The meeting ________ tomorrow is very important．

       A．held            B．to hold              C．to take place  D．taken place

Many people take it for granted that black is a color of bad things while white should always mean something good. This may be because, in their opinion, black is related to darkness and white to purity. However, that is not always the case. Did you know that the same one color may mean something differently in different places of the world?

In the English-speaking world, black is the color of mourning—people wear black at the funeral. Red is concerned with danger or bloodshed（伤亡）. Yellow is the word for fear. If you are afraid, you are yellow. Yet none of these sayings is true outside the English-speaking world. In China and Korea white is the color of mourning. In Russia, China and some other countries, red stands for beauty, life and excellence. In Italy and Germany, you are yellow with anger, not with fear.

Even within the English-speaking area, it is not difficult to find color contradictions（矛盾）.A redcap in the United States is a porter in a railway station. In Britain, however, a redcap is a military policeman. Both names are logical, because both men wear red caps. Similarly, the British term for an American white-collar worker is sometimes called a black-coated worker.

One does not have to cross an area to find color differences. Would you rather be red-blooded or a blue-blooded? If we go back to the origin, we find that both terms are logical as both names suggest. The expression “blueblood” comes from Spain, where some noble families proudly told the world that they had “blue blood”. Actually they meant that they had no Moorish or Jewish blood. But then why “blue” blood? Because they were fair-skinned, and it is only natural that their blood vessels (血管)stood out appearing blue.

Yellow is concerned with anger in ________________.

A. India                        B. Britain

C. China                       D. Italy 

Both Britain and America would probably agree that ________________.

A. a redcap is a porter in a station

B. black is the color of mourning

C. red stands for beauty and excellence

D. a black-coated worker is employed in an office

In Britain , a redcap is a           

A. porter B. nobleman  C. clerk D. military policeman

The best title for this reading selection is ________________.

A. The Origin of Blue Blood

B. Colors that Carry Bad Meanings

C. The Meaning Concerned with Certain Colors

D. The Development of the Symbolic Use of Colors

If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or that you understand their situation and are in sympathy with their point of view. Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different.       

If you are talking to a group of managers, you may refer to the disorganized methods of their secretaries; alternatively if you are addressing secretaries, you may want to comment on their disorganized bosses.

Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses' convention, of a story which works well because the audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is being shown around by St. Peter. He sees wonderful accommodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until, waiting in a line for lunch, the new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of the line, grabs his food and stomps over to a table by himself. "Who is that?" the new arrival asked St. Peter. "Oh, that's God." came the reply, "but sometimes he thinks he's a doctor."

If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are common to all of you and it'll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman's notorious bad taste in ties. With other audiences you mustn't attempt to cut in with humor as they will resent an outsider making disparaging remarks about their canteen or their chairman. You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone system.

If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice so that it becomes more natural. Include a few casual and apparently off-the-cuff(即兴的)remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner. Often it's the delivery which causes the audience to smile, so speak slowly and remember that a raised eyebrow or an unbelieving look may help to show that you are making a light-hearted remark.

Look for the humor. It often comes from the unexpected. A twist on a familiar quote "If at first you don't succeed, give up" or a play on words or on a situation. Search for exaggeration and understatements. Look at your talk and pick out a few words or sentences which you can turn about and inject with humor.

To make your humor work, you should ________.

A. take advantage of different kinds of audience

B. make fun of the disorganized people.

C. address different problems to different people.

D. show sympathy for your listeners.

The joke about doctors implies that, in the eyes of nurses, they are ________.

A. impolite to new arrivals.　　      

B. very conscious of their godlike role.

C. entitled to some privileges.　　 

D. very busy even during lunch hours.

It can be inferred from the text that public services ________.

A. have benefited many people.　　    

B. are the focus of public attention.

C. are an inappropriate subject for humor.　

D. have often been the laughing stock.

To achieve the desired result, humorous stories should be delivered ________.

　　A. in well-worded language.　            B. as awkwardly as possible.

　　C. in exaggerated statement.　　         D. as casually as possible.

The best title for the text may be ________.

A. Use Humor Effectively.　　           B. Various Kinds of Humor.

C. Add Humor to Speech.                 D. Different Humor Strategies.

Crossing Texas and Mexico, the Big Bend region is high in biodiversity(生物的多样性). It’s a place so untamed that if something doesn’t bite, stick, or sting, it’s probably a rock.

You know you have arrived in the heart of the Chihuahuan Desert when it feels as if you have fallen off the edge of the earth and into the rabbit hole. Nothing is as it appears. Moths (蛀虫) are the size of birds. Are those twin pillars (柱) of black rock (a landmark known as Mule Ear Peaks) ten miles (16 kilometers) away or fifty (80 kilometers)? Visibility (能见度) reaches more than a hundred miles on a clear day, and since there are few roads or buildings to use as milestones, distance is difficult to judge.

This is a place where water runs uphill, where rainbows have to wait for rain. The line between myth (虚构的故事) and reality is unclear. Stare long enough at the Chisos Mountains or the Sierra del Carmen, the two mountain ranges, known as sky islands, which lie on the land, and they rise and float above the plain.

The vast Chihuahuan Desert is a land of no people. There is always the chance you’ll die of thirst. The “You Can Die”possibilities are endless, and keep some visitors — 350,000 a year to Big Bend National Park, built in 1944 — from coming back. Those who do return are left to think of the remarkable courage of the brave few who have managed to survive in this terrible environment.

The underlined word“untamed”in Paragraph 1 means“________”.

A. untouched                   B. wild                     C. unchanged           D. fresh

Why do the twin pillars of black rock seem ten or fifty miles away?

A. They were put so far away.

B. They lie across the Chihuahuan Desert.

C. It is difficult to judge the distance, with few milestones.

D. One lies in the Chisos Mountains, the other in the Sierra del Carmen.

How many years are there since the Big Bend National Park was built?

A. 350,000 years.          B. 350 years.             C. 66 years.                D. 44 years.

What is the passage mainly about?

A. The natural wonders of the Chihuahuan Desert.

B. Everything you see is not what it seems in the Chihuahuan Desert.

C. The terrible environment of deserts in Texas and Mexico.

D. A special place where none who go can return.

What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A. There are all kinds of living things in the Chihuahuan Desert.

B. No people live in the Big Bend region.

C. Nothing is as it appears in the Big Bend region.

D. Traveling in the Big Bend region is dangerous. 

The most important thing ____ when ____an emergency is to stay calm.

A. keep it in mind; deal with                  B. keep in mind; dealing with

C. to keep it in mind; dealing with;     D. to keep in mind; dealing with

My money _________. I must go to the bank to draw some of my savings out before I have _______ in hand.

A. has run out; none              B. is running out; none

C. has been run out; nothing        D. is being run out; nothing

Although this ______ sound like a simple task, great care is needed．

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

Mother’s Day was coming，but John had been visiting customers．He was now in a small town just outside a flower shop and he knew what to do．

    He went into the shop and saw a young man   36   the clerk to sell him some roses for six dollars，but the clerk just explained that roses were    37   and that his money was not enough. The clerk looked up at John,  38  her head．Something inside of John was   39  by the boy’ s voice．John had been   40  with his business，so he looked at the clerk and   41    mouthed that he would pay for the roses．

    The clerk told the young man to get the roses for six dollars. The young man almost jumped into the  42   and ran from the store with the  43 ．It was  44  the extra dollars just to see that kind of  excitement．

    John ordered his own flowers and made sure that the  45  would include a note telling his mother how much he loved her．He drove away from the shop，feeling very  46  ．He caught a  traffic light about two blocks away． 47  he waited at the light，he saw the young boy walking down the sidewalk．He watched him cross the street and enter a park through two huge gates．Suddenly，he  48  that it wasn’t a park but a cemetery（公墓）．

    Soon, The light  49，and John slowly crossed the intersection．He  50   and on an impuise（冲动）got out and began to follow the boy．The young man stopped by a small monument and went to his  51 . He began to cry after he carefully  52  the roses on the grave．He stared at the little boy’s heaving body and listened to his crying．

    John turned with   53 _，and walked back to his car．He drove  54  to the shop and told the clerk he would take the flowers   55 ．He wanted to tell his mother one more time just how much he loved her．

A. begging      B. ordering          C. forcing           D. urging

A. cheap          B. worthwhile          C. expensive          D. special

A. shaking       B. waving              C. nodding           D. holding

A. sensed        B. touched             C. hurt              D. lightened

A. influenced      B. ruined              C. buried             D. blessed

A. loudly          B. silently            C. gently           D. calmly

A. river         B. air                 C. lake                D. hole

A. money        B. basket            C. flowers           D. cards

A. worth       B. cost             C. saved              D. wasted

A. delivery       B. message            C. transportation        D. export

A. inspired     B. disappointed         C. good            D. relaxed

A. Before           B. As                 C. Since             D. After

A. remembered   B. found              C. discovered               D. realized

A. flashed      B. changed            C. disappeared              D. shone

A. drove back    B. pulled over          C. broke down         D. settled down

A. arms               B. palms                C. feet                     D. knees

A. laid                   B. removed             C. set                     D. decorated

A. laughter       B. astonishment        C. tears                   D. happiness

A. slowly      B. quickly              C. carefully         D. excitedly

A. in turn      B. in return          C. in future            D. in person

McGill Comedy Club

Important meetings today. Discussion on putting on Blazing Saddles. Union room 302, 3-4pm. New members (both actors and non-actors, living and dead) are welcome.

History Students’ Association

Prof. Michael Cross of Dalhouseie University will be speaking on “Unskilled Labor on Rivers and Canals in Upper Canada, 1820-1850: The beginning of Class Struggle” at 10am. in Peacock 230.

Design Mirror Sale

All types and sizes of design mirrors priced to please. Sale today in Union room 108.

McGill Teaching Assistants’ Association

A general meeting, for all the Tas will be held at 4pm. in peacock 116.

Women’s Union

    Important general meeting at 6pm. Union room 423. Speaker on “Importance of Deciding Basic Goals of the Women’s Union.” Everyone ----old, new and those interviewed, please attend.

Film Society

Last meeting of the term for all members. All managers are required to be present at 6pm. sharp, Union room 434.

Canadian University Students Overseas

CUSO presents “Guess Who’s Coming to Breakfast” at 7pm. newman Centre, 3848 Peel. Find out about CUSO here and overseas. Everyone welcome.

Which of the following is the name of a play?

       A. Blazing Saddles.       B. Guess Who’s Coming to Breakfast.

       C. Important of Deciding Basic Goals of the Women’s Union.

       D. Unskilled Labor on Rivers and Canals in Upper Canada, 1820-1850.

If you are interested in arts, where can you go for a visit?

       A. Peacock 116             B. Union room 423             

       C. Union room 108              D. Newman Centre, 3848 Peel

Which of the following will occupy Union room 423?

       A. Film Society.            B. Canadian University Students Overseas

       C. Women’s Union       D. Design Mirror Sale

Where can you probably find this text?

       A. In a school magazine.       B. In a national paper.   

       C. In a guide book.        D. In a university daily newspaper.

短文改错 (共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)

    假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在此处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出修改的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在其下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2．只允许修改10处，多者（从十一处起）不计分。

  I first met Li Meng at a friend birthday party five years ago. Then I invited Li

Meng over in my place. We listen to my CDs together and soon became good

friends. Three years ago, Li Meng’s parents invited I to spend two wonderful week

in Qingdao with them during the summer holiday. Li Meng and I loved walking

along the beautifully beaches there. Last year I was ill but had to stay in hospital for

a week. Li Meng came see me every day. Then, his father has changed jobs and they

moved to another city. Since then we haven’t see each other much, but we’ve kept

writing to each other.