4、In the 1960s, people asked about your astrological sign(星相). In the 1990s, they wanted to know your website. These days, having a web address is almost as important as a street address. Your website is an electronic meeting place for your family, friends and potentially, millions of people around the world. Best of all, you may not have to spend a cent. The Web is filled with all kinds of free services and all it takes is some time and creativity.

       Think of your home page as the starting point of your website. Like the table of contents of a book or a magazine, the home page is the front door. Your site can have one or more pages, depending on how you design it.

       While web pages vary greatly in their design and content, most use a traditional magazine layout. At the top of the page is a banner(大标题) GRAPHIC. Next comes a greeting and a short description of the site. Pictures, texts, and links to other websites follow.

       Before you start building your site, do some planning. Think about whom the site is for and what you want to say. Next, gather up the material that you want to put on the site. Draw a rough layout on a sheet of paper.

       While there are no rules you have to follow, there are a few things to keep in mind:

       Start simply. If you are too ambitious at the beginning, you may never get the site off the ground. You can always add to your site.

Less is better. Most people don’t like to read a lot of text online. Break it into small pieces.

       Smaller is better. Most people connect to the Internet with a modem. Since it can take a long time to download large image files, keep the file sizes small.

       Have the rights. Don’t put any material on your site unless you are sure you can do it legally. Learn the Net’s Copyright Article for more about this.

       Now it’s time to roll up your sleeves and start building. Learning the Net Communities provides tools to help you build your site.

49. The main purpose of the passage is to tell you _____.

A. what a website is like                            B. how to build your own website

       C. how to meet people online                     D. what a website is made up of

50. According to the writer, your website is a place _____.

       A. where you can meet people all around the world B. where you can buy what you want

       C. where you can get free services                       D. where you can meet people on the Internet

51. The purpose of the home page of your website is _____.

       A. to give a list of all the contents of your website      B. to make it look like a front door

       C. to direct people to more of your pages                  D. to design the cover of a book or magazine

52. The writer thinks that if you are too ambitious at the beginning, _____.

       A. your website may leave no space for adding new things

       B. you may never have your website working

       C. you may have no idea how to build your website

       D. you may tire yourself out

3、Don’t go to Kauai. Go to any of the other Hawaiian Islands―Maui, Lanai, the Big Island― but leave Kauai for us. The weather on Kauai is so unpredictable that sometimes it rains all day―in fact, it’s the second-wettest spot on the earth. Yes, there are giant double rainbows all the time, and the sunlight through the clouds is magical. But if you are not interested in these, go somewhere else. You just can’t control the nature on Kauai, and who wants to surrender (屈服) to the nature when you could be at a fine hotel, lying in a comfortable chair next to a swimming pool, with food served upon request?

       So what if Kauai produces surf champions the way Texas produces cowboys? Most of its 300 white-sand beaches are unmarked. Unless you connect with the local people, the hidden spots are hard to find. While Hanalei is the most beautiful town you’ve ever dreamed of, you can forget about discos and clubs. Worse, it doesn’t have one single four-star restaurant. What it does have is the original drive-through places where you pass by a rambutan tree, and pick a piece of fruit.

       Shopping in Kauai? Forget it―unless you are interested in shell necklaces and beautifully carved wood bowls. Kauai is not about pampering. It’s about going natural and finding the nature within you. It’s a do-it-yourself place that offers walking along the coast, diving and swimming in the Pacific Ocean, and lying on the beach.

       Don’t go to Kauai unless you have a lot of time, because there’s only one road, which can be slightly dull. It winds through the beautiful scenery of waterfalls, rivers flowing into the ocean, and taro fields. You have no choice but to look at everything, because the speed limit is 35 m.p.h.

       If you’re not interested in color, don’t bother with Kauai, because that’s what you get―red roads, blue oceans, and a hundred different shades of green. It’s like diving on land. Many people on Kauai believe that this is Lemuria―a lost island in the Atlantic. Can you imagine? Those Hawaiians, surfers, New Agers, and people who love nature and beauty and want a different quality of life―what do they know, anyway? Forget about it―you’re not going to like it. Go somewhere else. Leave Kauai for us.

45. After reading the text, we come to know that it is _____.

A. a piece of shocking news                      B. an exciting story

C. an interesting introduction                     D. a moving advertisement

46. It can be learned from the text that _____.

A. Kauai is an island near the Hawaiian Islands  

B. Kauai is another name of the Hawaiian Islands

C. Kauai is one of the Hawaiian Islands

D. Kauai does not belong to the Hawaiian Islands

47. In the writer’s real opinion, Kauai _____.

A. is not worth visiting at all                      B. is well worth visiting

C. is not a beautiful island                          D. is a dangerous island

48. Who would like to visit Kauai?

A. Those who love nature.                                B. Those who love city life.

C. Those who love the comfort in a fine hotel.    D. Those who love going shopping.

2、Pennsylvania―When Connie Beck and her husband awoke to strange noises last weekend, they thought high winds were rattling their home. What they found was even more unexpected: A deer was taking a bubble bath in their bathtub.

       “I wasn’t exactly dressed for company,” Mrs. Beck said. “We were just waking up.”

       The deer burst through the front door early on Saturday, ran past the couple’s bedroom and into the bathroom. Somehow he managed to turn on the water in the bathtub and knock over a bottle of bubble bath into the bathtub. He then got himself into the bubbly water.

       “You could hear the water running over the kicking,” Beck said.

       The Becks called State Game Commission officials, who arrived with tranquilizers（镇静剂）and a lot of laughter.

       “A guy said, ‘There’s nothing wrong... he’s just in there taking a bubble bath,’” Mrs. Beck said.

       The animal was soon brought under control, removed from the house and released.

       “He was unharmed except for a little cut above the eye,” said Mrs. Beck. “We were also fortunate. There wasn’t much damage, except for the front door, some marks on the tub, and a few hoof prints on the floor.”

41. When did the story take place?

A. On the night of Friday.                           B. On the late night of Saturday.

       C. On the early morning of Saturday.           D. On Sunday evening.

42. When Mrs. Beck said, “I wasn’t exactly dressed for company,” (in Paragraph 3) she _____.

A. was joking about the incident                 B. meant she never liked people to visit

       C. explained she was about to go to work   D. wished she could have new clothes

43. After the animal burst through the door and entered the bathroom, he _____.

       A. managed to cover himself with bubbles   B. kicked over the tub

       C. began to swim in the tub                        D. happened to turn on the bath taps

44. When he was removed from the house, _____.

       A. the deer was set free                            

B. the deer destroyed the tub and the floor

       C. the officials made fun of the couple 

D. the officials discovered the deer was badly injured in the eye

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Like most July days, it was hot. I stepped into a tiny ice-cream shop to cool off with a chocolate ice-cream. It was a very  21  store with little round tables and chairs.

As I entered, I found a very old woman bent over a  22  near the door. Her back was so  23  twisted(扭曲) by some misfortune that her face nearly  24  the tabletop. I sat down  25  her a couple of tables away.

“Poor woman,” I thought. “What does she  26  life ? Why does God let people live so long past their prime（盛年）?”

As I thought, another  27  lady entered the shop and sat down with her. Soon the two of them were  28  childhood days. They talked of how little the shop had changed in 70 years. In minutes, the two of them were shaking with  29　.

I looked again at the first woman, then in the  30  on a nearby wall, catching a picture of myself. I was  31  a dirty shirt. She was well dressed in white, her  32  carefully made up and her hands shining with gold rings. I was  33　. She was laughing, smiling. I was putting the  34  of my life together . She had millions of  35  memories to recall. I sat alone. She was  36  the day with a good friend.  37  I was worried about getting old. She was old, but it wasn’t  38  her. As I left the shop, I  39  my foolish question about God letting people live past their prime. Why, that woman was more  40　, more sensitive to life than I was. Age has not bent her spirit.

22、―Fiona never fails to grasp any chance of promotion.

―She’s a woman of          .

A．ambition   B．attention    C．expectation      D．reputation

21、Thomas Jefferson once said, “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find _________ I work, ________ I have of it.”

A．the harder, the less                      B．the harder, the more   

C．the more hard, the less                D．the more hard, the more

20、The tiger, which we ______dangerous and bad, is very important to the food chain.

   A. consider  B. think it    C. regard      D. think as

19、It is unbelievable that a well-behaved gentleman ______be so rude to a lady.

   A. will      B. may      C. must        D. should

18、You’d better put the papers and magazines into _______ bag.

   A. cloth     B. clothing   C. the clothes   D. a cloth

17、The police got to ______was once an old school and now is a shopping center.

   A. what     B. where     C. that         D. which