Susan Williams went to a boarding school. Here is one of the letters she wrote to her parents from the school.

Dear Mom and Dad,

I’m afraid I have some very bad news for you. I have been very naughty and the school principal(校长)is very angry with me. She is going to write to you. You must come and take me away from here. She does not want me in the school any longer.

The trouble started last night when I was smoking a cigarette in bed.This is against the rules, of course. We are not supposed to smoke at all.

As I was smoking, I heard footsteps coming towards the room. I did not want a teacher to catch me smoking, so I threw the cigarette away. Unfortunately, the cigarette fell into the waste-paper basket, which caught fire. There was a curtain near the waste-paper basket which caught fire, too. Soon the whole room was burning. The principal phoned for the fire department. The school is a long way from the town and by the time the fire department arrived, the whole school was in flames. Many of the girls are in the hospital.

The principal says that the fire was all my fault and you must pay for the damage. She will send you a bill for about a million dollars.

I am very sorry about this.

Much love, Susan.

P.S. None of the above is true, but I have failed my exams. I just want you to know how bad things could have been!

1.Susan wrote home ________.

A. to tell her parents she had failed her exams

B. to ask for a million dollars

C. to tell her parents about the fire

D. to tell her parents she had to leave school

2.In the letter, Susan told her parents that the principal was angry with her for the reason that_____.

A. she had failed her exams.

B. she had been caught smoking in bed.

C. it was her fault that the school had caught fire.

D. she had not phoned for the fire department in time.

3.Susan told her parents about the fire ________.

A. to warn them about what the principal would do

B. to make them less angry at her real news

C. to make them feel worried

D. to make them laugh

4.How true was the letter before the P.S.?

A. Partly true.

B. All true.

C. The story doesn’t really tell us.

D. Completely untrue

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Today we spent the morning going through our personal belongings .We were looking for items to _________ for free at a local park. Not just any items but things people really _________ . Our aim was not to find things we no longer _________but things we use every day that would be _________ to others.

We packed these things _________boxes and added some small toys. We added a list of local addresses and phone numbers of local _________ agencies. Inside the boxes a simple letter was placed. It _________ : “Please take these items and know that your life is important. _________ are difficult but these days will pass. We share what we have believing that it will_________ . Use the food to nurture your _________; use the blankets to stay warm. Be safe and know that the human _________ can overcome anything. Do not hold your head _________ for having a need to stay warm. Someday please do the same when you can.”

This kind _________ was not because the phone rang or for any reason. It was _________ because it was the right to do. We have often seen _________people at the park where we left the belongings. I _________ that my wife had put her favorite green coat into one of the boxes. I asked if she was _________about it and she just replied that it had a hood (兜帽) . Her answer told me why it is I who love her. She liked the coat but knew the hood could _________ someone from the rain.

Who knows where these gifts of _______ will go ? How many uses can a blanket serve _________ what it was designed to do? We never go back and see what happens. It is unimportant. The right things will find the right people and that is all that counts.

1.A. put off B. put up C. give away D. give up

2.A. needed B. collected C. produced D. searched

3.A. accepted B. wanted C. carried D. bought

4.A. wonderful B. beautiful C. hopeful D. useful

5.A. around B. upon C. into D. above

6.A working B. parking C. delivering D. helping

7.A. spoke B. read C. marked D. indicated

8.A. Ways B. Problems C. Times D. Situations

9.A. matter B. continue C. change D. depend

10.A. body B. mind C. brain D. figure

11.A. liberty B. spirit C. health D. wisdom

12.A. forward B. aside C. around D. down

13.A. attempt B. manner C. act D. habit

14.A. suddenly B. simply C. strangely D. usually

15.A. aimless B. homeless C. childless D. friendless

16.A. believed B. dreamed C. approved D. noticed

17.A. sure B. regretful C. worried D. anxious

18.A. separate B. prevent C. shelter D. hold

19.A. affection B. sympathy C. generosity D. honesty

20.A. other than B. rather than C. more than D. better than

Whatever our differences as human beings are, we all think we’re more like the rest of the animal world than we realize. It is said that we share 40 per cent of our genetic(遗传的)structure with the simple worm.

But that fact has helped Sir John Sulston win the 2002 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Sir John is the founder of the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, which was set up in 1992 to get further understanding of the human genome(染色体组).

To help them do this, they turned to the worm. The nematode(线虫类的)worm is one of the earliest creatures on planet earth. It is less than one millimeter long, completely transparent and spends its entire life digging holes through sand. But it still has lots to say about human life, and what can be done to make it better.

What the worm told Sir John and his colleagues was that each of cells in the human body is programmed like a computer. They grow, develop and die according to a set of instructions that are coded in our genetic make-up.

Many of the diseases that humans suffer from happen when these instructions go wrong or are not obeyed. When the cell refuses to die but carries on growing instead, this leads to cancer. Heart attacks and diseases like AIDS cause more cell deaths than normal, increasing the damage they do to the body. Sir John was the first scientist to prove the existence of programmed cell death.

1.Sir John Sulston got a Nobel Prize for Medicine because he has .

A.found that human beings are similar to the worm

B.got the fact we share 40 per cent of our genetic structure with the simple worm

C.found the computer which controls each of the cells in the human body

D.proved that cell death is programmed

2.People might be seriously ill if the cells in their body .

A.grow without being instructed

B.die regularly

C.fail to follow people’s instructions

D.develop in the human body

3.The underlined word “they” (paragraph 5) refers to .

A.cell deaths B.diseases C.instructions D.cells

4.What is the subject discussed in the text?

A.The theory of programmed cell deaths.

B.A great scientist—Sir John Sulston.

C.The programmed human life.

D.Dangerous diseases.

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