9、My grandmother always said you should sweat to reduce the          when you have the flu.

A．medicine          B．illness             C．fever            D．pressure

8、—The winner of the race is a tall and thin boy with thick glasses.

—Then it          be my friend Mike, who looks like a “meat ball”.

A．mustn’t                B．can’t                   C．might not                  D．should not

7、Fifteen years spent in the field of education has provided me with many treasured moments. One of the most unforgettable  1  when I was teaching second   2   10 years ago.

       In May I decided to plan something special for the children; a Mother’s Day tea. We had put our heads together to   3   ideas of how to   4   our mothers. We practiced singing songs, memorized poems and wrote cards. We decided to hold our tea the Friday before Mother’s Day. I was surprised and   5   to learn that every mother was planning to attend. I   6   invited my own mother.

Finally, the big day arrived. Each child   7   up at our classroom door, expecting the arrival of his or her mom.   8   it got closer to starting time, I looked around and my eyes quickly found Jimmy. His mother hadn’t shown up and he was looking   9  .

I took my mother by the hand and walked over to Jimmy. “Jimmy,” I said, “I have a bit of problem here and I was   10   if you could keep my mother   11   while I’m busy.”

My mom and Jimmy sat at a table. Jimmy   12   my mom her treats, presented her with the gift I had made, just as we had   13   the day before. Whenever I looked over, my mother and Jimmy were in deep   14  .

Now 10 years later, I work with students of all ages, educating them about the environment. Last year, I took a senior class on a field trip, and there was Jimmy, I had the students complete an outline of the day’s   15   and an evaluation of our trip. Then I collected the students’ booklets and checked them to see if   16   was completed. When I came   17   Jimmy’s page, he had written “Remember our Mother’s Day tea we had in second grade, Mrs, Marra? I do! Thanks for all you did for me, and thank your mother, too.”

I told him I really enjoyed what he had written. He looked rather embarrassed and   18   his own thanks and walked away. Suddenly he ran back and gave me a big hug. “Thanks again. No one even knew my mother didn’t   19   it.”

I ended my workday with a hug from a teenage boy who had   20   stopped hugging teachers years ago.

1．A．lasted                    B．happened             C．experienced         D．described

2．A．school                  B．class                   C．grade                  D．lesson

3．A．pay attention to      B．look forward to    C．get on with          D．come up with

4．A．love                      B．please                  C．respect                D．admire

5．A．astonished             B．worried               C．relieved               D．interested

6．A．even                     B．ever                    C．still                     D．once

7．A．followed               B．held                    C．kept                    D．lined

8．A．As                        B．Although             C．Then                   D．Because

9．A．wild                      B．curious                C．strange                D．upset

10．A．considering          B．wondering           C．asking                 D．doubting

11．A．connection           B．care                    C．company             D．concern

12．A．served                 B．supplied               C．assigned              D．applied

13．A．taught                 B．studied                C．practiced             D．told

14．A．mind                   B．thought               C．agreement           D．conversation

15．A．feeling                 B．behavior              C．event                  D．action

16．A．something           B．everything           C．anything              D．nothing

17．A．by                      B．to                       C．on                      D．over

18．A．announced           B．delivered              C．stated                  D．whispered

19．A．make                  B．get                      C．do                      D．take

20．A．probably         B．exactly          C．rarely           D．eagerly

6、Several years ago, I worked for a trucking company as a driver. It was my habit to spend a couple of hours maintaining（保养） my truck on Saturdays. As I was under the truck greasing（上油） it, I noticed the owner’s elderly father making his way over to his grandson’s truck next to mine. 

   The old man was in his high eighties, had been a fishing-lover all his life, and had come out to ask the kid to take him fishing after work. The grandson told him all about how much he would love to do that, but he just couldn’t that day due to his tasks.. The old man accepted the answer and slowly went off to the house.

   A few minutes later, the father came out and asked his son what the old man had wanted. After telling the story, the kid ended it with telling his dad, "I’m not taking that old man fishing! It’s worse than taking a kid."

   That just broke my heart. I quit working immediately and got everything ready for fishing as quickly as I could.  After that, I went to knock on the door and invited him fishing.

Two weeks later, the old man died. His family told me later that all he talked about during that time was his fishing trip. 

1．The grandson didn’t go fishing with his grandpa because  ______．

       A．he thought his grandpa was childish

B．he was in a hurry to do work

       C．his grandpa changed his mind

       D．he didn’t want to take the trouble

2．The author chose to invite the old man to fishing in order to ______．

       A．do him a favor

       B．learn the skill of fishing from the old man

       C．please his boss

       D．earn more money

3．What can we learn from the story?

       A．Giving is always a pleasure.

       B．People should respect each other.

       C．An act of kindness can bring people great joy.

       D．People should learn to appreciate others’ concern.

5、In the future your automobile will run on water instead of gas! You will be able to buy a supercomputer that fits in your pocket! You might even drive a flying car!

       Not all past predictions have been proven wrong. A few of them have been surprisingly accurate. Some great thinkers predicted the arrival of the credit card, the fax machine and even the internet years before they happened. But for each prediction that has come true, some others have missed by a mile. Many of these predictions didn’t consider how people would want to use the technology. Or if people really needed it in their lives or not. Let’s look at some predictions from the not-too-distant past.

       Robot Helpers

       Where’s the robot in my kitchen? Nowhere, of course. And he’s probably not coming anytime soon. Robots do exist today, but mostly in factories and other working environments.

       Back in the 1950s, however, people said that by now personal robots would be in most people’s homes.

       So why hasn’t happened? Maybe because robots are still too expensive and clumsy. And probably the idea of robots cooking our dinners and washing our clothes is just too strange. At home we seem to be doing fine without them.

       Telephones of tomorrow?

       In 1964 an American company introduced the video telephone. They said by the year 2000 most people would have a video phone in their homes. But of course the idea hasn’t caught on yet.

       Why? The technology worked fine, but it overlooked something obvious: people desire for privacy. Would you want to have a video phone conversation with someone after you just stepped out of the shower?

       Probably not--it could be uncomfortable! Just because technology doesn’t always mean people will want to use it.

       And finally, how about that crazy prediction of the flying car? It’s not so crazy any more! But a flying car remains one of the most wonderful technology ideas to catch our imagination. Keep watching the news or perhaps the sky outside your window to see what the future will bring.

1．The passage mainly deals with______.

       A．predictions that can catch our imagination

       B．predictions that haven’t come true

       C．new technology can benefit our life

       D．predictions that have come true

2．According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?

       A．Technology doesn’t always mean people will want to use it.

       B．Predictions don’t need to consider people’s practical use of the technology.

       C．Not all the high-tech things people thought we’d be using by now are widely used

       D．High-tech things are not always convenient to people’s life.

3．Robot Helpers haven’t been used in most people’s homes because______.

       A．using the kind of robots at home is simply a waste of time and money

       B．the kind of robots hasn’t been developed yet

       C．people find it difficult to control the kind of robots

       D．the kind of robots won’t bring people practical use

4．How does the writer find the flying car?

       A．It is too difficult to imagine              B．It is too crazy an idea to realize

       C．It is likely to appear in the future         D．It has been the focus of the news

4、Wearing ties was originally the mark of Britain’s most powerful classes, which made the tie itself a symbol of power and respect. And that led it to be adopted by a much larger tribe（群体） —— the business tribe.

    You cannot wear a tie if you work with machinery. So wearing a tie became a sign that you were a man who used his brain to make a living, rather than your hands. It showed you were serious. It showed you were a professional. It meant that everyone who wanted a job in business had to wear one. It was just impossible to take seriously a man who didn’t wear a piece of colored silk around his neck.

    This is how millions of people came to be wearing ties across the world. They are part of the uniform of business.

    “Ties offer a point of different," says John Milne, head of the British Guild of Tie Makers. “They give a chance to say something about their own personality.”

    So if you happen to meet a man with a very brightly colored tie, there is a good chance that he is the office joker. There is also a good chance that he will be wearing brightly colored socks.

Is there a future for ties? The signs are not promising. Tie wearing seems to be rare among the new bread of entrepreneurs（创业者） in the Internet and new technology industries. Many political leaders, including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, now go without ties. This shows they are men of the people——but not the people wearing ties.

Up until around 1960, it was common for men across the Western world to wear hats as part of their business uniform. That changed with the election of John F. Kennedy to the presidency of the United States. Kennedy never wore a hat——in fact his nickname was "hatless Jack". Seeing that the most powerful man in the world did not have to wear a hat, millions of other men decided that they did not have to, either. Hats simply vanished across the Western world. Perhaps "tieless Tony" （former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair） will have the same effect as "hatless Jack".

1．Ties were first used as a sign to show a person’s       .

      A．personality         B．social position     C．wearing style      D．favorite hobby

2．In the business world, wearing a tie showed the following except_______.

       A．you could make a lot of money out of your work

       B．you took your work seriously

       C．you were different from those who used hands to earn a living

       D．you were a member of the business tribe.

3．The writer may hold the opinion that       .

       A．Blair is the best leader in the world

       B．Kennedy is the best leader in the world

       C．millions of people will go to work without a tie

       D．people will wear hats instead of ties

4．The underlined word “vanished” in this passage may mean       .

      A．sold            B．washed       C．appeared           D．disappeared

3、American beekeeping operations have been hit hard by what scientists call “colony（集群） collapse disorder. Almost half of their worker bees have disappeared during the past season. C.C.D. has also been reported in Israel, Europe and South America. Bees fly away from the hive and never return. Sometimes they are found dead; other times they are never found. Many crops and trees depend on pollination （授粉） by bees to help them grow.

     A new report says virus may be at least partly responsible for the disorder in honey bee colonies in the United States. This virus is called Israeli acute paralysis virus. It was first identified in Israel in 2004. Ian Lipkin at Columbia University in New York and a team reported the new findings in Science magazine. Doctor Lipkin says the virus may not be the only cause. He says it may work with other causes to produce the collapse disorder.

     The team found the virus in colonies with the help of a map of honey bee genes that was published last year. They examined thirty colonies affected by the disorder. They found evidence of the virus in twenty – five of them, and in one healthy colony. The next step is further testing of healthy hives.

     The researchers suggested that the United States may have imported the disorder in bees from Australia. They say the bees may carry the virus but not be affected.

The idea is that unlike many American bees, the ability of Australian bees to fight disease has not been hurt by the varroa mite. This insect attacks honey bees, which could make the disorder more likely to affect a hive. Australian bee producers reject these suspicions（猜想）.

And some researchers suspect that bee production in the United States is down mainly because of the weather. Honey bees gather nectar（花蜜） from flowers and trees. The sweet liquid gives them food and material to make honey. But cold weather this spring in the Midwest reduced the flow of nectar in many flowers. Many bees may have starved. Dry weather in areas of the country could also be playing a part.

Wayne Esaias is a NASA space agency scientist who keeps bees in his free time. He lives in central Maryland, where he has found that flowers are blooming a month earlier than they did in 1970, which may be partly responsible for the disorder. Wayne Esaias is organizing a group of beekeepers to document nectar flow around the country.

1．What is the author’s attitude to the causes of the bee disorder?

       A．critical                                              B．neutral（中立的）

       C．supportive                                        D．negative

2．The researchers found the virus           .

       A．with the help of C.C.D.

       B．by researching the causes of bee death

       C．with the help of a map of honey bee genes

       D．with the help of a scientist of NASA Space Agency

3．What is the passage mainly about?

       A．American beekeeping industry has been strongly influenced by the bee disorder.

       B．Studies are being carried out on the causes of the bee disorder, but questions remain.

       C．How the causes of the bee disorder in U.S have been found.

       D．The bee production in U.S is down.

4．How many possibilities may be involved in the bee disorder according to the passage?

       A．Three                  B．Four                   C．Five                    D．Six

5．We can infer that         from the passage.

       A．Israeli acute paralysis virus should be responsible for the disorder.

       B．The solution to the disorder will be found eventually.

       C．American bees are more likely to defend themselves against hurt from other insects than Australian ones.

       D．Many crop and plant production in U.S may be influenced by the bee disorder.

2、When I was young, I didn’t know what friendship. When I                  1．______

stayed with my friends, a warm feeling came out of the bottom from    2．______

my heart. Now I have grown up and got many friend. And I                3．______

have been tasted the pleasant feeling of friendship. When I am happy,    4．______

they are also happy and shared the happiness with me. When I             5．______

make progress, they will be very exciting. Instead, when                     6．______

I’m in a difficult situation, they will offer help to me. So                      7．______

friendship is never an one-way ticket. If we want to get it,                   8．______

we must treat others well at first. We should always be ready to           9．______

help others, especially that they are in difficult situations.                     10．______

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