Barbara and Barry Zucker – Pinchoff, both doctors from New York City, took their three daughters on a walking safari（旅行）last year in Tanzania. Barbara told about their experience in Kinbero, “It is the most remote（遥远的）place we have ever been to,” camping with a few other Americans, two Tanzanian guides, and several Hadza（哈扎人）who had time to sit and chat because they had just killed a giraffe.

About 400 members of the Eastern Hadza tribe（部落）live in Tanzania today, the only hunter-gatherers who remain in Africa. The Hadza hunt game, gather edible plants and honey, and move from place to place whenever the weather changers. Every two weeks or so, they move to a new campsite.

At the Pinchoffs’ campsite, three Hadza men stopped by to visit and ended up staying three days. One of the guides gave the men a cigarette. They took out the tobacco, put it in a pipe, and lit the pipe with fire they started.

It takes less than two hours for Hadza women to build a new camp. They make huts（茅屋）by bending branches into round structures about six feet high, and then covering them with long, golden grass. If the weather is very wet, the women may choose a dry cave to set up a camp. Some rock caves have been used over thousands of years and are decorated（装饰）with ancient rock paintings. Whether they sleep in huts, caves or in the open, the Hadza cover themselves only with thin cloths and depend on fire to keep them warm.

The Hadza refuse to be “settled” into villages or to have the life of farmers. By 1979, almost all of them had returned to their old ways. They Hadza may be the only tribe in Africa the has never paid taxes.

1. The passage mainly tells up         .

A. one of the author’s travel experiences

B. the life of the Hadza tribe in Tanzania

C. Barbara’s walking safari in Tanzania

D. the efforts of the Hadza to keep their old ways

2.What does the underlined word “game” ( in Paragraph 2 ) probably refer to?

A. Part of a match.                                           B. Edible wild animals.        

C. An area of work.                                                 D. A children’s activity.

3.What do we know about the life of the Hadza?

A. They change their campsites regularly.           B. They live mainly on farming.

C. They keep warm using leaves at night.            D. It takes them a long time to set up a camp.

4.Where do the Hadza live in wet weather?

A. On the farm.            B. In huts.             C. In caves.           D. In the open.

The United States is one of the few countries in the world that has an official day on which fathers are honored by their children. On the third Sunday in June, fathers all across the United States are given presents, treated to dinner or otherwise made to feel special.

　However, the idea for creating a day for children to honor their fathers began in Spokane, Washington.  A woman by the name of Sonora Smart Dodd thought of the idea for Father's Day while listening to a Mother's Day sermon(说教) in 1909. Having been raised by her father, Henry Jackson Smart, after her mother died, Sonora wanted her father to know how special he was to her.

　It was her father that made all the parental sacrifices(牺牲) and was, in the eyes of his daughter, a selfless and loving man. Sonora's father was born in June, so she chose to hold the first Father's Day celebration in Spokane, Washington on the 19th of June, 1910.

　In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge declared the third Sunday in June as Father's Day.  Roses are the Father's Day flowers: red to be worn for a living father and white if the father has died.

　When children can't visit their fathers or take them out to dinner, they send a greeting card. Traditionally, fathers prefer greeting cards that are not too sentimental(伤感的, 忧伤的). Most greeting cards are too special so fathers laugh when they open them. Some give heartfelt thanks for being there whenever the child needed Dad.

1.The United States is special in Father's Day because ______.

A．many people celebrate the day             B． only America celebrates the day

C．America makes it an official day             D． all men are honored in America

2.At first, Father's Day was fixed on June 19th because ______.

A．Sonora honored her father on her father's birthday

B．Sonora's birthday was June 19

C．it was decided by the president at that time

D．her mother died on June 19

3.How many years has passed before Father's Day became an official day since the father's day was celebrated?

A． 4               B． 10              C． 14              D． 24

4.According to the passage, on Father's Day, ______.

A．people will wear the same flowers to honor their fathers

B．only daughters wear red flowers to honor their fathers

C．children must go home to honor their fathers

D．fathers are often honored in different ways

5.According to the passage, we can infer that Henry Jackson Smart ______.

A．was very kind to anyone

B．did a lot for his daughter

C．was the first father honored in 1924

D．always help others by giving money

C
Telepathy: Mind-to-mind Contact
Telepathy is the ability to communicate without the use of the five senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste). It’s an instinct (本能) which can be woken up in times of emergency or need. When we feel that something is happening or about to happen by instinct, we’re using resources within the unconscious mind. When the resources of two persons’ unconscious minds link together into the same frequency, we call it Telepathy.
We can either send or receive Telepathy. If you know who is calling before you answer the ringing phone, you are probably a good receiver. If you think of a person and he/she calls you, you are most likely to be better at sending.
You can easily put your abilities to the test. Think of somebody and will him or her to contact you. Be patient. The other person may not be a good receiver, but they should contact you much earlier than would normally be expected. Or whenever the phones rings, but try “feeling” who is contacting you. Don’t guess, but try to feel it with your mind. However, if neither of these work for you, that doesn’t mean that you have no ability of telepathy. As mentioned earlier, telepathy is most likely to turn up in case of emergency.
Telepathy dreams often contain telepathic messages. Two people may both dream of the other and find that their dreams had a clear connection. These people are probably linking to each other’s unconscious mind.
Telepathy & Relationships. The more people spend time together, the more likely they are to be able to link up to the other’s mind, specially when separated. There are two reasons for this. One is that they understand the other’s mind through time spent together； the other is that there is usually a strong desire to communicate. A mother will often sense that her child is in danger. This is due to the child’s eagerly wanting his or her mother, knowing that this person who would always want to be there for them, and the mother’s deep desire to protect her child from harm.
64. Telepathy turns up when we ____.
A. sense a close friend in danger              B. use the five senses together
C. recall things from our memory              D. think of a stranger
65. You’re better at sending than receiving Telepathy if you ____.
A. can feel your mom is in danger               B. receive a friend’s call as you wish
C. can tell who knocks at your door             D. dream of a friend dreaming of you
66. Which is not the way to help people gain Telepathy?
A. Help them have a strong desire to communicate.   B. Separate them all the time.
C. Help them link up their unconscious minds.       D. Let them spend much time together.

Whenever the sun dropped and the blue sky came up, my father and I used to climb the mountain near my house. Walking together, my father and I used to have a lot of conversations through which I learned lessons from his experiences. He always told me, “You should have goals like climbing the mountain.” Without the mountain-climbing that we both enjoyed . We couldn’t have enough time to spend together because my father was very busy. I really got a lot from mountain-climbing. It gave me time to talk with my father and to be in deep thought as well as develop my patience (耐力).

   Once we climbed a very high mountain. It was so challenging for me because I was only ten years old. During the first few hours of climbing . I enjoyed the flowers and trees, and the birds’ singing, but as time passed, I got a pain in both of my legs. I wanted to quit climbing. In fact, I hated it at that mountain, but my father said to me, “You can always see a beautiful sky at the top of the mountain, but you can’t see it before you reach the top. Only there at the top, can you see all of the nice things, just like in life.”

    At that time, I was too young to understand his words. But later after that, I got knew hope and confidence. I found myself standing at the top of the sky, which was as clear as crystal (水晶).

1. The passage tells us that mountain-climbing was _____for Father and Son.

   A. hard      B. enjoyable       C. painful      D. comfortable

2. The word “quit” in the passage means “______”.

   A. carry on    B. put off      C. give up      D. pick up

3.Which of the following is the closest (最接近的) in meaning to the father’s words in the second paragraph?

A. You will get all you need at the top of the mountain.  

B. The sky is always as clear as crystal.

C. You can find life is full of nice things.             

D. Never give up half-way.

4.We can infer (推断) from the last paragraph that ______.

A. the writer was very successful in his life.   

B. the writer reached the top of the mountain.

C. thought the writer was young, he could understand his father.

D. the writer used to stop half-way when he climbed the mountain.

5.The best title (题目) for the passage is “______”.

   A. Reaching the Top of the Mountain       B. Standing at the Top of the Mountain

   C. Conversations between Father and Son   D. How to Get to the Top of the Mountain

Steve Jobs on life and death

When I was 17, I read a quote （引述） that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, some day you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an   1  on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every   2  and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?”  And whenever the    3  has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to   4  something.

Remembering that I’ll be   5  soon is the most important tool I’ve ever used to help me make the big   6  in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all   7  of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is   8  important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to   9 . You are already naked. There is no reason not to   10  your heart.

Your time is limited, so don’t   11  it living someone else’s life. Don’t be   12  by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the   13  to follow your beliefs and goals. They somehow already know what you really want to   14 . Everything else is   15 .

1.                A．expectation     B．impression      C．imagination    D．examination

2.                A．minute         B．night           C．day  D．week

3.                A．answer         B．solution         C．result    D．chance

4.                A．accept         B．hide           C．change   D．avoid

5.                A．famous         B．dead           C．old  D．forgotten

6.                A．decisions       B．contributions    C．differences    D．mistakes

7.                A．understanding   B．certainty        C．fear D．knowledge

8.                A．mostly         B．hardly          C．nearly    D．truly

9.                A．take           B．lose            C．give D．win

10.               A．break          B．catch          C．warm D．follow

11.               A．waste          B．imagine        C．spend D．risk

12.               A．confused       B．trapped        C．discouraged    D．hurt

13.               A．wisdom        B．idea           C．desire D．courage

14.               A．see            B．show          C．become   D．forget

15.               A．necessary       B．natural         C．secondary D．possible