I don’t know whether this is ________ part that she played in Hero, ________ very famous film in our country．


  1. A.
    a; a
  2. B.
    the; the
  3. C.
    a; the
  4. D.
    the; a

A few months ago, I had the responsibility of delivering some donations (捐赠物) to the local City Mission, a place where the homeless, and often the injured can find shelter from a life that has been turned upside down for them.
It was late autumn, and already the promise of winter was whispering through the open windows of the Mission's storage area.
After setting the donations near the sorting table, I said goodbye to the worker, and headed back through the dining area towards the door.
I was careful not to notice the people sitting at the tables, choosing to leave before feeling the guilt (罪过) of my " having", in the midst of so many who have nothing.
But it was not to be.
"Not yet," I heard a woman's voice say. "Not till we pray (祈祷)."
I was behind them when the mother bowed her head and began one of the most heartfelt prayers I have ever heard, and I stopped where I was to look over at the table.  A young mother was there with her two young boys, one about three years old on her left, the other, about five, on her right. Both were waiting, heads bowed, eyes closed.
My heart broke as I watched and listened. She was in a leg cast (腿上打着石膏), and scars (伤疤) covered her arms, her face and head.
One of the younger ladies working at the Mission had come to stand beside me, and she whispered, "She's a single mom; her husband just took off one day and didn't come back. She came here when their apartment caught fire. She was burned getting her kids out."
She started to say something else but stopped.
We were silent ... and the words this young mother said in our silence will always follow me, "... and thanks for the fruit on the ground, when I just can't reach the tree."

  1. 1.

    By saying "Not yet", the woman probably wanted to______.

    1. A.
      thank the author for sending the food  
    2. B.
      ask her children to pray before eating
    3. C.
      blame those who have too much      
    4. D.
      pray for the happiness of her children
  2. 2.

    Why did the woman come to the City Mission?

    1. A.
      Because her husband left her and her children.
    2. B.
      Because she suffered from a serious disease.
    3. C.
      Because her house caught fire suddenly.
    4. D.
      Because she was out of work.
  3. 3.

    From the last paragraph, we can infer that the woman was ______.

    1. A.
      happy to find the fallen fruit on the ground
    2. B.
      regretful for not climbing the tree for the fruit
    3. C.
      satisfied to pick up the fruit for her children
    4. D.
      grateful very much for the help she received

Saturday, October 7th, was a marathon of sad tasks for Anna Politkovskaya. Two weeks earlier, her father, a retired official in the department of foreign affairs, had died of a heart attack as he emerged from the Moscow Metro while on his way to visit Politkovskaya’s mother, Raisa Mazepa, in the hospital. She had just been diagnosed(诊断) with cancer and was too weak even to attend her husband’s funeral. “Your father will forgive me, because he knows that I have always loved him,” she told Anna and her sister, Elena Kudimova, the day he was buried. A week later, she had an operation and since then Anna and Elena had been taking turns helping her deal with her grief.
Politkovskaya was supposed to spend the day at the hospital, but her twenty-six-year-old daughter, who was pregnant, had just moved into Politkovskaya’s apartment, on Lesnaya Street, while her own place was being prepared for the baby. “Anna had so much on her mind,” Elena Kudimova told me when we met in London, before Christmas. “And she was trying to finish her article.” Politkovskaya was a special reporter for the small newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and, like most of her work, the piece focused on the terror that can be seen all over the southern republic of Chechnya. This time, she had been trying to report repeated cruel acts done by people faithful to the Prime Minister, Ramzan Kadyrov, who are in favour of Russia. In the past seven years, Politkovskaya had written dozens of accounts of life during wartime; many had been collected in her book “A Small Corner of Hell: reports from Chechnya.” Politkovskaya was far more likely to spend time in a hospital than on a battlefield, and her writing bore frequent witness to robbery, and the uncontrolled cruelty of life in a place that few other Russians—and almost no other reporters—cared to think about

  1. 1.

    Politkovskaya’s father died of ______

    1. A.
      tiredness
    2. B.
      a disease
    3. C.
      an attack
    4. D.
      an accident
  2. 2.

    From the text we know that Raisa Mazepa ______

    1. A.
      didn’t love her husband
    2. B.
      didn’t attend her husband’s funeral
    3. C.
      was having an operation the day her husband was buried
    4. D.
      was too sad to attend her husband’s funeral
  3. 3.

    The underlined word “emerged” most likely means ______

    1. A.
      came out
    2. B.
      went into
    3. C.
      looked into
    4. D.
      left for
  4. 4.

    How many family members of Anna are mentioned in the passage?

    1. A.
      Three
    2. B.
      Four
    3. C.
      Five
    4. D.
      Six
  5. 5.

    Which of the following words can best describe Politkovskaya’s character?

    1. A.
      curious
    2. B.
      easy-going
    3. C.
      careless
    4. D.
      responsible

Geena David knew she wanted to be a movie star when she was very young.She was not sure what gave her the idea, but she wanted to look like a movie star.“I have a lot of pictures from my childhood of me wearing sunglasses,”she says.“I used to wear them to watch TV.”
Early movie actors started wearing sunglasses not because they looked good, but because their eyes hurt.The lights used on movie sets were extremely bright and could cause a painful problem known as “Klieg eyes”.It was named after the Klieg brothers who invented the lights.Actors wore sunglasses to give their eyes a rest.But when movie stars began wearing their sunglasses in public, they quickly became a must.
Eventually actors started wearing sunglasses in their movies as well as on the street.Audrey Hephburn wore ultra-cool Ray-Ban sunglasses in the 1961 movie, Breakfast at Tiffany’s.As a result, Ray-Ban sunglasses started to appear more and more in the movies.In 1979, Ray-Ban “Wayfarers” were worn by Jake and Elwoo d in The Blue Brothers.Tom Cruise wore Ray-Ban “Aviator” sunglasses in the 1986 hit, Top Gun.Then in 1997, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones made Ray-Ban “Predator” sunglasses famous in Men in Black.
Of course sunglasses aren’t just a fashion statement.The main reason to wear sunglasses is to protect our eyes against UV radiation.UV radiation can damage our eyes, so people now choose their sunglasses carefully.But you don’t have to give up style for safety.The choice of frames and lenses available these days is huge.So you can protect your eyes and still be the coolest person on the beach.

  1. 1.

    What is mainly discussed in this passage?

    1. A.
      The use of sunglasses.
    2. B.
      The history of sunglasses.
    3. C.
      The sunglasses wearing.
    4. D.
      Why movie stars like to wear sunglasses.
  2. 2.

    Why did Geena David like to wear sunglasses?

    1. A.
      She was a movie star.
    2. B.
      She wanted to follow a movie star.
    3. C.
      Wearing sunglasses was good for her eyes.
    4. D.
      It was good to wear sunglasses when watching TV.
  3. 3.

    Early actors’ eyes hurt because ______.

    1. A.
      they wore sunglasses
    2. B.
      they went out in the sun too much
    3. C.
      the lights on movie sets were too bright
    4. D.
      their scripts were written in very small writing
  4. 4.

    We may know from this passage that ______.

    1. A.
      Audrey Hephburn was a famous film star
    2. B.
      Ray-Ban is the name of sunglasses maker
    3. C.
      Sunglasses made Top Gun the hit in 1986
    4. D.
      Men in Black must be an advertisement of sunglasses
  5. 5.

    Now people wear sunglasses ______.

    1. A.
      just to protect their eyes
    2. B.
      for fashion and to protect their eyes
    3. C.
      because of bright lights
    4. D.
      because movie stars wear them

Humans have observed and explored the oceans since ancient times.But it wasn’t until the 19th century that the scientific study of oceans began.The first major scientific expedition,and the one that firmly established the field of oceanography,was the around-the-world voyage of H.M.S.  Challenger.Setting out from England in 1872,the Challenger spent almost three and a half years gathering a wealth of information about seawater,sea life,and the ocean floor.Major oceanographic expeditions since then have included the South Atlantic voyage of the German ship Meteor in 1926 and the Deep-Sea Drilling Project from 1968 to 1983.Many individuals also have played important roles in advancing our understanding of oceans,beginning with Matthew Fontaine Maury in the mid-1800s;his work on oceanography and navigation led to a uniform system of weather reporting at sea.Since Maury’s time,oceanography has progressed rapidly.Early oceanographers had to contend themselves with tossing buckets overboard to see what they might haul in.Today’s oceanographers are equipped with space images,supercomputer models,and deep-sea robots that can crawl along the seafloor.As they set goals for the future,some oceanographers even dream of doing research in permanently manned stations on the bottom of the oceans.

  1. 1.

    Which of the following statements is true?

    1. A.
      Humans didn’t explore the oceans until the 19th century.
    2. B.
      Maury first established the field of oceanography.
    3. C.
      Maury spent a lot of time in studying seawater,sea life,and the bottom of the ocean.
    4. D.
      Many individuals also plays a very important part in advancing our understanding of oceans,such as Maury.
  2. 2.

    How many expeditions are mentioned in this passage?

    1. A.
      Four.
    2. B.
      Three.
    3. C.
      Five.
    4. D.
      Two.
  3. 3.

    What can we infer from the passage?

    1. A.
      The process of the oceanography has stopped at one time.
    2. B.
      Maury’s work on oceanography contributes a lot to weather reporting at sea.
    3. C.
      Nowadays the equipment for studying the oceans needs improving,because it is out of date.
    4. D.
      The expeditions in the past had great difficulty and made a lot of efforts in order to study the oceans.

The whole body is covered with skin.The surface of the skin is dead(like the hair and the nails),but it is made from a living layer(层)just under the surface.The outside dead layers wear off(磨损)all the time,with new ones replacing them,and the body forms a totally new skin every three weeks.
The skin protects the body from the outside world and it passes information from the outside.It helps to keep water in the body and to keep the body at the same temperature.Becteria(细菌)can’t get in through the skin unless it is damaged.
If the weather is cold,the blood vessels(血管)in the skin squeeze down,or contract(收缩),so that as little blood as possible comes near the surface.This means that less warmth is lost to the outside.This makes the skin look pale,or even “blue”.At the same time,the hairs on the skin are pulled upright by tiny muscles.
When it is hot,the blood vessels expand(扩大),or get wider again,to allow plenty of blood to run near the surface of the skin.This helps the body to lose heat,and the skin may look red.At the same time,the sweat glands(汗腺)produce more sweat,which cools the skin.
If your skin has ever been numb(麻木的),you will realize how important the feeling from the skin is.Nerves(神经)in the skin are sensitive(敏感的)to heat and cold,sharpness,hardness and softness,wetness and dryness and pain.If one is not able to feel these things,which can act as warnings,he is likely to be burned,cut or hurt in other ways.
The colour of the skin depends on special colour cells(细胞).These are just below the top layers of the skin.They are needed as protection from some harmful ray of the sun.The stronger the sun is,the more important it is to have a dark skin.People with pale skins may “tan”(晒黑)in the sun.This happens when the body produces extra colour cells in the skin for protection.In the sun,the skin produces a vitamin(vitamin D)which is needed for strong bones.

  1. 1.

    Which of the following statements is NOT true?

    1. A.
      Our hair and nails are dead like the surface of the skin.
    2. B.
      There is skin all over our body.
    3. C.
      The skin of our bodies will be completely different in three weeks.
    4. D.
      The surface of the skin is made of a living layer.
  2. 2.

    The second paragraph mainly tells us about______.

    1. A.
      the functions of the skin
    2. B.
      the information from the outside
    3. C.
      the water in the body
    4. D.
      the temperature of the body
  3. 3.

    Bacteria will get in through the skin______.

    1. A.
      when one’s skin is numb
    2. B.
      when one is ill
    3. C.
      when the skin is cut
    4. D.
      when the sweat glands produce more sweat
  4. 4.

    When the weather is cold,the skin will contract in order to______.

    1. A.
      allow more blood near
    2. B.
      make the skin look blue
    3. C.
      keep warmth
    4. D.
      help the body lose heat
  5. 5.

    The colour of the skin is determined by______.

    1. A.
      the rays of the strong sun
    2. B.
      colour cells
    3. C.
      top layers of the skin
    4. D.
      vitamin D

I felt encouraged by his words and began to swim more calmly.But my clothes stuck to me like a heavy weight.I could hardly stay above the surface.
Counsel saw this.“Shall I cut them?”he asked.
With a knife he cut my clothes from top to bottom and took them of quickly while I swam for both of us.
Then I did the same for Counsel,and we continued to swim near each other.
But we were in serious trouble.The crew（船员）might not have noticed our disappearance.
And if they had,they could not return because the rudder（舵）had broken.Counsel thought of all this,and calmly made his plans.We decided to wait for the ship as long as possible,because we had no other hope of safety.I suggested that we save our strength so that both of us would not be tired out at the same time.This was how we did it:While one of us lay on his back,quite still,with arms crossed and legs stretched out（伸直）,the other would swim and push him along.We changed every ten minutes or so.In this way we could swim for hours,perhaps till daylight.The crash（破裂声）of the ship and the whale（鲸）had appeared at about eleven o’clock.We had about eight hours to swim before daylight.This seemed possible,if the sea remained calm.

  1. 1.

    What happened to the man who told the story?

    1. A.
      He and his companion got into the water to test their strength.
    2. B.
      He jumped into the water to save the broken rudder.
    3. C.
      He was knocked into the water by his enemy.
    4. D.
      He was thrown into the sea when the ship struck a whale.
  2. 2.

    Why did the two men cut their clothes?

    1. A.
      Because no people helped them to take off their clothes.
    2. B.
      Because they couldn’t take off their clothes on the sea.
    3. C.
      Because they wanted to get rid of their clothes quickly.
    4. D.
      Because they wanted to lifebuoys（救生圈）with their clothes.
  3. 3.

    What does the word “still” in the last paragraph mean?

    1. A.
      not moving
    2. B.
      even
    3. C.
      yet
    4. D.
      however
  4. 4.

    n order to save their strength,______.

    1. A.
      one of them pushed the other while swimming and then they changed
    2. B.
      they both swam calmly
    3. C.
      they crossed their arms and stretched their legs on the water
    4. D.
      they lay on their backs instead of swimming
  5. 5.

    Which one of the following is true?

    1. A.
      Neither of the two men was good swimmers.
    2. B.
      The sea was calm before eleven o’clock that night.
    3. C.
      The story took place at night.
    4. D.
      The two men had to swim eight hours to catch up with the ship.

Senior citizens are permitted to travel cheaply on a bus if they have a special card. Women may get cards when they are sixty.
Mrs. Matthews lived in the country but she went into town once a week to buy food and other things for the house, and she usually went by bus. She always had to pay the full price for her ride.
Then she reached the age of sixty and got her senior citizen’s card, but when she used it for the first time on the bus, it made her feel very old.
The bus driver had often seen her traveling on the bus before, and he noticed that she was feeling unhappy, so after she had paid her money, he winked at her and whispered, “Don’t forget to give your mother’s card back to her when you see her again.”
Mrs. Matthews was very happy when she heard this.

  1. 1.

    Senior citizens in the story refer to       .

    1. A.
      those who have special cards
    2. B.
      old people with special cards
    3. C.
      people who hold high positions in the government
    4. D.
      those who wanted to travel cheaply
  2. 2.

    Women over sixty       .

    1. A.
      don’t have to pay for taking buses
    2. B.
      pay less for their ride if they have a special card
    3. C.
      have to pay the full price for their ride
    4. D.
      have to pay their special card
  3. 3.

    Mrs. Matthews used to pay the full price for her ride because    .

    1. A.
      she didn’t know the rule
    2. B.
      she wasn’t old enough
    3. C.
      she didn’t know where to get the card
    4. D.
      she had reached sixty but had not got her senior citizen card
  4. 4.

    Mrs. Matthews felt unhappy on the bus because      .

    1. A.
      she still had to pay for the ride
    2. B.
      the card wasn’t hers
    3. C.
      she felt she was now an old woman
    4. D.
      the driver found out she was not honest
  5. 5.

    The driver whispered to her      .

    1. A.
      in order to make her feel younger
    2. B.
      because he thought that she shouldn’t have borrowed her mother’s card
    3. C.
      because he wanted her to pay the full amount
    4. D.
      because he knew her mother was still alive

I had about 10 minutes to exercise before I had to pick up my two older daughters from school yesterday. It was a busier day than usual for me with a couple of meetings besides my regular work.
Years ago, I would have put off my workout and would have left things for the next day. But since it was a busy day as well, I knew that I may not have all that much time either. So, I picked up my kettle-bell (哑铃) and went to town for 4 minutes.
See, 4 minutes, if that’s all you’ve got, is enough to give your body a great fat-burning exercise. How did I get a killer workout in 4 minutes? I used a training workout discovered 10 years ago by a Japanese Sports Scientist called a TABATA.
It includes 20-second periods of warm-up, followed by 10-second periods of rest and 4-minute straight exercise. How is a 4-minute exercise able to burn fat? It all depends on the quality of work you do. Not on the quantity. Here’s how I did it yesterday.
You should never forget your warm-up. A TABATA workout is 20 seconds of 2-arm Kettle-bell swings, 10 seconds rest, 20 seconds push-ups, and 10 seconds rest. You should do those 4 rounds. That’s it. I was done in a total time of 8 minutes by the time and when I got to school my heart was still pumping pretty hard.
A healthy body is needed for studying and working, and efficiency (效率) is the key to building a great body in the least amount (数量) of time possible and you can’t get more efficient than a 4-minute workout.

  1. 1.

    We can learn from the passage that the author ______.

    1. A.
      is busy with his work
    2. B.
      has a weak body now
    3. C.
      has two children in all
    4. D.
      is a manager in a film
  2. 2.

    The underlined phrase “went to town” in Paragraph 2 means “_______”.

    1. A.
      put off doing something
    2. B.
      went to a very small city
    3. C.
      did something with interest
    4. D.
      hated to do something
  3. 3.

    What is the most important thing in taking exercise according to the author?

    1. A.
      The goal
    2. B.
      the quality
    3. C.
      The quantity
    4. D.
      The method

British paychologists have found evidence of a link between excessive(过度的) Internet use and depression, a research has shown.
Leeds University researchers, writing in the Psychopathology journal, said a small part of Internet users were classed as Internet addicts and that people in this group were more likely to be depressed than non-addicted users.
The article on the relationship between excessive Internet use and depression is from a questionnaire-based study of 1,319 young people and adults.
The respondents answered questions about how much time they spent on the Internet and what they used it for; they also complete the Beck Depression Inventory---a series of questions designed to measure the seriousness of depression.
The six—page report, by the university’s Institute of Psychological Science, said 18 of the people who complete the questionnaire were Internet addict.“Our research indicates that excessive Internet use is associated with depression, but what we don’t know is which comes first—are depressed people drawn to the Internet or does the Internet cause depression?” the article’s lead author Dr Catriona Morrison said.”What is clear is that, for a small part of people, excessive use of the Internet could be warning signal for depressive tendencies.”
The age range of all respondents was between 16 and 51 years, with an average age of 21.24. The average age of the 18 Internet addicts was 18.3 years. By comparing the levels of depression within this group to that within a group of 18 non—addicted Internet users, researchers found the Internet addicts had a higher chance of developing depression than non-addicts. They also discovered that addicts spent more time visiting sexually pleasing website, online gaming sites and online communities.
“The public speculation（推测）was further proved by this study. That’s to say, over-engaging in websites which serve to replace normal social function might be linked to psychological disorders like depression and addiction,” Morrison said.”We now need to consider the wider social influence of this relationship and clearly prove the effects of excessive Internet use on mental health.”

  1. 1.

    Internet addicts are people who ______ according to the passage.

    1. A.
      use the Internet more than enough
    2. B.
      feel depressed when using the Internet
    3. C.
      seldom connect to the Internet
    4. D.
      feel depressed without the Internet
  2. 2.

    What is confirmed by the study according to the passage?

    1. A.
      Depression leads to excessive use of Internet
    2. B.
      Depression results from excessive use of Internet
    3. C.
      Excessive use of internet usually accompanies depression
    4. D.
      Excessive use of internet is usually earlier to depression
  3. 3.

    It is thought by the public that online communities______.

    1. A.
      can never replace normal social function
    2. B.
      are intended to replace normal social function
    3. C.
      are associated with psychological disorders
    4. D.
      shouldn’t take the blame for psychological disorders
  4. 4.

    According to Dr Catriona Morrison, the public speculation________.

    1. A.
      lacks scientific evidence
    2. B.
      helps clarify their study
    3. C.
      finds a theoretical basis
    4. D.
      has little scientific value
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