A decade after terror struck America, we are starting to move forward.

It has been 10 years. In those awful days right after 9/11, I asked my colleague, Dave Barry, if he thought he would ever write jokes again. He was then the humor columnist for the Miami Herald. “For the last week,” he told me, “I haven’t even tried to write anything funny, and for a while I thought maybe I never would, or should.”

He had it; we all had it—that feeling of being stuck, unable to find your way back to the life you had lived before. I wrote 10 columns in a row about what I had seen, the planes crashing, the lives lost. Finally, I had to force myself to write a column about something that was not terror. That last one column. Then I went right back to what was normal.

That was a decade ago. Today’s terrors become tomorrow’s memories. News becomes history. And I find myself remembering how I used to kill ants when I was a child. The thing that struck me was that they always came back. Even if you destroy their world a hundred times, they build it a hundred and one times.

There is something of that in people. It may be one of the best things about us. We always fight the cruel things in life, bury our dead, rebuild, and find a way to move forward. We did it when fire burned down Chicago, after the earthquake in San Francisco, and after the floods in New Orleans. And we did it on September 11.

It is true that we have changed in ways that are not all good. We are at war on three fronts. We are running a strange prison on Cuba. The government may not tell you why.

Osama Bin Laden is dead. Experts tell us the terror group he led is weakened. However, terrorism remains alive in American political thought, which is becoming more extreme.

There is reason to be worried about these changes. But I am still grateful that we moved away from the 9/11 nightmare at all.

64. Which phrase can be used to describe Dave Barry’s feeling just after 9/11?

A. sad but confident                                          B. shocked and numb

C. frightened but hopeful                           D. heartbroken and angry

65. From Paragraph 3, we can conclude that ________.

A. no one ever feels safe anymore

B. there was no terrorism in America before 9/11

C. the author was so shaken that he stopped writing completely

D. many Americans were preoccupied with terrorism for some time.

66. With the example of ants, the author aims to show that ________.

A. he misses his happy childhood

B. he is sorry that he killed the ants

C. rebuilding is more important than sadness

D. people are tough and are able to recover

67. What’s the author’s attitude towards the American government’s policy against   terrorism?

   A. critical             B. supportive              C. uninterested           D. appreciative

On the night of May 9, 2011, musician Gao Xiaosong ran his car into three other cars in Beijing.
But it wasn’t just a car accident—he was drunk(喝醉的).
Now, Gao has to go to prison (监狱) for six months and pay a 4,000 yuan fine.
Gao is the first star to be punished under China’s new drunk driving law.
From May 1 on, drunk drivers will pay a fine, and be banned from driving for five years or even forever.
Drunk driving has become a serious social problem in China.According to the Ministry of Public Security (公安部), police caught more than half a million drunk drivers last year, a 68 % increase from 2009.
The new law sees drunk driving as a crime.
In the West, drunk driving is also a crime. In the US, for example, if the police catch a drunk driver, the driver will pay a fine, lose his or her license (驾照) and even go to prison. If the driver wants to drive again, he or she must do public service, and take part in educational programs.
You may think: drunk driving is a crime? Isn’t this law too unkind? But experts say, “Not at all.”
“It is to protect people’s rights to life and health,” Li Gang, lawyer in Chengdu, told China Daily. “Drunk driving is very dangerous. No matter what the results are, it should not be allowed.”
【小题1】Mr. Gao ran his car into three other cars because _________.

On the night of May 9, 2011, musician Gao Xiaosong ran his car into three other cars in Beijing.
But it wasn’t just a car accident—he was drunk(喝醉的).
Now, Gao has to go to prison (监狱) for six months and pay a 4,000 yuan fine.
Gao is the first star to be punished under China’s new drunk driving law.
From May 1 on, drunk drivers will pay a fine, and be banned from driving for five years or even forever.
Drunk driving has become a serious social problem in China.According to the Ministry of Public Security (公安部), police caught more than half a million drunk drivers last year, a 68 % increase from 2009.
The new law sees drunk driving as a crime.
In the West, drunk driving is also a crime. In the US, for example, if the police catch a drunk driver, the driver will pay a fine, lose his or her license (驾照) and even go to prison. If the driver wants to drive again, he or she must do public service, and take part in educational programs.
You may think: drunk driving is a crime? Isn’t this law too unkind? But experts say, “Not at all.”
“It is to protect people’s rights to life and health,” Li Gang, lawyer in Chengdu, told China Daily. “Drunk driving is very dangerous. No matter what the results are, it should not be allowed.”

1. 1.

   Mr. Gao ran his car into three other cars because _________.

   1. A.
      there was something wrong with his car
   2. B.
      he went home too late
   3. C.
      he drank too much wine
   4. D.
      the road was too crowded
2. 2.

   What does the underlined word “fine” in the third paragraph refer to(指)?

   1. A.
      Health.
   2. B.
      Traffic.
   3. C.
      Weather.
   4. D.
      Money.
3. 3.

   When did the new law come into use?

   1. A.
      On May 1, 2010.
   2. B.
      On May 1, 2011.
   3. C.
      On May 1, 2009
   4. D.
      On May 9, 2011.
4. 4.

   What do experts think of the new law?

   1. A.
      Drunk driving is a crime.
   2. B.
      The law is not kind to drunk drivers.
   3. C.
      Driving has become a serious problem.
   4. D.
      The law is too strict.
5. 5.

   Which of the following sentence is TRUE?

   1. A.
      Li Gang from Chengdu doesn’t like the law.
   2. B.
      In the US, drunk drivers will only lose their licenses.
   3. C.
      There were more drunk drivers in 2010 than in 2009.
   4. D.
      The law is to protect drivers’ rights to life and health only.