The children ran out of the house to welcome their daddy _____ they saw him come back home.

A. the moment              B. at the moment         C. for the moment    D. not for a moment

 A much better way must be found to achieve an equal________of the resources.

       A. distribution                                   B. contribution

       C. catalogue                               D. separation

 The latest information           my belief that he is the very person that I’m looking for.

A. confirms         B. doubts        C. shows       D. holds

An eight-year-old girl took a jar with all her change in it, slipped out of the back door and made her way 6 blocks to Rexall’s Drugstore with the big red Indian Chief sign above the door. She waited patiently for the storekeeper to give her some attention. At last she was noticed.

“What do you want?” the storekeeper asked, “I’m talking to my brother from Chicago whom I haven’t seen for ages,” he said without waiting for a reply to his question.

“Well, I want to talk to you about my brother, ” Tess answered. “He’s really sick and … and want to buy a miracle…. ”

“I beg your pardon?”said the storekeeper.

“His name is Andrew and he has something bad growing inside his head and my Daddy says only a miracle can save him now. So how much does a miracle cost?”

“We don’t sell miracles here, little girl. I’m sorry but I can’t help you,” the storekeeper said.

“Listen, I have the money to pay for it. Just tell me how much it costs,” said the girl with her eyes welling up.

The storekeeper’s brother was a well-dressed gentleman. He came up and asked, “What kind of miracle does your brother need?”

“I don’t know,” Tess replied. “I just know he’s really sick and Mommy says he needs an operation. But Daddy can’t pay for it, so I want to use my money.”

“How much do you have?” asked the man from Chicago.

“One dollar and eleven cents.”

“Well, what a coincidence(巧合)﹗”smiled the man. “A dollar and eleven cents—the exact price of a miracle for your brother.”

That gentleman was Dr. Carlton Armstrong, a famous surgeon(外科医生). The operation was completed free of charge. Tess’s Mom and Dad were happily talking about the surgery—“a miracle”. Only Tess knew exactly how much the miracle cost. One dollar and eleven cents... plus the faith of a little child.

59. Why didn’t the storekeeper notice the little girl?

A. Because he was busy with his work.

B. Because the girl was too little to be seen.

C. Because he was talking with his brother.

D. Because he was telephoning his brother.

60. We can infer at first the storekeeper spoke to the little girl in a(n) _______.

A. friendly voice   B. impatient voice   C. delighted voice   D. surprised voice

61. The well-dressed gentleman _______.

A. was a very wealthy gentleman         B. was a famous biology professor

C. operated on the girl’s brother free       D. visited his brother now and then

62. Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?

A. Faith leads to the miracle           B. A very generous surgeon

C. A little girl saved her brother        D. A dollar and eleven cents

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___71___  When a person does a certain thing again, he is impelled(迫使) by some unseen force to do the same thing repeatedly; thus a habit is formed. Once a habit is formed, it is difficult, and sometimes impossible, to get rid of. ___72___ Children often form bad habits, some of which remain with them as long as they live. Older persons also form bad habits as long as they live, and sometimes become ruined by them.

  ___73___ Many successful men say that much of their success has something to do with certain habits in early life, such as early rising, honesty and thoroughness.

  Among the habits which children should not form are laziness, lying, stealing and so on. ___74___ Unfortunately older persons often form habits which ought to have been avoided.

  ___75___

A.There are other habits which, when formed in early life, are of great help.

B.Whether good or not habits are, they are easy to get rid of.

C.We therefore ought to keep away from all these bad habits, and try to form such habits as will prove good for ourselves and others.

D.Habits, whether good or bad, are gradually formed.

E.It is very important for us to know why we should get used to good habits.

F.These are all easily formed habits.

G.It is vey important that we should pay great attention to the formation(形成) of habits.

 ---Who is the girl standing over there?

---Well, if you _______ know, her name is Mabel.

A. may    B. can    C. must   D. shall

 Life is like a long race__________we compete with others to go beyond ourselves.  

A. which                 B. what   C. that     D. where

The sun was shining brightly, ________ everything there ______ more beautiful.

   A. making, look                               B. to make, looked     

   C. and made, looking                         D. and making, be looked

Things lost sometimes just turn up ________ you never expect to find them.

A．unless              B．where       C．after               D．as if

SYDNEY （AFP） Nick Bryant reports:

“It gives me great pleasure to introduce the new caretaker of the islands of the Great Barrier Reef, from the United Kingdom, Ben Southall.”

A global recruitment（招聘） drive with the trappings of a TV reality show made it truly a tourism marketing campaign．

The best job in the world’s competition finally has a winner, Ben Southall, a 34-year-old charity worker from Britain．He beat 34,000 candidates from 200 countries in an online competition that became something of an Internet phenomenon．

“To go away now as the island caretaker for Tourism Queensland and the Great Barrier Reef is an extreme honour．I hope I can fill the boots as much as everybody is expecting, my swimming hopefully is up to standard and I look forward to all of the new roles and responsibilities that the task involves.” [Ben Southall]

For a disappointing Australian tourism industry currently in the doldrums, this has been an unexpected encouragement．Tourism Queensland deliberately chose the middle of winter of the northern Hemisphere to launch the campaign back in January, but didn’t expect anywhere near the global response．They think the only countries where people didn’t visit their website were North Korea and a few African nations．

What’s said to be the best job in the world comes with a $110,000 （about 750,000 yuan） contract for six months’ work, a luxury beachside home and a plunge pool．

In return, the island caretaker will be expected to stroll the white sands, enjoy the sun, diving and taking care of the reef, “maybe clean the pool”-- and report to a global audience via weekly blogs, photo diaries and video updates.

For the losers meanwhile, there’s the worst of long journeys home.

55．Which of the following statements is TRUE?

       A．The global recruitment mostly took place online． 

       B．Ben Southall got the job in January.

     C．The recruitment started in winter in Australia．  

       D．The organizers knew the activity would attract attention from all over the world.

56．The caretaker of the islands is expected to be good at all the following EXCEPT ______.

     A．swimming           B．writing    C．photographing        D．acting

57．It can be inferred from the report that ______.

     A．it’s the easiest job in the world   

       B．you need to surf the Internet regularly to know what Ben Southall is doing there

     C．the organizers of the activity knew North Koreans would never be interested in the job

     D．The journey home of the losers of the competition will be dangerous

58．The underlined word “doldrums” probably means ______ .

     A．depression           B．development  C．recovery         D．promotion