Once upon a time there was a monster（怪兽）. He was very ugly and had no friends. No one wanted to talk to him. Even other monsters thought he was ugly.
He lived alone and was very unhappy because he was so lonely.
“I wish I had a friend.” He said to himself every day, “One friend would be enough. Someone to talk to.”
He wrote a letter to a magazine. The magazine gave people advice.
“Dear Editor,” he wrote, “I am a ugly monster. How can I find a friend?”
“Dear monster,” the Editor replied, “Advertise for a friend in this magazine.” The monster wrote an advertisement.
“Monster wants a friend, male or female. I have two heads, four arms, six legs and three tails. I have one blue eye, one green eye and one brown eye. Smoke comes out of my nose. But I am really a kind monster and will be a good friend to someone. If you would like to meet me, please stand outside Blake’s Store at 6 p.m. on Friday, May 7th. Write to Mr. A, Box 45, everybody’s Magazine.”
A few days later he went to the magazine.
“Do you have any letters for Box 45?” he asked.
The clerk looked in Box 45.
“Yes, there is one.” She said, and gave it to him.
The monster opened the letter, and read, “Dear Monster, I think a person’s character is more important than his appearance. I will wait outside Blake’s Store on Friday. Please carry a flower so that I will recognize you. Yours sincerely, Miss Alice Thwaite.”

  1. 1.

    Why was the monster unhappy?

    1. A.
      He had no friends
    2. B.
      He was ugly
    3. C.
      He had two heads
    4. D.
      He had three tails
  2. 2.

    What did the monster advertise for?

    1. A.
      A magazine
    2. B.
      A friend
    3. C.
      An editor
    4. D.
      A male or female monster
  3. 3.

    How did the monster describe him in the advertisement?

    1. A.
      Ugly
    2. B.
      Lonely
    3. C.
      Kind
    4. D.
      Good-looking
  4. 4.

    What was strange about Miss Thwaite’s letter?

    1. A.
      She was not interested in people’s appearance
    2. B.
      She wanted to meet the monster
    3. C.
      She needed a flower to recognize him
    4. D.
      It was the only reply

Another day begins with the call of the phone’s alarm, Where are you? Open your eyes. Turn the alarm off and you will start working out on your apps（应用软件）.
First stop, weather: Sunny day. Look outside the window. Oh, no, it isn’t. Second stop, Air Quality Index: 344, dangerous, Level 6 Severely Polluted. Mental recheck required: It really is a sunny day and the weather app isn’t lying or in need of being replaced, it’s just that you can’t see the sun through the thick fog. Note to self: Cycling to work is out, face mask is in.
Has the world stopped turning? News app merely confirms that it’s business as usual. Another government has fallen, your soccer team has lost again, and China’s economy is still increasing steadily.
Diary app informs you of all the things you failed to do the previous day and loads you up with another half-dozen tasks. Next, browse a couple of social networking apps to determine the status updates of friends.
Another sound from the phone, it’s a message from your significant friend who is already at work, saying the Taobao. com order for Italian cheese is about to arrive.
Apps have become part of our “every-moment” lives. Apps provide so much information. But the dark side to all this connectivity would be lack of privacy, being a slave to the app. The only real problem is that once you lose your smartphone, you lose your life.
Some friends and family do not have smartphones, but prefer the old-fashioned Nokia that merely makes phone calls and sends instant messages. While I respect their purity and desire to be free of the control of technology, it’s obvious they are outsiders, and their lives are loaded up with paper and old devices. They’re still buying books at stores, complaining the lack of CDs on the market, watching TV and missing out on complete news cycles. Though I would add, they have lives that aren’t spent inside small screens.
My phone is a palm-sized one-stop shop and about the only thing it doesn’t do is teleport（心灵运输）. What’s not to like?

  1. 1.

    The functions of apps mentioned in the passage can be listed as follows EXCEPT that _______

    1. A.
      the apps can show you weather forecast
    2. B.
      the apps can tell you how to work directly
    3. C.
      the apps can inform you the latest news
    4. D.
      the apps can tell you what you failed to do
  2. 2.

    According to the passage, the author thinks that _______

    1. A.
      people’s life is governed by apps
    2. B.
      people feel bored about the use of apps
    3. C.
      people can’t live without apps
    4. D.
      people hate apps with powerful functions
  3. 3.

    It can be inferred from the last paragraph but one that _______

    1. A.
      more and more people like Nokia more than apps
    2. B.
      using Nokia can be free of the control of technology
    3. C.
      all people don’t like the advanced smartphones
    4. D.
      ordinary people don’t like shopping online

Justin Bieber used to be an ordinary Canadian boy, but his life totally changed in 2008. With his great musical talent, this 17-year-old boy has become a superstar in the music industry.
Justin Bieber was born in Straford, Ontario and was raised by his single mother. Bieber learned to play musical instruments when he was very young. In 2007, he took part in a local singing competition in his hometown, and he did it just for fun. He never took singing lessons before but surprisingly he placed second in the competition. Then,with the help of his mother, he uploaded videos of him singing on a website and they successfully attracted the attention of viewers. His videos got popular through word of mouth and some of them have received up to 10,000,000 views.
Justin Bieber would have never gotten a career in the music business without his videos. Scooter Braun, a former marketing executive of So So Def Recordings, had watched Bieber’s videos and he was impressed by the boy’s talent. Braun then contracted Bieber and he flew the boy into Atlanta 7 months after the first video was posted. Bieber showed his talent in singing as well as his ability in playing musical instruments. He then got a record deal.
In 2009,Justin Bieber released his first single “One Time” while he was recording the debut album（首张专辑）.The single “One Time” tells a story about love. This song had success not only in Canada and the US, but also in the international market. Then he released his debut album “My World 2.0”in 2010 and the song “Baby” became the lead single. This album successfully entered the Top Ten Charts in seven countries. In June 2010, he started his first world tour in Hartford, Connecticut. One month later, he started recording his second album

  1. 1.

    Justin Bieber’s career in music began to take off when______.

    1. A.
      he met with Scooter Braun
    2. B.
      he released his debut album
    3. C.
      he won second place in a competition
    4. D.
      his singing videos were uploaded to a website
  2. 2.

    It can be inferred from the text that Justin Bieber______.

    1. A.
      owed his success to good luck
    2. B.
      showed a gift for music when he was young
    3. C.
      is the youngest superstar ever in the music industry
    4. D.
      released his debut album with the help of Scooter Braun
  3. 3.

    What do we learn about Justin Bieber’s “One Time” according to the text?

    1. A.
      It is about love and was released in 2010
    2. B.
      It attracted the world’s attention after released
    3. C.
      It successfully entered the Top Ten Charts in seven countries
    4. D.
      It is the lead single of his debut album “My World 2.0”
  4. 4.

    What is the best title for the text?

    1. A.
      Justin Bieber’s journey to success
    2. B.
      Lucky boy-- Justin Bieber
    3. C.
      What made Justin Bieber a singer
    4. D.
      Secrets of Justin Bieber’s succes

"We do look very different; we're older. Leo's 38, I'm 37. We were 21 and 22 when we made that film. You know, he's fatter now -- I'm thinner.". So says Kate Winslet, who is thrilled at the 3-D re-release of Titanic to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the ship's demise. “ It happens every time I get on any boat of any kind." She recalls. There are all the people who want her to walk to the front of the ship and re-create her famous pose, arms flung wide. Most people remember the tragedy: The British passenger ship -- said to be unsinkable -- hit an iceberg and sank on April 15, 1912, during its maiden voyage from England to New York City. More than 1,500 people died. But little known is what the world learned from the sinking to prevent future incidents.
Probably the greatest deficiency （不足）of the Titanic was that she was built 40 years before the widespread use of the wonderful invention radar(雷达). Her only defense against icebergs and hidden obstacles was to rely on manned lookouts. On that fateful night the eyesight of trained lookouts only provided 37 seconds of warning before the collision.
Traveling at nearly 30 miles an hour the Titanic was moving far too fast to avoid the huge iceberg. The warning did prevent a head-on collision as the officer on the bridge managed to turn the ship slightly.
The last ship to send a warning was the California. She was within ten miles of the Titanic during the disaster, but her radio operator went to bed at midnight and never received any of the SOS messages from the Titanic. That was one of the important lessons learned from the catastrophe, the need for 24-hour radio operators on all passenger liners.
Another lesson learned was the need for more lifeboats. The Titanic remained afloat(漂浮) for almost three hours and most of the passengers could have been saved with enough lifeboats.
1,500 passengers and workers died in the 28 degree waters of the Atlantic. Out of the tragedy, the sinking did produce some important maritime reforms. The winter travel routes were changed to the south and the Coast Guard began to keep an eye on the location of all icebergs. The new rules for lifeboats were obvious to all. There must be enough lifeboats for everybody on board.
The most important lesson learned was that no one would ever again consider a ship unsinkable- no matter how large or how well constructed. Never again would sailors place their faith in a ship above the power of the sea

  1. 1.

    The text mainly tells us ______

    1. A.
      the reason why the Titanic sank in the Atlantic Ocean
    2. B.
      how the unsinkable ship of Titanic sank in the Atlantic Ocean
    3. C.
      the lessons that we could learn from the accident of theTitanic
    4. D.
      the things we should do to protect the lives on the ship
  2. 2.

    According to the passage, which of the following could we infer?

    1. A.
      If the captain had been more careful, he could have had the chance to save the Titanic
    2. B.
      If radar had existed 40 years ago, the Titanic would have never disappeared from the world
    3. C.
      If the lookout had had much more experience, he could have had the time to save the Titanic
    4. D.
      If there had been enough lifeboats on the Titanic, the Titanic would not have sunk in the Atlantic
  3. 3.

    What would be the best title for the passage?

    1. A.
      Lessons from the Titanic
    2. B.
      Technology is Important
    3. C.
      Demands of Passengers
    4. D.
      Power of Sea
  4. 4.

    What’s the sailors’ attitude towards the ships after the tragedy?

    1. A.
      They think there really exists the unsinkable ship
    2. B.
      They think ships could eventually defeat the sea
    3. C.
      They think there is no power that could control the sea
    4. D.
      They think the bigger the ship is, the safer it is

People who like travelling have their reasons. They believe that travelling can help them expand their field of view, especially in the geographical and historical sense. They also think that touring will give them more chances to enjoy different kinds of food and experience new things that would never be brought by other activities. But those who dislike travelling also have some reasons.
Travelling, in my opinion, does more good than harm. Most importantly, it broadens(扩大) our mind. We can get in touch with other civilizations(文明), culture, customs and ideas.
Through history, most people travelled because of necessity(必要性)—not for pleasure. People travelled just in order to remain alive. They searched for food to eat or places to live in. They sometimes ran away from enemies. This is not to say that no one ever travelled just for the fun of it. In ancient times, for example, rich Romans travelled all the way to Greece to take part in the Olympic Games, and festivals. Of course, some people decided to travel just out of curiosity(好奇心). They wanted to find out what it looked like beyond the horizon(地平线). Also, business travel has been going on for centuries.Traders could not only make money but also learn to speak several languages and be introduced to different cultures.
So travelling does enrich our mind and draw new ideas to us. There is no doubt that we can get much from it

  1. 1.

    The underlined word“expand”in Paragraph 1 can be replaced by “ __________”

    1. A.
      decide
    2. B.
      protect
    3. C.
      widen
    4. D.
      lose
  2. 2.

    According to the passage, in the past most people travelled _____________

    1. A.
      for knowledge
    2. B.
      to make a living
    3. C.
      to get experiences
    4. D.
      for fun
  3. 3.

    In the writer’s opinion, travelling can be ______________

    1. A.
      tiring
    2. B.
      funny
    3. C.
      expensive
    4. D.
      helpful

More than half of teachers in a UK survey said they thought plagiarism from the Internet is a problem.
Some students who steal essays wholly  from the Web, they said, are so lazy they don’t even bother to take the ads off the cut-and-pasted text. 58 percent of the teachers interviewed in the Association of Teachers and Lectures(ALT) questionnaire had come across plagiarism among their pupils. Gill Bullen from Itchen College in Southampton, for example, said pieces handed in by two students were the same and significantly better than either of them could have done.” “Not only that, the essays given in didn’t quite answer the title question I had set.” A teacher from Leeds said, “ I had one piece of work so obviously ‘cut and pasted’ that it still contained ads from the Web page” Connie Robinson from Stockton Riverside College, Stockton, said, “ With less able students, it is easy to spot plagiarism as the writing style changes mid-assignment, but with more able students, it is sometimes necessary for teachers to carry out Internet research to find out the source of the plagiarism.” Mary Bousted, general secretary of the ALT, said, “Teachers are struggling under a mountain of cut-and-pasting to spot whether work was the student’s own or plagiarism.” She called for strong policies to oppose plagiarism, and asked for help from the government in providing resources and techniques to delete cheats

  1. 1.

    What does the underlined word “plagiarism” in Para 1 probably mean?

    1. A.
      making quotations
    2. B.
      stealing others’ works or ideas
    3. C.
      cutting and pasting on the Internet
    4. D.
      surfing others’ works or ideas
  2. 2.

    According to Para 2 some students are so lazy that they don’t_______

    1. A.
      bother to remove the ads
    2. B.
      want to steal the whole essay
    3. C.
      check the mistakes on the Internet
    4. D.
      bother to do the work of cutting and pasting
  3. 3.

    According to Mary Bousted, we can learn that_______

    1. A.
      the government doesn’t complete its duty to stop plagiarism
    2. B.
      it’s very easy for teachers to spot plagiarism
    3. C.
      plagiarism causes the teachers great trouble
    4. D.
      only the government can find cheats
  4. 4.

    What can be the best title for the passage?

    1. A.
      UK students are lazy
    2. B.
      punishment on plagiarism
    3. C.
      Internet plagiarism –a problem in UK
    4. D.
      Hard to prevent plagiarism from the Internet

Maggie was very glad that James was not a frequent visitor to the house. So far as the children were concerned, they had a mystery about him that stirred their imagination. He stirred Maggie’s anger, however, so that she often said to her husband, “It’s mercy that brother of yours doesn’t come oftener.”
In fact James came once a year, unexpectedly, around eight o’clock in the evening, and he stayed for six hours of close discussion with his brother. His arrival was a signal to the children that their bedtime would be delayed. Not that he ever spoke to them or played with them. He took no notice of them, as if he was unable to see children, at least until the time came for him to go. Instead, after his first greeting and a careless kiss, James took no notice of Maggie either, except to add, “You’ll be getting on with the supper, Maggie.” Such was his regard for her.
Maggie paid him back in her own way. She kept the children up, the four of them, to keep her company, she said, but of course they sang and made a noise and broke the endless sound of James’s voice. Very late, they dropped off to sleep in their chairs. Then, when James was about to go, Maggie woke them up and so more or less forced him to part with four shillings before he left. That gave her some satisfaction, for James, though rich, was mean. He always went home by the last train, just after two o’clock.
Maggie’s children secretly stared at their uncle. They could not forget that he had, in their mother’s words, “lost two wives and taken a third, ” They wondered about those two unfortunate lost ladies. They asked each other what their fate had been, and if neither could ever be found again. James never brought his third wife with him nor ever mentioned her. The children decided that he must be so frightened of losing her that he never allowed her outside the door

  1. 1.

    The underlined word “mercy” in the text most probably means _______

    1. A.
      loss
    2. B.
      wonder
    3. C.
      lucky thing
    4. D.
      terrible thing
  2. 2.

    Maggie never prepared anything special for James because _______

    1. A.
      he was a man difficult to please
    2. B.
      she never knew when he was coming
    3. C.
      she was too busy looking after her children
    4. D.
      he never stayed long enough for a meal
  3. 3.

    What do we know about James’ behavior?

    1. A.
      He was a kind man, with love for the family
    2. B.
      He was generous, especially towards his brother
    3. C.
      He was anxious to please the family, especially the kids
    4. D.
      He was rude to his sister-in-law
  4. 4.

    Maggie felt pleased when _______

    1. A.
      she paid James the money that she owed him
    2. B.
      James gave some money to the children
    3. C.
      she had to wake James up to catch his train
    4. D.
      James thanked her for the nice supper

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This is where you select the postal destination for your order, indicate whether you would like Next Day Delivery in the UK and choose gift-wrapping. You can also amend (修改) the contents of your basket by making any changes and then selecting Update Basket.
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We will then inform you when your order has been sent. If this is your first order, we will also inform you of your personal BooksFirst account number.
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However, you do not need your BooksFirst personal account number to place an order—simply present all the required details on the order form. If you don’t have a note of your account number just Contact us so that we can supply it to you

  1. 1.

    We can probably read this advertisement ______

    1. A.
      in a newspaper
    2. B.
      in a magazine
    3. C.
      on the Internet
    4. D.
      on TV
  2. 2.

    Yours choices will be displayed in order to ______

    1. A.
      To make it easy to keep track of the books
    2. B.
      To make sure you’ve selected a book
    3. C.
      To make an advertisement
    4. D.
      To show this is the postal destination
  3. 3.

    Which of the following is true?

    1. A.
      You must put what you choose in a basket as you do in a supermarket
    2. B.
      You can find your Shopping Basket nowhere but in View Basket
    3. C.
      You will get your personal account number the third time you order
    4. D.
      You can get an account number after you place an order online
  4. 4.

    The purpose of this advertisement is______

    1. A.
      to promote the sale of books
    2. B.
      to show the procedure of ordering books online
    3. C.
      to help readers apply for account numbers
    4. D.
      to supply account numbers to readers

We all know that everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older, but men’s minds decline more than women’s, according to the results of a worldwide survey.
General differences seem to be natural in male and female brains: Men are better at maintaining and dealing with mental images (useful in mathematical reasoning and spatial skills), while women tend to excel be good at recalling information from their brain’s files. Many studies have looked for a connection between sex and the amount of mental decline people experience as they age, but the results have been mixed.
Some studies found more age-related decline in men than in women, while others saw the opposite or even no relationship at all between sex and mental decline.
Those results could be improper because the studies involved older people, and women live longer than men: The men tested are the survivors, “so they’re the ones that may not have shown such cognitive(认知的) decline,” said study team leader Elizabeth of the University of Warwick in England.
Scientists surveyed completed four tasks that tested sex-related cognitive skills: matching an object to its rotated form, matching lines shown from the same angle, typing as many words in a particular category as possible in the given time, e.g. “object usually colored gray”, and recalling the location of objects in a line drawing. The first two were tasks at which men are usually good; the latter are typically dominated by women. Within each age group studied, men and women performed better in their separate categories on average. And though performance declined with age for both genders, women showed obviously less decline than men overall

  1. 1.

    According to the passage, which of the following can NOT be typed into the same category?

    1. A.
      cloud
    2. B.
      sheep
    3. C.
      trees
    4. D.
      goose
  2. 2.

    Which of the following statements is true according the article? _______

    1. A.
      Men do better than women when it comes to learning English
    2. B.
      Women stand out at remembering people’s names
    3. C.
      Women do well in dealing mathematic problems
    4. D.
      Men excel at typing as many words as possible in the given time
  3. 3.

    One important factor that affects the correctness of the results is that ________

    1. A.
      women live longer than men
    2. B.
      people surveyed are all old
    3. C.
      the old men tested may not have shown such cognitive decline
    4. D.
      people taking part in this test came from all over the world
  4. 4.

    The author aims to tell us that _________

    1. A.
      women’s minds perform better than men’s
    2. B.
      men’s minds decline more with age
    3. C.
      everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older
    4. D.
      a survey on human’s mind decline was done recently

Tsunami warning system is tested
If he, the founder of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, were alive, Thomas Jaggar would be proud of the U.S. tsunami warning system after Friday’s devastating earthquake in Japan sent a surge (大浪，汹涌) of ocean water dashing toward the West Coast.
● WASHINGTON — So many people surged to the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center website that it slowed to a crawl early Friday, unable to provide critical information to the public about the coastal impact in the U.S. of a massive earthquake in Japan.
McClatchy Washington Bureau — Mar 11 06:09 p.m.
● CHICAGO — A tsunami warning has been issued for the central and northern California coast and Oregon, the National Weather Service announced early Friday.
Chicago Tribune— Mar 11 06:07 a.m.
● HONOLULU — A tsunami warning was issued late on Thursday for Hawaii after an 8.9 magnitude earthquake struck in the Pacific near Japan, prompting state civil defense officials to order all coastal areas evacuated（把…撤出…）by 2 a.m. local time. Tsunami sirens (警报) began sounding at 9:59 p.m. on Thursday. They have sounded every hour since 11:15 p.m.
Alaska Tsunami Warning Center also issued a warning for much of the coasts of Alaska, Washington, Oregon and California.
Reuters via Yahoo! News — Mar 11 01:22 a.m.
● LOMPOC — Tsunami warning ‘a wake-up call’
A tsunami warning that led to evacuations for coastal

communities and campgrounds in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties Friday served as a successful trial for a more serious emergency, officials said after the danger passed.
The Lompoc Record — Mar 11 11:29 p.m.
● WELLINGTON — The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre issued a warning after an 8.9 magnitude earthquake struck in the Pacific near Japan, and it said the sea level readings confirm that a tsunami has been generated and was in effect for some Pacific islands — Hawaii, China’s Taiwan, the Philippines and Indonesia etc.
New Straits Times — Mar 11 07:48 a.m.
— Reproduced by Yahoo Greenwich Meantime

  1. 1.

    A tsunami warning was issued for all the following states in the U.S. except for _____

    1. A.
      Ohio
    2. B.
      California
    3. C.
      Oregon
    4. D.
      Alaska
  2. 2.

    The underlined word “prompting” (in the fourth paragraph) most probably means _____

    1. A.
      promoting
    2. B.
      advocating
    3. C.
      urging
    4. D.
      appealing
  3. 3.

    According to the passage, the Pacific Tsunami warning was first reported by _____

    1. A.
      New Straits Times
    2. B.
      Reuters via Yahoo! News
    3. C.
      McClatchy Washington Bureau
    4. D.
      Chicago Tribune
  4. 4.

    In which city did the news agency issue a tsunami affecting for some other places apart from Japan and Hawaii?

    1. A.
      LOMPOC
    2. B.
      WASHINGTON
    3. C.
      HONOLULU
    4. D.
      WELLINGTON
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