It might not be so unusual for a student to run a school newspaper. But when it comes to    1  the school newspaper of Harvard, it’s definitely a   2   story.

May Habib is now in her fourth year at Harvard. She    3    works 40～50 hours for the newspaper every week in addition to being a full-time student.   4   such a busy schedule（日程表）, she has no time for lessons sometimes, not to mention   5   . “But it’s one of the best experiences in my life so far.” She said.

One of the most important stories May    6    is the Harvard AID research program in Africa. Harvard was given a huge amount of    7    from the White House to do research into AIDS. A female professor at the school was in   8   of the project. But top administrators at the university thought the professor shouldn’t do the job because it was so   9   a program that just a professor couldn’t oversee the project .    10    they took her off the project and put in a director.

     By talking to the professor, May found that the administrators   11  funding（拨款） on the program for five months. She called a Nigerian doctor   12    and was told that about 420 deaths in the program were    13   to the delay of the money. She thought that Harvard administrators didn’t take into account （把…考虑在内） that effect  14    they made the decision.

   “ That was really an important story. The second year the funding    15    and I was told that the funding was    16    not released. So I started making phone calls. Two days    17  , they released the funding. They did it so quickly because of the press, though I was a little student, ” May said   18   .

    May is a happy girl. “ My secret to stay   19  is optimism （乐观）. My optimism is sort of realism,” she said , “I think I’m a lucky person. Even if I didn’t go to Harvard, I would be happy   20   .”

1. A．managing         B．reading                   C．hearing        D．writing 

2. B．boring           B．simply                    C．easy          D．different

3. A．actually          B．hardly               C．usually        D．really

4. A．Due to          B．According to        C．But for        D．Instead of

5. A．beliefs           B．sports               C．accidents      D．attitudes

6. A．covered         B．talked               C．spoke         D．took

7. A．duty            B．money              C．work        D．pay

8.A．front            B．face                C．charge        D．time

9. A．important         B．weak                 C．light          D．regular

10. A．And             B．So                   C．Or            D．But

11. A．advised          B．missed              C．delayed        D．forgot

12. A．aimlessly        B．immediately           C．slowly         D．continuously

13. A．caught        B．brought              C．tied           D．led

14. when              B．as if                 C．even if         D．after

15. A．came across   B．came out            C．came away   D．came up

16. A．even           B．ever                C．just           D．still

17. A．later           B．before               C．ago           D．then

18. A．nervously       B．proudly              C．madly         D．curiously

19. A sad             B．upset               C．happy         D．grateful

20. A at least          B．in time              C．as well         D．once more.

As summer vacation are coming soon, my classmates are             56. _____

trying very hardly to get train tickets to go home. But                   57._____

I have made up my minds to spend the vacation far from             58._____

home for first time in my life. My parents have agreed                 59._____

to visiting me, and I will have a different vacation. When              60.____

they came here, I will show them around my university                61. _____

and the city just as well. I have decided to buy them                    62. ____

some nice gifts. It will be a big surprising for them. My               63._____

parents have done a lot for me, and I think it is high time             64._____

that I did anything special to express my thanks.                        65._____

对话填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

认真阅读下面对话，并根据各题所给首字母的提示，在答题卡上标有题号的横线上，写出一个英语单词的完整、正确形式、使对话通顺。

(J=Joyce; T=Tom)

J: Tom, I am going to the UK for my further study. Could you give me some a         about living there?

T: Yes, of course. I will tell you all that I know to help you a              to the new life easily. Is your English good?

J: I think it’s not bad. I can speak it f        .

T: OK. Then you shouldn’t have a problem finding a p         job.

J: What kind of job?

T: I used to work in a bar in the evening when I was at university but the pay is

u         not very high.

J: But it can improve your English, right?

T: Yes. You’re expected to talk to the c         all night because they may ask you a lot of questions or ask you to give them different kinds of wines. But there are also some problems         in a bar. It’s a bit noisy and quite smoky.

J: Er. I don’t think I would like such a job.

T: Well, in that case, you can work in a restaurant as a waitress, taking people’s o        . That’s another way to use your English to c         with different people.

J: OK, that sounds good. I will c         it.

T: And if you’re struggling a bit, you can work in the back of a restaurant.

J: Yeah, I used to wash dishes, and I remembered my legs were hurt after s         up all day. It was a terrible job.

T: I wouldn’t refuse that one. It is not suitable for a girl.

I think Father would like to know _______ I’ve been up to so far, so I decide to send him a quick note.

A. which B. why?C. what D. how?

A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.

   A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises(出现) from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.

There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so peculiar(奇怪的) that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl-friend.

No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.

41. The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is _______.

A. repeated without any change          B. treated as a joke

C. made some changes by the parent      D. set in the present

42. According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is _______.

A. in a realistic setting                   B. heard for the first time

C. repeated too often                       D. told in a different way

43. The advantage claimed(提出) for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it _______.

A. makes them less fearful

B. develops their power of memory

C. makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of

D. encourages them not to have strange beliefs

44. The author’s mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that _______.

A. fairy stories are still being made up

B. there is some misunderstanding about fairy tales

C. people try to modernize old fairy stories

D. there is more concern for children's fears nowadays

45. One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that _______.

A. they are full of imagination

B. they just make up the stories which are far from the truth

C. they are not interesting

D. they make teachers of history difficult to teach