After the accident I tried ________ I can to help him. To my disappointment, ________, it didn’t make any difference.

A. no matter what; however hard I tried         B. whatever; no matter how hard I tried

C. no matter what; however I tried hard                 D. whatever; no matter how I tried hard

--I will go home this weekend.

-- Give my best regards to your parents.

--_________.

A. No, thanks      B.I will, thank you      C. The same to you     D. you are welcome

I work in a company in India. And it has   1   in Germany and the UK, so I  2   take business trips to these places. We have a（n）   3   at the office by which anybody coming back to India from a foreign country gets chocolates for all the  4  . Naturally the chocolates are finished   5  because everyone loves them and   6   to grab（抓抢） as many as possible. I had noticed that the housekeeping staff（勤杂人员）   7    in our company never got to  8  even a single chocolate.

    Recently, I came back to   9  after a month-long trip from Munich and I'd bought a lot of chocolates for the office staff. I called over   10  of the housekeeping staff members called Babu. I gave him a box of chocolates and told him to distribute it   11  among the housekeeping staff. His face immediately broke into a wide smile and this made me  12   .

    But the story doesn’t  13   here. The best part of it a11 was that Babu actually distributed the chocolates among everyone equally, __14   giving extra chocolates to a woman who has a 5-year-old son. It was so   15   for me to see this. I find it really   16   to understand how we，who have the money to buy chocolates and other goodies, do not even feel like   17  and just think how much we can grab.    18   , Babu, who earns only just about enough to raise his family, was so   19   and did not even keep one extra chocolate for himself.

    It made me   20   one simple question: Which is better, having a little less money but being kind and generous or having lots of money but being selfish?

1. A. governments               B. machines               C. branches               D. buildings

2. A. seldom                     B. frequently              C. hardly                   D. never

3. A. order                        B. theory                   C. example                   D. tradition

4. A. employees                 B. children                 C. 1eaders                 D. managers

5. A. at a time                   B. in time                   C. in no time              D. on time

6. A. pretends                   B. fails                      C. hesitates                D. tries

7. A. studying                   B. working                C. playing                  D. helping

8. A. taste                         B. smell                     C. buy                       D. make

9. A. Germany                  B. England                 C. India                     D. China

10. A. those                      B. ones                      C. that                       D. one

11. A. unfairly                   B. equally                  C. extremely              D. secretly

12. A. happy                     B. sad                       C. disappointed          D. frightened

13. A. start                       B. continue                C. end                       D. 1ast

14. A. still                         B. yet                        C. instead                  D. even

15. A. tiring                      B. touching                C. worrying               D. interesting

16. A. easy                       B. funny                    C. hard                      D. strange

17. A. sharing                   B. dividing                 C changing                D. enjoying

18. A. What’s more             B. In reality                C. Worse still             D. However

19. A. diligent                    B. generous               C. brave                    D. intelligent

20. A. make up                    B. figure out              C. think of                 D. take off

A man once said how useless it was to put advertisements in the newspapers. “Last week,” said he, “my umbrella was stolen from a London church. As it was a present, I spent twice its worth in advertising, but didn’t get it back.”

“How did you write your advertisement?” asked one of the listeners, a merchant.

“Here it is,” said the man, taking out of his pocket a slip cut from a newspaper. The other man took it and read, “Lost from the City Church last Sunday evening a black silk umbrella. The gentleman who finds it will receive ten shillings on leaving it at No.10 Broad Street.”

“Now,” said the merchant, “I often advertise, and find that it pays me well. But by the way in which an advertisement is expressed is of extreme importance. Let us try your umbrella again, and if it fails, I will buy you a new one.”

The merchant then took a slip of paper out of his pocket and wrote, “If the man who was seen to take an umbrella from the City Church last Sunday evening doesn’t wish to get into trouble, he will return the umbrella to No. 10 Broad Street. He is well known. ”

This appeared in the paper, and on the following morning, the man was astonished when he opened the front door. In the doorway lay at least twelve umbrellas of all sizes and colors and his own was among the number. Many of them had notes fastened to them saying that they had been taken by mistake, and begging the loser not say anything about the matter.

1. This is a story about __________.

A. how a man lost and found his umbrella

B. How to make an effective advertisement

C. how to find lost things

D. how to put an advertisement in the newspaper

2. “……if it fails, I will buy you a new one.” suggested that __________ .

A. he was rich enough to afford an umbrella

B. he was not sure he would get the umbrella back

C. he was quite sure of his success

D. he was ready to help others

3. The result of the first advertisement was that __________.

A. the man got his umbrella back                 B. the man wasted some money advertising

C. the man found his umbrella                D. someone found his umbrella

4. According to the first advertisement, anyone who _________ would receive ten shillings.

A. left the umbrella in the City Church      B. found the umbrella at No. 10 Broad Street

C. gave the message to the man              D. left the umbrella at No. 10 Broad Street

Are some people born clever, and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our environment and our experience? Strangely enough, the answer to these questions is yes. To some extent our intelligence is given to us at birth, and no amount of education can make a genius out of a child born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and varied surroundings. Thus the limits of person’s intelligence are fixed at birth, whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. This view, now held by most experts, can be supported in a number of ways.

It is easy to show that intelligence is to some extent something we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be intelligence. Thus if we take two unrelated people at random from population, it is likely that their degree of intelligence will be completely different. If, on the other hand, we take two identical twins, they will very likely be as intelligent as each other. Relations like brothers and sisters, parents and children, usually have similar intelligence, and this clearly suggests that intelligence depends on birth.

Imagine now that we take two identical twins and put them in different environments. We might send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory where the work is boring. We would soon find differences in intelligence developing, and this indicates that environment as well as birth plays a part. This conclusion is also suggested by the fact that people who live in close contact with each other, but who are not related at all are likely to have similar degree of intelligence.

1. The writer is in favor of the view that man’s intelligence is given to him____________.

A. at birth                                  B. through education

C. both at birth and through education           D. neither at birth nor through education

2. If a child is born with low intelligence, he can_____________________.

A. become a genius

B. still become a genius if he should be given special education

C. reach his intelligence limits in rich surroundings

D. not reach his intelligence in his life.

3. In the second paragraph, the underlined sentence means if we_______________.

A. pick out any two persons who are not relative

B. take out two different persons

C. choose two related persons

D. select two persons with different intelligence

4. The example of the twins going to a university and to a factory shows_________.

A. the importance of their intelligence        B. the role of environment on intelligence

C. the importance of their positions       D. the part that birth plays

The Wall Street Journal Asia Edition （U.S.）, the Globe and Mail （Canada）, the Guardian （U.K.）, among other foreign news agencies, have recently published articles on China's earthquake relief. They have all sing high praise for the earthquake relief efforts made by the Chinese government.

    The Wall Street Journal Asia Edition published an article on May 21 saying that on the eighth day of the most serious natural disaster to hit China in decades, rescuing survivors from the ruins had been quickly replaced by the formidable challenge of helping them. The article said that people overseas have been deeply impressed by earthquake relief efforts by the Chinese government.

   The Associated French Press （AFP） reported on May 21 that China has become more open amid the campaign.

   Aircraft loaded with relief supplies from Ukraine, Russia, the United States, Singapore and other countries have arrived in disaster areas in southwestern China.

   The Associated Press （AP） published an article on May 21 reporting that China is making great efforts to deal with a formidable task caused by the earthquake how to provide temporary shelter for so many people. The article said that many tents have been built; and food and medical care are provided to the people whose lives have been completely disrupted by the earthquake.

   The Global and Mail of Canada published an article on May 20 that said the rapid earthquake relief work in Sichuan demonstrates China's powerful economic strength.

   An article carried in the British Guardian said that one week after the Sichuan earthquake, China began a three-day national mourning period at 14:28 on May19, and all Chinese people stood in silence for three minutes in memory of the victims.

   The ongoing search and rescue action is encouraged by one miraculous survivor after another. Chinese officials said that, so far, no epidemic had occurred after the earthquake.

1. How many press media are mentioned in the article?

A. 3                 B. 4                     C. 5                   D. 6

2. What is the best title of the passage?

A. Foreign media praise China's earthquake relief

B. Rapid earthquake relief work demonstrates China's economic strength

C. Most serious natural disaster to hit China in decades

D. Tens of thousands of people’s lives disrupted by the earthquake.

3. According to the passage, what is the most pressing task in the earthquake-hit areas?

A. rescuing survivors               B. providing temporary shelter and food for the victims

C burying dead bodies                 D. clearing away the ruins

4. What is the possible meaning of the underlined word “formidable” in paragraph 2?

A. very difficult                     B. glorious             C. light                D. pressing

Healthy knees aren’t the main consideration in choosing high heels, but new research says chunky heels are just as bad for the knees as spindly stilettos（细高跟鞋）. “It takes a long time to feel the effects of knee osteoarthritis（骨关节炎）—and once you do it, it is too late,” said Dr. Casey Kerrigan, leading researcher of the study and associate professor at Harvard Medical School’s department of physical medicine. “I compare it to smoking—one cigarette is not painful, but over a lifetime it is. Wide-heeled shoes feel comfortable, so women wear them all day long,” Kerrigan said. “They are better for your feet than stiletto heels, but just as bad for your knees.”

In the study, researchers had twenty women wear two pairs of shoes with three-inch heels, one with a narrow heel and the other with a thick one. The scientists compared how much pressure was put on the women’s knees by both types of shoes. The women also walked bare-foot to test normal pressure. The scientists found that both types of shoes applied equal amounts of pressure to the knees. Compared with walking barefoot, the heels increased pressure on the inside of the knee by 26 percent. Increased pressure on the knee eventually leads to arthritis, experts say.

The idea that high heels are bad for your health isn’t new—scientists have warned women for years that they contribute to problems ranging from corns to hammer toes, tendonitis, knee pain, sprained（扭伤）ankles and back problems. But in 1998, Kerrigan and a team of Harvard researchers were the first to link high heels and knee osteoarthritis, a painful joint disease that destroys cartilage（软骨）surrounding the knee. The first study looked only at stiletto heels, and Kerrigan said she wanted to study the chunky high-heeled shoes because she noticed many women wearing. “his study confirms what we all intuitively（直觉地）know that high-heeled shoes of any kind are not good for our health,” said Dr. Glem Pfeiffer, a San Francisco doctor and member of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons who was not connected to the study.

1. The study mentioned in the second paragraph found that _________.

A. pressure on the foot is caused by high heels

B. the pressure is abnormal while walking barefoot

C. arthritis is always caused by pressure on the knees

D. both types of shoes have the same harm to the knees

2. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. people got to know the high heels are bad for health recently

B. people have known the high heels are bad for health for years

C. people haven’t known the high heels are bad for health yet

D. people will be warned that the stiletto high heels are bad for health soon

3. Kerrigan’s late study looked at the chunky high-heeled shoes because _________.

A. they feel more comfortable

B. they are related to knee osteoarthritis

C. they are worn by many women

D. they are different from stiletto heels

4. The best title for the passage may be _________.

A. Taking Healthy Knees into Consideration

B. High-heels Do Harm to Knees

C. Chunky Heels and Stiletto Heels

D. When Wearing High-heels

根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项.选项中有两项为多余选项. 

--Mary，we are going to have a party on New Year’s Eve. I’m sure we‘ll have a good time. ____1____

--I’d like to. ____2____

--In our classroom. We are going to decorate（装饰）it and turn it into a splendid ballroom.

--____3____ I shall be very glad to spend my first New Year in China with you.

--But we are going to ask everyone at the party to give a performance. ____4___

--I will. My voice is not very pleasant to the ear，though.

--I heard you sing once. ____5____ I’m sure you’ll be the star of our New Year party.

--Oh，thank you.

A. Your voice was sweet and beautiful.

B. Where are you going to have it？

C. Would you like to join us？

D. Thank you for inviting me.

E. Oh, it is great.

F. Let’s go to the ball together.

G. Do sing us some English songs, please.

根据下列句子及所给汉语注释，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式.（每空只写一词）

1. --My daughter has passed the exam.

-- C_________________! She is really intelligent.

2. In order to improve his oral English he spent most of his time practicing p________ the words.

3. When he s_______ his head, I knew he didn’t agree with me.

4. With the help from all over the world, everything in Wenchuan has more or less returned to n__________.

5. Don’t be too p_________ about food and clothing.

6. China _________ （成功）feeds 22%of the world’s population with only 7% of the world’s land.

7. She is only an unknown actress, while he is one of the famous __________（导演）.

8. Jane and Betty are going on ________（各自的） holidays in a few days’ time.

9. She_______（划;点燃） a match and lit the candles on the birthday cake.

10. She found she had left her wallet at home immediately she _______（登；上） the plane.

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误.对标有题号的每一行做出判断∶

　 如无错误,在该行右边横线上画一个勾（√）;如有错误（每行只有一个错误）, 则按下列情况改∶

该行多一个词∶ 把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉, 在该行右边横线上写出该词,并也用斜线划掉.　　

该行缺一个词∶ 在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧）,在该行右边横线上写出该加的词.

该行错一个词∶ 在错的词下划一横线,在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词.

注意∶ 原行没有错的不要改.

We were late as usual. My husband had insisted on

watering the flowers in the garden by himself. When we realized         1._________

how he couldn’t manage it, he asked me for help at the last moment.      2._________

So now we had only an hour to get to the airport. Unluckily,            3. _________

there were not many more cars or buses on the road and we            4._________

were able to get here just in time. We checked in and went              5._________

straight to the big hall to wait for our flight be called, but                       6._________

no announcement is made. A girl there told us the plane hadn’t          7._________

come yet. In the end, there came an announcement tells us that                8._________

the passengers waiting for Flight LJ108 could get the free meal                  9._________

and that the plane hadn’t left London for some technical problems.      10._________