I can’t stand ___ with Jane in the same office. She just refuses ____ talking while she works.

   A. working; stopping         B. to work; stopping

   C. working; to stop           D. to work; to stop   

She wanted to be independent of her parents. She tried ____ alone, but she didn’t like it and moved back home.

   A. living       B. to live     C. to be living     D. having lived

I’d rather have a room of my own, however small it is, than ___ a room with others.

A. to share     B. to have shared   C. share       D. sharing

Distinguished guests and friends . _____the ceremony of the 50^th Anniversary this morning are our alumni (校友) from home and abroad .

   A. Attend  B. To attend  C. Attending  D. Having attended

Our surrounding(周围) is being polluted faster than nature and man’s present efforts can’t prevent it. Time is bringing us more people, and more people will bring us more industry, more cars, larger cities, and the growing use of man-made materials.

   What can explain and solve this problem? The fact is that pollution is caused by man—by his desire for a modern way of life. We make “increasing industrialization” our chief aim. So we are always ready to offer everything: clean air, pure water, good food, our health and the future of our children. There is a constant flow of people from countryside to cities, eager for the benefit of our modern society. But as our technological achievements have grown in the last twenty years, pollution has become a serious problem.

   Isn’t it time we stopped to ask ourselves where we are going—and why? It makes one think of the story about the airline pilot who told his passengers over the loudspeaker, “I’ve some good news and some bad news. The good news is that we’re making rapid progress at 530 miles per hour. The bad news is that we’re lost and don’t know where we’re going.” The sad fact is that this becomes a true story when spoken of our modern society.

Man can’t prevent the world from being polluted mainly because        .

     A. many man-made materials

     B. more cars, trucks and buses

       C. more people and more industry

       D. more cities

People crowd into the cities because_________.

   A. they want very much to find well-paid jobs

   B. they eager for the achievement of our modern society

   C. they have become tired of their homeland

   D. they have a strong wish to become industrial workers

The story about the airline pilot tells us that_________.

   A. man knows where the society is going

   B. people do not welcome the rapid development of modern society

   C. man can do little about the problem of pollution

   D. the writer is worried about the future of our society

What does the writer really want to say in this passage?

   A. With the development of technology, pollution has become a serious problem.

   B. Lower the speed of development to stop pollution.

   C. It’s time we did something to reduce pollution.

   D. As industry is growing fast, pollution is the natural result.

Over the last 70 years, researchers have been studying happy and unhappy people and finally found out ten factors that make a difference. Our feelings of well-being at any moment are determined to a certain degree by genes. However, of all the factors, wealth and age are the top two.

Money can buy a degree of happiness. But once you can afford to feed, clothe and house yourself, each extra dollar makes less and less difference.

Researchers find that, on average, wealthier people are happier. But the link between money and happiness is complex. In the past half-century, average income has sharply increased in developed countries, yet happiness levels have remained almost the same. Once your basic needs are met, money only seems to increase happiness if you have more than your friends, neighbors and colleagues.

“Dollars buy status, and status makes people feel better,” conclude some experts, which helps explain why people who can seek status in other ways－scientists or actors, for example－may happily accept relatively poorly-paid jobs.

In a research, Professor Alex Michalos found that the people whose desire－not just for money, but for friends, family, job, health－rose furthest beyond what they already had, tended to be less happy than those who felt a smaller gap(差距). Indeed, the size of the gap predicted happiness about five times better than income alone. “The gap measures just blow away the only measures of income.” Says Michalos.

Another factor that has to do with happiness is age. Old age may not be so bad. “Given all the problems of aging, how could the elderly be more satisfied?” asks Professor Laura Carstensen.

In one survey, Carstensen interviewed 184 people between the ages of 18 and 94, and asked them to fill out an emotions questionnaire. She found that old people reported positive emotions just as often as young people, but negative emotions much less often.

Why are old people happier? Some scientists suggest older people may expect life to be harder and learn to live with it, or they’re more realistic about their goals, only setting ones that they know they can achieve. But Carstensen thinks that with times running out, older people have learned to focus on things that make them happy and let go of those that don’t.

“People realize not only what they have, but also that what they have cannot last forever,” she says. “A goodbye kiss to a husband or wife at the age of 85, for example, may bring far more complex emotional responses than a similar kiss to a boy or girl friend at the age of 20.”

According to the passage, the feeling of happiness __________.

A．is determined partly by genes

B．increases gradually with age

C．has little to do with wealth

D．is measured by desires

Some actors would like to accept poorly-paid jobs because the jobs ____________.

A．make them feel much better

B．provide chances to make friends

C．improve their social position

D．satisfy their professional interests

Aged people are more likely to feel happy because they are more _________.

A．optimistic

B．successful

C．practical

D．emotional

Professor Alex Michalos found that people feel less happy if __________.

A．the gap between reality and desire is bigger

B．they have a stronger desire for friendship

C．their income is below their expectation

D．the hope for good health is greater

I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, midlife for an elephant, and ancient for a sportsman. Fifty is a nice number for the states in the US or for a national speed limit but it is not a number that I was prepared to have hung on me. Fifty is supposed to be my father’s age, but now I am stuck with this number and everything it means.

A few days ago, a friend tried to cheer me up by saying, “ Fifty is what forty used to be.” He had made an inspirational point, Am I over the hill?People keep telling me that the hill has been moved, and I keep telling them that he high-jump bar has dropped from the six feet I once easily cleared to the four feet that is impossible for me now.

“ Your are not getting older, you are getting better.” says Dr. Joyce Brothers. This, however, is the kind of doctor who inspires a second opinion.

And so. as I approach the day when I cannot even jump over the tennis net. I am moves to share some thoughts on aging with you. I am moved to show how aging feels to me physically and mentally. Getting older. of course, is obviously a better change than the one that brings you eulogies(悼词). In fact, a poet named Robert Browning considered it the best change of all:

Grow old along with me!

The best is yet to me.

Whether or not Browning was right, most of my first fifty years have been golden ones, so I will settle for what is ahead being as good as what has gone by. I find myself moving toward what is ahead with a curious blend (混合) of both fighting and accepting my aging, hoping that the philosopher (哲学家) was right when he said.” Old is always fifteen years from now.”

The author seems to tell us in Paragraph 1 that ________.

A. time alone will tell                          B. time goes by quickly

C. time will show what is right            D. time makes one forget the past

When the author turned fifty, people around him ________.

A. tried to comfort him                       B. got inspiration with him

C. were friendlier with him                  D. found him more talkative

The author considers his fifty years of life

A. peaceful            B. ordinary            C. satisfactory       D. regretful

We can infer from the passage that

A. the old should led a simple life         B. the old should face the fact of aging

C. the old should take more exercise    D. the old should fill themselves with curiosity

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An American friend of mine who was high up in a big corporation had worked out a way of handling a flood of e-mails before most of us had even heard of the concept. If any information he was sent was vital enough, his lack of response could ensure the sender rang him up. If the sender wasn’t important enough to have his private number, the communication couldn’t be that important. My friend is now even more senior in the same company, so the strategy must work.

Almost every week now, there seems to be a report suggesting that we are all being driven crazy by the bother of e-mail. If this is the case, it’s only because we haven’t developed an appropriate discrimination in dealing with it.

______. Firstly, you junk anything with an exclamation mark or a string of capital letters, or from any address you don’t recognize or feel confident about.

Secondly, e-mails don’t all have to be answered. Because e-mailing is so easy, there’s a tendency for correspondence to carry on for ever, but it is permissible to stop an endless discussion or to accept a point of information sent by a colleague without acknowledging it.

Thirdly, a reply e-mail doesn’t have to be the same length as the original. We all have e-mail pals who send long, chatty e-mails, which are nice to receive, but who then expect an equally long reply. The charm of e-mail can consist in the simple, incomplete sentence, totally regardless of the format of the letter sent by post. You are perfectly within the bounds of politeness in responding to a marathon e-mail with a brief reply.

76. Which sentence in the passage it the closed in meaning to the following one?

The possible existence of annoyance results from our inability to sort out e-mails.

_______________________________________________________________

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77. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 3 with a proper sentence. (within 10 words)

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78. What advice is given in the last paragraph? (within 10 words)

_______________________________________________________

79. For what purpose does the author mention his American friend in Paragraph 1?

(within 10 words)

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80. Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese.

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____ walk is expected to last all day, so bring ____ packed lunch.

A. A; a    B. The; 不填  C. The; a     D. A; 不填

---It’s a long time since I saw my sister. 

---_______________ her this weekend?

   A. Why not visit                   B. why not to visit

   C. Why not visiting                 D. Why don’t visit