摘要:E Bells sound. Lighted messages appear. Men and women work at computers. They talk on the telephone. At times they shout and run around. This noisy place is a stock exchange . Here expert salespeople called brokers buy and sell shares of companies. The shares are known as stocks. People who own stock in a company own part of that company. People pay brokers to buy and sell stocks for them. If a company earns money, its stock increases in value. If the company does not earn money, the stock decreases in value. Brokers and investors carefully watch for any changes on the Big Board. That is the name given to a list of stocks sold on the New York Stock Exchange. Investors and brokers watch the Big Board to see if the stock market is a bull market or a bear market. In a bear market, prices go down. In a bull market, prices go up. Investors in a bear market promise to sell a stock in the future at a set price. But the investor does not own the stock yet. He or she waits to buy it when the price drops. The meaning of a bear market is thought to come from an old story about a man who sold the skin of a bear before he caught the bear. An English dictionary of the sixteen hundreds said, to sell a bear is to sell what one has not. Word experts dispute the beginnings of the word bull in the stock market. But some say it came from the long connection of the two animals – bulls and bears – in sports that were popular years ago in England. Investors always care about the possibility of a company failing. In the modern world, a company that does not earn enough profit is said to go belly up. A company that goes belly up dies like a fish. Fish turn over on their backs when they die. So they are stomach, or belly, up. Stock market investors do not want that to happen to a company. They want a company whose stock they own to earn more profit than expected. This would sharply increase the value of the stock. Investors are hoping for a windfall. 77. The first paragraph is written for the purpose of . A. making readers interested in buying stocks B. telling readers the place is so busy C. telling readers people in the stock exchange are busy D. attracting readers’ attention to the topic of the passage 78. A fresher of a stock market probably turns to a (n) for advice. A. company B. investor C. broker D. word expert 79. John bought his stock from a company which has gone belly up this year. We can infer . A. John would lose money this year B. John would earn money this year C. the stock market is a bear market D. the stock market is a bull market 80. The reason why investors pay attention to the company whose stock they own is that . A. the company belongs to them B. the company earns much money C. they work for the company D. they are financially connected with the company

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  A major source of teen stress is school exams, and test anxiety is not uncommon. When you recognize your teen is under stress, how can parents help your teen stay calm before an exam?

  Be involved. Parents need to be involved in their teen’s work.  66  What they look for is your patience—to talk, to cry, or simply to sit with them quietly. Communicate openly with your teen. Encourage your teen to express her worries and fears, but don’t let them focus on those fears.

  Help them get organized.  67 Together, you and your teen can work out a timetable in which she can study for what she knows will be on the test.

  Provide a calm setting. Help your teen set up a quiet place to study and protect her privacy. Give them a nutritious diet. It is important for your teen to eat a healthy, balanced diet during exam times to focus and do her best. 68  If this happens, encourage your teen to eat light meals or sandwiches.

   69  Persuade your teenager to get some sleep and/or do something active when she needs a real break from studying. Help your teen balance her time so that she will feel comfortable taking time out from studying to spend time with friends or rest.

  Show a positive attitude.  70  Your panic, anxiety and blame contribute to your teen’s pressure. Make your teen feel accepted and valued for her efforts. Most importantly, reassure your teen that things will be all right, no matter what the results are.

A.Encourage your teen to relax.

B.The best thing is simply to be there.

C.They will only make the situation worse.

D.Exam stress can make some teens lose their appetite (食欲).

  E. A parent’s attitude will affect their teen’s emotions.

  F. Your teen may also make negative comments about themselves.

G. Help your teen think about what she has to study and plan accordingly.

 

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  Treasure hunts(寻宝)have excited people's imagination for hundreds of years both in real life and in books such as Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Kit Williams, a modern writer, had the idea of combining the real excitement of a treasure hunt with clues(线索)found in a book when he wrote a children's story, Masquerade, in 1979.The book was about a hare, and a month before it came out Williams buried a gold hare in a park in Bedfordshire. The book contained a large number of clues to help readers find the hare, but Williams put in a lot of "red herrings", or false clues, to mislead them.

  Ken Roberts, the man who found the hare, had been looking for it for nearly two years. Although he had been searching in the wrong area most of the time, he found it by logic(逻辑), not by luck. His success came from the fact that he had gained an important clue at the start. He had realized that the words: "One of Six to Eight "under the first picture in the book connected the hare in some way to Katherine of Aragon, the first of Henry VIII's six wives. Even here, however, Williams had succeeded in misleading him. Ken knew that Katherine of Aragon had died at Kimbolton in Cambridge shire in 1536and thought that Williams had buried the hare there. He had been digging there for over a year before a new idea occurred to him. He found out that Kit Williams had spent his childhood near Ampthill, in Bedfordshire, and thought that he must have buried the hare in a place he knew well, but he still could not see the connection with Katherine of Aragon, until one day he came across two stone crosses in Ampthill Park and learnt that they had been built in her honor in 1773.

  Even then his search had not come to an end. It was only after he had spent several nights digging around the cross that he decided to write to Kit Williams to find out if he was wasting his time there. Williams encouraged him to continue, and on February 24th 1982, he found the treasure. It was worth £3000 in the beginning, but the excitement it had caused since its burial made it much more valuable.

67. The underlined word "them"(Paragraph 1)refers to ____.

  A. red herrings                    B. treasure hunts

  C. Henry VIII's six wives     D. readers of Masquerade

68. What is the most important clue in the story to help Ken Roberts find the hare?

  A. Two stone crosses in Ampthill.

  B. Stevenson's Treasure Island.

  C. Katherine of Aragon.

  D. Williams’ home town.

69. The stone crosses in Ampthill were built ____.

  A. to tell about what happened in 1773

  B. to show respect for Henry VIII's first wife

  C. to serve as a road sign in Ampthill Park

  D. to inform people where the gold hare was

70. Which of the following describes Roberts’ logic in searching for the hare?

  a. Henry VIII's six wives

  b. Katherine's burial place at Kimbolton

  c. Williams’ childhood in Ampthill

  d. Katherine of Aragon

  e. stone crosses in Ampthill Park

  A. a-b-c-e-d       B. d-b-c-e-a

  C. a-d-b-c-e       D. b-a-e-c-d

71. What is the subject discussed in the text?

  A. An exciting historical event.

  B. A modern treasure hunt.

  C. The attraction of Masquerade.

D. The importance of logical thinking.

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假定你是李华,有一位美国朋友Smith托你在北京找工作。你看到21世纪英文报(“21st Century”)上登载了一则招聘启事,认为对他很合适。请用英文写一封短信,用E-mail发给Smith,告知此事。广告原文如下: 

           Foreign Teachers Wanted !

  The Education Department of the Ladder Company is running an English course for children and adults.

  Requirements :

  1. Native English speaker

  2. University degrees in education or related field preferred

  3. Foreign expert certification(证明)

  If you are interested , please call us :

  Tel : 86-10-66666666   

  E-mail : liecbj @ hotmail.com 

  Beijing Ladder Information Company Limited 

  注意:1. 开头语已为你写好;

     2. 介绍须包括所有内容,但不要逐条译成英语;

     3. 文章的词数需100词左右。 

Dear Smith ,

  I know you want to find a job in Beijing. ……

_____________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Good luck,

                          Li Hua 

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       A German taxi-driver, Franz Bussman, recently found his brother who was thought to have been killed twenty years before.

  While on a walking tour with his wife, he stopped to talk to a workman. After they had gone on, Mrs. Bussman said that the workman was closely like her husband and even suggested that he might be his brother. Franz laughed at the idea, pointing out that his brother had been killed in action during the war. Though Mrs. Bussman knew this story quite well, she thought that there was a chance in a million that she might be right.

  A few days later, she sent a boy to the workman to ask him if his name was Hans Bussman. Needless to say, the man's name was Hans Bussman. And he really was Franz's long-lost brother. When the brothers were reunited, Hans explained how it was that he was still alive.

After having being wounded towards the end of the war, he had been sent to hospital and was separated from his unit. The hospital had been bombed and Hans had made his way back into Western Germany on foot. Meanwhile, his unit was lost and all records of him had been destroyed. Hans returned to his family house, but the house had been bombed. Guessing that his family had been killed during an air-raid(空袭), Hans settled down in a village fifty miles away where he had remained ever since. 

 

50. Which of the following can be used as the best title of the passage?

  A. Living Not Far

  B. A Chance in a Million

  C. Coming Back to Life

  D. Back after the War

51. How to understand the sentence "There was a chance in a million that she might be right. "?

  A. There was a little possibility of what she suggested, though little.

  B. It was impossible for her to be right.

  C. She had no chance to meet his brother any more.

  D. There were many chances for her to meet his brother again.

52. Which of the following orders is right?

  a. He walked back to Western Germany.

  b. He was wounded when the war was coming to the end.

  c. The hospital was destroyed by bombs.

  d. He came back to his family house.

  e. He was sent to hospital.

  f. His unit of German didn't exist any longer.

  A. b, a, e, d, f, c  B. b, e, c, a, f, d

  C. b, e, a, c, d, f   D. b, c, f, d, a, e

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