Finding a suitable place to live is not easy for a student who first arrived in a strange place. I was lucky because I had booked a dormitory with the school before I arrived. It was a flat with seven independent rooms and a shared bathroom and kitchen. All of my flatmates are all students from Britain. I thought I was lucky to be part of this flat with these energetic young men. However, I found myself unhappy with them only a few days after I stayed there. These young people seemed never to be quiet. Usually they would not come back until late into the night. They even played football in the room whenever they like, whether it's early morning or late night. Worse still, they always had parties. Those loud music and laughter made me sleepless the whole night. Finally, I had no choice but to ask the authority to move me to another flat where most of the students were international students pursuing their master degrees. They were older in age and held heavier study burdens. So they were quieter.

　　My advice for those who want to study in the UK is to get in touch with the International Student Accommodation Service of your school first and tell them to arrange for you to share a flat with graduates before you come here.

(1) What's the main subject discussed in this passage?

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A．Housing hunting while studying abroad.

B．Living with young British students.

C．Living in a dormitory.

D．Living with students with heavy study burdens.

(2) What was the trouble while living with the British students?

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A．They loved football too much.

B．They often held parties.

C．They disturbed the writer's living greatly.

D．They went to bed too late and got up too early.

(3) The measure the writer took to solve the problem was ________.

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A．asking some older students for help

B．giving the British students heavier study bur-dens

C．asking the authority to make the British students quiet

D．changing a place to live

(4) The advice the writer gave us was that you ________.

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A．don't live with young British students

B．live with students who have study burdens

C．get your housing fixed before your arrival

D．better live in your school

　　The French interrupt each other's conversations. This is not rudeness, but proof that they are listening to what is being said and are quite interested to want to take part. What passes for normal attempts at conversation among other peoples may be supposed as bad manners by the French:“What do you do for a living?,“How much do you make?”,“Are you married?”, and“Do you have any children?”These are regarded by the French as one of your business. Better instead talk about art, culture, or best of all, politics. Everyone in France has views on these subjects--even the plumber（水管工）who comes to mend a burst pipe will be happy to discuss Voltaire（伏尔泰）with you while eating his lunch.

　　The French invented body language. To watch a gendarme on traffic control is to see an elaborate（精细的）modem ballet（芭蕾舞）.

　　In conversation, Frenchmen's hands are never still. They give shape, form and size to ideas. They show the state of the mind, heart and soul. While others use the inflection of the voice to show how they feel. The French use eyes, hands, lips and shoulders to express a full rang of emotions. They kiss the tips of their fingers when they agree strongly with something or somebody. They pull the hand across the forehead, as though scalping（剥头皮）themselves, when they are bored. They raise their shoulders when faced by the ridiculous（荒谬）.They stroke their cheeks with the back of the hand as a sign that they are bored. They purse（噘起）their lips and breathe out when they are angry.

　　They have signs for displeasure, doubt, ad-vantage, apology, amazement, surprise, puzzlement and failure, which is why it is considered very impolite to talk with one's hands in one's pockets.

(1) All the following are regarded as impolitely except“________”.

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(2) The best topic discussed with the French probably is ________.

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(3) What's the main idea of the third paragraph?

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A．Telling us French body language and their meanings.

B．Describing Frenchmen's hand movements and their meanings.

C．Making us believe that the French value their gestures.

D．Introducing interesting French custom to us

(4) The best title of this passage probably is“________”

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(5) Why the French interrupt each other's conversation?

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A．To show their friendness.

B．To stop the conversation.

C．To show that they are listening carefully.

D．To fight with the other speak.

　　I promised Michael I wouldn't mention this until the season was over. Now I think it's time.

　　Early last season, I wrote a column（专栏）about an act of kindness I had seen Jordan do to a disabled child outside the stadium. After it ran, I got a call from a man in the western suburbs. He said,“I read what you wrote about Jordan, but I thought I should tell you another thing I saw.”

　　Here it comes, I thought. It always does. Write something nice about a person, and people call you up to say that the person is not so nice.

　　A few weeks later Jordan and I were talking about something else before a game, and I brought up what the man had said. Was the man right? Had Jordan really been talking to those two boys in that poor and dirty neighborhood?

　　“Not two boys,”Jordan said.“But four.”

　　And he named them. He said four names.

　　And what did they talk about?

　　“Everything,” Jordan said.“Anything. I've asked to see their grades so that I can check to see they're paying attention to their schoolwork. If it turns out one or two of them may need teaching, I make sure they get it.”

　　It's just one more part of Michael Jordan's life, one more thing that no one knows about, one more thing Jordan does right. The NBA season is over now, and those boys have their memories. So do I! When the expert reviewers begin to turn against Jordan, as they surely will, I'll think about those boys under the streetlight, waiting for the man they know to come, for someone they can depend on.

(1) The author wrote this story about Jordan and his young friends NOT because ________.

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A．he would like to keep the promise he had made

B．he hated to see Jordan become the target of ill-intentioned criticism

C．he was impressed by Jordan's deeds for the ordinary poor

D．he thought it was time to help the disabled children

(2) That man called after reading about what Jordan did to a disabled child because he wanted to ________.

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A．offer another example to show that Jordan was a nice man

B．let the author know that Jordan was not that nice

C．know why Jordan stopped in a bad area

D．become famous himself

(3) Jordan talked with the boys because ________.

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A．he had promised to do so

B．he wanted to teach them basketball

C．he would see to it that they all studied well

D．he needed their support

(4) The passage implies（暗示）that ________.

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A．Jordan is special as an extraordinary basketball player

B．Jordan is always ready to make friends with all young people

C．Jordan is not worthy of the admiration he had from others

D．it is typical of Jordan to do whatever he can for the good of society

(5) In the sentence“After it ran, I got a call…”, the word“ran”can be replaced by“________”.

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　　So long as teachers fail to distinguish between teaching and learning, they will continue to undertake to do for children that which only children can do for themselves. Teaching children to read is not passing reading on to them. It is certainly not endless hours spent in activities about reading. Douglas insists that“reading cannot be taught directly and schools should stop trying to do the impossible”.

　　Teaching and learning are two entirely different processes. They differ in

kind and function. The function of teaching is to create the conditions and the climate that will make it possible for children to devise the most efficient sys-tem for teaching themselves to read. Teaching is also a public activity: it can be seen and ob-served.

　　Learning to read involves all that each individual does to make sense of the world of printed language. Almost all of it is private, for learning is an occupation of the mind, and that process is not open to public scrutiny.

　　If roles of teacher and learner are not inter-changeable, what then can be done through teaching that will aid the child in the quest（探索）for knowledge? Smith has one principal rule for all teaching instructions.“Make learning to read easy, which means making reading a meaningful, enjoyable and frequent experience for children.”

　　When the roles of teachers and learners are seen for what they are, and when both teachers and learners fulfill them appropriately, then much of the pressure and feeling of failure for both is eliminated. Learning to read is made easier when teachers create an environment where children are given the opportunity to solve the problem of learning to read by reading.

(1) The problem with the reading course as mentioned in the paragraph is that ________.

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A．it is one of the most difficult school courses

B．students spend endless hours in reading

C．reading tasks are assigned with little guidance

D．too much time is spent in teaching about reading

(2) The teaching of reading will be successful if ________.

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A．teachers can improve conditions at school for the students

B．teachers can enable students to develop their own way of reading

C．teachers can devise the most efficient sys-tem for reading

D．too much time is spent in teaching activities observable

(3) The word“scrutiny”(Line 5 Para. 3) most probably means ________.

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(4) The main idea of the passage is that ________.

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A．teachers should do as little as possible in helping students learn to read

B．teachers should encourage students to read as widely as possible

C．reading ability is something acquired rather than taught

D．reading is more complicated than generally believed

　　There are many types of reports. A report is simply an account of something that has happened. The commonest are news reports. We get them in newspapers, over radio and on television. Sometimes cinemas also show us newsreels.

　　The main purpose of a newspaper is to provide news. If you examine a newspaper closely, you will find that there are all types of news: accidents, floods, fires, wars, fashions（服装）,sports, books, etc. The news covers everything that happens to people and their surroundings. Sometimes there are news items which are very musing.

　　A news report is usually very short, except when it is about something very important, but it contains（包含）a lot of information. It is also written in short paragraphs. The first paragraph is in fact a summary（总结）of the news item. It gives all the necessary information, what, when, where, how and why. The other paragraphs give full details of the subject. There may also be interviews with people. The words actually spoken by them are within inverted commas（引号）.

　　Often there are photographs to go with the news to make it more

(1) The easiest way to get today's news is ________.

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(2) Newspapers sell well mainly because ________.

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A．they cost very little

B．they are easy to get

C．they have got pictures to go with the news

D．they provide all sorts of news in them

(3) If you want to get enough information about yesterday's traffic accident within a very short time, you'd better ________.

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A．read the first paragraph of the news report in today's newspaper

B．start from the second paragraph of the news report in today's newspaper

C．look through the whole news report in today's newspaper

D．talk with people who have seen the accident.

(4) This passage mainly talks about ________.

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A．different types of reports

B．news reports

C．happenings to people and their surroundings

D．the length of a news report

　　Radioactivity is dangerous. It may cause skin burns, it may destroy good tissues（组织）and it may cause illness that could be passed on to our children and. grand children. In case of exposure（暴露）it may even cause death.

　　In the early days of radioactivity, scientists did not realize these dangers. Marie and Pierre Curie, after having worked for a while with radioactive materials, noticed that their fingers were reddened and swollen（红肿）and the skin was peeling off. Henry Becquerel carried a small tube with radium in it in his waistcoat pocket, and was surprised to find a bum on his chest. Other early workers also reported bums and harm of different kinds.

　　The strange fact is that it can harm without causing pain, which is the warning signal we expect from harmfulness. Pain makes us pull back our hands from a fire or a hot object, but a per-son carrying radioactive materials has no way of telling whether he is touching something too“hot” for safety. Besides, the“burns” or other harmfulness that radioactivity produces may not appear for weeks. A person may have been hurt without knowing it for some time.

(1) Which is the topic sentence for this passage?

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A．Radioactivity may ever cause death.

B．Radioactivity does great harm to children.

C．Radioactivity may do harm to people without being known.

D．Radioactivity is dangerous.

(2) A few people were mentioned in the passage. They ________.

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A．were all famous scientists of great achievements

B．died of radioactivity

C．knew little about radioactivity

D．did experiments on themselves to find the danger of radioactivity

(3) According to the point of the passage, pain ________.

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(4) The sentence in the fifth line of the second paragraph“the skin was peeling off”means“________”．

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　　I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent.

　　I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows（誓言）mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.

　　So here's what I want to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion（提升）,the bigger paycheck, the larger house.

　　Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure（空闲）; it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking, it for granted.

　　It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all:

　　I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned.

　　By telling them this: Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion（激情）as it ought to be lived.

(1) The best title of this passage probably is“________”.

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(2) How did the author form her view of life?

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A．By working and social experience.

B．Learning from her friends.

C．Through an unfortunate experience.

D．Because of her children and husband.

(3) The underlined sentence“It is so easy to exist instead of to live.”in the fifth paragraph probably has the same meaning as ________.

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A．it is so easy to keep alive but not to live a real life

B．it is very hard to live a real life

C．it is so easy to make a living

D．it is more difficult to exist than to live a happy life

(4) What's the author's attitude toward work?

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A．Do it well to serve others.

B．To earn enough money to make life better.

C．Try your best to get higher position and pay.

D．Don't let it affect your real life.

(5) It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

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A．the author is a success in personal life

B．the author didn't try her best to work well

C．the author spent all her time caring for her children

D．the author likes travelling very much

　　A grown-up person has ten or eleven pints（品脱）of blood inside his or her body. We can lose a pint of blood without feeling anything, but if we lose a great deal of blood, we feel weak and cold. Our faces become pale. We may die.

　　This is what often happens when somebody is hurt in an accident（事故）or a soldier is hurt in a battle Many people used to die in this way. But nowadays（当今）they can be taken to the hospital. If they are given more blood at once, they will feel better. Their faces are no longer pale. They do not die.

　　Where does this blood come from? People who are healthy give some blood so that it can be used in this way. Every three months they go to a place where blood is collected. A special kind of needle（注射针）is put into the arm. It does not hurt. The blood runs through the needle and through a rubber tube（胶管）into a bottle. A pint of blood is taken in this way. Then the person who has given the blood drinks a cup of tea or coffee. He sits down for a few minutes. Then he feels quite well and goes off. Three months later he comes back and gives another pint.

　　A person who gives blood in this way feels happy. He knows that his blood will be used to save someone's life. Perhaps one day he himself will need blood.

　　When you are older, you may decide to give blood in this way. But you cannot do this until you are eighteen.

(1) There are ________ pints of blood in a grown-up body.

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(2) When people who have lost a lot of blood are given more blood they ________.

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(3) When people give blood, the blood is collected in a ________.

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(4) A person who has given blood can give blood again after ________.

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(5) A person cannot give blood if he is ________.

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　　SAN FRANCISCO--The“Reading Wizard”（巫师）, an 11-year-old boy, whose offer to read to children without being paid at a local library was refused by libraries, will get to read to younger kids after all.

　　Mayor Willie Brown last Wednesday ordered San Francisco Public Library officials to al-low John O'Connor to read to preschool children to get them interested in books and stop them from watching television and video games.

　　“I didn't expect this kind of attention,”John said.“It's just shocking.”

　　John has chosen his first book, The King's Giraffe, and made up fliers inviting neighborhood children, aged from three to six, to the Presidio Branch every Wednesday afternoon He planned to call himself the“Reading Wizard”and wear a special hat, fake glasses and a black coat.

　　But his idea was refused--on the phone, in person and finally with a letter from Toni Bernardi, the chief of the library's children and youth services. Using terms like“age-appropriate material”（适龄读物）,she wrote that only library workers were allowed to read to children.

　　John then went to a member of the city board of supervisors（督导董事会）, who advised him to write letters to the library officials.“Our libraries are supposed to turn kids on, not turn them off.”

(1) Who is the“Reading Wizard”?

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(2) The 11-year-old boy asked librarians at the local library for permission to ________.

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(3) By dressing up as a wizard, the boy probably hoped to ________.

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A．put up a performance

B．frighten the three-year-old boys

C．get the officials shocked

D．attract the children's attention

(4) We can infer that Mayor Willie Brown ________.

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A．praised the boy for his new idea

B．received a call from the library for children

C．informed the boy to stop reading to children

D．held a party for John and his friends at the library

(5) The underlined sentence in the passage means that our libraries ________.

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A．should allow kids to read to younger children

B．should get children interested, not bored

C．should open the door while the children are outside

D．will turn on the lights when kids come in, and turn them off when kids go out

　　Many experiments have been done to see what happens to people if they are not allowed to naturally follow the sleep cycle. In the experiments people are usually tested to see whether they can function（活动）normally if they are not allowed to dream. They are waken as soon as they enter the active part of the sleep cycle where dreaming takes place. They are then test-ed to decide how this has effects on them.

　　In many experiments, the people being test-ed went to sleep. As soon as their eyes began to move--a sign that dreaming has begun, they were awakened. Every time they began to dream, they were awakened. Two important changes took place in the people, who became very nervous and easily got angry if they were not allowed to dream. And, the more often they were awakened, the more often they tried to dream. In other words, the length of passive（消极的）part of the sleep cycle became shorter and shorter. The re-searchers came to the conclusion（结论）that dreaming was caused by some chemical processes（过程）in the brain and that the brain produced the chemical in order for dreaming to take place. The fact that people tried to dream more if they were not allowed to dream naturally, led them to believe that we need to dream in order to be in balance（平衡）.

(1) Scientists have done many experiments to see ________.

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A．whether or not people dream in their sleep

B．how many dreams a person has in his or her sleep

C．whether people can act normally if they are not allowed to dream in their sleep

D．what kind of people dream in their sleep

(2) When one is asleep, the movement of his eyes shows that________.

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(3) One becomes ________ if he is not allowed to dream in his sleep.

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(4) ________ is needed in order to keep one in balance.

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(5) The best headline of the passage is“________”.

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A．An Interesting Experiment

B．Sleep and Dream

C．To Keep Balance in Dream

D．Don't Bother People When They Are Asleep.