Surprisingly, no one knows how many children receive education in English hospitals, still less the content or quality of that education. Proper records are just not kept. We know that more than 850,000 children go through hospital each year, and that every child of school age has a legal right to continue to receive education while in hospital. We also know there is only one hospital teacher to every 1,000 children in hospital.
Little wonder the latest survey concludes that the extent and type of hospital teaching available differ a great deal across the country. It is found that half the hospitals in England which admit children have no teacher. A further quarter have only a part-time teacher. The special children’s hospitals in major cities do best; general hospitals in the country and holiday areas are worst off. From this survey, one can estimate that fewer than one in five children have some contact with a hospital teacher—and that contact may be as little as two hours a day. Most children interviewed were surprised to find a teacher in hospital at all. They had not been prepared for it by parents or their own school. If there was a teacher they were much more likely to read books and do math or number work; without a teacher they would only play games.
Reasons for hospital teaching range from preventing a child falling behind and maintaining the habit of school to keeping a child occupied, and the latter is often all the teacher can do. The position and influence of many teachers was summed up when parents referred to them as “the library lady” or just “the helper”. Children tend to rely on concerned school friends to keep in touch with school work. Several parents spoke of requests for work being ignored or refused by the school. Once back at school children rarely get extra teaching, and are told to catch up as best as they can.
Many short-stay child-patients catch up quickly. But schools do very little to ease the anxiety about falling behind expressed by many of the children interviewed.

  1. 1.

    Which of the following statements is true?

    1. A.
      Every child in hospital receives some teaching.
    2. B.
      Not enough is known about hospital teaching.
    3. C.
      Hospital teaching is of poor quality.
    4. D.
      The special children's hospitals are worst off.
  2. 2.

    It can be inferred from the latest survey that________.

    1. A.
      hospital teaching across the country is similar
    2. B.
      each hospital has at least one part-time teacher
    3. C.
      all hospitals surveyed offer education to children
    4. D.
      only one-fourth of the hospitals have a full-time teacher
  3. 3.

    Hospital teachers are found________.

    1. A.
      not welcomed by the children and their parents
    2. B.
      necessary
    3. C.
      not welcomed by the hospitals
    4. D.
      capable
  4. 4.

    In order to catch up with their school work, children in hospital usually turn to________.

    1. A.
      hospital teachers
    2. B.
      schoolmates
    3. C.
      parents
    4. D.
      school teachers
  5. 5.

    We can conclude from the passage that the author is________.

    1. A.
      unfavorable towards children receiving education in hospitals
    2. B.
      in favor of the present state of teaching in hospitals
    3. C.
      unsatisfied with the present state of hospital teaching
    4. D.
      satisfied with the results of the latest survey

Speakers of different languages not only describe the world differently but think about it differently too, according to a new study.
Researchers used a cartoon cat Sylvester to study how language was reflected (反映) in the gestures people made. Dr. Sotaro Kita of the University of Bristol’s Department of Experimental Psychology (心理学), showed the cartoon to a group of native English, Japanese and Turkish speakers and then watched their gestures as they described the actions they had seen. He found speakers of the three different languages used different gestures to describe the same event, which appeared to reflect the way the structure of their languages expressed that event. For example, when describing a scene where the cat swings on a rope, the English speakers used gestures showing an arc trajectory (弧形轨迹)  and the Japanese and Turkish speakers tended to use straight gestures showing the motion but not the arc.
Dr. Kita suggests this is because Japanese and Turkish have no proper verb to express the English meaning “to swing”. While English speakers use the arc gesture as their language can readily express the change of location and the arc-shaped trajectory, Japanese and Turkish speakers cannot as easily express the idea of movement with an arc trajectory so they use the straight gesture.
Dr. Kita said, “My research suggests that speakers of different languages cause different spatial (空间的) images of the same event in a way that matches the expressive possibilities of their own languages. In other words, language influences (影响) spatial thinking at the moment of speaking.”

  1. 1.

    Researchers watched the gestures the people made because they wanted to know _____.

    1. A.
      how language was reflected
    2. B.
      whether they could express the same idea
    3. C.
      whether they could describe what they had seen
    4. D.
      how the structure of language changed69.
  2. 2.

    After watching the gestures of speakers of the three different languages, Dr. Kita concluded that _____.

    1. A.
      Japanese and Turkish people couldn’t express the meaning of “swing”
    2. B.
      English was obviously better than Japanese and Turkish
    3. C.
      no word in Japanese and Turkish could express some ideas of English
    4. D.
      every language had its own special way to describe things70.
  3. 3.

    What is mainly discussed in the text?

    1. A.
      Differences between languages.
    2. B.
      Differences between gestures.
    3. C.
      How people use different gestures to express the same event.
    4. D.
      That language influences the way people think.

It was a very foggy day in London. The fog was so thick that it was impossible to see more than a foot or so. Buses, cars and taxis were not able to run and were standing by the side of the road. People were trying to find their way about on foot but were losing their way in the fog. Mr. Smith had a very important meeting at the House of Commons and had to get there but no one could take him. He tried to walk there but found he was quite lost. Suddenly he bumped into a stranger. The stranger asked if he could help him. Mr. Smith said he wanted to get to the Houses of Parliament. The stranger told him he would take him there. Mr. Smith thanked him and they started to walk there. The fog was getting thicker every minute but the stranger had no difficulty in finding the way. He went along one street, turned down another, crossed a square and at last after about half an hour’s walk they arrived at the Houses of Parliament. Mr. Smith couldn’t understand how the stranger found his way. “It is wonderful,” he said. “How do you find the way in the fog?”
“It is no trouble at all to me,” said the stranger, “I am blind.”

  1. 1.

    According to the passage, we can infer that bump into means _______.

    1. A.
      knock off              
    2. B.
      meet by chance
    3. C.
      strike                  
    4. D.
      traffic accident
  2. 2.

    Which of the following statements are NOT true?

    1. A.
      The stranger has a better sight than Mr. Smith.
    2. B.
      Heavy fog can cause traffic accidents.
    3. C.
      It’s easy to get lost in a foggy day.
    4. D.
      The fog was getting thicker and thicker.
  3. 3.

    Why is it no trouble at all to the stranger to find the way in the fog?

    1. A.
      Because he is a local inhabitant of London.
    2. B.
      Because he lives next to the Houses of Parliament.
    3. C.
      Because he is familiar with the route.
    4. D.
      Because he finds the way not by sight but by heart.
  4. 4.

    This article mainly tells us that ________.

    1. A.
      London is a foggy city.
    2. B.
      Mr. Smith works for the government.
    3. C.
      A blind stranger led the way for Mr. Smith in a foggy day.
    4. D.
      Mr. Smith had a very important meeting and lost his way in the fog.

Last week, while visiting my dad with my daughter, we went to a restaurant for dinner. When we were seated, my dad asked the waitress if there were any soldiers eating at the restaurant. Then waitress said there was a soldier having dinner with his friend. My dad told the waitress to tell the soldier and his friend that their dinner was paid for! He also said that he did not want to be known as the benefactor(施主).
Then waitress later commented on my dad’s thoughtful behavior saying that she had never seen anything like this before. At a local college, she had studied opera and so she used this to thank my dad by performing a piece from The Pearl Fisherman. Her voice brought me to tears because it sounded perfect!
After a while, the soldier appeared at our table (I don’t know how he knew my dad paid the bill for him.) and said that he would be sent to the front the next morning and that he could not leave this country without saying “thanks” to my dad. My dad replied that it was he who wanted to say “thanks”. They shook hands as the soldier left.
Before we left, the waitress came by again. She did a magic show as another way to show her
“thanks” to my dad. Her show was really great. My dad left her a note with email address asking for her next performance time in addition to a $ 50 tip.
Everyone witnessed something exemplary(可作榜样的) in the human spirit that night. I can only hope to see more of this in the future.

  1. 1.

    What did the soldier do in response to the author’s father’s kindness?

    1. A.
      He gave something to author’s dad.
    2. B.
      He gave a big tip to the waitress.
    3. C.
      He said thanks to the author’s dad in person.
    4. D.
      He did a magic show for the author and her father.
  2. 2.

    The author considered her father’s action to be ____.

    1. A.
      funny      
    2. B.
      understandable
    3. C.
      worthless 
    4. D.
      honorable
  3. 3.

    Their passage mainly tells us that we should ____.

    1. A.
      learn to be grateful to others
    2. B.
      find ways to thank others
    3. C.
      try to learn from each other   
    4. D.
      respect soldiers and waitresses

Bacteria(细菌) are extremely small living things. While we measure our own sizes in inches or centimeters, bacterial size is measured in micron. One micron is a thousandth of a millimeter; a pinhead is about a millimeter across, Rod-shaped bacteria are usually from two to four microns long, while rounded ones are generally one micron across. Thus, if you magnified a rounded bacterium a thousand times, it would be just the size of a pinhead, while a grown-up human enlarged by the same amount would be over a mile tall.
Even with an ordinary microscope(显微镜), you must look closely to see bacteria. Using a magnification of 100 times, one can hardly find bacteria. Nor can one make out anything of their structure(结构), of course. Only by using special colors, can one see that some bacteria have wavy-looking “hairs” called flagella. Others have only one flagellum. The flagella move round a central point, pushing the bacteria through the water. Many bacteria lack flagella and cannot move about by their own power, while others can move along over surface by some little-understood “machinery”.
From the bacterial point of view, the world is a very different place from what it is to humans. To a bacterium, water is as thick as molasses(糖浆) is to us. Bacteria are so small that they are affected by the movements of the chemical molecules(分子) around them. Bacteria under microscopes, even those with no flagella, often jump up and down in the water. This is because they knock with the water molecules and are pushed this way and that.

  1. 1.

    The underlined word magnified means _______________.

    1. A.
      enlarged                                                     
    2. B.
      widened                  
    3. C.
      killed                                                         
    4. D.
      caught
  2. 2.

    We know from the passage that _______________ is the smallest.

    1. A.
      a pinhead                                           
    2. B.
      a rounded bacterium 
    3. C.
      a microscope                                       
    4. D.
      a rod-shaped bacterium
  3. 3.

    The relationship between a bacterium and its flagella is most nearly like which of the following?

    1. A.
      A rider jumping on a horse back 
    2. B.
      A ball being hit by a bet
    3. C.
      A boat powered by a motor    
    4. D.
      A door closed by wind
  4. 4.

    Why does the writer compares water to molasses in the third paragraph?

    1. A.
      To tell us how difficult it is for bacteria to move through water.
    2. B.
      To suggest that bacteria are fond of different liquids.
    3. C.
      To show different chemicals are of different structures.
    4. D.
      To show that bacteria are the best swimmers.
  5. 5.

    Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?

    1. A.
      The characteristic (特点) of bacteria.      
    2. B.
      How bacteria reproduce.
    3. C.
      The various parts of a bacterium’s body    
    4. D.
      How bacteria cause diseases.            

When Janet, a grade two student at a well-known school, was pestered(纠缠) by her classmates to join their group to steal from shops, she was shocked. She was a quiet, well-behaved girl and she did not understand why the girls had approached her.
They showed her some of the things they had stolen and said that shop theft was great fun and very exciting. Then they threatened to beat Janet if she did not join them.
Janet was deeply troubled. She did her best to avoid the group of the girls after class­es, but they often waited for her outside the school and tried to persuade her to come with them.
This problem is one which many school students in Hong Kong face. We asked the chairman of the local-fight-crime committee what Janet should do in these cases.
“First of all, she could try to talk the other girls out of the whole thing. Being caught stealing from shops could ruin their futures and it is simply not worth the risk,” he said.
“Young people may think that it is easy to get away with stealing from shops, but more and more stores now have plain clothes detectives who are dressed like customers. I would say shop thieves have a more than ninety percent chance of being caught.”
“If they won’t listen to her, Janet should go to someone in charge in school, who can then decide if the matter can be dealt with by her or whether it is necessary to report the incident to the police.”

  1. 1.

    From the first three paragraphs we can learn that ____________.

    1. A.
      Janet didn’t know what to do with the case
    2. B.
      Janet faced the group bravely
    3. C.
      the group stole a lot of things
    4. D.
      the group were short of money
  2. 2.

    The underlined part “talk the other girls out of the whole thing” means ____________.

    1. A.
      discuss the possible result with them
    2. B.
      tell them about their futures
    3. C.
      persuade them to stop theft
    4. D.
      warn them not to disturb her
  3. 3.

    One of the suggestions to Janet is to ____________.

    1. A.
      report the situation to the police
    2. B.
      ask the local-fight-crime committee for advice
    3. C.
      hire a detective to catch them
    4. D.
      turn to her teacher for help

Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must- keep their ability polished by constant use, so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge, the gate that guard the entrances to the professions, to science, art, literature, agriculture—every department of human endeavor.
Industry keeps the key bright that opens the treasury of achievement.If Hugh Miller, after toiling all day in a quarry, had devoted his evenings to rest and recreation, he would never have become a famous geologist.The celebrated mathematician, Edmund Stone, would never have published a mathematical dictionary, never have found the key to science of mathematics, if he had given his spare moments to idleness, had the little Scotch lad, Ferguson, allowed the busy brain to go to sleep while he tended sheep on the hillside instead of calculating the position of the stars by a string of beads, he would never have become a famous astronomer.
Labor defeats all—not inconstant, or ill-directed labor; but faithful, persistent, daily effort toward a well-directed purpose.So industry is the price of noble and enduring success.

  1. 1.

    What may be the meaning of the underlined word "rust" in the 1st paragraph?

    1. A.
      生锈
    2. B.
      成长
    3. C.
      进步
    4. D.
      快乐
  2. 2.

    Why does a hardworking person even use the motto? Because ______.

    1. A.
      he wants to remind himself that he is a hardworking man.
    2. B.
      he wants to remind himself to rest from time to time
    3. C.
      he is afraid that he may idle
    4. D.
      he feels he can do the work required of them.
  3. 3.

    By saying "Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their ability polished by constant use", the author means_______.

    1. A.
      great men keep their ability polished
    2. B.
      those who use their ability constantly would attain the great height
    3. C.
      those who want to get great achievements must practice their ability constantly
    4. D.
      great men polish their ability to reach their height
  4. 4.

    The main point of the 3rd paragraph is that ______

    1. A.
      industry is more important than agriculture.
    2. B.
      giving some examples of how industry works in achieving great success.
    3. C.
      what industry really means here
    4. D.
      industry can keep the keys bright

New Zealand _____________the Maori tribe


  1. A.
    is the home to
  2. B.
    is home to
  3. C.
    settle down in
  4. D.
    is a home of

I don’t think Rosemary will be upset about it, but I’ll go to see her in case she _______


  1. A.
    is
  2. B.
    will be
  3. C.
    does
  4. D.
    need

John slept late quite often and his frequent lateness for work led to        


  1. A.
    him to be fired
  2. B.
    fire him
  3. C.
    him having fired
  4. D.
    his being fired
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