Nick Petrels is a doctor in Montreal. He works 60 hours a week. He takes care of 159 patients a week in the hospital and at his office. He's been a doctor for ten years.

     Dr. Petrels gives his patients good medical advice. But he doesn't just tell his patients what to do. He also sings to them on television! Dr. Petrels has his own TV show. The show is in Italian, English and French. The doctor starts the show with a song and then gives medical advice. He explains a medical problem or disease in simple language. After that, he sings another song.

     Dr. Petrels produces and performs in his own show every week. The program is very popular with his patients and those people who enjoy his singing. His dream is to perform in Las Vegas. His favorite songs are love songs, and he has a compact disk of love songs that he wrote. Dr. Petrels says, "I always love to sing. All my problems are gone when I sing." But when Dr. Petrels was young, his father didn't want him to be a singer, so he went to medical school.

      Some people tell Dr. Petrels he can help people more as a doctor. But Dr. Petrels says he helps people when he sings, too. "I like to make people smile. Sometimes it's difficult to make a sick person smile. Medicine and entertainment both try to do the same thing. They try to make people feel good."

3l. Why is Dr. Petrels called a singing doctor?

  A. Because he has been a doctor for ten years    B. Because he always loved to sing

  C. Because he is popular with his patients   D. Because he also sings to his patients on TV

32. In his TV show, what does Dr. Petrel do?

  A. He sings and gives medical advice       B. He sings about different diseases

  C. He starts to explain diseases with a song  D. He sings love songs he wrote

33. What's the purpose of what Dr. Petrels do?

  A. To help people sing                   B. To make people feet better

  C. To do the same thing                  D. To make difficult people smile

Sam is twenty-seven now. He’s tall and strong. He worked hard in the small field. He’s known a girl called Mabel for three years, who lives in another village. He wishes she could marry him soon, but she won’t marry him until he has built a new house. He hasn’t enough money. Of course it’s difficult for him to do so.

Winter had come and the fields were covered with thick snow. Sam had nothing to do at home. Mabel told him to find some temporary employment in the town. He thought she was right and came to Mr White’s factory, where he carried stones from the hill to the workplaces. It was hard work but he was paid more. At the end of the month Mr White paid the young man nearly two thousand dollars. He was very happy. He hurried to the post office, but it was closed. He had a look at the clock on the wall. It was half past five, and he was told to go there the next morning. He had to return to the factory. He felt hungry and went into a restaurant and ate something. He didn’t see a thief following him, and as soon as he sat at table, the man sat down next to him and asked him to drink a cup with him. He agreed and drank a lot. And when he woke up two hours later, his money was stolen. He was sad of it and cried for a long time.

The following day Mr White saw the young man’s eyes were red and asked what had happened to him. He told him about it and at last he said, “I worked for the thief last month!”

根据材料内容选择最佳答案，将其标号填入题前括号内。

1.Mabel doesn’t marry Sam because _______.

2.Mabel asked Sam to ______.

3.The underlined word “temporary employment” means _______.

4.Sam went the post office to _____.

5.The money was stolen when ______.

阅读短文，按要求完成短文后的各项任务。（本大题共5小题，满分10分）

There are many advantages and disadvantages for being a musician.

The biggest advantage is being able to do something you love. (1)You will have the        chance to travel to many different ______ and meet a lot of different ______. That will open up your eyes.

However, there are also disadvantages of being a professional(专业的) musician. (2)One of the biggest disadvantages for most musicians is that they don’t always have enough money. Most of the time, you will be looking for jobs. Sometimes you won’t be able to find a good job easily. Another disadvantage is the place you live in. If you want to be a musician, you usually have to move to an area that has a lot of jobs, such as New York City. The cost of living in these areas is usually very high. The third disadvantage is that you can’t have a stable（稳定的） family life. Different jobs will take a musician to different places, so most musicians are unable to have a regular family.

1.在(1) 空白处分别填入一个适当的词使句意完整、上下文通顺。

2.将(2)处的英文翻译成中文

3.在文中找出与It’s difficult for some musicians to find a good job sometimes.的同义句：

4.回答问题：How many disadvantages for being a musician are there in this text?

5.写出文中最能表达该短文主题的句子。

The aim of students who came to school is to study. But to study requires (需要) a right way, or you waste either the time or the money. The following are the ways of studying.

The best time for reading is morning, because in the morning, the air is fresh and the mind is clear. For that reason, we can get good result.

In studying we must have patience (耐心). If we have not known a text well, we must read it again. We should not read the next one till we have learned the first one.

When we are studying, we must put our hearts into the book, or we can get nothing from the book while we are reading.

We must always ask “whys”. If it is not well understood, write it down and ask our teachers or our parents, or friends. In any possible way, we must know it completely and what we’ve learned can be used well and made better.

Though there are many ways for studying, yet the above mentioned will be quite enough if we can keep them in heart and do so.

1.The passage tells us           .

  A. the importance of reading

B. to read in the morning

C. to pay attention to the ways of studying

D. to have patience in studying

2.The passage has taught us           ways for studying.

  A. three          B. four             C. five         D. many

3.We’d better read in the morning because           .

  A. it’s easy to remember what we have learned

B. the air is fresh and the mind is clear

C. it’s difficult to get good results

D we have patience

4.If we can’t put our hearts into the book when we read, it is           .

  A. easy to understand it well

B. better to get something from it

C. impossible for us to get something from it

D. possible to learn something from it

5.In studying we must always ask “whys” in order to           .

  A. understand the book well

B. write down the question

C. do with the new words

D. get some questions to ask our teachers

配对阅读。左栏是对5个学生做演讲时存在问题的描述，请在右栏为每个学生选择一个合适的建议，并将答题卡上对应题目所选的选项涂黑。