Ella Fant was a middle-aged lady who lived with her only son John in a
small house. She __36__ John very much. In her eyes he couldn’t do
anything __37__. Every morning she would give him breadkfst__38__bed
and bring him the papers to read. It isn't really true that he was too__39__to
work-in fact he had tried a few__40__. First of all he was a
window-cleaner and in his first week he managed to__41__at least six
windows. Then he__42__a bus conductor and on his second__43__a
passenger stole his bag with all the fares(车费)collected. He even lost his
job as a postman__44__he sent off all the letters when he should have
taken them to people's houses. It seemed that there was__45__suitable
work for him. So he__46__to join the army. Mrs. Fant was so__47__about
this that she told the news to all her neighbours. “My John is good to be a
soldier,” she said. “He is going to be the best soldier there__48__was,
I can tell you!”
Then the great day came__49__he was to march past the palace in
the parade(接受检阅的队伍).His__50__mother travelled to the city early in
the morning to be sure of getting a good__51__in the crowd.
The parade was full of sound and colour. But when John and his __52__ came
in sight some of the people watching __53__ laughing at the one who
couldn't keep pace with the other as they marched along.
But Ella Fant, who was filled with __54__, shouted at the top of
her voice: “Look at them! They’re all out of __55__ except my John!
Isn’t he the best!”
36. A.
depended on B.
waited on C.
trusted D.
loved
37. A.
wrong B.
great C.
good D.
strange
38. A. to
B.
at C.
in D.
by
39. A.
lazy B.
young C.
weak D.
shy
40. A.
ones B.
years C.
tasks D.
jobs
41. A.
rub B.
drop C.
break D.
clean
42.A.
followed B.
met C.
became D.
found
43.A. day
B.
try C.
route D.
chance
44.A.
even if B.
so that C.
because D.
though
45.A.
some B.
such C.
less D.
no
46.A.
began B.
promised C.
managed D.
decided
47.A.
excited B.
worried C.
anxious D.
curious
48.A. yet
B.
ever C.
never D.
just
49.A.
where B.
since C.
when D.
till
50.A.
proud B.
kind C.
strict D.
lucky
51.A.
time B.
position C.
experience D.
impression
52.A.
neighbours B.
army officer C.
mother D.
fellow soldiers
53.A.
couldn't help B.
shouldn't burst out C.
stopped D.
kept
It’s great fun to
explore new places ? it feels like an adventure, even when you know you’re not
the first to have been there. But make sure not to get lost or waste time going
round in circles.
●Do the map reading if you’re being driven somewhere. It’ll be easier if
you keep turning the map so it follows the direction you’re traveling in. keep
looking ahead so that you can give the driver lots of warning before having to
make a turn, or you’ll have to move to the back seat.
●Get a group of friends together and go exploring. You’ll need a good map,
a compass (指南针) a raincoat, a cell phone to call for help in case you get
lost, and a bit of spare cash for emergencies (应急现金). Tell someone where you’re
going before you set out and let them know what time you expect to be back. The
test is in not getting lost, not in seeing how fast you can go, so always stick
together, waiting for slower friends to catch up.
●See if your school or a club organizes orienteering activities, in which
you need a map and a compass to find your way. This can be done as a sport,
with teams trying to find the way from A to B (and B to C etc) in the fastest
time, or simply as spare?time activity. Either way, it’s not only good fun, but
a great way to keep fit.
56.Sitting beside the driver, you should .
A.direct the driver when necessary
B.look ahead to see where there’s a turn
C.move to the back seat if feeling uncomfortable
D.keep looking at the map to find a place to go to
57.Why do you need to tell someone your exploration plan before setting out?
A.To get information when in danger.
B.To be saved in case of an accident.
C.To share the fun with him/her in exploration.
D.To tell him/her what’s going on with the group members.
58.Orienteering activities can .
A.make people work fast
B.help people stay healthy
C.help people organize other
activities
D.make people get prepared for sports
【B】
Children have their own rules in playing games. They seldom need a
referee(裁判) and rarely trouble to keep scores. They don’t care much
about who wins or loses, and it doesn’t seem to worry them if the game is not
finished. Yet, they like games that depend a lot on luck, so that their
personal abilities cannot be directly compared. They also enjoy games that move
in stages, in which each stage, the choosing of leaders, the picking-up of
sides, or the determining of which side shall start, is almost a game in
itself.
Grown-ups can hardly find children’s games exciting, and they often feel
puzzled at why their kids play such simple games again and again. However, it
is found that a child plays games for very important reasons. He can be a good
player without having to think whether he is a popular person, and he can find
himself being a useful partner to someone of whom he is ordinarily afraid. He
becomes a leader when it comes to his turn. He can be confident, too, in
particular games, that it is his place to give orders, to pretend to be dead,
to throw a ball actually at someone, or to kiss someone he has caught.
It appears to us that when children play a game they imagine a situation
under their control. Everyone knows the rules, and more importantly, everyone
plays according to the rules. Those rules may be childish, but they make sure
that every child has a chance to win.
59.What is true about children
when they play games?
A.They can stop playing any time they like.
B.They can test their personal abilities.
C.They want to pick a better team.
D.They don’t need rules.
60.To become a leader in a game
the child has to.
A.play well
B.wait for his turn
C.be confident in
himself
D.be popular among his playmates
61.Why does a child like
playing games?
A.Because he can be someone other than himself.
B.Because he can become popular among friends.
C.Because he finds he is always lucky in games.
D.Because he likes the place where he plays a game.
62.The writer
believes that.
A.children should make better rules for their games.
B.children should invite grown-ups to play with them.
C.children’s games can do them a lot of good
D.children play games without reasons
【C】
Most rain forests lie to the equator(赤道), where the climate is often mild and there
are long hours of sunshine.The warmth of the land heats the air above,
causing it to rise and tiny drops of water to fall as rain.The rainfall can reach at
least 98 inches a year.This wet, warm world with plenty of sunlight is perfect for plants to
grow, so the trees grow fast with green leaves all the year round.The trees themselves also
have an effect on the climate.They gather water from the soil and pass it out
into the air through their leaves.The wet air then forms clouds, which hang over
the treetops like smoke.These clouds protect the forest from the
daytime heat and night-time cold of nearby deserts, keeping temperatures fit
for plant growth.
Rain forests slightly farther away
from the equator remain just as warm, but they have a dry season of three
months or more when little rain falls.Tree leaves fall during this dry season and new
leaves grow when the wet season or monsoon(雨季) begins.Thus these areas are known as the "monsoon forest".
Another type of rain forest grows on tropical
mountains.It is often called the "cloud forest" because clouds often hang
over the trees like fog.
The rain forest is the ideal place for the growth of
many different trees.Most of them depend on animals to eat their fruits and spread their seeds.When the fruits are eaten,
the seeds inside them go undamaged through animals' stomachs and are passed out
in their droppings.The seeds lying on the forest floor then grow into new trees.
63.The climate of the rain forests near the
equator is ________.
A.mild, wet and windy
B.hot, rainy and foggy
C.hot, wet and cloudy
D.warm, wet and sunny
64.We can learn from the passage that ________.
A.tree leaves are green all
the time in the monsoon forest
B.there is a dry season in the
cloud forest on tropical mountains
C.clouds help the plants in
the rain forests near the deserts to grow
D.the formation of climate in
the rain forest has little to do with the trees
65.According to the passage, ________ play the
most important role in the spreading of seeds.
A.animals
B.droppings
C.fruits
D.winds
66.This passage is most likely to be found in
_________.
A.a travel guide
B.a story book
C.a technical report
D.a geographical book
【D】
Indian’s snake charmers are to be retrained as wildlife
teachers under a plan to prevent their unique skills and knowledge from being
lost. The charmers, who make snakes dance to the sound of flutes(笛子), used to be a traditional
feature of Indian life, performing in towns and villages, until they were
banned in 1972 to control the trade in snake skins.
The government is now
considering a plan to train the saperas, as they are known, to visit schools
and zoos to tell children about forests and wildlife. There is also a proposal
to set up a “dial a snake charmer” service to help householders to deal with
unwelcome intruders (不速之客).
“For generations they have
been a feature of Indian life but now they can't earn a living for fear of
arrest,” said Behar Dutt, a conservationist behind the plans, “if a policeman
doesn’t catch them, animal rights activists report them.”
Many snake charmers have
continued to work clandestinely since the ban, despite the threat of up
to three years in prison. But their trademark cloth-covered baskets, hung from
a bamboo pole carried across their shoulders, make them an easy target for
police.
The fate of Shisha Nath, 56,
from Badarpur, a village just outside of Delhi, is typical of practitioners(从业者) of the dying art.
“I used to earn enough to support my family and send my children to
school, "he said. "Now
it's hard to earn even f, 1 a day. My children want to be snake charmers. It’s
our identity. We love the work. But it s become impossible.
Next month Dutt’s project to
train 30 snake charmers will begin at a snake park in Pune, western India,
where experts will enrich their home-grown skills with some formal knowledge.
More than the law, though,
it is the dishonest attitude of their fellow countryman that angers many snake
charmers.
"'We're disturbed all
the time but when people want a snake removed from the house, they rush to
us," said Prakash Nath, who was ordered recently to the home of Sonia
Gandhi, the Congress party leader.
67. According to the
passage, snake charmers will be retrained as wildlife teachers mainly
because______.
A. schools need large numbers of such teachers
B. most of them cannot support their families
C. their performances on the street are banned
D. the government plans to save the dying art
68. The purpose of the
proposed "dial a snake charmer" telephone service is ______.
A. to give performance of snake dancing
B. to teach householders how to catch and kill snakes
C. to offer cleaning service to wealthy householders
D. to help remove unwanted snakes from the houses
69. The word
"clandestinely" in paragraph 4 can be best replaced by the word
"_______"
A. secretly
B. publicly
C. attentively
D. diligently
70. Which of the
following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Snake charmers can easily be recognized by the police on the street.
B. Children of snake charmers would not like to continue their fathers'
job.
C. Snake charmers are quite angry with the attitude of their fellow
countrymen.
D. The animal rights activists take a negative attitude towards snake
charmers.
What do you usually use your cell-phone for? Calling
friends or sending them text messages?
As technology develops, nowadays cell-phones can do much
more than that. They have become an all-in-one device.
A typical example is Apple’s Phone. The touch-screen
cell-phone plays music, connects to the Web, sends e-mail and takes photos.
More than 1 million Apple’s Phones have been sold since it was launched in
June.
“Today’s young people enjoy using all kinds of digital
functions, such as those of a music player, a camera and even a computer,
constantly. An all-in-one device is easy to carry. That is the goal of
developing a technology to make our lives more convenient, simple and relaxed,”
said Professor Ding Shouqian at NankaiUniversity.
However, the all-in-one cell-phones come with some
problems. Users have complained that they are too complicated to use, and that
their battery life is too short. Cell-phone producers say that they are working
hard to make their phones even better.
It’s very convenient to use it. “We are trying to make the
cell-phones in a way that people can quickly move from phoning to taking
pictures and listening to music,” said Alastair Curtis, Nokia’s chief designer.
“If you look at the Nokia 3250 model, it has a twisting bottom. So you twist it
half a turn, and it’s in camera mode. You twist it another 90 degrees, and the
alpha-numeric(字母和数字的) keys have disappeared and the music keys are there.” Japanese
companies such as Toshiba and Fujitsu are also working to develop a new battery
for mobile phone.
If all the problems are solved in the future, all-in-one
phones will change our lives for the better.
(71)___▲__
It can play music.
It is (72) ___▲____to the Web.
It can (73) ___▲____ e-mails.
It can also be used as a (74)____▲___.
(75)___▲___
It’s easy to carry.
It can make our lives more (76) ___▲___,simple and relaxing.
Problems
The cell-phones are not (77) ___▲___ to use.
Their battery doesn’t (78) ___▲___long.
Ways to solve the
problems
Make it easy and (79) ___▲___to move from one mode to another.
The companies make better batteries that last(80)___▲___.
Recently we’ve conducted a survey
on whether to support migrant workers in their moving to cities. Here is a
brief report about it.
On one hand, migrant workers do
play a very important role in the development of cities. They are actively
involved in various kinds of jobs. In particular, they just do jobs such as
cleaning, babysitting, and building, which are usually tiring, dirty even
dangerous to their health and life. But these jobs are necessary and basic.
On the other hand, with more and
more migrant workers coming in, the city is becoming more and more crowded.
Also, the transport is much busier than before. To make matters worse, some of
them don’t pay much attention to the cleanness and like littering everywhere,
making the streets very dirty. The worst of all is that some even turn thieves
if they cannot find any suitable jobs.
As far as I’m concerned, migrant
workers have made great contributions to the development of big cities. Without
them, we won’t have so many high-rise buildings. But if they can be well
educated, it will be better for all of us.