“Look, it’s Baldy!” A boy shouted in my direction across the playground. Even though I was used to regular insults (侮辱) because of the   11   on my head, it was   12   horrible to hear. I sighed as I was headed back to the class.

When I was just 20 months old, I suffered serious   13   after a bowl full hot oil fell on my head. I was   14   to hospital and had to stay there for weeks while the doctors   15   to save my life. “Holly’s very   16   to be alive,” they told Mum and Dad. “But she’ll be   17   with scars on her head, and of course her hair won’t grow there.”

As a child, I cared much about my scars, so I   18   wore a scarf to cover them up when I left home.   19   I didn’t, people would call me horrible names like Baldy. Although my friends were always comforting me, they never   20   understood how it felt.

Then through the hospital I was   21   to a children’s burns camp, where children like me can get any help. There, I   22   14-year-old Stephanie, whose burns are a lot more serious than mine. But she is so   23   that she never lets anyone put her down. “You shouldn’t   24   what people say about what you look like because we’re not different from anyone else, Holly,” she   25   me. “And you don’t need to wear a scarf because you look great   26   it!” For the first time in my life I could speak to someone who’d been through something   27   . So weeks later, at my 13th birthday party,   28   by her bravery, I gave up my scarf and showed off my scars. It felt amazing not having to   29   away behind my scarf.

Now, I am   30   of what I look like and much happier, because I have realized it is your personality (个性) that decides who you truly are.

11.     

A.        hat

B.        scarf

C.       scars

D.       cuts

12.     

A.        still

B.        just

C.       never

D.       seldom

13.     

A.        hunger

B.        cold

C.       defeats

D.       burns

14.     

A.        rushed

B.        led

C.       invited

D.       forced

15.     

A.        learned

B.        fought

C.       returned

D.       decided

16.     

A.        happy

B.        lucky

C.       lonely

D.       poor

17.     

A.        pressed

B.        occupied

C.       left

D.       painted

18.     

A.        possibly

B.        usually

C.       finally

D.       nearly

19.     

A.        Although

B.        Since

C.       If

D.       Before

20.     

A.        correctly

B.        roughly

C.       easily

D.       really

21.     

A.        promoted

B.        introduced

C.       reported

D.       carried

22.     

A.        met

B.        recognized

C.       remembered

D.       caught

23.     

A.        honest

B.        strong

C.       active

D.       young

24.     

A.        write sown

B.        agree with

C.       pass on

D.       listen to

25.     

A.        promised

B.        encouraged

C.       ordered

D.       calmed

26.     

A.        in

B.        for

C.       without

D.       beyond

27.     

A.        similar

B.        strange

C.       hard

D.       important

28.     

A.        allowed

B.        required

C.       guided

D.       inspired

29.     

A.        hide

B.        give

C.       keep

D.       put

30.     

A.        sick

B.        aware

C.       tired

D.       proud

For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D.  Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
To advertise effectively today, you must abandon the old-school idea of “reaching the masses”. All advertising is local and personal. The key to effective advertising today is to focus on the   50  .
Some are the   51   ways every advertiser could work out. You can print a specific offer of your goods or service on door-hangers and place them on doorknobs in your area. Door-hangers on doorknobs will produce results in direct   52   about the strength of your offer. If you need to reach the drivers, flyer (宣传单) under windshield (挡风玻璃) wipers may have better effect than door-hangers. Imagine, how   53   if you hire someone to be a walking ad or launch a T-shirt advertising,   54  , you can print your products on T-shirts of your   55  . In the early 1970s “Hamp Baker says Drive with Care” was spray-painted on cars, which was a public service ad. Ever since, spray-painted sign has become more and more   56  .
More grand ways are as follows: virtual showroom. Build a website to   57   a virtual showroom. Use it when people call to ask   58   about your company, your products or your services. Also you can even use an old slide projector to put on a nighttime show. They’re   59   effective, and in the long run, cheap. Nothing is quite as powerful as a public   60   that seizes the public’s attention. You can invite a band to give a performance.
61   , you can hire famous models to show it vividly.
Nothing screams “expert” quite as loudly as a book written about a subject. You simply can’t   62   the power of your name on the cover of a book. You might only sell a few copies online, but the copies you give away in your town will make you a fortune. You won’t make money on the book. You’ll make it because of the book.
Of course, word-of-mouth is the best way to promote your   63  . Friends and past customers recommend your products to their family, friends and colleagues. Word-of-mouth works because the   64  is based on previous positive experiences.
50.   A. content                  B. product                           C. individual               D. style
51.   A. strange                  B. common                         C. amusing                D. perfect
52.   A. description           B. decision                          C. discussion             D. permission
53.   A. stupid                     B. funny                               C. impressive            D. ridiculous
54.   A. that is                   B. first of all                        C. as a result             D. generally speaking
55.   A. customers            B. employers                      C. consumers            D. employees
56.   A. expensive              B. valueless                        C. popular                  D. meaningless
57.   A. refer to                  B. serve as                          C. stand for               D. keep off
58.   A. location                 B. business-hours             C. salary                     D. details
59. A. unbelievably         B. consequently                 C. accidentally          D. occasionally
60.   A. speech                            B. sport                                C. debate                            D. performance
61.   A. For example         B. Moreover                       C. However               D. To be exact
62.   A. create                    B. change                                     C. imagine                 D. overuse
63.   A. production            B. friendship                       C. management       D. business
64.   A. information          B. relationship                   C. pronunciation     D. achievement

-There is a very special wolf that lives in Africa. They are actually called, the African wild dog, or painted dogs.
These animals live in open woodlands. or in the plains of Africa. Today, however, most of the animals can be found in eastern or southern Africa. These animals are beautiful. They have rounded ears instead of pointed like most dogs, and they have four toes (脚趾) on each of their feet, also a unique characteristic because other dogs have five. Their fur is always different from each other. The fur is usually a combination of black, brown, red, and white, and sometimes even yellow. No wonder they’re called the painted wolf.
The African wild dog is a very social animal. They live in groups and have numbers from five to about twenty. The members of a group are always very close to one another. They communicate in their own language or body language. When someone is very old or sick, the others will help, and they are willing to share the food with elders and with those who are weak, which is what we should learn from.
The family does everything together, from raising young, to sleeping together, to hunting. When they hunt, they work together using team work to kill animals that are larger than them.
They sometimes hunt farm animals. This is unfortunate, because both poachers (偷猎者), and people who own farms shoot the painted dogs who are just trying to survive.
Before, there used to be many large groups throughout the land, but now the African wild dog is very rare. They are also losing their population because of their own loss of habitat thanks to human’s farming and forest cutting.
【小题1】Why do African wild dogs get the name “painted dogs” ?

A.They all have colorful fur.
B.The dogs in the same group are of different colors.
C.Artists love to paint them in different colors.
D.None of them has the same color.
【小题2】According to the author, what should we learn from African wild dogs?
A.They always do everything together.
B.They are always very close to one another.
C.They help the sick, the elderly and the weak.
D.They communicate in their own language.
【小题3】Which of the following is NOT the reason why African wild dogs are becoming very rare?
A.Poachers kill some of them.
B.They are short of food sometimes.
C.They are losing their habitat.
D.Farmers shoot some of them.
【小题4】Where could this passage probably be found?
A.The TravelersB.Fashion Weekly
C.Animal WorldD.Star Magazine

You never see him, but they're with you every time you fly. They record where you are going, how fast you're traveling and whether everything on your airplane is functioning normally. Their ability to endure almost any disaster makes them seem like something out of a comic book. They're known as the black box.
 When planes fall from the sky, as a Yemeni airliner did on its way to Comoros Islands in the India ocean on June 30, 2009, the black box is the best bet for identifying what went wrong. So when a French submarine (潜水艇) detected the box's homing signal five days later, the discovery marked a huge step toward determining the cause of a tragedy in which 152 passengers were killed.
 In 1958, Australian scientist David Warren developed a flight-memory recorder that would track basic information like altitude and direction. That was the first mode for a black box, which became a requirement on all U.S. commercial flights by 1960. Early models often failed to withstand crashes, however, so in 1965 the box was completely redesigned and moved to the rear of the plane – the area least subject to impact – from its original position in the landing wells (起落架舱). The same year, the Federal Aviation Authority required that the boxes, which were never actually black, be painted orange or yellow to aid visibility.
 Modern airplanes have two black boxes: a voice recorder, which tracks pilots' conversations, and a flight-data recorder, which monitors fuel levels, engine noises and other operating functions that help investigators reconstruct the aircraft's final moments. Placed in an insulated (隔绝的) case and surrounded by a quarter-inch-thick panels of stainless steel, the boxes can stand massive force and temperatures up to 2,000℉. When submerged, they're also able to emit signals from depths of 20,000 ft. Experts believe the boxes from Air France Flight 447, which crashed near Brazil on June 1,2009, are in water nearly that deep, but statistics say they're still likely to turn up. In the approximately 20 deep-sea crashes over the past 30 years, only one plane's black boxes were never recovered.
【小题1】What does the author say about the black box?

A.It is an indispensable device on an airplane. 
B.The idea for its design comes from a comic book.
C.Its ability to avoid disasters is incredible.
D.It ensures the normal functioning of an airplane.
【小题2】What does the underlined word in the 3rd paragraph mean? 
A.witness B.experienceC.resist D.ensure
【小题3】Why was the black box redesigned in 1965?
A.New materials became available by that time
B.Too much space was needed for its installation.
C.The early models didn't provide the needed data.
D.The early models often got damaged in the crash.
【小题4】What do we know about the black boxes from Air France Flight 447?
A.There is an urgent need for them to be reconstructed.
B.There is still a good chance of their being recovered. 
C.They have stopped sending homing signals.
D.They were destroyed somewhere near Brazil.

She is widely seen as proof that good looks can last forever. But, at nearly 500 years of age, time is catching up with the Mona Lisa.

The health of the famous picture, painted by Leonardo da Vinci in 1505, is getting worse by the year, according to the Louvre museum(卢浮宫博物馆)where it is housed.

“The thin, wooden panel on which the Mona Lisa is painted in oil has changed shape since experts checked it two years ago,” the museum said. Visitors have noticed the changes but repairing the world’s most famous painting is not easy. Experts are not sure about the materials the Italian artist used and their current chemical state.

Nearly 6 million people go to see the Mona Lisa every year, many attracted by the mystery of her smile. “It is very interesting that when you’re not looking at her, she seems to be smiling, and then you look at her and she stops,” said Professor Margaret Livingstone of Harvard University. “It’s because direct vision(视觉)is excellent at picking up detail, but less suited to looking at shadows. Da Vinci painted the smile in shadows.”

However, the actual history of the Mona Lisa is just as mysterious as the smile. Da Vinci himself loved it so much that he always carried it with him, until it was eventually sold to France’s King Francis I in 1519.

In 1911, the painting was stolen from the Louvre by a former employee, who took it out of the museum hidden under his coat. He said he planned to return it to Italy. The painting was sent back to France two years later.

During World War II, French hid the painting in small towns to keep it out of the hands of German forces.

Like many old ladies, the Mona Lisa has some interesting stories to tell.

1.The underlined sentence in the first paragraph means the Mona Lisa ________.

A.is losing its value

B.is being damaged after so many years

C.is getting more valuable with years passing

D.will rot away

2.Experts haven’t any repairs on the Mona Lisa because______.

A.it is now in a poor chemical state

B.they don’t know how to replace the wooden panel

C.they don’t have the materials Da Vinci used

D.they are afraid it will be done further damage.

3.The smile of the Mona Lisa can only be seen_______.

A.by indirect vision

B.at a distance

C.by direct vision

D.in shadows

4.From the last paragraph, we can infer that______.

A.many interesting stories have been written about the Mona Lisa

B.people are interested in the stories about the Mona Lisa.

C.some mysteries still remain to be solved about the Mona Lisa.

D.Many more stories will be told about the Mona Lisa.

 

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