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　　When thinking about quitting…

　　List all the reasons why you want to quit. Every night before going to bed, repeat one of the reasons 10 times.

　　Decide positively that you want to quit. Try to avoid negative (消极的) thoughts about how difficult it might be. Develop strong personal reasons in addition to your health and obligations (责任) to others. For example, think of all the time you waste taking cigarette breaks, rushing out to buy a pack, hunting a light, etc. Set a date for quitting—perhaps a special day like your birthday, a holiday. If you smoke heavily at work, quit during your vacation. Make the date sacred seriously, and don't let anything change it. Begin to condition yourself physically, start a modest(适度的)exercise; drink more water, get plenty of rest.

　　Immediately after quitting…

　　The first few days after you quit, spend as much free time as possible in places where smoking is prohibited (forbidden), e.g. libraries, museums, theatres, department stores, etc.

　　Drink large quantities of water and fruit juice. Try to avoid wine, coffee, and other drinks which remind you of cigarette smoking.

　　Strike up a conversation with someone instead of a match for a cigarette.

　　If you miss the sensations (感觉) of having a cigarette in your hand, play with something else—a pencil, a pen, a ruler.

　　If you miss having something in your mouth, try toothpicks or a fake(仿制的) cigarette.

1．Which of the following statements is best supported by the author?

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A．Whenever you feel like a cigarette, try to forget it by starting a conversation with someone.

B．Try to be an ice-breaker before asking for a light.

C．If you miss the sensation of having a cigarette in your mouth, play with a pen.

D．Every night before going to bed, repeat the reasons 10 times.

2．From the passage, we know smokers ________.

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A．spend a lot of time breaking the habit of smoking

B．have to stop to smoke from time to time

C．has better quit smoking during their holiday

D．start a modest exercise

3．The author suggested ________.

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A．all kinds of drinks be avoided immediately after quitting

B．drinking water and fruit juice immediately after quitting

C．trying low-tar(低焦油) cigarettes immediately after quitting

D．spending as much free time as possible in public places

4．If the article is in a newspaper, which section is it in?

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1．If you get into BDU, you can ________.

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A．know everything in China

B．get the most important business information in the world

C．get the information of the latest business activities taking place in China

D．get all the information in China Daily

2．This ad will be very helpful to ________.

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A．foreign business people

B．foreign travelers

C．Chinese people

D．China Daily reporters

3．To get the information from BDU every day, you must ________.

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A．understand Chinese

B．know something about the mouse

C．know how to operate a computer

D．how to use a fax machine

4．If you have www.chinadaily.com.cn./bdu, you can get in touch with BDU by ________.

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A．telephone

B．fax

C．E-mail

D．internet

阅读理解

　　A person, like a commodity(商品), needs packaging. But going too far is absolutely undesirable. A little exaggeration (夸张), however, does no harm when it shows the person's unique qualities to their advantages. To show personal attractiveness in a casual and natural way, it is important for one to have a clear knowledge of oneself. A skilled packager knows how to add art to nature without any signs of embellishment(装饰), so that the person so packaged is not a commodity but a human being, lively and lovely.

　　A young person, especially a female, shining with beauty and full of life, has all the favor granted by God. Any attempt to make up would be self-defeating. Youth, however, comes and goes in a flash. Packaging for the middle-aged is primarily to hide the marks made by years. If you still enjoy life enough to keep self-confidence and work at pioneering work, you are unique in your natural qualities, and your attractiveness and grace will remain. Elderly people are beautiful if their river of life has been, through plains, mountains and jungles, running its course as it should. You have really lived your life, which now arrives at a self-satisfied stage of quietness and calmness with no interest in fame and wealth. There is no need to make use of hair dyeing. The snowcapped mountain is itself a beautiful scene of fairyland. Let your looks change from young to old in step with the natural ageing process so as to keep in harmony(和谐)with nature, for harmony itself is beauty, while the other way round will end in unpleasantness. To be in the elder's company is like reading a thick book of deluxe (better quality) edition that attracts one so much as to be willing to part with.

　　As long as one finds where one stands, one knows how to package himself, just as a commodity sets up its brand by the right packaging.

1．It can be concluded from the text that ________.

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A．people should be packed at all ages

B．people should be packed in a special way

C．elderly people were also care about packing

D．proper packing makes people attracting

2．According to the author, if you want to keep in harmony with nature, you should ________.

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A．dye your hair

B．make up at a young age

C．follow the ageing process

D．give up fame and wealth

3．For the middle-aged, attractiveness ________.

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A．hardly exists

B．is the strongest

C．comes from the inside

D．comes from the appearance

4．The underlined sentence means that elderly people ________.

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A．are usually packed like a finely-made book

B．experience a lot and have rich knowledge of life

C．do a lot of traveling and can give you much information

D．enjoying reading thick books of beautiful nature and fairylands

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　　People in some European countries like to eat frog's legs. Sometimes you can see them on sale in supermarkets for foreigners.

　　Each year, millions of frogs are exported from India to Europe. They are sent in shipments and they are killed in the rural(农村的) areas of India. Assem is a favorite place from which to get frogs.

　　In recent years, the lack of frogs in the rural areas had led to sharp increase in the number of mosquitoes (蚊子) and other insects in the farming fields. Normally, the frogs world keep these insects under control. However, in many areas, the crops have failed recently because of the insects. Now farmers have asked the Indian government to keep frogs and let them live in rural areas where there is shortage of them. This is another example of the way in which man has upset the balance of nature. In nearly every country, we can find some other examples of the harmful effects of Man on his“home”.

1．We can conclude that ________ from the passage.

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A．all Europeans like to eat frogs' legs

B．only Europeans like to eat frogs' legs

C．people all over the world like to eat frogs' legs

D．some of the people in the world would like to eat frogs' legs

2．According to the passage Assem is ________.

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A．a rural area in India

B．a small village in India

C．a rural area in Europe

D．a supermarket

3．Which of the following is TRUE?

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A．Indian government has agreed to stop the export of frogs.

B．The government forced the farmers to stop killing frogs.

C．The European countries have stopped importing frogs' legs.

D．India has not stopped killing frogs to get the legs.

4．In the last sentence of the passage,“home”________.

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A．means the other countries except India

B．includes India

C．is neither China nor Britain

D．is either France or America

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　　According to the information released from an important conference on education held recently, China will launch a campaign of reform in the concept, system, and structure of education and the talent cultivation in order to promote equality education all-roundly 2010.“A matriculation decides everything”will be gone, and experiment in“double-matriculation”will be practised step by step in our country.

　　It is reported that Beijing has taken the lead in“double-matriculation”. For example, a key university in Beijing enrolled another 200 examinees through a second examination after the traditional college entrance examination. The percent of college admission among peers will be raised from 9 to 15 percent, owing to the loosened limit in an enrollment.

　　It is also made clear that a small private primary and a junior high school are allowed to set up, presupposing that all the children of the school age are able to attend the state-owned schools in their neighborhood. But“one school, two systems”is not permitted.

　　According to the resolution passed at the conference, around 2010 the teacher working in primary and junior high schools should have junior college (大专) qualification and regular college qualification(本科文凭)respectively in the areas with necessary conditions. The percentage of teachers and headmasters with Master's degrees working in senior high schools in economically developed regions should be raised to a certain level. And the percentage of teachers with doctoral degrees in the institutions of higher learning school(高等学校) should be lifted too.

1．Which of the following statements is right according to the passage?

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A．The reforms will be done gradually.

B．All children of school age should go to a state-owned school.

C．There are more and more college students because new universities are getting more and more.

D．The education in China is developing equally fast from place to place.

2．The best headline for the text is ________.

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A．Reforms

B．Education in China

C．An important conference

D．Measures to high quality education

3．The information in this passage is from ________.

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4．It seems that ________.

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A．beijing has given twice examinations to enroll college students

B．some teachers are not qualified as the government hopes

C．private schools can be set up with nothing to do with local government

D．reforms are not only in the institutions of higher learning

4.“Double-matriculation”means ________ examination for the examinees.

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　　Whether the hair is long or short, it must be regularly brushed and regularly washed. For greasy(油腻的) hair, especially if the owner lives in a town, it may be necessary to wash the head every four or five days. Those with a dry hair can usually go a little longer, but this is a matter for the individual to decide.

　　1f a woman is not able to go to the hairdresser's very often, it is important that she chooses a style she can easily manage for herself, and this nearly always means that the first cut must be very standard. The same applies to (适用于) permanent waving (电烫). Ideally this should be carried out three or four times a year, so that the hair never gets out of hand.

　　One thing should be remembered though, that is, whatever you apply to the head can have some effect upon the skin and therefore anything strong should be used with care. Or you may use milder products. As for style, this must be studied according what is the latest fashion and also to suit the individual at different times of her life.

　　Young people who has spots and skin troubles on their face should take particular care to ensure that the hair is both clean and does come into contact with the affected piece of skin. Hair is very difficult to keep completely clean and therefore anyone running their hands through their hair and afterwards touching their face, or letting their hair fall over their faces, might spread from one place to another. Good hair does a lot to the effect of a face, so if you want to look charming, please start the hair.

1．The best hair style can be achieved by ________.

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A．having the hair done three times or four times a year.

B．following the latest fashion to suit one's age

C．not combing the hair with hand

D．not applying anything strong to the head

2．The thing you wash your hair with must be ________.

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3．To prevent the hair from affecting the skin, we'd better ________.

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A．keep the hair completely clean

B．wash the hair very often

C．have hair cut four times a year

D．avoid combing the hair with our hands

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　　To tell you the truth, I'm not interested in owning a cellular(网络) phone except for use in an emergency (紧急情况), for ordinary cellular phone service is very expensive. How would I get help if I were in trouble or in danger? A good friend told about a product she thought would settle my problem. It's the SOS phone—a cellular phone service designed for emergency use.

　　With the touch of a button(键), the SOS phone will connect me to a roadside emergency service, a 911 service or a trained SOS operator, 24 hours a day. If I ever need help, I know it's just a phone call away.

　　By pressing the“Tow”button, I'll be connected with my emergency roadside service provider(提供者). Or, if I don't have one, the SOS operator can suggest one to me and get in touch with them immediately.

　　The“911”button will connect me to 911 emergency service in my area—best of all, the call is completely free!

　　If I just want to call home to tell my husband and children something necessary, I can. By pressing the“Call”button, I'll reach an operator. When I ask the operator to call home, I'll be connected automatically(自动地). And because the Call Center has my 10 most-used phone number, I don't even have to recite the number.

　　Unlike ordinary cellular phone plans, the SOS phone doesn't have any minimum usage requirements (最低底价) or other promises that could change the price I expect to pay each month.

1．The writer enjoys using the SOS phone because ________.

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A．she is always in trouble or in danger

B．she thinks the cost of its service is reasonable

C．she needn't pay for any emergency service

D．the ordinary cellular phone can not be used in an emergency

2．When you have an SOS phone, ________.

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A．you will get help whenever you are in an emergency

B．you will be safe wherever you are

C．you can be connected with anyone

D．you can get service from any cellular phones

3．When you want to call home, ________.

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A．you will have to tell the operator your home phone number

B．the operator will suggest one phone number to you

C．the Call Center will pass on your words to your family

D．you'll be connected with your family with the help of an operator

4．The writer wants to ________.

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A．tell us her experience

B．let us know she has a SOS phone

C．let us know something about the SOS phone

D．tell us she is very safe now

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　　It was late afternoon. Farmer Lum was walking home from his fields. His feet sank deep in the thick dust. A dry, hot wind blew dust across the brown fields. The raining season was late this year. Everything needed rain. Even the water in the village well was getting low.

　　Every morning Farmer Lum stepped from his house and looked at the sky. But there were no clouds. And every night before he went to bed, he looked at the sky. Even a small cloud might bring rain by morning. But no rain fell.

　　Early one morning several days later Farmer Lum was woken up by a heavy rain. He got up quickly, went to the door, and stepped outside. He held out his hands to catch the cool drops of rain. He breathed deeply. How good the rain smelled!

　　After a few days of rain, the ground was soft enough to be ploughed. Every morning Farmer Lum got up early to drive his ox to the fields. Soon the seed-bed in the corner of the field was ready for planting. He took the grains of rice from the bag carefully because he did not want to lose a single one. Then he planted them in the soft, wet soil.

　　While Farmer Lum planted the rice, his wife planted vegetable seeds in the garden by the house.

　　After a few days Farmer Lum and his wife began to pull the young seedlings(幼苗) from the wet soil and took them to the field to plant. Several months later the rice was ready for harvesting. Again Farmer Lum and his wife went to the field. This time they cut the long yellow stalks(梗), then put them in the sun to dry. Later Farmer Lum dove the ox back and forth over the stalks to loosen(使松开) the grain from them. Then he and his wife tossed (抛) the stalks high in the air, and the grains of rice fell off the stalks onto the ground. Before they finished, they had gathered every grain of rice.

　　When evening came, Farmer Lum sat in front of his house. He smiled, because the rice crop was good. In fact, it was the best rice crop he had ever had. He would have enough to feed his family and there would be some left over to sell. Maybe he would be able to buy a colour TV set.

1．Every morning Farmer Lum stepped from his house and looked at the sky because ________.

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A．he had been looking forward to rain

B．he liked to count the stars in the sky

C．he liked the clouds in the sky

D．he liked to breathe the fresh air outside the door

2．One morning when Farmer Lum found it was raining heavily, ________.

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A．he felt afraid

B．he was surprised at it

C．he felt very happy

D．he felt very sad

3．Farmer Lum took the grains of rice from his beg carefully because ________.

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A．his beg was broken

B．he wanted to choose some good seeds

C．he was very old and he had to take the seeds out of his bag slowly

D．he did not want to lose a single one

4．After several months Farmer Lum and his wife began to ________.

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A．harvest rice

B．drive their ox to the field

C．plant vegetable seeds in the garden by the house

D．plan to buy something in town

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　　You might not know it, but there is something wonderful at your fingertips(指尖). You can make people happier, healthier and more hardworking just by touching their arms or holding their hands.

　　Doctors say that body contact (接触) is a kind of medicine that can work wonders. When people are touched, the quantity of hemoglobin(血红蛋白)—a type of matter that produces that red color in blood—increases greatly. This results in more oxygen reaching every part of the body and the whole body benefits. In experiments, bottle - fed baby monkeys were separated from their mothers for the first ten days of life. They became sad and inactive. Studies showed the monkeys were more probable to become ill than other babies that were allowed to stay with their mothers.

　　Human bodies react in much the same way. Some years ago, a scientist noticed some well-fed babies in a clean nursery(托儿所) became weak. Yet babies in another nursery were growing healthily, even though they ate less well and were not kept as clean. The reason, he concluded, was that they often had touches from nurses.

　　Experiments show that most people like being touched. And nearly all doctors believe touches help to reduce patients' fear of treatment. Of course, there are times when a touch is not welcome. But even if we don't like being touched, a smile can make us feel better. Smiling increases blood flow and starts the production of“happy”brain chemicals.

1．It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

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A．if people aren't touched, they'll surely become ill

B．touches usually benefit those who receive them

C．touches often make people who got them angry

D．if there are no touches, there'll be no more hemoglobin

2．If we add a sentence to the passage, which should be the best?

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A．So why not offer and receive more touches and smile more often?

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B．Don't you believe the stories of the monkeys and the children?

C．So touch everybody you meet from now on.

D．So don't get angry next time you are touched.

3．The title that best suits the passage should be ________.

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A．Wonders of Medicine

B．Always Touching Each Other

C．Keeping in Touch

D．Wonderful Touches

阅读理解

　　Minh pham was born in Vietnam(越南). He left when he was 21 years old. Minh has been in America for almost two years. There is still much he does not understand about America.

　　Once, Minh was in a supermarket. He saw an old man and an old woman. They wanted a box of cereal (麦片). The box was on a high shelf. The men and women couldn't reach it. Minh saw a stepladder(梯凳). He got on the ladder and got the box. He herded it to the elderly couple. They thanked him.

　　“Where are your children?”asked Minh.“Why don't they help you buy food?”

　　“Our children have their own lives,”said the man and the woman. “We like to be independent.”Minh doesn't think this is right. In his country, children help their parents. Minh gave the elderly couple his phone number. He told them to call him if they needed help. One night they asked Minh to dinner, but they never asked him for help.

　　One day, Minh was walking with a Vietnamese friend. The two men were going to a movie. Minh wanted to go to a restaurant first. Minh took his friend's hand. He pulled him toward the restaurant. People on the street stared at Minh. In Vietnam, friends often hold hands. Minh found out that people in America are not used to men holding hands.

　　Minh pham is going through a process(程序) known as resocialization. Socialization is the process in which a person learns to live in a society. Everyone goes through this process. Minh went through it when he lived in Vietnam. in the Vietnamese way of life. When Minh came to America he had to learn a new way of life. He had to learn how to live in a new society.

　　Minh has learned a lot about American life in two years. He still has a lot to learn. The process of resocialization can take marry yeas.

1．The main idea of the passage is that ________.

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A．it takes time to get used to a new society

B．it is not so easy to travel from one country to another

C．it needs time and energy to act independently

D．it is necessary to learn about other countries

2．The passage expresses that Minh did not understand why the elderly man and woman were not ________.

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A．helping their children

B．shopping with their children

C．holding hands

D．using a stepladder

3．According to the passage, people stared at Minh and his friend because Minh and his friend were ________.

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A．Vietnamese

B．holding hands

C．fighting

D．not dressed like Americans

4．The underlined word“resocialization”probably means ________.

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A．keeping one's own way of life

B．keeping up with others

C．a process of learning how to live in a new society

D．understanding a new culture