5. Among the crises that face humans               natural resources, (be)

人类所面临的危机之一是自然资源的匮乏。

4. Only if people of all the countries are united        the existing problems in the world. (solve)

只有全世界所有国家的人民团结起来，我们才能解决世界上现存的问题。

3. Not until two days after the earthquake        her mother alive. (find)

直到地震两天后她才发现她母亲还活着。

2. Little           what she looks like;all she cares about is her job performance. (care)

她不在乎外表，她在乎的是自己的工作表现。

1. So fast            that we can hardly imagine its speed. (travel)

光传播的速度快到我们难以想象。

"It was all his own idea," says Pat Peters, the 38-year-old wife of Palo Alto,California high school football coach Bob Peters，39. Bob had just drawn up a "motherhood contract" ―a document stating that for 70 days this summer he would take over the care and feeding of the couple' s four children，plus all household chores. Although he didn，t even know how to make coffee when he signed， he was quite confident. (He thought the experience would make a nice book.)

After 40 of the 70 days，he was ready to give up. "I was beaten down，completely humbled，" admits Peters. Three weeks later he spoke to the local press (also part of the bargain) ，stating，"Not only is motherhood a difficult task，not only is it never-ending，it is an impossible job for any normal human being."

Bob and Pat were high school sweethearts. After they were married in 1960, she worked as a

secretary to help put him through university. Since then Bob has been the football and wrestling coach at Palo Alto，s Cubberley High School while Pat raised the kids.

Then two years ago Pat went back to work as a secretary at Cubberley. "I had been around children so much, "she sighs, "I couldn't talk to a grown-up." She continued to run the household,however until Bob signed the contract，whereupon she decided to relax and enjoy it. Although Peters had consulted (咨询) with his school' s home economics teachers and the head of the cafeteria(食堂) ，his meals were sometimes a disaster."1 tried to slip the butter I,d forgotten under the eggs after they were fiying," he says. For the last three weeks，the family ate out a lot.

As for housekeeping, a home economics teacher had told Bob that a room always looks clean if the bed is made."1 found an easier way―I shut the doors，" he says. Soon the kids were wearing the same clothes for a week. I made them wear their shirts inside out,and when we went to pick up Pat at work they turned them right side out so they would look clean.

Now that Bob has publicly admitted he was wrong，and he is routinely(曰常地) sharing the child-raising and household tasks with Pat. The tentative(暂定的) title of his book about the sum?mer is taken from something he shouted at the kids one day.

(   ) 8. The couple signed the contract because .

     A.  Pat complained a lot about her doing the housework all by herself

    B.  Bob loved taking care of children and wanted his wife to have a good rest

    C.  they agreed that husband and wife should share household tasks

    D.  Bob thought it easy to take care of the family and wanted the experience for a book 

(   ) 9. It was agreed that if Bob failed to keep to the contract,he would have to         .

     A.   pay a certain amount of money

    B.   admit publicly he was wrong about motherhood

    C.   say sorry to his wife

    D.   do all the housework for years

(   ) 10. What can we learn about Pat Peters?

     A.   She was hard-working and selfless.

    B.   She was pretty and kind-hearted.

    C.   She was tired of the child-raising and household tasks.

    D.   She did not love Bob any longer.

(   ) 11. Which of the following can we infer about Bob during his contract days?

     A.  He might have made the house a mess.

    B.  He couldn' t have washed the children' s clothes.

    C.  He must have taken the kids to Macdonald' s for lunch and dinner many times.

    D.  He must have taughl the kids to make their beds every day.

(   ) 12. Which of the following can best serve as the title of the news story?

     A.  Wait Till Your Mother Gets Home！

    B.  My Experience of Being a Mother

    C.  I，m Proud of You All，My Dear！

    D.  Motherhood：an Impossible Job for Anyone

Prince Charles yesterday promised to reduce the royal impact on the environment through sweeping changes to his personal lifestyle and official schedule. The prince will replace carbon-heavy private jets and helicopters with scheduled flights and train services.

The move came as Prince Charles urged business leaders to publish the environmental pact of their activities.

He said，"Few accountants and business decision-makers ask，¹ How much of our critical natural resource is left? How many miles of polar ice cap has our business helped melt this year? By how many inches have we raised sea levels? How many species have we put at risk? How many homes will be flooded,how many people will die of thirst or starvation because of our activities? , These are not comfortable questions,but,by God,they need to be asked."

He added, "At the moment these costs do not appear in anyone's books... Yet they are real,they are incurred now and in a relatively short time，the damage being caused may be beyond remedy." He said the world was "running up the biggest global credit card debt in history，but with little or no thought for how the bill will ever be paid" .

Flanked by the prime minister and business and community leaders at St James' Palace, the prince said his new "accounting for sustainability" project would give consumers the power to choose products that caused less damage to the planet.

Duchy Originals，the prince，s food company，is taking steps to work out how much carbon dioxide and other green-house gas are emitted in growing, processing and distributing its products. The changes to the prince' s travel arrangements announced yesterday are part of a wider review of the carbon footprint associated with activities at all three of his residences. Clarence House in London, Highgrove and Birkhall on the Balmorals estate, as well as the activities of his 21 personal and 105 full-time staff. Measures include a review of electricity use,commuter and other staff travel and are intended to identify further reductions in carbon dioxide emissions. The review will report in June,when Clarence House will announce annual targets to reduce carbon emission.

(   ) 4. One of the moves Prince Charles will take to reduce the royal impact on the environment is         .

     A.  taking private jets that are not carbon-heavy

    B.  taking helicopters instead of private jets

    C.  taking trains instead of scheduled flights

    D.  taking scheduled flights instead of helicopters

(   ) 5. How does Prince Charles feel about business leaders in terms of environmental protection?

A. Dissatisfied.    B. Disappointed.    C. Doubtftil.    D. Impatient. (   ) 6. In response to Prince Charles' calls,Duchy Originals will        .

     A.   make as much green food as possible

    B.   cut down its cost

    C.   figure out its greenhouse gas emission

    D.   continue its greenhouse gas emission

(   ) 7. The underlined phrase in paragraph 4 probably refers to        .

     A.  the great amount of waste produced by industry

    B.  the great damage caused to the environment

    C.  the great amount of debts of the royal family

    D.  the high cost of industry in their producing process

Shakespeare，more perhaps than any other writer，made full use of the greatest resources of the English Language. Most of us use about five thousand words in our normal employment of English;Shakespeare in his works used about twenty-five thousand！There is probably no better way for a foreigner to appreciate the richness and variety of the English language than by studying the various ways in which Shakespeare used it. Such a study is well worth the effort,even though some aspects of English usage, and the meaning of many words, have changed since Shakespeare's day.

However, it is surprising that we should know comparatively little about the life of the greatest English author. We know that Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-on-Avon, and that he died there in 1616. He almost certainly attended the Grammar School in the town,but of this we cannot be sure. We know he was married there in 1582 to Anne Hathaway and that he had three children.

We know that he spent much of his life in London writing his masterpieces. But this is almost all that we do know.

However, what is important about Shakespeare' s life is not its incidental details but its pro?ducts ,the plays and the poems. For many years scholars have been trying to add a few facts about Shakespeare, s life to the small number we already possess and for an equally long time critics have been theorizing about the plays. Sometimes, indeed, it seems that the poetry of Shakespeare will disappear under the great mass of comment that has been written upon it.

Fortunately this is not likely to happen. Shakespeare * s people have long delighted not just the English but lovers of literature everywhere, and will continue to do so after the scholars and critics and all their works have been forgotten.

(   ) 1. This passage is about        .

     A.  the great length of each chapter in Shakespeare, s works

    B.  the great varieties in writing styles in Shakespeare, s works

    C.  the richness of the content in Shakespeare，s works

    D.  the rich English language used by Shakespeare in his works 

(   ) 2. It can be inferred from Para. 3 that        .

     A.  not all the comments on Shakespeare' s works have produced good effects

    B.  scholars have successfully collected facts about Shakespeare' s life

    C.  critics are more interested in Shakespeare' s play than his poetry

    D.  the details of Shakespeare's life are more important than his literary works 

(   ) 3. What does the last sentence in Para. 3 mean？

     A.  People don' t think the poetry of Shakespeare good any more.

    B.  People pay more attention to the comment than the poetry of Shakespeare-

    C.  People can't see the poetry of Shakespeare any more.

    D.  The comment is printed on the poetry of Shakespeare.

10. It is a pity that I have lost his way of contact because of carelessness. I               how I am getting on otherwise. (inform)

很遗憾我很粗心地将他的联络方式弄丢了。我本可以随时告知他我的情况的。

9. An unexpected visitor's coming robbed him of the chance to pay a visit to his parents，though        . (intend)

他本打算去看看他父母的，可一个不速之客的到访让他的计划泡汤。