How long do you think _______ the conflict between Japan and China comes to an end?

A．will it be until                          B．will it be when

C．it will be before                         D．it will be that

The traffic administration indicates that airline passengers are only allowed to carry their luggage _______ less than 5 kilograms with them.

A．weighed                              B．being weighed

C．weighing                              D．to weigh

 —Mr. Smith, why are you always asking me to do the difficult work?

—Because you _______ do such a thing and nobody else is fit for it.

A．would            B．should            C．can              D．may

 —________ two months enough for the project to be finished?

—I am afraid not. The professor is ill and only after he recovers ______ go on with it.

A．Is; he can                             B．Are; he can

C．Are; can he                            D．Is; can he

______ is surprising to us is that Tom, for _______ English was once boring, can speak English fluently as though he were a native speaker.

A．As; whom                             B．What; whose

C．It; whose                              D．What; whom

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Fred and his wife Edna went to the state fair every year. Every year Fred would say, "Edna, I'd like to   36  in that airplane." And every year Edna would say, "I know Fred, but that airplane ride   37  ten dollars, and ten dollars is ten dollars."

One year Fred and Edna went to the fair again and Fred said, "Edna, I'm 71 years old. If I don't ride that airplane this year I may never get another   38 ." Edna replied, "Fred, the airplane ride needs ten dollars, and ten dollars is ten dollars."

The   39  overheard them and said, "Folks, I'll make you a   40 . I'll take you both up for a ride. If you can stay   41  for the entire ride and not say one word, I won't    42  you, but if you say one word, it's ten dollars."

Fred and Edna agreed and   43  they went. The pilot did all kinds of twists and turns, rolls and dives, but not a word was heard. He did all his   44  over again, but still not a word.

They   45  and the pilot turned to Fred, "By golly, I did everything I could think of to get you to yell out, but you   46 ."

Fred replied, "Well, I was going to say something when Edna   47  out of the plane, but you know ten dollars is ten dollars."

1.                A．sit             B．ride            C．sleep D．hide

2.                A．loses           B．pays           C．costs D．benefits

3.                A．job            B．unit            C．family    D．chance

4.                A．pilot           B．policeman       C．stranger  D．friend

5.                A．promise        B．plan           C．request   D．deal

6.                A．safe           B．quiet           C．kind D．strong

7.                A．charge         B．punish          C．carry D．want

8.                A．up            B．down          C．in   D．out

9.                A．deeds          B．tricks           C．flights    D．attractions

10.               A．climbed        B．flew           C．landed    D．stopped

11.               A．failed          B．didn’t         C．forgot D．moved

12.               A．walked         B．ran            C．fell   D．looked

In our life, we will have a lot of time to feel low. If there’s one thing that ruins us, which   48  us from doing what we’re   49  capable of and prevents us from achieving our dreams, it is fear of   50 .

Many of us go through our lives never knowing what we could have done and what has often been heard is that if only we hadn’t given up our   51 .

What if you had given up on   52  to talk, walk, read, ride a bike, or any other achievements before you were even five years old? How   53  would your life have turned out if you’d given up instead of    54  with them?

Now, how different has your life been because of the goals you gave up? Because you were afraid that you would fail, how many experiences and opportunities have you   55  out on because you couldn’t get past that invisible barrier of fear!?

1.                A．increases       B．stops           C．inspires   D．helps

2.                A．truly           B．hardly          C．honestly  D．easily

3.                A．death          B．trouble         C．sorrow   D．failure

4.                A．plans          B．jobs            C．dreams   D．lives

5.                A．trying          B．learning        C．practicing D．studying

6.                A．strange         B．poor           C．successful     D．different

7.                A．playing         B．covering        C．sticking   D．moving

8.                A．missed         B．picked          C．taken D．looked

That summer I drank every day, everywhere I went. I had a bottle in my drawer next to me and a bottle next to my bed. I never did another drug, but I drank so much that my family finally asked a priest for help. My father gave me a bottle of medicine for alcoholism that produces unpleasant symptoms when users drink alcohol. I drank while taking it, which made me very sick. And I still drank.

When the priest came, he said, "Jimmy, doctors said that with your diseases and the amount of drinking you’re doing, you’d be lucky to live another six months. So your choice is either to stop drinking and live or to continue drinking and die within six months.”

I said, "I know I can't stop, so guess I'll have to die." The priest told my family what I said. My little brother–who is like my soul mate, looked at me with tears in his eyes and said, "But we don't want you to die." All I could think of was how desperately I had to get out of that room at that moment and have a drink.

But I finally stopped drinking. I was on the care team of my dentist Russell. A lot of people in New York knew him. At the time he was the most famous dentist in the city. He drank heavily and was also with AIDS, so I was selected to be on his care team. Everybody on the team was sober (清醒) but me. He went through dementia (痴呆) and died so quickly before my eyes. I stopped drinking and I’ve been with the disease for 35 years now.

1. Why did the author’s father give him the bottle of medicine?

A．He wanted him to cure his illness.

B．He was trying to keep him dying.

C．He thought the medicine could make him sick.

D．He believed it could prevent him drinking.

2. What did the priest mean by saying to the author “…you’d be lucky to live another six months” in the second paragraph?

A．The author would die after six weeks.

B．The author was too lucky to live for six months.

C．The author could hardly live for six months.

D．The author’s luck was only six months.

3. How did the author stop drinking?

A．The dentist Russell helped him to stop it.

B．He was persuaded by the dentist Russell’s death.

C．His care team managed to inspire him.

D．His little brother’s soul saved him.

4. What can we learn from the above story?

A．Drinking heavily increases AIDS patients’ illness.

B．Priests can cure many AIDS patients’ illnesses.

C．Drug taking and heavily drinking can cure AIDS patients.

D．Team work and patience can cure AIDS patients.

Aggie Bonfire (篝火) was a long-standing tradition at Texas A&M University as part of the college rivalry (竞争) with the University of Texas at Austin. For 90 years, Texas A&M students—known as Aggies—built and burned a bonfire on campus each autumn. Known to the Aggie community simply as "Bonfire", the annual autumn event symbolized Aggie students' "burning desires”. The bonfire was traditionally lit around Thanksgiving in connection with festivities surrounding the annual college football game.

Although early Bonfires were little more than piles of trash, as time passed, the annual event became more organized. Over the years the bonfire grew bigger, setting the world record in 1969. Bonfire remained a university tradition for decades until, in 1999, a collapse during construction killed twelve people—eleven students and one former student—and injured twenty-seven others.

The accident led Texas A&M to declare a pause on an official Bonfire. However, in 2002, a student-sponsored-and-off-campus "Student Bonfire" came up.

In 2003, the event became known as Student Bonfire. In a design approved by a professional engineer, Student Bonfire uses a wedding cake design, but, in a departure from tradition, every log in the stack (堆) touches the ground. For added support, four 24 feet poles are spaced evenly around the stack and then bolted to the 45 feet center pole with a steel pipe. Since the group does not receive funding, Student Bonfire charges a fee to each attendee to cover expenses. Attendance for Student Bonfire ranges from 8,000–15,000 people and the event is held in Brazos County or one of the surrounding counties.

1.When did Aggie Bonfire come into being?

A．In 2003.                              B．1999.

C．1909.                                D．2002.

2. Which of the following statements is true according to the above passage?

A．Texas A&M University started Aggie Bonfire.

B．The University of Texas at Austin started Students Bonfire.

C．Texas A&M University and The University of Texas started Students Bonfire.

D．Texas A&M University and The University of Texas started Aggie Bonfire.

3.Why did Aggie Bonfire once stop?

A．Too many people wanted to join in it.

B．Some serious accidents occurred during the activity.

C．It ran out of fund and then stopped.

D．There were no official supports.

4. Which of the following might serve as the best title of the whole passage?

A．From Aggie Bonfire to Student Bonfire.

B．A brief history of American Bonfire.

C．Why not join Bonfire?

D．Bonfire in Texas of the United States.

The Danish (丹麦) architect of the iconic Sydney Opera House, Jorn Utzon, has died at the age of 90, after suffering a heart attack.

Mr. Utzon, an award-winning architect, put "Denmark on the world map with his great talent," said Danish Culture Minister Carina Christensen. Having won a competition in 1957 to design the building, he left the project before it opened in 1973. Mr. Utzon never visited the completed landmark, after disputes about costs. He had quarreled with the Australian client and the costs overran by 1,000%. Even decades later, he declined invitations to return to Australia, but did design, with his son, a new wing which opened in 2006. In 1998 he said, "It's part of education–I can't be bitter about anything in life."

Most of the interior（内部）of the opera house was not completed according to his plans after government-appointed architects took over the job.

The Sydney Opera House planned to dim the lights on the sail-shaped roof on Sunday to mark Mr. Utzon's death.

The chairman of Sydney Opera House Trust, Kim Williams, said, "Jorn Utzon was an architectural and creative genius who gave Australia and the world a great gift. Sydney Opera House is core to our national cultural identity and a source of great pride to all Australians. It has become the most globally recognized symbol of our country."

Mr. Utzon also designed the National Assembly of Kuwait and several prominent buildings in Denmark.

Danish Minister of Culture Carina Christensen paid tribute to him, saying, "Jorn Utzon will be remembered as one of the Danes who in the 20th century put Denmark on the world map with his great talent."

Mr. Utzon won several international awards, including the Alvar Aalto Medal for architecture and France's Legion of Honour.

In 2003 he won the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize for his design of the opera house.

1. Which of the following is true about Mr. Jorn Utzon?

A．He was born in Demark and worked in Australia.

B．He left Australia before his design was completed.

C．He refused to go back to visit the Opera House all his life.

D．He disagreed with the government client on the building materials.

2.From the above passage we may NOT know ______.

A．what Mr. Utzon has contributed to the world

B．the exact time of Mr. Utzon’s birth and death

C．whether he had a family or not

D．when Opera House was completed

3. What did the Opera House plan to do to mark its designer’s death?

A．A memorial party would be held on Sunday.

B．Another award would be given out to Mr. Utzon’s son.

C．The lights on the roof of Opera House would become less bright.

D．Another wing would be designed to remember Mr. Utzon.

4. The most proper title of the above passage might be ______.

A．Sydney Opera House architect dies

B．Life of Mr. Utzon, a Great architect

C．Designer and builder of Opera House

D．Awards of the Opera House Architect