I got my first driver’s license (执照) in 1953 by taking driver education in my first year at Central High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. Four years later when it was time to renew my license I was a married woman. Henry and I were living in Baltimore, Maryland. Two weeks before my 20th birthday, Henry drove me to the motor vehicle office on a hot July afternoon. When I got to the office and showed to the man behind the counter my North Carolina driver’s license，ready to renew, the man told me that I was under age by Maryland law since I was not yet 21. “Mr. Henry Smith, your husband, will have to sign for you,” he said.

I argued, pointing to a very large belly (肚子) of mine, “I am married. I am having a baby. Why should I have to have someone sign for me to drive?” He answered coldly, “It’s the law, madam.”

Henry encouraged me to calm down, just go ahead and get the license and be done with it. “No,” I said. I refused to have him sign for me. So I left without a Maryland license.

I called the North Carolina Motor Vehicle Office and renewed my NC license by mail — using my name Susan Brown. And thus it was for the next twelve years. Since Henry was in the army I could drive under my home state license. By the time Henry left the army we were once again living in Maryland, and I had to take the Maryland driver’s exam. Since then I just go in and renew every four years—sign the name Susan Brown, have my new picture taken, and walk out with a license to drive.

1.Susan got her first driver’s license _________.

A. before she got married to Henry      

B. when she was twenty years old

C. after she finished high school     

D. when she just moved to Maryland

2.We can infer from the text that in the U.S. _________.

A. American males should serve in the army      

B. different states my have different laws

C. people have to renew their licenses in their home states

D. women should adopt their husbands’ family names after marriage

A young officer was teaching some old soldiers. They had been in the army for many years and did not like officers, young or old.

They did not think this young officer could tell them anything about how to fight in a war.

Private Jones was nearly sixty years old and had fought in many wars. He had a row of medals on his chest.

“Imagine you are in a battle,” the young officer said to him. “You see seven hundred enemy soldiers coming towards you. What do you do?”

Private Jones thought for a few moments, and then he said, “I shoot them all with my rifle.”

“Now imagine there are seven hundred enemy soldiers coming towards you from the left,” the young officer said, “and seven hundred enemy soldiers coming to you from the right. What do you do?”

“I shoot them with my rifle,” Private Jones answered.

“OK,” the young officer went on, trying to get the answer he wanted, “but what if there are a thousand enemy soldiers coming at you from the right, a thousand coming at you from the left, and another thousand coming straight towards you. What do you do now?”

“I shoot them with my rifle,” Private Jones replied.

“But where are you getting all the bullets from?” the young officer demanded.

Private Jones smiled. “From the same place you are getting all those enemy soldiers.”

What was the young officer supposed to do?

Train the soldiers.          B. Attack the soldiers.

C.  Shoot the soldiers.         D. Like the soldiers.

What was Private Jones doing in the story?

Answering questions.            B. Shooting the enemy.

C.   Getting a lot of bullets.        D. Showing off his medals.

At the end of the story the young officer was probably__________.

A．pleased with Private Jones    B．annoyed with Private Jones

C．delighted with Private Jones   D．frightening Private Jones

I shall never forget the night, a few years ago, when Marion J. Douglas was a student in one of my adult-education classes. He told us how tragedy had struck at his home, not once, but twice. The first time he had lost his five-year-old daughter. He and his wife thought they couldn’t bear that first loss; but, as he said, “Ten months later, God gave us another little girl and she died in five days.”

This double bereavement was almost too much to bear. “I couldn’t take it,” this father told us. “I couldn’t sleep, eat, rest or relax. My nerves were entirely shaken and my confidence gone.” At last he went to the doctors: one recommended sleeping pills and another recommended a trip, but neither helped. He said, “My body felt as if it was surrounded in a vice(大钳子), and the jaws of the vice were being drawn tighter and tighter.” The tension of grief(悲伤) --- if you have ever been paralyzed(使瘫痪) by sorrow, you know what the meant.

“But thank God, I had one child left --- a four-year-old son. He gave me the solution to the problem. One afternoon as I sat around feeling sorry for myself, he asked, ‘Daddy, will you build a boat for me?’ I was in no mood to build a boat; in fact, I was in no mood to do anything. But my son is a persistent fellow! I had to give in. Building that toy boat took me about three hours. By the time it was finished, I realized that those three hours spent building that boat were first hours of mental relaxation and peace that I had had in months! I realized that it is difficult to worry while you are busy doing something that requires planning and thinking. In my case, building the boat had knocked worry out of the ring. So I determined to keep busy.”

“The following night, I made a list of jobs that ought to be done. Scores of items needed to be repaired. Amazingly, I had made a list of 242 items that needed attention. During the last two years I have completed most of them. I am so busy now that I have no time for worry.”

No time for worry! That is exactly what Winston Churchill said when he was working eighteen hours a day at the height of the war. When he was asked if he worried about his huge responsibilities, he said, “I am too busy. I have no time for worry.”

The underlined word “bereavement” in the second paragraph refers to _________.

Marion felt his body as if it was caught in a vice because _________.

Marion made a list of over 200 items that needed to be repaired because _________.

At the end of the passage, the author wrote about Winston Churchill in order to ________.

D. make it clear how his conclusion was reached

Some people would go through anything just to achieve their dream. Kasia Siwosz is proof. For the final year student on the university women’s tennis team, the road to Berkeley, University of California was met with poor advice and misinformation from her home country and two unsuccessful stops along the way that fell short of expectations.

    Born in Poland, Siwosz began playing tennis at seven years old and developed the skills that helped her earn a top-50 ranking among the ITF Junior division (国际网球联会青少年赛).. Siwosz wanted to do more with her life than just play tennis, which led her to seek chances that would also allow her to obtain a top education. While most who grow up in the U.S. are naturally accustomed to the American tradition of collegiate (大学的) sports, such a custom is not as familiar in a country like Poland. “There’s no collegiate sports in Poland and no culture of sports and academic (学术的) study there. You can only do one, not both,” Siwosz said.

    Her desire to have a quality education led her to America to follow her dream. While Siwosz was talented enough to begin her collegiate tennis career, she could only attend community college because she missed the deadline to apply to four-year schools, mainly due to misinformation provided in her home country of Poland.

    When she had earned all her credits and was able to transfer (转学), Siwosz made the decision to attend Baylor in Texas. Her friends from Poland put in a good word for the university, saying that it was a good fit because there were many international players at Baylor. “I thought it would be a good idea, but it really wasn’t what I thought it would be,” Siwosz said. “I wasn’t happy at Baylor. The level of tennis was high, but the academic standards were no match and I just wanted more.”

    After one year at Baylor, Siwosz’s luck finally began to change when she made the decision to transfer to Berkeley, which was due in large part to Lee, a former Berkeley student. Lee, who is a keen tennis player himself, met Siwosz four years ago in Texas. “I knew she was unhappy there,” he said. “I saw the opportunity for her to come here.” Siwosz visited Lee in Berkeley. “I ended up loving this place and this school,” Siwosz said. “I came here a lot over the summer, I gave it a shot and I ended up with a Berkeley education and a spot on one of the best college tennis teams in the country.”

What does “two unsuccessful stops” (Paragraph 1) refer to?

A. Poland and the U.S.

B. Baylor and Berkeley.

C. The community college and Baylor.

D. The ITF Junior division and the Berkeley tennis team.

Why did Siwosz want to leave her homeland for America?

A. Poland had no culture of sports.

B. Berkeley had always been her dream university.

C. She wanted to play tennis and have a good education.

D. She wanted to improve her tennis skills and get a higher ranking.

Why did she leave Baylor?

A. The level of tennis there was not high.

B. It was not suitable for international students.

C. She couldn’t get along with her friends there.

D. She was not satisfied with the education level there.

What is the main idea of the passage?

A. How Siwosz left Poland.

B. How Siwosz realized her dream.

C. How Siwosz became a top tennis player.

D. How Siwosz transferred from Baylor to Berkeley.

       Scott and his companions were terribly disappointed. When they got to the

South Pole, they found the Norwegians（挪威人）had    36     them in the race to be the first ever to reach it. After   37    the British flag at the Pole, they took a photograph of themselves    38    they started the 950-mile journey back.

       The journey was unexpectedly    39     and the joy and excitement about the Pole had gone out of them. The sun hardly    40    . The snow storms always made it impossible to sight the stones they had     41    to mark their way home. To make things    42    . Evans, whom they had all thought of    43     the strongest of the five, fell badly into a deep hole in the ice. Having     44    along for several days, he suddenly fell down and died.

        The four who were     45    pushed on at the best speed they could    46    . Captain Oates had been suffering for some time from his    47     fact; at night his feet swelled（肿胀） so large that he could    48     put his boots on the next morning, and he walked bravely although he was in great    49     . He knew his slowness was making it less likely that      50    could save themselves. He asked them to leave him behind in his sleeping-bag, but they refused, and helped him     51    a few more miles, until it was time to put up the   52      for another night.

     The following morning,     53    the other three were still in their sleeping-bags, he said. “I am just going outside and may be     54     some time.” He was never seen again. He had walked out    55     into the snow storm, hoping that his death would help his companions.

36．A．hit                           B．fought            C．won                         D．beaten

37．A．growing           B．putting           C．planting                  D．laying

38．A．after                 B．until            C．while                           D．before

39．A．safe                          B．fast             C．short                          D．slow

40．A．rose                 B．set            C．appeared                    D．disappeared

41．A．taken up           B．cut up                 C．set up                  D．picked up

42．A．easier               B．better           C．bitter                       D．worse

43．A．to                            B．upon           C．as                      D．in

44．A．battled             B．struggled           C．speeded                    D．waited

45．A．left                          B．lost             C．defeated                   D．saved

46．A．manage            B．try               C．employ                      D．find

47．A．ached                B．frozen          C．harden                     D．harmed

48．A．hardly              B．never          C．seldom                      D．nearly

49．A．pain                 B．fear           C．trouble                       D．danger

50．A．all others          B．some others   C．others                   D．the others

51．A．away                         B．with           C．off                       D．on

52．A．bed                           B．tent        C．blanket              D．sleeping-bag

53．A．while                        B．since          C．for                       D．once

54．A．missed             B．separated        C．passed                D．gone

55．A．patiently           B．lonely          C．alone                         D．worriedly