Whenever the sun dropped and the blue sky came up, my father and I used to climb the mountain near my house. Walking together, my father and I used to have a lot of conversations through which I learned lessons from his experiences. He always told me, “You should have goals like climbing the mountain.” Without the mountain-climbing that we both enjoyed ，we couldn’t have enough time to spend together because my father was very busy. I really got a lot from mountain-climbing. It gave me time to talk with my father and to be in deep thought as well as develop my patience (耐力).

   Once we climbed a very high mountain. It was so challenging for me because I was only ten years old. During the first few hours of climbing . I enjoyed the flowers and trees, and the birds’ singing, but as time passed, I got a pain in both of my legs. I wanted to quit climbing. In fact, I hated it at that mountain, but my father said to me, “You can always see a beautiful sky at the top of the mountain, but you can’t see it before you reach the top. Only there at the top, can you see all of the nice things, just like in life.”

    At that time, I was too young to understand his words. But later after that, I got new hope and confidence. I found myself standing at the top of the sky, which was as clear as crystal (水晶).

The passage tells us that mountain-climbing was _____for Father and Son.

   A. hard      B. enjoyable       C. boring      D. comfortable

The word “quit” in the passage means “______”.

   A. carry on    B. put off      C. give up      D. pick up

We can infer from the last paragraph that ______.

   A. the writer was very successful in his life.  

   B. the writer reached the top of the mountain.

   C. though the writer was young, he could understand his father.

   D. the writer used to stop half-way when he climbed the mountain.

The best title for the passage is “______”.

   A. Reaching the Top of the Mountain      

B. Standing at the Top of the Mountain

   C. What a beautiful Mountain          

D. How to Get to the Top of the Mountain

I was sure that I was to be killed. I became terribly nervous. I fumbled (searched) in my pockets to see if there were any cigarettes, which   41   their search. I found   42   and because of my shaking hands, I could   43   get it to my lips. But I had no matches, they had taken those. I looked   44   the bars at my jailer（看守监狱的人）. He did not make eye contact with me. I   45   to him “Have you got a light?” He looked at me, shrugged and came over to light my cigarette.   46   he came close and lit the match, his eyes inadvertently（无意中）locked with mine. At that moment, I   47  . I don't know why I did that. Perhaps it was   48  , perhaps it was because, when you get very close, one to another, it is very   49   not to smile. In any case, I smiled. In that instant, it was   50   a spark jumped across the gap between our two hearts, our two human souls. I know he didn't want to, but my smile leaped through the bars and generated smile on his lips, too. He lit my cigarette but   51  , looking at me directly in the eyes and continuing to smile.

     I   52   smiling at him, now aware of him as a(n)   53   and not just a jailer. And his looking at me seemed to have a new   54   too. “Do you have kids?” he asked. “Yes, here, here.” I took out my wallet and nervously fumbled for the   55   of my family. He, too, took out the pictures of his family and began to talk about his plans and hopes for them. My eyes filled with tears. I said that I feared that I'd never see my family again, never have the chance to see them grow up. Tears came to his eyes, too.   56   without another word, he   57   my cell (牢房) and silently led me out．Out of the jail，quietly and by back routes，out of the town. There, at the edge of town, he released me. And without another word, he turned back toward the town.

“My life was   58   by a smile.” Yes, the smile—the unaffected, unplanned,   59   connection between people. I really believe that if that part of you and that part of me could   60   each other, we wouldn't be enemies. We couldn't have hate or envy or fear.

A. had lost        B. had given           C. had escaped   D. had reached

A. them           B. it                      C. that          D. one

A. barely          B. quickly                 C. possibly      D. 1ikely

A. on             B. through               C. at           D. up

A. gave out        B. let out                C. called out     D. screamed out

A. As               B. before                  C. after                 D. until

A. cried            B. shook               C. refused        D. smiled

A. anger          B. nervousness           C. bitterness      D. sympathy

A. easy              B. hard                C. glad          D. embarrassed

A. even though     B. as well as           C. as though      D. as long as

A. went away       B. dropped out        C. stayed far      D. stayed near

A. kept               B. stopped             C. began        D. forgot

A. stranger            B. enemy               C. opponent      D. person

A. dimension         B. suggestion           C. impression     D. concept

A. cigarettes          B. bags                   C. pictures        D. wallet

A. Intentionally       B. Unconsciously      C. Unwillingly     D. Suddenly

A. unfolded           B. unlocked              C. uncontrolled     D. undefended

A. misled           B. destroyed            C. saved                  D. ignored

A. surprising          B. natural               C. different         D. frequent

A. like              B. expect               C. notice          D. recognize

—Where is the post office?

—It's just over there, at the end of the street. You          not miss it.

A．can              B．must             C．may              D．would

There at the door stood a girl about the same height _____.

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Searching for the truth

Collecting mid writing news is like researching in history: the best information comes from those who were there at the time. So if' we want to study tile history of China in the sixth century AD, we look at the writings of the people who lived then. They are called the primary sources because they tell us what it was like to live then. People at a much later date who write about the same events are called the secondary sources.  For example, when we read the original writings of Jia Sixie on agriculture, we are reading a primary source; when we read about Jia Sixie in our textbook we are reading secondary source because the passage was written about him and his ideas many years after he died.

When we make news we use primary and secondary sources. We can see this most clearly in TV programmes. As we watch the news on TV, the person presenting the programme in the studio is the secondary source( because he tells us about the news) and the reporter in. Iraq or Washington is the primary source (because he is telling us about what is actually happening there). Without these reporters acting as primary sources, you would never find out what really happened in a war, earthquake, sports meeting, concert or festival. These reporters explain what is happening so we have a clearer idea of what is going on there. They often take photographers with them who act as primary source by giving pictures of events.

In a newspaper the position is different because these two roles are often combined. This means a reporter who investigates a story may be the same person who writes it. If this happens, the reporter is both the primary and the secondary source. But the photographer who works with him/her is still a primary, source.

One of the reasons that it is important to separate primary and secondary sources is that they help us to decide what is a fact and what is an opinion. A fact is something that everybody agrees has happened. An opinion is somebody's idea of what happened. So facts and opinions are often mixed in any report, whether in a newspaper or on TV.

What have you learnt from the above passage?