张华没有去学校读书，而是去参军了。

______ ________  going to school, Zhang Hua joined the army.

经典文学作品没有消失, 并且在当今世界上仍占有一席之地.

Classics have not disappeared and still ______ _____ ______ in the world.

Why do we need to throw less away? There are two reasons. One is that some resources are nonrenewable（不可再生的）That means there is only a certain amount of that resource in the world. One example of this is oil. When we use up all the oil in the world, there will be no more.

There is another reason for throwing less away. All of our trash has to be put somewhere. Often, it is put into garbage dumps（垃圾场）. Much of that trash will be there for hundreds of years. The dumps will be filled up with all this trash.

There are three ways to cut down on trash.

One way is to recycle. When you recycle something, it means it is made into another shape and used again. Old newspaper may become paper bags. A glass jar can be melted and made into a bottle.

Another way to cut down on trash is to reuse things. You can wash and use again a bottle that can hold mustard（芥末酱）or something else.

The third way to cut down on trash is to reduce the amount of trash you make. You should stop buying things that you don’t need in the first place. That reduce the amount of the earth’s resources that you use.

I share a big office at school with twelve other teachers. Sometimes it's a busy place. Students are coming and going with their homework books. Other students stand in line and are ready to recite. But there are also students who come to the teachers' office just to hang out. They like it here because the teachers are friendly.

In the past Chinese teachers used to be very strict. They were like cold parents. Things are different now. For example, Pamela, a teacher in my office, is a warm person and her students love her. They enjoy talking to her during lunchtime and playing with her. She is their teacher but she is also their friend.

There is nothing wrong with friendship between teachers and students, but there can be problems. Your teacher is still your teacher and a student must respect that. Friendship doesn't mean you will get good grades for poor work. It doesn't mean you can act badly in the classroom and not be punished. The job of a teacher is to teach and the job of a student is to learn. And the most important thing to remember about friendship is that you must always have respect for each other, especially if your friend is your teacher.

53. Who does the underlined word "They" refer to? （回答字数1个单词）

54. Why is the teachers' office sometimes busy? （回答字数不超过5个单词）

55. What does the writer want to tell us in the last paragraph? （回答字数不超过9个单词）

Why do plants grow in some places and not in others? Why does some land have so much growing on it, while other land has almost no plants growing on it at all?

To grow, plants need several things. One is warmth. In very cold places almost nothing grows. Plants also need water. In very dry parts of the Earth only a few unusual plants can grow. That's why dry deserts everywhere are almost not covered by trees or grass.

Plants must also have a place in which to put down their roots and grow. They find it difficult to grow on hard land. The town is built on hard land. The plants here have only the soil found between the cracks of the stones to grow in.

Another thing plants must have before they can grow is food.

What will happen if we try to make things grow on the sandy beach? A few plants, such as beach grass, will grow in sand, but most plants won't. Even if the weather is warm enough and we water the plants each day, many of them will die because the sand on this beach has almost no food for plants.

49. According to the passage, plants need        things to grow well.

A. two                            B. three                        C. four                         D. five

50. From the passage, we can know it is     ______for plants to grow in dry places.

A. easy                  B. difficult                    C. impossible                D. important

51. The reason why most plants can't grow on the sandy beach is that       .

A. there isn't enough sunlight                             B. there is too much water

C. it is too crowded there                                  D. it has little food for plants

52. The passage can most probably be found in a       book.

A. science                    B. history                            C. travel                       D. math

Beijing Opera is also called Peking Opera. It came into being after 1790 when the famous four Anhui opera troupes（戏班）came to Beijing. Its music and singing come from Xipi and Erhuang in Anhui and Hubei. Its costumes are all fascinating and artistic. It is the highest expression of the Chinese culture. It’s full of famous stories, beautiful facial paintings, and wonderful gestures and fighting. This kind of opera is very popular with Chinese people.

There are four main roles in Beijing Opera: Sheng, Dan, Jing and Chou. Sheng is the leading male actor. For example, a Wusheng is a soldier or fighter. A Xiaosheng is a young man. A Laosheng is an old man. Dan is the female role. Jing, mostly male, is the face-painted role and Chou is the comedy actor or clown.

Stories in Beijing Opera are very interesting. Some of them are from the history book, but most of them are from the literature, especially famous novels. The people in the story usually have some disagreements. They become angry and unhappy. They are sad and lonely. Sometimes they are nervous and worried. Then they find a way to make peace. The stories usually end with happiness and laughter and people are all happy in the end.

45. The second paragraph of the reading is about the _________ of Beijing Opera.

A. stories            B. roles                C. gestures           D. paintings

46. From the reading, we know the role Chou most probably has a（n）____ feature.

A. honest            B. funny                C. dull                 D. serious

47. Which of the following is the role Sheng?

A.   B.   C.   D.

48. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. Peking Opera is full of different gestures.

B. There are only four roles in Beijing Opera.

C. Beijing Opera is the most popular in the world.

D. The people in the story usually are in agreement.

Two people sit down to play Go（围棋）. One of the players is an old man. He is now 89 years old. He has spent all of his life playing this game. The other person is a young woman. She has been playing Go for only three years. Before this, the woman was an expert at playing computer games. Now she plays Go the same way she played computer games---by becoming a machine herself.

They will play many games until they know who the winner is. The woman shows no feelings but thinking about all the possible ways of placing her next stone. The old man, on the other hand, looks at the movements of her hands and of her face. This has always helped him to win.

He wins the first three games. She wins the next game, and the man is surprised. He has never lost to a woman. The old man worries about the way the young woman is playing the game. He can't read her face; he does not understand her way of playing.

"The way I think about the game" says the woman, "is that it is steps for getting what I want. " Again, the old man is surprised. For him, the game is a way of life itself, and not a model of life.

"There is no more beauty any longer. Everything is science and rules. Everything is about winning. Nothing is about playing" he says.

They cannot agree with each other; but it is not necessary.

"Change is a necessary part of life" thinks the man.

"Playing is as important as winning" thinks the woman.

They start to play their final game.

41. According to the passage, the Go games are played by       .

A. two Go beginners                                B. two Go lovers

C. father and daughter                              D. husband and wife

42. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A. The old man loses the third game to the woman.

B. The old man wins all the games against the woman.

C. The woman has her own way of playing Go.

D. The woman is very slow in learning how to play Go.

43. From the passage we can know           .

A. the old man doesn't care who the winner is

B. the woman pays no attention to the steps

C. the old man learns something from the woman

D. the woman loses the last game to the old man

44. What is the best title of the passage?

A. An Old Go Player                B. A Strange Woman

C. A Boring Game                  D. Winning or Playing?

When I was about twelve years old, I had an enemy, a girl who liked to tell me about my shortcomings（缺点）. Week by week her list became    31    : I was very short, and I wasn’t a good student; I talked too much, and so on. I tried to stand all of these as long as I could. Finally, I became very   32  . I ran to my father with tears in my eyes.

He listened to me quietly, and then asked, “Are the things that she said true or not? Jane, have you ever    33    what you’re really like? Now you have that girl’s ideas. Go and make a list of everything she said and mark the points that are    34  . Pay no attention to the other things that she said. ”

I did    35   he told me. To my great surprise, I found that about half of the things were true. Some of them I couldn’t    36   , like being very short, but a good number of them I could. I wanted to change the bad things in me, and for the first time I knew something about myself in a very clear way.

I brought the list back to my father. He refused to take it. “That’s just for you,” he said, “You know better than    37   else the truths about yourself, but sometimes others’ opinions are also important, so you have to learn how to listen, and not just close your ears in anger and feel hurt. When something    38   is said about you is true, you’ll find that it will be of help to you. Our world is full of people who think that they know you. Don’t shut your ears. Listen to all of them,    39    hear the truth and do what you think is the right thing to do. ” I have remembered my father’s    40    at many important moments. I have never had a better piece of advice in my whole life.

---He promised to come to see you.

---But he ________. I’ve been all alone.

A.  didn’t           B. wouldn’t          C. hasn’t            D. won’t

He developed different styles of painting, including cubism, ______is a type of art _______things are presented as geometric shapes.

A. what; whose                    B. it; which            C. that; as            D. which ; where