A king in Africa had a close friend with whom he had grown up. The friend had a habit of looking at every bad situation that occurred in his life and   1 , “This is good!”

One day the king and his friend were out on a hunting   2 . The friend would   3   the guns for the king. But this time he had   4  done something wrong in preparing one of the guns, for after taking the gun from his friend, the king fired it and his thumb was blown off.

Examining the   5  the friend remarked as usual, “This is good!” to which the king replied, “No, this is NOT good!” and   6  imprisoned his friend.

About a year later, the king was hunting in an area where he should have known not to hunt. Cannibals(食人者)   __7 him and took him to their village. They tied his hands, set up a wooden post and   8  him to it. As they came close to set fire to burn the king, they   9  that the king was missing a thumb. Being superstitious, they never ate anyone who was less than whole. So  10  the king, they sent him on his way.

As he returned home, he was   11  of the event that had taken his thumb and felt sorry for his treatment of his friend. He went immediately to the  12  to speak with his friend. “You were right,” he said, “it was good that my thumb was blown off.” Then he  13  to tell the friend all that had just happened.

“I feel  14  for sending you to jail for so long. It was bad for me to do this.”

“No,” his friend replied, “this is good!”

“What do you mean? How could it be good that I sent my friend to jail for a year?”

“If I had NOT been in jail, I would have been with you, and I would have been ___15  !”

1.                A．joking          B．remarking       C．announcing    D．whispering

2.                A．expectation     B．experience      C．expedition D．experiment

3.                A．prepare        B．arrange         C．carry D．hold

4.                A．deliberately     B．apparently      C．naturally  D．specially

5.                A．thumb         B．king            C．gun  D．situation

6.                A．angrily         B．calmly          C．regretfully D．joyfully

7.                A．caught         B．warned         C．robbed   D．hunted

8.                A．connected      B．related         C．wrapped  D．fastened

9.                A．observed       B．understood      C．noticed   D．complained

10.               A．untying         B．forgiving        C．overlooking    D．beating

11.               A．recalled        B．accused        C．informed  D．reminded

12.               A．house          B．jail            C．village D．kingdom

13.               A．stopped        B．hesitated       C．continued D．refused

14.               A．fortunate       B．foolish         C．guilty D．painful

15.               A．burnt          B．cooked         C．fired  D．eaten

I live in Japan, where electronic items are a way of life, so it is no surprise that many students carry these little electronic dictionaries. E-dictionaries may be light and compact（简洁的） more so than any paper dictionary.  1___ It depends on which one you buy. To me, these are pretty much the limits to their advantages.

I think e-dictionaries should be limited in their use in classrooms.   2____

E-dictionaries are much more expensive. In Japan, they cost as little as 10,000 yen （US$100）much as 40,000 yen, depending on how many functions you want （or think you want） and depending on how fashionable you are. My trusty Random House paper dictionary is copyrighted at1995, cost me a mere US$12.95 plus tax.

E-dictionaries are more fragile（易碎的）. Drop your paper dictionary. Go ahead. Hold it above your head and drop it.     3  

E-dictionaries need batteries. Batteries are temperature sensitive. Batteries cost money, too.

E-dictionaries have keypads. Typing in the spelling of a word is harder and more time consuming than looking through pages and using the index at the top of each page.

_4____ Such little devices beep（嘟嘟声） when you press the buttons, but it is very disturbing to some people in a classroom situation or library.

Finally, let’s consider making corrections or additions. No dictionary is perfect, paper version or electronic. However, when you find something you’d like to change in the e-dictionary, you can’t do anything about it. You can pencil in some notes with the paper type. Similarly, if you learn a word that isn’t in the dictionary, a few notes of a pencil make it easy to increase its memory capacity.

__5__ And, for those students whose habit is to mark certain words with a highlight pen for ease of future reference, again, the paper dictionary wins out.

    A．But it is impossible  to do so with a keypad model

    B．They may even contain more words and expressions

    C．Sometimes e-dictionaries trouble you and you really don’t know how to get rid of them

    D．Now, try this with any lightweight plastic e-dictionary, and you’ll be picking up the pieces

    E．That huge, heavy paper dictionary that you see in your library looks like a building block in size and weight.

    F．E-dictionaries have advantages as well as disadvantages

    G．Let’s take a look at the following reasons

阅读下列文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳答案。

For more than six million American children, coming home after school means coming home to an empty house. Some deal with the situation by watching TV. Some may hide. But all of them have something in common. They spend part of each day alone. They are called latchkey children. They are children who look after themselves while their parents work. And their bad condition has become a subject of concern.

    Lynette Long was once the principal (校长) of an elementary school. She said, “We had a school rule against wearing jewelry. A lot of the kids had chains around their necks with keys attached. I was constantly telling them to put them inside their shirts. There were so many keys that it never came to my mind what they meant.” Slowly, she learned they were house keys.

    She and her husband began talking to the children who had them. They learned of the effect working couples and single parents were on their children. Fear is the biggest problem faced by children at home alone. One in each three latchkey children the Longs talked to reported being scared. Many had nightmares and were worried about their own safety.

    The most common way the latchkey children deal with their fears is by hiding. It might be in a shower stall, under a bed, in a closet. The second is TV. They will often play it at high volume. It is hard to get statistics (统计) on latchkey children. The Longs learned, most of the parents are slow to admit they leave their children alone.

1．The main idea about latchkey children is that they ________.

    A. are growing in numbers

    B. are also found in middle-class neighborhood

    C. watch too much TV during the day

    D. suffer problems from being left alone

2．The main feeling these children have when they are at home by themselves is ________.

    A. tiredness

    B. freedom

    C. loneliness

    D. fear

3．The word “nightmare” in the third paragraph probably means ________.

    A. night suit

    B. night habit

    C. terrible dream at night

    D. staying up at night

4．We may draw a conclusion that ________.

    A. latchkey children enjoy having such a large amount of time alone

    B. latchkey children try to hide their feeling

    C. latchkey children often watch TV with their parents

D. it's difficult to find out how many latchkey children there are

阅读理解

阅读下列文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳答案。

For more than six million American children, coming home after school means coming home to an empty house. Some deal with the situation by watching TV. Some may hide. But all of them have something in common. They spend part of each day alone. They are called latchkey children. They are children who look after themselves while their parents work. And their bad condition has become a subject of concern.

    Lynette Long was once the principal (校长) of an elementary school. She said, “We had a school rule against wearing jewelry. A lot of the kids had chains around their necks with keys attached. I was constantly telling them to put them inside their shirts. There were so many keys that it never came to my mind what they meant.” Slowly, she learned they were house keys.

    She and her husband began talking to the children who had them. They learned of the effect working couples and single parents were on their children. Fear is the biggest problem faced by children at home alone. One in each three latchkey children the Longs talked to reported being scared. Many had nightmares and were worried about their own safety.

    The most common way the latchkey children deal with their fears is by hiding. It might be in a shower stall, under a bed, in a closet. The second is TV. They will often play it at high volume. It is hard to get statistics (统计) on latchkey children. The Longs learned, most of the parents are slow to admit they leave their children alone.

1．The main idea about latchkey children is that they ________.

    A. are growing in numbers

    B. are also found in middle-class neighborhood

    C. watch too much TV during the day

    D. suffer problems from being left alone

2．The main feeling these children have when they are at home by themselves is ________.

    A. tiredness

    B. freedom

    C. loneliness

    D. fear

3．The word “nightmare” in the third paragraph probably means ________.

    A. night suit

    B. night habit

    C. terrible dream at night

    D. staying up at night

4．We may draw a conclusion that ________.

    A. latchkey children enjoy having such a large amount of time alone

    B. latchkey children try to hide their feeling

    C. latchkey children often watch TV with their parents

D. it's difficult to find out how many latchkey children there are

SINGAPORE—It seems the financial crisis isn’t all hopeless: one in four people are glad the world’s economy turned down like it did, because it helped them realize more in life, according to a global survey.
Market research firm Synovate surveyed around 11400 people across the world and found more than half had permanently changed their attitudes toward money over the last 12 months. Another 47 percent, however, said they were looking forward to being able to spend freely again.
“The psychology of global depression has changed the way many people do things,” Jenny Chang, managing director in Taiwan (China), said in a statement. “They are making life-changing decisions based on the current global depression, such as postponing marriage, having children, moving house, changing jobs or pursuing higher education. Even in a relatively effect-free economy like Taiwan’s.”
A quarter of all respondents led by Malaysians said they were glad the world had an economic crisis as it has helped them realize what’s really important in their lives.
Nearly 60 percent said they would try their best to control their spending so that it doesn’t go back to what it used to be before the downturn, and over two-thirds are more interested in increasing their savings than reducing their debt.
The majority of respondents—over 80 percent—believed their generation had a responsibility to leave their country better off for the younger generation, even if it involved dramatically changing their lifestyles.
With the relatively high unemployment in the US, Synovate’s US-based Claire Peerson Braverman said, Americans who had lost one or more incomes in the family, had to make some of the most difficult decisions concerning money each day.
62. What information did Market research firm Synovate want to get by making the survey?
A. The effects of global depression on people’s money and life attitudes.
B. The loss people suffered in the global depression.
C. The number of people who like global depression.
D. The influence of economical crisis on the US.
63. What can be inferred from the article?
A. The global depression had no effects on economy in Taiwan of China at all.
B. Global depression led some people to give up their higher education.
C. More people will spend their money more carefully after the global depression.
D. Some people felt glad about the global depression for the benefits it brought them.
64. What does the underlined world “it” in the fifth paragraph refer to?
A. Habit of spending money.               B. Global depression.
C. Responsibility for the country.         D. Attitude towards life.
65. What is the theme of this article?
A. The economic crisis made more people try to save more money.
B. The situation of unemployment in the US became more serious.
C. Lots of people put off some important events in their life for the economic crisis.
D. Economic crisis helped people change their ideas about money and life.