After my brother's serious heart attack, he lay in a coma(昏迷) in the hospital. Tubes and wires   1   him up to machines that kept him alive. The only sound in his room was the    2   whoosh(呼呼声) of the pump forcing air into his lungs. My sister-in-law stood by,    3    .

As a minister I had been with families in similar   4   . I had searched for the right   5  , a phrase of hope, trying to   6   them. But this was a new   7   .

During these difficult days, my sister- in- law and I were   8   between hope and resignation. We 9   every visitor. We were grateful for their stories of people who had    10   comas and return to   11   . We listened when they talked knowledgeably about the stages of grief. We knew they cared. But many visitors came   12  the door talking, and kept talking. Was that how I had dealt with my nervousness when I didn't know   13   to say?

Then a/n    14    friend came to visit. He stood with us around the bed, looking at my brother's body. There was a long silence. Suddenly   15   with emotion, he said, "I'm sorry." There was another long pause. 16   , he hugged my sister-in-law and then turned to shake my hand. He held it a   17   longer than necessary and squeezed a little harder than   18 . As he looked at me, tears came to his eyes. And then he left. One week later, my brother died.

Years   19   passed and I still remember that visitor. I do not recall his name, but I'll never forget how he shared our grief, quietly and   20  and without awkwardness. His few words spoke volumes.

1. A. added            B. hooked           C. put                D. held

2. A. rhythmical         B. loud                C. irregular              D. harmonious

3. A. careful            B. hopeful              C. helpless              D. useless

4. A. conversations      B. considerations   C. locations            D. situations

5. A. words          B. places                C. roles                 D. choices

6. A. convince        B. teach         C. comfort             D. serve

7. A. challenge          B. adventure              C. experience           D. opportunity

8. A. filled              B. torn                 C. worn              D. settled

9. A. appreciated        B. expected             C. depended            D. evaluated

10. A. suffered from    B. shaken off            C. come down with      D. kept out

11. A. reality           B. origin                C. function                D. normal

12. A. in                    B. across              C. over                D. through

13. A. why                  B. what               C. how               D. when

14. A. casual                B. expected             C. close               D. familiar

15. A. concentrated     B. controlled             C. overcome            D. disappointed

16. A. However              B. Therefore             C. Besides              D. Finally

17. A. second           B. lot              C. great deal       D. period

18. A. before         B. possible              C. usual               D. past

19. A. had             B. have                C. are                  D. were

20. A. extraordinarily  B. desperately       C. nervously        D. sincerely

Imagine a boy from a small village in East Africa. He from a very early age has been looking after cattle.  At twelve years old he knows more about cattle than most of you. However, he has never been to school. Has this boy ever had any education?

Education is discovering about ourselves and about the people and things around us. All the people who care about us -- our parents, brothers, sisters, friends -- are our teachers. In fact, we learn something from everyone we meet. We start learning on the day we are born, not on the first day we go to school. Every day we have new experiences, like finding a bird's nest, discovering a new street in our neighborhood, making friends with someone we didn't like before. New experiences are even more fun when we share them with other people.

Encouragement from the people around us enables us to explore things as much as possible. As we grow up, we begin to find out what we are capable of doing. You may be good at cooking, or singing or playing football. You find this out by doing these things. Just thinking about cooking doesn't tell you if you are good at it.

We learn so much just living from day to day. So why is school important? Of course you can learn some things better at home than at school, like how to do the shopping, and how to help old or disabled people who can' t do everything for themselves. At school, teachers help us to read and write. With their guidance, we begin to see things in different ways.

1. The writer takes the African boy as an example to show that___________

A. African children are very poor            

B. some children are unlucky

C. education takes many ways               

D. schools are of great importance

2. In the eyes of the writer___________

A. we have to learn from the people around us

B. school is not important at all

C. only the people caring for us can teach us   

D. education takes place everywhere

3. One can find out what he is good at by___________

A. the encouragement of people around      

B. the teachings of those he or she meets

C. thinking of it when growing up           

D. trying and practicing it

4. How does the writer look at the role of school___________

    A. School is not so important as our living places.

    B. School enables us to understand the world in other ways.

    C. School teaches us something useless at home.

    D. School cannot prepare us for our daily lives.

5. The passage tells us that___________

    A. everyone gets education from the day he or she is born

    B. different education trains different classes of people

    C. school is absolutely necessary if one wants to understand the world

D. everyone will find out what he or she is good at

Connecticut College senior Paul Dryden has known for years that he'd have lots of competition for an entry--level promotions job in New York's music industry. So in a bid to get an advantage last summer, he invented a job for himself.

The job, as an intern(实习生) in Universal Music′s Buenos Aires office, had never existed before Dryden proposed it. Yet because he was willing to work without pay, he got his foot in the door and was soon translating interviews with American rock stars for his boss, who didn't speak English.

"In the U.S., lye done a lot of internships where interns do all the busywork -- copying, stapling, the boring stuff," Dryden says. "But in this position (in Argentina), I felt very valuable to the company."

International internships have been around since the 1950s, but they've become much more popular lately. Over the past three years, colleges have on average seen a 6% increase in the number of students doing international internships, according to a 39--college survey in March by the National Society for Experiential Education, an association of campus internship organizers. And the Institute for the International Education of Students says 25% of its 5, 000 annual study--abroad participants now do an internship component, up from 17% in the 1980s and 21% in the 1990s.

National data aren't available on the total number of students doing internships overseas, but career--planning experts say such experience is an increasingly popular way to get" resume radiance(闪光点)." Because 84 % of college students say they'll do at least one internship before graduating, many now aim to distinguish themselves with experience tailored to a global economy.

1. The best title for this passage may probably be_________

    A. Dryden Proposes a New Career

    B. Students Get" Résumé Radiance"

    C. International Internships Promote Students

D. Graduates Face More Severe Challenge

2. Paul Dryden did internship job to___________

    A. make his spare time more colourful

    B. bring himself to the public attention

    C. earn more money for his education fees

    D. gain more experience in finding a better job

3. International internships, according to Dryden, ___________

    A. have nothing to do with the companies

    B. were more popular among college students

    C. are more useful to enrich the students' experiences

    D. mean merely a series of busywork to deal with

4. More and more students tend to choose International internships because___________

    A. they can be better--equipped for the future careers

    B. they are unwilling to study their lessons in colleges

    C. doing internships overseas is a part of their courses

    D. doing internships overseas helps to establish friendship

5. The underlined word "tailored" in the last paragraph probably means___________

A. changed           B. made              C. matched           D. adapte

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In the first place, television is not only a convenient source of entertainment, but also a comparatively cheap one. With a TV set in the family people don't have to pay for expensive seats at the theatre, the cinema, or the opera. All they have to do is to push a button or turn a knob, and they can see plays, films, operas and shows of every kind. Some people, however, think that this is where the danger lies. The television viewers need to do nothing. He does not even have to use his legs if he has a remote control. He makes no choice and exercises no judgment. He is completely passive and has everything presented to him without any effort on his part.

     Television, it is often said, _________________________________ of current events and the latest developments in science and politics. The most distant countries and the strangest customs are brought right into one's sitting room. It could be argued that the radio performs this service as well; but on television everything is much more living, much more real. Yet here again there is a danger: The television screen itself has a terrible, almost physical charm for us. We get so used to looking at the movements on it, so dependent on its pictures, that it begins to control our lives. People are often heard to say that their television sets have broken down and that they have suddenly found that they have far more time to do things and that they have actually begun to talk to each other again. It makes one think, doesn't it?

There are many other arguments for and against television. We must realize that television in itself is neither good nor bad. It is the uses to which it is put that determines its value to society.

1. What is the main idea of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)

2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

    Television provides so many that you need not take any trouble to see everything by yourself.

3. Please fill in the blank in the second paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please answer within 10 words.)

4. Does television bring us good or bad? What will you do with television as a student?

    (Please answer within 30 words.)

5. Translate the underlined sentence in the third paragraph into Chinese.

假定你是张明，你的外国朋友（Alice）听说中国的中小学正在进行课程改革，来信咨询有关情况。请你根据下表提供的信息，写封回信，谈谈“课程改革”实施后你们学校生活发生的变化。

注意：

1．词数：120—150。

    2．可以适当增减细节，但不能逐字逐句翻译。

    3．开头已给出，但不计人总词数。

参考词汇：课改：curriculum reform

Dear Alice，

—This white clock radio is suitable for a bedside table.

—Yes, it is. But wouldn′t you consider making it a bit        ?

A．cheap       B．cheaper     C．cheapest   D．the cheaper

The old lady was nervous,        she wasn′t used to strangers calling late at night.

A．and         B．for    C．but    D．so

The news        is spreading around the airport is        a big snowstorm will come attacking.

A．which; which   B．/; that       C．that; which      D．that; that

—Could I have a word with you?

—Sorry. I am busy        . Shall we do it later?

A．at the moment                                            B．for a moment      

C．on the moment                            D．in a moment

Since I broke my leg, my telephone hasn′t stopped ringing. My friends        to find out if the injury was serious.

A．were trying      B．had tried   C．have tried  D．are trying