Eight honours and disgraces

The leader of China issued a list of honours and disgraces, helping Chinese people form life values. They are the following:

    1. Love, do not harm, the motherland.          2. Serve, don’t betray, the people.

3. Value science; don’t be ignorant.           4. Work hard, don’t be lazy and hate work.

5. Be united and help each other; don’t benefit at the expense of others.

6. Be honest and trustworthy; don’t chase profit at the expense of your values.

7. Obey the law, be disciplined; don’t break laws and violate discipline.

8. Know plain living and hard struggle; do not waste away in luxuries and pelasure.

56. A boy was seriously ill. His grandpa thought the hospital could do nothing about the boy’s illness. He asked a witch to help him. This was against _______ value.

A.the first                   B.the third                   C.the seventh       D.the eighth

57. Which of the following is NOT good?

A. You found a wallet on the ground. There was nobody around. You couldn’t find its owner and you didn’t know where you should hand it in. So you kept it.

       B. You have too much homework, but a very funny cartoon is on TV. You still goon doing your homework until you finsih it.

C. You are in a noisy class. The other students are talking loudly. You can’t listen to the teacher clearly, so you ask them to be quiet.

D. You heard somebody say bad things about China. You are brave enough to tell him it’s not good to do so.

58. Why has the government issued “the Eight Honours and Disgraces”?

A.To ask Chinese people to gain more knowledge.      B.To tell people to obey laws.

C.To tell people that science is very important            D.To help Chinese people form life values.

Several years ago, while attending a communication course, I experienced a most unusual process. The instructor asked us to list ___1___ in our past that we felt ___2___ of, regretted, or incomplete about and read our lists aloud.

This seemed like a very ___3___ process, but there’ s always some ___4___soul in the crowd who will volunteer. The instructor then ___5___ that we find ways to ___6___ people, or take some action to right any wrong doings. I was seriously wondering how this could ever ___7___ my communication.

Then the man next to me raised his hand and volunteered this story: “Making my ___8___, I remembered an incident from high school. I grew up in a small town. There was a Sheriff ___9___ of us kids liked. One night, my two buddies and I decided to play a ___10___ on him.

After drinking a few beers, we climbed the tall water tank in the middle of the town, and wrote on the tank in bright red paint: Sheriff Brown is a sob(畜生). The next day, almost the whole town saw our glorious ___11___. Within two hours, Sheriff Brown had us in his office. My friends told the truth but I lied. No one ___12___ found out.”

“Nearly 20 years later, Sheriff Brown’s name ___13___ on my list. I didn’t even know if he was still ___14___. Last weekend, I dialed the information in my hometown and found there was a Roger Brown still listed. I tried his number. After a few ___15___, I heard, “Hello?” I said, “Sheriff Brown?” Paused. “Yes.” “Well, this is Jimmy Calkins.”

“And I want you to know that I did it？”Paused. “I knew it!” he yelled back. We had a good laugh and a ___16___ discussion. His closing words were: “Jimmy, I always felt bad for you ___17___ your buddies got it off their chest, but you were carrying it ___18___ all these years. I want to thank you for calling me...for your sake.”

Jimmy inspired me to ___19___ all 101 items on my list within two years, and I always remember what I learned from the course: It’s never too late to ___20___the past wrongdoings.

1. A. something              B. anything           C. somebody         D. anybody

2. A. ashamed             B. afraid            C. sure                  D. proud

3. A. private                B. secret            C. interesting         D. funny

4. A. foolish                B. polite             C. simple           D. brave

5. A. expected             B. suggested         C. ordered          D. demanded

6. A. connect with                B. depend on         C. make apologize to D. get along with

7. A. improve               B. continue            C. realize          D. keep

8. A. notes                  B. list                C. plan            D. stories

9. A. any                 B. most             C. none              D. all

10. A. part                  B. game             C. trick                  D. record

11. A. view                 B. sign               C. attention          D. remark

12. A. also                  B. even               C. still              D. ever

13. A. appears             B. considers            C. presents        D. remembers

14. A. angry                B. happy             C. doubtful          D. alive

15. A. words               B. rings               C. repeats              D. calls

16. A. cold                  B. plain                C. nervous         D. lively

17. A. in case              B. so long as           C. unless        D. because

18. A. around              B. out                  C. on             D. away

19. A. build up                   B. make up             C. clear up         D. give up

20. A. regret               B. forgive               C. right          D. punish

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Ⅴ.任务型阅读（10分）

Packaging is an important form of advertising. A package can sometimes motivate(促动) someone to buy a product. For example, a small child might ask for a breakfast food that comes in a box with a picture of a TV character. The child is more interested in the picture than in breakfast food. Pictures for children to color or cut out, games printed on a package, or a small gift inside a box also motivate many children to buy products or to ask their parents to buy for them.

Some packages suggest that a buyer will get something for nothing. Food products sold in reusable containers are examples of this. Although a similar product in a plain container might cost less，people often prefer to buy the product in a reusable glass or dish, because they believe the container is free. However, the cost of the container is added to the cost of the product.

The size of a package also motivates a buyer. Maybe the package had “Economy Size” or “Family Size” printed on it. This suggests that the larger size has the largest amount of product for the least money. But that is not always true. To find it out, a buyer has to know how the product is sold and the price of the basic unit.

The information on the package should provide some answers. But the important thing for any buyer to remember is that a package is often an advertisement. The words and pictures do not tell the whole story. Only the product inside can do that.

Title: 71. _________

In 1995, Susan Boyle went to Glasgow to audition（试镜）for My Kind of People, a televised talent show popular in the UK. She was immediately rejected. She was nervous during the audition, and felt she didn’t perform well, but her brother said that she was rejected because of her plain looks. Susan was not discouraged and continued to sing at church and at the karaoke nights in a local pub.
Susan suffered a personal loss in 1997, when her father passed away. After his death, Susan put her big dreams on hold to care for her sick mother, Bridget Boyle. The mother and daughter often talked of Susan’s possible fame. Bridget Boyle encouraged her daughter to take part in singing competitions. “She was the one who said I should enter Britain’s Got Talent. We used to watch it together,” Susan later told reporters. “She thought I would win.”
In 1999, Susan used all of her savings to pay for a professional demo（样本唱片）tape, which she sent to record companies. In 2002, Susan began taking singing lessons from voice coach Fred O’Neil.
In 2007, her mother passed away at the age of 91. A neighbor reported that when Bridget Boyle died, her daughter “wouldn’t come out for three or four days or answer the door or phone”. She lived alone with her cat, Pebbles. For over a year, she refused to sing. But in August of 2008, O’Neil urged her to try out for Britain’s Got Talent. Convinced that the performance would be an honor to her mother, Susan auditioned in Glasgow, Scotland. She sang I Dreamed A Dream, a hit song from the musical Les Miserables（《悲惨世界》）, in the first round of the show, which was aired on April 11, 2009.
The 47-year-old Scottish woman's plain looks provided a sharp contrast（对比）to her powerfully beautiful voice. The performance astonished the audience and the judges. Online videos of her performance totaled over 40 million views within a week. Although she failed to win the final of Britain’s Got Talent, Susan Boyle became globally popular. Her first album I Dreamed A Dream has sold over five million copies.
【小题1】Bridget Boyle’s attitude towards her daughter’s musical talent can be described as ___.