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阅读理解。     My teenage son Karl became withdrawn after his father died. As a single parent. I tried to do my best
to talk to him. But the more I tried, the more he pulled away. When his report card arrived during his junior
year, it said that he had been absent 95 times from classes and had six falling grades for the year. At this
rate he would never graduate. I sent him to the school adviser, and I even begged him. Nothing worked.
     One night I felt so powerless that I got down on my knees and pleaded for help. "Please God, I can"t do
anything more for my son. I"m at the end of my rope. I"m giving the whole thing up to you."
     I was at work when I got a phone call. A man introduced himself as the headmaster. "I want to talk to
you about Karl"s absences." Before he could say another word, I choked up and all my disappointment and
sadness over Karl came pouring out into the ears of this stranger. "I love my son but I just don"t know what
to do. I"ve tried everything to get Karl to go back to school and nothing has worked. It"s out of my hands."
For a moment there was silence on the other end of the line. The headmaster seriously said, "Thank you for
your time", and hung up.
     Karl"s next report card showed a marked improvement in his grades. Finally, he even made the honor
roll. In his fourth year, I attended a parent-teacher meeting with Karl. I noticed that his teachers were
astonished at the way he had turned himself around. On our way home, he said, "Mum, remember that call
from the headmaster last year?" I nodded. "That was me. I thought I"d play a joke but when I heard what you
said, it really hit me how much I was hurting you. That"s when I knew I had to make you proud." 1. By saying "Karl became withdrawn", the author means that the boy changed entirely and _____. A. preferred to stay alone at home
B. lost interest in his studies
C. refused to talk to others
D. began to dislike his mother 2. There was silence on the other end of the line because _____. A. the speaker was too moved to say anything to the mother
B. the speaker waited for the mother to finish speaking
C. the speaker didn"t want the mother to recognize his voice
D. the speaker was unable to interrupt the mother 3. The sentence"…he even made the honor roll" means that"_____ ". A. he was even on the list to be praised at the parent-teacher meeting
B. he was even on the list of students who made progress in grades
C. he was even on the list of students who had turned themselves around
D. he was even on the list of the best students at school 4. What is the main idea of this passage? A. Children in single-parent families often have mental problems.
B. Mother"s love plays an important role in teenagers" life.
C. Being understood by parents is very important to teenagers.
D. School education doesn"t work without full support from parents.

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完形填空。     We may look at the world around us, but somehow we manage not to see it until whatever we"ve become
used to suddenly disappears.   1 , for example, the neatly-dressed woman I   2   to see-or look at-on my way
to work each morning.
     For three years, no matter   3   the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00
am. On   4   days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime   5   out neat, belted cotton
dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses.   6  , she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I   7
all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how   8   I expected to see her each morning.
You might say I   9   her.
     "Did she have an accident? Something  10 ?" I thought to myself about her  11 . Now that she was gone, I
felt I had  12  her. I began to realize that part of our  13  life probably includes such chance meetings with
familiar  14 : the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who  15  walks her dog along the street every morning,
the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are  16  markers in our lives. They add weight to our  17
of place and belonging.
     Think about it.  18 , while walking to work, we mark where we are by  19  a certain building, why should
we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though  20 , person?

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(     )1. A. Make
(     )2. A. happened
(     )3. A. what
(     )4. A. sunny
(     )5. A. took
(     )6. A. Clearly
(     )7. A. believed
(     )8. A. long
(     )9. A. respected
(     )10. A. better
(     )11. A. disappearance
(     )12. A. forgotten
(     )13. A. happy
(     )14. A. friends
(     )15. A. regularly
(     )16. A. common
(     )17. A. choice
(     )18. A. Because
(     )19. A. keeping
(     )20. A. unnamed

B. Take
B. wanted
B. how
B. rainy
B. brought
B. Particularly
B. expressed
B. often
B. missed
B. worse
B. appearance
B. lost
B. enjoyable
B. strangers
B. actually
B. pleasant
B. knowledge
B. If
B. changing
B.unforgettable

C. Give
C. used
C. which
C. cloudy
C. carried
C. Luckily
C. remembered
C. soon
C. praised
C. more
C. misfortune
C. known
C. frequent
C. tourists
C. hardly
C. important
C. decision
C. Although
C. passing
C. unbelievable

D. Have
D. tried
D. when
D. snowy
D. turned
D. Especially
D. wondered
D. much
D. admired
D. less
D. fortune
D. hurt
D. daily
D. guests
D. probably
D. faithful
D. sense
D. However
D. mentioning
D. unreal

阅读理解。

     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

1. The baby travelled on the Titanic with his _____.

A. mother
B. parents
C. aunt
D. relatives

2. What is probably the boy"s last name?

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

3. 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

4. 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 Scotia
C. people found out who the unknown baby was
D. people took care of the unknown baby for 90 years

完形填空。

     "My name"s Jim Shelley and I"m an addict (有瘾的人)…" With these words I began to  1   the problem,
the problem of my telephone addiction. I used to call people   2 , from the moment I woke up to the time I
went to sleep. I   3   to be phoned, I wanted to phone. Just one more call.
     It started socially-a few calls each day. It seemed   4 , just a quick chat. Gradually though, the   5   got
worse. Soon it was   6 use, until, finally, addiction.
     And it began to affect(影响) my   7 . During the day I would disappear for   8 call. If I couldn"t make a
call, I spent the whole time waiting for the phone to ring. Getting more and more   9 , in the end, I would ring
someone, then someone else,  10 myself just one more call.
     I was phoning people and  11 messages to make sure   12 calls would see me through the day. I used to
arrive at friends" homes and before the door was closed, go straight for the phone with the   13   "Is it OK if I
just use the phone…?" At work, I became  14   when my fellow workers tried to   15 me from using the phone. And one day I hit my boss (with the phone). Finally, the police caught me  16 a phone box that had taken my
last one pound coin, and I was  17 to see a psychiatrist(心理医生).
     I haven"t   19 a phone in the house for three weeks now, and it"s several days   18 I used a phone box. I
try not to watch TV because there are   20   people on it making phone calls. My name is Jim Shelley and I am
an addict.

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(     )1. A. face
(     )2. A. now and then
(     )3. A. tried
(     )4. A. polite
(     )5. A. condition
(     )6. A. frequent
(     )7. A. friends
(     )8. A. a quick
(     )9. A. hopeful
(     )10. A. forcing
(     )11. A. leaving
(     )12. A. long
(     )13. A. saying
(     )14. A. careful
(     )15. A. save
(     )16. A. destroying
(     )17. A. offered
(     )18. A. missed
(     )19. A. as
(     )20. A. always

B. find
B. all the time
B. asked
B. important
B. situation
B. regular
B. study
B. a secret
B. delighted
B. telling
B. taking
B. immediate
B. demands
B. mad
B. reduce
B. using
B. guided
B. had
B. when
B. just

C. accept
C. at home
C. waited
C. fine
C. result
C. unusual
C. family
C. an expected
C. frightened
C. giving
C. passing
C. enough
C. wish
C. determined
C. protect
C. stealing
C. ordered
C. received
C. if
C. more

D. notice
D. at work
D. invited
D. special
D. effect
D. particular
D. work
D. an extra
D. anxious
D. limiting
D. recording
D. surprising
D. words
D. helpless
D. stop
D. emptying
D. reminded
D. fixed
D. since
D. different

阅读理解。

     Say you are a 17th century construction worker who"s worked long and hard to build a splendid tower
for the dead wife of your emperor.
     Now say that the emperor orders your fingertips cut off so you can never build another one. Yes, that is
the Taj Mahal, one of the most famous buildings in the world. And the tale behind the construction is just as
impressive (印象深刻的) as the building itself.
     First, there"s the emperor of northern India, Shah Jehan, also called the King of the World. In 1612, Shah
Jehan married Mumtaz Mahal. Madly in love, they had 14 children over the next 20 years. But then sadness
came. As Mumtaz was about to give birth to child number 14, she said she had heard her unborn baby cry out.
It was a sign of death. And as Mumtaz lay dying, she asked Jehan to build a lasting memorial (纪念物) to
celebrate their love.
     When the heartbroken Jehan appeared eight days after his wife"s death, his people were shocked to see that
his coal-black hair had turned snow-white. Putting away his sadness, Jehan ordered his wife"s dying wish
carried out. More than 20,000 workers labored nearly 22 years to complete the construction. In 1653, Jehan
placed Mumtaz"s remains in the center under the building.
     And then, son number five, Aurangzeb, murdered his brothers and took over the power from his aging
father. Hehan lived the rest of his days－eight years, to be exact－imprisoned not far from the Taj Mahal.
Jehan was only allowed to climb onto the top of his prison to see the timeless treasure from a distance. But
never again would he be allowed to visit it－until he was buried next to his wife.
     Today 25,000 people visit the Taj Mahal each day. Though the reason for building the tower was a strange,
sad story, those who see its breath-taking beauty are reminded of the happiness that inspired (激发……的灵感)
its construction.

1. The first two paragraphs were written to show that _____.

A. the Taj Mahal is an unusual historic building
B. ancient Indian emperors were cruel
C. construction workers led a hard life in ancient India
D. India has some of the most famous buildings in the world

2. The Taj Mahal was first built as _____.

A. a prison
B. a gift to Mumtaz
C. a memorial building
D. a tourist attraction

3. We learn from the text that Mumtaz probably died in _____.

A. 1626
B. 1632
C. 1634
D. 1653

4. The underlined word "happiness" in the last sentence refers to _____.

A. The married happiness of the emperor and his wife
B. The great pleasure jehan once found in excercising his power
C. The happiness jehan found on completing the Taj Mahai
D. The pleasure tourists experience when visiting the Taj Mahai

完型填空。

     I know I should have told the headmaster at the time. That was my real   1  .
     He had gone out of the study for some   2 , leaving me alone. In his absence I looked to see   3   was on
his desk. In the   4   was a small piece of paper on which were written the   5   "English Writing Prize 1949.
History Is a Series of Biographies (人物传记)."
    A(n)   6   boy would have avoided looking at the title as soon as he saw the   7  . I did not. The subject
of the English Writing Prize was kept a   8   until the start of the exam so I could not   9 reading it.
     When the headmaster  10 , I was looking out of the window.
     I should have told him what had  11  then. It would have been so  12  to say:"I"m sorry but I  13  the title
for the English Writing Prize on your desk. You"ll have to  14  it."
     The chance passed and I did not  15  it. I sat the exam the next day and I won. I didn"t  16  to cheat, but
it was still cheating anyhow.
     That was thirty-eight years  17  when I was fifteen. I have never told anyone about it before,  18  have I
tried to explain to myself why not.
     The obvious explanation is that I could not admit I had seen me title  19  admitting that I had been looking
at the things on his desk.  20  there must have been more behind it. Whatever it was, it has become a good
example of how a little mistake can trap (使陷入) you in a more serious moral corner (道德困境).

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