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阅读理解。     Today is my first day at Merchiston Castle School, and I was really nervous about it, because I have never
visited the school before and didn"t take any summer course. Despite my anxiety, I soon relaxed once I arrived;
the staff were so nice that I felt my spoken English was better than it actually was! As soon as I walked into
the dayroom of my boarding house, I was absolutely (完全地) amazed by the friendly atmosphere; everyone
was so friendly that a boy as shy as I had no difficulty in setting in, and I made many new friends on my very
first day, although I was struggling to remember all the names.
     Also I realized there were other international students in the house from all over the world, such as South
Korea, Japan and Russia. Although their English was not so fluent, it didn"t take long for us to understand each
other at all. In some ways, it was even better to practice English by speaking to the international students,
because we were both learning.
     As a boarder, the quality of food is something I consider very important, and Merchiston has not let me
down. The school kitchens are run by a professional catering company, and the quality of food is excellent,
also they take the issue of a healthy diet really seriously. I remember once I was asked to take more salad for
my meal by a member of the kitchen staff for I did not have enough vegetables. This brings to another point
of being a boarder: you need to learn how to look after yourself and be responsible for yourself. One of the
huge advantages of being a boarder is that we can have breakfast in the school, which means we don"t have
to pull ourselves out of the bed as early as the daypupils! 1. Why was the writer nervous when he was at Merchiston Castle School on the first day? [     ]
A. Because he had no friends and relatives there.
B. Because he didn"t know the school well.
C. Because he was not good at English.
D. Because he was shy. 2. On the first day, _____.[     ]
A. though the writer was anxious,he soon relaxed
B. he found the dayroom of his boarding house terrible
C. he made many new friends,but he didn"t remember any of their names
D. he thought he spoke English better than the staff in the school 3. Which of the following is WRONG according to the passage? [     ]
A. In the boarding house,there are only students from South Korea, Japan and Russia.
B. The international students in the boarding house don"t speak Englsih very fluently.
C. The food in Merchiston doesn"t make the writer disappiointed.
D. The professional catering company thinks the issue of a healthy diet is very important. 4. The underlined word "boarder" in the last paragraph means "_____". [     ]
A. a student who is from abroad
B. a student who lives at school
C. a student who is good at English
D. a student who used to be shy

1-4: DAAB

阅读理解。     The first day of school we were interested to get to know a new classmate. I looked around when a gentle
hand touched my shoulder. I found a little old lady with a warm smile.
     She said, "Hi! I"m Rose. I"m 87 years old. Can I give you a hug?" I laughed and I heartily responded, "Of
course!"
    "Why are you in college at such a young, innocent (天真无邪的) age?" I asked.
     She jokingly replied, "I"m here to meet a rich husband, get married, have children, and then travel around."
     "Not seriously," I asked. I was curious why she took on this challenge at this age.
     "I always dreamed of having a college education and now I"m getting one!" she told me. We became instant
friends.
     Over the year, Rose became a campus icon (偶像) and she easily made friends wherever she went. She
loved to dress up and she enjoyed the attention from the other students.
     At the end of the semester, we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I"ll never forget what she
taught us.
     "We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. Here are the secrets to
staying young. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You"ve got to have a dream. When you lose your
dreams, you die. Unfortunately we have many people like this walking around?" she said.
     "There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. Anybody can grow older. That doesn"t
take any talent or ability," she added. "But growing up requires finding the opportunity in change. Have no
regrets. The elderly usually don"t regret what they did, but rather things they did not do."
     One week after graduation that year, Rose died peacefully in her sleep. She taught us by example that _____. 1. Why was Rose in college at 87? Because _____. [     ]
A. she wanted to meet a rich husband
B. she wanted to get married and have children
C. she wanted to travel around
D. she dreamed of having a college education 2. According to the passage, Rose loved to do the following EXCEPT _____. [     ]
A. dress up
B. enjoy the attention from the other students
C. play football
D. make friends 3. According to what Rose said,we can know that to stay young you must not _____. [     ]
A. laugh
B. be humorous
C. have a dream
D. lose your dream 4. According to the last paragraph but one we know _____. [     ]
A. growing older is quite different from growing up
B. growing older needs talent
C. growing up doesn"t require ability
D. the elderly usually have no regrets 5. Which of the following can be used to fill in the blank at the end of the passage? [     ]
A. where there is a will, there"s a way
B. never too late to learn
C. Study hard and you will be young
D. never too late to be all you can possibly be

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Reading comprehension.     The elephant was lying heavily on its side, fast asleep. A few dogs started barking at it. The elephant woke
up in a terrible anger: it chased the dogs into the village where they ran for safety. That didn"t stop the elephant.
It destroyed a dozen houses and injured several people. The villagers were scared and angry. Then someone
suggested calling Parbati, the elephant princess.
     Parbati Barua"s father was a hunter of tigers and an elephant tamer. He taught Parbati to ride an elephant
before she could even walk. He also taught her the dangerous art of the elephant round-up-how to catch wild
elephants.
     Parbati hasn"t always lived in the jungle. After a happy childhood hunting with her father, she was sent to
boarding school in the city. But Parbati never got used to being there and many years later she went back to
her old fife. "Life in the city is too dull. Catching elephants is an adventure and the excitement lasts for days
after the chase," she says.
     But Parbati doesn"t catch elephants just for fun. "My work," she says, "is to rescue man from the elephants,
and to keep the elephants safe from man." And this is exactly what Parbati has been doing for many years.
Increasingly, the Indian elephant is angry: for many years, illegal hunters have attacked it and its home in the
jungle has been reduced to small pieces of land. It is now fighting back. Whenever wild elephants enter a tea
garden or a village, Parbati is called to guide the animals back to the jungle before they can kill.
     The work of an elephant tamer also involves love and devotion. A good elephant tamer will spend hours a
day singing love songs to a newly captured elephant. "Eventually they grow to love their tamers and never
forget them. They are also more loyal than humans," she said, as she climbed up one of her elephants and sat
on the giant, happy animal. An elephant princess indeed! 1. For Parbati, catching elephants is mainly to _____. [     ]
A. get long lasting excitement
B. keep both man and elephants safe
C. send them back to the jungle
D. make the angry elephants tame 2. Before Parbati studied in a boarding school, _____. [     ]
A. she spent her time hunting with her father
B. she learned how to sing love songs
C. she had already been called an elephant princess
D. she was taught how to hunt tigers 3. Indian elephants are getting increasingly angry and they revenge because _____. [     ]
A. they are caught and sent for heavy work
B. illegal hunters capture them and kill them
C. they are attacked and their land gets limited
D. dogs often bark at them and chase them 4. The passage starts with an elephant story in order to explain that in India _____. [     ]
A. people easily fall victim to elephants" attacks
B. the man-elephant relationship is getting worse
C. elephant tamers are in short supply
D. dogs are as powerful as elephants

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完形填空。     Recently, I flew to Las Vegas to attend a meeting. As we were about to arrive, the pilot announced with
apology that there would be a slight   1   before setting down. High desert winds had   2   the airport to close
all but one runway. He said that we would be   3   the city for a few minutes waiting to   4  . We were also
told to remain in our seats meanwhile with our seat belts fastened   5   there might be a few bumps (颠簸).
Well, that few minutes turned into about four-five minutes, including a ride that would make a roller coaster
(过山车)   6   by comparison.
    The movement was so fierce that several passengers felt   7   and had to use airsickness bags. As you
might guess, that"s not good thing to have happen in a(n)   8   space because it only   9   to increase the
discomfort of the situation.
     About twenty minutes into the adventure,the entire airplane became very  10 . There was now a sense of
anxiety and fear that could be  11  noticed. Every passenger simply held on for dear life…except one. A  12
was having a good time! With each bump of the  13 , he would let out a giggle (咯咯的笑) of delight. As I
observed this, I  14  that he didn"t know he was supposed to be afraid and worried about his  15  He neither
thought about the past nor about the future. Those are what we grown-ups have learned from  16 . He was
  17  the ride because had not yet been taught to fear it. Having understood this, I took a deep breath and  18
back into my seat, pretending I was  19  on a roller coaster. I smiled for the rest of the flight. I even  20  to
giggle once or twice, much to the chagrin (懊恼) of the man sitting next to me holding the airsickness bag.

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(     )1. A. mistake
(     )2. A. forced
(     )3. A. watching
(     )4. A. arrive
(     )5. A. if
(     )6. A. light
(     )7. A. sick
(     )8. A. empty
(     )9. A. happens
(     )10. A. quiet
(     )11. A. partly
(     )12. A. pilot
(     )13. A. seats
(     )14. A. realized
(     )15. A. health
(     )16. A. teachers
(     )17. A. learning
(     )18. A. sat
(     )19. A. nearly
(     )20. A. attempted

B. delay
B. warned
B. visiting
B. enter
B. though
B. pale
B. nervous
B. narrow
B. continues
B. hot
B. gradually
B. baby
B. passengers
B. hoped
B. safety
B. books
B. taking
B. lay
B. finally
B. managed

C. change
C. swept
C. circling
C. stop
C. because
C. easy
C. angry
C. secret
C. fails
C. dirty
C. shortly
C. guard
C. flight
C. agreed
C. joy
C. experience
C. missing
C. went
C. really
C. wanted

D. wind
D. reminded
D. crossing
D. land
D. while
D. quick
D. afraid
D. open
D. serves
D. crowded
D. clearly
D. man
D. airplane
D. insisted
D. future
D. practice
D. enjoying
D. rode
D. suddenly
D. decided

阅读理解。

     Fear plays no part in this latest problem. "I"m not afraid I"ll lose my children. I won"t lose my children.
We live together, and nothing, nothing," she repeats, her voice rising when speaking to John"s lawyer,
"will stop me from being with my children. A law? Year, right. Don"t disturb me when it comes to my
children. You are never going to win. If John wants to see them, I cannot stop him. He"s their father-I
want them to see him! However, his visit in his present condition will disturb the children"s stable (稳定的)
life."
     John, who has spent much of his time in California recently, has only hired a house for himself in
Pennsylvania, according to his lawyer. "If he"d like to stick to a regular life, I"d be more than happy to do
that," Jane says. "The best thing for any child of a divorced (离婚的) parent is a stable life. I want nothing
more than for him to set up a stable life for himself, so that he can be part of making our children"s lives
more stable."
     While matters of money and care won"t be settled for weeks, Jane hardly puts her life on hold. Last
week the ABC network announced that Jane would return with her own show, Twist of Jane, in which
she gives advice to other moms.Jane and her eight children will also return to ABC in a series of Jane Plus
8 specials showing them on various adventures. It"s a rest for Jane who insists that she needs her new,
busy life to provide for her family. "I have to lead such a life.and I"m thankful that I"ve built it to the top
where now I can support my children." she says.
     And whether a bellicose (好斗的) dance judge or a bellicose former wife, Jane plans to keep 0n facing
attacks on her. "Some people try to knock me down-only to make me more fierce, more protective, more
determined to do better," she says. "Go ahead, take me on. This will just make me stronger."

1. According to Jane in the first paragraph, the low _____.

[ ]

A. can"t take her children away from her
B. can"t do anything with the case
C. will best settle the problem
D. will disturb her children

2. What does "to do that" refer to in the second paragraph?

[ ]

A. To live with John.
B. To hire a house for John.
C. To allow John to see the children.
D. To ask John to set up a regular life.

3. What does the underlined sentence in the third paragraph mean?

[ ]

A. Jane"s life is very difficult.
B. Jane continues to live as usual.
C. Jane almost can"t control her lire.
D. Jane works very hard to live a happy life.

4. Which word can best describe Jane?

[ ]

A. Proud.
B. Fierce.
C. Determined.
D. Independent.

完形填空。

     School was over and I was both mentally and physically tired. I sat at the very front of the bus because of my   1   to get home. Sitting at the front makes you   2   out like a shiny coin in a pile of dull pennies.
     Janie, the driver, tries to break the   3   atmosphere by striking the match of   4 . I try to mind my manners and   5   listen, but usually I am too busy thinking about my day. On this day,   6  , her conversation was worth listening to.
     "My father"s sick," she said to no one in   7  . I could see the anxiety and fear in her eyes. With a sudden change of attitude and interest, I asked, "What"s wrong with him?" With her eyes wet and her voice tight from   8   the tears, she responded, "Heart trouble." Her eyes lowered as she   9  . "I"ve already lost my mum, so I don"t think I can stand losing him."
     I couldn"t respond. I was  10 . My heart ached for her. I sat on the old, smelly seat thinking of the great  11  my own mother was thrown into when her father died. I saw how hard it was,  12  still is, for her. I wouldn"t like anyone to go  13  that.
     Suddenly I realized Janie wasn"t only a bus driver. That was  14  her job. She had a whole world of family and concerns, too. I had never thought of her as  15  but a driver.
     I suddenly felt very  16 . I realized I had only thought of people as  17  as what their purposes were in my life. I paid no attention to Janie because she was a bus driver. I had judged her by her job and brushed her off as  18 .
     For all I know, I"m just another person in  19  else"s world, and may not even be important. I  20  not have been so selfish and self-centred. Everyone has places to go, people to see and appointments (约会) to keep. Understanding people is an art.

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