I think English is too difficult. At times I feel like ______.

A. staying up?????? ????????????? ????????????? B. giving up???????? ????????????? ????????????? C. giving out

Maybe you're wondering how we spend our free time in the year 2059, so I, ll tell you what I did last weekend.

On Saturday morning, I stayed in bed until 11 o’clock, when my mother woke me up. “Wang Mang! Get out of bed, you lazy little pig!” she said. “You can’t lie in bed all day, and you’ve got homework to do, haven’t you?” Were mothers so annoying fifty years ago?

Anyway, I got out of bed and asked the robot to make me a quick brunch—hamburger and French fries. But the robot said, “Sorry, Mang. Your mother says I can only give you hamburgers 3 times a week, and you had 2 hamburgers yesterday. Fast food is not healthy. I suggest you have some of the dumplings I made yesterday. Or perhaps some fruit salad” You see, my mother has programmed the robot to stop it giving me the things 1 really want to eat. I feel like a prisoner (囚犯）！

After finishing my brunch, I got out my homework pad. The pad looks like a piece of paper, but it’s actually a computer. We don’t use paper much any more. Paper books are really expensive, so we usually buy cheap computer books.

I had to do my math homework on Saturday. We never need to use math in our daily lives—computers solve all the math problems for us. But our math teacher says that if people stop studying math, they’ll forget how to think and become like vegetables. Well, I want to be a vegetable. I hate math!

56. The underlined word “brunch” in the third paragraph means           .

A. breakfast and lunch    B. breakfast with milk

C. lunch with coffee      D. lunch and dinner

57. Wang Mang says he feels “like a prisoner” because          .

A. he is completely controlled by the robot           B. he has to get out of bed too early

C. he doesn’t know how to use the robot             D. he isn’t allowed to eat what he likes

58. One difference between the year 2059 and today is that          .

A. computer books are cheaper than paper books

B. children aren’t allowed to eat fast food

C. students have to do homework at the weekend

D. there is no paper in the year 2059

59. Wang Mang thinks that studying math is          .

A. interesting                 B. useless                      C. too hard                 D. too easy

60. Which can be the best title for the article?

A. A Day in the Future                                       B. A Modern Robot at Home

C. Paper Books V.S. Computers                          D. Math or Vegetables

I hate being overweight. My husband said he didn’t mind, but I knew he still hoped I had a beautiful body. Everything from my waist(腰部) to my legs was overweight. Finally, just after Christmas last year, I decided that something had to be done.

I met Dr. Wallace, and she told me I had to stop eating fast foods. It was very hard for me because I was eating them three of four times a week：pizza，hamburgers，whatever I could get. But I said to myself at the start that I would try my best to do it—and I did. I even gave up the booze—something I used to have two glasses of it with dinner.

My best friend, Rachel Waterman, said I had to walk 10,000 steps every day. That was very hard for me at the beginning. I was used to driving everywhere, but I started to walk everywhere instead. I walked in the morning before work，and I usually took a walk in the park with my husband after work. Now I never go to bed until I’ve done my 10,000 steps.

Six months has passed, and I made it. Last week, my husband bought me an MP4 as a gift.  the weight is wonderful—I feel like a different person now, and I can buy my favorite clothes in the shops. I am so proud of myself because everyone thought I wouldn’t be able to make it including myself.

I love my new body, and I’ll never let myself go back into my old ways.

46. When did the woman decide to lose her weight?

A. After she had a baby.               B. After Christmas last year.

C. Before Christmas last year.       D. When she got a gift from her husband.

47. The underlined word “booze” in Paragraph 2 means ________.

A. wine                B. meat                C. vegetables        D. fast foods

48. What can make the woman overweight according to this passage?

A. Pizza, vegetables and wine.      B. Pizza, hamburgers and wine.

C. Pizza, vegetables and water.     D. Pizza, hamburgers and tea.

49. Why did the woman’s husband get an MP4 for her?

A. Because it was Dr. Wallace’s suggestion. B. Because her husband liked it.

C. Because it was a gift for her success in losing weight.D. Because she asked her husband for it several times.

50. Who helped the woman lost her weight?

A. Dr. Wallace.                                 B. Her husband.

C. Rachel Waterman.                        D. All of the above.