At a meeting, a well-known speaker lifted up a bill of 20 dollars before starting his speech.
Facing 200 people, he asked, “Who wants this 20-dollar bill?” A great many hands were put up. Then he continued to say, “I intended to give it to any one of you, but allow me to do a thing before giving it to you.” Suddenly he crumpled （揉）it into a round mass. Then he asked, “Who wants it? ” Still some hands were lifted up.
He asked again, “Well, how could it be if I do it like this?” he threw the bill onto the ground, stepped on it and twisted it. As he picked it up, the bill had become not only dirty but wrinkled.
“Who still wants it?” Still a few people put up their hands.
“My dear friends, you have had a meaningful class. No matter how I treated this bill, you still want it, because it is worth 20 dollars. On your life road, you may be knocked down（击垮） or even broken into pieces by your determination(决心) or unfavorable（不利的） situations. We may feel ourselves worth nothing, but, my darling, remember that whatever happens in the future, you should never lose your value（价值） in the God’s heart. You’re particular ---- never forget it.”
【小题1】The underlined word “wrinkled” in the third paragraph probably means ________.

To write his paper, he tried hard to collect _______ information as he could.  

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NCE Lesson 4
These days, people who    【小题1】   often receive far more money than people who work in offices. People who work in offices are frequently    【小题2】   ‘white collar workers’ for the simple reason that they usually wear a collar and tie to go to work.
  【小题3】 , that a great many people are often willing to    【小题4】   for the privilege of becoming white-collar workers. This can    【小题5】   curious situations, as it did in the case of Alfred Bloggs who worked as a dustman for the Ellesmere Corporation.
Unit 4
However, the attitudes of scientists towards this rise are completely different.
On the one hand, Dr. Foster thinks that any trend in which the temperature increases by 5 degrees would    【小题6】  . She says, “We can’t predict the climate well enough to know
  【小题7】  , but it could be very serious.” Others who agree with her think there may be
  【小题8】   in the sea level, .... On the other hand, there are those, like George Hambley, who    【小题9】   this view and believe that we should not worry about high levels of carbon dioxide in the air. They predict that any warming will be mild with few bad    【小题10】  .

When six the very best students from different cities in Guandong province all together chose universities in Hong Kong; when the very best student of Beijing picked up HK University while giving up the nearby Peking or Tsinghua University; when the highest enrollment （录取）rate of Hong Kong Science and Industry University reached 48:1, it’s the high time to ask where the real education heaven for students in China is.
Years ago, the answer certainly would be “Peking or Tsinghua University”. But now no one could give the exact reaction without hesitation. The only sure thing is that HK universities have gradually showed an unusual attraction to a great many mainland students.
It’s no doubt to call this HK craze（狂热）,which is even out of the expectation of those HK universities themselves.
How can HK universities shake the steady foundations of Peking and Tsinghua and attract so many mainland students?
First, Hong Kong universities offer large-amount scholarship, especially for the top students who can receive the sum scholarship as much as 400,000 HK dollars. Since higher education has become a kind of heavy burden of many families, it’s easy to understand why the reaction to the generous offering of HK universities is great.
Second, most HK universities receive professors and students from all over the world and carry out bilingual（双语）education. This kind of excellent language atmosphere is another attraction for mainland students.
Further more, university students in Hong Kong have a better chance to study abroad as exchange students.
Can mainland top universities like Peking or Tsinghua University calm as before when facing the unexpected competition from HK? Will they take relevant measures to win back the top students who once help them set the worldwide reputation? Time will explain it.
The fierce competition brought by HK universities can be a good thing for an entire improvement of education in China. After the awakening and action taking of mainland universities, they can perform better together with HK universities.
At least, it reminded the mainland universities the tuition fees（学费）are among students’ top concern when they are choosing universities. It’s time to move.
【小题1】What is the passage mainly talking about?

A．many students now would love to study aboard to get a better experience.

B．they concern only about the tuition fees when choosing universities.

C．HK universities offer higher scholarship, better environment and more opportunities for their further study.

D．Peking university has lost its worldwide reputation.

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阅读下面一段文章，从A 、B、 C、 D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。
Water costs money.  In some places water is hard  36  . what  37  when a town has these problems ?  A small town in California found a happy  38  .
Very  39  rain ever fell there.  The town had no water  40 .  The water it used was
41  from a river 300 miles away.  As more people  42  live in the town,  43  water was needed.  Now water  44  to be brought in from 600 miles ways.  All these cost  45  money.
The town  46  a plan.  It found  47  to clean its “dirty” water.  Once the cleaned water was reused  48  many ways.  Five  49  lakes was built.  Here people could swim and fish and go  50 .  They  51  have picnics in their new parks.  Farmers had more water
52  their crops.  New factories can be built, now that they have the promise of  53 .
In most places, water is used and thrown  54 .  The town that saved  55  water has saved the town!
36. A. supplying            B. getting                        C. to get                       D. to supply
37. A. happens                 B. happening           C. is happened                 D. happened
38. A. key                    B. answer                        C. answering             D. way
39.   A. little                 B. a little                  C. few                          D. a few
40. A. of itself                 B. of its own                 C. for its own           D. for itself
41. A. fetch                  B. take                         C. brought in            D. guided
42. A. come to                 B. came to                    C. coming to                 D. came for
43. A. many                  B. plenty of                  C. more                        D. many more
44. A. has                    B. had                          C. must                        D. needed
45.   A. many                B. a few                       C. a great many             D. a lot of
46. A. put                        B. made                       C. supply                  D. noticed
47.   A. a way           B. ways                        C. an answer                 D. a key
48. A. for                        B. by                           C. at                               D. in
49. A. man-making     B. man-make            C. man-made            D. man made
50.A. boating            B. to boat                    C. to boating                 D. on boating
51. A. must                   B. could                       C. needed                        D. had to
52. A. as                   B. with                         C. for                           D. to
53. A. water enough      B. enough water            C. crops enough            D. enough crops
54. A. off                        B. of                            C. away                        D. out of
55. A. it’s                        B. its                            C. one’s                   D. his