【题目】--- Why do you think ________ the Eagles went home, angry and bitter?

---_________ they didn’t win the tournament andbecause what mattered to them was victory.

A．was it that; That B．that; For

C．it was that; Because D．that; Because

【题目】Paper produced every year is ________ the world’s production of vehicles.

A. the three times weight of

B. heavier three times than

C. as three times heavy as

D. three times the weight of

【题目】There is a shortage of teachers in Western China, and it will fall on the 80s and 90s generations to this responsibility.

A. take on B. step up

C. make up D. apply for

【题目】The question of _________ English will keep on changing in the future, though most people doubt, is actually easy________.

A．if; to be answered B．whether; to answer

C．how; answered D．what; to answer

【题目】读者王彬写信给某杂志“开心”栏目记者Mary，询问怎么才会感到幸福，请根据提示给他写一封回信，主题为How to Be Happy。

提示：1. 幸福是人生最宝贵的东西；

2. 凭良心做事，善待他人；

3. 注重健康；

4. 遇到挫折时要保持乐观。

注意：1. 词数：150左右；

2. 根据提示适当发挥，开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Wang Bin,

I’m glad to receive your letter, in which you asked me about how to be happy.

【题目】I walked down the hall heading to see my 88-year-old grandma who had been in hospital. Each member of the family was taking turns sitting with her because of her dementia (痴呆). As I did I looked very carefully at some of the rooms on this wing of the hospital, and it seemed that almost every bed held an elderly person. Some appeared to be confused, and some just looked lonely. I couldn’t help but notice that there was no family there, no one to care them, and no one to reduce the ache of loneliness. My heart broke inside me.

They are aging, with withered (萎缩的) skin on their faces and hands, their eyes look tried, and yet no one notices them. Could it be that we are far too busy to slow down and give a moment of our time to anyone that may swerve (使突然转向) us off the course we are traveling on? Are we afraid of those who have come before us to pave the way, afraid that they carry some awful disease that if we get too close we might catch it?

Whatever the case may be, one day we will be those same people that we long to avoid. We pay thousands of dollars for staying young, and we may turn up the music to forget the thoughts of getting older. But, try as we might, time and age will catch up with us.

We seem to have come to detest (嫌恶) the elderly. While we once held them in high regard and honor, always enjoying their stories of history, we now see them as a pain, always in our way. Isn’t it time we wake up?

So, next time you see a withered hand extended in need, or peer into the eyes of a lonely aging face, don’t run or look away. Remember, it might just be you in that place one day.

【1】What made the author deeply sad?

A. The poor food for the patients.

B. The sight he saw in the hospital.

C. The hopeless patients in the hospital.

D. The bad service of the hospital.

【2】What’s people’s excuse for not visiting the old?

A. They are too busy.

B. They can’t afford it.

C. They live too far away.

D. They usually travel abroad.

【3】What can we learn from the passage?

A. Time will tell the truth.

B. People are afraid of being old.

C. A doctor is important to old people.

D. Respecting elderly people is a good tradition.

【4】What does the author advise us to do in the last paragraph?

A. Respect the old.

B. Get along well with the old.

C. Help and pay attention to the old.

D. Spend more time with our parents.

【题目】_______the thick clouds, you would find the kite in the sky easily.

A. Had it not been for

B. If it were not

C. If it had not been for

D. Were it not for

【题目】Public service ads, also PSAs, often _________ for free, _________ to educate people about health, safety or any other problem that affects public welfare.

A．run; meant B．are run; are meant

C．are run; mean D．run; are meant

【题目】However, the Norman Conquest didn’t affect the English language___________ the Angles and the Saxons victory about 600 years earlier, which led to Old English ________ Celtic.

A．so much as; was replaced B．so good as; being replaced

C．as much as; replacing D．as well as; replaced by

【题目】Not until ________a third time ________that he had given birth to the reading system for the blind called Braille.

A．Louis Braille tried; he announced

B．did Louis Braille try; he announced

C．Louis Braille had tried; did he announce

D．had Louis Braille tried; had he announced