As far as I am concerned, education is about learning and the more you learn, ______.

   A. the more for life are you equipped            B. the more equipped for life you are

C. the more life you are equipped for          D. you are equipped the more for life

    When we think about happiness, we usually think of something extraordinary, a top great delight.

For a child, happiness has a magic quality. I remember playing police and robbers in the woods, getting a speaking part in the school play. Of course, kids also experience lows, but their delight at tops of pleasure is easily seen，such as winning a race or getting a new bike.

 For teenagers, or people under 20 the concept of happiness changes. Suddenly it’s conditional on such things as excitement, love, and popularity. I can still feel the pain of not being invited to a party that almost everyone else was going to. I also recall the great happiness of being invited at another event to dance with a very handsome young man.

In adulthood the things that bring great joy—birth , love , marriage—also bring responsibility and the risk of loss. Love may not last; loved ones die. For adults, happiness is complex.

My dictionary explains “happy” as “lucky” or “ fortunate”, but I think a better explanation of happiness is “ the ability to enjoy something”. The more we can enjoy what we have, the happier we are. It’s easy for us not to notice the pleasure we get from loving and being loved, the company of friends, the freedom to love where we please, and even good health. Nowadays, with so many choices and much pleasure, we have turned happiness into one more thing we have. We think we own the right to have it, which makes us extremely unhappy. So we try hard to get it and consider it to be the same as wealth and success, without noticing that the people who have those things aren’t necessarily happier.

While happiness may be more complex for us, the answer is the same as ever. Happiness isn’t about what happens to us. It’s the ability to find a positive for every negative, and view a difficulty as a challenge. Don’t be sad for what we don’t have, but enjoy what we do possess.

60. According to the passage, happiness lies in the ability to_______.

A. think of something extraordinary   B. experience delight at an old age

C. feel the magic quality of pleasure   D. enjoy what one has at the moment

61. In paragraph 3, a teenager looks at happiness mainly in terms of_____.

A. material gains                  B. social honor

 C. spiritual satisfaction             D. academic achievement

62. The author implies that when one dreams wealth and finally gets it he____.

A. can realize what happiness is    

B. may not end up with happiness

C. may consider it extreme happiness 

D. should not feel content with himself

63. The passage aims to tell_______.

A. the great importance of happiness  B. the real meaning of happiness

C. the constant dream of happiness    D. the changing concept of happiness

So long as teachers fail to tell teaching from learning, they will continue to undertake to do for children what children can do for themselves. Teaching children to read is not simply passing reading on to them. Certainly we shouldn’t have spent endless hours in activities about reading. Douglas insists that “reading cannot be taught directly and schools should stop trying to do the impossible.”

Teaching and learning are two entirely different processes. They differ in kind and function. The function of teaching is to create the conditions and the climate that will make it possible for children to devise the most efficient(效率高的) system for teaching themselves to read. Teaching is also public activity. It can be seen and observed.

Learning to read involves all that each individual does to make sense of the world of printed language. Almost all of it is private, for learning is an occupation of the mind, and that process is not open to public scrutiny.

If teacher and learner roles are not interchangeable, what then can be done through teaching that will aid the child in the quest(探索)for knowledge? Smith has one principal rule for all teaching instructions. “Make learning to read easy, which means making reading a meaningful, enjoyable and frequent experience for children.”

When the roles of teacher and learner are seen for what they are, and when both teacher and learner fulfill them appropriately, then much of the pressure and feeling of failure for both is eliminated(消除). Learning to read is made easier when teachers create an environment where children are given the opportunity to solve the problem of leaning to read by reading. Practice makes perfect, you know.

72．The problem with the reading course as mentioned in the first paragraph is that _______.

       A．it is one of the most difficult school courses

       B．students spend endless hours in reading

       C．reading tasks are assigned with little guidance

       D．too much time is spent in teaching about reading

73．The underlined word “scrutiny” in the third paragraph probably means “       ”.

       A．agreement B．observation      C．control     D．distance

74．According to the passage, learning to read will no longer be a difficult task when  _______.

       A．children become very active in reading activities

       B．teacher and learner roles are thought important

       C．teaching helps children in the search for knowledge

       D．reading enriches children’s experience

75．The main idea of the passage is that _______.

       A．teachers should do as little as possible in helping students learn to read

       B．teachers should encourage students to read as widely as possible

       C．reading ability is something acquired rather than taught

       D．reading is more complicated than generally believed 

21．--- May I take your order now?

    ---          .

       A．No, I’m in trouble now   B．Yes, we obey orders

       C．Yes, I’d like a dish of chicken D．No, I don’t have a choice of meat

 The opening province which ______ thirteen counties and three coastal cities will quicken its paces of economic development.

  A. consists of                     B, makes up of

  C. is included                     D. is contained

．The silence of the library is sometimes broken by a sudden cough or the sound of pages _______.

 A．turning      B．turned        C．being turned        D．having turned

Pleasant as they made it_____,we still felt tired after the long journey.  

   A to travel  B traveling C traveled  D travel

     New York Times---( DINITIA SMITH )Tomorrow is the 433d anniversary of Shakespeare's birth. A recent survey shows that more people are watching him, reading him and studying him than ever before.

   Consider the recent yearly conference of the Shakespeare Association of America in Washington, where more than 600 people who study or admire Shakespeare from 18 countries took in topics like ''Whither Attribution Studies,'' ''Unpopular Shakespeare'' and ''Sex Me Here,'' a talk on breast-feeding and Lady Macbeth.

   ''The national media is saying that fewer students' taking Shakespeare,'' Barbara Mowat, the editor of The Shakespeare Quarterly, observed in a speech at the conference. ''But Shakespeare is thriving.'' The association's membership has increased by a third since 1990.

   The Shakespeare business is so good these days that W. W. Norton is introducing a huge new collections of the plays into the already crowded field just in time for tomorrow's birthday anniversary. Priced at $44.95, ''The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition'' runs for 3,420 pages, offering introductions, illustrations and notes and three versions(版本) of ''King Lear.''

    Today, movies and videos have made the plays even more accessible. Last year, ''William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet'' was No. 1 at the box office when it opened, and it grossed nearly $50 million. In New York in January, crowds lined up in the freezing cold to see Kenneth Branagh's four-hour ''Hamlet.'' The students select a scene and then have a violent discussion about it.'' Influenced by films, professors are increasingly teaching students by having them perform the plays.

49.Why people from 18 countries came to Washington this year?

   A. To celebrate Shakespeare’s 433d birth day only.

   B. To watch some plays by Shakespeare as planned.

   C. To celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday and study his works.

   D. To discuss how to teach students using Shakespeare’s plays.

50. What does the underlined word “ field” in the fourth paragraph refer to?

         A. Washington D.C.                                             B. Shakespeare Association.

         C. The birthday anniversary.                  D. The Shakespeare business.

51.Which of the many plays by Shakespeare was most popular the year before?

         A. King Lear.              B. Hamlet.         C. Macbeth.              D. Romeo and Juliet.

52.What does the author want to prove by using so many examples about Shakespeare?

         A. More and more people are becoming interested in Shakespeare.

         B. Shakespeare business is being run well in America nowadays.

         C. Plays by Shakespeare can be used at school for more studies.

         D. Shakespeare belongs not only to Britain but also to the USA.

第二节：书面表达（满分35分）

今年暑假你和你的朋友对高二学生进行了一次家访和调查，学生的反馈情况见下表。请你以“What I want to speak out most?”为题，写一篇 100词左右的短文。开头已给出，不计入总词数。

What I want to speak out most?

As a Senior 2 student, I have many things in mind to speak out.

The most exciting thing for him was      he finally found two tinned fruits in     seemed to him to be a servant’s bedroom.

A. that; what                         B. what; what 

C. that; where                        D. what; where