6、Three surfers rushed to save a man’s life after he was left drifting on a notorious stretch of water. The men stayed with Greg Popple for 30 minutes and had to be rescued themselves by helicopter as the drama unfolded.

The 45-year-old had floated out on a body board near Hutchwns Point at 8:30 am. He found himself in trouble about half-a-mile from the shore and dangerously close to rocks. Surfers Graig Evans, 31, Robert Miles, 19, and Owain Daviees, 23, were risking their own safety to keep him floating for 30 minutes. Luckily a passer-by noticed what was going on and raised the alarm. Porthcawl Coastguard, Porthcaw Lifeboat and an RAF helicopter all took part in the rescue.

“The man who got into trouble was a body boarder —— there was a big tide where he was,” said Joe Missen. “Three other surfers spotted he was in difficulty and he was going down. They kept him afloat because he was in a state of shock and out of energy. If Mr. Popple was closer to the rocks, it could have been a lot worse, but they managed to keep him from harm”.

Mr. Missen’s mum Alison, also part of the rescue team, said, “That part of the water is notorious for taking people out to nowhere”.

The three men had clocked off a night shift at Ford Motor Company shortly before the incident. “I headed straight down to the beach for a surf, when I saw him flailing（挥动）. We just swam straight out to him and kept him calm while the help came”.

The four men were taken to the life boat house to recover, without injuries.

1．What would be the best title for the text?

       A．Three Men to Be Praised                B．Notorious Place for Surfers

       C．Surfers Rescue Man Caught in Tide     D．Greg Popple-a Lucky Dog

2．The helicopter came up at the request of ________.

       A．Greg Popple                                    B．Craig Evans     

       C．Robert Miles                                    D．a passer-by

3．According to the text, what was the most important thing to do for the three men?

       A．Keeping him farther away from the rocks.

       B．Keeping Mr Popple swimming in the sea.

       C．Asking him to have a good rest.

       D．Keeping him floating everywhere.

4．What may the style of this passage be?

       A．A story.                                          B．A news report.

       C．A poster.                                          D．An advertisement.

5、A federal judge sentenced Bruce Jones to 12 years in federal prison for fraud （诈骗罪）. Over a 10 – year period, Jones had managed to cheat thousands of people throughout the state out of almost $10 million.

He advertised his fantastic ideas on TV. “For some reason,” Jones said, “TV seems to break the ice. Even though you are a total stranger to the viewer, once he sees you on TV in his home, he feels like he knows you. You enter his living room and become a trusted friend.”

Jones had an imagination that wouldn’t quit. One time he showed viewers an “official government” earthquake report which “proved” that the western half of California would collapse into the sea within three years. For $100, he said, Jones would insure （承保） your house and property for full value. Thousands of people who saw that TV ad sent him a hundred dollars each.

In another TV ad, Jones claimed that he had come to an agreement with the federal and state government for exclusive（独享的）air rights. He told viewers that, for only $100, they could own the first 10 miles above all their property. You would be able to charge any commercial plane that flew over your property $100 per crossing. You would also be able to charge government rockets, satellites, space shuttles, and space stations $100 for each and every violation of your air rights.

Another time, Jones claimed to have invented a product that gets rid of calories. He showed the viewers a spray can of “No Cal.” He said that by simply spraying No Cal on your food, a chemical interaction would cause all the calories in the food to simply disappear within about 10 seconds. The No Cal was only $10 a can. As usual, Jones received thousands of checks in the mail.

The judge told Jones that he should be ashamed of himself. Jones responded that he was very ashamed of himself, and that when he got out of prison he hoped to become a TV adviser to help people avoid getting cheated. He told the judge that he was already developing an instructional CD that, for merely $100, would save people thousands of dollars in scams （骗局） . The judge nodded, and then changed Jones’ sentence from 10 years to 12 years.

1．According to Jones, he could successfully cheat many people mainly because          .

       A．he promised them a large profit

       B．they were too eager to make money

       C．they believed too much in TV ads

       D．he was skillful in communicating with people

2．Which of the following statements is TRUE?

       A．Jones showed unusual imagination in his tricks.

       B．Jones was closely related to the state government.

       C．Western California was in danger of going under the sea.

       D．Jones felt guilty and was determined to lead a new life.

3．We can infer that people who wanted to buy “No Cal” from Jones          .

      A．were mainly from low income families

       B．all had a rich knowledge of chemistry

       C．were probably interested in losing weight

       D．usually did the shopping through the Internet

4．The judge changed the sentence at last because          .

       A．Jones was planning another big scam

       B．he could hardly believe what Jones had told him

       C．Jones had cheated more people than he expected

       D．he had suffered from Jones’ scams himself

4、Icebergs are among nature’s most impressive creations, and yet most people have never seen one. They come into being somewhere in faraway, freezing waters, amid thunderous noise and splashing turbulence （漩涡）, which in most cases no one hears or sees. They exist only a short time and then slowly melt away just as unnoticed.

They have been called objects of complete beauty. Appearing in an endless variety of shapes, they may be dazzlingly white, or they may be glassy blue, green or purple, in light colors or in dark colors. They are graceful, stately, inspiring-in calm, sunlit seas.

But they are also called frightening and dangerous, and that they are-in the night, in the fog, and in storms. Even in clear weather one is wise to stay a safe distance away from them. Most of their main part is hidden below the water, so their underwater parts may extend out far beyond the visible top. Also, they may roll over unexpectedly, stirring the waters around them.

Icebergs are parts of glaciers that break off, drift into the water, float about awhile, and finally melt. Icebergs floating today are made of snows that have fallen over long ages of time. They include snows that drifted down hundreds, or many thousands, or in some cases maybe a million years ago. The snows fell in Polar regions and on cold mountains, where they melted only a little or not at all, and so collected to great depths over the years and centuries.

As each year’s snow accumulation lay on the surface, evaporation and melting caused the snowflakes slowly to become tiny grains of ice. When new snow fell on top of the old, it too turned to icy grains. So blankets of snow and ice grains mounted layer upon layer and were of such great thickness that the weight of the upper layers pressed the lower ones. With time and pressure from above, the many small ice grains joined and changed to larger crystals, and eventually the deeper crystals merged into a solid mass of ice.

1．The underlined word “dazzlingly” in Paragraph 2 probably means “          ”.

       A．brilliantly            B．abundantly         C．beautifully          D．approximately

2．The author states that icebergs are rarely seen because they are           .

       A．broken by waves soon after they are found

       B．hidden under the mountains

      C．located in remote regions of the world

     D．surrounded by fog

3．The underlined phrase “from above” in the last paragraph refers to “        ”.

       A．sunlit seas                              B．polar regions

       C．weight of mountains                      D．layers of ice and snow

4．According to the passage, icebergs are dangerous because they           .

       A．usually melt quickly                     B．can turn over suddenly

       C．may create large snowdrifts             D．may float and hit the ships suddenly

3、Like most people, I’ve long understood that I will be judged by my occupation, that my profession is a standard people use to see how smart or talented I am. Recently, however, I was disappointed to see that it also decides how I’m treated as a person.

Last year I left a professional position as a small-town reporter and took a job waiting tables. As someone paid to serve food to people. I had customers say and do things to me I suspect they’d never say or do to their most casual acquaintances（泛泛之交）. One night a man talking on his cell phone waved me away, then beckoned （示意） me back with his finger minute later, complaining he was ready to order and asking where I’d been.

I had waited tables during summers in college and was treated like a peon （勤杂工） plenty of people. But at 19 years old, I believed I deserved （值得） inferior（较差的）treatment from professional adults. Besides, people responded to me differently after I told them I was in college. Customers would joke that one day I’d be sitting at their table, waiting to be served.

Once I graduated, I took a job at a community newspaper. From my first day, I heard a respectful tone from everyone who called me. I assumed this was the way the professional world worked .

I soon found out differently. I sat several feet away from an advertising sales representative with a similar name. Our calls would often get mixed up and someone asking for Kristen would be transferred to Christie. The mistake was immediately evident. Perhaps it was because money was involved, but people used a tone with Kristen that they never used with me.

My job title made people treat me politely. So it was a shock to return to the restaurant industry.

It’s no secret that there’s a lot to put up with when waiting tables, and fortunately, much of it can be easily forgotten when you pocket the tips. The service industry, by definition, exists to satisfy to others’ needs. Still, it seemed that many of my customers didn’t get the difference between server and servant.

I’m now applying to graduated school, which means someday I’ll return to a profession where people need to be nice to me in order to get what they want, I think I’ll take them to dinner first, and see how they treat someone whose only job is to serve them.

1．The author was disappointed to find that         .

       A．one’s position is used as a standard to measure one’s intelligence

       B．talented people like her should fail to get a respectable job

       C．one’s occupation affects the way one is treated as a person

       D．professionals tend to look down upon manual waitresses

2．What does the author intend to say by the example in the second paragraph?

       A．Some customers simply show no respect to those who serve them.

       B．People absorbed in a phone conversation tend to be absent-minded.

       C．Waitresses are often treated by customers as casual acquaintances.

       D．Some customers like to complain because of the waitress’ poor service.

3．How did the author feel when waiting tables at the age of 19?

       A．She felt it unfair to be treated as a mere servant by professional.

       B．She felt badly hurt when her customers regarded her as a peon.

       C．She was embarrassed each time her customers joked with her.

       D．She found it natural for professionals to treat her as inferior.

4．The underlined sentence “many of my customers didn’t get the difference between server and servant” in Paragraph 7 means “          ”.

       A．those who satisfy others’ needs are sure to be looked down upon.

       B．those working in the service industry shouldn’t be treated as servants.

       C．those serving others have to put up with rough treatment to earn a living.

       D．the majority of customers tend to look on a servant as server nowadays.

2、WASHINGTON（Reuters）-Vast areas of US Pacific Ocean waters could be protected as marine protected areas or monuments, the White House said on Monday, drawing praise from environmental groups.

President George W. Bush started the process by directing the US secretaries of the Interior. Defense and Commerce departments to judge whether certain locations in the Pacific should be designated（指定）as marine protected areas, White House spokesman Tony Fratto said. The areas being considered for protection in the new plan are a group of islands and atolls（环状珊瑚岛）in the remote central Pacific, including the Rose Atoll near American Samoa, and some of the waters around the Northern Mariana Islands in the western Pacific.

The action comes a month after Bush in a symbolic action put an end to a White House ban on offshore drilling closer to home as gas prices rose. Environmental groups said expanded offshore drilling, which would still require congressional approval, would not cut gas costs and could hurt wildlife. Bush established a national monument in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands in 2006, creating the largest marine protected area in the world. Monday’s announcement starts a process that could result in more such protected ocean areas by the end of Bush’s presidency（总统任期）in January.

Joshua Reichert of the Pew Environment Group called the announcement “a hopeful sign for ocean conservation” but said designation as a marine protected area or monument could still permit commercial fishing and deep sea mining.

“However, if the president establishes these new sites as protected areas, where no destructive activity is allowed, it would be one of the most significant environmental achievements of any US president,” Reicehrt said in a statement.

1．What’s the right order of the events according to the passage?

       a. Bush ended a White House ban on offshore drilling.

       b. Bush set up a national monument in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

       c. Bush started a process to protect the vast areas of US Pacific Ocean.

       d. Bush started his presidency.

       A．d, a, b, c            B．d, b, a, c            C．b, a, c, d            D．a, b, c, d

2．Environmental groups’ attitude toward expanded offshore drilling can be described as “     ”.

       A．negative            B．positive           C．agreeable            D．optimistic

3．It can be inferred from the passage that           .

     A．the areas for protection were considered one month ago

B．Bush will be the first US president to gain the most significant environmental achievements

     C．Monday’s announcement still requires congressional approval

     D．environmental groups are satisfied with Monday’s announcement

4．From the passage we can know that Joshua Reichert            .

       A．didn’t agree with the announcement     

       B．hoped to permit commercial fishing

       C．didn’t trust the announcement at all      

       D．still worried about some destructive activities

1、I was anxiously expected your letter, and at last                          1．       

it has reached to me. I’m very glad to know that                                 2．       

everyone at home is enjoying good health as usually.                            3．       

Things here are the same now like they were before. The                     4．       

final examinations will take place the next week, so                             5．       

I’m now busy reviewing my lessons. It’s nice                                    6．       

to think that the summer vacation coming                                           7．       

near. I can’t say much I want to see you all again.                                                       8．       

I’m looking forward to spend summer days with you.                         9．       

Giving my love to Father, Mother and everyone at home.                     10．       

25、—What do you think of that tea set as a gift for Mary’s birthday?

—_______,but I am afraid she won’t like the design

A. Let me look at it                  B. It’s quite ugly  

C. Let me think it over                D. It’s not so bad

24、What do you imagine ______to Johnson ?.

A. happening         B. having happened         C. has happened         D. to have happened

23、Of all the novels of Jack London, I like The Call of the Wild best, which perfectly ______the influence that nature has on animals.

A. broadcasts          B. predicts            C. conveys            D. charges