Kenneth will never forget what happened on a dark night just before Christmas in 1978．He saw a driver，an elderly woman     1     and kill an eight—year-old boy．Later，when he saw how sad the boy’s family were，Kenneth made a（n）    2    ．He would “do    3  it takes to make．4   happy at Christmas time．”

   Kenneth was not      5     ，but he bought a used Santa suit and went around  6  people as poor as himself to give candy and fruit to families who were eyen mote needy．

    Just before midnight on a wind-bitten Christmas Eve，he went knocking on doors of   7    

houses in the poorest section of a Nayaio Village，Many of the darkened homes didn’t have  8

    Some families were      9     to open their doors so late at night．“It’s a man! He has a

big bag！”he   10   a boy，holding up a lantern（灯笼）and watching  11  the curtains，tell his parents．Kenneth convinced them be was    12 ．

  At every opened door，he     13      candies，oranges and toys．Many Navajo kids had never seen      14    before，so his old costume and store-bought beard didn’t  15  them．1t touched Kenneth that they were excited by so  16 ．

    He     17    this up year after year，gathering“ elves（精灵）”to help him．His Christmas

Eve     18    have grown into an annual Navajo feast with gifts of clothing，tools and toys for over 700 people．Kids who can’t    19  it to the event because they’re sick or lack transportation get a __ 20     visit from Kenneth or our of his elves．

    “My grandfather taught me that you learn to be a man and a warrior by sharing and by keeping promises，”he says．

1．A．touched                    B．found                     C．strike                      D．stopped

2．A．promises                  B．excuse                    C．conclusion                     D．effort

3．A．whichever                B．whatever                 C．however                 D．wherever

4．A．brothers                   B．his mother               C．the family               D．children

5．A．rich                          B．small                      C．tall                         D．strong

6．A．calling                   B．persuading              C．suggesting                     D．requiring

7．A．bright                    B．lonely                     C．old                         D．big

8．A．electricity                 B．windows                 C．doors                            D．food

9．A．angry                       B．eager                      C．happy                     D．afraid 

10．A．thought                   B．heard                      C．hoped                     D．let

11．A．out for                    B．from under              C．from behind            D．out of

12．A．helpful                    B．generous                 C．gentle                     D．harmless

13．A．picked out               B．handed out              C．put  down             D．reached for

14．A．candies                   B．Kenneth                  C．Santa  Claus          D．toys

15．A．disappoint               B．please                     C．attract                    D．satisfy

16．A．much                            B．little                        C．big                         D．many

17．A．took                       B．held                        C．gave                       D．kept

18．A．visits                      B．adventures                     C．excitements             D．gifts

19．A．make                      B．do                          C．get                         D．have

20．A．usual                      B．formal                    C．personal                  D．normal

You are at the check-out of a grocery store. You are ready to pay for your food. Then you find out that you have left your wallet at home!  What can you do?

Don’t worry. You just have to put your finger near a special scanner. The grocery bill will be taken out of your bank account．

  We are not joking.

A new system that scans customers’ fingerprints and subtracts（除去）the grocery bill from their bank accounts has taken supermarkets in Germany by storm. Stores, school canteens and even bars are picking it up.

The Edeka supermarket chain is the first retail（零售）business in Germany to use the new

system. “Almost a quarter of our customers pay with their fingers,” said an employee at the headquarters.

    Edeka has tried the system at 70 of its supermarkets．It says it will introduce it at 200 others because customers like it

   “At first we thought that only the young who really keep up with the latest technology would be interested，but we were wrong, ”said Stenfan Sewoester from IT Work.

  “Almost two-thirds of the people who use the system are 40 and older.” he said．

   IT Worker, a computer company, is one of the pioneers of fingerprint payment software in Germany. It has helped about 150shops, canteens and bars to put in the fingerprint scanning machines. Each cost about 2.000 euros（20.000yuan）．

To sign up for the service，customers must have their fingerprints taken and leave her    addresses and banking details with the shop．The shop then takes the cost of goods directly out of the customer’s bank account．   

  “It is especially a good thing for elderly people. Now they do not have to remember their pin（密码）to pay with their bank cards，or to look around for their glasses cash.” Sewoester said．   

The stores benefits from the system too. It saves more than time in the check-out line. It also cuts out the hidden costs of accepting electronic card payments.

1．Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?

   A．A New System                B．Fingerprint Scanning

   C．Money is Not Needed!          D．Pay with Finger

2．How is the bill paid when people are paying their bill with their fingerprint?

   A．The bill will be posted to the customer’s home．

B．The money will he taken directly from the customer’s bank account.

   C．The money is to be paid through electronic card payment．

   D．The customer must pay the money and confirm it with their fingerprint．

3．Which is NOT an advantage of the new invention so far?

   A．Time will be saved.

   B．Customers don’t have to remember their pin number．

   C．Stores can save a certain amount of money．

 D．Customers don’t have to pay their bill with money wherever they go.

4．The writer of the text seems to            ．

   A．hold a neutral attitude toward this scanner

   B．think that the new scanning machine does good only to customers

C．expect that it will soon spread around

   D．believe that middle—aged people are more likely to accept new things

James Blunt is one of the most popular singers in the UK. His firm album唱片），Back to Bedlam，and his number one hit，You're Beautiful，brought him fame in 2005. His music is a mix of pop，rock and folk.

    Blunt comes to China for the first time this month. He will hold two concerts, one in Beijing and one in Shanghai on April 18 and 19 respectively．

    Blunt,34，took an unusual path to stardom．His father was a soldier and so was his grandfather.

   “The only music he heard growing up was ‘Happy Birthday’and‘Silent Nigh”. His father considered all music，even classical，to be unnecessary noise，”reads Biunt’s official website．

     Even though Blunt did not want to join the military（军队），he eventually followed his father’s wishes，and served as a soldier in Kosovo on peacekeeping duty.

     “Like any parents，mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects，”Blunt said．“And the one job my father knew of，that he’d had experience of himself，was the army，so he could help me in that direction．’’

    Blunt eventually became a Captain．One of his final duties in the army before retirement was carrying the coffin（棺材）at the funeral of the Queen Mother of England in 2002．

But Blunt couldn’t escape his love for music．So，after leaving the British Army he moved to Los Angeles and worked on his first album．While in LA，Blunt lived with the actress Carrie Fisher，who played the lead female role in the Start, Wars movies．He recorded his song，Goodbye My Love, in her bathroom，where she kept a piano．

    Blunt took his new album back to England where it was not very successful．But he kept performing and eventually his song，You’re Beautiful，became a number one hit．

    Now Blunt has won numerous awards，sold millions of records and dated super-models．

    But his greatest accomplishment might be that his father now enjoys music！

1．All of the following belongs to Blunt EXCEPT          

    A．Silent Night                 B．Back to Bedlam

    C．Goodbye My Lover           D．You’re Beautiful

2．Which of the following proves “Blunt took an unusual path to stardom”?

    A．Blunt was 34 when he became famous．

    B．Blunt recorded his most famous song in a bathroom．

    C．Blunt’s father wanted him to have a secure job．

    D．Blunt began to pursue a career in music after military service．

3．We can infer from the passage that          

    A．Blunt is living in Los Angeles at present

    B．Blunt rose to fame two years after he left the army

    C．Blunt has changed his father’s attitude towards music

    D。Blunt became successful immediately he recorded his first song

4．What is the passage mainly about?

    A．Blunt’s visit to China．      B．How Blunt became famous．

    C．Blunt’s military life．       D．How Blunt’s father fell in love with music．

South Korea，the country that created the world’s first cloned dog，plans to use duplicated（复制）dogs to sniff out（闻出）drugs and explosives（炸药）．

    The Korean Customs Service uncovered last Thursday seven cloned Labrador retrievers（拉布拉多猎狗）．They are trained near lncbeon International Airport，west or Seoul. The dogs were born five to six months ago after being separately cloned from a skilled drug-sniffing  dog．Officials said using cloned dogs could help reduce costs ,due to the difficulties in finding dogs that are qualified for the jobs．

    The cloning work was carried out by a team of Seoul National University scientists in 2005. They successfully created the world’s first known dog clone，an Afghan hound（猎犬）named，Snappy．The team is led by Professor Lee Byeong-chun.

   The seven new cloned male dogs are all healthy．Now，they share the same name：“Toppy”一a combination of the words “tomorrow” and“ puppy”．

    “They are active and excel in accepting the training，”said Kim Nak—seung，a trainer at

the Customs Service’s dog training center．

    In February，all seven dogs passed a behavior test aimed at finding whether they ate genetically qualified to work as sniffing dogs．Only 10 percent to 15 percent of naturally born  dogs typically pass the test．

    If the cloned dogs succeed in other tests for physical strength，concentration and sniffing  ability，they will be put to work by July next year at airports and harbors across South Korea, according to the training center．Officials say the cloned dogs could also save money．

   “We came up with the idea of dog cloning after thinking about how we can have a superior breed（品种）at a cheaper cost，”said Hur Yong—suck，head of the training center．

    Normally，only about three out of every 10 naturally born dogs it trains--at a cost of about $ 40，140 each—ends up qualifying for the job．

    Lee of Seoul National University said it cost about $ 100，000 to $ 150，000 to clone each of the seven golden Labrador retrievers．

1．What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．The first cloned dog in South Korea．

B．How to train dogs to sniff out drugs and explosives

C．Cloned dogs will be used to sniff out drugs and explosives.

D．Cloned drug-sniffing dogs will take the place of natural ones.

2．Which of the following is NOT the benefit of cloning drug—sniffing dogs?

   A．It helps to reduce costs．

   B．It’s easy to clone drug－sniffing dogs．

   C．The training effect is much better．

   D．It can help to improve quality of drug一sniffing dogs．

3．What can we learn from the passage?

   A．It’s difficult to find dogs that are qualified for drug-sniffing．

   B．The dogs are cloned from Afghan hound．

   C．The seven cloned dogs, male or female，are all healthy．

   D．The cloned dogs are good at accepting the training but are a little passive．

4．Before the cloned dogs are put to work，they must pass the following tests EXCEPT________

A．behavior test                      B．concentration test

C．physical strength test               D．mental test

The Invention of Hugo Cabret，by Brian Selzniek，is a novel like no other．There are pages of exciting events and then suddenly wait! A picture with tiny details，then a big picture that takes up the whole page--and the next page，and the next page，and the next！ The pictures are actually telling the story．It’s like a book and a movie all in one．

    I recently had the opportunity to talk with Selzniek about his unique novel．I wanted to know just how he came up with the concept of writing a novel that reads like a picture book．

“Because the book is so much about movies and the history of cinema，I also wanted to figure

out how to make a book that is also 1ike a movie，”said Selzniek．

   Writing and illustrating（作插图）the book was a long and hard process，Selzniek said．One of the challenges was figuring not what the story was really about and what happened to the main character，Hugo．Selzniek also had to figure out how to make the narrative and the pictures work together to tell the story．

  Selzniek has actually spent most of his career as an illustrator and really considers himself more of an artist than a writer．‘‘I’ve always drawn，ever since I was a little kid．I was encouraged to draw，and so that’s what I feel most comfortable with，”he said．

    He still enjoys many of the things he liked as a kid．That’s why it's not so hard for him to think about what kids would like to read in a book．In fact，sometimes he feels like a kid himself．

    But sometimes figuring out what was going to happen in the story was not easy，he told me．He had no idea what the story was going to be about when he started writing．He didn’t know if it was going to be sad，adventurous，or exciting．Selzniek turned to friends for advice on the book．For now，Selzniek doesn’t plan on writing a sequel（续篇）to the book，but he warns，“You can never say never．”

1．The Invention of Hugo Cabret is           

A．a novel on which a movie has been based

B．a novel only using pictures explaining series of events

C．a book which tells children how to draw pictures

D．a book packed with pictures—a combination of words and drawings

2．It can be inferred that the text is          

  A．an introduction to an unusual novel

  B．a summary record of an interview

  C．a biography of the novelist Brian Selzniek

  D．an ad persuading kids into buying the novel

3．According to paragraph 4，working with pictures is    for Selzniek．

  A．difficult     B．embarrassing     C．natural      D．troublesome

4．What does Selzniek mean by saying “You can never say never”?

  A．It’s hard to say whether he will continue writing the book．

  B．It is such a difficult book that he won’t continue it．

  C．He will never give up writing a sequel to the book．

  D．He will never write a novel like The Invention of Hugo Cabert．

You are only as old as you feel，it is said．But soon scientists will be able to calculate

your real” physiological（生理的）age”．

    Researchers studying genes believe they can calculate exact physiological age by looking at a number of clues in DNA．They don’t have to ask people how they feel or look at their appearance．

    The breakthrough could solve the mystery of why some 70-year-olds function at the level of those in their 50s，while others become frail（虚弱的）sooner than you would think．

    The researchers made the breakthrough by finding the“biomarkers”of aging in tiny worms（虫子）．

    The worms they studied had all average lifespan（寿命）of three weeks．Humans’ some remain live much longer than other similarly-aged worms，while others show signs of premature aging．

    By genetically profiling（基因识别）104 different worms at various ages，the researchers found a group of genes that are involved in the aging process．

    “This is a first step ;our results were not perfect，but we were able to predict the ages of the animals 70 percent of the time，which is far better than anything that has been done before．”said Sireon Melov the lead researcher at Buck Institute for Age Research in California.

Now they want to extend their studies to mice and eventually humans．

    “I am confident that at some point there will be a non-subjective（主观的）method of determining how old someone is with a high level of confidence，”said Melov．

    The speed at which people age depends on a number of things including genetic inheritance（遗传），lifestyle and mental health．

    Determining chronological（按时间顺序的）age in both worms and humans is easy-count forward from birth．But determing physiological age has remained subjective－based on how someone looks or functions．

    The findings have special meanings for age research in humans．Examining biomarker over time would provide a scientific basis for anti—aging medicines．The technology would also provide a means of determining whether a person is aging faster or slower than people would normally think．

1．The passage mainly talks about           

A．the new finding of gene studying

B．the relationship between genes and the age

C．the breakthrough in mental health

D．biomarkers of aging, in tiny worms

2．The researchers’ next goal is to study        

A．tiny worms              B．biomarkers           C．humans           D．mice

3．Which of the following statements is TRUE?

   A．The researchers have found biomarkers of ageing in humans．

   B．The researchers are able to predict the ages of the humans 70 percent of the time．

   C．People’s aging depends oil genetic inheritance，lifestyle and mental health，etc．

   D．There will be a simple method of determining how old someone is．

4．In the future，scientists will ____          

   A．produce effective anti-ageing medicines

   B．find a group of genes that are involved in the ageing process

   C．determine physiological age subjectively

   D．set up an institute to calculate humans’ real age

从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项．选项中有两项多余选项。

A：Morning．

B：Morning．

A：But…but how are you today?  1    

B：I'm not．I have a sore throat，and I cough，especially at night．So I can’t sleep very well，

A：Oh!        2       

B：Yeah，I’ve got a fever．

A：Um，I think you’ve got the flu．I suggest you take a day off and go back home to have a

  good rest．

B：Sounds great．But I have to prepare my speech for the conference．     3    And yesterday

  they asked me for the summary．

A：  4  

B：I had no time for it and there’s no way，until I finish the summary．

A：  5  

B：Sure．Thank you．

A．What’s wrong with you?

B．Did you go to the clinic?

C．You know，it’s only five days from now．

D．You don’t look very well．

E．Take your time and take good care of yourself．

F．Could you do me a favor?

G．Have you got a temperature?

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右

边横线上画一个勾“√”；如有错误（每行只有一处错），则按下列情况改正：

    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。

    The problem of “white pollution” causes by used plastic                     1．            

is becoming increasingly serious，in that plastic shopping bags                 2．           

play a important role，In China about three billion plastic                        3．           

shopping bags are consumed every day，which results a great                  4．          

waste of resources and heavy environmental pollution．Lucky，                 5．          

the government has been put a nationwide ban on the use of                     6．          

free plastic bags，demand that all stores and supermarkets not                  7．          

provide customer with free plastic bags after June 1．The rule                  8．          

has undoubtedly reduced the use of plastic bags．It is suggested that             9．          

we should turn to cloth bags and shopping baskets since now on．             10．           

“山寨”近来成了一个热议的话题．山寨产品随处可见。人们对此评价不一，你们班有近一半的同学表示支持。假如你是李华，请根据下表内容给21世纪英文报写一篇文章谈谈你的看法。     

注意：1．词数100左右；开头已给出，不计入总词数。

      2．可根据内容要点适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

      3．参考词汇：版权--copyright；新潮一trendy；名牌--famous brand（s）

  Recently Shan zhai has become a hot topic and a household phrase。“Shan zhai” products

such as cell phones and MP3s are almost everywhere，but different people react differently．

Hey, please do me        favor．I must get some money from         ATM machine

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