She feels that her _________________ (使命) in life is to help the disabled children.

In 1841, a book was published which astonished the world. It was called“Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan”. The author John Loud Stephens had just returned from a long, difficult and dangerous journey through the thick rain forest of southern Mexico and Guatemala. He had once been there with Frederick Catherwood, an architect and artist, to search for the remains of a lost civilization known as the Mayas（玛雅）.Very little was known about the Mayas at that time, but Catherwood’s drawing in the book showed incredible cities with temples, pyramids and other buildings as impressive as those of their northern neighbors, the Aztecs. These cities, however, were deserted. The inhabitants（居民）had disappeared almost a thousand years before.

       Since that time, far more has been learned about this remarkable civilization. The Mayas had a highly developed system of government and of agriculture, as well as an incredibly accurate system of measuring time. They were also wonderful engineers capable of moving huge blocks stone long distances and cutting them to accurate shapes and sizes.

       And yet although the Mayas knew about the wheel, they never used it. Neither did they use metals other than copper. What is ever more surprising is that they suddenly abandoned many of their cities and built new ones in the jungle. Some time around AD900, Mayan civilization collapsed. By the year 1200, their last great capital, Chichen Itza, was deserted.

       Who were these strange people and the even stranger gods they worshipped(崇拜)? What brought about their sudden and mysterious collapse? Some writers have tried to prove that the Mayas had contact with visitors from space and even that they themselves came from another planet. Some people believe that their civilization came to an end because the Mayas never developed a proper resistance to local germs and diseases. All we really know is that when the first Europeans appeared off their coast in 1517, this great and mysterious culture was only a memory.

65．Stephen’s book astonished the world because        .

       A．it was the first time people heard about Mayas

       B．the Mayas were excellent builders and farmers

       C．he had experienced so may difficulties to find this lost civilization

       D．it described that the Mayas used to be an advanced civilization

66．One of the most surprising findings about Mayas was that      .

       A．they developed accurate system measuring time

       B．they knew how to build pyramids with stones

       C．they deserted their cities and moved to new ones

       D．they built cities which they never lived in

67．Mayas civilization collapsed probably in       .

       A．a thousand years before 1841                B．around AD 900

       C．any year between 1200 and 1517           D．AD1200

68．What brought about Mayan sudden collapse?

      A．Tropical germs and diseases                   B．European conquest

       C．Mysterious force from outer space         D．No one knows for sure

When a consumer finds that something he or she bought is faulty or in some other way does not live up to what the producer says for it, the first step is to present the warranty(保单),or any other records that might help, at the store of buying. In most cases, this action will produce results.

However, if it does not, there are various means the consumer may use to gain satisfaction.A simple and common method used by many consumers is to complain directly to the store manager. In general, the “higher up” the consumer takes his or her complaint, the faster he or she can expect it to be settled. In such a case, it is usually settled in the consumer's favour, taking it as true that he or she has a just right.
    Consumers should complain in person whenever possible, but if they cannot get to the place of buying, it is acceptable to phone or write the complaint in a letter.
    Complaining is usually most effective when it is done politely but firmly, and especially when the consumer can show clearly what is wrong with what was bought in question. If this cannot be done, the consumer will succeed best by presenting specific information as to what is wrong, rather than by making general statements. For example,“The left speaker does not work at all and the sound coming out of the right one is unclear” is better than “This stereo(立体音响) does not work.”.
    The store manager may advise the consumer to write to the producer, if so, the consumer should do this, stating the complaint as politely and as firmly as possible. But if a polite complaint does not achieve the expected result, the consumer can go a step further. He or she can threaten to take the seller to court or report the seller to a public organization responsible for protecting consumers' rights.

60. When a consumer finds what he bought has a fault in it, he should first _____________.
A. complain personally to the manager       B. show something provable in written form to the store
C. threaten to take the matter to court       D. writer a firm letter of complaint to the store
61. If a consumer wants a quick settlement of his problem, it's better to complain to ____________.
A. a shop assistant            B. the producer    C. a public organization            D. a store manager
62. The most effective complaint about what was bought can be made by ________.
A. showing the fault of it to the producer     B. saying firmly it is of poor quality
C. asking politely to change it                      D. explaining exactly what is wrong with it
63. The passage tells us______.
A. how to make the complaint have a good effect   B. how to settle a consumer's complaint
C. how to avoid buying something wrong              D. how to deal with complaints from consumers
64. According to the passage, the last way a consumer has to use is _______

A. to write to the producer                

Life is difficult.

But life is no longer difficult once we truly understand and accept it.

Most do not fully see this truth. Instead they complain about their problems and difficulties as if life should be easy. It seems to them that their difficulties represent (代表) a special kind of suffering especially forced upon them or else upon their families, or even their nation.
    What makes life difficult is that the process of facing and solving problems is a painful one. Problems depending on their nature cause in us sadness or loneliness or regret or anger or fear. These are uncomfortable feelings, often as painful as any kind of physical pain. And since life causes an endless series of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy.
    Yet, it is in this whole of solving problems that life has its meaning.
    Problems are the serious test that tells success from failure. When we desire to encourage the growth of the human spirit, we encourage the human ability to solve problems just as in school we set problems for our children to solve. It is through the pain of meeting and working out problems that we learn. As Benjamin Franklin said, “Those things that hurt, instruct." It is for this reason that wise people learn not to fear but to welcome the pain of problems.

55. From the passage, it can be inferred that   ____________.
A. not everybody has problems  
B. we become stronger by facing and solving the problems of life
C. life is difficult because our problems bring us pain but no joy
D. people like to complain about their problems
56. The writer probably uses just one short sentence in the first paragraph to  ___________.     
A. save space              B. persuade readers     C. make readers laugh           D. get readers' attention
57. The main idea of paragraph 3 is ___________.
A. most people feel life is easy                         

The subject of this year’s Kunming International Expo(博览会) is “man and nature walking hand in hand into the 21^st Century”. When the UK was asked to take part, it seemed natural to build a garden. Now the British Garden will be a central part when Expo opens on May 1.

David Patterson , the Curator(馆长) of the Department of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh, is leading the team now putting the finishing couches to the garden．The Royal Botanic Gardens were chosen for a very good reason. They have the largest collection of Chinese plants in the world outside China.

“Ever since people in Britain started gardening for pleasure they have used Chinese plants,” Patterson told English Corner. “There are probably Chinese flowers in nearly every garden in Britain. This is a good chance to give something back.”

The garden has been carefully designed to mix traditional British skills with the local Chinese environment. David Patterson describes the garden as “formal but gentle”. It contains a raised flower bed, a summer house and a lot of local trees. The garden is contained behind a wall of local, yellow stone. It is intended to be a place of serious thinking and quiet enjoyment.

“You could say that we’ve painted a picture,” said David Patterson. “And we have designed the garden to continue for a long time, so that the people of Kunming will be able to enjoy it long after the Expo is over.”

51. Visitors to the Kunming International Expo will most probably feel ______.     

A. man is the master of nature                B. man quite agrees with nature

C. nature is a helping hand to man           D. China has a long history of gardening

52. The underlined expression “putting the finishing touches to the garden” here means ______.

A. starting building the garden                 

B. examining the main body of the garden

C. doing the last part of the work to the garden  

D. completing the design of garden

53. In the British Garden you will feel ______.  

A. nothing familiar    B. everything British    C. excited and noisy          D. quiet and happy

54. The passage is mainly ______.      

A. an introduction to the British Garden   

B. an explanation of the design of the British Garden

C. a high praise for the Chinese gardening 

D. a short talk on this year’s Kunming International Expo

One evening, sitting at the window sewing, my mother called me, “Come here,” she said. “ 31 .” She held my head against her  32 , and after a puzzled moment I felt a  33  foot drumming on my cheek. “You see?” she said, “It’s alive. You can  34  it, can’t you ?” I accepted it, as I accepted everything, without  35 . It was as good a place for the baby to be as any other and I never  36  about why it got in nor how it would finally get out.

A baby would come? I  37  noticed. That there were soon to be  38  of us would not make any difference to me. I had my place, star-like in my small universe.  39 , certainly not a baby, could  40  that.

I was  41 , however. I soon found that things had  42  a great deal. I had never been the  43 . Now I was no longer the youngest. I was simply the one in the  44 . My sister had certain  45  because she was the oldest, and my brother was the baby, the son, the much  46  boy. More than that, he had all sorts of things that never came to me.

As he grew, it became  47  that my brother had been the center of everything. People smiled when they saw him. He made them happy  48  by being there. And he had the sort of childish beauty that always turns heads and draws a second  49 . He was so charming that he was immediately loveable. Later he also turned out to be  50 , although perhaps not quite as clever as I was.

The sun was shining brightly, _____ everything there _____ more beautiful.

A. and made; looking  B. to make; looked   C. and making; look  D. making; look

I often think of my childhood, during ________I lived on my uncle’s farm.

A. which               B. when                       C. where                      D. who

______ knows the name of this song will receive a prize from the radio station.

A. No matter who    B. Those  who    C.  Whoever   D. Any person

 ---What's the matter with Jane? She has been sitting there for hours.

 ---A letter from her mother     an attack of home sickness in her.

   A. set out                   B. set off             C. set up                 D. set about