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4．How words came into being is unknown．All we assume（推测）is that some early men invented certain sounds，in one way or another，to express thoughts and feelings，actions and things，so that they could talk with each other．Later they agreed upon certain signs，called letters，which could be put together to show those sounds，and which could be written down．Those sounds，whether spoken or written in letters，are called words．
The power of words，then，lies in their associations-the things they bring up to our minds．Words become filled with meaning for us by experience； and the longer we tire，the more certain words bring back to us the happy and sad events of our past； and the more we read and learn，the more the number of words that mean something to us increases．
Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words which have powerful effects on our minds and feelings．This clever use of words is what  we call literary style（文体）．Above all，the real poet is a master of words．He can express his  meaning in words which sing like music，and which by their position and association can move men to tears，We should therefore learn to choose our words carefully and use them correctly，or they will make our speech silly and common．

58．We learn from the text that language might have begun withD
A．expressions
B．actions
C．signs
D．sounds
59．What is mainly discussed in Paragraph 2？C
A．The learning of new words．
B．The importance of old words
C．The relation of human experience with words．
D．The gradual change and development of words．
60．In the last paragraph，what does the author suggest that we should do？A
A．Use words skillfully．
B．Make musical speeches
C．Learn poems by heart．
D．Associate with listeners．

3．EDGEWOOD-Every morning at Dixie Heights High School，customers pour into a special experiment：the district's first coffee shop run mostly by students with special learning needs．
Well before classes start，students and teachers order Lattes，Cappuccinos and Hot Chocolates．Then，during the first period，teachers call in orders on their room phones，and students make deliveries．
By closing time at 9.20a．m．，the shop usually sells 90 drinks．
"Whoever made the chi tea，Ms．Schatzman says it was good，"Christy McKinley，a second year student，announced recently，after hanging up with the teacher．
The shop is called the Dixie PIT，which stands for Power in Transition．Although some of the students are not disabled，many are，and the PIT helps them prepare for life after high school．
They learn not only how to run a coffee shop but also how to deal with their affairs．They keep a timecard and receive paychecks，which they keep in check registers．
Special-education teachers Kim Chevalier and Sue Casey introduced the Dixie PIT from a similar program at Kennesaw Mountain High School in Georgia．
Not that it was easy．Chevalier's first problem to overcome was product-related．Should schools be selling coffee？What about sugar content？
Kenton County Food Service Director Ginger Gray helped．She made sure all the drinks，which use non-fat milk，fell within nutrition （营养） guidelines．
The whole school has joined in to help．
Teachers agreed to give up their lounge （休息室） in the mornings．Art students painted the name of the shop on the wall．Business students designed the paychecks．The basketball team helped pay for cups．

59．What is the text mainly about？B
A．A best-selling coffee．
B．A special educational program．
C．Government support for schools．
D．A new type of teacher-student relationship．
60．The Dixie PIT program was introduced in order toC．
A．raise money for school affairs
B．do some research on nutrition
C．develop students'practical skills
D．supply teachers with drinks
61．How did Christy McKinley know Ms．Schatzman's opinion of the chi tea？C
A．She met her in the shop．
B．She heard her telling others．
C．She talked to her on the phone．
D．She went to her office to deliver the tea．
62．We know from the text that Ginger GrayB．
A．manages the Dixie P1T program in Kenton County
B．sees that the drinks meet health standards
C．teaches at Dixie Heights High School
D．owns the school's coffee shop．

2．EDGEWOOD-Every morning at Dixie Heights High School，customers pour into a special experiment：the district's first coffee shop run mostly by students with special learning needs．
Well before classes start，students and teachers order Lattes，Cappuccinos and Hot Chocolates．Then，during the first period，teachers call in orders on their room phones，and students make deliveries．
By closing time at 9.20a．m．，the shop usually sells 90drinks．
"Whoever made the chi tea，Ms．Schatzman says it was good，"Christy McKinley，a second year student，announced recently，after hanging up with the teacher．
The shop is called the Dixie PIT，which stands for Power in Transition．Although some of the students are not disabled，many are，and the PIT helps them prepare for life after high school．
They learn not only how to run a coffee shop but also how to deal with their affairs．They keep a timecard and receive paychecks，which they keep in check registers．
Special-education teachers Kim Chevalier and Sue Casey introduced the Dixie PIT from a similar program at Kennesaw Mountain High School in Georgia．
Not that it was easy．Chevalier's first problem to overcome was product-related．Should schools be selling coffee？What about sugar content？
Kenton County Food Service Director Ginger Gray helped．She made sure all the drinks，which use non-fat milk，fell within nutrition （营养） guidelines．
The whole school has joined in to help．
Teachers agreed to give up their lounge （休息室） in the mornings．Art students painted the name of the shop on the wall．Business students designed the paychecks．The basketball team helped pay for cups．

59．What is the text mainly about？B
A．A best-selling coffee．
B．A special educational program．
C．Government support for schools．
D．A new type of teacher-student relationship．
60．The Dixie PIT program was introduced in order toC．
A．raise money for school affairs
B．do some research on nutrition
C．develop students'practical skills
D．supply teachers with drinks
61．How did Christy McKinley know Ms．Schatzman's opinion of the chi tea？C
A．She met her in the shop．
B．She heard her telling others．
C．She talked to her on the phone．
D．She went to her office to deliver the tea．
62．We know from the text that Ginger GrayB．
A．manages the Dixie P1T program in Kenton County
B．sees that the drinks meet health standards
C．teaches at Dixie Heights High School
D．owns the school's coffee shop．

1．When I told my father that I was moving to Des Moines，Iowa，he told me about the only time he had been there．It was in the 1930s，when he was an editor of the literary magazine of Southern Methodist University（SMU）in Dallas，Texas．He also worked as a professor at SMU，and there was a girl student in his class who suffered from a serious back disease．She couldn't afford the operation because her family was poor．
    Her mother ran a boardinghouse in Galveston，a seaside town near Houston，Texas．She was cleaning out the attic（阁楼）one day when she came across an old dusty manuscript（手稿）．On its top page were the words，"By O．Henry"．It was a nice story，and she sent it to her daughter at SMU，who showed it to my father．My father had never read the story before，but it sounded like O．Henry，and he knew that O．Henry had once lived in Houston．So it was possible that the famous author had gone to the beach and stayed in the Galveston boardinghouse，and had written the story there and left the manuscript behind by accident．My father visited an O．Henry expert at Columbia University in New York，who authenticated the story as O．Henry's．
    My father then set out to sell it．Eventually，he foud himself in Des Moines，meeting with Gardner Cowles，a top editor at the Des Moines Register．Cowles loved the story and bought it on the spot．My father took the money to the girl．It was just enough for her to have the operation she so desperately needed．
    My father never told me what the O．Henry story was about．But I doubt that it could have been better than his own story．

49．Who found the O．Henry's manuscript？A
A．The girl's mother．    B．The author's father．
C．The girl．             D．The author．
50．Which of the following might explain the fact that the manuscript was found in the attic？B
A．O．Henry once worked in Houston．    B．O．Henry once stayed in Galveston．
C．O．Henry once moved to Des Moines．   D．O．Henry once taught at SMU．
51．The underlined word"authenticated"in Paragraph 2probably meansC．
A．named           B．treated           C．proved      D．described
52．According to the text，why did the author's father go to Des Moines？A
A．To sell the O．Henry story．     B．To meet the author himself．
C．To talk with the O．Henry expert．   D．To give money to the girl．

16．-Hurry up！There's a bus coming！
-Why run？There will be _____one in two or three minutes．（　　）

15．In the latest romance-drama，Descendants of the Sun （《太阳的后裔》），a handsome soldier Yoo Shi-jin（柳时镇）（Song Joong-ki）（宋仲基） meets the pretty doctor Kang Mo-yeon（姜暮烟）（Song Hye-kyo）（宋慧乔） in a hospital，and he doesn't hesitate to hit on her．
The dialogue，which takes place early in the first episode，immediately indicates that this is no ordinary South Korean drama．There's no family feud，or secret crush，or love tangles，or guesses and misunderstandings．The 16-episode show is set in the fictional war-torn country of Uruk（乌鲁克）．Song Joong-ki is the leader of a special warfare command unit，while Song Hye-kyo plays a doctor who works for a humanitarian medical organization．Both are sent in the midst of disaster and disease as part of their work with UN peacekeeping troops．Both know and show clearly what they want and what they hate．
But what stands out the most are Song's skills as a pick-up artist（撩妹技能）．
Boldness and creativity are the key weapons in his arsenal．When Kang invites Yoo to drink wine with her，Yoo，who is not allowed to drink alcohol as a soldier，says，"There is a way"before kissing her．Forget about the"eighth-episode rule"．This kiss happens in the fourth．
Humor also does the trick．On their first date in a cinema，Yoo says，"This is the most exciting moment of my life．The moment I am with a beautiful woman before the theater lights go out．"When Kang tries to give Yoo a hard time，Yoo jokes，"I mistook you for a beautiful woman because it's dark．"
And actor Song Joong-ki，who just came back from two years of military service last May，makes sure he delivers his pick-up lines just right．
"In Deep Rooted Tree （《树大根深》） and The Innocent Man （《善良的男人》），he[Song Joong-ki]showed he had the steel to play fearless and heartless men-that he could be taken seriously as an actor，despite his pretty face．In Descendants，he hits the emotional core of every scene，whether he has to be bold and amorous，guarded and mysterious，or sad，"said critic Foong Woei Wan in The Straits Times．

32．What is the relationship between Song Joong-ki and Song hye-hyo？B
A．lover           B．colleague
C．actor          D．doctor-patient
33．Why say that the Descendants of the Sun is no ordinary South Korean drama？B
A．Because actors know and show clearly what they want and what they hate．
B．It broke the previous Korean old story．
C．It exits family feud and love tangles．
D．The pick-up artist is unique and special．
34．When the Descendants of the Sun tells us that heterosexual（异性） contacts is important to have some quality includingD．
①humor       ②Boldness and creativity    ③bold          ④emotional
A．①②B．①②③
C．②③④D．above all
35．What is the article mainly about？A
A．Introduce a drama called the Descendants of the sun．
B．Song Zhongji could be taken seriously as an actor，despite his pretty face．
C．The Descendants of the sun open a new pattern to pick-up woman．
D．The reason why the Descendants of the sun gain success．

14．The largest outbreak of the deadly disease Ebola（埃博拉） was caused by an infected bat biting a toddler，say a group of international researchers．
The 17-strong team of European and African tropical disease researchers，ecologists and anthropologists have spent three weeks investigating the outbreak of the disease in Guinea，Liberia，Ivory Coast and Nigeria．The researchers captured the bats and other creatures near the village of Meliandoua in remote eastern Guinea，where the disease began in December 2013．The boy was bitten and passed the infection on to his mother and both died within a week．The disease was then spread far and wide by the people who came to the funeral．
Most of the previous outbreaks have been caused by meat from dead infected animals collected by hunters who then sell it on．Fruit bats，however，are widely eaten in rural West Africa．
The team，led by epidemiologist（流行病学家） Herr Leendertz，a disease ecologist at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin，are expected to publish their results in a major journal soon．
Herr Leendertz's team believe that an infected straw-colored fruit bat brought the disease to Guinea．The mammals are known to travel long distances and usually settle in forests near cities．Herr Leendertz said，"The evidence is not 100percent and we can only say that it is possible．They can travel far in one night．I don't think an individual bat or colony（群体） migrated all the way from Congo or Gabon to West Africa．These big colonies are connected．There is a possibility for the virus to mix between colonies．The bats share the same fruit．It is likely not to have even been one species of bat．The virus may jump from one species to another．"
If the bat theory is confirmed，the locals would try to destroy the colonies，which，Herr Leendertz says，would be an ecological disaster，because bats pollinate（传授花粉） plants and kill insects．And bat hunts would also only increase human contact with potentially infected animals．

50．What's the purpose of the 17-strong team？A
A．To look into the outbreak of Ebola．
B．To help the people who suffer from Ebola．
C．To help cure the infected boy of Ebola．
D．To make a study of the bats including fruit bats．
51．In Herr Leendertz's opinion，B．
A．people can do nothing to prevent the disease
B．the disease Ebola may jump from one species to another
C．the result of the research should be published immediately
D．the straw-colored fruit bats usually settle in forests in the rural areas
52．If the bat theory is confirmed，D．
A．the disease Ebola will be controlled
B．all the fruit bats in Africa would be killed
C．plants would not be pollinated in the future
D．the ecosystem in Africa might lose its balance
53．What's the main idea of this passage？C
A．A toddler was bitten by a bat and died．
B．The disease Ebola is incurable at present．
C．An infected bat caused the outbreak of Ebola．
D．The deadly disease Ebola broke out in Guinea．
54．This passage can probably be classified asB．
A．a science fiction B．a news report
C．a lecture essay D．an auto-biography．

13．Traffic jams cost average Beijinger $1，126annually
By Meng Jing （chinadaily．com．cn）
Beijingers（北京人） lost as much as 7，972Yuan on average to traffic jams last year，the highest in the country，said a report．
Published by Didi Kuaidi，China's largest ride-hailing application and its partners，the report revealed Beijingers on average spent 52minutes travelling 19.2kilometers daily between their home and office．
White-collar workers in China's mega cities-Beijing，Guangzhou，Shenzhen and Shanghai-were those who lost most money to congestion．
The cost ranged between 7，972yuan and 6，324yuan per person in the four cities whose residents are among the best paid employees in China．
Research based on data collected on Didi Kuaidi's online platform showed that not only those in mega cities suffered from poor traffic conditions．
The report said residents in second-tier cities spent 37minutes on average between home and work with a travelling speed of 23km/h due to congestion．The speed was even slower than first-tier cities'24km/h．
So，B  For instance，the Fourth Ring Road in Beijing in a morning rush hour．City authorities are working on solutions to ease the pressures on traffic in the city．
21．According to the passage，People live in Beijing usually lost aboutA Yuan each month．
A.664.3           B.7，972        C.22.14           D.1，126
22．What is cause the congestion based on the text？D
A．Car numebers is increasing．
B．Too many people live in the city．
C．Drivers don't obey the laws．
D．Poor traffic conditions．
23．What does the underlined sentence"mega"means？A．
A．big               B．develop        C．beautiful         D．livable
24．At last paragraph，which sentences can be written in the black？B
A．How to ease the pressure in the road？
B．People try their best to desrease the pressures on traffic．
C．The Fourth Ring Road in Beijing is crowed．
D．Citizens lost most money to congestion．

12．Ifrane is a small town in Morocco，famous for its European style and its similarity to the tourist resorts（胜地）of Switzerland．Developed by the French in the 1930s，Ifrane is fondly referred to as"Africa's Little Switzerland"．
The history of Ifrane dates back to around 500B．C．when it was the capital of an ancient Jewish Kingdom．It was called"Oufrane"then，meaning"caves"．It is believed that Jews fleeing from King Nebuchadnezzar found refuge（避难）there，and in later centuries，Arabs and Romans found their way there too．
Later，Ifrane served as an administrative town for the French govemment．The French were attracted to Ifrane for its cool climate during the summer．They turned the town into an ideal settlement for European families-it was designed to make its foreign inhabitants（居民）feel at home．Therefore，the architectural style and even the trees and flowering plants were imported from Europe．
When Morocco gained independence，the locals moved into Ifrane，filling it with a bit of their own culture．They enlarged the town，built a public market，and added other facilities．The famous Al Akhawayn University was founded in Ifrane in the mid-1990s．Many of the old wooden houses have been torn down and replaced with apartments．Still，there are plenty of red roofs dotting the town's scenery．
Ifrane is easily accessible by road，making it a popular tourist destination among locals and international tourists．The town is proud of powdery snow in the winters and cool summers，making it an inviting resort all year round．Free of crime and one of the cleanest cities in Morocco，it serves as the winter playground for the wealthy from the nearby cities．For the people of Morocco，the experience of a European winter is never too far away!

29．Who were the first to settle in Ifrane？A
A．The Jews． B．The Arabs C．The Romans． D．The French．
30．Which aspect of Ifrane is not mentioned in the passage？C
A．Its European style． B．Its inviting climate．
C．Its strange traditions． D．Its safe environment．
31．The last paragraph mainly tells us thatC．
A．tourists come to Ifrane only in winters
B．it costs a lot to spend a holiday in Ifrane
C．Ifrane is a popular tourist destination
D．Ifrane is the cleanest city in Morocco．

11．How we express our ideas sometimes means more than _____ we mean to say．（　　）

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