Daredevil climber Alain Robert, known as the French Spiderman, stood strong winds and rain to climb the world's tallest skyscraper, Taipei 101, Saturday．

Robert, dressed in red rain jacket, tights and climbing shoes, climbed up ropes hung down the side of the 101 storey, 1,667-foot office tower, reaching the top in around four hours．"It was a very big moment and I felt a lot of satisfaction though I was so tired and nearly all of my muscles were painful．I felt completely eased．" said Robert after taking the ride down in one of the tower's lifts, the world's fastest．

    Several hundred on-lookers and shoppers gathered at the base of the tower watching and cheering Robert's progress through live pictures on a large television screen．At times he disappeared from view as clouds passed by the top of the tower surrounding the upper stories．

    The 42-year-old Frenchman has covered scores of well-known structures around the world including the Empire State Building and the Eiffel Tower——without permission or any safety equipment or ropes．

    This time Robert was wearing a harness (背带) fastened to safety ropes for the entire climb．He used the ropes to pull himself up most of the way, using his hands and feet to climb up the walls for only short sections．He said that the management had requested he wear the ropes and safety equipment, which had also become necessary due to the rain making the windows and frames very slippery．Robert said he would not carry his pity the next time．

The text mainly tells us that _________．

    A．another world record was broken by a Frenchman

    B．The French Spiderman climbed the world's tallest building

    C．How Alain Robert got the name" Daredevil"

    D．Alain Robert was praised for his great success

During his climbing up Taipei 101, Alain Robert ________．

    A．never felt tired all the time

    B．never used his hands and feet

    C．stayed somewhere for a short rest

    D．was not seen on the television screen now and then

When Alain Robert climbed the Empire State Building, he was likely to ________．

    A．use only his hands and feet          B．be 42 years old

    C．carry some safety equipment       D．get permission of someone

According to the text, we can infer that Alain Robert ________．

    A．spent three hours climbing Taipei 101   B．chose a rainy day on purpose

C．will climb Taipei 101 a second time     D．got lots of help from on-lookers

Brussels, the capital city of Belgium, is _____home to the European Union, _____ organization of European nations．

   A．the; an          B．a’ an            C．\; an            D．\ ;the

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Jessie's Glove

I do alot of management training each year for the Circle K Corporation, a national chain of convenience stores．      21    the topics we discuss is the retention （保持）of quality employees -- a real challenge to managers when you consider the pay scale （薪水标准）in the service industry．During these discussions, I asked the participants, "What has caused you to stay long enough to become a manager?" Some time back a new   22      took the question and   23     said, "It was a $19 baseball glove．"

       Cynthia told the group that she    24    took a Circle K clerk job as an interim （过渡时期）position  25     she looked for something  26    ．On her second or third day behind the counter, she received a phone call from her nine-year-old son, Jessie．He needed a baseball glove for Little League．She explained that   27    a single mother, money was very   28   , and her first check would   29    go for paying  30   ．Perhaps she could buy his baseball glove with her second or third check．．

       When Cynthia arrived for work the next morning, Patricia, the store manager, asked her to come to the small room in the back of the store that    31    as an office．Cynthia   32   if she had done something wrong or left some part of her job incomplete from the day before．She was concerned and confused．

       Patricia handed her a box．"I overheard you talking to your son   33    ," she said, "and I know that it is hard to   34     things to kids．This is a baseball glove for Jessie because he may not understand how    35    he is, even though you have to pay bills    36    you can buy gloves．You know we can't pay good people like you as much as we would like to; but we    37   care, and I want you to know you are important to    38  ．"

       The thoughtfulness, sympathy and    39  of this convenience store manager demonstrates vividly that people remember more how much an employer  40     than how much the employer pays．An important lesson for the price of a Little League baseball glove．

 It makes his life quite different ________he has received education abroad．

A．that                B．which          C．what          D．How

 I saw Tom in the meeting-room, so he       attend the meeting.

A. surely           B. did             C. does       D. really

Patricia Blues, 29, has a new aim in life: to keep drivers' hands on their steering wheels and off their cell phones. On November 2, 2007, Blues lived through a horrible experience. A motorist dialing a cell phone drove through a stop sign at 45 miles per hour and run into the side of Blues' car. Blues' 2-year-old daughter was killed immediately in the crash.

Blues has since dedicated her time to pushing for laws that would prevent this type of tragedy from happening again.

Cell phones are not the only distractions (分神) that cause accidents. Eating, changing CD, reading maps, talking to passengers, and just reaching for an object on the floor can be dangerous. Therefore, the emphasis should be on educating drivers to avoid all distractions. However, talking on cell phones might be easier to regulate than eating or changing music. At least 34 states have already passed laws to restrict cell phone use in moving cars. No state has banned it yet, but several U. S. cities have. Worldwide, 13 nations, including Australia, England, Germany, Japan and China have banned drivers' use of cell phones in moving cars.

To date, no scientific evidence has been published showing that talking on the phone affects driving safety. But according to a test by some high school students, "driving while on the phone does affect safety and probably shouldn't be done".

64. What happened to Patricia Blues last November? ________.

A. She was seriously injured in a car crash  

B. She lost her daughter in a road accident

C. She broke the traffic rules at a bus stop  

D. Her vehicle was destroyed by a motorbike

65. The tragedy was caused by ________.

A. Blues' lack of driving experience   

B. the motorist’s failure of seeing the stop sign

C. Blues' poor car conditions         

D. the motorist's absence of mind while driving

66. Patricia Blues' new goal of life is to persuade the government ________.

A. to prohibit the carrying of cell phones in cars  

B. to educate drivers to avoid all distractions

C. to ban talking on the phone while driving  

D. to study, harmful results of using cell phones

67. Which of the following is TRUE according to the text? ________.

A. Using cell phone while driving is easier to be controlled by law than other distractions

B. It is more important to make laws than educate drivers to be aware of driving safety

C. Driving while on the phone is firmly against only by some students from high school

D. It is extremely urgent for the cities with a large population to restrict using cell phones   

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You could fill a store with all the energy drinks now available. They promise to make people feel more energetic and think more clearly. These products have names like Red Bull, Monster, Ripped Force, Speed Stack and 5-Hour Energy. They appeal mainly to young people and are fueled mainly by caffeine.

Chad Reissig at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, is a medical researcher who studies drug dependence. He says the team he works on got interested in studying energy drinks because of the explosion in their popularity in the last few years.

He says the researchers found three major things. One: there are hundreds of brands of energy drinks in most major countries. Two: the drinks are not clearly labeled with enough information. And three: the amount of caffeine varies greatly. Some contain as little as fifty milligrams, others as much as five hundred.

By comparison, a cup of Starbucks brewed coffee contains 330 milligrams in 473 milliliters.

Some energy drinks contain a mixture of ingredients listed as an “energy blend(混合物)”. Ingredients like taurine, guarana and inositol are natural substances. But Chad Reissig says scientists do not know a lot about them and how they interact with each other and caffeine. And worse, he says, there is no listing of the amount  of each ingredient.

Some people combine energy drinks with alcohol. They think they can drink more alcohol that way and not be affected. Studies, however, suggest that they are still under the influence of the alcohol even if they do not feel that way.

Some makers of energy drinks do provide warnings. For example, a popular energy shot warns against use by people who are pregnant, nursing a baby or under the age of twelve. Energy shots are small bottles of liquid. The directions also advise people to limit caffeine products and drink only half the bottle if they want a moderate (适度的) amount of energy.

The team at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine published a report in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence. They suggested better labeling with the amount of caffeine and other ingredients clearly listed on the drink. The researchers are continuing to study energy drinks. They are currently seeking young people who have had a bad experience after drinking them.

There has been_____ rising demand for grain as_____ industrial material in spite of the nation’s

good harvests.

A. /, an                                B. a, an                               C. the, an                           D. a, /

Around 70% of the XO model laptops handed out by the government ______ to children who did not have computers at home.

A. are given               B. gave                                 C. were given          D. were giving

–Are you still thinking of yesterday’s game?

   –That’s ____makes me feel excited.

A. which        B. what       C. how       D. that