8、Many years ago,when I was fresh out of school and working in Danver,I was driving to my parents’ home in Messouri for Christmas.I atopped at a gas station(加油站) about 50 miles from Okiahoma City,where I was plsning to stop and visit &friend.While I was standing in.line at the cash register（收款台）,I said hello to an older couple who were also paying for gas.

I took off,but had gone anly a few miles when black smoke poured from the back of my car.I stopped and wondered what I should do.A car pulled up behind me. It was the couple I had spoken to at the gas station.They said they would take me to my friend’s.We chatted on the way into the city,and when I get out of the car,the husband gave me his business card.

I wrote him and his wife a thank-you note for helping me.Soon afterward.I received a Christmas present from them.Their note that came with it said that helping me had made their holidays meaningful.

Years later,I drove to a meeting in a nearby town in the morning,In late afternoon I returned to my car and found that I’d left the lights on all day,and the battery(电池) was dead.Then I noticed that the Friendly ford dealership-a shop selling cars-was right next door.I walked over and found two salesmen in the showroom.

“Just how friendly is Friendly Ford?”I asked and explained my trouble.They quickly drove a pickup truck to my car and started it.They would accept no payment;so when I got home;I wrote them a note to say thanks,I received a letter back from one of the salesmen,No one had ever taken the time to write him and say thank you ,and it meant a lot,he said.

“Thank you”- two powerful words.They’re easy to say and mean so much.

1.The author planned to stop at Oklahoma City            .

A.to visit a frend

B.to see his parents

C.to pay or the cash register

D.to have more gas for his car

2.The words“took off”underlined in Paragraph 2 mean“        ”

A.turned off

B.moved off

C.put up

D.set up

3.What happened when the author found smoke coming out of his car?

A.He had it pulled back to the gas station.

B.The coupls sent him a business card.

C.The couple offered to help him.

D.He called his friend for help.

4.The hattery of the author’s car was dead because            .

A.something went wrong with the lights

B.the meeting lasted a whole day

C.he forgot to turn off the lights

D.he drove too long a sistance

5.By telling his own experiences,the author tries to show         .

A.how to write a thank-you letter

B.how to deal with car problems

C.the kindheartedness of older people

D.the importance of expressing thanks

7、A study of English learning problems was carried out among a total of 106 foreign students.It shows that most students considered understanding spokeu English to be their bigges problern on asrival.This was followed by speaking,Writing increased as a problem as students discovered difficulties in writing papers that they were now expected to hand in.Reading remained as a signifioant（显著的）problem.

The information gsined helped up in determining where special attention should be paid in our course.Although many atudents have chosen to join the course with a reasonnble motivation（动机）,we considered it important to note what seemed to encourage inleresl.Neady all the students have experienced some kind of grammar-based English teaching in their own country.To use the sarnc method would be self-defeating because it might reduce motivation,especially if it has failed in the pest.Thereforc a different method may help henause it is different.

Variety of activity was also seen as a way of maintsining（保持）or incressing motivation.Several years ago we had one timetable that operated throughout,but we soon found that both the students and the teachers lost interest by about halfway through the ten weeks.This led up to a majoc re-taink,so finally we hrought it into line with the expressed language needs of the students.

1.What is the text mainly about?

A.Foreign students have more problems.

B.There are many ways to improve English.

C.Tesching should meet students’needs.

D.English learning probles should be studied again.

2.Writing became a bigger problem when foreign students       .

A.had to writs their paers

B.became better at speaking

C.became less interested in reading

D.had fewer problems with listening

3.We may infer from the last lwo paragraphs that           .

A.different teaching methods should be used

B.grammar-hased teaching seems to be encouraging

C.English courses are necessary for foreign students

D.teaching content should be changed halfway

4.The word“it” underlined in the last paragraph refers to“           ”.

A.re-think

B.activity

C.molivation

D.timetable

6、Since my retirement（退休）from teaching music in 2001,I have epent a good deal of time paintingas an artist.I aotually beagan drawing again in the summer of 1995 when my lather died.so perhaps I was trying to recover from the loss of my father,or maybe it was just that it brought back memories of him.In any case,I drew pen and ink animals and landscapes（风景画）much influenced（影响）by krenkel and St. John for five years.

    For some strange reason, I had been waiting until my retirement to start doing walereolors again, but as soon as I walked out of the school door for the last time I picked up my brushes and rediscovered Andrew Wyeth, who quickly became my favorite artist. I had looked through all the art books I had on my shelves and found his watercolors to be the closest to how I thought good watercolors should look. So I painted landscapes around Minnesota for three years and tried out many other types of painting. However, watercolors remained my first choice, and I think I did my best work there, showing my paintings at a number of art exhibitions.

Art is now together with my piano playing and reading. There is a time for everything in my world, and it is wonderful to have some time doing what I want to do. As Confucius once said,“At seventy I can follow my heart’s desire.”

1.What is the text mainly about?

A.Learning to paint in later life.             B.How to paint watercolors.

C.An artist-turned teacher.                  D.Life after retiroment.

2.The author started drawing again in 1995 because       .

A.he hoped to draw a picture of his father

B.he couldn’t stop missing his father

C.he had more time after retirement

D.he liked animals and landscapes

3.We can infer from the text that the author       .

A.had been taught by Krenkel and St. John

B.painted landscapes in Minnesota for 5 years

C.believed Wyeth to be the best in watercolors

D.started his retirement life at the age of seventy

4.How does the author probably feel about his life as an artist?

A.Very enjoyable.                    B.A bit regretful.

C.Rather busy.                       D.Fairly dull.

5、Phillip Island Penguins(企鹅)

The Little Penguin has called Phillip Island home for untold generations. Get to Phillip Island in plenty of time to watch a summer sunset at Summerland Beach-the stage is attractively set to see the Little Penguin leave water and step onto land.

·Leave Melbournc at 5:30pm for a direct journey to Phillip Island

·Sec the Gippsland area-Guinness Book of Records place for the world’s longest earthoworm(蚯蚓)

·Journey along the coastal highway around the Bay with French Island and Churchill Island in the distance

·Cross the bridge at San Remo to enter Phillip Island-natural home for Little Penguins and many animals

·Take your place in special viewing stands(看台) to watch the daily evening performance of the wild Little Penguins

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1.What kind of people is the text mainly written for?

A.Scientists.     B.Students.           C.Tourists.         D.Artists.

2.What can learn from the text that Little penguins             .

A.have been on Phillip Island for years

B.keep a Guinness record for their size

C.are trained to practice diving for visitors

D.live in large groups to protect themselves

3.How much would a couple with one child pay for a closer viewing tour?

A.$37.50.          B.$62.50.            C.$180.00.           D.$150.00.

4、Cara Lang is 13. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts, U. S. Last Thursday, she didn't go to school. She went to work with her father instead. Every year, on the fourth Thursday in April, millions of young girls go work. This is Take Our Daughters to Work Day. The girls are between the ages of 9 and 15. They spend the day at work with an adult, usually a mother, father, aunt, or uncle. They go to offices, police stations, laboratories, and other places where their parents or other family members work. Next year, the day will include sons, too.

    The Ms. Foundation, an organization for women, started the program about ten years ago. In the U.S., many women work outside the home. The Ms. Foundation wanted girls to find out about many different kinds of jobs. Then, when the girls grow up, they can choose a job they like.

    Cara's father is a film director. Cara says, “It was very exciting for me to go to the studio with my dad. I saw a lot of people doing different jobs.” Many businesses have special activities for girls on this day. Last year, Cara went to work with her aunt at the University of Massachusetts. In the engineering department, the girls learned to build a bridge with toothpicks and Candy. In the chemistry department, they learned to use scales. They learned about many other kinds of jobs, too.

    Right now, Cara does not know what job she will have when she grows up. But because of Take Our Daughters to Work Day, she knows she has many choices.

1. What is Cara's father?

A. An engineer.   B. An official.    C. A moviemaker.     D. A professor.

2. According to the passage, Take our Daughters to work Day is ______.

A. on every Thursday in April                                                              

B. a holiday for girls of all ages

C. a day for girls to know about jobs                            

D. a day for girls to get a job easily

3. On this special day, Cara has done all the following EXCEPT that ____.

A. she learned to use scales                                                                    

B. she worked as an actress

C. she went to work with her aunt                                                          

D. she used toothpicks and Candy to build a bridge

4. What is probably the best title for the passage?

A. Cara Lang, a Fortunate Girl                                                    

B. Take Our Daughters to Work Day

C. Children's Day and Work Day                                                 

D. Ms. Foundation, an Organization for Women

3、Nervous suspects (嫌疑犯) locked up in Britain's newest police station may feel relieved by a pleasant yellow colour on the door. If they are close to confessing a crime, the blue on the wall might tip the balance.

    Gwent Police have abandoned colours such as grays and browns of the 20th-century police cell (牢房) and have used colour psychology to decorate them.

    Ystrad Mynach station, which recently opened at a cost of ￡5 million, has four cells with glass doors for prisoners who suffer from claustrophobia(幽闭恐怖症). Designers have painted the frames yellow, which researchers say is a calming colour. Other cells contain a royal blue line because psychologists believe that the colour is likely to encourage truthfulness.

    The station has 31 cells, including 12 with a “live scan” system for drunken or disturbed prisoners, which detects the rise and fall of their chest. An alarm alerts officers if a prisoner's breathing stops and carries on ringing until the door is opened.

    Designers and psychologists have worked for years on colour. Blue is said to suggest trust, efficiency, duty, logic, coolness, thinking and calm. It also suggests coldness and unfriendliness. It is thought that strong blues will stimulate clear thought and lighter, soft colours will calm the mind and aid concentration.

    Yellow is linked with confidence, self-respect and friendliness. Get the colour wrong and it could cause fear, depression and anxiety, but the right yellow can lift spirits and self-respect.

    Ingrid Collins, a psychologist who specializes in the effects of colour, said that colour was an “energy force”. She said: “Blue does enhance communication but I am not sure it would enhance truthful communication.”

    Yellow, she said, affected the mind. Red, on the other hand, should never be considered because it could increase aggression. Mrs Collins praised the designers for using colours in the cells. Gwent is not the first British force to experiment with colour to calm down or persuade prisoners to co-operate. In the 1990s Strathclyde Police used pink in cells based on research carried out by the US Navy.

1. The expression “tip the balance” in paragraph 1 probably indicates that the blue might _____.

A. let suspects keep their balance                                                 

B. help suspects to confess their crimes

C. make suspects cold and unfriendly in law court             

D. enable suspects to change their attitudes to colours

2. Which of the following colours should NOT be used in cells according to me passage?

A. Pink.          B. Yellow       C. Blue.         D. Red.

3. Which of the following helps alert officers if someone stops breathing?

A. Scanning equipment.  B. Royal blue lines.       

C. Glass doors.        D. Yellow frames.

4. The passage is mainly concerned with _____.

A. the relationship between colours and psychology          

B. a comparison of different functions of colours

C. the use of colours in cells to affect criminals’ psychology

D. scientific ways to help criminals reform themselves in prison

2、The “Bystander Apathy Effect” was first studied by researchers in New York after neighbours ignored-and in some cases turned up the volume on their TVs-the cries of a woman as she was murdered (over a half-hour period). With regard to helping those in difficulty generally, they found that:

(1) women are helped more than men;

(2) men help more than women;

(3) attractive women are helped more than unattractive women.

Other factors relate to the number of people in the area, whether the person is thought to be in trouble through their own fault, and whether a person sees himself as being able to help.

    According to Adrian Furnham, Professor 0f University College, London, there are three reasons why we tend to stand by doing nothing:

(1) “Shifting of responsibility”－the more people there are, the less likely help is to be given. Each person excuses himself by thinking someone else will help, so that the more “other people’ there are, the greater the total shifting of responsibility.

(2) “'Fear of making a mistake'’－situations are often not clear. People think that those involved in an accident may know each other or it may be a joke, so a fear of embarrassment makes them keep themselves to themselves.

(3) “Fear of the consequences if attention is turned on you, and the person is violent.”

    Laurie Taylor, Professor of Sociology at London University, says: “In the experiments I’ve seen on intervention (介入), much depends on the neighborhood or setting. There is a silence on public transport which is hard to break. We are embarrassed to draw attention to something that is happening, while in a football match, people get involved, and a fight would easily follow. ”

    Psychotherapist Alan Dupuy identifies the importance of the individual: “The British as a whole have some difficulty intervening, but there are exceptional individuals in every group who are prepared to intervene, regardless of their own safety: These would be people with a strong moral code or religious ideals.”

1. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A. Pretty women are more likely to be helped.     

B. People on a bus are more likely to stop a crime.

C. Religious people are more likely to look on.     

D. Criminals are more likely to harm women.

2. Which factor is NOT related with intervention according to the passage?

A. Sex.     B. Nationality.                 C. Profession.    D. Setting.

3. Which phenomenon can be described as the “Bystander Apathy Effect”?

A. When one is in trouble, people think it’s his own fault.

B. In a football match, people get involved in a fight.

C. Seeing a murder, people feel sorry that it should have happened.

D. On hearing a cry for help, people keep themselves to themselves.

4. The author wrote this article ______.

A. to explain why bystanders behave as they do                

B. to urge people to stand out when in need

C. to criticize the selfishness of bystanders                                  

D. to analyze the weakness of human nature

1、Directions: Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from A-F for each paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need.

    An Iowa high school counselor gets a call from a parent protesting the “C” her child received on an assignment. “The parent argued every point in the essay,” recalls the counselor, who soon realized why the mother was so disappointed about the grade. “It became apparent that she’d written it.”

In a survey, 90% of new teachers agreed that involving parents in their children’s education is a priority at their school, but only 25％described their experience working with parents as “very satisfying.” When asked to choose me biggest challenge they face, 31％ of them quoted involving parents and communicating with them as their top choice. 73％of new teachers said too many parents treat schools and teachers as enemies.

At a time when competition is rising and resources are limited, when battles over testing force schools to adjust their priorities, when cell phones and e-mail speed up the information flow and all kinds of private ghosts and public quarrels slip into the parent-teacher conference, it’s harder for both sides to step back and breathe deeply and look at the goals they share.

    Everyone says the parent-teacher conference should be pleasant, civilized, a kind of dialogue where parents and teachers build partnership. But what most teachers feel, and certainly what all parents feel, is anxiety and panic.

When a teacher asks parents to be partners, he or she doesn't necessarily mean Mom or Dad should be camping in the classroom. Research shows that though students benefit modestly from having parents involved at school, what happens at home matters much more. According to research based on the National Education Longitudinal Study, a sample of nearly 25,000 eighth graders, among four main areas of parental involvement (home discussion, home supervision. school communication, and school participation), home discussion was the most strongly related

A. New teachers’ opinions of involving parents

B. An argument over an assignment

C. A conflict between assumption and reality

D. Difficulties in sharing goals

E. The best way to score high

F. Proper ways of parental involvement