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It was a winter morning, just a couple of weeks before Christmas 2005. While most people were warming up their cars, Trevor, my husband, had to get up early to ride his bike four kilometers away from home to work. On arrival, he parked his bike outside the back door as he usually does. After putting in 10 hours of labor, he returned to find his bike gone.
The bike, a black Kona 18 speed, was our only transport. Trevor used it to get to work, putting in 60-hour a week to support his young family. And the bike was also used to get groceries（食品杂货）, saving us from having to walk long distances from where we live.
I was so sad that someone would steal our bike that I wrote to the newspaper and told them our story. Shortly after that, several people in our area offered to help. One wonderful stranger even bought a bike, then called my husband to pick it up. Once again my husband had a way to get to and from his job. It really is an honor that a complete stranger would go out of their way for someone they have never met before.
People say that a smile can be passed from one person to another, but acts of kindness from strangers are even more so. This experience has had a spreading effect in our lives because it strengthened our faith in humanity（人性） as a whole. And it has influenced（影响） us to be more mindful（注意的，留神的）of ways we, too, can share with others. No matter how big or how small, an act of kindness shows that someone cares. And the results can be everlasting.
【小题1】Why was the bike so important to the couple?

A．From a stranger.

B．From a newspaper.

C．From TV news.

D．From radio broadcasts.

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London---Lazy students can now give up on work altogether as two Oxford University students have made scores of A-grade essays (论文) on the website for students to copy. The essays are on the new website “revise it”. The website includes an “Essay Lab” designed to make cheating (舞弊) as effective and effortless as possible.

    Its homepage announces to surfers (网上冲浪者) ; “Its Essay Lab is a bank of hundreds of A-level essays covering popular topics.”

    “Next time you are asked to write an essay， why not see what we have on the subject-if you are in a lazy state of mind you can even use our guide to writing the essays and then just hand them in.”

    Nick Rose and Jordan Mayo, both 19 and first from Manchester, spent much of their first year as students at the university setting up the website. There is no charge for downloading the essays.

    “I have never been very good at essay writing,” Rose admitted. “We don't see essay bank as a cheating way. It's a surprising valuable resource. You can learn a lot by reading other people's work on the subject.”

    Among other tips , the website suggests inventing important speeches to give essays extra weight: “Popular people to quote (引用) are Douglas Hurd or Disraeli.”

    Hurd was a foreign secretary in the 1980s and Disraeli was a 19th century prime minister. Teachers are expressing their opinions by e-mail that they are angry about the website that “encourages students to cheat”, but students disagree. According to Rose: “Exams are a fight. It's us against them.”

1．It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

    A. the students who visit the website “revise it” are all lazy

    B. students dislike exams

    C. Nick Rose is poor at writing

    D. writing essays is not a pleasant job

2．Nick Rose and Jordan Mayo set up their website for the purpose of ________.

    A. helping the students to cheat in exams

    B. helping students to improve their writing

    C. making money to pay for their schooling

    D. surprising their teachers

3．Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage?

    A. Essay Lab is one part of the website.

    B. Teachers and students have different opinions about the website.

    C. Students are not satisfied with the education system

    D. Douglas Hurd often copied essays from the website.

4．Which is the best title for this passage?

    A. Homework Website

    B. Against Exams

    C. Surfers on the Internet

D. A-level Essays

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Rick Stevenson, l6 years old, spends every minute he can on the mountain. He and his friends go snowboarding every weekend. “It's great,” he says, “The winds are so strong, the boards go 50 miles an hour.” His friend Lauer Fields agrees. “No one goes skiing any more,” she says. “That's for the old folks.”

    Rick and Laura are part of a new trend in sports. Its philosophy (宗旨) is to get as close to the edge as possible. And more and more young athletes are taking part in these risky (冒险的) activities called “extreme sports” or “X-sports.”

    In the past, young athletes would play baseball. Today, they want risk and excitement -the closer to the edge, the better. They snowboard over cliffs and mountain-bike down steep mountains. They windsurf near hurricanes and bungy-jump from towers.

    Extreme sports started as an alternative (选择余地) to more expensive sports such as golf. A city kid who didn't have the money to buy expensive sports equipment could get a skateboard and have fun. But now it has become a whole new area of sports, with specialized equipment and high levels of skill. There's even a special Olympics for extreme sports, called the Winter X-Games, which includes snow mountain biking and ice climbing.

    What makes extreme sports so popular? “People love the risk,” says Murray Nussbaum, who sells sports equipment. “City people want to be outdoors on the weekend and do something challenging. The new equipment is so much better that people can take more risks without getting hurt.” An athlete adds, “Sure there's a risk. Once you go mountain biking or snowboarding, it's impossible to go back to bike riding or skiing. It's just too boring.”

    Now even the older crowd is starting to join in. Every weekend a group of friends in their early 30s get together. During the week they work as computer programmers in the same office. On Sundays they rent mountain bikes that cost $ 2000 each and ride down steep mountains together. Extreme sports are certainly not for everyone.

    Most people still prefer to play basketball or watch sports on TV. But extreme sports are definitely gaining in popularity. “These sports are fresh and exciting. It's the wave of the future,” says Nussbaum.

1．What would be the best title for the passage?

    A. Rick Stevenson

    B. People's Love for Risk

    C. X-Sports

    D. The Wave of the Future

2．It is clear from the passage that extreme sports are  ________.

    A. exciting but risky

    B. popular but old

    C. special but dangerous

    D. inexpensive but challenging

3．Which of the four pictures does not describe extreme sports?

4．Generally speaking, ________ are unfit for extreme sports by inference from the passage.

    A. city teenagers

    B. the aged people

    C. office workers

D. high school students

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The expression. “lame duck”, can be heard in almost any American town or city, especially where people discuss politics. Most often, they use it to describe a politician who has come to the end of power-a Congressman, for example, who has a few more weeks in office and will then be out of a job.

    There are a number of ideas as to where “lame duck” came from although the picture is clear enough—-a duck that has had its wings clipped, or its web feet injured, and can no longer walk or waddle ( walk with short steps, bending from one side to the other) like a healthy one.

    The term seems to have crept (move slowly and quietly with the body close to the ground) into the American language some time after the Civil War of 1861~ 1865. One explanation is that it came from the language of hunters who felt that it was foolish to waste power or time on a dead duck.

    Another explanation, however, says that the expression came from England. There it was used to describe a man who lost all his money in stocks (股票交易), was cleaned out (倾家荡产) and could not pay his debts. And—so the story does,—people showed little mercy (kindness or pity) for the poor fellow.

    But in the United States people took the phrase to describe a congressman who failed to get reelected but still had a little time in office until his successor was sworn in (be sworn in take office).

    In time, the expression was used in a broader sense, generally describing any man whose days of power were coming to the end. It has often been to describe the position of an American president in the last 2 years or so of his 2nd term. It is a difficult time for him, when Congress is ready to oppose him at every turn (at every moment; in every place). It may refuse to work with him simply because his days in the White House are numbered. His sun is setting. It is not a happy time. It is like old age coming on. And people, like animals, are cruel to lame ducks, ready to drive him out. Their eyes are already turned towards the new leader, the new man in command.

1．  It is likely that the expression “lame duck” ________.

A. has been widely used in the American language before the Civil War

    B. has quietly come into the American language some time after the year of 1865

    C. was used in the old English

    D. has been used in both the USA and the UK since 1865 to express the same meaning

2．When a person lost all his money in stocks, people ________.

    A. usually showed mercy for him

    B. always has sympathy with him

    C. hardly has sympathy with him

    D. never drove him out

3．Who was the lame duck in the USA last term?

A. George Bush.

B. Ronald Reagan.

C. John Kennedy.

D. Bill Clinton.

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To tell you the truth, I'm not interested in owing a cellular(网络) phone—except for use in an emergency (紧急情况), for ordinary cellular phone service is very expensive. How would I get help if I were in trouble or in danger? A good friend told about a product she thought would settle my problem. It's the SOS phone—-a cellular phone service designed for emergency use.

    With the touch of a button the SOS phone will connect me to a roadside emergency service, a 911 service or a trained service SOS operator, 24 hours a day. If I ever need help, I know it's just a phone call away. By pressing the “Tow” button, I'll be connected with my emergency roadside service provider(提供者),or if I don't have one， the SOS operator can suggest one to me and get in touch with them immediately.

    The “ 911” button will connect me to 911 emergency service in my area—best of all the call is completely free!

    If I just want to call home to tell my husband and children something necessary, I can, by pressing the “Call” button, I'll reach an operator, when I asked the operator to call home. I'll be connected automatically (自动的). And because the Call Center has my 10 most-used phone numbers, I don't even have to recite the number.

    Unlike ordinary cellular phone plans, the SOS phone doesn't have any minimum usage requirements (最低底价) or other promises that could change the price I expect to pay each month. Why not try it yourself?

1．The writer enjoys using the SOS phone because ________.

    A. she is always in trouble or in danger

    B. she thinks the cost of its service is reasonable

    C. she needn't pay for any emergency service

    D. the ordinary cellular phone cannot be used in an emergency

2．When you have a SOS phone, ________.

    A. you will get help whenever you are in an emergency

    B. you will be safe whenever you are

    C. you can be connected with anyone

    D. you can get service from any cellular phones

3．When you want to call home, ________.

    A. you will have to tell the operator your home phone number

    B. the operator will suggest one phone number to you

    C. the Call Center will pass on your words to your family

D. you'll be connected with your family with the help of an operator