The man is seriously ill. More than one doctor          .

A．have been sent for                                       B．has been sent for

C．have been looked for                                   D．has been looked for

How cool you are! I like       color and style of your tie. They are      good match for your coat.

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

--- I’d like to buy the kind of cloth which        easily.

--- Will this one        ?

A．washes; do      B．washes; work      C．is washed; do       D．is washed; work

Among the reporters        first work about college students’ life sells pretty well. He’s busy talking with them.

A．Tom stood whose                                       B．Tom stands whose

C．stands Tom whose                                      D．stood Tom whose

Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the        kid in his class picked for any sports team.

A．very            B．only          C．last           D．right

“Today is the day I start the big diet （节食）,” I told my wife as I raised my hand and   1  , “No chocolate today!”

“Oh, has the hospital gift shop   2   selling it?” she asked.

“No,” I said. “I’ll just have to   3   my strong determination.”

But when I arrived at the hospital, my little friend Benton has been there   4  . I knew my promise would   5   disappear. Because if Benton had things his way, I’d always be eating a piece of candy from the  6   bag he often shared with me.

Benton was an eight – year – old boy who was  7   because of a kind of cancer, which cause him to live in the darkness, when he was fifteen  8   old. For the next twenty – six months, he was in and out of our hospital. For nearly four years, it seemed   9   Benton could beat the disease, until one Friday afternoon in April 2009, when he  10  a headache and lost   11   on his right side. His mom   11  him to the hospital.

Over the next several months, Benton came to our   13   many more times. Each time he came, we   14   say hello, while Benton answered the   15   by holding out a candy from his bag.

So, on that first day of my diet, I went to his room and found Benton lying in his bed, his eyes   16   but not looking into this world.

“We brought his candy bag with us. Would you like to have some?” his mother asked.

Without thinking of my diet, I   17   into the bag and pulled out the first piece my fingers touched. It was my favorite as if Benton had saved one last piece   18   me. At home that evening, I answered a phone about Benton’s   19  . As I   20   it up, I opened the candy and ate it.

1．A．shouted                 B．answered             C．stated                  D．promised

2．A．stopped                 B．continued            C．kept                    D．tried

3．A．base on                 B．depend on            C．insist on              D．keep on

4．A．one                       B．yet                      C．again                   D．early

5．A．suddenly               B．quickly                C．quietly                 D．shortly

6．A．bottomless            B．countless             C．endless                D．belt less

7．A．ill                         B．injured                 C．deaf                    D．blind

8．A．years                    B．seasons               C．months               D．days

9．A．even though          B．as though            C．if only                 D．as with

10．A．found                  B．developed            C．managed             D．provided

11．A．movement           B．touch                  C．motion                D．sight

12．A．hurried                B．brought               C．rushed                D．carried

13．A．home                  B．room                   C．office                  D．hospital

14．A．would                 B．could                  C．should                 D．must

15．A．meeting               B．greeting               C．encouraging         D．praising

16．A．closed                 B．glimpsed              C．glared                 D．opened

17．A．ran                     B．touched               C．reached               D．felt

18．A．at                       B．for                      C．with                    D．on

19．A．illness                 B．blindness             C．death                  D．sadness

20．A．put                     B．hung                   C．set                      D．gave

Getting a new apartment and roommate can mean inviting a stranger in to learn exactly what you look like in the morning before a shower, how you pay your bills, and which friends you have over. Although Craigslist can be a great place to find just about anything and everything you could want, unfortunately even looking for a roommate on Craigslist could lead to a very negative experience if one is not careful. Here are some tips for finding a roommate so you can share your apartment with less stress and more enjoyment.

*Be careful about having your best friend as a roommate – things always change when you live with someone.

* Consider posting or responding to an online roommate advertisement - it's the easiest way to interact with a lot of possible roommates.

*Search early - you want to pick a roommate who you want to live with, not settle for someone you aren't comfortable with because you ran out of time.

*Ask around - other than using online resources, word of mouth can help turn up new roommate prospects.

*Be clear about what you do and do not want - but also be open to someone different from you.

*Have fun with the process - you may end up meeting new people even when they DON'T become your roommate.

*Use your instincts（直觉） - if you don't feel comfortable with someone, DON'T live with them.

*Be organized - prepare a list of everything you want to know about how someone lives so you will know if they will be a compatible roommate. Establish an idea of your desired roommate. You should begin by figuring out any specifics about your roommate. Do you want only males or females? Is there a specific age or a range of ages you prefer? You should know what you are looking for before you begin to look.

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1．What is the author’s purpose of writing this passage?

       A．To help readers write an advertisement. 

       B．To make online resources available for roommates.

       C．To suggest ways to find proper roommates.

       D．To help readers make friends with their roommates.

2．This passage is probably taken from          .

       A．a guide book                                       B．a magazine

       C．Craig list                                             D．the Internet

3．If you don’t have access to the Internet, which tip may still help you meet possible roommates?

       A．Giving yourself enough time.

       B．Posting a roommate advertisement.

       C．Judging them by using your instincts.

       D．Asking people around you.

4．What does the author advise you to do to find a roommate?

       A．To list some questions about how others live.

       B．To have your best friend as your first roommate.

       C．To share an apartment with someone different from you

       D．To enjoy your process while searching from the Internet.

Everyone knows the smart black – and – white dog that sits on top of a red doghouse with his best friend – a bird called Woodstock.

Created by the American cartoonist Charles Schluz in 1950, the clever dog is loved by generations of kids and adults. He speaks more than 20 languages and appears daily in 26,000 newspapers around the world.

When Snoopy first appeared, he was not different from other pet dogs. But two years later, he had begun to speak with simple words and sounds. By 1957 he could walk onto legs and was going to school with his master, Charlie Brown, who failed in just about everything. Later he learned to use the typewriter.

Snoopy has done lots of jobs. He has been a bow – tie wearing lawyer, a tennis player and Olympic figure skater, a world famous grocery checkout clerk, a pilot and even the first astronaut on the moon.

However, Snoopy has always dreamed of being a famous writer. The beginning of his story is always, “It was a dark and stormy night…” Unfortunately for him no one has ever wanted to publish the story.

In love, Snoopy is as much of a failure as Charlie Brown is at baseball. He easily falls in love but always has his heart broken. He eats to gorged, but it never works.

Snoopy is an insightful （有洞察力的）, feel – good and sometimes sad dog. If you think a little about his words, you might find them full of life lessons. Among his most famous lines are “To live is to dance, to dance is to live.” And “Yesterday I was a dog. Today I’m a dog. Tomorrow I’ll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There’s so little hope for advancement.”

1．Snoopy has done all the following jobs except           .

       A．a lawyer              B．a player               C．a clerk                D．a writer

2．From the passage, we can learn that         .

       A．Snoopy is always a sad dog

       B．Snoopy can not speak in the beginning

       C．Snoopy often dreams of true love

       D．Snoopy is a real smart pet dog

3．It can be inferred that Snoopy          .

       A．has many bird friends and relatives

       B．is a well – know writer and clerk

       C．has been unfortunate since it was born

       D．is very popular in the whole world

4．The underlined word “advancement” probably means         .

       A．success               B．progress              C．growth                D．popularity

What can help you make a fortune in the future? Graduating from a top university might not be enough. A new study fro the University of Essex in Britain has shown that the more friends you have in school, the more money you'll earn later.

    The idea that popularity could have a serious impact on one's earning potential shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. The researchers noted that if you want to get ahead in life, social skills and networking are easily as powerful as talents and hard work.

"If a person has lots of friends, it means that he or she has the ability to get along with others in all kinds of different situations," said Xu Yanchun, 17, from Nantou High School in Shenzhen, who totally agreed with the recent finding. "Also, friends always help each other. They not only create wider social circles for you but lift your mood when you occasionally feel depressed," said Xu. She believed that all this helps you "earn a higher salary".

Maybe that's why some people think the younger generations are in the age of Friendalholism （交友狂症）. A woman even complained that the networking website Facebook's 5,000-friend limit was too low for her large reserve of social contacts.

    But what does a friend mean? Should friends be regarded as a form of currency?

    "Call me uncool, but I think of a friend as an actual person with whom I have an actual history and whom I enjoy actually seeing. It seems, however, that this is no longer the definition （定义）of ‘friend'," said Meghan Daum, who works with The Los Angeles Times in the US.

Daum despised the idea that quantity trumps quality in the age of friend holism. She thought the idea of friendship, at least among the growing population of Internet social net workers, was only to get as many of not-really-friends as possible. For example, a friend might be someone you might know personally but who could just as easily be the friend of a friend of some other Face book friend you don't actually know.

Although she agreed that social ties grease （润滑） the wheels of life, she also warned, "Too bad！One thing money can't buy is a real friend." 

1．Which of the following is mainly discussed in the passage?

       A．Fortune.              B．Friendship.          C．Social skills.        D．The net world.

2．Which of the following does the author accept?

       A．Popularity has the most effect on one’s earning potential.

       B．Talents and hard work have the most effect on one’s earning potential.      

       C．Graduation from a top university has little effect on one’s earning potential.      

       D．Social skills and networking have a great effect on one’s earning potential.

3．According to Daum, which of the following is true?

       A．Friends should be regarded as a form of currency.

       B．It’s great to get many not – really – friends on the net.

       C．Having a lot of friends doesn’t mean real friendship.

       D．Face – book’s 5,000－friend limit is surely too low.

4．According to Xu Yanchun,         .

       A．a friend in need is a friend indeed

       B．a friend helps you to live a different life

       C．a friend can make you feel better when you’re upset

       D．a friend can offer you a higher salary

Are you a real bad – tempered person in the mornings? Do you wake up every day feeling tired, angry and upset, and easy to become sleepy again? If so, then a new alarm clock could be just for you.

The clock, called Sleep Smart, measures your sleep cycle, and waits for you to be in your lightest phase （阶段） of sleep before waking you up. Its makers say that should ensure you wake up feeling refreshed every morning.

As you sleep, you pass through a sequence of sleep states, light sleep, deep sleep and REM sleep, and that repeats approximately every 90 minutes. The points in that cycle at which you wake can affect how you feel later, and may even have a greater impact than how long or little you have slept. Being wakened during a light phase means you are more likely to wake up cheerful and full of life and interest.

Sleep Smart records the distinct pattern of brain waves produced during each phase of sleep, via a headband（头箍） equipped with electrodes and a microprocessor. This measures the electrical activity of the wearer's brain, in much the same way as some machines used for medical and research , and communicates wirelessly with a clock unit near the bed. You program the clock with the latest time at which you want to be wakened, and it then duly wakes you during the last light sleep phase before that.

The concept was invented by a group of students at Brown University in Rhode Island after a friend complained of waking up tried and performing poorly on a test. “As sleep－deprived （剥夺） people ourselves, we started thinking of what to do about it,” says Eric, a recent college graduate and now chief executive officer of Axon Sleep Research Laboratories, a company created by the students to develop their idea. They have almost finished the design and the production experiment and plan to market it by next year.

1．Sleep Smart is a clock that           .

       A．enables you to go to sleep                     B．wakes you up at the proper time

       C．helps you to get up early                       D．makes you sleep in a light phase

2．As you sleep, the headband        .

      A．analyses your sleep cycle every 90 minutes

       B．records the time when you fall into deep sleep

       C．communicates wirelessly with a computer

       D．measures the electric activity of your brain

3．To make the device Sleep Smart work, the sleeper should       .

      A．keep himself keep in light sleep              B．turn on the recorder

       C．set the latest time for waking up            D．adjust his headband well

4．The idea of making such a clock was thought of by       .

      A．some students at brown University

       B．a sleep – deprived person in Rhode Island

       C．some college graduates and a chief officer

       D．the researchers at Axon Sleep Research Laboratories