78. From June 1, 2008, supermarkets in China will not provide plastic bags for free. If s____ need one, they have to pay for it.

77. So far, we’ve s_____ in saving thousands of people in danger.

76. The more we get together, the h_____ we will be.

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Do you have a goal for life? What’s it? Do you want to become a writer, singer or just become a rich person?

A recent survey shows that in modern society, most people pick up practical goals, such as “earning money to buy a house and a car”, “to improve one’s life quality”, “finding a good job”.

Wang You worked in small firm(商行) in Nanjing. The job was good and he didn’t have to work for extra hours. However, he felt the work was not exciting at all and the life was boring . So he gave up his job and went to Beijing in February, 2007. When he arrived in Beijing, he set his new goal as finding a good job.

Nowadays more and more people want to live a better life. This fact shows that the society is making progress and people’s life goals have become more practical. One researcher says, “Everybody has his/her own life goal, which will be surely different from people to people. If one is poor , one’s life goal will be to earn more money; if one doesn’t have a diploma, studying hard to get a diploma will become his life goal; and if one doesn’t have love, his life goal will be to look for it. But if one has no life goal, he will idle away(虚度)his lifetime.”

根据短文内容，完成下列各题

72. Why did Wang You go to Beijing though he had a good job in Nanjing?

73. If a man is poor, what will his life goal be?

74. The Chinese meaning of the phrase “life quality” is _____.

75. What’s your life goal? How do you plan to achieve it?

Ⅸ.单词拼写，请根据首字母和句意，用适当的词完成句子。(5分)

D

　 CCTV held a charity show in May to raise money for the earthquake-hit areas in Sichuan. Many famous stars took part in the show. (A) They didn’t ask for any pay, they all did it for free. There were a lot of performances like singing, dancing and cross-talks(相声). (B) The audience(观众)were so excited that they clapped(鼓掌)their hands all the time. Almost everyone was moved to cry by a lot of sad or moving stories. During the performances, they donated money to the disaster areas(灾区). The show was so successful.

Besides that, many other stars are doing things for disaster areas in many ways. Kungfu star Jackie Chan and the foundation(基金)named Hong Kong Emperor Group have together donated 10 million yuan. And he also sent his consolation(安慰)to the people in the disaster areas and encouraged them to hold on because “People all over the country are with you.” Xiao Ke, a songwriter, wrote and recorded a song “I Know You Will Come” to warm the hearts of the people in despair(绝望). CCTV’s top show “The Same Song” also held a charity special to help them.

Both the ticket money and the donated money will be sent to the disaster areas. As the Chinese saying goes (C) “One in trouble, all to help”. I believe that the whole world will become better if every one of us gives charity to others.

68. 把A句的两个单句连成一个句子

　　 They did it ______ any _____.

69. 把B句改写成意思相同的简单句。

　　 The audience were ______ ______ to clap their hands all the time.

70. 把C句翻译成汉语。

　　 ________________________________________________________________

71. 用斜体句中的“both…and”仿造一个句子。

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C

64.(　　 ) The operation done on the two Chinese girls was _____.

A. unsuccessful　　　 B. cruel(残忍的)　　 C. successful　　　 D. strange

65.(　　 ) The fire in the shopping center started _____.

A. on the fourth floor　 B. in a storehouse　　 C. on the third floor　 D. outside the centre

66.(　　 ) The Chinese Embassy in Baghdad reopened _____.

A. when the US-Iraq war began　　　　　　 B. before the US-Iraq war ended

C. three days before the war broke out　　　　 D. on a Monday

67.(　　 ) The new find of the insect fossil showed that the earliest insect was _____ years older than believed.

A. 10 million　　　　 B. 20 million　　　　 C. 400 million　　　 D. 380 million

B

　 Stephen Hawking, a world famous British physicist, will write a children’s book with his daughter. Hawking said the book will be “ a bit like Harry Potter” but without the magic. “It explains the wonders of the universe(宇宙) , “ said Hawking , while he was on a visit to Hong Kong last week.

　 Hawking, 64, is probably the world’s most famous scientist after Albert Einstein. He is an expert on black holes. He has put his whole life into digging into the beginning (and the end) of the universe.

“My goal is simple,” Hawking once said. “It is to completely understand the universe, why it is as it is and why it is there at all.”

Hawking has a bad illness that stops him from moving or talking. For a period of time, he had no way to communicate except by blinking (眨眼).

Now he sits on a wheelchair　 with a computer by his side. To communicate, he moves two fingers to control the computer’s mouse. He chooses his words from the screen, which are then spoken by a voice synthesizer(音响合成器).

“ I have had the disease for most of my life.” Hawking once said. “Yet it has not stopped me from being successful at my work. “

Although Hawking is such a disabled man, he made great achievements. He has received many awards and prizes for his work over the years. This includes winning the Albert Einstein Award. It is the highest achievement in theoretical physics(理论物理).

(　　 )60, The book that Stephen Hawking will write is ______.

A. the same as Harry Potter　　　　　　　 B. quite different from Harry Potter

C. about the magic　　　　　　　　　　　 D. about science

61.(　　 ) From the text we can learn _____

A. Hawing is more famous than Einstein　　 B. Hawking is less famous than Einstein

C. both Hawking and Einstein are very famous　 D. neither Hawking nor Einstein is famous

62.(　　 ) What does the pronoun “ it ” stand for ?

A. The goal　　　　　 B. The magic　　　 C. The universe　　　 D. The book

63.(　　 ) According to the text, which of the following statements about Hawking is the fact?

A. He has received many awards and prices except the Albert Einstein Award.

B. The illness keeps him from moving and talking.

C. He communicates with others by speaking.

D. The illness stopped him from being successful

A

　 We have known for a long time that flowers of different plants open and close at different time of day. This is so familiar that there seems to be no need to ask the reason for it. Yet no one really understands why flowers open and close like this at particular time. The process(过程) is not as simple as we might think, as recent experiments have shown. In one study, flowers were kept in constant(连续的)darkness. We might expect that the flowers, without any information about the time of day, did not open as they normally do . In fact, they continued to open at their usual time .This suggests that they have some mysterious way of knowing the time. Their sense of time does not depend on information from the outside world; it is, so to speak, inside them, a kind of “inner clock”.

This discovery may not seem to be very important. However, it was later found that not just plants but also animals-including man-have this “ inner clock” which controls the working of their bodies and influences their activities. Men, then, are also influenced by this mysterious power. Whether we wish it or not, it affects such things in our life as our need for sleep, our need for food.

In the past, this did not matter very much because people lived in natural condition. In the modern world, things are different; now there are spacemen, airplane pilots and, in ordinary life, a lot of people who have to work at night. It would be very useful, then, to know more about the “inner clock” . It might help us understand more about ourselves.

根据材料内容选择最佳答案，将其标号填入题前括号内。

56.(　　 ) From the passage, a recent experiment showed that _____.

A. different flowers open and close at different time of day

B. for their opening and closing, flowers do not need information from the outside world

C. flowers are influenced by weak light even when they are in a dark room.

D. flowers can be used for telling the time

57.(　　 ) Further study of the “inner clock” will be useful because _____

A. it might help us in some way　　

B. we do not yet understand plants and animals well enough

C. the number of spacemen and airplane pilots is fast increasing

D. we should try to live more naturally than we do now

58.(　　 ) Kept in constant darkness, flowers _____

A. will not open or close as usual

B. will not open any longer

C. will open as they do in natural conditions

D will always remain in full blossom (开花)

59.(　　 ) _____ have a mysterious power of knowing time without information from the outside world.

A. Animals including man as well as plants　　 　　　B. All living things except man

C. Flowers are the only things in the world that

D. Neither animals nor plants

40.(　　 ) The factory _____ for 5 years.

A. has opened　　　　 B. has been opened　 C. has been opening　 D. has been open