I must be getting fat—I can            do my trousers up.

A．fairly         B．nearly            C．seldom           D．hardly

Look at the map of the world. Please put a mark            you’ve even been.

A．at the place          B．where            C．the place where          D．at which

Alice’s father had her            because he couldn’t take care of her himself.

A．adopt          B．be adopted               C．adopted            D．adopting

Out rushed an old man,            son admitted to the hospital suffering from burns.

A．his         B．whose           C．of whom            D．that

The students            busily in the classroom when Miss Brown came in to get the book she            .

A．had written; left                                          B．were writing; has left

C．had written; had left                                    D．were writing; had left

“You must give something back to your community,” my mother told me summers ago. Since she was  1   me to do something. I figured that I might as well enjoy it and so I decided to  2  swim lessons . I love the  3  and I thought I could  4  that love with others by helping little kids learn to swim.

As an assistant to an instructor I started off . When I got in the water, I   5  a boy of about eight sitting on the edge of the poo1 looking   6 . That was how I got to know Jack.

While   7  to get Jack in , I was told that he had a(n)  8  that caused him to be afraid of many things,  9  the water. He was so scared that when he first got in , he held me very tightly. I had thought this would be a long and  10  two weeks with Jack,  11  after a while he became more comfortable  12  me and began to love the water. His parents watched him with the biggest   13  . They never thought their son would be able to   14  .

I felt like such a hero for making the  15   so happy. By the end of the two weeks, I had a special tie with Jack, and I'll never forget him and the difference I made to his  16    .Although teaching him to swim may sound like no big deal, it  17  huge.

On the last day of the lessons, Jack's mother told me  18  he always talked about me at home, and was so  19  to come to this lesson every day. These are the  20  things which make my community worth all the time. That's what I've given over the past few summers.

1．A．persuading            B．forcing               C．allowing              D．begging

2．A．take                     B．give                    C．quit                    D．learn

3．A．kids                     B．response             C．advice                D．water

4．A．share                   B．sell                     C．attach                 D．exchange

5．A．blamed                 B．watched             C．noticed               D．observed

6．A．annoyed               B．terrified              C．surprised            D．satisfied

7．A．trying                   B．agreeing              C．carrying             D．pretending

8．A．ability                   B．habit                   C．interest               D．illness

9．A．merely                 B．especially            C．finally                 D．naturally

10．A．puzzling              B．frightening          C．disappointing       D．charming

11．A．but                     B．so                      C．or                      D．and

12．A．without              B．around                C．above                 D．behind

13．A．smiles                B．patience              C．worry                D．cries

14．A．give in                B．turn up               C．set out                D．make it

15．A．boy                    B．friends                C．parents               D．family

16．A．holiday               B．life                     C．study                 D．health

17．A．stayed                B．seemed               C．remained            D．felt

18．A．how                   B．where                 C．when                 D．why

19．A．worried              B．nervous              C．excited               D．curious

20．A．necessary           B．little                    C．important            D．unusual

My first performance in front of an audience was coming up soon.

I tried as hard as I could to remain calm, but my heart was racing. I stared down at my sweat-covered, shaking hands.

I looked up again at the audience, realizing that these were real people. They were not just my mum and dad, who would say, “Good job!” even if I messed up the entire piece.

What if I had the wrong music? What if I played the wrong notes?

As it turned out, I was never able to answer these questions because the spotlight (聚光灯) was waiting for me. I grasped my hands tightly together, drying off the sweat.

Slowly I walked to the mud-brown piano in the center of the room. It contained 88 demanding keys, which were waiting impatiently to be played. I swallowed the golf-ball-sized lump (隆起部分) in my throat and sat down. Slowly, I opened the music. Next, I rested my still shaking hands on the ivory (象牙色的) keys.

As my fingers played across the keys, I was becoming more unsure of my preparation for this moment. But the memory of my years of training came flooding back. I knew that I had practiced this piece so many times that I could play it backwards if requested.

Although at one point I accidentally played two keys instead of the intended one, I continued to move my fingers automatically (自动地).

My eyes burned holes into (were fixed on) the pages in front of me.

There was no way that I was going to lose my concentration. To keep this to myself, I leaned forward and focused carefully on the music.

When I came to the end of the page, a warning went off inside my head: DON’T MAKE A MISTAKE WHEN YOU TURN THE PAGE!

Needless to say, I obeyed myself with all my heart and mind. And, proud of my “page-turning” feat (技艺), I finished the rest of the piece without making a single mistake.

After the final note died away, a celebration went into action inside my head. I had finished. I had mastered the impossible.

1．The author was nervous before the performance because _______.

    A．her mother and father weren’t present

    B．the strong spotlight was shining onto the stage

    C．she hadn’t mastered the entire piece

    D．she had never performed in public before

2．The underlined phrase “mess up” in Paragraph 3 probably means ________.

    A．put into disorder                            B．forget about      

       C．stop halfway                                   D．do well in

3．The author _________.

    A．didn’t make any mistake in the performance

    B．felt better at the beginning of the performance

    C．paid all attention to nothing but her performance

    D．lost her concentration sometimes during the performance

4．What did the author feel about her performance?

    A．She thought it was comfortable and successful.

    B．She thought it was very difficult but successful.

    C．She thought she had never made a mistake during the performance.

       D．She thought she played through the piece carefully but light-heartedly.

Treat with Respect

The speed with which Man is changing the face of Earth has outstripped（超过）all the mighty processes of nature put together. In his haste to supply himself with increasing quantities of Earth’s treasures, he risks destroying one he greatly needs, his natural surroundings. Some countries set aside unspoiled areas of natural beauty. Canada has the largest system of national parks in the world, covering about 13 million hectares, preserving the different landscapes and the plant and animal life.

Other countries are restoring areas which have been reduced to waste land by mining. At Broken Hill in Australia drifting sand from rock crushing turned the area into a desert swept by sand storms. This is now being irrigated, fertilized and planted with grass and trees. In Great Britain quarries and gravel pits(深坑) are being filled in or made into lakes, industrial wasteland is being turned into playing fields and waste tips into sloping green hills.

However Man tries to look after Earth, the fact is that he is using up at a great rate resources, especially fuel resources, which have taken millions of years to accumulate and which he cannot renew. Yet every day the Earth receives a huge supply of energy from the Sun. Man has made several experiments in using solar energy to heat furnaces(熔炉), cookers, and water-distillers. In space technology, e.g. on satellites, solar cells convert(使转变) sunlight into electricity. Houses and offices have been designed which are centrally heated by water or air heated by the sunlight. When Man can trap and store this energy, so that he can use it exactly as he needs it, he will have not only an endless supply, but a clean and safe one.

1．The main idea of the second paragraph is ________.

       A．Many areas throughout the world have been transformed into wasteland by mining.

       B．Australia and Great Britain are the only two countries that are changing the face of the Earth.

       C．Some countries are taking effective measures to make use of the wasteland and to beautify the Earth.

       D． Developing countries should learn from developed countries to look after our natural surroundings.

2．According to this selected passage, which energy is considered to be endless, clean and safe?

       A．Energy from lake waters.

      B．Energy from fuel resources which have taken millions of years to accumulate.

       C．Energy from forests.

       D．Energy from the Sun.

3．Which country has the largest scale of nature protection according to this passage?

       A．Great Britain       B．Australia          C．the U.S.A．      D．Canada

4．Which of the following statements do you think is true after reading the passage?

       A．Man is destroying the natural surroundings on purpose because the surroundings cannot make them satisfied to get enough treasures.

       B．All the wasteland throughout the world is now being irrigated, fertilized and planted with grass and trees.

       C．Where there is a desert, there can be sand storms.

       D．Energy from waters, forests, fuel resources and the sun takes millions of years to accumulate.

The reading skills of young male students may improve more when boys are tutored(辅导) by women, a Canadian study shows, contradicting some school policies to hire male teachers to improve boys’ literacy.（读写能力）

Herb Katz, an education professor at the University of Alberta, took 175 boys in the third and fourth grades, identified as struggling readers, and paired them with a research assistant who worked on their reading skills for 30 minutes a week over 10 weeks.

On average, the boys paired with female tutors felt better about their reading skills after the 10 weeks than those who were guided by a male research assistant, the study found.

Katz said the study, published in the US journal Sex Roles, may cause educational policy-makers in countries such as Australia and Britain to rethink policies that call for more male teachers to be hired to provide role models for boys whose reading skills fall behind their peers (同龄人). “It tells us that the way governments respond with policy is perhaps a little too quick and a little too simple,” Katz said.

Boys and girls enter kindergarten with similar reading skills, Katz said, but by the end of the third grade, boys have lower reading scores than girls. The reasons behind that difference are not entirely clear. “I don’t know that reading skills fade so much as teachers may not recognize what boys are doing,” he said. “We don’t really know a lot about boys, even in those early years.”

The boys involved in the study attended 12 schools in the City of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Most were from downtown neighborhoods. About a third were native Canadians and 55 percent came from ethnic minority groups.

1．What’s the purpose of this passage?

      A．To encourage boys to do more reading.

      B．To persuade schools to hire female teachers.

      C．To describe good ways to develop reading skills.

      D．It provides some information about a study of reading skills.

2．The underlined word “contradicting” in the first paragraph means ______.

      A．finding out         B．going against     C．standing by        D．bringing about

3．We know from the passage that            .

       A．women must be better at teaching than men

       B．girls do more reading than boys

       C．male teachers are preferred to help reading-troubled boys in Australia

       D．governments will change their policy on hiring teachers.

4．According to the last paragraph but one, we know            .

      A．girls born good at reading but boys are not

      B．the cause of boys’ low reading scores remains unknown

      C．teachers cannot make out what boys do

      D． Katz knows boys better than their teachers

1．In Mr. Wang’s opinion, all the following are unhealthy bad table manners with the exception of        .

       A．reaching into the bowl, grabbing a handful of snacks and conveying them into the mouth

       B．carrying about a cat and petting a dog while eating snacks

       C．rubbing noses while having a handful of snacks

       D．using personal chopsticks to take food from the serving dishes and being careful not to touch what we won’t eat

2．Which of the following is Not true in both Netherlands and England?

       A．You must not touch other people’s food.

       B．The food in English restaurants is the most hygienic.

       C．If you have dinner with your friends in Dutch and English style restaurants, each person will have 3 pans and 3 bowls.

       D．In both Dutch and England, people have their own plates/ bowls.

3．Which of the following statements is probably against Ms. Butterfly’s opinion?

       A．People should use knives, spoons and forks instead of chopsticks.

       B．People use their own chopsticks to pick food from the communal bowls.

       C．Use communal chopsticks to transfer food into  your own bowl.

       D．Using knives, spoons and forks is the most elegant and hygienic dining style in the world.

4．The underlined word “hole-pin-the-wall” probably means            .

       A．small but clean                                    B．faraway and dirty

       C．small but cheap                                   D．small and dark