短文填空 We are all called upon to make a speech at some point in life, but most

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     We are all called upon to make a speech at some point in life, but most of us don"t do a very good
job.1________.
     So, you have to give a speech-and you are terrified.You get nervous, you forget what you want to
say, you stumble (结结巴巴) over words, you talk too long, and you bore your audience.Later you
think, "Thank Goodness, it"s over.I"m just not good at public speaking.I hope I never have to do that
again."
     Cheer up!2.________.Here are some simple steps to take the pain out of speechmaking.Ask yourself
the purpose of your speech.What is the occasion?Why are you speaking?Then, gather as many facts as
you can on your subject.Spend plenty of your time doing your research.Then spend plenty of your time
organizing your material so that your speech is clear and easy to follow.Use as many examples as
possible, and use pictures, charts, and graphs if they help you make your points more clearly.
3.________.Don"t talk over their heads, and don"t talk down to them.Treat your audience with respect.
They will appreciate your thoughtfulness.
     Just remember:Be prepared.Know your subject, your audience, and the occasion.Be brief.
4.________.And be yourself.Let your personality come through so that you make persontoperson
contact with your audience.
     If you follow these simple steps, you will see that you don"t have to be afraid of public speaking.In
fact, you may find the experience so enjoyable that you volunteer to make more speeches!You"re not
convinced yet?5.________.

A. It doesn"t have to be that bad.
B. Take several deep breaths after your speech.
C. This article gives some advice on how to give a good speech.
D. Say what you have to say and then stop.
E. Don"t say what you aren"t familiar with.
F. Never forget your audience.
G. Give it a try and see what happens.

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1-5: C A F D G

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     People always think about "the problem of youth". If there is one-which I take leave to doubt-it is
older people who create it,not the young themselves.Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the
young are after all human beings-people just like their elders.There is only one difference between an old
man and a young one:the young man has a beautiful future before him while the old man a splendid future
behind him and maybe that is where the rub is.
     When I was a teenager,I felt that I was just young and unknown-that I was a new boy in a huge
school,and I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem.For
one thing,being a problem gives you a certain identify,and that is one of the things the young are busily
engaged in seeking.
     I find young people exciting.They have an air of freedom,and they have not a dull promise to mean
ambitions or love of comfort.They are not anxious social climbers,and they have no devotion to important
things.All this seems to me to link them with life,and the origins of things.It"s as if they were in some sense
of cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban (乡村的) creatures.All that is in my mind when I meet a young person.He may be too proud,illmannered,selfconfident or selfsatisfied,but I do not
turn for protection to boring clich?s about respect for elders as if age were a reason for respect.I accept
that we are equals,and I will argue with them,as an equal,if I think he is wrong.

1. "The problem of youth" in Paragraph 1 means the problem________.

A. caused by young people
B. needed to be solved by young people
C. young people meet
D. created by the old for the young

2. The underlined word "rub" is closest in meaning to________.

A. fact
B. age
C. future
D. difficulty

3. One of the things the young are engaged in is that they want to________.

A. climb up the social ladder
B. have freedom
C. be known
D. make troubles

4. By saying "anxious social climbers",the writer refers to________.

A. some mean adults
B. ambitious young people
C. capable political leaders
D. people who pursue comfort

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阅读理解     I am a good mother of three children.I have tried never to let my passion stand in the way of being a
good parent.
     I no longer consider myself the center of the universe.I show up.I listen.I try to laugh.I am a good
friend to my husband.I have tried to make marriage vows (誓言) mean what they say.I am a good friend
to my friends, and they to me.Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.
    So here"s what I want to tell you today:Get a life.A real life, not a desire of the next promotion (提升),
the bigger paycheck, the larger house.
     Get a life in which you are not alone.Find people you love, and who love you.And remember that love
is not leisure (休闲), it is work.Pick up the phone.Send an email.Write a letter.And realize that life is the
best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.
     It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, and our minutes.It_is_so_easy_to_exist_instead_
of_to_live.I learnt to live many years ago.Something really, really bad happened to me, something that
changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all.And what I
learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.
     I learned to love the journey, not the destination.I learned to look at all the good in the world and try
to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally.And I tried to do that, in part, by
telling others what I had learned.
     By telling them this:Read in the backyard with the sun on your face.Learn to be happy.And think of life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion (激情) as it ought to be lived.

1. It can be inferred from the passage that________.

A. the author is a success in personal life
B. the author didn"t try her best to work well
C. the author spent all her time caring for her children
D. the author likes traveling very much

2. How did the author form her view of life?

A. Through social experience.
B. By learning from her friends.
C. Through an unfortunate experience.
D. From her children and husband.

3. By the underlined sentence "It is so easy to exist instead of to live" in the fifth paragraph,
    the author really means that people tend to________.

A. make a living rather than live a real life
B. work rather than enjoy life
C. waste a lot in life
D. forget the most important lessons in life

4. What"s the author"s attitude toward work?

A. Do it well to serve others.
B. Earn enough money to make life better.
C. Try your best to get a higher position and a pay raise.
D. Don"t let it affect your real life.

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阅读理解     Busy senior managers need no longer waste time in showering themselves-an Australian company has
invented a suit that can be worn while they wash.
     The suit has been specially designed so that it can be cleaned under the showerhead.There is no need
for soaking (浸泡), dry cleaning-or even soap.
     The Japanese market has taken a liking to the "shower suit", described as "revolutionary" by its owner   Australian Wool Innovation (AWI), which is the research and marketing body that represents Australian
woolgrowers.Orders have been placed for 170,000 of the woolen suits.
     The suit could be worn in the shower, although it was probably better to hang it on a clothes hanger
and carry it instead, AWI corporate affairs spokesman Stephen Feighan said."The idea is that you hang it
up and then...you give it a spray (喷雾), and it"s dry the next morning, " Mr Feighan said.
     A Japanese researcher working for AWI invented the suit by combining three technologies.The secret
is the best lining (内衬), which allows the suit to dry quickly.The shower suit attracted busy corporate
people, particularly those who often traveled or stayed up late, Mr Feighan said.The airline industry was
also interested.
     Mr Feighan confessed he had not worn one of the suits yet, or tried to wash it in the shower, because
they cut to fit Japanese figures.
     AWI believes that the shower suit will spread from the Japanese market through Europe and India.
Mr Feighan hoped the suit, made from local wool, would be available in Australia in 12 to 18 months"
time.

1. What is the writing purpose of the article?

A. To introduce a newlydesigned shower suit.
B. To help the white collars arrange their life more sensibly.
C. To provide suggestions on saving time in bath.
D. To praise AWI for its important achievement.

2. Which is true about the suit according to the passage?

A. It can spare the owner"s trouble of soaking, dry cleaning and applying soap.
B. It is of the quality of fast dry for its best cloth.
C. It is not suitable for hanging.
D. It has attracted more orders than any other suit.

3. The suit draws the attention from all the following groups EXCEPT________.

A. corporate people who are always on the go
B. people on occasional business trips
C. the airline industry
D. people burning the midnight oil

4. Which of the following has much to do with Mr Feighan?

A. The invention of the suit.
B. The tryon of the suit.
C. The combination of the three technologies on the suit.
D. The popularization of the suit and best wishes for it

5. It can be inferred from the passage that________.

A. Australians prefer foreign markets to the domestic one
B. wool is the most favorite material for clothing
C. westerners have different body sizes and figures from easterners
D. Australia"s economy will not recover within a year

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     Many people wonder why the United States has been a hot spot for Chinese students for years,
despite its extremely strict visa policy. On the other hand, China"s rise as an economic powerhouse is
resulting in a rapid expansion of its higher education system, making it the fastergrowing destination for
American foreign exchange students.
     Recently, according to a study by the Institute of International Education, a research organization
based in New York, the number of American students seeking higher education in China has never been
greater, increasing by 90 percent from 2002 to 2004. Alan Goodman, president of the institute, believes
that the_phenomenon lies in the pace of change in China, which is spending billions of dollars to expend
and transform its higher educational facilities into worldclass institutions.
     "China is a job market, " said Professor Chou, professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton
University. "Twenty years ago, only those interested in Chinese literature would study the Chinese
language. Now all professors have opened up. "
     China now ranks 9th as a host destination for American students, advancing from the No. 12 spot it
held a year earlier. The study revealed that Britain continues to be the leading destination, attracting
16. 8 percent of all American students who study abroad. On the other hand, in the 2004～2005
academic year, China sent more than 62,000 students to the United States, nearly 60 percent more than
a decade earlier. According to the study, the Chinese now make up 11 percent of foreign students in the
United States, the secondlargest group behind students from India. 1. From the first paragraph, we know that for many years Chinese students want to go to the US but________. A. Chinese government refuses to give a visa
B. it is extremely difficult to get a visa
C. it results in a rapid expansion
D. China becomes a fastgrowing country2. According to the text, "the phenomenon" in the second paragraph refers to________. A. more American students" seeking higher education in China
B. the pace of change in China during the past few years
C. founding a research organization based in New York
D. expending and transforming its higher educational facilities3. Ten years ago, China sent about________students to the United States. A. 62,000
B. 55,000
C. 38,750
D. 6,8204. What is the main idea of this text?A. American students are looking for destinations.
B. American students are interested in Chinese culture.
C. Britain continues to be the leading destination.
D. China grows as a study hot spot for US students.

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     In the age of reality television, success isn"t the only way to the public eye. Failure can also create
fame, just like William Hung,21, a native of Hong Kong.
     Hung recently has made an agreement with USbased entertainment firms Koch Records and Fuse
Music Network. They"ll publish a record, titled The True Idol on April 6.
     The idol is a civil engineering student at the University of California at Berkeley. He did a version of
Ricky Martin"s She Bangs on the television show American Idol 3, on January 27. The Fox TV singing
contest searches for pop stars among ordinary people. In the case of Hung, however, his act was so
bad that the judges cut him off in midact.
     Hung"s response?" I already did my best, so I have no regrets at all." That"s good, because any
common person would have found plenty to regret:the offkey singing, the blue Hawaiian shirt worn with
pants pulled up too high, the terrible dancing and the hips jerking (摇摆) to a beat that did not belong to
the song, maybe not even to this planet. It was, by all accounts, bad.
     However, it was this very bad act that sold well.
     Mare Juris, president of Fuse, explained it this way:" Every one of us is happily guilty of singing our
favorite song at the top of our lungs with complete freedom, completely offkey and completely unworried. That"s what William did and immediately won the hearts of America."
     Whatever it is, for the moment it"s big. Three websites devoted to Hung have gone up on the Internet
in the past few weeks. Versions of his performance have been remixed with hip hop and technomusic
and have made it to the top 10 request list at a Chicago radio station.
     So, what does Hung think of this?
     "There were all these people saying things about me. A lot were saying I was very courageous and
that I was great on the show, but some didn"t have much respect for me and some were kind of mean."
     Now he says he"s not so sure whether to distance himself from the glamour (魅力) or to accept it.
Returning to normal hasn"t been easy. 1. What is the main idea of this passage?A. Something an idol behaves quite foolishly.
B. Hung"s performance attracted the public eye.
C. How an unsuccessful person became famous.
D. Success sometimes does not require hard work. 2. What does the underlined word "it" in Paragraph 7 refer to?A. William Hung.
B. Hung"s bad act.
C. Hung"s website.
D. The public"s opinion.3. Which of the following shows the correct order of what happened to Hung?
a. The entertainment firms made an agreement with Hung.
b. The judges cut Hung off in midact in the singing contest.
c. Hung became popular among Americans.
d. Hung gave a terrible performance though he tried his best.
e. Three websites put Hung"s funny performance on the Internet. A. d, b, e, c, a
B. a, c, d, b, e
C. a, d, b, c, e
D. d, b, a, e, c4. Why was Hung able to win the hearts of America?A. His success was based on his own hard work.
B. He attracted people"s attention in the contest.
C. He was goodlooking though he didn"t sing well.
D. His character was completely different from other idols"

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