My family moved from Taiwan to a small town in central Georgia,where my dad got a visa for his family and a job. I had just learned English,and from what little I could gather from my classmates,Santa Claus would come down one’s chimney(烟囱) and put toys in one’s stocking on Christmas Eve! What a great country,I thought.After I looked up “stocking” in my Chinese-English dictionary,I knew what I had to do.

On that fateful night,after everyone went to bed,I took my longest,cleanest knee sock and attached it to a nail already on the mantel(壁炉).Obviously,the previous owners of this house were no strangers to this Santa character.

I woke up before everyone else on Christmas Day and ran to the fireplace.To make a sob story short,I was hit with the reality of an empty sock and the biggest lie ever told. I burst into tears,quickly took down the sock,and stuffed it in the back of a drawer.Santa was dead.

Every December since then,the topic of Christmas memories would unavoidably come up,and I would amuse my friends with my poor-little-me story.I had to make it as funny as possible,or else I would cry.

How could I know that Santa was just late? Nine years ago,on Christmas Eve,an older man with a white beard and a red cap knocked on my front door.He said,“I’ve been looking for you for twenty-five years.” He handed me a bulging red stocking,winked,and left.On top of the stocking was a card. It read: “For Becky—I may have missed you in the second grade,but you’ve always lived in my heart.Santa.”

Through tear-blurred eyes,I recognized the handwriting of Jill,a friend I had met just two months before.I later discovered that the older man was her father.Jill had seen the hurt little girl underneath the thirty-something woman and decided to do something about it.

So now I believe that Santa is real.I don’t mean the twinkle-eyed character of children’s mythology(神话) or the creation of American holiday marketers.Those Santas annoy and sadden me.I believe in the Santa Claus that live inside good and thoughtful people.This Santa does not return to the North Pole after a crazy delivery but lives each day purposefully,really listens to friends,and then plans deliberate acts of kindness.

1.What does the underlined part “what I had to do” in Paragraph 1 refer to?

A. Waiting for Santa Claus.

B. Putting a stocking on the mantel.

C. Asking for gifts from her parents.

D. Looking up “stocking” in the dictionary

2.It can be inferred from the passage that the author’s parents ____.

A. didn’t love their child at all

B. didn’t know the previous owners of the house

C. didn’t know much about Christmas tradition

D. didn’t have enough money to buy the author Christmas presents

3.When the author told her friends about the story,she felt ______in her heart.

A. proud B. amusing C. hate D. regret

4.By writing the passage,the author speaks highly of ________

A. friendship

B. parenting

C. religion

D. culture

5.The author of the passage is probably ________.

A. a teenager

B. a primary school student

C. a middle-aged woman

D. a native American

Hilton English Language Center

Information for New Students

CLASS TIME: 8:30A. m.—10:00A. m.,10:30A. m.—12:00A. m.,1:30p.m.—3:00p.m.

The Language Center is open Monday to Friday.Each class has one afternoon free per week.On the first day,go to the lecture hall to check your timetable.

SELF-ACCESS: The language laboratory (Room 1110) is open Monday to Friday from 3:15p.m.to 5:00p.m.for all full-time students.

You can learn how to use computers for language games or word-processing(文字处理).There are tapes for students to borrow to practice their English.Go in and ask the teacher to show you.If you plan to take public examinations,there are dictation and listening comprehension tapes for you to practice with.There are cloze exercises on the computers.Ask your class teacher for a list of past exam essays.Students can borrow tapes to take home but they must be returned after two days.

ATTENDANCE(出勤):All students are expected to attend classes as it is required. Students who do not attend classes will be reported to OSS.Eighty percent attendance is required for students to receive their certificates(证书)when they finish their courses.It is also required by OSS for an extension to your visa.

BOOKS: If students are given course books,the books are their responsibility.If a book is lost,the student will be expected to pay for it.

If students wish to buy books,there is a bookshop in the college specializing in English books (Room 3520).

1.When do classes begin and end on a full day?

A. 8:30A. m.—1:30p.m.

B. 8:30A. m.—3:00p.m.

C. 8:30A. m.—3:15p.m.

D. 3:15p.m.—5:00p.m.

2.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. No teachers are in the language laB.

B. 90% attendance is required for the students.

C. Books can’t be taken out of the center.

D. Students can prepare for exams by listening to tapes.

3.Timetable can be seen in _____.

A. the lecture hall

B. Room 3520

C. the classroom

D. Room 1110

4.Where can students buy books?

A. Room 1110

B. Room 3520

C. the language lab

D. OSS

5.Which of the following is wrong?

A. Each class don’t have lessons for one afternoon every week

B. Students can learn to use computers to learn their language

C. Students can’t take tapes back home

D. All the students should attend the required classes

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。

A Deed a Day

It was a busy day as usual. I was making sandwiches and balancing the phone between my shoulder and chin. The washing machine sounded as my husband walked in with our daughters. We had only about twenty minutes to eat ____ we had to take the girls to their next activity. My husband seemed a bit ____ that dinner was not on the table.

That night, I had a heavy ____,thinking we were becoming taskmasters on an assembly line (流水线).We had become too ____ in our own tasks and not very considerate towards those around us. We needed to do something to bring back some meaning into our lives. It needed to be something that would ____ our own agendas and energize us toward the common good.

I bought a notebook, named it “Our Deed Diary” and held a family meeting. I told my family I wanted us all to think about doing a ___ for others every day. It could be for each other or for people outside our____. And we all needed to write it down in the notebook.

I thought one deed a day was too easy.However,it was actually ____ than it seemed because it had to be something ____ what we had already done.Sending birthday cards to people we already sent cards to every year would not ____.

We had a rough ____.On some days,someone would forget to ____ a good deed,while on other days,we would forget to write our good deeds in the diary.After a few weeks though,I found myself waking up in the morning trying to ____ what good deed I could do for someone that day.My daughters began to rush to me after school to ___ me the good deed they had done.

Now,after a year,I am happy to say that it is making a(n) ____ in our lives.Instead of always ____ what the day will bring for us,we think about what we can do for someone else.

Who would have thought that trying to do a simple kindness a day would be so

17 ? I feel my daughters have felt inner joy that you can only ____ by giving to someone else from your heart.The best thing is that you feel so great about doing something for someone else; you don't even look for or expect anything in ____.So,when someone does return the favor,it is an enormous and positive ___.

1.A. though B. unless C. before D. while

2.A. annoyed B. puzzled C. embarrassed D. frightened

3.A. shoulder B. stomach C. foot D. heart

4.A. absorbed B. interested C. confident D. successful

5.A. repeat B. relate C. refocus D. recall

6.A. kindness B. task C. job D. copy

7.A. room B. home C. school D. town

8.A. stranger B. sweeter C. harder D. bigger

9.A. beyond B. from C. about D. between

10.A. matter B. count C. last D. happen

11.A. time B. life C. start D. idea

12.A. praise B. check C. record D. do

13.A. describe B. decide C. remember D. explain

14.A. bring B. teach C. offer D. tell

15.A. effort B. choice C. difference D. fortune

16.A. forgetting B. believing C. knowing D. wondering

17.A. tiring B. moving C. surprising D. rewarding

18.A. experience B. imagine C. predict D. exchange

19.A. silence B. return C. time D. order

20.A. effect B. bonus C. attitude D. Contribution

As people have accurately observed,smiles are absent from early photographs. In 1852,for instance,a girl sat for her Daguerrotype,her head slightly turned,giving the camera an unsmiling look. She is preserved forever as a very serious girl indeed. Charles Darwin,a loving and playful parent,looks frozen in photographs. Why did our ancestors,from unknown sitters for family portraits(肖像画) to the great and famous,because so sad in front of the camera?

The severity is everywhere in Victorian photographs. However,you don’t have to look very long at these unsmiling old photos to see how incomplete the seemingly obvious answer is-that they are freezing their faces in order to keep still for the long exposure times. In Julia Margaret Cameron’s Portrait of Tennyson,the poet dreams,his face a shadowed mask of genius. This is not simply a technique. It’s an emotional choice.

People in the past did not go around in a continual state of sorrow. In fact,the Victorians had a sense of humor even about the darkest aspects of their society. Laughter was not just common in the past but accepted by society far more than it is today,from medieval carnivals(中世纪狂欢节) to Georgian print shops,where people gathered to look at the latest funnies. Far from preventing festivals and fun,the Victorians,who invented photography,also created Christmas as a celebration as it is today. So the severity of people in the 19th-century photographs cannot be the evidence of generalized sadness. This was not a society in permanent desperation. Instead,the true answer has to do with attitudes to portraiture itself.

People who sat for early photographs understood it as a significant moment. Sitting for the camera was cheaper,quicker and meant that people who never had a chance to be painted could now be photographed; but people seemed to have taken it seriously in the same way they would be a painted portrait. Like a portrait painting,it was intended as a timeless record of a person.

To me those unsmiling people probably had as much fun as we do,if not more. But they felt no need to prove it with pictures. Instead,when whey sat for a photograph,they thought about time,death and memory. Perhaps we should stop smiling sometimes,too.

1.What do we know about the people in Victorian times?

A. They laid importance on religious events.

B. They were skillful at portrait painting.

C. They valued their family life.

D. They enjoyed themselves.

2.The author mentions Portrait of Tennyson in Paragraph 2 to__________.

A. prove a theory

B. support his opinion

C. introduce a painting

D. describe a technique

3.The author thinks early people look frozen in old photos because____.

A. they lived in a traditional society

B. they had to stay still for a long time

C. they regarded photography important

D. they held negative views about painting

4.What is the author’s attitude towards people not smiling in old photos?

A. Skeptical.

B. Critical.

C. Neutral.

D. Positive.

完形填空

阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和 D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Growing older is unavoidable while growing up is optional. These words have been passed on in the loving ____ of Rose.

On the first day of school our professor challenged us to get to know someone, so I ____ to find a little old lady looking at me with a smile. She said, "Hi,handsome! My name is Rose. I'm eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a ____? " I laughed and ____ responded, then followed a giant squeeze. “____ come that are you in college at such an innocent age?” I asked. "I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, have a couple of kids..." I was ____ what it was that motivated her to be taking on this ____ at her age. “ I always dreamed of having a college education and now I ____ it!” Later, we became friends.

Rose became a campus celebrity and she easily made friends ____ she went. On one ___ Rose was invited to speak at our football banquet. Her prepared cards dropped before she ____ the speech. A little ____ , she simply ____ her throat and began," We do not stop playing ____ we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are certain secrets to stay ____ , being happy and achieving success. You've got to have a dream. When you ____ your dreams, you die.”…

At the end of the year Rose finished her college education. One week after graduation Rose died ____ in her sleep. Over two thousand college students ____ her funeral in honor of the wonderful woman who taught by ____ that it's never too late to be all you can possibly be.

Anybody can grow older, which doesn't ____ any talent or ability. The key is to grow up by always finding opportunities in change.

1.A.care B. memory C. need D. want

2.A.turned up B. turned over C. turned around D. turned away

3.A.hug B. kiss C. hand D. gift

4.A.annoyingly B. impatiently C. absently D. Enthusiastically

5.A.Who B.How C.Why D. Whe

6.A.curious B. positive C. obvious D. convinced

7.A.risk B. opportunity C. challenge D. invitation

8.A.like B. take C. hold D. make

9.A.however B. whenever C. wherever D. whatever

10.A. stage B. occasion C. time D. event

11.A. remembered B. continued C. delivered D. wrote

12.A. delighted B. embarrassed C. fascinated D. frightened

13.A. cleared B. checked C. cleaned D. treated

14.A. until B. before C. when D. because

15.A. energetic B. young C. alive D. healthy

16.A. lose B. realize C. pursue D. obtain

17.A. secretly B. sadly C. peacefully D. bitterly

18.A.joined B. ignored C. cancelled D. attended

19.A.example B. directions C. speech D. personality

20.A. gain B. explore C. take D. Appeal

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