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    　　All over the country these days, electronic mail messages are ending with this strange little mark:--) or one of its many variants（变体）, like: (.

    　　It was 20 years ago that Scott Fahlman taught the Net how to smile. The Carnegie Mellon computer scientist has devoted his life to man-made intelligence, the practice of teaching computers how to think like humans, but the bearded scientist is perhaps best known for a flash of inspiration（灵感）that helped to define（定义）Internet culture.

    　　By the early 1980's the Computer Science group at Carnegie Mellon was making heavy use of online bulletin boards or “boards”. A good many of the posts were humorous. The problem was that if someone made a humorous remark, a few readers would fail to get the joke. This problem caused some people to suggest (only half seriously) that maybe it would be a good idea to clearly mark posts that were not to be taken seriously. After all, when using text--based online communication, we lack the body language or the tone of voice that communicates this information when we talk in person or on the phone.

    　　So on Sept. 19, 1982, Fahlman typed :--) in an online message.“I had no idea I was starting something that would soon pollute all the world's communications channels.” he wrote later. The“smiley face”has since become common in online communication, allowing 12-year-old girls and corporate lawyers alike to mark their messages with a quick symbol that says, “Hey, I'm only joking.”

    　　This creation caught on quickly around Carnegie Mellon, and soon spread to other universities and research labs by means of the computer networks of the day. Since then, the smiling icons (marks) have taken the e-mail world by storm. Now called emotions, short for emotive（情感）icons. Fahlman's smiley face encouraged the creation of thousands of variants.

    　　Yahoo, Microsoft and America Online all put emotions into their instant-- messaging systems, while telecom companies, jewelry makers and online merchants have sent in trademark applications（申请）for products and ads that include Fahlman's smiley face.

    　　But Fahlman has never seen a cent from his creation. “If it cost people a cent to use it, nobody would have used it. This is my little gift to the world, for better or worse.”he said.

    (1) What do the underlined words this information in paragraph 3 refer to?

    [　　]

    A．The body language.

    B．The suggestion of marking posts.

    C．The tone of voice.

    D．The humors behind the words.

    (2) The purpose of Fahlman in typing the first smiley face was ________.

    [　　]

    A．to explain to others that he didn't take his message seriously

    B．to fill all the world's communication channels with smiley faces

    C．to make money out of telecom companies and online merchants

    D．to show his happy feelings and to help to define Internet culture

    (3) What does the passage mainly talk about?

    [　　]

    A．Internet culture.

    B．Electronic mail message.

    C．Fahlman's creation.

    D．Online smiley face.

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    　　All over the country these days, e-mail messages are ending with this strange little mark：-)or：-(．It was 20 years ago that Scott Fahlman taught the Net how to smile．The Carnegie Mellon computer scientist has devoted his life to man-made intelligence, the practice of teaching computers how to think like humans, but the scientist is perhaps best known for a flash of inspiration that helped to define Internet culture．

    　　By the early 1980s the Computer Science Group at Carnegie Mellon was making heavy use of online notice boards．A good many of the messages were humorous．The problem was that if someone made a humorous remark, a few readers would fail to get the joke．This problem caused some people to suggest that maybe it would be a good idea to clearly mark messages that were not to be taken seriously．After all, when using text-based online communication, we lack the body language or the tone of voice that communicates this information when we talk in person or on the phone．So on Sept．19, 1982, Fahlman typed：-)in an online message．“I had no idea I was starting something that would soon pollute all the world’s communications channels,”he wrote later．The“smiley face”has since become common in online communication．

    　　This creation caught on quickly around Carnegie Mellon, and soon spread to other universities and research labs by means of the computer networks of the day．Since then, the smiling marks have taken the e-mail world by storm．

    　　Yahoo, Microsoft and America Online all put the faces into their instant-messaging systems, while telecom companies, jewelry makers and online merchants have sent in trademark applications for products and ads that include Fahlman’s smiley face．

    　　But Fahlman has never seen a dollar from his creation．“If it cost people a cent to use it, nobody would have used it．This is my little gift to the world, for better or worse,”he said．

    (1)

    The underlined words“this information”in Paragraph 3 refer to ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    the body language

    B．

    the suggestion of marking messages

    C．

    the tone of voice

    D．

    the humors behind the words

    (2)

    The purpose of Fahlman in typing the first smiley face was ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    to show others that he didn’t take his message seriously

    B．

    to fill all the world’s communications channels with smiley faces

    C．

    to make money out of telecom companies and online merchants

    D．

    to show his happy feelings and to help to define Internet culture

    (3)

    What does the passage mainly talk about?

    [　　]

    A．

    The Internet culture．

    B．

    The online communications system．

    C．

    The humorous message．

    D．

    The online smiley face．

    (4)

    What can we infer from the text?

    [　　]

    A．

    Fahlman invented the smiley faces to become wealthy and famous．

    B．

    Fahlman doesn’t mind that people use his smiley faces for free．

    C．

    Fahlman is disappointed that noboby would like to pay a cent for the smiley faces．

    D．

    The smiley faces were created to pollute the world’s communications channels．

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    A man and his girlfriend just got married. The husband didn’t talk much but he was a steady man. The wife was pretty and dreamy.  Everyone could tell that the love they had for each other was true.

         A few months later, the wife came to the husband with a proposal, “I read in a magazine about how we can  36   our marriage. Each of us will write a list of the things that we find a bit   37    with the other. Then, we can place them on the table to discuss how we    38    them together and make our life even happier.”

         “Are you sure you are about to do this?” the husband sighed and    39   . So each of them went to a(n)   40    room and thought about the things that annoyed them about the other for the rest of the day.

         The next morning, at the breakfast table, they decided that they would go over their    41    .

         “I’ll start,” offered his wife eagerly. She    42    her list. It had many items on it, enough to fill 3 pages. She read all three pages to her husband and seemed to be quite pleased with her hard “work”. After hearing that, the husband stated   43   , “I don’t have anything on my list. I think that you are perfect the   44   that you are. I don’t want you to   45   anything for me.”

         The wife, touched by his honesty and the depth of his love for and his   46   of her without any conditions, turned her head and wept. At that moment, she came to understand the saying: “Beauty lies in the lover's eyes”.

         In life, there are enough time when we are disappointed, depressed and annoyed. We don’t really have to go  47   for them. We have a wonderful world that is full of beauty, light and promise. Why waste time seeking the bad, disappointing or annoying when we can look around us, and see the wonderful things before us? If you are accustomed to judging people, you have no time to love them.

    1.A. enrich                   B. strengthen              C. lengthen                D. deepen

    2.A. annoying                B. surprising                C. satisfying                 D. inspiring

    3.A. fix               B. do                C. find             D. set

    4.A. smiled         B. refused                C. agreed                   D. hesitated

    5.A. spare          B. separate           C. empty                D. special

    6.A. dishes                  B. magazines         C. lives                    D. lists

    7.A. put away                B. handed in          C. took out             D. wrote down

    8.A. disappointedly          B. unluckily                C. bitterly                   D. quietly

    9.A. appearance            B. way               C. situation                 D. position

    10.A. change               B. accept                  C. decide                  D. drop

    11.A. advice                 B. warning                 C. acceptance              D. pride

    12.A. leaving         B. waiting               C. asking                   D. looking

     

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         Parents divorced, little Buddy was in the care of his mother's large Alabama family. Over the years,
    Buddy seldom saw either of his parents. But he was happy where he was and he had many kindly
    relatives, among whom Miss Sook was by far his best friend. Before Christmas, Buddy's father had
    managed to get legal custody(法定监护) of him for this Christmas. So, he had a new suit, with a card
    pinned with his name and address and made the trip alone, by bus, to New Orleans.
         Several things occurred that kept me awake the whole night. First, the footfalls, the noise of my father
    running up and down the stairs, breathing heavily, I had to see what he was up to. So I hid and watched.
    There was a Christmas tree and the fireplace downstairs. Moreover, I could see my father. He was
    crawling around under the tree arranging a pyramid of packages. I felt dizzy, for what I saw forced me to
    reconsider everything. If these were presents intended for me, then obviously they had not been ordered
    by the Lord and delivered by Santa Claus; no, they were gifts bought and wrapped by my father,which
    meant that my rotten little cousin Billy Bob and other rotten kids like him weren't lying when they laughed
    at me and told me there was no Santa Claus. The worst thought was: Had Sook known the truth, and lied
    to me? No, Sook would never lie to me. She believed. It was just that-well, though she was
    sixty-something, in some ways she was at least as much of a child as I was.
         I waited until I was sure he was in bed and sound asleep. Then I crept downstairs and examined the
    tags attached to each of the packages. They all said: "For Buddy." I decided to open the packages: It
    was Christmas morning. I was awake, so why not? I won't bother to describe what was inside them: just
    shirts and sweaters and dull stuff like that. The only thing I appreciated was a toy gun. Somehow I got the
    idea it would be fun to waken my father by firing it. So I did. Bang. Bang. Bang. He raced out of his room, wild-eyed, Bang. Bang. Bang. "Buddy-what the hell do you think you're doing?" Bang. Bang. Bang. "Stop that!" I laughed. "Look, Daddy. Look at all wonderful things Santa Claus brought me."
         Calm now, he walked into the room and hugged me. "You like what Santa Claus brought you?"
         I smiled at him. He smiled at me. There was a tender lingering (逗留不去的) moment, damaged when I said: "Yes. But what are you going to give me, Daddy?" His smile evaporated. His eyes narrowed
    suspiciously-you could see that he thought I was pulling some kind of trick. But then he blushed, as though he was ashamed to be thinking what he was thinking. He patted my head, and coughed and said: "Well, I
    thought  I'd wait and let you pick out something you wanted. Is there anything particular you want?"
    I reminded him of the airplane we had seen in the toy store on Canal Street. His face sagged. Oh, yes, he
    remembered the airplane and how expensive it was. Nevertheless, the next day I was sitting in that
    airplane dreaming I was zooming toward heaven while my father wrote out a check for a happy salesman, who promised to help ship the plane on the bus.
    But I wasn't free of New Orleans yet. The problem was a large bottle of wine; maybe it was because of
    my departure, but anyway my father had been drinking it all day, and on the way to the bus station, he
    scared me by grabbing my wrist and harshly whispering: "I'm not going to let you go. I can't let you go back to that crazy family in that crazy old house. Just look at what they've done to you. A boy six, almost
    seven, talking about Santa Claus! It's all their fault, all those sour old spinsters with their Bibles and their
    knitting needles, those drunken uncles. Listen to me, Buddy. There is no God! There is no Santa Claus.
    " He was squeezing my wrist so hard that it ached. "Kiss me. Please. Please. Kiss me. Tell your daddy
    that you love him." But I couldn't speak. I was terrified I was going to miss my bus. And I was worried
    about my plane, which was strapped to the top of the taxi. "Say it: 'I love you.' Say it. Please. Buddy. Say
    it."
         It was lucky for me that our taxi-driver was a good-hearted man. Because if it hadn't been for his help, and the help of some efficient porters and a friendly policeman, I don't know what would have happened
    when we reached the station. My father was so drunk he could hardly walk, but the policeman talked to
    him, quieted him down, helped him to stand straight, and the taxi-man promised to take him safely home.
    But my father would not leave until he had seen the porters put me on the bus.
         Once I was on the bus, I crouched in a seat and shut my eyes. I felt the strangest pain. A crushing pain
    that hurt everywhere. I thought if I took off my heavy city shoes, those crucifying monsters, the agony
    would ease. I took them off, but the mysterious pain did not leave me. In a way it never has; never will.
         Twelve hours later I was home in bed. The room was dark. Sook was sitting beside me, rocking in a
    rocking chair, a sound as soothing (令人舒畅的) as ocean waves. I had tried to tell her everything that
    had happened, and only stopped when I was hoarse (嘶哑的) as a howling dog. She stroked her fingers
    through my hair, and said: "Of course there is a Santa Clause. It's just that no single somebody could do
    all he has to do. So the Lord has spread the task among us all. That's why everybody is Santa Claus. I am. You are. Even you cousin Billy Bob. Now go to sleep. Count stars. Think of the quietest thing. Like snow. I'm sorry you didn't get to see any. But now snow is falling through the stars-" Stars sparkled, snow whirled inside my head; the last thing I remembered was the peaceful voice of the Lord telling me something I
    must do. And the next day I did it. I went with Sook to the post office and bought a penny postcard. That same postcard exists today. It was found in my father's safety deposit box when he died last year. Here is what I had written him: Hello pop hope you are well I am and I am turning to pedal my plane so fast I will
    soon be in the sky so keep your eyes open and yes I love you Buddy.
    1. When Buddy asked his Daddy for Christmas presents, his father's reaction suggested that _______.
    A. He felt sorry he forgot to prepare presents for his son.
    B. He thought his son should have known all the presents were sent by him, not Santa Claus.
    C. It was difficult for him to accept that his son is so greedy.
    D. He was ashamed of not knowing what his son liked.
    2. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
    A. Buddy didn't tell his Daddy "I love you" until his death.
    B Buddy's father and Miss Sook were people of different personalities.
    C. Buddy still held the belief that there was Santa Claus.
    D. Buddy finally mailed a postcard to his father.
    3. What can be inferred from the first paragraph?
    A. Cousin Billy Bob had a good relationship with Buddy.
    B. Miss Sook had no idea of Santa Clause, and lied to Buddy.
    C. Father loved Buddy very much and prepared a lot of gifts for him.
    D. Buddy was afraid of his father for they had been separated long time.
    4. The following words can describe Miss Sook except _______.
    A. old            
    B. clever          
    C. naughty          
    D. trusted
    5. Which of the following can be the best title of passage?
    A. Is There a Santa Clause in the World?
    B. A Christmas Memory
    C. How to Celebrate Christmas in a Meaningful Way?
    D. A Christmas of a Divorced Family

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    　　About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York City when a woman and a young boy sat down at the next table．I couldn't help hearing by chance parts of their conversation．At one point the woman asked, “So, how have you been?” And the boy－who could not have been more than seven or eight years old－replied．“Frankly, I’ve been feeling a little depressed lately．”

    　　This incident stuck in my mind because it confirmed(确认)my growing belief that children are changing．As far as I can remember, my friends and I didn't find out we were “depressed”, that is, in low spirits, until we were in high school．

    　　Undoubtedly a change in children has increased steadily in recent years．Children don't seem childlike anymore．Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and behave more like adults than they used to．

    　　Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different．Childhood as it once was no longer exists．Why?

    　　Human development depends not only on born biological states, but also on patterns of gaining social knowledge．Movement from one social role to another usually needs learning the secrets of the new social positions．Children have always been taught adult secrets, but slowly and in stages; traditionally, we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from fifth graders．

    　　In the last 30 years, however, a secret－revelation(揭示)machine has been equipped in 98 percent of American homes．It is called television．Television passes information to all viewers alike, whether they are children or adults．Unable to reject the temptation(诱惑), many children turn their attention from printed texts to the less challenging, more attractive moving pictures．

    　　Communication through print, as a matter of fact, allows for a great deal of control over the social information which children will gain．Children must read simple books before they can read complex materials．

    (1)

    According to the author, feeling depressed is ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    a sure sign of a mental problem in a child

    B．

    a mental state present in all humans, including children

    C．

    something hardly to be expected in a young child

    D．

    something that cannot be avoided in children's mental development

    (2)

    Traditionally, a child is supposed to learn about the adult world ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    through connection with society

    B．

    through watching television

    C．

    naturally without being taught

    D．

    gradually and under guidance

    (3)

    According to the author, today's children seem adult mainly because ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    the rising standard of living

    B．

    the widespread influence of television

    C．

    the fast pace of human scientific development

    D．

    the poor arrangement of teaching content

    (4)

    What does the author think of communication through print for children?

    [　　]

    A．

    It can control what children are to learn．

    B．

    It helps children to read and write well．

    C．

    It develops children's interest in reading and writing．

    D．

    It enables children to gain more social information．

    (5)

    What does the author think of the change in today's children?

    [　　]

    A．

    He seems to be upset about it．

    B．

    He feels their adult like behavior is so funny．

    C．

    He considers it a rapid development．

    D．

    He thinks the change is a problem to worry about．

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