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Parents are responsible for naming your baby. Psychologists find that if people are happy with their names, they’ll be happy with themselves. Time spent considering the most fitting and pleasant name for your baby is time well spent.

    1. Consider your last name when selecting a given name for your baby. The name should combine, visually and vocally, with your family name. A short first name with a short last name may sound less agreeable to the ear. If you have a short surname such as Smith, Brown, or Hill, perhaps you’d choose a longer first name. Thus, John Westermore and Meredith Brown.

2. Select a first name which is different from your surname. It is best not to use names which run together when spoken, as in Ralph Forbes or Sheri Yeets. If these names are spoken rapidly, the distinctive sounds of the separate names disappear.

3. Watch out for the spelling. An unusual change in the spelling of a name may cause some trouble for your child, as in Jyssica spelled with a “y” instead of an “e”.

4. Take care before giving your child a unisex name. There is a growing trend toward giving children names like Alex, Toby, Page, Kelly, and Jamie, names that can be used by girls or boys. In general, giving a girl a unisex name may not cause a problem, but giving a boy such a name may. A boy named Shirley or Carroll is likely to suffer teasing.

To sum up, the best name for your baby is one that you love and feel your child will be happy with. A well-chosen name is one of the most important gifts you give your baby.

Title: Name Your Baby

The National Park Service in the United States will mark its one hundredth anniversary in 2016. As it nears its second century, the Park Service plans to increase its educational programs for students and teachers.

The plans include transportation support for one hundred thousand students each year to visit national parks to learn about nature and history. Yellowstone is believed to have been the world's first national park when it was established in 1872. Other students will get a chance to see parks in faraway places through Skype and other online programs.

The National Park Service also works with partners to provide education. One of its partners is a nonprofit organization called NatureBridge. NatureBridge is celebrating its fortieth anniversary and says one million young people have taken part in its programs. The organization works with students from kindergarten through twelfth grade and uses national parks as its classrooms. It provides field science programs at Yosemite National Park and four other locations in California and the northwestern state of Washington.

Now, NatureBridge is launching an East Coast center with a four-million-dollar grant from Google. The program will begin in April at the Prince William Forest Park in Virginia. Students stay for three to five days in NatureBridge programs. The activities are aimed at developing their science skills. For example, they learn about different soils and study water quality under a microscope.

Jason Morris is executive vice president of NatureBridge. He says when they are not sleeping, eating or in a laboratory, the students spend their time outdoors. Julia Washburn is associate director of education and interpretation for the National Park Service. She says in a time of budget cuts, the agency has to find ways to still meet its goals. Ms. Washburn says one of the most important services that the Park Service provides every day is nature interpretation. Park rangers (公园管理员) try to make visiting the outdoors more meaningful. Interpretation is a form of informal education. Essentially, it is a word that we use for the people in parks that explain the park or help orient（确定方向） you. So park rangers are interpreters. They orient you to the place you are in and help you make connections, emotional and intellectual connections, with the place.

72. Which of the following description about NatureBridge is NOT correct?

A.      It’s an organization working together with National Park Service to provide education.

B.      Some of the activities held by NatureBridge are financially supported by Google.

C.      Students from kindergarten to college can sign up for the organization’s activities.

D.     It’s going to cut down budget for the activities because of economic hard times.

73. In which national park will the program by East Coast centre start?

A. Yellowstone National Park         B.  Prince William Forest Park

C. Yosemite National Park           D. Not mentioned in the passage.

74. What’s the main idea of the passage?

A.      National parks are used as outdoor classrooms for students.

B.      Students are called on to join NatureBridge.

C.      Some famous national parks in US are attractive to students.

D.     Park rangers make visiting parks more interesting.

75. Which of the following is the correct structure of the whole passage? (Para=paragraph)

A.

B.

C.

D.

Education has an important effect on the mind or physical ability of an individual. It is the process by which society passes its accumulated knowledge, skills, and values from one generation to another.

Various non- traditional education options are now available and continue to flourish（繁荣）. One of the most important uses in education is the use of technology. Teachers are encouraged to use new technological devices in order to strengthen learning among students and meet the needs of various types of learners.

The right to education has been created and recognized by jurisdiction（司法）. Education is the most important concern of the government of India. Recently India has gained world recognition because many students from foreign countries come here to gain higher qualifications. One has to be educated in order to speed up the growth process in order to influence the economy. Education is indeed a powerful weapon to stop the cut- throat competition that man faces at every period of life. The importance of education in India is progressing with time. Although India has been a great foundation of learning for many years, it still needs to improve not just on the quality of education but also on the number of people being educated.

Education is not just for academic success but also to make a person become a better human being and a better performer in life. Education makes the students able enough, so that they can compete nationally and internationally. To make a student a successful survivor in life, the responsibility lies equally with the schools and the parents too. Selecting a good school is as important as choosing a suitable career option for a child. The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. It is education that gives us all the power and necessities of making a difference in any field.

People who are not educated have few opportunities to do what they want to do. Educated people become more responsible and informed citizens, and have a voice in politics and society. It allows people to be more productive by encouraging them to play responsible roles in terms of contributing to society.

68. Nowadays teachers are encouraged to ______.

　 A. study modern science and technology　　　　　　　

B. pass all knowledge to their students

　 C. use non-traditional devices in class　　　　　　

D. meet the needs of intelligent student first

69. The underlined word “dissemination” in Paragraph4 probably means “______”.

　 A. spread　　 　　　 B. ignorance 　 C. argument　　 D. question

70. What do we know about education from the passage?

　 A. It has nothing to do with society.　　　　　　　　　　 　　

B. It helps people to achieve what they want.

　 C. It has little effect on people’s physical ability.　　

D. It makes a poor man become rich.

71. What is the passage mainly about?

　 A. The importance of education　　　　　　　　　 　 B. The responsibility of education

　 C. The development of education　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. The purpose of education

Imagine putting a seed in a freezer, waiting 30,000 years, and then taking the seed out and planting it. Do you think a flower would grow?
　 Amazingly, scientists have just managed to do something very similar. They found the fruit of an ancient plant that had been frozen underground in Siberia — a region covering central and eastern Russia — for about 31,800 years. Using pieces of the fruit, the scientists grew plants in a lab. The new blooms have delicate white petals. They are also the oldest flowering plants that researchers have ever revived from a deep freeze.
　 “This is like regenerating a dinosaur from tissues of an ancient egg,” said University of California, Los Angeles biologist Jane Shen-Miller.
　 The plant has a long history. Back when mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses walked the land, an Arctic ground squirrel buried seeds and fruits in an underground chamber near the Kolyma River in northeastern Siberia. The ground became permafrost, a layer of soil that stays frozen for a long time.
　 Recently, Russian scientists dug out the old squirrel hole and found the plant remains 38 meters below the surface. Back at the lab, the team fed nutrients to tissue from three of the fruits to grow shoots. Then the scientists transferred the shoots to pots filled with soil. The plants produced seeds that could be used to grow even more of them.
　 It’s important for scientists to know that plant tissues can still be revived after being frozen for a long time. That’s because many researchers are trying to preserve the seeds of modern plants by freezing them and then storing them in giant lockers at various spots around the globe. One such endeavor, an underground facility in Norway, is called the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. It stores hundreds of thousands of frozen seeds. If a plant ever goes extinct, scientists could bring it back by taking its seeds from the Svalbard or other storage lockers.
　 “No one knows how long they are able to live for, but freezing is basically the format for many plant conservation attempts nowadays.” Shen-Miller said. It’s a good thing that at least some plants are tough enough to survive the experience.

64. How did the fruit originally get underground?
　 A. It was placed there by an animal. 　

B. It was trapped there during the ice-age.
C. It was planted there by ancient farmers.　　

D. It was buried there after the earthquake.
65. Why are scientists interested in this discovery?
　 A. It helps them learn how plant life has changed in the past 30,000 years.
　 B. It can help guide future efforts to protect endangered plant-life.
　 C. It can provide directions for where to look for other ancient plants.
　 D. It proves that all plant life can survive for thousands of years when frozen.
66. The underlined word “they” in the final paragraph refers to _______.
　 A. plants　 B. seeds　C. scientists 　D. storage lockers
67. The purpose of the passage is to _______.
　 A. discuss a plant conservation effort　　 　 B. introduce some ancient plants
　 C. outline some causes of global warming　 D. describe a scientific research project

Humans： It's time to abandon Earth or Race Extinction.

It could be the plot of a summer blockbuster (巨片），but this prediction isn't science fiction. It's a glimpse of the future ，according to famous British scientist Stephen Hawking.

“I see great dangers for the human race，” he said in an interview with global forum Big Think. ‘‘There have been a number of times in the past when its survival has been a question of touch and go. ”

“I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be in space”，he said. “It will be difficult enough to avoid disasters on planet Earth in the next hundred years ，let alone the next thousand, or million. ”

Hawking ，who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom last year, has recently voiced many concerns about the future of life on Earth.

"If aliens visited us ，the outcome would be as much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans，” he said. “Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads (游牧者），looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach. ”

But Hawking says he's still hopeful for the future of humanity. He told Big Think. "We've made remarkable progress in the last hundred years. But if we want to continue beyond the next hundred years ，our future is in space.”

Getting to another planet will prove a challenge ，not to mention colonizing it for humanity. Katherine Freese from University of Michigan told Big Think that “the nearest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri which is 4. 2 light years away. That means ，if you were traveling at the speed of light the whole time, it would take 4. 2 years to get there —or about 50,000 years using current rocket science.”

60. Humans are advised to abandon Earth mainly because _____.

A. aliens will take up our home planet soon　 B. many disasters will happen on the Earth

C. resources will be used up in the future　　 D. humans need larger space to live in

61. Thinking about the future of humans, Hawking feels that _____.

A. humans will probably become extinct　 　

B. aliens are the biggest future threat to humans

C. other planets are ready for humans to reach　

D. the earth will not be habitable for humans

62. What is the writer's key point in the last paragraph?

A. It is impossible to get to another planet in space.

B. The present means of transport are not advanced at all.

C. The near future can't see human's move to another planet.

D. The planet Proxima Centauri is the closest to the earth.

63. This passage is most probably taken from _____

A. a conference interview　　　　　　　　　　 B. a science fiction

C.　 a forum report 　　　　　　　　　D. a history book

Some novels simply entertain and others contain a powerful message in the story line and characters. In his first novel, A Wind In Montana, Mitch Davies tells a story about young adults and how they accept responsibility for their lives.

A Wind In Montana is a marvelous tale of two teenagers, Rory Coleman and Victoria Beach, high school students at the same school, who struggle to make the right decision for themselves. As each of them nears adulthood, they become more concerned with the future and setting goals that will bring them happiness and fulfillment.

Without any advice from his parents, Rory chooses to pursue a profession in chemistry, applies for a chemistry scholarship, and determines to do everything he can to achieve it. Along the path, Rory finds that even though he has a plan, there are obstacles that could prevent him from realizing his goals. Victoria’s struggles are different from Rory’s. Although her father has decided that she should become a professional musician, Victoria has other plans for her life. Together, Rory and Victoria attempt to follow their dreams, despite the obstacles in their paths. A Wind In Montana contains a lesson for all teens about to enter adulthood － that disappointment and setbacks (挫折) are going to occur no matter how determined they are and that they need to develop skills along the way that will help them deal with them effectively.

There are so many major decisions facing teens today －social, parents, other influencing adults and school work － and there’s no guarantee that their plans will succeed, even if they make the so-called “right” decisions. A Wind In Montana explores how two teenagers struggle with their own unique decisions and how the choices they make affect their lives.

Mitch Davies’ book stands out among today’s teen books that deal with imaginary situations. A Wind In Montana is a real story about real people facing real-life situations. It’s entertaining and also helps readers think about their own lives and offers various ways to handle situations that may arise.

56. According to the passage, both Rory and Victoria _____.

A. work hard at their courses　 　　　 B. have a strong sense of self

C. go against their parents 　　　　　 D. get along well with others

57. The third paragraph is mainly about _____.

A. the value of A Wind In Montana　　　　　　　 B. Mitch Davies’ achievements

C. Mitch Davies’ writing style　　　　　　　　　 D. the content of A Wind In Montana

58. Unlike other teen books, A Wind In Montana ______.

A. involves some imaginary situations　　　　 B. focuses on responsibilities teens should take

C. is based on real-life experiences　　　　　 D. discusses the future of young adults

59. What’s the purpose of the passage?

A. To review a book. 　　　　　　　　　 B. To report a piece of news.

C. To speak highly of an author. D. To collect materials for a book.

Dear son,

The day that you see me old, have patience and try to understand me.

　 If, when I speak to you, I repeat the same things thousand and one times, do not 　36 me, listen to me. When you were 　37 , I had to read to you thousand and one times the same story until you get to sleep.

　 When I do not want to have a 　38 , neither shame me nor scold me. Remember when I had to 　39 you with thousand excuses I invented 　40 you wanted to take a bath.

　 When you see my 41 on new technologies, give me the necessary time and do not look 42 me with your mocking smile. I taught you 　43 　to do so many things —to eat well, to dress well, and to face life.

　　 When 　44 　I lose the memory or the thread of our conversation , let me have the necessary time to remember ; and if I cannot do it , do not become nervous, 　45 the most important thing is not my conversation but 　46 to be with you and to have you listening to me .

47 I do not want to eat, do not force me. I know well when I need to and when not.

　 When my 　48 legs do not allow me walk, give me your hand, the same way I 　49 when you gave your first 　50.

　 And when some day I say to you that I do not want to live any more, and that I want to die, do not get angry. Some day you will understand. Try to understand that my age is not lived but 　　51 . Some day you will discover that, 　52 my mistakes, I always wanted the　 53 thing for you and that I tried to prepare the way for you .You must not feel sad , angry or helpless　 for seeing me near you. You must be 　54 to me , try to understand me and to help me as I did it when you started living . Help me to walk , help me to end my way with love and patience . I will 55 you by a smile and by the love I have had always for you .

I love you, son.

Your father

36.　 A. annoy　　　 　　　　　　 B. blame　　　　 　　　　　　 C. interrupt　　 　　　　　　 D. cheat

37.　 A. young　　　 　　　　　　 B. small　　　　 　　　　　　 C. curious 　　 　　　　　　 D. sick　

38.　 A. shower　　 　　　　　　 B. walk　　　　 　　　　　　 C. talk 　　　　 　　　　　　 D. rest　

39.　 A. scold 　　　　　　　　　　 B. leave　 　　　　　　　　　　 C. chase 　　　　　　　　　　 D. forgive

40.　 A. now that B. in that C. in order that D. in case that

41.　 A. complaint B. ignorance C preference D. knowledge

42.　 A. after　　　　 　　　　　　 B. up　　　　　　 　　　　　　 C. for　　　　　　 　　　　　　 D. at　　　

43.　 A. why　　　　　 　　　 　　　 B. when　　　　 　　　　　　 C. what　　　　 　　　　　　 D. how　

44.　 A. for the moment B. in a moment C. at one moment　 D. at the moment

45.　 A. as　　　　　　 　　　　　　 B. until　　　　　 　　　　　　 C. but　　　　　 　　　　　　 D. while

46.　 A. exactly　　　 　　　　　　 B. mostly　　　 　　　　　　 C. awfully　　 　　　　　　 D. surely

47.　 A. If only B. If necessary C. If anything D. If ever

48.　 A. tired　　　　　 　　　　　　 B. long　　　　　 　　　　　　 C. energetic　 　　　　　　 D. graceful

49.　 A. do　　　　　　 　　　　　　 B. did　　　　　　 　　　　　　 C. give　　　　　 　　　　　　 D. gave　

50.　 A. words　　　 　　　　　　 B. steps　　　　 　　　　　　 C. orders 　　　　　　　　　　 D. smiles

51.　 A. stressed　　 　　　　　　 B. suffered　　 　　　　　　 C. survived　　 　　　　　　 D. slowed

52.　 A. besides B. among C. despite　　　 　　　　　　 　　　 D. from　

53.　 A. worst　　　　 　　　　　　 B. most　　　　 　　　　　　 C. good　　　　 　　　　　　 D. best　

54.　 A. next　　　　　 　　　　　　 B. cruel　　　　 　　　　　　 C. polite　　　　 　　　　　　 D. blind　

55.　 A. remember　 　　　　　　 B. pay　　　　　 　　　　　　 C. owe　　　　　 　　　　　　 D. kiss　

—Life is full of opportunities for you.　　　

—That’s right. _____.

A. It’s my cup of tea　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　 　　　 B. I have butterflies in my stomach

C. It will cost an arm and a leg　　　　　　 　 D. The world is my oyster　

 When ___ such a difficult problem, he didn’t know what to do.

A. facing      B. faced           C. faced to        D. facing with

 —These grapes look really beautiful.

—They ______! See the price $3.99 a pound. Very expensive, aren’t they!

A. would        B. could         C. might         D. should