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LOS ANGELES, the US
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff ruled Michael Jackson,s father can
receive some medical records related to his superstar son,s death．
The judge will review the records first before making them accessible to Joe Jackson,s
lawyer，Brian Oxman．Beckloff said the man can only receive records on or after June 25一
the day Michael Jackson died．
VANCOUVER，CANADA
World number one Zhou Yang overcame three South Korean players to win the women,s
short track speed skating 1,500 meters final at the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games．
The l8-year-old made perfect debut(首次亮相)as she set an Olympic record of a winning time
of 2 minutes and l6,993 seconds among other seven skaters．
China has never won the women,s l,500 meters in the Olympics before，and this time Zhou,s
performance gave China its third gold medal in Vancouver．
BElJING，CHINA
China,s first compulsory,(强制性的)safety regulation on primary school buses，which re-
quires every seat to have a seat belt，will take effect on July l to help ensure safer transporta-
tion for the country,s 100 million students．
Each primary school bus must also be equipped with a“black box，”0r a recording monitor，
to record speed，travel time and distance．Also，the bus must be staffed by teachers who will
ensure student safety．
In addition，the new rule states that the color of the school buses should be yellow，and each bus must have at least two emergency exits．
Texas，the US
A software engineer who crashed his plane into a Texas building housing a United States
tax agency office，killing himself and at least one worker，apparently left behind an angry anti-government manifesto(宣言) detailing his financial difficulties and tax problems．
The pilot took off from an airport in Georgetown．about 48 km from Austin．He flew low
over the Austin skyline before plowing into the building．
57．We can learn from the first news that_________．
A．all Michael Jackson,s medical records can be accessed
B．Mitchell Beckloff will not go over the record first
C．medical records before June 25 won,t be received
D．Joe Jackson,s lawyer will not get any records
58．The new school bus safety rules include all the followings EXCEPT_____________.
A．the driver,s experience    B．the equipment of the bus
C．the color of the bus      D．emergency exits
59．It seems the software engineer crashed into the US tax office mainly because of___________.
A．unhappy marriage    B．mental disease
C．heavy work pressure D．financial and tax problems
60．We can infer from the news that____________.
A．Joe Jackson will be the first to receive the medical records
B．Zhou Yang once broke the Olympic records in the same event
C．the tax agency office is somewhere inside the building in Texas
D．the software engineer flew high over skyline before crashing into the building

LOS ANGELES, the US

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff ruled Michael Jackson’s father can receive some medical records related to his superstar son’s death．The judge will review the records first before making them accessible to Joe Jackson’s lawyer，Brian Oxman．Beckloff said the man can only receive records on or after June 25一the day Michael Jackson died．

VANCOUVER，CANADA

World number one Zhou Yang overcame three South Korean players to win the women’s short track speed skating 1,500 meters final at the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games．The l8-year-old made perfect debut(首次亮相)as she set an Olympic record of a winning time of 2 minutes and l6,993 seconds among other seven skaters．

China has never won the women’s l,500 meters in the Olympics before，and this time Zhou’s performance gave China its third gold medal in Vancouver．

BElJING，CHINA

China’s first compulsory,(强制性的)safety regulation on primary school buses，which requires every seat to have a seat belt，will take effect on July l to help ensure safer transportation for the country’s 100 million students．

Each primary school bus must also be equipped with a “black box”，0r a recording monitor，to record speed，travel time and distance．Also，the bus must be staffed by teachers who will ensure student safety．In addition，the new rule states that the color of the school buses should be yellow，and each bus must have at least two emergency exits．

Texas，the US

A software engineer who crashed his plane into a Texas building housing a United States tax agency office，killing himself and at least one worker，apparently left behind an angry anti-government manifesto(宣言) detailing his financial difficulties and tax problems．The pilot took off from an airport in Georgetown．about 48 km from Austin．He flew low over the Austin skyline before plowing into the building．

1.We can learn from the first news that_________．

2.The new school bus safety rules include all the followings EXCEPT_____________.

3.It seems the software engineer crashed into the US tax office mainly because of___________.

4.We can infer from the news that____________.

E

LOS ANGELES, the US

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff ruled Michael Jackson,s father can

receive some medical records related to his superstar son,s death．

The judge will review the records first before making them accessible to Joe Jackson,s

lawyer，Brian Oxman．Beckloff said the man can only receive records on or after June 25一

the day Michael Jackson died．

VANCOUVER，CANADA

World number one Zhou Yang overcame three South Korean players to win the women,s

short track speed skating 1,500 meters final at the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games．

The l8-year-old made perfect debut(首次亮相)as she set an Olympic record of a winning time

of 2 minutes and l6,993 seconds among other seven skaters．

China has never won the women,s l,500 meters in the Olympics before，and this time Zhou,s

performance gave China its third gold medal in Vancouver．

BElJING，CHINA

China,s first compulsory,(强制性的)safety regulation on primary school buses，which re-

quires every seat to have a seat belt，will take effect on July l to help ensure safer transporta-

tion for the country,s 100 million students．

Each primary school bus must also be equipped with a“black box，”0r a recording monitor，

to record speed，travel time and distance．Also，the bus must be staffed by teachers who will

ensure student safety．

In addition，the new rule states that the color of the school buses should be yellow，and each bus must have at least two emergency exits．

Texas，the US

A software engineer who crashed his plane into a Texas building housing a United States

tax agency office，killing himself and at least one worker，apparently left behind an angry anti-government manifesto(宣言) detailing his financial difficulties and tax problems．

The pilot took off from an airport in Georgetown．about 48 km from Austin．He flew low

over the Austin skyline before plowing into the building．

57．We can learn from the first news that_________．

A．all Michael Jackson,s medical records can be accessed

B．Mitchell Beckloff will not go over the record first

C．medical records before June 25 won,t be received

D．Joe Jackson,s lawyer will not get any records

58．The new school bus safety rules include all the followings EXCEPT_____________.

A．the driver,s experience    B．the equipment of the bus

C．the color of the bus      D．emergency exits

59．It seems the software engineer crashed into the US tax office mainly because of___________.

A．unhappy marriage    B．mental disease

C．heavy work pressure D．financial and tax problems

60．We can infer from the news that____________.

A．Joe Jackson will be the first to receive the medical records

B．Zhou Yang once broke the Olympic records in the same event

C．the tax agency office is somewhere inside the building in Texas

D．the software engineer flew high over skyline before crashing into the building

E

LOS ANGELES, the US

    Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff ruled Michael Jackson,s father can

 receive some medical records related to his superstar son,s death．

  The judge will review the records first before making them accessible to Joe Jackson,s

lawyer，Brian Oxman．Beckloff said the man can only receive records on or after June 25一

the day Michael Jackson died．

VANCOUVER，CANADA

    World number one Zhou Yang overcame three South Korean players to win the women,s

 short track speed skating 1,500 meters final at the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games．

    The l8-year-old made perfect debut(首次亮相)as she set an Olympic record of a winning time

 of 2 minutes and l6,993 seconds among other seven skaters．

    China has never won the women,s l,500 meters in the Olympics before，and this time Zhou,s

 performance gave China its third gold medal in Vancouver．

BElJING，CHINA

    China,s first compulsory,(强制性的)safety regulation on primary school buses，which re-

quires every seat to have a seat belt，will take effect on July l to help ensure safer transporta-

tion for the country,s 100 million students．

  Each primary school bus must also be equipped with a“black box，”0r a recording monitor，

to record speed，travel time and distance．Also，the bus must be staffed by teachers who will

ensure student safety．

    In addition，the new rule states that the color of the school buses should be yellow，and each bus must have at least two emergency exits．

Texas，the US

  A software engineer who crashed his plane into a Texas building housing a United States

tax agency office，killing himself and at least one worker，apparently left behind an angry anti-government manifesto(宣言) detailing his financial difficulties and tax problems．

  The pilot took off from an airport in Georgetown．about 48 km from Austin．He flew low

over the Austin skyline before plowing into the building．

57．We can learn from the first news that_________．

  A．all Michael Jackson,s medical records can be accessed

  B．Mitchell Beckloff will not go over the record first

  C．medical records before June 25 won,t be received

  D．Joe Jackson,s lawyer will not get any records

58．The new school bus safety rules include all the followings EXCEPT_____________.

    A．the driver,s experience    B．the equipment of the bus

    C．the color of the bus       D．emergency exits

  59．It seems the software engineer crashed into the US tax office mainly because of___________.

    A．unhappy marriage    B．mental disease

    C．heavy work pressure D．financial and tax problems

  60．We can infer from the news that____________.

    A．Joe Jackson will be the first to receive the medical records

    B．Zhou Yang once broke the Olympic records in the same event

    C．the tax agency office is somewhere inside the building in Texas

    D．the software engineer flew high over skyline before crashing into the building

完形填空（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分） 

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large  1  across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-aged children. At the end of the day, he would  2  his taxi on the road. I  3  why he did not park it in the garage.

Then one day I learnt that he had another car in his garage. In the afternoon he would come home  4  work, leave his taxi and go out for his  5  affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was 6  .

I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I 7  to be outside one evening two weeks  8 , when the garage door was 9 and he drove out in his “own” car: a Rolls-Royce（劳斯莱斯）! It shook me completely  10  I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But  11 inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a（n）  12  . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. The world looked at his taxi and  13  him a taxi driver. But for him, a taxi was just something he drove for a living. Rolls-Royce was something he drove for a (n）14.

We go to bed every night and  15  every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a  16 as close friends or go for a vacation as a 17  . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we  18  the social ladder—how much bigger and better a  19  we have. And we ignore our Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on  20 we are than what we do!

1.                A．window        B．garage          C．door D．yard

2.                A．park           B．stop           C．check    D．repair

3.                A．knew          B．understood      C．asked    D．wondered

4.                A．for            B．out of          C．without   D．from

5.                A．business        B．national         C．personal  D．public

6.                A．wasteful        B．useful          C．wonderful D．plentiful

7.                A．appeared       B．intended        C．expected D．happened

8.                A．later           B．more           C．ago  D．before

9.                A．broken         B．fine            C．shut D．open

10.               A．once          B．before         C．when D．until

11.               A．far            B．deep          C．long  D．little

12.               A．driver          B．engineer       C．father D．son

13.               A．called          B．made          C．elected   D．turned

14.               A．experience     B．earning         C．life   D．position

15.               A．stay up         B．wake up        C．stay home D．go home

16.               A．competition     B．performance    C．debate    D．party

17.               A．family          B．company       C．team D．whole

18.               A．build          B．climb          C．stand D．lay

19.               A．garden         B．garage         C．car   D．taxi

20.               A．who           B．what           C．which D．where