I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent.
I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows (誓约) mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.
So here’s what I wanted to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion (提升), the bigger paycheck, the larger house.
Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure (空闲), it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.
It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.
I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned. By telling them this: Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived.
【小题1】The best title of this passage probably is ________.

A.Love your friendsB.Live a real life
C.Don’t waste timeD.Be a good mother and wife
【小题2】How did the author form her view of life?
A.By working and social experience
B.Learning from her friends.
C.Through an unfortunate experience.
D.Because of her children and husband.
【小题3】The underlined sentence “It is so easy to exist instead of to live” in the fifth paragraph probably means ______.
A.it is so easy to keep alive but not to live a real life
B.it is very hard to live a real life
C.it is more difficult to exist than to live a happy life
D.it is so easy to make a living
【小题4】What is the author’s attitude toward work?
A.Do it well to serve others.
B.To earn enough money to make life better.
C.Try your best to get higher position and pay.
D.Don’t let it affect your real life.
【小题5】It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
A.the author is a success in personal life
B.the author didn’t try her best to work well
C.the author spent all her time caring for her children
D.the author likes traveling very much



第三部分:阅读理解 (共20小题;每小题2分, 满分40分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
A
The Kindle is coming! The Kindle is coming!
Amazon. corn will start selling its wireless electronic reader the Kindle in 100 countries, including China and most of Europe, from Monday, 19 October. The Kindle will cost $279 (189) globally. Amazon says 200,000 English-language books as well as over 85 newspapers and magazines will be available on the international device (设备).
The Kindle is popular with travellers who like the convenience of downloads and don't like carrying heavy books. Amazon says that for every 100 customers who buy a book in the US, some 48 now buy it as an e-book.
"Our vision for Kindle is every book ever printed, in print or out of print, in every language, all available within 60 seconds," Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos told the Irish Times, one of the newspapers that will be available on the device. The international Kindle version will store as many as 1,500 books, read PDF files and allow users to make annotations.
Forrester Research predicts that three million e-reader devices will be sold in the US this year, up from an earlier estimate of two million. That is expected to double next year. The research group says that Amazon will take a 60 per cent market share this year, followed by Sony’s Reader at 35 per cent. In July, Credit Suisse estimated that Amazon's revenues from the Kindle could reach $420 million this year, representing 8.4 per cent of the company's total income.
There are rumours that Amazon's next step will be to turn the Kindle into a device for tasks like e-mailing, texting and surfing the Web, thus competing with a tablet computer reportedly being developed by Apple.
56. The underlined word "revenues" in Paragraph 4 can be replaced ________.
A. users                   B. books                   C. income           D. device
57. Which of the following is true.'?
A. The Kindle can be bought in China now.
B. We can use the Kindle to surf the Internet.
C. The books the Kindle offers are written in 20,000 kinds of languages.
D. This readers are sold in 99 countries of Europe.
58. From this passage we can infer _______.
A. Next year Amazon will sell 6 million readers
B. This year the company's total income reach 5000 million
C. In the US about 48% customers who buy a book use the Kindle
D. You can't deal with the information Amazon provides
59. Which one of the following will like the Kindle most9.
A. Professor.         B. Students.                C. Traveller.          D. Businessmen.

OK, I admit it: emoticons (表情符号) are popular. Some people even think they are fun. Many seem unable to get through an e-mail or Instant Message chat sentence without using one. Some feel that they add feeling and character to otherwise cold digital communications.
Some, however, such as editor and Hollywood scriptwriter John Blumenthal, blast (抨击) the use of emoticons as “infantile (幼稚的) just like the people who use them”  He believes that words themselves should be enough. “If you’re being funny, happy or sad, that should be apparent (明显的) from the comment that goes before the emoticon,” he argues.
In the eyes of Blumenthal, the use of emoticons is a gender issue. “Men don’t use emoticons very much. Maybe not at all,” he said. “Teenage girls and women seem to use them a lot. Maybe there’ s an emoticon gene.”
It’s an interesting opinion, but it is not shared by all.
In an interview with The New York Times, Dacher Keltner, professor of psychology at the University of California, said that emoticons are popular because our brains are programmed “to seek out representations of humanity”. He believes that they appeal not because they are shortcuts for the lazy, but because they tap into (融入) something beyond language. They reach to our need to be with and communicate with people.
All of these arguments may be somehow valid (正确的). Each one of us will choose to communicate in our own way. I do not have much time for emoticons. I tried to use one once and felt like I was stealing into a primary school class that I had no place being in. I’d rather let my words do the talking.
Friends, however, send me messages and e-mails full of emoticons. I have no problem with this. I don’t regard any of my friends as lazy or immature (不成熟的). It’s just a question of individuality. :)
【小题1】According to the article, emoticons are popular because ______. 

A.most of them look funny
B.they are easy for lazy people to use
C.they add feeling and character to a communication
D.a reader cannot understand a message without them
【小题2】Which of the following views would John Blumenthal agree with?  
A.Instant Message chatters are childish.
B.It’s enough to use language in digital communication.
C.Men never use emoticons.
D.There is an emoticon gene in everybody.
【小题3】From the text, we can conclude that the author ______. 
A.feels he has no difficulty using emoticons
B.thinks emoticons don’t suit him
C.encourage his friends to use emoticons
D.believes that emoticons are suitable for everyone
【小题4】What is the main point of the article? 
A.Advice on language used over the Internet.
B.The history of emoticons.
C.Arguments over the use of emoticons.
D.Reasons for the popularity of emoticons.

阅读下面的短文,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。

On June 25, two days after our kidney transplant (移植) surgeries, my daughter-in-law, supported by her nurse and my son, walked into my hospital room in Seattle. There she was, the   36   of my kidney, smiling at the foot of my beD.That's when I realized the full    37   of "to give is to receive."

This February,   38   her kidney function continued to decline, my daughter-in-law needed a kidney transplant to   39 .I told her that it would be a(n)   40   to me to be able to donate a kidney to her. Immediately I was found compatible (相匹配的), my   41   as a kidney provider began. After   42   some tests and exams with my personal physician, I flew to Seattle for   43   testing. Whenever I "passed" one   44 , I became more relieved.Then I received the phone call telling me I was   45 . which made me very happy.   46 , the day arriveD.Before the surgery, I truly wasn't afraid; I just wanted the transplant to be 47

I woke that evening, my son telling me that my left kidney was   48   in my daughter-in-law. A strong sense of   49   washed over me. It was one of the most _50   moments of my life.

A   51   later, I got an e-mail from my daughter-in-law, saying: "Happy One-Month Anniversary!" We did have something to   52    I wasn't affected much by the surgery, and more importantly, she felt like she had her   53   back.

Up to now, being able to see my daughter-in-law   54   one of my kidneys has been one of the greatest gifts I have   55   received.

1.A.provider       B.receiver      C.operator         D.doctor

2.A.plan          B.concept        C.meaning         D.advantage

3.A.as            B.if           C.though              D.Unless

4.A.leave         B.survive        C.rise                     D.pass

5.A.attempt       B.comfort       C.experience              D.gift

6.A.challenge    B.surgery        C.journey           D.action

7.A.completing    B.marking       C.failing              D.writing

8.A.still less       B.even more               C.much worse        D.far better

9.A.difficulty      B.problem                C.stage                    D.test

10.A.refused        B.cured              C.approved         D.charged

11.A.Gradually     B.Finally       C.Immediately               D.Suddenly

12.A.safe          B.special         C.comfortable            D.secret

13.A.behaving badly B.staying safe    C.going wrong     D.working well

14.A.guilty          B.sacrifice        C.relief               D.appreciation

15.A.satisfying      B.worrying       C.frightening            D.surprising

16.A.year        B.week         C.moment      D.month

17.A.remember     B.share          C.celebrate              D.treasure

18.A.beauty        B.smile                 C.confidence      D.life

19.A.benefit from   B.contribute to   C.care for               D.focus on

20.A.never      B.ever          C.already               D.almost

 

根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

The following is a father’s advice to his son\daughter, who has just graduated from high school:

First of all, congratulations on your graduation! Graduation from high school means that a new stage of life is ahead of you.  71 

Clean your own room and do your own laundry.  72   Cleanliness is indeed close to godliness(神圣的).

Don’t mistake knowledge for wisdom. No matter how much information or knowledge you have accumulated(积累), you’ll never make sound judgments if you don’t have wisdom.  73   

If you can imagine the possible future outcomes of your present decisions and actions, you can avoid mistakes. And if you can reflect(思考)on the mistakes you have made, you can avoid making the same mistakes again and again. Such is wisdom.

Don’t complain. When you take up a job, do your best to carry it out.  74 

Finally, be an early bird.   75   And the sight of the rising sun will warm your heart and give you energy for the day ahead. Besides, being an early bird, you have plenty of time to take exercise or do a lot of work.

A.After you have messed up something, you should learn to clean it up yourself.

B.If you get up earlier than the sun, you can watch it rise up slowly into the sky.

C.Once you started a job, you should try your best to do it well.

D.Don’t waste time complaining about it, no matter how difficult and boring it is.

E.At the beginning of this new stage, I have some advice for you.

F.Get up early and go for some morning exercises to build up your body.

G.Wisdom comes from imagination and reflection

 

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