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On a stormy day last August, Tim heard some shouting.Looking out to the sea carefully, he saw a couple of kids in a rowboat were being pulled out to sea.

Two 12-year-old boys, Christian and Jack, rowed out a boat to search a football.Once they’d rowed beyond the calm waters, a beach umbrella tied to the boat caught the wind and pulled the boat into open water.The pair panicked and tried to row back to shore.But they were no match for it and the boat was out of control.

Tim knew it would soon be swallowed by the waves.

“Everything went quiet in my head,” Tim recalls(回忆).“I’m trying to figure out how to swim to the boys in a straight line.”

Tim took off his clothes and jumped into the water.Every 500 yards or so, he raised his head to judge his progress.“At one point, I considered turning back,” he says.“I wondered if I was putting my life at risk.” After 30 minutes of struggling, he was close enough to yell to the boys, “Take down the umbrella! Let’s aim for the pier(码头),” Jack said.Tim turned the boat toward it.Soon afterward, waves crashed over the boat, and it began to sink.“Can you guys swim?” he cried.“A little bit,” the boys said.

Once they were in the water, Tim decided it would be safer and faster for him to pull the boys toward the pier.Christian and Jack were wearing life jackets and floated on their backs.Tim swam toward land as water washed over the boys’ faces.

“Are we almost there?” they asked again and again.“Yes,” Tim told them each time.

After 30 minutes, they reached the pier.

1.Why was the boat far into open water?

A.The boys rowed too fast.

B.The big current carried it.

C.The wind blew it.

C.The boys tried to get attention..

2.Why did the two boys go to the sea?

A.To go boat rowing

B.To get back their football.

C.To swim in the open water

D.To test the umbrella as a sail.

3.What does “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A.The beach

B.The water

C.The boat

D.The wind

4.Why did Tim raise his head regularly?

A.To take in enough fresh air

B.To consider turning back or not.

C.To check his distance from the boys.

D.To ask the boys to take down the umbrella.

5.How can the two boys finally reach the pier?

A.They were dragged to the pier by Tim.

B.They swam to the pier all by themselves.

C.They were washed to the pier by the waves.

D.They were carried to the pier by Tim on his back.

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As a general rule, all forms of activity lead to boredom when they are performed on a routine(常规)basis.As a matter of fact, we can see this at work in people of all .For example, on Christmas morning, children are excited about with their new toys.But their soon wears off and by January those toys can be found put away in the basement.The world is full of stamp albums and unfinished models, each standing as a monument to someone’s interest.When parents bring home a pet, their child________ bathes it and brushes its fur.Within a short time, however, the ________ of caring for the animal is handed over to the parents.Adolescents enter high school with great ________ but are soon looking forward to________ .The same is true of the young adults going to college.And then, how many ________ , who now complain (抱怨) about the long drives to work, ________ drove for hours at a time when they first ________ their driver’s license (执照)? Before people retire, they usually ________ to do a lot of ________ things, which they never had ________ to do while working.But ________ after retirement , the golfing, the fishing, the reading and all of the other pastimes become as boring as the jobs they ________ .And , like the child in January, they go searching for new ________ .

1.A.principle B.habit C.weaker D.power

2.A.parties B.races C.countries D.ages

3.A.working B.living C.playing D.going

4.A.confidence B.interest C.anxiety D.sorrow

5.A.same B.extra C.funny D.expensive

6.A.well-organized B.colorfully-printed C.newly- collected D.half-filled

7.A.broad B.passing C.different D.main

8.A.silently B.impatiently C.gladly D.worriedly

9.A.promise B.burden C.right D.game

10.A.courage B.calmness C.confusion D.excitement

11.A.graduation B.independence C.responsibility D.success

12.A.children B.students C.adults D.retirees

13.A.carefully B.eagerly C.nervously D.bravely

14.A.required B.obtained C.noticed D.discovered

15.A.need B.learn C.start D.plan

16.A.great B.strong C.difficult D.correct

17.A.time B.money C.skills D.knowledge

18.A.only B.well C.even D.soon.

19.A.lost B.chose C.left D.quit

20.A.pets B.toys C.friends D.colleagues

ORTOTROT? I heard that word while studying in Australia. It is a local language for “Are you ready (to go)?”. And at Sydney Airport, I asked the way to the train station and a man told me“Go ask that “bloke” over there.” “Bloke” is used in Australia and refers to a person. “Day” and “die” sound almost alike and since “a”, “i” and “o” all sound almost the same, I have always told my Australian friends, jokingly, that they only need 24 letters, and not 26 like the rest of us do.

Australian English began to be different from British English in 1788 and has many words that some consider unique (独特的) to the language, such as outback, meaning a remote, sparsely-populated (人口稀少的) area. Early settlers from England brought other similar words, phrases and usages to Australia. “Bonzer”, which was once a common Australian word meaning “great” or “beautiful”, is thought to have been an American term. The American influence on language in Australia has come from pop culture, the mass media (books, magazines and television programmes) and the Internet. Australian English is most similar to New Zealand English for their similar history.

Words of Irish origin are used, some of which are also common elsewhere in Irish, such as “tucker” for “food”. Some native English words whose meanings have changed under Irish influence, such as “paddock” for “field”, which has exactly the same meaning as the Australian “paddock”are still in use.

1.According to the passage, we know Australian English .

A. has special characters

B. is a kind of old language

C. is very difficult to learn

D. is the same as British English

2.Why did the writer tell his Australian friends they only need 24 letters?

A. Because Australians never use “a” or “i”.

B. Because Australians speak very easy English.

C. Because there are 3 letters having similar pronunciation.

D. Because there are some different ways to call the same thing.

3.Australian English is most similar to New Zealand English because .

A. they learn from each other

B. they have similar history

C. the two countries have the same political system

D. people from the two countries often travel to each other’s country

4.The American influence on Australian English comes from the following EXCEPT .

A. pop culture B. the Internet

C. computer software D. the mass media

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