There was a time in my life when beauty meant something special to me. I guess that would have been when I was about six or seven years old, just several weeks or maybe a month before the orphanage turned me into an old man.

I would get up every morning at the orphanage, make my bed just like the little soldier that I had become and then I would get into one of the two straight lines and march to breakfast with the other twenty or thirty boys who also lived in my dormitory.

After breakfast one Saturday morning I returned to the dormitory and saw the house parent chasing the beautiful monarch butterflies who lived by the hundreds in the azalea (杜鹃花) bushes strewn around the orphanage.

I carefully watched as he caught these beautiful creatures, one after the other, and then took them from the net and then stuck straight pins through their head and wings, pinning them onto a heavy cardboard sheet.

How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty. I had walked many times out into the bushes, all by myself, just so the butterflies could land on my head, face and hands so I could look at them up close.

Every year when the butterflies would return to the orphanage and try to land on me I would try and shoo (用"嘘"声赶走,吓走)them away because they did not know that the orphanage was a bad place to live and a very bad place to die.

68. How did the people go to their meals?

A. By car.              B. On foot.            C. Queuing in two ways.              D. Any way they wanted.

69. What can we infer from the first two paragraphs?

A. I love beauty when I was about six or seven years old.

B. I became old very soon in the orphanage.

C. I had a very pleasant time in the orphanage.

D. I was tired with the life way I lived in the orphanage.

70. Which of the following statements is TRUE, according to the passage?

A. I love everything of beauty when I was old.

B. The people in the orphanage stand in line doing everything.

C. The house parent was kind and lovable.

D. I shooed the butterflies away because I didn’t want them to be killed.

Dandy left word with my secretary _____ he would call again in the afternoon.

A. that    B. who     C. which    D. as

 It is considered a good way for students to ________study with pleasure.

  A. combine       B. join             C. add                  D. link

The difficulty they had ____Professor Wang’s house was ___they couldn’t find the way there.

    A. finding; that    B. in finding; because     C. to find; that     D. find; because

Some festivals are held to honour the dead or to satisfy the ancestors, who __________ return either to help or to do harm.

A. must                B. should                      C. might                      D. shall

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   Kathryn Bigelow has become the first female ever to win a Best Director Oscar. "There's no other way to describe it, it's the moment of a lifetime," said Bigelow, at the awards ceremony in Los Angeles, on Sunday.

   She was up against the highest grossing (卖座的) film of all time, Avatar. But Bigelow's small-budget film, The Hurt Locker, swept the awards with six trophies(奖项) including Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and the big one: Best Picture. All eyes were on Bigelow, as her movie about the Iraq War beat Avatar to the major awards. This was sweetened by the fact that Avatar's director, James Cameron, is her ex-husband. Bigelow was only the fourth female ever to be nominated for Best Director.

   "I think the journey for women, no matter what venue it is-politics, business, film-it's a long journey." said Bigelow. Ironically Bigelow's cinematic journey could not have strayed (偏离) farther from the path of female directors before her. Her filmography is filled with action movies that are low on female leads and high on guns and steel. Her films focus on men: their fears, bonds and personalities.

    Point Break was her breakout film in 1991. The action film features Keanu Reeves as an FBI agent who goes undercover to investigate a gang of surfing bank robbers. The Hurt Locker is in the same style. Many scenes feature dramatic conflicts of clashing (冲突的)male personalities.

    By focusing on these male relationships, critics praised The Hurt Locker for avoiding obvious political statements (something Avatar was heavily criticized for), and instead painting a truthful picture of modem war. 

   And is there an entertaining end to the story of Bigelow's victory? She won on International Women's Day.

68. The underlined word "nominated" can be replaced by_________.

   A. awarded       B. recommended      C. appointed         D. criticized

69. Which of the following is TRUE?

   A. Bigelow and the director of Avatar is a couple.

   B. The Hurt Locker won all the six Oscar trophies.

   C. The film Point Break changes Bigelow's style

   D. The Oscar award ceremony was held on March, 8th.

70. The main reason why critics favor The Hurt Locker is that_________.

   A. it's the most successful action film

   B. it shows the damage that war brings to nature

   C. it avoids obvious political statements

   D. it shows us what modern war is really like

71. The passage is most likely to be found in_________.

   A. a poster     B. advertisement      C. a magazine     D. a booklet

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The government has to close those small factories to prevent the water of the river ______.

— How is the result, doctor?

   — Well, your health is ______ good, but you do have a few minor problems.

   A. occasionally              B. frequently         C. generally                 D. regularly

The African elephant, the largest land animal remaining on earth, is of great importance to African eco-system. Unlike other animals, the African elephant is to a great degree the builder of its environment. As a big plant-eater, it largely shapes the forest-and-savanna（大草原）surroundings in which it lives, therefore setting the terms of existence for millions of other animals and live in its habitat.

It is the elephant’s great desire for food that makes it a disturber of the environment and an important builder of its habitat. In its continuous search for the 300 pounds of plants it must have every day, it kills small trees and under-bushes, and pulls branches off big trees. This results in numerous open spaces in both deep tropical forests and in the woodlands that cover part of the African savannas. In these open spaces are numerous plants in various stages of growth that attract a variety of other plant-eaters.

Take the rain forests for example. In their natural state, the spreading branches overhead shut out sunlight and prevent the growth of plants on the forest floor. By pulling down trees and eating plants, elephants make open spaces, allowing new plants to grow on the forest floor. In such situations, the forests become suitable for large hoofed（有蹄的）plant-eaters to move around and for small plant-eaters to get their food as well.

What worries scientists now is that the African elephant has become an endangered species. If the elephant disappears, scientists say, many other animals will also disappear from vast areas of forest and savanna, greatly changing and worsening the whole eco-system.

66. What’s the passage mainly about?

A. Disappearance of African elephants.

B. Forests and savannas as habitats for African elephants.

C. The effect of African elephants’ search for food.

D. The eating habit of African elephants.

67. What does the underlined phrase “setting the terms” in the first paragraph most probably mean?

A. fixing the time.            B. worsening the situation.

C. Improving the quality.      D. Deciding the conditions.

68. What do we know about the open spaces in the passage?

A. They result from the destruction of rain forests.

B. They provide food mainly for African elephants.

C. They are home to many endangered animals.

D. They are attractive to plant-eating animals of different kinds.

69. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. The African elephant has become extinct.

B. African elephants have 300 pounds of plants every day, including small trees and under-bushes.

C. The African elephant is in a way the builder of the environment like other land animals.

D. If the African elephant disappears, the whole eco-system won’t be affected.

70. The passage is developed mainly by _________.

A. presenting figures                       

 B. pointing out similarities and differences

C. describing the changes in the order of space      

 D. giving examples