I must tell you about the most terrible dream I had the other night. Actually, it wasn't a dream, it was 1 of a nightmare. You know I don't believe in the super natural: ghosts, witchcraft（魔法）and all 2 , but what happened was so 3 that I'm actually beginning to 4 　there must be some truth in it.

　　It was a 5 night, with the wind howling and the thunder crashing but finally I 6 to get to sleep. What happened next was really 7 . There, at the end of the bed, stood a dark figure. I'm not exaggerating（夸张）—— 8 I could really see it. It was dark in the room, of course, but I saw the 9 of the figure clearly. I know not all ghosts are 10 , but this one looked really terrifying. Then it spoke. At 11 , it made some sounds; it was moaning（呻吟）, as if in 12 .

　　You can imagine by this time I was trembling 13 . Hiding under the blankets, I was 14 from head to foot. What terrified me was the thought that the thing might 15 me. I knew if it did, I would 16 . It kept on making strange sounds which now sounded more like 17 　or spells. Was it some kind of witch, sent to 18 　its magic on me, I wondered. Then it 19 　into the wall.

　　How I fell asleep again is still a 20 to me. What do you make of it all? You know I was never superstitious but now I'm not sure.

1. A. more　　　 B. less　　　 　　　 C. much　　　 D. many

2. A. those　　　 B. these　　　　　 　 C. that　　　 　 D. this

3. A. real　　　 B. strange　　　 C. terrible　 　 D. actual

4. A. doubt　　　　 B. guess　　　　　 　 C. expect　　 D. believe

5. A. wonderful　 　 B. terrible　　　　　 C. normal　　　 D. special

6. A. tried　　　 　 B. attempted　　　　 C. managed　　 　 D. began

7. A. interesting     　 B. amusing　　　　 C. frightening D. exciting

8. A. strictly　　 B. personally　　　　 C. generally　　 D. onestly

9. A. sign　　　　　 B. outline　　　 C. appearance　　 D. expression

10. A. serious　　 　 B. supernatural　　　 C. nervous　　 D. dangerous

11. A. most　　　 B. least　　　　　　 C. best　　 　　 D. worst

12. A. pain　　　 　 B. attack　　　　　 C. danger　　 　 D. risk

13. A. slightly　　 B. shamefully　　　 C. violently　　 D. silently

14. A. moving　　 　 B. waving　　　　　 C. cooling　　　 D. shaking

15. A. touch　　　　 B. affect　　　　　　 C. stick　　　　 D. find

16. A. jump　　　 B. scream　　　　　 C. die　　　 D. escape

17. A. whisper　　 　 B. murmur　　　 C. witchcraft　　 D. curses

18. A. make　　　 B. work　　　　　　 　 C. give　　　 　 D. offer

19. A. turned　　　　 　 B. disappeared　　 C. hurried　　　 D. escaped

20. A. nightmare　 B. mystery　　　　　 C. dream　　 D. secret

-- How was your camping in the mountains last week, Joan?

-- Oh, it was just a ______ because we were woken up by a terrible storm at midnight.

A. nightmare 　　 B. mess　 　　　　C. fun　 　　　　D. pleasure

-- How was your camping in the mountains last week, Joan?

-- Oh, it was just a ______ because we were woken up by a terrible storm at midnight.

A. nightmare 　　 B. mess　 　　　　C. fun　 　　　　D. pleasure

In the book The best little girl in the world, Kessa has a serious eating disorder called anorexia.　 __71__　 This is an emotional story of a determined girl and her fight to survive.

　 At the beginning, Kessa is a normal 15?year?old girl. She has many talents, especially dancing. One day her dancing teacher tells her to continue eating right, but maybe lose weight. Once Kessa hears this, she takes things too far. __72__　　 Her new eating habits continue, and she begins losing weight. One day after another, she loses the pounds, and her body becomes slimmer and slimmer. She loses weight to a point where she is unhealthy.

　 As her poor eating habits continue, her parents start to help her.　 __73__　 She is determined to have no fat on her body.

　 Kessa's doctor and parents finally decide to keep her in hospital. She is now so skinny that she can hardly walk. There, she goes through a nightmare.　 __74__

　 Throughout the rest of the book, Kessa goes through many troubles in order to cure her eating disorder. It shows the troubles that people might go through just to be slim, and all the terrible things they must experience to be cured. __75__　

A．Despite good care, all Kessa thinks about is how much weight she might gain.

B．Many people have this eating disorder, and this book shows its harmful effects.

C．It is an emotionally powerful book about a girl's fight to survive, and I think every teenager should read it.

D．They feel that Kessa is too thin and her health is in poor conditions.

E．I like the story, but if you are in good health and not on diet, there's no need for you to read it.

F．They try everything, but Kessa's dieting continues.

G．Instead of cutting down on snacks and fast food, she decides not to eat at all. She does not eat breakfast, lunch, or dinner.

After too long on the Net, even a phone call can be a shock. My boyfriend's Liverpudlian accent suddenly becomes too difficult to understand after his clear words on screen; a secretary stone seems more rejecting than I'd imagined it would be. Time itself becomes fluid?hours become minutes, and alternately seconds stretch into days. Weekends, once a highlight of my week, and now just two ordinary days.

　　For the last three years, since I stopped working as a producer for Charlie Rose, I have done much of my work as a telecommuter. I submit（提交）articles and edit them via E-mail and communicate with colleagues on Internet mailing lists. My boyfriend lives in England, so much of our relationship is computer-mediated.

　　If I desired, I could stay inside for weeks without wanting anything. I can order food, and manage my money, love and work. In fact, at times I have spent as long as three weeks alone at home, going out only to get mail and buy newspapers and groceries. I watched most of the blizzard of 96 on TV.

　　But after a while, life itself begins to feel unreal. I start to feel as though I've merged（融合） with my machines, taking data in, spitting them back out, just another node（波节）on the Net. Others on line report the same symptoms. We start to strongly dislike the outside forms of socializing. It's like attending an A. A. meeting in a bar with everyone holding a half-sipped drink. We have become the Net opponents; worst nightmare.

　　What first seemed like a luxury, crawling from bed to computer, not worrying about hair, and clothes and face, has become avoidance（逃避）, a lack of discipline. And once you start replacing real human contact with cyber-interaction, coming back out of the cave can be quite difficult.

　　At times, I turn on the television and just leave it to chatter in the background, something that I'd never done previously. The voices of the programs relax me, but then I'm jarred by the commercials. I find myself sucked in by soap operas, needing to keep up with the latest news and the weather. "Dateline," "Frontline," "Nightline," CNN, New York 1, every possible angle of every story over and over and over, even when they are of no possible use to me. Work moves from foreground to background.

1．Compared to the clear words of her boyfriend on screen, his accent becomes      .

　　A．unreal　　       B．unbearable        C．misleading.           D．not understandable

2．The passage implies that the author and her boyfriend live in        .

A．the same city                        B．the same country.   

C．different countries                 D．different cities in England

3．What does the last paragraph mean?

A．Having worked on the computer for too long, she became a bit strange

B．Sometime TV programs give her comfort and even makes her forget her work

C．She watches TV a lot in order to keep up with the latest news and the weather

D．She turns on TV now and then in order to get some valuable information

4．What is the author's attitude to the computer?

　  A．At first she likes it but later becomes tired of it

B．She likes it because it is very convenient

C．She dislikes it because TV is more attractive

D．She dislikes it because it provides an imaginary world

5．The underlined phrase“coming back out of the cave ”probably means      .

A．going back to the dreaming world

B．coming back home from the outside world

C．bringing back direct human contact

D．getting away from living a strange life