13、--- Do you often move after you got married?

--- I don’t mind moving round the world with Chris. Howe is         the heart is.

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

12、Everybody felt shocked the moment a police officer entered the classroom. You        a pin drop.

A．could have heard                                        B．would hear

C．were hearing                                              D．should have heard

11、The injured driver lay on his back by the roadside, his teeth    and his glaring eyes    straight upward.

A．set; look          B．setting; looked         C．set; looking      D．setting; looking

10、How close parents are to the children        a strong influence on their character.

A．to have            B．having             C．have         D．has

9、Franklin’s ability to learn from observations and experience   greatly to his success in public life.

A．owed               B．contributed              C．attached           D．related

8、--- Do you have a light, sir?

---          

A．Why not something else?                             B．Yes, but isn’t the light strong enough?

C．Sorry, I’m not a smoker.                             D．Yes, I’m much addicted to it.

7、My mother had been gone from my life for a year when my father took my sister, Kate, and me to visit her. It was about an hour from our home to Camarillo State   1  , but it might as well have been halfway around the world for how   2   we saw each other.

A   3   curtain had fallen when Mom left. Sitting on the grass, Kate and I, eight and five years old, were   4  , subdued (闷闷不乐的) by the unsettling prospect of what   5   Mom would be in. What would she look like? How would she   6  ?

Reports from the doctors   7   she’d been going through some tough times,  8   the first six months, my father said. She cried a lot, and at night, when she   9  Kate and me, the doctors tranquilized (calm sb. using a drug) her.

  10  , walking toward us in the distance, we saw her, or   11   we thought was her. But this woman seemed old and unsteady on her feet as she walked along,  12   the arm of a man in a white uniform.

I felt goose bumps springing on my arms. Yes, it was Mom. But her red   13  , once so thick and shiny, was now dry and wild, all the natural waves gone.  14   so attentive and full of life, Mom seemed tired, her eyes sad, searching. Her face   15   me most. Webs of broken blood vessels crisscrossed her skin, providing a map of the violence she had endured (忍受). It would be years before I understood better what had happened to her: She and many other patients had been given, against their   16  , electroshock treatments.

Sitting down on the blanket, Mom  17   us close, first Kate and then me. I had   18   this moment, figured everything would return to normal once I fell into her embrace (怀抱). She would   19    again and take care of me; she would play the piano as she loved to. We would be a   20   again.

1．A．Hospital                B．Prison                 C．School                D．Theatre

2．A．far                        B．seldom                C．soon                   D．often

3．A．light                      B．beautiful              C．colorful               D．heavy

4．A．crazy                    B．silent                   C．delighted             D．dull

5．A．condition               B．form                   C．dress                  D．room

6．A．say                       B．work                   C．act                      D．speak

7．A．responded             B．reminded             C．persuaded            D．indicated

8．A．especially              B．normally              C．typically              D．eventually

9．A．laughed at             B．cried out for        C．looked out for      D．thought of

10．A．Fortunately          B．However             C．Therefore            D．Suddenly

11．A．what                   B．who                    C．which                 D．that

12．A．holding                B．supporting           C．leading                D．fastening

13．A．cheeks                B．hair                     C．eyes                    D．lips

14．A．Before                 B．Ever                    C．Once                  D．Yet

15．A．frightened            B．annoyed              C．attracted              D．disappointed

16．A．aim                     B．dream                 C．will                     D．proposal

17．A．pushed                B．dragged               C．kissed                 D．pulled

18．A．asked for             B．expected for        C．longed for           D．looked for

19．A．return                 B．bake                    C．live                     D．entertain

20．A．unity                 B．victory                C．family                D．legend

6、Bob Butler lost his legs in a 1965 land mine explosion in Vietnam. He returned home a war hero. Twenty years later, he proved once again that heroism comes from the heart.

Butler was working in his garage in a small town in Arizona on a hot summer day when he heard a woman’s screams coming from a nearby house.  He rolled his wheelchair toward the house, but the dense bush wouldn’t allow him to access to the back door. So he got out of his chair and crawled through the dirt and bushes.

    “I had to get there,” he says. “It didn’t matter how much it hurt.”

When Butler arrived at the house, he traced the screams to the pool, where a three-year-old girl was lying at the bottom. She had been born without arms and had fallen in the water and couldn’t swim. Her mother stood over her baby screaming loudly. Butler dove to the bottom of the pool and brought little Stephanie up to the deck. Her face was blue, she had no pulse and she was not breathing.

Butler immediately went to work performing CPR (心肺复苏) to revive her while Stephanie’s mother telephoned the fire department. She was told the rescue team were already out on a call.  Helplessly, she sobbed and hugged Butler’s shoulder.

As Butler continued with his CPR, he calmly reassured Stephanie’s mother. “Don’t worry,” he said. “I was her arms to get out of the pool. It’ll be okay. I’m now her lungs. Together we can make it.”

Seconds later the little girl coughed, regained consciousness and began to cry.  As they hugged and rejoiced together, the mother asked Butler how he knew it would be okay.

“When my legs were blown off in the war, I was all alone in a field,” he told her. “No one was there to help except a little Vietnamese girl. As she struggled to drag me into her village, she whispered in broken English, ‘It okay. You can live. I be your legs. Together we make it.’”

“This was my chance,” he told Stephanie’s mom, “to return the favor.”

1．Butler lost his legs           .

      A．while working

       B．in a coal mine

       C．in the war – field

       D．while he was working with the Vietnamese girl

2．Stephanie’s mother telephoned the fire department because          .

       A．a fire was burning

       B．she wanted the people in the fire brigade to help her

       C．her daughter was helpless

       D．she believed that Butler could not help her

3．When Stephanie was first brought up from the pool, she was         .

       A．unconscious        B．dead                    C．drowned             D．coughing

4．After Stephanie’s mother telephoned the fire department, she knew           .

      A．the rescuers would soon arrive

       B．only Butler could save her daughter

       C．the rescue team was sure to save her daughter

       D．the rescue team was not coming soon

5．What does Butler mean by saying “This was my chance to return the favor?”

       A．It was his duty to help those in danger.

       B．He was once given the honor as a hero.

       C．He wanted to answer for what the Vietnamese girl had done to him.

       D．It was a chance for him to show his heroism to his neighbour.

5、The quality of drinking water in Shanghai will meet European Union standard by 2010 and ,a decade later, citizens in Shanghai will drink the best water in the world.

These were the goals set out by the Shanghai Water Authority. With the city’s population expected to increase only slightly and the economy to boom by 2020, Chen Yin, and official with the water authority, said Shanghai’s water consumption will not increase from its present a mount.

Zhang Yue, director of the Urban Construction Division under the Ministry of Construction, said, “Shanghai is the first city in the country to publicize these ambitions. They will not be easy to achieve.”

He said water saving will help keep the sustainable (可持续性) development of China’ s economy.

Saving one cubic meter of water means saving the city’s infrastructure (基础设施) costs by 10,000 yuan. Last year, Shanghai saved 300 million cubic meters of water either from readjustment of industrial structure or the employment of new technology.

“The aim is to arouse public awareness of the seriousness of water shortages,” Chen said. “The abundant surface water and amount of rain of the city are so misleading that they result in improper use of water.”

Shanghai lacks drinkable water. The Huangpu River, which supplies 80 percent of the city’s drinkable water, is nearing exhaustion.

The city, therefore, has been exploring new sources from the Yangtze River and growing forests along it to conserve quality water.

Besides penning regulations, the authority is popularizing technology among the public to efficiently cut the amount of water used.

At present, the city has 600 000 family toilets, each using 13 liters of water per flush. These are to be renovated (整修) to use only 9 liters of water per flush.

The authority is renovating the first 200 toilets for households – at a cost of 40 yuan each.

In three years, all the toilets will be renovated, which saves the city nearly 15 million yuan every year in water conservation.

Another task the city is engaged in is the treatment of sewage (污水) to improve the water environment.

At present the city can only treat 44 percent of its daily 5.04 million tons of waste water. To meet the total demand, 27 more sewage treatment factories are to be established with an estimated investment of 18 billion yuan.

1．People in Shanghai get their daily water mainly from         now.

       A．the underground                                  B．the rain

       C．the Yangtze River                                 D．the Huangpu River

2．According to the passage, some people have the wrong opinion of using water because      .

       A．the renovating of family toilets will save plenty of water

       B．about half of waste water has been treated already

       C．advanced technology makes people use water as much as possible

       D．there is plenty surface water and large amount of rain at present

3．The authority is renovating the first 200 toilets for households to          .

      A．make people’s living more convenient    B．improve people’s living standards

       C．ease employment pressure                    D．meet the total demand of water

4．Which group of measures are all mentioned in the passage to save water?

       a．improve drinking water quality               b．change some industrial structure

       c．introduce or use some new technology   d．speed the economic development of Shanghai

       e．renovate some family toilets                   f．build more sewage treatment factories

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

5．We can infer from the passage that          .

       A．the boom of economy will need a larger amount of water in the future

       B．citizens today in Shanghai drink the best quality of water in the world

       C．not everyone today in Shanghai is aware of water shortage

       D．all the family toilets will be renovated to save water within 3 years

4、There are many acceptable varieties of English throughout the world. Whichever variety is used in your country, the most important thing is that students’ pronunciation must be good enough for another person to understand what they are trying to say.

In a PPP lesson, teachers naturally include a good model of the pronunciation when they are presenting new vocabulary, grammar or functional language. It is important to start by helping your students recognise sounds before you expect them to produce them.

Spoken British English has 44 sounds, but there are only 26 letters in the alphabet for written English. This sometimes makes English pronunciation and spelling different, so it is not always best to write words on the blackboard at the early stages. Also, some sounds in English do not exist in some other languages. This can make it very difficult for students to recognize these sounds and even more difficult for them to pronounce them correctly. So some students need to do a lot of work on these sounds, listening to them, trying to recognize them and trying to copy them.

If you can understand and pronounce the symbols of the phonetic alphabet, this will help you to pronounce any word in the dictionary. You can teach this phonetic alphabet to your students and this will make teaching pronunciation much easier. However, you can teach pronunciation effectively without knowing the phonetic alphabet. Pronouncing English well is not just about getting the individual sounds right. Students need to know:

* which parts of a word are stressed (spoken louder and longer);

* which parts of a sentence are stressed;

* basic intonation patterns;

* what it means when we change the intonation in a sentence (the music of the language);

* how to link together the sounds within a sentence.

Students need practice in all these areas to improve their pronunciation.

1．The passage is most probably from               .

       A．a book for English learning                   B．a book for English teaching

       C．a grammar book for English learning      D．an ad for English teaching

2．Following up the passage, the author will probably           .

       A．emphasize the importance of correct pronunciation

       B．say how to teach the phonetic alphabet

       C．write about how to teach pronunciation without the phonetic alphabet

       D．explain in detail how to practise the five suggestions

3．Which of the following can NOT prove that English pronunciation is difficult?

       A．There are more sounds than letters in English.

       B．English contains some unique sounds that other languages don’t have.

       C．Knowing how to pronounce every word doesn’t mean pronouncing English well.

       D．Students’ pronunciation must be good enough.

4．In the author’s opinion,               .

       A．students should pronounce every word as precisely as native speakers

       B．the English phonetic alphabet is a must in teaching pronunciation

       C．it is not necessary to pronounce every word correctly

       D．pronunciation means more than knowing how to pronounce every single word

5．Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

       A．The English Phonetic Alphabet and Pronunciation

       B．Suggestions on Teaching English Pronunciation

       C．Other Things to Be Done besides Pronouncing Every Word.

       D．Listening Comes First in Teaching Pronunciation