Practise speaking English as____ as possible and you will improve it.


  1. A.
    fast
  2. B.
    soon
  3. C.
    often
  4. D.
    Usual

__________ science books missing in our school is large.


  1. A.
    A number of
  2. B.
    The number of
  3. C.
    A great deal of
  4. D.
    A lot of

Wearing seat belt is，of course，the first step to safe driving.These additional measures might also save your life.
Count to three.Keeping up enough space between your car and others is extreme1y necessary.Jim Clark，a California driving instructor，suggests a least amount of three seconds’following distance.To figure this，pick an object on the roadside ahead.When the car in front of you passes it，start counting one-thousand-one,one-thousand-two，one-thousand-three.If you get to that object before you reach one-thousand-three，you don’t have three seconds of following time --- time needed to keep away from accidents.
Let followers pass.“If someone’s driving after you，get out of his way，”Clark advises.“You’re better of being safe than right.”
Expect the worst.In a study，the Federal Highway Administration(联邦公路局)found that 68 percent of drivers do not come to a complete stop at stop signs.When you’re driving and see someone come near to a stop sing，assume the person’s not going to stop.
And when you stop at a crossing and another car comes near with its turn signal on，don’t take it true that the driver will turn.Instead，wait until he turns.He may have had the signal on for miles.
Stay outside.In crowd，multilane(多车道) traffic，drive in either the outside--left or outside--right lane.“That allows you somewhere to go if a problem develops,”traffic expert Francis Kenel says.“If you’re in the middle，all you can do is to pause from time to time.”

  1. 1.

    According to the text if you want to drive safely you should   .

    1. A.
      wear seat belt
    2. B.
      take some additional measures
    3. C.
      at least take 5 steps
    4. D.
      count to three
  2. 2.

    When you finish counting“one-thousand-three",you have   .

    1. A.
      driven one thousand and three metres
    2. B.
      kept three seconds’distance from other cars
    3. C.
      counted a lot of numbers
    4. D.
      kept a long distance from the object
  3. 3.

    What does the underlined word“assume”in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

    1. A.
      Maybe.
    2. B.
      Guess.
    3. C.
      Ask.
    4. D.
      Suppose.
  4. 4.

    Mr.Kenel tells us while driving in multilane traffic_______.   

    1. A.
      we’d better find somewhere to go
    2. B.
      it will be better for us to drive in the outside lanes
    3. C.
      it is safer to drive in the middle
    4. D.
      we must drive on the left

Since we are social beings，the quality of our lives depends in a large measure on our interpersonal relationships.One strength of the human condition is our possibility to give and receive support from one another under stressful(有压力的)conditions.Social support makes up of the exchange of resources among people based on their interpersonal ties.Those of us with strong support systems appear better able to deal with major life changes and daily problems.People with strong social ties live longer and have better health than those without such ties.Studies over types of illnesses，from depression to heart disease，show that the presence of social support helps people defend themselves against illness，and the absence of such support makes poor health more likely.
Social support cushions stress in a number of ways.First，friends，relatives and co-workers may let us know that they value us.Our self-respect is stengthened when we feel accepted by others in spite of our faults and difficulties.Second，other people often provide us with informational support.They help us to define and understand our problems and find solutions to them.Third.we typically find social companionship supportive.Taking part in free-time activities with others helps us to meet our social needs while at the same time distracting(转移注意力)us f rom our worries and troubles.Finally，other people may give us instrumental support--money aid，material resources，and needed services--that reduces stress by helping us resolve and deal with our problems.

  1. 1.

    What does the word“cushions”mean?

    1. A.
      gets rid of
    2. B.
      makes up of
    3. C.
      takes place of
    4. D.
      lessens the effect of
  2. 2.

    The researches show that people’s physical and mental health_____.

    1. A.
      depends on their ability to deal with daily werries and troubles
    2. B.
      is related to their courage for dealing with major life changes
    3. C.
      lies in the social medical care systems which support them
    4. D.
      has much to do with the amount of support they get from others
  3. 3.

    Helping a sick neighbor with some repair work in spare time is an example of_____.

    1. A.
      informational support
    2. B.
      social companionship
    3. C.
      the strengthening of self-respect
    4. D.
      instrumental support
  4. 4.

    Why are interpersonal relationships important?

    1. A.
      They can cure types of illnesses.
    2. B.
      They can deal with life changes.
    3. C.
      they can smooth away daily problems.
    4. D.
      They can make people live more easily.

Perhaps the most astonishing theory to come out of kinetics，the study of body movement,was suggested by Professor Ray Birdwhistell.He believes that physical appearance Is often culturally programmed.In other words,we learn our looks;we are not born with them.
A baby generally unformed facial features.A baby,according to Birdwhistell,learns where to set the eyebrows by looking at those around family and friends.This helps explain why the people of some regions of the United States look so much lilke.New Englanders or Southerners have certain common facial characteristics that cannot be explained by genetics(遗传学).The exact shape of the mouth is not set at birth,it is learned later.In fact，the final mouth shape is not formed until well after permanent(永久的)teeth are set.For many，this can be well into adolescence(青春期).A husband and wife together for a long time often come to look somewhat alike.We learn our looks from those around us. This is perhaps why in a single country there are areas where people smile more than those in other areas.In the United States，for example，the South is the part of the country where the people smile most frequently.In New England they smile less，and in the western part of New York State still less.Many Southerners find cities such as New York cold and unfriendly，partly because people on Madison Avenue smile less than people on Peach Tree Street jn Atlanta，Georgia.People in densely(稠密地)populated urban areas also tend to smile and greet each other in public less than people in rural areas and small towns.

  1. 1.

    The passage might be taken out of a book dealing with______

    1. A.
      physics
    2. B.
      health
    3. C.
      chemistry
    4. D.
      body movement
  2. 2.

    Ray Birdwhistell believes that physical appearance_______.

    1. A.
      has little to do with culture
    2. B.
      is decided by our parents
    3. C.
      can be infiuenced by culture
    4. D.
      varies from place to place
  3. 3.

    Ray Birdwhistell can tell what region of the United States a person is from by     .

    1. A.
      the way he or she talks
    2. B.
      how he or she raises his or her eyebrows
    3. C.
      what he or she likes best
    4. D.
      how much he or she laughs
  4. 4.

    According to the passage，people who live_______are more friendly.

    1. A.
      in the north
    2. B.
      in the country
    3. C.
      in New York City
    4. D.
      in densely populated areas

Very old people do raise moral problems for almost everyone who comes into touch with them.Their values---this can not be repeated too often--aren’t necessarily our values.Physical comfort,cleanness and order are not necessarily the most important things.The social services from time to time find themselves faced with a room with rotten food covered by small worms,and an old person lying alone on bed,taking no notice of the worms.But is it interrupting personal freedom to insist that they go to live with some of their relatives so that they might be taken better care of? Some social workers,the ones who clear up the worms,think we’re in danger of carrying this idea of personal freedom to the point where serious risks(冒险)are being taken with the health and safety of the old.
Indeed,the old can be easily hurt or harmed.The old is like a car: it needs more mechanical repair as it gets older.You can carry this comparison right through to provision of spare parts.But never forget that such operations are painful experiences,however good the results are.And at what point should you stop to treat the old body?Is it morally right to try to push off death by continuing the development of medicine to excite the forgetful old mind and to make the old body active,knowing that it is designed to die?You cannot ask doctors or scientists to decide,because so long as they can see the technical chances,they will feel it necessary to give them a try,by the rule that while there’s life,there’s hope.
Talking to the old,however,you’re forced to the conclusion that whether age is happy or unpleasant depends less on money or health than it does on your ability to have fun.

  1. 1.

    After reading Paragraph 1，we learn that____.

    1. A.
      very old people are able to keep their living places very clean
    2. B.
      old people enjoy living alone so as to have more personal freedom
    3. C.
      every old people enjoy living with their relatives
    4. D.
      social services have nothing to do with very old people
  2. 2.

    Some social workers think that_____.

    1. A.
      old people should keep their living places clean
    2. B.
      one should not take risk dealing with old people
    3. C.
      health and safety are more important than personal freedom
    4. D.
      personal freedom is more important than health and safety
  3. 3.

    In Paragraph 3，the underlined word“it”refers to____.

    1. A.
      one’s memory or health
    2. B.
      the conclusion you have come to
    3. C.
      whether age is happy or unpleasant
    4. D.
      your talk to the old people
  4. 4.

    The writer of this passage thinks that_______.

    1. A.
      it is always morally right to treat old people and push off death
    2. B.
      the opinion that we should try every means possible to save old people is uncertain
    3. C.
      old people can enjoy a happy life only if they are very rich
    4. D.
      medical decisions for old people should be left to the doctors

Apparently，we are safe neither at home nor in the business office.We use water in both places，but the research shows that chemicals added to our local water supply to kill harmful bacteria can have unwanted side effects.These chemicals can cause potential harm through drinking and in seemingly harmless activities as cleaning one’s house.They are released(set free)from water by daily actions like water running out of tap，spraying from garden pipes，or splashing in dishwashers and washing machines.As the water is moving.these chemicals are released into the air and then breathed in. Once inside our bodies, they start to affect our health.
Does this mean we should stop bathing? No, say the scientists, but we should put all pollution into perspective. Activities at home such as the burning of coal, cooking oil, or even candles release carbon monoxide and particulates such as cigarette ashes which have been proven as harmful to health as working or living near heavy traffic. New tugs, bedding, and even clothing give off that“new smell, ”which is a sure sign of chemicals. In the office, newly applied paint, newly purchased telephones and other telecommunications equipment, and computers release polluting chemicals, too. As offices and homes often have inadequate ventilation (通风), these chemicals can build up to become health problems. Their poisonous effects are only now being slowly recognized.
These facts suggest that, at a minimum, proper airing of newly purchased goods with an obvious chemical smell is a wise warning. Home and office windows should be opened during good weather. Even one’s car needs to be ventilated as well while in the garage.
We need further research to understand better other potential health dangers, too. For example, the effects of overcrowding of schools (carbon dioxide build-up ), the factory work environment ( an endless list of potentially dangerous substances ), and even home heating and cooling (the air conditioner may be our enemies, not our friends) have only recently started to come to light. Until we understand the effects of our new technological environment better, we can only hope that“there is no place like home.”

  1. 1.

    What is the main idea of the first paragraph?

    1. A.
      The air we breathe in is harmful.
    2. B.
      The water in everyday use is unsafe.
    3. C.
      Chemicals are added to the drinking water.
    4. D.
      Chemicals are released in the running water.
  2. 2.

    In Paragraph 2, the underlined sentence means that      .

    1. A.
      bathing should be done with caution
    2. B.
      homes and offices should be aired often
    3. C.
      any pollution should be taken into consideration
    4. D.
      we should prevent any pollution from doing harm to us
  3. 3.

    What is the purpose of the passage?

    1. A.
      To call on us to guard our water.
    2. B.
      To show us that no place is like home.
    3. C.
      To make us aware of the pollution around us.
    4. D.
      To argue that neither homes nor offices are safe.

I passed all the other courses that I took at my university, but I could have never passed botany. This was because all botany students had to spend several hours a week in a laboratory looking through a microscope at plant cells, and I could never once see a cell through a microscope. This used to make my professor angry. He would wander around the laboratory pleased with the progress all the students were making in drawing the structure of flower cells, until he came to me. I would just be standing there. “I can’t see anything,”I would say. He would begin patiently enough, explaining how anybody can see through a microscope, but he would always end up angrily, claiming that I could too see through a microscope but just pretended that I couldn’t. “It takes away from the beauty of flowers anyway.”I used to tell him.“We are not concerned with beauty in this course,”he would say.“We are concerned with the structure of flowers.” “Well,” I’d say.“I can’t see anything.” “Try it just once again,” he’d say, and I would put my eye to the microscope and see nothing at all, except now and again something unclear and milky. “You were supposed to see a clear, moving plant cells shaped like clocks.” “I see what looks like a lot of milk.” I would tell him. This, he claimed, was the result of my not having adjusted the microscope properly, so he would readjust it for me, or rather, for himself. And I would look again and see milk.
I failed to pass botany that year, and had to wait a year and try again, or I couldn’t graduate. The next term the same professor was eager to explain cell-structure again to his classes. “Well,”he said to me, happily, “we’re going to see cells this time, aren’t we?” “Yes,sir,” I said. Students to the right of me and to the left of me and in front of me were seeing cells; what’s more, they were . Of course, I didn’t see anything.
So the professor and I tried with every adjustment of the microscope known to man. With only once did I see anything but blackness or the familiar milk, and that time I saw, to my pleasure and amazement, something like stars. These I hurriedly drew. The professor, noting my activity, came to me, a smile on his lips and his eyebrows high in hope. He looked at my cell drawing. “What’s that?”he asked.“That’s what I saw,”I said.“You didn’t, you didn’t, you didn’t!”he screamed, losing control of himself immediately, and he bent over and looked into the microscope. He raised his head suddenly. “That’s your eye!”he shouted.“You’ve adjusted the microscope so that it reflects!You’re drawn your eye!”

  1. 1.

    Why couldn’t the writer see the flower cells through the microscope?     .

    1. A.
      Because he had poor eyesight
    2. B.
      Because the microscope didn’t work properly
    3. C.
      Because he was not able to adjust the microscope properly
    4. D.
      Because he was just playing jokes on his professor by pretending not to have seen it
  2. 2.

    What does the writer mean by “his eyebrows high in hope”in the last paragraph?

    1. A.
      His professor expected him to have seen the cells and drawn the picture of them
    2. B.
      His professor hoped he could perform his task with attention
    3. C.
      His professor wished him to learn how to draw pictures
    4. D.
      His professor looked forward to seeing all his students finish their drawings
  3. 3.

    What is the thing like stars that the writer saw in the last paragraph?

    1. A.
      Real stars
    2. B.
      His own eye
    3. C.
      Something unknown
    4. D.
      Milk
  4. 4.

    In what writing style did the writer write the passage?

    1. A.
      Realistic
    2. B.
      Romantic
    3. C.
      Serious
    4. D.
      Humorous

Diet Coke, diet Pepsi, diet pills, no-fat diet, vegetable diet .... We are surrounded by the word “diet” everywhere we look and listen. We have so easily been attracted by the promise and potential of diet products that we have stopped thinking about what diet products are doing to us. We are paying for products that harm us psychologically and physically.
Diet products significantly weaken us psychologically. On one level, we are not allowing our brains to admit that our weight problems lie not in actually losing the weight, but in controlling the consumption of fatty, high-calorie, unhealthy foods. Diet products allow us to jump over the thinking stage and go straight for the scale(秤)  instead. All we have to do is to swallow or recognize the word “diet” in food labels.
On another level, diet products have greater psychological effects. Every time we have a zero-calorie drink, we are telling ourselves without our awareness that we don’t have to work to get results. Diet products make people believe that gain comes without pain, and that life can be without resistance and struggle.
The danger of diet products lies not only in the psychological effects they have on us, but also in the physical harm that they cause. Diet foods can indirectly harm our bodies because consuming them instead of healthy foods means we are preventing our bodies from having basic nutrients. Diet foods and diet pills contain zero calorie only because the diet industry has created chemicals to produce these wonder products. Diet products may not be nutritional, and the chemicals that go into diet products are potentially dangerous.
Now that we are aware of the effects that diet products have on us, it is time to seriously think about buying them. Losing weight lies in the power of minds, not in the power of chemicals. Once we realize this, we will be much better able to resist diet products, and therefore prevent the psychological and physical harm that comes from using them.

  1. 1.

    From Paragraph 1, we learn that ______.

    1. A.
      diet products fail to bring out people’s potential
    2. B.
      people have difficulty in choosing diet products
    3. C.
      diet products are misleading people
    4. D.
      people are fed up with diet products
  2. 2.

    One psychological effect of diet products is that people tend to ______.

    1. A.
      try out a variety of diet foods
    2. B.
      hesitate before they enjoy diet foods
    3. C.
      pay attention to their own eating habits
    4. D.
      watch their weight rather than their diet
  3. 3.

    In Paragraph 3, “gain comes without pain” probably means ______.

    1. A.
      diet products bring no pain
    2. B.
      it costs a lot to lose weight
    3. C.
      losing weight is effortless
    4. D.
      diet products are free from calories
  4. 4.

    Diet products indirectly harm people physically because such products ______.

    1. A.
      are over-consumed
    2. B.
      lack basic nutrients
    3. C.
      are short of chemicals
    4. D.
      provide too much energy

For some kids, old photos and baby pictures are embarrassing. For others, they are cherished keepsakes (纪念品). But for thousands of children living in orphanages (孤儿院) worldwide, these records of the past simply don't exist. Either the kids' parents weren't around to snap photos, or the pictures have been lost.  Whatever the reason is, the Memory Project is giving orphans a lasting document of their youth.
Over the last two years, the Memory Project has provided hand-painted portraits to more than 4,000 children living in orphanages in poor countries. Ben Schumaker, 24, got the idea when he was visiting an orphanage in Guatemala in Central America.   But he's not creating the portraits(肖像) alone. Students in hundreds of high school art classes across the U.S. paint them using photos sent from the orphanages.
Schumaker believes that the artists benefit from the project as much as the orphans do.“There are two purposes of the Memory Project,” he said.   “One is to offer a special gift to the child abroad. The other is to help open the eyes of the student who is painting.”Staring into the eyes of another person, Schumaker believes, it creates a real connection.  This connection raises awareness in U.S. schools about the needs of the world's poor children.“It's about planting a seed,” he said.
Schumaker is also working on Books of Hope, a project in which students of all ages put together homemade books for children in Uganda and India. He hopes that one day children in Uganda and India. He hopes that one day children in Uganda and India  will send books to the U.S. “It's important to me to have it be a two-way exchange,” Schmnaker says

  1. 1.

    Old photos and baby pictures are clearly unavailable to______.

    1. A.
      the kids in rich families
    2. B.
      the kids in common families
    3. C.
      the kids in expanded families
    4. D.
      the kids without parents
  2. 2.

    How can the orphans in Guatemala get a continuing record of their youth?

    1. A.
      By hand-painted portraits that Ben Schumaker painted
    2. B.
      By the photos the orphanage taken for them
    3. C.
      By the photos taken by the U.S. students in high schools
    4. D.
      By the Memory Project started by Ben Schumaker
  3. 3.

    What does the third paragraph mainly tell us?

    1. A.
      The special gifts that the world's poor children received
    2. B.
      The benefits that the Memory Project brings
    3. C.
      The need of the US schools
    4. D.
      How to help the orphans
  4. 4.

    According to the passage, Schumaker helps the kids in______.

    1. A.
      two countries
    2. B.
      three countries
    3. C.
      four countries
    4. D.
      five countries
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