It is a pity that the football game ________ for tomorrow will be called off．

A.
planned
B.
planning
C.
to plan
D.
is planned

Asian athletes have had a spare time in the first two days of the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, England. But Chinese hurdler(跨栏运动员) Liu Xiang surprised everyone by taking the bronze medal in the men's 60-meter hurdles.
Liu became the first Chinese male athlete to get a world indoor medal in the 18-year history of the championship and was the only Asian medallist this time.
"Karaoke (卡拉OK)! That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to get a big group of my friends together and sing. I love both Western and Chinese music but especially Michael Jackson," said Liu after clocking 7.52 seconds in the final to take his place on the podium (领奖台).
"Frankly speaking, I didn't think I was in the shape to win a medal," Liu said. "On my arrival here, my aim was just to fight my way into the final. After I did that, I thought I might just get into the top six. I knew British hurdler Colin Jackson was going to be here and he's the world record holder indoors and out."
"There was also Cuba's reigning (统治的) Olympic champion Anier Garcia and Allen Johnson, from the United States." It was Johnson, the reigning world outdoor champion, who was successful in 7.47 seconds with Garcia second and Jackson finished back in fifth.
Now Liu will never underestimate his chances again and is aiming for glory in Paris later this year.
"There is the World Championship outdoors in the summer and I have now got to think that I can get a medal. I can never again think that I can't get a medal," he said. Liu's success here marks his rapid transition into the senior ranks.
"The university gives me a lot of flexibility. My courses are very easy and the teachers are very helpful," said Liu.
They might have to be even more accommodating(乐于助人的) now if Liu starts taking on celebrity status, although an invite to his homecoming karaoke party may help.

1.
The first sentence "Asian athletes have had a spare time in the first two days…" means "________".
1. A.
  Asian athletes can do things at their will in the first two days
2. B.
  Asian athletes haven't any achievements in the first two days
3. C.
  Asian athletes could match athletes from other continents
4. D.
  Asian athletes are tired of competing in the first two days
2.
The underlined sentence means "________".
1. A.
  I was not satisfied with my performances
2. B.
  winning a medal can't show what I have done
3. C.
  I didn't think I was able to win a medal
4. D.
  I haven't told anyone about my achievements in the hurdles
3.
Liu ________ the World Championship outdoors in Paris later this year.
1. A.
  is busy preparing for
2. B.
  has great pressure on
3. C.
  is more confident of his ability in
4. D.
  pays little attention to
4.
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
1. A.
  Liu Xiang was the youngest athlete to take part in the competition in England.
2. B.
  Liu Xiang was the first Asian medallist to get a world indoor medal.
3. C.
  Liu Xiang is not only a good athlete but a music-lover.
4. D.
  Liu Xiang finds it hard to get along with teachers in university.

Cheating can happen in a lot of different ways. When people cheat, it’s not fair to other people, like the kids who studied for the test or who were the true winners of a game.
Many people like the action of cheating. It makes difficult things seem easy, like getting all the right answers on the test. But it doesn’t solve the problem of not knowing the material and it won’t help on the next test --- unless the person cheats again.
Some people lose respect for cheaters and think less of them. The cheaters themselves may feel bad because they know they are not really earning that good grade. And, if they get caught cheating, they will be in trouble at school, and maybe at home, too.
Some kids cheat because they’re busy or lazy and they want to get good grades without spending the time studying. Other kids might feel like they can’t pass the test without cheating. Even when there seems to be a “good reason” for cheating, cheating isn’t a good idea.
If you were sick or upset about something the night before and couldn’t study, it would be better to talk with the teacher about this. And if you don’t have enough time to study for a test because of swim practice, you need to talk with your parents about how to balance swimming and school.
A kid who thinks cheating is the only way to pass a test needs to talk with the teacher and his or her parents so they can find some solutions(解决办法) together. Talking about these problems and working them out will feel better than cheating.

1.
The author thinks that when kids cheat in class, _______.
1. A.
  it is unfair to other people
2. B.
  it does harm to their heath
3. C.
  teachers should punish them
4. D.
  teachers shouldn’t stop them at once
2.
Some students like cheating mainly because_________.
1. A.
  the material in the test is very difficult
2. B.
  they want to do better than the others
3. C.
  cheating can make hard things seem very easy
4. D.
  they have little time to study their lessons
3.
The fourth paragraph mainly tells us______.
1. A.
  cheating isn’t a good idea
2. B.
  why kids cheat in the test
3. C.
  some kids can’t pass the test without cheating
4. D.
  some kids don’t spend the time studying
4.
We can learn from the passage______.
1. A.
  cheaters are often thought highly of
2. B.
  people show no respect for those who cheat
3. C.
  parents whose kids cheat are often in trouble
4. D.
  kids cheat in the test because of swim practice
5.
In the passage those cheaters are advised to_______.
1. A.
  spend more time on school than on sports
2. B.
  find good solutions instead of cheating
3. C.
  try hard to be intelligent rather than lazy
4. D.
  ask their classmates for good methods of study

I think it was my mother who taught me the meaning of honesty. Not because she actually was honest, but because she lied all the time. She felt that the easiest way out of any given situation was generally the best way out. And, for her, that generally meant telling a “little white lie.” As a young child I thought it was kind of cool. And, naturally, when I would come to her with a concern or question wondering what I should do, she generally advised me to lie.
“Mom, I told Theresa that I would go over to her house, but now I would rather go to Sue’s house to play.”
“Tell Theresa you’re sick,” she would advise. And generally I did. But I didn’t seem blessed with her lack of conscience. On many painful occasions Theresa would find out that I really went to Sue’s house without her. These occasions taught me that it is more painful to be caught in a lie than it is to tell the truth in the first place. I wondered how it was possible that my mother had never learned that lesson.
I started thinking of all the lies that I’d heard her tell. I remembered the time she told someone that her favorite restaurant had closed, because she didn’t want to see them there anymore. Or the time she told Dad that she loved the lawn-mower he gave her for her birthday. Or when she claimed that our phone lines had been down when she was trying to explain why she hadn’t been in touch with a friend of hers for weeks. And what bothered me even more were all the times she had involved me into her lies. Like the time she told my guidance counselor that I had to miss school for exploratory surgery, when she really needed me to babysit. And it even started to bother me when someone would call for her and she would ask me to tell them that she wasn’t there.
So, I started my own personal fight against her dishonesty. When I answered the phone and it was someone my mother didn’t want to talk to, I said, “Louise, mom is here, but she doesn’t want to talk to you.” The first time I did it, she punished me, but I refused to apologize. I told her that I had decided that it was wrong to lie. And the next time it happened I did the same thing. Finally, she approached me and said, “I agree that lying is not the best thing to do, but we need to find a way to be honest without being rude.” She admitted that her methods weren’t right, and I admitted that mine were a bit too extreme.
Over the past few years, the two of us have worked together to be honest—and yet kind. Honesty should mean more than not lying. It should mean speaking the truth in kindness. Though I started by trying to teach my mom the importance of honesty, I ended up gaining a deeper understanding of the meaning of the term.

1.
The author’s mother __________.
1. A.
  thought white lies were not lies
2. B.
  helped the author get out of trouble with white lies
3. C.
  told the author to lie when in trouble
4. D.
  taught the author the importance of being honest
2.
The author __________.
1. A.
  was thankful to her mother’s advice
2. B.
  felt more awkward when being caught lying
3. C.
  found that telling the truth hurt more than telling a lie
4. D.
  felt guilty when hurting people with her honesty
3.
It can be inferred that the author’s mother __________.
1. A.
  met her friends in the same restaurant regularly
2. B.
  didn’t get along with the author’s teachers
3. C.
  was not popular among her friends
4. D.
  wanted to have something else for her birthday
4.
Finally the author and her mother agreed that __________.
1. A.
  kind-heartedness is more important than honesty
2. B.
  appropriate methods are the key to telling a good lie
3. C.
  honesty is defined as kindness as well as truthfulness
4. D.
  absolute honesty is basic to good interpersonal relationships

From a young age, it was my dream to go to Africa and work with animals. Everybody laughed at me, but my mother, Vanne, told me never to give up, and that I could always find a way.
So, when I was 23, after saving up my earnings from working as a waitress, I went to wild, untamed (野性的) Africa and began my work. In 1960 I went to the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve. At that time, we knew nothing of the behavior or social structure of chimps (黑猩猩), and I was to go there and see what I could find out. Usually, when you wake up, you leave your dreams behind you, but I found myself waking up to my dream.
As the British government wouldn’t let me go without older women’s company, my amazing mother came with me and stayed for four months. We shared a second-hand army tent, and we used the stream for fresh water and washing. We could swim in the lake, although there were crocodiles.
It was beautiful there, although both my mother and I nearly died of malaria (疟疾). I was scared I wouldn’t be able to do what I had set out to, because, at first, the chimps ran away from me in fear. I spent my days watching, listening, tracking and in the evenings writing up my notes.
For my mother, who stayed back at the camp, it must have been terrifying, and very lonely. There were snakes and spiders, as well as an old leopard who would come by. But she had an amazing way with people, and would hand out medicines to the fishermen, who saw her as a witch doctor.
In my fifth month there, I finally saw one of the chimps, which I called David Greybeard, stripping (剥光) straw to “fish” for termites (白蚁). It proved that man wasn’t the only toolmaker, and that everything had to be redefined.

1.
What does the author mean by saying “I found myself waking up to my dream” in the second paragraph?
1. A.
  She lacked sleep due to busy work.
2. B.
  She found her dream was hard to realize.
3. C.
  She had more new dreams about her work.
4. D.
  She tried to realize her dream every day.
2.
The author was afraid at the Reserve in the beginning because _____.
1. A.
  there were crocodiles in the lake
2. B.
  she could not get close to the chimps
3. C.
  it was hard to get clean water
4. D.
  the chimps attacked her sometimes
3.
The author’s mother was thought of by the local people as _____.
1. A.
  helpful and warm-hearted
2. B.
  funny and selfish
3. C.
  romantic and talkative
4. D.
  honest and hardworking
4.
Which of the following is the author’s important discovery?
1. A.
  She found a new kind of termite.
2. B.
  Chimps can communicate with each other.
3. C.
  Some other animals can also make tools.
4. D.
  Chimps can find medicines to cure themselves.

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(This does not include foreign currency or traveler’s cheques bought, interest and other charges.)

1.
If you carry the Servicecard or the Cashcard, _______.
1. A.
  you can use it to guarantee things as you wish
2. B.
  you can draw your money from cash machines conveniently
3. C.
  you can spend as much money as you like without a limit
4. D.
  you have to pay some extra money when you pay for services in the UK
2.
If you withdraw ￡200 from a cash machine abroad, you will be charged ______.
1. A.
  ￡4
2. B.
  ￡4.5
3. C.
  ￡5.25
4. D.
  ￡5.3
3.
Which of the following is TRUE about using your NatWest Credit Card?
1. A.
  You have to pay back with interest within 56 days.
2. B.
  You will be charged some interest beyond two months.
3. C.
  You can use the card in any shop across the world.
4. D.
  You will gain one air mile if you spend ￡20 on traveller’s cheques.
4.
The purpose of the passage is to show you how to ______.
1. A.
  play your cards right
2. B.
  use your cards abroad
3. C.
  draw cash with your cards
4. D.
  pay for goods with your cards

What do you think of British people and American people? You might think that there are no differences between the people in the two countries. After all they speak the same language, don't they? But if you ask a British or an American person, the differences are quite great.
What do British people think Americans are like? The British think Americans are very strange. They make a lot of noise and they laugh too loudly. They are rich, and they only think about money. But the British do say that Americans are kind, friendly people. They are happy to help you if you are in trouble.
What do Americans think of the British? Well, they think the British are cold and very unfriendly. They are not interested in success or in making lots of money. They think Britain is the best country in the world. They look down upon other countries. But Americans say that the British are quite good workers. They are brave and honest. And in time of trouble they face difficulties happily.
You can see that these ideas can cause misunderstanding between the British and Americans. But when American and British people become friends, they usually find things are not as bad as they expected.
根据文章内容，选择正确答案：

1.
What do you think of the differences between British and American people?
1. A.
  Their differences are very small.
2. B.
  The differences are very great.
3. C.
  There are no differences between them.
4. D.
  Some people think there are, but some people don’t think so.
2.
What do the British think Americans are like?
1. A.
  They are strange but friendly.
2. B.
  They are poor.
3. C.
  They are rich but unfriendly.
4. D.
  They are happy in trouble.
3.
The American and British people usually get along quite well ____.
1. A.
  when misunderstanding is caused between them
2. B.
  once they become friends
3. C.
  after they fight
4. D.
  when they help each other

As you grow rapidly through your teenage years, you will experience a lot lf changes.The changes may seem difficult and they may seem to happen quickly. Don’t panic! You will deal successfully with them! You are a young adult now!
With more responsibility, you will find more freedom to make your own choices. This is a time to be well informed about own choices. This is a time to be well informed about your choices so that you can make healthy balanced decisions that will help shape your future. You may already know your career path or you may have no idea at all what you want to do. Both situations are fine! Work hard and the right opportunity will present itself to you.
Young adulthood means greater freedom and more choices. You will probably want to be independent. But try not to shut your family out of your life. You should learn to think of others even though you are old enough to look after yourself. Your family have been with you since you came into this world.
It is also perfectly natural in this time for you to spend more time with your friends than your family. Choose your friends wisely. A true friend will stand by you no matter what happens.
This period is a part of the life cycle. There are some people who will be with you throughout life’s journey and there will be some people with whom you part and go separate ways. Leaving school can be hard. The reality is that you may not ever see all of your classmates again.
You are a young adult. It is your life. No one can live it for you. The choices that you make from now on will be your choices. So making the right choices will be important to you. Life is for living. Enjoy your life wisely!

1.
The best title for this passage would be .
1. A.
  The Choices in Life
2. B.
  The Key to Success
3. C.
  Say Goodbye to the Past
4. D.
  Becoming a Young Adult
2.
Who do the underlined words “ some people”(Paragraph 5)probably refer to?
1. A.
  your parents
2. B.
  your classmates
3. C.
  true friends
4. D.
  your relatives
3.
The author thinks teenage years are .
1. A.
  a period of complete freedom
2. B.
  too hard for young people to get through
3. C.
  an important time for the young to make the right choices
4. D.
  a very important period for young students to leave their parents
4.
Who is the passage mainly written for?
1. A.
  Teenagers.
2. B.
  Teachers.
3. C.
  Young parents.
4. D.
  Adults.

Some people are lucky enough to be born with a good sense of direction and even if they have only visited a place once, they will be able to find it again years later.
I am one of those unlucky people who have poor sense of direction and I may have visited a place time after time but I still get lost on my way there. When I was young I was so shy that I never dared ask complete strangers the way and so I used to wander round in circles and hope that by some chance I would get to the place I was heading for.
I am no longer too shy to ask people for direction, but I often receive replies that puzzle me. Often people do not like to admit（承认）that they didn’t know their hometown and will insist on telling you the way, even if they do not know it; others, who are anxious to prove that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long list of directions which you can not possibly hope to remember, and still others do not seem to be able to tell between their left and their right and you find in the end that you are going in the opposite（相反的）direction to that in which you should be going.
If anyone ever asks me the way to somewhere, I always tell them I am a stranger to the town in order to avoid giving them wrong direction but even this can have embarrassing results.
Once I was on my way to work when I was stopped by a man who asked me if I would direct him the way to the Sunlight Building. I gave my usual reply, but I had not walked on a few steps when I realized that he had asked for directions to my office building. However, at this point, I decide it was too late to turn back and search for him out of the crowd behind me as I was going to meet with someone at the office and I did not want to keep him waiting.
Imagine my embarrassment when my secretary showed in the very man who had asked for directions of my office and his astonishment when he recognized me as the person he had asked.

1.
What is the writer going to do when someone asks him for direction?
1. A.
  He will direct the right way to the person willingly.
2. B.
  He will reply to it by the means of being a stranger to the town.
3. C.
  He will give the very person long list of direction.
4. D.
  He is going to show the man an opposite direction.
2.
Why did the writer consider himself to be an unlucky dog?
1. A.
  Because of his poor sense of direction.
2. B.
  Because he always forget the way to home.
3. C.
  Because he did not have any friend.
4. D.
  Because he used to be shy and dared not ask others the way.
3.
How did the visitor feel when he was showed into the very room?
1. A.
  He felt strange.
2. B.
  He felt embarrassed.
3. C.
  He felt very sad.
4. D.
  He felt astonished.
4.
Who showed the right way to the interviewee according to the passage?
1. A.
  Someone we don’t know.
2. B.
  The writer did it for himself.
3. C.
  The secretary did so.
4. D.
  A warm-hearted old lady did itI.

Dear Johnston,
Your request for eighty dollars, I do not think it best to satisfy now. At the various times when I have helped you a little, you have said to me, “We can get along very well again,” but in a very short time I find you in the same difficulty again. Now this can only happen by some fault in your behavior. What that fault is, I think I know. You are not lazy, and still you are an idler(游手好闲). I doubt whether since I saw you, you have done a good whole day’s work, in any other day. You do not very much dislike to work, and still you do not work much, merely because it does not seem to you that you could get much for it.
This habit of uselessly wasting time is the whole difficulty; it is vastly important to you, and still more so to your children, that you should break this habit. It is more important to them, because they have longer to live, and can keep out of an idle habit before they are in it, easier than they can get out after they are in.
You are now in need of some ready money; and what I suggest is, that you shall go to work hard, for somebody who will give you money for it.
Let father and your boys take charge of your things at home-prepare for a crop, and make the crop, and you go to work for the best money wages, or to pay back any debt you owe. And to secure you a fair reward for your labor, I now promise you that for every dollar you will, between this and the first of May, get for your own labor, I will then give you one other dollar. By this, if you hire yourself at ten dollars a month, from me you will get ten more, making twenty dollars a month for your work.
Now if you will do this, you will soon be out of debt, and what is better, you will have a habit that will keep you from getting in debt again. But if I should now clear you out, next year you will be just as deep in as ever. You say you would almost give your place in Heaven for $ 70 or $80. Then you value your place in Heaven cheaply, for I am sure you can with the offer I make you get the seventy or eighty dollars for four or five months’ work. You say if I furnish you the money you will deed(抵押) me the land, and if you don’t pay the money back, you will deliver possession-Nonsense! If you can’t now live with the land, how will you then live without it? You have always been kind to me, and I do not now mean to be unkind to you. On the contrary, if you will but follow my advice, you will find it worth more than eight time eighty dollars to you.
Affectionately
Your brother
A. Lincoln

1.
Abraham Lincoln wrote the letter to Johnston mainly to ________.
1. A.
  show his concern for him
2. B.
  recommend him to save money
3. C.
  decline his request and motivate him
4. D.
  introduce him a new job
2.
What’s the problem with Johnston, according to Lincoln?
1. A.
  He was very lazy.
2. B.
  He wasted time a lot.
3. C.
  He couldn’t get much from work.
4. D.
  He disliked working.
3.
In the letter Lincoln suggested that Johnston should ________.
1. A.
  keep himself from getting into trouble
2. B.
  go to work hard for somebody
3. C.
  manage well the things at home
4. D.
  keep the children out of the idle habit
4.
If Johnston got one dollar for his work, Lincoln promised to _________.
1. A.
  reward him with labor
2. B.
  pay off his debt
3. C.
  hire him at 10 dollars a month
4. D.
  give him another dollar
5.
In order to get 80 dollars from Lincoln, Johnston promised to ________.
1. A.
  take away his place in Heaven
2. B.
  deed Lincoln the land
3. C.
  live without the land
4. D.
  do good work every day

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It is a pity that the football game ________ for tomorrow will be called off．

The first sentence "Asian athletes have had a spare time in the first two days…" means "________".

The underlined sentence means "________".

Liu ________ the World Championship outdoors in Paris later this year.

Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

The author thinks that when kids cheat in class, _______.

Some students like cheating mainly because_________.

The fourth paragraph mainly tells us______.

We can learn from the passage______.

In the passage those cheaters are advised to_______.

The author’s mother __________.

The author __________.

It can be inferred that the author’s mother __________.

Finally the author and her mother agreed that __________.

What does the author mean by saying “I found myself waking up to my dream” in the second paragraph?

The author was afraid at the Reserve in the beginning because _____.

The author’s mother was thought of by the local people as _____.

Which of the following is the author’s important discovery?

If you carry the Servicecard or the Cashcard, _______.

If you withdraw ￡200 from a cash machine abroad, you will be charged ______.

Which of the following is TRUE about using your NatWest Credit Card?

The purpose of the passage is to show you how to ______.

What do you think of the differences between British and American people?

What do the British think Americans are like?

The American and British people usually get along quite well ____.

The best title for this passage would be .

Who do the underlined words “ some people”(Paragraph 5)probably refer to?

The author thinks teenage years are .

Who is the passage mainly written for?

What is the writer going to do when someone asks him for direction?

Why did the writer consider himself to be an unlucky dog?

How did the visitor feel when he was showed into the very room?

Who showed the right way to the interviewee according to the passage?

Abraham Lincoln wrote the letter to Johnston mainly to ________.

What’s the problem with Johnston, according to Lincoln?

In the letter Lincoln suggested that Johnston should ________.

If Johnston got one dollar for his work, Lincoln promised to _________.

In order to get 80 dollars from Lincoln, Johnston promised to ________.

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