A nine-year-old kid was sitting at his desk when suddenly there was a puddle （/JC^C）between his feet and the front of his trousers was wet．He thought his heart was going to stop because he couldn't possibly imagine how this had happened．It had never happened before, and he knew that when the boys found out he would never hear the end of jt. When the girls found out, they would never speak to him again as long as he lived．

He prayed this prayer, "Dear God, I need help now! Five minutes from now I'm dead meat!" He looked up from his prayer and here came the teacher with a look in her eyes that said he had been discovered．As the teacher was walking toward him, a classmate named Susie was carrying a goldfish bowl full of water．Susie tripped （绊倒） in front of the teacher and dumped （倒） the bowl of water in the boy's lap．The boy pretended to be angry, but all the while was saying to himself, "Thank you．Lord!"

Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of ridicule, the boy was the object of sympathy．The teacher rushed him downstairs and gave him gym shorts to put on while his trousers dried out．All the other children were on their hands and knees cleaning up around his desk．The sympathy was wonderful．But as life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his had been transferred （转移） to someone else—Susie．She tried to help, but they told her to get out．

When school was over, the boy walked over to Susie and whispered, "You did that on purpose, didn't you?" Susie whispered back, "I wet my trousers once, too!"

1.The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 means ____        .

A．the boys would never play with him

B．the boys would treat him as usual

C. he would hardly hear any praise from the boys

D．he would be laughed at by the boys endlessly

2.After Susie dumped water in his lap, the boy was in a state of ___     

    A．excitement       B．relief          C．anxiety      D．anger

3.What did the other kids do after the incident?

A．They offered him dry clothes．       

B．They laughed at the boy rudely,

C．They helped the boy do the cleaning．   

D．They urged the boy to get out angrily,

4.Why did Susie dump water in the boy's lap?

A．The boy asked her to do so．        

B．She just did it by accident．

C．The teacher tripped her on purpose．        

D．She knew the boy's embarrassment．

 

Once upon a time a washer man(洗衣工) had two donkeys（毛驴）. Let’s say Donkey-A and Donkey-B.

Donkey –A felt it was very 36 and could do better than the other. It always tried to 37 more load(担子) and walk fast in front of the washer man.

Innocent(无辜的) Donkey-B was 38, so it would walk normally, regardless of(不管/不顾) the washer man’s preference. 39 a period of time, the washer man started urging Donkey-B to be like Donkey-A.

Donkey-B, unable to walk fast, got continuous 40 from the washer man. It cried and said personally to Donkey-A, “Dear friend, only we two are here, why do we have to 41 with each other? We can carry 42 load at normal speed.

That made Donkey-A more energetic（精力充沛的）and it told the washer man that it could carry more load and 43 faster. The washer man started 44 Donkey-B to make it run faster. During the following days, Donkey-A carried more load and started running even faster.

But it was hard for Donkey-B to 45 that way. The washer man was disappointed, 46 he punished Donkey-B terribly, and finally it fell down 47.

Then the load of Donkey-B was also being 48 by Donkey-A, and still it had to run fast. Finally due to great tiredness it got tired and started feeling the 49.

But the washer man 50 more from Donkey-A. It tried its best, but couldn’t 51 his owner’s expectations. The washer man got angry with Donkey-A and started 52 it to take more load. But it couldn’t come to the owner’s 53. Finally the day came when due to disappointment the washer man killed Donkey-A and began 54 some other donkeys.

Think all colleagues(同事)are just the same and that everyone is 55. Don’t feel happy when your colleague is under pressure.

1.                A．energetic       B．friendly         C．dangerous D．gentle

 

2.                A．learn          B．pay            C．carry D．give

 

3.                A．wise           B．worried         C．proud    D．normal

 

4.                A．Later          B．Before         C．After D．Ago

 

5.                A．punishment     B．information      C．comfort  D．encouragement

 

6.                A．work           B．live            C．compete  D．fix

 

7.                A．large           B．heavy          C．extra D．equal

 

8.                A．grow           B．run            C．drive D．fall

 

9.                A．kicking         B．killing          C．catching  D．bathing

 

10.               A．cry            B．breath         C．act   D．say

 

11.               A．if             B．because        C．but   D．so

 

12.               A．loudly          B．hopelessly      C．gladly D．carelessly

 

13.               A．moved         B．sold           C．taken D．bought

 

14.               A．loss           B．pain           C．anger D．heat

 

15.               A．expected       B．suffered        C．got   D．heard

 

16.               A．make          B．put up with      C．achieve   D．stay away from

 

17.               A．begging        B．forcing         C．reminding D．advising

 

18.               A．challenge       B．deadline        C．expectation    D．chances

 

19.               A．catching        B．caring for       C．raising D．searching for

 

20.               A．capable（有能力的）              B．successful C．satisfied   D．welcome

 

 

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Some years ago when I was in my first year in college, I heard Salome Bey sing for the first time. The moment was exciting. Salome’s __36__ filled the room and brought the theater to life. I was so __37__ that I decided to write an article about her.

I __38__ Salome Bey, telling her I was from Essence magazine, and that I wanted to meet her to talk about her career. She __39__ and told me to come to her studio next Tuesday. When I hung up, I was scared out of my mind. I __40__ I was lying. I was not a writer at all and hadn’t even written a grocery list.

I interviewed Salome Bey the next Tuesday. I sat there __41__, taking notes and asking questions that all began with, “Can you tell me…” I soon realized that __42__ Salome Bey was one thing, but writing a story for a national magazine was just impossible. The __43__ was almost unbearable. I struggled for days __44__ draft after draft. Finally I put my manuscript (手稿) into a large envelope and dropped it into a mailbox.

It didn’t take long. My manuscript  __45__. How stupid of me! I thought. How could I __46__ in a world of professional writers? Knowing I couldn’t __47__ the rejection letter, I threw the unopened envelope into a drawer.

Five years later, I was moving to California. While __48__ my apartment, I came across the unopened envelope. This time I opened it and read the editor’s letter in __49__:

Dear Ms Profit,

Your story on Salome Bey is fantastic. Yet we need some __50__ materials. Please add those and return the article immediately. We would like to __51__ your story soon.

Shocked, it took me a long time to __52__. Fear of rejection cost me dearly. I lost at least five hundred dollars and having my article appear in a major magazine. More importantly, I lost years of __53__ writing. Today, I have become a full-time writer. Looking back on this __54__, I learned a very important lesson: You can’t __55__ to doubt yourself. 

1.A. joy                              B. voice                            C. speech                           D. smile

2.A. proud                        B. active                    C. satisfied                        D. moved       

3.A. visited                  B. emailed                     C. phoned                        D. interviewed

4.A. agreed                     B. refused                       C. hesitated                              D. paused

5.A. admitted                  B. discovered                 C. explained                      D. knew

6.A. seriously                   B. patiently                     C. nervously                    D. quietly

7.A. blaming                    B. fooling              C. inviting                         D. urging

8.A. hardship                  B. failure                          C. comment                        D. pressure

9. A. with                         B. by                                C. on                                  D. in

10.A. disappeared          B. returned                              C. spread                         D. improved

11.A. compare               B. struggle                               C. survive                          D. compete

12.A. ignore                     B. deliver                        C. face                                D. receive

13.A. decorating           B. repairing                     C. cleaning                       D. leaving

14.A. disbelief                 B. anxiety                            C. horror                           D. panic

15.A. subjective              B. relevant                     C. private                          D. reliable

16.A. broadcast              B. create                         C. publish                          D. assess

17.A. recover                        B. prepare                       C. escape                          D. concentrate

18.A. constant                  B. endless                         C. typical                             D. enjoyable

19.A. experience            B. success                        C. benefit                                D. accident

20.A. attempt             B. afford                            C. expect                     D. pretend

 

Dear Florence,

We arrived in India last week, and the voyage was the worst experience of my entire life. I’m lucky to be alive!

The first part of the journey was terrible, because the ship hit bad weather almost as soon as we left Liverpool. But much, much worse was to come. Later, we were involved in a collision with another boat and we had to abandon ship!

We had been at sea for about two weeks and we were in the Mediterranean. There is now a canal between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea called the Suez Canal, which opened last year. Our boat stopped at Port Said, the Egyptian port at the entrance to the canal. I remember looking through the porthole of my cabin and wishing that I could go ashore and visit this fascinating place, but mummy had ordered that I was to stay in the cabin because I was feeling ill. “you must stay here for at least another two days.” I remember her saying. How wrong she would turn out to be! The ship left the port and headed towards the canal . I was alone in the cabin and I watched the port disappear into the distance. Suddenly there was a loud bang, followed by the most awful crunching（嘎吱的）sound, and the ship shook and turned slightly on its side.

There was an eerie silence for a moment, then people started shouting. Mummy came running into the cabin and told me that we had collided with another boat. She took my hand and we ran along the deck towards the lifeboats. There was a lot of shouting and people were running everywhere, but the crew were all acting calmly, helping people into the lifeboats and telling people not to panic.

Well, clearly we survived, as did all the passengers and crew of the ship. The other boat wasn’t so lucky. It sank and several lives were lost.

I will write about the rest of the journey soon. Please give my love to Aunt Claire and Uncle Eric.

Your loving cousin,

Jane

56．1.When was the letter written?

A．Before the author went to India.	B．In the mid – 19th century.
C．When the author arrived in Egypt.	D．Just after the author arrived in India.

57．2.Why was the journey to India such a bad experience for the author?

A．She was sick when it started and nearly died in Egypt.

B．Her ship left England in bad weather and crashed into another ship near the Suez Canal.

C．She was seasick when her ship sank.

D．She was alone when her ship hit another boat and she got sick.

58．3.The author’s mother didn’t allow her to go ashore and visit the port city, Said because      .

A．she was homesick at that time

B．she didn’t feel very well then

C．she could meet some danger ashore

D．she could see the city through the porthole on board

59．4.The underlined phrase “eerie silence” in the sixth paragraph means         .

A．pleasant calm silence	B．long peaceful silence
C．sudden long silence	D．strange uncomfortable silence

 

Dear Daughter,

As we drove off from Columbia, I wanted to write to tell you all that is on my mind. First, I want to tell you how proud we are. Getting into Columbia is a real testament (证明) of what a great well-rounded student you are. You should be as proud of yourself as we are.

Your college years will be the most important of your life. It is in college that you will discover what learning is about. This will be the period when you go from teacher taught to master inspired, after which you must become a self-learner. So do take each subject seriously, and even if what you learn is of no practical use in real life, the learning skills you get will be something you will value forever.

Follow your passion in college. Take courses you think you will enjoy, don't be bothered by what others think or say, but make up your own mind. Most importantly, make true friends and be happy. Don't worry about their hobbies, grades, looks, or even personalities.

Start planning early what you'd like to do. Where would you like to live? What would you like to learn? I think your plan to study fashion is good, and you should decide where you want to be, and get onto the right courses. I will always be there for you, but the time has come for you to be in the driver's seat-this is your life, and you need to be in control. Being in control feels great. Try it, and you'll love it!

So please treasure your college years - make the best use of your free time, become an independent thinker in control of your destiny, and learn through your successes and challenges.

May your years at Columbia be the happiest of your life, and may you grow into just what you dream to be.

Love

Dad & Mom

1.We can read between the lines that ________.

A．Dad has a strong love for his daughter

B．Dad is very strict with his daughter

C．Dad always worries about his daughter

D．Dad is much concerned about his daughter's health

2.The underlined word "destiny" in the passage is the closest in meaning to "_______".

A．weight            B．life               C．position           D．time

3.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Plan things before you do them.

B．Self－learning is very important in college.

C．Follow your passion and what other people say.

D．Leading a life is just like driving a car.

4.The purpose of the author in writing the letter is to tell his daughter to ________.

A．smile to her trouble in life

B．fight till she succeeds

C．be confident and happy

D．make the most of her college