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postage


  1. A.
    challenge
  2. B.
    photograph
  3. C.
    greedy
  4. D.
    goods
A
postage和 challenge里面的字母g读/ d? /，而B.photograph，C.greedy和D.goods里面的字母g都是读/g/,选A
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In the U.S., people prefer waiting for a table to sitting with people they don’t know. This means a hostess may not seat a small group until a small table is available, even if a large one is. If you are sitting at a table with people you don’t know, it is impolite to light up a cigarette without first asking if it will disturb them.
At American restaurants and coffee shops you are usually served tap water before you order. You may find the bread and butter is free, and if you order coffee, you may get a free refill.
Most cities and towns have no rules about opening and closing time for stores or restaurants, though they usually do make rules for bars. Especially in large cities, stores may be open 24 hours a day.  
Serving in restaurants is often large; too large for many people. If you can’t finish your meal but would like to enjoy the food later, ask your waitress or waiter for a “doggie bag”. It may have a picture of a dog on it, but everybody knows you’re taking the food for yourself.
Supper and dinner are both words for the evening meal. Some people have “Sunday dinner”. This is an especially big noon meal.
Tips are not usually added to the check. They are not included in the price of the meal, either. A tip of about 15% is expected and you should leave it on the table when you leave. In some restaurants, a check is brought on a plate and you put your money there. Then the waiter or waitress brings you your change

  1. 1.

    Which statement is true?

    1. A.
      American people like sitting with people they don’t know
    2. B.
      Tips shouldn’t be given to the waiter or waitress
    3. C.
      Orange juice is served before you order
    4. D.
      American people would not light a cigarette if the people who sit at the same table mind their smoking
  2. 2.

    What does the underlined word “doggie bag” mean in the article? It means ______

    1. A.
      a bag with a picture of a dog on it
    2. B.
      a bag used to carry dogs
    3. C.
      a small bag for taking the food left over home to enjoy it later
    4. D.
      a small bag for taking the food left over home for dogs
  3. 3.

    Sunday dinner is _______

    1. A.
      a dinner in the evening
    2. B.
      a big noon meal
    3. C.
      a big lunch Sunday
    4. D.
      a supper on Sunday

A round of applause, please, for the Indian man who recently sang for 80 hours straight, setting a new Guinness world record. It’s an impressive feat, to be sure, but let’s just hope he still has a voice．According to Indian newspapers, Rajesh Burbure has been told to keep silent for several days so his vocal cords（声带）can heal．
It was reported that Burbure and his family are in a celebratory mood. "It's a proud moment for all of us," his wife told DNAIndia.com．
I, on the other hand, am unable to share their enthusiasm．Don't get me wrong: I hope the 35-year-old Burbure lives forever, sells a million records and becomes an international celebrity．But his record—singing for 80 hours straight—is about as meaningful as most of the other curious but crazy feats listed in the Guinness Book of World Records．
Granted, I'm not qualified to speak on the subject．I've got no world records to my name, and I never expect to have any．Then again, maybe I am qualified to speak for those of us who have better things to do than train for years to sing an 80-hour medley（集成曲）of pop songs．
But let’s not just pick on poor Burbure．He’s not the only person chasing meaningless accolades（荣誉）．The Guinness Book of World Records is full of the names of people who at one time grew the longest hair, or built the biggest bicycle, or baked the largest cheesecake．
To all of these enterprising souls I ask, simply, "What was it all for?"
Congratulations! For all of your painstaking effort, you became a footnote in a thick book that no one reads, except for you and the person who will eventually surpass you, with one more hour of singing, a few more centimeters of steel or a few more pounds of cheese．
After all, records are made to be broken．

  1. 1.

    From the text, we can conclude that the author _________．

    1. A.
      thinks singing for 80 hours straight is completely meaningless
    2. B.
      feels it a pity he was not invited to share the happiness with the Burbures
    3. C.
      is quite worried about Burbure’s vocal cords
    4. D.
      has no Guinness records, so he admires Burbures’ feat
  2. 2.

    Before someone wins a Guinness record, he or she has to ________．

    1. A.
      become an international celebrity
    2. B.
      know all about Guinness records
    3. C.
      practice a great deal
    4. D.
      bear great stress for fear of injury
  3. 3.

    We can infer from the article that ________．

    1. A.
      after the 80 hours of singing, Burbure could no longer speak
    2. B.
      Burbure’s wife didn’t support his attempt to make a Guinness record
    3. C.
      many have criticized Burbure for his stupid behavior
    4. D.
      challenging a Guinness record may be harmful to the health
  4. 4.

    The author’s attitude to some Guinness world records is ________．

    1. A.
      positive
    2. B.
      impressed
    3. C.
      negative
    4. D.
      touched

--- Would she mind playing against her former teammates?
--- ______She is willing to play against any tough players.


  1. A.
    I think so
  2. B.
    I'm not surprised
  3. C.
    Of course
  4. D.
    Not likely!

The building, ______ in the shape of an egg, is now just for tourists.


  1. A.
    designing
  2. B.
    designed
  3. C.
    to be designed
  4. D.
    having designed

He is always helping people without expecting anything ______


  1. A.
    in need
  2. B.
    in fact
  3. C.
    in danger
  4. D.
    in return

Birds that are half-asleep—with one brain hemisphere (半球) alert and the other sleeping—control which side of the brain remains awake, according to a new study of sleeping ducks.
Earlier studies have documented half-brain sleep in a wide range of birds. The brain hemispheres take turns sinking into the sleep stage characterized by slow brain waves. The eye controlled by the sleeping hemisphere keeps shut, while the wakeful hemisphere’s eye stays open and alert. Birds also can sleep with both hemispheres resting at once.
Decades of studies of bird groups led researchers to predict extra alertness in the end-of-the-row sleepers which tend to be attacked more easily. Sure enough, the end birds tended to watch carefully on the side away from their companions. Ducks in the inner spots showed no preference for gaze direction.
Also, birds napping at the end of the line depend on single-hemisphere sleep, rather than total relaxation, more often than inner ducks did. Turning 16 birds through the positions in a four-duck row, the researchers found that compared with 12 percent for birds in internal spots, outer birds half-asleep during some 32 percent of napping time.
“We believe this is the first evidence for an animal behaviorally controlling sleep and wakefulness at the same time in different regions of the brain,” the researchers say.
The results provide the best evidence for a long-standing assumption that single-hemisphere sleep evolved as creatures scanned for enemies. The preference for opening an eye on the lookout side could be widespread, he predicts. He’s seen it in a pair of birds napping side-by-side in the zoo and in a single pet bird sleeping by a mirror. The mirror-side eye closed as if the reflection were a companion and the other eye stayed open.
Useful as half-sleeping might be, it’s only been found in birds and such water animals as dolphins, whales, and seals. Perhaps keeping one side of the brain awake allows a sleeping animal to surface occasionally to avoid drowning.
Studies of birds may offer unique insights into sleep. Jerome M. Siegel of the UCLA says he wonders if birds’ half-brain sleep “is just the tip of the iceberg.” He supposes that more examples may turn up when we take a closer look at other species

  1. 1.

    According to the passage, birds often half sleep because ______

    1. A.
      they have to watch out for possible attacks
    2. B.
      their brain hemispheres take turns to rest
    3. C.
      the two halves of their brain are differently structured
    4. D.
      they have to constantly keep an eye on their companions
  2. 2.

    What is implied about the example of a bird’s sleeping in front of a mirror?

    1. A.
      An imagined companion gives the bird a sense of security
    2. B.
      Birds prefer to sleep in pairs for the sake of their security
    3. C.
      The phenomenon of birds napping in pairs is widespread
    4. D.
      A single pet bird enjoys seeing its own reflection in the mirror
  3. 3.

    While sleeping, some water animals tend to keep half awake in order to ______

    1. A.
      alert themselves to the approaching enemy
    2. B.
      emerge from water now and then to breathe
    3. C.
      be sensitive to the ever-changing environment
    4. D.
      avoid being swept away by rapid currents
  4. 4.

    By saying “just the tip of the iceberg”, Siegel suggests that ______

    1. A.
      half-brain sleep has something to do with icy weather
    2. B.
      the mystery of half-brain sleep is close to being solved
    3. C.
      most birds living in cold regions tend to be half sleepers
    4. D.
      half-brain sleep may exist among other species

Imagine landing in a foreign country where you cannot speak the language, understand the culture and don’t know anybody. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a friend who could help you out?
John Smith, an English explorer who landed in America in 1607, found the best friend ever. She was a Native American named Pocahontas (1595-1617). And she did more than teach Smith the language: she saved his life, twice.
Smith was captured(捕捉) by members of Pocahontas’s tribe(部落) and was going to be killed. But for some reason, the Chief’s daughter, Pocahontas, felt sorry for Smith (who was probably the first white man she had ever seen) and threw her body over his to protect him. Smith returned safely to the small village he was living in. During the winter the English settlers did not know how to get food from nature. Pocahontas often brought food for Smith and his friends.
A year later Pocahontas’s father tried to kill Smith again because the Native Americans were very scared the English would try to take over their land. Pocahontas warned him and he was able to escape. Later she became a Christian and eventually married an Englishman named John Rolfe. She spent the last year of her life in London. Pocahontas has become an American legend. Her life story has been re-created in many books and films, including Disney’s 1995 film, Pocahontas.
One of the reasons she is so popular is that many Europeans look at Pocahontas as an excellent example of how a minority can adjust into the majority. Pocahontas is also respected because of her selfless love. She proved that people can be kind and loving even to people of a different race or culture. John Smith was very different from Pocahontas but she could see he was a good man and that was all that mattered. No race or country owns goodness, love and loyalty

  1. 1.

    What difficulties might early European settlers meet in America EXCEPT ______?

    1. A.
      the fierce conflict with Native Americans
    2. B.
      lack of food in winter
    3. C.
      bad-tempered natives who enjoyed killing
    4. D.
      unfamiliarity with a foreign land
  2. 2.

    Pocahontas saved John Smith twice because ______.

    1. A.
      she believed in general kindness even to people of a different race
    2. B.
      she wanted to become a Christian and marry an English
    3. C.
      he was the first white man she had ever seen in her life
    4. D.
      she was on the settlers’ side and against her cruel father
  3. 3.

    Which is Not an element to make Pocahontas a legend?

    1. A.
      Her tribal background and her marriage to a white settler
    2. B.
      The recreation of her life story in the 1995 Disney film
    3. C.
      Her complicated life story different from common people’s
    4. D.
      Her selfless help to people regarded as enemy of her tribe
  4. 4.

    What can we infer from the passage?

    1. A.
      People from different cultures can never really get along well with each other
    2. B.
      The Europeans think the early settlers should have learned to adjust to the local cultures
    3. C.
      The creation of America is based on the settlers’ victory over the Native Americans
    4. D.
      The battles between early settlers and Native Americans resulted from their fighting for land


After spending a year in Brazil on a student exchange program, her mother recalled, Marie Colvin returned home to find that her classmates had narrowed down their college choices. “Everyone else was already admitted to college,” her mother, Rosemarie Colvin, said from the family home. “So she took our car and drove up to Yale and said, ‘You have to let me in.’”
Impressed—she was a National Merit(全国英才) finalist who had picked up Portuguese in Brazil—Yaledid, admitting her to the class of 1978, where she started writing for The Yale Daily News “and decided to be a journalist,” her mother said.
On Wednesday, Marie Colvin, 56, an experienced journalist for The Sunday Times of London, was killed as Syrian forces shelled the city of Homs. She was working in a temporary media center that was destroyed in the attack.
“She was supposed to leave Syria on Wednesday”, Ms. Colvin said. “Her editor told me he called her yesterday and said it was getting too dangerous and they wanted to take her out. She said she was doing a story and she wanted to finish it. ”
Ms. Colvin said it was pointless to try to prevent her daughter from going to conflict zones. “If you knew my daughter,” she said, “it would have been such a waste of words. She was determined, she was enthusiastic about what she did, it was her life. There was no saying ‘Don’t do this.’ This is who she was, absolutely who she was and what she believed in: cover the story, not just have pictures of it, but bring it to life in the deepest way you could.” So it was not a surprise when she took an interest in journalism, her mother said

  1. 1.

    From the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 we can infer that ______.

    1. A.
      Yale University was her last choice
    2. B.
      Yale must keep its promise to Marie
    3. C.
      Marie Colvin was confident of herself
    4. D.
      Marie Colvin was good at persuading
  2. 2.

    Marie Colvin’s story suggests some of the best qualities of being a journalist are ______.

    1. A.
      patience and confidence
    2. B.
      honesty and curiosity
    3. C.
      flexibility and creativity
    4. D.
      determination and courage
  3. 3.

    Which of the following is the correct order to describe Marie Colvin’s life?
    a. She was doing a story in Syria and got killed.  
    b. She was admitted to Yale University.
    c. She studied in Brazil as an exchange student.
    d. She was hired by The Sunday Times of London.
    e. She began to take an interest in journalism

    1. A.
      d→e→c→a→b
    2. B.
      c→b→e→d→a
    3. C.
      e→d→c→b→a
    4. D.
      b→c→d→e→a
  4. 4.

    What can be the best title of the text?

    1. A.
      Covering Stories in a Dangerous Conflict Area
    2. B.
      Applying for Top Universities, a Successful Case
    3. C.
      Recalling Her Daughter, a Journalist Killed in Syria
    4. D.
      Choosing Lifelong Careers Based on Your Own Interest

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