In Canada and the United States, there is a new group of children called “satellite kids”, who live in one place but whose parents live in another place.

Asians are immigrating (移民) to Canada and the United States in larger numbers than ever before. Most Asians immigrate because they believe that they can give their children a better education in the West. In Asia, especially in China, Japan, and Korea, it is difficult to go to university. Students must first pass the strict national examination. However, in Canada and the United States, it is easy to go to university, and anyone who wants to go can go. As a result, Asian parents decide to leave their countries so that their children can go to university.

The problem is that when Asians arrive, they discover that finding a job and making money are more difficult in the West than in the East. Also, they find that they are very lonely, and that they miss their homes. For these two reasons, most Asian parents decide to go back to work while their children study in the West. Therefore, these children become “satellite kids”, and most of their parents do not know how sad it is to be a “satellite kid”.

Only until now are Canadians and Americans discovering the “satellite kid” problem. Because these children do not speak English and because their parents are not there to take care of them, they are often absent from school. To be a “satellite kid” means to grow up in a country where you know you are different and where you cannot make friends because you do not speak English well. Also, it means to grow up lonely, because your parents are elsewhere. What these “satellite kids” will probably say to their parents is that it’s better to have parents around than to have a university education.

1.Some Asian parents send their kids abroad because ________.

A．they hope their children may easily find a job there

B．the kids may not be accepted by universities in their own countries

C．all foreign universities are better than the ones in their own countries

D．the kids want to improve their English and make foreign friends

2.“Satellite kids” refer to Asian kids ________.

A．without parents                        B．living abroad alone

C．with university education                 D．speaking no English

3.Some Asian immigrant children become “satellite kids” because their parents ________.

A．want to leave their own country            B．want them to go to university

C．return to their countries to work            D．want them to be independent

4.What is the main idea of the passage?

A．Parents want better education for their kids.

B．Parents feel lonely and miss their families.

C．Canadians and Americans begin to notice the “satellite kids” problem.

D．Kids in foreign countries alone are badly in need of care from family.

Like most people, I was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important  36  : giving-away makes life so much more exciting. You need not worry if you  37  money.

       This is how I   38  with giving-away. If an idea for improving the window display of a neighborhood store  39  to me, I step in and make the suggestion to the   40  . If an accident takes place, the  41  of which I think the local police could use, I  42  him up and tell him about it, though I am not in   43  here. One discovery I made about this world is to give  44  getting something back, though the  45  often comes in an unexpected form.

       One Sunday morning the local post office delivered an important  46  letter to my home, though it was   47  to me at my office. I wrote the postmaster a note of   48  . More than a year later I needed a post-office box for a new business I was  49  . I was told at the window that there were  50  boxes left, and that my name would have to go on a long  51  list. As I was about to  52  , the postmaster appeared in the   53  .“Wasn’t it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering a special delivery to your home?” I said it was. “Well, you certainly are going to have a box in this post office  54  we make one for you. You don’t know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get  55  but complaints（投诉）.”

36．A．decision                  B．research                  C．speech                    D．discovery

37．A．earn                       B．lack                        C．spend                     D．steal

38．A．experienced            B．connected               C．combined                D．agreed

39．A．happens                  B．flashes                    C．sticks                      D．leads

40．A．postmaster              B．headmaster              C．storekeeper             D．policeman

41．A．story                      B．damage                   C．challenge                D．material

42．A．call                        B．hold                       C．break                      D．pick

43．A．need                       B．trouble                   C．common                 D．charge

44．A．within                    B．without                   C．for                         D．before

45．A．process                   B．goal                       C．return                     D．concern

46．A．curious                   B．immediate               C．special                    D．heavy

47．A．realized                  B．addressed                C．forgotten                D．brought

48．A．invitation                B．apology                  C．instruction                     D．appreciation

49．A．dealing                   B．providing                C．operating                D．starting

50．A．enough                   B．some                      C．no                          D．more

51．A．admitting                B．relating                   C．examining               D．waiting

52．A．leave                      B．shout                      C．guess                      D．conduct

53．A．window                  B．doorway                 C．library                    D．yard

54．A．in case                   B．now that                 C．even if                    D．as if

55．A．anything                 B．everything                     C．nothing                   D．something

—How do the shops make money if they sell at such low prices?

—Manufacturers, it seems, are willing to bring down prices _______ big volume purchases.

A. under the name of                                        B. on behalf of     

C. in return for                                                    D. in preparation for

With your brother’ s help, I’ve made great progress in English and I really want to do something for him _____.

A .in turn         B. by turns      C. in return         D. in answer

II．完形填空：（每小题1．5分, 满分30分）

         阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16到35各题所给的四个选项选出最佳答案。

         Outside our hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, an old woman waited beside door with her hand outstretched．Every day I put my hand in hers as our eyes met．She never failed to__16__ smile, my grasp, and my greeting．

         On the last day of our visit, I found myself__17__on a busy corner across the street from our hotel．Bicycles and motorbikes rushed in front of me．We had been advised to walk__18__ through the crowded traffic without looking right or left．Let them__19__ us．

         __20__tonight I was by myself and felt uncertain to__21__ the flood of vehicles．As I __22__ on the roadside．I felt a hand on my elbow and looked__23__to see the smile of my small beggar friend looking up at me．She nodded her head toward the street__24__ that she would take me across．Together, we moved slowly into the disorder．

         When we__25__ the corner of the crossing, I looked down at her again, and couldn’t help saying, “You have the most beautiful smile in the world．”

She__26__knew little English, but must have__27__ the tone, for she threw both arms around me in a big hug while the__28__streamed by us on both sides．

Then we__29__ moved on toward the sidewalk, where she pulled my face down to hers, kissed me on both cheeks, and then walked away,__30__smiling and waving back to me．

I had not given her a single__31__．But we had__32__ something much more important---a warming of hearts in friendship．

This__33__ reminded me of something Mother Teresag once said, “ If you cannot do great things, you can do small things with great__34__．” I will always remember this__35__．

16．A．receive       B．accept        C．return                  D．answer

17．A．alone B．away C．off                D．aside

18．A．purposefully       B．straight      C．actively                D．carefully

19．A．miss   B．avoid C．separate             D．dismiss

20．A．And    B．So       C．But              D．Therefore

21．A．see     B．meet C．face             D．witness

22．A．moved        B．wandered  C．hesitated            D．wondered

23．A．up       B．back   C．down          D．forward

24．A．explaining  B．marking     C．meaning              D．expressing

25．A．covered      B．reached     C．touched               D．hit

26．A．actually      B．obviously   C．generally             D．personally

27．A．recognized         B．required     C．misunderstood           D．achieved

28．A．customers B．strangers  C．traffic                   D．passengers

29．A．suddenly    B．continuously      C．luckily                   D．unwillingly

30．A．yet     B．even  C．already                D．still

31．A．gift     B．present      C．cake            D．coin

32．A．owed B．owned        C．shared                 D．seized

33．A．exploration         B．experience         C．adventure           D．interview

34．A．love    B．feeling        C．courage               D．pity

35．A．aspect        B．idiom C．sentence             D．lesson