10．Books which give instructions on how to do things are very popular in the United States today．Thousands of these"How to"books are available； in fact，there are about four thousand books with titles that begin with the words"How to"．One book may tell you how to earn more money，another may tell you how to save or spend it，and another may explain how to give your money away．Many"How to"books give advice on careers （职业）．They tell you how to choose a career and how to succeed at it．If you fail，however，you can buy a book called"How to Turn Failure into Success"．If you would like to become very rich，you can buy the book"How to Make a Million"．If you never make any money at all，you may need a book called"How to Live on Nothing？"．One of the most popular types of books is one that helps you with personal problems．If you want to have a better love of life，you can read"How to Succeed at Love Every Minute of Your Life．？"．If you are tired of books on happiness，you may prefer a book called"How to Make Yourself miserable？"．
    Many of these books help people use their time better．Some people want books which will give them useful information about sports，hobbies，and travel．Other people use their free time to make repairs and improvements on their homes．They prefer books which give step by step instruction on how to repair things like plumbing （卫生管道工程） and electrical wiring，or on how to redecorate （重新装饰） or enlarge a house．
    Why have"How to"books become so popular？Probably because life has become so complex．Today people have far more free time to use，more choices to make，and more problems to solve．"How to"books help people deal with modern life．
1．These"How to"books are written toC．
A．tell people on how to love their daily life             
B．earn money for the companies to survive in the competition
C．give people some good advice on how to do something they want to do 
D．give readers who want to know about America a deep impression
2．Before someone wants to find a good job，he had betterB．
A．buy a book on"How to Make a Million？"
B．read a book on how to choose a career and how to succeed at it 
C．make better use of his time in his daily life     
D．use his free time to look for it 
3．If people will not succeed in what he is doing，a book calledAcan give help．
A．"How to Turn Failure into Success"
B．"How to Make a Million？"
C．"How to Succeed at Love Every Minute of Your Life？"
D．"How to Make Yourself Miserable？"
9．Ask most people how they define the American Dream and chances are they'll say，"Success．"The dream of individual opportunity has been present in America since Europeans discove red"The New World"in the Western Hemisphere．Early immigrants like Hector St．Jean de Crevecoeur highly praised the freedom and opportunity to be found in this new land．His enthusiastic descriptions of a classless society where anyone could attain success through honesty and hard work fired the imaginations of many European readers．In Letters from an American Farmer （1782）he wrote，"We are all excited at the spirit of an industry which is unfettered （无拘无束的） and unrestrained，because each person works for himself …We have no princes，for whom we toil （干苦力活），starve，and bleed．We are the most perfect society now existing in the world．"The promise of a land where"the rewards of a man's industry follow with equal steps the progress of his labor"drew poor immigrants from Europe and fueled national expansion into the western lands．
    Our national historical story is full of illustration of the American success story．For instance，Benjamin Franklin was the very model of the self-educated，self-made man，who rose from modest origins to become a well-known scientist，philosopher，and statesman．In the nineteenth century，Horatio Alger，a writer of fiction for young boys，became American's best-selling author with his rags-to-riches tales．The idea of success impressed us：we spend millions every year reading about the rich and famous，learning how to"make a fortune in real estate（房地产） with no money down，"and"dressing for success．"The story of success has even affected our personal relationships：today it's as important to be"successful"in marriage or parenthoods as it is to come out on top in business．
    But dreams easily turn into nightmares．Every American who hopes to"make it"also knows the fear of failure，because the story of success implies comparison between the haves and the have-nots，the stars and the unknown crowd．Under pressure of the story，we become lost in status symbols：we try to live in the"right"neighborhoods，wear the"right"clothes，and eat the"rig ht"foods．These symbols of distinction assure us and others that we believe strongly in the fundamental equality of all，yet try as hard as we can to separate ourselves from our fellow citizens．
68．What is the nature of the American Dream according to Crevecoeur？C
A．People are free to develop their power of imagination．
B．People who are honest and work hard can succeed．
C．People are free from being used and treated badly．
D．People can fully enjoy individual freedom．
69．By saying"the rewards of a man's industry follow with equal steps the progress of his labor"，the author meansB．
A．the more hard-working one is，th e bigger his returns are
B．hard work ensures the growth of an industry
C．a man's business should be developed step by step
D．a company's success depends on its employees'hard work
70．It can be inferred from the last sentence of Paragraph 2 thatA．
A．business success often contributes to a successful marriage
B．Americans wish to succeed in every aspect of life
C．good personal relationships lead to busines s success
D．successful business people provide good care for their children
71．What is the paradox（矛盾）of American culture according to the author of the passage？B
A．The American road to success is full of nightmares．
B．Status symbols are not a real symbol of a person's wealth．
C．The American Dream is nothing but an empty dream．
D．What Americans fight for often disagrees with their beliefs．
8．Laws that would have ensured pupils from five to 16 received a full financial education got lost in the‘wash up'．An application is calling on the next government to bring it back．
At school the children are taught to add up and subtract（减法） but，extraordinarily，are not routinely shown how to open a bank account-let alone how to manage their finances in an increasingly complex and demanding world．
Today the parenting website Mumsnet and the consumer campaigner Martin Lewis have joined forces to launch an online application to make financial education a compulsory element of the school curriculum in England．Children from five to 16 should be taught about everything from pocket money to pensions，they say．And that was exactly the plan preserved in the Children，Schools and Families bill that was shelved by the government in the so-called"wash-up"earlier this month-the rush to legislation before parliament was dismissed．Consumer and parent groups believe financial education has always been one of the most frustrating omissions of the curriculum（课程）．
As the Personal Finance Education Group （Pfeg） points out，the good habits of young children do not last long．Over 75% of seven-to 11-year-olds are savers but by the time they get to 17，over half of them are in debt to family and friends．By this age，26% see a credit card or overdraft（透支） as a way of extending their spending power．Pfeg predicts that these young people will"find it much harder to avoid the serious unexpected dangers that have befallen many of their parents'generation unless they receive good quality financial education while at school．"
The UK has been in the worst financial recession（衰退）for generations．It does seem odd that-unless parents step in-young people are left in the dark until they are cruelly introduced to the world of debt when they turn up at university．In a recent poll of over 8，000 people，97% supported financial education in schools，while 3% said it was a job for parents．
71．The passage is mainly aboutC．
A．how to manage school lessons                            
B．how to deal with the financial crisis
C．teaching young people about money                 
D．teaching students how to study effectively
72．It can be inferred from the first two paragraphs thatA．
A．the author complains about the school education
B．pupils should not be taught to add up and subtract
C．students have been taught to manage their finances
D．laws on financial education have been effectively carried out
73．The website and the consumer campaigner joined toD．
A．instruct the pupils to donate their pocket money
B．promote the connection of schools and families
C．ask the government to dismiss the parliament
D．appeal for the curriculum of financial education
74．According to Pfeg，D．
A．it is easy to keep good habits long
B．teenagers spend their money as planned
C．parents are willing to pay the debt for their kids
D．it will be in trouble if the teenagers are left alone
75．A poll is mentioned toA．
A．stress the necessity of the curriculum reform
B．show the seriousness of the financial recession
C．make the readers aware of burden of the parents
D．illustrate some people are strongly against the proposal．
7．When I was a boy，my father told me that he could do anything he wanted to do．Dad said that he wanted to be the first to develop color prints in our city．and so he did．
When I was 16，Dad looked closely at the violin I played and announced that he wanted to make one．He read about violin making，and then became a violinmaker at the age of 43．He bought the tools and materials，opened a small store and set Mom up as the shopkeeper，while he worked at a local company．He retired from the company 17years later and continued to make violins and other instruments．
Dad often guessed why the Stradivarius violins sounded so beautiful．Some experts claimed that it was the unique varnish（油漆）that gave those instruments their beautiful sound．Dad argued that chemists could analyze the varnish-if that was the answer．
One of Dad's friends asked him once which kind of wood was used to make violins．When Dad explained that the top was made of spruce，his friend said that he had an old piece of spruce Dad might be interested in．
He worked for the next 12months making a violin from the wood that his friend had given him proved to be a superior violin and it would become Dad's masterpiece．He was convinced that the secret of the Stradivarius sound was in the wood itself．
Later，the instrument was stolen．Dad's spirit was broken by the robbery，and he stopped making instruments．But he kept the music shop until he was 80years old，selling guitars and violins．
My father has been gone for 14years now．The violin has been missing for more than25years．Somewhere a musician is playing a late-20th-century violin with an excellent tone．The owner today may never understand why this ordinary-looking violin sounds so much like a Stradivarius

46．The author mentions his father's developing color printsC
A．to describe the real thing that made the author believe his father
B．to give an example proving that his father was an inventor
C．to prove that his father could do anything he wanted to do
D．to show that his father's real interest was not in making violins
47． What did the author's father think about Stradivarius violins？A
A．The wood of the violins was special．
B．The varnish was different from the others
C．They could only be analyzed by chemists
D．The way of making them was special
48．From the underlined sentence，we can learn that the author's fatherB
A．got crazy after this happened
B．liked the violin very much
C．didn't want to become famous
D．lost interest in instruments
49．We can infer from the last paragraph that the authorC
A．wonders who's playing the violin now
B．really hates the thief
C．misses his father a lot
D．really wants to play the violin．
6．My grandfather worked as a voluntary carpenter during the Great Depression （大萧条）．His duty was to （26）Cthe wooden boxes for the clothes his（27）Dwas sending to an orphanage （孤儿院）in Brazil．
On his way home，he （28）B his glasses were gone．He replayed his earlier actions and （29）Athat they had slipped out of his pocket （30）D fallen into one of the boxes heading for Brazil!
"It's not fair，"he thought as he walked home （31）A．"I've been veryB（32）． to my work，and now this．"
Several months （33）C，the director of the orphanage came to the United States to visit all the churches that （34）A them，so he came to my grandfather's small church in Chicago．
He began by thanking the people for their （35）Din helping the poor children．"But most of all"be said．"I must thank you for the （36）Cyou sent last year．You see，my glasses （37）D broken．Even if I had the money．There wasB（38）． no way of replacing them．Besides，not being able to see well，I （39）D  headaches every day．Then your boxes arrived．When I （40）D  the covers，I found a pair of glasses lying on top．When I  （41）Bthe glasses，it was （42）A  they had been made just for me!I want to thank you for that!"
The people listened，（43）C  for the miraculous （神奇的）glasses．But they thought it was （44）C because there were no glasses （45）D their list．
Tears streaming down his face，my grandfather，an ordinary carpenter realized his glasses had found a good place to go．

26．A．holdB．buyC．buildD．open
27．A．familyB．officeC．schoolD．church
28．A．rememberedB．foundC．forgotD．considered
29．A．realizedB．understoodC．foundD．observed
30．A．ButB．soC．orD．and
31．A．angrilyB．luckilyC．happilyD．fearfully
32．A．certainB．faithfulC．goodD．well
33．A．afterB．latterC．laterD．earlier
34．A．supportedB．providedC．likedD．supposed
35．A．difficultyB．joyC．businessD．kindness
36．A．clothesB．boxesC．glassesD．money
37．A．had beenB．wasC．has beenD．were
38．A．hardlyB．simplyC．mostlyD．fairly
39．A．developedB．troubledC．containedD．experienced
40．A．openedB．brokeC．dividedD．removed
41．A．carried onB．tried onC．took onD．turned on
42．A．as thoughB．only whenC．even thoughD．only if
43．A．happyB．contentC．curiousD．grateful
44．A．practicalB．worthyC．strangeD．possible
45．A．atB．ofC．forD．on
5．I really can't understand _____________ her like that．（　　）
A．you treatB．you to treatC．why treatD．you treating
4．_________，we'd like to go outing．（　　）
A．Being SundayB．Sunday OKC．Sunday is OKD．If Sunday OK
3．The Grapes of Wrath （愤怒的葡萄） ） is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939．The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction shortly after its publication．It is frequently read in American high school and college literature classes due to its historical context and enduring legacy．
Set during the Great Depression，the novel focuses on the Joads，a poor family of tenant farmers （佃农） driven from their Oklahoma home by drought，economic hardship and agricultural industry changes．Due to their nearly hopeless situation，the Joads set out for California．Along with thousands of other"Okies"，they sought jobs，land，dignity，and a future．As might be expected，the image created by the title serves as a vital symbol in the development of both the plot and the novel's greater thematic concerns：from the terrible oppression （压迫） will come terrible wrath （愤怒） but also the liberation of workers through their cooperation，which are implied but are not stated directly within the novel．
Steinbeck wrote："I want to put a tag （标签） of shame on the greedy bastards （杂种） who
are responsible for this．"This work won a large following among the working class due to
Steinbeck's sympathy to the workers'movement and his accessible prose style．
At the time of publication，Steinbeck's novel"was a phenomenon on the scale of a national
event．It was publicly banned and burned by citizens，it was debated on national talk radio； but above all，it was read．"Part of its impact arose from its passionate （饱含深情的） description of the difficult situations of the poor，and in fact，many of Steinbeck's contemporaries （同代人） attacked his social and political views．Bryan Cordyack writes，"Steinbeck was attacked as a propagandist（鼓动家） from both the left and the right of the political views．The most heated of these attacks came from the Associated Farmers of California； they were displeased with the book's description．of California farmers'attitudes and behaviors toward the migrants （季节工．They blamed the book as a'"pack of lies"．Some accused Steinbeck of exaggerating （夸大） camp （工棚） conditions to make a political point．Steinbeck had visited the camps well before publication of the novel and argued that their inhumane nature destroyed the settlers'spirit．
In 1962，the Nobel Prize committee cited Grapes of Wrath as a"great work"and as one of
the committee's main reasons for granting Steinbeck the Nobel Prize for Literature．Time
magazine and BBC respectively included the novel in their"100Best English-language Novels"．

62．Which of the following could b'e part of the plot of the novel The Grapes of Wrath？A
A．The Joads family struggled their way through the hardships and harshness of life．
B，The Joads appealed to his fellow migrants to unite in the fight against the greedy farmers．
C．The Joads openly expressed their political dreams for equal rights and better lives．
D．The Joads lived peacefully in Oklahoma farming on their own land．
63．What does the underlined word"this"in Paragraph 4refer to？A
A．The hopeless situation of the poor．
B．The liberation of workers．
C．The impacts of The Grapes of Wrath．
D．The inhuman nature of the camps．
64．As Steinbeck's contemporaries，who might have had the deepest sympathy （共鸣） with the novel？C
A．A bankers who had just gone through a bankruptcy （破产）．
B．A publisher who wanted to increase the business of his company．
C．A hardworking worker who had been struggling for a living．
D．A literary critic （评论家） who held the left point of political views．
65．The strength of the novel lies in the fact that itD
A．makes clear some strong political views
B．was blamed as nothing but"pack of lies"
C．was granted the Nobel Prize for Literature
D，exposes the true situation of the working class．
2．As the world prepares to mark the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day on March 8，a new report details the progress and challenges girls face in getting an education．
The report-from the Education for All Fast Track Initiative-highlights the importance of girls'education for economic（经济的） and social development．It follows progress in Ethiopia，Burkina Faso，Ghana，Guinea，Mauritania，Mozambique and Niger．
Prema Clarke，author of Fast-tracking Girls'Education，says，"Progress for girls'education is that they can leave their homes，leave their families and come to a place to study and to learn．And that's a big achievement because otherwise these girls have to stay at home，looking after their brothers and sisters，doing the cooking or doing the cleaning．"
She says progress toward the Millennium Development Goals and those of Education for All"is allowing and enabling girls and forcing countries to look at this issue（问题） and to ensure that interventions （干预） help girls attend school．"
Benefits
Improving education for girls brings many benefits，says Clarke．"It means that girls can then enter the workforce．They can look after their own families much more effectively．They can prevent child death rate．They can educate their own girl children when they begin to expand their own families．"Studies show that having an educated female population helps to improve a country's health and economic well-being．
Warnings
The report says，"In developing countries，too many girls are not in school，and many girls face continuing health risks and danger just walking to class．"
"Especially in the fragile and post-conflict countries and in many of the African countries，this is a real issue，"she says．Till now，the interventions have been so focused on providing schooling and providing teachers，etc．And now I think there is much more expanded focus on looking at specific（特定的）communities of girls within at-risk groups that now need much more specific attention and much more creative solutions（解决方法） to help them attend school．"

64．The underlined word"highlights"in Paragraph 2probably meansB．
A．shows           B．stresses           C．remarks          D．improves
65．According to Clarke，improving education can provide girls with all the opportunities EXCEPTD．
A．to educate their own girl children     B．to prevent child death rate
C．to enter the workforce                 D．to study abroad
66．This passage is intended toA．
A．promote the progress in girls'education
B．talk about the benefits of improving girls'education
C．give some information about the education girls are facing
D．sing high praise for the girls'education
67．It can be inferred from the passage thatA．
A．the girls'educational situation in developing countries is still serious
B．girls were free to go wherever they wanted to in the past
C．there are enough teachers in most of the African countries
D．International Women's Day was first celebrated on March 8in 1900．
1．Imagine that while walking through a park one day，you begin to notice strange things all around you．People in colorful clothes from centuries ago walk on the roads．A magician is doing amazing tricks．Musicians play strange music on strange instruments．Knights（骑士）on horseback show their skills in riding competitions．The smell of roasting meat begins to make your mouth water．A pleasant voice shouts，"Good morrow!"
What is going on？Have you traveled back in time？In a way，yes．You have found yourself in the midst of a Renaissance fair（文艺复兴嘉年华）!Since the 1960s，Renaissance fairs have become more and more popular in the US and Canada．Communities in at least 44states and two Canadian provinces now hold Renaissance fairs every year．The first Renaissance fair was started in the 1960s by a school teacher in southern California named Phyllis Patterson．She wanted to give her students a real-life history experience，so she created the"Renaissance Fair"in her backyard．The rest，as they say，is history．
Since Renaissance fairs are"living history"，you might think they are designed to be mainly educational．It's true that some people try to make the fairs as genuine as possible．However，for many others，the key word is entertainment．With all the musicians and magicians walking about，you will be surely pleased．A Renaissance fair will be a feast for your eyes and ears，not to mention your stomach．
So if you have ever wanted to travel back in time，here's your chance．

69．Why did Phyllis start a Renaissance fair？B
A．To help her students become the master of history．
B．To make her students experience history．
C．To give her students an experience of life．
D．To allow her students to play in her backyard．
70．As well as educating，Renaissance fairs are intended forD．
A．adventure   B．communication   C．business   D．fun
71．The main idea of the passage is thatC．
A．Americans and Canadians like fairs more
B．attending Renaissance fairs is to be educated
C．Renaissance fairs are more popular than ever
D．California is where modern fairs were born．
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