I found out one time that doing a favor for someone could get you into a lot of trouble. I was in the eighth grade at the time, and we were having a final test. During the test, the girl sitting next to me whispered something, but I didn’t understand. So I leaned over her way and found out that she was trying to ask me if I had an extra pen. She showed me that hers was out of ink and would not write. I happened to have an extra one, so I took it out of my pocket and put it on her desk.
    Later, after the test papers had been turned in, the teacher asked me to stay in the room when all the other students were dismissed（解散）. As soon as we were alone she began to talk to me about what it meant to grow up; she talked about how important it was to stand on your own two feet and be responsible for your own acts. For a long time, she talked about honesty and emphasized（强调） the fact that when people do something dishonest, they are really cheating themselves. She made me promise that I would think seriously about all the things she had said, and then she told me I could leave. I walked out of the room wondering why she had chosen to talk to me about all those things.
    Later on, I found out that she thought I had cheated on the test. When she saw me lean over to talk to the girl next to me, it looked as if I was copying answers from the girl’s test paper. I tried to explain about the pen, but all she could say was it seemed very strange to her that I hadn’t talked of anything about the pen the day she talked to me right after the test. Even if I tried to explain that I was just doing the girl a favor by letting her use my pen, I am sure she continued to believe that I had cheated on the test.
61. The story took place exactly ____________ .
   A. in the teacher’s office                 B. in the language lab
   C. in the school                            D. in an exam room
62. The girl wanted to borrow a pen, because ____________ .
   A. she had not brought a pen with her  
   B. she had lost her own on her way to school
   C. there was something wrong with her own
   D. her own had been taken away by someone
63. The teacher saw all this, so she asked the boy ____________ .
   A. to go on writing his paper          
   B. to stop whispering
   C. to stay behind after the exam      
   D. to leave the room immediately
64. The thing(s) emphasized in her talk was(were) ____________ .
   A. honesty           B. sense of duty    

 C. seriousness       D. all of the above
65. The boy knew everything ____________ .
   A. the moment he was asked to stay behind 
   B. only some time later
   C. when the teacher started talking about honesty 
   D. when he was walking out of the room

Valencia is in the east part of Spain(西班牙). It has a port on the sea, two miles away on the coast. It is the capital of a province that is also named Valencia.

The city is a market centre for what is produced by the land around the city. Most of the city's money is made from farming. It is also a busy business city, with ships, railways, clothes and machine factories.

Valencia has an old part with white buildings, colored roofs, and narrow streets. The modern part has long, wide streets and new buildings. Valencia is well known for its parks and gardens. It has many old churches and museums. The University in the centre of the city was built in the 13th century.

The city of Valencia has been known since the 2nd century. In the 8th century it was the capital of Spain. There is also an important city in Venezuela(委内瑞拉) named Valencia.

56. From the text, how many places have the name Valencia?

A. One. 　　    B. Two.

C. Three. 　     D. Four.

57. Valencia is the capital of ____.

A. Spain   B. Venezuela   C. Uganda   D. Valencia

58. Which of the following things can not be seen in the old part of Valencia?

A. shops   B. wide streets   C. factories   D. white buildings

59. What is Valencia famous for?

A. its seaport.            B. its University.

C. its gardens and parks.   D. its ships and railways.

60. The main income of the city of Valencia is from its___.

A. markets.   B. business.     C. factories.     D. farming.

O. Henry was a pen name used by an American writer of short stories. His real name was William Sydney Porter. He was born in North Carolina in 1862. As a young boy he lived an exciting life. He did not go to school for very long, but he managed to teach himself everything he needed to know. When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas, where he tried different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank. When some money went missing from the bank, O. Henry was believed to have stolen it. Because of that, he was sent to prison. During the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and continued writing. He wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because simple as the tales were, they would finish with a sudden change at the end, to the readers' surprise.

51. In which order did O. Henry do the following things?

a. Lived in New York

b. Worked in a bank

c. Travelled to Texas

d. Was put in prison

e. Had a newspaper job

f. Learned to write stories

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

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

52. People enjoyed reading O. Henry's stories because

A. they had surprise endings.

B. they were easy to understand.

C. they showed his love for the poor.

D. they were about New York City.

53. O. Henry went to prison because

A. people thought he had stolen money from the newspaper.

B. people thought he had taken money that was not his.

C. he wanted to write stories about prisoners.

D. he broke the law by not using his own name.

54. What do we know about O. Henry before he began writing?

A. He was well-educated.

B. He was very good at learning.

C. He was devoted to the poor.

D. He was not serious about his work.

55.Where did O. Henry get most material for his short stories?

A. His life inside the prison.

B. The newspaper articles he wrote.

C. The city and people of New York.

D. His exciting early life as a boy

A traveler was staying in an Egyptian village. One day, she held up her camera to take pictures of some children. Suddenly the young ones began to shout at her. The traveler’s face turned red and she apologized to the head for what she was doing, and told him she had forgotten that people in some places believed a person would lose his soul(灵魂) if his picture was taken. She explained to him the operation of a camera for a long time. Several times the head tried to say something, but he couldn't. When she believed that the head didn't fear any longer, the traveler then let him speak. With a smile, he said, "The children were trying to tell you that you forgot to take off the lens(镜头) cap!"

46. The children shouted when the traveler was taking pictures of them because _______.

A. they didn't want to stop playing                     

B. the traveler was not doing well with her camera

C. they didn't want to have their pictures taken 

D. the traveler forgot to take off the cap on her head

47. The traveler made an apology to the head because _______.

A. she didn't take a picture of the head first

B. the children would lose their souls   

C. she had stayed in the village too long

D. she thought it was not right to take people's pictures without telling them beforehand (事先)

48. The traveler explained how to use a camera to the head because _______.

A. the head was very interested in her camera  

B. the head wanted to learn to take pictures

C. she wanted the head not to worry about what she was doing

D. she was afraid of the head

49. When the head smiled, it's clear that _______ .

A. he wanted the traveler to tell him something else

B. the traveler knew what the children meant

C. the children wanted to play with her                   

D. the traveler didn't let him speak

A little boy invited his 26  to attend his school's first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy's disappointment, she said she would go. This would be the 27 time that his classmates and teacher   28   his mother and he felt   29   of her appearance. Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a severe scar(疤痕) that   30   nearly the entire right side of her face. The boy 31 wanted to talk about why or how she got the scar. 
     At the meeting, the people were   32   by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother   33   the scar, but the little boy was still embarrassed (尴尬) and hid 34from everyone. He did, however, get within   35 of a conversation between his mother and his teacher. 
     The teacher asked carefully,"36 did you get the scar on your face?" 
     The mother replied,"   37   my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire. Everyone was   38   afraid to go in because the fire was   39  , so I went in. As I was running toward his bed, I saw a long piece of wood coming down and I placed myself over him trying to protect him. I was knocked  40   but fortunately, a fireman came in and saved both of us." She  41   the burned side of her face."This scar will be  42  , but to this day, I have never  43what I did." 
     At this point, the little boy came out running toward his mother 44 tears in his eyes. He held her in his arms and felt a great sense of the sacrifice(牺牲)that his mother had made for him. He held her hand   45   for the rest of the day.

 ----They haven’t finished all the work up to now.

----They ____________.

A. should  B. ought to  C. are supposed to  D. are supposed to have

 I will __________ Jane today, as she can’t come to the meeting herself.

A. take place            B. take the place of

 C. take the place         D. take place of

 The speech by Obama is strongly impressed___ many people’s memory.

A. to     B. over    C. on     D. by

 The question you asked me was difficult  _____.

A. to be answered        B. in answering     

C.to answer              D. in being answered it

 The flower his friend gave him will die unless ___ every day.

A. watering      B. watered   C. water            D. to water