The worst thing is the headlines. I use the underground almost every day and watch the people travel, their heads  1  in the{r newspapers. The headlines today  2  suicide (自杀) bombers and of horrific attacks that they say  3  by members of our community.

Something on the journey is  4 . I am not  5  anything that would indicate I am a Muslim. I normally do not  6  it is Friday and I am on my way to prayers. 7  I sense an uneasiness in the carriage. People are  8 . No one is speaking and it must be said that no one is being  9  unfriendly towards me. But I think the  10 I get are different. I am being checked out, sized up. It is all a bit uncomfortable.

People are looking around for things and people  11  look suspicious (可疑的). I am doing it a bit 12  and in the coming days, as more claims are made about the people who did this and their aims, that feeling is likely to get  13 . As you look around the  14 , it is difficult to know what people are thinking. Some are  15  thinking “those Muslims come here and look what they do" but they 16  understand we condemn (谴责) this like everyone else.

Whoever did this didn't  17  about who was killed or whether they were Christian or Muslim. They just had no respect 18  human life at all. We all travel around London and we use public transport. We have as much fear as anyone else about  19  in something. But in the coming days, everyone is going to have to work together and keep calm. We will look out for each other and that's how we. will  20  this difficulty.

1. A. buried     B. hung         C. hidden        D. sunk

2. A. tell about      B. talk over      C. think out      D. Speak of

3. A. to carry on      B. were carried out   C. to carry out    D. were carried on

4. A. different    B. difficult     C. easy         D. interesting

5. A. putting on    B. dressing       C. wearing    D. having on

6. A. unless      B. until         C. before        D. after

7. A. However      B. Thus         C. But         D. And

8. A. calm    B. noisy        C. quiet         D. cheerful

9. A. in a way      B. in one way      C. in no way       D. in any way

10. A. looks       B. opinions       C. ideas         D. experiences

11. A. which      B. that      C. who         D. whom

12. A. itself     B. himself        C. myself        D. oneself

13. A. better      B. worse     C. more         D. less

14. A. carriage     B. bus         C. train         D. taxi

15. A. surely      B. certainly       C. probably       D. hopefully

16. A. have to   B. might        C. are able to     D. may

17. A. ask        B. hear         C. know         D. care

18. A. with      B. of       C. for          D. to

19. A. keeping up    B. being caught up   C. catching up    D. being kept up with

20. A. get away    B. get off       C. get out       D. get through

Former Irish President Mary Robinson was just making a polite conversation with an Ethiopian(埃塞俄比亚的)teenager about her wedding day.The 16­year­old had already been married for a year.“She looked at me with the saddest eyes and said,‘I had to drop out of school’,” Robinson said in a telephone interview.“That conveyed to me the reality,” said Robinson,the first woman to serve as Ireland's President and former U.N.High Commissioner for Human Rights.“Her life,as far as she is concerned,had more or less ended.”

Robinson said keeping girls in school was one of the most important things policymakers could do to address the coming challenges of an ever­increasing population,predicted by the United Nations to reach 7 billion soon.“European countries are concerned about aging populations,but this is much less of an issue than the huge number of people which we are going to see over the next 40 years when the population goes from 7 billion to 9 billion,” she said.“Almost all of that increase will be in poor developing countries,so that we have a very big challenge.”

Family planning experts worry in particular about the future population explosion in Sub­Saharan Africa.In May,the United Nations projected the world population would reach 9.3 billion in 2050 and 10.1 billion by 2100.Much of that growth will come from Africa, where the population is growing at 2.3 percent a year—more than double Asia's 1 percent growth rate.If that rate stays consistent,which is not certain,Africa's population will reach 3.6 billion by 2100 from the present 1 billion.

Joel Cohen,a professor of population studies at Rockefeller University and Columbia University in New York,said universal secondary education offered a way to reduce population in high birth rate regions.In addition to providing information about birth control,a secondary education teaches women to reduce their own fertility,improve the health of their children and allow them to move from a mindset of having many children in the hope that some will survive to improve the quality of each child's life,Cohen wrote in the journal Nature.

36.In the first paragraph,the author introduces his topic by________.

A.giving an example

B.explaining his opinions

C.describing the poor education system

D.coming straight to the topic

37.What can we learn from the passage?

A.Robinson is happy after talking to the Ethiopian girl.

B.Robinson is a successful expert in population studies.

C.Robinson is worried about the population growth.

D.Robinson encourages female education.

38.What is Joel Cohen's view about secondary education?

A.It provides basic knowledge of health.

B.It reduces aging population.

C.It makes people pay more attention to education.

D.It can change people's parenting ideas.

39.According to the passage,one of the most important ways to control high population growth is to________.

A.let girls go away from Africa

B.keep girls in school

C.let young girls remain single

D.keep girls in families

Recently divorced and unemployed,I was on my way downtown to do the rounds of the employment offices.I had no umbrella,for my old one had__16__,and I could not__17__another one.

I sat down in the__18__and there against my seat was a(n)__19__silk umbrella with a silver handle.I had__20__seen anything so lovely.I examined the handle and saw a carved__21__.The usual procedure would have been to__22__the umbrella to the conductor,but an idea__23__to me.I decided to take it with me and find the owner myself.

I got off the bus in a downpour and__24__opened the umbrella to protect myself.Then I__25__a telephone book for the name on the umbrella.I called and a lady__26__.

Yes,she said__27__,that was her umbrella,which her parents,now dead,had given her as a birthday present.But,she__28__,it had been stolen__29__her doorstep a month before.

She was so excited that I__30__I was looking for a job and went directly to her house.She took the umbrella,and her eyes were filled with__31__.She wanted to give me a__32__,but—though twenty dollars was all I had in the world—her happiness at regaining this__33__possession was beyond words and I believed accepting her money would have__34__something.We talked for a while and I left.

A week later,I got a job as a sales manager__35__.It might be my kindness that paid off.But who knows?

16.A.broken up  B.gone away

C.fallen apart  D.faded away

17.A.afford  B.borrow  C.find  D.repair

18.A.office  B.bus  C.theater  D.train

19.A.ugly  B.beautiful  C.worn  D.ancient

20.A.even  B.always  C.already  D.never

21.A.design  B.number  C.name  D.brand

22.A.turn in  B.show off

C.open up  D.carry away

23.A.occurred  B.ran

C.struck  D.happened

24.A.firmly  B.suddenly

C.casually  D.thankfully

25.A.read  B.searched

C.got  D.used

26.A.appeared  B.replied

C.answered  D.screamed

27.A.in surprise  B.in panic

C.in silence  D.in anger

28.A.assumed  B.added

C.declared  D.announced

29.A.from  B.in  C.beside  D.of

30.A.mentioned  B.forgot

C.realized  D.remembered

31.A.memory  B.honor

C.tears  D.thanks

32.A.gift  B.position  C.hug  D.reward

33.A.expensive  B.common

C.rare  D.special

34.A.bought  B.ruined

C.expressed  D.enjoyed

35.A.immediately  B.naturally

C.hopefully  D.unexpectedly

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