Oprah Winfrey, the American media queen, is undoubtedly one of the most successful women in the world. She’s the host and owner of The Oprah Winfrey Show, which continuingly wins high ratings, and the founder of Harpo Productions, which produces her television shows and movies.
Certainly Winfrey feels right these days. Early on, however, Winfrey seemed more like a candidate for welfare rolls than film roles. She stayed with her grandmother after birth and moved to Wisconsin to live with her mother at 6, and hence began the most difficult period in her life. They lived in the low-income community and her mother showed her less attention. Her classmates came from families with more money and she couldn’t participate with them in a lot of activities.
The young girl had held too much anger and pain inside and she rebelled. She repeatedly ran away from home and got into various troubles. During that time, she turned heavy smoker, became addicted to alcohol and drug and was sent to a juvenile detention home(青少年拘留所) at the age of 13.
Fed up, Oprah’s mother sent her to Tennessee to live with her father. To a large extent, this man saved Oprah’s life and helped pave the way for her success. She received a full scholarship to Tennessee State University where she majored in Speech and Performing Arts. After graduation, she landed a job as a news reader at a television station, where she did not do well at first. But she did not give up; instead, she worked harder. She put in long hours and prepared carefully before going on camera.
Her hard work paid off: she moved up swiftly to news reader and reporter in Baltimore and was offered her own talk show in 1977. From then on, her career began to take off.
Some people are handed money at birth and are nurtured into success; other people create their own success, and Oprah Winfrey definitely belongs to the latter. “There is no such thing as failure in my life,” she concluded, “Life is a marathon. I think the ones who survive in life do it by hammering at it one day at a time.” Well, by doing so, she won the game.

  1. 1.

    By mentioning “Winfrey seemed more like a candidate for welfare rolls than film roles” in Paragraph 2, the author indicates that ______.

    1. A.
      she was interested in acting and applied for roles in many films, but failed.
    2. B.
      she was more interested in working for charities than in films.
    3. C.
      she lived a poor life and had to depend on the government for food.
    4. D.
      the film companies wouldn’t offer her roles because she was too poor.
  2. 2.

    Which of the following is NOT the cause of her bad behaviors as a teenager?

    1. A.
      Her mother had no time to take good care of her.
    2. B.
      Her classmates’ families were very rich.
    3. C.
      She couldn’t take part in activities with her classmates.
    4. D.
      She had too much anger and pain inside.
  3. 3.

    Oprah Winfrey succeeded at last chiefly due to _______.

    1. A.
      her hard childhood living with her grandmother.
    2. B.
      her hard work and the spirit of not giving up.
    3. C.
      her good performance in the juvenile detention home.
    4. D.
      her major in Speech and Performing Arts in college.
  4. 4.

    Which of the following can best serve as the title of this passage?

    1. A.
      Oprah Winfrey, from a problem girl to the American media queen.
    2. B.
      Oprah Winfrey, from a news reader to a marathon winner.
    3. C.
      Even famous people have a disgraceful past.
    4. D.
      All that glitters is not gold.

Opening week specials at Munchies Food Hall.
At the corner of Green and Brown Streets in the city
Monday 7th of January until Sunday.13rd of January 2008
Feast until you’re full! Come down to Monetizes time week to enjoy the special dishes on offer it all of our food outlets. Order from the following:
●Succulent chicken rice            ●spicy stays beef
●Delicious noodle dishes           ●plump park chips
●seafood specialties               ●crunchy vegetables
●sweet tropical fruit



10％ discount on all orders above ＄20.00

 
 



Halal food is available at the stall  Malay Mood Heaven
Win Prizes and Gifts!
l Spend ＄20.00 or more and win instant prizes from our lucky draw box.
l Collect a free party balloon and whistle for each young diner.
l Enjoy a free meal if you are the first customer of the day at any of our stalls.
l Win a holiday to Western Australia. A free raffle ticket is given with every receipt. Just fill in your information and place your entry in the box provided. Winner to be announced in The strait Times on the 15th of January.
Join in the Fun!
Between 7:00 pm and 8:00 pm each evening until the 15th of January, your favorite Channel 3 television actors and singers will entertain you:
●May Lee                    ●Jackie Chen
●Kim Yap                    ●Kamal
Autograph sessions will follow each performance! And who will be our extra special mystery star? Come down on Saturday at moon to find out.

  1. 1.

    Munchies Food Hall does NOT sell ____.

    1. A.
      lamb
    2. B.
      beef
    3. C.
      pork
    4. D.
      chicken
  2. 2.

    The prices at Munchies are ____.

    1. A.
      lower than usual
    2. B.
      bargain prices for the opening
    3. C.
      lower far two people
    4. D.
      lower of you spend ＄21.00
  3. 3.

    Everyone who eats at Munchies well receive a ____.

    1. A.
      free raffle ticket
    2. B.
      lucky draw coupon
    3. C.
      free meal
    4. D.
      balloon and whistle
  4. 4.

    I will find out who has won the top to Western Australia when I __.

    1. A.
      watch Channel 3 television
    2. B.
      come down to Munchies at moon
    3. C.
      read The Straits Times on the 5th of January
    4. D.
      attend the lucky draw at Munchies Food Hall

Futurologists predict that life will probably be very different in 2050.
TV channels will have disappeared. Instead, people will choose a program from a “menu” and a computer will send the program directly to the television. Today, we can use the World Wide Web to read newspaper stories and see pictures on a computer thousands of kilometers away. By 2050, music, films, programs, newspapers, and books will come to us by computer.
Cars will run on new, clean fuels and they will go very fast. Cars will have computers to control the speed and there won’t be any accidents. Today, many cars have computers that tell drivers exactly where they are. By 2050, the computer will control the car and drive it to your destination. Space planes will take people halfway around the world in 2 hours. Today, the United States Space Shuttle can go into space and land on Earth again. By 2050, space planes will fly all over the world and people will fly from Los Angeles to Tokyo in just 2 hours.
Robots will have replaced people in factories. Many factories already use robots. Big companies prefer robots — they don’t ask for pay rises or go on strike, and they work 24 hours a day. By 2050, we will see robots everywhere — in factories, schools, offices, hospitals, shops and homes.
Medical technology will have conquered many diseases. Today, there are devices（设备）that connect directly to the brain to help people hear. By 2050, we will be able to help blind and deaf people to see and hear again.
Scientist will have discovered how to control genes（基因）. Scientists have already produced clones of animals. By 2050, scientists will be able to produce clones of people, and decide how they look, how they behave and how clever they are. Scientists will be able to do these things, but should they?

  1. 1.

    We can learn from the passage that some big companies prefer robots to human workers, because human workers __________.

    1. A.
      often ask for more pay
    2. B.
      can work 24 hours a day
    3. C.
      are not clever enough
    4. D.
      are often late for work
  2. 2.

    The underlined word “conquered” in Paragraph 5 most probably means ________.

    1. A.
      discovered
    2. B.
      treated
    3. C.
      caused
    4. D.
      cured
  3. 3.

    It can be inferred from Paragraph 5 that _________.

    1. A.
      few diseases will attack people by 2050
    2. B.
      there will be no blind and deaf people by 2050
    3. C.
      medical technology will be more effective by 2050
    4. D.
      devices are connected directly to the brain to help people hear
  4. 4.

    What is the author’s attitude towards the cloning technology?

    1. A.
      The author does not support the use of cloning technology.
    2. B.
      The author thinks human cloning is impossible.
    3. C.
      The author does not really support the idea of human cloning.
    4. D.
      The author is quite excited about human cloning.
  5. 5.

    According to the passage, which of the following can be realized today?

    1. A.
      Read newspapers on a computer.
    2. B.
      Make a space shuttle to go into the land.
    3. C.
      Use computers to control car speed.
    4. D.
      Choose TV programs freely from a “menu”.

I'll be the first to admit that I am a technophobe(对技术有恐惧感的人）.Who would have guessed that a website would help repay a 20-year-old loan?
I'1l always remember my last day at school. My best friend, Jenny, had organized a party in the Sixth
Form Common Room;
Jenny asked me to go to the supermarket with her to buy all the snacks. "I'm really looking forward to this party, Stingy," she said. Everyone called me Stingy instead of Debbie because they thought I didn't like to spend money. Actually, it was true.
"There's lots of money in the kitty(零星凑起的一笔钱）. Let's go crazy!" Going crazy meant buying enough snacks to feed an army. It came to ￡ 19.90,which was a lot of money in 1982.
Jenny gave me a guilty( 内疚的) look. "I've left-the kitty money in the common room. Can you pay and I'll give you back the money?"
"Sure," I replied, trying to look relaxed. ' Neither a lender or a borrower be' was my motto but I didn't want to look stingy(小气). I gave ￡20 to the impatient shop assistant.
Well, the Party was a great success. So great that I completely forgot about my loan until I was flying to America the next day.  I was going to live with my uncle's family until I started university.
I tried to get in touch with Jenny but her family had moved. My ￡20 was lost. Until...
I'd heard about a website called Friends Reunited which helped people contact old school friends.  My husband helped me log on and find my school. There she was,Jenny Frost.
I'm now married with a beautiful daughter called Debbie. Does anyone know how to get in touch with Debbie 'Stingy' Jones? I still owe her ￡20!
We met two months later and the ￡20 was returned, plus interest(利息)of course. After all, I'm a bank manager now, so loans are my business.

  1. 1.

    Why did Jenny spend a lot of money on the snacks?                                                     

    1. A.
      Debbie had money.
    2. B.
      There was money she could use.
    3. C.
      She wanted Debbie to stop being stingy.
    4. D.
      She wanted to be crazy.
  2. 2.

    How did Debbie get her money at last?                                                     

    1. A.
      Her husband found Jenny.
    2. B.
      Jenny had a website on the Internet.
    3. C.
      Debbie met Jenny.
    4. D.
      Debbie put a message on the Friends Reunited website.
  3. 3.

    We know from the passage that Jenny       .                            

    1. A.
      liked parties at school and felt guilty about borrowing money
    2. B.
      had fun at school but soon forgot about her school friends
    3. C.
      forgot her best friend at school until she saw the Friends Reunited website
    4. D.
      was forgetful about the money

Time out
Cover Price: ￡2.35
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Time out — London’s arts and entertainment weekly. This magazine offers the best listings and reviews of arts, music, films and nightlife, and it is a necessary guide to the entertainment capital of the world. If you’re not using Time out, you’re losing out on London.
School Sport Magazine
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School Sport Magazine is the only publication of its kind to celebrate the sporting achievements of schools, pupils and teachers in the UK. The purpose of the magazine is to report sporting news and record national and regional school sporting events as well as interviews with famous sport stars about their own sporting schooldays. Five issues (期) a year.
Time
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Every week, Time keeps you well informed of world news, covering all the matters that affect your life, from political struggles to scientific progress, environmental problems, and what’s new in business, fashion and arts. Its feature articles give you brief but true information and unique insights from world-leading journalists. Time is a great magazine, which can help you develop a truly global perspective.
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FourFourTwo is a monthly football magazine for grown-up readers. Feature articles and wonderful action photographs will keep you attracted. You can read interviews with big name football stars, from today, tomorrow and yesterday. You’ll love it!

  1. 1.

    Among all of the above, there is/ are ________ weekly magazine(s).

    1. A.
      one
    2. B.
      two
    3. C.
      three
    4. D.
      four
  2. 2.

    Which of the following magazines will probably provide you with articles about paintings and their painters?

    1. A.
      Time Out & School Sport Magazine.
    2. B.
      School Sport Magazine & FourFourTwo.
    3. C.
      Time Out & Time.
    4. D.
      only Time.
  3. 3.

    Which of the following magazines is suitable for a 13-year-old boy who wants to know about a famous football star’s playing experiences at school?

    1. A.
      Time Out.
    2. B.
      School Sport Magazine.
    3. C.
      Time
    4. D.
      School Sport Magazine or FourFourTwo.
  4. 4.

    We can learn from the passage that ________ .

    1. A.
      all of the magazines are intended for adults.
    2. B.
      among all the magazines, only School Sport Magazine is about sports.
    3. C.
      Time Out & School Sport Magazine might be published in the United Kingdom.
    4. D.
      among all the magazines, Time Out will cost you the least.
  5. 5.

    The author’s purpose in writing this passage is to ________ .

    1. A.
      advertise four best-sellers
    2. B.
      introduce four popular magazines to readers
    3. C.
      ask readers to decide which of the four magazines is the best
    4. D.
      get more people to buy these magazines

Destinations: Saigon—Cat Tien National Park—Buon Ma Thuot—Lak Lake—YokDon National Park
Estimated trekking time: Average 4-5 hours／day
Summary: This trip is ideal for those who love trekking in natural forests. From the southern part of Vietnam up to the central highlands, you will cross through two national parks. There will be opportunities to see wildlife and challenge yourself physically at a moderate（中等的）level.
Indulge yourself in the beauty of nature, escape from the hustle and bustle of the city, rediscover yourself in the natural world and refresh both mind and body.
Highlights:
·Private tour
·Walk through the forest to a fascinating and beautiful wetland area. If you are lucky, you may be able to see many different kinds of animals using only binoculars（双筒望远镜）.
·Night time wildlife-spotting excursion（远足）
·Elephant riding
Includes:
·Travel insurance
·Private transportation
·English-speaking guide
·Guest house-twin shared room
·Meals as indicated in the itinerary
·Elephants
·Canoe
·Mineral water
·Entrance fees & all permits
Excludes:
·Surcharges for other guides in other languages, festival season and peak season surcharges, which will be advised at time of booking
·Visa
·Gong show（80 USD／show）
·Tips
·Personal expenses

  1. 1.

    During the tour, visitors will trek through    national parks.

    1. A.
      2
    2. B.
      3
    3. C.
      4
    4. D.
      5
  2. 2.

    In the forest, tourists will be able to    .

    1. A.
      ride elephants
    2. B.
      have barbeques with natives
    3. C.
      play with wild animals
    4. D.
      race in canoes
  3. 3.

    Visitors may have to pay extra fees for    .

    1. A.
      permits
    2. B.
      a Gong show
    3. C.
      meals and water
    4. D.
      an English-speaking guide
  4. 4.

    This advertisement is especially targeting visitors         .

    1. A.
      from other countries
    2. B.
      who love wildlife
    3. C.
      who enjoy country life
    4. D.
      interested in hiking in forests

As the summer time approaches, more and more commercials and advertisements can be seen on the mass media encouraging students to join English study tours abroad. The purpose of these tours is to provide students with an opportunity to learn English in a native speaking environment and use English in real situations. Parents always believe that their children will automatically speak good English after attending these study tours. However, for me, as an English major and former participant of many English study tours, I find these summer tours ineffective.
Parents who send their children abroad for a summer to study English usually believe that the native speaking environment, including the courses, teachers, and host families, can help their children to learn English better. This might be true if the students really study hard and they really get an all-English environment. But the fact is that, most of the time, the tour part is more important than the study part. Although these tours take place in foreign countries, students are rarely exposed in an all-English environment. You will find that, in the morning classes, Taiwanese students would like to stick together and speak Chinese with each other, even though there are some students from other countries. In the afternoon, the students go on a sightseeing excursion with their companions from Taiwan; they speak Chinese of course. In the evening, when students return to the host families, they would stay in their room and share the day with their roommate, another Taiwanese student. People who speak the same language with you is like a log（原木）in the ocean when living in a foreign country where you can not express yourself well, so that you would naturally stick with them. This is especially true with children.
Another unrealistic expectation parents have for these tours is that the experience of living abroad can make their children more independent and mature. However, maturity does not come overnight. It takes time and practice. The most important of all is that they need a good mentor（顾问）. None of these exist in the study tours.

  1. 1.

    Which of the following is the most important thing for children who study in an English environment according to the writer?

    1. A.
      Host families.
    2. B.
      Hard work.
    3. C.
      Courses.
    4. D.
      Teachers.
  2. 2.

    The underlined word “mature” in the last paragraph probably means    .

    1. A.
      active
    2. B.
      free
    3. C.
      outgoing
    4. D.
      grown-up
  3. 3.

    What’s the author’s attitude towards the English study tours abroad?

    1. A.
      Doubtful.
    2. B.
      Negative.
    3. C.
      Positive.
    4. D.
      Neutral.

We know the famous ones — the Thomas Edisons and the Alexander Graham Bells— but what about the less famous inventors? What about the people who invented the traffic light and the windshield wiper(雨刮器)？Shouldn’ t we know who they are?
Joan McLean thinks so. In fact, McLean, a professor of physics at Mountain University in Range, feels so strongly about this matter that she’ s developed a course on the topic. In addition to learning “who” invented “what”， however, McLean also likes her students to learn the answers to the “why”and“how”questions. According to McLean，“When students learn the answers to these questions, they are better prepared to recognize opportunities for inventing and more motivated to give inventing a try.”
Her students agree. One young man with a patent for an unbreakable umbrella is walking proof of McLean’ s statement.“If I had not heard the story of the windshield wiper’ s invention，”said Tommy Lee, a senior physics major，“I never would have dreamed of turning my bad experience during a rainstorm into something so constructive.” Lee is currently negotiating to sell his patent to an umbrella producer.
So, just what is the story behind the windshield wiper? Well, Mary Anderson came up with the idea in 1902 after a visit to New York City. The day was cold and stormy，but Anderson still wanted to see the sights, so she jumped aboard a streetcar. Noticing that the driver was struggling to see through the snow covering the windshield, she found herself wondering why there couldn’ t be a built-in device for cleaning the window. Still wondering about this when she returned home to Birmingham，Alabama. Anderson started drafting out solutions. One of her ideas, a lever(操作杆) on the inside of a vehicle that would control an arm on the outside, became the first windshield wiper.
Today we benefit from countless inventions and innovations. It’ s hard to imagine driving without Garrett A. Morgan’ s traffic light. It’ s equally impossible to picture a world without Katherine J. Blodgett’ s innovation that makes glass invisible. Can you picture life without clear windows and eyeglasses?

  1. 1.

    By mentioning “traffic light”and “windshield wiper”， the author indicates that countless inventions are________.

    1. A.
      beneficial, because their inventors are famous
    2. B.
      beneficial, though their inventors are less famous
    3. C.
      not useful, because their inventors are less famous
    4. D.
      not useful, though their inventors are famous
  2. 2.

    Professor Joan McLean’ s course aims to________.

    1. A.
      add colour and variety to students’ campus life
    2. B.
      inform students of the windshield wiper’ s invention
    3. C.
      carry out the requirements by Mountain University
    4. D.
      prepare students to try their own inventions
  3. 3.

    Tommy Lee’ s invention of the unbreakable umbrella was________.

    1. A.
      not eventually accepted by the umbrella producer
    2. B.
      inspired by the story behind the windshield wiper
    3. C.
      due to his dream of being caught in a rainstorm
    4. D.
      not related to Professor Joan McLean’ s lectures
  4. 4.

    Which of the following can best serve as the title of this passage?

    1. A.
      How to Help Students to Sell Their Inventions to Producers?
    2. B.
      How to Design a Built-in Device for Cleaning the Window?
    3. C.
      Shouldn’ t We Know Who Invented the Windshield Wiper?
    4. D.
      Shouldn’ t We Develop Invention Courses in Universities?

There is one difference between the sexes on which every expert and study agrees: men are more aggressive than women. It shows up in 2-year-olds. It continues through school days and persists into adulthood. It is even constant across cultures. And there is little doubt that it is rooted in biology.
If there's a woman’s trait(特点) which is the same as men’s aggressiveness, it's what social scientists refer to as the result of "education". Feminists have argued that the caring nature of women is not biological in origin, but rather has been forced into women by a society that wanted to keep them in the home. But the signs that it is at least partly inborn are too numerous to ignore. Just as tiny infant girls respond more readily to human faces, female toddlers(学步者) learn much faster than males how to pick up nonverbal cues（非言语暗示） from others. And grown women are far more skilful than men at interpreting facial expressions: A recent study by University of Pennsylvania brain researcher Ruben Gur showed that they easily read emotions such as anger, sadness and fear. The only such emotion men could pick up was disgust.
What difference do such differences make in the real world? Among other things, women appear to be somewhat less competitive--or at least competitive in different ways--than men. At the Harvard Law School, for instance, female students enter with qualities just as outstanding as those of their male peers. But they don' t qualify for the well-known Law Review in proper numbers, a fact some school officials owe to women' s discomfort in the incredibly competitive atmosphere.
Students of management styles have found fewer differences than they expected between men and women who reach leadership positions, perhaps because many successful women deliberately imitate men. But an analysis by Purdue social psychologist Alice Eagly of 166 studies of leadership style did find one difference: Men tend to be more “autocratic”-making decisions on their own--while women tend to consult colleagues more often.  Studies of behavior in small groups turn up even more differences. Men will typically dominate the discussion, says University of Toronto psychologist Kenneth Dion, spending more time talking and less time listening.

  1. 1.

    The passage mainly discusses__________.
              

    1. A.
      how sex differences are demonstrated in social relations
    2. B.
      how hormone determines sex differences
    3. C.
      why there are differences between males and females
    4. D.
      why men and women have different social roles
  2. 2.

    Which of the following is true of women's nurturing nature according to the passage?

    1. A.
      It is not inborn in any sense.
    2. B.
      It is inspired by women’s families.
    3. C.
      It is caused by social prejudice.
    4. D.
      It is partly biological in origin.
  3. 3.

    The Harvard Law School example in paragraph 3 suggests that_________.

    1. A.
      women are not as competitive as men
    2. B.
      law is not the fight profession for women
    3. C.
      women are as excellent as men when they are young
    4. D.
      academic qualities are not equal to performance
  4. 4.

    Which of the following statement is true according to paragraph 4?

    1. A.
      Men leaders should consult colleagues and subordinates more often.
    2. B.
      Female leaders' success is due to their imitating male leaders.
    3. C.
      Men and women are different in their leadership style.
    4. D.
      Decisiveness is an important quality for a successful politician.
  5. 5.

    It can be inferred from the passage that the writer_________.

    1. A.
      denies the difference sexes make in real life
    2. B.
      is prejudiced against men
    3. C.
      discourages women to be competitive
    4. D.
      treats sex difference objectively

It can be a common argument-ender or a signal of indifference. And it can really be annoying. The poll found '"whatever" to be consistently(始终地)disliked by Americans regardless of their race, sex, age, income or where they live.
“It doesn't surprise me because ‘whatever，is in a special class, probably，，，said Michael Adams, author of “Slang(俚语)~The People's Poetry" and an associate professor of English at Indiana University. "It's a word that 一 and it depends on how a speaker uses it 一 can suggest being not worthy of attention or respect.’，Adams, who didn't take part in the poll and is not annoyed by "whatever," points out that its use is not always negative. “It can also be used in place of other neutral(中性的）phrases that have fallen out of favor, like ‘six of one, half dozen of the other，.” he said. However, he also noted that the negative meaning of the word might explain why “whatever，was judged more annoying than the ever-popular "you know”.

  1. 1.

    Which tops second among the annoying expression according to the passage?'

    1. A.
      Whatever.
    2. B.
      You know.
    3. C.
      Anyway.
    4. D.
      It is what it is.
  2. 2.

    What can we know about the word "whatever"?

    1. A.
      It became popular because of Nirvana.
    2. B.
      It can be commonly used at the beginning of an agreement.
    3. C.
      Old people like it while young people don't.
    4. D.
      Almost half of the Americans surveyed disliked it.
  3. 3.

    In Adams' opinion, the reason why “whatever”，was judged more annoying may be that   . _______

    1. A.
      most of the people don't like it
    2. B.
      it can be used in place of other neutral phrases
    3. C.
      it carries certain negative meaning sometimes
    4. D.
      the poor don't like it
  4. 4.

    Which of the following statements is true?

    1. A.
      Adams is not only a writer but also a professor.
    2. B.
      “Whatever” is a signal of concern.
    3. C.
      Adams is angry at the word “whatever”
    4. D.
      "Whatever" will be replaced by "You know”.
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