The Koala is      tree-climbing animal which lives in      Australia.

       A．a, the                 B．the, the                C．不填,不填           D．a, 不填

—Have you heard about Apple iPhone 4?

       —Sure．It is very hot these days．I'm thinking about getting_________．

       A．them                    B．one                  C．that       D．it

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       One day a lady sees a mouse running across her kitchen floor. She was very afraid of mouses, so she ran out of the house and went into a shop there mousetraps were sold. The shopkeeper said to her, “Put some cheese in it, you will soon catch that mouse.” The lady went to home with her mousetrap. But when she looked in her cupboard, she could not find some cheese in it. She did not want to go back to the shop, unless it was too late. She cut a picture of some cheese out of a magazine and put that in the trap. In her surprise, the picture of cheese was quite successfully! When the lady came down to the kitchen a next morning she found a picture of a mouse in the trap beside the picture of the cheese!

1.       The situation ________  ________ immediate action then. （需要，要求）

2.       The wild population of koalas is in danger of ________  _________.（灭绝）

3.       He _______  _________ his letter ________ good wishes to the family.（以…结束）

4.       Don’t mention that at the beginning of the story, or it may _______  ________ the shocking ending.（泄露）

5.    He _____ always ________  _______ a blue suit.（穿着）

6.    Practicing Chinese kung fu can not only _______  ______  _______ strength, but also develop one’s character. （增强）

7.    The hospital is __________  _________ the China Medical University.(附属于)

8.    He smoked a lot ______  _______  _______ of a terminal cancer.（结果）

9.    An arrow went past him, n________ missing his head.

10.   When we got to the hotel, it was still under c__________.

11.   The church d_________ from the 13^th century.

12.   Everything in the house was ______  ________ after the baby sitter came.（有序的）

13.   An acid（酸） can _______  _______a base（碱）to form a salt.（反应）

14.   Doing such a job is ________  __________ _________his talents.（浪费）

Cara Lang is 13. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts, U. S. Last Thursday, she didn’t go to school. She went to work with her father instead. Every year, on the fourth Thursday in April, millions of young girls go to work.    76     The girls are between the ages of 9 and 15. They spend the day at work with an adult, usually a mother, father, aunt, or uncle. They go to offices, police stations, laboratories, and other places where their parents or other family members work. Next year, the day will include sons, too.

       77    . In the U.S., many women work outside the home. The Ms. Foundation wanted girls to find out about many different kinds of jobs. Then, when the girls grow up, they can choose a job they like.

    Cara’s father is a film director. Cara says, “It was very exciting for me to go to the studio with my dad.      78     .” Many businesses have special activities for girls on this day. Last year, Cara went to work with her aunt at the University of Massachusetts.     79     . In the chemistry department, they learned to use scales. They learned about many other kinds of jobs, too.

    Right now, Cara does not know what job she will have when she grows up.     80     .

A.      In the engineering department, the girls learned to build a bridge with toothpicks and candies.

B.      But because of Take Our Daughters to Work Day, she knows she has many choices.

C.      Take Our Daughters to Work Day is very interesting.

D.     I saw a lot of people doing different jobs.

E.      This is Take Our Daughters to Work Day.

F.      Sons are also family members who will decide their careers soon.

G.     The Ms. Foundation, an organization for women, started the program about ten years ago.

Our brains work in complex and strange ways．There are some people who can calculate the day of the week for any given date in 40,000 years, but who cannot add two plus two．Others can perform complex classical piano pieces after hearing them once, but they cannot read or write．

       Dr．J．Langdon Down first described this condition in 1887．He called these people idiot savants．An idiot savant is a person who has significant mental impairment(损伤), such as in autism or retardation．At the same time, the person also exhibits some extraordinary skills, which are unusual for most people．The skills of the savant may vary from being exceptionally gifted in music or in mathematics, or having a photographic memory.

       One of the first descriptions of a human who could calculate quickly was written in 1789 by Dr．Benjamin Rush, an American doctor．His patient, Thomas Fuller, was brought to Virginia as a slave in 1724．It took Thomas only 90 seconds to work out that a man who has lived 70 years, 17 days, and 12 hours has lived 2,210,500,800 seconds．Despite this ability, he died in 1790 without ever learning to read or write.

       Another idiot savant slave became famous as a pianist in the 1860s．Blind Tom had a vocabulary of only 100 words, but he played 5 ,000 musical pieces beautifully．In the excellent movie Rain Man, made in 1988 and available on video cassette, Dustin Hoffman plays an idiot savant who amazes his brother played by Tom Cruise, with his ability to perform complex calculations very rapidly.

       Today we more clearly recognize that the idiot savant is special because of brain impairment．Yet not all brain impairment leads to savant skills．Some studies have shown that people who have purposeful interruption of the left side of the brain can develop idiot savant skills．However few people wish to participate in such experiments．There are many excellent reasons for not undergoing unnecessary experimentation on one's brain．The term idiot savant is outdated and inappropriate．Virtually all savants have a high degree of intelligence and are thus not idiots．

73．What does the passage mainly talk about?

       A．Idiot savants have areas of outstanding abilities.

       B．Human Beings have complicated thinking process.

       C．The brains of the idiot savants are partly impaired.

       D．The reasons why people have wonderful skills vary.

74．What can you infer from the passage?

       A．Idiot savants can play many piano pieces but can’t sing.

       B．Dr．Down is the first person who found idiot savants.

       C．Few people wish to risk becoming savants by brain operations.

       D．Intentional left brain impairments will surely lead to idiot savants.

75．Which of the following can be done by Rain Man?

      A．He can play wonderful pieces of classical music．

      B．He can guess out exactly the length of a man’s life．

      C．He can memorize the contents of the pictures fast．

      D．He can figure out the costs of a deal quickly．

For the most part, schools are designed to produce people who fit into society, not people who set out to change it. However, schools, particularly universities, may not only spread culture; they may add to the cultural heritage（遗产）. Today American society places a good deal of emphasis on the development of new knowledge, especially in the physical and biological sciences, medicine, and engineering. In recent years, the nation’s leading universities have increasingly become research centres.

An emphasis on research has led universities to judge professors not by abilities as teachers, but as researchers. Promotions, salary increases, and other benefits have long been dependent on research and publication（出版物）. However, the most important is no longer publishing. To be successful these days, professors have to bring in money provided by government and private industry. Critics claim that academic success is most likely to come to those who have learned to “ignore” their teaching duties to pursue research activities. Defenders say that even when students themselves are not involved in research projects they benefit from such an emphasis on research.

Major research universities like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have also cooperated with industrial companies to develop technology and products with commercial potential. With university-industry ties continuing to grow, debate has increased about the consequences for basic science, academic openness, the control of information, the direction of research, and the influence on students.

69. According to the passage, __________ is NOT emphasized by today’s American society.

A. Physical science.                                    B. Biological sciences.

C. Engineering.                                       D. Computer science.

70. In the present standard, a successful professor is one who can ______.

A. teach well                                     B. get financial support for research

C. get the highest salary                             D. have many publications

71. Supporters of the present emphasis on research argue that ______.

A. it involves more students in it

B. it does good to students anyway

C. it has a direct good effect on teaching

D. it earns a lot of money for a university

72. The author seems to be _______ the move of emphasis to research.

A. totally against                                 B. sorry to see

C. in favor of                              D. neutral about

Before the Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to John Steinbeck in 1962, only five Americans had been previously honored, the most recent being Ernest Hemingway in 1954 and William Faulkner in 1949. Steinbeck had been considered on those occasions before. As the honor is by far the greatest any writer can receive, Steinbeck was elated(高兴的).

The feeling of elation was tempered(减弱)slightly, however, by the remarks expressed by Steinbeck in 1956, that winners of the Nobel Prize seldom write anything of value afterward.

He cited Hemingway and Faulkner as examples, minimizing the point that by time of their selection most writers had already written their best work. At the age of sixty, when he received the award himself, Steinbeck wrote to a friend that he would not have accepted the award had he not believed that he would continue to write well, that he could “beat the rap.” Like his contemporaries (同时代的人), and others as well, however, he did not.

There was no expectation or need that the writer should do so, for Steinbeck had long before made his mark in modern American literature.

65. According to the passage, how many Americans had received the Nobel Prize before 1949?

A.      Three.         B. Four.              C. Five.               D. Six.

66. In which year was Steinbeck sixty years old?

A. 1949          B. 1954          C. 1956           D. 1962

67. According to the passage, Steinbeck observed that authors who receive the Nobel Prize for literature___________.

A.      have already finished writing popular works

B.      should follow the examples of Hemingway and Faulkner

C.      rarely write significant works afterwards

D.     are among the greatest contemporary writers

68. In the last paragraph the phrase “do so” refers to ________.

A.      feeling elated at receiving the Nobel Prize

B.      accepting the Nobel Prize if nominated

C.      writing well after receiving the Nobel Prize earlier

D.     honoring Nobel Prize winners of the past

According to a recent survey on money and relationships, 36% of people are keeping a bank account from their partner. While this financial unfaithfulness may appear as distrust in a relationship, in truth it may just be a form of financial protection. 

With almost half of all marriages ending in divorce, men and women are realizing they need to be financially savvy, regardless of whether they are in a relationship.

      The financial hardship on individuals after a divorce can be extremely difficult, even more so when children are involved. The lack of permanency in relationships, jobs and family life may be the cause of a growing trend to keep a secret bank account hidden from a partner, in other words, an “escape fund”.

       Margaret’s story is far from unique. She is a representative of a growing number of women in long-term relationships who are becoming protective of their own earnings. Every month on pay day, she banks hundreds of dollars into a savings account she keeps from her husband. She has been doing this throughout their six-year marriage and has built a nest egg worth an incredible $100,000. Margaret says if her husband found about her secret savings he’d be hurt and would take this as a sign that she wasn’t sure of the marriage. “He’d think it was my escape fund so that financially I could afford to get out of the relationship if it went wrong. I know you should approach marriage as being forever and I hope ours is, but you can never be sure.”

       Like many of her fellow secret savers, Margaret was hurt in a former relationship and has since been very guarded about her own money.

       Coming clean to your partner about being a secret saver may not be all that bad. Take Colleen for example, who had been saving secretly for a few years before she confessed (坦白) to her partner. “I decided to open a savings account and start building a nest egg of my own. I wanted to prove to myself that I could put money in the bank and leave it there for a rainy day.”

    61. The underlined word “savvy” probably means ________.

       A. doubtful         B. proud       C. wise         D. simple

    62. Which inference can we make about Margaret？

       A. She is a unique woman.                  B. She was once divorced.

       C. She is going to retire.                    D. She has many children.

    63. The author mentions Colleen’s example to show __________.

       A. any couple can avoid marriage conflicts 

B. privacy within marriage should be respected

       C. everyone can save a fortune with a happy marriage

       D. financial confession is not necessarily bad

    64. Which of the following is the best title of this passage?

        A. Secret Savers                           B. Love Is What It’s Worth

        C. Banking Honesty                       D. Once Bitten, Twice Shy

Alone in the wheel of light at the dining room table, surrounded by an otherwise darkened house, I sat in tears.

Finally, I’d   41   in getting both kids to bed. A relatively new single   42   , I had to be both Mommy and Daddy to my two little children.

A   43   divorced man with full custody(管理)of his children, I was   44   to give them as normal and stable a home life as possible．I   45   a happy face for them.

I had risen slowly, trying to   46   making even the least sound which might start them up again,   47   more songs and more stories. I tiptoed out of their room,   48  the door partway, and went downstairs.

And loneliness. I felt as though I were at the   49   of a great sea of loneliness. It all came together and I was at once lost,   50   . Unexpected, sudden sobs overtook me．I sat there,   51   sobbing.

Just then, a pair of little   52    went around my waist and a little face peered (端详)up at me. I looked down into my five-year-old son’s   53   face.

I was    54   to be seen crying by my son. “I’m sorry, Ethan, I didn’t know you were still awake.”  I don’t know why it is, but so many people   55   when they cry and I was no exception. “I didn’t mean to cry. I'm sorry. I’m just a little   56   tonight.”

“It’s okay. Daddy. It’s okay to cry, you’re just   57   .”

I can’t express how happy he made me, this little boy, who in the wisdom of innocence, gave me   58   to cry. He seemed to be saying that I didn’t have to always be   59   , that it was occasionally possible to allow myself to feel weak and let out my   60   .

Somehow, it was possible for me to get to sleep that night, too, Thank you, my son．

41．A．succeeded          B．managed             C．failed                  D．insisted

42．A．mother               B．worker                C．parent                D．stepfather

43．A．hopelessly           B．recently               C．carelessly           D．shyly

44．A．forced                 B．accepted             C．persuaded           D．determined

45．A．put on                B．took on               C．put down            D．took in

46．A．escape                B．stop                   C．avoid                  D．imagine

47．A．speaking out       B．asking for           C．making up          D．insisting on

48．A．locked                B．fixed                  C．opened                D．closed

49．A．bottom               B．surface                C．middle                D．side

50．A．covered               B．frightened            C．drowned             D．disturbed

51．A．loudly                 B．eagerly                C．deeply                D．silently

52．A．arms                  B．legs                     C．hands                 D．eyes

53．A．tearful                B．sympathetic         C．lovely                  D．anxious

54．A．surprised             B．embarrassed        C．moved                D．discouraged

55．A．explain               B．complain             C．apologize             D．pretend

56．A．worried              B．confused             C．tired                    D．sad

57．A．a person              B．a male                 C．an employee        D．a green hand

58．A．reason                 B．limit                    C．permission          D．understanding

59．A．experienced        B．tough                 C．skilled                D．able

60．A．opinions              B．thoughts             C．words                 D．feelings