Room 1

  The celebrity（名人）footwear section is probably the most popular in the entire museum. Started in the 1950s there is a wide variety of shoes and boots belonging to everyone from queens and presidents to pop stars and actors! Most visitors find the celebrities' choice of footwear extremely interesting.

Room 2

  Most of our visitors are amazed and shocked by the collection of “special purpose” shoes on exhibition here at the Museum of Footwear. For example , there are Chinese shoes made of    

silk that were worn by women to tie their feet firmly to prevent them from growing too much!

Room 3

   As well as shoes and boots the museum also exhibits shoe shaped objects. The variety is unbelievable. For example, there is a metal lamp that resembles a pair of shoes, and Greek wine bottles that look like legs!

The Footwear Library

   People come from all over the world to study in our excellent footwear library. Designers and researchers come here to look up information on anything and everything related to the subject of footwear.

63. Where would you find a famous singer’s shoes?

A. Room3        B. Room 2.      C. Room1.     D. The Footwear Library

64. All exhibits in each room       .

   A. have the same shape              B. share the same theme

C. are made of the same material      D. belong to the same social class

65. Which of the following is true according to the text?

   A. The oldest exhibits in Room 1 were made in the 1950s.

B. Room 2 is the most visited place in the museum.

C. Researchers come to the Footwear Library for information.

D. Room 3 has a richer variety of exhibits than the others.

66. The purpose of the text is to get more people to         .

   A. visit the museum     B. design shoes     C. do research     D. follow celebrities

Mother Teresa was born in Yugoslavia, on August 27^th, 1910. She attended the government school near her home until she was eighteen. At that time, some doctors and nurses from Yugoslavia were working in India, and they often wrote to the school about their work. She decided to join them one day.

When she finished school, she went first to Britain. Then a year later she went to India, where she began to train to be a teacher. After training, she was sent to Calcutta, where she taught geography at a school and soon after became headmistress(女校长).

 However, although she loved teaching, in 1946 Mother Teresa left the school and went to work in the poor parts of Calcutta. Later she trained to be a nurse in Panta, and then began her work helping the poor and comforting the dying in the streets of the city. Slowly, others came to help her, and her work spread to other parts of India.

Mother Teresa is now a well-known person. Many photos have been taken of her, as she travels the world to open new schools and hospitals in poor countries. In 1979, she was given the Nobel Peace Prize for the lifetime of love and service she has given to the poor.

59.What first inspired Mother Teresa to work in India?

A. Her visit to the poor parts of Calcutta.          

B. Her visit to Britain after she left school.

C. The medical worker’s letters to her school.

D. The work of the nurse in the city of Panta.

60. In which order did Mother Teresa do the following things?

   a. Trained to be a nurse                b. Went to India.

   c. Helped the dying.                  d. Studied to be a teacher.

   e. Went to Britain.                    f. Worked as a headmaster.

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

61. Mother Teresa gave up teaching because she wanted to ___________.

A. look after the poor.                   B. travel to poor countries

C. build hospitals for the poor             D. train nurse to care for the poor

62. Mother Teresa is now a famous person because she has ___________.

A. saved many poor people in India             

B. helped to bring about world peace

C. helped to make India a more peaceful place     

 D. taken care of many poor people in the world

Many years ago, Norman Cousins was seriously ill. He was given six months to live. His chance for recovery was 1 in 500.

He could see the worry, depression and anger in his life contributed to his disease. He wondered, “If illness can be caused by negativity (消极性), can health be created by positivity (积极性)?” He decided to make an experiment of himself.

Laughing was one of the most positive activities he knew. He watched all the funny movies he could find. He read funny stories. He asked his friends to call him whenever they said, heard or did something interesting.

His pain was so great that he could not sleep. Laughing for 10 solid minutes, he found, relieved the pain for several hours so he could sleep. He fully recovered from his illness and lived another 20 happy and healthy years.

Laughing is necessary to our health. If we’re not well, laughing helps us get well; if we are well, laughing helps us stay that way. So, if you like laughing, do it as often as you can.

Use whatever makes you laugh—movies, books, jokes or friends. The people around you may think you’re strange, but sooner or later they’ll join in even if they don’t know what you’re laughing about.

56. Cousins decided to try to laugh a lot ______.

  A. in order to be happy                          B. in order to cure his disease   

    C. because he could not live for long             D. because his disease couldn’t be cured

57. The text mainly tells us ______.

  A. how to be happy                                        B. laughing is good for our health

  C. about Cousins’ miserable life                  D. funny stories make our life different

58. Which of the following is TRUE about his illness?

  A. There was little possibility to cure his disease.

  B. He had been happy before he was ill.                   

C. His disease resulted from his hard work.

  D. His disease made him sleepy all the time.

My mother was a responsible teacher and she retired. So I decided to give her one of my old computers to help her pass the time. She had a little bit of computer    36   , so I just set it up for her and let her    37    with it on her own.

As time went on, I    38    the computer was hardly touched. She said she didn’t know    39    to use it. I decided to teach her. I sat and   40    everything and she seemed OK with what I said. Unfortunately, my sister called me at that moment   41    we talked on the phone for an hour. Then when I saw her again, she was sitting in front of the computer, looking quite    42   . The screen saver (屏幕保护) had appeared and she didn’t know how to    43    it off. She had tried    44    every key and it didn’t work. I told her, “Just   45    the mouse a little.” What I meant was that she just needed to move the mouse around to    46    the computer up. What she did was to    47    the mouse and start shaking it around in mid-air until the    48    went completely black. I couldn’t help laughing because of her funny    49   . The more I laughed the    50    she got.

She thought that I was a (n)    51   teacher and she decided to figure the thing out herself. Well, at least I helped her overcome her   52    of breaking something and encouraged her to    53    a little.

About a week later, I found a home-made    54    card with a mouse on the front making a funny face   55    to my door. It said, “Thanks for the computer lessons. Love, Mom.”

36. A. history          B. theory             C. technology     D. experience

37. A. watch           B. play                C. train              D. part

38. A. thought         B.realized      C.confirmed   D. ignored

39. A. why             B. when              C.how        D.where                      

40. A. retold            B. discussed        C. described       D. explained

41. A. because        B. but              C. and                D. since      

42. A. relaxed          B. discouraged     C. interested       D. amused

43. A. get           B. break              C. cut                D. turn

44. A. feeling          B. hitting             C. changing        D. removing

45. A. hang             B. shake              C. rub                D. pull

46. A. wake            B. clean               C. bring             D. take

47. A. put up           B. cut off            C. put away        D. pick up

48. A. screen          B. curtain            C. cover             D. window

49. A. gesture        B. movement       C. action            D. expression

50. A. angrier          B. calmer            C. ruder             D. better

51. A. respectful      B. humorous        C. careful          D. impatient

52. A. sadness         B. pressure          C. fear               D. depression

53. A. approach       B. observe           C. experiment     D. respond

54. A. birthday        B. inviting            C. shopping        D. greeting

55. A. appeared       B. printed           C. stuck             D. combined

 Please put these teaching materials in order and don’t leave them ______ a mess.

    A. with            B. for               C. on                D. in

 You should feel content, because there are lots of people far ______.

    A. badly off       B. well off   C. worse off                                   D. better off

 I am taking a weekend course to improve my ______.

    A. speaking English   B. spoken English   C. English speaking   D. English spoken

 Don’t get ______ the fire or you’ll be burned.

  A. close           B. closely          C. close to          D. closely to

 “I don’t understand what you are saying,” she said, with a ______ expression on her face.

A. puzzling     B. puzzled        C. puzzle                     D. puzzlement

 To be great, you must be smart, confident, and, ______, honest.

A. therefore     B. above all         C. however                            D. after