14、I don’t think there can be anyone who is more suitable for the job than you are, ____?

A. do I         B. can’t  he       C. is there         D. aren’t you

13、It is commonly believed that it is ____ too much money has been invested in real estate (房地产) ____ has caused the crisis in Wall Street.

A. that; that       B. that; which       C. what; that       D. because; that

12、—Though Liu Xiang was unable to compete in the Beijing Olympics, he is still our hero.

— ____. Nobody will love him any less.

A. I don’t agree with you          B. I can’t agree more

C. I can’t agree any less           D. I don’t agree more

11、It was difficult to keep a positive attitude when I had a list filled with things to do, _____ none sounded like fun.

A. for which        B. to which        C. of which        D. from which

10、_____, the disease diphtheria will produce a powder poison that will kill the patient.

A. If it untreated                          B. If is untreated

C. If being untreated                    D. If untreated

9、After 21 years of marriage I discovered a new way of keeping alive the spark of love. A little while ago I had started to go out with another  1  . It was really my wife’s idea. “ I know you love her,” she said one day  2   me by surprise.

3   woman that my wife wanted me to visit was my mother, who has been a widow for 19 years, but the demands of my   4   and my three children had made it   5   to visit her only occasionally. That night I called to invite her to go out for dinner and a   6  , “I thought that it would be   7   to pass some time with you. Just the two of us.” She  8   it for a moment and then said, “I would like that very much.”

That Friday after work, as I drove over to pick her up, I was a bit   9  . When I arrived at her house, I   10   that she, too, seemed to be nervous about our date. She waited at   31  with her coat on. She had curled her hair and was wearing the dress that she had worn to celebrate her last wedding anniversary. She  12   from a face that was as radiant（容光焕发的）as an angel’s.

We went to a restaurant that,   13   not elegant (雅致的), was very nice and cozy. My mother took my arm   14   she were the First Lady. After we sat down, I had to read the menu. Her eyes could only read   15   print. Half way through the menu, I   16   my eyes and saw Mom sitting there staring at me. A lovely smile was on her lips. “It was I who used to have to read the   17  when you were small,” she said.

During the dinner we had an agreeable   18  , catching up on recent events in each other’s life. We talked  19   much that we missed the movie. The   20  was very nice. Much more than I could have imagined.

1. A. man              B. woman              C. friend                D. girl

2. A. giving            B. having               C. taking               D. making

3. A. The other      B. Another             C. Other                D. Others

4. A. wife              B. boss                  C. work                D. life

5. A. possible  B. impossible         C. possibly            D. impossibly

6. A. talk        B. concert             C. movie               D. drink

7. A. interesting      B. exciting             C. pleasant             D. happy

8. A. hesitated B. was surprised    C. doubted about    D. thought about

9. A. anxious         B. nervous             C. eager                D. worried

10. A. thought        B. discovered         C. noticed              D. believed

11. A. the door       B. the office           C. the room           D. the station

12. A. spoke          B. came out           C. expressed          D. smiled

13. A. because              B. as                     C. if                      D. although

14. A. even if         B. only if               C. as if                  D. if only

15. A. large            B. blue                  C. small                 D. clear

16. A. opened        B. closed               C. fixed                 D. lifted

17. A. newspaper   B. book                 C. menu                D. story

18. A. conversation B. walk                 C. meal                 D. situation

19. A. too              B. very                  C. that                  D. so

20. A. meal            B. talk                   C. date                  D. restaurant

8、An unemployed man is desperate to support his family. His wife watches TV all day and his three teenage kids have dropped out of high school to hang around with the local toughs. He applies for a cleaner’s job at a large firm and easily passes an aptitude test. The human resources manager tells him, “You will be hired at minimum wage, $5.15 an hour. Let me have your e-mail address so that we can contact you easily. Our system will automatically e-mail you all the forms and advise you when to start and where to report on your first day.” Greatly surprised, the man protests that he has neither a computer nor an e-mail address. To this, the manager replies, “You must understand that to a company like ours that means you virtually do not exist. Without an e-mail address you can hardly expect to be employed by a high tech firm. Good day.”

Unable to believe what he heard, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and having $10 in his wallet, he walks past a farmers’ market and sees a stand selling beautiful tomatoes. He buys a crate (柳条箱), carries it to a busy corner and displays the tomatoes. In less than two hours he sells all the tomatoes and makes 100% profit. From that day on, he repeats the tomato business and becomes increasingly successful as time goes on. By the end of the fifth year he owns a fleet of nice trucks and a warehouse. The tomato company has put hundreds of homeless and jobless people to work and the business grossed a million dollars.

Planning for the future, he decides to buy some life insurance. The insurance adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order to send the final documents electronically. When the man replies that he doesn’t have time to mess with a computer and has no e-mail address, the insurance salesman is surprised, “ No computer? No Internet? Just think where you would be if you’d had all of that five years ago!” “Ha! If I’d had all of that five years ago, I would be sweeping floors at Microsoft and making $5.15 an hour!” the man replies.

1. The man’s kids drop out of school because ______.

   A. they want to hang around with the local toughs

   B. their mother watches TV all day

   C. their father is only a cleaner

   D. their family is very poor

2. The man applies for a cleaner’s job ______.

   A. but he can’t accept it because the pay is too low

   B. and he gets it though the pay is only $5.15 an hour

   C. but he was turned down because he doesn’t have an e-mail address

   D. but he misses the chance because they fail to contact him

3. The man’s tomatoes sell well because ______.

   A. the tomatoes look very beautiful

   B. he has chosen the right place to sell them

   C. many jobless people help him

   D. the tomatoes are contained in beautiful crates

4. From the conversation between the man and the insurance salesman in the last paragraph we can infer that ______.

   A. the man will buy a computer soon

   B. it’s very easy to do tomato business

   C. one does not necessarily have an e-mail address to be successful

   D. the man is not able to buy any life insurance without an e-mail address

7、Zhang Yineng, a freshman at Hangzhou University, earned his first pot of gold by designing websites for American companies. Zhang never even met the people who hired him. Instead, all the necessary transactions (交易)were done through myTino.com, a Hangzhou based online outsourcing network. Zhang has already earned enough money to pay for two semesters of university tuition.

Zhang is one of the growing number of college students tasting the fruit of globalization. They search for outsourcing projects in fields like programming, art design, translating and writing from both Western and domestic businesses.

This way of making money is becoming common among college students with free time, especially among those who are tech-savvy (有技术的). The payment for such work is rather high, partly because the tasks demand more skills than many other “traditional” part-time jobs do. For instance, creating a website for foreign companies pays $2,000 to $5,000, which is rather high.

The good money is just one benefit. These outsourcing jobs “can also help us to use the knowledge we gained in university,” said Zhang. “Through the tasks assigned by the companies, I can easily find the key hot spots in my field, and what abilities I am lacking. By doing the tasks, I can improve my skills and gain experience.”

1. Zhang Yineng earned his first pot of gold by working for ______.

   A. myTino.com             B. an online outsourcing network

   C. American websites        D. American companies

2. Doing outsourcing jobs, the students ______.

   A. are paid 2,000 to 5,000

   B. get the chance to meet their bosses

   C. learn skills in many fields

   D. are enjoying the advantages of globalization

3. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as one of the benefits of outsourcing jobs?

   A. Making good money.          B. Making better use of their free time.

   C. Finding hot spots in their fields.  D. Gaining experience

4. The writer wrote this passage ______.

   A. to teach college students how to earn their first pot of gold

   B. to introduce to us a new way through which students do part-time jobs

   C. to advertise for an on-line outsourcing network

   D. to attract more students to outsourcing jobs.

6、Live the ‘American Dream’

What is it: Work & Travel USA

Who are qualified: Full-time college students, above 18 years old.

About the program: Application for the 2009 Work & Travel USA program has just started. It’s an 8-16 week summer program for college students to work and travel in the US. Employers include Boeing, Hilton Hotel and 7-Eleven. For next summer, about 3,500 positions are open to Chinese Students. Applicants must pass a language test and sometimes an interview, and pay a registration fee to join the program.

                 (source: www. cultureexchange.org)

Hundreds needed by Volkswagen

What is it: Shanghai Volkswagen jobs.

Who are qualified: College students graduating in 2009

About it: Shanghai VW offers over 300 positions from engineering to marketing to college students graduating in 2009. Applicants should have an excellent academic record, CET-6 or the same level language certificate in German, and good computer skills. Campus talks will take place in Shanghai, Changchun, Harbin, Wuhan, Changsha, Nanjing, Beijing and Xi’an from October.

                      (source: campus.chinahr.com/2009/pages/csvw)

Xiaonei looking for graduates

What is it: Oak Pacific Interactive (OPI) internships(实习)

What are qualified: College juniors and first-year post graduate students

About it: OPI is now offering internship positions for test-engineer, development-engineer and assistant to the director of corporate culture. For engineering positions, candidates should major in computer science or a related field, have communication ability and be familiar with various development languages. For assistant to the director positions, candidates should be adept(拿手的) in document writing, activities organizing and office software.

                       (source: campus.xiaonei.com)

1. These advertisements are most probably ______.

   A. advertisements on the Internet intended for the general public to read

   B. advertisements in a newspaper intended for large companies to read

   C. advertisements on the Internet intended for college student to read

   D. advertisements in a newspaper intended for college students to read

2. According to the first advertisement ______.

   A. the program offers an opportunity to college students to work in large American companies as well as to travel in America

   B. the applicants are required to have college degrees and pay a registration fee

   C. applicants who can not pass the language test must go through an interview

   D. the program must be applied for during the summer of 2009

3. The opportunity of ______ is offered only to college students graduating in 2009.

   A. working in large companies in America

   B. traveling in America

   C. positions in VW

   D. OPI internship

5、In the age of reality television, success isn’t the only way to the public eye. Failure can also create fame, just like William Hung, 21, a native of Hong Kong.

Hung recently has made an agreement with US-based entertainment firms Koch Records and Fuse Music Network. They will publish a full-length record, titled “The True Idol” on April 6.

The idol (偶像) is a civil engineering student at the University of California at Berkeley. He did a version (改写本) of Ricky Martin’s “She Bangs” on the television show “American Idol 3", on January 27. The Fox TV singing contest searches for pop stars among ordinary people. In the case of Hung, however, his act was so bad that the judges cut him off in mid-act. Hung’s response? “I already gave my best, so I have no regrets at all.” That’s interesting, because any common person would have found plenty to regret: the off-key singing, the blue Hawaiian shirt worn with pants pulled up too high, the terrible dancing, the hips jerking (摇摆) to a beat that did not belong to the song, maybe not even to this planet. It was, by all accounts, bad.

But, it was this very bad act that sold well.

Marc Juries, president of Fuse, explained it this way: “Every one of us is happily guilty of singing our favorite song at the top of our lungs with complete freedom, completely off-key and completely unworried. That’s what William did and immediately won the hearts of America.”

Whatever it is, for the moment it’s big. Three websites devoted to Hung have gone up on the Internet in the past few weeks. Versions of his performance have been remixed with hip hop and techno music and have made it to the top 10 request list at a Chicago radio station.

So, what does Hung think of this?

“There were all these people saying things about me. A lot were saying I was very courageous and that I was great on the show, but some didn’t have much respect for me and some were kind of mean.”

Now he says he’s not so sure whether to distance himself from the glamour (魅力) or to accept it. Returning to normal hasn’t been easy.

1．What is the main idea of this passage?

A．Sometimes an idol behaves quite foolishly.

B．Hung's performance attracted the public eye.

C．How an unsuccessful person became famous.

D．Success sometimes does not require hard work.

2．Hung was popular in America for all the following reasons EXCEPT ________

A．his shirt and pants　　　　    B．his off-key singing

C．his jerking hips　　　　　     D．his excellent version

3．What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 6 refer to?

A．William Hung.　　　　　      B．Hung's bad performance.

C．Hung’s website.　　　　      D．The public’s opinion.

4．Which of the following shows the correct order of what happened to Hung?

a．The entertainment firms made an agreement with Hung.

b．The judges cut Hung off in mid-act in the singing contest.

c．Hung became popular among Americans.

d．Hung gave a terrible performance though he tried his best.

e. Three websites put Hung’s funny performance on the Internet.

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

5．Why was Hung able to win the hearts of America?

A．His success was based on luck rather than his own hard work.

B．He attracted people’s attention and won wide praise in the contest.

C．He was good-looking in his pants and shirt though he didn’t sing well.

D．In the contest he did what every one of us is happy to do in daily life.