About ten years ago when I was an undergraduate in college. I was working as a p

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About ten years ago when I was an undergraduate in college. I was working as a practice student at my University"s Museum of Natural History. One day while working at the cash register in the gift shop, I saw an elderly couple come in with a little girl in a wheelchair.
As I looked closer at this girl, I saw that she was kind of set on her chair. I then realized she had no arms or legs, just a head, neck and main body. She was wearing a little white dress with red dots.
As the couple wheeled her up to me, I was looking down at the register. I turned my head toward the girl and gave her a wink(眨眼). As I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back at the girl, who was giving me the cutest(可爱的), largest smile I have ever seen.
All of a sudden her handicap (残疾)was gone and all I saw was this beautiful girl, whose smile just melted me and gave me a completely new sense of what life is all about. She took me from a poor, unhappy college student and brought me into her world--- a world of smiles, love and warmth.
That was ten years ago. I"m a successful business person now and whenever I feel down and think about the troubles of the world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable lesson about life that she taught me.
小题1:What do we know about the author?

A．He graduated from Natural History University.

B．He majored in Natural History at university .

C．He ran a gift shop in the university

D．He is a successful businessman

小题2:When the author looked again, he saw that the little girl____.

A．was wearing a beautiful red dress

B．wasn’t able to move in the wheelchair

C．was badly injured

D．was only able to smile

小题3: In the author’s opinion, the little girl was not disabled at all because ______.

A．she told everyone how to live a good life

B．she offered him suppport in his business

C．she could take good care of herself

D．she had a strong spirit

小题4:What would be the best title for his passage?

A．World of smiles	B．Love of a girl
C．A badly disabled girl	D．Secret of a businessman

答案

小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:A

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Martha was busy with her job. She believed she had to work harder because she loved her father who was sick with cancer. She had to provide for his expensive medicines. Her brothers and sisters meanwhile stayed with their father most of the time. They bathed him, sang for him, spoon-fed(用匙喂) him or simply kept him company.
One day Martha was hurt. She overheard(无意中听到) her father telling her mother, "All our children love me except Martha."
"How can this be?" Martha thought. "Am I not the one killing myself in my work to have money to pay for his medicines? My brothers and sisters do not even provide their share in the expenses."
One night, as Martha was as usual late in going home, she saw her father was lying awake. She walked close to his bedsides. Her father held her hands and said, "I miss you. I don"t have much time. Stay with me." And she stayed with her father holding his hand the whole night.
The next morning Martha said to everybody, "I have taken a leave of absence. I would like to be with father. I will bathe him and sing for him from now on." Her father had a beautiful smile. He knew Martha loved him, too.
As children, we need the presence of our loved ones. Adults need no less. I have observed my mother’s orchids(兰花). When she is away for a long time, they are unhealthy and many of them wither(干枯). But when she is around , they bloom with beautiful flowers. My mother does nothing special . She just spends her time looking after them.
小题1:Before Martha heard her parents’ talk ,she thought her father _____.

A．was satisfied with her love for him

B．disliked her brothers and sisters

C．was proud of her

D．would recover from the disease

小题2:After staying with her father for one night, Martha _____.

A．decided to give up her job

B．understood what her father really needed

C．realized her father loved her most

D．loved her father more than before

小题3:By telling Matha’s story, what does the author try to express?

A．Nothing is more important than the company of loved ones.

B．Money and a successful career don’t always bring happiness

C．Adults need the presence of their loved ones more than children do.

D．Plants like orchids do have feelings.

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When my first wartime Christmas came, I was in basic training in New Jersey and not sure if I would make it home for the holidays. Only on the afternoon of December 23 was the list of men who would have the three-day holiday posted. I was one of the lucky soldiers. It was Christmas Eve when I arrived home, and a little snow had fallen. Mother opened the front door. I could see beyond her, into the corner of the living room where the tree had always stood. There were lights, all colors, and ornaments (饰品) shining against the green of a pine.
"Where did it come from?" I asked.
"I asked the Gates boy to cut it," my mother said. "I wouldn"t have had one just for myself, but when in great need... such a rush! He just brought it in this afternoon."
The pine reached to the proper height, almost to the ceiling, and the Tree Top Crystal（水晶） Star was in its place. A few green branches reached out a little awkwardly（难看） at the side, I thought, and there was a bit of bare trunk showing in the middle. But the tree filled the room with warm light and the whole house with the pleasant smell of Christmas.
"It"s not like the one you used to find," my mother went on. "Yours were always in good shape. I suppose the Gates boy didn"t know where to look for a better one. But I couldn"t be fussy(挑剔的)."
"Don"t worry," I told her. "It"s perfect."
It wasn"t, of course, but at the moment I realized something for the first time: All Christmas trees are perfect.
小题1:What did his mother"s Christmas tree look like?

小题2:From the passage we can infer (推断) that______.

A．all the soldiers had the three-day holiday

B．the writer could not go home for Christmas

C．the writer spent his first Christmas during the war

D．not all the soldiers went home for Christmas during the war

小题3:From the passage, we can conclude that ______ .

A．his mother didn"t like Christmas trees

B．the writer didn"t like the tree cut by someone else

C．the writer used to cut very beautiful Christmas trees

D．his mother didn"t want to have a Christmas tree during wartime

小题4:The best title for this passage would be ______.

A．The Perfect Christmas Tree

B．How to Choose a Christmas Tree

C．How Soldiers Spent Their Christmas

D．A Christmas with an Ugly Christmas Tree

小题5:What does the writer mean by saying “All Christmas trees are perfect”?

A．Nothing is as perfect as Christmas.

B．Once at home, everything is so nice.

C．During the war, trees are hard to find.

D．All Christmas trees are the most beautiful.

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Wendy ,Carol, Jenny, Tom 和Mark 想观看演出或参加培训.阅读下列材料, 从所给的6个选项中,选出符合各自要求的最佳选项。其中一项是多余的。(5分)
小题1:Wendy, a student who is interested comedy and acting,will be free on Oct.12th .She wants to relax herself by enjoying some performances, but she has no more than $4.
小题2:Carol is expected to be free on October 15th. She plans to enjoy some
performances while having a cup of coffee.
小题3:Jenny, a student who majors in art, is interested in Italian art as well as Chinese art. She will be free after school at 4:30.
小题4:Tom will go to study in the USA for a master’s degree. He wants to have a full-time special training for several months to improve his oral English.
小题5:Mark , a worker of an export company, needs to improve his writing and oral English. He can only go to the training class after work every day.

A．ENGLISHLANGUAGE CENTER
Classes for beginners for 3 months.
Focus on grammar as well as writing and oral English.
3:00 p.m to 9:30 p.m
Small classes with a maximum of 8 students
Course fee: $300 (10% discount for the first to enroll)

B．HALIFAX PLAYHOUSE
Ring’s Cross Street, Halifax.
Oct.10th--- Oct 17th on Golden Pond by Emest Thompson.
This is a magical comedy about real people. A well-acted play for everyone.
Don’t miss it.
Time: 7:30 p.m
Price: $3
Tel:36599988

C．LONDON COLLEGE OF ENGLISH
Classes for foreign students of all levels.
3 months, 6 months,9 months and 1 years course.
Focus on spoken language.
Open through all year from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Small class with a maximum of 12 students.
Course fee for English for one year: ;$1,200
Discount at shorter period of study.
Tel:22342381

D．EXHIBITIONS OF OIL PAINTINGS

Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Art
A combination of Eastern and Western Art 8:00 a.m.
Price: $2 for adults, $1 for students
Tel: 33569875
E.WESTERN ART SHOW
China National Art Museum
European modern art, Chinese art and African ancient art
Open from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m from Oct. 6th to 20th
Price : $3 for adults, $1.5 for middle school students.
Tel:25545569
F.GRAND THEATRE
Oxford Street, Leeds
Restaurant and Cafe.
Sep.1st—19th
Admission:Tues.--Thurs. $2-6; Fri.& Sat.$4-8
Sue Townsend’s musical play.
Time: Evenings 7:45. Oct 10th—17th, at 2:30 p.m.
No Monday performance.
All kinds of drinks offered
Tel :52011611

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Ⅲ阅读 (共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分)
第一节：阅读理解：阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Scientists have learned a lot about the kinds of food people need. They say that there are several kinds of food that people should eat every day. They are: (1) green and yellow vegetables of all kinds;

(2) c

itrus （柑橘）fruits and tomatoes; (3) potatoes and other fruits and vegetables ; (4) meat of all kinds, fish and eggs; (5) milk and foods made from milk; (6) bread or cereal (谷物), rice is also in this kind of foods; (7) butter or something like butter.
People in different countries and different places of the world eat different kinds of things. Foods are cooked and eaten in many different kinds of ways. People in different countries eat at different times of the day. In some places people eat once or twice a day; in other countries people eat three or four times a day. Scientists say

that none of the differences is really important. It doesn’t matter whether foods are eaten raw or cooked, canned or frozen. It doesn’t matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o’clock in the afternoon or at eleven o’clock at night. The important thing is what you eat every day.
There are two problems, then, in feeding the large number of peopl

e on earth. The first thin

g is to find some ways to feed the world’s population so that no one is hungry. The second is to make sure that people everywhere have the right kind of food to make them grow to be

strong and healthy.
61. According to the scientists, which of the following groups of food is the healthiest for your lunch?
A. chicken, apples, cereal , cabbages.
B. potatoes, carrots, rice, bread.
C. oranges, bananas, fish, tomatoes
D. beef, pork, fish , milk
62. It is important for people to eat __________.
A. three times a day
B. dinner at twelve o’clock
C. cooked food all the day
D. something from each of the seven kinds of food every day.
63. People in different count ries and different places of the world________________.
A. have the right kinds of food to eat
B. cook their food in the same way
C. have their meals at the same time
D. eat food in different ways.
64. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. People in some places don’t have enough to eat.
B. There are too many people in the world.
C. One of the problems is that no one is hungry.
D. The scientists are trying to make peopl

e grow to be strong and healthy.
65. If there is paragraph 4, what do you think is going to be talked about?
A. When people eat their lunch.
B. What to do with the two problems.
C. How to cook food in different ways.
D. Why people eat different kinds of food.

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There was once a captain who loved money so much that he cheated his sailors at the end of every voyage and took their wages.
On the last day of one voyage, the ship was in a small port. It was winter time, and the sea was very cold, so the captain said to his sailors, “ If one of you stays in the water during the whole night, I will giv

e him my ship. But if he comes out before the sun appears, I shall get his wages.(工资)”
The sailors had heard about the captain’ cheating, so they didn’t trust him. But then one of them, who thought that he was cleverer than the captain, said that he would do it. He got into the water and, though it was very cold, stayed in it. When it was nearly morning, some fishermen lit a fire on the shore abut half a mile away.
“ You are cheating,” the captain said to the sailor. “ The fire’s warming you.”
“ But it’s half a mile away.” Said the sailor.
“ A fire is fire,” answ

ered the captain.
“ Perhaps you think that you are clever because you have won my wages, but you can’t cook a chicken,” said the sailor.
“ I can’t,” answered the captain.
“ If you cook this chicken,” said the sailor, “ I shall work for you without wages for seven years, but if yo

u can’t, you will give me your ship.”
The captain agreed, took th

e chicken and said, “ Where’s the fire?”
“There it is,” answe

red the sailors, “ On the shore.”
“ ‘A fire’s fire’, you said,” answered the sailor. “ If it is enough to warm me in the water, it is enough to cook your chicken.”
66. The captain got the sailors’ wages ________________.
A. to buy a chicken for himself
B. and kept the money for future use
C. by cheating them
D.

and said he would return the money soon.
67. Which of the following statement is true?
A. All the sailors refused to get into the water because it was too cold.
B. The captain knew that the fire the fishermen made was enough to warm the sailor in the water.
C. The captain succeeded in cheating the sailor.
D. It was the sailor who was clever.
68. The captain insisted that the fire was warming the sailor because he ___________.
A. didn’t want to lose the bet
B. didn’t believe the sailor’s success
C. wanted to keep his promise
D. wanted to show his cleverness
69. Which of the following statement is NOT true?
A. The sailor didn’t trust the captain.
B. In order to help the sailor in the water, the fishermen made a fire.
C. The Captain failed to cheat the sailor this time.
D. The sailor didn’t get out of the water befor

e the sun appeared.
70. What is the best title?
A. How A Captain Cheated His Sailor
B. How A Sailor Got A ship
C. A Brave Sailor
D. A Fire is Fire

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