It's not only rocket scientists and journalists who are following the course of "ShenzhouV", or "Divine ship/ vessel V". There are also lexicographers(字典编纂者 ), or dictionary compilers.The flight of the spacecraft recently might help put .some new words into orbit.

     One of them is a western media coinage used to refer to the Chinese astronauts. It is a combination of the Chinese pinyin "taikong", meaning space, and the English "astronaut", from classical Greek: "star sailor/navigator", for people who was going into space as a career.In the Reuters and AP reports of October 15, "taikonaut" was used as a proper noun. Forexample:

    The long March 2F rocket carrying "taikonaut" Yang Liwei lifted off into a clear blue sky over theGobi desert at 9 a.m. and entered its orbit 10 minutes later.

    A Long March 2F rocket called the Shenzhou V—"divine ship" in Chinese --carried a single"taikonaut" named Yang Liwei, 38, following Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and American Alan Shepard in 1961.

    The word "taikonaut" is not a newly coined term. It first emerged in November, 1999, when Chinalaunched its first unmanned "Shenzhou 1" spacecraft.

    At that time, .some English news media predicted(推测) that China would soon launch a manned space flight and created the word "taikonaut" for the Chinese astronauts. It was then borrowed by the German media.

    But it was left out of mainstream dictionaries, such as the Merriam-Webster Dictionary andCambridge Advanced English Learner's Dictionary.

    However, the launch of the "Shenzhou V" will most likely help boost its status since there isalready a word referring specifically to Russian astronauts in the dictionary entry.

     An astronaut of Russian(or the former Soviet Union) is called a "cosmonaut", from the Russian"kosmonaut". The word was derived from classical Greek. "kosmonaut" (universal) and "nautes". One might argue that "cosmonaut" is a Russian variation on the earlier word astronaut .

     On March 14, 1995, US astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to ride into spaceon-board, a Russian launch vehicle, arguably making him the first American cosmonaut.

     And if this trend of coinage continues, more English variations for astronaut will appear as morecountries are able to send their own astronauts into outer space, what would Western journalists callan astronaut from India or Africa? We' 11 have to wait to see.

1. Which of the following best suits the passage as a title?

A. Why to Create the Word "Astronaut"?

B. Why to Make a Lot of Variations for "Taikonaut"?

C. How to Tell a “Taikonaut “ from an Astronaut?

D. How to Call Astronauts from Different Countries?

2. Which is the right statement in the following sentence?

A. The word "taikonaut" was born with the launch of "Shenzhou V" spacecraft.

B. Yang Liwei, Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard are all excellent taikonauts.

C. The American newspapers such as Reuters coined the word "taikonaut".

D. Some new words have widely been put into use with the launch of the "Shenzhou V"

spacecraft.

3  From the writer's point of view', __________ .

A. lexicographers or dictionary compilers have aim done a lot of things to help launch Shenzhou V"

B. the American astronaut Norman Thagard is not a cosmonaut

C. the words coined or to be coined for astronauts of different countries usually have something to do with the name(s) of their countries

D. the reason why there will be more variations for the word astronauts is that more and more countries will be able to send their own astronauts into space

4. What does the underlined word "coinage" mean in the passage?

A. System of coins in use.                  B. Invention of word.

C. New meaning of a word.                 D. Discovery of an old word.

Primary teachers are responsible for guiding children through the formation of many important life skills, and also watching over their students’ social development. Primary teachers come into contact with about 30 students every day, and teach them a variety of subjects. Many hours are spent before and after class on planning, preparation and correction. One should be a very patient, caring, yet firm person to be able to deal with the demands of children in the four to twelve-year-old age group.

Secondary teachers teach specific subjects to various groups of students. Just like primary teachers, they spend an amount of time planning and preparing lessons and correcting homework—their duties are not restricted to face-to-face teaching. Dealing with twelve to eighteen-year-olds requires a wide range of skills.

If you become a primary teacher, you will need to decided whether to be a “generalist (多面手)”, teaching a wide range of subjects, or a "specialist", teaching only one or two. Most primary teachers are specialists. Generalist teachers spend the greatest part of their day with one class, which means that they spend more time with the same children. Specialist teachers have more time away from their students. It is therefore very important for generalist teachers to develop a strong working relationship with their students.

The unique rapport (和谐) you can develop with a particular set of students is one of teaching’s greatest pleasures. However, the disadvantage of primary teaching is that if you have a difficult student, you will be forced to deal with him or her, all day, every day, throughout the school year. Teachers need to work out strategies to get themselves and their students through such difficulties.

Primary teachers today are generally four-year trained. They usually do a three or four-year undergraduate degree, and if this degree does not include teacher training, they will have to undertake postgraduate study in education as well.

1. After class primary teachers usually_____________

A. come into contact with students          

B. teach students a variety of subjects

C. deal with the demands of children      

D. make planning, preparation and correction

2. What does the third paragraph mainly discuss?

A. What a primary teacher needs to do in the classroom.

B. The differences between generalist and specialist teaching.

C. How a primary teacher should try his best in the school.

D. The relationship between the primary teachers and students.

3. We can learn from this passage that___________

A. a primary teacher needs a wide range of skills

B. the disadvantage of primary teaching is having difficult students

C. teacher training is not important for a primary teacher

D. secondary teachers mainly teach children two subjects

4. The author writes the article in order to_________

A. tell teachers how primary teachers guide students

B. tell teachers what you should do as a primary teacher

C. let readers know more about primary teachers

D. let readers know how to be a primary teacher

.

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分；共40分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Several interesting American museums tell about health subjects. One is the Doctor Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry. It is at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. That is where the first college in the world to train dentists began. The museum tells about the history of the medical treatment of teeth. Visitors can see some frightening devices that once were used to remove infected teeth. They also can see sets of teeth made of animal bone. They were made for a famous American —— the first President, George Washington.

Most people do not consider a visit to the dentist their idea of a good time. However, the director of the museum says he wants to make the museum a funny place to visit. He says he also wants to teach visitors about the importance of taking care of their teeth.

Another museum collects devices that help people hear. The Kenneth W. Berger Hearing Aid Museum is at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. The museum has more than three-thousand hearing aids from around the world. They include old and strange devices. Some hearing aids were made to look like other objects. That is because in the past many people did not want anyone to know they were wearing a hearing aid.

56. It is common for people to think it uneasy to pay a visit to ____.

A. the University of Maryland            B. the Museum of Dentistry

C. the Hearing Aid Museum              D. the dentist

57. The text mainly tells about _____.

A. museums in the US               B. interesting American museums

C. American museums with health subjects

D. the history of the medical treatment of teeth

58. What do we learn about George Washington from the text?

A. He once visited the National Museum of Dentistry.

B. He considered the Museum of Dentistry a fun place to visit

C. His artificial (人造的) teeth were collected in the National Museum of Dentistry.

D. His teeth seemed to be made of animal bone.

59. The underlined word “devices” in the first and last paragraph probably means _____.

A. ways        B. strategies        C. tools          D. desires

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项.

About a year ago, I went to stay at a Detroit hotel. I didn’t want to carry too much money with me, so I asked the desk clerk（服务员） to put a hundred-dollar bill in the safe(保险箱) for me.

The next morning, however, the clerk said he knew nothing about my money. I didn’t have any proof that I had given the man the money. There was nothing I could do but go to the nearest lawyer.

The lawyer advised me to return to the hotel with him and give another hundred-dollar bill to the clerk. This I did. An hour later, I went back to the desk and asked for my money. Since I had the lawyer as an eyewitness（证人） to the second hundred-dollar bill, the clerk could not say he knew nothing about it.

Another hour later, I put the second part of the lawyer’s plan into action. This time both the lawyer and I went to the hotel. I asked for the hundred-dollar bill once again, and when the clerk insisted he had already given it to me, I didn’t admit it. The lawyer said to him, “I saw this gentleman give you a hundred dollars. If you don’t hand it over immediately, I’ll be forced to call the police.”

The clerk realized he had been tricked, so he gave me back the first hundred-dollar bill.

“I don’t know how to thank you enough for getting my money back,” I said to the lawyer. And what do you suppose he answered?

He said, “Oh, don’t thank me. That will be a hundred dollars, please.”

1. The writer went to a Detroit hotel one day in order to_______.

A. get his money back                         B. stay for the night

C. ask the lawyer for help                           D. put a hundred-dollar bill in the safe

2. The hotel clerk at last returned the first hundred-dollar bill to the writer because _______.

A. he was afraid of the writer very much

B. he found the lawyer tricking him

C. he didn’t want to get into trouble with the police

D. he wanted to give the writer a surprise

3. It is clear that the hotel clerk was________.

A. dishonest                                          B. helpful 

C. careless                                      D. foolish

4. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A. The writer didn’t get his 200 dollars back..

B. The lawyer asked for 100 dollars as his pay.

C. The writer was so grateful as to offer the lawyer some money.

D. The lawyer was disappointed that the writer got both his bills back.