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Yesterday I was fortunate enough to find one more person in our world who is kind and caring. It was about 11:00 p.m.   16   my telephone rang. The caller ID showed the number of a Best Western Hotel.   17  , I would ignore this type of call. For some reason,   18  , I went ahead and answered.

The man on the other end asked if I knew Samual K. I   19  , as he is my 91 – year – old grandfather. Still not   20   why I was the one that had been called, the caller went on to tell me that I was the only   21   listed in the phone book. He said his name was Mason and that he was the   22   at the Best Western Hotel. The   23   was that grandpa had no money with him, and that he couldn’t   24   any phone numbers, so Mason called all over the state trying to get help.

Grandpa told me that he just wanted me to tell Mason that he is a (n)   25   guy and would pay the money once he got home. But the man in charge there was   26   because my grandfather seemed to be   27  . He had been going somewhere else when he got on the wrong bus and   28   100 miles from home.

Not wanting to turn him away and not wanting the police to   29   him to the police station, Mason,   30   any normal duty, not only took the time to   31   me, but also charged just $ 39 so that grandpa could   32   safely and comfortably overnight. (The rooms normally rent for about $ 140!) Besides, he had the staff of that hotel all   33   him until my uncle was able to drive the 100 miles to pick him up!

So, it’s just one more piece of   34   that proves that there are still good people out there; wherever you go, there is always one who   35  .

16.A.while       B.when C.after        D.before

17.A.Obviously B.Personally C.Actually   D.Generally

18.A.however   B.besides     C.otherwise  D.therefore

19.A.was   B.did    C.had   D.would

20.A.admitting  B.accepting  C.understanding   D.recognizing

21.A.neighbor   B.relative     C.colleague  D.friend

22.A.manager   B.waiter       C.mayor      D.guest

23.A.disadvantage    B.question    C.problem    D.pity

24.A.write B.remember C.repeat       D.keep

15.A.easy – going    B.generous   C.forgettable       D.okay

26.A.concerned B.disappointed     C.convinced D.surprised

27.A.hurt  B.moved      C.annoyed    D.lost

28.A.went up    B.added up   C.ended up   D.sent up

29.A.take  B.bring C.invite       D.carry

30.A.except      B.against      C.beyond     D.from

31.A.contact     B.persuade   C.warn D.approach

32.A.leave B.live   C.adapt D.stay

33.A.look for    B.watch over       C.care about D.adjust to

34.A.news B.information      C.advice      D.evidence

35.A.minds       B.cares C.sees   D.matters

Below is a web page from Google.   

Olympic—Modern Olympic Games

The completer results archive of summer and winter Olympic games, with winners lists, statistics, national anthems and flags of all countries since 1896.

www. olympic. it/english/home-16k

Environment

Beijing steel plants to run at the lowest level of cost during 2008 Olympics [2007-03-11] Beijing able to treat 90 pct of waste water [2007-02-05]. Air quality in Beijing has improved over the past six years [2007-02-01]·Green Olympics dream coming true …

en. Beijing2008.com/80/67/column211716780.shtml-52k

Beijing announces planned route of Olympic torch relay

Beijing announced the 2008 Olympic Games torch relay route and set off the Olympic Games torch on Thursday. … Green Olympics is one of the three concepts of the Beijing Games. …

english.china. com/zh_cn/news/sports/110592227/14069663.html-26k

Environmental Symbol of Beijing Olympics —‘Green Olympics’

Environmental Symbol of Beijing Olympics —‘Green Olympics’, officially announced on Saturday, 24 September 2005. The symbol, created using a calligraphic art form, is composed of human and tree-like shapes, …

my.opera.com/green_head/blog/show.dml/92155-18k

Green Olympics Forum In Beijing 2004   

On behalf of BOCOC, Wang Wei, executive vice president of BOCOC, gave a presentation about Green Olympics, introduced the environment protection work of BMC and BOCOC, and answered several questions such as protection of cultural relics …

en.beijing2008.com/84/91/article211929184.shtml-36k

Olympic Games Quizzes and Olympic Games Trivia

Who was the founder of the Modern Olympics? In which cities were the modern Olympic Games due to be held/ scheduled during the ‘war years’, i.e., 1916, 1940, and 1944? … In which three years of the Modern Olympic Games were … More questions …

www.funtrivia.com/quizzes/sports/ olympic_games.html-12k

OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT

… aimed at young researchers engaged in scholarly research on the Olympic Movement, its history and values, and the impact of the …[ Full story] SPORT ACCORD[2005-01-23]…

www.olympic.org/

Ancient Olympic Heritage and Modern Olympic Games in Athens 2004

As put forward in the various official texts, the Olympic symbols of ancient Olympia, the Olympic flame and the Marathon race are bridges between the ancient and the modern Olympic Games,    

www.2008.org/rendanews/knowledge_detail.asp?id=911-106k

6. When was the environmental symbol of Beijing Olympics made public?

  A. On January 23, 2005.                      B. On September 24, 2005.

  C. On February 5, 2007.                      D. On March 11, 2007.

7. Which of the following websites is designed for young researchers interested in the Olympics?

  A. Environment

  B. Green Olympics Forum In Beijing 2004

  C. Olympic Games Quizzes and Olympic Games Trivia

  D. OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT

8. Which website provides a complete list of the winners in the Olympic Games?

  A. Olympic—Modern Olympic Games

  B. Green Olympics Forum In Beijing 2004

  C. Environmental Symbol of Beijing Olympics —‘Green Olympics’

  D. Ancient Olympic Heritage and Modern Olympic Games in Athens 2004

9. Which website provides the founder of the Modern Olympics?

A. Olympic—Modern Olympic Games

B. Green Olympics Forum In Beijing 2004

C. Olympic Games Quizzes and Olympic Games Trivia

D. Environmental Symbol of Beijing Olympics —‘Green Olympics’

10. What do we learn from the above web page?    

  A. Beijing has made efforts to improve its air quality.

  B. The Olympic torch relay route has not been planned.

  C. The Olympic flag will be on display in Athens.

  D. A quiz on the Olympics will be held in Beijing    

Plants may not have eyes and earsbut they can recognize their siblings (兄弟姐妹)and researchers at the University of Delaware have discovered how.The ID system lies in the roots and the chemical signals they secrete (分泌)

Canadian researchers published that sea rocketa common seashore plantcan recognize its siblings.Susan Dudley observed that when siblings are grown next to each other in the soilthey “play nice” and don’t send out more roots to compete.Howeverthe moment one of the plants is thrown in with strangersit begins competing with them by rapidly growing more roots to take up the water and mineral nutrients in the soil.

After reading Dudley’s studyBais decided to find the method behind the sibling recognition.Working in his laboratoryBais and his doctoral student Meredith Biedrzycki set up a study with wild populations of Arabidopsis thaliana.In a series of experimentsyoung seedlings were exposed to liquid media containing the root secretions from siblingsfrom strangersor only their own secretions.The length of the longest lateral (侧面的) root was measured.The exposure of plants to the root secretions of strangers induced (引诱) greater lateral root formation than exposure of plants to sibling secretions.Strangers planted next to each other are often shorterbecause so much of their energy is directed at root growth.Because siblings aren’t competing against each othertheir roots are often much shallower (浅的)

Biedrzycki did the painstaking laboratory researchobserving more than 3,000 plants involved in the study every day for seven continuous days and documenting the root patterns.“Arabidopsis roots are nearly translucent (半透明的) when they are young and were also twisted when I removed them from plates”Biedrzycki notes.“This manuscript (手稿) is very important for my research since the focus of my thesis project is understanding the biochemical ways behind root secretions.”

The research also may have implications for the home gardener.“Often we’ll put plants in the ground next to each other and when they don’t do wellwe blame the local garden center where we bought them or we attribute their failure to a germ”Bais says.“But maybe there’s more to it than that.”

1.Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?

AA Great Biology Researcher

BPlants Recognize Their Siblings

CPlants’ Roots and Secretions

DA Research on Plants

2. What encouraged Bais to study the sibling recognition?

ASea rocket.

BPlants’ sensing system.

CBiedrzycki’s thesis project.

DDudley’s study.

3. What does the underlined word “painstaking” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

AImportant.? BAdventurous.

CCareful.? DHard?working.

4.What can we infer from the last paragraph?

AThe local garden center should be blamed when plants can’t grow well.

BThe local garden center often sells low quality seeds to customers.

CPlants in the home garden can’t grow well because of the germ and seeds.

DCompeting against strangersplants in the home garden can’t grow well.

 

Below is a web page from Google.

Olympic—Modern Olympic Games

The completer results archive of summer and winter Olympic games, with winners lists, statistics, national anthems and flags of all contries since 1896.

www. olympic. it/english/home-16k

Environment

Beijing steel plants to run at the lowest level of cost during 2008 Olympics [2007-03-11] Beijing able to treat 90 pct of waste water [2007-02-05] ·Air quality in Beijing has improved over the past six years [2007-02-01]·Green Olympics dream coming true …

en. Beijing2008.com/80/67/column211716780.shtml-52k

Beijing announces planned roule of Olympic torch relay

Beijing announced the 2008 Olympic Games torch relay route and set off the Olympic Games torch on Thursday. … Green Olympics is one of the three concepts of the Beijing Games. …

english.china.com/zh_cn/news/sports/110592227/14069663.html-26k

Environmental Symbol of Beijing Olympics —‘Green Olympics’

Environmental Symbol of Beijing Olympics —‘Green Olympics’, officially announced on Saturday, 24 September 2005. The symbol, created using a calligraphic art form, is composed of human and tree-like shapes, …

my.opera.com/green_head/blog/show.dml/92155-18k

Green Olympics Forum In Beijing 2004

On behalf of BOCOC, Wang Wei, executive vice president of BOCOC, gave a presentation about Green Olympics, introduced the environment protection work of BMC and BOCOC, and answered several questions such as protection of cultural relics …

en.beijing2008.com/84/91/article211929184.shtml-36k

Olympic Games Quizzes and Olmpic Games Trivia

Who was the founder of the Modern Olympics? In which cities were the modern Olympic Games due to be held/ scheduled during the ‘war years’, i.e., 1916, 1940, and 1944? … In which three years of the Modern Olympic Games were … More questions …

www.funtrivia.com/quizzes/sports/ olympic_games.html-12k

OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT

… aimed at young researchers engaged in scholarly research on the Olympic Movement, its history and values, and the impact of the …[ Full story] SPORT ACCORD[2005-01-23]…

www.olympic.org/

Ancient Olympic Heritage and Modern Olympic Games in Athens 2004

As put forward in the various official texts, the Olympic symbols of ancient Olympia, the Olympic flame and the Marathon race are bridges between the ancient and the modern Olympic Games, …

www.c2008.org/rendanews/knowledge_detail.asp?id=911-106k

1.When was the environmental symbol of Beijing Olympics made public?

A.On January 23, 2005.                    B.On September 24, 2005.

C.On February 5, 2007.                    D.On March 11, 2007.

2.Which of the following websites is designed for young researchers interested in the Olympics?

A.Environment 

B.Green Olympics Forum In Beijing 2004

C.Olympic Games Quizzes and Olmpic Games Trivia

D.OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT

3.Which website provides a complete list of the winners in the Olympic Games?

A.OlympicModern Olympic Games

B.Green Olympics Forum In Beijing 2004

C.Environmental Symbol of Beijing Olympics —‘Green Olympics

D.Ancient Olympic Hertiage and Modern Olympic Games in Athens 2004

4.What do we learn from the above web page?

A.Beijing has made efforts to improve its air quality.

B.The Olympic torch relay route has not been planned.

C.The Olympic flag will be on display in Athens.

D.A quiz on the Olympics will be held in Beijing.

 

In the US and Britain, the slogan around colleges was “Save water. Shower with a friend.” Now, Wuhan University has come up with another system for the campus bathhouse. It charges students for the amount of time in a shower. Before entering the bathhouse, students pay for the amount of time they want in the shower with cash or their student ID card. The clock starts ticking the minute the tape is turned on. It pauses when a button is pressed for soap. An integrated circuit(IC) card reader at each tap shows the time. No money, no water. The benefits of the new system can be seen with the old system, which charged 1 Yuan for each person regardless of time in the shower. The university used about 320 tones of water daily under the old system, but only 160 tons now.

Many students use the new system but opinions on it are divided. Some students say it is bad because bathing had become a sort of race. Many people using it for the first time are not sure how long they need to shower. Some might be embarrassed if their time is up and they’re still covered in soap. They have to ask the bathhouse worker to help them buy extra time.

“It’s a flaw in the system that you can not buy extra time on the ID card,” said Ren, a freshman in Wuhan University. The university is also considering some students’ suggestions that they be allowed to pay after they’ve finished the shower. Not surprisingly, some are complaining about losing the hour shower. But many students say the move helps them develop a water-saving sense.

Without the time limits, most students tended to shower for 30 to an hour in the bathhouse.

Some even used the hot water to wash their clothes. “In my experience, 10-20 minutes is enough,” said Dai Zhihua, a third-year student who usually takes 8 minutes.

A similar system has been installed in other universities. Shanghai Normal University introduced it at its Fengxiang Campus in September. The bathing fee there is 0.2 Yuan per minute. One male student responded by setting a record with a two-minute shower.

1. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

A. Students pay for the amount of time they want in the shower.

B. The clock times all through while the student is bathing except when the bather paused for soap.

C. If money runs out, there will be no water.

D. Having finished bathing, the student has to pay for it.

2. The underline word “flaw” (Paragraph3) most probably means______.

A. perfection         B. advantage                 C. pity                         D. fault

3. Since the new system has performed, ______ of water can be saved.

A. a quarter                  B. one third                  C. one half                   D. two thirds

4. It can be inferred from the passage that______.

A. the new operation can solve the water crisis.

B. The new operation can raise students’ environmental awareness.

C. a similar operation has been set in other universities.

D. The university has saved a lot of water by using the new system.

5. In which column can you find this passage?

A. People.         B. Society         C. Campus Life.    D. Lifestyle.

 

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