Before Nicolas Sarkozy became French president, he was asked if he thought about presidency when he looked in the mirror while shaving. “Not just when I’ m shaving,” he answered.

When Francois Hollande, now president-elect (总统当选人) of France, was asked the same question, he replied: “Do I see myself as president? No, I am a presidential candidate. A candidate must not think himself president; he must give hope that he becomes president.”  

Hollande has promised to be a “normal president” – something Sarkozy certainly was not. Sarkozy celebrated his election in 2007 at a world-class Parisian restaurant. He took holidays on the yachts (游艇) of wealthy businesspeople. Hollande, by contrast, was still going around Paris on his three-wheeled motorbike at the start of this year. One member of his party said he looked “more like a pizza delivery man” than the next president.

“That is the key to Hollande’s success because the election is turning into a sort of referendum (公民投票) for or against Nicolas Sarkozy,” Eric Dupin, a journalist and political observer told Global Post. “Francois Hollande is the one who appears not only as his main opponent politically, but also as his complete opposite psychologically.”

When he was the Socialist party leader, Hollande was nicknamed “the marshmallow (软糖)” because he hated fights. Sarkozy, by contrast, is known to be loud and aggressive.

When faced with Sarkozy’s verbal attacks during the election, Hollande stayed calm. This sometimes annoyed even his own supporters. “I wish he would just let go and savage (用暴力对付) Sarko,” one Hollande voter said to the Guardian.

But Hollande still knows how to fight. Stéphane Le Foll, a Socialist MEP who has been one of Hollande’s closest advisors for 17 years and is co-directing his campaign, said Hollande had quietly planned his presidential bid for 10 years. “I think we all underestimated this guy,” Alain Minc, one of Sarkozy’s closest friends and advisers, told Reuters.

Hollande was born in 1954 into a middle-class family. He lived through the 1968 protests that nearly overthrew the French government. “They shocked him, but also politicized him, he said in a recent interview, making him understand that change was possible,” reported the New York Times. When Hollande was 15, he told friends he expected to become president.

“I didn’t come to the first rank either by chance or by obsession (执迷),” Hollande said in an interview with Reuters. “I got there because I put myself in this situation, and because I deserved it.”

68. By citing Hollande and Sarkozy’s replies to the same question, the author intends to show ________.

A. Sarkozy is more confident than Hollande

B. Hollande is more modest than Sarkozy

C. Hollande is less ambitious than Sarkozy

D. Sarkozy is more humorous than Hollande

69. What is the key to Hollande’s success in the presidential election according to Eric Dupin?

A. His dislike of fights.

B. His careful plan for the presidential bid.

C. How different he is from Sarkozy.

D. The gentle way in which he ran his campaign.

70. What did Hollande think he owed his success to, according to the article?

A. His good luck.                          B. His devotion and efforts.

C. His obsession with politics.        D. His personality and experience.

71. What is the purpose of the article?

A. To show what kind of a person Hollande is.

B. To compare the differences between Hollande and Sarkozy.

C. To show what French people think of Hollande.

D. To explain why Sarkozy lost the election.

He was the baby with no name. Found and taken from the north Atlantic 6 days after the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, his tiny body so moved the salvage (救援) workers that they called him “our baby.” In their home port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, people collected money for a headstone in front of the baby's grave (墓), carved with the words: “To the memory of an unknown child.” He has rested there ever since.

But history has a way of uncovering its secrets. On Nov. 5, this year, three members of a family from Finland arrived at Halifax and laid fresh flowers at the grave. “This is our baby,” says Magda Schleifer, 68, a banker. She grew up hearing stories about a great-aunt named Maria Panula, 42, who had sailed on the Titanic for America to be reunited with her husband. According to the information Mrs. Schleifer had gathered, Panula gave up her seat on a lifeboat to search for her five children -- including a 13-month-old boy named Eino from whom she had become separated during the final minutes of the crossing. "We thought they were all lost in the sea," says Schleifer.

    Now, using teeth and bone pieces taken from the baby's grave, scientists have compared the DNA from the Unknown Child with those collected from members of five families who lost relatives on the Titanic and never recovered the bodies. The result of the test points only to one possible person: young Eino. Now, the family sees no need for a new grave. "He belongs to the people of Halifax," says Schleifer, "They've taken care of him for 90 years."

                                Adapted from People, November 25, 2002

What is probably the boy's last name?

       A. Schleiferi.       B. Eino.            C. Magda.       D. Panula.

Some members of the family went to Halifax and put flowers at the child's grave on Nov. 5, __________.

       A. 1912 B.1954             C. 2002            D. 2004

This text is mainly about how _________.

       A. the unknown baby’s body was taken from the north Atlantic

       B. the unknown baby was buried in Halifax, Nova Sotia

       C. people found out who the unknown baby was

       D. people took care of the unknown baby for 90 years

Professor Green, known to the world as a scientist, is not only absent-minded but short-sighted as well. His mind is always busy  41 scientific problems and seldom notices what is going on 42  him.

    One fine day recently, he went  43 a walk in the countryside, but as  44  he has a book in his hand. When he went out , he began to read his book . He hadn’t gone far 45 he run into a big cow and fell down. In the fall, he had lost his glasses, without which he couldn’t see anything. He thought he had hit his head  46 a fat lady. “I’m sorry, Madam.” He said politely 47 searching for his glasses. As soon as he had 48 , he realized his mistake.

Soon he was fixing his mind on his book 49  and paid no attention to anything else. He had scarcely been walking for five minutes when he fell over again, _50 both his book and his glasses. This time he got very angry, seizing his umbrella, he gave the “cow” a wild blow. Then, after finding his glasses, he realized with horror that he made a second mistake. A large fat woman was fleeing from him in a horror.

A. to think           B. thinking       C. thinking about       D. to think of

A. with              B. around               C. for                 D. at

A. for               B. to            C. towards             D. over

A. also              B. often          C. ever                        D. usual

A. when             B. while                C. just then            D. at that time

A. to                B. against        C. about                D. onto

A. after             B. in            C. before               D. during

A .put it on          B. taken them off  C. put them on          D. taken them out

A. always             B. again         C. usually               D. very much

A. holding          B. getting        C. finding               D. losing