Shakespeare said that“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”So it is with leadership. Some men are born with a capacity for leadership. Some acquire that art by watching and studying the actions of those around them. Other persons find themselves thrown into unusual situations which require them to draw on resources they never realized they had, and events bring out marked leadership. Most of us are never put to such tests. Most of us are not born leaders.

　　We often hear people say,“He's a great guy to work for.”We see workers go out of their way to do things for certain supervisors（管理人）. We see them carry out instructions cheerfully and well or even add something to the doing of the job which was unexpected. In other words, they put themselves into the job and give it that“plus effort” which people give only when they feel that they are part of the team, that they are making a contribution to its success, and that their contributions are understood and appreciated.

　　Now this is not something which just happens. It is built on a one-to-one relationship. It is reflection of the person's attitude toward the job, the supervisor, and the company. Where it exists, it has been developed over a period, appreciates their efforts, and tries to give them all a fair deal.

(1) At the beginning of the passage, Shakespeare's words are quoted（引用）________.

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A．to make readers appreciate the writer's style

B．to help describe different kinds of leaders

C．to stress the importance of good leadership

D．to slow the writer's appreciation of Shakespeare's ideas

(2) The sentence“Most of us are never put to such tests.”means that“________”.

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A．most of us are not born leaders

B．tests of leadership ability are necessary to most of us

C．most of us just don't have the opportunity to show leadership ability

D．most of us are not interested in being leaders

(3) Workers are willing to do more than they are told to when ________.

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A．they are determined to achieve great successes

B．they want to be promoted（提升）

C．they are faced with challenging tasks

D．they have an understanding supervisor

　　To listen to the two professors, Smith the zoologist and Jones the philosopher（哲学家）, you would never guess they were friends. They argued everything. Smith was a scientist, who believed in“facts”, while Jones was a thinker, who believed in“ideas”.

　　One day, two scientists found themselves at Coney Island. Professor Smith had a young niece, who, for her birthday, had begged her uncle to take her there. Smith asked his friend Jones to come along. That is how the three of them came to a notice about a remarkable dog.

　　“Let's go inside, uncle. Please!”

　　What they saw did amaze them. The dog danced on its hind legs, keeping time to the music. When asked to add two and three, it barked five times. When the man played a tune on the piano, the dog sang in time to the music. It could even talk, after a fashion（模仿）. When asked how many states there were in the Union, it made a noise which sounded extremely like fifty.

　　The old scientist was amazed by the dog's performance, so after an hour of bargaining, the dog was his.

　　“It is for me, uncle?”

　　“Not exactly, my dear.”Professor Smith answered.“I need it for an important scientific experiment.”

　　“Come on, Smith,”said the philosopher.

　　“You always say'seeing is believing'. The dog is genius（天才）. What more do you need to know?”

　　Professor Smith said,“We may be close to the greatest scientific discovery of all time. If I can find out why this animal is so intelligent…”

　　A few days later, Jones visited his friend.

　　“You what?”he cried, unbelieving.

　　“I did what any scientist would do,” said Smith.“I put the dog to sleep and cut out its brain to find out what was special about it.”

　　“And?”Jones asked.

　　“Do you know, I couldn't find anything which would explain its extraordinary abilities”Professor Smith replied.

　　At that moment, the professor's niece came into the room.

　　“Can I play with my doggie, uncle? Please! He's so clever.”

　　Neither science nor philosophy had an answer for the little girl.

(1) Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

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A．The clever dog was sure to be saved by the two scientists.

B．Professor Smith insisted on seeing the remarkable dog.

C．Professor Smith was disappointed at the result.

D．When asked the number of states in the USA, the dog harked fifty times.

(2) What struck the scientist most in the dog's performance?

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A．The dog's great intelligence.

B．The dog's dancing to the music.

C．The dog's understanding of its master.

D．The dog's ability to talk after a fashion.

(3) Who do you think would feel most pitiful at the end of the story?

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(4) The underlined sentence“You what?”probably means“________”.

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A．What are you doing?

B．What's the matter with you?

C．What do you want me to do?

D．What does your niece think of the dog?

(5) What happened to the clever dog?

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A．It was killed by the professor.

B．It was protected by the little girl.

C．It managed to escape from being killed.

D．It helped the professor do his experiment.

　　After a quick breakfast in the station restaurant, Peter set off to look for a room where he could live for the next few months. He knew ex actly what he wanted: a room which was not too small, nor so large that it would be difficult to heat in winter. It had to be clean and comfortable too, but above all, it had to be quiet. In the newspaper he had bought from the bookshop, there were very few advertisements（广告）for rooms to let. But, as he glanced down the page, a notice caught his eye.

This seemed hopeful, so he made a note of the address and set off in search of the agency. He found it in a narrow street just off the main road. The woman at the desk gave him a bright smile as he entered and, after Peter had explained what sort of room he was looking for, he paid two pounds for a list of about half a dozen land ladies who had rooms let.

(1) What does the text mainly describe?

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A．Peter's room-hunting experience.

B．Peter's determination to find room.

C．The difficulties in finding rooms.

D．The housing market.

(2) Peter's most important consideration in choosing a room was that it should be ________.

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(3)The underlined word“this”in the second paragraph refers to ________.

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(1) If you ten managers will have a meeting in the daytime on Monday and Tuesday in Jianguo Hotel, you have to pay at least ________.

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(2) If you want to have Chinese food, you'd better choose ________.

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　　Cheats have taken large amount of money out of trusting Japanese in 2003 by phoning and pretending to be relatives in trouble, Japanese police said. In what media are calling the“Hi, it's me”trick, victims（受害者）receive calls from cheats who call themselves only as“me”and say they are in great need of money to cover anything from an uninsured traffic accident to an unexpected trouble. Victims think the person on the telephone must be a close relative and often agree to send the money to bank account specified by the cheat straight away. There had been 3 807 reported cases till November 2003, with victims paying out a total of almost 2.3 billion yen ($ 21.1 million), according to police figures. Many of the victims were women over 40, according to domestic newspapers. Police said they were recommending that people check the identity of people asking for money on the telephone. In a more shocking development, some telephone cheats now force money by pretending they have kidnapped a victim's child, with 76 such cases in October alone.

(1) Why did the victims send money to the cheats?

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A．Because they recognized their close relatives in trouble.

B．Because they thought the person on the phone was close relative though they didn't recognized who it was.

C．Because the cheats pretended to be their close friends.

D．Because the cheats called themselves their close relatives.

(2) Who were more easily cheated in the trick?

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(3) According to the passage, the more worrying tend is ________.

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A．there will be more and more cases in Japan

B．a larger amount of money will be paid out by victims

C．Japanese take no notice of the warning by the police

D．cheats pretended they have taken more dangerous actions when they asked for money

(4) The best title of this passage might be“________”

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　　Vallandigham was a lawyer. In his last appearance in the courtroom, he represented a client（委托人）on trial for murder. He insisted that the victim（受害人）had drawn his own gun in a way that caused it to fire, killing himself. To prove what he said was true, Vallandigham showed the victim's method of drawing a gun using the evidence gun filled with bullets. The gun went off, and he lost his life but proved his case.

Gone fishing

　　A fisherman in Kiev killed himself by electricity while fishing in the river. The 43-year-old man connected cables to the main power supply of his home and put the end into the river. The electric shock killed the fish, which floated to the top of the water. The man stepped into the river to collect his catch, forgetting to remove the live wire, and terribly suffered the same fate as the fish. The man was fishing for a mourning meal to remember the first anniversary（周年纪念）of his mother-in-law's death.

Wrong and wronger

　　A 40-year-old official of the local government took his dog out for a walk. He met with a Police Academy student who was guarding two women to their homes. The student pointed out that the official's dog was not allowed on a public street without a lead. Now, no one would be brave enough to tell a village official what to do, so the two men began to argue. Unable to resolve the matter by oral means, the official finally pulled out a military RGD-5 hand grenade（手榴弹）and threw it to the student's feet. His well-trained dog immediately ran for the object and fetched it for his master…and the man and dog met the same fate.

What's that sound?

　　Police said an Olathe man was struck and killed by a train after his vehicle broke down on Interstate 35. His attempts to repairing his car had failed, and he had stepped away from the busy freeway to call for help, when the train engineer spotted him standing on the tracks. The engineer said the man was holding a cell phone to one ear, and cupping his hand to the other ear to block the noise of the train.

(1) What the lawyer Vallandigham did showed that ________.

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A．he had to kill himself to prove the case

B．he had planned carefully to prove the case by killing himself

C．he hadn't thought he would lose life

D．he killed himself in order to save his client

(2) What caused the death of the fisherman?

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(3) Who is wronger?

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(4) How dare the driver stand on the tracks while a train was coming near?

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A．He thought the train would stop in front of him.

B．He thought the train wasn't near enough to kill him

C．He couldn't hear the train coming.

D．He failed to notice the danger of the coming train.

(5)The best title of the passage might be“________”

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　　Clive was climbing an old tree on Butter Hill. His father and Mr Drew were deeply absorbed in conversation not far away, which Clive could overhear.

　　“…North Dakota, capital Bismarck,”said Clive's father.

　　“Yes, and of South Dakota, it's Pierre. Delaware next, capital Dover, with a population of only 5000…”

　　Clive listened, checking the names. When they got stuck on Indiana, he came down the tree and went across to them.

　　“Let me see now,”Mr Drew was saying,“Indiana, Indiana…the capital must be Fort Wayne.”

　　“No,”said the other,“I think it's Evansville.”

　　“Indianapolis,”said Clive.“That's the easiest of all to remember.”

　　Both the men laughed.“He's right, you know,”Mr Drew said. Clive's father agreed,“Yes, yes. Indiana, Indianapolis. Now Kansas…”

　　Clive, who was thirteen then, was not very clever at school. But at that moment he felt rather proud of himself.

　　Looking back now, after many years, Clive remembers some of the ways he learned geography. One thing he remembers clearly is the“test”that took place every other week. The teacher used to pin up a big map on the board China perhaps, or the United States, Australia or Europe…The map would have everything on it, except the names. The teacher, pointing with a long, wooden stick, began.

　　“Ready? Fifty questions. Number 1--write the name of this river. Number 2--the name of this State. 3--its capital, here. 4--the name of this bay（海湾）. 5…”

　　Clive has quite forgotten whether he enjoyed learning geography or not. He didn't consider the rights or wrongs. Though he has never studied geography since he left school, he has never forgotten it. He is glad about the way he learned. The work might have been dull, unexciting; but if so, the dullness has given him a lifetime of interest, understanding and pleasure.

(1) The passage shows that the two men ________.

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A．gave Clive a regular test in geography

B．were themselves interested in geography

C．disliked some modern ways of teaching

D．discouraged Clive feeling of pride

(2) Indianapolis was the easiest of all to remember because ________.

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A．it is the capital of the state

B．it is larger than the other cities in the state

C．Clive had learned it so well

D．it repeats the name of the state

(3) The maps were suitable for their purpose be cause ________.

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A．they didn't give any names

B．they showed everything that the students had learnt

C．they made the test interesting

D．they made it easy to remember things

(4) Which of the following is true?

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A．Clive's geography was poor.

B．Clive's geography teacher didn't teach well.

C．Clive's teacher taught geography well.

D．Clive was proud of his cleverness.

(5) Now that he is grown up, Clive thinks that ________.

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A．learning which places are is not all that important

B．his geography lessons must have been enjoyable

C．he was lucky to have been taught in that way

D．unless the work is interesting you won't remember it

　　Body language is an easier way of expressing feelings than spoken language. For example you do not say to someone easily that you do not like him or her, but through body language you can show them clearly. So the spoken language is limited, which is why we need the body language so much in our communication. Spoken language and body language go mostly hand in hand.

　　When someone says something, information is conveyed（传递）through body language at the same time. This extra non-verbal information can support the content of the message or may contradict it. An example of the latter：a patient in the dentist's waiting room is rocking on his chair, but says he's not nervous. What do you believe? When someone contradict his words like this through his body language, his non-verbal message is almost always regarded as the most true because it is very difficult to lie through body language. Most people are not very aware of their body language. When someone is lying, we get the feeling that something is not right through his behavior. For the most part we are inclined（倾向于）to rely on this feeling and not to believe him. So body language has a larger reliability（可靠性）value.

(1) Which of the following statements is right?

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A．Body language conveys information faster than spoken language.

B．Spoken language conveys information faster than body language.

C．Body language doesn't convey information as spoken language.

D．Body language can convey information as spoken language.

(2) The underlined word means

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(3) From the example in the second paragraph, we know

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A．most people are not very aware of their body language.

B．it is easy to lie through body language.

C．the patient in the dentist's waiting room is not nervous.

D．the extra non-verbal information can support the content of the message or may contradict.

阅读理解

　　The pleasures which a movie film offers to our eyes have been paid for with the loss of sight of a man whose name is hardly known outside the annals(编年史)of science——Joseph Plateau, a Belgian professor born in Brussels in 1801.

　　He studied the mechanism of sight, beginning a series of most dangerous experiments at the age of 28 by staring into the sun for 25 seconds to see what the effect on his eyes would be. He was blind for nearly a month. But he went on experimenting, increasing the length of time during which he looked into the sun, knowing that in the end this would cost him his sight. At the age of 42 he was completely and incurably blind; the sun had destroyed the retina(视网膜)of his eyes. But he continued to work as well as he could until he died at the age of 82.

　　Science profited(获益于)enormously from this research. He studied the so-called inertia(惯性)of the eye, which makes a picture remain on the retina for about one-sixth of a second after it has disappeared from our vision. This means that, if we see a succession of individual pictures each of which appears only for a fraction of a second, they“overlap(重叠)”one another in our brain; and if they show consecutive(连续的)phases(定相)of movement, that movement will appear to us continuous.

(1)The images that we see are recorded in ________.

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A．the brain　　　　　　　　B．the eye

C．the retina of the eye　　　　D．the pupil

(2)Motion pictures ________.

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A．cause inertia of the eye

B．show a succession of unrelated movements

C．show consecutive phases of movement which appear continuous

D．show each phrase of movement for on-half of a second

(3)Scientific advancements are often the result of ________.

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A．losing individual happiness for experimentation

B．the usage of machines

C．some scientists' crazy action

D．doing dangerous work

(4)Which of the following is true?

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A．Joseph Plateau was very famous.

B．Joseph Plateau, who was born in Belgium, was a professor.

C．Seeing films will lose our sight.

D．A picture remains on the retina for about one-fourth of a second.

阅读理解

　　The British Museum is the biggest in the world. Notices tell you abut a hundred different things to see: clocks which have been telling the time far six hundred years, Roman money, some of the earliest books in the world, Shakespeare's own writing…

　　The story of the British Museum goes back four hundreds years to one unusual man, Sir Hans Sloane, doctor to King George Ⅱ. The doctor couldn't stop collecting——books, drawings, doctor warned everything to stay together when he died, so that people could come and look at it. The Museum started to grow. It has never stopped. The first difficulty was finding a home. One idea was Buckingham Place, but the Palace wasn't big enough. Finally people found a larger building for the Museum in the middle of London.

　　The British Museum opened in 1579, six years after Sir Hans Sloane died. Assistants with gun stood at the, doors. Only gentleman could visit the Museum and then they had to buy tickets Ladies could only come in pairs, and children were forbidden! And as the Museum was only open three days a week and only ten people could enter in an hour, there wasn't much time to see things. Visitors had to run through the rooms!

　　By about 1800, Wonderful statues, 3000 years old, arrived from Egypt. A Scotsman, Lord Elgin, brought back some of the oldest and mast beautiful Creek sculptures in the world.

　　New books as well as old ones arrived at the Museum a hundred years ago. When the new Reading Room opened, everybody said that the new Reading Room was wonderful! Since then, many famous men have written and studied there.

　　A lot of the Museum's work now is also scientific. New machines can find out how old things are and how to mend them and keep then for the future. It is open every day of the year, except for three holidays. There are lots of special exhibitions and every day there are different films and talks, some of them for children. Small machines tell you about the Museum as you walk round it: you can look and listen at the same time. So if you are one of the British Museum's two million visitors this year, you have a lot to look forward to. Don't try to see it all too quickly. There is a lifetime of looking in the British Museum.

(1)When did Sir Hans Sloane die?

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A．In 1579　　　　B．In 1585

C．In 1573　　　　D．In 1800

(2)________ is the founder of the British Museum.

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A．Hans Sloane.　　　　B．King George Ⅱ.

C．Lord Elgin.　　　　D．A man we don't know.

(3)________ used to be forbidden to enter the British Museum.

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A．Gentlemen　　　　B．ladies

C．Children　　　　D．foreigners

(4)The British Museum is now open ________.

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A．three days a week.

B．five days a week.

C．every days of the year.

D．every day of the year except 3 holidays.