【题目】

Although I love my life, it hasn’t been a lot of fun as I’ve been ill for 28 years.

Music has always been a great love of mine and, in my 20s, when my was more manageable , I ten years as a professional singer in restaurants, playing and singing folk songs. that was years ago and times have changed. I live with mother on a country farm.

Two years ago, I decided that I would need to have some kind of extra work to my disability pension (残疾抚恤金). I needed to sleep in the afternoons, I was limited in my . I decided that I would consider to singing in restaurants.

My family are all musicians, so I was when I went into our local music store. I explained that I wanted to sing again but using recorded karaoke music. I knew that discs were very expensive and I really didn’t have a lot of to get started. And you find only three to four songs out of ten on a disc that you can （12） use.

When I told the owner of the shop about my ; he gave me a long thoughtful . “This means a lot to you, doesn’t it?” he said. “Come with me.”

He led me the crowded shop and to a bench with a large professional karaoke box on it. He placed his large hand on his treasure and said, “I have 800 araoke songs in here. You can take your and I’ll record them for you. That should get you started.”

I . Thanking him, I made a time with him to listen to all the songs and choose （19） that I could sing. I have come full circle with his help.

His still warms my heart and makes me do just that bit extra, when I have the chance.

【1】A. loneliness B. sadness

C. tiredness D. sickness

【2】 A. set B. enjoyed

C. kept D. shared

【3】 A. Gladly B. Eventually

C. Unfortunately D. Surprisingly

【4】 A. Now B. Then

C. Sometime D. Meanwhile

【5】 A. add up to B. make up for

C. get rid of D. take advantage of

【6】 A. If B. As

C. Though D. Before

【7】 A. movement B. condition

C. choices D. positions

【8】 A. reaching out B. living up

C. getting on D. going back

【9】 A. recognized B. interviewed

C. found D. invited

【10】A. money B. time

C. energy D. knowledge

【11】 A. thus B. once

C. seldom D. often

【12】 A. actually B. hardly

C. nearly D. formerly

【13】 A. job B. family

C. idea D. offer

【14】 A. face B. view

C. look D. sight

【15】 A. over B. along

C. towards D. through

【16】A. unhappily B. lovingly

C. pitifully D. gratefully

【17】 A. pick B. turn

C. role D. step

【18】A. hd to cry B. ought to cry

C. should have cried D. could have cried

【19】 A. more B. the ones

C. few D. the rest

【20】 A. courage B. devotion

C. kindness D. trust

【题目】阅读理解。

A

Since my retirement (退休) from teaching music in 2001, I have spent a good deal of time painting as an artist. I actually began drawing again in the summer of 1995 when my father 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 much influenced by Krenkel and St. John for five years.

For some strange reason, I had been waiting until my retirement to start doing watercolors 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 (渴望).”

【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 retirement.

【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.

【题目】Leaving for college can be a big challenging learning experience. Maybe this is the first time for you to live with people 【1】 aren’t your family members. Because of the differences in values and personalities, unavoidably, conflicts may easily arise between roommates.

So how can you develop a successful roommate relationship【2】fewer conflicts? First, lose your shyness 【3】open up to your roommates by talking about the common interest, which can help you learn each other’s different cultural or social backgrounds. 【4】, be flexible with your roommates and adjust your thinking to new situations. Don’t get stuck with 【5】thinking patterns and habits that you bring from home. At last, 【6】your roommate does something that bothers you, don’t let 【7】turn into a bad situation.Try to work together to reach a compromise that【8】can both live with.

In a word, a harmonious roommate relationship lies in the friendly communication, mutual respectand acceptance of others’ differences.

【题目】单词拼写

结合语境，根据汉语或首字母提示用单词的适当形式填空。

【1】Physics is the best example of a science which has developed strong, __________ (抽象的) theories.

【2】He is __________ (守旧的) in life when he was young.

【3】It’s __________ (荒谬的) that we have to wait six weeks.

【4】All his __________ (尝试) to get through the driving test without being trained has failed.

【5】It’s difficult to __________(预测) what the boy’s future will be.

【6】Jack is late again. It is t__________ of him to keep others waiting.

【7】He is not the woman’s own son; she a__________ him twenty years ago.

【8】Who p__________ the house? In another word, who is the owner of the house?

【9】Luckily enough, I met my old classmate in the street by c__________ the other day.

【10】As the sun sets, the s__________ of trees becomes longer.

【题目】

Everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older, but men's minds decline more than women's, according to the results of a worldwide survey.

Certain differences seem to be inherent in male and female brains: Men are better at maintaining and dealing with mental images (useful in mathematical reasoning and spatial skills), while women tend to excel (擅长) at recalling information from their brain's files (helpful with language skills and remembering the locations of objects).

Many studies have looked for a connection between sex and the amount of mental decline (衰退) people experience as they age, but the results have been mixed.

Some studies found more age-related decline in men than in women, while others saw the opposite or even no relationship at all between sex and mental decline. Those results could be improper because the studies involved older people, and women live longer than men: The men tested are the survivors, "so they're the ones that may not have shown such cognitive decline," said study team leader Elizabeth of the University of Warwick in England.

People surveyed completed four tasks that tested sex-related cognitive skills: matching an object to its rotated form, matching lines shown from the same angle, typing as many words in a particular category (范畴) as possible in the given time, e.g. "object usually colored gray", and recalling the location of objects in a line drawing. The first two were tasks at which men usually excel; the latter are typically dominated by women.

Within each age group studied, men and women performed better in their separate categories on average. And though performance declined with age for both genders, women showed obviously less decline than men overall.

【1】 The underlined word in the second paragraph means_________.

A. natural

B. great

C. obvious

D. absolute

【2】 Which of the following statements is true according the article?

A. Men do better than women when it comes to learning English.

B. Women stand out at remembering people’s names.

C. Men excel at typing as many words in a particular category as possible in the given time.

D. Women excel at dealing mathematic problems.

【3】 One important factor that affects the correctness of the results is that _________.

A. the old men tested may not have shown such cognitive decline

B. people surveyed are all old

C. people taking part in this test came from all over the world

D. women live longer than men

【4】 The author aims to tell us that __________.

A. women’s minds perform better than men’s

B. men’s minds decline more with age

C. everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older

D. a survey on human’s mind decline was done recently

【题目】七选五。

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Easy Ways to Keep Your Brain Sharp

Everyone is forgetful, but as we age, we start to feel like our brains are slowing down a bit — and that can be a very annoying thing. 【1】 Read on for some techniques worth trying.

1. 【2】

People who regularly made plans and looked forward to coming events had a 50 percent reduced chance of Alzheimer’ disease（早老性痴呆症）, according to a recent study. 【3】 Something as simple as setting a goal to have a weekly coffee date with a friend will do. There’s evidence that people who have a purpose in life or who are working on long or short-term goals appear to do better. In other words, keep your brain looking forward.

2. Go for a walk.

Mildly raised glucose（葡萄糖）levels can harm the area of the brain that helps you form memories and physical activity can help get blood glucose down to normal levels. In fact, exercise produces chemicals that are good for your brain. 【4】

3. Learn something new.

Take a Spanish class online, join a drawing club, or learn to play cards. A study found that the best thing for your brain is when you learn something new and are physically active at the same time. 【5】 Or go dancing with your friends.

A. Focus on the future.

B. This can be especially harmful to the aged.

C. It should be something like learning gardening.

D. So take a few minutes each day to do some reading.

E. But don’t worry ifyour schedule isn’t filled with life-changing events.

F. Luckily, research shows there is a lot you can do to avoid those moments.

G. In other words, when you take care of your body, you take care of your brain.

【题目】

YANGON -- Myanmar has officially accepted an offer of the United States to send humanitarian aid (人道主义援助) to the country's cyclone (飓风;暴风) victims, state radio reported Friday in a night broadcast Myanmar Deputy Foreign Minister U Kyaw Thu gave the assurance Friday, saying that the country is receiving such relief aid from any country without limit at this time according to its policy of dealing with the disaster, the report said.

Kyaw Thu denied rumors about Myanmar's turning down of such relief materials from Western countries but accept those from nations in good relations with Myanmar, saying that the country has never done so in this case.

Kyaw Thu said that well wishers abroad may make cash donation（捐赠）through Myanmar embassies（使馆）stationed there, while those who like to donate relief goods may present at the Yangon International Airport and seaports.

According to the report, the US relief aid would arrive in Yangon in days.

A foreign ministry's statement said earlier on Friday that at this moment, the international community can best help the victims by donating emergency provisions such as medical supplies, food, cloth, electricity generator, and materials for emergency shelter or with financial assistance," adding that "Myanmar will wholeheartedly welcome such course of action".

The government and the people of Myanmar are grateful to the friendly nations,the United Nations,international organizations, non-governmental organizations, private individuals and others for their sympathy and generosity." it said.

【1】 Which of the following is true?

A. The US relief aid was turned down at first ad then accepted.

B. The US relief aid has been sent to the capital city of Myanmar.

C. There are rumors（谣言）that Myanmar has turned down the US relief aid.

D. Myanmar will wholeheartedly welcome such course of action but the US relief aid.

【2】 We Chinese may denote money to help the country's cyclone victims through_____.

A. Myanmar embassies in Beijing.

B. the Yangon International Airport

C. the United Nations

D. the Yangon International seaports.

【3】 What can the international community （组织）best help the victims in Myanmar?

A. medical supplies

B. financial assistance

C. electricity generator

D. all of the above.

【4】The title that best expresses the idea of the passage is _______.

A. How to help Myanmar.

B. Myanmar accepts US humanitarian aid officially.

C. Myanmar is receiving relief aid from any country without limit.

D. The government and the people of Myanmar are grateful.

【题目】完型填空。

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

This morning, as I was getting close to the supermarket, I saw a small__ __gathering around an elderly woman with blood under her face. I stopped and asked if I could__ _ . I told her I was certified (授予证书的) in first aid. Then I__ __someone for a first aid kit (工具箱). But she didn’t want help, saying she was fine. But she wasn’t fine. I asked her to__ __with me and we__ __about her routine (惯例) of getting groceries each day. People brought out ice packs, water and paper towels from the__ __nearby. I put on the gloves from the first aid kit, and cleaned her up a bit, but____ I just talked to her and held her hand.

Two____happened to be passing by and____to help check her out a bit. Finally, after ten minutes the____arrived and I talked to the emergency medical team and they____.

I was certified in first aid years back, and I got re-certified a month ago, but I never____it once. However, I realized being certified isn’t____about providing the aid. I didn’t stop the bleeding. I didn’t____to examine her. Mostly it was about providing comfort for people in a difficult____. The certification gave me the____to do that: to kneel on the sidewalk, holding an old woman’s hand, and to help make those ____few minutes just a little bit better.

If you’re not certified in first aid, I can’t____you to do it strongly enough. It takes four hours of your time at your____Red Cross. With what you’ll___， maybe you'll be able to help someone like the old lady one day.

【1】A. peopleB．publicC．trafficD．crowd

【2】A. watch out B．look outC．help outD．make out

【3】A. paid B．sent C．applied D．scolded

【4】A. stay B．walkC．leave D．shop

【5】A. looked B．caredC．talked D．quarreled

【6】A. hospital B．supermarketC．station D．office

【7】A. mostly B．maybeC．simply D．extremely

【8】A. policemen B．volunteersC．lawyers D．doctors

【9】A. refused B．stoppedC．lay D．woke

【10】A. ambulance B．familyC．driver D．officer

【11】A. operated on B．turned upC．ran away D．took over

【12】A. liked B．noticedC．used D．met

【13】A. necessarily B．possiblyC．hopefully D．commonly

【14】A. want B．teachC．permit D．try

【15】A. place B．situationC．life D．position

【16】A. harm B．confidenceC．lesson D．wish

【17】A. confusing B．movingC．frightening D．friendly

【18】A. advise B．demandC．support D．explain

【19】A. formal B．nationalC．local D．private

【20】A. recognize B．offerC．allow D．learn

【题目】

Tokyo: The world’s oldest man, retired Japanese silkworm breeder（饲养员） Yukichi Chuganji, died in his home at the age of 114, on Monday. Family members found him dead on his mattress. Born on March 23, 1889, Chuganji worked as a silkworm breeder and bank employee after leaving school. He also served as a community welfare officer. He had been in good health, talking daily with his family members.

Washington: Every American dislikes people who talk on cell phones while driving, even those who do that kind of act. In the State of New Jersey, 84 percent of 968 cell phone owners said in recent telephone survey that they would support a state ban (禁令) on the use of cell phones while driving. However, 42 percent of cell phone owners also said they used the devices “very often” or “sometimes” while driving. Although most agree that the banning is good, only 38 percent believed such a ban would be easy to enforce(实施).

New York: A woman in the US who was being attacked by a dog said she was saved from further harm when her 13-year-old daughter distracted the dog by screaming “You want a piece of me?” and kicked it repeatedly in the head. Jane Howell said she and her daughter, Elizabeth, were taking a walk around the neighborhood on Saturday evening when they came across the big dog, unchained.

【1】 The main idea of the second news is _____.

A. most Americans don’t like cell phone

B. a ban on the use of cell phones has been made

C. few people use cell phones while driving

D. using cell phones while driving will be banned because most Americans don’t like it

【2】 The three pieces of news are all about .

A. science

B. daily life

C. sports

D.law

【3】 The woman in the US ____.

A. was not harmed by the dog

B. raised the dog, which attacked her later

C. was protected from being seriously hurt by her daughter

D. had escaped when her daughter was kicking the dog

【4】 From the news we can infer ____.

A. Chuganji was living alone when he died

B. the woman’s 13-year-old daughter was very brave

C. cell phones are not good devices

D. it’s easy to enforce the ban n the use of cell phones while driving

【题目】单词拼写。

结合语境，根据汉语或首字母提示用单词的适当形式填空。

【1】Let’s go out for lunch. It’s my ________(请客) this time.

【2】The policeman showed great_________(勇气) in the face of danger.

【3】He was _________(给予荣誉) in many ways for his inventions in the medical field.

【4】The results of this research can be _________(应用) to new developments in technology.

【5】China prepared well for the September G20 Summit and the________(仪式) in Hangzhou was directed by Zhang yimou.

【6】When you get injured, you can slow the bleeding by applying p________ to the wound.

【7】An a_________ arrived only eight minutes after they called 120.

【8】The bandage must be t________ enough to stop the bleeding.

【9】I have a bad cough and have had a sore t________ for many days.

【10】Going to another school made a great d________ to the shy girl.