Time spent in a bookshop can be most enjoyable, you can soon become totally unaware of your surroundings. The desire to pick up a book with an attractive dust-jacket is irresistible(不可抗拒的), You soon become absorbed in some books or other, and usually it is much later that you realize you have spent far too much time there.

This opportunity to escape the realities of everyday life is, I think, the main attraction of bookshop. There are not many places where it is possible to do this. A music shop is very much like a bookshop. You can wander round such places to your heart’s content. If it is a good shop, no assistant will approach you with greeting: “Can I help you, sir?” You needn’t buy anything you don’t want. In a bookshop an assistant should remain in the background until you have finished browsing(浏览书刊). Then, and only then, are his services necessary. Of course you may want to find out where a particular section is, but when he has led you there, the assistant should retire carefully and look as if he is not interested in selling a single book.

73、“Dust-jacket”(Line 3, Pare. 1) probably means      .

A．a kind of clothes                          B．paper cover of a book

C．dusty book                                  D．title of a book

74、You may spend too much time in a bookshop because      .

A．the dust-jackets of some books are very attractive

B．you start reading one of the books

C．it keeps raining outside

D．you have to buy a dull book as a present

75、In a good bookshop      .

A．nobody takes any notice of you           

B．the assistant greets you in friendly way

C．you feel as if you are in a music shop

D．you find yourself satisfied with browsing

Beldon and Canfield are two seashore towns, not far apart. Both towns have many hotels, and in summer the hotels are full of holiday-makers and other tourists.

Last August there was a fire at the Seabreeze Hotel in Beldon. The next day, this news appeared on page two of the town’s newspaper. The Beldon Post:

Late last night firemen hurried to the Seabreeze Hotel and quickly put out a small fire in a bedroom. The hotel manager said that a cigarette started the fire. We say again to all our visitors: “Please don’t smoke cigarettes in bed.” This was Beldon’s first hotel fire for five years.

The Can field Times gave the news in these words on page one:

Last night Beldon firemen arrived just too late to save clothing, bedclothes and some furniture at the Seabreeze Hotel. An angry holiday-maker said, “An electric lamp probably started the fire. The bedroom lamps are very old at some of these hotels. When I put my bedside light on, I heard a funny noise from the lamp.” We are glad to tell our readers that this sort of adventure does not happen in Canfield.

What are the facts, then? It is never easy to find out the exact truth about an accident. There was a fire at the Seabreeze Hotel last August: that is one fact. Do we know anything else? Yes, we know that firemen went to the hotel.

Now what do you think of the rest of the “news”?

69、Which of the following best gives the main idea of this text?

A．Beldon and Canfield are both good places for tourists in summer.

B．A fire broke out at night in Seabreeze Hotel last summer.

C．It was not easy to find out exact truth from newspapers.

D．Two newspapers gave reports on the same matter.

70、Which of the following is TRUE?

A．The fire broke out in a bedroom at the hotel.

B．An old lamp started the fire.

C．The fire broke out in the morning.

D．There has never been a fire in Canfield.

71、The Canfield Times used the headline like this in order to make its readers think   .

A．hotels in Beldon often catch fire

B．hotels in Beldon don’t often catch fire

C．this was the second fire at the Seabreeze Hotel

D．Beldon was a good place except that hotels there are not quite safe

72、The Canfield newspaper gave a report just the opposite to the Beldon Post by saying that     .

A．the bedroom lamps were very old at the Seabreeze Hotel

B．the bedroom lights made funny noise when the fire took place

C．the firemen failed to save clothing, bedclothes and other things

D．such accidents never happened in Canfield for the past 5 years

HIV/AIDS is an important health issue in children and adolescents(青少年). Since the first clinical evidence of AIDS was reported two decades ago, HIV/AIDS has spread to every corner of the world.

Children and young people are at the center of the epidemic(流行病).

According to estimates by UNAIDS and WHO, more than four million children under the age of 15 have been infected with HIV since the epidemic began. More than 90% of them were infants born to HIV-positive mothers who acquired the virus before or during birth or through breastfeeding. Because HIV infection often progresses quickly to AIDS in children, most of the children under 15 who have been infected have developed AIDS, and most of these children have died. Another 13 million children have lost their mother or both parents to the disease.

An estimated 10.3 million young people aged 15～24 are living with HIV/AIDS, and half of all new infections―over, 7,000 daily―are occurring among young people. Young people are vulnerable(易受攻击的)to HIV because of risky sexual behaviour, substance use and their lack of access to HIV information and prevention services. Many young people do not believe that HIV is a threat to them, and many others do not know how to protect themselves from HIV.

Today, HIV/AIDS is still spreading rapidly. The epidemic is reversing (使倒退)development gains, robbing millions of people of their lives, widening the gap between rich and poor, and destroying young people’s opportunities for healthy adult lives.

Within the WHO Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development (CAH), HIV/AIDS work is taking place in the following areas:

Preventing the transmission of HIV infection in babies;

Improving care and management of children with symptomatic HIV infection;

Preventing and treating adolescents with HIV/ADIS.

65、When was the first case of AIDS reported?

A．Ten years ago.                      B．Twenty years ago.

C．Thirty years ago.                         D．Fifty years ago.

66、How many AIDS patients are under 24 in the world?

    A．4 million.         B．13 million.        C．10.3 million.            D．14.3 million.

67、Which of the following is NOT the result of AIDS in children and adolescents?

A．Gaining weight.

B．Losing life.

C．Widening the gap between rich and poor.

D．Destroying young people’s opportunities for healthy adult lives.

68、What will the WHO Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development

(CAH), HIV/AIDS do?

A．Prevent the transmission of HIV infection in babies.

B．Improve care and management of children with symptomatic HIV infection.

C．Prevent and treating adolescents with HIV/AIDS.

D．All of the above.

Whitman(惠特曼)was one of the most original and inspiring American poets, true to his art and to his role as a poet. He devoted himself to poetry praising the native American experience. As America’s first epic poem, Leaves of Grass(《草叶集》)ran nine editions with more than 400 poems all written in free verse(诗)form, that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. The tide implies rebirth, renewal, or green life. As Whitman once said, “Leaves of Grass was the outcropping of my own emotional and other personal nature―an attempt, from first to last, to put a person, a human being freely, fully and truly on record.”

For Whitman, science, democracy[民主] and spirituality(灵性)were the three things that founded the base (构成……基础)of modern poetry. Whitman tried to mix the world of science, the philosophy of democracy and the spiritual feeling of life into one, to incorporate(合并)these into his poetry. For Whitman, the poetic form was to be organic, not limited(受限制的). Therefore, he threw aside the traditional ornaments(修饰)and prettiness of verse and had his own form. Both the form and content of his poems are revolutionary. With its frequent use of common language and everyday events, his poems represents a turning point in the history of American poetry―poetry fashioned out of specially American experience in a clearly American idiom. Whitman’s unique poetic creation has developed a very significant tradition in American poetry.

In his poems, he celebrated new America rather than regretted it. He was against slavery, admired Lincoln, supported strikes, and combined the ideal of the democratic common people and that of the ragged individual.

62、Whitman wrote poems mainly to      .

A．praise the rich people in the USA

B．call on others to turn against the government

C．let others know more about the native American experience

D．make more money and become famous

63、The poet threw aside the traditional ornaments and prettiness of verse and had his own form because     .

A．he thought the poetic form was not limited but organic

B．all the poets did so

C．the readers didn’t like the traditional ornaments and prettiness of verse

D．he wanted to make his poems special

64、According to the passage, we know Whitman was a poet who      .

A．didn’t like common people            B．was a selfish man

C．cared for common people                    D．didn’t have his own ideal

A characteristic of American culture that has become almost a tradition is to respect the self-made man―the man who has risen to the top through his own efforts, usually beginning by working with his hands. While the leader in business or industry or the college professor occupies a higher social position and gets greater respect in the community than the common laborer or even the skilled factory worker, he may take pains to point out that his father started life in America as a farmer or laborer of some sort.

This attitude toward manual(体力的)labor is now still seen in many respects of American life. One is invited to dinner at home that is not only comfortably but even luxuriously(豪华地)furnished and in which there is every evidence of the fact that the family has been able to afford foreign travel, expensive hobbies, and college education for the children; yet the hostess probably will cook the dinner herself, will serve it herself and will wash dishes afterward. Furthermore, the hostess usually takes pride in careful preparation of special dishes. A professional man may talk about washing the car, painting the house and so on. His wife may even help with these things, just as he often helps her with the dishwashing. The son who is away at college may wait on table and wash dishes for his living, or during the summer, he may work with a construction gang on a highway in order to pay for his education.

59、The first paragraph tells us     

A．people tend to have a high opinion of the self-made man

B．people can always rise to the top through their won efforts

C．college professors win great respect from common workers

D．people feel painful to mention their fathers as labors

60、The hostess cooks dinner herself mainly because       .

A．servants in American are hard to get

B．she takes pride in what she can do herself

C．she can hardly afford servants

D．it is easy to prepare a meal with canned food

61、The underlined part “wait on table” in the second paragraph means “      ”.

A．work in a furniture shop               B．open a new shop

C．wait to lay the table                      D．serve customers in a restaurant

1970 was World Conservation(保护)Year. The United Nations wanted everyone to know that the world is in danger. They hoped that governments would act quickly in order to protect nature. Here is one example of the problem. At one time there were 1,300 different plants, tress and flowers in Holland but now only 866 remain. The others have been destroyed by modern man and his technology. We are changing the earth, the air and water, and everything that grows and lives. We can’t live without these things. If we continue like this, we shall destroy ourselves.

What will happen in the future? Perhaps it is more important to ask “What must we do now?” The people who will be living in the world of tomorrow are the young of today. A lot of them know that protection is necessary. Many are helping to save our world. They plant trees, build bridges across rivers in forests, and so on. In a small town in the United States a large group of girls cleaned the banks of 11 kilometers of their river. Young people may hear about protection through a record called “No one’s going to change our world”, which was made by the Beatles, Cliff Richard and other singers. The money from it will help to protect wild animals.

56、We shall destroy ourselves if we don’t change      .

A．the United Nations                       B．modern technology

C．our rivers and forests                          D．the government of Holland

57、“No one’s going to change our world” was      .

A．an important book published in 1970

B．an idea that nobody would accept

C．a record calling on all people to protect nature

D．a rule worked out by the Untied Nations                  

58、What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．1970 was World Conservation Year.

B．The United Nations wanted everyone to know that the world is in danger.

C．Conservation is necessary.

D．It is the young people who are helping to save our conservation.

No sooner had the teacher who was in charge of my class come into the classroom than she asked “Who did this?” Fifty children tried to think about not only what they had done, but also what she had  36  . She wasn’t’ really asking, she was demanding an  37  . Holding up a piece of  38  glass, she was really  39  this time.

It was I who did it. But I had not done it  40  . It was an accident from throwing a baseball. I needed to practice it more. Why did it have to be me? If I  41  it, I would be in trouble.   42  would I be able to pay for a big window like that? I didn’t want to 43  my hand, but some force much  44  than my arm pulled it up. I told the truth.

My teacher went to one of our library shelves and took a(n)  45  . She then began walking towards my desk.  46  I had never seen my teacher beating a student, I was afraid that I was the first to  47  with.

“I know you like sports,” she said,  48  my red face. “Here is the field guide about sports that you’re always checking out. It’s yours now. And you won’t be  49  as long as you remember I’m not rewarding you for your doing something wrong, but for your  50  .”

I couldn’t believe it! I was getting my own sports field guide―the very one I had been saving up money to  51  . Now I could keep the money that I  52  would be going to the school to buy a new window!

The book is  53  and so is my wonderful teacher. What  54  of that day is the 55 my teacher taught me, which has a deep effect on me forever.

So much of interest     that most visitors simply run out of time before seeing it all.

A．offers Beijing                                      B．Beijing offers          

C．does Beijing offer                                D．Beijing does offer

―Do you want tea or coffee?

―      . I really don’t mind.

    A．None        B．Neither                          C．Either                            D．All

If their marketing plans succeed, they     their sales by 20 percent.

A．will increase                         B．have been increasing

C．have increased                      D．would be increasing