Youth volunteers from Beijing University visited Songtang Hospital, a care clinic for the aged and dying patients, during the second Global Youth Service Day on April 21．

Thirty student volunteers from the university’s School of International Studies sat at the beds of the patients in their specially- decorated “care huts”． They talked with them and gave massages （按摩）to patients kept in their beds．

“I felt sorry that I could not offer more to these people than talking with them and trying to cheer them up．” said Deng Yetao, 20, a third - year student． “But it occurred to me that they need more care and love than babies． They are afraid of the coming death． Their loneliness is worse than physical pains．”

“Even though they are suffering a lot, the majority of the elderly people want to talk to us． Each of them has a lot of life experiences and philosophies to share． Instead of doing them a favor, I felt I was benefited a lot,” said Mao Xiao-hua, another third-year student．

Mao talked with two elderly patients for a whole afternoon． The fact that most of the patients in the 80 - room clinic are aged people with diseases what will lead to death soon made the volunteers’ hearts heavy．

Ninety-one percent of the patients will spend the last days of their lives in the clinic, according to a survey by the hospital． For people at this stage of their lives, loneliness is even more dreadful than death itself,” said Li Wei, president of the hospital．

Daily visits and services by social workers and youth volunteers are a very important part of their programmer． A total of 330, 000 Beijing students from 119 universities and colleges have visited the hospital． Many continue to offer services in their spare time． They showered them with kindnesses． Some of them even volunteer to hold the hands of dying patients during the last minutes of their lives．

Yin Hang, a student from Beijing Medical College, said he felt“ the glory of life” as he saw the fading smile on the face of the old man who passed into a deep unconsciousness while he was holding his hands．

60．Which of the following do the aged people feel the most terrible?

A．Loneliness．                                       B．Death．

C．Illness                                                D．Poverty．

61．What does the underlined sentence “They showered them with kindnesses” mean?

A．They talked to them with patience．

B．They gave them massages with care．

C．They helped them with showers．

D．They offered them whatever help with affection．

62．What did the volunteers gain from this activity?

A．A great encouragement．                    B．A welcome favor．

C．A valuable lesson．                            D．A good reward．

63．We can learn from the report that      ．

A．young people are fond of popular social activities

B．the Global Youth Service Day was started in China

C．ninety-one percent of the aged in China are living  in clinics

D．the volunteers show a willing heart to this kind of activity

What do Tom Sawyer and jumping frogs have in common? Stories about both of them were created by one man: Mark Twain. Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain was his pen name. When Twain was 4, his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, lying on the west bank of the Mississippi. Twain grew up there and was attracted greatly with life along the river--the steamboats, the big wooden boats, and the people who worked on them.

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is one of Twain's best-loved short stories, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is one of his most famous novels. Both these works are celebrated by events held during National Tom Sawyer Days. There's also a fence-painting competition to see who can paint the fastest. The idea for this competition comes from a scene in Tom Sawyer, in which Tom has been told to paint the fence in front of the house he lives in. It's a beautiful day, and he would rather be doing anything else. As his friends walk by, he persuades them to paint with him for fun, and they all join in the "fun". By the end of the day, the fence has three coats of paint!

Although the story of Tom Sawyer is not true, it's based on fact. If you go to Hannibal, you'll see the white fence, which still stands at Twain's boyhood home.

46. Mark Twain created Tom Sawyer and jumping frogs ______.

A. at the age of four                          B. in the same book

C. in different stories                         D. on the steamboats

47. National Tom Sawyer Days is ______.

A. a short story       B. a great novel       C. a celebration       D. a competition

48. The fence-painting competition comes from _____.

A. Mark Twain's suggestion                   B. a story in Jumping Frog

C. the life of people in boats                  D. a scene in Tom Sawyer

49. The sentence "…the fence has three coats of paint!" means that “_____".

A. all of Tom's friends wear three coats

B. the fence has been painted three times

C. three new coats are hanging on the fence

D. they have drawn three coats on the fence

50. What can we infer from the passage?

A. The white fence Tom once painted still exists there.

B. People hold various events to celebrate National Day.

C. Twain benefited greatly from his childhood experiences.

D. Tom Sawyer used to join the fence-painting competition.

Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from A―F for each paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need.

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     Advertisers tend to think big and perhaps this is why they're always coming in for criticism. They have a way for self-promotion and they have so much money to throw around. It's strange that this entirely unproductive industry should absorb millions of pounds each year. It only goes to show how much profit the big companies are making. Why don't they stop advertising and reduce the price of their goods? After all, it's the consumer who pays.

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We get the wrong idea if we think we only purpose of advertising is to sell goods. A great deal of the knowledge we have about household goods derives largely from the advertisements we read. Advertisements introduce us to new products or remind us of the existence of ones we already know about. Supposing you wanted to buy a washing machine, it is more likely that you would obtain details regarding performance, price, etc. , from an advertisement.

97. ___________________

It's hardly possible not to read advertisements these days. And what fun they often are, too! Just think what a railway station or a newspaper would be like without advertisements. Would you enjoy gazing at a blank wall or reading railway byelaws while waiting for a train? Would you like to read only closely-printed columns of news in your daily paper? A cheerful, witty advertisement makes such a difference to a drab wall or a newspaper full of the daily ration of calamities.

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    We must not forget, either, that advertising makes ~ positive contribution to our pockets. Newspapers, commercial radio and television companies could not subsist without this source of money. The fact that we so little for our daily paper, or can enjoy so many broadcast programmes is benefited entirely from the money spent by advertisers. Just think what a newspaper would cost if we had to pay its full price!

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    Another thing we mustn't forget is the “small ads.” which are in almost every newspaper and magazine. What a useful service they perform for the community! Just about anything can be accomplished through these columns. For instance, you can find a job, buy or sell a house, announce a birth, marriage or death in what used to be called the "hatch, match and dispatch" columns.