In 1956 Phoenix, Arizona, was a city with boundless blue skies. One day as I wal

In 1956 Phoenix, Arizona, was a city with boundless blue skies. One day as I wal

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In 1956 Phoenix, Arizona, was a city with boundless blue skies. One day as I walked around the house with my sister Kathy’s new parakeet (小鹦鹉)on my finger, I wanted to show Perky   36   the sky looked like. Maybe he could make a little bird   37  out there. I took him into the backyard, and then, to my   38  , Perky flew off. The enormous(巨大的), blue sky swallowed up my sister’s blue   39  and suddenly he had gone, clipped wings and all.
Kathy managed to   40  me. With fake optimism(乐观), she even tried to reassure(安慰)me that Perky would find a new   41  . But I was far too clever to   42  that such a thing was possible.
Forty years later, I watched my own   43  growing. We shared their activities, spending soccer Saturdays in folding chairs with the   44  of the kids’ friends, the Kissells. The two families went camping around Arizona together. We became the   45  of friends. One evening, the game was to tell Great Pet stories. One person claimed(宣称)to   46  the oldest living goldfish. Someone else had a psychic dog.   47  Barry, the father of the other family, took the floor and   48  that the Greatest Pet of All Time was his blue parakeet, Sweetie Pie.
"The best thing   49  Sweetie Pie," he said, "was the   50  we got him. One day, when I was about eight, out of the clear, blue sky, a little blue parakeet just   51  down and landed on my finger."
When I was finally able to   52  , we examined the amazing evidence(证据). The dates, the locations and the pictures of the bird all   53  . It seems our two families had been 54   long before we ever met. Forty years later, I ran to my sister and said, "You were   55   ! Perky lived!"
小题1:
A.whatB.howC.whichD.where
小题2:
A.foodB.nestC.friendD.family
小题3:
A.joyB.horrorC.disappointmentD.satisfaction
小题4:
A.pleasureB.sadnessC.treasureD.sense
小题5:
A.forgiveB.comfortC.helpD.delight
小题6:
A.parentB.homeC.masterD.life
小题7:
A.imagineB.supposeC.doubtD.believe
小题8:
A.birdsB.happinessC.worriesD.children
小题9:
A.parentsB.birdsC.interestsD.games
小题10:
A.firstB.bestC.lastD.happiest
小题11:
A.catchB.findC.buyD.have
小题12:
A.SuddenlyB.FortunatelyC.ThenD.However
小题13:
A.announcedB.saidC.toldD.hoped
小题14:
A.in B.aboutC.ofD.on
小题15:
A.dayB.placeC.wayD.story
小题16:
A.floatedB.slippedC.settledD.went
小题17:
A.thinkB.speakC.interruptD.explain
小题18:
A.came upB.turned upC.turned outD.matched up
小题19:
A.knownB.fastenedC.connectedD.introduced
小题20:
A.rightB.wrongC.sillyD.mad

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小题1:A
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小题1:A
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小题1:C
小题1:A
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小题1:C
小题1:A
小题1:B
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Facebook users may feel socially successful in the web world but they are more likely to perform poorly in exams. The majority of students who use Facebook every day are doing badly compared with those who don’t. About 83% of British 16 to 24-year-old people are using social networking site such as Facebook and MySpace, to keep in touch with friends and organize their social activities.
“Our study shows people who spend more time on Facebook spend less time studying,” said Aryn Karpinski, a researcher. “Every generation has its distractions(娱乐), but I think Facebook is a unique phenomenon.” Karpinski and a colleague questioned 219 US undergraduates and graduates about their study and general Internet use, as well as their specific use of Facebook. They found 65% of Facebook users accessed their account daily, checking it several times to see if they had received new messages. The amount of time spent on Facebook at each log-in(登录) varied from just a few minutes to more than an hour.
Some UK students have already realized the potential danger. Daisy Jones, 21, an undergraduate, realized the time she was spending on Facebook was threatening her grades, urging her to deactivate(使无效) her account, “I was in the library and tried to write a 2,000-word essay when I realized my Facebook habit had got out of hand,” she said. “I couldn’t resist going online, when thinking about it. Before you know it , a couple of minutes have turned into a couple of hours and you haven’t written a word.”
Jones is among the few to have realized the risks. 79% of the users, however, believed the time they spent on the site had no impact on their work. The CEO of Facebook said, “There is also academic research that shows the benefits of services like Facebook. It’s in the hands of students to decide how to spend their time.”
小题1:What can we know from Paragraph 1?
A.All the students who don’t use Facebook do well in exams.
B.Social networking sites have both advantages and disadvantages.
C.Facebook is the main site for British people to keep in touch.
D.Most of British students use social networking sites daily.
小题2:Facebook users check their account frequently to ____________.
A.spend less time on studyB.make sure new messages aren’t missed
C.practise specific use of FacebookD.accumulate amount of time spent on Facebook.
小题3:Why did Daisy Jones deactivate her account?
A.She was warned about the risk of using Facebook.
B.Spending much time on Facebook affected her study
C.She wanted to write a long article in the library.
D.There was something wrong with her eyes.
小题4:What’s the best title of the passage ?
A.Facebook fans do worse in examsB.Social networking sites and their fans
C.Facebook helps organize social activitiesD.How to use social networking sites correctly.

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How did it make you feel when you learned that KFC’S Beijing restaurants pulled three more items from their menus last week? There were fears that the items may have contained the cancer-causing coloring Sudan I.Do you have any desire to take the food provider to court because it feeds you something dangerous?
After all,the law supposedly gives people the right to fight for their rights.But some experts have said it might not be so wise to take the company directly to court.
Qiu Baochang,a lawyer in Beijing,suggested that consumers not take the company directly to court.“In addition to the high costs,consumers’complaints are unlikely to win unless they can prove they have had the banned dye at KFC,”—Qiu explained.
One problem for those wanting to take action against the fast food chain is that few customers ask for or keep receipts(收据).And,this must be the first step.
If they can prove that their health has been damaged by KFC,they can cue(控告)the company.But that would be almost impossible to do so because the Sudan I damage is a long-term effect and is not immediately apparent.
A KFC spokesperson said on Monday that the company was confdent of being able to handle customers’complaints,“We will obey legal procedure if We raceive any complaints.”
小题1:Why did KFC’s Beijing restaurants pull three more items from their menus?
A.Because the company was afraid to handle customers’complaints.
B.Because coloring Sudan I may have been contained in those items.
C.Because the KFC’s restaurants were accused ofselling poisonous food to the customers.
D.Because these items were no longer popular with the customers.
小题2:The reason why experts suggested not taking the company directly to court is that      .
A.the costs will be high
B.consumers can’t prove food contained Sudan I
C.consumers can’t prove the food at KFC damaged their health
D.all of the above
小题3:This passage most probably appears in      .
A.a notice.
B.a book on cooking.
C.a story book.
D.a newspaper.
小题4:What is the general ieda of the passage?
A.KFC’s Beijing restaurants pulled three items from their menus last week.
B.How the consumers dealt with the KFC problem.
C.How KFC handled the customers’s complaints.
D.Consumers never forget to ask for or keep receipts.

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They once seemed more at home on the busy streets of Asia like Delhi, Calcutta and Bangkok but cycle powered rickshaws (人力车) can now be seen taking people across town in many European cities. Many people believe that rickshaws are a good way of experiencing a city close-up, while also cutting down on traffic jams and pollution. In Berlin, one of the first cities to introduce this new model of transport, more than 200 bike-taxis go along at 15km per hour, past many tourist attractions and city parks.
“It is completely environmentally friendly; we have new models with an engine to help the driver up the hills but they use renewable energy.” said a spokesman for VELOTAXI, the leading rickshaw company which has carried a quarter of a million people this year.
While the city still has 7,000 motor-taxis, rickshaw company officials say their taxis’ green ideas, speed and safety make them more than just a tourist attraction. While now increasingly out of fashion in Delhi, Berlin people have eagerly accepted the new fleet since their launch in 1997.
“It’s better than a taxi, better than a bus, better than the train,” said ULF Lehman, 36, as he leapt out of a rickshaw near the world famous Brandenburg gate. “ It feels so free.”
This is something out of the ordinary, you feel you are on holiday in Bangkok instead of Berlin,” said another traveler.
In Amsterdam, driver Peter Jancso said people like to be driven around in his bright yellow rickshaw and pretend to be a queen in a golden carriage. "I like my passengers to feel important," he said as he dropped off another passenger. Another visitor noted how cheap it was compared with a normal taxi.
Although increasingly popular in Europe, it is the opposite in India, where hand-pulled rickshaws are considered inhuman and a symbol of India"s backward past.
Nearly 500 bike-rickshaws are running in London and are not required to pay the city"s road tax but things may change as other taxi drivers complain of unfair treatment.
小题1:Where are rickshaws becoming more popular?
A.Delhi, Berlin, Paris.B.Amsterdam, Bangkok, Delhi.
C.Athens, London, Berlin.D.Berlin, Amsterdam, London.
小题2:Why are rickshaws no longer as widely used in India as in the past?
A.They are a reminder of a bad period in India"s history.
B.They have been banned because they are inefficient.
C.The streets of India are too crowded for them to move through easily.
D.Indians now prefer to travel by car because they are richer.
小题3:What does the underlined sentence "This is something out of the ordinary, you feel you are on holiday in
Bangkok instead of Berlin" suggest?
A.The passenger didn"t like taking a rickshaw as it reminded him of Bangkok.
B.The passenger enjoyed being on holiday in Berlin more than in Bangkok.
C.The passenger was impressed when taking a rickshaw and considered it unusual.
D.The passenger disapproved of rickshaws because they were not original to Berlin.
小题4:What is the author"s attitude towards rickshaws?
A.He gives no personal opinion.
B.He believes they will be of no use.
C.He thinks they will reduce pollution.
D.He thinks they are old-fashioned.

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I have had just about enough of being treated like a second-class citizen, simply because I happen to be that unfairly treated member of society --- a customer. The more I go into shops and hotels, banks and post offices, railway stations, airports and the like, the more I am convinced the things are being run solely to suit the firm, the system, or the union. There seems to be a deceptive (欺骗的) new motto for so-called “service” organizations --- Staff Before Service.
   How often, for example, have you queued for what seems like hours at the Post Office or the supermarket because there were not enough staff on duty to man all the service grilles or checkout counters? Surely in these days of high unemployment it must be possible to hire cashiers and counter staff. Yet supermarkets, hinting darkly at higher prices, claim that uncovering all their cash registers at any one time would increase operating costs. And the Post Office says we cannot expect all their service grilles to be occupied “at times when demand is low”.
    It is the same with hotels. Because waiters and kitchen staff must finish when it suits them, dining rooms close earlier or menu choice is cut short. As for us guests, we just have to put up with it. There is also the nonsense of so many friendly hotel night porters having been thrown out of their jobs in the interests of “efficiency” and replaced by coin-eating machines which offer everything from lager to laxatives (从贮藏啤酒到通便剂). Not to mention the tea-making kit in your room: a kettle with a mixed collection of tea bags, plastic milk boxes and lump sugar. Who wants to wake up to a raw teabag? I do not, especially when I am paying for “service”.
  Can it be stopped, this worsening of service, this growing attitude that the customer is always a bore? I angrily hope so because it is happening, sadly, in all walks of life.
  Our only hope is to hammer home our anger whenever and wherever we can and, if all else fails, bring back into practice that other, older slogan --- Take Our Deal Elsewhere.
小题1:The writer feels that nowadays customers __________.
A.deserve the lowest status in society
B.are unworthy of proper consideration
C.have received high quality service
D.have become victims of modern organizations
小题2:The writer argues that the quality of service is changing because __________.
A.customers’ demands have greatly changed
B.the staff receive more consideration than customers
C.customers’ needs have become more complex
D.staff members are less considerate than their employers
小题3: According to the writer, long queues at counters are caused by __________.
A.not having enough male staff on duty
B.difficulties in hiring more efficient staff
C.lack of cooperation between staff members
D.not providing enough staff on purpose to reduce budget
小题4:The writer suggests that a customer __________.
A.be patient when queuing before checkout counters
B.put up with the rude manners of the staff
C.try to control his temper when ill-treated
D.go to other places where good service is available

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Workplaces all over the UK are preparing for Christmas and all the traditions and customs that come with it. But will this Christmas be a cause of happiness and celebration, or of disappointment and embarrassment?
At this time of year, colleges show their appreciation of each other by doing a “Secret Santa”. Secret Santa involves people who work together buying gifts for each other without saying who they are from.
Co-workers all write their names on pieces of paper, then organize a lottery in which each worker picks a colleague’s name at random. He then has to buy a present for that colleague, usually on a small budget of five or ten pounds.
Since the givers are unknown, the quality of presents can vary greatly. In an Internet survey of Secret Santa presents, the gifts that people received range from tickets to the opera to an air freshener for a car.
Another common workplace tradition is the office Christmas party, at which workmates put on their best clothes and enjoy lots of free wine.
Most parties go without a hitch, but sometimes the alcohol cause party-goers to behave in a way that they later regret.
The BBC invited people to share their most embarrassing Christmas office party stories, and received hundreds of funny ones. For example, a man split his trousers while dancing; a drunken lady spent the whole night with the edge of her dress folded into her pants, and later looked at photos that proved it at work.
But the funniest story must be that of Stuart Vanies, who got so drunk that he put his boss’s head into the toilet. Unsurprisingly, he was fired the very next day.
小题1: How many Christmas traditions are mentioned?
A.One.B.Two.C.Three.D.Four.
小题2: We learn from this article that for Christmas ____________________.
A.few people buy presents for their colleagues in Britain
B.British workers write their names on the presents they give their colleagues
C.people usually give their colleagues presents of high quality
D.British workers buy their presents based on an agreed budget
小题3:The underlined phrase “without a hitch” in the sixth paragraph means _______________.
A.quite smoothlyB.without a result
C.with some difficultyD.quite unexpectedly
小题4:The examples in the last two paragraphs are to ______________________.
A.show that most British people enjoy drinking wine
B.advise readers not to drink wine at parties
C.prove that funny things often happen at office Christmas parties
D.criticize the bad habits of the British

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