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 It’s surprising that your brother ______ Russian so quickly — he hasn’t lived there very long.

A. picked up          B. looked up          C. put up               D. made up

A

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　　With kings,artists and writers playing chess,you mightget the idea that chess is the most civilized game．But you'dbe wrong．

　　A Scandinavian manuscript（手稿）,900 years old,tells ofhow one player,who lost a game,picked up the board and hithis opponent on the head with it．Boards were made of stone inthose days．

　　Grandmasters have called it“a blood sport”,“like a fightto the death with broken bottles”and“very dangerous-you have to kill people．”

　　If you agree with the old saying that life is too short for chess,play blitz chess．Five minutes on the clock．Non-play-ers think chess is slow and boring,but blitz is an extremely exciting sport．And as aggressive（进攻性的）as any martial art（武术）．In parks in Russia,where they gather in summer to play blitz,the players don't just take pieces,they knock them off the board onto the ground．And in the classic game,even world championship players have been known to kick each other under the table．

　　With all this aggression,and the stories of nervous breakdowns among chess players,it's worth remembering that chess can heal as well as harm．My own favourite chess story is that of John Healy．His autobiography（自传）,The Grass Arena，was made into a great film by the BBC．Healy was a failed boxer who became the most serious kind of alcoholic（酒鬼）．He became homeless．The bottle nearly killed him．But in prison,he discovered chess,and managed to give up drinking completely．He is now a successful chess player,journalist and writer．

　　Healy is played in the film by the British actor Mark Rylance．It's the performance of a lifetime-chess makes surpris-ingly good cinema．There is a moving scene where Healy tries to find the words to describe how his life has changed．“It's like boxing again…but not with fists…with the mind．”

(1)

The underlined sentence in the second paragraph suggests________

[　　]

A．

the board couldn't have been broken by the player

B．

the player was a very strong man

C．

the opponent must have been seriously injured

D．

stone chess boards were very popular at the time

(2)

Which of the following best describes blitz chess?

[　　]

A．

Slow and boring

B．

Fast and interesting．

C．

Peaceful but exciting．

D．

Quick and violent．

(3)

Which of the following is the correct order of whathappened to John Healy?

a．He began to play chess．

b．He gave up drinking completely．

c．He wrote The Grass Arena．

d．He broke the law．

e．He became homekss．

f．He was defeated in boxing．

g．He became alcoholic

[　　]

A．

f— g— d— e— a— c— b

B．

f— g— e— d— b— a— c

C．

f— g— e— d— a— b— c

D．

c— b— d— a— e— g— f

(4)

John Healy's story shows chess can ________

[　　]

A．

heal

B．

harm

C．

trick

D．

kill

(5)

The underlined sentence in the last paragraph means ________

[　　]

A．

Mark Rylance performed very well in this film

B．

Mark Rylance performed only once in his life

C．

it was the last performance in Mark Rylance's life

D．

Mark Rylance had never performed before

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[1] Many people spend a lot of time making money because they believe the money itself will make them happy, or will guard them against things that will make them unhappy．They make great efforts to achieve that perfect relationship, the perfect house, the beautiful body, the approval of others, all in an attempt to be happy.

[2] Sometimes these things make people happy; other times, people stress over not having reached the goals, or reach them and find they’re still unhappy．Other times, people focus on just one goal and don’t have time for other things that will make them truly happy.

[3] Some experts studying human happiness and the factors that contribute to it have identified several key areas of life that seem to be more related to personal happiness．Some of them are the things like money, friends, health and living conditions; others are things you may not think of in your daily life, such as your neighborhood and sense of meaning in life.

[4] So while setting your goals, remember all of the areas of life that are important to you and find a balanced lifestyle including social support, personal development, physical health and meaningful pursuits(追求) besides career success and financial security．_____________, your attitude about life and the things that happen to you each day can also have a great effect on your level of happiness and life satisfaction．In addition to being optimistic, happy people tend to believe they are the masters of their fate, rather than the victims of circumstance．

[5] Explore the state of your life, assess how truly happy you are, and find a direction to work toward that will likely bring more happiness．Reach your goals, set new ones and live a life that truly makes you happy.

What does the first paragraph mainly talk about? (Please answer within 15 words.)

Which sentence in the text is closest in meaning to the following one?

It’s impossible for those that stick to one thing only to experience happiness from other things.

Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with proper words．(Please answer within 5 words.)

Do you think money could bring true happiness? Why? (Please answer within 30 words.)

Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5 into Chinese.

Instructions: Fill in the blanks with the CORRECT form of the word .

1.What happened to the Amber Room r__________ a mystery .

2. It’s really f ______to be caught in a heavy thunderstorm when you are alone in the open air.

3. She looked calm, but a_________ she was very nervous at the speech contest.

4. She p _________to stay at home rather than go out for a picnic with her friends last week.

5. Many factories in my hometown were in trouble in 2009 , and luckily they have s____ the economic crisis (危机)now.

6. On November 2008 Barack Obama was made P_______ of the United States of America

7. Your n__________ country or area is the country or area where you were born and brought up.

8. He shook his head , which meant that he d____________ with me.

9. Former Tai Wan leader ChenShui-Bian was s _______ to 11 years and 8years in jail by a TaiWan court . .

10.China is a country b________ to the third world.

—Jenny, I’d like some coffee for a change.

— ______________. It’s in the cupboard.

   A. Help yourself     B. Never mind     C. With pleasure    D. Change it, please

In the late 1500s, a large powerful gun was placed on top of the Signal Hill, in Newfoundland, to prevent attacks from the outside. Flags were also flown there to warn sailors of bad weather. It's fitting, then, the Italian Gulielmo Marconi should have chosen this site（场所） to receive the world's first radio signal - in Morse code - from England on December 12, 1901.

    Marconi, combining earlier ideas with his own, led us to a new communications age. For the next 50 years, until the appearance of television, radio ruled the air waves.

    Today, it's the TV that rules. No single person can say to have invented television.

    In 1884, the German Paul Nipkow invented a device (设备) that sent pictures mechanically (机械地), and in 1906, Boris Rosing, a Russian, used a ray and a disc to create the world's first TV system. Then in the early 1920s, another Russian, Vladimir Zworykin，invented a picture display tube. He took out a patent (专利) for color TV, even though it wouldn't be developed for another 25 years.

    In 1924, a Scot entered the scene - John Logie Baird. He first succeeded in sending a moving picture and a year later got the first actual TV picture. In 1926, Baird showed TV in a London laboratory. Two years later in New York, Felix the Cat became the first TV star.

TV excited everyone's imagination, but hardly anyone had a set, with just two thousand in use worldwide in the mid-1930s.

Since the late 1940s, TV technology has developed very quickly. Computers may finally be combined with all televisions to give people a total all-in-one communications network.

Today, it's possible to sit and watch TV in the middle of a forest or in the Arctic. It's surpris-

ing when one considers that Marconi was on Signal Hill in the same century.

1．We can learn from the text that Signal Hill was once used as _________.

       A．a site of communication            

       B．a weather station

       C．a factory to produce weapons    

       D．a battle field to fight enemies from the outside

2．When the writer says that today it is the TV that rules, he means that the TV _________.

    A．has led to a new communications age

    B．is a major means of today's communication

       C．is a device invented with ideas from Marconi

       D．has replaced the radio in today’s communication

3．What is the main idea of Paragraphs 4 and 5?

       A．London is the pace where TV is invented.

       B．John Logie Baird was the chief inventor of television.

       C．A number of people contributed to the invention of television.

       D．Russian scientists played an important role in the invention of television.

4．The writer believes that the day will come when        .

       A．the future computers will be able to do the work TV is now doing

       B．the future computers will become available to everyone in the world

       C．the future computers will be connected to create one international network

       D．the future computers will take the place of televisions and radios

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