Complete the passage by choosing the proper words or phrases in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

       I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap year on either side, and I hardly saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely. I had the  1  child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with  2  persons, and I think from the very start my literary  3  was mixed up with the feeling of  4  . I knew that I had a natural ability with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that it  5  

a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

However, the quantity of serious writing which I  6  all through my childhood would not add up to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five, with my mother  7  it down on a piece of paper. I cannot remember anything about it except that it was about a tiger and the tiger had “chair-like teeth”—a good enough expression. At eleven, when the war of 1914-18 broke out, I wrote a poem which was printed in the local newspaper, as was another, two years later, on the death of Kitchener. From time to time, when I was a bit older, I wrote bad and usually unfinished “nature poems”. I also, about twice,  8  a short story which was a  9  . That was the total of the would-be serious work that I actually set down on paper during all those years.

When I entered Berkeley, I hoped to earn a scholarship. Having been a Straight-A student, I believed I could __1__ tough subjects and really learn something. One such course was World Literature given by Professor Jayne. I was extremely interested in the ideas he __2__ in class.

When I took the first exam, I was __3__ to find a 77, C-plus, on my test paper, for English was my best subject. I went to Professor Jayne, who listened to my arguments but remained __4__.

I decided to try harder, although I didn’t know what that means __5__ school had always been easy for me. I read the books more carefully, but got another 77. Again, I _6__ with Professor Jayne. Again, he listened __7_ but wouldn’t change his mind.

One more test before the final exam. One more __8_ to improve my grade. So I redoubled my efforts and, for the first time, learned the meaning of the word “  9  ”. But my __10__ did no good and everything went as before.

The last hurdle was the final. No matter what grade I got, it wouldn’t cancel three C-pluses. I might as well kiss the __11__ goodbye.

I stopped working hard. I felt I knew the course material as well as I ever would. The night before the final, I even __12__ myself to a movie. The next day I decided for once I’d have fun with a test.

A week later, I was surprised to find I got an A. I hurried into Professor Jayne’s office. He  __13__ to be expecting me. “If I gave you the grade as you expected, you wouldn’t continue to work as hard.”

I stared at him, __14__ that his analysis and strategy were correct. I had worked my head off, as I had never done before.

I was __15__ when my course grade arrived: A-plus. It was the only A-plus given. The next year I received my scholarship. I’ve always remembered Professor Jayne’s lesson: you alone must set your own standard of excellence.

1．A．take                      B．discuss                C．cover                  D．get

2．A．sought                  B．presented             C．exchanged           D．obtained

3．A．shocked                B．worried               C．scared                 D．anxious

4．A．unchanged            B．unpleasant           C．unfriendly            D．unmoved

5．A．when                    B．because               C．if                        D．though

6．A．quarreled               B．reasoned              C．bargained            D．chatted

7．A．angrily                  B．patiently              C．surprisedly          D．naturally

8．A．choice                  B．step                    C．chance                D．measure

9．A．tough                    B．difficult               C．final                    D．thorough

10．A．ambition              B．confidence           C．effort                  D．method

11．A．scholarship          B．course                 C．degree                 D．subject

12．A．helped                 B．favored               C．treated                D．relaxed

13．A．happened             B．proved                C．pretended            D．seemed

14．A．remembering       B．guessing              C．supposing            D．realizing

15．A．anxious               B．touched               C．speechless           D．correct

My elder brother Steve, in the absence of my father who died when I was six, gave me important lessons in values that helped me grow into an adult.

For instance, Steve taught me to face the results of my behavior. Once when I returned in tears from a Saturday baseball game, it was Steve who took the time to ask me what happened. When I explained that my baseball had soared through Mrs. Holt’s basement window, breaking the glass with a crash, Steve encouraged me to confess to her. After all, I should have been playing in the park down Fifth Street and not in the path between buildings. Although my knees knocked as I explained to Mrs. Holt, I offered to pay for the window from my pocket money if she would return my ball.

I also learned from Steve that personal property is a sacred thing. After I found a shiny silver pen in my fifth-grade classroom, I wanted to keep it, but Steve explained that it might be important to someone else in spite of the fact that it had little value. He reminded me of how much I’d hate to lose to someone else the small dog my father carved from a piece of cheap wood. I returned the pen to my teacher, Mrs. Davids, and still remembered the smell of her perfume as she patted me on my shoulder.

       Yet of all the instructions Steve gave me, his respect for life is the most vivid in my mind. When I was twelve, I killed an old brown sparrow in the yard with a BB gun. Excited with my accuracy, I screamed to Steve to come from the house to take a look.  I shall never forget the way he stood for a long moment and stared at the bird on the ground. Then in a dead, quiet voice, he asked, “Did it hurt you first, Mark?” I didn’t know what to answer.  He continued with his eyes firm, “The only time you should even think of hurting a living thing is if it hurts you first. And then you think a long, long time. “I really felt terrible then, but that moment stands out as the most important lesson my brother taught me.

1．What is the main subject of the passage?

       A．The relationship between Mark and Steve.

B．The important lesson Mark learned in school.

C．Steve’s important role in Mark’s growing process.

D．Mark and Steve’s respect for living things.

2．In the story about the pen, which of the following lessons did Steve teach his brother?

       A．Respect for personal property.

B．Respect for life.

C．Sympathy for people with problems.

D．The value of honesty.

3．According to the writer, which was the most important lesson Steve taught his young brother.

       A．Respect for living things.

B．Responsibility for one’s actions.

C．The value of honesty.

D．Care for the property of others.

4．The underlined word “knocked” in the second paragraph means        .

       A．tapped                 B．beat                    C．struck                 D．trembled

Outside among the trees, watch the wildlife ― both the human and animal varieties. Call (212) 360 ― 3465 or (212) 360 ― 2726 for daily events and tours. Central park stretches from 59^th to 110^th Sts, and from 5^th Ave. to Central Park West.

This is among the most striking buildings in the city, the nation, even the world. The observation deck （瞭望台） on the 86^th floor is open to the general public, offering a wonderful view of the city. On the second floor you’ll find the New York Skyride, a simulate helicopter ride over Manhattan. 5^th Ave. at 34^th St., Midtown / (212) 736―3100.

Five blocks west of Time Square, this museum has hundreds of air, deep-sea and space exhibits. Walk the flight deck of the 900-foot-long aircraft carrier Intrepid, see dozens of old and modern aircraft and ride the Intrepid Navy Flight Simulator. Pier 86, W. 46^th St. and 12^th Ave./(212) 245―0072.

If it’s big, it probably happens at the Garden. Check out sporting events, concerts and much more. Tours are available. 7^th Ave., btwn. 31st and 33th Sts., Midtown/ (212)465―6741.

1．The New York Skyride is for           .

       A．sightseeing                                          B．flight training

       C．model plane sports                               D．city transportation

2．If a visitor is interested in music, he will probably go to          .

       A．Central park                                        B．Empire State Building

C．Intredpid Sea-Air-Space museum          D．Madison Square Garden

3．What is the purpose of this text?

       A．To provide information of living in New York.

B．To provide directions of city traffic in New York.

C．To give visitors a guide to New York.

D．To give a brief introduction of the history of New York.

Read the passage below and finish the questions according to the passage. Note that you should finish 3 and 4 in complete sentence.

Please write your answers on your Answer Sheet.

        When it comes to friends, I desire those who will share my happiness, who possess wings of their own and who will fly with me. I seek friends whose qualities illuminate（照亮） me and train me up for love. It is for these people that I reserve the glowing hours, too good not to share.

     When I was in the eighth grade, I had a friend. We were shy and too serious about our studies when it was becoming fashionable with our classmates to learn acceptable social behaviours. We said little at school, but she would come to my house and we would sit down with pencils and paper, and one of us would say, “Let’s start with a train whistle today.” We would sit quietly together and write separate poems or stories that grew out of a train whistle. Then we would read them aloud. At the end of that school year, we, too, were changing into social creatures and the stories and poems stopped.

When I lived for a period of time in London, I had a friend, He was in despair and I was in despair. But our friendship was based on the idea in each of us that we would be sorry later if we did not explore this great city because we had felt bad at the time. We met every Sunday for five weeks and found many excellent things. We walked until our despairs disappeared and then we parted. We gave London to each other.

   For almost four years I have had a remarkable friend whose imagination illuminates mine. We write long letters in which we often discover our strangest selves. Each of us appears, sometimes in a funny way, in the other’s dreams. She and I agree that, at certain times, we seem to be parts of the same mind. In my most interesting moments, I often think: “Yes, I must tell…” We have never met.

   It is such comforting companions I wish to keep. One bright hour with their kind is worth more to me than the lifetime services of a psychologist , who will only fill up the healing silence necessary to those darkest moments in which I would rather be my own best friend.

1．When I was in the eighth grade, we did not learn acceptable social behavior because        

                                                                              .

2．According to paragraph three, we gave London the each other by                      .

3．In the author’s opinion, what kind of person can be regarded as a friend?

                                                                              .

4．In the darkest moments, why does the author prefer to stay with her best friend?

                                                                              .

In meditation（冥想），people sit quietly and focus their attention on their breath .As they breathe in and out, they attend to their feelings. As thoughts go through their minds, they let them go. Breathe. Let go. Breathe. Let go.

According to a recent study at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, three months of training in this kind of meditation causes a market change in how the brain allocates attention. It appears that the ability to let go thoughts that come into mind frees the brain to attend to more rapidly changing things and events in the outside world．Expert mediators are better than other people at catching such fast-changing stimuli, like facial expressions.

The study provides evidence for changes in the workings of the brain with mental training. People can learn and improve abilities of all sorts with practice, everything from driving to playing the piano. The study has shown that meditation is good for the brain. It appears to reduce pressure and promote a sense of well-being.

In an experiment, 17 volunteers with no meditation experience in the experimental group spent three months meditating 10 to 12 hours a day .A control group also with no meditation experience meditated for 20 minutes a day over the same period．Both groups were then given the tests with two numbers in a group of letters. As both group looked for the numbers, their brain activity was recorded.

Everyone could catch the first number. But the brain recordings showed that the less experienced mediators tended to grasp the first number and hang onto it, so they missed the second number. Those with more experience gave less attention to the first number .as if letting it go ,which led to an increased ability to grasp the second number ,This shows that attention can change with practice.

Just ask Daniel Levison, who meditated for three months as part of the study. “I am a much better listener,” he said．“I do not get lost in my own personal reaction to what people are saying.”

1．The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 1 refers to         .

       A．thoughts                B．minds                  C．people                D．feelings

2．In the experiment, volunteers doing meditation for longer hours         .

       A．usually ignored the first number observed

B．were used to memorizing numbers in groups

C．were more likely to catch both of the numbers

D．paid more attention to numbers than to letters

3．What can be concluded from the passage?

       A．Meditation improves one’s health.

B．Mediators have a good sense of hearing.

C．Brain activity can be recorded.

D．Human attention can be trained.

Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from A-F for each paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need.

       Freelance is a word that goes back to medieval times when it was used to describe soldiers who sold their skills to those prepared to pay their market rate, Today it’s an increasingly common way of working for people in a range of occupations and appeals to many who feel constrained by corporate culture.

       What you gain is freedom of movement, what you can lose is a sense of belonging. You can end up feeling isolated from normal support networks, because suddenly you are responsible for your own welfare, training, safety, career development, equipment, professional updating and a thousand other things, it is easy to remain unaware of these things in the relatively cosseted existence of full-time employment. So before you leap up into this exciting and potentially rewarding way of working, stand back and take a look at the risks.

       Freelancing has always been a common way of working for writers, artists and performers, but the range of occupations with a substantial number of freelancers is growing steadily. Anyone with a marketable skill can choose to go it alone. Websites offer a free directory listing for those with skills to sell. Their categories include accountants, healthcare consultants, landscape architects and computer trainers, Areas of work that have problems recruiting staff are always keen to employ freelancers.

       Being a freelance is different from other forms of self-employment-you still work for an employer or several employers but have to develop a completely different set of relationships with them. Employers are now your customers, you are their supplier. You have to become indispensable to them, providing solutions to their problems, some of which they may not even realize they have. In many ways you have to behave like their dream employee, being more willing and available than you may have got used to while in a “proper job”.

       You also have to be aware of, and sensitive to ,the fact that you can be seen as a threat by your customer’s conventional employees, who may regard you as taking work they can do. Successful freelancing relies on the co-operation of everyone you come into contact with. Work that brings you into conflict with an existing workforce can be more trouble than it’s worth.

Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.

1．如果必要，马上请医生。（if）

2．她一直幻想着自己变成了故事中的女孩。（imagine）

3．当你紧张的时候，深呼吸可以帮你冷静下来。（breath）

4．对于这件事，所有在场的人除了保持沉默，别无选择。（but）

5．这个职位要求太高，以至于所有的申请者在面试时都非常紧张。（interview）

6．在西方，超过18岁的年轻人独立生活被认为是理所当然。（take for granted）

Write an English composition in 120-150words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.

现在，有些学生认为和老师之间存在代沟，很难和老师沟通，你认为师生之间的关系该如何处理，请谈谈你的看法。

请以“The New Relationship between Students and Teachers”为题，写一篇120—150字的文章。

In ______ review of 44 studies, American researchers found that men and women who ate six key foods daily cut the risk of ______heart disease by 76%．

A． a; the             B． the; a              C． a; 不填              D． 不填; a