As far as I know，         their task ahead of time，they often stayed up late into the night.

    A. finishing        B. having finished  C. finished         D. to finish

一I promised my daughter she          get a nice present for her birthday.

－Will it be a surprise to her?

    A. would          B. must          C. might            D. should

Ann        a piece of science fiction，completely lost to the outside world.

    A. reads          B. is reading       C. has read          D. will read

－Could you tell me       way to Taylor Clinic?

－ Sorry，but I'm afraid there is not        Taylor Clinic nearby.

    A. a；a           B. a；the          C. the；the          D. the；a

In your English class, you are asked to describe the following picture and explain to your classmates how you understand it.

为了创造学校的英语学习氛围，激发同学们学习英语的兴趣，你校开展

英语演讲比赛。请你根据下面内容以学生会名义向全校学生做口头通知，

介绍相关情况。

活动：英语演讲比赛

比赛时间：5月22日下午；

地点：报告厅

比赛要求：

1）话题从备选的8个主题中自选

2）每人先进行一段20秒以内的自我介绍，演讲时间不超过3分钟

奖励办法：各年级设一、二、三等奖

报名时间：5月15日前

报名地点：学生会办公室

注意：

1. 词数不少于60。

2. 通知的开头和结尾已为你写好。

Boys and girls.  I have an announcement to make.

That’s all.  Thank you.

Wugging, or web use giving, describes the act of giving to charity（慈善）at no cost to the user.  By using Everyclick. com, which is being added to a number of university computers across the UK this week , students can raise money every time they search, but it won’t cost them a penny.

Research shows that students are enthusiastic about supporting charity, 88% of full time students have used the Internet to give to charity.  This figure is high, considering this age group is often the least likely to have their own income.  19% of 22 to 24 years old have short-term debts of more than ￡5,000.  With rising personal debt levels in this age group, due to university tuition fees or personal loans and a lack of long-term savings, traditional methods of donating to charity are often not appealing or possible.

Beth Truman, a 21-year-old recent university graduate has used Everyclick. com to donate to her chosen charity, the RSPCA, for two years and has seen the “wugging” movement grow popular with students.  “When you’re at university you become more socially aware, but it’s sometimes hard to give to others when you have little money yourself. ” says Beth.  “Wugging is great for people in this age group as it allows them to use the technology on a daily basis to give it to charity, without costing them a single penny. ”

    Wugging is perfect for people who want to be more socially aware and supportive but don’t feel they have the means to do so.  Students using the web can generate money for causes they care about without it costing them anything in terms of time or money, and charities get a valuable source of funding.

Everyclick. com works like any other search engine, allowing users to search for information, news and images but users can identify which of the UK’s 170，000 charities they would like to support through their clicks.  Everyclick. com then makes monthly payments to every registered charity.  Launched in June 2005 Everyclick. com is now the eighth largest search engine and one of the busiest charity websites in the UK.

72. According to the passage, “wugging” is actually a _______.

A. website for charity

B. school organization

C. charity-related action

D. popular part-time job

73. How does Beth Truman think of the “wugging”?

A. It makes giving to charity easy.

B. It is easier to search for information.

C. It stresses the importance of charity in people’s daily lives.

D. It is a common way to promote the students’ social awareness.

74. The underlined work “means”（in Para 4） probably refers to          .

A. time                            B. money                  C. method                 D. interest

75. What is the best title for this passage?

A. “Wugging”, A New Technology for the Internet

B. British People Show Strong Interest in Charities

C. More Britain Charities Benefit from the Internet

D. Students Raise Money for Charity by “Wugging”

“Humans should not try to avoid stress any more than they would shun food, love or exercise,” said Dr.  Hans Selye, the first physician to document the effects of stress on the body.  While here’s on question that continuous stress is harmful, several studies suggest that challenging situations in which you’re able to rise to the occasion can be good for you.

In a study of 158 hospital nurses, those who faced considerable work demands but deal with the challenge were more likely to say they were in good health than those who felt they couldn’t get the job done.

Stress that you can manage also promote immune（免疫的）function.  In a study at the Academic Center for Dentistry in Amsterdam, researchers put volunteers through two stressful experiences.  In the first, a timed task that required memorizing a list followed by a short test, subjects believed they had control over the outcome.  In the second, they weren’t in control.  They had to sit through a bloody video on surgical procedures.  Those who did the memory test had an increase levels of immunoglobulin A, an antibody（抗体）that’s the body’s first line of defense against germs.  However, the video-watchers experienced a fall in the antibody.

Stress encourage body to produce certain stress hormones（荷尔蒙）.  In short bursts these hormones have a positive effect, including improved memory function.  “They can help nerve cells handle information and put it into storage,” says Dr.  Bruce McEwen of Rockefeller University in New York.  But in the long run these hormones can have a harmful effect on the body and brain.

“Continuous stress is not good for you,” says Richard Morimoto, a researcher at Northwestern University in Illinois studying the effects of stress on one’s life, “It’s the occasional burst of stress or brief experience of stress that could be protective. ”

67. The passage is mainly about______.

A. how to promote immune function

B. the benefits of manageable stress

C. how to deal with stress effectively

D. the effect of stress hormones on memory

68. The underlined word “shun”（in Para. 1） most probably means________.

A. cut down on       B. put up with        D. run out of        C. stay away from

69. We can conclude from the study of the 158 nurses that_______ .

A. people under stress tend to have a poor memory

B. doing challenging work may be good for one’s health

C. people who can’t get their job done experience more stress

D. stress will weaken the body’s defense against germs

70. In the experiment described in Paragraph 3, the video-watcher experienced a fall in the antibody because______.

A. the video was not enjoyable at all

B. they knew little about surgical procedures

C. the degree of stress was beyond their control

D. they felt no pressure while watching the video

71. Dr.  Bruce McEwen of Rockefeller University believes that______.

A. a person’s memory is determined by the level of hormones in his body

B. a person’s memory improves with continued experience of stress.

C. stress hormones have lasting positive effects on the brain

D. short bursts of stress hormones improve memory function

Somehow Rey had managed to struggle free from the rope around his neck, after being left to die a slow death as punishment for being a bad Spanish greyhound（猎狗）.

It is believed that 50,000 greyhounds are killed by their owners in Spain each year after they grow too old, or turn out to be too slow to hunt with.  Dogs have also been found thrown into wells, burnt alive and even injected with poison.

But Rey's intended fate（命运） was, even within the levels of cruelty usually shown to Spanish hunting dogs, especially cruel.  The rope around his neck had been set at a height so that his front paws could not touch the ground, meaning that he was intended to stand on his back legs until he was too tired to support himself.  When his legs finally became too tired, the rope should have done its work.

"They call it the typewriting death, because the dog's back legs struggled against the ground and make the clicking sound of a typewriter," said Albert Sorde, of the SOS Galgos greyhound rescue group.  "It is a punishment for greyhounds that are thought to have made their owners lose face. "

"Rey's throat was severely damaged but we managed to find a vet to operate and, though it was expensive, he survived," he said.

Greyhounds in Spain are used for hunting hares（野兔）.  "The dogs are meant to imitate the swerves（转向）of the hares," said Sorde.  "Those who don't, and make their owners look bad, are called ' dirty greyhounds' and are most likely to be killed by the typewriter method. "

63. Rey was intended to be killed by             .

A. Kicking                        B. burying                C. hanging                D. drowning

64. The underlined word "vet" in （Paragraph 5） probably means  “_________”.

A. animal doctor                                               B. ambulance

C. animal medicine                                           D. equipment

65. What can you infer from the passage?

A. Dogs are not kept as pets in Spain.

B. Rey was punished because he had not been loyal to his owner.

C. The typewriting death is named because a typewriter is used in the punishment.

D. Rey didn’t behave very well in the hunting.

66. The passage mainly tells the readers about _________.

A. the cruel killing of dogs in Spain

B. how Rey was saved by rescuers

C. how Spanish dogs hunt hares

D. the fate of the dogs in Spain

We all know that when leaves fall to the ground they die and become food for worms.  When worms pass the leaves, their waste can help to make the soil rich, from which the plants use to get their nutrition.  The plants grow and provide food for animals.  When the animals eat the plants, their waste goes back into the soil.  It’s a perfect cycle.

But at the Elephant Conservation Centre in Lampang, Northern Thailand, they are using elephant waste for something more―to make 100% natural, beautiful colorful paper products! 100 years ago over 100,000 elephants in Thailand worked on farms, building sites and even in the army.  However, only 6,000 remain there today because of advances in technology that have made elephants’ old word less necessary.  Elephants are doing new jobs now, including entertaining tourists by painting and playing football, and now by helping in the paper making industry.  And their keepers, called Mahouts, can earn a living for their families and help their elephants by using elephant waste, also called “dung” to make beautiful, natural, paper products without any bad smell.

Every day an adult elephant eats about 200kg of plants like bamboo, grass and watermelon seeds.  His body system breaks the plants into 50kg of fibers, which can produce 115 sheets of fibrous paper.

The first step to make this special natural paper is to collect the fiber rich “dung” from the elephant.  The next step is to wash it and boil it for five hours to kill bacteria.  （The water the use in this process is reused to water plans at the Centre, which, in turn, feed the elephants）.  After it’s boiled, they cut fibers up.  During the cutting process, they add in the desired color of the paper.  For the fourth step, they take the mixture and make balls of 300g.  Each ball is then speeds lightly over bamboo frames to dry into one large sheet of paper.  After a few hours in the sun, the sheets are dry enough to remove.  The result is a wonderful, 100% natural, recycled paper.  People around the world are getting interested in buying this special elephant paper for their holiday cards, writing paper and much more, because it’s beautiful, natural and helps so many.

60. Why are there few elephants in Thailand today than before?

A. Because they don’t have enough food.

B. Because they were killed in the war.

C. Because they technology develops very fast.

D. Because they Mahouts don’t want to keep them.

61. What is the famous product mentioned in the passage?

A. Paper.                         B. Dung                    . C. Fibers.               D. Bamboo frames.

62. What are the exact words to describe the whole process of the product?

A. Common, interesting, and inexpensive.

B. Unusual, amazing, and perfect.

C. Impossible, special, but necessary.

D. Natural, wonderful and common.