They have a large family to support.  ______（明显）, they need to find work as soon as possible.

King’s College Summer School

King’s College Summer School is an annual(每年的) training program for high school students at all levels who want to improve their English. Courses are given by the teachers of King’s College and other colleges in New York. Trips to museums and culture centers are also organized. This year’s summer school will be from July 25 to August 15.

More information is as follows:

73. You can most probably read the text in ________.

A. a newspaper      B. a travel guide     C. a textbook         D. a telephone book

74. Which of the following is true about King’ s College Summer School?

A. Only top students can take part in the program.

B. King’ s College Summer School is run every other year.

C. Visits to museums and culture centers are part of the program.

D. Only the teachers of King’ s College give courses.

75. If you are to live with your relatives in New York, you will have to pay the school _______.

A. $200                 B. $400                 C. $500                 D. $900

76. What information can you get from the text?

A. The program will last two months.

B. You can write to Thompson only in English.

C. As a Chinese student, you can send your application on July 14, 2009.

D. You can get in touch with the school by e-mail or by telephone.

Compassion (同情) is a desire within us to help others. With effort, we can translate compassion into actions. An experience last weekend showed me this is true. I work part-time in a supermarket across from a building for the elderly. These old people are our main customers, and it’s not hard to lose patience over their slowness. But last Sunday, one aged gentleman appeared to teach me a valuable lesson. This untidy man walked up to my register（收款机）with a box of biscuits. He said he was out of cash（现金）, had just moved into his room, and had nothing in his cupboards. He asked if we could let him have the food on trust. He promised to repay me the next day.

I couldn’t help staring at him. I wondered what kind of person he had been ten or twenty years before, and what he would be like if luck had gone his way. I had a hurt in my heart for this kind of human soul, all alone in the world. I told him that I was sorry, but store rules didn’t allow me to do so. I felt stupid and unkind saying this, but I valued my job.

Just then, another man, standing behind the first, spoke up. If anything, he looked more pitiable. “Charge it to me,” was all he said.

    What I had been feeling was pity. Pity is soft and safe and easy. Compassion, on the other hand, is caring in action. I thanked the second man but told him that was not allowed either. Then I reached into my pocket and paid for the biscuits myself. I reached into my pocket because these two men had reached into my heart and taught me compassion.

  69. The aged gentleman who wanted to buy the biscuits ______.

     A. promised to obey the store rules              B. forgot to take any money with him

     C. hoped to have the food first and pay later D. could not afford anything more expensive

  70. Which of the following best describes the old gentleman?

     A. kind and lucky                                    B. poor and lonely

     C. friendly and helpful                             D. hurt and disappointed

  71. The writer acted upon the store rules because ______.

     A. he wanted to keep his present job

     B. he felt no pity for the old gentleman

     C. he considered the old man dishonest

     D. he expected someone else to pay for the old man

  72. What does the writer learn from his experience?

     A. Wealth is more important than anything else.

     B. Helping others is easier said than done.

     C. Experience is better gained through practice.

     D. Obeying the rules means more than compassion.

It was only in the eighteenth century that people in Europe began to think mountains were beautiful.    41    that time, mountains were    42   by the people living on the plain, 43   by the city people, to whom they were wild and   44   places in which one was easily  45   or killed by terrible animals.

Slowly,  46  , many of the people who were living unhappily in the towns began to grow 47   of them . They began to feel interested in looking for things which could not be explained, for sights and sounds which produce in a feeling of fear and excitement.    48  , in the   49    century, people began to turn away from the man-made  50   to the untouched country, and particularly   51   places where it was dangerous and wild. High mountains began to be  52   for a holiday.

Then, mountain-climbing began to grow popular as a sport. To some people, there is something greatly   53   about getting to the   54    of a high mountain: a struggle against nature is finer than a battle  55   other human beings. And then, when you are at the mountain top after a long and difficult  56  , what a  57  reward it is to be able to look  58   on everything within   59  ! At such time, you feel happier and prouder than you can ever feel down   60   .