7、The news of the mayor’s coming to our school for a visit was           on the radio yesterday. 

A. turned out                B. found out                 C. given out                  D. carried out

6、—Do you need any help, Lucy? 

—Yes, The job is           I could do myself.

A. less than                                                      B. more than                

C. no more than                                               D. not more than

5、It is none of your business           other people think about you. Believe yourself.

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

4、I grew up in a tiny Baltimore row house in a faraway mountain area. My parents    1    the necessities of life    2    they couldn’t give much more. If I asked my father    3    a pair of jeans, he would say, “If you want them, make the money and buy them    4   .” He wasn’t being mean; he just couldn’t    5    them. From age 12 on, I did part-time jobs after school.

       When I    6    from high school, I joined the navy. Soon I was in a boot camp(新兵训练营) at Parris Island, S. C., where I learned that life in the navy centered around completing daily    7   . These could be anything from cleaning the camp to conducting mock(模拟的) battles. Completing these tasks successfully    8    discipline, team-work and responsibility. It didn’t    9    whether you were black, white or Asian; everyone worked together for the    10  of the company.

I went    11    to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy and later became an officer in the navy. The part of my job I    12    most was the consulting(咨询) meeting I  13     with the family members of the men and women in my    14  , trying to help them deal with the long periods of  15  . These proved popular and word of them spread.  16   I was being asked to give encouraging    17    to business groups, educators and kids across the country.

But I consider the boot camp my first real    18   , and my life is still guided by the    19    lessons I learned there. It taught me discipline, friendship and the pride related to setting a task every day and working hard to    20    it.

1.A.provided                 B. got                    C. made                       D. bought

2.A.while                      B. but                    C. so                            D. or

3.A.about                            B. with                  C. for                           D. of

4.A.themselves              B. ourselves           C. yourself                   D. myself

5.A.pay                        B. find                   C. produce                   D. afford

6.A.came                      B. returned            C. escaped                    D. graduated

7.A.drills                      B. tasks                 C. exercises                  D. reports

8.A.included                 B. asked                C. required                   D. met

9.A.matter                    B. mean                 C. exist                        D. work

10.A.good                    B. boss                  C. rest                          D. right

11.A.out                       B. on                     C. away                       D. off

12.A.took                     B. hated                 C. enjoyed                    D. did

13.A.ended                   B. began                C. continued                 D. held

14.A.charge                  B. situation            C. position                    D. choice

15.A.lessons                 B. meetings            C. training                    D. separation

16.A.Long before          B. Before long        C. As usual                   D. Once again

17.A.performances        B. descriptions              C. speeches                  D. gifts

18.A.vacation                B. place                 C. job                           D. travel

19.A.important              B. bitter                 C. normal                            D. difficult

20.A.gain                      B. achieve              C. show                       D. match

3、When I met him, I had a lot of anger inside of me. I’ve lived my whole life in Spanish Harlem, but in my neighborhood, there are shoot-ups all the time. I know kids who have been shot or beaten up. I have friends who ended up in prison. I could have ended up that way, too, but  Mr. Clark wouldn’t let that happen.

Mr. Clark worked long hours, making sure I did my work. My grades rose. In fact, the scores of our whole class rose. One day, he took our class to see The Phantom of the Opera, and it was the first time some kids had ever been out of Harlem. Before the show, he treated us to dinner at a restaurant and taught us not to talk with our mouths full. We did not want to let him down.

Mr. Clark was selected as Disney’s 2000 Teacher of the Year. He said he would draw three names out of a hat; those students would go with him to Los Angeles to get the award. But when the time came to draw names, Mr. Clark said, “You’re all going.”

On graduation day, there were a lot of tears. We didn’t want his class to end. In 2001, he moved to Atlanta, but he always kept in touch. He started giving lectures about education, and wrote a bestselling book based on his classroom rules, The Essential 55. In 2003,

Mr. Clark took some of us on a trip to South Africa to deliver school supplies and visit orphanages (孤儿院). It was the most amazing experience of my life. It’s now my dream to one day start a group of women’s clubs, helping people from all backgrounds.

1. Without Mr. Clark, the writer           .

A. might have been put into prison                           

B. might not have won the prize

C. might have joined a women’s club                 

D. might not have moved to Atlanta

2. The Essential 55 is           .

A. a show                                                               B. a speech                  

C. a classroom rule                                                  D. a book

3. How many students’ names were finally drawn out of a hat by Mr. Clark?

A. None                       B. Three                       C. Fifty-five.                               D. All.

4. In the passage, the writer intends to tell us that           .

A. Mr. Clark went to South Africa because he liked traveling

B. Mr. Clark helped to set up a group of women’s clubs

C. a good teacher can help raise his or her students’ scores

D. a good teacher has a good influence on his or her students

2、A small town in southwest Britain is banning(禁止) plastic bags in an attempt to help the environment and cut waste－a step that environmentalists believe is a first for Europe.

       Shopkeepers in Modbury population 1,500, agreed to stop handing out disposable plastic bags to customers on Saturday. They said paper sacks and cloth carrier bags would be offered instead.

       Last month, San Francisco became the first U.S. city to ban plastic grocery bags. Internationally, Laws to discourage the use of plastic bags have been passed in parts of South Africa and Ireland, where government either tax shoppers who use them or fine companies that hand them out. Bangladesh already bans them, and so do at least 30 remote Alaskan villages.

       Modbury, about 225 miles southwest of London, has also declared a bag amnesty(宽限期), allowing local people to hand in plastic bags that have piled up at home. They will be sent for a recveling.

       The Modbury ban was the idea of Rebecca Hosking, who saw the effect of bags on manne life while working in the Pacific as a wildlife camerawoman. She said response(反应) in the town so far had been “really positive”.

       “Modbury is quite an old-fashioned town and a lot of people have wicker baskets to go out shopping anyway,” Hosking told Sky News Television.

The Worldwatch Institute, an environmental research agency, states that 100 billion plastic bags are thrown away each year in the United States alone. More than 500 billion are used yearly around the world.

1. What was Rebecca Hosking?

A. A lawyer.                                                            B. An environmentalist.        

C. A sailor.                                                              D. A photographer.

2. The underlined word “disposable” in the passage probably means        .

A. acceptable                B. valuable                           C. throw-away              D. long-lasting

3. It can be inferred from the passage that         .

A. most of the people in Modbury continue to use plastic bags

B. fewer and fewer plastic bags will be used in the world.

C. San Francisco is the first city to ban plastic bags in the world

D. most countries in the world have passed laws to ban plastic bags

4. Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?

A. Environmental Protection                                    

B. Big Cities Banning Plastic Bags

C. Effect of Plastic Fags on Sea Animals                   

D. British Town Banning Plastic Bags

1、Dogs wag(摇摆) their tails in different directions depending on whether they are excited and wanting to move forward or threatened and thinking of moving back, a study has found.

       Researchers in Italy  examined the tail wagging behavior of 30 dogs, catching their responses to a range of stimuli(刺激物) with video cameras. To conduct the study they chose 15 male dogs and 15 female ones aged between one and six years. The dogs were all family pets whose owners had allowed them to take part in the experiment at Bari University. The dogs were placed in a large wooden box with an opening at the front to allow for them to view various stimuli. They were tested one at a time.

       The researchers led by Professor Giorgio Vallortigara of the University of Trieste found that when the dogs were shown their owners—a positive experience—their tails wagged energetically to the right side. When they were shown an unfamiliar human they wagged to the right, but with somewhat less enthusiasm. The appearance of a cat again caused a right-hand side wag, although with less intensity again. The appearance of a large unfamiliar dog, similar to a German shepherd, changed the direction of tail wagging to the left. Researchers supposed the dog was thinking of moving back. When the dogs were not shown any stimuli they tended to wag their tails to the left, suggesting they preferred company. While the changes in the tail wagging were not easily noticed without the aid of video, it was thought that the findings could help people judge the mood (心情) of dogs. Computer and video systems, for example, could be used by professional dog trainers to determine the mood of dogs that they were required to approach.

1. The video cameras were used to catch the dogs’ responses because      .

A. it was easier to catch the dogs’ response changes in the tail wagging

B. the dogs were put in the wooden boxes and tested one at a time.

C. they enabled the dogs’ owners to know about their dogs’ habit

D. the dogs wagged their tails in different directions when they were in different moods

2. The underlined word “intensity” in the passage means        .

A. surprise                    B. worry                      C. excitement                D. interest

3. When there are no stimuli, a dog will         .

A. wag to the left                                             B. wag to the right

C. not wag at all                                               D. wag to the left and then to the right

4. The underlined word “they” refers to         .

A. the dogs                   B. the trainers               C. the systems                     D. the researchers

5. The purpose of doing the experiment is         .

A. to train dogs for their owners                        B. to help people judge the mood of dogs

C. to help dogs find company                                   D. to help people choose their pet dogs