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     I came to study in the United States a year ago. Yet I did not know the American society until I was
injured in a car accident because after the accident I had to see a doctor and go to court. After the
accident, my roommate called a doctor for me. I was very grateful and decided to repay him one day.
But the next day, he asked me to pay him $200 for what he had done. I was astonished. He had good
reason to charge me, he said. And if I wanted to collect money from the person who was responsible for my injury, I’d have to have a good lawyer. Now that he had helped me to find a good doctor, it was only
fair that I should pay him.
      But every time I went to see the doctor, I had to wait about 50 minutes. He would see two or three
patients at the same time, and often stop treating one so as to see another. Yet he charged me $115 each
time. The final examination report only contained ten lines, and it cost me $215.
     My lawyer was all smiles the first time we met. But after that he avoided seeing me at all. He knew
very well the other party was responsible for the accident, yet he hardly did anything. He simply waited
to collect his money. He was so irresponsible that I decided to fire him. And he made me pay him $770.
     Now I had to act as my own lawyer. Because of my inexperience, I told the insurance the date I was
leaving America. Knowing that, they played for, time …and I left without getting a cent.
     My experiences taught me two things about America: firstly, in a country like America money is
everything. It is more important than friendship, honor or professional morality; secondly, foreigners are
still being unfairly treated. So when we talk about America, we should see both its advantages and
disadvantages.

1. The author’s roommate offered to help him because ________.

A. he felt sorry for the author.            
B. he thought it was a chance to make some money
C. he knew the doctor was a very good one  
D. he wanted the author to have a good lawyer

2. A good lawyer is important for the author to ________.

A. be properly treated              
B. talk with the person responsible for the accident
C. recover before he leaves America
D. eventually get the responsible party to pay for his injury

3. Which is wrong according the the passage?

A. The author has learned a lot through the experience.
B. Everything about America is advantageous.
C. The author's roommate helped him but charged for that.
D. The author's final examination report only contained ten lines but cost $215.

4. The word charge in the passage means _____.   

A. be responsible    
B. entertain    
C. ask to pay    
D. repay

5. What conclusion can you draw from this story?

A. Going to court is something very common in America. 
B. One must be very careful while driving a car.
C. There are more disadvantages in America than advantages.
D. Money is more important than other things in the US.

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   I first met her on the beach near where I live.I drive to this beach a__1__of three or four miles,whenever
   I'm feeling down.At that time she was__2__something.
   Looking__3__,she said,"Hello." I nodded,not wanting to__4__with a small child.
   "I'm Wendy and I'm building something," she said.
   "I see.But what is it?" I asked,not__5__.
   "I don't know.I just like the__6__of sand."
   A sandpiper (矶鹞鸟) flew by.
   "That's a__7__.Mum says sandpipers come to bring us joy."
    "Goodbye,joy,"  I thought to myself, " hello, __8__."  and  walked  away. My  life  then  seemed
completely out of__9__.
   "Come again," she called,"and have another__10__day."
   But the days and weeks that followed__11__to other people:naughty boys and a__12__mother.One
morning I suddenly realized I needed my__13__and headed for the beach.The breeze was cool,but I
walked along,trying to recapture (捕捉) the inner peace I needed.I had almost__14__the child so I was
surprised when she appeared.
   "__15__do you live?" I asked.She pointed toward a summer cottage.
   Then one day,I rushed to my beach in great pain,even in no__16__to greet the girl."If you don't mind," I
said coldly,"I'd rather be__17__today." She seemed unusually__18__ and out of breath.
   "Why?" she asked.
   "My mother died!"
   "Did it hurt when she died?"
   "Of course it hurt!" I shouted,misunderstanding her.
   When I next went to the beach,she wasn't there.Feeling__19__,and admitting I__20__her,I went up to
the cottage.A woman answered the door."Wendy,my daughter,died last week.She had leukemia (白血病)．Maybe she didn't tell you."
(      )1.   A.length  
(      )2．A.observing
(      )3．A.up    
(      )4．A.work    
(      )5．A.caring  
(      )6．A.feel    
(      )7．A.sorrow  
(      )8．A.comfort  
(      )9．A.balance  
(      )10．A.sad    
(      )11.  A.added  
(      )12.  A.kind    
(      )13.  A.party  
(      )14.  A.searched
(      )15.  A.How    
(      )16.  A.mood    
(      )17.  A.alone  
(      )18.  A.happy  
(      )19.  A.sorry  
(      )20.  A.cheated 		B．distance  
B．drawing  
B．out      
B．play      
B．seeing    
B．sense    
B．joy      
B．pleasure  
B．sight    
B．happy    
B.  led      
B.  poor      
B.  sandpiper
B.  known    
B.  What      
B.  time      
B.  lonely    
B.  pale      
B.  excited  
B.  lost      		 C．space    
C．building  
C．down      
C．say      
C．wanting  
C．smell    
C．pity      
C．kindness  
C．mind      
C．busy      
C.  belonged  
C.  lonely    
C.  chance    
C.  noticed  
C.  Where    
C.  way      
C.  unique    
C.  good      
C.  cold      
C.  troubled  		 D．reach      
D．collecting
D．over      
D．talk      
D．worrying  
D．comfort    
D．lie        
D．pain      
D．range      
D．fine      
D.  related    
D.  sick      
D.  holiday    
D.  forgotten  
D.  Which      
D.  place      
D.  special    
D.  powerful  
D.  puzzled    
D.  missed    
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     I used to watch her from my kitchen window. She seemed so small as she muscled her way through
the crowd of boys on the playground. The school was across the street from our home and I would
often watch the kids as they played during break. I remember the first day I saw her playing basketball.
I watched in wonder as she ran circles around the other kids. She managed to shoot jump shots just
over their heads and into the net. The boys always tried to stop her but no one could. I began to notice
her at other times, basketball in hand, playing alone.
     One day I asked her why she practiced so much. Without a moment of hesitation she said, "I want
to go to college. The only way I can go is to get a scholarship. I am going to play college basketball. I
want to be the best. My daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don't count. "Well, I had to
give it to her-She was determined. I watched her through those junior high years and into high school.
Every week, she led her school team to victory.
     One day in her senior year, I saw her sitting in the grass, head in her arms.I walked across the street
and sat down in the cool grass beside her. Quietly I asked what was wrong. "Oh, nothing," came a soft
reply, "I am just too short." The coach told her that at 5'5" she would probably never get to play for a
top ranked team-much less offered a scholarship. So she should stop dreaming about college. She was
heartbroken and I felt my own throat tighten as I sensed her disappointment. I asked her if she had
talked to her dad about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were wrong. They just did
not understand the power of a dream. He told her that if she truly wanted a scholarship and that nothing
could stop her except one thing-her own attitude.
     The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was
offered a scholarship and on the college team. She was going to get the college education that she had
dreamed of.
1. The author was probably the girl's __________.
A. neighbor      
B. friend
C. mother  
D. teacher
2. Why was the girl heartbroken?
A. She was considered too short to be a top player.
B. Her coach stopped her training because of her height.
C. She couldn't be on a college basketball team.
D. She wouldn't be admitted by an ideal college.
3. We can learn from the passage that__________.
A. her family wouldn't like to pay her college fees
B. her father forced her to play basketball in college
C. being a top basketball player can win you a scholarship for college
D. she wouldn't like to turn to his father for help when in difficulty
4. Which word can best describe her father?
A. Encouraging.  
B. Optimistic.
C. Stubborn.  
D. Cruel.
5. Which proverb best matches the story?
A. Practice makes perfect.
B. Rome was not built in a day.
C. Where there is a will, there is a way.
D. Pride comes before a fall.
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     I remember that when I was in my teens, I used to go against many of the Dos and Don'ts my
parents taught me.For example, when I kept playing jazz records on the player, my father would
think of such music as making noise and replace  them with disks of classical music that I always
considered extremely dull.
     My mom and dad were also very particular about the friends I went out with, always saying that
"One rotten (腐烂) apple could ruin a whole barrel of apples". When I insisted on sleeping with my
pet dog, they immediately said NO because they thought that I would be bitten by fleas (跳蚤).
     These are just a few examples of many of the things that I thought my parents were unreasonable
about.Today, however, I am a father of a boy of sixteen, and I find that I, too, am pressuring my son
with a lot of rules that he seems to find hard to accept.The other day, I noticed that my son's hair was
too long, so I told him to go to the barber's and get it cut short.Usually, he is fairly obedient, but this
time he put_his_foot_down."What's wrong with my long hair?I don't think you have the right to order
me to cut it short, even if you're my father!"
     When I was a boy, if I had spoken in such a way to my father, he would have taught me a good
lesson.But now we are living in a world with more freedom.My son's insistence on wearing his long
hair was only an example of the generation gap that existed between us.So I tried to be more
understanding and now he still wears his long hair.
1. The writer's parents thought it proper for him to________.
A. sleep with his pet dog
B. listen to jazz
C. be careful about making friends
D. wear long hair
2. Which of the following is true?
A. The writer gave more freedom to his son.
B. The writer's son often went against him.
C. The writer always obeyed his parents as a child.
D. The writer liked wearing long hair.
3. The underlined phrase "put his foot down" in the third paragraph means ________.
A. obeyed  
B. insisted  
C. accepted  
D. left
4. The writer thinks that________.
A. parents should be more strict with their children
B. no generation gap exists between parents and children
C. parents have the right to order their children
D. parents should show more respect to their children
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     I am a good mother to three children.I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being
a good parent.
     I no longer consider myself the center of the universe.I show up.I listen.I try to laugh.I am a good
friend to my husband.I have tried to make marriage vows(誓约) mean what they say.I am a good friend
to my friends, and they to me.Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.
     So here's what I want to tell you today:get a life.A real life, not a desire of the next promotion(提升),
the bigger paycheck and the larger house.
     Get a life in which you are not alone.Find people you love, and who love you.And remember that love
is not leisure(休闲) but work.Pick up the phone.Send an email.Write a letter.And realize that life is the
best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.
     It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, and our minutes.It is so easy to exist instead of
living.I learned to live many years ago.Something really, really bad happened to me, something that
changed my life.If I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all.And what I learned from it is
what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.
    I learned to love the journey, not the destination.I learned to look at all the good in the world and tried
to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally.And I tried to do that, in part, by
telling others what I had learned.
    By telling them this:read in the backyard with the sun on your face.Learn to be happy.And think of life
as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live with joy and passion(激情) as it ought to be lived.

1. The best title of this passage probably is "________".

A. Love Your Friends
B. Live a Real Life
C. Don't Waste Time
D. Be a Good Mother and Wife

2. How did the author form her view of life?

A. Through social experience.          
B. By learning from her friends.
C. Through an unfortunate experience.      
D. From her children and husband.

3. By the underlined sentence "It is so easy to exist instead of living." in the fifth paragraph, the author
really means that people tend to________.

A. make a living rather than live a real life    
B. work rather than enjoy life
C. waste a lot in life                      
D. forget the most important lesson in life

4. It can be inferred from the passage that________.

A. the author is a success in personal life
B. the author doesn't try her best to work well
C. the author spends all her time caring for her children
D. the author likes traveling very much
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     I found the imagination of becoming a grandmother somewhat discouraging. I was younger than I
thought a grandmother should be when I got the news that I was going to become one myself. I admit, it
was not a role that I was emotionally ready to accept. I had been a young mother, and had certainly hoped my daughter would not face that same challenge. I remarried when she was a teenager, and then had two more children. On getting the news that she was expecting, I remember thinking "What do I know about
being a grandmother? -I haven't even finished raising my own kids yet!" I don't like to be unprepared, so I read a few books about grandparenting. That gave me a little help, but I was still uncertain. I thought about other grandmothers I knew, and got a few ideas I liked and a few more that I didn't. But I couldn't quite
figure out what kind of grandmother I wanted to be. Then I thought about my own grandmother, Granny,
as she's known by most people, and I knew I had the answer.
     I didn't realize it until that moment, but my own grandmother was the example for the kind of
grandmother I wanted to be. I am fortunate that I got to spend a lot of time with my grandparents when I was a little kid. Here's what I learned from my Granny:
     Grandmothers always have a cookie jar. For my entire life, Granny always had a cookie jar full of
cookies. When I was a little tiny girl, just at eye level with the counter, Granny would get the cookie jar
down for me. When I was a little older I learned how to pull the chair over so I could reach. As I got taller, if I really stretched, I could reach the cookie jar with my finger tips and move it close enough to get it down off the counter to find out what kind of treat was inside. Always the first thing I did when I went to
Granny 's house was check the cookie jar and there were always cookies in it. Many years later, I'll drive my own children to Granny's house and the first thing Pd do is get us all a cookie.
     So grandmothers must have a cookie jar and on my granddaughte' s first Christmas, my daughter
bought me my own cookie jar. She said when they came to see me, her daughter would find the treat the way she did and I did.
1. The writer thought it was a little discouraging to be a grandmother because________.
A.she was not old enough to be one    
B.she was not emotionally ready to be one
C.she thought her daughter was too young to be a mother
D.grandmother should be older than she was
2. The underlined phrase "that same challenge " in the first paragraph refers to" ________"
A. taking care of a grandchild
B. taking care of a baby
C. being a young grandmother
D. being a young mother
3. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that________.
A.the writer has many happy memories of her grandmother's cookie jar
B.the writer always wanted to know what was inside her grandmother's cookie jar
C.the writer often drove her grandchildren to see her grandmother's cookie jar
D.womenof the writer 's age all have a cookie jar for their grandchildren
4. What kind of grandmother did the writer want to be?
A.One who has a jar filled with many kinds of cookies for children and herself.
B.One who grows up with her grandmother's cookie jar with all kinds of cookies.
C.One who is like her own grandmother with a cookie jar to treat her grandchildren.
D.Onewho always makes different kinds of cookies to treat her grandchildren.
5. Which of the following can be the best title of this text?
A.Grandmother's Cookie Jar                
B.Grandmother's Treat for Children
C.Grandmothers and Grandchildren          
D. Happy Memories of Cookies