It was a winter morning, just a couple of weeks before Christmas 2005. While most people were warming up their cars, Trevor, my husband, had to get up early to ride his bike four kilometers away from home to work. On arrival, he parked his bike outside the back door as he usually does. After putting in 10 hours of labor, he returned to find his bike gone.

The bike, a black Kona 18 speed, was our only transport. Trevor used it to get to work, putting in 60-hour weeks to support his young family. And the bike was also used to get groceries(食品杂货), saving us from having to walk long distances from where we live.

I was so sad that someone would steal our bike that I wrote to the newspaper and told them our story. Shortly after that, several people in our area offered to help. One wonderful stranger even bought a bike, then called my husband to pick it up. Once again my husband had a way to get to and from his job. It really is an honor that a complete stranger would go out of their way for someone they have never met before.

People say that a smile can be passed from one person to another, but acts of kindness from strangers are even more so. This experience has had a spreading effect in our lives because it strengthened our faith in humanity(人性)as a whole. And it has influenced(影响)us to be more mindful of ways we, too, can share with others. No matter how big or how small, an act of kindness shows that someone cares. And the results can be everlasting.

1.Why was the bike so important to the couple?

A.The man’s job was bike racing.

B.It was their only possession.

C.It was a nice Kona 18 speed.

D.They used it for work and daily life.

2.We can infer from the text that ____________.

A.the couple worked 60 hours a week.

B.people were busy before Christmas

C.the stranger brought over the bike

D.life was hard for the young family.

3.How did people get to know the couple’s problem?

A.From radio broadcasts.

B.From a newspaper.

C.From TV news.

D.From a stranger.

Perhaps Joe Cheng has become popular with thousands of fans and has been chased by girls and middles students. But do you know his resume(简历)?

Yes. Joe Cheng, who plays the most popular boy in high school in the popular Taiwanese drama “It Started with a Kiss.”

Although thousands of girls have fallen in love with him for his cute smile and strong body, Cheng, 27, doesn’t want to rest on his good looks. He made the move from modeling to acting six years ago, and now he is trying another career-this time, to be a singer. Cheng worked on his first album, “Joe Cheng’s Day”, for a year. It came out on September 7.

Apart from recording his CD, Cheng has been practicing dance moves for his music video. Given his height, 188cm, this was not an easy job. “I had bad dreams about dancing,” he said.

Cheng’s life has had many ups and downs. His parents divorced when he was in primary school and he has lived with his father ever since. After dropping out of high school, he took on all kinds of jobs before being spotted by a scout(星探)for a modeling agency. Cheng said his key to life is “keeping a positive outlook and making the most out of life.”

Cheng admitted that he got bad grades when he was in high school. But he was still very popular at school. “Being very active in the students union, I was elected president. I liked to organize parties and field trips, so many teachers and students knew me,” he said.

Cheng once dreamed of becoming a cartoonist, and he regrets that he never did it. Now he hopes his teenage fans can learn from his life. “When you are in school, just focus on studies,” Cheng said. “Every young heart is eager to explore the world outside. But take your time. Finish your studies first.”

1.Which of the following can be the best title for this text?

A. Finish Your Study First.

B. Life Is Full of Ups and Downs.

C. He Has It All, but Still Has Regrets.

D. The Key to Success.

2.What career didn’t Joe Cheng try?

A. Acting in some dramas. B. Dancing for an agency.

C. Modeling for an agency. D. Recording his own CDs.

3.The underlined word “outlook” in Paragraph 4 means __________.

A. attitude B. scene C. fame D. appearance

4.Which of the correct order of these events?

a. Joe Cheng dropped out of high school.

b. Joe Cheng worked on his first album, “Joe Cheng’s Day”.

c. Joe Cheng’s parents divorced.

d. Joe Cheng played the most popular boy in “It started with a Kiss”.

e. Joe Cheng worked in a modeling agency.

A. acedb B. caebd C. caedb D. Acebd

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I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large ________ across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-aged children. At the end of the day, he would________ his taxi on the road. I________ why he did not park it in the garage.

Then one day I learnt that he had another car in his garage. In the afternoon he would come home ________ work, leave his taxi and go out for his ________ affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was ________ .

I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I ________ to be outside one evening two weeks later, when the garage door was ________ and he drove out in his “own” car: a Rolls-Royce(劳斯莱斯)! It shook me completely ________ I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But deep inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a(n) ________ . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. For him, a taxi was just something he drove for a living. Rolls-Royce was something he drove for a (n) ________ .

We go to bed every night and ________ every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a party as close friends or go for a vacation as a ________ . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we ________ the social ladder(梯子)And we never use our Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on ________ we are than what we do!

1.A. window B. garage C. door D. yard

2.A. park B. stop C. check D. repair

3.A. knew B. understood C. asked D. wondered

4.A. for B. out of C. without D. from

5.A. business B. national C. personal D. public

6.A. wasteful B. useful C. wonderful D. careful

7.A. appeared B. happened C. expected D. intended

8.A. broken B. closed C. shut D. open

9.A. once B. before C. when D. until

10.A. driver B. engineer C. father D. son

11.A. experience B. earning C. life D. position

12.A. stay up B. wake up C. take up D. warm up

13.A. family B. company C. team D. whole

14.A. build B. climb C. stand D. lay

15.A. who B. what C. which D. where

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That night we lay on the floor in the room and I listened to the silk-worms eating. The silk-worms .on shelves of mulberry (桑树)leaves and all night you could hear them eating and a dropping sound in the leaves. I myself didn’t want to because I had been living for a long time with the that if I ever shut my eyes in the dark and let myself go, my would go out of my body. I had been that way for a long time, since I was sleepless at night and felt it go out of me and go off and then .I tried never to think about it, but it had started to go since, in the nights, just at the of going off to sleep, and I could only stop it by a very great . So while now I am fairly sure that it would not really have gone out, yet then, that summer, I was unwilling to make the .

I had different ways of myself while I lay awake. I would think of a trout(鳟鱼) stream I had fished along when I was a boy; and fish its whole length very in my mind; fishing under all the logs, all the turns of the , the deep holes and the clear shallow stretches, sometimes .trout and sometimes losing them. I would stop fishing at noon to eat my lunch; sometimes on a log the stream; sometimes on a high bank under a tree; and I always ate my lunch very slowly and the stream below me while I ate. Often I ran out of bait(诱饵) because I would take ten .with me in a tobacco tin when I started. When I had used them all I had to find worms and sometime it was very difficult digging in the bank of the stream the cedar trees kept out the sun and there was no grass but only the wet earth and often I could find no worms. Always I found some kind of bait, but one time in the swamp I could find no bait at all and had to one of the trout I had caught and used him for bait.

1.A. lived B. fed C. moved D. carried

2.A. eat B. sleep C. talk D. leave

3.A. purpose B. imagination C. knowledge D. excuse

4.A. soul B. idea C. sense D. temper

5.A. even B. yet C. still D. ever

6.A. come back B. come up C. get away D. get off

7.A. risk B. moment C. sight D. request

8.A. intention B. regret C. effort D. focus

9.A. achievement B. encouragement C. entertainment D. experiment

10.A. occupying B. devoting C. concerning D. equipping

11.A. casually B. aimlessly C. painfully D. carefully

12.A. root B. bank C. jungle D. coast

13.A. spotting B. approaching C. killing D. catching

14.A. beyond B. over C. through D. beneath

15.A. watched B. conducted C. crossed D. measured

16.A. weeds B. worms C. insects D. leaves

17.A. better B. larger C. more D. heavier

18.A. when B. how C. why D. where

19.A. bare B. pure C. holy D. vivid

20.A. cut up B. cut down C. cut off D. cut in

No poem should ever be discussed or “analyzed”, until it has been read aloud by someone, teacher or student. Better still, perhaps, is the practice of reading it twice, once at the beginning of the discussion and once at the end, so the sound of the poem is the last thing one hears of it.

All discussions of poetry are, in fact, preparations for reading it aloud, and the reading of the poem is, finally, the most telling “interpretation”(解读) of it, suggesting tone, rhythm, and meaning all at once. Hearing a poet read the work in his or her own voice, on records or on film, is obviously a special reward. But even those aids to teaching can not replace the student and teacher reading it or, best of all, reciting it.

I have come to think, in fact, that time spent reading a poem aloud is much more important than “analyzing” it, if there isn’t time for both. I think one of our goals as teachers of English is to have students love poetry. Poetry is “ a criticism of life”, and “ a heightening(提升) of life”. It is “an approach to the truth of feeling”, and it “can save your life”. It also deserves a place in the teaching of language and literature more central than it presently occupies.

I am not saying that every English teacher must teach poetry. But those who do teach poetry must keep in mind a few things about its essential nature, about its sound as well as its sense, and they must make room in the classroom for hearing poetry as well as thinking about it.

1.To have a better understanding of a poem, one should________.

A. discuss it with others B. analyze it by oneself

C. copy it down in a notebook D. practise reading it aloud

2.According to the writer, one of the purposes of teaching English is to get students________.

A. to understand life. B. to enjoy poetry.

C. to become teachers. D. to become poets

3.What does the last sentence in the third paragraph imply?

A. More importance should be attached to the teaching of poetry.

B. Poetry is more important than any other subject.

C. One cannot enjoy life fully without an understanding of poetry

D. Poetry is the foundation of all language and literature courses

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