Please don’t leave scissors or knives on the table        the reach of little children.

A. beyond        B. over         C. above        D. within

――Have you finished writing your essay?

――No, I      it now and will finish in ten minutes.

A. written        B. am writing    C. have written   D. was writing

The famous scientist’s attending the party himself made us       to the limit.

A. excited        B. to excite     C. exciting       D. being excited

       recent survey shows that        tiger is in danger of becoming extinct.

A. The ,  the     B. A , a         C. The,  a      D. A,  the

据调查，中国城市居民的电脑拥有率达30%。很多农村居民对电脑也越来越感兴趣，甚至有的家庭也买了电脑。请参考下表写一篇题为“Computers in China”的短文。词数为100词左右。

WASHINGTON-Laura Straub is a very worried woman . Her job is to find families for French teenagers who expect to live with American families in the summer .

It’s not easy , even desperate .

“We have many children left to place :40 out of 75,” said Straub , who works for a Paris-based foreign exchange programme called LEC. When exchange programmes started 50 years ago , family life was more accommodating . For one thing , more mothers stayed home .

But now , increasing numbers of women work outside the home . Exchange-student programmes have struggled in recent years to sign up host families for the 30,000 teenagers who annually come from abroad to spend academic year in the United States , as well as the thousands more who participate in summer programmes .

School systems in many parts of the US, unhappy about accepting non-taxpaying students , have also strictly limited the number of exchange students they accept . At the same time , the idea of hosting foreign students is becoming less exotic.

In searching for host families , who usually receive no pay , exchange programmes are increasingly broadening their appeals to include everyone from young couples to retirees .

“We are open to many different types of families,” said Vickie Weiner , eastern regional director for ASSE, a 25- year old programme that sends about 30,000 teen-agers on academic year exchange programmes worldwide .

For elderly people , exchange students “keep us young they really do ,” said Jean Foster , who is hosting 16-year old Nina Porst from Denmark .

72．Viekie Weiner is the person who         .

A. works for a programme called LEC            B. works for a programme called ASSE

       C. is 25 years old                                          D. hosts foreign students

73．The underlined word “exotic” means         .

       A. difficult                   B.wonderful                 C.exciting                    D.accommodating

74. From the passage we can learn that at the beginning of the exchange programmes ,      .

       A. all the families cold host foreign students

       B. only young couples could host foreign students

       C. only those who were retired could host foreign students

       D. those who were not too old could host foreign students

75．Which of the following is the best title of this passage ?

A. US Struggle to Find Host Families            

B. Idea of Hosting Students Is Different

       C. Foreign-exchange Program Is Going On      

D. Exchange Students Keep Old People Young

Engineering students are supposed to be examples of practicality and rationality (合理性), but when it comes to my college education I am an idealist and a fool. In high school I wanted to be an electrical engineer and, of course, any sensible student with my aims would have chosen a college with a large engineering department, famous reputation and lots of good labs and research equipment. But that's not what I did. I chose to study engineering at a small liberal-arts (文科)university that doesn't even offer a major in electrical engineering. Obviously, this was not a practical choice; I came here for more noble reasons. I wanted a broad education that would provide me with flexibility(弹性) and a value system to guide me in my career. I wanted to open my eyes and expand my vision by interacting with people who weren't studying science or engineering. My parents, teachers and other adults praised me for such a sensible choice. They told me I was wise and mature(成熟的) beyond my 18 years, and I believed them. I headed off to college. Sure I was going to have an advantage over those students who went to big engineering "factories" where they didn't care if you had values or were flexible. I was going to be a complete engineer: technical genius and sensitive humanist (人文学者) all in one.

Now I'm not so sure. Somewhere along the way my noble ideals crashed into reality, as all noble ideals eventually do. After three years of struggling to balance maths, physics and engineering courses with liberal-arts courses, I have learned there are reasons why few engineering students try to reconcile(协调) engineering with liberal-arts courses in college. The reality that has blocked my path to become the typical successful student is that engineering and the liberal-arts simply don' t mix as easily as I assumed(设想) in high school. Individually they shape a person in very different ways; together they threaten to confuse. The struggle to reconcile the two fields of study is difficult.

68. Why did the author choose to study engineering at a small liberal-arts university?

A. He wanted to he an example of practicality and rationality

B. He intended to be a combination of engineer and humanist

C. He wanted to coordinate(协调) engineering with liberal-arts courses in college

D. He intended to be a sensible student with noble ideals

69. According to the author, by interacting with people who study liberal arts, engineering students can _____.

A. become noble idealists                               B. receive guidance in their careers

      C. balance engineering and the liberal arts         D. broaden their knowledge

70. The author's experience shows that he was ________.

A. creative           B. ambitious              C. unrealistic              D. unwise

71. The author suggests in this passage that ________

A. liberal-arts students are supported to take engineering courses

      B. technical experts with a wide vision are expected in the society

C. successful engineering students are more welcomed in the society

D. engineering universities with-liberal-arts courses are needed

From Mr. Ward Hoffman.

Sir, I was halfway through Professor Raj Persaud's article “What's the tipping point?"

(Financial Times Weekend, April 9-l0) when it occurred to me that what I was reading was not ironic(讽刺的). If  Prof Persaud wants to know why Americans tip in restaurants, he need only ask the first American he meets in London.

Americans tip in restaurants for one reason, and one reason only: we tip to supplement (补贴) the salary of restaurant workers. Quality of service does not enter into it, beyond the fact that one may tip a bit less for poor service, or a little more for good service.

Not tipping at all in a non-fast-food restaurant is not a choice. In the US, one used to tip about 15 per cent for dining in a family-style restaurant or in an up-market (高档的) restaurant. Here, in San Francisco Bay area restaurants, we are encouraged to tip 20 per cent or more, to help restart workers live in this very expensive area.

After eating at an Italian restart in my city, I left a tip of 20 per cent on the non-tax part of our dinner bill. It was expected. There is nothing more complicated than that about Americas tipping in restaurants.

Ward Hoffman, 

Palo Alto, CA 94306, US

*                *                  *

From Mr. Philip McBride Johnson.

Sir, I agree with most of Raj Persaud's opinion about the doubtful value of tipping, but with one exception. Tips can be very useful when one is a repeat customer or diner.

It is only when the tipper is a stranger and likely to remain so that the system does not work to his or her advantage. But frequent a hotel or a restaurant, always tip a bit more, and the difference in service and treatment will be easily felt.

Phfiip McBnde Johnson,

Great Falls, VA 22066, US

64. What can we learn from Hoffrnan's letter?

      A. Quality of service determines tipping in the US.

      B. Americans don't tip in non fast-food restaurants.

      C. Tipping in US upmarknt restarts is unnecessary.

      D. How to tip in the United States is not complicated.                                  

65. Johnson's letter shows ________.

A. a stranger in a restaurant is likely to tip a bit more

       B. diners receive better service if they frequent a restaurant

C. repeat dinners may get good service if they tip a bit more

D. the tipping system works to the advantage of new customers             

66. From tbe two letters, we can learn Professor Raj Persaud ______ .     

A. feels doubtful about the value of tipping

B. believes tipping improves quality of service

C. wants to ask Hoffman about tipping in the US

      D. thinks tipping a bit more one can get good service                       

67. The two letters most probably appears in a ______.

A. notice                      B. handbook             C. book review          D. newspaper 

It’s the place where smart people make smart machines work even smarter. But for the people who work in it, Silicon Valley (硅谷) is more than just a high technology hothouse. It’s also in the heart of sunny California, a great place to start a family and raise kids. What could be better?

But something is happening to the children. Up until the age of two they develop normally. Their proud parents watch and smile as they take their first steps and speak their first words. But then everything seems to go backwards. The children become locked into their own small world, unable to communicate at all. They call it the “curse(祸) of Silicon Valley,” but the medical name for the condition is autism（孤独症）. It used to be thought that autism was a mental illness. Now doctors are sure that it is a disease transmitted genetically. It seems that the people leading the communications revolution are having children who cannot communicate at all.

But even the parents have trouble communicating. Asperger’s Syndrome (综合症) is connected with autism. People who have it are highly intelligent and often brilliant with numbers or systems but have no social skills, which makes Asperger’s sufferers into excellent computer professionals. Unfortunately, many of the children of two Asperger’s parents in Silicon Valley seem to be developing serious autism.

There is little anyone can do. And there is no cure in sight. Some argue that no cure should be found．“It may be that autistics are essentially (本质上) different from normal people, but that these differences make them valuable for the evolution (进化) of the human race,” says Dr Kirk Wilhelm of the University of California．“To remove the genes (基因) for autism could be terrible.”

It seems that the children of Silicon Valley are paying the price of genius.

60. A person who has autism usually _____.

       A．has difficulty in speaking                      B．loses communication skills

       C．has difficulty in working                       D．hates people around

61. Which of the following best explains “curse of Silicon Valley”?

       A．The children are brought up in Silicon Valley.

       B．Autism is just a result of working in Silicon Valley.

       C．The children suffer from autism due to their parents in Silicon Valley.

       D．Autism makes the children in Silicon Valley unable to communicate.

62. Some people think that no cure of autism should be found because ______.

       A．autism cannot be cured                               B．autism isn’t a disease

       C．harm will be done to the children                  D．autism is necessary in some way

63. What does the writer seem to feel about the children of Silicon Valley?

       A．It’s a pity that they cannot have a normal life.      

B．They are the pride of the human race.

       C．They are sure to have a bright future.          

D．It’s likely that they will have a normal life.