--- How shall we spend the weekend?

--- If you __________ a day trip to the coast, the pleasant seaside town of Brighton is only 20 miles away.

--- That's wonderful! Let s go there.

A．will like taking          B．will like to take   C．feel like taking    D．feel like to take

___________ on the MSN, some people often use '88' for 'good-bye'.

A．When chat      B．When chatting   C．When chatted          D．When to cha

I feel uncomfortable each time I remember the situation ____________ Mary didn't agree with me ___________ the matter

A．that: at             B．in which; over        C．which; about   D．where; to

It is very _______________ of you to notice that detail straightaway.

A．sharp               B．enthusiastic         C．eager               D．aware

--- Will it snow any more?

--- _____________, We have had enough this year.

A．I hope so      B．I hope not           C．I think so       D．I think not

A taxi driver taught me a million dollar lesson in customer satisfaction and expectation. Motivational speakers charge thousands of dollars to pass   1   this kind of training to business managers and staff. It   2   me only a $12 taxi ride.

    I had   3   into Dallas for the sole purpose of calling on a customer. Time was of great importance and my plan included a   4   turnaround trip from and back to the airport. A spotless taxi pulled   5  . The driver rushed to open the passenger door for me and made sure I was   6   seated   7   he closed the door. As he got in the driver's seat, he mentioned that the neatly folded Wall Street Journal next to me was for my use. He   8   showed me several tapes and asked me what type of music I would enjoy. Well! I looked around for a "Watching Camera!" Wouldn't you?

     I could not believe the service I was  9  ! I took the opportunity to say, "Obviously you take great   10   in your work. You must have a story to tell" "You bet," he replied, "I used to be in Commercial America. But I   11   that, thinking my best would never be good enough. I decided to find my position in life   12   I could feel proud of being the best I could be. I knew I would never be a rocket scientist, but I love driving cars, being   13   help to others and feeling like I have done a full day's work and done it well. I evaluate my   14   possessions and… wham! I became a taxi driven. One thing I know for   15   is that to be good in my business I can simply just   16   the expectations of my passengers.   17   , to be great in my business, I have to go beyond the   18   expectations! I like both the sound and the return of being 'great'   19   than just getting by on 'average'".

Did I tip him without hesitation? You bet! Commercial America's   20   is the traveling folk's friend!

1．A．by                 B．away            C．on                    D．into

2．A．spent                B．cost             C．wasted            D．paid

4．A．quick             B．happy            C．long           D．far

5．A．up                B．out              C．about             D．back

6．A．finally            B．carefully          C．immediately      D．comfortably

7．A．after              B．when          C．before           D．as

8．A．therefore          B．then             C．indeed            D instead

9．A．receiving           B．accepting        C．suffering         D．offering

10．A．satisfaction        B．part           C．pride            D．efforts

11．A．became used to   B．got tired of         C．felt interested in   D．was filled with

12．A．when            B．how             C．where            D．that

13．A．of               B．on              C．in                D．w4th

14．A．individual          B．single           C．only               D．personal

15．A．use             B．sure             C．discussion        D．memory

16．A．welcome         B．know            C．meet             D．notice

17．A．Instead          B．However          C．Besides           D．Moreover

18．A．bosses'          B．drivers'           C．cars'                                   D．customers'

19．A．less             B．worse           C．better           D．fewer

20．A．fortune          B．luck                C．loss              D．chance

BEIJINCG, Feb. 28, 2008 （Xinhua） -- China plans to carry out its first spacewalk in second half of the year, an official of the nation's manned space program said here on Thursday.

The Shenzhou VII spacecraft will be launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern province of Gansu late in the year and the astronauts will leave their spaceship for the first time, the official told Xinhua.

Compared with the previous two manned space flights, the upcoming Shenzhou VII space mission is more complex. Besides the spacewalk, the crew is also expected to perform extra-vehicular work such as fixing and tightening equipment. The spaceship will also release a small inspection satellite, which keeps an eye on its own performance.

China may live broadcast the first ever spacewalk. "The Shenzhou VII spaceship is able to live-broadcast the walk, but it has not been decided whether the spacewalk will be broadcast in a live or recorded version," the official told Xinhua.

Breakthroughs have been made in significant techniques related to the spacewalk. Research into the development of spaceship and rockets has been going smoothly, and astronauts have undertaken extensive training, according to the official.

     The Shenzhou VII mission will start the second phase of China's three-stage space program. said the official.

In the second stage, China plans further breakthroughs in manned space flight, such as space walks. In this phase, China will put into orbit a space laboratory staffed by humans for short periods and create a fully-equipped space engineering system.

In the third stage, China will build a permanent space station and a space engineering system. Astronauts and scientists will travel between the Earth and the space station to conduct large-scale experiments.

1．The news mainly tells its readers that _______.

A．China intends to conduct a spacewalk for the first time

     B．China plans to launch her third manned space flight

     C．China tries to live broadcast her first-time spacewalk

     D．China prepares to start her third-stage space program

2．What is included in the second stage of China's three-stage space program?

     A．Creating an ever-lasting space station for astronauts.

     B．Placing a man-staffed lab into orbit for long periods.

     C．Carrying out large-scale experiments in laboratories.

     D．Setting up a fully-equipped space engineering System.

3．Which is true according to the passage?

     A．Important technique about spacewalk remain uncertain in spite of researches.

     B．spacewalk is the only factor that leads to Shenzbou VII mission's complexity.

     C．Due to Shenzhou VIPs inability, it's uncertain how to broadcast the spacewalk.

     D．Our country is getting along quite well with developing spaceship and rockets.

●  Formula One Car Racing was hit by McLaren spy controversy.

●  David Beckham left Real Madrid for Las Angeles Galaxy of the Major League Soccer.

●  The National Basketball Association （NBA） was involved in gambling.

●  Men's 100-meter world record was revised.

Asafa Powell of Jamaica lowered the world 100-meter record with a time of 9.74 seconds in Italy in September. He had previously shared the record of 9.77 with American Olympic champion Justin Gatlin.

●  Germany defended their title at the Women's World Cup.

Germany became the first team in history to defend the title at the Women's World Cup after beating Brazil 2-0 in the final on Sept. 30.

●  American track atl01ete Marion Jones admitted that she had used steroids（类固醇类药物） in  the run-up to the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

    Jones was then stripped of the five medals, including three golds she won in Sydney, and banned for two years.

●  FIFA ended its policy of rotating（使轮流） the hosting of World Cups through its six continental confederations from the 2018 World Cup finals.

●  The World Anti Doping Agency （WADA） presented its new anti-drug rules aimed at strictly punishing drug-takers but also offering mercy for accidental drug-taking.

●  Swiss Roger Federer still ruled the tennis world.

    For the third time in four years, Federer walked away with three of the four majors.

●  Brazilian men's volleyball team got their 10th world-level crown in seven years after defending World Cup title in December.

1．Which country, should you go to if you want to watch David Beckham's league matches on the spot?

A．America.          B．Spain.              C．Britain.             D．Germany.

2．What does the underlined word "stripped" most probably mean?

A．To remove one's clothes, either completely or to a particular extent.

    B．To take off a covering, or take the covering off something.

C．To separate one or more components from a solution （溶液） or mixture.

D．To take status or possessions or titles away from somebody.

3．Which is true according to the passage?

A．Asafa Powell became a world record keeper for the first time.

B．It was the first time that Germany won the Women's World Cup.

C．Accidental drug--takers might not be punished~ strictly by WADA.

D．Roger Federer missed three of four majors for the third time.

4．What might be the best title of this news report?

A．Top 10 world-popular sportsmen in 2007.

B．Top 10 world spoons breakthroughs in 2007.

C．Top 10 world sports records in 2007.

       D．Top 10 world sports news stories in 2007.

    The right to pursue happiness is issued to us all with our birth, but no one seems quite sure what it is.

    A holy man in India may think that happiness is in himself. It is in needing nothing from outside himself. In wanting nothing, he lacks nothing. We westerners, however, are taught that the more we have from outside ourselves, the happier we will be, and then we are made to want. We are even told it is our duty to want. Advertising, one of our major industries, exists not to satisfy these de, sires but to create them--and to create them faster than any man's money in his pocket can satisfy them. Here, obviously someone is trying to buy the dream of happiness and spending millions upon millions every year in the attempt. Clearly the happiness-market is not running out of customers.

    I doubt the holy man's idea of happiness, ,and I doubt the dreams of the happiness-market, too. Whatever happiness may be, I believe, it is neither in having nothing nor in having more, but in changing--in changing the world and mankind into pure states.

     To change is to make efforts to deal with difficulties. As Yeats, a great Irish poet once put it, happiness we get for a lifetime depends on how high We choose our difficulties. Robert Frost, a great American poet, was thinking in almost the stone terms when he spoke of "the pleasure of taking pains."

It is easy to understand. We even demand difficulty for the fun in our games. We demand it because without difficulty there can be no game. And a game is a way of making something hard for the fan of it. The rules of the game are man-made difficulties. When the player ruins the fun, he always does so by refusing to play by the roles. It is easier to win at chess if you are free, at your pleasure, to cast away all the rules, but the fun is in winning within the rules.

The same is true to happiness. The buyers and sellers at the happiness-market seem to have lost their sense of the pleasure of difficulty. Heaven knows what they are playing, but it seems a dull game. And the Indian holy man seems dull to us, I suppose, because he seems to be refusing to play anything at all.

The western weakness may be in the dreams that happiness can be bought while the eastern weakness may be in the idea that there is such a thing as perfect happiness in man himself. Both of them forget a basic fact: no difficulty, no happiness.

1．Who shares the same idea of happiness with the author.?

A．The Indian holy man.         B．The great Irish poet Yeats.

C．Advertisers.                D．The buyers and sellers at the happiness-market.

2．What does "happiness-market" mean in the second paragraph?

A．It means a place in which people can buy brings happily.

B．It means a market which lacks happy customers.

C．It means a pure state for the world and mankind.

D．It means a market where people try to buy happiness with money.

3．According to the passage, which of the following is right?

A．The Indian holy man is much happier than westerners.

B．The westerners understand happiness better than the Indian holy man.

C．There is no fun without playing by the rules.

D．Both the eastern weakness and western Weakness are for the same reason.

4．What does the author do in the fifth paragraph?

A．He supports a point of view with an example.

B．He argues against a point of view.

C．He introduces a point of view.

       D．He tries to understand a point of view.

请认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填上一个最恰当的单词。

Oh, the things that I should see if I had the power of sight for just three days!

The fast day would be a busy one. I should call to me all my dear friends and look long into their faces, imprinting（刻上）upon my mind the outward evidences of the beauty that is within them, I should let my eyes rest, too, on the face of a baby, so that I could Catch a vision of the eager, innocent beauty which precedes the individual's consciousness of the conflicts which life develops.

And I should like to look into the loyal, trusting eyes of my dogs--the serious, clever little Scottie, Darkie, and the strong, understanding Great Dane, Helga, whose warm, tender, and playful friendships are so comforting to me.

    On that busy first day I should also view the small simple things of my home. I want to see the warm colors in the carpets under my feet, the pictures on the walls, the lovely small furniture that transforms a house into home. My eyes would rest respectfully on the books in dot-raised type which I have read, but they would be more eagerly interested in the printed books which seeing people can read, for during the long night of my life the books I have read and those which have been read to me have built themselves into a great shining lighthouse, showing me the deepest channels of human life and the human spirit.

In the afternoon of that first seeing day, I should take a long walk in the woods and intoxicate （使陶醉） my eyes on the beauties of the world of Nature trying desperately to absorb in a few hours the vast brilliance which is presenting itself to those who can see. On the way home from my woodland trip, my path would lie close to a farm so that I might see the patient horses ploughing in the field and the peaceful content of men living close to the soil. And I should pray for the glory of a colorful sunset.

When dusk had fallen, I should experience the double delight of being able to see by artificial light which the genius of man has created to extend the power of his sight when Nature brings darkness.

In the night of that first day of sight, I should not be able to sleep, so full would be my mind of the memories of the day!

                                                          （by Helen Keller）