Every foreign student who has been accepted to study in this country must have a legal document called a visa from the United States government. A visa permits a foreign citizen to travel to the United States and request permission to enter the country. The rules for getting a visa can be found on the State Department Web site. The address is unitedstatesvisas. gov. Unitedstatesvisas is all one word. Another State Department Web site for students from other countries is educationusa. gov.

If you are requesting a visa for the first time, you may have to appear at the American Embassy in your country to talk to an official. Each student should communicate with the Embassy to find out if such an interview is needed and when it can take place.

It is important to apply for the visa early. State Department officials say national security is the most important issue in deciding if a person will be permitted to enter the United States. Officials must find out if a student is on any list of people with possible links to terrorists.

Embassies can not issue a visa more than ninety days before the start of the educational program in the United States. If you are a student studying in the United States for the first time, you will not be permitted to enter the country more than thirty days before the start of your classes.

Foreign students accepted at an American school will receive a document called a Certificate of Eligibility. The State Department says each student must enter the country using the certificate provided by the school he or she will be attending. It is a violation of the law to enter the country on one school’s certificate but attend another school.

You are permitted to stay in the United States on a student visa for the length of your period of study. That means you can stay as long as you are a full-time student. Your college or university will provide the government with reports about your education as long as you continue to study there. We will have more information about that next week.

68. According to the passage, a visa is ______.

A.      something that permits a foreign citizen to travel to the USA

B.      a legal document issued by the US government

C.      a legal document issued by a country to permit a foreigner to travel to the country and request to enter

D.     something you get from www.educationusa.gov.

69. To get a visa to the USA, ________.

A.      none of the students have to talk to American officials

B.      all foreign students don’t have to have an interview with an official in the American embassy in your country

C.      a foreign student can appear at the American embassy

D.     all students have to prove they are able to afford the education fee

70. If you are applying for a US student visa for the first time, you_______.

A.      you may get your visa 30 days in advance

B.      you may get your visa any time you like

C.      you can’t get your visa unless you have something to do with terrorists

D.     can be given the visa 90 days ahead of time

71. The passage _____.

A.      seems to suggest that it is rather difficult to study in the USA

B.      does not contain all the information needed on how to get to the US to study

C.      tells us your American school can drive you out of the country

D.     shows with a student visa, one can enter any US school

  Scientists can determine someone’s favorite food from their shape. They have discovered that the arrangement（排列） of taste buds（味蕾） on the tongue varies for different body types. The scientist team examined 1,000 British adults and divided them into three physiologically（生理学上） recognized body types―ectomorphs, endomorphs mesomorphs. They determined that a person’s body type indicated（表明） where they were likely to have the most taste buds on the sweet, bitter or salty areas of their tongues.

 The study showed that ectomorphs, who make up one in three of the population, usually have a small delicate shape, have a sweet tooth but hate bitter foods. Mesomorphs, who make up 20percent of the population, usually have a muscular shape and prefer salty and bitter foods but dislike sweet foods. Half the British population are endomorphs with soft, rounded bodies, and they like most foods. The findings showed that for two in three people food preference was a physiological rather than a psychological choice.

  Body shape expert Simon Bradshaw, who takes change of his team, said, “It appears that simply by looking at a person’s body shape we can make sure about their taste preferences.” But Catherine Collins, of the British Dietetic Association said, “It is difficult to tell whether our body shape dictates the food we like, or the food we like dictates body shape. It stands to reason people who prefer most types of foods will be fatter and people who are the endomorph shape tend to（往往会） find it more difficult to lose weight.”

63. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

   A. Ectomorphs refer to the people who are fat.

   B. Ectomorphs don’t like bitter foods.

   C. Endomorphs are usually not fat.

   D. Mesomorphs usually like salt or sweet foods.

64. The underline part “ It stands to reason” in the last paragraph means “____”.

   A. Everyone finds it hard to believe

   B. It is obvious to everyone

   C. Everyone knows the reason

   D. Nobody believes it

65. It is implied that____.

   A. there are only three body types

   B. ectomorphs enjoy most foods

   C. Catherine Collins is an expert in body shape

   D. people who enjoy most foods have trouble in losing weight

66. According to Catherine, it is uncertain ____.

   A. how many body shapes there are

   B. that food preference is a physiological choice

   C. whether our body shape is decided by the food we enjoy most

   D. how taste buds arrange on the tongue

67. This message is mainly about ____.

   A. a study that body shape has something to do with taste buds

   B. how to lose weight

   C. a report on body shape and favorite food

   D. how to determine one’s body shape

  The failed Skylab will come screaming home to the earth in disappointment sometime next month, but we don’t know where it will fall. That precise（准确的） information is beyond even the calculations of scientist and their computers.

  The best they can tell us is that the space station, weighting 77 tons and as high as a 12-story building, will break into hundreds of pieces that will be scattered（散落） across a track 100 miles wide and 4,000miles long.

  We are again exposed（暴露） to one of those unexpected adventures, or misadventures, of science that attract our attention from the boring routines of daily existence and encourages us to think a lot about man’s future.

  What worries Richard Smith, the Skylab’s director, is the “big pieces” that will come through the atmosphere. Two lumps, weighing 2 tons each, and ten, weighing at least 1,000 pounds each, will come in at a speed of hundred of miles an hour, and if they crash on land they will dig holes up to 100 feet deep.

  What worries us, with our lack of scientific knowledge and our quick imagination, is both the big and little pieces, although project officials say there is a very small chance that anyone will be injured by them.

  That’s good to know, but it doesn’t remove the doubt of the millions who still remember the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island. That accident took place in 1979 in spite of what scientists had assured（向…保证） us as to the safety of the nuclear reactor（反应堆）.

59. Where the Skylab will fall____.

   A. is kept secret

   B. will be announced soon

   C. is foretold by scientists

   D. can’t be foretold

60. The broken Skylab will come into view ____.

   A. in two lumps---- one weighing 2 tons and the other weighing 10 tons

   B. falling with the force of a 12-story building

   C. as 12 bigger pieces and hundreds of smaller pieces

   D. as an attractive scene to millions of people

61. The writer mentions Three Mile Island ____.

   A. because he fears that a piece of the Skylab may strike a nuclear power plant

   B. to express his doubt about the officials’ words

   C. because he is afraid of nuclear power

   D. because the nuclear reactor there and the Skylab were built by the same company

62. The writer expresses his ____.

   A. interest in the failure of the Skylab

   B. willingness to give his advice

   C. worry about the misadventure of science

   D. eagerness to see more new scientific discoveries

It was not immediately clear how the military officials first spotted the activity at the site. However, the United States and South Korea generally share intelligence information obtained through satellite imagery.

Meanwhile, more unidentified South Korean government sources said they are trying to confirm whether a new facility that has been built at the site could be part of preparations for a second nuclear test, the JoongAng Ilbo newspaper reported Saturday.

Defense officials could not immediately be reached for comment.

The news came a day after the South's Foreign Minister and incoming U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with Chinese leaders to discuss sanctions against the North over its Oct. 9 underground nuclear test.

Ban met with Chinese President Hu Jintao, State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan and Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing on Friday. South Korea's Foreign Ministry said they would discuss sanctions, but details of their talks were not immediately released.

Ban is visiting the five permanent U.N. Security Council members following his election as secretary-general this month. He pledged to make resolving the North Korea nuclear issue a key priority on his agenda as head of the international body.

The United States has been trying to muster greater support for a U.N. Security Council resolution that calls for sanctions in response to the North’s nuclear test.

Seoul and Beijing have been reluctant to enforce sanctions over the Oct. 9 test for fear they might aggravate their unpredictable neighbor and destabilize the region.

As the North's main aid providers and trade partners, China and South Korea's participation are considered crucial for the success of the United Nations resolution, which bans the sale of major arms to the North and calls for inspection of cargo entering and leaving the country.

56. The passage mainly about_______.

A.      China and South Korea’s dispute over North Korea

B.      South Korea’s disagreement with the USA

C.      Chinese leaders’ meeting with Ban Ki-moon

D.     UN’s possible sanction against North Korea because of its nuke test

57. The reason why China and South Korea don’t want to carry out sanctions against North Korea is that____.

A.      they are members of one big family

B.      they are afraid that there might be no more peace in the area.

C.      they are afraid that North Korea may start nuke test

D.     JoongAng Ilboo may let out the secret

58. It can be inferred from the passage that______.

A.      the USA and South Korea are quite close to each other

B.      North Korea and South Korea are actually two parts of a country

C.      the two Koreas are proud of Ban Ki-moon

D.     Ban Ki-moon will take measures to start sanctions against North Korea

I arrived in the classroom, ready to share my knowledge and experience with 75 students who would be my English literature class. Having taught in   36   for 17 years, I had no   37 about my ability to hold their attention and to 38 on them my admiration for the literature of my mother tongue.

  I was shocked when the monitor shouted, “  39！” The entire class rose as I entered the room, and I was somewhat   40 about how to get them to sit down again, but once that awkwardness （尴尬）was over, I quickly  41 calmness and began what I thought was a fact-packed lecture, sure to gain their respect ---perhaps  42  their admiration. I went back to my office with the rosy glow which came from a sense of achievement.

  My students 43 diaries. However, as I read them, the happy mood was gradually   44  by a strong sense of sadness. The first diary said, “Our literature teacher didn’t teach us anything today. 45 her next lecture will be better.” Greatly surprised, I read diary after diary, each expressing a 46  theme（主题）. “Didn’t I teach them anything? I described the entire philosophical（哲学的） framework of Western thought and laid the historical   47 for all the works we’ll study in class,” I complained. “How   48 they say I didn’t teach them anything?”

  It was a long term, and it   49   became clear that my ideas about education were not the same as   50  of my students. I thought a teachers’ job was to raise   51 questions and provide enough background so that students could   52 their own conclusions. My students thought a teacher’s job was to provide   53   information as directly and clearly as possible. What a difference!

54  , I also learnt a lot, and my experience with my Chinese students made me a   55  American teacher, knowing how to teach in a different culture.

 ____ there are only five minutes to go, I’ll talk about the project in short.

  A. As if                  B. Even if           C. Because of    D. Now that

 When caught ____, he begged for my pardon and tried ____ punishment.

  A. stealing; escaping                            B. stealing; to escape

  C. to be cheating; escaping                  D. to be cheating; to escape

---- ____ was it ____ they discovered the entrance to the underground palace?

---- Totally by chance.

  A. How, that            B. How, which            C. Where, which    D. What, that

 ---- Some people believe that robots will take over the world one day.

---- What if that is the ____?

  A. thing                 B. condition           C. case               D. end

____, Jack couldn’t get the door open. He had to dial 110.

  A. As the might try                B. Try as he might

  C. As might he try                D. Might as he try