请根据下面提示，写一篇短文。词数不少于50。

In your spoken English class, your teacher shows you the following picture. You are asked to describe the picture and explain how you understand it.

— Did you telephone Uncle Sam our plan for the Christmas holidays on his farm?

    —Yes, he was happy about our arrival, and he eagerly asked when         .

       A．has we arrived         B．we had arrived

       C．were we arriving            D．we were arriving

Gary Locke , a Chinese-American , once______ as the governor of Washington for 8 years and now is U. S. Commerce Secretary.

A. had worked   B. worked     C. is working   D. has been working

 — What do you think of Tom?

— He is quite good-tempered, but I can’t ______ his bad habit of smoking.

A. put up with              B. make up for              C. get on with        D. come up with

So hard _______ that he can go to an ideal university.

   A．studied Tom                  B．did Tom study       

       C．does Tom studay    D．studies Tom

If the chair is too high you can_____ it to suit you.

A. accustom       B. adapt        C. adjust          D. adopt

Honesty comes in many forms. First there’s self-honesty. Is what people see the real article or do you appear through smoke and mirrors ? I find that if I try to be something I’m not, I feel unsure of myself and take out a part from my PBA(personal bank account). I love how singer Judy Garland put it, “Always be a first-class version（版本） of yourself, instead of a second-class version of somebody else.”

Then there’s honesty in our actions. Are you honest at school, with your parents, and with your boss? If you’ve ever been dishonest, I think we all have, try being honest, and notice how whole it makes you feel. Remember, you can’t do wrong and feel right. This story by Jeff is a good example of that:

       In my second year of study, there were three kids in my math class who didn’t do well. I was really good at it. I would charge them three dollars for each test that I helped them pass. I’d write on a little piece of paper all the right answers, and hand them off.

       At first I felt like I was making money, kind of a nice job. I wasn’t thinking about how it could hurt all of us. After a while I realized I shouldn’t do that anymore, because I wasn’t really helping them. They weren’t learning anything, and it would only get harder down the road. Cheating certainly wasn’t helping me.

       It takes courage to be honest when people all around you are getting away with cheating on tests, lying to their parents, and stealing at work. But, remember, every act of honesty is a deposit(储蓄)into your PBA and will build strength.

77. The underlined part “appear through smoke and mirrors” in the first paragraph means “__________”. 

A. to be honest        B .to be unreal

C. to become clear     D. to come from an imagined world

78. Which of the following can best explain Judy Garland’s words?

A. Be your true self rather than follow others.  

B. Don’t copy others or you can’t be the first class.

C. Make efforts to be the first instead of the second.      

D. Don’t learn from others unless they’re excellent.

79 .What does the author expect to show by Jeff’s story?

A. Honesty can be of great help.   

B. A bad thing can be turned into a good one.

C. Helping others cheat can do good to nobody.

D .One should realize the wrong in his bad deeds.

80.In the last paragraph the author mainly wants to express _________.

A. one must be brave to be honest

B. it’s difficult to be honest when others are not

C. one should be honest when making a deposit

D. honesty in one’s actions can help him in the future

The dustmen said that they would not stop strike until the government______ to them.

A. gave up     B. gave out      C. gave away    D. gave in

----Why are your hands so dirty? 

----I ____________in the garden.  

A. was working       B. have worked       C. worked          D. have been working

第二部分．阅读理解（共25小题。第一节每小题2分，第二节每小题1分；满分45分）

第一节 阅读下面五篇短文，从每题后所给的四个选项中选出最佳答案。

   Most of us lead unhealthy lives; we spend far too much sitting down. If in addition we are careless about our diets, our bodies soon become loose and fatty and our systems slow moving. There are some aspects(方面) of our unhealthy lives that we cannot avoid. I am thinking of such features of modern city life as pollution, noise, rushed meals and stress. But keeping fit is a way to reduce the effects of these evils. The usual suggestion to a person who is looking for a way to keep fit is to take up some sport or other. While it is true that every weekend you will find people playing football and hockey in the local park, they are outnumbered a hundred to one by the people who are simply watching them.

　　For those who do not particularly enjoy competitive sports — and it is especially difficult to do so if you are not good at them — there are such separate activities as cycling, walking, jogging and swimming. What often happens though is that you do them in such a leisurely way, so slowly, that it is doubtful if you are doing yourself much good, except for the fact that you have at least managed to get up out of your armchair.

　　Even after you have found a way for keeping in shape, through sport or gymnastics, you are still only half way to good health, because, according to the experts, you must also master the art of complete mental and physical relaxation(放松). It has to do with deep breathing, emptying your mind of all thoughts, meditation, and so on. Yoga, as practiced in the West, is the most widely known and popular of the systems for achieving the necessary state of relaxation. It seems ironical (讽刺性的), though, that as our lives have improved in a material sense we have found it increasingly necessary to go back to forms of activity — physical effort on the one hand and relaxation on the other — which were the natural way of life of our forefathers.

41. Pollution, noise and stress are examples of _____.

A. the causes of unfitness                                                       B. bad features of modern living

C. the things we can completely do away with                D. unavoidable things in town

42. We don’t get much out of separate sports because we _____.

A. don’t do them very often                                                   B. don’t do them actively enough

C. find it hard to get out of our armchairs                          D. don’t find them interesting

43. To be healthy we must _____.

A. keep fit and active                                                              B. keep fit and learn to relax

C. be active and practise Yoga                                                        D. have a sound mind

44. Our forefathers were healthy because______.

A. their way of life closely connected with both exercise and relaxation

B. they were careful to get plenty of fresh air

C. they spent most of the time out of doors

         D. their environment was not polluted