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In college, Spring Break (春假) is usually associated with the beach, parties and sleepless nights, bringing about relaxation, free time and friends. Students who wish to spend their break doing something productive and rewarding, however, may choose to participate in the Alternative Break Program. It places college students in communities both at home and abroad.

The Program allows students to take part in various projects dealing with issues such as literacy (识字), homelessness and the environment. It includes helping kids with their lessons, raising money for families in need and collecting data for environmental research.

The hope is that, by getting themselves involved in different environments, students will have the opportunity to learn about members of communities and broaden their view. In turn, they will incorporate (融合) their experiences and lessons learned into their own communities. In a word, the Program aims to encourage students to be active citizens and engage themselves in making a difference in society.

In the spring of 2006, about 36,000 students in the USA participated in the Alternative Break Program.

Samantha Giacobozzi, now director of the Program, has been on five alternative break trips herself, including trips to New Orleans, India and Dominican Republic. “I was a student who went on alternative break trips and had my life totally transformed by that experience,” she said. “Every year, we meet many students who have attended the Program. You can see changes in their life that are connected with their alternative break experiences.”

The Program began in 1991.Today, it has become increasingly popular with college students in the United States.

1.Who may choose to participate in the Alternative Break Program?(No mare than 10 words)

2.What is the aim of the Program?(NO more than 15 words)

3.What is the meaning of the underlined word "transformed" in Paragraph 5? (1 word)

4.What is Samantha's attitude toward the Program?(No more than 10 words)

5.If you take part in the Program, which project are you interested in? And why?(No more than 25 words)

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One Starry Night

I will never forget that night: Sept 26, 1996. I pulled into my driveway after a busy day of school and baby-sitting. I still ________ to write a big chemistry paper. There were many things on my mind. At that time I was having many problems with my family and friends, and ________ I was in a very bad mood. And I was unhappy with ________ and the way that my life was going. A major ________ I was struggling with was drug use. For two years I had been smoking marijuana (大麻) and ________ it, but could not stop. I did not let drugs ________ my grades or personality, but it made a(n) ________ in how I thought about myself. I had always been a good kid and still tried to be, but drugs brought me ________ . I frequently thought about how drugs were not something I wanted as part of my life. I wanted to ________ but I was scared to make the transition (改变).

I looked up at the sky as I got out of my ________ . The moon was covered by the earth’s shadow in a lunar eclipse (月蚀). The outer circle of the moon was exposed and gave off tiny beams of light, gleaming in all directions. The sky was a dark, ink-black color________ with millions of stars. I stood outside in the cool fall air for what seemed a long time of heaven and ________ . The joy that I had not ________ for ages came upon me. I closed my eyes to decide if this dream could be ________ . I slowly opened my eyes and caught a shooting star fly over treetops. Tears fell from my eyes and streamed down my cheeks. I had ________ the true beauty of nature and God. Those few ________ helped me find the________ to change.

It was not easy to make the decision to stop using drugs. It was even harder to ________ stop. Quitting has given me hope and a reason to be ________ myself. It has helped me grow ________ and more mature (成熟).

1.A. wanted B. had C. intended D. meant

2.A. therefore B. however C. then D. yet

3.A. my family B. my job C. my friends D. myself

4.A. problem B. subject C. topic D. challenge

5.A. liked B. got used to C. hated D. needed

6.A. damage B. harm C. lower D. affect

7.A. difference B. part C. sense D. impression

8.A. down B. away C. up D. back

9.A. live B. change C. escape D. behave

10.A. house B. office C. school D. car

11.A. covered B. dotted C. crowded D. surrounded

12.A. sorrow B. sadness C. happiness D. regret

13.A. received B. tasted C. known D. felt

14.A. real B. practical C. useful D. helpful

15.A. caught B. seen C. guessed D. imagined

16.A. minutes B. stars C. thoughts D. nights

17.A. way B. courage C. chance D. solution

18.A. actually B. simply C. gradually D. quickly

19.A. crazy about B. pleased with C. proud of D. critical of

20.A. Wiser B. happier C. healthier D. stronger

LEEDS, England--- A Leeds University psychology professor is teaching a course to help dozens of Bristons forgive their enemies.

“The hatred we hold within us is a cancer,” Professor Ken Hart said, adding that holding in anger can lead to problems such as high blood pressure and heart disease.

More than seventy people have become members in Hart’s first 20-week workshop in London--- a course he says is the first of its kind in the world.

These are people who are sick and tired of living with a memory. They realize their bitterness is a poison they think they can pour out, but they end up drinking it themselves, said Canadian- born Hart.

The students meet in groups of eight to ten for a two-hour workshop with an adviser every fortnight.

The course, ending in July, is expected to get rid of the cancer of hate in these people. “People have lots of the attitudes towards forgiveness,” he said. “People confuse forgiveness with forgetting. Forgiveness means changing from a negative attitude to a positive one.”

Hart and his team have created instructions to provide the training needed.

“The main idea is to give you guidelines on how to look at various kinds of angers and how they affect you, and how to change your attitudes towards the person you’re angry with,” said Norman Claringbull, a senior expert on the forgiveness project. Hart said he believes forgiveness is a skill that can be taught, as these people “want to get free of the past.”

1.According to the passage if you’re angry with somebody, you should ________.

A. try your best to defeat him or her

B. break off relations with him or her

C. persuade him or her to have a talk with you

D. relax yourself by not thinking of him or her any more

2.Afrer reading the passage we are more aware that ________.

A. high blood pressure and heart disease are caused by hatred

B. high blood pressure can only be cured by psychology professors

C. without hatred people will have less trouble connected with blood and heart

D. people who suffer from blood pressure and heart disease must have many enemies

3.If you’re a member of Hart’s workshop, you’ll _______.

A. pay a large amount of money

B. go to the course every night in twenty weeks

C. attend a gathering twice a month

D. pour out everything stored in your mind in the workshop

4.The author wrote this passage in order to _______.

A. persuade people to go to Hart’s course

B. tell us the news about Hart’s workshop

C. tell us how to run a workshop like Hart’s

D. help us to look at various kinds of anger

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After a long day at school,I walked home with my heavy schoolbag.Sleepy and________,I threw my things on the couch and grabbed something from the________to eat.I passed by the living room and wished I could watch TV,but I knew my ________ would take me the whole night.I took my schoolbag and went ________to my room.I tried to understand chemistry and ________sleepiness at the same time.I tried to keep my eyes ________and I wanted something to cheer me up.

Later, I________the sound of the front door opening.And I waited for it—the sound of my mom singing. Though she sang off-key(跑调),________ made me excited that she was here.I ran down to________my mom.We hugged each other and talked for a while.I like it when my mom was happy.Her________seemed to flow down to me and I got the strength to________the stress again.

Sometimes, I wonder how my mom can still be ________after coming back from work.Every weekday,she wakes up________in the morning to go to work and spends all hour on the bus before getting downtown.At a ________factory,she works standing for the whole day and draws patterns for clothes over and over.After work,my mom at times gets stuck in________ for two hours on her way back home.When I________my school life with her work life, I should not be the one to________.At least I have some interesting things to do at school, but one mistake at work can cost my mom her job.I ________that my mom has a positive attitude and lives her life with a joyous heart,which encourages me to do my work well, ________there may be difficulties.Seeing her happy makes me feel________,too.

1.A. heavy B. busy C. hungry D. unlucky

2.A. classroom B. kitchen C. bedroom D. apartment

3.A. dream B. supper C. homework D. experience

4.A. downstairs B. outside C. upstairs D. inside

5.A. break off B. put off C. get off D. fight off

6.A. opening B. opened C. open D. closing

7.A. felt B. listened C. raised D. heard

8.A. which B. that C. it D. but

9.A. Look B. greet C. said to D. help

10.A. need B. idea C. faith D. energy

11.A. face B. change C. accept D. 1eave

12.A. creative B. sensitive C. competitive D. positive

13.A. early B. soon C. fast D. 1ate

14.A. furniture B. shoe C. car D. clothing

15.A. chat B. traffic C. duty D. task

16.A. replace B. exchange C. connect D. compare

17.A. complain B. decide C. study D. play

18.A. achieve B. notice C. appreciate D. improve

19.A. however B. though C. despite D. at least

20.A. good B. skillful C. successful D. important

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I’d like to tell you a story my grandmother told me when I was six or seven years old. We had to go to her home for Thanksgiving dinner and the _______ was rather a long one. I had filled the time with making a _______of all the things that I wanted for Christmas that year.

Later I showed the list to my grandmother. After she read it, she said, “That _______is a long list!” Then she told me this story:

“Once there was a little girl who came to live in an orphanage(孤儿院). As Christmas time _______ , all of the other children began _______the little girl about the beautiful Christmas tree that would appear in the huge downstairs _______ on Christmas morning. Each child would be given their one and only Christmas gift, a small, single _______ .”

“The headmaster of the orphanage was very _______ , so when he caught the little girl climbing down the stairs to look at the Christmas tree in the hall, he sharply _______ that the little girl would not _______ her Christmas orange because she had been to _______ as to disobey the rules. The little girl ran back to her room_______ and crying. The next morning as the other children were going down to breakfast, the little girl stayed in her bed. She couldn’t stand the _______ of seeing the others receive their gift when there would be _______ for her. Later, as the children came back, the little girl was _______5 to be handed a napkin(面巾纸). As she carefully _______ it, there to her disbelief was an orange all peeled and sectioned. “It was then that she imagined _______ each child had taken one section from their orange and given it to her so that she, too, would have a Christmas orange.”

How I _______ this story! I would ask my grandmother to tell it to me over and over as I _______. How I wish the world, as a whole world display that same kind of _______ for others, not just at Christmas, but throughout the year.

1.A. story B. drive C. moment D. holiday

2.A. choice B. order C. list D. joke

3.A. hardly B. usually C. specially D. really

4.A. moved B. approached C. linked D. took

5.A. telling B. informing C. warning D. sending

6.A. hall B. kitchen C. bedroom D. reading-room

7.A. apple B. star C. orange D. flower

8.A. serious B. caring C. humorous D. strict

9.A. required B. announced C. asked D. insisted

10.A. deliver B. make C. receive D. reach

11.A. curious B. outgoing C. frightened D. disappointed

12.A. delighted B. blank-minded C. seared D. broken-hearted

13.A. possession B. attraction C. thought D. effect

14.A. few B. none C. everything D. something

15.A. surprised B. happy C. willing D. pleased

16.A. touched B. felt C. smelt D. opened

17.A. whether B. when C. how D. what

18.A. wrote B. loved C. told D. understood

19.A. grew up B. dropped in C. turned up D. hung out

20.A. help B. thankfulness C. happiness D. concern

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As I rushed among the tables, suddenly, a ________ asked if I could mind a child. I was quite ________ but I could tell the man was quite desperate. So I had to make a________ with him that if he wanted his son to stay and wait for him, he had to ________ something in the shop.

This was quite ________ for the man to do; I could ________ he was quite poor by the ________ he was dressed. It looked as if he had tried to come in his ________ clothes. But they still looked a bit old and worn out ________ he had often worn them, just to make himself look best. Looking down I could see his________ were also a bit torn and the heels were in a terrible state. I thought he was going for a job interview. In the end he bought a small box of ________ for his little son and seated him down in the corner. I could tell the boy was feeling down and only could ________with a bit of cheering up.

Seeing that the kid sat there for quite a while, I was a bit ________ as the poor little kid was sitting________ his own. People watched him and some kids even came over to pick on him. I was ________ to see one of them even knocked his cookies off the table.He quickly went and got them back without saying a word.I was hoping his father would________ up and come back for his son's ________ .

At closing time, the only person left was the little boy.After a while, the father finally came in with a tiresome look. I ________ he didn't get any job.As they were leaving, I offered the kid a little cake, but the man rejected it. I________ he felt as if I had just abused him.Of course I didn't mean to.But I could understand why he felt like that.I only wished them good ________ whatever happened.

The man opened the door to leave-father and son hand in hand.

1.A. good B. bad C. new D. casual

2.A. commitment B. appointment C. preference D. success

3.A. managed B. agreed C. hesitated D. decided

4.A. did B. mentioned C. shared D. missed

5.A. greet B. inspire C. introduce D. remember

6.A. kindness B. happiness C. stories D. sadness

7.A. still B. often C. never D. even

8.A. whispered B. explained C. reported D. replied

9.A. surprise B. challenge C. concern D. moment

10.A. cashier B. customer C. beggar D. secretary

11.A. mark B. sign C. symbol D. flag

12.A. paying for B. picking up C. paying off D. picking out

13.A. occasionally B. usually C. probably D. hardly

14.A. unoccupied B. unnoticed C. unorganized D. unquestioned

15.A. wisdom B. existence C. generosity D. appreciation

16.A. society B. love C. holiday D. family

17.A. encouraging B. inviting C. helping D. affecting

18.A. dropped B. bought C. found D. fell

19.A. strange B. lucky C. cool D. funny

20.A. after B. though C. unless D. when

Almost everyone stood when the bride walked down the aisle in her white dress,but not the wedding conductor,because she was fixed on her chair.

The wedding was led by “I?Fairy”,a 1.5?meter tall seated robot with flashing eyes and plastic hair. Sunday's wedding was the first time a marriage had been led by a robot,according to manufacturer,Kokoro Co.

“Please lift the bride's veil (面纱),” the robot said in a tinny voice,waving its arms in the air as the newly?married couple kissed in front of about 50 guests.

The wedding took place at a restaurant in Hibiya Park in central Tokyo,where the I?Fairy wore flowers and directed a rooftop ceremony. Wires led out from beneath it to a black curtain a few feet away,where a man clicked commands into a computer.

Japan has one of the most advanced robotics industries in the world,with the government actively supporting the field for future growth. Industrial models in factories are now standard,but recently Japanese companies have been making a push to inject robots into everyday life.

Honda makes a walking child?shaped robot,and other firms have developed robots to entertain the elderly or play baseball. Kokoro,whose corporate goal is to “touch the hearts of the people”,also makes giant dinosaur robots for exhibitions and lifelike Android models that can smile and laugh. The company is a sub?company of Sanrio Co.,which owns the rights to Hello Kitty and other Japanese characters.

“This was a lot of fun. I think that Japanese people have a strong sense that robots are our friends. Those in the robot industry mostly understand this,but people mainly want robots near them to serve some purpose,” said the bride,Satoko Inoue,36,who works at Kokoro.

The I?Fairy sells for about 6.3 million yen ($68,000) and three are in use in Singapore,the US and Japan,according to company spokeswoman,Kayako Kido.

1.The conductor of the wedding .

A.was controlled by Android system

B.was seated in a chair

C.can give an order herself

D.was the only I?Fairy in use

2.Which of the following products is NOT made by Kokoro?

A.The I?Fairy.

B.A walking child?shaped robot.

C.Giant dinosaur robots.

D.Lifelike Android models.

3.What do people mainly expect robots to do?

A.Act as a sign of technology development.

B.Be their friends.

C.Touch the hearts of people.

D.Meet their own requirements.

4.What does the text mainly convey?

A.Robot wedding conductors are becoming popular.

B.The manufacturing industry in Japan is booming.

C.The Japanese pay a lot of attention to robots.

D.Robots are increasingly entering everyday life.

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