Most students believe that teachers know exactly how to put their compositions ________


  1. A.
    correct
  2. B.
    straight
  3. C.
    right
  4. D.
    well

This is the story I have ________ heard. It's very interesting, isn't it?


  1. A.
    ever
  2. B.
    never
  3. C.
    hardly
  4. D.
    often

On May 23,1989, Stefania Follini came out from a cave at Carlsbad , New Mexico.She hadn’t seen the sun for eighteen and a half weeks .Stefania was in a research program, and the scientists in the program were studying body rhythms （节奏）。In this experiment Stefania had spent 130 days in a cave ,30 feet in depth.
During her time in the cave, Stefania had been completely alone except for two white mice.Her living place had been very comfortable ,but there had been nothing to feel her the time .She’d had no clock or watches , no television or radio.There had been no natural light and the temperature had always been kept at 21℃

  1. 1.

    Stefania stayed in the cave for a long time because___________.

    1. A.
      she was asked to do research on mice
    2. B.
      she wanted to experience loneliness
    3. C.
      she was the subject of a study
    4. D.
      she needed to record her life
  2. 2.

    What is a cause for the change of Stefania’s body clock?

    1. A.
      Eating fewer hours
    2. B.
      Having more hours of sleep
    3. C.
      Lacking physical exercise.
    4. D.
      Getting no natural light.
  3. 3.

    Where does the text probably come from?

    1. A.
      A novel.
    2. B.
      A news story.
    3. C.
      A pet magazine .
    4. D.
      A travel guide.

Welcome to the future. It’s year 2050 and Scotland is now powered completely by“clean”energy.
Homes have entire roofs made of solar materials, rooms are kept warm by wallpaper, and people go to and from work in electric and hydrogen( 氢) cars.
Oil is still being found in the North Sea, but it’s not now only used to keep aircraft flying. And a new 500---mile underwater link with Iceland has been built to catch heat from the hot springs. There’s still a role for king coal—but the black diamonds are now environment---friendly. 
People will be able to import the electricity they need and export any excess(超过的量) they make through rooftop windmills(风车). New technology will store electricity better and provide it on demand. Heat exchangers will provide heating and hot water.
Harmful carbon dioxide waste is being piped offshore to St Fergus and from there into some of the remaining oil—producing fields to be stored safely without entering the atmosphere. Gas remains the preferred energy source of industry and is now shipped in liquid form. But hydrogen is imported through pipelines from France and from a geothermal (地热的) plant in Iceland.
Hydrogen—fuelled cars have become popular. Electric bikes are common in cities using the new urban two—wheel network. Electric vehicles have become common, and their performances have been improved because of the developments in electrical drive technology like high—temperature super conducting motors. Many people leave their vehicles in a giant park where they can be recharged from the national electrical system . Oilseed rape (油菜) is widely grown to fuel some motors .

  1. 1.

    What does the underlined phrase in paragraph 2 mean ?

    1. A.
      The hot springs
    2. B.
      Oil
    3. C.
      Coal
    4. D.
      Oil and coal
  2. 2.

    Which sources of energy play a more important role in people’s daily life in the future ?

    1. A.
      Oil and coal
    2. B.
      Hydrogen and gas
    3. C.
      Electricity and gas
    4. D.
      Solar energy and wind
  3. 3.

    The means of transport people use in 2050 do not include__________.

    1. A.
      windmills
    2. B.
      electric bikes
    3. C.
      hydrogen—fuelled cars
    4. D.
      aircraft
  4. 4.

    The passage is written to tell us in the future_____________.

    1. A.
      life will be better and better
    2. B.
      the energy will become cleaner and cleaner
    3. C.
      people will use some new sources of energy
    4. D.
      people will pay more attention to the environment

Angry survivors demanded answers on Sunday after a terrible stampede（踩踏）at “Love Parade 2010”, a music festival in Germany, killed 19 people and left hundreds hurt.
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her shock over Saturday’s tragedy in the western city of Duisburg. “This was a very sad day,” Merkel said. “We must do everything we can to ensure that something like this never happens again.”
Witnesses said that people pushed into the narrow tunnel, the only entrance to the Love Parade festival, from both sides until it was dangerously overcrowded. The panic began as festival-goers began to lose consciousness as they were crushed against the walls and each other. The dead included eight foreigners, from Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, China, Bosnia and Spain. More than 340 people were injured.
After the panic, a lot of emergency vehicles, including helicopters, could be seen parked on the highway leading to helicopters, could be seen parked on the highway leading to the festival site, carrying away the injured people. The festival itself, however, went on. Police were afraid that ending the music altogether could cause further unrest among the crowd.
“The event was a real mess,” Patrick Guenter, a 22-year-old baker, said.  “Although the festival was full, they kept letting people in.” he added. “It seems the organizers didn’t plan the route. The road was very narrow, and no one knew what was going on.” Said Taggart Bowen-Gaddy,20,an American from Philadelphia.
Officials said 4,000 police officers and 1,000 security guards provided security for the event, which attracted up to 1.4 million people. The authorities had only given organizers permission for 250,000 people to attend.
“I warned one year ago that Duisburg was not a suitable place for the Love Parade. The city is too small and narrow for such events. It is a pity that…” German police union chief Rainer Wendt told the Bild.
The chief organizer, Rainer Schaller, said the popular event would never be held again, “out of respect for the victims and their families”.
First held in Berlin in 1989 just months before the fall of the Wall, the Love Parade is one of the biggest music festivals in Europe. It left Berlin from 2007 onwards after disagreements with the city authorities over security and has been held in several other German cities in recent years.

  1. 1.

    How did the German Chancellor Angela Merkel feel about the tragedy?

    1. A.
      Very disappointed.
    2. B.
      Angry and surprised.
    3. C.
      Very puzzled.
    4. D.
      Touched.
  2. 2.

    According to Patrick Gunter and Taggart Bowen-Gaddy, ________.

    1. A.
      the event was well-organized
    2. B.
      the performance was wonderful
    3. C.
      Duisburg was suitable for the Love Parade
    4. D.
      the organization was very bad
  3. 3.

    We can infer that __________.

    1. A.
      Rainer Wendt’s warning went unnoticed
    2. B.
      Rainer Wendt was a chief organizer of Love Parade 2010
    3. C.
      Rainer Wendt is a music lover
    4. D.
      Duisburg is a famous holiday destination
  4. 4.

    We can learn from the passage that ________.

    1. A.
      the Love Parade has been canceled forever
    2. B.
      the Love Parade is a very popular sport event
    3. C.
      the festival was ended shortly after the panic
    4. D.
      the Love Parade has a history of over 30 years

You are busy filling out the application form for a position you really need; let’s assume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isn’t it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the form that your diploma(毕业文凭) represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University?
More and more people are turning to an utter deception(欺骗)  like this to land their first job or to move head in their careers. For personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university. Registrars(注册主任)at most well-known colleges say that they deal with dishonest claims like these at the rate of about one per week.
Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms. If it turns out that an applicant is lying, most colleges are unwilling to accuse the applicant directly. One lvy League school refers to them as “special cases”, One well-known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says these claims are made by “no such people”.
To avoid complete lies, some job seekers claim that they “attended” or “were associated with” a college or university. After careful checking, a personnel officer may discover that “attending” means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that “being as sociated with” a college means that the job-seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of  the century—that’s when they began keeping records, anyhow.
If you don’t want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a fake diploma. One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of non-existent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from “Smoot State University”. The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the “University of Purdue”. As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.

  1. 1.

    The writer mainly wants to tell us that _______.

    1. A.
      college degrees can now be purchased easily
    2. B.
      it is very hard for people to find jobs
    3. C.
      lying about college degrees is becoming a widespread problem
    4. D.
      employers are no longer interested in applicants’ actual performances
  2. 2.

    The underlined word “utter” in the second paragraph means “______”.

    1. A.
      thorough
    2. B.
      careful
    3. C.
      incomplete
    4. D.
      spoken
  3. 3.

    Once finding applicants with false diplomas, most colleges would _________.

    1. A.
      keep the records of them
    2. B.
      drive them out of college
    3. C.
      avoid direct conflicts with them
    4. D.
      accuse them of such behavior
  4. 4.

    We can learn from the passage that ________.

    1. A.
      US employers value their job applicants with a degree from top universities
    2. B.
      University of Purdue and Purdue University are the same school
    3. C.
      people with fake diplomas can get their first jobs in the US easily
    4. D.
      people pay the same price for a fake diploma from different universities

She ________ into the thick forest alone on such a dark night．


  1. A.
    dares not go
  2. B.
    dares not to go
  3. C.
    dare not to go
  4. D.
    doesn’t dare to go

As we know, the 2008 Olympic Games will ________ in Bering, China.


  1. A.
    take place
  2. B.
    be taken place
  3. C.
    happen
  4. D.
    hold

The concept of solar power satellites, or SPS, first put forward in the 1960s, is still not widely known by the general public. For example, at many public exhibitions about energy, SPS is not even mentioned. This is mainly because very little money has been spent on SPS research
There are people who claim that SPS is unrealistic - because launch costs are much too high today; or because it is too far away. So why do we believe that it is important to continue to do researches on SPS? The reason is very simple.
Humans are going to need huge amounts of electric power in coming decades. Within 50 years the world population is expected to double, while economic growth will continue around the world, especially in the poorer countries. But existing energy sources already face serious problems. They are limited; they are polluted; they are dangerous. So 50 or 100 years from now, where is our power going to come from? Nobody knows. And so we believe that new large-scale possibilities should be studied further.
We must remember that humans have some choices concerning our future. To some extent we can choose the direction in which our civilization develops. And choices that are made in the coming decades - such as the energy sources that we will or will not use, will have major, long-term meaning for human life on earth. We believe that if research continues to show that SPS is environmentally and economically attractive, SPS will open the door to a much more attractive future for human civilization than any ground-based energy source, and one that the public will support and that young people will find challenging and exciting. Furthermore energy from SPS can be readily used in developing countries, as the SPS 2000 project will show, thus aiding economic development worldwide. In addition, by creating large commercial fund for space engineering, SPS will open the frontier of space to economic development, thus creating a limitless new field for the growth of the world economy.

  1. 1.

    Which of the following may be the best title for the passage?

    1. A.
      The Future Energy- SPS
    2. B.
      The Concept of SPS
    3. C.
      Humans and SPS
    4. D.
      Advantages of SPS
  2. 2.

    Which of the following statements about SPS is TRUE?

    1. A.
      The research on SPS started in the 1960s is still not appreciated by the public.
    2. B.
      The research is showing SPS can benefit environment and economy at present.
    3. C.
      The energy from SPS is now being used in some developing countries.
    4. D.
      The public don’t know about SPS because little time is devoted to the research.
  3. 3.

    Paragraph 3 mainly talks about ______.

    1. A.
      the present serious energy problems
    2. B.
      where to get energy sources in the future
    3. C.
      the importance of controlling world population
    4. D.
      the need to explore new energy sources
  4. 4.

    The writer’s attitude towards the research can best be summarized by the saying “______”.

    1. A.
      In time of peace prepare for war
    2. B.
      Put the cart before the horse
    3. C.
      One man’s meat is another man’s poison
    4. D.
      Easier said than done

Many cities in the world are benefiting from the night activities of a group of people who call themselves guerrilla (游击队) gardeners. Armed with trowels, spades and a van full of flowers and plants, guerrilla gardeners turn abandoned urban land into a blaze of color. In city centre locations where there was mud, weeds and empty plastic bottles, residents often wake up to find that the wasted area has been transformed overnight with brightly-colored bedding plants.
In most British cities, local governments and police turn a blind eye to the effort of the gardeners, whose activities are always carried out under cover of nightfall. And so far, there has been nothing but praise from the astonished and delighted local residents when they find their neighborhood transformed in such a striking fashion.
Not only do the guerrilla gardeners beautify neglected places, they also return regularly to water the plants and weed the flower beds. They also make sure that at least some of the plants they bring are evergreens, which means that the area doesn’t look depressing in the winter months.
The first guerrilla gardener in London was Richard Reynolds, whose day job is at an advertising agency. Mr. Reynolds, a graduate of Oxford University, began his efforts two years ago when he moved to a flat in a tower block in South London. From his balcony, he could see several empty concrete pots, placed by the local governments to contain plants but never used. He went out after midnight and filled the pots with plants, and then planted more flowers in the path leading to the entrance to the block.
He then set up a website to explain his plan and called upon more gardeners to join him. Cash donations flooded in and, more importantly, volunteers rushed to be part of the campaign. Within six months, there were five hundred people in London prepared to come out at very short notice to restore neglected parts of the urban landscape. There are now unofficial but carefully-organized groups in many cities in Britain and North America and there is also a website where would-be urban gardeners can find out the location of the next expedition.

  1. 1.

    These guerrilla gardeners do their work ______.

    1. A.
      at the request of the government
    2. B.
      nearby their house
    3. C.
      often in return for others’ help
    4. D.
      out of their own free will
  2. 2.

    Richard Reynolds decided to fill the pots with plants in order to ______.

    1. A.
      plant more flowers in the path
    2. B.
      beautify the neighborhood
    3. C.
      attract attention for his ad agency
    4. D.
      make the plants a feast for his eyes
  3. 3.

    The guerrilla gardeners often return to their night working places with the purpose of ______.

    1. A.
      looking after these plants
    2. B.
      enjoying these beautiful flowers
    3. C.
      helping plants live through winter months
    4. D.
      changing the varieties of the plants
  4. 4.

    It can be inferred from the text that these guerrilla gardeners ______.

    1. A.
      are mainly from the United Kingdom
    2. B.
      will later get well paid
    3. C.
      are still not accepted by the local government
    4. D.
      become more and more organized
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