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阅读理解。     Brian arrived at the San Francisco airport two hours before the flight to Paris. He was wearing three shirts,
a jacket, two pairs of socks, a pair of shorts, and two pairs of jeans. He was carrying one small backpack,
which was very full, but he didn"t have any other luggage. Brian needed to meet a man named Tony before he
checked in for his flight. He found Tony near the Air France counter. Tony gave him a round-trip ticket and
a small package.
     "Give this package to Jean-Paul at the airport in Paris. He will have a sign with your name on it. I think you
can find him easily," Tony said. "You don"t have any luggage, right?"
     "Only this backpack," Brian answered. "You said I could bring one carry-on bag."
    "That"s right, one carry-on bag is fine. Have a good trip."
     "Thanks."
    Is Brian a criminal (犯罪)? Not at all. He is an air courier. And he paid only $110 for the round-trip ticket to
Paris. Air couriers get cheap airline tickets because they take important packages and papers to foreign countries.
Businesses sometimes need to get packages and papers to people in foreign countries by the next day. Often,
the only way they can do this is to use an air-courier company. It is not cheap for a business to send a package
with an air courier, but it is quick.
     Every year about 80, 000 people worldwide travel as air couriers. The number of tickets for courier travel
is growing by about 10 percent a year. However, air-courier travel isn"t for everyone. But if you have very little
money, can be flexible (灵活的) about your travel plans, and don"t mind wearing the same clothes for a week,
it can be a great way to take a vacation! 1. Why was Brian wearing so many clothes for his travel? A. Because they were the uniform for air couriers.
B. Because that made him easier to be recognized.
C. Because his backpack had no room for his clothes.
D. because he did not have any luggage with him. 2. An air courier is a person who _____. A. manages a business company in foreign countries
B. organizes international flights for tourists
C. travels around the world with cheap tickets
D. delivers papers and packages to foreign countries 3. Businesses choose the air-courier service because _____. A. it costs less
B. it is flexible
C. it saves time
D. it grows fast 4. One of the disadvantages of traveling as an air courier is that he _____. A. cannot decide when and where to travel
B. cannot take any luggage with him
C. has to wear two pairs of jeans
D. saves little money from the travel 5. The author of the text mainly _____. A. describes the activities of a law-breaker
B. suggests an ideal way to travel
C. argues against the air-courier travel
D. tells us about a developing business

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Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once.
Note that there is one word more than you need.

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A. contents B. taking C. carefully D. plastic E. packaging
F. declined G. freely H. typical I. contracts J. registered

Reading comprehension.

     Even at school there had been an unhealthy competition between George and Richard.
     "I"ll be the first millionaire in Coleford!" Richard used to boast.
     "And you"ll be sorry you knew me," George would reply "because I"ll be the best lawyer in town!"
     George never did become a lawyer and Richard never made any money. Instead both men opened
bookshops on opposite sides of Coleford High Street. It was hard to make money from books, which
made the competition between them worse.
     Now with only one bookshop in town, business was better for George. But sometimes he sat in his
narrow, old kitchen and gazed out of the dirty window, thinking about his former rival (竞争对手).
Perhaps he missed him?
    George was very interested in old dictionaries, He"d recently found a collector in Australia who was
selling a rare first edition. When the parcel arrived, the book was in perfect condition and George was
delighted. But while he was having lunch, George glanced at the photo in the newspaper that the book
had been wrapped in. He was astonished-the smiling face was older than he remembered but unmistakable!
Trembling, George started reading.
     "Bookends have bought ten bookstores from their rivals Dylans. The company, owned by multi-millionaire
Richard Pike, is now the largest bookseller in Australia."

1. George and Rivhard were _____ at school.

A. roommates
B. good friends
C. competitors
D. booksellers

2. How did George feel about Richard after his disappearance?

A. He envied Richard"s marriage.
B. He thought of Richard from time to time.
C. He felt lucky with no rival in town.
D. He was guilty of Richard"s death.

3. George got information about Richard from _____.

A. a dictionary collector in Australia
B. the latter"s rivals Dylans
C. a rare first edition of a dictionary
D. the wrapping paper of a book

4. What happened to George and Richard in the end?

A. Both George and Richard became millionaires.
B. Both of them realized their original ambitions.
C. George established a successful business white Richard was missing.
D. Richard became a millionaire while George had no great success.

完形填空。

     I was successful at my job. I worked very hard, but it   1   me and my family a fabulous (极好的) lifestyle.
I"d worked for the same company for twenty years and had worked my way up to department director.   2 ,
one afternoon last May, I was called to the office, and it was   3   explained to me that they were letting me go.
I just sat there   4   they talked on and all I could think was, "I"ve   5 ." I"d been so well respected;   6   I was
of no value.
     For six weeks, I was in a very   7 place. I wandered around my house like a zombie (僵尸). I could   8
things needed doing, but would not do anything. My beliefs in looking forward and seeing the positive (积极的)
in everything   9   me.
     Then in late June, my youngest son"s football team made the city cup final. The year before, he"d been very
sad when I  10  the same final, so he was  11  when I told him I"d go. Not only did they win, but the look on his
face as he saw me  12   him on was unbelievable. From then on, I spent the summer enjoying my sons and their
passions (激情). I attended match after match and performances of my elder son"s ban-I  13  went to another
city to watch him play. These moments were so  14 . My life had been so much devoted to  15  for so long and
I felt  16  that my sons were happy to welcome me into their world.
      17 , being unemployed gave me back a sense of purpose-I was someone"s mum! I felt a sense of being  18
again. Now I feel more positive about my professional  19  and I"m getting on better with my family than I ever
have. Losing my job made me realize just how  20  it is to achieve real balance in life.

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(     )1. A. Promised
(     )2. A. Therefore
(     )3. A. quickly
(     )4. A. until
(     )5. A. failed
(     )6. A. suddenly
(     )7. A. secret
(     )8. A. see
(     )9. A. defended
(     )10. A. watched
(     )11. A. disappointed
(     )12. A. cheering
(     )13. A. just
(     )14. A. hopeful
(     )15. A. work
(     )16. A. successful
(     )17. A. Naturally
(     )18. A. employed
(     )19. A. education
(     )20. A important

B. afforded
B. Anyhow
B. gently
B. after
B. finished
B. finally
B. quiet
B. get
B. directed
B. missed
B. worried
B. taking
B. even
B. meaningful
B. family
B. thoughtful
B. Doubtfully
B. comforted
B. experience
B. interesting

C. showed
C. Otherwise
C. partly
C. as
C. tried
C. immediately
C. lonely
C. suggest
C. deserted
C. lost
C. honoured
C. leading
C. still
C. difficult
C. matches
C. thankful
C. Disagreeably
C. valued
C. relationship
C. simple

D. left
D. However
D. easily
D. so
D. changed
D. shortly
D. dark
D. understand
D. disturbed
D. won
D. delighted
D. passing
D. almost
D. strange
D. performances
D. peaceful
D. Unexpectedly
D. encouraged
D. future
D. surprising

阅读理解。

     July 21^st 2007 was a typical English summer"s day-it rained for 24 hours! As usual, I rushed home from
work at midday to check on the house. Nothing was amiss. By the time I left work at 5pm. However, the
road into our village was flooded. Our house had never been flooded but, as I opened the front door. a wave
of waters greeted me. Thank God the kids weren"t wish me, because the house was 5 feet deep in water. We
lost everything downstairs. And the plaster had to be torn off the wall"s ceilings pulled down.
     At first we tried to push on through. We didn"t want to move the children out of home, so we camped
upstairs. We put a sheet of plastic across the floor to protect us from the damp. But after three months, we
felt very sick, so we move to a wooden house in a park. The house was small. but at first we were all just
delighted to be in a new place. Unfortunately, things took longer than expected and we were there for 10
months. The life there was inconvenient. What surprised me most was how much I missed being part of a
community (社区). We had lived in a friendly village with good neighbors, and I"d never thought how much
I, I"d miss that.
     Although our situation was very bad, it"s difficult to feel too sorry for yourself when you look at what"s
happening elsewhere. I watched a news report about floods in Northern India and thought. "We didn"t have
a straw hut (茅草房) that was for Christmas. But I can"t wait-I"m going to throw a party for our friends in
the village to say thanks for their support. This year, I won"t need any gifts-living away from home for months
has made me realize how little we actually need or miss all our possessions. Although we are replacing things,
there"s really no rush-we have our home back and that"s the main thing.

1. What does the underlined word "amiss" in the first paragraph mean?

A. Wrong.
B. Missing.
C. Right.
D. Found

2. It can be inferred from the text that the author _____.

A. was sick of staying upstairs
B. cared much about her children
C. could not stand living in a wooden house
D. did not deal well with her family affairs during the flood

3. Why does the author say that they were lucky in the third paragraph?

A. Because her situation was not serious.
B. Because many other paces were flooded.
C. Because she had been to Northern India.
D. Because some others suffered even more.

4. What does the author mainly want to express by telling her story?

A. She valued human feelings more than before.
B. She realized she almost didn"t need possession.
C. She found Christmas gifts no longer badly needed.
D. She thought her own home was the most important.

完形填空。

     The first time I remember noticing the crossing guard was when he waved to me as I drove my son to
school. He   1   me with a puzzle-all because he waved to me like someone does   2   seeing a close friend.
A big,   3   smile accompanied his wave. For the next few days I tried to   4   his face to see if I knew him.
I didn"t. Perhaps he had   5   me for someone else. By the time I contented myself with the   6   that he and
I were strangers, we were greeting each other warmly every morning like old friends.
     Then one day the   7   was solved. As I   8   the school he was standing in the middle of the road   9
his stop sign. I was in live behind four cars.  10  the kids had reached the safety of the sidewalk, he lowered
his sign and let the cars  11 . To the first he waved and  12  in just the same way he had done to me over the
last few days. The kids already had the window down and were happily waving their reply. The second car
got the same  13  from the crossing guard, and the driver, a stiff-looking (表情刻板的) businessman, gave
a brief, almost  14  wave back. Each following car of kids on their way to school  15  more heartily.
     Every morning I continued to watch the man with  16 . So far I haven"t seen anyone  17  to wave back.
I find it interesting that one person can make such a(n)  18  to so many people"s lives by doing one simple
thing like waving and smiling warmly. His  19  armed the start of my day. With a friendly wave and smiling
face he had changed the  20  of the whole neighbourhood.

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