14、Wouldn’t it be         wonderful world of all countries if          world lived in peace with one another?

A．the; the     B．a; a    C．a; the        D．the; a

13、I should have written to you earlier, but         rather busy recently.

A．I’ve been  B．I’d been    C．I’m being  D．I were

12、Seventeen–year–old Rivertown teenager, John Janson, was honoured at the Lifesaver Awards last night for carrying out lifesaving first aid on his neighbor after a shocking knife   1  .

John was presented with his award at a ceremony which recognized the   2   of ten people who have saved the life of   3  .

John had been studying in his room when he heard Anne Slade   4  . When he and his father rushed outside, they   5   that Anne Slade, mother of three, had been stabbed (刺)   6   with a knife by her ex – boyfriend. The man ran from the   7   and left Ms Slade lying in her front garden   8   very heavily. Her hands had almost been cut from her body.

It was John’s quick   9   and knowledge of first aid that saved Ms Slade’s life. He immediately asked a number of the  10   people for bandages(绷带), but when nobody could put their hands on any, his father got some tea towels(毛巾) and   11   from their house. John used these to dress the most severe  12   to Ms Slade’s hands. He slowed the bleeding by applying pressure to the wounds until the   13   and ambulance(救护车) arrived.

“I’m   14   of what I did but I was just doing what I’d been  15  ” John said.

John had taken part in the Young Lifesaver Scheme at his high school. When   16  John. Mr Alan Southerton. Director of the Young Lifesaver Scheme, said, “There is no doubt that John’s quick thinking and the first aid   17  he had learnt at school saved Ms Slade’s life. It shows that a simple knowledge of first aid can make a real   18  .”

John and the nine other lifesavers also attended a   19   reception yesterday hosted by the Prime Minister before  20   their awards last night.

1．A．show                    B．attack                  C．work                  D．defend

2．A．bravery                B．life                      C．thinking               D．progress

3．A．any other              B．anyone                C．every one            D．others

4．A．quarreling              B．arguing                C．laughing              D．screaming

5．A．realized                 B．believed               C．thought               D．discovered

6．A．repeatedly             B．rudely                 C．frequently            D．gradually

7．A．home                    B．place                   C．scene                  D．house

8．A．shaking                 B．struggling            C．bleeding              D．crying

9．A．action                   B．answer                C．experience           D．request

10．A．several                B．nearby                 C．familiar               D．curious

11．A．water                  B．bandages             C．fire                     D．luggage

12．A．damages              B．pains                   C．injuries                D．arms

13．A．neighbors            B．children               C．doctor                 D．police

14．A．proud                  B．fond                    C．sure                    D．tired

15．A．expected             B．taught                 C．encouraged          D．educated

16．A．praising               B．referring              C．talking with         D．congratulating

17．A．skills                   B．instructions          C．key                     D．history

18．A．discovery            B．harm                   C．difference            D．choice

19．A．recent                 B．secret                  C．private                D．special

20．A．giving                B．remembering        C．announcing        D．receiving

11、On Thursday afternoon Mrs. Clarke, dressed for going out, took her handbag with her money and her key in it, pulled the door behind her to lock it and went to the Over 60s Club. She always went there on Thursdays. It was a nice outing for an old woman who lived alone.

At six o’clock she came home, let herself in and at once smelt cigarette smoke. Cigarette smoke in her house? How? Had somebody got in? She checked the back door and the windows. All were locked as usual. There was no sign of forced entry.

Over a cup of tea she wondered whether someone might have a key that fitted her front door - “a master key” perhaps. So she stayed at home the following Thursday. Nothing happened. Was anyone watching her movements? On the Thursday after that she went out at her usual time, dressed as usual, but she didn’t go to the club. Instead she took a short cut home again, letting herself in through her garden and the back door. She settled down to wait.

It was just after four o’clock when the front door bell rang. Mrs. Clarke was making a cup of tea at the time. The bell rang again, and then she heard her letter-box being pushed open. With the kettle of boiling water in her hand, she moved quietly towards the front door. A long piece of wire appeared through the letter-box, and then a hand. The wire turned and caught around the knob(球形把手) on the door-lock. Mrs. Clarke raised the kettle and poured the water over the hand. There was a shout outside, and the skin seemed to drop off the fingers like a glove. The wire fell to the floor, till hand was pulled back, and Mrs. Clarke heard the sound of running feet.

1．Mrs. Clarke looked forward to Thursday because            .

       A．she worked at a club that day

       B．she had visitors that day

       C．she visited a club that day

       D．a special visitor came that day

2．If someone had made a forced entry, ________.

       A．Mrs. Clarke would have found a broken door or window

       B．he or she would still have been in the house

       C．things would have been thrown about

       D．he or she would have needed a master key

3．On the third Thursday Mr. Clarke went out because __________.

       A．she didn’t want to miss the club again

       B．she wanted to see if the thief was hanging about outside

       C．she decided to go to the club first

       D．she was in an attempt to trick the thief

10、Unless action is taken immediately, there is a chance that all the oceans of the world will be dead by the year 2010. How can this possibly happen?

We have already seen that people allow all sorts of waste products to flow into the sea. It is almost impossible to measure how much waste water and industrial waste end up in our oceans, but we can find out how much oil is poured into them legally and illegally. It is illegal to pour oil into the sea close to the shore, but when a ship is many miles out to sea there are no such rules. Scientists have different ideas as to the amount of oil put into the sea, but the lowest figure for oil poured in European waters alone is about 200,000 tons every year. Some people say the figure could be ten times as high.

It is not only our coasts that suffer from oil pollution. Among other things, many shellfish - oysters (牡蛎) and mussels(贻贝), for example - now have high amounts of poisonous substances. Next time you have shellfish to eat, how can you be sure that they are free from oil pollution? You cannot see the effects and you cannot taste them, either. It is really quite a problem.

1．This passage is mainly about_________.

     A．pollution in the air                       B．the amount of the oil in the sea

     C．the amount of poison in shellfish         D．oil pollution in the waters.

2．According to the passage, what is the main cause of oil pollution?

       A．Oil ships which meet and strike each other.

       B．Oil poured on land when the oil tanks are cleaned out.

       C．Oil coming out of the bottom of the sea.

       D．Oil from waste water and industrial waste.

3．According to the passage, which of the following is illegal?

       A．Pouring oil into the sea close to the shore.

       B．Allowing clean materials to flow into the waters.

       C．Smoking.

       D．Going fishing when the water is polluted by oil.

4．The figure for oil poured in European waters alone is          .

       A．no more than 2,010,000 tons every month

       B．1,000,000 tons every year

       C．more than 200,000 tons every month

       D．more than 200,000 tons every year

5．Which of the following statements is WRONG according to the passage?

       A．All the oceans in the world are polluted by oil.

       B．The water body of the earth may be dead by the year 2010.

       C．It is not only our coasts that suffer from oil pollution.

       D．Some kinds of the living things in the waters have been poisoned and we must be careful of them.

9、I dreamed I had an interview with God.

“So you would like to interview me?” God – asked. “If you have the time,” I said. “My time is eternity (永恒).” God smiled, “What questions do you have in mind for me?” “What surprises you most about humankind?” God answered, “That they get bored with childhood, they rush to grow up, and then long to be children again. That they lose their health to make money… and then lose their money to restore their health. That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live in neither the present nor the future. That they live as if they will never die, and die as though they had never lived.” God’s hand took mine and we were silent for a while.

And then I asked, “As a parent, what are some of life’s lessons you want your children to learn?” He answered, “To learn they cannot make anyone love them. All they can do is to let themselves love others. To learn that it is not good to compare themselves to others. To learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness. To learn that it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in those they love, and it can take many years to heal them. To learn that a rich person is not one who has the most, but is one who needs the least. To learn that there are people who love them dearly, but simply have not yet learned how to express or show their feelings. To learn that two people can look at the same thing and see it differently. To learn that it is not enough that they forgive one another, but they must also forgive themselves.”

“Thank you for your time,” I said humbly. “Is there anything else you would like your children to know?” God smiled and said: “Just to know that I am always here.”

1．To God, a rich man is one who _________.

       A．lives a simple life                        

       B．is content with little

       C．doesn’t want to be rich                 

       D．gives others a lot

2．Which of the following is best supported by the text?

       A．God does exist in the world. 

      B．He who loves others is sure to be loved by others.

      C．When one makes a mistake, he should try to find an excuse to forgive himself.

       D．It is easier to lose a friend than to make a friend.

3．The author wrote the passage to ______________.

       A．invite people to believe in God. 

       B．present people’s mistaken attitudes to life and give advice on how to live happily

       C．show what is important in life. 

       D．give God’s opinions of humankind and lessons God wants us to learn

4．What does the underlined word “humbly” in the last paragraph probably mean?

       A．Curiously        B．Angrily    C．Not proudly     D．Surprisingly

8、    University researchers tested the effects of different colored walls on two groups of visitors. For the first group, the room was painted white; for the second, dark brown. The movement of each group was followed by an electric system hidden under the carpet. The experiment showed that those who entered the dark brown room walked more quickly, covered more area, and spent less time in the room than the people in the white environment. Dark brown stimulated（刺激）more activity, but the activity ended sooner.

　　Not only the choice of colors but also the appearance of a room has effect on those inside it. In a second experiment, the researchers prepared subjects with photos of faces. Three groups of subjects were used; each was shown the same photos, but each group was in a different kind of room. One group was in a storeroom. Another group was in a common room—an office. The third group was in a tasteful living room.

　　Results showed that the subjects in the beautiful room appeared to give higher ratings（评价）to the faces than those in the ugly room did.

　　Other studies suggest that students do better at tests taken in comfortable rooms than in ordinary or untidy rooms.

1．An electric system under the carpet was used to discover ________.

       A．what the visitors wanted to do

　　B．the activity of different groups of visitors

　　C．how the visitors entered the different rooms

　　D．whether the visitors walked quickly or not

2．According to the passage, the people who entered the white room walked more ________ than those who were in the dark brown one.

       A．quickly          B．carefully             C．comfortably      D．slowly

3．In the sentence “... but also the appearance of a room has an effect on those inside it,” “those” refers to ________.

　　A．subjects         B．researchers     C．photos             D．different colors

4．The passage gives us ________ facts different rooms give people different effects.

   A．one             B．two              C．three           D．four

7、How can you hear your friends’ voices when they are far away and you can’t make a long – distance call? Besides the web camera system with your computer, we have a new high – tech way to solve the problem and ease your pain of missing them.

The Japanese company Combiwith created a system “talking picture”. It makes people in pictures speak! The “talking picture” has a special pen. It is actually a pen – shaped scanner (扫描仪). It can scan information in specially – made pictures. A connected player will then play their information out loud.

First, you need to take a picture and record what you want to say with the company. The company will then make special barcodes(条形码) onto your picture (you can’t see those codes). Those codes are your voice and your words. When you hold up the pen to scan your picture with barcodes, a player connected to the pen will start to play. It plays things you’ve recorded. That way the invention makes the “you” in the picture speak!

Do you want your friends and families talking out of pictures? Have them make pictures like that, and you can hear them whenever you want to, only with the “talking picture” system. The system can play messages for up to 12 minutes.

“The pictures would be useful for those who hope to hear the voice of someone living far away,” said Mayumi Fuji, a spokeswoman for the company. “Grandparents, for example, longing to know about their grandchildren would be happy to hear their voices when they see the picture,” Fuji said.

But it is troublesome to go to the company for taking a special picture first. And, it is much more expensive than using a telephone. The photo with barcodes costs between 17040 and 17990 yen (日元) (160 and 169 dollars). The larger picture you want, the more you pay.

Now, just raise a finger, lonely people can have their loved ones speak out of pictures. But, whether the “talking pictures” is practical or not, let’s wait and see.

1．What does “talking pictures” mean according to this passage?

       A．The picture can play what’s been recorded as if the person in the picture “talks”.

       B．You can have a talk with the person in the picture whenever you want to.

       C．The picture can tell you wonderful stories to ease your pain.

       D．The picture can tell what’s on your mind when you are looking at it.

2．The right order when making a talking picture is           .

       a．record what you want to say

       b．scan a picture with a pen – shaped scanner

       c．make special barcodes onto a picture

       d．take a picture

       A．d, c, b, a             B．b, d, c, a             C．d, a, c, b             D．b, d, a, c

3．We can infer from the passage that             .

      A．the “talking picture” system can play messages as long as you want

       B．it won’t cost you more to take a larger talking picture

       C．it might take a lot of trouble to make a talking picture

       D．you can make a talking picture by just raising a finger

4．The attitude of the writer toward the “talking picture” is          .

       A．optimistic  B．uncertain   C．positive     D．cold

6、--- Good morning, this is Dr. Allen’s office.

--- Good morning, I’d like to make an appointment with Dr. Allen. I have my teeth cleaned and checked.   1 

--- I’ll see whether the doctor has time to see you this week.   2 

--- No, I’ve just moved to town and a friend of mine advised me to see him. My name is Edward Johnson.

---   3  . If you are having trouble with your teeth, I’ll work you in, otherwise I can give you an appointment next Friday, the 29 th. Will that be all right?

--- I’m sorry.   4   I’m not having any trouble with my teeth, but I had hoped to have the appointment this week because I won’t start work at my new job until next Monday.

---   5 

--- That will be fine. Thank you.

--- We’ll see you on the 23 rd then, Mr. Johnson, goodbye

--- Goodbye.

       A．How much do they cost?

       B．How about Saturday, the 23 rd at 10 a.m.?

       C．I’d like to have it done this week if possible.

       D．The doctor has no free time this week, Mr. Johnson.

       E．I’ll be working on the 29 th.

       F．Have you been to see Dr. Allen before?

       G．Will you come this Sunday?

5、根据下列句子及所给汉语注释，在句子后边的横线上，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。（每空只写一词）

1．Everyone is            (平等的) before the law.

2．He closed the jar even              (紧) than before.

3．This book is                 (翻译) from Russian.

4．His suggestion is worth                 (考虑).

5．The latest          (设备)you need for hiking is simple: good shoes, clothes and a backpack.

6．In my            (经验), people smile back if you smile at them.

7．           (苦的) medicine may have good effects.

8．Listen! The news is being            (广播)now.

9．Carl Marx left his own country for             (政治的) reasons.

10．The               (大多数) of people in my neighborhood are Italian.