When I was an education official in Palo Alto, California．Polly Tyner, the president of our school board, wrote a letter that was printed in the Palo Alto Times．Polly's son, Jim．had great difficulty in school．He was classified as educationally disabled and required a great deal of patience on the part of his parents and teachers．But Jim was a happy kid with a great smile that lit up the room．His parents acknowledged his academic difficulties, but always tried to help him see his strengths so that he could walk with pride．Shortly after Jim finished high school, he was killed in a motorcycle accident．After his death, his mother submitted（提交）this letter to the newspaper．

Today we buried our 20-year-old son. He was killed instantly in a motorcycle accident on Friday night. How I wish I had known when I talked to him last that it would be the last time. If I had only known I would have said, “Jim, I love you and I’m very proud of you.”

I would have taken the time to count the many blessings he brought to the lives of the many who loved him. I would have taken the time to appreciate his beautiful smile, the sound of his laughter, his genuine love of people.

When you put all the good qualities on the scale and try to balance all the irritating phenomena such as the radio which was always too loud, the haircut that wasn’t to our liking, the dirty socks under the bed, etc., your angry feelings won’t amount to much.

I won’t get another chance to tell my son all that I would have wanted him to hear, but, other parents, you do have a chance. Tell your young people what you would want them to hear if you knew it would be your last conversation. The last time I talked to Jim was the day he died. He called me to say, “Hi, Mom! I just called to say I love you. Got to go to work. Bye.” He gave me something to treasure forever.

If there is any purpose at all for Jim’s death, maybe it is to make others appreciate more of life and to have people, especially family members, take the time to let each other know just how much we care.

61．According to the passage, we know that _______．

         A．Jim kept to himself    B．Jim did very well in his studies

         C．Jim’s parents were patient with him         D．Jim failed to finish his high school

62．Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

         A．Many people in the school loved him.

         B．Jim’s smile cheered up his family.

         C．Jim was killed in a motorcycle accident at the age of 20.

         D．Jim wanted to be a motorcyclist after his graduation.

63．The underlined word “irritating” in Paragraph 4 means _______．

         A．annoying    B．aggressive          C．impatient  D．thrilling

64．By writing the letter printed in the Palo Alto Times, the author intends to _______．

         A．mourn her son’s sudden death in a traffic accident

         B．remind people to be cautious of motorcycles

         C．advise people to take the chance to express their love in time

         D．apreciate more of life than ever before

65．What can be the best title of the passage?

         A．Love your Family．    B．Do it Today．

         C．Walk with Pride．     D．Appreciate Smiles．

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66．The problems of the laid-off workers and re-employment has caught great social ____ (关注)．

67．Henry was forced to leave his motherland for       (政治的)reasons．．

68．She will have an          （展览会）of her pictures．

69．Nothing special happened on             （周三）and Thursday．

70．The fish smells; I don’t think it is quite __________(新鲜的)．

71．It is            （不可相信的）that Mr．Wang will be our new headmaster．

72．As you know, ________(不舒服的)shoes will do harm to our feet．uncomfortable

73．We would sit quietly together and write spearate poems or stories that grew out of a train whistle, and then we would read them _____(大声地)．

74．Your _____(支持) will certainly make a difference in our cause．

75．A New Year celebration often includes        (烟花)．

They all looked ____ at the master and felt quite _____．

A．sad; sad                    B．sadly; sadly      

C．sad; sadly                  D．sadly; sad

It has been proved          taking exercise regularly does good to one’s health.

       A．whether    B．when C．what  D．that

Many a student ____ going to have themselves ______ in the hospital.

A. is ; to examine              B. are ; examine                C. is ; examined        D. are ; examining

LEEDS, England-A Leeds University psychology（心理学）professor is teaching a course to help dozens of people forgive（stop being angry with）their enemies.

“The hatred (憎恨) we hold within us is a cancer,”Professor Ken Hart said, adding that holding in anger can lead to problems such as high blood pressure and heart disease.

More than 70 people have become members in Hart’s first 20-week workshop in London—a course he says is the first of its kind in the world.

These are people who are sick and tired of living with a memory. They realize their bitterness is a poison they think they can pour out, but they end up drinking it themselves, said Canadian-born Hart.

The students meet in groups of eight to ten for a two-hour workshop with an adviser every fortnight.（= two weeks）

The course, ending in July, is expected to get rid of the cancer of hate in these people.“People have lots of negative（消极的）attitudes towards forgiveness,” he said.“People confuse（把……混同）forgiveness with forgetting. Forgiveness means changing from a negative attitude to a positive one ”.

Hart and his team have made instructions to provide the training needed.

“The main idea is to give you guidelines on how to look at various kinds of angers and how they affect you, and how to change your attitudes toward the person you are angry with,”said Norman Claringbull, a senior expert on the forgiveness project, Hart said he believes forgiveness is a skill that can be taught, as these people“want to get free of the past”.

         59. From this passage we know that       .

    A. high blood pressure and heart disease are caused by hatred

         B. high blood pressure can only be cured by psychology professors

         C. without hatred, people will have less trouble connected with blood and heart

         D. people who suffer from blood pressure and heart disease must have many enemies

         60.If you are angry with somebody, you should     .

        A. try your best to defeat him or her

         B. never meet him or her again

         C. persuade him or her to have a talk with you

         D. relax yourself by not thinking of him or her any more

61.In Hart’s first 20-week workshop, people there can      .

        A. meet their enemies                       B. change their minds

         C. enjoy the professor’s speech        D. learn how to quarrel with others

62. If you are a member in Hart’s workshop, you’ll       .

       A. pay much money to Hart           B. go to the workshop every night

         C. attend a gathering twice a month                     D. pour out everything stored in your mind

After her parents separated, things at Tami’s house changed. Her mom, was busy working, and Tami became responsible for the house and making meals for herself and her younger sister. Though money was tight, they never went without. They had a nice home in a modest neighborhood. What Tami missed most of all, though, was family.

Tami spent the summer during her ninth grade year working at a park to earn exam spending money. Her job was to organize activities for the kids who spent their summer days at the park. The kids absolutely loved Tami. She was constantly going out of her way to do things for them. She would plan picnics, organize field trips and even buy ice cream for all of them, using her own money. She always did more than the job required, even if it did mean using her own money.

She got to know one little boy who lived in an apartment across the street from the park. His parents both worked at fast – food restaurants, and she knew that they didn’t have much money. The boy talked about his upcoming birthday and the fire truck he wanted so badly. He said he was going to be a fireman some day and needed the truck to practice. He told Tami more details about the truck than she knew a boy truck could have.

The boy’s birthday came and went. The next day when Tami saw the boy, she expected to see a shiny red truck in his arms. When he arrived empty – handed, she asked whether he had got the truck. The boy said no. His parents were going to get it for him later, when things were better. He seemed a little sad.

That week, Tami eased her paycheck and headed for the toy stores. She found the truck easily – after all, from his descriptions, she felt she knew it inside out. She used the money from her paycheck to buy the truck, and then had it wrapped in birthday paper.

41. What can we learn from the first paragraph?

        A. They didn’t need in worry too much about their living.

         B. Tami’s sister became more responsible.

         C. Tami began to earn money.

         D. Her mother changed her job.

42. Why did Tami buy the birthday present for the boy using her own money?

         A. Because he was poorer than she. 

         B. Because he was her best friend.

         C. Because she wanted him to be a fireman.

         D. because she wanted him to feel love around him.

43. What can we learn from the underlined sentence?

         A. She knew how much money she would pay.

         B. She knew she should check the toy truck inside out.

         C. She was fully aware which toy truck the boy wanted.

         D. She walked inside and then out of the toy store several times.

44. Which of the following could be the opening sentence of the next paragraph?

        A. The next morning, Tami rode to the boy’s house and left the truck at the door.

         B. When the boy showed up at the park that day, he was more excited than ever.

         C. He showed off his new truck to Tami, and then played with it all day long.

         D. That afternoon, the boy’s mom came to the park and walked over to Tami.

We go to school from Monday to Friday, and go to ___ cinema on Saturday or Sunday.

A. a   B. the    C.an     D. /

I didn’t do very well in the exam, and so I’m afraid of ___.

A. scolding   B.to be scolded   C.being scolded   D. scolded

The story goes that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand: "Today my best friend slapped me in the face."  They kept on walking until they found an oasis（绿洲）, where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him.  After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone: "Today my best friend saved my life."  The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now you write on a stone. Why?"

    The other friend replied: "When someone hurts us we should write it down in the sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in the stone where no wind can ever erase it."

    You have to learn to write your hurts in the sand and to carve your benefits in the stone.

64．One friend slapped the other because ____.

       A．he was angry that his friend took him to the desert by mistake.

       B．He was angry that his friend did not agree with him about something.

       C．He was angry that his friend kept wasting time writing and carving.

       D．He had to save his friend from drowning, and this almost took his own life.

65．The underlined sentence means we should _____.

          A．not let others know we are angry with them by letting wind erase what we write down.

       B．gradually forgive others for bad things they have done to us as time goes by.

       C．make sure what we write in the desert does not remain long .

       D．not try to find stones to record things on in a desert.

66．What is the right understanding of the last sentence of the passage?

       A．We should write and carve to record different kinds of feelings.

       B．We should record different kinds of things in different ways.

       C．We should remember only good things others have done to us and let go bad things.

       D．We should remember things that others do to us, including both good things and bad things.

67．Which of the following can be the proper title of the passage?

A．True Friendship                      B．Sand and Stone 

C．Hurts and Benefits                   D．Forgiveness and Gratitude