Adults（成年人）usually do not remember most of the things that are taught by their teachers at school. But this story is one such lesson that I will never forget. Every time I drift off course, I think of this story.

       It was a normal Monday morning, and my teacher was teaching us on important things in life and about devoting ourselves to what is important to us. This is how the story went:

       An old man lived in a certain part of London, and he would wake up every morning and go to the subway. He would get onto the train right to Central London, and then sit at the street corner and beg（乞讨）. He would do this every single day of his life. He sat at the same street corner and begged for almost 20 years.

       His house was dirty, and a stench (恶臭) came out of the house and it smelled terrible. The neighbors could not stand the smell any more, so they called for the police officers to clear the place. The officers knocked down the door and cleaned the house. There were small bags of money all over the house that he had collected over the years.

       The police counted the money, and they soon realized that the old man was a millionaire (百万富翁). They waited outside his house expecting to share the good news with him. When the old man arrived home that evening, one of the officers told him that there was no need for him to beg any more as he was a rich man now, a millionaire.

       But the old man said nothing at all; he went into his house and locked the door. The next morning he woke up as usual, went to the subway, sat at the street corner and continued to beg.

       Clearly, this old man had no great plans, dreams or anything significant (有意义的) for his life. We learn nothing from this story other than（除了）staying focused on（专心于）the things we enjoy doing.

The underlined part in the first paragraph may mean ______.

A. I get tired of learning my subjects

B. I fail to listen to lessons attentively

C. I go in the wrong direction of life

D. I wouldn’t like to go to school

The neighbor called the police because ______.

A. the old man kept begging money from them every day

B. there was something dangerous in the old man’s house

C. the old man wouldn’t buy tickets for the train

D. they couldn’t bear the smell from the old man’s house

When the old man knew he was a millionaire, he ______.

A. remained calm        B. became excited  

C. felt worried         D. became nervous

What lesson do we learn from the story?

A. Make great plans for your life.          

B. Keep on doing what you like.

C. Do something that is good to society.     

D. Depend on yourself rather than others.   

 Years ago, if a teenager had some problems in his life, he might go home and write in his diary; now, a teenager with  26  problems might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog（博客）．In many ways, a diary and a blog are very  27  ．But what makes blogging different from writing in a（n） 28  diary?

       The biggest difference is that a blog is much more   29   than a diary. Usually, a teenager treats his diary like a book full of   30   that he does not want to   31  with others.

It’s interesting that someone who writes in a blog   32  a diary will probably write nearly the same information.

I have a little sister, and sometimes I go online to read her   33  . She writes about things like waking up early for swimming practice and not studying enough for her chemistry test.  34  I was her age, I wrote about the same things, but   35  in my dairy. Then, after I had finished writing, I would hide my diary in a secret place because I was  36  that my sister might read it.

The biggest   37   with blogging is that anyone can read what you write. If I was angry with a friend during high school and wrote something   38  about him in my diary, he would never know.  39  ,  if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend, that friend might   40  her blog and get angry.

There are also   41   to blogging, of course. If I was feeling sad one day and wrote in my diary, “ Nobody cares about me”, because no one would   42  about it. However, if my sister wrote the same sentence in her blog, her best friends would quickly   43   and tell her how much they  44   her. Blogs help people   45  in contact with their friends and know what the people around them are doing.

1.A. the same B. interesting  C. difficult D. daily

2.A．simple          B．special    C．similar             D．different

3.A．personal l       B．ordinary            C．meaningful         D．traditional

4.A．attractive      B．public      C．exciting             D．quick

5.A．thoughts       B．puzzles              C．ideas              D．secrets

6.A．tell          B．sh4re     C．publish                 D．solve

7.A．instead of       B． as well as       C．except for          D． besides

8.A．blog             B．diary       C．report            D．web

9.A．Although         B．Since              C．When                  D．Because

10.A．only     B．already             C．still         D．never

11.A．angry           B．sad          C．glad        D．worried

12.A． problem        B． doubt           C． question         D． mistake

13.A．boring      B．wrong             C．mean          D．funny

14.A．So           B．However          C．Therefore               D．Then

15.A．steal                 B．break         C．write                    D．read

16.A． reasons         B． wishes       C． shortcomings     D． advantages

17.A． care     B． know          C． think D． ask

18.A． prepare        B． begin         C． respond    D． feel

19.A． like       B． miss  C． need D． stand

20.A． lose      B． stay   C． leave          D． find

 

“I find myself glancing at my watch to see how long I’ve been standing in line,” she said. “Everywhere I go, I notice if the dumpster(垃圾罐)gates are open or if there’s trash in the parking lot.” Ms. Clark is a “mystery shopper”, one of thousands of contract workers that companies hire to pretend as regular customers in order to judge customer service, cleanliness and whether a store is selling a product that meets company specifications (规格).

Mystery shoppers can be found or, rather, not found, everywhere from restaurants and automotive shops to convenience stores and department stores. They play a constant cat-and-mouse game with store and restaurant employees and managers. However it’s not all fun and games. Once in the field, a mystery shopper will typically visit several stores or restaurants per hour, taking mental notes while inside, then jotting down physical notes after they leave.

It’s important for mystery shoppers to be as exact as possible, because the client companies are looking for data they can use to improve their service. The questionnaire won’t say, “Does the trash can need to be emptied?” What an educated shopper will say is, “The trash can to the left of the front door was overflowing with 10 pieces of trash on the ground.” Companies don’t need opinion but facts.

Nowadays mystery shoppers are armed with a number of high-tech devices, such as a digital scale and a digital thermometer, as well as a handheld PC for recording the entire experience. It’s a challenging job but a rewarding one. Mystery shoppers can be full time or part time, but the full-time workers tend to stick to standard mystery shopping while part-timers often choose the less complex reward-based programs. In those , the shoppers stay disguised(装扮的) only until the “shop” is finished, and then reveal (透漏) themselves to the store management and award prizes to employees who provided excellent service.

To be a mystery shopper, it’s important to be a good observer, but sometimes it’s important to have the right profile(外表), too. Companies often hire shoppers from particular backgrounds to better blend in with clients’ regular customers. If a secret shopper will be sent in, for example, to do a high-end automotive shop, the candidate must have a particular profile that meets a high-end, luxury car-type buyer profile. “It’s a challenge to perform your shop without being discovered,” Ms. Clark said, “because most of the people that we work for are very aware of the mystery shopping program.”

67. According to the text a “mystery shopper” would not have to        .

A. sign a contract with the employer     B. travel a lot around the city

C. provide exact facts to the company D. fill in questionnaires  

68. We learn from the text that Ms. Clark        .

A. visits some shops regularly and sometimes does something special

B. pretends to be a shopper and evaluates the services

C. is a government official looking into the services

D. is a manager of a company offering good services

69. People are willing to become a mystery shopper mainly because they can        .

A. get the best service and get paid at the same time

B. play a cat-and-mouse game with shop employees and managers

C. do the job either full time or part time and get paid well

D. observe clearly what happens in the shops

70. What does the underlined word “those” in the 4th paragraph refer to?

A. The shops where the mystery shoppers go.      

B. The less complex reward-based programs.

C. Part-time jobs.             

D. Excellent services.

 

 

第三部分 阅读技能 (共三节，满分35分)

 阅读理解 （共12小题；每小题2分，满分24分）

阅读下列短文，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。

I am an e-mail user. When I first started to use the e-mail system, I used to read all my e-mail. I didn’t have much mail. I gave my friends my e-mail address. Soon I had more mail than I wanted. Some of the mail was junk mail. I was worried. I didn’t want my mail to control me.

I’ve tried some methods to help me get control of my mail. First, I check my mail at the same time every day. Also I try to allow myself only 15-20 minutes every day to process my e-mail. This doesn’t always work, but I try. Sometimes I save the messages. Sometimes I just read them, maybe answer a few, and then delete（删除）them.

Sometimes I’m not at all interested in a message, so I don’t even open it. I delete it right away. This is very much the way I go through the mail that the postal service delivers to my home.

These methods are very simple. I have some friends who are very clever with computers. From time to time, they teach me new tricks for managing my e-mail. I’m still amazed at what e-mail can do for me! I’m still worried, however, about having too much to read.  

1. The writer used to read all his e-mail because _______. 

   A. he didn’t have much mail                      B. he had nothing else to do

   C. he didn’t know how to read mail            D. he was forced to do that

2. Which of the following does NOT belong to the ways of the writer’s dealing with his mail?

   A. Saving the messages.                    B. Just reading some.  

C. Deleting some.                         D. Passing some on to friends.

3. What does the underlined word “they” in the last paragraph refer to?

   A. messages             B. friends                         C. computers             D. methods

4. What’s the purpose of the writer to write this passage?

   A. To share happiness in using mail with us.

   B. To share some worries in using mail with us.

   C. To share some methods of using computer with us.

   D. To persuade us out of using mail.

 

I fell in love with England because it was quaint (古雅)—all those little houses, looking terribly old-fashioned but nice, like dolls’ houses. I loved the countryside and the pubs, and I loved London. I’ve slightly changed my mind after seventeen years because I think it’s an ugly town now.

Things have changed. For everybody, England meant gentlemen, fair play, and good manners. The fair play is going, unfortunately, and so are the gentlemanly attitudes and good manners—people shut doors heavily in your face and politeness is disappearing.

I regret that there are so few comfortable meeting places. You’re forced to live indoors. In Paris I go out much more, to restaurants and nightclubs. To meet friends here it usually has to be in a pub, and it can be difficult to go there alone as a woman. The cafes are not terribly nice.

As a woman, I feel unsafe here. I spend a bomb on taxis because I will not take public transport after 10 p. m. I used to use it, but now I’m afraid.

The idea of family seems to be more or less non-existent in England. My family is well united and that’s typically French. In Middlesex I had a neighbour who is 82 now. His family only lived two miles away, but I took him to France for Christmas once because he was always alone.

1.The writer doesn’t like London because she ______.

A．has lived there for seventeen years

B．prefers to live in an old-fashioned house

C．is not used to the life there now

D．has to be polite to everyone she meets there

2.Where do people usually meet their friends in England?

A．In a pub.          B．In a cafe.          C．In a restaurant.     D．In a nightclub.

3.The writer took her neighbour to France for Christmas because he ______.

A．had never been to France                 B．was from a typical French family

C．didn't like the British idea of family          D．felt lonely in England