When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor, Dr. Gibbs. He didn’t look like any doctor I’d ever known. He never invited us to play in his yard, but he was a very kind person.
When Dr. Gibbs wasn’t saving lives, he was planting trees. He owned a large field and wanted to make it a forest.
The good doctor had some interesting ideas about planting trees. He never watered his new trees. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants spoiled them, and that if you watered them, each baby tree would grow weaker and weaker, so you had to make things difficult for them and pick out the weaker trees early on.
He talked about how watering trees made for shallow（浅的）roots, and how trees that weren’t watered had to grow deep roots in search of water under the earth by themselves. Deep roots were very important.
So he never watered his trees. He’d planted an oak and, instead of watering it every morning, he’d beat it with a rolled-up newspaper. I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree’s attention.
Dr. Gibbs died several years after I left home. Every now and then, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I watched him plant about twenty-five years ago. They’re very big and strong now. I planted some trees a few years back and carried water to them for whole summer.
After two years of caring too much, whenever a cold wind blows in, they shake a lot.
Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. Mostly I pray（祈祷）that their lives will be easy. But lately I’ve been thinking that it’s time to change my prayer. I know my children are going to face difficulties. There’s always cold wind blowing somewhere, so what we need to do is to pray for roots that reach deep into the brave heart, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we could face it strongly and won’t be beaten down.
【小题1】We know from the passage the doctor           .

A．didn’t know how to plant trees at all

B．wasn’t good at his own medical job

C．had his own ways of planting trees

D．had nothing to do but plant trees

【小题2】When Dr. Gibbs said “…pick out the weaker trees early on.”, he meant that          .

A．some weak trees would be easily found out at the beginning

B．he would choose the weak trees to water earlier

C．the weak trees would be sent to his patients later

D．he would not plant weak trees so early anymore

【小题3】The passage tells us that the writer      .

A．should beat his trees with a rolled-up newspaper

B．didn’t often water his trees

C．didn’t have a large field

D．took too much care of his trees

【小题4】Which can be the best title of the passage?

A．Watering trees

B．Growing roots

C．Doctor and his neighbor

D．Father and his children

Spiderman(蜘蛛侠) is one of the most famous comic book heroes of all time. He was created by Stan Lee in 1963 and was first introduced to the world in the pages of Marvel comic books.
Spiderman’s story is the story of Peter Parker, a child who lost his parents and lives with his aunt and uncle. Peter is a shy, quiet boy wearing glasses and has few friends. One day, on a high school class trip to a science lab, he gets bitten by a special spider. Soon Peter realizes he has amazing powers: he is as strong and quick as a spider and also has a type of sixth sense. He no longer needs his glasses and he can use his super power to fly through the city streets! Remembering something his Uncle Ben has told him, that “with great power, there must also come great responsibility(责任),” Peter decides to use his powers to fight enemies(敌人) who do cruel things to people. And so, Spiderman is born.
Life is not easy for Peter even though he is a superhero. He is in love with Mary Jane but cannot tell her about his amazing powers. Besides, his best friend Harry hates Spiderman! Peter is also short of money and time. He has to sell photos of Spiderman (himself!) to a newspaper and he keeps losing his other jobs because he’s so busy saving people! Yet he has to fight different kinds of cruel enemies.
【小题1】Who created Spiderman?

A．Stan Lee.

B．Marvel.

C．Peter Parker.

D．Superman.

【小题2】 What happened to Peter Parker after he was bitten by the spider?

A．He could not see with his eyes.	B．He became a spider.
C．He developed spider-like powers.	D．He was sick.

【小题3】 What does “with great power, there must also come great responsibility” mean?

A．Powerful people can do whatever they like.

B．People with power are always good.

C．Powerful people should have a responsibility to do good.

D．Powerful people are to blame(为……担责) for all the bad things that happen.

用方框中所给单词或短语的适当形式填空，使短文通顺、正确连贯，每个单词或短语限用一次。

 

can   help   ground    rather than    encourage    by   plant  we   off   unless

        

There are many ways to save the environment if you would like. In this passage, you can find some ways.

         Plant more trees. Choose a right 1.________ near your house or workplace. 2.________ there’s any rule stopping you growing trees in that area, go ahead and grow trees. Plant a tree every month and3.________ your friends and classmates to join you. Have more and more trees 4.________ and there will come a day when you have green land thanks to your hard work.

         Walk more and drive less. Choose to walk 5.________ drive your car. Walk or ride a bicycle to work if it’s not very far. Not only cycling but walking is good exercise. And each time you avoid using your car, you’re doing something 6.________ to cut down air pollution. You are saving fuel, saving money and keeping fit as well.

         Save water. Water is very important for living things. It’s 7.________ who use and pollute it. The simplest way to save water is turning 8.________ water taps after use. When you visit a beach, make sure that you don’t throw waste around. Do not pollute rivers 9.________ dropping garbage or other waste. Water is so precious, so we 10.________ waste or pollute it.

 

Sunday is more like Monday than it used to be. Places of business that used to keep daytime “business hours” are now open late into the night. And on the Internet, the hour of the day and the day of the week have become irrelevant. A half century ago in the United states, most people experienced strong and precise dividing lines between days of rest and days of work, school time and summer time. Today the dividing lines are still there, but they seem not clear.
The law in almost all states used to require stores to close on Sunday; in most, it no longer does. It used to keep the schools open in all seasons except summer, in most, it still does. And whether the work week should strengthen its legal（法律的）limits, or whether it should become more changeable, is often debated（争论）. How should we, as a society, organize our time? Should we go even further in relaxing the dividing lines of time until we live in a world in which every minute is much like every other?
These are not easy questions even to ask. Part of the difficulty is that we seldom recognize the “law of time” even when we meet it face to face. We know as children that we have to go to  school a certain number of hours, a certain number of days, a certain number of years – but unless we meet the truant officer（学监）, we may well think that we should go to school because of social custom and parents’ requirement rather than to the law. As adults we know “extra pay for overtime working” very well, but less familiar with the fact that what constitutes（构成）“overtime” is a matter of legal thing. When we turn the clock forward to start daylight – saving time, have we ever thought to ourselves: “Here is the law in action”? As we shall see, there is a lot of law that has great influence on how organize and use time: compulsory education law, overtime law, and daylight-saving law – as well as law about Sunday closing, holidays, being late to work, time zones, and so on. Once we begin to look for it, we will have no trouble finding a law of time to examine and assess.
【小题1】What does the underlined word “irrelevant” probably mean?

A．Impossible.

B．Unacceptable.

C．Unimportant.

D．Disagreeable.

【小题2】The writer raises the questions in Paragraph 2 to introduce the fact that people _____.

A．are unknowing of the law of time

B．fail to make full use of their time

C．welcome changeable working hours

D．enjoy working overtime for more pay

【小题3】We can learn from the passage that most children go to school because they_____.

A．have to follow the law

B．need to find social customs

C．need to learn more knowledge

D．have to follow their parents’ requirement

【小题4】What is the main idea of the passage?

A．Our life is governed by the law of time.

B．How to use time is not worth debating.

C．New ways of using time change our society.

D．Our time table is decided by social customs.

Do you have the ability to live cheaply? Now here's a true story of an American girl，Sarah．

     21  Sarah left university，she began to live in New York City on her own．She   22  a job in a publishing house，but the salary(薪水)was   23  $30，000 a year．Her parents thought her life would be hard，but Sarah  24  live on her salary and still saved $5，000 in a year．How was that  25  in one of the most expensive cities in the world?

    Cheap living  26  starts with keeping the big cost small．For most people，that  27 housing．So Sarah chose to share a flat with three other friends．Her next biggest cost was   28 ．When she ate out，she went to cheap restaurants． 29  she bought a $9．99 whole chicken at a local restaurant．She then   30 the chicken bones(骨头)home and made soup out of them．Nowadays young people often  31  a lot of money on entertainment(娱乐)．But Sarah said，“I enjoy walking  32  in New York City．I love going to museums and parks．”  Did Sarah feel poor  33  cheap living? Not really．She even managed to take two trips，one to the Netherlands， 34  to Portland．

  “Don't think of saving money as something  35 ．It's a kind of game，”said Sarah．

1.A．Until         B．Because            C．After                         D．Unless

2.A．found        B．tried                  C．asked for                D．looked for

3.A．more than     B．less than       C shorter than                       D．higher than

4.A．can          B．may                      C．could                            D．might

5.A．difficult      B．possible              C．useful                       D．different

6.A．already       B．sometimes      C．hardly                D．always

7.A．helps         B．becomes                C．makes                          D．means

8.A．food          B．rest                C．studying                 D．playing

9.A．Soon         B．Finally            C．Once                   D．Again

10.A．prepared      B．took            C．caught                     D．picked

11.A．pay          B．lend                   C．spend                       D．save

12.A．along         B．up                   C．down                     D．around

13.A．by            B．up                   C．at                              D．between

14.A．another       B．the other              C．others                    D．the others

15.A．hard          B．interesting      C．nice                   D．great