In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. To have read Gulliver’s Travels is to have had the experience of listening to Jonathan Swift, of learning about man’s cruelty to man. To read Huckleberry Finn is to feel what it is like to drift (漂流) down the Mississippi River on a raft . To have read Byron is to have suffered his rebellions with him and to have enjoyed his nose—thumbing at (对……的蔑视) society. To have read Native Son is to know how it feels to be frustrated in the particular way in which Blacks in Chicago are frustrated. This is effective communication. It enables us to feel how others felt about life, even if they lived thousands of miles away and centuries age. It is not true that “We have only one life to live.” If we read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

1.The sentence “People who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read” suggests that ______.

A. reading stimulates（激发）a desire to travel      B. reading broadens a person’s experience

C. people who read much live longer             D. people who read are more relaxed

2.The author implies that good literature ______.

A. must deal with social problems             B. must teach a lesson

C. is varied in subject and in content           D. is always exciting and heart--warming

3. According to the author, reading good literature ______.

 A. produces new income                    B. is quite useless

C. satisfies the curious                     D. opens new worlds to us

4.The underlined word effective in this passage means ______.

A. actual         B. striking           C. existing          D. having an effect

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◇Moving Sale 2 armchairs, red／brown at$400 each；coffee table, black. wood. $800；oil painting, big, $900；Tianjin carpet, green 3 x7, $600；double bed, $500；mirror, big, square, $500；fridge, big, double—door, $1000；old pictures, $140 up each；plants, big and small Tel：Weekend, 2521—601 l／Weekday. 2524—5867

◇Part—time Laboratory Assistant Wanted Required by busy electronics(电子)company to help with development of computer Should have an electronics degree and some practical experience of working in an electronics laboratory Hours 9:30 a. m. 一l:00 p. m. Mon. -Fri. Fourteen days paid leave. Salary￥6598—10230 dependent on experience. Letter of application to：Mrs. G Chan, NOVA ELECTRONICS, 45 Gordon Rd, Hung Hom Kowloon.

1.The one who put on the first ad probably wants to     .

A. rent a beautiful flat of her own in Happy Vallev 

B. find another lady to share the cost to rent a flat

C. share her room in a flat with whoever has no pet

D. employ a maid to look after herself and the flat

2.According to the ads, you may      .

A. buy an old picture for$150        B. call at 25720836 and see a beautiful park

C. buy two armchairs for$400        D. hire a maid by paying $6 800

3.If you want to buy some old furniture. you should       .

A. get in touch with NOVA ELECTRONICS

B. call at 2524-5867 any day except Monday

C. do it before you move to another place

D. call at either2524—5867 on Monday or 2521～6011 on Saturday

4.Once you can get a part-time job in NOVA ELECTRONICE,        .

A. you have to work at least 4 hours a day

B. you should write a letter to Mrs. G Chan

C. you will be given 14 days off each year besides weekends

D. you will get no more than $6598 each month

Recently in the hope of earning both money and social experience, I became a door-trw door salesman.

  I once read a saying. “If somebody wants something of yours, you will be treated as warmly as spring, but if they don’t you may be treated as coldly as winter.” You may consider this an exaggeration (夸张), but if you are a salesman, it is clearly correct.

   You would never have found it to be so true if you hadn’t been a salesman. You needn’t stand doubtful looks and unfriendly comments; you needn’t listen to something completely wrong and nod to say that it was quite right, you needn’t worry about being refused time after time; you needn’t always keep patience and a smile; you needn’t repeat the same sentences over and over again; you needn’t talk to somebody you dislike ....

  I did this work for a month, then I decided to give it up; Apart from the reasons above, I found I was paying too much attention to the job and thus sacrificing my study time. The latest test result proved that my grades were getting worse.

  Even worse, I hadn’t enough time to join my classmates in college activities. Some times 1 felt lonely and unhappy because of both my study and my part-time job. Now I don’t think it is worth doing such a thing for even though I was earning money it came at great cost.

  Newspapers and magazines often publish stories about excellent students who do part-time work while also keeping high scores in class. But according to my experience, park-time work can have some strong negative influences on study.

  Most students don’t view the relationship between study and work correctly. In my opinion, if it isn’t a must for financial reasons, students should be careful about taking up a part-time job.

1. From the text, we can tell that the writer is _____.    

  A. an unemployed man                  B. a middle-school student

  C. a college student                    D. a door-to-door salesman

2.Which of the following words has the closest meaning to the underlined word “sacrificing”? 

  A. Losing            B. Wasting        C. Using              D. Getting

3.The writer thought_____. 

 A. doing a part-time job was unnecessary

 B. part-time jobs had good effect upon study

 C. it was hard to deal with the relationship between study and work

 D .part-time jobs would be good for every college student

4.What would be the best title for the text _____.

 A. Part-time Jobs Are Useful             B. Part-time Jobs Can Cost Dear

 C. Students Shouldn’t Take Part-time Jobs  D. Part-time Jobs Are Important to Many Students

There was great interest when a big hole mysteriously appeared in the middle of a field. Engineers were called in to explain how it had got there. They offered various explanations but were not at all sure how the hole had been caused, it was thought that a large bomb which came suddenly exploded, but it was not possible to prove this. A simple, but highly improbable explanation was offered by a man who declares to know well about “flying saucers”; the strange objects which are round in shape and are said to visit the earth from outer space. The man’s explanation may have been nonsense (胡说八道), but at least it was imaginative. At any rate, it was far more interesting than the one given by the army.

   After examining the ground carefully the man declared to have seen special marks on the soil quite near the hole, these, he said, could only have been caused by a flying saucer. Moreover the leaves on some bushes nearby had turned yellow because of a strange hot gas which had come from the saucer just before it landed. Even a small tree some way off appeared to have been burnt slightly. A small piece of metal found in the hole itself gave further proof that a strange object had been there. According to the man, it was quite clear that people from another world had been going around the earth trying to pick up information, when something had gone wrong. Because of this they had been forced to land in a field so that the damage could be repaired. The hole had been caused when the saucer struck the earth, while the strange marks nearby were made when it took off again. This, said the man, was the simplest explanation of how the hole had appeared. Judging from the interest the public took in the matter, there must be quite a few people who secretly believe or hope that this simple explanation is the true one.

1.What aroused public interest?

 A. A mysterious hole in a field.              B. Various explanations offered by experts.

 C. A simple explanation given by a man.      D. The shape of the flying saucers.

2.The author thought the man’s explanation was________. 

 A. boring but imaginative                  B. reasonable and interesting

 C. meaningless but interesting              D. mysterious and unbelievable

3.The man found a lot of proofs except ____. 

 A. special marks on soil near the hole     B. yellow leaves on some bushes nearby

 C. a small piece of meal in the hole       D. the remains of the flying saucer

4.It’s said the outer-space people were circling the earth _______.

 A. to repair their saucer                 B. to strike the earth

 C. to. collect information              D. to make strange marks

根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

W: Hello, may I speak to Mr. Black, please?

M: Speaking.  1. 

W: This is the Town Job Center. We have received your Email   2. .

M: Can you tell me more about it? What kind of jobs? Where?

W:   3.  It’s the kind of job you would like to do, as we can see from your Email.

M: Yes, I did put that in my Email.

W: Yes. They also want a person who knows how to operate computer,   4. .

M: What about the pay and the work hours?

W: I am coming to that. The pay they have offered is satisfactory,  5. . Sometime early in the                  morning, sometimes late in the afternoon.

M: Well, I am interested in it, but I need some more details so that I can talk it over with my wife.

W: Why don’t you come over here tomorrow?

M: OK, I’ll do that. See you tomorrow then. Bye!

A. and we would like to make friends with you.

B. and we are quite interested in you.

C. Who are you, please?

D. so we think you are just the right kind of person for the job.

E. but the work hours are a bit changeable.

F. Who’s calling, may I ask?

G. Well, a college wants to find some laboratory assistants.

1.We will meet on ________ (星期四). 

2.I like the style of his writing but I don’t like the ______（内容）. 

3. The result was ___    (超出) her wildest dreams.    

4.It is essential that more than 70,000,000 people will be ________(吸引) to the 2010 EXPO of Shanghai.

5.The question needs ___________(进一步) discussion.

6.A _______ (正方形) table lies in the middle of the room.

7.The workers in the car factory are ____(付报酬) by the hour.

8.To _________ our country is the duty of each citizen.（保卫）

9.Wang Meng skated her way to three gold ________ (奖牌) at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

10.Buses run _______ (频繁地) between the city and the airport.

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该

行右边横线上画一个勾(√)；如有错误(每行只有一个错误)，则按下列情况改正：

    此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线()划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用

斜线划掉。

    此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(/)，在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

    此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

Mary was an university student. She didn’t have much                 1. ____    

money and her parents were not rich, and she had an uncle              2.____   

who had been fortunately enough to collect great wealth.              3. ____   

He always give her valuable Christmas and birthday presents.          4. ____   

When her uncle’s birthday came round, Mary wanted buy him         5. ____    

something really special, but because she was rich, she did not        6. ____   

know how to get him. She went into the best shop in her              7. ____   

town and explained what her problem was to one of the helpful         8.____   

shop assistant. Finally she asked, “What do you have for              9. ____   

someone who has already got everything he wants or need .            10.          

以“Form a Good Habit”为题，谈谈早起的好处。要求言之有理，内容连贯，词数100-120。可参考以下提示：

1. 有些学生迟到，是因为晚起；

2. 晚起不仅影响学习，而且也是一种坏习惯；

3. 早起是一种好习惯，因为它能给你带来很多好处。早起有助于身体健康，有助于学习，有助于品德培养。英国有句俗话，“Early to bed, and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”这是千真万确的，希望大家养成早起的习惯。

（注：品德培养 train character；俗话 a saying）

―Would you like some more tea?

―____ , please.

A. No more       B. Just a little      C. I’ve had enough   D. Yes, I would

She ______buy her clothes through the Internet than in the supermarket.

A. rather than      B. would like         C. no longer        D. would rather