As we drew closer, I could see a whale ____________ by a pack of about six other killers.

A. attacking         B. being attacked       C. attack       D. to attack

On Sunday while I was having my own Father’s Day celebration, I thought about my dad a lot. By the time I called to tell him that I loved him, he had already gone to bed. So I wrote the following to show what my dad means to me.
About 28 years ago, my dad was a used car salesman. Every Thursday night, he would head off to Shreveport, LA for the auction（拍卖会）. Most of the time, I drove a car over there for him so he could sell it there.
One day, I was riding with my dad to Shreveport for the auction when he found a hitchhiker（搭车者）with a backpack. As soon as dad saw him, he pulled the car over and offered him a ride. Dad asked him his name and continued to talk to him about all sorts of things. I can’t recall why but he told dad a lot of terrible things that had occurred to him. I sat in the back seat and watched the scene with amazement. I could see that the hitchhiker changed his attitude as he could tell someone who was really listening to him.
We drove another forty-five minutes before we had to exit the interstate（州际公路）. We pulled over and dad told him to keep his head up and things would start looking up for him soon. He reached into his pocket and handed the hitchhiker a twenty-dollar bill and then a the-dollar bill.
We drove on and my dad did not say a single thing. I was still completely amazed by what I just witnessed. I was always told everyone to never pick up a hitchhiker and yet my dad did it every single time he saw one. I’m sure that it made that poor man’s day, probably a month to follow.
While reflecting upon that story, I learned a lot about my dad and life. I learned that if you come from a place of service or compassion, you can change people’s lives. Just one single kind act can change someone’s life. It never occurred to my dad about not stopping to help him.
This is the type of person my dad is. Thank you for setting such high standards for me to follow.
Dad, I love you. Happy Father’s Day!
【小题1】The author and his dad met a hitchhiker（搭车者）_______.

One of Britain’s bravest women told yesterday how she helped to catch suspected(可疑的) police killer David Bieber--and was thanked with flowers by the police. It was also said that she could be in line for a share of up to ￡30,000 reward money.

Vicki Brown, 30, played a very important role in ending the nationwide manhunt.

Vicki, who has worked at the Royal Hotel for four years, told of her terrible experience when she had to steal into Bieber’s bedroom and to watch him secretly. Then she waited alone for three hours while armed police prepared to storm the building.

She said,” I was very nervous. But when I opened the hotel door and saw 20 armed policemen lined up in the car park I was so glad they were there.”

The alarm had been raised because Vicki became suspicious(怀疑) of the guest who checked in at 3 pm the day before New Year’s Eve with little luggage and wearing

sunglasses and a hat pulled down over his face. She said, He didn’t seem to want to talk too much and make any eye contact(接触). Vicki, the only employee on duty, called her bosses Margaret, 64, and husband Stan McKale, 65, who phoned the police at 11 pm.Officers from Northumbria Police called Vicki at the hotel in Dunston, Gateshead, at about 11:30 pm to make sure that this was the wanted man. Then they kept in touch by phoning Vicki every 15 minutes.

“It was about ten past two in the morning when the phone went again and a policeman said ‘Would you go and make yourself known to the armed officers outside?’ My heart missed a beat.”

Vicki quietly showed eight armed officers through passages and staircases to the top floor room and handed over the key.

“I realized that my bedroom window overlooks that part of the hotel, so I went to

watch. I could not see into the man’s room, but I could see the passage. The police kept shouting at the man to come out with his hands showing. Then suddenly he must have come out because they shouted for him to lie down while he was handcuffed(带上手铐).”

1.The underlined phrase “be in line for” (paragraph 1) means _______.

A. get       B. be paid         C. ask for D. own

2.Vicki became suspicious of David Bieber because _______.

A. the police called her    B. he looked very strange

C. he came to the hotel with little luggage

D. he came to the hotel the day before New Year’s Eve

3.Vicki’s heart missed a beat because _________.

A. the phone went again     B. she would be famous

C. the policemen had already arrived  D. she saw 20 policemen in the car park

4.David Bieber was most probably handcuffed in ________.

A. the passage         B. the man’s room C. Vicki’s bedroom    D. the top floor room

5. The whole event probably lasted about _______ hours from the moment Bieber came to the hotel to the arrival of some armed officers.

A. 6  B. 8  C. 11         D. 14

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。 

The sound of the rain hitting the window wakes me up and it sounds just exactly as it did 15 years ago，which reminded me of my girlhood．

It was my second day of  36  and it was raining heavily．I could not   37   the habit I had at home, so I fell asleep right at my  38  ．I woke up to find myself not in the classroom but carried on Dad’s back．We were  39  home．It was the last time I felt  40  to him．

After that, he never carried me or hugged me as other fathers did to their children．I was not bothered much by this  41  ．I was proud of it，for I felt  42  and“grown up．” However, there were times when I felt depressed by not having sought  43  from him．

One day, I was writing Chinese characters as homework．I hated doing this more than anything．Dad came and stood behind me for a moment，  44  me scratching（乱写） the paper．Then he said, “This kind of writing needs  45  ．Your writing is not strong enough．Press harder．”

I followed his  46  for the next two words，but  47  I could see little improvement，I followed my own method-the  48  way．His advice did not improve my writing but our  49 ．As I grew older, I found out that he had finished his  50  in Grade 6, which was the highest grade in town then, so he was considered to be a  51  ．People used to ask him to write something to put on the walls, but he never felt very useful.

He often said to me，“As you can see，this family is going to count on you．We are  52  to provide you anything for your future．You have to get  53  to change the life for yourself．”

As a result of his  54  ，I have  55  it through high school and through college．

1..A. graduation   B．employment      C．college       D．school

2..A．form         B．resist          C．follow        D．break

3..A．dormitory        B．door        C．desk           D．bed

4..A．at        B．already           C．beyond        D．halfway

5..A．close            B．near            C．happy     D．relaxed

6..A．gap          B．thought        C．action        D．accident

7..A．lonely   B．depressed       C．independent   D．comfortable

8..A．comfort      B．help        C．support       D．explanation

9..．A．helping          B．directing     C．watching       D．blaming

10..A．skill      B．patience         C．time            D．practice

11..A．introduction        B．manner          C．spirit    D．advice

12..A．even if         B．while           C．as        D．though

13.．A．difficult          B．slow        C．efficient       D．fast

14..A．relationship        B．friendship      C．thought       D．life

15..A．schooling       B．life           C．hope        D．expectation

16..A．writer      B．scholar       Cscientist    D．specialist

17..tired          B．glad            C．useless          D．ready

18..A．an education    B．a rich boyfriend C．a well-paid job  D．a good writing

19..A．help            B．expectations    C．examination      D．watch

20..A．succeeded       B．got             C．made         D．found

When my first wartime Christmas came, I was in basic training in New Jersey and not sure if I would make it home for the holiday. Only on the afternoon of December 23 was the list of men who would have the three-day holiday posted. I was one of the lucky soldiers. It was Christmas Eve when I arrived home, and a little snow had fallen. Mother opened the front door. I could see beyond her, into the corner of the living room where the tree had always stood. There were lights, colors, and ornaments (饰品) shining against the green of a pine.

    "Where did it come from?" I asked.

    "I asked the Gates boy to cut it," my mother said. "I wouldn't have had one just for myself, but when in great need... such a rush! He just brought it in this afternoon."

    The pine reached to the proper height, almost to the ceiling, and the Tree Top Crystal（水晶）Star was in its place. A few green branches reached out a little awkwardly（难看）at the side, I thought, and there was a bit of bare trunk showing in the middle. But the tree filled the room with warm light and the whole house with the pleasant smell of Christmas.

    "It's not like the one you used to find," my mother went on. "Yours were always in good shape. I suppose the Gates boy didn't know where to look for a better one. But I couldn't be fussy(挑剔的)."

    "Don't worry," I told her. "It's perfect."

    It wasn't, of course, but at the moment I realized something for the first time: All Christmas trees are perfect.

1. What did his mother's Christmas tree look like?    

2. From the passage we can infer (推断) that ________ .

    A. all the soldiers had the three-day holiday      

B. the writer could not go home for Christmas

    C. the writer spent his first Christmas during the war

    D. not all the soldiers went home for Christmas during the war

3. From the passage, we can conclude that ________ .

    A. his mother didn't like Christmas trees  

B. the writer didn't like the tree cut by someone else

    C. the writer used to cut very beautiful Christmas trees

    D. his mother didn't want to have a Christmas tree during wartime

4. The best title for this passage would be ________ .

    A. The Perfect Christmas Tree              

B. How to Choose a Christmas Tree

    C. How Soldiers Spent Their Christmas      

D. A Christmas with an Ugly Christmas Tree

5. What does the writer mean by saying "All Christmas trees are perfect"?

    A. Nothing is as perfect as Christmas.         

B. Once at home, everything is so nice.

    C. During the war, trees are hard to find.     

D. All Christmas trees are the most beautiful.