I am trying to muster (鼓起) the courage to toss away my mobile phone to enjoy a more peaceful and ring??free life.

       Can you imagine not having your mobile phone? In our high??tech, in??a??hurry age, a cell??free life is a hard concept to swallow. Our mobile phones can now access the Internet, and many people feel the need to express their every thought on their blog pages. If I gave up my cellphone, people would think I was mad.

       I wish I had the strength to toss away my technology. I have an office phone, a home phone，an e??mail and if people want to contact me, they can. If I’m out，people can leave a message. Do they really need to find me 24/7？However, I’m a bit like Frodo in the movie Lord of the Rings. The power of the ring is too strong and I can’t let it go.

       Mobile phones have become necessary tools in our busy life. For most people, they hold all contacts and many of us don’t write up address books any more. The latest phones carry our music, pictures, movies and everything else. We feel lost without this device and when we do misplace it, we feel cut off from our fellow.

       “Where have you been？” said a friend, who saw me a week after I lost my cellphone, “I tried calling you, but you disappeared. You disappeared off the face of the Earth.” See, when you don’t have a mobile phone, you don’t exist.

       I’m not really going to toss my mobile phone away, in fact. We humans are such social animals and mobile phones serve us well. So in 2009, I’ve decided not to serve my mobile phone. Like all machines, I can always turn it off.

61. What does the underlined phrase “toss away” mean?

  A. give away           B. get away     C. break away                D. throw away

62. The writer mentions Frodo to________.

  A. show it is difficult to get rid of the mobile phone

  B. show how much he likes Frodo

  C. suggest a cell??free life is what he wants

  D. introduce a film character to us

63. What do we know about mobile phones in the 4th paragraph?

  A. Mobile phones can do anything for us.

  B. Mobile phones have become very important in our life.

  C. We could not live without mobile phones.

  D. We would be cut off by our fellow without mobile phones.

64. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

  A. The writer is not really going to toss his mobile phone away.

  B. When you don’t have a mobile phone，you don’t exist.

  C. The writer decides not to serve his mobile phone.

  D. We humans can control ourselves and machines.

To make sure that he was at home, I called him up ____ .

  A. by chance     B. in general      C. in particular       D in advance

He was about to tell me the secret ______ someone patted him on the shoulder.

       A. as                     B. while                C. when                       D. until

Dogs have a very good_____ of smell and are often used to search for survivors in an earthquake.  

 A. view        B. means               C. sense                        D. idea

There are more girls than boys in that school, with          of the students being girls.

   A. three fifth        B. three fifths       C. third five      D. thirds five

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If Newton lived today, he would be surprised by what ______ in science and technology.

   A. had discovered      B. had been discovered

   C. has discovered      D. has been discovered

All at once, I noticed that my wife __________ to be filled with alarm.

  A. appeared        B. came                 C. turned        D. looked

Having written a book on rock music and a book on jazz music, and now writing a book __31__ the classical music of the 20^th century, I felt the __32__ to put somewhere the music that does not quite fit __33__ of these kinds of music. I also felt that I needed to research the beginning of the popular music in Western Europe and the USA in order to __34__ understand the change of the jazz and rock music. I also felt that ethnic music has become so __35__ that one should research the development from Western European and USA music. This book aims at __36__ all these gaps (差异). I did my best to give it a systematic feeling, although it is clear that musicians from such different parts of the world had very __37__ in common. Only after the joining together of the 1907s can we __38__ of a worldwide history of popular music. This book is about the __39__ of that formation (形成).

It was not very difficult to decide how to __40__ jazz music from pop music. It was much more __41__ to decide how to separate rock music __42__ the rest of popular music, because rock music has taken in just about everything. Pieces of this book were firstly written for my 2003 books on rock music. __43__ that happened after the 1960s will be in the book on rock music. The __44__ is that you should read this book first, then the __45__ of jazz music and the history of rock music.

A. in             B. on              C. to           D. for

A. need           B. change          C. music        D. book

A. neither         B. both            C. either         D. all

A. good          B. well            C. worse         D. better

A. good          B. bad             C. popular        D. nice

A. filling         B. breaking         C. forming               D. making

A. few           B. little             C. large           D. much

A. talk           B. find            C. tell            D. say

A. reason        B. middle          C. ending         D. beginning

A. separate      B. divide           C. cut            D. take

A. difficult    B. wonderful       C. important       D. necessary

A. between      B. from            C. to             D. into

A. Thing         B. Nothing         C. Anything       D. Something

A. situation     B. question          C. problem        D. idea

A. story        B. history          C. beginning       D. difference

When my mom saw the _______ gift I had prepared for her, she ________.

   A. pleased, burst into laughter       B. pleasant, burst into laughter

   C. pleasant, burst out laughing       D. pleased, burst out laughing