7、—Here is a ticket for you, Sir.

— ____________ I wasn't speeding.

A. Thank you.            B. My pleasure.          C. What's the matter?    D. I'm sorry.

6、    Sometimes I really doubt whether there is    1  between my parents. Every day they are very   2   trying to earn money in order to pay the high tuition for my brother and me. They don't act in the   3  ways that I read in books or I see on TV. In their opinion, "I love you" is too luxurious(奢侈的)for them to say. Sending flowers to each other on Valentine's Day is even more   4 . Finally my father has a bad temper. When he's very tired from the hard work, it is easy for him to lose his   5  .

One day, my mother was sewing a quilt. I silently sat down beside her.

"Mom, I have a question to ask you."

"What?"

"Is there love between you and Dad?"

My mother stopped her work and   6   her head with   7   in her eyes. She didn't answer immediately.

I was very   8   because I thought I had hurt her. I was in a great embarrassment and   I didn't know what to do. But   9    I heard my mother’s words: "Susan," she said thoughtfully, "Look at this thread. Sometimes it appears, but most of it   10   in the quilt. The thread really makes the quilt strong and durable. If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can   11   be seen anywhere or anytime, but it's really   12  . Love is inside."

I listened carefully but I couldn't understand her   13   the next spring, when my father suddenly got sick seriously. My mother had to stay with him in the   14   for a month. When they returned from the hospital, it seemed both of them had had a serious illness.

After that, every day in the morning and   15  , my mother helped my father walk slowly on the country road. It seemed they were the most harmonious   16  .

The doctor had said my father would   17   in two months. But after two months he still couldn't walk by himself. All of us were worried about him.

"Dad, how are you feeling now?" I asked him one day.

"Susan, don't worry about me. To tell you the truth, I just like walking with your mom. I like this kind of life."   18   his eyes, I know he loves my mother deeply.

Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and sweet   19  . But from this experience, I understand that love is just a thread in the quilt of our   20  . Love is inside, making life strong and warm.

1.A. love               B. relation              C. a similarity    D. time

2.A. lucky                  B. busy                 C. glad                  D. disappointed

3.A. romantic         B. normal                     C. hard                  D. special

4.A. possible        B. impossible    C. imaginative     D. possibility

5.A. heart                     B. way                  C. temper                     D. mind

6.A. raised                    B. looked down      C. dropped            D. rose

7.A. surprise          B. excitement         C. humor               D. anger

8.A. excited                  B. tired                  C. surprised           D. worried

9.A.at first                    B. at last                C. before        D. after

10.A. appears                B. finds                 C. disappears         D. sees

11.A. easily                   B. hardly               C. often                 D. usually

12.A. that                     B. here                  C. there                 D. this

13.A. in                        B. for                    C. before               D. until

14.A. home                   B. factory                     C. bed                   D. hospital

15.A. night                   B. noon                 C. dusk                 D. dawn

16.A. family                  B. people               C. couple               D. friends

17.A. rescue                 B. recover             C. die                    D. save

18.A. Reading        B. Looking             C. Understanding    D. Thinking

19.A. looks                   B. kisses                C. foods                D. walks

20.A. mind                   B. heart                 C. life                    D. world

5、Bamboo (竹子) is one of nature’s (自然) most surprising plants. Many people call this plant a tree, but it is a kind of grass.

Like other kinds of grass, a bamboo plant may be cut very low to the ground, but it will grow back very quickly. A Japanese scientist reported one bamboo plant which grew 1.5 metres (4 feet) in 24 hours! Bamboo grows almost everywhere in the world except Europe. There are more than 1, 000 kinds of bamboo.

Not all bamboo looks the same. Some bamboo plants are very thin. They may only grow to be a few centimeters wide while others may grow to more than 30 centimetres (1 foot) across. This plant also comes in different colors, from yellow to black to green.

Bamboo has been used to make many things such as hats and kitchen tools. Because it is strong, bamboo is also used to build buildings.

Many Asian countries have used bamboo for hundreds of years. They often use bamboo for buildings and supporting  new buildings and bridges while they are being built.

In Africa, poor farmers are taught how to find water using bamboo. These African countries need cheap way to find water because they have no money, and their fields often die from no rain and no water. Bamboo pipes  help poor farmers bring water to their thirsty fields without spending a lot of money.

1. How is bamboo like grass?

   A. It grows quickly.              B. It’s wood.       C. It is easy to cut              D. It is very thin

2. Though you can see bamboo everywhere, it doesn’t grow       .

A.in China                   B.in Europe            C. on mountains                   D. in Africa

3. Why is bamboo used by African poor farmers? Because        .

A.it is cheap     B.it has different colours     C.it is strong  D.it has been used by Asians

4. Bamboo pipes can       .

   A. make money           B. be trees          C. grow quickly                  D. carry water

5. In Asia, bamboo has been used for      .

A.a short time                                   B.many thousands of years 

C. many hundreds of years                               D. about 100 years

4、Macao is only forty miles from Hong Kong and it is easy to reach. You can get there by sea. It is an interesting place and it had a long history. Macao is part of China and most people living there are Chinese.

The first Europeans to go to Macao came from Portugal. More than four hundred years ago the Portuguese went there to trade with China. Some settled and made their homes there. They built strong forts to guard the city and the harbor. They also built churches, schools, hospitals and other places. Slowly the city grew. People from many countries came to live and work in Macao.

Today many people visit Macao. Some only go there to watch dog-racing or motor-racing or to gamble with their money. But Macao is a quiet and peaceful place. It is pleasant just to walk around and look at old buildings and forts. You feel you are back in the old days. Of course, some of the buildings are now in ruins. The Church of St.. Paul has only the front wall with many steps leading up to it.. But it is still interesting to see.

When you are hot and tired, there are small cool gardens to rest in. when you are hungry, there are good restaurants with many kinds of food. Nearby there are some islands, which are also nice and are easy to get to. There is certainly a lot to do in Macao.

1. Macao is easy to get to because_______.

   A. it is part of China and most people there are Chinese.

   B. it is an interesting place.

   C. it is very fast and cheap by sea

   D. it is not far away from Hong Kong.

2. Which of the following is Not true?

　 A. Portuguese were the first Europeans to go to Macao.

　 B. Some Portuguese settled in Macao and made their homes half a century ago.

　 C. The city Macao grew slowly

　 D. People there put up strong forts to defend the city.

3. You feel in Macao you are back in the old days because_____

　 A. some of the buildings are now in ruins.

　 B. you can watch dog-racing or motor-racing.

　 C. you can go about and look at the old buildings and forts with pleasure.

　 D. it is a peaceful place.

4. Where will you have a break when you feel worn out?

　 A. In good restaurants. B. In small cool gardens. C. On some islands. D. In beautiful parks.

5. The writer’s idea seems to be that_____.

　 A. people from many countries came to live and work in Macao.

　 B. Portuguese were willing to do business in China.

　 C. people in Macao serve good food.

　 D. Macao is a quiet and peaceful place with a lot to see and to do.

3、Years ago ,when I started looking for my first job ,wise advised,“Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience. ”How right they were!

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the inner voice that whispers,  “I can do it!”when others shout, “No, you can’t !”It took years and years for the early work of  Barara  McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel  Prize in medicine , to be generally accepted. Yet she didn’t stop working on her experiments. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.

We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder and it is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such youthful air, whatever their age was. At 90,cellist（大提琴家） Palblo Cassls would start his day by playing Bach.  As the music flowed through his fingers his stooped shoulders would strengthen and joy would reappear in his eyes . As author and poet Samuei Ulman once wrote ,“ Years wrinkle（使-------变皱） the skin ,but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”

Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or power . Patricia  Mellrath, retired director of the Missouri  Repertory  Theatre in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasm. She replied, “My father ,a lawyer long ago told me , I never made a dime until I stopped working for money.”

If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career, we can as a hobby. Elizabeth  Layton was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended periods of depression that had troubled her for at least 30 years ,and the quality of her led one critic（评论家） to say, “I’m tempted to call Layton a genius（天才）.”

We can’t afford to waste tears on “might-have-been”. We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after “what-can-be ”.We need to live each moment whole-heartedly, which all our senses-including pleasure in the sweet smell of a back-yard garden, the simple picture of a six-year –old ,the beauty of  a  rainbow.

1. What is the Chinese for “Enthusiasm”?

   A.热情                B. 色彩                                 C. 惰性                  D.金钱

2. Which of the following can best explain the underlined sentence in the second paragraph?

   A. Enthusiasm can give you courage and strength in difficult times.

   B. If you don’t have enthusiasm, you can achieve nothing.

   C. Enthusiastic people never consider money and fame.

   D. Enthusiastic people can gain great fame and honor.

3. The author mentions cellist Pablo Casals in the third paragraph to show that____

   A. music can arouse people’s enthusiasm

   B. enthusiasm can give people inspiration needed to succeed

   C. enthusiasm can keep people feel young

   D. enthusiasm can keep people healthy

4. How many examples are given in the passage to show the importance of enthusiasm?

   A. Three              B. Two                             C. Four                      D.  Five

5. The author mainly wants to say that _________

   A. enthusiasm people never get old               

   B. enthusiasm can make you succeed and enjoy life

   C. enthusiasm is more important than experience

   D. enthusiasm can give people more success and fame .

1、随着生活水平的提高，购买私家车已成为一种时尚。对此，人们看法不一。因此，你们进行了一个调查。请根据下面的提示，写一篇字数为150左右的短文。

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With the improvement of people's living conditions, owning private cars is becoming popular in China. Different voices arise in a recent survey conducted by us.

36、Be confident my boy, _____ you are born rich or poor.

A．if            B．that         C．which      D．whether