A feeling of excitement overcame me as I looked around the stadium.

At 5:30 pm, two hours before game time, I walked into the locker room（更衣室）．My    1   of school, music and what I planned to do on Saturday night were    2   with the simple aim to beat the football team across the field from us tonight.

Approaching my locker（衣物柜）, I noticed my teammates   3  ．Some rested on benches, staring up at the ceiling    4   it were a film of the opposing team’s play．Some seemed a bit more    5  , using the time to tell jokes．A few stared at the field,    6    what will happen in 120 minutes.

Our coach, Tony Severino, came out of his office at 6 o’clock．He told the team how    7    this game was for the season, between two of the state’s top teams—my school and our opposing team, Liberty High School．His words gave the team impulse（冲动）it needed to   8  .

At 7:10 pm, warm – ups finished, we went over the game     9   and discussed what we needed to do for the next three hours．The sound of the national anthem（国歌）   10   that we were only minutes from the action．Our coach usually made a final   11  ．But tonight was different．On this clear night he    12   looked around the room at all the players and shouted, “Let’s go and get them.” Even    13    the “get” came out of his mouth, we were already    14    our way out of the door.

Outside, a few young fans reached to touch our hands, eager to be a    15    of our school’s winning tradition．When I smiled and     16    my hand, the young faces lit up as if they had just met Superman.

Seconds later, the team ran onto the     17   , moving as a mass of blue, in front of a packed stadium．We enjoyed a noisy   18   from fans and the fight song played by our school band．Breathing in the    19    of one of the biggest games of the year, I felt we were sure to win．I told myself, “This was what it was all about” and   20    that it was for moments like this that I loved high school football．

1．A．thoughts               B．ideas                   C．pictures               D．minds

2．A．covered                B．mixed                  C．replaced              D．filled

3．A．exercising             B．struggling            C．preparing             D．previewing

4．A．in case                  B．even though         C．as long as            D．as if

5．A．relaxed                  B．worried               C．frightened            D．impressed

6．A．dreaming               B．wishing               C．expecting            D．imagining

7．A．useless                  B．difficult               C．available              D．important

8．A．warm up               B．pick up                C．get up                 D．rise up

9．A．route                    B．frame                  C．plan                    D．forecast

10．A．urged                  B．insisted                C．suggested            D．stressed

11．A．speech                B．preparation          C．decision              D．change

12．A．finally                 B．simply                 C．actually               D．eventually

13．A．when                  B．before                 C．as                       D．since

14．A．leading                B．dragging              C．showing              D．making

15．A．player                 B．friend                  C．part                    D．team

16．A．held out               B．took out              C．got out                D．brought out

17．A．field                    B．stage                   C．yard                    D．garden

18．A．success               B．reply                   C．achievement        D．welcome

19．A．atmosphere          B．experience           C．expectation          D．examination

20．A．accepted             B．admitted              C．realized               D．recognized

       Are you a team person? Are you at your best as part of a small ,tightly united group of devoted workers? If so ,the future may hold more for you than you think.

       High technology, some said, would make teamwork a thing of the past. That’s happening in those areas of business and data processing where one person and a computer can replace a team of workers.

       But, elsewhere, teamwork is very much alive. High technology has led to a new type of teamwork in a number of fields, including advertising, scientific research, engineering design, and ocean exploration.

       Through computer networking, scientists, engineers, and technicians at different places—often thousands of miles apart—can work on the same project at once. They can exchange ideas, try out different designs, and test their results.

       Examples? An engineering team can now design and try out a robot system, a new manufacturing process, or an entire factory—before it is built. A medical team can simulate（模拟）a dangerous operation before performing it on the patient.

       Of course, computer-aided team effort doesn’t end with investigation（探究）and simulation. It now usually continues into actual design ,manufacturing, and testing. “CAD-CAM, computer-aided design and manufacture, is breaking down barriers between traditional designed manufacturing functions,” explains Dr.Prakash Rao, an engineering manager at General Electric. “Interdisciplinary（跨学科的）teams and engineers follow a product from concept（观念） to production. Everything is interconnected like a network.”

       Sometimes, a computer-aided effort can extend beyond production. A team that produces robots may use them to explore space and ocean depths. For high-technology teamwork, the future seems limitless.

1．According to the passage the writer believes that ________________.

       A．teamwork will be completely replaced by computers

       B．teamwork will be perfect with the development of hi—tech

       C．teamwork doesn’t require the use of computers

       D．the concept of teamwork is no longer the same as before

2．The underlined part “the future may hold more for you” in Paragraph 1 most probably means “ ________”.

       A．you will have a greater future                B．your future will be more interesting

       C．you will gain more wealth                     D．your future will be more uncertain

3．The underlined word “barrier” in Paragraph 6 means “       ”.

       A．connection          B．balance                C．disadvantage        D．block

4．The author’s attitude towards the introduction of the computer to teamwork is      .

       A．doubtful           B．serious                    C．supportive               D．disagreeable

For the rest of March, a disease will sweep across the US. It will keep kids home from school. 　1 Employees will suddenly lose their ability to concentrate.

The disease, known as “March Madness”, refers to the yearly 65 – team US men’s college basketball tournament (锦标赛). 　2 Teams compete against each other in a single – elimination (单局淘汰) tournament that eventually crowns a national champion.

Nearly 20 million Americans will find themselves prisoners of basketball festival madness. The fun comes partly from guessing the winners for every game. Friends compete against friends. 　　　 3 Colleagues against bosses.

Big – name schools are usually favored to advance into the tournament. But each year there are dark horses from little – known universities.

This adds to the madness. Watching a team from a school with 3,000 students beat a team from a school with 30,000, for many Americans, is an exciting experience. Two years ago, the little – known George Mason University was one of the final four teams. 　4

College basketball players are not paid, so the game is more about making a name for their university and themselves. 　5 About $ 4 billion will be spent gambling (赌) on the event. According to Media Life magazine, the event will bring in $ 500 million in advertising income this year, topping the post – season income of every US professional league, including that of the NBA.

　 A. Husbands against wives.

　 B. The players will go all out for the games.

　 C. But that doesn’t mean money isn’t involved.

　 D. College students will ignore piles of homework.

　 E. People are willing to spend more money on watching it.

　 F. It begins on March 15 and lasts through the beginning of April.

　 G. Many people had never even heard of the university before the tournament.

Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, was born in Kingfish, Oklahoma on March 29, 1918. He was raised in Missouri where he worked in his father’s store while attending school. This was his first retailing (零售业) experience and he really enjoyed it. After graduation, he began his own career as a retail merchant.

He soon opened his first Wal-Mart store in 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas. Wal-Mart specialized in name brands at low prices and Sam Walton was surprised at the success. Soon a chain of Wal-Mart stores sprang up across rural America.

Walton's management style was popular with employees and he founded some of the basic concepts (概念) of management that are still in use today.

After taking the company public in 1970, Walton introduced his “profit sharing plan”. The profit sharing plan was a plan for Wal-Mart employees to improve their income dependent on the profits of the store. Sam Walton believed that “individuals don't win, teams do”. Employees at Wal-Mart stores were offered stock options (认股权) and store discounts. These benefits are commonplace today, but Walton was among the first to implement (实现) them. Walton believed that a happy employee meant happy customers and more sales. He also believed that by giving employees a part of the company and making their success dependent on the company’s success, they would care about the company.

growing complaints that the “superstore” was stopping smaller and traditional stores from developing. By 1991, Wal-Mart was the largest US retailer with 1,700 stores. Walton remained active in managing the company, as president and CEO until 1988 and chairman until his death. He was awarded the Medal of Freedom shortly before his death.

56. Sam Walton first made a hit in retailing when __________.

A. he worked in his father’s store            

B. he created Walton's management style

C. he specialized in name brands at low prices

D. a chain of Wal-Mart stores sprang up across rural America

57. Walton’s management style emphasized __________ very much.

A. individual efforts         B. team spirit             C. employees' loyalty     D. fair distribution

58. What is the purpose of Walton’s carrying out “profit sharing plan”?

A. To encourage the employees to work hard and make joint efforts.

B. To make sure all the employees had their own shares.

C. To select excellent employees for his stores.

D. To make more profit for himself.

59. Which of the statements is TRUE?

   A. In his old age, Walton gave all the management to his men.

B. Walton wasn’t one of the merchants who first implemented stock options.

C. The smaller and traditional stores were well affected by Walton’s stores.

D. With Walton’s management style, employees treated the stores as their own.

60. What does the underlined word “edge” in the last paragraph mean here?

   A. Advantage.                 B. Disadvantage.         C. Danger.                    D. System.

who actually play it, basketball is probably the most   2     sport in the United States today. It is    3     an indoor game and the 4     extends from late autumn, through winter, to early spring. There are many professional teams, but for the most part, 　　5     is a school sport. There is   6     a high school or college in the country that doesn’t have 　　7   

team.

In spring and summer, the most popular game is baseball. During the warm weather you can see young men and boys playing the game in any part of the    8    . Radios and televisions bring the details of the big games    9     every corner of the land, and the    10     of the professional teams are a subject of conversation for Americans    11    .

In the autumn, the most popular sport is football. 　　12    you know, this is not the same kind of game that is so popular in other parts of the world. 　　13     basketball and baseball, it is typically American, and   14     who have never seen it   15    have difficulty    16 

seeing any sense in it. But for most of American people the game itself is not so important   17   

the music and the cheering that    18     it. 　　19     a cool, bright autumn afternoon, there is nothing so colorful and   20    as a football game.

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