At the west end of the clearing, the men stood in a circle around the snake. Roger tried time and again. He could get the head in the fork, but when he tried to bring it to the ground it would slip out. And the snake was becoming more and more angry.

＂It is going to spit,＂ warned  Joro.

＂Let it spit. It can't shoot this far.＂

roger was at least three meters from the snake.

In the next instant Roger learned a lesson he would never forget . Two white streams shot out from the snake's poison fangs(毒牙)．

　He would never have believed it possible. How could the snake be so accurate? How did it know that the weakest part of an enemy was the eye?

He brushed the poison away with the back of his band. It did no good. Enough had gone in to give him great pain. Worst of all, he found himself half blind.

1. Roger didn't listen to the warning because ______.

A the snake wasn't able to shoot that far

B he knew it was going to spit

C e had made preparations for it to spit 

D he had never thought it could shoot as far as three meters

2. According to the passage, which of the following is true?

A The moment Roger stopped saying, the snake attacked him.

B Before Roger realized it would spit, it attacked him.

C While Roger was having a lesson, it attacked him

D When Roger saw two white streams coming, he stepped aside.

3. In the sentence ＂He would never have believed it possible＂ the word ＂it ＂refers to _____.

A the snake    B the snake's poison    

C Roger's eye   D the snake's shooting Roger's eye

4. What lesson shall we draw from their accident?

A A snake is very clever.           B Run away at the sight of a snake.

C Don't be too sure of ourselves.   D It is a pity to be half-blind.

Cold weather has a great effect on how our minds and our bodies work. Maybe that is why there are so many expressions that use the word “cold”. For centuries, the body’s blood has been linked closely with the emotions. People who show no human emotions or feelings, for example, are said to be cold-blooded. Cold-blooded people act in merciless ways. They may do brutal things to others, and not by accident. For example, a newspaper says the police are searching for a cold-blooded killer. The killer murdered someone, not in self-defense. He seemed to kill for no reason, and with no emotion, as if taking someone’s life meant nothing.
    Cold can affect other parts of the body, the feet, for example. Heavy socks can you’re your feet, if your feet are really cold. But there is an expression—to get cold feet—that has nothing to do with cold or your feet.
    The expression means being afraid to do something you have decided to do. For example, you agree to be president of an organization. But then you learn that all the other officers have resigned. All the work of the organization will be your responsibility. You are likely to get cold feet about being the president when you understand the situation.
    Cold can also affect your shoulder. You give someone the cold shoulder when you refuse to speak to them. You treat them in a distant and cold way. The expression probably comes from the physical act of turning your back toward someone, instead of speaking to him face-to-face. You may give a cold shoulder to a friend who has not kept a promise he made to you, or to someone who has lied about you to others.
    A cold fish is not a fish. It is a person. But it is a person who is unfriendly, unemotional and shows no love or warmth. A cold fish does not offer much of himself to anyone.
    Out in the cold is an expression often heard. It means not getting something that everybody else got. A person might say that everybody but him got a pay raise, and that he was left out in the cold. And it is not a pleasant place to be.
71、The passage is intended to tell us that ______ .

72、The underlined word “brutal” in Paragraph 1 most probably means “______”.

73、Which of the following expressions can best describe a person who is unwilling to offer anything to others?

74、You can say Tom ______ if the teacher gives all the boys except him a pen as a prize.

75、We can draw a conclusion from the passage that ______ .

---Do you know _______?

----Sorry, I’ve no idea.

Section One

The city is an accumulation of human civilization. Just as the American social philosopher (哲学家) Lewis Mumford put it, it is a special system which, fine and compact, has been designed to preserve the fruits of human civilization. Many Western languages have developed their versions of the term “civilization” from the same Latin (拉丁语的) word “civitas”(meaning “city”), and it is by no means a coincidence. The city has played a significant role in the perfection of order in human society.

Section Two

The emblem, showing the image of three people ― you, me, him/her holding hands together, symbolizes the big family of mankind. Inspired by the shape of the Chinese character “世” (meaning the world), the design conveys the organizers' wish to host an Expo which is of global scale and which displays the various urban cultures of the world.

Section Three

Created from the inspiration of Chinese character “人”, the design roots deeply in Chinese culture. It tells the world the eternal core (永恒的核心) and theme of Shanghai World Expo will be always human. The mascot “Haibao” will become the messenger for the theme of World Expo 2010 Shanghai China “Better City, Better Life”.

The basic structure of the Chinese character “人” in which each stroke(一笔，一划) supports each other also shows the concept that the beautiful life should depends on mutual-help. If the human are willing to support one another, the harmony among human, nature, and society will be available. Such an urban life will be nice.

Haibao’s confident smile is expressing his sincere greeting from China ― “World Expo 2010 Shanghai China welcomes you!”

Section One mainly tells us about ______.

       A. the part cities play in human civilization         B. the development of the word “city”

       C. why the Expo is held in Shanghai                D. where human civilization originated

The underlined word “it” in Section One refers to ______.

    A. the civilization   B. the philosopher         C. the word                  D. the city

Which correctly matches the sections with the pictures described in the passage?

Though__ __ came that he was completely defeated, he didn't lose ______.

A. the word; his heart   B. the word; heart    

C. word; his heart    D. word; heart