28、As one of Hollywood’s all-time greatest actress, Audrey Hepburn is famous all over the world. When Hepburn died in 1993, the world mourned the loss of a great beauty, a great actress and a great humanitarian.

Born in Belgium on 4^th May 1929, Hepburn dreamed of becoming a successful ballet dancer. She had also been a model before she entered the film industry. In 1951, while acting in Monte Carlo Baby, Hepburn met the famous French writer Colette, who was attracted by Hepburn’s beauty and charm. She insisted that Hepburn was the perfect girl to play the lead role in Gigi, a play based on her novel. That event marked the beginning of Hepburn’s successful career.

Shortly after, Hepburn was chosen to play the lead role of a young princess in the Hollywood film Roman Holiday. It was a big success and earned her an Oscar for Best Actress. She also won a Tony Award for the play Ondine.

During her lifetime, Hepburn earned four more Oscar nominations. In 1989, she made her final appearance in her last film Always and played the role of an angel.

Throughout her acting years, she acted in only one TV series, Gardens of the world with Audrey Hepburn. By showing us the beauty of nature, Hepburn wanted to remind us that we should protect the environment.

Hepburn is remembered not just as a great actress, but also as a great humanitarian. She was honoured with a number of awards because of her efforts in her charity work. In 1992, the President of the United States presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

In 1991, Hepburn discovered that she had cancer. In 1993, at the age of 63, she passed away peacefully in her sleep.

1. Which of the following is the correct order according to the events?

a．People mourned her death.

b. She was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

c. Her successful film career began.

d. She earned an Oscar for Best Actress.

e. She met the French writer Colette.

A．a-e-c-b-d                B．a-e-d-c-b           C．e-c-d-b-a           D．e-c-b-d-a

2. Her successful career lasted about _____________ years.

A．60                       B．50                     C．40             D．30

3. People remember Hepburn not only as a great actress but also as _____________ .

A．a kind lady         B．a brave lady           C．a wise lady  D．an attractive lady

27、During all this time I never stopped thinking about escape. When I traveled across to the other side of the island （岛屿）, I could see the other islands, and I said to myself, “Perhaps I can get there with a boat. Perhaps I can get back to England one day.”

So I decided to make myself a boat. I cut down a big tree, and then began to make a long hole （洞） in it. It was hard work, but about six months later, I had a very fine canoe （独木舟）. Next, I had to get it down to the sea．How silly I was! Why didn’t I think before I began work? Of course, the canoe was too heavy. I couldn’t move it! I pulled and pushed and tried everything, but it didn’t move. I was very unhappy for a long time after that.

That happened in my fourth year on the island. In my sixth year I did make myself a smaller canoe, but I did not try to escape in it. The boat was too small for a long journey, and I did not want to die at sea．The island was my home now, not my prison, and I was just happy to be alive.  A year or two later, I made myself a second canoe on the other side of the island. I also built myself a second house there, and so I had two homes.

My life was still busy from morning to night. There were always things to do or to make. I learnt to make new clothes for myself from the skins of dead animals. They looked very strange, it is true, but they kept me dry in the rain.

I kept food and tools （工具） at both my houses, and also wild goats （山羊）. There were many goats on the island, and I made fields with high fences to keep them in. They learnt to take food from me, and soon I had goats’ milk to drink every day. I also worked hard in my corn （玉米） fields. And so many years went by.

1. The purpose of making a canoe on the island was to _____________.

A．escape in it                     B．get to the other side of the island

C．use it for food                         D．go around the island

2. To survive, the writer did the following EXCEPT _____________.

A．keeping goats for milk            B．making clothes from animal skins

C．working in the cornfields         D．going fishing in the sea

3. Why didn’t the writer use his first canoe?

A．Because it was too small for a long journey.  

B．Because it was too heavy to get down to the sea.

C．Because there was something wrong with it.

D．Because the writer was busy building a second house.

4. From the story, we can learn that _____________.

A．the writer tried to make his stay comfortable on the island

B．the writer had nothing to do on the wild island

C．the writer tried to escape in the second canoe, but failed

D．the writer was in prison on the island, losing his freedom

26、There are over 800 boarding （寄宿） schools in the UK with students from home and foreign countries. Boarding schools started hundreds of years ago in the country. But the earliest boarding schools were set up for white, rich boys only. Now both boys and girls can go to boarding schools from the age of 7 to 18.

What to do

In the UK, boarding schools have three terms in a school year, with about 13 weeks in each term. Students study and live together. They can’t go outside if they are not allowed to. In some schools, each student has his or her subject plan. Besides the usual classrooms and laboratories, the boarding schools have lots of other facilities for their students, including music rooms, boats, swimming pools, cinemas and theatres. Most boarding schools have a “light out” time. So when it’s time to go to bed, all the lights in the bedrooms are turned off. There are house-masters to take care of students all the time, especially after school hours.

What to wear

Nearly all students at boarding schools wear a school uniform. Boys usually wear a shirt and a tie, and girls wear a white blouse, sometimes also a tie and a skirt. As students get older, the rules become less strict.

In the UK, boarding schools provide students with delicious food. They can choose to have a full English breakfast or simply bread. They can also choose between a meal with no meat and another meal at lunch and dinner. And there is always self-service for salad （沙拉）, other side dishes and a dessert. Students can also make themselves something to eat at any time in a kitchen, or drink tea or have a snack between meals.

1. Which of the following is TRUE according to （根据） the passage?

A．Only white children were allowed to attend the earliest boarding schools.

B．Students in a boarding school are looked after only after school hours.

C．As students get older, the rules about wearing school uniforms become stricter.

D．Students can have different activities in a boarding school.

2. Which is the best title for the last paragraph?

A．What to eat      B．When to eat           C．Where to eat          D．How to eat

3. The underlined word ‘facilities’ means _____________.

A．教师          B．设施                   C．活动                   D．课程

23、在横线上填入所缺部分，使句子完整（注意：每空不止一个单词）

A．同义句改写

1．Nick was so tired that he couldn’t walk any further.

   Nick was _____________________________ any further.

2．We can’t finish the project on time unless you support us.

   The project can’t be finished on time ______________________________.

3．Shall we watch the exciting ping-pong match together?

   ______________________________watch the exciting ping-pong match together?

B．根据所给汉语和句子意思，用英语补全句子。

4．As we all know, waste water and gas ____________（对……有不良影响）the environment.

5．A pair of pandas __________________（赠送）to Australia months ago, which represents the friendship between Australian and Chinese people.

6．---Do you often use Baidu?

  ---Yes, it’s one of ____________________________（最受欢迎的）Internet search engines.

22、

1．Which of the following information about the plane Lowcarbon is NOT true?

    A．It can fly at 70 km an hour.               B．It is solar –powered．

    C．It has passed a night-flight test.           D．It is slower than a car.

2．Lowcarbon is a special plane because________________.

    A．it’s made in Switzerlland                   B．it has travelled around the world

    C．it can do turns in the sky                  D．it’s big and light, but uses little energy

3．The purpose of the second article is to________________.

A．encourage us to visit Shanghai Expo    

B．ask us to be volunteers for Shanghai Expo

C．invite us to write stories about Shanghai Expo  

D．tell us to get the lucky prize of Shanghai Expo

4．Your stories about the 2010 Shanghai Expo for China Daily___________.

A．can be in Chinese

B．don’t need to have photos

C．must be given by post

D．should be handed in by e-mail

21、What’s the most important thing for you to have in your life? Somebody mentions hard-work, others suggest knowledge, love and luck.

If you arrange the 26 English letters alphabetically（按字母表的顺序）and use numbers to represent each of them, for example, 1 for a, 2 for b, 3 for c…, you can change an English word into a number. So hard-work becomes 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11=98, meaning 98 is its mark; knowledge: 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5=96, while love:12+15+22+5=54, and luck : 12+21+3+11=47, a small mark. None of these words can give one a full mark. What about money or prayer（祈祷）? They can’t , either.

Then what else? Don’t be worried． You can always find an answer to a problem in your life, when you change your way of looking at things or doing things, or your attitude（态度）.Yes, attitude is the word． See for yourself: attitude:1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5=100，a full mark.

Different attitudes lead to different courses of life. Most times people hope for a better life. It is possible that one will have a change for the better after one has changed one’s attitude.

When you change your manner and became friendly towards others, you’ll meet more smiling faces towards you. In the same way, if you take a positive（积极地）attitude towards failure（失败）,you’ll find it’s also rewarding though it has caused you losses.

1．In the writer’s opinion, what is the most important things in a person’s life?

    A．Hard-work.             B．Knowledge.            C．Money.          D．Attitude.

2．According to the passage, if you meet with problems, the best way out is to ___________.

    A．ask for help from others                      B．say your prayers to God

    C．change your attitude                         D．try maths-solving methods

3．From the passage we can learn that ______________.

    A．different attitudes come from different courses of life.

    B．mathematics can solve every problem easily in our daily life

    C．failure sometimes can bring you good if you take a positive attitude

    D．none of the English words except “attitude” equals to 100 or more

20、Many years before the United States was founded（建立）, Americans had already invented barbecues. But the first barbecues, in fact ,were the invention of the Taino Indians of Haiti, who dried their meat on raised frames（架子）of sticks over fires. Spanish explorers spelled the Taino word as barbacoa, and as time passed, English settlers along the Atlantic coat had their own barbecues.

One summer day in 1773, Benjamin Lynde, a citizen of Massachusetts, wrote in his diary, “Fair and hot ; Browne; hack overset.” That is , on a bright and hot day he went to the Brownes to attedn a barbecue, and his carriage（马车）fell over. It shows that the barbecue had its social occasion by that time. Large animals would be roasted whole on frames over hot fires, and neighbours would be invited to dinner.

In later centuries, as settlers moved to the west, the barbecue went along with it, reaching an especially large size in Texas, where a pit （坑）for fuels（燃料） such as tree branches might be over ten feet deep. Today , the barbecue grills（烧烤架）which are fueled by charcoal（木炭） or electricity are likely to be small and easy to move , and can cook only parts of an animal at a time, but people still have barbecues out of doors and always invite their neighbours or friends over.

1．Who invented the barbecues first in history?

A．American people.                   B．Taino Indians.

C．Spanish explorers.             D．English settlers.

2．The second paragraph mainly tells us that the barbecue_______________.

A．is only held on a hot sunny day

B．welcomes people who keep diaries

C．is held both indoors and outdoors

D．has its social occasion for over 200 years

3．The underlined expression “ social occasion” can be best translated into______________.

    A．社交功能               B．社会福利               C．社会地位               D．社会背景

4．The following are all the barbecue ways        EXCEPT __________________.

    A．drying meat on raised frames of sticks over fires

    B．roasting a whole animal over a pit full of burning tree branches

    C．cooking parts of animals over fires on grills fueled by charcoal

    D．heating meat in the bright and hot daylight

19、On a British Airways flight from Johannesburg, a middle-aged, rich white South American lady found herself sitting next to a black man. She called the cabin stewardess（机舱乘务员）over to complain about her seating.

“What seems to be the problem, Madam?” asked the stewardess.

“Can’t you see?” she said． “You’ve sat me next to a black man. I can’t possibly sit next to this kind of human. Find me another seat!”

“Please calm down, Madam,” the stewardess replied． “The flight is very full today, but I’ll tell you what I’ll do---I

Will go and check to see if we have any free seats in Club（商务舱）or First Class.”

The lady had an unfriendly look at the outraged（被激怒的）black man beside her.

A few minutes later the stewardess returned and said to the lady with a self –satisfied smile, “I’m sorry, Madam, this Economy（经济舱）is full, and Club is also full. However, we do have one seat in First Class.”

The lady could not help looking at the people around her. But before she had a chance to get up or make any answer, the stewardess continued , “ We seldom make this kind of upgrade（升级）,however, and I had to report it to the captain（机长）.When the captain heard this, he said that it was not proper to make someone sit next to such an obnoxious（令人讨厌的）person.” Having said that, the stewardess turned to the black man sitting next to the lady, and said, “So if you’d like to get your things, sir, I have a seat ready for you…”

At this time, the people around stood up and clapped their hands. The black man walked up to the front of the plane.

That was an unforgettable flight for me, for I was the black man who had never flown First Class before.

1．Where did this story happen?

    A．At the booking office.                            B．In the Economy cabin.

    C．In the Club cabin.                              D．In the First Class cabin.

2．The black man was finally upgraded to the First Class cabin because _____________.

    A．the stewardess loved him                        B．he was angry with the white lady

    C．the captain knew him                           D．the white lady was too impolite

3．What might be the correct order of the cabins from the front to the back on this place?

A．Club→Pilots’ →Economy →First Class

B．Pilots’ →Club →Economy →First Class

C．Club→Economy→ First Class→ Pilots’

D．Pilots’ → First Class →Club→ Economy

4．What can be the best title of this article?

A．Flying First Class

B．On a British Airways Flight

C．Sitting Next to a Lady

D．An Unforgettable Free Flight