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---Would you mind my sitting here?

--- ______. It’s for my girl friend.

A. Not at all. B. Never mind.

C. Better not. D. Of course not.

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When we asked Oprah to pick the 10 books she‘s read in the past decade that have mattered to her most, she was momentarily stumped． For someone who describes herself as ―inspired, challenged, and sustained‖ by books, it was almost impossible for Oprah to stay within our limit of 10． Still, she offered up the following, but she emphasized that it was only a sampler of delightful titles that have also managed to teach her --- and all of us --- a few things．

1． Discover the Power Within You

By Eric Butterworth

256 pages; Harper One

Advice from the internationally known spiritual teacher．

2． A New Earth

By Eckhart Tolle

316 pages; Plume

There‘s a reason Oprah picked this for her Book Club in 2008 --- and that she gave audience members Post-it pens along with their copies． So much wisdom, so little time! A real-life guide to living your best life．

3． The Poisonwood Bible

By Barbara Kingsolver

576 pages; Harper Perennial

This novel is about a family involved in the political trouble of postcolonial Africa． It established Kingsolver as one of our wisest observers of history, politics, and human nature．

4． Night

By Elie Wiesel

120 pages; Hill and Wang

A memoir（回忆录） of a childhood suffered in concentration camps during the Holocaust． It‘s horrific but

uplifting． ―I gain courage from his courage,‖ Oprah says．

5． A Fine Balance

By Rohinton Mistry

624 pages; Vintage

A Dickensian novel about India during the Emergency． Like the aftermath of September 11, it teaches us about cultures we haven‘t understood． “It takes us out of our own little shell and exposes us to a whole other world out there．“ Oprah say．

6． East of Eden

By John Steinbeck

608 pages; Penguin

This classic is about good and evil as played out in a late-19th-century California ranch family． If you didn‘t read it in high school, read it now． If you did, reread it!

7． The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

By David Wroblewski

576 pages; Harper Collins

A kind of Hamlet on the prairie, this is the wrenching（令人痛苦的） story of a mute boy and his dog． Oprah compares it to East of Eden and To Kill a Mickingbird．

8． The Pillars of the Earth

By Ken Follett

973 pages; Penguin

About the challenges of building cathedrals in 12th-century England． This novel couldn‘t be more different in setting, time, and plot from the author‘s breakthrough success, Eye of the Needle． Oprah declares it simply

“great”．

9． The Bluest Eye

By Toni Morrison

224 pages; Penguin

How to choose among the great Morrison‘s novel? Start with this one about a girl who thinks she has to have blue eyes to be beautiful． Oprah considered it one of the best in a crowded Morrison field．

10． The Known World

By Edward P． Jones

400 pages, Harper Collins

When this book was published in 2003, it shocked everybody with its description of slave-owning blacks before the Civil War． A daring, unusual examination of race．

1.The passage is mainly about _______．

A． ten books that have made greatest difference to Oprah

B． an inspiring , challenging and sustainable woman

C． Oprah‘s picks from what has taught her a few things

D． the unwillingness of Oprah to share books within a limit of 10．

2. Why did Oprah add A Fine Balance to her list?

A． She gained courage from it．

B． It tells about wisdom of human nature．

C． It‘s a guide to living a best life．

D． Culture of a different world is exposed．

3. What makes Oprah declare The Pillars of the Earth great?

A． The advice on discovering the power．

B． The story of a mute boy and his dog．

C． The challenges of building cathedrals．

D． The good and evil in a California family．

4. In which book the story was set before the Civil War?

A． In The Bluest Eye B． In East of Eden

C． In A New Earth D． In The Known World

China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba had an amazing year as the Nov. 11 shopping carnival broke new records, the Double Twelve shopping day ______ with success.

A. having followed B. following

C. followed D. to follow

I have two sons. They are as different as night and day. My youngest is sweet, loveable, easy-going, and finds joy in everything. My oldest we’ve nicknamed the “Evil Genius” is ambitious, self-confident, and suffers no fools.

Whenever we mentioned Santa my husband and I were rewarded with major eye rolling and deep sighs from my oldest. At first we both tried to ignore it.

We both knew that our eldest had figured out the big secret. But I’d be damned(指责) if he was going to ruin it for his six-year-old brother who had plenty of Santa-loving years ahead of him. I looked at my husband in the eye and said, “I’ll handle this.” to which he responded “Okay just be careful because I’m not sure he knows - he might just be acting like it.” But I knew. And I had it in my mind that he was about to break his younger brothers spirit and break the news to him. I was afraid he was going to take the Christmas spirit away from my sweet innocent youngest and stamp all over it. I had to protect him. I needed to control this now before it got out of control. I rushed into the play room where my oldest was playing alone. I looked him dead in the eyes and said: “Well you know Santa isn’t real, right?” And as I stared at my eight-year-old son for what seemed like a long time of silence, his eyes started to fill with tears. And a tear dropped down his cheek when he screamed out, “He’s not?”

“Um well it’s not that he’s not real (shut up you idiot(白痴) - stop saying he’s not real), but he doesn’t really make and deliver all the toys. Dad and I get some of them for you. So he’s real. He’s just got a little help from us.”

The Evil Genius wasn’t buying it. He just sat there looking at me with an expression of doubt.

You know when you make a terrible mistake but you can’t stop yourself from making it worse? That was me because I just had to know. I had to know why he had seemed to be over Santa. So I asked him why he rolled his eyes and sighed every time his father and I mentioned Santa. To which he replied that kids at school had been saying Santa wasn't real but that he still thought he was.

1.What’s the best title for the passage?

A. Two different sons

B. Santa secret given away

C. Protecting one, ruining the other

D. Making a mistake worse

2.What did the writer conclude when “Evil Genius” rolled his eyes and sighed?

A. “Evil Genius” had discovered Santa was not real.

B. “Evil Genius” had broken the secret to his younger brother.

C. Evil Genius” had passed his Santa-loving years.

D. Evil Genius” had been influenced by his classmates.

3.What does the underlined sentence mean in the passage?

A. “Evil Genius” refused to buy toys.

B. Evil Genius” didn’t believe his mother’s words.

C. Evil Genius” wanted to keep silent.

D. “Evil Genius” would not give away the secret.

4.What lesson can we learn from the story?

A. Lies can never change facts.

B. Honesty is the best policy.

C. No one is perfect.

D. We should think twice before we act.

Having arrived too early for the appointment, Robert decided to read the newspapers ______ time.

A. to kill B. killed

C. kill D. to be killed

If you were given a chance to choose your favorite life metaphor(比喻), what would it be? Do you agree with Forrest Gump’s mother that life is “a box of chocolates” because “you never know what you’re going to get”? Or do you prefer the phrase from the 1930’s song that “life is just a bowl of cherries(樱桃)”? Though simply stated, each conveys a very different view. A “box” implies mystery, because we don’t know what is in a closed box. Meanwhile, a “bowl” of cherries is completely in view.

For many centuries, the metaphor of life that probably burst into most people’s mind was the one suggested by Shakespeare: “All of life is a stage…” On that stage, we take seven roles. More recently, psychologist Erik Erikson took up the idea of life as a stage. Erikson regarded development as a “powerful unfolding” in which we are driven from one stage to the next as our bodies, minds, and social roles develop.

Stage metaphors fit with many of our common-sense ideas about change, but the problem with the stage metaphor is that it isn’t particularly accurate. None of the studies that try to clarify the universality of adult life stages actually studied people as they developed over time. All of them were based on performances of their samples(样本) at one point in time. People’s actual lives don’t fit into these stage metaphors. They don’t automatically transform when people reach a certain age. Instead, people’s real lives are messy, unpredictable, and full of surprises.

Today, I’d like to focus on an even longer study, an 80-year study which is the subject of a recent book by Howard Friedman and Leslie Martin. Their final chapter summarizes the “many changes of healthy and unhealthy pathways” that their participants took over the course of their lives. As I too discovered in my research, the pathway provides a perfect metaphor of human development. We don’t all go down the same road marked with the same signposts based on age. People travel through diverse routes as they track the years of adulthood. Friedman and Martin use health and long life as their measure; I’ve used sense of achievement. In both cases, we are in perfect agreement in evaluating development not according to age but “the key features of life”.

The paths that Friedman and Martin describe seize the changes that characterize people as they age. Some examples are “The High Road” (reliable, full of plans); “Not Easy Street” (exposed to high stress throughout life), “Catastrophe Lane” (a downwardly twisty life); “Happy Trails to You” (cheerful, sociable), “The Road to Resilience” (able to handle stress with a strong will). Though I haven’t yet been able to follow my participants for 80 years, I too saw some of these pathways among my samples: “The Minding Way” , “The Downward Slope” , “The Straight and Narrow Path” , and “The Successful Trail”.

The pathway metaphor gives you hope for changing the direction of your life if you are unhappy with it so far. You can’t stop the clock from ticking the minutes between one birthday and the next, but you can adjust the road that you’re on by changing yourself, your situation, or both.

1.The author introduces the topic of the passage in the first paragraph by ______.

A. making comparisons B. giving examples

C. describing scenes D. providing explanations

2.According to the passage, the “stage metaphor” ______.

A. leads to misunderstandings

B. is used in memory of Shakespeare

C. doesn’t exactly reflect one’s real life

D. hasn’t enough stages to clarify life changes

3.The author is convinced of the life metaphor Friedman and Martin suggest because she ______.

A. spent less time on her research B. has found their book a bestseller

C. considers their measure more scientific D. got a similar finding to theirs

4.When a person is facing difficulties bravely, which metaphor can best describe him?

A. “Not Easy Street” B. “Happy Trails to You”

C. “Catastrophe Lane” D. “The Road to Resilience”

5.What does the passage focus on?

A. The pathway as a perfect life metaphor.

B. Various views on life metaphors.

C. The stage as a common life metaphor.

D. Different kinds of life metaphors.

Recently, a new research has suggested the possibility in a popular magazine ______ pleasant smells might reduce pain.

A. why B. whether C. that D. how

食物浪费是全世界一个严肃的问题。为此，开始于去年1月的光盘行动在网络上呼吁人们减少食物浪费。下面请根据所提供的材料，以 “How to reduce food waste”为题，写一篇80词的短文，并提出你的看法或者建议。

1．在餐馆不要点太多的食物；

2．如果你不能吃完所点的食物，那就把剩余的带回家；

3．对食物不要太挑剔，一些食物也许尝起来不怎么，但你的身体需要；

4．留意家里的食物，不要买的太多，特别是蔬菜和水果；

注意：1．文章开头已经给出，不计入总词数；

2．可适当增加细节，保持连贯；

3．文中不得出现真实的姓名和学校。

参考词汇：reduce减少； rest 剩余的； picky 挑剔的; keep an eye on 注意、留意。

How to reduce food waste

Wasting food is a serious problem around the world. The Clean Your Plate Campaign began on the Internet in January last year. It calls on people to reduce food waste. So we must do the following.

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With help from all parts of the country, the people in the flooded area managed to _______ that harsh winter.

A．get through B．look through

C．come up D．get out

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