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A famous teacher was speaking to the students at our school. He began his lesson by holding up a ￡100 bill. Then he said to the three hundred students, "Who would like to have this ￡100 bill?" The students began to put up their hands at once.

Then he said, "I am going to give this bill to one of you, but first, let me do this." He then made this bill into a ball. Then he said, "Who wants it?" Hands went into the air.

"Well," he said, "What if I do this?" and he dropped it on the floor and stepped on it. He picked up the dirty, crumpled bill and said, "Who still wants it?" Hands went back into the air.

"My friends," he said, "You've learned a valuable lesson today. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it didn't go down in value. It was still worth ￡100.”

“Many times in our lives, we're dropped, crumpled, and stepped on by the chances we take and the things that happen to us. We feel as if we are worth nothing. But remember, no matter what has happened to you, you will never lose your value: you are always valuable to those who love you. Your value doesn't come from what you drop or whom you know, but WHO YOU ARE.”

You are special and valuable. Don't ever forget it!

1.Even though the money was dirty, it _______.

A. went up in value B. was worth much

C. didn't reduce in value D. was still ours

2.The underlined sentence in the third paragraph means_______.

A. the students put up their hands again.

B. the students put down their hands.

C. the students agreed to what the teacher said

D. the students put their hands in front of them

3.Why did the famous teacher use a ￡100 at his lesson?

A. Because he wanted to give a lecture about money.

B. Because he was used to dropping a bill on the floor and stepping on it.

C. Because he was going to give the bill to one of the students.

D. Because he wanted to make the students know what the value was.

4.What lesson can you learn from the passage?

A.￡100 bill is worth the same no matter what you do with it .

B. All people love money most.

C. Your value doesn't change no matter what happens to you.

D. The value of money changes when it is made dirty.

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We all get affected by advertisements in magazines and on radio and television. They promise us and make us believe1. we can buy ideal things with our money.

However, many products. 2. promise to help us realize our dreams, turn out to be of little effect. Their purpose is to persuade the buyer to spend more. Well, knowing the 3. (true) does not stop the victims from 4._______ (attract) by media stunts (噱头)!

Though we are fully aware 5. the artful devices of a toothpaste company, we enjoy the color and pictorial values that we see. Many companies make these pictures with artful imagination. A short film with a simple story and colorful atmosphere6. (create) the desired effect without using many words. Some of 7. best advertisements have even won international praise.

The present age is an age of advertisement. All big and small companies depend on some kind of techniques 8. (catch) a market for their products. Advertising may be make-believe, but it is here to stay. Industries grow 9.________ (extreme) fast and markets are flooded with new products every day. Therefore, 10.________ is necessary that there be some code of ethics (道德准则) to prevent producers making goods below standard and cheating the public.

In an ideal world，people would not test medicines on animals. Such experiments are stressful and sometimes painful for animals，and expensive and time?consuming for people. Yet animal experimentation is still needed to help bridge vast gaps in medical knowledge. That is why there are some 50 to 100 million animals used in research around the world each year.

Europe，on the whole，has the world’s most restrictive(严格的) laws on animal experiments. Even so，its scientists use some 12 million animals a year，most of them mice and rats，for medical research. Official statistics show that just 1.1 million animals are used in research in America each year. But that is misleading. The American authorities do not think mice and rats are worth counting and，as these are the most common laboratory animals，the true figure is much higher. Japan and China have even less comprehensive（全面的） data than America.

Now Europe is reforming the rules governing animal experiments by restricting the number of animals used in labs. Alternatives to animal testing，such as using human tissue or computer models，are now strongly recommended. In addition，sharing all research results freely should help to reduce the number of animals for scientific use. At present，scientists often share only the results of successful experiments. If their findings do not fit the hypothesis（假设） being tested，the work never sees the light of day. This practice means wasting time，money，and animals’ lives in endlessly repeating the failed experiments.

Animal experimentation has taught humanity a great deal and saved countless lives. It needs to continue，even if that means animals sometimes suffer. Europe’s new measures should eventually both reduce the number of animals used in experiments and improve the way in which scientific research is conducted.

1.What is the main idea of this passage?

A. The success of animal experiments should be ensured.

B. A ban on the use of animals in the lab should be enforced.

C. Greater efforts need to be taken to reduce the number of lab animals.

D. Scientists should be required to share their research results with each other.

2.Which of the following statements is true about animals used in the lab?

A. America uses only about 1.1 million lab animals per year.

B. Europe does not use mice and rats as lab animals at all.

C. Britain does not use as many lab animals as China does.

D. Japan has limited data on the number of lab animals used each year.

3.Which of the following is mentioned as an alternative to replace animal experiments?

A. Statistical studies. B. Computer models.

C. DNA planted in animals. D. Tissue from dead animals.

4.What usually happens to unsuccessful animal experiments?

A. They are not made known to the public.

B. They are made into teaching materials.

C. They are collected for future publication.

D. They are not removed from the research topic list.

“My work is done.” Those words were some of the last penned by George Eastman. He included them in his suicide note. They mark an ignoble end to a noble life, the leave taking of a truly great man. The same words could now be said for the company he left behind. Actually, the Eastman Kodak Company is through. It has been mismanaged financially, technologically and competitively. For 20 years, its leaders have foolishly spent down the patrimony of a century’s prosperity. One of America’s bedrock brands is about to disappear, the Kodak moment has passed.

But George Eastman is not how he died, and the Eastman Kodak Company is not how it is being killed. Though the ends be needless and premature, they must not be allowed to overshadow the greatness that came before. Few companies have done so much good for so many people, or defined and lifted so profoundly the spirit of a nation and perhaps the world. It is impossible to understand the 20th Century without recognizing the role of the Eastman Kodak Company.

Kodak served mankind through entertainment, science, national defense and the stockpiling of family memories. Kodak took us to the top of Mount Suribachi and to the Sea of Tranquility. It introduced us to the merry old Land of Oz and to stars from Charlie Chaplin to John Wayne, and Elizabeth Taylor to Tom Hanks. It showed us the shot that killed President Kennedy, and his brother bleeding out on a kitchen floor, and a fallen Martin Luther King Jr. on the hard balcony of a Memphis motel. When that sailor kissed the nurse, and when the spy planes saw missiles in Cuba, Kodak was the eyes of a nation. From the deck of the Missouri to the grandeur of Monument Valley, Kodak took us there. Virtually every significant image of the 20th Century is a gift to posterity（繁荣） from the Eastman Kodak Company.

In an era of easy digital photography, when we can take a picture of anything at any time, we cannot imagine what life was like before George Eastman brought photography to people. Yes, there were photographers, and for ly large sums of money they would take stilted（不自然的） pictures in studios and formal settings. But most people couldn’t afford photographs, and so all they had to remember distant loved ones, or earlier times of their lives, was memory. Children could not know what their parents had looked like as young people, grandparents far away might never learn what their grandchildren looked like. Eastman Kodak allowed memory to move from the uncertainty of recollection, to the permanence of a photograph. But it wasn’t just people whose features were savable; it was events, the sacred and precious times that families cherish. The Kodak moment, was humanity’s moment.

And it wasn’t just people whose features were savable; it was events, the precious times that families cherish. Kodak let the fleeting moments of birthdays and weddings, picnics and parties, be preserved and saved. It allowed for the creation of the most egalitarian art form. Lovers could take one another’s pictures, children were photographed walking out the door on the first day of school, the person releasing the shutter decided what was worth recording, and hundreds of millions of such decisions were made. And for centuries to come, those long dead will smile and dance and communicate to their unborn progeny（子孙）. Family history will be not only names on paper, but smiles on faces.

The cash flow not just provided thousands of people with job, but also allowed the company’s founder to engage in some of the most generous charity in America’s history. Not just in Kodak’s home city of Rochester, New York, but in Tuskegee and London, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He bankrolled（资助） two historically black colleges, fixed the teeth of Europe’s poor, and quietly did good wherever he could. While doing good, Kodak did very well. Over all the years, all the Kodakers over all the years are essential parts of that monumental legacy. They prospered a great company, but they – with that company – blessed the world.That is what we should remember about the Eastman Kodak Company. Like its founder, we should remember how it lived, not how it died. History will forget the small men who have scuttled this company. But history will never forget Kodak.

1.According to the passage, which of the following is to blame for the fall of Kodak?

A. The invention of easy digital photography

B. The poor management of the company

C. The early death of George Eastman

D. The quick rise of its business competitors

2.It can be learnt from the passage that George Eastman .

A. died a natural death of old age.

B. happened to be on the spot when President Kennedy was shot dead.

C. set up his company in the capital of the US before setting up its branches all over the world.

D. was not only interested in commercial profits, but also in the improvement of other people’s lives.

3.Before George Eastman brought photography to people, .

A. no photos has ever been taken of people or events

B. photos were very expensive and mostly taken indoors

C. painting was the only way for people to keep a record of their ancestors.

D. grandparents never knew what their grandchildren looked like.

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When 65_year-old Joan Price got a check in a hospital in November, she knew she wouldn’t be returning to her home. But she to pay her rent so her cat, Isis, would have a place to live in.

Price got something wrong with her liver 40 years ago. She was unable to walk or stand without ________ ---a difficult condition, but her only________ was for Isis. The manager of Price’s building in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, ________ the cat and cleaned her litter box, but Isis, a 2-year_old black cat that Price had________ , was alone. And with no friends or family nearby, Price________that Isis would have no one to care for her.

"I was so anxious. I cried every night," Price ________ Vetstreet. com. “I don’t care about myself. I’m ready. But I am worried if Isis is OK."

Price began ________ rescue groups to find a new home for Isis, but she wasn’t having any luck________Dorian Wagner, a Florida blogger, who often helps local rescues find homes for cats, ________ Price’s unpleasant situation.

Wagner ________ Price’s story with her Facebook community. Soon so many people were________ in helping that Wagner started a Facebook page to ________updates and organize assistance.

The ________quickly found a foster home(寄养家庭)for Isis, but they knew she needed a ________ home, so Wagner partnered with Good Karma Pet Rescue and began to seek whoever hoped to ________Isis.

Soon they found a home with the help of a friend in Michigan, ________ another member of the Facebook group offered to ________ the cat to meet her new owner.

When Price learned that Isis would have a new family, she was________deeply. Just knowing Isis was taken care of gave her much comfort.

1.A. hesitated B. continued C. hoped D. left

2.A. safe B. nice C. peaceful D. lonely

3.A. permission B. assistance C. strength D. question

4.A. problem B. opinion C. purpose D. concern

5.A. followed B.fed C. watched D. protected

6.A. taken up B. taken on C. taken in D. taken over

7.A. guessed B. argued C. worried D. admitted

8.A. told B. called C. approved D. asked

9.A. considering B. contacting C. organizing D. founding

10.A. unless B. after C. until D. when

11.A. heard about B. saw to C. put down D. brought about

12.A. related B. combined C. shared D. compared

13.A. employed B. grateful C. known D. interested

14.A. promote B. provide C. produce D. publish

15.A. man B. woman C. group D. blogger

16.A. lasting B. quiet C. temporary D. lovely

17.A. help B. adopt C. contact D. arrange

18.A. or B. but C. thus D. and

19.A. take B. fetch C. keep D. bring

20.A. satisfied B. touched C. shocked D. attracted

Recently I had a conversation in Beijing with an adult Chinese friend who was complaining how difficult it was to study English. No surprises there. It is a difficult language to master, just like Chinese. I made a few suggestions based on my experience. One involved a very valuable fact which I learned from my high school Latin and Greek teacher, Dr. Smith．He is a gifted linguist （语言学家），and has an amazing ability to remember things, like poetry, essays, speeches, etc．His advice to us students is that for memorization purposes, there is forty minutes each day in which our memory is more acceptable than it is during the other 23 hours and 20 minutes.

This 40-minute "super memory" period is divided into two parts: the 20 minutes before we sleep, and the 20 minutes after we first awake. The theory supporting this is pretty simple. First, the last information we input into our brain before bed has a better chance of taking root than information gained during the noisy daytime; and second, our mind is free of disturbance(干扰) when we first awake in the morning一so more receptive to inputs, like a blank slate（石板）．

I took the advice to heart and it served me well in my school years. In my university days, our Chinese teacher would assign us 200 new vocabulary words each day, on which we would be quizzed（测试）the following day. Without the "magic" 40-minute technique, there's no way I would have passed those daily quizzes.

As far as language study goes, it's not only useful for memorizing vocabulary. It's also a very useful window of time to listen to the language we're studying even with background noise, and even if it's at a level we find difficult to understand. It might be audio（声音的）language study, aids, or just radio, TV or whatever.

Beyond our years of formal(正式的) education, memory skills are hugely important in any career. How many times have we heard a speaker read their speech from a prepared text, or read the word-by-word content of a PowerPoint presentation as they present each slide（投影片）? These are annoying, boring, and less effective ways of communicating. They are almost guaranteed(保证) to lose the audience's close attention and interest, let alone persuade or inspire anyone to do anything. And yet lots of people still make this mistake.

If we use the 40-minute technique, we may not succeed in memorizing our presentation content on a 100% word-by-word basis, but we'll be familiar enough so that we can spend much more time making eye contact with our audience. We will get them in the process, while looking at our text instead of staring at it. This will also free up our hands and arms to convey some extra messages through gesture．

As you see, the technique really works, but like many things, it takes practice to perfect it. Therefore, we'd better find ways to use the language outside of the classroom, as regularly and frequently as possible. One basic rule of language learning is, "Use it, or lose it·”

Seize the forty-minute learning window and we'll bring in a rich harvest of language learning.

1.Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 1？

A. Dr. Smith is born with the great ability to memorize things．

B. It is surprising that English is as difficult to master as Chinese.

C. The author's high school Latin and Greek teacher has a positive influence on him.

D. The author made a few suggestions on learning English based on his teacher's experience.

2.The author's teacher suggested the 40-minute“super memory” period partly because_______.

A. it is less noisy in the forty minutes than in the daytime

B. we are always more peaceful when we awake in the morning

C. our brain is more active in the forty minutes than the other time

D. the last information gained before bed is more likely to remain

3.We can learn from the passage that the 40-minute technique ．

A. ensures that we understand the difficult language

B. helps a speaker in reading his speech from a prepared text

C. helps the author pass those daily quizzes in his university days

D. makes a speaker remember the presentation content completely

4.Which of the following is the best title for this passage？

A. The Best Way to Learn English

B. The Importance of Memory Skills

C. The “Magic” 40-Minute Technique

D. My Advice on Learning English

It is one thing to enjoy listening to good music, but it is quite _________ to perform skillfully yourself.

A. other B. another

C. the other D. others

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Everyone can benefit from making an effort to practice gratitude（感激）every day. The following three steps can help you start feeling more grateful, and appreciative of the good things in your life:

Notice the Good Things in Your Life

1. Pay attention to the small everyday details of your life-nature, people, community, shelter, creature comforts like a warm bed or a good meal. And then start a gratitude journal. Making a commitment to writing down good things each day makes it more likely that we will notice good things as they happen.

Enjoy the Feeling of Gratitude

There are moments when you naturally, right then and there, feel filled with gratitude. These are moments when you say to yourself, "Oh, wow, this is amazing! "or "How great is this!"Pause. 2. Let it sink in . Enjoy your blessings in the moment they happen.

Express Gratitude

Expressing gratitude is more than being polite. 3. Show your appreciation to someone who really did something nice. Say: "It was really kind of you to…,” "You did me a big favor when...," or "Thank you for being there when...". 4. Hold the door open for the person behind you, even if it means waiting a little longer than you normally would.

True gratitude doesn't leave you feeling like you owe other people something-after all, if you've done someone a favor, you probably don't want the person to feel like you expect something back in return. 5.

A. It's about showing your heartfelt appreciation.

B. Notice and absorb that feeling of true gratitude.

C. You can also express gratitude by doing a kindness.

D. It's all about feeling good and creating a cycle of good.

E. Start to notice and identify the things you are grateful for.

F. Help someone without letting the person find out it was you.

G. It's amazing what you notice when you focus on feeling grateful.

—May I tell this to my close friend?

—No，you________. Never let anybody else know about it.

A．needn’t B．shouldn’t C．mustn’ t D．can’t

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