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　Six-year-old Lena Fugatt liked to sit beside her grandfather while he drove his 3,000-pound tractor around the family farm．One afternoon Ray Fugatt, 58, took Lean with him when he went to 　1　 a pile of brush．

　He　 2　 gasoline on the pile and set fire to it．The brush 　3　 into flames that engulfed (吞没) him 　4　 ．Screaming, Fugatt fell to the ground and 　5　 to put out the fire．Pushing himself to his 　6　 , he struggled to 　7　 Lena was on the tractor, 30 feet away．“Go get Mema,” he whispered, using Lena's name 　8　 her grandmother．Then he fell down unconsciously (失去知觉) onto the 　9　 field．

　The 　10　 on Fugatt's arms had come off, his chest was a 　11　 of deep fed blisters (泡), and his face was badly burnt．But Lena didn't 　12　 ．Afraid to leave her grandfather alone while she ran for 　13　 , she realized her only 　14　 was to drive the huge tractor to the house, a half mile away．Her grandfather had 　15　 her to drive it alone, but now the 3.5-foot-tall girl decided to do 　16　 that．

　She slid forward on the seat and used her toe to 　17　 the red starter button．The machine moved 　18　 , and Lena struggled to drive it back to the 　19　 ．When the people of emergency services arrived, there were huge 　20　 tracks in the field, showing the girl's 　21　 around trees, bushes and ditches．

　Ray Fugatt 　22　 second-and-third-degree burns 　23　 40 percent of his body but has made almost complete recovery．According to the doctor, he would not have been saved if Lena had not 　24　 so quickly ．“Lena 　25　 her cool, knew what had to be done, and did it．”

　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　

(1) A．burn	B．gather	C．sweep	D．plough	[　　]
(2) A．took	B．fetched	C．poured	D．mixed	[　　]
(3) A．burst	B．became	C．looked	D．broke	[　　]
(4) A．up and down	B．in time	C．later	D．instantly	[　　]
(5) A．jumped	B．stayed	C．rolled	D．ran	[　　]
(6) A．hands	B．feet	C．body	D．legs	[　　]
(7) A．which	B．whichever	C．where	D．wherever	[　　]
(8) A．by	B．for	C．to	D．on	[　　]
(9) A．burning	B．flat	C．wild	D．public	[　　]
(10) A．cover	B．burn	C．blood	D．skin	[　　]
(11) A．rest	B．piece	C．pair	D．mass	[　　]
(12) A．fear	B．afraid	C．leave	D．safety	[　　]
(13) A．help	B．service	C．touch	D．safety	[　　]
(14) A．hope	B．reason	C．comfort	D．action	[　　]
(15) A．allowed	B．forbidden	C．prevented	D．persuaded	[　　]
(16) A．almost	B．even	C．just	D．otherwise	[　　]
(17) A．press	B．pull	C．command	D．catch	[　　]
(18) A．around	B．again	C．ahead	D．across	[　　]
(19) A．services	B．field	C．house	D．hospital	[　　]
(20) A．S-shaped	B．X-shaped	C．direct	D．square	[　　]
(21) A．walk	B．journey	C．match	D．level	[　　]
(22) A．felt	B．enjoyed	C．gained	D．suffered	[　　]
(23) A．on	B．over	C．around	D．from	[　　]
(24) A．driven	B．acted	C．called	D．run	[　　]
(25) A．kept	B．saw	C．recognized	D．pretended	[　　]

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　“A 66-year-old grandmother has become the first elderly woman to bike a distance of 40,000 kilometres,” the Henan Daily reports．

　For seven years, Li Ailan biked through all of the country's 21 inland provinces and five autonomous regions （自治区）and three municipal cities．

　Li is a retired middle-school teacher in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province．

　In her 40 years of teaching, she had suffered from various illnesses．All seemed to have disappeared, however, during her biking journey．

　Since July of 1986, Li has biked alone seven times, even on the mighty（浩大 的）Qinghai-Tibet Plateau（高原）．In April 1993, she took her six-year-old grandson with her through Beijing, Changchun, Tangshan and Beidaihe．

1．This passage is taken from ________．

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A．a book

B．a novel

C．a newspaper

D．Li's diary

2．Which of the following is wrong?　　　

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A．Li is the oldest woman who has biked a distance of 40,000 kilometres．

B．None has biked a distance of 40,000 kilometres．

C．Li gave up teaching in 1996．

D．Li has biked eight times since 1986．

3．She began her teaching ________．

[　　]

A．in 1954

B．when she was about twen ty

C．at the age of twenty-six

D．forty years ago

4．When she taught in a middle-school, ________．

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A．she was very strong

B．she often felt tired

C．she often travelled to some places by bike

D．she was often ill

5．Which title best gives the main idea of the passage?　　　

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A．Elderly Biker

B．Teacher and Grandson

C．Life After Retirement

D．A Traveller

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　　In the age of reality television, success isn't the only way to the public eye. Failure can also create fame, just like William Hung, 21, a native of Hong Kong.

　　Hung recently has made an agreement with US－based entertainment firms Koch Records and Fuse Music Network. They will publish a full－length record, titled “The True Idol(偶像) ” on April 6.

　　The idol is a civil engineering student at the University of California at Berkeley. He did a version(改写本) of Ricky Martin's “She Bangs” on the television show “American Idol 3”, on January 27. The Fox TV singing contest searches for pop stars among ordinary people. In the case of Hung, however, his act was so bad that the judges cut him off in mid－act.

　　Hung's response? “I already gave my best, so I have no regrets at all. ”That's good, because any common person would have found plenty to regret：The off－key singing. The blue Hawaiian shirt worn with pants pulled up too high. The terrible dancing. The hips jerking(摇摆) to a beat that did not belong to the song, maybe not even to this planet. It was, by all accounts, bad.

　　But, it was this very bad act that sold well.

　　Marc Juris, president of Fuse, explained it this way：“Everyone of us is happily guilty of singing our favorite song at the top of our lungs with complete freedom, completely off－key and completely unworried. That's what William did and immediately won the hearts of America.”

　　Whatever it is, for the moment it's big. Three websites devoted to Hung have gone up on the Internet in the past few weeks. Versions of his performance have been remixed with hip hop and techno music and have made it to the top 10 request list at a Chicago radio station.

　　So, what does Hung think of this?

　　“There were all these people saying things about me. A lot were saying I was very courageous and that I was great on the show, but some didn't have much respect for me and some were kind of mean.

　　Now he says he's not so sure whether to distance himself from the glamour(魅力) or to accept it. Returning to normal hasn't been easy.

1．What is the main idea of this passage?

[　　]

A．Sometimes an idol behaves quite foolishly.

B．Hung's performance attracted the public eye.

C．How an unsuccessful person became famous.

D．Success sometimes does not require hard work.

2．Hung was popular in America for all the following reasons EXCEPT ________.

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3．What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 6 refer to?

[　　]

4．Which of the following shows the correct order of what happened to Hung?

a．The entertainment firms made an agreement with Hung.

b．The judges cut Hung off in mid－act in the singing contest.

c．Hung became popular among Americans.

d．Hung gave a terrible performance though he tried his best.

e．Three websites put Hung's funny performance on the Internet.

[　　]

5．Why was Hung able to win the hearts of America?

[　　]

A．His success was based on his own hard work.

B．He attracted people's attention in the contest.

C．He was good－looking though he didn't sing well.

D．His character was completely different from other idols'.

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　　Ernest Miller Hemingway，one of six children， was born into the family of a small town doctor at Oak Park，Illinois， on July 21，1899．His parents wanted him to become a doctor or a musician， but after graduation from high school，he began his writing career（生涯）as sports reporter for the Kansas City Star．

　　When World War I broke out，Hemingway left his job and tried to join the army．After repeated rejections，he was finally accepted as an ambulance driver with the Red Cross in Italy，where he was badly wounded two weeks before his 19th birthday．

　　After the war, Hemingway went to live in Toronto，Canada，where he worked for the Toronto Star．Two years later, in 192l，he went to work for the International News Service．in Paris．From 1921 to 1927，he lived in Europe，where he wrote his first three works：Three Short Stories and Ten Poems（1923）；In Our Time（1924），a collection of short stories；and The Torrents of Spring（1926），a novel，which went unnoticed by the public．

　　With the publication of The Sun Also Rises in 1926，Hemingway's first major success as a novelist was established．This novel is considered by many critics（评论家）to be his finest work．In 1927 Hemingway published a collection of short stories called Men Without women, The following year he returned to the United States, where he lived for the next ten years at Key West, Florida. There he worked on A Farewell to Arms（1929）, a novel based on his World War I experiences. In 1932 Hemingway published Death in the Afternoon, a moving study of bullfighting, a subject in which he had shown a constant interest both in his short stories and in The Sun Also Rises.

　　The Old Man and the Sea（1952）tells of an old Cuban fisherman who, after a run of bad luck, hooks a giant marlin. The story of the old man's struggle with the fish, of his final victory which turns into defeat as sharks attack the catch and reduce it to a skeleton, ends with the words,“Man is not meant for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”The novel led to Hemingway's receiving the Pulitzer Prize given each year for distinguished American fiction.

　　In 1954 the Swedish Academy awarded him the Noble Prize for Literature for“his powerful, style-forming mastery of the art of modern narration, as most recently revealed in The Old Man and the Sea.”

（1）Ernest Hemingway has ever been a (an) ________ Which is wrong?

[　　]

A. sports report

B. soldier

C. short-story writer

D. actor

（2）Hemingway joined the army ________.

[　　]

A. right after graduation from high school

B. as a volunteer

C. in Italy as an ambulance driver

D. without any difficulties

（3）Hemingway was first successful ________.

[　　]

A. after he wrote his first work In Our Time

B. with the publication of The Sun Also Rises

C. When The Old Man and the Sea was published

D. when he worked for the Kansas City Star

（4）How many books of Hemingway are talked in this passage?

[　　]

（5）Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature after ________ was published.

[　　]

A. Men Without Women

B. The Old Man and the Sea

C. The Sun Also Rises

D. In our Time

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　　Treating depression(抑郁症) in the elderly with both medication and psychotherapy(心理) reduces the chance that their depression will return, according to a new study.

　　All of the patients in the study were 60 years of age or older and were followed for three years after the initial depression had been successfully treated with the antidepressant nortriptyline and weekly therapy.

　　Only 20 percent of 22 elderly patients given monthly therapy along with nortriptyline had further bouts of depression in the three years after their initial depression was treated successfully.

　　By comparison, 43 percent of 24 patients given medication alone suffered a recurrence of depression, while 64 percent of 21 patients who received therapy alone had another time of depression.

　　“Depression in late life is common and a major source of disability. Nonetheless, it is very treatable and its return can be prevented, most effectively with a combination of medication and interpersonal therapy, said lead researcher Dr. Charles F. Reynolds III, professor of psychiatry and neuroscience(神经系统科学) at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

　　He suggested that managed－care organizations and medicare alike should pay for combination therapy.

　　The trend has been for insurance plans to pay for antidepressants but not for therapy, he said.

　　About one in six older persons seen in general medical practice, and even more of those living in hospitals and nursing homes, suffer from major depression, Reynolds said.

　　The elderly are vulnerable to depression because they are burdened with illness and may be abandoning certain abilities, such as driving.

　　The elderly also face the loss of loved ones and increasing social isolation. “Perhaps the most important message of this study is that the use of psychotherapy is important in older adults,” said Dr. Dan G. Blazer, professor of psychiatry at Duke University Medical center in Durham, N. C.

　　“While these findings are not a surprise to specialists, it is important that both primary care doctors and patients know the depression can be treated, and that the combination of medication and psychotherapy is superior to the effects of either alone.”

1．What is the best title of this passage?

[　　]

A．A new study in the field of medicine

B．Talk therapy best treat depression in elderly

C．The use of psychotherapy helps the society a lot

D．The elderly should not be isolated

2．Where does the article most probably appear?

[　　]

A．In a school textbook.

B．In a scientific magazine about medication.

C．In a letter written by a psychiatrist.

D．In a government report about the improvement of medication.

3．Which of the following statements is true according to the text?

[　　]

A．The present medical insurance is only targeted at antidepressants instead of other medications.

B．The elderly are especially vulnerable to social isolation.

C．More than one person out of six living in hospitals and nursing homes suffer from major depression.

D．Experts thought that the study was a surprise because it is a new discovery.

4．The article quoted two professors' words in order to ________.

[　　]

A．tell people that they should use psychotherapy more than before

B．show that psychotherapy is better than medication in treating depression in the elderly

C．emphasize that depression in the elderly can be treated

D．express the opinion of both primary care doctors and patients