— Mum, hurry up. We’ll be late.

   — I will be through in a minute. Have a little ________.

A. time                                         B. patience                     C. custom               D. presence

— Mum, hurry up. We’ll be late.

— I will be through in a minute. Have a little ________.

A. time?? B. patience?? C. custom??? D. presence

B

South Korea has offered about 10,000 tons of corn to North Korea, in what would be the first official aid to its hungry neighbor for almost two years．The South also offered 20 tons of milk powder and medicine for children, pregnant women and other vulnerable people, its unification ministry said．The proposed shipmen would be through the Red Cross．It would be the first official one since a conservative government came to power in Seoul in February 2008．The South Korean administration of President Lee Myung-bak has linked major assistance to progress on denuclearisation．

However, after months of bitter hostility, the communist North began making peace overtures（提议，提案） to the South in recent months．Persistent media reports have also said the two sides have held preliminary talks about a possible summit．

The amount of food aid on offer is tiny relative to the needs in what the United Nations recently described as the famine-hit North．A third of North Korean women and young children are malnourished（营养不良的） and the country will run short of almost 1．8 million tons of food this year, the United Nations World Food Program said in a report last month．The unification ministry admitted it was far less than needed but said the North must mend relations before shipments could be increased．

"We cannot say 10,000 tons is sufficient in view of North Korea's food shortage and other conditions," said ministry spokeswoman Lee Jong-Joo．"We are providing purely humanitarian aid," she said．

"There is no change in our position that massive food aid depends on how relations between the two Koreas develop," she said．North Korea has yet to respond to the latest offer, made through the Red Cross．But Yonhap news agency said it was likely co-ordinated in advance before the announcement．

Last year the South offered 50,000 tons of corn, but the North rejected the shipment amid high tensions．

North Korea has relied on food aid from China, South Korea and aid agencies to feed millions of its people since a famine in the 1990s resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands．

50．How would North Korea be offered about 10,000 tons of corn from South Korea?

A．North Korea would buy corn from South Korea．

B．North Korea would exchange with South Korea．

C．The offer would be through the Red Sea．．

D．The offer would be through an international organization

51．About whether South Korea would go on offering assistance, we can infer from the passage that________________．

A．they would go on without any condition

B．they would go on if there was a famine in North Korea

C．it depended on how their relation would develop

D．it depended on whether North Korea needed it

52．How did North Korea survive since a famine in the 1990s?

A．They depended on the international aid from all other countries

B．They developed their agriculture to increase the production

C．They expanded the agricultural land

D．They relied on food aid from China, South Korea and aid agencies

53．What is the main idea of the passage?

A． It’s about the aid to South Korea from North Korea

B．It tells about the help between South Korea and North Korea

C．It’s about the help to the Poor

D．It tells about an action of the Red Cross

PART THREE   READING COMPREHENSION (30%)
Directions: Read the following three passages．Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements．For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D．Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage
They say a cat has nine lives, and I think that possible since I am now living my third life and I’m not even a cat. My father died when I was 15, and we had a hard struggle to make a living. And my mother, who was seriously ill in her last years, died while still in her 60s. My sister married soon after, and I followed her example within the year.
This was when I began to enjoy my first life. I was very happy, in excellent health. I had a good job in San Jose and a beautiful home up the peninsula (半岛) in San Carlos. Life was a pleasant dream. Then the dream ended. I became afflicted (使苦恼) with a slowly progressive disease of the motor nerves, affecting first my right arm and leg, and then my other side. Thus began my second life...
In spite of my disease I still drove to and from work each day, with the aid of special equipment installed in my car. And I managed to keep my health and optimism (乐观), to a degree, because of 14 steps. Crazy? Not at all. Our home was an affair with 14 steps leading up from the garage to the kitchen door. Those steps were a standard measure of life. They were my yardstick, my challenge to continue living. I felt that if the day arrived when I was unable to lift one foot up one step and then drag the other painfully after it ---repeating the process 14 times, I would be through---I could then admit defeat and lie down and die.
Then on a dark night in August, 1971, I began my third life. It was raining when I started home that night; strong winds and slashing rain beat down on the car as I drove slowly down one of the less-traveled roads. Suddenly the steering wheel jerked (猝然一动). In the same instant I heard the bang of a blowout. It was impossible for me to change that tire! Utterly impossible!
I started the engine and thumped slowly along until I came to the dirt road, where I turned in and where I found lighted windows welcomed me to a house and pulled into the driveway and honked the horn.
The door opened and a little girl stood there. When she knew what happened to me, she went into the house and a moment later came out, followed by a man who called a cheerful greeting. I sat there comfortable and dry, and felt a bit sorry for the man and the little girl working so hard in the storm.
About an hour later, the man’s voice was heard, “This is a bad night for car trouble, but you’re all set now.” “Thanks,” I said. “How much do I owe you?” He shook his head, “Nothing. Cynthia told me you were a cripple. Glad to be of help. I know you’d do the same for me. There’s no charge, friend.” I held out a five-dollar bill, “No! I like to pay my way.” He made no effort to take it and the little girl stepped closer to the window and said quietly, “Grandpa can’t see it.”
56. “A cat has nine lives” here means ___________.
A. a cat can live nine times longer than any other animal  B .a cat can die ninth
C .a lucky man can not die easily                     D the writer will live nine times
57. What do you think of the man who helped change the tire?
A. Old, warm-hearted but pitiable             
B. Blind, but warm-hearted and happy
C. A blind old man that has nothing to do every day.
D. A poor old man that is always ready to help others.
58. How will the story be ended?
A. The writer paid the little girl but the old man did not accept.
B. The writer drove away with tears running down his cheek.
C. The writer stayed there, without knowing what to do and how to do it.
D. In the next few frozen seconds the writer felt the shame and astonishment he had never felt
before.
59. How do you understand the underlined sentence “I followed my sister’s example?”
A.  He listened to his sister carefully.
B  Mother told him that he must get the agreement from his sister for whatever he would do.
C  His sister got married. He, too.
D  His sister was a great woman.. He must learn from her.
60. The best title for this passage perhaps will be _____.
A.The Old Man and His Daughter              B. Heart Leaping Up
C.Never Lose Heart                        D. Good Will Be Rewarded Good

教材单句填空，每个空格只填一个单词。

1.It can be an analysis of how teams are __________ in the various sports leagues, or a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of different players and their teams.  

2.__________ Australia’s small population, its outstanding performance at the Olympic Games was really amazing.   

3.The Ming and Qing Imperial Tombs are among the most extraordinary cultural __________ to be found anywhere.  

4.Colour is a medium for expressing different feelings, but the meaning of colour is not __________ across different cultures.   

5.After spending every penny of his money and being __________ to hiring himself out to feed pigs, he realized that he had been a fool and went home. 

6.．In __________ with the dilemma of worldwide hunger, the United Nations set up an agency called the World Food Programme (WFP) in 1963.  

7.．This is why many people are __________ for the use of alternative energy sources.

8.．Older Americans are on the __________ .Throughout the Midwest and the Northeast, people aged 60 and over are packing their bags and heading south along the freeway to states like Florida.   

9.．Contrary to what many people think, HIV cannot be __________ through mosquitoes, a cough or sneeze, or by merely touching someone with Aids.  

10.．You need to work with every __________ of your being.