Many students want to find friends on the Internet as a way of practising their language skills and learning more about new cultures. Traditional pen pals were the primary source for such contacts, and students could write each other letters. With the Internet, fingding friends has become much easier, and such relationships are called key pals.

However, care and consideration should be given when finding friends on the Internet:

Search the Internet for reputable(有信誉的) services. Look for reviews of such sites to learn more about other students’ experiences. Don’t join a service until you have done your research.

Check to see if you can use a nickname, instead of __________, to protect your identity.

Never give personal information to anyone, including your home address, phone number, and birthday.

Stop contact with others if you feel uncomfortable with the topics of conversation. Again, if you protect your identity, this will be easier to do. Tell your teachers, parents, or even local law enforement if problem arise.

Try to use the language you are studying in the classroom in your communication with others.

Ask appropriate questions that will also help you learn about other cultures. Remember that someone’s personal experience might help you to understand a whole culture. You have to talk to many different people, and this will get you started.

1. Please give this passage a proper title. (Please answer with 10 words.) 

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2. Please fill in the blank with proper words. (Please answer within 5 words.)

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3. Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one?

 Pen friends used to write letters to keep in touch with each other.

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4. Why do many students want to find friends on the Internet? (Please answer within 30 words.)

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5. Please translate the underlined sentence.

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Athens will welcome the 2004 Olympic Games with open arms. Not only will the Games be returning to their birthplace, but they’ll also be entering a new period of Olympic history.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been looking for ways to make the world’s largest sporting event a bit smaller and easier for cities to host. Mexico is the only Latin American nation to have hosted the Olympics. And the games have never been held in Africa.

It costs well over$4 billion t host the Olympic Games. And this is stopping many poorer countries from trying to win the bid. Cities in Africa and Latin America, with great social and money problems, cannot even begin to make the bid.

So, the IOC has suggested 117 ways to make the Games smaller and easier for cities across the world. These ideas are to be put into practice soon---maybe in time for the Beijing 2008 Olympics. The IOC wants to save up to $400 million.

The suggestions include limiting the number of sports to 28 and the number of athletes to 10,500.

“Imagine a bus with 28 seats and some sports need to get off to give their places to other sports,”said an IOC official. Sports that might not appear in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games included baseball, softball and the modern pentathlon(五项全能)(shooting, fencing, horse, jumping, swimming and running).

“We think that the Olympic Games have to be made smaller, and the less costly so that they can be organized by all continents and subcontinents(次大陆),”said IOC president Jacques Rogge.

“Our dream is that a continent such as Africa will be able to organize the Olympic Games.”

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

A. The Olympic Games have to be made smaller and less costly

B. The Olympic Games have to increase the number of sports.

C. The Olympic games have to increase the number of athletes.

D. The Olympic Games have to enlarge their global attraction.

37. From the passage, we can know that the Olympics have been held in four continents EXCEPT ____________.

A. Asia         B. America         C. Europe        D. Africa

38. The events which are most probably limited include ______ according to the passage.

A. basketball, baseball and football           

B. baseball, softball and volleyball

C. softball, baseball and the modern pentathlon 

D. softball, fencing and pentathlon

39. The purpose of writing the article is to ______.

A. think highly of the Athens Olympic Games

B. make many poorer countries be able to organize the Olympics.

C. increase the events of the Athens Olympic Games

D. make Athens enter a new period of Olympic history

Paula Radcliffe, chasing(角逐)a third London marathon title(冠军),says she has become a stronger person after her terrible experience at the 2004 Athens Games.

Radcliffe, who failed to complete the Olympic marathon and the 10,000m last August, said: “Athens made me a stronger person and it made me care about criticism(批评).”

“In the past I wanted to please everyone, but now I am going to listen even more to the people around me.”

She didn’t care about criticism made at the weekend by Liz McColgan, who felt Radcliffe should have rested and let her body recover after her failure in Athens.

“Liz is someone I look up to but she hasn’t spoken to me last year and if she really cared for me, I’m sure she would have contacted(联系)me.”

Instead Radcliffe won the New York City marathon just 11 weeks after Athens.

“In New York I wasn’t in my best state but I did know I was good enough to win the race.”

Radcliffe insisted her only goal in Sunday’s race would be winning a third title and not chasing world records.

However, Radcliffe has not ruled out(排除)in the future chasing her “final” world record time and questioned sayings that marathon runners have the ability in their career to produce only four or five world-class times.

“I don’t think that---although I can’t put a number on it,” said Radcliffe. “That changes from person to person.”

Radcliffe is sure she can better her winning London 2003 performance some point in the future. Following a successful three-month training period in the United States, the 31-year-old will chase a third title on Sunday after her first victory in 2002 and again 12 months later.

Radcliffe clocked a time 2:18:56 in her first 42.2-kilometre race three years ago.

Afterwards she set a “mixed course” mark of 2:17:18 five months later in Chicago before lowering that to a time of 2:15:25 in the 2003 London event.

31. Radcliffe’s failure in Athens made her ______.

A. face criticism calmly          B. rest for five months  

C. love people around her more    D. develop respect for Liz

32. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A. Radcliffe broke the world record in the New York City marathon.

    B. Radcliffe didn’t fully recover before the New York City marathon.

C. Radcliffe won her first marathon title in the New York City marathon

D. Radcliffe had a 3-month training before the New York City marathon.

33. By saying “I can’t put a number on it “ , Radcliffe means she’s not sure ______.

A. if she has the ability to set a new world record

B. if she can win another race though she has won many times

C. how many times a marathon runner can set the world record

D. if she has the ability to produce four or five world-class times

34. According to the text, Radcliffe has won_____ London marathon title(s).

A. one   B. two   C. three   D. four

35. What can we learn from Radcliffe’s story?

A. Practice makes perfect.  

B. Well begun is half done

C. A friend in need is a friend indeed   

D. Where there is a will, there is a way.

As I had my first child, I promised myself never to be a push parent. I was going to be a very  and understanding mother

Five years later my little boy was about to  2  for his yellow belt in karate(空手道 ). As a five-year-old child, he wasn’t taking it  3  ,because it was mom trying to help him. I found myself yelling and telling him he would never get the belt acting like that. I was trying to  4  him his back-flip. He  5  to play and I continued to yell. Finally I had made him feel like he couldn’t  6  anything, just as I promised myself I wouldn’t do.

Still mad and stubborn I couldn’t  7  . I had to teach him this flip. He was doing fine with it by the time we had to leave to go to karate. While taking the test, he did great. His  8  would ask him to do something, and it became  9  for him. He never asked him to do the back-flip. He had passed his yellow belt test.

We got into the car to  10  when he looked at me and said “Mom, why did you make me do that back-flip so many times,  11  it wasn’t even on the test.” The words wouldn’t have  12  anything to anyone else, but it was a  13  in my face. That night while lying in bed, I told him I loved him.

He was  14  and didn’t say anything, just giggled. I said, “I really do love you baby.” I was still feeling  15  and also  16  if he had forgiven me. Finally he replied in the  17  voice, “I know you do, but I love you more.”

He had forgiven me and I had decided that his feelings were more  18  than any test he would ever take. I made a new   19  to be a better mother and to  20  that he was only a child.

11. A. patient  

12. A. look    

13. A. easy   

14. A. help  

15.A.started                           

B. feel   

B. give in 

B. teacher 

B. normal  

B. go shopping

B. once 

B. reached  

B. moment    

B. moving   

B. happy   

B. puzzling 

B. sweetest

B. sincere 

B. gift   

B. help 

 

C. try 

C. give away 

C. doctor

C. common 

C.rest ourselves

C. while   

C. demanded 

C. smile  

C. playing 

C. upset    

C. wondering  

C. happiest

C. faithful

C. plan

C. know

 

D. pass

D. give out

D. instructor

D. natural

D. enjoy ourselves

D. if

D. meant

D. slap

D. crying

D. stubborn

D. believing

D. biggest

D. important

D. experiment

D. agree

 
16. A. accomplish                            

17. A. give up                     

18. A. father                             

19. A. quick                   

20. A. go home               

21 A. when                         

22. A. expected                      

23. A. wind                    

24. A. working                        

25. A. guilty                       

26. A. knowing                      

27. A. saddest                           

28. A. true                               

29. A. promise                                

30. A. accept                               

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