In the botanic garden we can find a（n）______of plants that range from tall trees to small flowers.

A. species        B. group           C. amount         D. variety

The______of the building are covered with lots of                            .

A．roofs; leaves    B．rooves; leafs     C．roof; leaf                D．roofs; leafs

The most important thing about cotton in history is __ part that it played in __ Industrial Revolution.

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

The_______is just around the corner and you won’t miss it.

A. shoe’s shop       B. shoe shop             C. shoes shop     D. shoes’ shop

The Wilsons live in ______A-shaped house near the coast . It is _______17th century cottage.

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

—What  is  the population of China?

   —China has ____population of l．3 billion．

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

The customers objected ____ unfairly in the course of shopping.

A. to be treated                                  B. their being treated    

C. to being treated                              D. having been treated

You______ Kate at the party last week; she has been on holiday in Australia for a month.

A. couldn't see                       B. shouldn't have seen

C. mustn't have seen                  D. can't have seen

Years ago, a cigarette commercial asked if you were smoking more, but enjoying it less. That describes the way many of us live today. We are doing more, but enjoying it less. And when that doesn’t work, we compound the problem. In our frantic search for satisfaction, we try stuffing still more into our days, never realizing that we are taking the wrong approach.

The truth is simple; so simple it is hard to believe. Satisfaction lies with less, not with more. Yet, we pursue the myth that this thing, or that activity, will somehow provide the satisfaction we so desperately seek.

Arthur Lindman, in his devastating book, “The Harried Leisure Class,” described the futility of pursuing more. His research focused on what people did with their leisure time. He found that as income rose, people bought more things to occupy their leisure time. But, ironically, the more things they bought, the less they valued any one of them. Carried to an extreme, he predicted massive boredom in the midst of tremendous variety. That was more than twenty years ago, and his prediction seems more accurate every year.

Lindman, of course, is not the first to discover this. The writer of Ecclesiastes expressed the same thought thousands of years ago. It is better, he wrote, to have less, but enjoy it more.

If you would like to enjoy life more, I challenge you to experiment with me. How could you simplify your life? What could you drop? What could you do without? What could you stop pursuing? What few things could you concentrate on?

The more I learn, the more I realize that fullness of life does not depend on things. The more I give up, the more I seem to gain. But words will never convince you. You must try it for yourself.

Arthur Lindman predicted twenty years ago that ______.

A. more things brought more value   B. the more people had, the less they valued them

C. people didn’t like to pursue more   D. massive boredom came from less variety

What does the article suggest to make our life happier?

A. To enjoy more things.             B. To buy more things.

C. To sell things we do not need.       D. To get rid of useless things.

The passage is probably written to ___________.

A. introduce Arthur Lindman and his book       B. tell the readers what is satisfaction

C. introduce how to simplify people’s life         D. persuade people to simplify their life

Last year I had a wonderful experience. I went on a student exchange to Japan. It was an exciting time of my life and I         learned many things about the school system in Japan. I was in Grade 11, which is second year of high school in Japan, but I was younger than most of my classmates. That’s because Japanese children enter first year of elementary school  in April following their sixth birthday. I started school when I was still five years old.

In Japan, Children attend elementary school for six years, where they study Japanese, arithmetic, science, social studies, music, crafts, physical education, and home economics （simple cooking and sewing skills）. During their three years in middle school, English is added to this list. Most schools have access to computers and the Internet.

The classes in my school seemed rather big to me, around 30 students in a typical high school class. We ate lunch in the classroom, instead of a cafeteria and enjoyed a healthy, nutritious meal prepared by the school or by a local “school lunch centre” instead of eating the same, dry sandwiches every day. I really like the Japanese interpretation of school lunches. I also enjoyed the field trips and activities. At Japanese schools, there are many school events during the year, such as field day when students compete in tug-of-war, field trips, and arts and cultural festivals.

64. The writer went to Japan _____ last year.

  A. to visit his family members                                 B. to finish his high school there

  C. to study as an exchange student                       D. to do research on school system in Japan

65. Children in Japan may start their elementary school at the age of ____.

  A. 5                                   B. 6                                       C. 7                                       D. 11

66. Japanese students start to learn English _____.

  A. before they start their school year                 B. when they are in elementary school

  C. when they are in middle school                          D. when they are in high school

67. In the writer’s country, students probably _____.

  A. have lunch in the classroom                      B. have different lunch every day

  C. have lunch at home                                               D. have sandwiches for lunch