Compassion is a desire within us to help others．With effort, we can translate compassion into action．An experience last weekend showed me this is true．I work part-time in a supermarket across from a building for the elderly．These old people are our main customers, and it’s not hard to lose patience over their slowness．But last Sunday, one aged gentleman appeared to teach me a valuable lesson．This untidy man walked up to my register(收款机) with a box of biscuits．He said he was out of cash(现金), had just moved into his room, and had nothing in his cupboards．He asked if we could let him have the food on trust．He promised to repay me the next day．

    I couldn’t help staring at him．I wondered what kind of person he had been ten or twenty years before, and what he would be like if luck had gone his way．I had a hurt in my heart for this kind of human soul, all alone in the world．I told him that I was sorry, but store rules didn’t allow me to do so．I felt stupid and unkind saying this, but I valued my job.

    Just then, another man, standing behind the first, spoke up．If anything, he looked more pitiable．“Charge it to me,” was all he said.

    What I had been feeling was pity．Pity is soft and safe and easy．Compassion, on the other hand, is caring in action．I thanked the second man but told him that was not allowed either．Then I reached into my pocket and paid for the biscuits myself．I reached into my pocket because these two men had reached into my heart and taught me compassion.

41．The aged gentleman who wanted to buy the biscuits ______.

       A．promised to obey the store rules           

       B．forgot to take any money with him

       C．hoped to have the food first and pay later

       D．could not afford anything more expensive

42．Which of the following best describes the old gentleman?

      A．kind and lucky                                     B．poor and lonely

       C．friendly and helpful                              D．hurt and disappointed

43．The writer acted upon the store rules because ______.

       A．he wanted to keep his present job         

       B．he felt no pity for the old gentleman

       C．he considered the old man dishonest     

       D．he expected someone else to pay for the old man

44．What does the writer learn from his experience?

      A．Wealth is more important than anything else.

       B．Helping others is easier said than done.

       C．Experience is better gained through practice.

       D．Obeying the rules means more than compassion.

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Dear Sir or Madam,

   A device that stops drivers from falling asleep at the wheel is about to undergo testing at Department of Transport laboratories and could go on sale within 12 months.

   The system, called driver Alert, aims to reduce deadly road accidents by 20%--40% that are caused by tiredness. Airline pilots can also use it to reduce the 30% of all pilot-error accidents that are related to fatigue.

   Driver Alert is based on a computerized wristband. The device, worn by drivers or pilots gives out a sound about every four minutes during a car journey. After each sound the driver must respond by squeezing the steering wheel(方向盘). A sensor in the wristband detects this pressing action and measures the time between the sound and the driver’s response.

   Tiredness is directly related to a driver’s response time. Usually, a watchful driver would take about 400 milliseconds to respond, but once that falls to more than 500 milliseconds, it suggests that the driver is getting sleepy.

   In such cases the device gives out more regular and louder sounds, showing that the driver should open a window or stop for a rest. If the driver’s response continues to slow down, the sounds become more frequent until a nonstop alarm warms that the driver must stop as soon as possible.

   The device has been delivered to the department’s laboratories for testing. If these tests, scheduled for six months’ time, are successful, the markers will bring the product to market within about a year.

72. According to the text, Driver Alert ______

A. aims to reduce tiredness-related accidents   B. has gone through testing at laboratories

C. aims to prevent drivers from sleeping      D. has been on sale for 12 months

73. How should a driver respond to the sounds from Driver Alert?

A. By sounding a warning   B, By touching the wristband

C. By checking the driving time   D. By pressing the steering wheel

74. We can learn from the text that the driver needs to stop for a break when his response time is ________

A. About 400 milliseconds   B. below 500 milliseconds

C. over 500 milliseconds     D. about 400 minutes

75. When the driver gets sleepy while driving, Driver Alert ______

A. moves more regularly           B. stops working properly

C. opens the window for the driver   D. sounds more frequently and loudly

   Use your American Express Card to enjoy one-day privileges at four of America’s greatest museums. Note the participating museums, and their exciting special exhibitions that you will not want to miss, listed below.

Boston

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Chairs

February 11-May 8, 2005

Italian furniture expert Fausto Calderai and Indian photographer Dayanita Singh present an exhibition of chairs from the museum’s collection and “chair photographs” from around the world presented in a Venetian-style hall housing world-famous masterpieces.

For more information: www.gardnermuseum.org

New York

The Noguchi Museum

Noguchi and Graham

December 1, 2004―May 1, 2005

Noguchi’s long-term collaboration with dancer Martha Graham is regarded by many as a high point in the history of both modern dance and art. The exhibition highlights nine of the sets created through this collaboration.

For more information: www.noguchi.org

Philadelphia

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

In full View: American Painting(1720―2005)

January 11―April 10, 2005

Founded in 1805, the Pennsylvania Academy has been home to America’s artists for 200 years. The Academy collects and exhibits the works of famous American artists, and is well-known for training fine artists. 2005 at the Academy begins with the largest exhibition of Academy’s distinguished American collection in the institution’s history.

For more information: www.pafa.org

Seattle

Seattle Museum of Glass

Murano: Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection

Through November 7, 2004

This exhibition includes over 200 pieces of beautiful glass from Murano, the island of glassblowers near Venice, Italy. Watch live glass-blowing shows in the How Shop and see other modern glass exhibitions.

For more information: www.museumofglass.org

69. Which of the following websites offers information about the furniture show?

A. www.pafa.org      B. www. Museumofglass.org  

C. www.noguchi.org   D. www. Gardnermuseum.org

70. We learn from the text that Martha Graham is _______

A. a dancer   B. a glassblower   C. a painter   D. a photographer

71. If you want to know the history of American painting, you may visit ______

A. the Noguchi Museum             B. Seattle Museum of Glass

C. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum   D. Pennsylvania Academy of the fine Arts

   Millions of people visit Yosemite National Park every year to see the tall waterfalls and mountains. Thee mountains are a splendid sight when viewed from the valley floor. Lots of stores, hotels, and restaurants are needed to handle the crowds. Also, water, roads, and other service systems are part of the infrastructure(基础设施)that must be maintained。

Unfortunately，these systems are starting to break down. It’s not just in Yosemite but in national parks around the nation.

Yosemite is thirty years old according to Dennis Galvin, a National Park Service worker. The park is not only old but worn out. Two or three times as many visitors come every year. That is too many visitors for the parks to deal with.

Four years ago a storm washed out a water pipeline in the Grand Canyon. The National Park service had to send water trucks to provide water for the visitors. Last month pipes almost broke again and roads had to be closed for a while.

Why hasn’t the National Park Service kept up the park repairs? There is a lack of money. The United States has 378 monuments, parks, and wilderness areas. Between three and four billion dollars are needs for repairs.

Yosemite is one national park that does have money for repairs. It has two hundred million dollars but cannot spend it any way it chooses. When the park workers started widening the road, they were forced to stop by the Sierra Club. The club claimed that the road work was damaging the Merced River that runs through the park.

A sierra Club lawyer, Julia Olson, feels that the infrastructure needs to be moved out of Yosemite. That way less pressure will be put on the already crowded park.

65. According to the text, the mountains in Yosemite look most splendid when they are appreciated from _______

A. the bottom of the valleys   B. the top of the mountains

C. the side of the mountains    D. the edge of the valleys

66. National parks like Yosemite in the U.S. find it increasingly difficult to meet the need of visitors because ________

A that transport management needs improving 

B. they spend too much on their service systems

C. their service systems frequently go out of order

D. they need help from environmental organizations

67. The main problem of Yosemite National Park is its _______

A. rundown water pipes   B. overcrowdedness   C. lack of money   D. narrow roads

68. According to the text, the Sierra Club is most likely to be ______

A. an environmental group  B. an information center  C. a travel service  D. a law firm

   Fidenzio Salvatori is determined that the city of Toronto will have an outdoor marketplace for merchants from its immigrant community, complete with dancing and other forms of amusement from their native countries. “Toronto is truly multicultural(多元文化的)，”he said in a newspaper interview. “It’s a city from many places, and a multicultural marketplace will help Torontonians to understand and appreciate the rich variety of cultural groups in our city.”

   Salvatori, aged 23, will soon complete his studies at the University of Toronto. He was eleven years old when he came to Canada from Italy with his parents. “Most of Toronto’s immigrants are from lands where the marketplace has always been part of daily life,” he said.

   Salvatori has been interested in getting an open-air market for Toronto for the last three years. This year, with the help of two fellow students, he prepared a proposal on the subject and presented it to the city’s Executive Committee, asking for their support. The proposal pointed out Toronto’s rich variety of national groups, “whose customs include market shopping.”

   Under a Canadian government program for multiculturalism, the three students have received two thousand dollars with which they will do a study to find out whether Toronto’s immigrant businessmen would support and open-air market. They hope the merchants will support the plan strongly. “A study done earlier this year showed that 90 percent of shoppers would be in favor of it,” Salvatori said . “At first it would be an experiment. But we think it will prove to be good business for the merchants, as well as a tourist attraction.”

61. What is Fidenzio Salvatori’s purpose of having an outdoor marketplace for Toronto?

A. To provide different forms of amusement   C. To inspire its immigrant community

B. To keep the cultural variety of the city      D. To satisfy its immigrant merchants

62. Fidenzio Salvatori, with two other students, has got two thousand dollars from the government____

A. to make an experiment   B. to start a marketplace 

C. to perform a research    D. to operate a business

63. According to Salvatori, the marketplace may also help to improve Toronto’s ________

A. market management   B. community service   C. travel industry  D. city planning

64. It can be inferred from the text that the Canadian government supports _______

A. the protection of different cultures   B. the plan of an open-air market

C. the request of merchants           D. the attitude of shoppers

Last August, Joe and Mary Mahoney began looking at colleges for their 17-year-old daughter, Maureen. With a checklist of criteria in hand, the Dallas family looked around the country visiting half a dozen schools. They sought a university that offered the teenager’s intended major, one located neat a large city, and a campus where their daughter would be safe. “The safety issue is a big one,” says Joe Mahoney, who quickly discovered he wasn’t alone in his worries. On campus tours other parents voiced similar concerns, and the same question was always asked : what about crime? But when college officials always gave the same answer ――“That’s not a problem here,” ――Mahoney began to feel uneasy.

“No crime whatsoever?” comments Mahoney today. “ I just don’t buy it.” Nor should he: in 1999 the U.S. Department of education had reports of nearly 400,000 serious crimes on or around our campuses. “Parents need to understand that times have changed since they went to college,” says David Nichols, author of Creating a Safe Campus. “Campus crime mirrors the rest of the nation.”

But getting accurate information isn’t easy. Colleges must report crime statistics(统计数字)by law, but some hold back for fear of bad publicity, leaving the honest ones looking dangerous. “The truth may not always be serious,” warms S. Daniel Carter of Security on Campus, Inc., the nation’s leading campus safety watchdog group.

To help concerned parents, Carter promised to visit campuses and talk to experts around the country to find out major crime issues and effective solutions.

56. The Mahoneys visited quite a few colleges last August ________

   A. to express the opinions of many parents

   B. to choose a right one four their daughter

   C. to check the cost of college education

   D. to find a tight one near a large city

57. It is often difficult to get correct information on campus crime because some colleges ____

A. receive too many visitors       B. mirror the rest of the nation

C. hide the truth of campus crime  D. have too many watchdog groups

58. The underlined word “buy” in the third paragraph means _______

A. mind   B. admit    C. believe   D. expect

59. We learn from the text that “the honest ones” in the fourth paragraph most probably refers to colleges _____.

A. that are protected by campus security   B. that report campus crimes by law

       C. that are free from campus crime          D. that enjoy very good publicity

60. What is the text mainly about?

A. Exact campus crime statistics           B. Crimes on or around campuses

C. Effective solutions to campus crime   D. Concerns about kids’ campus safety

My sister and I grew up in a little village in England. Our father was a struggling  36, but I always knew he was  37  . He never criticized us, but used  38  to bring out our best. He’d say,” If you pout water on flowers, they flourish. If you don’t give them water, they die.” I 39  as a child I said something  40  about somebody, and my father said, “  41  time you say something unpleasant about somebody else, it’s a reflection of you.” He explained that if I looked for the best  42  people, I would  get the best  43  . From then on I’ve always tried to   44  the principle in my life and later in running my company.

   Dad’s also always been very  45  . At 15, I started a magazine. It was  46  a great deal of my time, and the headmaster of my school gave me a  47  : stay in school or leave to work on my magazine.

   I decided to leave, and Dad tried to sway me from my decision,   48  any good father would. When he realized I Had made up my mind, he said, “Richard, when I was 23, my dad   49  me to go into law. And I’ve  50  regretted it. I wanted to be a biologist,   51  I didn’t pursue my   52  . You know what you want. Go fulfill it.”

   As  53  turned out, my little publication went on to become Student, a national  54  for young people in the U.K. My wife and I have two children, and I’ d like to think we are bringing them up in the same way Dad  55  me.

The country life he was used to ____ greatly since 1992.

A. change   B. has changed   C. changing   D. have changed