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  I went to Beijing this National holiday, and it was an interesting experience of my life.

  My friends told us the taking the“hard   1  ”to Beijing would be really terrible.So we didn't know what to   2  .But we were pleasantly surprised when we finally boarded the   3  , which was relatively modern and   4  .During the 14-hour ride we ate peanuts and talked.It was not   5   at all.

  It was morning when we arrived.We stepped out of the railway station, having sat in hard seats and not getting much   6  .However, we had energy.First we tried to get return tickets to Shanghai, but the ticket seller   7   us that tickets would not be on   8   for another two days.We were a little worried about getting   9  , but we made up our minds to   10   for the hotel to put our bags down.After   11   our way past the“gypsy”taxi drivers that tried to   12   us 100 yuan for the ride, we found a taxi and it   13   cost us 30 yuan to get   14   we had planned to go.When we reached the hotel, there was a   15   for airplane and train tickets.Somehow the man behind the counter could get tickets that day, which we   16  .The most important lesson about China I ever   17   is to get someone to do your work for you, and it seems to work out much   18  .We were not able to get tickets, but the travel agents could.

  While in Beijing we saw a lot of places of   19  , most of which were very   20  .It was fun to be with thousands of people in one place.There aren't any words to describe it.

(1)

[  ]

A.

chair

B.

bed

C.

seat

D.

bench

(2)

[  ]

A.

provide

B.

expect

C.

happen

D.

think

(3)

[  ]

A.

plane

B.

bus

C.

ship

D.

train

(4)

[  ]

A.

quick

B.

clean

C.

simple

D.

long

(5)

[  ]

A.

bad

B.

good

C.

easy

D.

happy

(6)

[  ]

A.

trouble

B.

food

C.

sleep

D.

help

(7)

[  ]

A.

asked

B.

informed

C.

advised

D.

persuaded

(8)

[  ]

A.

time

B.

show

C.

duty

D.

sale

(9)

[  ]

A.

behind

B.

out

C.

through

D.

back

(10)

[  ]

A.

start

B.

ask

C.

see

D.

pay

(11)

[  ]

A.

passing

B.

seeing

C.

looking

D.

fighting

(12)

[  ]

A.

offer

B.

charge

C.

bargain

D.

share

(13)

[  ]

A.

even

B.

still

C.

also

D.

only

(14)

[  ]

A.

what

B.

which

C.

where

D.

how

(15)

[  ]

A.

window

B.

seat

C.

chair

D.

wood

(16)

[  ]

A.

wouldn't

B.

couldn't

C.

shouldn't

D.

needn't

(17)

[  ]

A.

learned

B.

taught

C.

offered

D.

heard

(18)

[  ]

A.

harder

B.

earlier

C.

later

D.

easier

(19)

[  ]

A.

interests

B.

interested

C.

interest

D.

interesting

(20)

[  ]

A.

interesting

B.

crowded

C.

famous

D.

noisy

It's not a new phenomenon, but have you noticed how many nouns are being used as verbs? We all use them, often without noticing what we're doing.

I was arranging to meet someone for dinner last week, and I said “I’ll pencil it in my diary”, and my friend said “You can ink it in”, meaning that it was a firm arrangement not a tentative one!

Many of these new verbs are linked to new technology. An obvious example is the word fax, which is a shortening of facsimile originally, an exact copy of a book or document. We all got used to sending and receiving faxes, and then soon started talking about faxing something and promising we'd fax it immediately. So, nouns turn into verbs in two easy stages. Then along came email, and we were soon all emailing each other madly. How did we do without it? I can hardly imagine life without my daily emails.

Email reminds me, of course, of my computer and its software, which has produced another couple of new verbs. On my computer I can bookmark those pages from the World Wide Web that I think I'll want to look at again, thus saving all the effort of remembering their addresses and calling them up from scratch. I can do the same thing on my PC, but there I don't bookmark; I favorite—coming from “favorite pages”, so the verb is derived from an adjective not a noun. I wasn’t really sure whether people said this, but someone told me recently that they had favorited a site I was looking for and so they could easily give me its address.

In the late 1980s I noticed that lots of my friends had acquired pagers, and kept saying things like “I’ll page you as soon as I know what time we’re meeting”. They couldn't say it to me, though; I refused to have one. So my children bought me a mobile phone, now known simply as a mobile and I had to learn yet more new verbs. I can message someone, that is, I can leave a message (either spoken or written)for them on their phone.Or I can text them, write a few words suggesting when and where to meet, for example. How long will it be before I can mobile them, that is, phone them using my mobile? I haven’t heard that verb yet, but I’m sure I will soon. Perhaps I’ll start using it myself!  

60. “I’ll pencil it in my diary” in the second paragraph probably means              .

A. it was a firm arrangement            

B. it was an uncertain arrangement

C. the arrangement should be written as a diary    

D. he prefers a pencil to a pen

61. A website address can be easily found if it has been            .

A. emailed            B. messaged          C. favorited          D. texted

62. Which of the following has not been used as a verb yet?

A. message            B. page                 C. email               D. mobile

63. The best title for this passage is           .

A. New Verbs from Old Nouns    

B. The Development of the English language

C. New Technology and New words     

D. Technology and Language

  I shook hands with my father in the truck,and for a long time he looked straight ahead and didn’t say a word.But I knew he was going to say a little to me.“I can’t tell anything,” he finally said.“I never went to college,and none of your brothers went to college.I can’t say don’t do this and do that,because everything is different and I don’t know what is going to come up.I can’t help much with money either,but I think things will work out.”

  He gave me a new check?book.“If things get pushing,write a small check.But when you write one,send me a letter and let me know how much.There are some things we can always sell.” In four years all the checks I wrote were less than a thousand dollars.My part?time jobs such as reading to the blind student and sitting with the teachers’ kids filled in the financial gaps.

  “You know what you want to be,and they’ll tell you what to take,” my father went on.“When you get a job,be sure it’s honest,and work hard.” I knew that soon I would be alone in the big town,and I would be missing the cool winds and a life where your thinking was done for you.

  Then my dad reached down beside his seat and brought the old,broken Bible that he had read so often,the one he used when he wanted to look something up in a friendly quarrel with one of the neighbours.I knew he would miss it.I knew,though,that I must take it.

  He didn’t say read this every morning.He just said,“This can help you if you will let it.”

  Did it help? I got through college without being a burden on the family.I have been able to make money since.

1.What is the writer’s main purpose (目的) in writing this passage?

  A.To tell the readers his life story.

  B.To tell people what kind of person his father was.

  C.To let people know how poor he was.

  D.To tell the readers what present he got from his father.

 

2.Why did the father not ask his son not to do this and do that?

  A.Because he felt quite confident of him.

  B.Because he was born from a poor family.

  C.Because he was a man of few words.

  D.Because he didn’t want to be much too strict with him.

 

3.What would you learn from this passage?

  A.How to live by oneself.

  B.How to stand on one’s own feet.

  C.What a good father should do.

  D.What the self?important is like.

 

4.What may be the proper Chinese for the underlined part in the passage?

  A.闲暇时光。         B.学费。

  C.经济不足。         D.精神空虚。

 

5.What kind of book did the Bible seem to be to the writer’s father?

  A.It was a book which told you how you should get on well with others.

  B.There were many good examples for you to copy in it.

  C.It was a book that told you how to get a good job and a good future.

  D.It was a good book that could help you when you were in trouble.

 

No one can believe that the over 6 300-kilometer long Great Wall might disappear some day.Believe it or not,the Great Wall is being destroyed by people.Less than 20 percent of the Great Wall built in the Ming Dynasty is still perfect,but about 80 percent is in danger.The Great Wall can be called “great” mostly because of its amazing length.But we should realize that the length was made up of one brick at a time.If we do nothing to save the Great Wall,it will become a series of separate wasteland rather than a historic site.

The Great Wall is actually a series of walls built and rebuilt by different dynasties over the past 2 000 years.It began in the rule of China’s first emperor,Qin Shihuang of the Qin Dynasty (221 BC~206 BC),and lasted into the Ming Dynasty.The parts built before the Ming Dynasty have nearly disappeared.People are familiar with sections such as Badaling in Beijing and Jiayuguan Pass in Gansu because they have been open to tourists for many years.But those sections far away from the public eyes have been almost forgotten.

Few local people knew the 3-meter-high walls made of earth and stones beside them are part of the Great Wall.The lack of knowledge is considered as one of the main reasons behind human.

The bricks on the Great Wall are carried off by countryside people to build their houses,sheep corral(畜栏) and pigsties(猪圈).Some were taken away to build roads.Bricks carved with people’s names are put away as remembrance.Rubbish is spread over the battlements(城垛).The bricks can be sold for 15 yuan per tractor load.Those who destroyed and are destroying the Great Wall know its name,but are not clear about its cultural meaning.It will take a long time to let them know this.The local farmers not only carried off the body of the Wall but dug out the entire base.

It is necessary to protect the Great Wall.First of all,the officials should be aware of theimportance of the Great Wall.Young Chinese should know more about the nation’s great civilization (文明)and learn to love it.

1.The main reason for which the Great Wall can be called“great”is__________.

A.it was made by brick          B.it was very wide

C.it was very long            D.it had a long history

2.Why does the author say the Great Wall might disappear?

A.It is useless from now on.         B.It will be replaced by a new one.

C.Some parts of it are being destroyed.     D.It’s too old to be used again.

3.The underlined part “those sections far away from the public eyes” refers to the parts of the Great Wall__________.

A.that are too difficult to understand    B.nobody can watch

C.that are too far to been seen       D.that are not well known to the public

4.What’s the main reason of the Great Wall’s being destroyed?

A.The local people are short of culture knowledge.

B.The local people need bricks and stones to build houses.

C.The local people think that the Great Wall is not important.

D.The local people are against the government.

 

Arthur Miller (1915—2005) is universally recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century. Miller's father had moved to the USA from Austria-Hungary, drawn like so many others by the “Great American Dream”. However, he experienced severe financial hardship when his family business was ruined in the Great Depression of the early 1930s.

  Miller's most famous play, Death of a Salesman, is a powerful attack on the American system, with its aggressive way of doing business and its insistence on money and social status as indicators of worth. In Willy Loman, the hero of the play, we see a man who has got into trouble with this system. Willy is “burnt out” and in the cruel world of business there is no room for sentiment: if he can't do the work, then he is no good to his employer, the Wagner Company, and he must go. Willy is painfully aware of this, and at a loss as to what to do with his lack of success. He refuses to face the fact that he has failed and kills himself in the end.

  When it was first staged in 1949, the play was greeted with enthusiastic reviews, and it won the Tony Award for Best Play, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was the first play to win all three of these major awards.

  Miller died of heart failure at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, on the evening of February 10, 2005, the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Death of a Salesman on Broadway.

1.Why did Arthur Miller's father move to the USA?

A.He suffered from severe hunger in his home country.

B.He was attracted by the “Great American Dream.”

C.He hoped to make his son a dramatist.

D.His family business failed

2.What can we learn about Willy Loman?

A.He treats his employer badly.

B.He runs the Wagner Company.

C.He is a victim of the American system.

D.He is regarded as a hero by his colleagues.

3.After it was first staged, Death of a Salesman________.

A.achieved huge success

B.won the first Tony Award

C.was warmly welcomed by salesmen

D.was severely attacked by dramatists

4.What is the text mainly about?

A.Arthur Miller and his family.

B.The awards Arthur Miller won.

C.The hardship Arthur Miller experienced.

D.Arthur Miller and his best-known play.

 

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