With five breakout (破纪录的) games, Jeremy Lin has become the NBA's newest star．
     In the New York Knicks' 92-85 won over the Los Angles Lakers last Saturday, Lin had a
career-high 38 points．A day later, he led the Knicks to their fifth victory, 100-98 to Minnesota
Timberwolves．In his previous games, Lin, 23, had 23 points against the Washington, 25 points
against New Jersey and 28 against Utah in his first start．
     Lin is smart．Before graduating from high school in California, he had sent his application to
all the Ivy League Schools (常青藤联盟)．He only got into Harvard and Brown, and he chose
Harvard．In 2010, Lin graduated with a degree in economics．
     Lin is the first Chinese-American player in the NBA．He was born in the US and his family is
Asian．Although not born in China, Lin has attracted nearly all Yao Ming's old fans, who see him
as a powerful role model．
      He started off on the Golden State Warriors．Lin first signed with the Warriors in July, 2010,
but seldom played in games before the start of the fourth quarter．His first time on the court for the
Warriors earned him seven points, three rebounds (篮板球) and two assists in just 11 minutes．
     He is really perfect for the Knicks．The New York Knicks has been in need of a reliable point
guard and to Mike D'Antoni, the Knicks coach who's going through a difficult season, Lin is a most
unexpected figure．"Lin just does everything easy and the rest of the guys around him are playing the
way we want to," D'Antoni said．"I think it's for real, and it can only get better．"

1．In which team did Lin start his career in NBA?

A．the New York Knicks．          
B．The Golden State Warriors．
C．Minnesota Timberwolves．        
D．The Los Angles Lakers．

2．From the passage, we learn that ___．

A．the New York Knicks has never been defeated
B．Lin is an American-Chinese basketball player
C．most of Yao Ming's fans take Lin as a great role model
D．after graduation from Harvard, Lin signed with the Knicks

3．From the passage, it can be inferred that ____．

A．Lin is the team leader of the Knicks
B．the Knicks' success only depends on Lin
C．the Knicks'coach puts strong hopes on Lin
D．the Knicks is sure to win the season this year

4．The author's purpose of writing the report is ____．

A．to show his support for the Knicks
B．to express his love for Jeremy Lin
C．to report the progress of the Knicks
D．to introduce a newest rising NBA star

     Have you ever felt so anxious during an examination that you couldn't even put down the answers
you knew? If so, you were suffering from what is known as test anxiety.
     According to psychologist Ralph Trimble, test anxiety is a very real problem for many people.
When you're worried over your performance on an exam, your heart beats faster and your pulse
speeds up. These reactions start others: You may sweat more than normal or suffer from a stomachache
or headache. Your field of vision narrows and becomes tunnel-like. Before you know it, you're having
difficulty focusing.
      "What I hear students say over and over again," says Dr. Trimble, who is working at the
Psychological and Counseling Center at the University of Illinois, "is, 'My mind went blank.'"
      For a number of years, Dr. Trimble helped many students learn how to perform better during exams
and to bring up their grades. Some of these students were interested in sharing what they learned and,
with Trimble's help, began holding workshops on overcoming test anxiety. For many students, just
being in a workshop(讨论会,实验班) with other sufferers made them feel better. They realized that
they were not the only ones who had done poorly on tests because of tension.
     The workshops were so successful that they are still given.
     In the workshops, students are taught that anxiety is normal. You just have to prevent it from getting
the best of you. The first step is to learn to relax. If before or during an examination you start to panic,
stretch as hard as you can, tensing the muscles in your arms and legs; then suddenly relax all of them.
     This will help relieve tension. But keep in mind that you don't want to be too relaxed. Being
completely relaxed is no better than being too tense. "If you are so calm you don't care how you
do on an examination, you won't do well," Trimble says. "There is an optimum level of concern when
you perform at your best. Some stress helps. There are people who can't take even slight stress. They
have to learn that in a challenging situation, being anxiously excited is good and will help them to do
better. But if they call it anxiety and say, 'It's going to hit me again,' that will make them nervous and
worried."
      As a student you must also realize that if you leave too much studying until a day or two before the
examination, you can't do the impossible and learn it all. Instead, concentrate on what you can do and
try to think what questions are likely to be asked and what you can do in the time left for studying.
     When you sit down to study, set a moderate pace and vary it by reading, writing notes, and going
over any papers you have already written for the course, as well as the textbooks and notes you took
in class. Review what you know. Take breaks and go to sleep early enough to get a good night's rest
before the exam. You should also eat a moderate breakfast or lunch, avoid drinks like coffee and stay
away from fellow students who get tense. Panic spreads easily.
      Get to the exam room a few minutes early so that you will have a chance to familiarize yourself with
the surroundings and get out your supplies. When the examination is handed out, read the directions
twice and underline the significant instructions, making sure you understand them. Ask the teacher to
explain if you don't. First answer the easiest questions, then go back to the more difficult.
     On essay questions, instead of starting right away, take a few minutes to organize your thoughts,
make a brief outline, and then start off with a summary sentence. Keep working steadily, and even
when time starts to run out, don't speed up.

1. We learn from the passage that test anxiety ___________.

A. affects a small number of people
B. can lead to physical discomfort
C. can have a negative effect on a person's eyesight
D. often affects those who are physically weak

2. Dr. Trimble often heard students say that _________.

A. their mind failed to work when faced with a test
B. they had difficulty focusing on the test items
C. they could not think of a way to get rid of text anxiety
D. they began panicking well ahead of a test

3. In Trimble's workshop the students learned __________.

A. how to avoid being controlled by test anxiety
B. that test anxiety is normal and would go away in time
C. certain mental exercises that would help them relax
D. how to concentrate on what they could do

4. According to the passage, being completely relaxed before a test _________.

A. helps a student to perform better in the test
B. can also be harmful to a person's performance in the test
C. helps a student to cope with a challenging situation better
D. may be more harmful that getting too worried over tests

5. The author suggests that before a test ___________.

A. you should avoid staying with a fellow student who suffers test anxiety.
B. you should not think that you will be affected by your fellow student's anxiety
C. you should get together with other sufferers of test anxiety in order to feel better
D. you should eat a big meal and drink some coffee to keep yourself in high spirits

                                                        Obama Still Smokes in Secret
     US President Barack Obama has just made life more difficult for cigarette makers. He has just signed
a law that will set tough new rules for the tobacco industry. The new law gives the US Food and Drug
Administration the power to strictly limit the making and marketing of tobacco products.
     At a White House signing ceremony Monday, Obama said that he was among the nearly 90% of
smokers who took up the habit before their 18 th birthday.
     Obama, who has publicly struggled to give up smoking, said he still hadn't completely kicked the habit.
Every now and then he still smokes in secret.
     "As a former smoker I struggle with it all the time. Do I still smoke sometimes? Yes. Am I a daily
smoker, a constant smoker? No." Obama said at a news conference.
     "I don' t do it in front of my lads．I don ?t do it in front of my family．I would say that I am 95%
cured, but there are times when I mess up, " he said．
     "Once you go down this path, it' s something you continually struggle with, which is exactly why the law
is so important．The new law is not about me, it' s about the next generation of kids coming up．What
we don ' t want is kids going down that path," he said．
     Nearly 20% of Americans smoke and tobacco use kills about 440,000 people a year in the United
States due to cancer, heart disease, and other serious diseases．

1．The new law makes life difficult for              .

A．Obama            
B．tobacco industry
C．White House      
D．US Food and Drug Administratio

2．What do we know about Obama?

A．He no longer smokes．
B．He still smokes as usual．      
C．He began to smoke at eighteen．
D．He is trying hard to give up smoking．

3．According to the passage, Obama is most concerned about           ．

A．children      
B．officials        
C．his family      
D．businessmen

     Beijing - "Ma", a Chinese character for horse, is the 13th most common family name in China, shared
by nearly 17 million people. That can cause no end of confusion when Mas get together, especially if those Mas also share the same given name, as many Chinese do.
     Ma Cheng’s book-loving grandfather came up with an elegant solution to this common problem.
Twenty-six years ago, when his granddaughter was born, he consulted his library of Chinese dictionaries
and lighted upon a character pronounced “cheng”. Cheng looks just like the character for horse, except
that it is condensed (压缩) and written three times in a row.
     The character is so rare that once people see it, Miss Ma said, they tend to remember both her and her name. That is one reason she likes it so much.
     Chinese parents’ desire to give their children a spark of individuality (个性) is colliding (冲突) with the Chinese government’s desire for order. Seeking to modernize its vast database on China’s 1.3 billion
citizens, the government’s Public Security Bureau has been replacing the handwritten identity card that
every Chinese must carry with a computer-readable one, complete with color photos and microchips. The new cards are harder to forge (伪造) and can be scanned at places like airports where security is a
priority.
     The bureau’s computers, however, are programmed to read only 32,252 of the roughly 55,000
Chinese characters according to a 2006 government report. The result is that Miss Ma and at least some
of the 60 million other Chinese with obscure characters in their names cannot get new cards - unless they
change their names to something more common.
     Moreover, the situation is about to get worse or, in the government’s view, better. Since at least 2003, China has been working on a standardized list of characters for people to use in everyday life, including
when naming children. The list will aim to control the use of obscure names.
1. Which of the following can describe the function of Paragraph 1?
A. Lead-in.  
B. Main idea.  
C. Summary.  
D. Argument.
2. This passage is somewhat like a(n) ________.
A. advertisement      
B. official document      
C. special report      
D. study plan
3. What can we know about Ma Cheng according to the passage?
A. She has got her new ID card.
B. She was named after her grandfather.
C. She is 26 years old now.
D. She wants to change her name.
4. The underlined word “obscure” in the fifth paragraph is closest in meaning to "________".
A. common        
B. poor        
C. puzzling        
D. meaningless
5. What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?
A. China’s Public Security Bureau’s computers can read 55,000 Chinese characters.
B. The usage of Chinese characters would be more and more standard.
C. Standardized list of Chinese characters has been given out to the public.[来源:Zxxk.Com]
D. Those who have strange names will have their new ID cards sooner or later.

     LOS ANGELES--The advice offered from any other 82-year-old might have made young people yawn(打哈欠)and roll theft eyes．
     But when former South African President Nelson Mandela advised two dozen Los Angeles-area youth leaders to take education seriously, his audience was listening．
     The famed old man said to the young people that if they expected to improve the fives fives(一种游戏) of others in the future,they must work at improving their own fives now．"Education is one of the most important weapons you have,"Mandela advised,"it will place you in a far better position to serve yourself and your community．"
     "The point is,he was young once and rebellious(反叛的)once and he kept his dream alive,just as you each have dreams．" Explained South Africa's ambassador to the United States,Sheita Sisulu,as she introduced Mandela to the young crowd．
     Asked for specific advice about changing society by 21-year-old Ahmed Younis,Mandela suggested that somehow helping arouse(唤醒)more American interest in foreign affairs might be a start．
    "There is an impression that Americans,in general,have not followed international developments properly,"Mandela said,"I'm not making that statement myself, but there are serious political analysts who say Americans are not well informed as to what has happened in the world．"  
     22-year-old Omari Trice said Mandela left him full of passion．"He's a person who set the tone(格调)for an entire nation．"said Trice．
     "You go away feeling you need to be Superman in order to get things done．"Trice said．
1．From the passage,we can conclude that American youth_____．
A．are willing to accept the advice from world-famous leaders
B．usually think that advice from old people is not worth considering
C．have a good understanding of the old
D．have no intention to improve the fives of others
2．Nelson Mandela makes the point in his speech that American youth leaders should_____．
A．improve their own fives   
B．go to college for better education
C．put more importance on education
D．become interested in foreign affairs
3．What Sheila Sisulu said suggested that      ．
A．Nelson Mandela never lost hope in his life
B．was especially troublesome when young
C．Nelson Mandela was quite different from American youth when young
D．American youth should be no more rebellious
4．From what Trice said,we can know that    ．
A．he was greatly impressed and encouraged by Mandela's speech
B．he thought little of Mandela's speech
C．he must be a superman in order to change society
D. he'll be more interested in international development

    Wen Jiabao arrived in Singapore yesterday for an official visit to the country. It is the first visit by a
Chinese premier to Singapore in eight years. In the arrival statement, Wen said he is looking forward to
the meeting with Singapore on ways to deepen East Asian cooperation between two nations so as to
contribute to the building of a peaceful, harmonious relationship."
      Premier Wen Jiabao and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong agreed to jointly develop an
environmentally friendly city in northeastern China. The city will be a model for sustainable development,
a Singapore government statement said. The "Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city" will be developed by a
joint venture formed by Chinese and Singapore companies. "This eco-city, to be built in Tianjin, will
become another highlight in our relations," Wen said after signing an agreement with Lee, who agreed,
"On the Singapore side, on all levels, we'll give this project our full support."The two sides will share
expertise and experiences in urban planning, environmental protection, resources conservation, recycling,
use of renewable resources and wastewater re-use. China's economic planning agency issued a set of
guidelines earlier this month welcoming foreign investment in environmentally friendly areas such as
recycling, "clean" industries and environmental protection.Bilateral relations between China and Singapore have seen big progress even though the two countries established diplomatic ties only 17 years ago,
Wen said during his talks with Lee.
      China and Singapore have also kept close contact and coordination on regional issues, he added.
Wen said China and Singapore are both important Asian countries that share common interests in many
areas.
                              Title: Wen's visit to Singapore

      Flying over a desert area in an airplane, two scientists looked down with trained eyes at trees and
bushes.  After an hour's flight one of the scientists wrote in his book, "Look here for probable metal.
"Scientists in another airplane, flying over a mountain area, sent a message to other scientists on the
ground, "Gold possible, "Walking across hilly ground, four scientists reported, "This ground should
be searched for metals. "From an airplane over a hilly wasteland a scientist sent back by radio one
word:" Uranium
    None of the scientists had X-ray eyes: they had no magic powers of looking down below the
earth's surface.  They were merely putting to use one of the newest methods of locating minerals in
the ground, using trees and plants as signs that certain minerals may lie beneath the ground on which
the trees and plants are growing.     This newest method of searching for minerals is based on the
fact that minerals deep in the earth may affect the kind of bushes and trees that grow on the surface.
    At Waston Bar Greek, a brook(小溪)six thousand feet high in the mountains of British  Colunbia,
Canada, a mineral search group gathered bags of tree seeds.  Boxes were filled with small branches
from the trees.  Roots were dug and put into boxes.  Each bag and box was carefully marked.  In a
scientific laboratory the parts of the forest trees were burned to ashes and tested.  Each small part
was examined to learn whether there were minerals in it.
    Study of the roots, branches, and seeds showed no silver.  But there were small amounts of gold
in the roots and a little less gold in the branches and seeds.  The seeds growing nearest to the tree
trunk had more gold than those growing on the ends of the branches.

1. Scientists were flying over a desert of a hilly wasteland or a mountain area in order to search for_________ in the ground. 

A. gold      
B. silver          
C. metals        
D. minerals

2. The study of trees, branches and roots shows that_________.    

A. there were larger amounts of gold in the branches than in the seeds
B. there were smaller amounts of gold in the roots than in the branches
C. there were less amounts of gold in the seeds growing on the ends of branches than seeds growing
nearest to the tree trunk
D. there was more gold in the branches than in tile roots

3. Which is the best title suggested below?  

A. Scientists Searching for Metals with Special Power
B. New Methods of Searching for Minerals
C. Gold Could Be Found by Trees and Plants
D. A New Method of Searching for Minerals-Using Trees and Plants

4. The scientists were searching for minerals by using_________.     

A. X-ray.    
B. magic power    
C. a special instrument          
D. trained eyes

     A new plan for getting children to and from school is being started by a local government in Eastern
England. This could end the worries of many parents fearful for their children's safety on the roads.
     Until now the local government have only been prepared to provide bus services for children living
more than three miles from their school, or sometimes less if special reasons existed. Now it has been
decided that if a group of parents ask for help in organizing transport they will be prepared to go ahead,
as long as the arrangement will not lose money and children taking part will be attending their nearest
school.
     The new plan is to be tried out this term for children living at Milton who attend Impington School.
The children live just within the three-mile limit and the local government have said in the past that they
will not undertake to provide free transport to the school. But now they have agreed to offer a sum of
money for a bus service from Milton to Impington and back, a plan which has the support of the school's
headmaster.
      Between 50 and 60 parents have said they would like their children to take part. Final calculations
have still to be carried out, but a government official has said the cost to parents should  be less than ￡
20 a term.
      They have been able to arrange the service at a low cost because there is already an agreement with
the bus company for a bus to take children who live further away to Impington. The same bus would now
just make one more journey to pick up the Milton children. The official said they would get in touch with
other groups of parents who in the past had asked if transport could be provided for their children, to see
if they would like to take part in the new plan.

1. What is the aim of the plan?

A．To prevent the students' road accidents.    
B．To relieve the traffic pressure.
C．To save time for the parents and students.  
D．To help the parents save money.

2．How can the local government arrange the new bus service at a low cost?

A．By letting the bus run in the morning only.
B．By limiting the number of the students.
C．By obtaining the support from the headmaster.
D．By linking the new bus service with the existing one.

3．Which of the following is possible if the plan is carried out?

A．The bus company will make much more money.
B．The children can choose whatever school they like.
C．The parents can get rid of their worries.
D．The students in Impington School can have free bus rides.

4．This passage is most probably___________.

A．a personal letter  
B．an advertisement  
C．a headmaster's report  
D．a newspaper article