The boat was blocked in ice when dawn came. The captain had 1 asleep,so the rest of the crew hurriedly woke him. He took a big axe,and 2 great care,he began to knock the ice so as to 3 a hole in the ice on the deck. From time to time,a wave burst over the boat and swept over him,but he kept working for ten minutes 4 the others looked on 5 . By this time he was so 6 that he could no longer trust whether what he was doing would help.
Each member of the crew took it in 7 to cut the ice away as long as he could 8 it.
First,they had to knock off enough ice to get down on their 9 . Standing on that rolling deck meant 10 ,because a man who had fallen into the sea could not have been rescued.
Then the captain discovered that ice was forming inside the cabin. He called 11 one of the crew and together they managed to get the stove alight,hoping that it would 12 enough heat to warm the cabin above 13 point. Unless the ice in the bottom could be melted enough so that the 14 could be raised,they were in 15 .
It took an hour's 16 before the boat began to float better. But by this time they had succeeded in 17 most of the ice.
Throughout the afternoon,the coating of ice began to build up again 18 their work. In the face of this danger,Captain Slater 19 the crew to clear the ice so that the boat would 20 until the next morning. Then they settled down to wait for another day.
( ) 1. A. gone B. fallen C. become D. grown
( ) 2. A. at B. for C. with D. by
( ) 3. A. make B. drill C. dig D. fill
( ) 4. A. until B. before C. after D. while
( ) 5. A. excitedly B. anxiously C. happily D. strangely
( ) 6. A. hungry B. cold ' C. tired D. sleepy
( ) 7. A. surprise B. time C. trouble D. turn
( ) 8. A. support B. help C. bear D. make
( ) 9. A. knees B. legs C. feet D. arms
( ) 10. A. life B. pain C. damage D. death
( ) 11. A. to B. on C. up D. at
( ) 12. A. get out B. give off C. get over D. give in
( ) 13. A. boiling B. marking C. freezing D. melting
( ) 14. A. boat B. deck C. sail D. back
( ) 15. A. ruins B. excitement C. danger D. surprise
( ) 16. A. delay B. work C. break D. wait
( ) 17. A. pilling B. getting C. greezing D. removing
( ) 18. A. thanks to B. according to
C. as a result of D. in spite of
( ) 19. A. wished B. forbad C. ordered D. promised
( ) 20. A. sink B. appear C. float D. flow
1. B fall asleep是固定搭配，意为船长"睡着了"。
2. C with great care意为"细心地"，为固定搭配，在此作状语。
3. A make a hole"弄一个洞"。drill用钻子钻， dig用锹挖，而船长用的工具却是斧头，故B、C
不合适。
4. D在轮流干活之前，只是船长一人在干，大家只是在一旁注视着。
5. B 因为情况比较危急，所以大家焦急地观望着。
6. B so ... that...为固定搭配，句意为这时他冻得受不了(温度低) ，以致不能相信他所做的能否起作用。
7. D 由each member推知，众船员"依次"干了起来，in turn"依次，轮流"；in surprise"吃惊地";in time"及时";in trouble"陷人麻烦"。
8. C bear意为"忍受"，表明大家在尽全力干，能干多久就千多久。
9. A因为站着破冰有危险，所以设法"跪下"。从同语搭配关系中也能得到一点启发。
10. D掉下大海无法营救，所以站在很滑的甲板上某种程度上就意味着"死亡"。
11. A call to sb."大声叫某人"，call on"拜访(某人) ",call up"打电话",call at"拜访(某地) "，四个词组中只有call to合乎语境。
12. B get out"出来";give off"发出(光、热等) "； get over"克服";give in"屈服，让步"。点炉子是为了让炉子"散发"热量，保持船舱暖和。
13. C为使船舱不结冰，就要使其温度保持在"冰点"之上。
14. A冰融化后，可使船的重量减轻，使整个"船体"上浮。
15. C如果冰不清除，船就会不断下沉，那就肯定"危险"了。
16. B船上浮是在船员们一小时的辛苦工作之后得以实现的。
17. D remove"去掉，清除"，等于move away。
18. D in spite of"不管、尽管"，表示让步关系， "尽管他们辛苦地工作，下午冰层又开始积累起来。"
19. C order sb. to do sth.，make sb. do sth.;船长对船员们是"命令"道。
20. C float意为"漂浮"，清除冰的目的显然是为了使船浮起来。
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Summer reading for kids need not be about summer itself. But is there a better time to read about family vacations,flagwaving,lemonade stands or baseball? USA Today reviews four new books for young readers： Pictures from Our Vacation Written and illustrated by Lynne Rae Perkins Greenwillow,31 pp.， $16. 99 (ages 4 ~8) Here's a lovely,picture book that's about all the things pictures can't capture. It,s narrated by two kids whose mom equips them with cameras to record the family vacation to their grandparents' farm. But how do you photograph the past? "Our dad saw happy memories everywhere he looked. All we could see was old furniture and dust. " They learn " it's hard to take a picture of a story someone tells" or of what it feels like " falling asleep in a house full of cousins and uncles and aunts. " But some pictures you can keep in your mind. The Lemonade War By Jacqueline Davies,Houghton Mifflin,192 pp.， $16 (ages 6〜：L0) Jacqueline Davies' earnest but entertaining story deals with feelings and money,and how both can get complicated. A business war erupts between Evan and younger sister Jessie over who can make the most money selling lemonade. Evan,who's heading into fourth grade,is "people smart" but struggles with long division. Jessie,who's skipping third grade,is "math smart" but has trouble figuring out people. They learn lessons about joint ventures,underselling and crisis management. Good reading for young capitalists. You're a Grand Old Flag By George M. Cohan,illustrated by Warren Kimble Walker,23 pp.， $16. 95 (ages 5〜8) Who remembers George M. Cohan's 1906 musical,George Washington Jr.？
But who can forget the show's stirring hit song,You 're a Grand Old Flag? It was the first song from a musical to sell more than 1 million copies of sheet music. Warren Kimble,a folk artist who paints on pieces of 18thcentury wood,puts Cohan's lyrics (歌词) into delightful visual images that include a scarecrow dressed as Uncle Sam.
The Longest Season By Cal Ripken Jr.，illustrated by Ron Mazellan Philomel,32 pp.， $16. 99 (ages 6 and up) By playing in 2,632 continous majorleague baseball games,Cal Ripken Jr. gave new meaning to the concept of showing up. But his book deals with the low point of his career,in 1988,when the Baltimore Orioles set another kind of record by losing their first 21 games. His teammates included his younger brother Bill. Their manager was Cal Ripken Sr.，who was fired after six losses. The book is dramatically illustrated,but Ripken was a far better ballplayer than writer. He explores one of sports' most neglected (疏忽) topics―what you learn by losing―but stays safely within lockerroom cliches (陈词滥调) .Still,it should prompt discussions―about winning and losing.
( ) 1.The passage is written to .
A. sell the books for the old people
B. introduce the books to the children
C. advertise for the Publishing House
D. teach us how to read new books
( ) 2. A four-year-old boy who likes reading picture books will prefer to buy .
A. Pictures from Our Vacation B. The Lemonade War
C. You're a Grand Old Flag D. The Longest Season
( ) 3. Which of the following statements is true?
A. Jacqueline Da vies' story deals with the low point of one's life.
B. Cal Pipken Jr. never failed in his sports career.
C. You 're a Grand Old Flag was a successful song from a musical.
D. Two kids in Lynne Rae Perkins' story found magic things in the old furniture.
( ) 4. Why are the four books picked out among the others?
A. Because they are all very cheap in summer holiday.
B. Because they are all popular topic.
C. Because they will draw the mother's attention.
D. Because they are fit for the children to cure summer boredom.
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The old Indian was sitting on the snow. It was Koskoosh,1 chief of his tribe. Now all he could do was sit and listen to the others. His eyes were old,he could not see. But his ears were wide 2 to every sound. "Aha."That was the sound of his daughter Sit-cum-to-ha,she was beating the 3 ,trying to make them stand in front of the snow sleds. He was 4 by her and by the others,too. They had to look for new hunting grounds,the long snowy wide waited. The days of the northlands were growing short. The 5 could not wait for death. Koskoosh was dying.
The stiff crackling noises of frozen animal skins told him that the chiefs 6 was being torn down. The chief was a strong and manly hunter. He was his son,the son of Koskoosh. Koskoosh was being left to 7 . As the women worked,old Koskoosh could hear his son's voice drive them to work 8 . He listened harder,it was the 9 time he would hear that voice. A child cried and a woman sang softly to 10 it. The child was Kootee,the old man thought. A 11 child,it would die soon. And they would 12 a hole in the frozen ground to bury it. They would cover its small body with stones to keep the 13 away. Well,what of it,a few years and in the end 14 Death waited,never hungry. Death had the hungriest stomach of all. Koskoosh listened to other 15 he would hear no more. The man tying strong leather rope 16 the sleds to hold their belongings. The sharp sounds of leather 17 ordering the dogs to move and pull the sleds. Listened to the dogs' cry,how they 18 the work. They were off,sled after sled moved slowly away into the silence. They had passed out of his 19 . He must meet his last hour 20 .
( ) 1. A. the first B. former C. current D. powerful
( ) 2. A. open B. apart C. awake D. tense
( ) 3. A. slaves B. children C. dogs D. deer
( ) 4. A. respected B. forgotten C. feared D. loved
( ) 5. A. hunters B. old C. children D. tribe
( ) 6. A. cart B. office C. sled D. tent
( ) 7. A. die B. rest C. work D. cook
( ) 8. A. quickly B. harder C. again D. faster
( ) 9. A. high B. first C. last D. right
( ) 10. A. make B. quiet C. fool D. threaten
( ) 11. A. sickly B. lovely C. energetic D. noisy
( ) 12. A. make B. dig C. burn D. plough
( ) 13. A. others B. ants C. wolves D. dogs
( ) 14. A. suffering B. success C. sorrow D. death
( ) 15. A. cries B. screams C. songs D. sounds
( ) 16. A. about B. to C. around D. up
( ) 17. A. coats B. whips C. tents D. sled
( ) 18. A. hated B. loved C. fulfilled D. committed
( ) 19. A. sight B. life C. hearing D. place
( ) 20. A. unwillingly B. happily C. alone D. unfortunately
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My eighth grade consisted of 28 classmates. We knew each other so well that most of us could distinguish each other's handwriting at a glance. Although we grew up together,we still had class outcasts. From second grade on,a small group started harassing two or three of the others. I was one of those two or three,though I didn't know why. In most cases when children get picked on,they aren't good at sports or they read too much or they wear the wrong clothes or they are of a different race. But in my class,we all read too much and didn't know how to play sports. We had also been brought up to carefully respect each other's race. This is what was so strange about my situation. Usually,people are made outcasts because they are in some way different from the larger group. But in my class,large differences did not exist. It was as if the outcasts were invented by the group out of a need for them.
The harassment came in the form of laughter when I talked,and rolled eyes when I turned around. If I was out on the playground and approached a group of people,they often fell silent. Sometimes,someone would not see me coming and I would catch the tail end of a joke at my expense.
There was another girl in our class who was perhaps even more rejected than I. She provided the group with a lot of material for jokes. One day one popular girl came up to me to show me something she said I wouldn't want to miss. We walked to a corner of the playground. Three or four girls there were reading aloud from a small book,which I was told was the girl's diary.
I sat down and,laughing till my sides hurt,heard my voice finally mixed with the others. Often being accepted by others is more satisfying than being accepted by oneself,even though the satisfaction does not last. Looking back,I wonder how I could have participated in making fun of this girl when I knew perfectly well how it felt. If I were in that situation today I would react differently,but I can't honestly be sure.
( ) 1. The author was made an outcast because .
A. she couldn't play sports as well as others
B. her family belonged to a minority group
C. her classmates found her clothes funny
D. her classmates needed to find an outcast
( ) 2. How was the author treated as an outcast?
A. She was often the target of teasing.
B. No one responded to her talking.
C. She was refused to approach others.
D. Her diary was often made public.
( ) 3. What did the author do to the girl mentioned in Paragraph 3?
A. She showed great sympathy with the girl.
B. She joined others in making fun of the girl.
C. She stopped the others from hurting the girl.
D. She found more materials about the girl for jokes.
( ) 4. What does the passage intend to tell us?
A. Everyone is likely to become an outcast.
B. We shouldn't hit a person when he is down.
C. One should pay somebody back in his own way.
D. Everyone has a desire to be accepted by others.
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Although women lead healthier,longer lives,the cruel perception that they reach their sellby date and become "old" sooner than men is widespread in the workplace,research shows.
A survey of more than 2 ,600 managers and personnel professionals showed that age discrimination is not only popular in the workplace,but is shot through with inconsistencies (不协调) .
Six in ten managers reported being a victim of age discrimination―usually because they were turned down for a job for being too old or too young. Yet more than a fifth admitted that they used age as a standard for the new.
Although the survey found widespread agreement that older workers were better than younger colleagues when it came to reliability,commitment,loyalty and customer service,these qualities were not necessarily considered to be deserving of advancement.
More than half of respondents believed that workers between 30 and 39 had the best promotion chances,with only 2 percent citing 50-year-olds or above.
Dianah Worman of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development said that there was unpublished evidence that people were considered old at different ages in different sectors.
"We heard of one man working in IT who said he was considered too old by the age of 28, ”she said.
There was no evidence to suggest that older workers were less valuable to companies than younger workers,in fact the opposite was often true because older workers often brought experience,she added.
The findings also suggested that the Government's ideas on age in the workforce may also be out of step with reality.
( ) 1. According to the passage,in most people's minds,women .
A. can live longer than men
B. have the same chance in promotion as men
C. become old sooner than men
D. can't work well as long as men do( ) 2. What is the purpose of the writer to write the third paragraph?
A. To prove there is age discrimination.
B. To tell us some people's experiences.
C. To tell us age is very important when people look for jobs.
D. To tell us not to care about your age wherever you are.
( ) 3. Compared with younger workers,the older workers .
A. are better in reliability,quicker in customer service
B. have fewer chances to get higher positions in the workplace
C. are less valuable to companies
D. are too old to work well
( ) 4. The underlined sentence quoted by the writer means that .
A. it is easy for people working in IT to get old
B. IT business develops too fast
C. people working in IT are most young people
D. the man is tired of his job in IT
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The farm economy of the United States has changed a lot in the last seventy years. In the nineteen thirties,twentyfive percent of the nation's population lived on farms. Today less than one percent of Americans do.
Farm incomes have changed over the years too. For example,in nineteen thirtythree,people living and working on farms had much less money to spend than other Americans. At that time,farm families had about onethird the income of nonfarmers after all necessary expenses had been paid. By the late nineteen seventies,however,that difference had almost disappeared.
In two thousand four,farmers had their best year ever. The United States Department of Agriculture says the average farm family earned about eightyone thousand dollars. That is more than the average American family,which earned about sixty thousand dollars.
Yet these numbers do not completely explain the situation for all farmers. Those who have small farms often take other jobs to earn extra income. And farm earnings for large farms grew faster than for small ones.
The Department of Labor measures the pay of industrial workers differently. It measures the average hourly and weekly pay for industrial workers. This is because factory workers are generally paid by the hour unlike farmers who earn income from their farm businesses.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics says the average hourly pay for all private industrial workers is about sixteen dollars. The B. L. S. says average weekly pay for all industrial workers is about five hundred fifty dollars. But that is an average. Workers can earn as much as twice the average or as little as half of it depending on the industry in which they work.
Industrial workers are about twentythree percent of the labor force. But that number has been decreasing. Most Americans have jobs that provide services. Professional,technical and other services employ about seventysix percent of the labor force.
( ) 1. What is the topic discussed in the passage?
A. Agriculture developments in America.B. Pay for farmers compared with that of industrial workers.
C. The living conditions for farmers and workers in America.
D. How to measure the income of the American farmers.
( ) 2. What is the main idea of the second paragraph?
A. There is no difference between farmers' pay and that of workers.
B. Farmers used to have less incomes than workers.
C. Farmers' incomes have changed a lot.
D. Farmers and workers are equal in society.
( ) 3. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A. Farmers in America can live better than the workers in cities.
B. The farmers are less in America because they can earn more outside.
C. Farmers sometimes can earn more than the average income in US.
D. It is hard to know the incomes of the farmers.
( ) 4. We can infer from the passage that .
A. farmers' incomes will increase a lot
B. it is hard to compare farm pay with industrial pay
C. the number of industrial workers is decreasing
D. every worker in America can earn about 550 dollars a week
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Get the email you want and nothing else. McAfee SpamKiller quickly and easily helps you stop spam (垃圾邮件) from polluting your inbox with advanced rulebased and listbased filtering.
SpamKiller is the leading antispam product for consumers and small businesses. Buy it now for only $39. 95 (USD) . Click it. Benefits With deceitful inappropriate and offensive emails being delivered in vast quantities to adults,children and businesses every day,spam protection is an essential component of your PC's security strategy. Whether you want to eliminate spam as quickly and easily as possible,or crave (be eager to get) the power to fight back,McAfee SpamKiller is for you. No other email filtering solution offers so many features,or is as easy to set up and use.
. Block emails using both lists and preset (预先设定的) filters
. Update internal (内在的，内设的) filters automatically
. Filter MSN/Hotmail,POP3 and MAPI email
. Create custom filters
. Quarantine (拄截) spam outside of your inbox
. Import "friends" automatically into your safe list
. Monitor and filter multiple email accounts
. Fight back against spammers
. Report spam to McAfee Features
. Blocks spam SpamKiller blocks specific addresses of known spammers,just as other programs do;but SpamKiller goes far beyond lists. Its comprehensive preset filters also watch for subject lines and text within messages. In fact,SpamKiller can filter on the sender's address,subject line,body text,message header and can even block spam based on its country of origin.
. Updates filters automatically SpamKiller comes with thousands of filters already installed and new filters are released regularly,based on careful analysis of McAfee's spamtraps. SpamKiller checks McAfee servers once a day for new filters,so your protection is always up-to-date.
. Filters Multiple Email Types SpamKiller supports MSN/Hotmail,POP3 and MAPI email accounts. By directly supporting multiple clientbased email applications (Outlook Express,Eudora,Netscape etc.) and Webbased email clients (MSN/Hotmail) ，SpamKiller enables you to benefit from its advanced filtering without forcing you to change how you access and read your email.
( ) 5. From the passage we know that people buy Spamkiller is to .
A. learn how to fight against virus
B. block some unwanted emails
C. change the program of the computer
D. receive private emails automatically
( ) 6. The passage is mainly written to .
A. show some tips of sending emails
B. call on people to block spam
C. inform people some basic knowledge
D. introduce a kind of software to the consumers
( ) 7. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A. SpamKiller is more advanced than other ones,for it can even look out for subject lines.
B. SpamKiller,which is made by McAfee,is always up-to-date.
C. If you use the Spamkiller,you will have to change your way of reading your email.
D. SpamKiller has so many features that it is complicated to set up and use.
( ) 8. What can we infer from the passage?
A. People are often annoyed with rubbish email.
B. Spamkiller can stop emails efficiently.
C. Spam protection is a necessary part of your computer.
D. Spamkiller is designed only for small businesses.
( ) 9. Where can you usually find the passage?
A. Newspaper. B. On the Internet.
C. On radio. D. On TV.
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Have you ever pressed the "send" button and immediately wished you could get your email back? For American high school boy Scotty Thomas,it's the biggest mistake of his life. And the result of this thoughtless act makes up the story of the new movie Eurotrip.
Scotty and his Berlinbased email pen pal Mieke have been writing each other for years,sharing every detail of their lives. But when Mieke suggests coining to the US to meet him face-to-face,Scotty rudely turns him down. What he didn't realize is that,in Germany,Mieke is in fact a girl's name.
By the time Scotty figures out that Mieke is actually a hot high school girl,she has cut off all contact with him. Thinking that this might be his one chance at true love,he sets out on a trip across Europe to Berlin,helped by his best friends,Cooper and the twins Jenny and Jamie.
Their journey takes them from London to Paris,Amsterdam,through Eastern Europe and on to Rome before finally arriving in Berlin. From London's Big Ben to the Eiffel Tower in Paris and Rome's Coliseum,the teenagers enjoy a jokefilled adventure.
The cultures they find are certainly a world away from the ones they read about in their textbooks. In Eastern Europe,they manage to enjoy a fivestar hotel and a night of dancing with just US $1. 87—and have 27 cents left over.
As Scotty Thomas,Scott Mechlowicz is in his first ever leading role. But he manages to express his character's simpleminded,but daring and charming nature in a believable way.
"This movie presents the final days of childhood and the beginning of that next big adventure into freedom," said Hollywood movie critic Michael Rechtshaffen. Eurotrip ranked No. 6 at the North American box office early this month.
( ) 1. The best title for this passage could be .
A. Travel―an Interesting Topic
B. Eurotrip―a New Film
C. A New Film Star―Scotty Thomas
D. Europe―My Dream
( ) 2. From the passage,we can learn that .
A. Scott Mechlowicz succeeded acting out the character of Scotty Thomas
B. the people in Eastern Europe live a happy life
C. the journey is full of adventures that are hard to get through
D. only young people enjoy the film
( ) 3. The underlined word "presents" in the passage means .
A. thing given or received as a gift
B. being in the place
C. give or hand over sth. to sb.
D. show something to the public
( ) 4. Which of the following statements is true?
A. During their journey,the book is their best guide.
B. Although the film is a jokefilled one,many people still enjoy it.
C. The biggest problem of the character is that he pressed a wrong button.
D. The movie critic thought highly of the film.
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