More than 30 million kids buy school lunch each day. This year, many schools raised lunch prices to fight raising costs. Students pay about $2 a meal now. That is 27 cents more than last year. But they still get a good deal. The average cost for schools to produce one meal has gone up 30 cents, and is now $3. 

So, how do schools neither make money nor lose money? To start, the government pays for a small part of the difference. Schools have to make up the rest. Peggy Eller, a leader of school nutrition (营养) service in Hudson, Wisconsin, said her district is cutting costs by using fewer paper products and serving smaller portion(份额). Well, portion control is one key to healthful eating! 

The push for more healthful food has grown in recent years. One in five kids aged 6 to19 is overweight. Being overweight can cause health problems. Many states passed laws that require schools to serve nutritious meals. 

Since 2004, more than 90% of all U.S. Schools have removed the fat from lunches. Foods high in fat, salt and sugar have been replaced by low-fat milk, fresh fruits and vegetables. These new items on lunch menus have encouraged kids to change their eating habits. “It makes easier to try new things at home, “said Savanna Mackey, a Florida fifth-grader.  

Students need healthful meals to grow strong and do well in school. “Rising prices won’t stand in the way,” says school nutritionist Jane Thornton. “We’ll just be more clever in how we do things.” 

64.In the first paragraph, the author aims to tell us _________        .   

A. the large number of kids buying school lunch  

B. the average price of school lunch   

C. the school's ways to deal with school lunch   

D. the fact of school lunch's getting more expensive 

65.Many school districts raised lunch prices because _________        .  

A. there is less healthful food on the menus 

B. the cost of food has gone up   

C. kids often forget to bring lunch money   

D. some school dining-halls are serving smaller portions

66.According to Paragraph 4, Savanna Mackey _________      .  

A. doesn't like the new items on the lunch menus  

B. always enjoys foods like fresh and vegetables  

C. becomes interested in eating healthy food at home  

D. prefers eating at school to eating at home

67.What can be inferred from the passage?   

A. American schools solve the problem of high food prices by themselves. 

B. American schools are very concerned about their students’ health.

C. Almost all schools are forced by the government to serve healthy foods.  

D. American childhood overweight is mainly caused by the present lunch foods.

Early one morning, more than a hundred years ago, an American inventor called Elias Howe finally fell asleep. He had been working all night on the design of a sewing machine but he had run into a very difficult problem: It seemed impossible to get the thread to run smoothly around the needle.      

Though he was tired, Howe slept badly. He turned and turned. Then he had a dream. He dreamt that he had been caught by terrible savages whose king wanted to kill him and eat him unless he could build a perfect sewing machine. When he tried to do so, Howe ran into the same problem as before. The thread kept getting caught around the needle. The king flew into the cage and ordered his soldiers to kill Howe. They came up towards him with their spears raised. But suddenly the inventor noticed something. There was a hole in the tip of each spear. The inventor awoke from the dream, realizing that he had just found the answer to the problem. Instead of trying to get the thread to run around the needle, he should make it run through a small hole in the center of the needle. This was the simple idea that finally made Howe design and build the first really practiced sewing machine.     

Elias Howe was not the only one in finding the answer to his problem in this way.

Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric light, said his best ideas came into him in dreams. So did the great physicist Albert Einstein. Charlotte Bronte also drew in her dreams in writing Jane Eyre.    

To know the value of dreams, you have to understand what happens when you are asleep. Even then, a part of your mind is still working. This unconscious(无意识的), but still active part understands your experiences and goes to work on the problems you have had during the day. It stores all sorts of information that you may have forgotten or never have really noticed. It is only when you fall asleep that this part of the brain can send messages to the part you use when you are awake. However, the unconscious part acts in a special way. It uses strange images which the conscious part may not understand at first. This is why dreams are sometimes called “secret messages to ourselves”.

60.According to the passage, Elias Howe was________.   

A. the first person we know of who solved problems in his sleep  

B. much more hard-working than other inventors   

C. the first person to design a sewing machine that really worked  

D. the only person at the time who knew the value of dreams

61.The problem Howe was trying to solve was________.  

A. what kind of thread to use        

B. how to design a needle which would not break  

C. where to put the needle     

D. how to prevent the thread from getting caught around the needle

62.Thomas Edison is spoken of because________.

A. he also tried to invent a sewing machine   

B. he got some of his ideas from dreams 

C. he was one of Howe’s best friends        

D. he also had difficulty in falling asleep

63.Dreams are sometimes called “secret messages to ourselves” because ________.  

A. strange images are used to communicate ideas  

B. images which have no meaning are used 

C. we can never understand the real meaning  

D. only specially trained people can understand them

Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman. A man goes shopping because he needs something. His purpose is settled and decided in advance. He knows what he wants, and his objective is to find it and buy it; the price is a secondary consideration. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it in stock, the salesman promptly produces it, and the business of trying it on follows at once. All being well, the deal can be and often is completed in less than five minutes, with hardly any chat and to everyone's satisfaction.

For a man, slight problems may begin when the shop does not have what he wants, or does not have exactly what he wants. In that case the salesman, as the name implies, tries to sell the customer something else, he offers the nearest he can to the article required. No good salesman brings out such a substitute impolitely; he does so with skill: “I know this jacket is not the style you want, sir, but would you like to try it for size? It happens to be the color you mentioned.” Few men have patience with this treatment, and the usual response is: “This is the right color and may be the right size, but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on.”    

Now how does a woman go about buying clothes? In almost every respect she does so in the opposite way. Her shopping is not often based on need. She has never fully made up her mind what she wants, and she is only “having a look round”. She is always open to persuasion; indeed she sets great store by what the saleswoman tells her, even by what companions tell her. She will try on any number of things. Uppermost in her mind is the thought of finding something that everyone thinks suits her. Contrary to a lot of jokes, most women have an excellent sense of value when they buy clothes. They are always on the lockout for the unexpected bargain. Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one rail to another, to and fro, often retracing her steps, before selecting the dresses she wants to try on. It is a laborious process, but apparently an enjoyable one. Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.     

56.The passage mainly talks about ________.  

A. differences between men and women shoppers  

B. A man goes shopping because he needs something  

C. How women go about buying clothes.   

D. Women are better at shopping than men    

57.The underlined sentence “the price is a secondary consideration” in the first paragraph means when a man is shopping ________.   

A. he buys good quality things, so long as they are not too dear  

B. he buys whatever he likes without considering its value   

C. he does not mind how much he has to pay for the right things  

D. he often buy things without giving the matter proper thought.   

58.What does a man do when he can not get exactly what he wants?  

A. He buys a similar thing because of the color he wants. 

B. He usually does not buy anything.

C. At least two of his requirements must be met before he buys.   

D. So long as the style is right, he buys the thing.    

59.What is the most obvious difference between men and women shoppers?  

A. Men do not try clothes on in a shop while women do.  

B. Women bargain for their clothes, but men do not.

C. The time they take over buying clothes.   

D. Men go shopping based on need, but women never.

I was shown into the waiting-room which, as I had expected, was full．Any waiting-room, especially a dentist’s , is not the best place in the world to __36___ an afternoon．No matter how hard a dentist（牙医）tries to make his waiting–room look __37___, it always has an atmosphere of its own----the unpleasant smell and disordered（混乱的）__38___ in the room．

       This waiting-room was no exception．There were ___39__ pictures on the wall and the magazines on the table __40__ like a great pile of waste paper．I took my __41__ and decided to pass the time ___42___ the people around me．

       A little man beside me was ___43__ the pages of a magazine quickly and nervously．It was __44___ to understand what he was looking at, for __45__ three minutes or so he would throw the magazine onto the __46___, take another, and sink back into his chair．Opposite me there was a young mother who was trying to __47__ her son from making a ___48__．He had placed an ash-tray（烟灰缸）on the floor and was making plane-noises _49___he waved a pencil in his hands．The boy had clearly become uninterested in ___50___．Near him, an old man was fast asleep, and the boy’s mother was __51___ sooner or later her son would __52__ the gentleman up．There was a deep silence in the room as the door opened and a nurse __53__．The people looked __54___ with hope in their eyes, then murmured something as the next lucky __55___ was led out of the room．

36．A．spend          B．take                   C．cost            D．stay

37．A．unpleasant      B．happy              C．funny              D．pleasant

38．A．teeth           B．people             C．things        D．books

39．A．dirty              B．nice               C．valuable      D．modern

40．A．tasted            B．sounded           C．looked       D．felt

41．A．chair             B．seat               C．bench        D.desk

42．A．talking with        B．watching           C．thinking about      D listening to

43．A．turning over       B．counting           C．looking up          D looking at

44．A．interesting        B．possible            C．easy               D.hard

45．A．each            B．every              C．about              D.certain

46．A．chair             B．floor            C．bed           D.table

47．A．prevent        B．allow                C．forbid        D.fight

48．A．song           B．noise         C．mistake            D．model plane

49．A．as             B．if               C．so                 D．though

50．A．reading        B．talking          C．waiting             D．singing

51．A．sure           B．sorry           C．angry              D．afraid

52．A．make          B．wake                 C．call                 D．turn

53．A．left           B．entered         C．smiled              D．spoke

54．A．down          B．around        C．up                 D．behind

55．A．patient         B．doctor               C．boy                D．mother

 China now aims to boost domestic demand, and this________ would help the global economy.

A. in short          B. on duty           C. on average      D. in turn

 I had just about given myself up for lost _________ I was spotted by a ship.

   A. when           B. while               C. as             D. until

 If you have a job, ______ yourself to it and finally you will succeed.

A. do devote           B. don’t devote       C. be devoting          D. to devote

 If I find someone who looks like the suspect, my _______ reaction will be to tell the police.

A. genuine             B. sensitive           C. immediate      D. independent

 They produced four reports, _______ of which contained any useful suggestions.

A. either              B. all                 C. none             D. neither

 —Would you please keep silent? The weather report ______ and I want to listen.

A. is broadcast                                       B. has been broadcast 

C. was broadcast                                        D. is being broadcast