This year’s World Food Prize will honor two leaders of hunger-fighting groups based  in the United States. The winners are David Beckmann of Bread for the World and Jo Luck of Heifer International. They will share the prize of 250,000 dollars. The World Food Prize usually goes to researchers or top policy officials. This is the first time it will recognize the work of nongovernmental groups.
Heifer International provides donated animals and training to farmers in 50 countries. Jo Luck remains president until next year. Under her leadership, the group’s budget grew from less than 10,000,000 dollars to more than 130,000,000 dollars. Jo Luck, “People pass on their gifts of not just animals but also gifts of training and leadership. We have seen cases where we have been gone 5 and 10 years and we go back and they have developed roads and built schools, and they have other communities receiving the animals and the training. You just give them those resources and that training and opportunity, and you cannot hold them back.” She told the story of a woman from a poor village in Zimbabwe. A family member helped send her to school in the United States with earnings from a donated milk goat. She received a doctoral degree. Jo Luck, “That is what a goat did. That is one example. The animal is only the catalyst（催化剂）. That is the beginning of many other things that follow.”
David Beckmann became president of Bread for the World in 1991. He is an economist and a Christian clergyman（牧师）. Bread for the World organizes people from religious and non-religious groups to write, call and visit members of Congress（国会）. The purpose is to support measures to improve the lives of the poor. David Beckmann points to big increase in American development assistance. He said, “I think that would not have happened without the support of hundreds of thousands of people and churches that are part of Bread for the World and that keep the pressure on their members of Congress.” The prize committee also credited his efforts with helping to increase aid to needy families in the United States

  1. 1.

    The World Food Prize honors ________

    1. A.
      people who fight against hunger
    2. B.
      researchers or top policy officials
    3. C.
      people from nongovernmental groups
    4. D.
      people who have advanced human development
  2. 2.

    Why does Jo Luck receive the prize?

    1. A.
      Under her leadership, people develop roads and build schools
    2. B.
      She has served Heifer International for almost 20 years
    3. C.
      Under her leadership, Heifer International helps farmers in 50 countries
    4. D.
      She makes the group’s budget grow to more than 130 million
  3. 3.

    What has David Beckmann done to deserve the prize?

    1. A.
      He has trained farmers in 50 countries
    2. B.
      He has made a great contribution to science
    3. C.
      He has led Bread for the World for more than 20 years
    4. D.
      He has aimed to support measures to improve the lives of the poor

You can find language pollution whenever you open a newspaper or turn on your TV set, listen to a popular song at various advertisements. Language pollution exists almost everywhere and can be seen in the following places:
1. Chinese characters are written in the complex (复杂的 ) form. Although simplified Chinese characters were accepted for use many years ago, it seems that more and more people like Chinese characters written in the complex form.
2. Many goods are produced in China but carry foreign names, which sound strange and have no meaning at all.
3. Words and expressions being used have a bad meaning. "Ba"(霸), which means bully in Chinese, is one example. Now there are a lot of goods, restaurants, even factories or firms, with "Ba" in their names.
4. There are too many incorrect grammatical expressions. Some films have strange names and incorrect grammatical structures. "Ai ni mei shang liang', which means "I love you without consulting", is grammatically incorrect and this kind of expression is now becoming popular.
Some language experts point out that language pollution must be done away with, which is an idea shared by myself and many others.       
FanYongqin

  1. 1.

    The writer of the letter suggests that______.

    1. A.
      something be done to make our language pure (纯正)
    2. B.
      the Chinese language not have the word "ba"
    3. C.
      everything have a good name and a good meaning
    4. D.
      everybody try their best to stop pollution
  2. 2.

    What the writer wants to say is that ______.

    1. A.
      great difference exists between the Chinese characters written in the complex form and simplified form
    2. B.
      many people agree with the experts on language pollution in China
    3. C.
      our newspapers, TV programs, pop songs and advertisements are getting polluted
    4. D.
      some film writers haven't studied Chinese grammar
  3. 3.

    What do you guess Fan Yongqian is? He or she probably is ______.

    1. A.
      a reader
    2. B.
      a singer of pop songs
    3. C.
      a language expert
    4. D.
      an expert of grammar


Clyde, a small-clawed otter, was moved from Auckland Zoo to Wellington Zoo two months ago. The zookeepers hoped he and the other otter Bonnie might start a family together.
But only two days after he arrived, Clyde went missing. He had dug his way under one of the walls and was nowhere to be seen.
The zookeepers set up cages inside the zoo, with plates of Clyde’s favorite fish in them, hoping to catch him.
Two days went by and still there was no sign of Clyde.
At last a couple saw Clyde at their house --- a whole kilometer away in Newtown. Clyde was hiding in an out-of-reach hole outside their laundry.
The zookeepers arrived and set up some more traps to try to catch him. But Clyde is a pretty smart otter. Twice he managed to get the fish out of a trap without being caught.
Five days after he’d escaped, Clyde’s days on the run came to an end when he was finally caught in one of the traps.
It was no good putting Clyde back in his old home---he’d only dig his way out again. So he and Bonnie were put into the zoo hospital. There was no chance of their escaping from there.
Meanwhile, the zookeepers were working hard to make Clyde’s old home safer. They put an iron barrier underground to stop him digging their way out. Then Bonnie and Clyde went home again.
But a month after his first escape, Clyde was out again. Once more the zookeepers came
hurrying to catch Clyde. They found him by following the bubbles he made in the river nearby.
Nobody knew how Clyde had escaped. But this time he was only out for an hour. So---back he went to the hospital again.
Poor Clyde. It seemed that he wasn’t happy at Wellington Zoo, even though he and Bonnie were getting on well together. The keepers didn’t like seeing him unhappy, so they planned to look for a home for him somewhere else

  1. 1.

    Where was Clyde found after his first escape?

    1. A.
      Back in Auckland Zoo
    2. B.
      In a river nearby
    3. C.
      At a house a kilometer away
    4. D.
      In the zoo hospital
  2. 2.

    How did zookeepers catch Clyde after his second escape?

    1. A.
      They set up cages in the zoo
    2. B.
      They attracted Clyde with fish
    3. C.
      They dug a hole outside his home
    4. D.
      They followed the bubbles in the water
  3. 3.

    What do we know about Clyde?

    1. A.
      He often gets ill
    2. B.
      He is good at digging
    3. C.
      He likes hiding in a hole
    4. D.
      He escaped to meet Bonnie
  4. 4.

    Where is the passage most likely to have been taken from?

    1. A.
      A news report
    2. B.
      An advertisement
    3. C.
      A book review
    4. D.
      A research paper

King's College Summer School
More information is as follows:

Application (申请) date
l Students in New York should send their applications before July 18, 2012.
l Students of other   cities should send their applications before July 16, 2012
l Foreign students   should send their applications before July 10, 2012		Coursesl English Language
Spoken English:   22 hours
Reading and Writing: 10 hours
l American History: 16   hours
l American Culture: 16   hours
Stepsl A letter of   self-introduction
l A letter of   recommendation(推荐)
﹡ The letters should be written in English   with all the necessary information.		Costl Daily lessons:数学公式100
l Travels:数学公式400
﹡You may choose to live with your friends   or relatives in the same city.
Please write   to:
Thompson, Sanders
1026 King' s Street
New York, NY 10016, USA
E-mail: KC-Summer-School@ yahoo, com

  1. 1.

    You can most probably read the text in______.

    1. A.
      a newspaper
    2. B.
      a travel guide
    3. C.
      a textbook
    4. D.
      a telephone book
  2. 2.

    Which of the following is true about King' s College Summer School?

    1. A.
      Only top students can take part in the program
    2. B.
      King' s College Summer School is run every other year
    3. C.
      Visits to museums and culture centers are part of the program
    4. D.
      Only the teachers of King' s College give courses
  3. 3.

    If you are to live with your relatives in New York, you will have to pay the school______.

    1. A.
      $200
    2. B.
      $400
    3. C.
      $500
    4. D.
      $900
  4. 4.

    What information can you get from the text?

    1. A.
      The program will last two months
    2. B.
      You can write to Thompson only in English
    3. C.
      As a Chinese student, you can send your application on July 14, 2012
    4. D.
      You can get in touch with the school by e-mail or by telephone

In Daniel Gilbert’s 2006 book "Stumbling(跌撞) on Happiness," the Harvard professor of psychology looks at several studies and concludes that marital(婚姻的) satisfaction decreases after the birth of the first child and increases only when the last child has left home. He also declares that parents are happier grocery shopping and even sleeping than spending time with their kids.
The most recent comprehensive study on the emotional state of those with kids shows us that the term "bundle of joy" may not be the most accurate way to describe our kids. "Parents experience lower levels of emotional well-being, less frequent positive emotions and more frequent negative emotions than their childless peers," says Florida State University’s Robin Simon, a sociology professor.
Simon received plenty of hate mail in response to her research，which isn’t surprising. Her findings shake the very foundation of what we’ve been raised to believe is true. In a recent NEWSWEEK Poll, 50 percent of Americans said that adding new children to the family tends to increase happiness levels. But which parent is willing to admit that the greatest gift life has to offer has in fact made his or her life less enjoyable?
Is it possible that American parents have always been this disillusioned(有幻觉的)? In pre-industrial America, parents certainly loved their children, but their kids also served a purpose—to work the farm, contribute to the household. Today, we have kids more for emotional reasons, but an increasingly complicated work and social environment has made finding satisfaction far more difficult. Raising children has not only become more complicated, it has become more expensive as well. The National Marriage Project’s 2006 report says that parents have significantly lower marital satisfaction than nonparents because they experienced more single and child-free years than previous generations.
As for those of us with kids, all the news isn’t bad. Parents still report feeling a greater sense of purpose and meaning in their lives than those who’ve never had kids. And there are other rewarding aspects of parenting that are impossible to quantify

  1. 1.

    What’s the main idea of the book Stumbling on Happiness?

    1. A.
      Parents are happier shopping than looking after their children
    2. B.
      Once they have children, the couples can never be as happy as before
    3. C.
      Compared with their childless peers, parents are leading a sad life
    4. D.
      The adding of children at home brings down marital satisfaction
  2. 2.

    What can we infer from Para.3?

    1. A.
      The Newsweek Poll shows that people think Prof. Simon’s finding is right
    2. B.
      Many people can’t accept the fact that they are not happy with their children
    3. C.
      It isn’t surprising that Professor Simon’s controversial research made her famous
    4. D.
      Simon’s findings are based on the belief passed down from generation to generation
  3. 3.

    What can we learn about American’s families in the past?

    1. A.
      People had very good parents-children relationship in the family
    2. B.
      Having children could be partly out of some practical purposes
    3. C.
      Parents loved their children but they still asked them to work a lot
    4. D.
      Children had to work very hard to make their parents love them
  4. 4.

    What’s the author’s opinion about having children?

    1. A.
      The author doesn’t think having children is a good thing to the family
    2. B.
      The author feels children make the life of a family happy
    3. C.
      The author thinks parenting can still be rewarding in a certain way
    4. D.
      The author believes that parents sacrifice a lot for having children

A funny thing happened on the way to the communication revolution: we stopped talking to one another.
I was walking in the park with a friend recently, and his cell phone rang, interrupting our conversation. There we were, walking and talking on a beautiful sunny day and suddenly, I became invisible, absent from the conversation.
The telephone used to connect you to the absent. Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent. Why is it that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel? Every advance in communication technology is a tragedy to the closeness of human interaction. With email and instant messaging over the Internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another. With voice-mail, you can conduct entire conversations without ever reaching anyone. If my mom has a question, I just leave the answer on her machine.
As almost every contact we can imagine between human beings gets automated, the emotional distance index goes up. You can’t even call a person to get the phone number of another person any more. Directory assistance is almost always fully automated.
I am not against modern technology. I own a cell phone, an ATM card, a voice-mail system, and an email account. Giving them up isn’t wise. They’re a great help to us. It's some of their possible consequences that make me feel uneasy.
More and more, I find myself hiding behind e­mail to do a job meant for conversations or being relieved with voice-mail picking up because I don't really have time to talk. The industry devoted to helping me keep in touch is making me lonelier

  1. 1.

    Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?

    1. A.
      The Advance of Modern Technology
    2. B.
      The Consequences of Communication Technology
    3. C.
      The Story of Communication Revolution
    4. D.
      The Automation of Modern Communication
  2. 2.

    Which is NOT TURE according to the passage?

    1. A.
      The author has decided not to use his phone when he is with his friend
    2. B.
      Modern technology makes it hard for people to have a face-to-face talk
    3. C.
      The limited use of communication device brings much inconvenience to the author
    4. D.
      The industry intended to keep people in touch is taking them away from each other
  3. 3.

    The writer feels that the use of modern communication is ______

    1. A.
      satisfying
    2. B.
      encouraging
    3. C.
      disappointing
    4. D.
      embarrassing
  4. 4.

    The passage implies that ______

    1. A.
      modern technology is bridging the people
    2. B.
      modern technology is separating the people
    3. C.
      modern technology is developing too fast
    4. D.
      modern technology is interrupting people

Alfred Alder, a famous psychiatrist, had an interesting experience. When he was a small boy he got off to a poor start in arithmetic. His teacher got the idea that he had no ability in arithmetic, and told his parents what she thought in order that they would not expect too much of him. In this way, they too developed the idea, “Isn’t it too bad that Alfred can’t do arithmetic?” He accepted their mistaken estimate of his ability, feeling that it was useless to try, and that he was very poor at arithmetic, just as they expected.
One day he became very angry at the teacher and the other students because they laughed when he said he saw how to do a problem which none of the other students had been able to solve.
Adler succeeded in solving the problem. This gave him confidence. He rejected the idea that he couldn’t do arithmetic and was determined to show them that he could. His anger and his new found confidence stimulated him to go at arithmetic problems with a new spirit. He now worked with interest, determination, and purpose, and he soon became extraordinarily good at arithmetic. He not only proved that he could do arithmetic, but he learned early in life from his own experience that, if a person goes at a job with determination and purpose, he may astonish himself as well as others by his ability.
This experience made him realize that many people have more ability than they think they have, and that lack of success is as often the result of lack of knowledge of how to apply one’s ability, lack of confidence, and lack of determination as it is the result of lack of ability

  1. 1.

    Alfred gained confidence in learning arithmetic______.

    1. A.
      after he managed to find a solution to a difficult problem
    2. B.
      after his teacher made his parents know his ability in arithmetic
    3. C.
      after he grew up and became famous
    4. D.
      after his parents gave him encouragement
  2. 2.

    In Alfred’s opinion, if a person is unsuccessful, he may be______.

    1. A.
      slow- thinking
    2. B.
      disabled
    3. C.
      self-centered
    4. D.
      undetermined
  3. 3.

    The last sentence of paragraph 1 implies______.

    1. A.
      Alfred thought he couldn’t change others’ mind
    2. B.
      Alfred agreed with the wrong judgment
    3. C.
      Alfred believed it was no use learning arithmetic
    4. D.
      Alfred expected that he could succeed though it was hard
  4. 4.

    What can we conclude from the text?

    1. A.
      Alfred has a strong determination and a firm belief
    2. B.
      Others’ opinions are important
    3. C.
      A person lacking in ability can still succeed
    4. D.
      Alfred’s teacher and classmates will regret

Every day we experience one of the wonders of the world around us without even realizing it. It is not the amazing complexity of television, nor the impressive technology of transport. The universal wonder we share and experience is our ability to make noise with our mouths, and so transmit ideas and thoughts to each other’s minds. This ability comes so naturally that we tend to forget what a miracle it is.
Obviously, the ability to talk is something that marks humans off from animal. Of course, some animals have powers just as amazing, Birds can fly thousands miles by observing positions of the stars in the sky in relation to the time of day and year. In Nature’s talent show, humans are a species of animal that have developed their own special act. If we reduce it to basic terms, it’s an ability for communicating information to others, by varying sounds we make as we breathe out.
Not that we don’t have other powers of communication. Our facial expressions convey our emotions, such as anger, or joy, or disappointment. The way we hold our heads can indicate to others whether we are happy or sad. This is so-called “body language”. Bristling(直立的) fur is an unmistakable warning of attack among many animals. Similarly, the bowed head or drooping tail shows a readiness to take second place in any animal gathering.
Such a means of communication is a basic mechanism that animals, including human beings, instinctively acquire and display. Is the ability to speak just another sort of instinct? If so, how did human beings acquire this amazing skill? Biologist can readily indicate that particular area of our brain where speech mechanisms function, but this doesn’t tell us how that part of our bodies originated in our biological history

  1. 1.

    According to the passage, the wonder we take for granted(认为理所当然) is_____.

    1. A.
      our ability to use language
    2. B.
      the miracle of technology
    3. C.
      the amazing power of nature
    4. D.
      our ability to make noises with mouth
  2. 2.

    What feature of “body language” mentioned in the passage is common to both human and animals?

    1. A.
      Lifting heads when sad
    2. B.
      Keeping long faces when angry
    3. C.
      Bristling hair when ready to attack
    4. D.
      Bowing heads when willing to obey
  3. 3.

    What can be inferred from Paragraph 3?

    1. A.
      Body language is unique to humans
    2. B.
      Animals express emotions just as humans do
    3. C.
      Humans have other powers of communication
    4. D.
      Humans are no different from animals to some degree
  4. 4.

    This passage is mainly about _____.

    1. A.
      the development of body language
    2. B.
      the special role humans play in nature
    3. C.
      the power to convey information to others
    4. D.
      the difference between humans and animals in language use

It was 1961 and I was in the fifth grade. My marks in school were miserable and, the thing was, I didn’t know enough to really care. My older bother and I lived with Mom in an ugly multi-family house in Detroit. We watched TV every night. The background noise of our lives was gunfire and horses’  hoofs(马蹄) from “Wagon Train” or “Cheyenne”, and laughter from “I Love Lucy”, or “Mister Ed”. After supper, we’d lie on Mom’s bed and stare for hours at the TV screen.
But one day Mom changed our world forever. She turned off the TV. Our mother had only been able to get through third grade. But, she was much brighter and smarter than we boys know at the time. She had noticed something in the suburban houses where she cleaned books. So she came home one day, switched off the TV, sat us down and explained that her sons were going to make something of themselves. “You boys are going to read two books every week,” she said. “And you’re going to write a report on what you read.”
We moaned（不满,发牢骚） and complained about how unfair it was. Besides, we didn’t have any books in the house other than Mom’s Bible. But she explained that we would go where the books were: “I’ll drive you to the library.”
So pretty soon there were these two peevish（坏脾气的）boys sitting in her white 1959 Oldsmobile on their way to Detroit Public Library. I wandered reluctantly（不情愿） among the children’s books. I loved animals, so when I saw some books that seemed to be about animals, I started leafing through them.
The first book I read clear through was Chip the Dam Builder. It was about beavers（河狸）. For the first time in my life I was lost in another world. No television program had ever taken me so far away from my surroundings as did this virtue visit to a cold stream in a forest and these animals building a home.
It didn’t dawn on me at the time, but the experience was quite different from watching TV. There were images forming in my mind instead of before my eyes. And I could return to them again and again with the flip（快速翻动）of a page.
Soon I began to look forward to visiting this quiet sanctuary form my other world. I moved from animals to plants, and then to rocks. Between the covers of all those books were whole worlds, and I was free to go anywhere in them. Along the way a funny thing happened: I started to know things. Teachers started to notice it too. I got to the point where I couldn’t wait to get home to my books.
Now my older brother is an engineer and I am chief of pediatric neurosurgery(儿童神经外科)at John Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore. Sometimes I still can’t believe my life’s journey, from a failing and indifferent student in a Detroit public school to this position, which takes me all over the world to teach and perform critical surgery.
But I know when the journey began the day Mom switched off the TV set and put us in her Oldsmobile for that drive to the library

  1. 1.

    We can learn from the beginning of the passage that______.

    1. A.
      the author and his brother had done well in school
    2. B.
      the author had been very concerned about his school work
    3. C.
      the author had spent much time watching TV after school
    4. D.
      the author had realized how important schooling was
  2. 2.

    Which of the following is not true about the author’s family?

    1. A.
      He came from a middle-class family
    2. B.
      He came from a single-parent family
    3. C.
      His mother worked as a cleaner
    4. D.
      His mother had received little education
  3. 3.

    How did the two boys feel about going to the library at first?

    1. A.
      They were afraid
    2. B.
      They were reluctant
    3. C.
      They were impatient
    4. D.
      They were eager to go
  4. 4.

    The author began to love books for the following reasons EXCEPT that______.

    1. A.
      he began to see something in his mind
    2. B.
      he could visualize what he read in his mind
    3. C.
      he could go back to read the books again
    4. D.
      he realized that books offered him new experience

BEIJING – Alarmed by the overreaching ambitions of many Chinese provinces to grow at all cost, China’s top economic chief is calling on officials to calm down and spare a thought for the environment.
Zhang Ping, who heads China’s National Development and Reform Commission, the central economic planning agency, said only five or six of China’s 30 provinces are targeting annual economic growth of 8 percent or 9 percent.
The remaining provinces are aiming for growth rates of more than 10 percent this year, with some wanting to double economic output in the coming five years.
“China has a planned energy supply of about 4 billion cubic tons of coal equivalent (等量的) for the next five years, and this is not enough to meet demands for economic growth to double,” he was quoted as saying on the news portal Sina. com.
Beijing is increasingly concerned with the ambitions of Chinese provinces across the country to chase high growth despite the central government’s urgent request for a more moderate and sustainable (可持续的) pace of expansion.
Years of rapid economic growth have taken a toll on China’s environment, with Beijing trying to remove some of the damage now. It has an annual growth target of 7 percent for the next five years, well down from last year’s 10 percent.
Zhang said Beijing has asked local governments to take into account the supply of “energy, environment, water and land” to set more reasonable growth target

  1. 1.

    Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

    1. A.
      The supply of the coal in China is not sufficient for the next five years
    2. B.
      Zhang Ping is an expert and economic chief from www. sina.com
    3. C.
      Few Chinese provinces are aiming for economic growth rates of less than 10%
    4. D.
      Many Chinese provinces are alarmed by Beijing
  2. 2.

    The underlined phrase “taken a toll on” in the sixth paragraph means “_______”

    1. A.
      improved
    2. B.
      done damage to
    3. C.
      restored
    4. D.
      attached importance to
  3. 3.

    The general idea of the whole passage can be that _________

    1. A.
      China’s economy is increasing at a fast speed
    2. B.
      China’s top chief lays more emphasis on the environment
    3. C.
      economic high growth should go hand in hand with environment concern
    4. D.
      all Chinese provinces should slow down their economic growth rates
  4. 4.

    What could be the best title for the news?

    1. A.
      Economic Development
    2. B.
      Energy Supply
    3. C.
      Environment
    4. D.
      Sustainable Development
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