71. As a middle school student, you should realize that it's not meaningful at all for you ____________________ fantasy novels on line.  (addict)

作为一名中学生你应该认识到迷恋网上的奇幻小说没有任何意义。

72. ____________________ they will camp out tonight. It is such a long way that I don’t think   

they can get back.  (likely)

他们今晚可能要在外露营了，路太远我觉得他们不会回来了。

73. A child is told that under no circumstances ____________________ his parents.  (cheat)

小孩被告知在任何情况下他都不应该欺骗父母。

74. Have you ever had a case _______________________ your journalists of getting the wrong end    

of the stick ?  (accuse)

你们有没有过这样的情况：有人控告你们的记者，说他们的报道完全失呢？

75. Please keep us _______________________ any change of address as soon as possible. (inform)  

地址变化了请尽可能早地让我们知道。

76. If Richard _______________________ his job last month, he would go abroad for a business conference now. (lose)

       如果理查德不在上个月失业的话，他现在已去国外参加一个商业会议了。

77. The boy wanted to play football in the street, but his mother _______________________.  (tell)

男孩想在街上踢球，但是他妈妈叫他不要在街上踢球。

78. Ribery _______________________ with his father on a construction site when Messi and Ronaldo were already established superstars.  (work v.)

当梅西和罗纳尔多已经成名的时候，里贝里和父亲正在一个建筑工地上干活。

79. Burns are called first, second or third degree burns, _______________________ which layers of the skin are burned.  (depend) 

根据皮肤烧伤的层次，烧伤分为一度、二度和三度烧伤。

80. It is not only Doraemon’s cool gadgets but also his lovely personality _______________. (make)

不仅仅是哆啦A梦酷酷的小装置而且是他的可爱的个性使得故事有趣。

    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.

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

He almost didn’t see the old lady, stranded on the side of the road, but even in the dim light of day, he could see she needed help. So he pulled up in front her Mercedes and got out.

Even with the smile on his face, she was worried. No one had stopped to help for the last hour or so. Was he going to hurt her? He didn’t look safe; he looked poor and hungry. He could see that she was frightened, standing out there in the cold. He knew how she felt.

He said, “I am here to help you, ma’am. Why don’t you wait in the car where it’s warm? By the way, my name is Bryan Anderson.”

Well, all she had was a flat tire, but for an old lady, that was bad enough. Bryan crawled under the car looking for a place to put the jack, skinning his knuckles a time or two. Soon he was able to change the tire. But he had to get dirty and his hands hurt.

As he was tightening up the lug nuts, she rolled down the window and began to talk to him. She told him that she was from St. Louis and was just passing through. She couldn’t thank him enough for coming to her aid.

Bryan just smiled as he closed her trunk. The lady asked how much she owed him. Any amount would have been all right with her. She already imagined all the awful things that could have happened, had he not stopped. Bryan never thought twice about being paid. This was not a job to him. This was helping someone in need, and God knows there were many people who had given him a hand in the past. He had lived his whole life that way, and it never occurred to him to act any other way.He told her that if she really wanted to pay him back, the next time she saw someone who needed help, she could give that person the assistance they needed, and Bryan added, “And think of me.”

He waited until she started her car and drove off. It had been a cold and depressing day, but he felt good as he headed for home, disappearing into the twilight.

1.This story most probably took place_______.

A. in a garage   B. on a highway    C. in a busy street    D. near a gas station

2.When the man approached the old lady, the first thing he did was to______.

A. ask what was wrong with her car       

B. get the old lady out of her car

C. change her tire as soon as possible     

D. make her know he wanted to help her

3.The underlined part in Paragraph 6 suggests that________.

A. the old lady had got ready to pay the man

B. the old lady was grateful to the man

C. the man had a lot of difficulty changing the tire

D. the man didn’t stop changing the tire

4.Which of the following words can best describe the man?

A. Warm-hearted and sensitive.  

B. Careful and serious.

C. Thoughtful and helpful.      

D. Generous and open-minded.

5.It can be inferred from the last paragraph that ______________.

A. the man was happy after helping the old lady

B. the man received a lot of money from the old lady

C. the man made the old lady feel cold and depressed 

D. the man felt extremely frustrated all the way home

 

第四部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每题2分，满分40分）

There are three kinds of goals: short-term, medium-range and long-term goals.

Short-range goals are those that usually deal with current activities, which we can apply on a daily basis. Such goals can be achieved in a week or less or two weeks, or possible months. It should be remembered that just as a building is no stronger than its foundation, out long-term goals cannot amount to very munch without the achievement of solid short-term goals. Upon completing our short-term goals, we should date the occasion and then add new short-term goals that will build on those that have been completed.

The intermediate goals are built on the foundation of the short-range goals. They might deal with just one term of school or the entire school year, or they could even extend for several years. Any time you move a step at a time, you should never allow yourself to become discouraged or overwhelmed. As you complete each step, you will enforce the belief in your ability to grow and succeed. And as your list of completion dates grow, your motivation and desire will increase.

Long-range goals may be related to our dreams of the future. They might cover five years or more. Life is not a static thing. We should never allow a long-term goal to limit us or our course of action.

56. Our long-term goals mean a lot__.

A) if we complete our short-range goals

B) if we cannot reach solid short-term goals

C) if we write down the dates

D) if we put forward some plans

57. New short-term goals are bulid upon__.

A) two years

B) long-term goals

C) current activities

D) the goals that have been completed

58. Once our goals are drawn up,__.

A) we should stick to them until we complete them

B) we may change our goals as we have new ideas and opportunities

C) we had better wait for the exciting news of success

D) we have made great decision

59. It is implied but not stated in the passage that ___.

A) those who have long-term goals will succeed

B) writing down the dates may discourage you

C) the goal is only a guide for us to reach our destination

D) every should have a goal

 

The secret of happiness is to spend around ￡2.50 every day on somebody else.

To give a couple of pounds each day rather than to spend it on treats and fashion for yourself is the key to happiness, according to a new study.

Dr Elizabeth Dunn and her colleagues who did a national survey of 630 people in the United States found that people report greater happiness if they spend money more socially. That means spending on gifts for others or on charitable(慈善的) donations rather than spending on themselves.

"We wanted to test our theory that how people spend their money is at least as important as how much money they earn," says Dunn, who reports the work in Science.

The results from all three lines of research are quite the same.

"Regardless of how much income each person made," says Dunn, "those who spent money on others reported greater happiness, while those who spent more on themselves did not."

"Making a modest donation is enough to increase people's happiness" the researchers conclude.

"These findings suggest that a very small change in spending, as little as ￡2.50, may be enough to produce real gains in happiness on a given day," says Dr Dunn.

The researchers call on governments to encourage people to spend more on others to help translate increased national wealth into increased national happiness.

Surveys have also shown that happiness levels have remained almost flat within developed countries even as incomes have increased in recent decades.

65.According to the survey, what kind of people have greater happiness?

A.People who can make enough money.

B.People who can buy whatever they want.

C.People who spend money on treats and fashion for themselves.

D.People who spend a modest amount of money every day on others.

66.The underlined word "flat" probably means______.

A.smooth       B.dull     C.same    D.interesting

67.Which of the following statements is true?

A.Researchers pay no attention to spending on others.

B.The government did much in helping others.

C."Science" in Paragraph 4 is probably a magazine.

D.The survey is very successful.

68.The purpose of the writer is to tell us______.

A.the secret of happiness.      B.money spent on friends.

C.link between money and happiness.   D.difference between national wealth and happiness.