This award winning image shows the extraordinary moment when a lemon shark stared into a lens（镜头）with an obvious cheeky grin（露齿的笑）. Showing a close-up of a lemon shark’s face on the surface at sunset, it was recently selected from more than 20,000 photos as winner of the Oceans division of the international Nature’s Best Photography 2008 Windland Smith Rice Awards.

       Amateur photographer Bruce Yates, snapped the named “Cheshire Cat Grin”(露齿笑的柠檬鲨) photograph in July last year in the Bahamas. 54-year-old Mr Yates, from Seattle, said, “My wife and I were on a boat trip to see and dive with sharks in the northwest part of the Bahamas, in an expansive area many miles from land with relatively shallow water.”

       “The shark was roughly eight feet long and only a few inches from my camera.” describes Bruce, “However, I was not actually in the water for that photo ― it was taken when I was sitting on the boat, holding my camera partly in water. Dozens of lemon sharks were around the boat competing for small bits of fish. The sunset is visible in the background.”

       “Although this particular photo makes it look like the shark is smiling, it is really just closing its mouth after trying to grab a bit of fish. It is an expression that I have never seen on a shark before, and I doubt whether I could get that shot again if I tried for the rest of my life.”

       The lemon shark inhabits inshore waters from around America, Brazil, the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico and other areas in the Atlantic. Despite their large teeth, they represent a small threat to humans with only 10 causeless attacks recorded and no deaths.

       Bruce, who owns an investment management firm, first got into photography 15 years ago when he undertook a scuba diving course, and his passion for nature photography has led him to many remote parts of the world, from the Arctic Circle to the coral reefs of Indonesia.

63.   According to the passage, ________.

A. the photo of “Cheshire Cat Grin” was taken in the morning

B. the photo was taken in water

C. the smiling shark in the photo is really just closing its mouth

D. Bruce is a professional photographer

64. We learn from the reading that ________.

A. lemon sharks are suitable for open water shark diving

B. lemon sharks live in deep water

C. there have only been 10 reported lemon shark attacks and deaths

D. lemon sharks have large teeth and are a great threat to humans

65. The underlined word “inshore” in the fifth paragraph can be replaced by ________.

    A. faraway                            B. coastal                            C. deep                        D. wide

Vivi Mac, an amazing artist from France, can use nearly any kind of food to create detailed celebrity portraits（名人肖像）．Although she has yet to display her short-lived work of arts in a proper art gallery, Vivi Mac has already made a name for herself online.

We've seen some amazing food artists in the past, but none are quite like this one .Karen Eland is a master coffee painter, Elisabetta Rogai uses wine as her medium(媒介），Kelly McCollam uses food colouring(食用色素）to recreat classic paintings, but the self-taught Vivi Mac can take anything from chewing gum to milk and turn it into a fantastic portrait  When working with liquids, Mac uses a simple plastic straw and her hands to guide the unusual .mediums around a plastic plate which acts as a painting. Just how she manages to capture the finest facial features  is still a mistery  to me, and I've seen videos of her doing it many times，

Vivi Mac has never attended art school. She only used online resources like blogs and facebook to learn the basics of drawing and painting. She started out working with pens and paper, but soon realized drawing wasn't just creative enough for her. She got into speed  painting and body painting, posting videos of her works on You Tube, but it wasn't until she began experimenting with different kinds of foods that her art got serious coverage. Photos and videos of her eatable celebrity portraits, like Bruce Lee in milk  Ice Cube in crushed ice or Amy Winehouse in wine, became popular on the French inter-webs and changed Vivi Mac into an online celebrity.

1.What does the underlined word "display" in the first paragraph mean?

A .Exhibit.      B .Create.      C .Produce.      D. Store.

2.What is the difference between Vivi Mac and other food artists?

A.She Uses wine as her medium.

B.She is famous for her food website.

C.She turns any  kind of food into a portrait

D.She uses spices to recreate classic paintings.

3.In which section of a website are we most likely to find the passage？

A .Food        B .Science       C .Art          D .Health

In one way of thinking, failure is a part of life. In another way, failure may be a way towards success. The “spider story” is often told. Robert Bruce, leader of the Scots in the 13th century, was hiding in a cave from the English. He watched a spider spinning a web（蜘蛛织网）. The spider tried to reach across a rough place in the rock. He tried six times without success. On the seventh time he made it and went on to spin his web. Bruce is said to have taken heart and to have gone on to defeat the English… Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, made hundreds of models that failed before he found the right way to make one.

So what? First, always think about your failure. What caused it? Were conditions right? Were you in top from yourself? What can you change so things will go right next time?

Second, is the goal（目标）you’re trying to reach the right one? Try to do some thinking about what your real goals may be. Think about his question, “If I do succeed in this, where will it get me?” This may help you prevent failure in things you shouldn’t be doing anyway.

The third thing to bear in mind about failure is that it’s a part of life. Learn to “live with yourself” even though you may have failed. Remember, “You can’t win them all.”

1.This passage deals with two sides of failure. In paragraph 1, the author talks mainly about __          .

A. the value of failure        

B. how people would fail

C. famous failures           

D. the cause of failure

2.The underlined phrase “made it” means ______ .

A. succeeded 

B. failed  

C. gave    

D. got

3.The lesson the spider taught Robert Bruce seems ______ .

A. productive   

B. straight forward   

C. sorrowful    

D. deep

4.The author tells you to do all things except ______ .

A. The think about the cause of your failure

B. to check out whether your goals are right for you

C. to consider failure as a part or life

D. to bear in mind that you will never fail in your life

5.Which of the following is NOT true?

A. Bruce and Edison were successful examples.

B. Failure may be regarded as a way toward success.

C. Edison learned a lot from the lesson the spider taught Robert Bruce.

D. One may often raise a question whether his goals are worth attempting.

Bruce Jones thinks there is still a healthy thirst for exploration into underwater worlds on our own planet. After growing up with his grandfather who was in the marine construction business,  Jones quickly got a feel for the water. He started diving at age 9 and, by the 1980s, began offering advice for those interested in the submarine business. By 1993, he was running his own company, U．S. Submarines, which designed and built submarines for resorts and individuals.

Jones plans to spend $40 million in building a hotel where the most expensive rooms will be 50 feet under the sea off Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas. Unlike the Jules Undersea Lodge — the only undersea hotel now, just off the coast of Key Largo, Fla. — guests at the Poseidon won't need to put on a wet suit to get to their rooms. They also won't need to worry about changing pressure levels since the rooms will be kept at above－surface pressure. Instead, they can move easily to their $1,500－a－night underwater rooms by escalator.

“I think there are a large number of people who would be interested，” said Jones, “including anyone who is looking for a different experience.”

Each room will feature strong windows that look out onto coral gardens. There will be controls in each room that guests can use to change the lighting of the underwater worlds outside their windows and to provide food for fish swimming by.

“By now I envisioned (展望) we'd have whole underwater cities，” Craig Cooper, the director for the Aquarius research station said. “It's about time some of these visions became reality.”

1. Which of the following is the correct order of the events that happened to Bruce Jones?

a. Jones started running U．S. Submarines.

b. Jones began to learn to dive.

c. Jones planned to build an undersea hotel.

d. Jones began giving others advice on the submarine business.

A. a, b, c, d  B. a, c, b, d

C. b, d, a, c  D. b, a, c, d

2. We can learn from the second paragraph that the Jules Undersea Lodge________.

A. lies off Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas

B. is the first undersea hotel in the world

C. needn't provide wet suits for its guests

D. sends its guests to their rooms by lift

3. What do we know about Bruce Jones' undersea hotel from the passage?

A. It will be much cheaper than the Jules Undersea Lodge.

B. It has taken Jones $40 million to build it.

C. Guests in it will open the windows to give food to the fish.

D. Guests in it will see beautiful coral through the windows.

4. The underlined word “Poseidon” in Paragraph 2 refers to ________.

A. Bruce Jones' undersea hotel

B. Jules Undersea Lodge

C. an island off the coast of Key Largo

D. another name of Eleuthera Island

5. Judging by Cooper's words, his attitude towards underwater hotels is ________.

A. disappointed  B. critical

C. objective  D. hopeful

Aniston was born in Sherman Oaks, California, and grew up in New York City. She lived in Greece for one year as a child with her family, and they later relocated to New York City. She went to the New York Rudolf Steiner School and graduated from Manhattan's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. In 1989, she moved back to Los Angeles, California.

Aniston moved to Hollywood and played her first television role in the short—lived series Molloy in 1990, She also co-starred in Ferris Bueller, a television show adapted from the 1986 hit movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The series, however, didn’t succeed. Aniston then appeared in two more failed television comedy shows, The Edge and Muddling Through, and guest-starred on Quantum Leap, Herman's Head, and Burke's Law. Aniston wanted to give up acting because of the failed shows.

But the sitcom Friends changed her mind. She played in it from 1994 until the show ended in 2004. The program was hugely successful and Aniston became famous for her roal Rachel in it. Her hairstyle in the program, which became known as the "Rachel", was widely copied at he time .

Besides being a TV actress, Aniston has enjoyed a great film career. Her biggest box office success to date was 2003’s Bruce Almighty. The film made ＄243M at the Unite State box office and almost twice that worldwide .Aniston’s 2004 film ,A long Came Polly also did well at the box office.

1.What does the underlined word “relocated” in the first paragraph mean?

A. Lived        B. Moved       C. Planned        D. Traveled

2.All of the following are TV shows EXCEPT            

A. Burke's Law    B. The Edge    C. Herman's Head    D. Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

3.From the second paragraph ,we learn that            

A. Aniston guest—starred in the unsuccessful TV series Molloy

B. no one wanted Aniston to play in their TV shows

C. Aniston was not successful in her first several TV shows

D. Aniston was sure that she would become famous one day

4.From the passage, we learn that “Rachel” is           

A. Aniston’s hairstyle in her real life        B. a good friend of Aniston

C. a role in Friends                      D. a TV show of Aniston

5.What can we learn from the passage?

A. Friends is only famous in America

B. A long Came Polly was Aniston’s best film

C. Aniston’s film career is also very successful

D. Aniston hasn’t appeared in TV shows since 2004