9、Being a teacher, I always have so many things to__________ whether in or out of the school.    

A. add to        B. attend to       C. contribute to      D. appeal to

8、----- Did Jane finish her task with your help?

----- Finished? It’s a great pity that he ________ my help.

A. ought to refuse               B. should refuse    

C. should have refused           D. did refuse

7、It was the district sports meet. My foot still hadn’t healed(痊愈) from a (n)  1___ injury. I had   2   whether or not I should attend the meet. But there I was   3   for the 3,000-meter run.

“Ready…set…” The gun popped and we were off. The other girls rushed   4__   me. I felt   5   as I fell farther and farther behind.

“Hooray!” shouted the crowd. It was the loudest 6_ I had ever heard at a meet. The first-place runner was two laps(圈) ahead of me when she crossed the finished line. “Maybe I should   7  ,” I thought as I moved on.   8    , I decided to keep going. During the last two laps, I ran   9   and decided not to   10   in track next year. It wouldn’t be worth it,  _11__ my foot did heal.

When I finished, I heard a cheer－  12   than the one I’d heard earlier. I turned around and   13    , the boys were preparing for their race. “They must be cheering for the boys.”

I was leaving   14   several girls came up to me. “Wow, you’ve got courage!” one of them told me.

“Courage? I just   15   a race!” I thought. “I would have given up on the first lap,” said another girl. “We were cheering for you. Did you hear us?”

Suddenly I regained  16_ . I decided to   17_ track next year. I realized strength and courage aren’t always   18   in medals and victories, but in the   19   we overcome. The strongest people are not always the people who win,   20   the people who don’t give up when they lose.

1. A. slighter                     B. worse                   C. earlier                   D. heavier

2. A. expected                  B. supposed              C. imagined               D. doubted

3. A. late                          B. eager                    C. ready                    D. thirsty

4. A. from behind              B. ahead of                C. next to                     D. close to

5. A. ashamed                   B. astonished             C. excited                     D. frightened

6. A. cheer                       B. shout                    C. cry                          D. noise

7. A. slow down               B. drop out                C. go on                       D. speed up

8. A. Therefore                 B. Otherwise             C. Besides                    D. However

9. A. with delight              B. with fear               C. in pain                      D. in advance

10. A. play                       B. arrive                    C. race                         D. attend

11. A. even if                    B. only if                   C. unless                      D. until

12. A. weaker                   B. longer                   C. lower                       D. louder

13. A. well enough        B. sure enough          C. surprisingly enough  D. strangely enough 49. 14. A. while    B. when  C. as       D. since

15. A. finished                  B. won                     C. passed                     D. lost

16. A. cheer                     B. hope                     C. interest                     D. experience

17. A. hold on                   B. turn to                  C. begin with                D. stick with

18. A. measured                B. praised                  C. tested                       D. increased

19. A. sadness                  B. struggles               C. diseases                   D. tiredness

20. A. or                              B. nor                   C. and                          D. but

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1. The Morning Post English Club opens ___________.

A. every day               B. every week

C. once a week              D. once every two weeks

2. Suppose you are going to the Morning Post English Club next Friday together with Bob from the U. S. , _______________.

A. both of you will be charged     

B. neither of you will be charged

C. you, not Bob, will be charged    

D. either you or Bob will be charged

3. Which of the following applicants will be the best choice for Guangzhou Morning Post?

A. An Australian who's just graduated from Nanjing University.

B. A native American who taught English in primary schools for two years in China.

C. A native English speaker from Canada who's traded in China for several years.

D. A retired professor who taught Chinese history in England.

5、China news, Nanjing, Nov. 14 – “People who suffer from mental illness are able to draw. Actually, they can draw very well,” said Guo Haiping, a contemporary artist in Nanjing.

Recently, Guo spent three months living with the mentally retarded people at Nanjing Zu Tang Shan Psychiatric Hospital (精神病医院). When he was there, he taught them how to draw pictures. In three months, he collected more than 100 paintings drawn by the mentally retarded people, the Yangtze Evening News reported.

The paintings shocked the artistic circle. This has raised a question to the normal people in society: how can we give up our prejudices against the mentally retarded people and view them from a totally new perspective (看法)?

Before, the mentally retarded people in Nanjing had never touched painting brushes, nor did they know any painting techniques. Now, artists have begun to speak highly of their paintings. After seeing their works, Guo Haiping said this group of people and their works should “deserve more attention from society.”

“In China, no one believes that they can draw paintings. We have so many prejudices against this group of people and we really don’t know anything about their mysterious mental world,” Guo said.

At Nanjing Zu Tang Shan Psychiatric Hospital, Guo let the mentally retarded people see some paintings and gave them water color brushes, color pencils, oil chalk and clay. He told them they could do whatever they wanted with these materials. He didn’t teach them how to draw. He just encouraged them to pick up some of these materials and draw something. About 100 mentally retarded people in the hospital participated in the activity. During the three months’ stay in the hospital, Guo Haiping had seen them complete more than 300 works.

Guo Haiping also came to know about these mentally retarded people and their mental world through the event. He had collected all the patients’ paintings and made them into a book. Many works drawn by the patients will be exhibited in Beijing this month.

1. You can most probably read the text in ________.

A. a newspaper   B. a hospital guide   C. a science book   D. a medicine book

2. The underlined word “mentally retarded” means ______.

A. depressed         B. talented         C. cautious      D. slow-minded

3. Nobody in China believes the mentally retarded people can draw paintings because _______.

A. they think the mentally retarded people’s works are boring

B. the mentally retarded people really have no such special ability

C. they know little about the mentally retarded people’s mental world

D. the mentally retarded people’s works have never been collected by artists

4. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

A. people will surely give up prejudices against the mentally retarded people

B. Guo Haiping collected all the patients’ paintings and made them into a book

C. people have begun to change their opinions about the mentally retarded people

D. as a mentally retarded artist, Guo Haiping hopes to be considered a normal person

4、    Why are so many people so afraid of failure? Simply because no one tells us how to fail so that failure becomes an experience that will lead to growth. We forget that failure is part of the human condition and that every person has the right to fail.

Most parents work hard at either preventing failure or protecting their children from the knowledge that they have failed. One way is to lower standards. A mother describes her child’s poorly made table as “Perfect!” even though it doesn’t stand still. Another way is to shift (转移) blame. If John fails science, his teacher is unfair or stupid.

The trouble with failure-prevention ways is that they leave a child unequipped for life in the real world. The young need to learn that no one can be best at everything, no one can win all the time and that it’s possible to enjoy a game even when you don’t win. A child who’s not invited to a birthday party, who doesn’t make the honor list on the baseball team, feels terrible, of course. But parents should not offer a quick comfort, prize or say, “It doesn’t matter” because it does. The young should be allowed to experience disappointment — and be helped to master it.

Failure is never pleasurable. It hurts grown-ups and children alike. But it can make a positive contribution to your life once you learn to use it. Step one is to ask “Why did I fail?” Don’t blame someone else. Ask yourself what you did wrong and how you can improve. If someone else can help, don’t be shy about inquiring.

Success, which encourages repetition of old behavior, is not nearly as good a teacher as failure. You can learn from a bad party how to give a good one, from an ill-chosen first house what to look for in a second. Even a failure that seems definitive can create fresh thinking, a change of direction. After 12 years of studying ballet a friend of mine took an interview for a professional company. She was turned down. “Would further training help?” she asked. The ballet master shook his head. “You will never be a dancer,” he said, “You haven’t the body for it.”

In such cases, the way to use failure is to take assessment bravely and ask, “What have I left? What else can I do?” My friend put away her shoes and moved into dance treatment center, a field where she’s both able and useful. Failure frees one to take risks because there’s less to lose. Often there is recovery of energy— a way to find new possibilities.

1. The first paragraph tells us ______.

       A. the reason why so many people are afraid of failure

       B. the reason why we don’t know how to fail

       C. failure is very natural for every person

       D. one should be ready to face failure at any time

2. The second paragraph tells us ______.

       A. how a mother praised her children

       B. two ways of failure prevention most parents used when their children fail

       C. how to shift blame

       D. parents should blame their children at the proper time

3. According to the author, what should a child know in the real world?

       A. Ways to avoid failure.

       B. No one can be best all the time at everything.

       C. No parents should offer quick comforts.

D. He can get pleasure as well as success.

3、With both hands resting on top of the steering wheel, Oshima looks over at me: “That’s where you will be living now, Kafka. In the room where Miss Saeki used to spend time with her boyfriend. As I said, there is some change to the library, but it’s the very same room.”  Silence on my part.

“Miss Saeki’s life stopped at age 20, when her lover died. No, maybe not age 20, maybe much earlier…I don’t know the details, but you need to know of this. The hands of the clock inside her soul stopped then. Time outside, of course, flows on as always, but she isn’t affected by it. For her, what we consider normal time is meaningless.”

“Meaningless?” Oshima nods. “Like it doesn’t  exist.”

“What you’re saying is Miss Saeki still lives in that frozen time?”

“Exactly. When you get to know her better you’ll understand.”

Oshima reaches out and lays a hand on my knee on a totally natural gesture. “Kafka, in everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when you reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive. ”

We’re about to get onto the main highway. “There’s one other thing I’d like you to know of,” he goes on. “Miss Saeki has a wounded heart. To some degree that’s true of all of us. But Miss Saeki has a special wound that goes beyond the usual meaning of the term. Her soul moves in mysterious ways. I’m not saying she’s dangerous—don’t get me wrong. On a day-to-day level she’s certainly got her act together, probably more than anyone else I know. She’s attractive, deep, smart. But just don’t let it worry you if you notice something strange about her sometimes.”

“Strange?” I can’t help asking.

Oshima shakes his head. “I really like Miss Saeki, and respect her. I’m sure you’ll come to feel the same way.”

This doesn’t really answer my question, but Oshima doesn’t say anything.

1．The underlined part “Miss Saeki is still living in that frozen time” means that      .

A．although Miss Saeki is dead, she’s still alive in people’s memory

       B．the time Miss Saeki spent with her boyfriend was very cold

       C．the time Miss Saeki spent with her boyfriend was very unhappy

       D．Miss Saeki cannot get out of the sadness brought about by her boyfriend’s death

2．The conversation takes place               .

       A．in a library                                         

B．in a moving car

       C．where Miss Saeki used to spend time with her boyfriend

D．where Kafka lives

3．Which of the following statements is right?

       A．Oshima knows every detail about Saeki.

       B．Oshima knows Saeki well enough to understand her.

       C．Oshima knows Saeki better than anyone else.

       D．Oshima knows very little about Saeki, but respects her.

4．We can infer from the passage that           .

       A．there is something wrong with Saeki’s clock.

       B．Saeki refuses to accept the fact

       C．Saeki is attractive, smart but dangerous

       D．Saeki can’t remember what happened to her

5．The writer wants to give us a feeling of           by giving readers the description of Saeki.

A．mystery    B．horror     C．amazement    D．danger

1、《扬子晚报》2008年6月18日刊登了题为“‘天堂短信’传递人间至爱”的报道：某江苏籍专家在汶川地震中不幸遇难，其妻为了不影响即将高考的女儿，独自承担丧夫巨痛，用丈夫的手机一个月内每天给女儿发2条“爸爸的短信”。

   假如你是被感动的读者李华，给某英文报纸写一篇150字左右、题为“Maternal love(母爱) ”的感文。文章的要点如下：

注：1. 文章的开头已给出，不计入总数。

    2.参考词汇：高考 the College Entrance Examination

                        Maternal love

    Some days ago, a news article in Yangtze Evening moved thousands of its readers to tears. I was one of them.  …