阅读理解。
     Technology today has stolen away our voices and robbed our children of memories.  I've been keeping count of how often people sing around the house these days. The fact is,they don't.
      My earliest memories are of my mother crooning lullabies(催眠曲) in a gentle low voice as she rocked each infant in tum.  She said she " didn't have a singing voice," but her low,wavering alto will always mean
comfort to me.  Every
time I have sat through the night with a feverish body or held a pre-schooler through a nightmare,the
melodies returned, words appearing and disappearing like fragments of a dream but held together by the
hum(低声吟唱)  of love.
     Today,young mothers are routinely presented with lullaby tapes at the baby shower. When baby cries,
the idea goes,they will be able to switch on the high-tech audio system and the little one will drift off with
the voices of strangers in his ears,perfectly on pitch.  If I had my way,new parents would learn the songs
themselves,throw out their stereos,and give their child the gift of their own sleepy voices through the
midnight hours.
      These days,when we go on a trip,my daughters take along tiny personal stereos and headphones.
They are lost in their private worlds,and I can't help wishing that at least here,in the car,my girls would be
forced to listen to their mother's voice raised in lost-the-words again,sure I'm out-of-tune songs that they
might then pass down to another generation.  Those sophisticated earphones have robbed them of
something I think every kid should carry from childhood car trips into adulthood.
      I drove away from that party humming,and all the way home the good old songs kept tumbling out.  
Dammit(该死) ,I thought,why did I ever stop singing in the car and start tuming on the radio instead?
Why don't I sign anymore while I'm doing the dishes? I'm going to yank those stereo wires right out of
the wall when I get home.  We're going to sing grace before meals,sing coals around the piano,sing in the
shower instead of switching on that waterproof radio that stole away our voices and our souls.
1. The author hates today's technology because____.         
A. driving a car requires high concentration
B. children are learning pop songs from tapes
C. children have lost touch with good old songs
D. high-tech systems do not record the voices of aged people
2. The underlined sentence "the little one will drift off" in Paragraph 3 means that___.   
A.  the play of the high-tech system is of little use
B. the high-tech system will play on and on
C. the low voice will delight the baby
D. the baby will slowly go to sleep
3. To the author,the voices of strangers ______.
A. are not familiar to the baby          
B. lack the motherly love the baby need
C. work better to stop the baby's cry              
D. surely sound more pleasant
4. What the author wishes to make her girls do is to ______   
A. help memorize the words while she is singing
B. take off their well-designed earphones
C. listen and learn the old songs from her
D. remember their childhood car trips
阅读理解。
     On May 23,1989, Stefania Follini came out from a cave at Carlsbad,New Mexico. She hadn't seen
the sun for eighteen and a half weeks.  Stefania was in a research program,and the scientists in the
program were studying body rhythms (节奏) . In this experiment Stefania had spent 130 days in a cave,
30 feet in depth.
     During her time in the cave,Stefania had been completely alone except for two white mice. Her living
place had been very comfortable,but there had been nothing to tell her the time. She'd had no clock or
watches,no television or radio.  There had been no natural light and the temperature had always been
kept at 21℃.
      The results were very interesting. Stefania had been in the cave for over four months,but she thought
she had been there for only two. Her body clock had changed. She hadn't kept to a 24-hour day. She
had stayed awake for 20-25 hours and then had slept for 10 hours.  She had eaten fewer meals and had
lost 17 lbs in weight as a result ! She had also become  rather depressed (抑郁) .
     How had she spent her time in the cave? As part of the experiment she'd done some physical and
mental tests.She'd recorded her daily activities and the results of the tests on a computer. This computer
had been specially programmed for the project.  Whenever she was free, she'd played cards,read books
and listened to music.  She'd also learned French from tapes.
      The experiment showed that our body clocks are affected by light and temperature,for example,the
pattem of day and night makes us wake up and go to sleep.  However,people are affected in different
ways.  Some people wake up naturally at 5:00 am,but others don't start to wake up till 9:00 0r 10:00 am.  This affects the whole daily rhythm.  As a result,the early risers are at their best in the late moming.
The late risers,on the other hand,are tired during the day and only come to life in the aftemoon or evening !
1. Stefania stayed in the cave for a long time because___.  
A. she was asked to do research on mice
B. she wanted to experience loneliness
C. she was the subject of a study
D.  she needed to record her life
2. What is a cause for the change of Stefania's body clock?    
A. Eating fewer meals.
B.  Having more hours of sleep.
C. Lacking physical exercise.
D.  Getting no natural light.
3. Where doos the text probably come from? 
A. A novel.                                
B. A news story.
C. A pet magazine.                          
D. A travel guide.
完形填空。
     Today I am known for my voice.  Perhaps the greatest honor came when I was asked to read the
New Testament on tape.
       But it   1  a long time to believe such good things could happen to me.  When I was a youngster I
stuttered (口吃)    2   badly that I was completely   3   to speak in public.
        4  ,when I was 14,Professor Donald Crouch came to our school. He was a retired college professor. Englishwas his favorite subject;poetry was his deepest love. He held a book of poems   5    it were a
diamond necklace, tuming pages as if    6    treasures.  When he heard our school was teaching
Shakespeare and other classics, he could no longer   7    not being a part of our school.
       When he    8  that I not only loved poetry but was   9    it,we became closer.  There was,however,
one   10   between us-Professor Crouch could not stand the    11  that I refused to read my poems to the
class.
      "Jim,poetry is    12  to be read aloud," he said.  "You should be able to speak those beautiful words.
" I shook my head and  13  .
     Then he tricked me. After handing in a poem,l waited for his  14   . It didn't come. Instead,one day as
the students gathered together,he challenged me, "Jim,I don't think you wrote this. "
      I   15   him in disbelief.  "Why," I started,anger flooding me,"of course I   16  !" "Well,then," he said,
"you've got to prove it by getting up and reciting it     17  memory. "
      By then the other students had settled at their desks. With knees shaking,I walked up to the front. For
a moment I stood   18  . Then I began,and kept going. I recited my poem all the way through!
      Afterwards,Professor Crouch congratulated me,and   19    me to read other writers' poetry before
public.
       Before long I discovered I did have a(n)    20    and found my fellow students actually looked forward
to hearing me recite.
(     )1.  A. lasted      
(     )2. A. so            
(     )3. A. uncertain    
(     )4. A. But          
(     )5. A. even if      
(     )6. A. recovering    
(     )7. A. prevent      
(     )8. A. learned      
(     )9. A. writing      
(     )10. A. difference  
(     )11. A. truth        
(     )12. A. said        
(     )13. A. answered back
(     )14 A. correction    
(     )15. A. replied to  
(     )16. A. could        
(     )17. A. with        
(     )18. A. changeless  
(     )19. A. enabled      
(     )20. A. voice        
B. took        
B. fairly      
B. unlikely    
B. Besides    
B. so that    
B. uncovering  
B. help        
B. knew        
B. reading    
B. difficulty  
B. idea        
B. meant      
B. showed up  
B. praise      
B. laughed at  
B. did        
B. of          
B. hopeless    
B. persuaded  
B. sound      
C. was            
C. such          
C. unbelievable  
C. Then          
C. as if          
C. removing      
C. keep          
C. decided        
C. reciting      
C. promise        
C. fact          
C. caused        
C. tumed away    
C. retum          
C. pointed to    
C. should        
C. from          
C. helpless      
C. encouraged    
C. appearance    
D. wasted          
D. rather          
D. unable          
D. However          
D. on condition that
D. discovering      
D. stand            
D. proved          
D. saving          
D. pity            
D. belief          
D. prepared        
D. stuck to        
D. comment          
D. stared at        
D. had              
D. in              
D. breathless      
D. supported        
D. interest        
阅读理解。
     My most memorable experience will stay in my mind forever. For most people,horses are just animals
that should
only be used for racing. Ever since I was a child,my dream was to ride a horse. When that time finally
came,my heart
beat a thousand times a minute.
     It was a warm summer day,and we were at a park. My mom was buying several things for home
while I wandered
around to find something interesting. Suddenly I found a horse standing down the block. I ran up to it, not even knowing
how to pet it,just excited to see the most beautiful animal. He was shining white,with a well-brushed tail.
Where was
the owner?
    Right away I made up my mind to ride this horse. I found my mom and dragged her to where the horse was. The
owner was back and stated that I couldn't ride it. Tears flooded down my cheeks as my mom tried to
convince the man to let me ride the horse. He finally agreed for a costly price.  Being on the horse
awakened all the senses in me. I was the happiest little girl,having the time of my life. I began planning to
buy a horse after I became a millionaire.  Before I
knew it,the ride was over. Surprisingly,l actually leamed to control the horse.
    That day was probably the happiest time of my life. Most children wouldn't have as much fun as I did.
Several years later,I began to get involved in show jumping. If it weren't for that special experience, I
wouldn't be able to enjoy the most amazing sport.
1. The writer wanted to ride the horse because ____.   
A. she could.control the horse well
B. she knew she would ride the horse for free
C.  she expected to take part in the show jumping
D.  she fell in love with the horse at the first sight
2. The writer was _____ when her mother tried to persuade the owner of the horse.  
A.worried        
B. satisfied          
C. proud          
D. tired
3. From the passage,we can infer that ____.
A. the horse owner was a kind and rich man
B. the horse was one of the best horses in the area
C. the experience opened doors for her to get into the sport
D. the writer's mother loved the horse as much as her daughter
完形填空。
     One sunny afternoon, a seven-year-old girl went for a walk. She crossed a large area of grassland into
the woods  1  she realized that she was lost.
     Sitting on a rock and  2 what to do, she began crying.  After a while. She  3  to walk along a wide
path lined with tall trees and thick bushes.  4  it was getting dark, she saw a small, dark wooden house.
She opened the door and  5  stepped in. Suddenly, she heard a strange noise, and she ran out the door
and back to the  6  . Cold and tired, she fell asleep near a  7  .
      The girl's parents were out and her dog, Laddy, was at home. Laddy  8  that his mistrees(女主人)was
in danger. He jumped  9 a window, breaking the glass. He looked in the fields. But he couldn't find his
mistress anywhere. However, from the ground came a 10 scent (气味) as he lowered his head. He 
 11 the scent and walked across the grassland. Barking 12  into the air, the dog 13 through
the woods until he found the  14 . But the girl was not there, so he headed back to the woods. Much
to his  15 , he saw his mistress' blue shirt in the distance. He 16 over some bushes and saw the
little stream, where the girl was 17 .
     When she opened her eyes and  18 her dog standing beside her, the girl said, "you  19 me, Laddy,"
and she kissed him several times. Seeing their daughter and dog coming back, the parents burst into tears
of    20 .
     That night Laddy had a heror's supper: a huge meal of steak.


(     ) 1. A. before    
(     ) 2. A. wondering
(     ) 3. A. preferred
(      )4. A. When   
(      )5. A. carelessly
(     ) 6. A. trees
(     ) 7. A. stream
(     ) 8. A. found
(     ) 9. A. at    
(     )10.A. terrible
(     )11.A. missed
(     )12.A. calmly
(     )13.A. searched
(     )14.A.window  
(     )15.A. satisfaction
(     )16.A. jumped   
(     )17.A. awake   
(     )18.A. spotted  
(     )19.A. disturbed
(     )20.A. pain

B. since    
B. forgetting
B. expected   
B. Until        
B. cautiously
B. bushes  
B. rock    
B. sensed  
B. through     
B. strange    
B. discovered
B. loudly     
B. wandered   
B. girl     
B. disappointment
B. climbed     
B. abandoned   
B. watched     
B. comforted   
B. sock  
C. while   
C. remembering
C. failed
C. If      
C. hopelessly
C. woods   
C. tree  
C. heard   
C. in  
C. pleasant
C. followed
C. merrily   
C. looked
C. house  
C. embarrassment
C. walked   
C. available  
C. observed
C. rescued   
C. sorrow
D.as                    
D.regretting            
D.decided                
D.Because                
D.unwillingly            
D.grasses                
D.house                  
D.smelt                  
D. onto          
D . amiliar    
D. ignored      
D. gently        
D. travelled    
D. hero           
D. delight    
D. flew        
D. asleep       
D. saw          
D. scared        
D. relief      
阅读理解。
                                                                                   Three Boys and a Dad
     Brad closed the door slowly as Sue left home to visit her mother. Expecting a whole day to relax, he was thinking
whether to read the newspaper or watch his favourite TV talk show on his first day off in months. "This will be like a
walk in the park," he'd told his wife. "I'll look after the kids, and you can go visit your mom."
      Things started well, but just after eight o'clock, his three little "good kids"-Mike, Randy, and Alex-came down
the stairs in their night clothes and shouted "breakfast, daddy." When food had not appeared within thirty
seconds, Randy began using his spoon on Alex's head as if it were a drum. Alex started to shout loudly
in time to the beat(节拍). Mike chanted "Where's my toast, where's my toast" in the background. Brad
realized his newspaper would have to wait for a few seconds.
      Life became worse after breakfast. Mike wore Randy's underwear on his head. Randy locked himself in
the bathroom, while Alex shouted again because he was going to wet his pants. Nobody could find clean
socks, although they were before their very eyes. Someone named "Not Me" had spilled a whole glass of
orange juice into the basket of clean clothes. Brad knew the talk show had already started.
      By ten o'clock, things were out of control. Alex was wondering why the fish in the jar refused his bread
and butter. Mike was trying to show off his talent by decorating the kitchen wall with his colour pencils.
Randy, thankfully, appeared to be reading quietly in the family room,but closer examination showed that he was
eating apple jam straight from the bottle with his hands. Brad realised that the talk show was over and reading
would be impossible.
     At exactly 11:17, Brad called the daycare centre (日托所)."I suddenly have to go into work and my wife's
away. Can I bring the boys over in a few minutes?" The answer was obviously "yes" because Brad was smiling.
1. When his wife left home. Brad expected to          .        
A. go out for a walk in the park          
B. watch TV talk show with his children
C. enjoy his first day off work          
D. read the newspaper to his children
2. Which of the following did Randy do?
A. Drawing on the wall                
B. Eating apple jam
C. Feeding the fish.                    
D. Reading in a room
3.Why did Brad ask the daycare centre for help?
A. Because he wanted to clean up his house.
B.Because he suddenly had to go to his office
C. Because he found it hard to manage his boys home.
D. Because he had to take his wife back
 4.This text is developed        .
A. by space
B. by comparison
C. by process
D. by time
完型填空。
    Steve and Mark were good friends. They decided to spend their vacation in Haiti. Since they   1  no 
French, they took a French word book with them and hoped it would help them in difficult situations.      
    The flight was   2  , and the hotel was very comfortable. Each day after breakfast, Steve and Mark   
  3    a picnic lunch and dinner and went off to visit interesting places. After a while, the boys became 
tired of   4   picnic meals and decided to eat a big fish dinner in a good restaurant. Unfortunately, they   
  5    their word book in the hotel.      
    They  6   the menu carefully. After ten minutes, Steve said to Mark:"I don't understand this menu. "      
    "Neither do I," said Mark. "I see poison on this menu. Are they  7   here?"       
    "Maybe. They even spelled poison   8   . They spelled it p- o-i-s-s-o-n instead of p-o-i-s-o-n. But 
it   9   mean the same thing. Maybe we should go to another restaurant. I don't   10    to eat something 
that will kill me. "       
    But Mark was   11   , so he said:"There is no other restau- rant near here, and l'm tired of walking 
around the city. Let's order something else instead. It's   12   here, so the food must be good. "       
    The boy looked at the menu again. They finally decided to order steak,  13   they really wanted fish. 
The boys just pointed to the word steak, and the waiter  14   .      
    As they were eating they   15   some tourists speaking English.      
    "This  16    is delicious. "      
    "We're lucky we picked a restaurant that's famous for its fish. "      
    Steve and Mark wondered about what they   17    .      
    "Famous for its fish? There was no fish on   18   !" said Mark.      
    Finally, Steve decided to find out what all this was about.      
    "Excuse me, how did you order fish when it wasn't on the menu?"      
    "Sure it's on the menu. It's right here. Poisson. "      
    The boy shouted:      
    "Poisson. That's  19   ! We were wondering a restaurant like this could have poison on the menu. "      
    The tourists   20   . One of them said:      
    "No. Poisson is French for fish. "
(     )1. A. learned    
(     )2. A. terrible   
(     )3. A. packed     
(     )4. A. buying     
(     )5. A. reviewed   
(     )6. A. checked    
(     )7. A. crazy      
(     )8. A. silly      
(     )9. A. must       
(     )10. A. have      
(     )11. A. tired     
(     )12. A. quiet     
(     )13. A. since     
(     )14. A. realized  
(     )15. A. heard     
(     )16. A. steak     
(     )17. A. bought    
(     )18. A. the table 
(     )19. A. poison    
(     )20. A. agreed    
B. spoke     
B. booked    
B. ordered   
B. suffering 
B. kept      
B. studied   
B. stupid    
B. right     
B. should    
B. expect    
B. puzzled   
B. crowded   
B. because   
B. recognized
B. met       
B. meal      
B. discovered
B. show      
B. wrong     
B. stopped   
C. taught    
C. excellent 
C. carried   
C. eating    
C. lost      
C. compared  
C. cruel     
C. simply    
C. can       
C. want      
C. scared    
C. convenient
C. and       
C. understood
C. found     
C. fish      
C. picked    
C. the menu  
C. it        
C. screamed  
D. knew        
D. delayed     
D. cooked      
D. enjoying    
D. left        
D. observed    
D. funny       
D. wrong       
D. would       
D. need        
D. endangered  
D. comfortable 
D. although    
D. satisfied   
D. noticed     
D. food        
D. selected    
D. sale        
D. dangerous   
D. laughed     
完形填空。
    A kindergarten teacher let her students play a game. She toldeach child in the class to bring along a
plastic bag   1    a few po-tatoes. Each potato would be given a   2   of a person the child    3    , so the
number of the potatoes in their bags would   4    on the number of the people they hated.    
    So when the day came, every child brought some potatoes withthe names of some people. Some had
two potatoes ; some three   5   some up to five. The teacher then told the children to   6   withthem the
potatoes   7    they went (even to the toilet) for oneweek.    
    As days passed   8   , the children started to   9   aboutthe unpleasant smell let out by the rotten
potatoes.   10   , those having five potatoes also had to carry heavier bags. After one week, the children
were   11    because the game had finally ended.    
    The teacher asked about their feelings of carrying the potatoes.The children    12   out their frustrations (沮丧) and started complaining of the trouble they had to   13   . Then the teacher told them the   14   
meaning behind the game.    
    She said:" This is exactly the  15  when you carry your ha-tred for somebody inside your heart. The
stench (恶臭 ) of hatredwill contaminate (玷污) your heart and you will always carry it with you. If you
cannot   16   the smell of rotten potatoes for just one week, can you imagine   17   it is like to have the
hatred in your heart for your lifetime?"    
    Moral of the story:    
        18   away any hatred for anyone from your heart   19   you will not carry it for a lifetime.   20  others
is the best attitude totake !
(     )1.A.including    
(     )2.A.character    
(     )3.A.hated        
(     )4.A.live         
(     )5.A.when         
(     )6.A.bring        
(     )7.A.however      
(     )8.A.by           
(     )9.A.wander       
(     )10.A.Besides     
(     )11.A.disappointed
(     )12.A.gave        
(     )13.A.go through  
(     )14.A.skeptical   
(     )15.A.information 
(     )16.A.hold        
(     )17.A.how         
(     )18.A.Cast        
(     )19.Ain case      
(     )20.A.Abandoning  
B.seating       
B.secret        
B.loved         
B.depend        
B.while         
B.take          
B.whenever      
B.away          
B.spread        
B.However       
B.relieved      
B.left          
B.pick up       
B.terminal      
B.identification
B.tolerate      
B.whether       
B.Click         
B.so that       
B.Blessing      
C.containing  
C.picture     
C.appreciated 
C.wait        
C.as          
C.fetch       
C.wherever    
C.on          
C.complain    
C.Therefore   
C.possessed   
C.broke       
C.turn to     
C.hidden      
C.tradition   
C.alter       
C.that        
C.Cross       
C.as though   
C.Consulting  
D.growing  
D.name     
D.struck   
D.keep     
D.unless   
D.carry    
D.whatever 
D.out      
D.breathe  
D.Instead  
D.reserved 
D.let      
D.put away 
D.ignored  
D.situation
D.combine  
D.what     
D.Cure     
D.now that 
D.Forgiving
阅读理解。

    Jonathan James looks like just another kid about to graduatefrom high school. But this 19-year-old
Swede is anything but ordinary from the computer in his parents' home, he helps the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) find out the world's most wanted cybercriminals.    
    Jonathan first made headlines when he and another Swede, Fredrik Bjoerck, found out the maker of the " Melissa" Virus in March, 1999. He went to the aid of the FBI again on May 7 , findingout the suspected sender of the dangerous" I LOVE YOU" virus. The suspect was caught in Manila on May 8.    
    Jonathan's special skills are in hot demand as officials around the world express alarm at the" virtual"
crime. In studying for finalexams, hanging out with his friends and refereeing his younger brother's football matches, the quiet, gentle teenager also gives les-sons on e-security(电子安全) to large companies. He
reads a lot and exchanges information with other computer experts to know much about the latest tricks of the hacker trade.      
    Many companies have already tried to employ him, but he is not interested at the moment. Instead, he
plans to begin law school in the autumn at Sweden's Uppsala University and start up his owne-security
company.      
    Ahhough he works with the FBI now and then, his family insists he's just" a regular kid". "Jonathan is a
great kid. He has his friends and he does a lot more than just play with the Computer,"his little sister Tessa said, adding that he helps the FBI because" he likes to help" not because he's looking for fame or
recognition.      
    When the world was hit by the" Love Bug" virus, Jonathan was too busy preparing a speech on security to look into the problem. "Finally on May 7 , I had some free time, so I began looking. "Within a few
hours, he found the suspect and e-mailed his methods and resuits to the FBI. He said his work on the
" Melissa" virus, which took three weeks to solve, was a big help in finding the suspect so quickly.     
     "This time I knew exactly where to start, what to disregard and what to look at. "

1. The underlined word" cybercriminals" in the first paragraph most probably means __   .
A. persons who commit a crime in the network    
B. softwares for smoothing away the poison    
C. persons who create the network    
D. designers for the Internet systems
2. The public started to know something about Jonathan just from_______.    
A. his helping the FBI to find out the sender of the dangerous" I LOVE YOU" virus    
B. his work together with Fredrik Bjoerck to find out the maker of the" Melissa" virus    
C. his little sister's talk about his good qualities as a regular kid and good programmer    
D. his speech on e-security to many computer companies after his fight against hackers
3. What do we know about Jonathan? 
A. He is a good fame hunter with various abilities.    
B. He is such a brave fighter that any criminal will feel afraid.    
C. He is an expert on e-security, not interested in running a company.    
D. He is a regular kid but does something unusual.

4. The passage mainly wants to tell us that _       .    

A. a Swedish kid helps the FBI find out the most wanted cyber criminals    
B. Jonathan is really a quiet, gentle and ordinary boy    
C. many companies want the young computer expert to join them    
D. all cybercriminals will surely be found out wherever they are
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