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Mr. and Mrs. Gordon were sitting on the sand, reading their magazines. Mr. Gordon was too stingy (吝啬) to rent (租) a chair. Their twelve-year-old daughter. Sandra, was playing at the water's edge. Suddenly a huge wave（波浪） lifted Sandra up and carried her out to sea. Luckily, a lifeguard(救生员) was on duty and he saw the wave carry Sandra away. He ran along the beach and dived into the sea. He swam quickly to where the girl, with her head only just above the water, was shouting for help. She was very frightened. When the lifeguard reached her, she struggled (斗争) with him, as drowning (快淹死) people often do. However, he was a skillful lifeguard and quickly took hold of her and swam with her back to the beach. By the time he reached it, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon had realized what had happened. They had run down to the water's edge, neither of them could swim. They just stood in the shallow water, and worried about their daughter. Had the lifeguard reached her in time? Luckily, he had. "That was quick work, young man," Mr. Gordon said. He turned to his wife, "Give the lifeguard a dollar. ""A dollar!" Sandra cried," dad, how can you give him a dollar! He saved my life. I was half dead. "" Quite right, girl " Mr. Gordon said, pleased by his daughter's awareness (意识) of the value of money. He turned to his wife again and said," She's right. She was only half dead. Give him fifty cents. "

1.What happened to Sandra?

A. She ran into the sea.

B. She died.

C. She was drowned.

D. Her life was saved by a lifeguard.

2.What did Mr. and Mrs. Gordon do when Sandra was carried out to sea by the wave?

A. They shouted to the lifeguard.

B. They dived into the water.

C. They offered the lifeguard money to save Sandra.

D. Perhaps they were reading magazines.

3.Why was Sandra angry with her father?

A. He didn't give the lifeguard any money.

B. He didn't swim out to save her.

C. He didn't show the lifeguard hearty thankfulness.

D. He gave the lifeguard too much money.

4.Why was Mr. Gordon pleased with her daughter.

A. She was safe again.

B. She was polite to the lifeguard.

C. He thought she did not want him to give the lifeguard too much money.

D. She gave the lifeguard fifty cents.

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Body language is the quietest, most secret and most powerful language of all. It is said that our body movements communicate about 50% of what we really mean while words themselves only do 7%. So while your mouth is closed, just it is your body language that is saying.

When it comes to body language at the office, you may be making some big mistakes that could cause you trouble. The following are some tips on what you should not do when using body language at your office.

Don’t touch your co-workers, even if it’s on the back of the arm or shoulder. Many of your co-workers are not comfortable with any body contact(接触)with others. Be careful not to touch everyone at your office.

Don’t avoid eye contact. Eyes can speak. Lack of eye contact means cheat, and it can also point to no safety or lack of confidence. Trust and confidence are things you will communicate to the other person if you hold eye contact 50% of the time.

Don’t have a bad handshake. You’re going to show your kindness at once with a firm palm(手掌)to palm handshake. Showing the palms of your hands is an amiable gesture as it shows that you have a peaceful purpose. It means acceptance, and that you’re open to new ideas. Be careful of the dead fish handshake.

Don’t lean(倾斜) your head while listening to others. When listening to others, you should listen to him or her carefully with your head straight. For women especially, you think you are expressing interest by leaning your head when you are listening to others, but you actually come across as if you don’t understand what’s going on.

1.What can we learn from the first paragraph?

A. The importance of body language.

B. The development of body language.

C. The best way to communicate with others.

D. How to avoid making mistakes at the office.

2.The underlined word “amiable” in paragraph 5 can be replaced with______.

A. common B. polite C. friendly D. strange

3.It can be known from the passage that _____.

A. The stronger you shake hands with others the better.

B. Leaning your head when listening expresses interest.

C. Leaning back and forward shows you are thoughtful.

D. Eye contact is very important in communications.

4.Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

A. Pay attention to your body language at the office.

B. How to get along with your co-workers.

C. The meaning of body language you should know.

D. Different countries have different body language.

It’s generally believed that people act the way they do because of their personalities and attitudes. They recycle their garbage because they care about the environment. They pay S5 for a caramel brul6e latte because they like expensive coffee drinks.

It’s undeniable that behavior comes from our inner dispositions (性情），but in many instances we also draw inferences about who we are, as suggested by the social psychologist Daryl Bern, by observing our own behavior. We can be strangers to ourselves. If we knew our own minds，why would we need to guess what our preferences are from our behavior? If our minds were an open book, we would know exactly how much we care about the environment or like lattes. Actually，we often need to look to our behavior to figure out who we are.

Moreover, we don’t just use our behavior to learn about our particular types of character we infer characters that weren’t there before. Our behavior is often shaped by little pressures around us, which we fail to recognize. Maybe we recycle because our wives and neighbors would disapprove if we didn't. Maybe we buy lattes in order to impress the people around us. We should not mistakenly believe that we always behave as a result of some inner disposition.

Whatever pressures there can be or inferences one can make, people become what they do， though it may not be in compliance (符合)with their true desires. Therefore, we should all bear in mind Kurt Vonnegufs advice： “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ’’

1.According to the passage, personalities and attitudes are commonly believed to __________.

A. determine one’s behavior

B. reflect one’s taste

C. influence one’s surroundings

D. result from one’s habits

2.Which of the following would Daryl Bern most probably agree with?

A. The return of a wallet can indicate one’s honesty.

B. A kind person will offer his seat to the old.

C. One recycles plastics to protect the environment.

D. One buys latte out of true love of coffee.

3.What can be inferred from the underlined sentence in the passage?

A. We fail to realize our inner dispositions.

B. We can be influenced by outside pressures.

C. Our behavior is the result of our true desires.

D. Our characters can shape our social relationships.

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阅读下面短文，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。

Mr Black was a wealthy businessman, but he was not ________ with life. He did not sleep well and his food did not________ with him. The situation lasted for some time. Finally, after a ________ of sleepless nights, he ________to see his doctor. The doctor advised a change of ________ "Go abroad," he said. "But I'm not good at foreign languages," said Mr. Black. "It doesn't matter," said the doctor. "It won't ________ you to talk a little less. ________ on a trip. Take plenty of exercise. Try to________ your weight. Avoid (避免) eating rich food. " Mr. Black went to Switzerland. He did not know French or German, and had to ________ himself through gestures. He attended a physical training course. The instructor（指导者）________ him bend his knees, swing his arms, stretch his neck and shake his ________ .He had to lie on the ground and ________his right and left legs in________. After a time his muscles grew hard and firm. He almost________ aside his financial(金融的) worries and nearly forgot the importance of ________ more money. He even began to ________ individual trees and individual birds. He ate and slept well. ________ he returned home. But unfortunately his________ did not________long. Soon he was a normal businessman again, worried about his property, his profits, his savings, his success in a competitive society, and things in ________.

1.A. good B. interested C. healthy D satisfied

2.A. suit B. taste C. agree D. fit

3.A. great deal B. number C.course D. few

4.A. decided B. refused C. called D. expected

5.A. surrounding B. life C. weather D. situation

6.A. hurt B. stop C. help D. prevent

7.A. Leave B. Go C. Join D. Start

8.A. add B. lose C. miss D. gain

9.A. say B. tell C. express D. talk

10.A. got B. asked C. made D. forced

11.A. back B. legs C. feet D. head

12.A. rise B. draw C. pull D. raise

13.A. time B. length C. turn D. number

14.A. lay B. put C. pushed D. stepped

15.A. making B. spending C. saving D. collecting

16.A. see B. notice C. consider D. search

17.A. Finally B. Luckily C. Quietly D. Willingly

18.A. development B. pleasure C. improvement D. freedom

19.A. seem B. go on C. continue D. last

20.A. form B. general C. touch D. sight

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。

Lots of people give you advice on overcoming fear. ____1.___ However, I want to tell you that a world without fear would be more dangerous, less rewarding. So we want to treat fear as a friend. Here are three reasons.

____2.___ Think about it. Do you get more nervous when you meet the girl (or guy) of your dreams? Which is more fearful, talking to the boss of your company or to some of your friends? ___3.____ If you didn’t have fear to guide you, you might not know that! Not so bad, right?

Next, fear encourages us to take action. Fear is a call to action. In the past, our ancestors (祖先) didn’t run away in fear when they saw a tiger running toward them but tried to kill it for food. Now, most of us don’t face serious danger like hungry tigers every day, but we do face serious bosses or public speaking. So, what can we do? ___4.____ .

Lastly, fear lets you know you are alive. Why do we like roller coasters (过山车)? ____5._____ Same for horror movies.

So fear can guide you towards what’s important for you and encourage you to take action to improve your situation. Don’t we all need that kind of friend?

A. The first is that fear is an excellent guide to opportunity.

B. Don’t fear to be wrong.

C. They say if you can overcome fear, you will be successful.

D. It frightens us in a mostly safe way.

E. Imagine what life would be like without fear.

F. Fear is showing you what is important and what matters to you.

G. Let fear provide us with the energy to do what needs to be done.

Before the law sits a gatekeeper. To this gatekeeper comes a man from the country who asks to gain entry into the law. But the gatekeeper says that he cannot grant him entry at the moment. The man thinks about it and then asks if he will be allowed to come in sometime later on. "It is possible," says the gatekeeper, "but not now." The gate to the law stands open, as always, and the gatekeeper walks to the side, so the man bends over in order to see through the gate into the inside. When the gatekeeper notices that, he laughs and says: "If it tempts you so much, try going inside in spite of my prohibition. But take note. I am powerful. And I am only the most lowly gatekeeper. But from room to room stand gatekeepers, each more powerful than the other. I cannot endure even one glimpse of the third."

The man from the country has not expected such difficulties: the law should always be accessible for everyone, he thinks, but as he now looks more closely at the gatekeeper in his fur coat, at his large pointed nose and his long, thin, black Tartar's beard, he decides that it would be better to wait until he gets permission to go inside. The gatekeeper gives him a stool and allows him to sit down at the side in front of the gate. There he sits for days and years. He makes many attempts to be let in, and he wears the gatekeeper out with his requests. The gatekeeper often interrogates him briefly, questioning him about his homeland and many other things, but they are indifferent questions, the kind great men put, and at the end he always tells him once more that he cannot let him inside yet. The man, who has equipped himself with many things for his journey, spends everything, no matter how valuable, to win over the gatekeeper. The latter takes it all but, as he does so, says, "I am taking this only so that you do not think you have failed to do anything."

During the many years the man observes the gatekeeper almost continuously. He forgets the other gatekeepers, and this first one seems to him the only barrier for entry into the law. He curses the unlucky circumstance, in the first years thoughtlessly and out loud; later, as he grows old, he only mumbles to himself. He becomes childish and, since in the long years studying the gatekeeper he has also come to know the fléas ( PZ) in his fur collar, he even asks the fleas to help him persuade the gatekeeper. Finally his eyesight grows weak, and he does not know whether things are really darker around him or whether his eyes are merely deceiving him. But he recognizes now in the darkness a ray of light which breaks out of the gateway to the law. Now he no longer has much time to live.

Before his death he gathers in his head all his experiences of the entire time up into one question which he has not yet put to the gatekeeper. He waves to him, since he can no longer lift up his stiffening body. The gatekeeper has to bend way down to him, for the great difference has changed things considerably to the disadvantage of the man. "You are insatiable (不知足的)."t "Everyone strives after the law," says the man, "so how is it that in these many years no one except me has requested entry?" The gatekeeper sees that the man is already dying and, in order to reach his diminishing sense of hearing, he shouts at him, "Here no one else can gain entry, since this entrance was assigned only to you. I'm going now to close it. "

1.Which can best describe the man from the country?

A.Brave but innocent. B. Loyal but ridiculous.

C. Tolerant but stubborn. D. Trustworthy but childish.

2.hat is the implied meaning of the underlined sentences?

A. Anyone who breaks the law will get severe punishment.

B. It's next to impossible for people to gain entry into the law.

C. The gatekeepers are powerful enough to defend the law.

D. All the gatekeepers take full responsibility for obeying the law.

3.The sentence "What do you still want to know now?" asks the gatekeeper. can be put in

A．① B. ② C. ③ D④

4.Which of the following is TRUE?

A.The gatekeeper is actually the symbol of responsibility.

B. All efforts made by the man from the country are in vain.

C. The man from the country finally gains access into the law.

D. A close relationship is formed between the gatekeeper and the man.

5.Why is the man from the country eager to have access to the law continuously?

A.Because he is anxious to explore the nature of law. .

B.Because no one can gain entry into the law except him.

C. Because the gatekeeper promises him entry into the law.

D. Because he knows how to take advantage of the gatekeeper.

6.What may be the title of the novel?

A. Before the law B. Above the law

C. A countryman's life D. A gatekeeper's duty

At the end of the historic area, Wilmington displayed its____ as a working port city: large ware-houses and a few other dated office buildings.

A. achievement B. reputation C. character D. standard

The Toltec---as they were now called ---began to know great abundance and enjoy the

generous gifts of the land, as had been foretold by Quetzalcoatl.

“He has great powers.He has made us rich.We have not known hunger since he arrived.Where he places his eyes and hands,everything is abundance and beauty.”

They were happy, they were proud. At that time they all still worked at the jobs Quetzalcoatl assigned to them.

Tula grew. People came from far away to admire its growth. Many asked permission to settle down and enjoy its abundance,which was distributed according to the needs of the people.

Topiltzin was in charge of distributing the riches,under the orders of Quetzalcoatl, so that no one would want. They were all content because they all had more than they had ever had. Many worked.They were busy all day.

Quetzalcoatl had spent six years among the Toltecs. The house for the heart of the people was almost finished and the granaries full when he decided.

“There is prosperity(繁荣)and abundance in all the land.Let us extend it beyond the mountains.We shall go to the land of the Chichimecs.It is time to take my mission to them. I shall make them better,I shall make them live together,I shall gather them in towns,I shall teach them to till the land and to build their homes."

"Let us leave them in their land as they are now ,"Topiltzin argued,"They are savages(野蛮人);their life is violent and disorderly.They move freely,like the wind in the mountains and the plains,with nothing to keep them.Leave them where they are.There is much that we must do in our own land.

"I do not belong to this land alone.They are all my brothers,I am to give all of them, I shall look for them. I shall take the gods of Tula to them,"Quetzalcoatl said.

"Think carefully about what we shall do.You do not know them.They do not understand words. They are like savage animals,like jaguars," Topiltzin insisted.

"I shall go,"said Quetzalcoatl."My life must be accomplished.This time you will not accompany me because you do not have the will to go.I shall leave soon with some of my followers."

"Do not go with so few people! I shall accompany you with skillful warriors who are used

to killing Chichimecs and avoiding their traps." Topiltzin insisted.

"I am not going there with violence. I shall go to them as I came here,to take them the gifts of life and the doctrine of sin and redemption(原罪与救赎)."

"You have not spoken of sin and redemption for a long time," Tattle remarked. He had been listening attentively to the dialogue,and was then close to seventeen years of age."You have not come near the Tree you planted in the square in a long time.The Tree has no shoots,it has not grown,it looks sad and lonely."

"During this time,Tattle,I have often thought of it.There was confusion in my spirit.Now the Tree orders me to spread good in other lands,to make other brothers happy. It will soon have shoots."

1.This reading passages is most probably an account of _________________.

A. history B.politics

C. a contemporary life D. a myth or legend

2..From the passage, which of the following statements in Not true?

A. The city of Tula owed its growth to Quetzalcoatl

B. Quetzalcoatl believed he had been entrusted with a sacred mission

C. the followers will persuade him not to go to the land of the Chichimecs

D. Quetzalcoatl's Tree was a symbol for him and the Toltecs

3.Accroding to the passage, the prosperity of Tula________________.

A. was due to Toltecs's godlike behavior

B. occurred prior to Quetzalcoatl's appearance

C. was a relatively recent development

D. was yet to be established

4.When Tattle refers to Quetzalcoatl's Tree, saying that the Tre is ”sad and lonely“，he means that __________________.

A. the Tree is near its death

B. Quetzalcoatl has forgotten the Tree's significance

C. the Toltecs have ignored the Tree

D. there should have been celebrations around the Tree

5.The "shoots" mentioned in the last paragraph refer to ____.

A. the spread of Quetzalcoatl's beliefs to other areas

B. the Tree's growing roots and branches yet to develop

C. the Toltecs outlying settlements

D. the "savage animals, like jaguars"

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