When I entered Berkeley, I hoped to earn a scholarship. Having been a Straight-A student, I believed I could tough subjects and really learn something. One such course was World Literature given by Professor Jayne. I was extremely interested in the ideas he in class.

When I took the first exam, I was to find a 77, C-plus, on my test paper, English was my best subject. I went to Professor Jayne, who listened to my arguments but remained . I decided to try harder, although I didn’t know what that because school had always been easy for me. I read the books more carefully, but got another 77. Again, I with Professor Jayne. Again, he listened patiently but wouldn’t change his . One more test before the final exam. One more to improve my grade. So I redoubled my efforts and, for the first time, the meaning of the word “thorough”. But my did no good and everything as before.

The last hurdle(障碍) was the final. No matter what I got, it wouldn’t cancel three C-pluses. I might as well kiss the goodbye. I stopped working hard. I felt I knew the course material as well as I ever would. The night before the final, I even myself to a movie. The next day I decided for once I’d have with a test. A week later, I was surprised to find I got an A. I hurried into professor Jayne’s office. He to be expecting me. “If I gave you the As you , you wouldn’t continue to work as hard.” I stared at him, that his analysis and strategy(策略) were correct. I had worked my head , as I had never done before. I was speechless when my course grade arrived: A-plus. It was the only A-plus given. The next year I received my scholarship. I’ve always remembered Professor Jayne’s lesson: you alone must set your own standard of excellence.

1.A. take B. discuss C. cover D. get

2.A. sought B. presented C. exchanged D. obtained

3.A. shockedB. worried C. scared D. anxious

4.A. butB. so C. for D. or

5.A. unchangedB. unpleasant C. unfriendly D. unmoved

6.A. reflected B. meant C. improved D. affected

7.A. quarreledB. reasoned C. bargained D. chatted

8.A. attitude B. mind C. plan D. view

9.A. choice B. step C. chance D. measure

10.A. memorized B. considered C. accepted D. learned

11.A. ambition B. confidence C. effort D. method

12.A. stayed B. went C. worked D. changed

13.A. grade B. answer C. lesson D. comment

14.A. scholarship B. course C. degree D. subject

15.A. helped B. favored C. treated D. relaxed

16.A. fun B. luck C. problems D. tricks

17.A. happened B. proved C. pretended D. seemed

18.A. valued B. imagined C. expected D. welcomed

19.A. remembering B. guessing C. supposing D. realizing

20.A. out B. over C. on D. off

A person, like a commodity（商品）, needs packaging. But going too far is absolutely undesirable. A little exaggeration(夸张) will do no harm when it shows the person’s unique qualities to their advantages. To show personal attractiveness in a casual and natural way, it is important for one to have a clear knowledge of oneself. A skilled packager knows how to add art to nature without any signs of embellishment so that the person so packaged is not a commodity, but a human being, lively and lovely.

A young person, especially a female, shining with beauty and full of life, has all the favor granted. Youth however, comes and goes in a flash. Packaging for the middle-aged is primarily to hide the marks made by years. If you still enjoy life enough to keep self-confidence and work at pioneering work, you are unique in your natural qualities, and your attractiveness and grace will remain. Elderly people are beautiful if their river of life has been, through plains, mountains and jungles, running its course as it should. You have really lived your life, which now arrives at a self - satisfied stage of quietness and calmness with no interest in fame or wealth. There is no need to make use of hair dyeing. The snow-capped mountain itself is a beautiful scene of fairyland. Let your looks change from young to old in step with the natural ageing process so as to keep in harmony with nature, for harmony itself is beauty, while the other way round will only end in unpleasantness. To be in the company of the elderly is like reading a thick book of good edition, which attracts one so much that one is unwilling to part with it. As long as one finds where one stands, one knows how to package oneself, just as a commodity sets up its brand by the right packaging.

1.The underlined word in the first paragraph is closest to the word ______ in meaning.

A. decoration B. clarification C. movement D. identification

2.It can be concluded from the text that ______.

A. people should be packaged at all ages

B. people should be packaged in a special way

C. elderly people also care about packaging

D. proper packaging makes people attractive

3.For the middle-aged, attractiveness ______ .

A. hardly exists B. is the strongest

C. comes from the inside D. comes from the appearance

4.According to the author, if you want to keep in harmony with nature, you should ______.[源

A. dye your hair B. make up at a young age

C. follow the ageing process D. give up fame and wealth

5.The underlined sentence means that elderly people ______.

A. are usually packaged like a finely-made book

B. experience a lot and have rich knowledge of life

C. do a lot of traveling and can give you much information

D. enjoy reading thick books about beautiful nature and fairyland

Does Fame Drive You Crazy?

Although being famous might sound like a dream come true, today’s star, feeling like zoo animals, face pressures that few of us can imagine. They are at the center of much of the world’s attention. Paparazzi (狗仔队) camp outside their homes, cameras ready. Tabloids (小报) publish thrilling stories about their personal lives. Just imagine not being able to do anything without being photographed or interrupted for a signature.

According to psychologist Christina Villareal, celebrities — famous people — worry constantly about their public appearance. Eventually, they start to lose track of who they really are, seeing themselves the way their fans imagine them, not as the people they were before everyone knew their names. “Over time,” Villareal says, “they feel separated and alone.”

The phenomenon of tracking celebrities has been around for ages. In the 4th century B.C., painters followed Alexander the Great into battle, hoping to picture his victories for his admirers. When Charles Dickens visited America in the 19th century, his sold-out readings attracted thousands of fans, leading him to complain about his lack of privacy. Tabloids of the 1920s and 1930s ran articles about film-stars in much the same way that modern tabloids and websites do.

Being a public figure today, however, is a lot more difficult than it used to be. Superstars cannot move about without worrying about photographers with modern cameras. When they say something silly or do something ridiculous, there is always the Internet to spread the news in minutes and keep their “story” alive forever.

If fame is so troublesome, why aren’t all celebrities running away from it? The answer is there are still ways to deal with it. Some stars stay calm by surrounding themselves with trusted friends and family or by escaping to remote places away from big cities. They focus not on how famous they are but on what they love to do or whatever made them famous in the first place.

Sometimes a few celebrities can get a little justice. Still, even stars who enjoy full justice often complain about how hard their lives are. They are tired of being famous already.

1.It can be learned from the passage that stars today .

A. are often misunderstood by the public

B. can no longer have their privacy protected

C. spend too much on their public appearance

D. care little about how they have come into fame

2.What is the main idea of Paragraph 3?

A. Great heroes of the past were generally admired.

B. The problem faced by celebrities has a long history.

C. Well-known actors are usually targets of tabloids.

D. Works of popular writers often have a lot of readers.

3.What makes it much harder to be a celebrity today?

A. Availability of modern media.

B. Inadequate social recognition.

C. Lack of favorable chances.

D. Huge population of fans.

4.What is the author’s attitude toward modern celebrity?

A. Sincere. B. Skeptical. C. Disapproving. D. Sympathetic.

I was puzzled! Why was this old woman making such a fuss about an old copse（矮林） which was of no use to anybody? She had written letters to the local paper, even to a national, protesting about a projected by-pass to her village, and, looking at a map, the route was nowhere near where she lived and it wasn’t as if the area was attractive. I was more than puzzled, I was curious.

The enquiry into the route of the new by-pass to the village was due to take place shortly, and I wanted to know what it was that motivated her. So it was that I found myself knocking on a cottage door, being received by Mary Smith and then being taken for a walk to the woods. “I’ve always loved this place,” she said, “it has a lot of memories for me, and for others. We all used it. They called it ‘Lovers lane’. It’s not much of a lane, and it doesn’t go anywhere important, but that’s why we all came here. To be away from people, to be by ourselves. ” she added.

It was indeed pleasant that day and the songs of many birds could be heard. Squirrels watched from the branches, quite bold in their movements, obviously few people passed this way and they had nothing to fear. I could imagine the noise of vehicles passing through these peaceful woods when the by-pass was built, so I felt that she probably had something there but as I hold strong opinions about the needs of the community over-riding the opinions of private individuals, I said nothing. The village was quite a dangerous place because of the traffic especially for old people and children, their safety was more important to me than an old woman’s strange ideas.

“Take this tree,” she said pausing after a short while. “To you it is just that, a tree. Not unlike many others here.” She gently touched the bark, “Look here, under this branch, what can you see?”

“It looks as if someone has done a bit of carving with a knife.” I said after a cursory inspection.

“Yes, that’s what it is!” she said softly.

She went on, “He had a penknife with a spike for getting stones from a horse's hoof, and I helped him to carve them. We were very much in love, but he was going away, and could not tell me what he was involved in the army. I had guessed of course. It was the last evening we ever spent together, because he went away the next day, back to his Unit.”

Mary Smith was quiet for a while, then she sobbed. “His mother showed me the telegram. ‘Sergeant R Holmes …Killed in action in the invasion of France.’…”

“I had hoped that you and Robin would one day get married.” she said, “He was my only child, and I would have loved to be a Granny, they would have been such lovely babies’- she was like that! ”

“Two years later she too was dead. ‘Pneumonia (肺炎), following a chill on the chest’ was what the doctor said, but I think it was an old fashioned broken heart. A child would have helped both of us.”

There was a further pause. Mary Smith gently caressed the wounded tree, just as she would have caressed him. “And now they want to take our tree away from me.” Another quiet sob, then she turned to me. “I was young and pretty then, I could have had anybody, I wasn’t always the old woman you see here now. I had everything I wanted in life, a lovely man, health and a future to look forward to.”

She paused again and looked around. The breeze gently moved through the leaves with a sighing sound. “There were others, of course, but no one can match my Robin!” she said strongly. “And now I have nothing - except the memories this tree holds. If only I could get my hands on that awful man who writes in the paper about the value of the road they are going to build where we are standing now, I would tell him. Has he never loved, has he never lived, does he not know anything about memories? We were not the only ones, you know, I still meet some who came here as Robin and I did. Yes, I would tell him!”

I turned away, sick at heart.

1.The main purpose of this passage is to ________.

A. draw attention to the damage that wars cause

B. persuade people to give up private interest

C. arouse the awareness of being environmentally friendly

D. introduce a touching but sad love story

2.Which of the following words can best describe Mary Smith?

A. Selfish. B. Faithful. C. Changeable. D. Stubborn.

3.The underlined sentence “I felt that she probably had something there” means ________.

A. I thought there might be something hidden in the woods by Mary Smith

B. I guessed there might be a story related with Mary Smith

C. I thought there might be some reason for Mary Smith’s protest

D. I guessed there might be a secret purpose of Mary Smith.

4.What was probably the carving on the wounded tree?

A. The date when Robin Holmes would leave for army.

B. Their wish that this place and tree would last long.

C. Their names and a heart with a sign of arrow through it.

D. Their protest against the war which tore them apart.

5.In Mary’s opinion, which of the following might have caused Robin’s mother’s death?

A. Pneumonia B. A chill on the chest C. A heart attack D. Severe sorrow

6.The “tree” probably stands for ________.

A. her romance. B. her determinationC. her sadness D. her dream

第一节：单词拼写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

1.After s__________ the water out of the shirt, she hung it in the sun.

2.Remember to cover the burned area with a dry and clean b__________.

3.What she said c_________ me of my foolish mistake.

4.It is supposed that the p__________ food may be the cause of the man’s sudden death.

5.He gave us s__________ instructions on how to get there.

6.When Susan fell off her bike, her only i__________ was a twisted ankle.

7.His approach has won him a r as a tough manager.

8.Many elderly people expressed a strong p to live in their own homes.

9.It was fairly e________ from her tone of voice that she disapproved.

10.A t__________ picture of the Middle Ages was full of religious symbols.

下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写上该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。

注意：1．每处错误及其修改仅限一词；

2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

One day Mr. White made a very nice models plane. All his children liked it very much and wanted to play it first. They quarreled as they could not agree each other. Mr. White thought hard and then he has an idea. He got his children together, said, “This plane is only for best child. He or she never quarrels with Mother and always helps doing housework.” The children looked at him sad when they heard their father’s words. Then they had an idea. The eldest brother said,” We think of it is only for you, Dad!” With the word, the children ran away.

假如你是李华。你的好友王楠因不擅长与别人交流，感到非常痛苦。最近，他来信向你求助。请你根据以下提示给他写一封回信。主要内容应包括：

我们周围不擅长交流的人挺多的，劝他不必为此事苦恼;

告诉他与别人有效地交流是很重要的。与他人搞好关系，可以有助于我们的学习，还能增加成功的机会；

就如何改变目前的情况给他提出至少两点建议。

注意：1. 字数：100字左右； 2. 可以适当增加细节，使行文连贯；

3. 信的开头结尾已给出，不计入总字数。

Dear Wang Nan,

I know you are feeling annoyed these days because____________________________

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All the best.   

Yours,

Li Hua

Experts think that _________ recently discovered painting may be_________ Picasso.

A. the; aB. a; theC. a; /D. the; /

According to a UN report, one third of the world population have no _________ to clean drinking water and health care.

A. meansB. approachesC. waysD. access

Ruth sold most of her belongings. She has hardly_________ left in her house.

A. anythingB. nothingC. everythingD. something