A few years ago, I moved into a new house in Los Angeles. Soon after, a family moved in next door. It wasn’t the best of times for me. I had just divorced(离婚) from my second wife, and I wasn’t working. I’d come home each day and sit by myself in the backyard. One night, I heard someone from the yard next door, “Tom ! How are you, Tom? ” 
I couldn’t see anybody through the trees, but I answered, “I’ m good.”
“Good!” said the voice.
“What’s your name?” I asked.
“Eric.” Then I heard someone say, “Eric, don’t bother him.”
“Okay!” Eric said. “Talk to you tomorrow!”                                                                           
Months later, on Halloween, we finally met face to face. Eric came to the door dressed like a rap star. We became friends. We’d hang out in our yards, and Eric, who was almost 17 at the time and look liked a 13-year-old, would tell me his ideas and dreams. Eric’s dad, Alec Gores, is a billionaire(亿万富翁), the head of Gores Technology Group.
One day, Alec called me and said, “I know you are an actor. My son’s an actor, too. And he’s very good. I want you to write a movie for him. He wants to do something like True lies.” That’s the movie I made in 1994. His father has given Eric the great gif of confidence. He believes he can do anything he wants. He also offered to fund the movie. And that’s how The Kid & I, which opens in November, began.
Well, I really have to say that opportunity(机会)lies anywhere.
【小题1】What do we learn about the writer when he had just moved into his new house in Los Angele?

Back in the 15th century, in a tiny village in Germany, lived a family with eighteen children．Eighteen! In order 36　 to keep food on the table, the father, a goldsmith by profession worked almost eighteen hours____37__ day at his trade．Despite their seemingly　 38 condition, two of the eldest children had a dream．They both wanted to pursue their talent for art. 39 , they knew well that their father would never be able to 40 either of them to study at the Academy．

After many long discussions at night in their 41 bed, the two boys finally worked out a pact．They would toss （掷） a coin．The 　42 　would go down into the nearby mines and, with his earnings, 　43 his winning brother for the academy．Then, in four years, he would support the other one．Then Albrecht Durer won the toss and 44 Nuremberg．Albert went down into the dangerous mines and, for the next four years, 　45 his brother, whose work at the academy was almost an immediate sensation.By the time he graduated, he was beginning to　 46 considerable fees for himself．

When the young artist　 47 home and said to his brother, "And now, Albert, blessed brother of mine, now it is your 　48　 . Now you can go to the Academy to pursue your dream, and I will 49 you．"

Albert rose and wiped the 50 　from his cheeks．"No, brother．I cannot go to Nuremberg．It is too 51　 for me．Look…look what four years in the mines have done to my 52 ! I cannot even hold a glass, much less make delicate lines on canvas　 53 a pen or a brush．"

More than 450 years have 54 ．By now, among Albrecht Durer's hundreds of masterful portraits, "The Praying Hands" is one 55　 creation that can catch the world's hearts．

36.A．fully　 　　　　　　　　　 B．merely 　　　　　　 C．completely 　　　　　　 D．entirely

37.A．a　　　　　　 　　　 B．every　　　 　　 C．one 　　　　　　　　　　 D．each

38.A．demanding　　　　　　　　 B．promising　　　　　 C .careless 　　　　　　　　 D.hopeless　　

39.A．Therefore　　　　　　　　 B．And　　　　　　　　　 C.However 　 　　　　　 D．But

40.A．study　　　　　　　　　　　 B．give　　　　　　　　　 C．send　　 　 　　　　　 D．offer

41.A．separated　　　　　　　　 B．messy　　　　　　　C．crowded　　　　　　　　 D．unusual

42.A．loser　　　　　　　　　　　　 B.winner　　　　　　　　 C．old　　　　　　　　　　　　 D．younger

43.A．advertise　　　　　　　　　 B.support 　　　　　　　 C．expect　 　 　　　　　　 D．require

44.A．flew away to　　　　　　 B.left behind　　 C．left from 　　　　　　 D．went off to

45.A．deserved　　　　　　　　　 B.financed　　　　　　　 C．desired 　 　　　　　　 D．envied

46.A．earn　　　 　　　　　　 B.save　　　　　　　　　　 C．draw　　 　 　　　　　　 D．spend

47.A．arrived　　　　　　　　　　 B.returned　　　　　　　 C．reached 　　　　　　　　 D．got

48.A．fate 　　　　　　　　　　　 B.time　　　　　　　　　　 C．top 　　 　　　　　　　 D．turn

49.A．take charge of　　　　　 B.make up for　　　　 C．take care of　 　　　 D．make use of

50.A．smiles　　　　　　　　　　　 B.sweats　　　　　　　　 C．tears 　 　　　　　　　　 D．hints

51.A．latter　　　　　　　　　　　　 B.latest　　　　　　　　　 C．later　　 　　　　　　　 D．late

52.A．hands 　　　　　　　　　　 B.eyes 　　　　　　　　　 C．pictures 　 　　　　　　 D．mines

53.A．with　　　　　　　　　　　　 B.by　　　　　　　　　　　 C．through　　 　　　　　 D．in

54.A．remembered 　　　　　　 B.kept　　　　　　　　　　 C．passed　　 　　　　 D．changed

55.A．mysterious　　　　　　　 B.innocent　　　　　　　 C．skillful 　　　　　　　　　 D．touching

Through a series of experiments an American scientist has gained an understanding of the social structure of the most complex of ant societies. The ants examined are the only creatures other than man to have given up hunting and collecting for a completely agricultural way of life. In their underground nests they plant gardens on soils made from finely cut leaves. This is a complex operation requiring considerable division of labor. The workers of this type of ant can be divided into four groups according to size. Each of the groups performs a particular set of jobs.   

The making and care of the gardens and the nursing of the young ants are done by the smallest workers. Slightly larger workers are responsible for cutting leaves to make them suitable for use in the gardens and for cleaning the nest. A third group of still larger ants do the construction work and collect fresh leaves from outside the nest. The largest are soldier ants, responsible for defending the nest.

To find out how good the various size - groups are at different tasks, the scientist measured the amount of work done by the ants against the amount of energy they used. He examined first the gathering and carrying of leaves. He selected one of the size groups, and then measured how efficiently these ants could find leaves and run back to the nest. Then he repeated the experiment for each of the other size groups. In this way he could see whether any group could do the job more efficiently than the group normally undertaking it. 

The intermediate-sized (中等的) ants that normally perform this task proved to be the most efficient for their energy costs, but when the scientist examined the whole set of jobs performed by each group of ants, it appeared that some sizes of worker ants were not suited to the particular jobs they performed .

1．According to the passage, the ants______.

A．grow something in their nests             B．go hunting for a living

C．cut leaves to make a fire                  D．do each of the jobs all together

2．It is observed that slightly larger ants perform more of the______.

      A．construction tasks                      B．defensive work

      C．household tasks                         D．dangerous work

3．The underlined word "good" means ______.

      A．co-operating       B．efficient            C．hardworking      D．responsible

4．The experiments made by the scientist were based on ______.

      A．special methods                         B．scientific theories

       C．personal interests                    D．systematic observations

There was a time in my life when beauty meant something special to me. I guess that would have been when I was about six or seven years old, just several weeks or maybe a month before the orphanage（孤儿院）turned me into an old man．
I would get up every morning at the orphanage, make my bed just like the little soldier that I had become and then I would get into one of the two straight lines and march to breakfast with the other twenty or thirty boys who also lived in my dormitory.
After breakfast one Saturday morning I returned to the dormitory and saw the house parent chasing the beautiful monarch butterflies who lived by the hundreds in the bushes scattered around the orphanage.
I carefully watched as he caught these beautiful creatures, one after another, and then took them from the net and then stuck straight pins through their head and wings，pinning them onto a heavy cardboard sheet．
How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty. I had walked many times out into the bushes，all by myself, just so the butterflies could land on my head，face and hands so I could look at them up close.
When the telephone rang the house parent laid the large cardboard paper down on the back cement（水泥）step and went inside to answer the phone. I walked up to the cardboard and looked at the one butterfly who he had just pinned to the large paper. It was still moving about so I reached down and touched it on the wing causing one of the pins to fall out．It started flying around and around trying to get away but it was still pinned by the one wing with the other straight pin．Finally its wing broke off and the butterfly fell to the ground and just trembled.
I picked up the torn wing and the butterfly and I spat on its wing and tried to get it to stick back on so it could fly away and be free before the house parent came back．But it would not stay on him.
【小题1】The author set the living butterfly free because_______.

A young man stole into a room through an open window. He 1 through all the room, but he didn’t find any money 　2 a bankbook（存折）. He thought, “If I have some credentials （证件）of the 　3 , I’ll be able to get the money in the bank. ” Suddenly to his 4 , he caught sight of an identity card（身份证）on the 　5 of the desk just before him. So he snatched it quickly and rushed to the bank with 　6 .

7 the bankbook and the identity card, the woman clerk in the bank was so 　8 that her face suddenly turned 　9 and she sat there dumbfounded（发呆）for a minute. But she tried the best to hide her 　10 , and then in a 　11 voice said to the uncommon man, “Excuse me, can you tell me what is the 　12 between you and the owner of the bankbook?” Being so 　13 ,the young man who was waiting turned red：“He…he…oh, sorry, I 　14 she…she is my wife…” “Now I see,”said the woman clerk, and almost at the time, she gave a quick 15 on a button. Immediately an aged policeman came out of a side room.

“Come along with me, young man! ” said the policeman.

　 “What’s the matter?” the man 　16 back in a cold voice.

　 “Look at this!”it was a woman’s angry voice.

　 The man couldn’t 17 looking up and to his surprise he found 18 was the woman clerk who was holding the identity card 19 her face. Also, the photo on it suggested she happened to be the 20 owner of the bankbook.

1．A．searched　　 B．got　　　　 C．walked　　　 D．examined

2．A．for　　　　　 B．of　　　　　 C．or　　　　　 D．but

3．A．house　　　　 B．room　　　　 C．bank　　　　 D．owner

4．A．surprise　　 B．joy　　　　 C．sorrow　　　 D．interest

5．A．bottom　　　 B．back　　　　 C．surface　　 D．side

6．A．pleasure　　 B．excitement　 C．satisfaction D．difficulty

7．A．Handing over B．Taking over C．Handing in　 D．Taking out

8．A．frightened　 B．disappointed C．excited　　 D．surprised

9．A．cold　　　　 B．pale　　　　 C．red　　　　 D．bright

10．A．bankbook　　 B．card　　　　 C．expression　 D．money

11．A．loud　　　　 B．calm　　　　　 C．soft　　　 D．low

12．A．difference　 B．trouble　　 C．matter　　　 D．relation

13．A．doubted　　 B．asked　　　 C．looked at　 D．shouted at

14．A．think　　　 B．suppose　　 C．mean　　　　 D．believe

15．A．knock　　　 B．beat　　　　 C．touch　　　 D．strike

16．A．looked　　　 B．talked　　　 C．fought　　　 D．quarreled

17．A．stop　　　　 B．keep　　　　 C．mind　　　　 D．help

18．A．that　　　　 B．she　　　　 C．which　　　 D．it

19．A．over　　　　 B．upward　　　 C．beside　　　 D．behind

20．A．only　　　　 B．very　　　　 C．just　　　　 D．best