators did not become involved with blogging right away．Many were concerned with privacy issues and security．But now, thousands of teacher blogs can be found on the Internet．Many teachers do not identify themselves, and they change the names of students and co-workers．

1.What are teachers not doing through blogs?

       A．They discuss educational problem．                              

       B．They send money to the poor students．

       C．They share teaching ideas．                                     

       D．They comfort each other．

2.What is the main idea for the passage?

       A．More and more teachers are using blogs．                         

       B．It is exciting to use blogs．

       C．Blogs are popular with students．                                   

       D．Educational problems are settled through blogs．

3.Why some teachers do not identify themselves? Because ___

       A．they are forbidden to identify themselves．  

       B．they are forbidden to write something through blogs

       C．they want to ensure their security

       D．they want to amuse others．

4.Which of the following is the result of the teachers’ using blogs?

       A．Paper consuming is declining．            B．Teaching is improving．

       C．Classes are more active．                  D．Government is against it．

5.Minister Lawrence’s blogs are about___

       A．classroom experiences                        B．teaching plans

       C．educational policies                          D．the black minority

       Is there a magic cutoff period when children become responsible for their own actions? Is there a wonderful moment when parents can become spectators in the lives of their children and shrug, “It’s their life,” and feel nothing?

       When I was in my twenties, I stood in a hospital passage waiting for doctors to put a few stitches（缝线） in my son’s head．I asked, “When do you stop worry?” The nurse said, “When they get out of the accident stage．” My mother just smiled faintly and said nothing

       When I was in my thirties, I sat on a little chair in a classroom and heard how one of my children talked continually and disrupted the class．As if to read my mind, a teacher said．“Don’t worry, they all go through this stage and then you can sit back, relax and enjoy them” My mother just smiled faintly and said nothing．

       When I was in my forties, I spent a lifetime waiting for the phone to ring, the cars to come home, the front door to open．A friend said, “ They’re trying to find themselves, Don’t worry, in a few years, you can stop worrying．They’ll be adults．” My mother just smiled faintly and said nothing．

       By the time I was 50, I was sick and tired of being weak．I was still worrying over my children, but there was a new wrinkle, there was nothing I could do about it．My mother just smiled faintly and said nothing．

       I continued to suffer from their failures, and be absorbed in their disappointments．My friends said that when my kids got married I could stop worrying and lead my own life．I wanted to believe that, but I was haunted（萦绕心头） by my mother’s warm smile and her occasional “You look pale．Are you all right?” Call me minute you get home．Are you depressed about something ?” Can it be that parents are sentenced to a lifetime of worry?

       One of my children became quite anxious about me recently, saying, “ Where were you ? I’ve been calling for three days, and no one answered ．I was worried．”

       I smiled a warm smile

1.The author intends to tell us in the passage that_______．

       A．parents long for a period when they no longer worry about their children．

       B．there is no time when parents have no worry about their children．

       C．it’s parents’ duty to worry about their children

       D there should be a period when parents don’t have to worry their children

2.We can infer from the underlined sentence “My mother just smiled faintly and said nothing” that ______．

       A．her mother shared the same idea as the nurse

       B．her mother didn’t agree with the nurse

       C．her mother thought the nurse was lying

       D．her mother wouldn’t express her opinion upon the matter

3.The author mentioned her ages of twenties, thirties, forties and fifty in order to show_______．

       A．the hard times she experiences in her life

       B．the different stages of her children

       C．the support she received from her mother

       D．she had been worrying her children in her life

4.What can we infer from the last sentence?

       A．The mother was happy that her child began to worry about her, too

       B．Finally the mother didn’t have to worry about her children．

       C．At last the mother could live her own life without worry．

       D．The mother succeeded in turning her children into adults．

5.Which of the following should be the best title?

       A．Life                  B．Parents             C．Worry               D．Children

       After their 20-year-old son hanged himself during his winter break from the University of Arizona five years ago, Donna and Phil Satow wondered what signs they have overlooked, and started asking other students for answers．

       What grew from this soul searching was Ulifeline （www．Ulifeline．org）, a Web site where students can get answers to questions about depression by logging on through their universities．The site has been adopted as a resource by over 120 colleges, which can customize it with local information, and over 1．3 million students have logged on with their college ID’s．

       “It is a very solid Web site that raises awareness of suicide, de-stigmatizes mental illness and encourages people to seek the help they need,”said Paul Grayson, the director of counseling services at New York University, which started using the service nearly a year ago．

       The main component of the Web site is the Self-screening program developed by Duke University Medical Center that tests students to determine whether they are at risk for depression, suicide and disorders like anorexia and drug dependences．Besides helping students, the services compiles anonymous student date, offering administrators an important window onto the mental health of its campus．

       The site provides university users with links to local mental health services, a catalog of information on prescription drugs and side effects, and access to Go Ask Alice, a vast archive developed by Columbia University with hundreds of responses to anonymously posted inquires from college students worldwide．For students concerned about their friends, there is a section that describes warning signs for suicidal behavior and depression．

       Yet it is hard to determine how effective the service is．The anonymity of the online service can even play out as a negative．“There is no substitute for personal interaction（个人互动才能解决），” said Dr．Lanny Berman, executive director of the American Association of Suicidology, based in Washington．

       Ulifeline would be the first to say that its service is no replacement for an actual therapist．“The purpose is to find out if there are signs of depression and then direct people to the right places,” said Ron Gibori, executive director of Ulifeline．

       Mrs．Satow, who is still involved with Ulifeline, called it “a knowledge base” that might have prevented the death of her son, Jed．“If Jed’s friends had known the signs of depression, they might have seen something,” she said．

1.The first paragraph is written to_________．

     A．report a suicide of a young man

     B．show the suffering of Mr．And Mrs．Satow

     C．describe the Satows’ confusion over their son’s death

     D．introduce the topic of a website called Ulifeline．

2.One reason that many colleges adopt the website is to _________

     A．provide their students with campus information

     B．offer medical treatment to students in mental disorder

     C．encourage their students to seek advice about depression

     D．give their students various help they may need

3.Go Ask Alice as mentioned in the passage is________

     A．a side effect caused by some prescription drugs

     B．intended to counsel college students in mental problems

     C．a collection of medical responses from students the world over

     D．meant to describe the various signs of mental disorders

4.The underlined sentence of the seventh paragraph implies that ______

     A．only actual therapy can ensure adequate treatment

     B．the help given by the web service is doubtful

     C．doctors have expressed a negative view of the service

     D．a therapist’s office is the first place for the depressed to go

5.Mrs．Satow would probably agree that _________

     A．Jed’s friends can prevent her son’s death

     B．her son’s suicide is unavoidable

     C．Ulifeline is a worthwhile website

     D．depression is the final cause of suicides

       Psychiatrists（精神病专家），who work with older parents say that maturity can be an asset（资产） in child raising----older parents are more thoughtful, use less physical discipline and spend more time with children．But raising kids takes money and energy, many older parents find themselves balancing their limited financial resources, declining energy and failing health against the growing demands of an active child．Dying and leaving young children is probably the older parents’ biggest and often unspoken fear．Having late-life children, says an economics professor, often means parents, particularly fathers, “end up retiring much later．” For many, retirement becomes an unobtainable dream．

       Henry Metcalf, a 54-year-old journalist, knows it takes money to raise kids．But he’s  also worried that his energy will give out first．Sure, he can still ride bikes with his athletic fifth grader, but he’s learned that, young at heart doesn’t mean young．Lately he’s been taking afternoon naps to keep up his energy．” My body is aging,” says Metcalf, “You can’t get away from that．”

       Often, older parents hear the ticking of another kind of biological clock．Therapists who work with middle-aged and older parents say fears about aging are nothing to laugh at．“They worry they’ll be mistaken for grandparents, or that they’ll need help getting up out of those little chairs in nursery school．” Says Joann Galst, a New York psychologist ．But at the core of those little fears there is often a much bigger one．“that they will not be alive long enough to support and protect their child, ” she says ．

       Many late-life parents, though, say their children came at just the right time．After marrying late and undergoing years of fertility（受孕） treatment, Marilyn Nolen and her husband, Randy, had twins．“We both wanted children,” says Marilyn, who was 55 when she gave birth．The twins have given the couple what they desired for years, “a sense of family．”

       Kids of older dads are often smarter, happier and more sociable because their fathers are more involved in their lives．“The dads are older, more mature,” says Dr．Silber, “and more ready to focus on parenting．”

1.Why do psychiatrists regard maturity as an asset in child raising?

       A．Older parents can better balance their resources against children’s demands．

       B．Older parents are usually more experienced in bringing up their children．

       C．Older parents are often better prepared financially．

       D．Older parents can take better care of their children．

2.What does the author mean by saying “For many, retirement becomes an unobtainable dream”

       A．They have to go on working beyond their retirement age．

       B．They can’t get full pension unless they work some extra years．

       C．They can’t obtain the retirement benefits they have dreamed of．

       D．They are unwilling to retire when they reach their retirement age

3.The author gives the examples of Henry Metcalf to show that______．

       A．many people are young in spirit despite their advanced age

       B．taking afternoon naps is a good way to maintain energy

       C．older parents tend to be concerned about their aging bodies

       D．older parents should exercise more to keep up with their athletic children

4.What’s the biggest fear of older parents according to New York psychologist Joann Galst?

       A．Being laughed at by other people          B．Slowing down of their pace of life

       C．Being mistaken for grandparents        D．Approaching of death

5.What do we learn about Marilyn and Randy Nolen?

       A．They thought they were an example of successful fertility treatment

       B．Not until they had the twins did they feel had formed a family

       C．They believe that children born of older parents would be smarter．

       D．Not until they reached middle age did they think of having children．