— Shall we have our house decorated?

—_____ I think it’s fine as it is.

　 A. Why not?　　　　　　　 B. Sound great. 　　　 C. Not exactly.　　　 　　　 D. Better not.

阅读下面的短文，然后以约30个词概括这段短文的内容。

Jackie is perhaps the most easily annoyed koala(考拉)at the Featherdale Wildlife Park in southern Australia. All the koalas there are unhappy and complaining. You would be too if you were used to night activities and someone kept waking you up all day while you were trying to sleep it off. That’s right--sleep it off. The average koala is always half asleep because it feeds on the leaves of a special kind that makes it sleepy.

The reason Jackie and her fellow koalas are repeatedly awoken from their deep sleep is so they can be hugged and photographed by tourists, who make the trips to Featherdale and an increasing number of other national parks for just that special experience. Whatever department in the Aussie government in charge of such things is now moving to make the practice illegal, which is understandable. How would you react, my friend, if you were trying to sleep off a dozen times and some round, furry creature smelling of grass kept waking you?

*考拉即树袋熊

Good  Luck

你是校报小记者，最近进行了一次采访。以下是这次采访的情况。

时间：上周星期三        对象：王老师

主题：中学生英语单词拼写的问题

基本信息：    （1）约54%高中同学英语书写很差

                         （2）约45%的英语词汇只会说而不会写

老师解读：   （1）原因： ①考试未设拼写题型

                                                 ②平时训练不够

                                                ③学生懒于记忆

（2）建议：  ①提高认识，引起重视

                                               ②加强训练，掌握方法

[写作内容]  根据以上情况用英语写一篇采访报道，并包括如下内容：

1．采访的时间、对象和主题；

2．中学生英语单词拼写的现状；

3．老师解读。

[写作要求]  只能使用5个句子表达全部内容。

Some poems tell a story or describe something in a way that will give the reader a strong  i____78_____. Others try to c_____79____ certain emotions.  Poets use different forms of poetry to express themselves. For example, the language of nursery rhymes is _____80____(实在的) but imaginative , and they delight small children because they have strong rhythm and a lot of repetition. And list poems have a ____81____(灵活变化的) line length and repeated phrases which give both a ____82____(模式) and a rhythm to the poem. Another simple form of poem is the Cinquain, which is _____83_____(由…组成) five lines and can express strong feelings in just a few words. And of course there are Tang poems from China which you may enjoy _____84_____(特别). With so many different forms of poetry to choose from, students may e_____85____(最终) want to write poems of their own.

Styles in Western art have changed many times. Art is influenced by the way of life and faith of a people. In the Middle Ages, the main a  71     of painters was to represent religious themes. It is e____72___(明显的) that artists were interested in creating respect and love for God. In the Renaissance, people became focused less on religion and more on humans. Artists a___73_____(努力) to paint people and mature as they really were. Masaccio a____74___(采用) perspective in his paintings which made people convinced that they were looking through a hole in the wall at a real scene. ____75_____(巧合的是), oil paints were also developed at this time. In the late 19^th century, the impressionists were the first to paint outdoors. They had to paint quickly and their paintings were ____76_____(有争议的). However, today people accept impressionist paintings as the beginning of modern art. Some modern art is realistic while some is a    77    .

When you’re fed up with self-centred twenty-somethings, try to remember that they    _61_ (be) 33 one day. Beneath the version are latest   62   (believe)that 33 is the age  63  they lose the ‘all about me’ attitude   64   by 33 youthful selfishness dies down with people beginning to consider the feelings of others more often,   65   (base)on latest research. The older we get, the more   66   (self) we are in almost all areas of life – with the exception of volunteering in the community.

It is generally believed that having children is   67   turning point in changing our attitudes    _68   other people. This is when we consider ourselves to be worrying more about other people and things for them, such as checking how they are getting home, offering to help with childcare and doing airport runs.

Those who haven’t reached 33 are most likely to admit being particularly selfish. 40 percent of this age group,   69  , regularly volunteer for charity or their community – higher than any other age group. Statistically, the age at which we are most selfish is our teenage years– with people saying that just growing up was   70   made them more likely to consider other people.

请阅读某书店各书架的相关信息：

A. Section One: Education---Has a huge range of textbooks and supplementary material covering all the major high school and university subjects. Buyers showing their student cards receive a 15% discount on all purchases from this section.

B. Section Three: Humor Section --- A great selection of joke books, funny stories and wonderful real life adventures that are sure to keep the reader laughing for days.

C. Section Five: Biography --- Find out about the lives of your favorite sports stars, singers, actors and other famous people from today and the past. Learn what they had to go through to become successful and the effect it had on their lives.

D. Section One: Do-It-Yourself Section -- On these shelves customers can find the latest manuals on how to do everything from building a computer to constructing your own home.

E. Section Two: Sports & Leisure Section --- Stocks a large range of the latest books on your favorite sporting teams and events. Pick up the perfect Father's Day present here.

F. Section Four: Business & Finance --- Students, business people or anyone interested in the world of commerce are certain to find the book they are after here. We have special subsection for international trade and e-commerce.

阅读下列关于各书籍的信息，匹配书籍与其所应放置的书架：

56. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron --- by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind --- As the title suggests the authors cover the rise of the American electricity company to become one of the 10 richest companies in the world and its spectacular fall into dishonor and bankruptcy. A perfect guide on what not to do in business.

57. The Delighted Eye --- by Prof. John Nash --- The 1994 Nobel Prize Winner for Economics, whose ideas have influenced a generation of the world's greatest economic minds, tells his life story: growing up in a small town in America, becoming one of America's most influential mathematicians and his battles with mental illness.

58. Ready Made--- How to Make (Almost) Everything --- by Shoshanna Berger and Grace Hawthorne --- beautifully written with great factual information. The theme behind this book is re-use, re-claim, re-cycle and there are many detailed easy-to-do projects for the reader to try such as making a photo frame from a book cover or a pot for your plants from plastic shopping bags.

59. Mother Tongue: The English Language --- by Bill Bryson --- Bryson's book is a journey through the history and different aspects of the English language, one that is both informative and hugely entertaining. As with most of Bryson's books, fun comes before facts and readers will be left with a smile on their faces.

60. Into Thin Air --- by John Krakauer --- is a riveting first-hand account of a disastrous race to the top of Mount Everest. In March 1996, Outside magazine sent veteran journalist and experienced climber John Krakauer to join the team led by the famous Everest guide Rob Hall. Despite the expertise of Hall and the other leaders, by the end of the race eight people were dead.

As the sound of footsteps behind her grew louder, she quickened her pace. She didn’t want to turn around as the memory of that morning’s newspaper headline made her afraid of what she would see: “City Killer Claims Fourth Victim.”

“Why did I stop for a few drinks in the bar after work?” she thought to herself. Now it was dark and the streets deserted. She was alone and a sitting duck.

She felt as if she was walking in the rain. Her clothes were damp from nervous sweat and as each short hot breath hit the night air, it turned to steam, coating her glasses in a thin film so all she saw seemed covered in fog.

The footsteps were closer now. She needed to get off this street. Her eyes began a useless search for an open store or lighted window. Passing a small lane she looked through，for a possible escape route. But the lane was a dead - end and she laughed to herself at the irony.

The sound of a car behind her turning onto the street interrupted her self – pity. Escape was at hand. But as she was about to throw herself onto the road and shout for the car to stop, the car’s headlights cast a shadow that paralyzed （使瘫痪） her with terror.

It was the footsteps’ owner. The figure was huge and in its raised arm it held what looked like a lead-pipe, no doubt the one that was about to claim victim number five.

The shadow dissolved as the car passed by and disappeared into the distance. She felt a hand on her shoulder. It was all happening as if in slow – motion. She was waiting for her life to flash before her eyes like all those novels said it would – but it didn’t. The only thing she thought of was her dear husband. She recalled phoning him from work that very afternoon and joking about, of all things, the city killer. It was a night full of ironies.

There was a voice talking to her now but she was lost in thoughts of her fate and didn’t respond. The hand then began turning her around. It was surprisingly gentle given what was about to come. She allowed it to guide her without resistance. （抵抗；反抗）

She looked up. She recognized the face, but she didn’t know from where. Its mouth was still talking to her but she couldn’t understand. Then she remembered. The face belonged to the foreign looking man who had served her at the bar. She looked down to his hand and saw in it not a lead – pipe but a rolled up copy of a work report she had been correcting in the bar as she drank.

His words suddenly started to register in her brain and she could hear him. “Miss, Miss. Are you OK? You left this in the bar and it looked important so I thought I’d better give it to you.”

51. The woman was feeling nervous because        .

       A. she had left her report in the bar             B. there was a killer in the city

       C. she was being followed by someone        D. the streets were dark and empty

52. The underlined expression “a sitting duck” (paragraph 2) is closest in meaning to “        ”.

       A. an easy target                                       B. a frightened person

       C. a foolish animal                                     D. a still position

53. What is the correct order of events that happened to the woman on the day of the story?

       a. She went for a drink in a bar.                  b. She corrected the report.

       c. She heard loud footsteps.                       d. She read the newspaper.

       e. She called her husband.                          f. She felt a hand on her shoulder.

       A. d,c,a,e,b,f             B. c,d,a,e,f,b             C. d,a,b,e,c,f             D. d,e,a,b,c,f

54. Why did the woman laugh when she looked into the lane?

       A. She was excited because she thought it may be a way to escape.

       B. She felt bitter because she had no chance to escape.

       C. She was becoming more and more nervous.

       D. She realized that she was behaving foolishly.

55. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

       A. It was raining when she left the bar.

       B. The woman had felt nervous about the city killer for days.

       C. The temperature was very low that evening.

       D. The woman was behaving unreasonably.    

    Women, as all research suggests, are far more critical of their appearance than men. Most of them are likely to feel dissatisfied with their reflection in the mirror.

It is quite possible that men looking in the mirror are either pleased with what they see or indifferent. Research shows that men generally have a much more positive body-image than women---if anything, they may tend to over-estimate their attractiveness. Some men looking in the mirror may literally not see the flaws in their appearance.

   Why are women so much more self-critical than men? Because women are judged more on their appearance than men, and standards of female beauty are considerably higher and more inflexible. Women are continually bombarded (轰炸) with images of the “ideal” face. And constant exposure to idealized images of female beauty on TV, magazines and billboards makes exceptional good looks seem normal and anything short of perfection seem abnormal and ugly.  It has been estimated that young women now see more images of outstandingly beautiful women in one day than our mothers saw throughout their entire adolescence.

   Also, most women trying to achieve the impossible standards of female beauty have in fact become progressively more unrealistic during the last century. In 1917, the physically perfect woman was about 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighed nearly 10 stone. Even 25 years ago, top models and beauty queens weighed only 8% less than the average women, now they weigh 23% less. The current media ideal for women is achievable by less than 5% of the female population---and that’s just in terms of weight and size. If you want the ideal shape, face etc., it’s probably more like 1%.

46. The passage is mainly to _____________.

A. compare different views on beauty between women and men

B. tell us that standards of female beauty are very high

C. explain why women are more critical of their appearance than men

D. show us that women pay more attention to their appearance than men

47. Which of the following is NOT the reason why women are more critical of their appearance?

A. People pay more attention to their appearance than men’s.

B. The criterion (标准；准则) used to judge women’s beauty is more critical and less changeable.

C. Idealized images of female beauty are constantly shown in different media.

D. Women tend to pursue perfection by nature.

48. Which statement is true about men?

A. Few men will feel pleased when they are looking themselves in the mirror.

B. Men looking in the mirror usually ignore the flaws in their appearance.

C. It is likely that men will consider themselves more attractive than they really are.

D. Men don’t care about their body image.

49. Nowadays, if an average woman weighs 110 pounds, then a physically perfect woman should weigh about _________.

A. 85 pounds         B. 101 pounds        C. 90 pounds     D. 135 pounds

50. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A. Most women try to achieve the standards of beauty.

B. The standards of female beauty. in the past were more easily achieved than today.

C. Women are more unrealistic in their pursuit of beauty than men.

D. Less than 5% of the female population can achieve the current media ideal for women.

　 If you take it for granted that to study in university is the same as at middle school and high school, then you will be in for a surprise.

　 A change of attitude is involved in many ways when you go up to university. Although the process has been going on since you went to middle school, the biggest change is going to take place. Now, instead of taking several subjects, you have chosen one major subject because you find it interesting and worth exploring further. The choice was yours. You also have before you the goal of getting a degree. The degree, and the stages you have to pass through to achieve it, give you motivation, even though it may become weak from time to time, and not all parts of the course will be exciting; a sure way to lose interest is to do too little work. It is a law of diminishing returns---the less work you do, the less interest you will have and the more bored you will become. So regular work is needed to keep your interest as well as keep pace with new work.

　 Another change is in the relationship with those who teach you. This may well have changed during middle school and high school, but now the whole context is different. You are no longer forced to stay in school all day, and you organize your own time and place for studying. You are there to study actively rather than to be taught passively. Your teachers may or may not urge you, but they do want you to share their interest in the subject and they want you to succeed.

　 The teacher works as your coach or trainer. If you were becoming a professional tennis player or musician, you would expect your coach to look out for ways of improving your performance, and to criticize your work all the time; you would be silly to feel fed up about this---in fact you would sack your coach if he just said everything was fine. So if you get work back with a poorer mark than you expected and with various criticisms, don’t feel discouraged by this. If you don’t understand what is wrong and how to improve, then ask your teacher to explain and don’t be satisfied until you do understand.

41. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. You need to study just one subject in university.

B. The desire to get a degree is always strong throughout university days.

C. How hard-working the students are affects their interest in their study.

D. You needn’t be taught by teachers in university.

42. The teachers in university __________.

A. have to urge you to study hard

B. may instruct you how to improve your studies

C. never criticize your work

D. never help you if you fail to understand a difficult problem

43. In university, what you can do includes___________.

a. going shopping in the evening　　　　 b. organizing your class time

c. doing homework in your dormitory　　 d. staying in school all day

A. abc　　　　 B. ac　　　　 C. bd　　　　 D. acd　

44. The underlined word “sack” in the last paragraph probably means __________.

A. disbelieve　　 B. like　　　　 C. fire　　　　 D. thank

45. The main idea of the passage is that _________.

A. students go to university to get a degree

B. going to university brings two major changes

C. students learn how to study in university

D. students learn to understand college life