Once a group of 17-year-old schoolboys decided to break the world basketball marathon（马拉松）record. They wanted to play for 90 hours ,breaking the record by adding 6 hours . Each team had 9 players, with 5 at a time. The boys decided each person would play 21.5 hours and then rest for 2 hours. Then they started at 6 o’clock in the evening.
The first night was very hard for the players. When it was their turn to rest, they were too excited to fall asleep at once. On the second night,they fell asleep as soon as they stopped.Some of them had trouble with their feet and hands, but the only serious problem was a psychological（心理学的）one. Each boy was thinking: Why am I doing this? How can I play any longer? After the third night, the players knew they could finish the 90 hours. The basketball on the fourth nigth was very slow. But in the final hours, the players got better. For the last few minutes, the players looked as fresh as when they started. How happy everyone was!
小题1:Before this basketball marathon, the world record was      .

A．84 hours

B．86 hours

C．90 hours

D．96 hours

小题2:The first night was hard for the players because     .

A．they were too excited to sleep

B．they only slept for a short time

C．no one watched them play

D．it was very long

小题3:The sentence“the players looked as fresh as when they started.”Here“fresh”means       .

A．不熟练的

B．兴奋不己的

C．精神饱满的

D．伤痕累累的

小题4:Which of the following is Not true?

A．Some of the boys were hurt when they played

B．It was hard for the players to fall asleep for the first night

C．The boys started playing at 6 o’clock in the evening

D．In the end,all the boys felt happy

Two thieves came to a house to steal something． They dug a hole in the wall of the house．
There lived many mice in the house．The woman in the moonlight saw a mouse crawl（爬行）into the house,“Look! In comes one,”she said to the man in the house．The thief was so frightened that he hurriedly crawled out of the house and said to the one waiting outside, “She found me when I was just in．”But the thief outside       , so he said, “Let us two try to crawl into the house together．”At that time two mice happened to crawl into the house, too．The woman saw the mice and shouted,“In come two．Catch them!”The two thieves were terribly frightened．The man in the house said, “You saw them come in, but where are they?I will catch them tonight．”The two thieves started running away at once．
The two thieves wanted to make it clear whether they had been found or not the night before．The next day they acted as men selling sweet potatoes and came before the house．The man and the woman were ploughing（犁地）in their fields．The rein（缰绳）broke and the woman came home for a rope．She saw two men selling sweet potatoes and wanted to buy some．She picked out two which looked like mice．At the time the man couldn’t wait for her any longer in the fields and he ran back from the fields to hurry her up．The woman showed the sweet potatoes to the man and said．“How they look like the two of last night．” The man said,“I asked you to fetch a rope．Why don’t you hurry for it?” The two thieves ran away quickly without their sweet potatoes．
小题1:What is the writer’s purpose of telling the story?（within 10 words）
                                                                              
小题2:Which sentence in the passage is closest in meaning to the following one?
Quite by accident, two mice also came into the house at that very moment．
                                                                               
小题3:Fill in the blank in the second paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence．（within 10 words）
                                                                               
小题4:Why did the two thieves came before the house the next day?（within 20 words）
                                                                                
小题5:Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese．
                                                                                

Talk about a real-life hero! Ten-year-old Larry Champagne from St. Louis，Missouri, hit the brake (刹车) on a runaway school bus. He saved himself and 20 other kids on board from disaster.
It all happened in one terrible accident. On the way to school, the bus driver, Ernestine Blackman, suddenly fell ill. Seeing the car was running away, the other kids started to scream, but Larry ran to the front and stopped the bus.
“At first I thought, ‘We’re going to die,’” says Larry, “but after I pressed the brake, I felt safe.”
Larry’s speedy reaction made news all over the country. He appeared on TV shows as a hero. The bus company gave Larry a big gift. His school hung a medal of honor around his neck.
“My grandmother always tells me to do what’s right,” says Larry. He thanked his brother, Jerrick, 9, who “helped me get the bus driver up” during the emergency（紧急情况）. How did he know how to stop the bus? Larry is something of a mechanic（机械师）. He helps his grandfather work on his old truck. “He gets his hands dirty,” says his grandfather. One thing is for certain: Larry knows where to find the brakes.
小题1:What did Larry do to save the runaway bus?

A．He parked it for the sleeping bus driver.

B．He helped all the kids climb out through the windows.

C．He dialed 911.

D．he pressed the brake.

小题2:When did Larry finally feel safe?

A．When the kids finally stopped screaming.

B．When the police officers arrived.

C．Once he pressed the brake, and the bus stopped.

D．When the bus driver started driving again.

小题3: Larry got the following as praise for his hero action Except _______.

A．appearing on TV shows

B．a scholarship from his school

C．a big gift from the bus company

D．a medal of honor

小题4: Larry thanked his brother Jerrick for __________.

A．helping him get the bus driver up

B．helping him work on his old truck

C．teaching him how to find the brake

D．teaching him how to stop the bus

小题5:The underlined sentence“Larry is something of a mechanic” tells us that ____.

A．Larry’s job is a mechanic

B．Larry knows something about machines

C．Larry is a robot

D．Larry knows nothing about machines

Susan Sontag (1933----2004) was one of the most noticeable figures in the world of literature. For more than 40 years she made it morally necessary to know everything---to read every book worth reading, to see every movie worth seeing. When she was still in her early 30s, publishing essays in such important magazines as Partisan Review, she appeared as the symbol of American culture life, trying hard to follow every new development in literature, film and art. With great effort and serious judgment, Sontag walked at the latest edges of world culture.
Seriousness was one of Sontag’s lifelong watchwords(格言),but at a time when the barriers between the well-educated and the poor-educated were obvious, she argued for a true openness to the pleasure of pop culture. In Notes on Camp, the 1964 essay that first made her name, she explained what was then a little-known set of difficult understandings, through which she could not have been more famous. “Notes on Camp”, she wrote, represents “ a victory of ‘form’ over ‘content’, ‘beauty’ over ‘morals’”.
By conviction（信念）she was a sensualist, but by nature she was a moralist, and in the works she published in the 1970s and 1980s , it was the latter side of her that came forward. In Illness as Metaphor —published in 1978, after she suffered cancer—she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a special problem of repressed personalities, a concept that effectively blamed the victim for the disease. In fact, re-examining old positions was her lifelong habit.
In America, her story of a19thcentury Polish actress who set up a perfect society in California, won the National Book Award in 2000.But it was as a all-purpose cultural view that she made her lasting fame. “Sometimes,” she once said, “I feel that, in the end, all I am really defending …is the idea of seriousness, of true seriousness.” And in the end, she made us take it seriously too.
小题1:The underlined sentence in paragraph 1 means Sontag_________.

A．was a symbol of American cultural life

B．developed world literature, film and art

C．published many essays about world culture

D．kept pace with the newest development of world culture

小题2:She first won her name through ___________.

A．her story of a Polish actress

B．her book Illness as Metaphor

C．publishing essays in magazines like partisan Review

D．her explanation of a set of difficult understandings

小题3:According to the passage, Susan Sontag__________.

A．was a sensualist as well as a moralist

B．looked down upon the pop culture

C．thought content was more important than form

D．blamed the victim of cancer for being repressed

小题4:As for Susan Sontag’s lifelong habit, she __________.

A．misunderstood the idea of seriousness

B．re-examined old positions

C．argued for an openness to pop culture

D．preferred morals to beauty

小题5:Why Susan Sontag won her lasting fame was because of___________-.

A．her point which was suitable for common cultural view

B．her lifelong watchword：seriousness

C．her publishing books on morals

D．her enjoying books worth reading and movies worth seeing

Early one morning the sub­inspector at a station at the other end of the town rang me. An elephant was damaging the town. Would I please come and do something about it?
I did not know what I could do, but I got onto a horse and started out.  I took my gun, maybe too small to kill an elephant, but I thought the noise might scare him. Various local people stopped me on the way and told me about the elephant's doings.
It was not, of course, a wild elephant, but a tame one. It had been chained up but last night it had broken its chain and escaped. Its owner, had set out to run after it, but had taken the wrong direction. He was now twelve hours' journey away, and in the morning the elephant had suddenly appeared in the town. It had already destroyed somebody's bamboo hut (棚屋), killed a cow and turned over fruit­stalls.
I came round the hut and saw a man's dead body sprawling in the mud.  He was an Indian, and he could not have been dead many minutes. The people said that the elephant caught him with its trunk, put its foot on his back and grounded him into the earth. This was the rainy season and he was lying on his stomach in the soft mud, the__peacebreaker standing beside, looking innocent.
As I lifted my gun, I hesitated a few seconds. Then I fired. That was a shot that did for him.
You could see the pain of it knock the last strength from his legs. But in falling he seemed for a moment to rise, his trunk reaching skyward like a tree. He trumpeted, for the first and only time. And then down he came, with a crash that shook the ground.
小题1:Which of the following statements about the author is TRUE?

A．He was an Indian.

B．He knew elephants well.

C．He was not a local villager.

D．He was the owner of the elephant.

小题2:The elephant made so much trouble because ________.

A．its owner treated him cruelly

B．it got out of control

C．it hated the village people

D．it was a wild elephant

小题3:The underlined words “the peacebreaker” in Paragraph 4 refer to ________.

A．the elephant	B．the dead man
C．the author	D．the sub­inspector

小题4:It can be inferred that the author felt ________ when he shot the elephant.

A．excited	B．sad
C．frightened	D．happy

One dark stormy night, an elderly couple hurried into a hotel and asked whether they could be  36  for the night, “I’m very sorry,” the clerk on night shift said politely, “we are all  37 tonight.  38 ,you could stay in my room if you don’t mind. I’m 39 ,so I’ll be here.” The young man gave the sincere advice.
The elderly couple accepted his  40  with gratitude. They apologized for the  41  they had caused him. The next day, the rain stopped and it  42 . When the old gentleman went to pay his bill, the same clerk said, “The room you and your wife stayed in is not a proper   43  room in this hotel, so you don’t need to pay.”
The old gentleman nodded in  44  : “You are an employee that every boss in the hotel business would dream of . Perhaps someday I’ll build a hotel for you.” The clerk was  45  but, deciding that the guest must have been 46  , he gave the remark  47 thought.
Two years later, the young man received a letter from the old gentleman, in which he  48 the experience of that dark stormy night. The letter also  49 a formal invitation, asking that young man to pay a visit.
At a street corner in Manhattan, the young man met his  50  guest. The old gentleman, pointing to a magnificent new building  51  over the crossroads, “Look, that is the hotel I 52 to build for you. I hope you will  53  it for me .Remember what I said then? Well, I was  54  about it.”
The young man stammered, “But…will there be any   55 , sir? Why do you choose me? And who are you?”
“My name is William Aster.” This building was none other than the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, a symbol of supreme status and honor in New York.

小题1:	A．put up B．put away C．stay up D．set up

小题2:	A．preserved B．conserved C．booked D．occupied

小题3:	A．Meanwhile B．Moreover C．Otherwise D．However

小题4:	A．on duty B．on display C．on stage D．on hand

小题5:	A．service B．view C．offer D．invitation

小题6:	A．Instruction B．consideration C．Inconvenience D．interruption

小题7:	A．cleared away B．picked out C．cleaned up D．cleared up

小题8:	A．living B．double C．admirable D．luxury

小题9:	A．appreciation B．admiration C．surprise D．excitement

小题10:

A．excited B．skeptical C．annoyed D．respectful

小题11:

A．lacking B．covering C．joking D．cheating

小题12:

A．not more B．no more C．some D．another

小题13:

A．described B．stated C．recited D．recalled

小题14:

A．swapped B．included C．attached D．added

小题15:

A．former B．original C．formal D．primitive

小题16:

A．displaying B．towering C．flying D．hovering

小题17:

A．determined B．promised C．tended D．intended

小题18:

A．get B．keep C．manage D．make

小题19:

A．sensitive B．concerned C．curious D．serious

小题20:

A．Scene B．situation C．condition D．Occasion

A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had 16   a beautiful sports car in a dealer’s showroom, and   17   his father could well 18  it, he told him that was all he wanted.
On the morning of his graduation day his father called him into his own study and told him how 19   he was to have such a fine son. He handed his son a beautiful gift box. 20  but slightly disappointed, the young man 21  the box and found a lovely book. 22  , he raised his voice at his father and said, “ 23  all your money you give me a book?” and rushed out of the house 24  the book in the study.
He did not contact（联系）his father for a whole year 25   one day he saw in the street an old man who looked like his father. He  26  he had to go back home and see his father.
When he arrived at his father’s house, he was told that his father had been in hospital for a week. The moment he was about to  27  the hospital, he saw on the desk the 28  new book ,just as he had left it one  29  ago. He opened it and began to 30 the pages. Suddenly, a car key 31 from an envelope taped behind the book .It had a tag（标签）with dealer’s name, the 32 dealer who had the sports car he had 33  .On the tag was the 34 of his graduation, and the 35 PAID IN FULL.

小题1:	A．expected B．enjoyed C．admired D．owned

小题2:	A．finding B．proving C．deciding D．knowing

小题3:	A．afford B．offer C．keep D．like

小题4:	A．encouraged B．comfortable C．proud D．moved

小题5:	A．Nervous B．Serious C．Careful D．Curious

小题6:	A．packed B．opened C．picked up D．put aside

小题7:	A．Angrily B．Eagerly C．Calmly D．Anxiously

小题8:	A．At B．From C．With D．To

小题9:	A．tearing B．putting C．forgetting D．leaving

小题10:

A．until B．as C．before D．unless

小题11:

A．learned B．realized C．recognized D．admitted

小题12:

A．get to B．search for C．turn to D．leave for

小题13:

A．much B．still C．hardly D．quite

小题14:

A．year B．month C．week D．day

小题15:

A．clean B．read C．turn D．count

小题16:

A．lost B．came C．appeared D．dropped

小题17:

A．old B．same C．special D．new

小题18:

A．remembered B．desired C．found D．met

小题19:

A．picture B．place C．date D．sign

小题20:

A．word B．information C．messages D．card

When I was growing up in America, I was ashamed of my mother’s Chinese English. Because of her English, she was often treated unfairly. People in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously ,did not give her good service ,pretended not to understand her ,or even acted as if they did not hear her .
My mother has realized the limitations of her English as well. When I was fifteen, she used to have me call people on phone to pretend I was she . I was forced to ask for information or even to yell at people who had been rude to her. One time I had to call her stockbroker (股票经纪人).I said in an adolescent voice that was not very convincing, “This is Mrs.Tan..”
And my mother was standing beside me ,whispering loudly, “Why he don’t send me cheek already two week late.”
And then , in perfect English I said : “I’m getting rather concerned .You agreed to send the check two weeks ago, but it hasn’t arrived.”
Then she talked more loudly. “What he want? I come to New York tell him front of his boss.” And so I turned to the stockbroker again, “I can’t tolerate any more excuse. If I don’t receive the check immediately , I am going to have to speak to your manager when I am in New York next week.”
The next week we ended up in New York. While I was sitting there red-faced, my mother, the real Mrs.Tan, was shouting to his boss in her broken English.
When I was a teenager, my mother’s broken English embarrassed me. But now, I see it differently. To me, my mother’s English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. It is my mother tongue. Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, and full of observation and wisdom. It was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed ideas, and made sense of the world.
小题1:Why was the author’s mother poorly served?

A．She was unable to speak good English.

B．She was often misunderstood.

C．She was not clearly heard.

D．She was not very polite.

小题2:From Paragraph 2, we know that the author was ________ .

A．good at pretending	B．rude to the stockbroker
C．ready to help her mother	D．unwilling to phone for her mother

小题3:After the author made the phone call, _______.

A．they forgave the stockbroker

B．they went to New York immediately

C．they failed to get the check

D．they spoke to their boss at once

小题4:What does the author think of her mother’s English now?

A．It confuses her.

B．It embarrasses her.

C．It helps her understand the world.

D．It helps her tolerate rude people.

小题5:We can infer from the passage that Chinese English ________.

A．is clear and natural to non-native speakers

B．is vivid and direct to non-native speakers

C．has a very bad reputation in America

D．may bring inconvenience in America

My husband hasn’t stopped laughing about the thing that happened to me. It’s  26  now but it wasn’t that time.
Last Friday, after doing all the family shopping in town, I  27  a rest before catching the train, so I bought a   28  and some chocolate and went to the station coffee shop that was a cheap, self-service place with long   29 to sit at. I put my heavy bag down on the floor, put the newspaper and chocolate on the table to   30  a place and went to get a cup of coffee.
When I came back with the coffee, there was someone in the   31   seat. It was one of those   32  young man, with dark glasses and torn clothes, and hair colored bright  33  at the front, not so unusual these days. What did  34  me was he’d started to eat my chocolate! Naturally, I was annoyed. However, to avoid trouble—then really I was rather uneasy about him—I just   35  down at the front page of the newspaper, tasted my coffee, and took a bit of chocolate. The boy looked at me    36   . then he took another piece of my chocolate. I could hardly   37  it. Still I didn’t want to start an argument. When he took a  38    piece , I felt more  39  than annoyed. I thought, “ Well, I shall have the last piece.” And I  40  it.
The boy gave me a   41  look, and then stood up. As he left, he shouted out, “This woman is mad!” Everyone   42  . That really made me feel silly, but it was   43   when I finished my coffee and got ready to leave. My face went red—as red as his hair when I   44    I’d made a mistake. It wasn’t my chocolate he’d been taking. There was mine, unopened, just under my  45   .

小题1:	A．serious B．wonderful C．funny D．exciting

小题2:	A．enjoyed B．took C．had D．wanted

小题3:	A．cake B．newspaper C．magazine D．bag

小题4:	A．chairs B．tables C．benches D．beds

小题5:	A．order B．find C．keep D．visit

小题6:	A．very B．same C．free D．next

小题7:	A．wild-looked B．wild-looking C．good-looking D．good-looked

小题8:	A．red B．black C．brown D．white

小题9:	A．interest B．surprise C．frighten D．hurt

小题10:

A．looked B．lay C．sat D．put

小题11:

A．eagerly B．friendly C．closely D．shyly

小题12:

A．believe B．hear C．notice D．stop

小题13:

A．last B．big C．single D．third

小题14:

A．angry B．lucky C．happy D．curious

小题15:

A．covered B．threw C．got D．wrapped

小题16:

A．strange B．exhausting C．nervous D．pleasant

小题17:

A．agreed B．promised C．stared D．followed

小题18:

A．better B．worse C．later D．easier

小题19:

A．wondered B．realized C．decided D．recognized

小题20:

A．bags B．clothes C．book D．newspaper

When I was six, Dad brought home a dog one day, who was called “Brownie”. My brothers and I all loved Brownie and did different things with her. One of us would walk her, another would feed her, then there were baths, playing catch and many other games, Brownie, in return. loved each and every one of us. One thing that most touched my heart was that she would go to whoever was sick and just be with them .We always felt better when she was around.
One day, as I was getting her food, she chewed up(咬破)one of Dad’s shoes, which had to be thrown away in the end. I knew Dad would be mad and I had to let her know what she did was wrong. When I looked at her and said, ”Bad girl,” she looked down at the ground and then went and hid. I saw a tear in her eyes.
Brownie turned out to be more than just our family pet, she went everywhere with us .People would stop and ask if they could pet her. Of course she’d let anyone pet her. She was just the most lovable dog. There were many times when we’d be out walking and a small child would come over and pull on her hair. she never barked(吠) or tried to get away. Funny thing is she would smile. This frightened people because they thought she was showing her teeth. Far from the truth, she lovely everyone.
Now many years have passed since Brownie died of old age. I still miss days when she was with us.
小题1:What would Brownie do when someone was ill in the family?

A．Look at them sadly.	B．Touch them gently.
C．Play games with them.	D．Keep them company.

小题2:We can infer from Paragraph 2 that Brownie__________.

A．world eat anything when hungry

B．felt sorry for her mistake

C．loved playing hide-and-seek

D．disliked the author’s dad