----Have you known Professor Jackson in our department for a long time ?

   ----Yes, since he _____ the our university.

A. has come         B. comes                          C. had come            D. came

One day a mime(哑剧演员)is visiting the zoo and attempts to earn some money as a street performer. As soon as he starts to draw a crowd，a zookeeper drags him into his office．The zookeeper explains that the zoo's most popular attraction，a gorilla(大猩猩)，has died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance（出席人数） at the zoo will fall off．He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla. The mime accepts．

  The next morning the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage before the crowd comes．He soon discovers he can sleep all he wants，play and make fun of people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime—the job he likes but loses．

    However, with days going by，he begins to notice that the people are paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his．Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience, he climbs to the top of his cage，crawls across a partition(隔墙)，and dangles(悬挂)from the top to the lion’s cage. The lion gets angry at this. The scene is a fuel to the crowd．

    At the end of the day he is given a raise for being such a good attraction—Well，this continues for some time．The crowds grow larger，and the mime’s pay keeps going up.

　　Then one day when he is dangling over the lion he slips and falls．The mime is terrified. He starts screaming，  “Help me!”，but the lion is quick．The mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and the lion says, “Shut

up you fool! Do you want to get us both fired?”

The mime accepts the zookeeper’s offer because______________·

  A．he has been out of work

  B．he doesn’t like being a mime

  C．he likes performing at the zoo

  D．he is offered a higher pay there

How does the mime find the job dressing up as the gorilla?

  A．Hard and tiring．        B．Dangerous.

  C．Easy and funny．        D. Boring.

The mime’s first contact with the lion is to_________·

  A. find pleasure for himself          B. get the lion’s attention

  C．get his pay raised               D．win back his audience

The underlined words “a fuel” in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by __________.

  A. frightening    B common   C．exciting   D. familiar

Jenny lived in a town．Her father，Mr．Young，had a shop there and sold clothes in it．The shopkeeper was born in a poor family and was in school no more than a year．He was always sorry for it though he had much money now．He hoped his daughter could become a scientist．But the girl didn’t 1ike anything else except singing．She often went to the concerts，bought a lot of records the famous pop stars made and insisted on listening to the music when she was free．Of course she wanted to be a pop star，too．Her parents wanted to prevent her，but she didn’t listen to

them and they had to agree to her choice．They engaged an old man who was good at music as a private teacher．

    Five years passed．Mr．Young bought all kinds of musical instruments for Jenny and they visited some places where the famous singers were born．Of course he spent a lot of money on it．But he found the girl didn’t make any progress．At last the teacher didn’t think the girl could become a singer at all and had to tell Mr．Young about it．The man became angry and said，“Why didn’t you tell me about it earlier? My daughter learned nothing but I paid you month after month!”

    “I think you should thank me for it，”said the teacher．“Another teacher, who teaches

badly，is paid more than I was．And I saved much money for you!”

Mr. Young was in school for a short time because______   ．

  A．he was too poor to go on studying    B．he had to help his parents

  C．he was weak in his lessons D．he didn’t like studying at all

Jenny spent much money buying records and went to the concerts in order to ______

    A．visit some places    B．know some pop stars

    C．become a pop star   D．1earn singing

Mr．Young became angry because______．

    A．he paid a lot of money to the teacher

    B．his daughter decided to drop music

    C．his daughter spent four years on music

    D．the teacher taught his daughter nothing

假如你是李华,已升入高中学习，请你根据以下要点,给你的网友Lily 发个邮件,告诉她你的学习及其他一些情况。

你现在是第二中学高一（2） 班学生。

你在学校里除学习语文、数学、英语、电脑外,你还学习更多的课程。

你的英语老师是一个从大学毕业不久的年轻人,英语讲得很。.

你班有48个同学,来自不同的初级中学，现在你们相处融洽,互相学习,互相帮助。注意： 开头已经写好,不记入总词数。

Dear Lily ，

         How are you doing ? I am writing to tell you something about my study._____

                                                              Yours,

                                                              Li Hua

Tommy is _______ captain of the class team at school and he is also _____ member of _____ Senor High team．

    A．/ ; a ; the     B．the ; the ; the   C．the ; a ; the   D．/ ; / ; the

He prefers to die rather than ________ to his enemies.

A. give up                   B. give out                   C. give in                       D. give off

It is well known that the Japanese people’s love of fish is almost as a bee’s interest in honey．As fish populations were decreasing, fishing companies were forced to fish further and further away from the shore．Then they had a big challenge－how to keep the fish fresh for longer．So they decided to keep the fish stored in freezers on the boats．But the public did not like frozen fish．So again the fishing companies had a new bigger challenge．What they decided to do was to have fish tanks on their boats．After catching fishes, they would put them in the tanks and keep them living there until they got back to shore．But in this protected environment, lacking predators (掠食者)，the fish stopped moving around．The Japanese public felt these dull fish did not taste fresh, which had an unpleasant effect upon sales．Once again the fishing companies had an even bigger challenge

Stop for a minute! Before we go any further, I would like to ask “What are your challenges? How do you handle an unexpected challenge?” May I think it this way that you should try to attack your challenges? Conquer（战胜） them with a Swiss army knife．Take the most proper and simple tool that you can adopt to deal with your situation.

Now back to our story．How did the Japanese finally figure out the fresh fish problem？Sharks! You might think the same．Sharks were caught and put into the tanks with other fishes．Don’t sharks eat fish? Well, they do eat a few fish, but they did also keep more fish active and alert (警觉的)．The fish stay fresh because they are challenged.

Now, try to keep yourself fresh by finding your own shark to offer yourself a challenge in your own business and career.

The main reason for the fishing company to fish in the far sea was that         .

       A．the fish resource near the shore was on the decrease

      B．the fishes farther away from the sea tasted fresher       

       C．people would prefer eating fresh fishes to less fresh ones

       D．it was getting harder and harder to keep fishes fresh

From the text we can learn that           .

       A．Japanese people love honey as much as a bee does

       B．the fish kept in tanks didn’t sell well because of their taste

       C．the fish stored in the protected environment tasted the best

       D．the fish kept in tanks didn’t taste fresh because they died before reaching the restaurant

The underlined part of the last paragraph means “            .”

       A．If you went fishing, you might do as the fishing companies did

       B．Try to find a big shark, and you will meet your challenge

      C．To succeed in life, you should always be ready to meet challenges

       D．Sharks are usually compared to the challenges in people’s life

The purpose for the author to write the passage is to        .

       A．tell the readers “no pains, no gains”

       B．tell the readers how the Japanese keep the fish fresh

       C．advise readers to look for challenges to make progress

       D．advise readers to find something difficult to do

完成句子 （共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）

__________                             （到现在为止）, we have achieved what we would never expect to achieve.

                                      （这很有可能） that he would succeed in his career.

A lot of new states in America  ________                      （模仿了） the English fashion at that time.

You can’t ___________ _____________ _______________（得出结论） without enough evidence.

There must be a major  _____________（误会） , for I can’t understand her at all.

The teacher raised his voice , but still couldn’t make himslf _________.

John wasn’t quite _________ the way the barber cut his hair.