On a warm Monday, Jenny Neilson bought a sandwich and parked her car under some trees. Rolling down the windows to  41  in fresh air, she settled back to enjoy her lunch. Suddenly she  42  a big bald（秃顶的）man running through the parking lot. Before she came to  43  what would happen, the man was there, shouting through her window, “Get out!”

    Neilson  44.

Pulling open her door, the man seized her  45  the neck and hair, and threw her out of the car onto the ground. She screamed,  46  her purse and the keys.

Two reporters of the local newspaper, Robert Bruce and Jeff Jackson, just outside their office building on a  47, heard the screams and began running .

When they  48  Neilson’s car, the attacker had jumped into the driver’s seat and was  49  searching for the keys. Bruce opened the door, and he and Jackson dragged the man out. The attacker  50  back. But even in his cornered panic, he was no  51  for the two athletic men.

Reggie Miller, a worker of the local newspaper, heard the screams, too. He rushed back to the office to  52  the police, and then ran back with some plastic ropes —— used to tie up newspapers.

With his arms  53  tight behind him, the prisoner looked up and said  54 , “I hope you guys feel good about yourselves—— you just caught one of the most wanted men.” They  55  him and waited for the police.

Later, Bruce and Jackson were shocked to learn the man was the  56  carjacker （劫车者）and suspected murderer, whose  57—— but with a full head of hair—— had been recently printed in their own newspaper.

Neilson considers herself lucky  58  she suffered injuries. She believes the story might have had a  59  ending if those good people had not come to her aid. “Unfortunately,” she said, “many people would  60  have done what they did, and that’ the real truth.”

41. A. bring            B. let              C. gather       D. send

42. A. recognized       B. watched          C. noticed      D. met

43. A. realize          B. understand       C. imagine      D. conclude

44. A. escaped          B. struggled        C. refused      D. obeyed

45. A. by               B. around       C. with             D. on

46. A. burying          B. forgetting   C. offering         D. grabbing

47. A. trip             B. visit        C. break            D. holiday

48. A. started          B. stopped      C. entered          D. reached

49. A. carefully        B. madly        C. disappointedly   D. patiently

50. A. fought           B. turned       C. jumped           D. shouted

51. A. match            B. target       C. equal            D. companion

52. A. remind           B. phone        C. invite           D. beg

53. A. rolled           B. folded       C. bent             D. tied

54. A. angrily          B. kindly       C. coldly           D. warmly

55. A. caught           B. thanked      C. comforted        D. ignored

56. A. ordinary         B. professional C. honest           D. outstanding

57. A. picture          B. background   C. character        D. story

58. A. and              B. but          C. though           D. when

59. A. ridiculous       B. similar      C. strange          D. different

60. A. sometimes        B. never        C. often            D. forever

On a warm Monday, Jenny Neilson bought a sandwich and parked her car under some trees. Rolling down the windows to __41__in fresh air, she settled back to enjoy her lunch. Suddenly she __42__a big bald(秃顶的)man running through the parking lot. Before she __43__what would happen, the man was there, shouting through window. “Get out!”

Neilson__44__.

Pulling open her door, the man seized her __45__the neck and hair, and threw her out of the car onto the ground. She screamed __46__her purse and the keys.

Two reporters of the local newspaper, Robert Bruce and Jeff Jackson, just outside their office building on a __47__, heard the screams and began running.

When they __48__Neilson’s car, the attacker had jumped into the driver’s seat and was __49__ searching for the keys. Bruce opened the door, and he and Jackson dragged the man out. The attacker __50__ back. But even in his cornered panic, he was no__51__for the two athletic men.

Reggie Miller, a worker of the local newspaper, heard the screams, too. He rushed back to the office to__52__the police, and then ran back with some plastic ropes―used to tie up newspapers.

With his arms__53__tightly behind him, the prisoner looked up and said __54__. “I hope you guys feel good about yourselves―you just caught one of the most wanted men.” They __55__him and waited for the police.

Later, Bruce and Jackson were shocked to learn the man was the __56__carjacker(劫车者)and suspected murderer,whose__57__--but with a full head of hair―had been recently printed in their own newspaper.

Neilson considers herself lucky __58__she suffered injuries. She believes the story might have had a __59__ending if those good people had not come to her aid. “Unfortunately,”she says,“many people would__60__have done what they did ,and that is the real truth.”

In 1974, after filling out fifty applications, going through four interviews, and winning one offer, I look what I could get — a teaching job at what I considered a distant wild area: western New Jersey. My characteristic optimism was alive only when I reminded myself that I would be doing what I had wanted to do since I was fourteen 一 teaching English.

School started, but I felt more and more as if I were in a foreign country. Waa this rural area really New Jersey? My students a week off when hunting season began. I was told they were also frequently absent in late October to help their fathers make hay on the farms. I was a young woman from New York City, who thought that “Make hay while the sun shines” just meant to have a good time.

But, still, I was teaching English. I worked hard, taking lime off only to eat and sleep. And then there was my sixth-grade class 一 seventeen boys and five girls who were only six yean younger than me. I had a problem long before I knew it. I was struggling in my work as a young idealistic teacher. I wanted to make literature come alive and lo promote a love of the written word. The students wanted to throw spitballs and whisper dirty words in the back of the room.

In college I had been taught that a successful educator should ignore bad behavior. So I did, confident that, as the textbook had said, the bad behavior would disappear as I gave ray students positive attention. It sounds reasonable, but the text evidently ignored the fact that humans, particularly teenagers, rarely seem reasonable. By the time ray boss, who was also ray taskmaster known to be the strictest, most demanding, most quick to fire inexperienced teachers, came into the classroom to observe me, the students exhibited very little good behavior to praise.

My boss sat in the back of the room. The boys in the class were making animal noises, hitting each other while the girls filed their nails or read magazines. I just pretended it all wasn’t happening, and went on lecturing and tried to ask some inspiring questions. My boss, sitting in the back of the room, seemed to be growing bigger and bigger. After twenty minutes he left, silently. Visions of unemployment marched before my eyes.

I felt mildly victorious that I got through the rest of class without crying, but at my next free period I had to face him. I wondered if he would let me finish out the day. I walked to his office, took a deep breath, and opened the door.

He was sitting in his chair, and he looked at me long and hard. I said nothing. All I could think of was that I was not an English teacher; I had been lying to myself, pretending that everything was fine.

When he spoke, he said simply, without accusation, “You had nothing to say to them.”

“You had nothing to say to them," he repeated. “No wonder they’re bored. Why not get to the meal of the literature and stop talking about symbolism. Talk with them, not at them. And more important, why do you ignore their bad behavior?” We talked. He named ray problems and offered solutions. We role-played. He was the bad student, and I was the forceful, yet, warm, teacher.

As the year progressed, we spent many hours discussing literature and ideas about human beings and their motivations. He helped me identify my weaknesses and my strengths. In short, he made a teacher of me by teaching me the reality of Emerson's words: “The secret to education lies in respecting the pupil.”

Fifteen years later I still drive that same winding road to the same school. Thanks to the help I received that difficult first year, the school is my home now.

55. It can be inferred from the story that in 1974 ______.

A. the writer became an optimistic person

B. the writer was very happy about her new job

C. it was rather difficult to get a job in the USA

D. it was easy to get a teaching job in New Jersey

56. According to the passage, which of the following is most probably the writer’s problem as a new teacher?

A. She had blind trust in what she learnt at college.

B. She didn’t ask experienced teachers for advice.

C. She took too much time off to eat and sleep.

D. She didn’t like teaching English literature.

57. What is the writer’s biggest worry after her taskmaster's observation of her class?

A. She might lose her teaching job.

B. She might lose her students’ respect.

C. She couldn’t teach the same class any more.

D. She couldn’t ignore her students’ bad behavior any more.

58. Which of the following gives the writer a sense of mild victory?

A. Her talk about symbolism sounded convincing.

B. Her students behaved a little better than usual.

C. She managed to finish the class without crying.

D. She was invited for a talk by her boss after class.

59. The students behaved badly in the writer's classes because ______.

A. they were eager to embarrass her

B. she didn't really understand them

C. they didn't regard her as a good teacher

D. she didn’t have a good command of English

60. The taskmaster’s attitude towards the writer after his observation of her class can be best described as ______.

A. cruel but encouraging                        B. fierce but forgiving

C. sincere and supportive                       D. angry and aggressive

In 2007, the first solar electric boat crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Now a Swiss group wants to cover that distance and keep going, circling the globe on nothing but the sun’s power for the first time.

The team of engineers and scientists has started the building of its 98-foot long boat, named Planet Solar, in Kiel Germany. The boat’s power will come from the 5,000 square feet of solar panels（电池板）, about the size of two tennis courts, covering its broad deck. When the sun is shining bright above, they will turn 23 percent of the sun’s rays to energy — six percent more than average solar panels.

Even though batteries aboard Planet Solar can store enough energy to power it through up to three days of cloudy weather, the sailors will try to avoid clouds: constant communication with the French meteorological institute, Meteo France, will help the sailors stay with the sunny course.

The $11.5 million project, which is led by Raphael Domjan, should be ready for its first voyage next summer. The solar electric boat will warm up in European waters, and attempt to deal with traveling around the globe in spring 2011. At a maximum speed of 16 mph, Planet Solar will be the fastest solar electric boat. The team expects to finish the first leg of its journey across the Atlantic in about two weeks, compared to the six months the solar boat took back in 2007.

If sailing by sun becomes practical, it would be a return to the green boating methods of the days of Christopher Columbus. Those long-ago voyages relied only on a different type of renewable energy: wind. And, if wind-powered sails could be combined with solar panels, we might really pick up the boating speed.

57. Which of the following is NOT true about Planet Solar?

A. Its deck is covered by solar panels.

B. It will be the fastest solar electric boat.

C. It is 98-foot long and is to be made in Germany.

D. It can turn 17 percent of the sun’s rays into energy.

58. Planet Solar will be likely to __________ in continuous rainy weather.

A. continue traveling forward

B. ask the local weather station for help

C. stop to wait for the weather to clear up

D. turn to Meteo France for help to choose the sunny course

59. What can be inferred from the passage?

         A. Sailing by solar energy has not been widely used in today’s green boating.

         B. Planet Solar will be the first boat to circle the globe using solar energy in 2011.

         C. The solar panels in Planet Solar can turn more sunlight to energy than average ones.

         D. Batteries aboard Planet Solar can be consumed for at most three days of cloudy weather.

60. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Planet Solar uses solar energy all over the world.

B. Planet Solar aims to be the first to circle the globe.

C. Planet Solar collects a different kind of renewable energy.

D. Planet Solar combines traditional methods with modern technology.

In 2007, the first solar electric boat crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Now a Swiss group wants to cover that distance and keep going, circling the globe on nothing but the sun’s power for the first time.

The team of engineers and scientists has started the building of its 98-foot long boat, named Planet Solar, in Kiel Germany. The boat’s power will come from the 5,000 square feet of solar panels（电池板）, about the size of two tennis courts, covering its broad deck. When the sun is shining bright above, they will turn 23 percent of the sun’s rays to energy — six percent more than average solar panels.

Even though batteries aboard Planet Solar can store enough energy to power it through up to three days of cloudy weather, the sailors will try to avoid clouds: constant communication with the French meteorological institute, Meteo France, will help the sailors stay with the sunny course.

The $11.5 million project, which is led by Raphael Domjan, should be ready for its first voyage next summer. The solar electric boat will warm up in European waters, and attempt to deal with traveling around the globe in spring 2011. At a maximum speed of 16 mph, Planet Solar will be the fastest solar electric boat. The team expects to finish the first leg of its journey across the Atlantic in about two weeks, compared to the six months the solar boat took back in 2007.

If sailing by sun becomes practical, it would be a return to the green boating methods of the days of Christopher Columbus. Those long-ago voyages relied only on a different type of renewable energy: wind. And, if wind-powered sails could be combined with solar panels, we might really pick up the boating speed.

57. Which of the following is NOT true about Planet Solar?

A. Its deck is covered by solar panels.

B. It will be the fastest solar electric boat.

C. It is 98-foot long and is to be made in Germany.

D. It can turn 17 percent of the sun’s rays into energy.

58. Planet Solar will be likely to __________ in continuous rainy weather.

A. continue traveling forward

B. ask the local weather station for help

C. stop to wait for the weather to clear up

D. turn to Meteo France for help to choose the sunny course

59. What can be inferred from the passage?

       A. Sailing by solar energy has not been widely used in today’s green boating.

       B. Planet Solar will be the first boat to circle the globe using solar energy in 2011.

       C. The solar panels in Planet Solar can turn more sunlight to energy than average ones.

       D. Batteries aboard Planet Solar can be consumed for at most three days of cloudy weather.

60. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Planet Solar uses solar energy all over the world.

B. Planet Solar aims to be the first to circle the globe.

C. Planet Solar collects a different kind of renewable energy.

D. Planet Solar combines traditional methods with modern technology.