22、请根据下面提示，写一篇短文。词数不少于50。

       This is a special seminar（研讨会）on poetry in which American students are talking about American poems while Chinese students Chinese poems. This is a good way to exchange the cultures, isn’t it?

       Now it’s your turn to talk about the story in the following poem and your feeling as well. Make sure not to translate the poem word by word.

       Words you might need: 缝纫sew；烛光 candlelight

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1．Which of the following does NOT affect population growth in a country?

      A．Immigration and emigration.                 B．Natural disasters and famine.

       C．Grown-ups and small children.              D．Health care and family plans.

2．“Birth and death rates” is the difference between birth and death numbers       .

       A．in one-minute time                               B．in a certain hospital

       C．in a certain family                                D．in 1,000 people

3．In what way do wars affect population?

       A．Many people are killed violently.            B．Population falls because no child is born

       C．No one is left after a bloody murder       D．Many people are washed away by flood.

4．Which of the following is an immigrant?

      A．Jack has found a job in France and he will stay in France for two years.

       B．Lee’s family will stay in Australia forever because they have got its citizenship.

       C．Mary Lin will join her husband in USA, who is a visiting professor in a college.

       D．David majors in math and right now he is studying I. E. in UIUC in USA.

20、April 16,2007—A Bloody Day

Brave professor takes the bullets（子弹）meant for his class

Liviu Librescu, 76, a senior researcher and lecturer in engineering, was a Holocaust（大屠杀）survivor who immigrated to Israel from Romania in 1978. Librescu was an expert in mechanics, teaching at Tel Aviv University and the Haifa Tchnion before moving to the United States in 1984.

       According to eyewitness accounts, Librescu and the class heard shooting in a nearby room. The students said their professor blocked the doorway with his body to stop the gunman from entering. Some students took cover underneath desks while others jumped out of windows.

       Librescu’s son Joe said to the news reporter：“I understand from friends that my father was a hero.”

       “It wouldn’t amaze me he would do such a thing,” fellow engineering professor Muhammad said “He is that kind of person, willing to take care of others and protect others.”

Depressed young man shoots 32 people to death before killing himself

       A student from South Korea was identified on Tuesday as the gunman who killed 32 people at Virginia Tech University in the deadliest shooting in modern US history.

       The shooter, 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui, who immigrated to the United States 15 years ago and was raised near Washington, killed himself after opening fire in four classrooms.

       Cho was described as a depressed  and deeply disturbed young man whose “grotesque”（怪诞）creative play writings even led a professor to advise him to see a psychological doctor.

       The police had found a scrawl（涂鸦）in Cho’s dorm room. “It’s sort of a writing attacking the rich, spoiled students.” “A second note was found near Cho’s body, also containing the same kind of thing.” It could not immediately be determined when the notes were written.

       Fellow students in a playwriting class with Cho also noticed the dark and disturbing nature of his compositions. “His writing, the plays, were full of hatred and seemed very angry,” Stephanie Derry, a senior English major said, “I remember one of them very well. It was about a son who hammered his stepfather to death.” Derry said.

       “He wasn’t an outgoing kind of person. He was very quiet and always kept to himself,” Cho’s neighbor Shash recalled, “He spent a lot of his free time playing basketball and would not respond if someone greeted  him.”

       Rod Wells, a postal worker, said that characterization of Cho did not fit his parents, who worked at a dry cleaner’s. He described them as “always polite, always kind to me, very quiet, always smiling. Just sweet people.”

1．This passage is a piece of news on       .

       A．current events                                     B．social activities    

       C．house accidents                                   D．academic careers

2．Librescu bravely blocked the doorway because       .

       A．he had survived the Holocaust               B．he had a strong sense of social duty

       C．he was an extraordinary hero                D．he had a quick response in danger

3．Which of the following is NOT a word for Cho?

       A．Cold-blooded.                                      B．Self-centered.     

       C．Bad-tempered.                                     D．Dark-natured.

4．Which of the following is true?

       A．A certain professor noticed Cho’s abnormal personality.

       B．Cho was born into a rich family so he hated spoiled children

       C．Cho wrote many disturbing novels concerning bloody killings

       D．Cho hammered his stepfather to death before killing himself.

18、It was the fact        his father was ill in hospital        worried him and kept him awake for a whole night.

A．which; that      B．which; which   C．that; which      D．that; that

17、—Tom hasn’t finished what he was saying.

—He        . I’ve already known what is in his mind.

A．can’t       B．mustn’t     C．needn’t     D．shouldn’t

16、—Which of these photos do you want to take away?

—I have to take        these photos because I am not sure which is the most useful.

A．both  B．none  C．neither      D．all

15、—Jack, come downstairs and help me with this heavy box.

—One more minute. I        with mom on the phone.

A．talked                                                        B．am talking           

C．am going to talk                              D．have talked

14、Jane was a successful career woman        her husband wanted her to be a housewife.

A．and   B．for    C．so     D．but

13、We hadn’t been out for long        she felt sick.

A．as     B．before       C．while    D．after