| ( )1. A. age ( )2. A. polite ( )3. A. order ( )4. A. hardly ( )5. A. wrote ( )6. A. regret ( )7. A. change ( )8. A. reminded ( )9. A. refused ( )10. A. came to ( )11. A. why ( )12. A. shy ( )13. A. pretend ( )14. A. But ( )15. A. problem ( )16. A. frightened ( )17. A. Something ( )18. A. experienced ( )19. A. besides ( )20. A. incident | B. bill B. sensitive B. hope B. proudly B. felt B. desire B. face B. advised B. prepared B. depended on B. when B. proud B. continue B. So B. chance B. surprised B. Everything B. trusted B. for B. service | C. appearance C. nervous C. impression C. luckily C. followed C. success C. afford C. approached C. paid C. gave up C. how C. excited C. expect C. Or C. gift C. disappointed C. Anything C. won C. despite C. joke | D. manner D. important D. promise D. freely D. ignored D. danger D. prevent D. helped D. finished D. turned against D. where D. foolish D. struggle D. Because D. adventure D. bored D. Nothing D. saved D. like D. food |
| 1-5: DBCAD 6-10: BCCDA 11-15: AADAC 16-20: BDCDA | |||
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| High school is tough. And if you were to ask Pink her opinion on the subject she"d tell you the same. Before she became famous, and when she was still called Alicia Moore, the young superstar faced more than her fair share of high school drama. In her interview with Faze, Pink admits she was sorted as a troublemaker at school, "The problem was, I was labelled as trouble-so I was like "trouble". I"ll show you trouble. You want trouble, well here it is!" Unfortunately, Pink began to deliver what the teachers expected and the vicious cycle began. "It"s like the label they give you, you grow into it anyway. They treat you bad, so you act bad," Pink says and continues. "Did I deserve it?-in the end yes, but I feel I just conformed to the label they gave me. I think a lot of kids just get frustrated and act the way the teachers expect them to." It"s no surprise that eventually Pink developed a problem with authority, "When they would say it had to be a certain way I would ask, "why?" They"d say, "Because it always has," so I"d try to prove them wrong." Predictably, Pink dropped out of school and soon after began to sing in nightclubs. She sang any chance she could get and was eventually discovered by a talent scout (星探) while singing in a club in Philadelphia. She does not regret anything she has done and would not change her past if she could. "To change that would change who I am," she said in her Faze interview. She believes having faced so many difficulties at a young age is a good thing. "To experience the good you have to have seen the bad. Plus it makes you appreciate blessings more," she says. Pink encourages us to be ourselves and not to worry about being labelled. "Just wait," she says. "Give it a couple of years then it won"t matter. Because no matter what label they give you, the best thing you can do is prove them wrong." | |||
| 1. According to the passage, what is Pink"s suggestion? | |||
| A. Do it your way. B. To be confident. C. Don"t make trouble. D. To be happy. | |||
| 2. What does the underlined word "labelled" in the second paragraph mean? | |||
| A. Known. B. Realized. C. Classified. D. Discovered. | |||
| 3. The passage implies that students ________. | |||
| A. will usually follow their teachers" advice B. will act the way their parents expect them to C. are likely to behave in a bad way as others expect D. are willing to meet with many difficulties | |||
| 4. Pink felt that high school was hard because ________. | |||
| A. she fell behind others B. she was misunderstood C. she was unsuccessful D. she felt lonely | |||
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| A gunman killed eight people at a mall in Omaha this afternoon and then killed himself, setting off panic among holiday shoppers, the police said. "The person who we believe to be the shooter has died from selfinflicted gunshot wounds," Sgt. Teresa Negron of the Omaha Police Department said at televised news. "We have been able to clear the mall," she said. "We don"t believe we have any other shooters." The police said that at least five other people had been injured in the shootings. She did not give the shooter"s identity. "We are still conducting the investigation," Sergeant Negron said, adding that the city"s mayor, who was out of town, was on his way back to Omaha. She said the police received a 911 call from someone inside the Westroads Mall on the west side of Omaha, and shots could be heard in the background. The first police officers arrived at the mall six minutes after the first call, she said, but by then the shootings were over. It is reported that the gunman left a suicide note that was found at his home by relatives. A law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity (匿名) said the note indicated that the gunman wanted to "go out in style". The shootings broke the usually banal routine of holiday shopping. The gunman was said by some witnesses to have fired about 20 shots into a crowd. Some customers and workers ran screaming from the mall, while others dived into dressing rooms to hide from the shooter. Shoppers and store workers were trapped inside the mall, which has roughly 135 stores. Others streamed out of mall exits with their hands raised. The president was in Omaha this morning to deliver a speech, but he had left the city by the time the shootings took place. | |||
| 1. Where did the news about the shooting first come out? | |||
| A. On a newspaper. B. On the Internet. C. On TV. D. In a police poster. | |||
| 2. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? | |||
| A. Nobody knows why the shooter did so and nothing was found at his home. B. The city"s mayor happened not to be in the city when the shooting took place. C. Police arrived at the mall before the shootings were over and rescued customers. D. The gunman fired two shots into a crowd. | |||
| 3. We can learn from the passage that ________. | |||
| A. there is more than one shooter in this event B. the shooting didn"t trouble the customers much C. an important holiday is coming soon D. the president came to the scene soon after the shooting | |||
| 4. Which of the following would be the best title for the news? | |||
| A. Gunman Kills 8 People, Then Himself at a Mall in Omaha B. Shoppers in Great Panic before the Holiday C. The President Happened to Escape a Shot D. Shooter Found Dead in a Mall on the West of Omaha | |||
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| I"ve always known my kids use digital communications gear (装置) a lot. But my cellphone bill last month really grabbed my attention. My son had come up to nearly 2,000 incoming text messages, and had sent nearly as many. Of course, he was out of school for the summer and communicating more with friends from a distance. Nevertheless, he found time to hold down a summer job and complete a college course in between all that typing with his thumb. I was even more surprised to learn that my son is normal. Teenagers with cellphones each send and receive 2,272 text messages a month on average, Nielsen Mobile says. Some experts regret that all that keyboard jabber is making our kids stupid, unable to read nonverbal cues such as facial expressions, gestures, posture and other silent signals of mood and attitude. Unlike phones, text messaging doesn"t even allow transmission of tone of voice or pauses, says Mark Bauerlein author of a book called The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes (危害) Our Future. Beyond that, though, I"m not sure I see as much harm as critics of this trend. I"ve posted before on how I initially tried to control my kids" texting. But over time, I have seen my son suffer no apparent ill effects, and he gains a big benefit, of easy, continuing contact with others. I don"t think texting make kids stupid. It may make them annoying, when they try to text and talk to you at the same time. And it may make them distracted,__when buzzing text messages interrupt efforts to noodle out a math problem or finish reading for school. But I don"t see texting harming teens" ability to communicate. My son is as accustomed to nonverbal cues as any older members of our family. I have found him more engaged and easier to communicate with from a great distance, because he is constantly available via text message and responds with faithfulness and speed. | |||
| 1. What does the underlined word "distracted" in the fifth paragraph mean? | |||
| A. Confused. B. Absentminded. C. Comfortable. D. Badtempered. | |||
| 2. What would be the best title for this passage? | |||
| A. For Teens, Texting Instead of Talking B. For Parents, Caring Much for Their Kids C. Advantages and Disadvantages of Texting D. The Effect of Communication | |||
| 3. What is Mark Bauerlein"s attitude towards texting? | |||
| A. It is so convenient for teens to communicate with others. B. It is likely to cause trouble in understanding each other. C. It is convenient for teens to text and call at the same time. D. It will cause damage to the development of intelligence. | |||
| 4. The author"s attitude towards texting is ________. | |||
| A. suspicious B. opposed C. supportive D. doubtful | |||
| 5. According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true? | |||
| A. It is normal for a teen to send or receive 60 text messages a day. B. Texting is a very popular way of communication among teens. C. Parents don"t mind teens" texting and talking at the same time. D. The writer limited his son to sending or receiving text messages at first. | |||
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| Years ago while lying in my hammock(吊床)and drinking JD from the bottle, I noticed my dog dragging something under the fence. Upon inspection, to my disappointment, I realized it was the next door neighbor"s 10yearold daughter"s rabbit. For years I had watched her come home from school and head straight out to its cage, free it and play with it in the yard. I knew that day would be no different and fearing for our dog, I had to think fast. The rabbit was quite dirty, as if it had put up quite a struggle, so I washed it, combed it with the dog brush and blew it dry with the leaf blower. Upon finishing its grooming I jumped the fence and replaced it back in its cage hoping its death would be written off as "natural caused". Back to the hammock and JD. Within the hour the neighbor"s Volvo palled in as usual and out popped the little girl, and as usual she headed straight for the cage. Only this time she stopped about six feet away and screamed: "D－A－D－D－Y!!!" Her father, panicstricken, stood looking at the cage. Being the good neighbor that I am, I rushed to fence and asked if there was anything I could do. Her father less than calmly shouted, "What kind of sick individual would dig up a little girl"s rabbit and put it back in its cage?" | |||
| 1. The girl was shocked because ________. | |||
| A. the rabbit was killed by someone B. the rabbit was too clean C. the dead rabbit was cleaned and put back into the cage D. the rabbit was asleep in the cage | |||
| 2. That day the girl ran to the cage ________. | |||
| A. because her rabbit was there B. because she had a habit of going there to see her rabbit C. because she wanted to see her rabbit again D. because the rabbit was dead | |||
| 3. We can infer that the rabbit ________. | |||
| A. was alive before the writer saw his dog dragging it B. was already dead before the writer saw his dog dragging it C. was in the cage playing with the dog D. was at the fence seeking out for food before it was killed by the dog | |||
| 4. According to the story, the writer ________. | |||
| A. was helpful to his neighbor B. did a smart thing C. was honest D. made a mistake | |||
| 完形填空。 | |||
| On the first day of school, Cothren, a teacher, did something not to be forgotten.With the __1__ of the school principal, she took all of the desks out of the classroom. The kids came into the first period. They walked in, but there was nothing in the classroom. They __2__ looked around and said,"Ms. Cothren, where are our __3__?" And she said,"You can"t have desks until you tell me how you earn them." They thought,"Well, maybe it"s our __4__." "No, "she said. "Maybe it"s our good behavior." And she told them,"No, it"s not even your __5__ behavior." And so they came and went in the first period, still no desks in the __6__. Second period, the same thing. Third period. __7__ the early afternoon television news reporters had __8__ in Ms. Cothren"s class to find out about this __9__ teacher who had taken all the desks out of the classroom. The last period of the day, Cothren gathered her __10__. They were at this time sitting on the __11__ around the sides of the classroom."Throughout the day no one has really __12__ how you earn the desks."She said,"Now I"m going to __13__ you." Cothren went over to the door and opened it, and as she did some soldiers __14__ into the classroom, each one __15__ a school desk. They placed those school desks in rows. And by the time they had finished __16__ those desks, those kids for the first time in their lives understood how they __17__ those desks. Cothren said __18__, "You don"t have to earn those desks. These guys did it for you. They put them out there for you, but it"s up to you to sit here to be __19__ for learning, to be good students and good citizens, because they __20__ a price for you to have these desks, and don"t ever forget it." | |||
| ( )1.A.satisfaction ( )2.A.obviously ( )3.A.desks ( )4.A.characters ( )5.A.violent ( )6.A.hall ( )7.A.By ( )8.A.reported ( )9.A.intelligent ( )10.A.students ( )11.A.cushion ( )12.A.learned ( )13.A.punish ( )14.A.walked ( )15.A.dragging ( )16.A.leaving ( )17.A.made ( )18.A.coldly ( )19.A.responsible ( )20.A.agreed | B．permission B．calmly B．chairs B．hobbies B．excellent B．dormitory B．In B．gathered B．attractive B．friends B．sofa B．identified B．scold B．broke B．carrying B．moving B．traded B．impatiently B．anxious B．paid | C．anxiety C．regretfully C．erasers C．marks C．individual C．ground C．On C．wandered C．crazy C．colleagues C．floor C．recognized C．tell C．rushed C．pulling C．placing C．repaired C．angrily C．cautious C．offered | D．praise D．doutfully D．pens D．services D．aggressive D．classroom D．At D．discussed D．severe D．assistants D．bench D．understood D．remind D．ran D．reaching D．returning D．earned D．sincerely D．necessary D．fixed |