Passage 1  Mobile Phone Madness
How much do you love your mobile phone? A Chinese student had to call 110 for help this week after he got his arm stuck in a toilet trying to rescue(援救) his mobile phone. After dropping his phone in the toilet, he decided to wrap(包，裹) his arm in newspaper in the hopes of keeping clean. But the newspapers became larger in size in the water, and then even his roommates couldn’t help him pull his arm out. So policemen were called and they spent an hour unsticking the stuck student.
Passage 2  Crazy Pet Lovers
How much do you love your pets? Many people in China are famous for how much they love their pets. They dress them up in fashionable clothing and buy them high quality food. But would they spend 7,000 English pounds (68,000 yuan) on a wedding(婚礼) for their pets? And that’s what a couple in Brazil spent on a fancy wedding for their pet Yorkshire terriers( a kind of dog).
Passage 3  Oh, rats!
When something goes wrong, you can often hear Westerners cry “Oh, rats”. But when it comes to Southern China, “Oh, rats!” can mean it’s what you want for dinner. According to a report in China Daily, some restaurants in Guangzhou serve rat meat. But, actually, most of those rats are field mice. What would Mickey Mouse say?
Passage 4  Liar(说谎者), liar
Here’s some news that most women already know. Men tell more lies than women. The London Daily Mail cites(引用) a new study that says men tell about three lies a day, while women tell only two lies a day. Men are also less likely to feel guilty about lying, according to this week’s survey of 3,000 people by a research organization called One Poll. According to the Poll, lying to our mothers is very popular. But then, so is lying at work. And both men and women will lie when it comes to how much they’ve drunk. So how easy is it to tell when someone is lying?
【小题1】Put the statements into the right order according to passage 1.
① They called policemen for help. 
② He dropped his mobile phone in the toilet.
③ His roommates tried to help him pull his arm out, but failed.
④ The newspapers expanded(膨胀) in the water, so he got his arm stuck.
⑤ He wrapped his arm in newspaper before trying to take out his phone from the toilet.

A．②⑤④③①

B．②④③⑤①

C．①⑤④②③

D．①②⑤④③

【小题2】Why does the writer call the Brazilian couple “crazy pet lovers”?

A．They dress their pets up in fashionable clothing.

B．They buy their pets high quality food.

C．They spent ￥68,000 on a wedding for their pets.

D．They spent ￡7,000 in buying a pet.

【小题3】 If you say “oh, rats” in Guangzhou, it can mean that                    .

A．something goes wrong	B．you see some field mice
C．you are a Mickey Mouse lover	D．you’d like to have rat meat for dinner

【小题4】 According to the new study on lying, which of the following is not true?

A．Women tell less lies than men.

B．Women are more likely to feel guilty about lying.

C．Lying at work is more popular than lying to our mothers.

D．Neither men nor women want to tell the truth about how much they have drunk.

【小题5】What is NOT mentioned?

A．It is difficult to unstick the stuck student.

B．The couple’s pets are Yorkshire terriers.

C．People in China enjoy eating rat meat.

D．3,000 people took part in the survey made by One Poll.

根据短文内容，在短文后的空格处填上一个恰当的词，使短文完整、通顺。

Someone says, "Time is money." But I think time is  1.  important than money. Why? Because when money is spent, we can get it back. floweret, when time is  2.  it'll never  3.  . That's  4.  we mustn't waste time.

It goes without saying that the  5. is usually limited (有限的). Even a second is very important. We should make full use of our time to do  6.  useful.

But it is a pity that there are a lot of people who do not know the  7.  of time. They spent their limited time smoking, drinking and  8. . They do not know that wasting time means wasting part of their own 9. . In a word, we should save time. We shouldn't   10.  today's work for tomorrow. Remember we have no time to waste.

 

When women sit together to watch a movie on TV, at the same time they usually talk about a lot of subjects, including children, men, careers and what’s happening in their lives. When groups of men and women watch a movie together, the men usually end up telling the women to shut up. Men can either talk or watch the screen---they can’t do both---and they don’t understand that women can. Besides(此外), women think that the point of all getting together is to have a good time and develop relationships--not just to sit there like couch potatoes staring (盯着) at the screen.
During the ad breaks, a man often asks a woman to explain the plot(the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.) and tell him where the relationship between the characters is going. He is unable, unlike women, to read the small body language signals that show how the characters are feeling emotionally(情绪上). Since women originally spent their days with the other women and children in the group, they developed the ability to communicate successfully because they want to keep relationships. For a woman, speech continues to have such a clear purpose: to build relationships and make friends. For men, to talk is to connect to the facts.
Men see the telephone as a communication tool for sending facts and information to other people, but a woman sees it as a way of keeping relationship. A woman can spend two weeks on vacation with her girlfriend and, when she returns home, telephone the same girlfriend and talk for another two hours.
There is no convincing(令人信服的)evidence that social conditioning, the fact that girls’ mothers talked them more, is the reason why girls talk more than boys. Psychiatrist Dr. Michael Lewis, author of Social Behaviour and Language Acquisition, conducted experiments that found mothers talked to and looked at baby girls more often than baby boys. Scientific evidence shows parents reply to the brain differences of their children. Since a girl’s brain is better organized to send and receive speech, we talk to them more. As a result, mothers who try to talk to their sons are usually pointed to receive only short complaints in reply.
【小题1】While watching TV with others, women usually talk a lot because they ___________.

A．are afraid of silence with their families and friends

B．can both talk and watch the screen at the same time

C．think they can have a good time and develop relationships

D．have to explain the plot and body language to their husbands

【小题2】After a vacation with her girlfriend, a woman would talk to her again on the phone for hours so as to ___________.

A．experience the happy time again

B．keep a close tie with her

C．recommend her a new wonderful place

D．remind her of something forgotten

【小题3】What does the writer want to tell us most?

A．Women’s brains are better organized for language and communication.

B．Women love to talk because they are more sociable than men.

C．Men do not like talking because they believe more in facts.

D．Social conditioning is not the reason why women love talking.

【小题4】Which of the following would be the BEST title for the passage?

A．Women Are Socially Trained to Talk

B．Talking Keeps Relationships

C．Women Love to Talk

D．Men Talk Differently from Women

Two old men lived in a room on the third floor of an old people’s home. Both men were very old and badly ill, and they spent 24 hours a day in bed in the room.

Luckily, one of the old men had his bed by the window, and every day he spent hours telling his friend far from the window what he could see through the window. He told him about the traffic going by, the children playing in the park opposite, and the birds flying in trees. The old man far from the window got a lot of pleasure from hearing about the world outside, but after a time he began to get rather unhappy. How nice it would be, he thought, if he had the bed by the window and could see everything for him, instead of just hearing about it.

One night, the man by the window called to his friend, “Quick! Pull the alarm by your bed; I don’t think I can get through the night!” But his friends, expecting an empty bed by the window, did nothing---he just closed his eyes and went back to sleep.

The next morning, the nurse found the man dead in his bed by the window.

The old man was very excited as they moved him into the empty bed by the window. He sat up in bed, pulled back the curtain, looked out --- and saw only a wall.

1.Who do you think was kind in the story?

A．The old man by the window.

B．The old man far from the window.

C．Both of the men.

D．Neither of the men.

2.The old man didn’t pull the alarm by the bed because _________.

A．he was too weak to do it.

B．he had fallen into a deep sleep.

C．he didn’t hear what the other man asked to do

D．he wanted to move to the bed by the window.

3.The old man by the window thought _______that night when he asked his friend for help.

A．he wouldn’t die

B．he would die

C．he couldn’t sleep

D．he could sleep

4.In fact, there was ___ outside the window.

A．a garden

B．a park

C．a wall

D．a picture

5.Which of the following is TRUE according to the story?

A．The two old men weren’t badly ill.

B．The living old man knew the truth.

C．The nurse didn’t look after the old man carefully.

D．The old man by the window could see a lot through the window.