8、                                          ANY VOLUNTEERS?

              MORE WAYS TO GET INVOLVED WHILE HAVING GREAT FUN

1．All of the volunteers will       in the four activities.

A．teach young kids                                 B．have a lot of fun

C．experience nature                                 D．beautify the environment

2．If you are short of money, which group would you like to join?

A．ENKOSINI ECO EXPERIENCES          B．EARTH WATCH INSTITUTE

C．HABITAT NEW ORLEANS                  D．GLOBAL VOLUNTEERS

3．According to the advertisement, which of the following is true?

A．You have to cook yourself in EARTH WATCH INSTITUTE.

B．You need to have experience to join HABITAT NEW ORLEANS.

C．You may learn to feed a baby in ENKOSINI ECO EXPERIENCES.

D．You have a chance to serve in a community in GLOBAL VOLUNTEERS.

7、This is supposedly a true story. It happened in a small town of the province of Quebec, Canada, in October 2006. They showed the video surveillance（监视）tape on the news, and even the anchorman（现场报道员）was laughing through it.

A robber came into a convenience store wearing a ski mask and a gun wanting to empty the cash register. He took the clerk to the back store and locked her up in the fridge. Unfortunately, when he came back to the front of the store, a customer had come in. So he took off the ski mask and the gloves, and pretended to be filling in for the clerk. The customer wanted a lottery ticket, so he tried to help her out, by pressing a whole bunch of buttons on the machine （thus leaving fingerprints everywhere）, but the machine was not cooperating.

At the same time, another customer walks in. Finally, he tells the first customer（after about 5 minutes of close – up shots from the camera）that the machine is not working and that he won’t be able to help her. The robber makes the sale to the second customer and he leaves as well.

The robber then puts back on his gloves to take the money（after touching just about everything in sight without gloves）, and hides his face with the palm of his hands as he is leaving. This scene lasted well over 10 minutes, during which, you see and hear the robber as well as in a movie.

The day after excerpts（节选）of the tape were aired, the phones at the police station were ringing off the hook, Apparently, even though no reward had been offered, people thought he was too stupid to deserve anything else!

He had to turn himself in that same day.

1．Why did the TV station probably broadcast the video surveillance tape?

A．To entertain the viewers.                      B．To find the robber.

C．To introduce a kind of crime.                      D．To introduce a plot of a film.

2．Which is the right order about what the robber did in the store?

a．He served the second customer.

b．He put back on his gloves and took the money away.

c．He operated the machine for a lottery ticket.

d．He locked the clerk into the fridge.

e．He came into the store with a ski mask and a gun.

A．d-a-c-b-e             B．e-c-a-b-d             C．e-d-c-a-b             D．d-c-a-b-e

3．The day after the excerpts of the tape were aired,     .

A．people didn’t telephone the police station at once

B．the robber gave himself up

C．the police rewarded the person who found out the suspect

D．something went wrong with the phones at the police station

4．Which would be the best title for the text?

A．An interesting excerpt tape                    B．An unlucky customer.

C．A robber in a movie.                            D．A stupid robber

6、       I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent. I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I slow up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows（誓约）mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.

       So here’s what I wanted to tell you today: Get a life — a real life, not a desire of the next promotion（提升），a bigger paycheck, or a larger house.

       Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work, Pick up the phone. Send an e — mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.

       It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, and our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in some ways that, if I had my choice, it would  never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.   I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned.

       Tell them this :Read in the backyard with the sunshine on your face, Learn to be happy. And think of life as a deadly illness. Because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion（激情）as it ought to be lived.

1．The best title of this passage probably is        .

      A．Love Your Friends                               B．Live a Real Life

       C．Don’t Waste Time                               D．Be a Good Mother and Wife

2．How did the author from her view of life ?

A．Through social experience.

B．By learning from her friends.

C．Through her own experience.

D．From her children and husband.

3．By the underlined sentence “It is so easy to exist instead of to live? ”in the fifth paragraph, the author really means that people tend to        .

A．make a living rather than live a real life

B．work rather than enjoy life

C．waste a lot in life

D．forget the most important lesson in life

4．What ’s the author’s attitude toward work ?

A．Do it well to serve others.

B．Earn enough money to make life better.

C．Try your best to get higher position and pay.

D．Don’t let it affect your real life.

5．It can be inferred from the passage that         

       A．the author is a success in personal life

B．the author doesn’t try her best to work well

C．the author spends all her time caring for her children

D．the author likes traveling very much

5、When people advise your children to “get an education”, they tell you only half the truth. What they really mean is to get just enough education to give manpower for your society.

Get a high school diploma, at least. Without that, you are occupationally（职业上） dead, unless your name happens to be George Bernard Shaw or Thomas Alva Edison and you can successfully stop studying in primary school.

Get a college degree, if possible. with a BA（学士学位），you should start to find a job, You have to put on the brakes now. If you do go for a master’s degree, make sure it is an MBA and only from a first — class university, Otherwise, the famous law of diminishing（报酬递减律）begins to work..

Do you know, for example, that long — distance truck drivers make more money a year than full professors（正教授）？Yes, each driver was paid ﹩28,000 in 1997 while a full professor managed to get﹩27,930.

A PhD is the highest degree you can get, but except in few specialized fields such as physics or chemistry, where the degree can quickly be turned to industrial or commercial aim, you are facing a not very bright future. There are more PhDs unemployed in this country than in any other part of the world by far.

If you become a PhD in English or history or political science or languages or —worst of all— in philosophy, you take the risk of becoming over-educated for our national demands.

Thousands of PhDs are selling shoes, driving taxis, vomiting（呕吐）on tables and filling out applications month after month, and then may be taking a job in high school or college with the pay much less than a door – keeper makes.

1．According to the writer, the society expects education to turn out people who will     .

A．raise their payment                               B．become specialized in some way

C．have a bright future                              D．meet the demands as a source of manpower

2．If you don’t want to be occupationally dead, you      .

A．should look for a job in a primary school

B．must at least get a high school diploma

C．have to change your name for Bernard Shaw or Edison

D．should go on learning and become a doctor or physicist or chemist

3．The underlined phrase “put on the brakes “ in paragraph three means      .

A．stop learning for a higher degree           

B．take up a master’s degree at once

C．go on studying in a first — class university

D．find an interesting job

4．Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Neither Bernard Shaw nor Edison finished high school

B．There are more PhDs than the society demands.

C．The higher education level is, the more money you will earn.

D．If you are overeducated, you can not easily get a good job.

4、       A：Hello, Simon. Have you seen Billy this afternoon ?

       B：No, Maria. Why ?

A：Oh, dear. I can’t find him anywhere. I don’t know what to do. He should have been back an hour ago.   1    

B：Don’t worry, Maria. He could have, but he probably didn’t. Did anything happen this morning?   2 

       A：His birthday party.

       B：Is it possible that you said something to upset him ?

       A：I must have. I told him we hadn’t received Mr. White’s reply to our invitation.

       B：  3  

       A：No, he left home right after that.    4  

B：Maria, I’m sure there is nothing to worry about. He is probably on his way to see Mr. Smith, or else he is with Mr. White.

       A：Oh, wait! There he is ! And Mr. Smith is with him.   5   He must have been to Mr. Smith’s.

       A．I suppose I should have called you earlier.

       B．Anything else?

       C．I wonder if he could have had an accident.

       D．I’m afraid he might have an accident.

       E．Where could he have been?

       F．You are right, Simon.

       G．What were you talking about before he left?

3、根据下列句子及所给汉语注释或单词的首字母，在句子右边的横线上写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。（每空只写一词）

1．She is so interested in German that she keeps a         （日记）in the

       Language to improve herself.                                    1．         

2．Spring has come, and the trees are thick with green         （叶子）. 2．         

3．（赢得）the support of the majority requires time, energy and devotion.     3．         

4．Here, I’d like to say thank you to everyone who has         （鼓励）

       and supported me.                                             4．         

5．The students sat in front of me, talking          （兴奋）for hours

        about their life in universities.                                    5．         

6．There are many things we need to take into c         before we buy

       an expensive product.                                           6．         

7．When I c       my shopping list, I found I had forgotten to buy eggs.    7．         

8．— you didn’t come to the party yesterday, Jane ?

— I had meant to, but I had an u         guest.                                 8．         

9．—Are you going to the United States for your holiday?

—No, I’ll go to some E         countries with my family.                   9．          

10．Nobody likes that old man because he is too g       . He is never

       satisfied with what he already has.                                       10．          

2、此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行做出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：

该行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（﹨）划掉，在该行右边横线上 写出该词，并也用  斜线划掉。

       该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右横线上写出该加的词。

       该行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

       My feeling about science have really changed. I never

       used to enjoying science, but last year, I changed schools,               1．          

       and the science teachers at my new school were excellent.              2．          

       The laboratories have all the latest equipment. Our chemical             3．           

       teacher, Mr Longford, gives us public science lecture                  4．          

       four times a term, and these are always so much                    5．          

       interesting, the lecturers are people who have made real                 6．           

       discoveries in his areas of science. The fact is that Canada has         7．          

       many first — class scientists. In the last 20 years, seven Canadian       8．          

       Scientists won the Nobel Prize ! The Nobel Prize is the highest          9．           

       scientific prize, so we should be very proud with that.                 10．          

1、       假如你叫李华，从某网站看到下面调查统计表，感触很深，决定写信给某英语报社，说明这一现实，并简要分析原因，呼吁教育部门和家长改变目前局面。

注意：1．语言要连贯、准确，可适当发挥；

         2．词数100—120。

       Dear editor,

            It can easily be seen from the above chart that                                  

                                                                                                                Yours Sincerely

                                                                                                                       Li Hua