London--- A mother has criticised（批评）“selfish” passers-by for failing to help her teenage son after he fainted (晕倒) on a packed tram platform.

Oliver Tiplady was on his way to school when he fainted at the tram stop. But instead of helping the 14-year-old, who was in school uniform，those nearby simply walked around him. Her mother, Susan Tiplady , said, “How can people leave a child for that matter, on the floor like that? How could they all have ignored him? They must have lacked any basic humanity and had no piry on a child.” She said her son regained consciousness (意识) about ten minutes after fainting at the tram stop last week. “He managed to get up and sit down before his friends turned up, but by then he was too embarrassed to tell them what had happened. It wasn’t until he got to school that he told a teacher.” she added.

BEIJING - At least 15 pupils were confirmed dead after a school bus rolled over in Xuzhou, East China's Jiangsu province.

The accident occurred around 6 pm on Monday .There were 29 pupils on the bus .The bus was traveling on the road when two electric bikes suddenly cut in and the driver was trying to avoid them.. The bus was produced by Shaolin Auto Co Ltd in Henan province and had a full capacity ( 容量) of 52 passengers.

South Korea ---South Korea's largest mobile phone operator said Thursday that it will offer cell phone users a new noise service that it says will drive away mosquitoes（蚊子）.

SK Telecom Co. said consumers can pay 3,000 won ( 韩元 ) （$2.50） to download a sound wave that can’t be heard by human ears but annoys mosquitoes within a range of three feet. Customers can then play the sound just by hitting a few buttons on their mobile phones. The company claimed that the service worked during tests .The service, which begins Monday, has one drawback: it consumes as much battery power as normal cell phone rings.

56. After Oliver Tiplady fainted at the tram stop , ________

A. the passers-by went up to him and helped him up.

B. his friends turned up and helped him up in the end .

C. he told the whole story to his friends and teacher .

D. he came to life and struggled to his feet himself eventually.

57. The best word to describe the passers–by is ______  .

A. warm-hearted       B. considerate       C. cold-hearted       D. calm

58. From the passage , we can infer _______

A. the accident happened because of two electric bikes .

B. the school bus was overloaded when the accident happened .

C. the bus driver was speeding up when the accident happened .

D. the bus driver was driving carelessly when the accident happened.

59. According to the passage , we know the service of the cell phone _______ .　

A. can drive away mosquitoes beyond three feet .

B. will cost the consumers lots of money to enjoy

C. is complicated for the consumers to enjoy

D. is easy to operate but a bit energy-consuming

Apple Inc co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, counted among the greatest American CEOs of his generation, died on Wednesday at the age of 56, after a-year-long and highly public battle with cancer. Jobs' death was announced by Apple in a statement late on Wednesday. The Apple.com homepage featured a black-and-white picture of him with the words "Steve Jobs, 1955-2011".
A message on the site read, "Apple has lost an imaginary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring leader."
"His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts."
"Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple." The Silicon Valley hero who gave the world the iPod and the iPhone had resigned as CEO of the world's largest technology corporation in August, handing the position to current chief executive Tim Cook.
Two years before the iPhone that forever transformed the way people around the world access and use the Internet, Jobs talked about how a sense of his death was a major driver behind that vision.
"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever got to help me make the big choices in life," Jobs said during a Stanford commencement ceremony in 2005. "Because almost everything－all others' expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure－these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."
"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."
【小题1】According to the passage, which statement of Steve Jobs is RIGHT?

A．Steve Jobs was the present CEO of Apple.

B．Steve Jobs was thought to have great talent.

C．Steve Jobs had no idea about his death before.

D．Steve Jobs fought against cancer for a year secretly.

【小题2】What can we learn about iPhone from the passage?

A．People can use it to do anything they want.

B．It can teach people how to surf the Internet.

C．People can learn the spirit of Apple from it.

D．It can change the way people use the Internet.

【小题3】In Jobs's speech in Stanford, we can learn that                         .

A．to make great achievements, you must lose everything

B．people should try to achieve everything regardless of death

C．people who will be dead soon must make big choices in life

D．in the face of death, nothing is truly important except to follow your dream

【小题4】What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．Steve Jobs changed the world.

B．Steve Jobs died on Wednesday.

C．Who will be the next Steve Jobs?

D．Steve Jobs, the greatest American CEO.

Most of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in the history books are great conquerors (统治者) and generals and soldiers, while the people who really helped civilization forward are often never mentioned at all. We do not know who first set a broken leg, or launched a seaworthy boat, or calculated the length of the year, or manured (施肥)a field; but we know all about the killers and destroyers.

People think a great deal of them, so much that on all the highest pillars (纪念柱)in the great cities of the world you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general or a soldier. And I think most people believe that the greatest countries are those that have beaten in battle the greatest number of other countries and ruled over them as conquerors. It is just possible they are, but they are not the most civilized. Animals fight; so do savages（野蛮人）; so to be good at fighting is to be good in the way in which an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized. Even being good at getting other people to fight for you and telling them how to do it most efficiently — this, after all, is what conquerors and generals have done — is not being civilized.  People fight to settle quarrels. Fighting means killing, and civilized peoples ought to be able to find some ways of settling their disputes other than by seeing which side can kill off greater number of the other side, and then saying that the side which has killed most has won. And not only has it won, but, because it has won, it has been in the right. For that is what going to war means; it means saying that power is right.

This is what the story of mankind has on the whole been like. Even our own age has fought the two greatest wars in history, in which millions of people were killed or mutilated (disabled). And while today it is true that people do not fight and kill each other in the streets — while, that is to say, we have got to the stage of keeping the rules and behaving properly to each other in daily life — nations and countries have not learnt to do this yet, and still behave like savages.

1.In the opening sentence, the author indicates that           .

       A．most history books were written by conquerors, generals and soldiers

       B．history book tell us far more about conquerors, generals and soldiers than actual creators of civilization

       C．those who rally helped human civilization forward is not mentioned in history books at all

       D．conquerors, generals and soldiers should be least mentioned in history books

2.According to the passage, most people believe that the greatest countries are those that     .

       A．built the highest pillars for their conquerors

       B．were ruled by the greatest number of conquerors

       C．won the greatest number of battles against other countries

       D．were beaten in battle by the greatest number of other countries

3.In the author’s opinion, the countries that conquered a large number of other countries are

                 .

       A．certainly both the most powerful and most civilized.

       B．neither the greatest nor the most civilized in any way.

       C．possibly either the most civilized or the most powerful in a way.

       D．likely the most powerful in some sense but not the most civilized.

4.The meaning of the last sentence in Paragraph 2 is that          .

　　A．fighters believe that the winner is right and the loser wrong.

       B．only those who are powerful have the right to go to war.

       C．those who are right should fight against those who are wrong.

       D．only powerful nations might win the right to rule weak ones.