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One day, I was walking to home after school while an old man fell heavily onto the snow-covered road. The number of people passed by, but no one took action. Some of them said it was none of our business; others worried that if they helped him, they might get into a difficult situation. Seeing what have happened, I called 120 immediately. While waiting the ambulance, I took off my coat to keep the old man warmly. In no time an ambulance came. Having helped the doctors carried him into the ambulance, I felt relieved. In my opinion, this is our duty to help those who are in troubles.

Mr. Gray travelled a lot on business: He sold machines of different kinds to farmers.

He had a big car, and usually ________ driving it long distances, but he was quite satisfied to go by ______ sometimes too, especially when the ______ was bad. He was a little afraid of driving in rain or snow, and it was ______ tiring to sit comfortably in a train and to look out of the window without being worried about how ______was going to get to the next place.

One of Mr. Gray’s problems was often ______ to stay when he reached some small place in the country. He did not ______ great comfort and wonderful food, but he found it annoying (使恼火) when he was given a cold room, and there was no hot water or food after a long and  ______ day.

Late _____ winter evening, Mr. Gray arrived at a small railway station. The  _____ by train that day had not been at all interesting, and Mr. Gray was cold and tired and _____ . He was looking forward to a simple ______ satisfying meal by a brightly burning fire，and then a hot bath and comfortable bed. ________ he was walking to the taxi rank, he said to a local man who was also ______ there.  “As this is my first visit to this ______of the country and I was in too much of a hurry to _____  about hotels before l left home, I would very much like to know ______ you have here.”

The local man answered, “We have  _______ .”

“And which would you ______ me to go to?”Mr. Gray asked him.

The local man thought for a while and then answered, “Well, it’s like this: Whichever one you go to, you’ll be______ you didn’t go to the other.”

1.A. considered    B. practised    C. imagined    D. enjoyed

2.A. train    B. car    C. himself    D. plane

3.A. business    B. condition    C. road    D. weather

4.A. least    B. most    C. less    D. more

5.A. if    B. one    C. that    D. she

6.A. where    B. how    C. what    D. when

7.A. know    B. need    C. expect    D. like

8.A. comfortable    B. tiring    C. nice    D. special

9.A. that    B. one    C. the    D. a

10.A. journey    B. experience    C. travel    D. distance

11.A. unhappy    B. sleepy    C. angry    D. hungry

12.A. but    B. and    C. or    D. however

13.A. Until    B. After    C. Before    D. While

14.A. walking    B. looking on    C. waiting    D. visiting

15.A. town    B. station    C. land    D. part

16.A. talk    B. think    C. move    D. find out

17.A. what    B. which one    C. how many    D. how

18.A. three    B. one    C. none    D. two

19.A. want    B. allow    C. advise    D. expect

20.A. sorry    B. satisfied    C. amused    D. comfortable

Tips for Cooking on a Tight Schedule

From my experience，there are three main reasons why people don't cook more often：ability，money，and time．1. Money is a topic I'll discuss another day．So today I want to give you some wisdom about how to make the most of the time you spend in the kitchen．Here are three tips for great cooking on a tight schedule：

1．Think ahead．The moments when I think cooking is a pain are when I'm already hungry and there's nothing ready to eat．So think ahead of the coming week．When will you have time to cook？Do you have the right materials already？2.

2．Make your time worth it．When you do find time to cook a meal，make the most of it and save yourself time later on．Are you making one loaf of bread？3. It takes around the same amount of time to make more of something．So save yourself the effort for a future meal．

3．4. This may surprise you，but one of the best tools for making cooking is to try new things．It gives you the chance to hit upon new ideas and recipes that can work well with your appetite and schedule．The more you learn and the more you try，the more ability you have to take control of your food and your schedule．

Hopefully that gives you a good start．5. And don't let a busy schedule discourage you from making some great changes in the way you eat and live!

A．Try new things．

B．Ability is easily improved．

C．Make three or four instead．

D．Understand your food better．

E．Cooking is a burden for many people．

F．Let cooking and living simply be a joy rather than a burden．

G．A little time planning ahead can save a lot of work later on．

In the world, football is the most popular sport. This is because many countries have wonderful teams for the World Cup. The World Cup is held every four years.

To remember 2002 FIFA World Cup ,children from different countries and more than 60 children from Japanese schools came together and spent three weekends drawing a big picture called “Dream(梦幻) World Cups ”in Japan .The children drew animals, flowers and people playing football under a blue bright sky. They wished each football team good luck by drawing the flags(旗帜)of all the countries that will take part in the World Cup in Japan and South Korea. The picture was put up in a park near a playground in Yokohama .Some football teams will have games there.

Are you a football fan(迷)？The World Cup makes more and more people interested in football. Teenagers(青少年)like playing and watching football .Many of them love some football stars so much that they get the pictures of their favorite players on the walls of their rooms. That is the way to show their love for the World Cup as children in Japan.

1.From the passage, in the picture children drew many things except_________.

A. people playing football    B. pictures of some football stars

C. a sunny sky    D. flowers

2.In “Dream World Cup”, the children drew the flags of some countries______.

A. to show their love for their owe country

B. to tell the people their stories

C. to show their good wishes for the football teams

D. to show their new ideas about football

3.Many teenagers owe the pictures of some football stars because______.

A. they are interested in football    B. they are football fans

C. they think their favorite players are great    D. all of A, B and C

I was born in England, but I am an American. Americans like to travel on their yearly holiday. Today, more and more travelers in the United States are spending nights at small houses or inns (客栈) instead of hotels. They get a room for the night and the breakfast the next morning.

Rooms for the night in private homes with breakfast have been popular with travelers in Europe for many years. In the past five to ten years, these bed­and­breakfast places have become popular in the United States. Many of these America’s bed­and­breakfast inns are old historic buildings. Some bed­and­breakfast inns have only a few rooms; others are much larger. Some inns do not provide telephones or televisions in the rooms; others do.

Staying at a bed­and­breakfast inn is much different from staying at a hotel. Usually the cost is much less. Staying at an inn is almost like visiting someone’s home. The owners are glad to tell about the areas and the interesting places to visit. Many vacationers say they enjoy the chance to meet local families.

1.Americans take a holiday trip ________.

A. every year    B. for years

C. all the year round    D. every other year

2.According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

A. Some Americans like to stay at bed­and­breakfast homes instead of hotels.

B. The bed­and­breakfast inns are private homes opened to vacationers.

C. The bed­and­breakfast inn owners provide a morning meal for their visitors and a room for the night.

D. The bed­and­breakfast inns have been popular in America for a very long time.

3.Why do American travelers prefer staying at bed­and­breakfast inns?

A. It is like visiting someone’s home.

B. The money they spend there is much less.

C. They can meet local families.

D. All of the above.

4.What’s the author’s nationality?

A. England    B. American

C. European    D. Chinese

One day a few years ago, a very funny thing happened to a neighbour of mine. He is a teacher at one of London's big medical schools. He had finished his teaching for the summer term and was at the airport on his way to Russia to give a lecture.

He had put a few clothes and his lecture notes in his shoulder bag , and he had put Rupert , the skeleton (人体骨架）to be used in his lecture , in a large brown suitcase. At the airport desk, he suddenly thought that he had forgotten to buy a newspaper. He left his suitcase near the desk and went over to the shop.

When he got back he discovered that someone had taken his suitcase by mistake. He often wonders what they said when they got home and found Rupert.

1.Who wrote the story?

A. Rupert's teacher.    B. The teacher's neighbour.

C. A medical school teacher.    D. The neighbour's teacher.

2.Why did the teacher put a skeleton in his suitcase?

A. He needed it for the summer term in London.

B. He wanted to take it home as he had finished his teaching.

C. He wanted to take it to Russia for medical research.

D. He needed it for the lecture he was going to give.

3.What happened at the airport?

A. The teacher forgot his suitcase.    B. The skeleton was stolen.

C. The skeleton went missing.    D. The teacher took the wrong suitcase.

4.Which of the following best tells the teacher's feeling about the incident?

A. He was angry.    B. He thinks it very funny.

C. He feels helpless without Rupert.    D. He feels good without Rupert.

If you want to become a fluent English speaker you should take some advice. There are four skills in learning English. They are reading, listening, speaking, and writing. The most important thing you must remember is that if you want to improve your speaking and writing skills, you should first master the skills of reading and listening.

Read as much as you can. But your reading must be active. It means that you must think about the meaning of the sentence, the meaning of the unfamiliar words, etc. There is no need for you to pay much attention to grammars or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come across, but the fact that you see them for the first time and recognize them whenever you see them, for example, in other passages or books, is enough. It would be better to prepare yourself a notebook so you can write down the important words or sentences in it.

As for listening, there are two choices: besides reading, you can listen every day for about 30 minutes. You can only pay attention to your reading and become skillful at your reading, then you can catch up on your listening. Since you have lots of inputs in your mind, you can easily guess what the speaker is going to say. This never means that you should not practice listening. For listening you can listen to cartoons or some movies that are specially made for children. Their languages are easy. Or if you are good at listening you can listen to VOA or BBC programs every day. Again the thing to remember is being active in listening and preferably taking some notes.

If you follow these pieces of advice, your speaking and writing will improve quickly, and you can be a fluent English speaker one day.

1.According to the writer, which should you improve first among the four skills?

A. Reading and listening.    B. Reading and writing.

C. Writing and speaking.    D. Speaking and listening.

2.To improve your reading, when you read you should ______.

A. look up all the new words in the dictionary

B. think about what you are reading actively

C. spend more time studying grammars

D. copy as many words and sentences as possible

3.The underlined phrase “come across” in Paragraph 2 can probably be replaced by “______”.

A. meet    B. discover

C. hear    D. look for

4.The author seems to agree with the view that ________ .

A. everyone should listen to VOA or BBC programs every day

B. you needn’t practice listening if you keep on reading every day

C. being good at reading is helpful in improving your listening

D. you should take notes of whatever you hear

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Acting is the activity of performing in plays or films. It’s about living an alternative reality. It lets you explore all kinds of possibilities of what you could be. Just being your own self can be boring sometimes, and acting gives you an opportunity to be someone else for a while. It is voluntarily entering the psyche(心灵) of another personality and thinking according to a different set of values and constraints (约束). It lets you explore many parts of you, which you thought never existed. It lets you deeply explore what it means to be a human being.

One of the best ways to begin your own acting studies is to start reading some good plays. Choose your favorite role from one of your favorite plays and prepare to act it out in front of the audience. To learn to act, you must act. Here are some tips on how to become an actor with no experience:

To play a role, you must understand the character that you are going to play with open arms. Understand the plot of the play, as well as the psyche of your character. Understand the conditions in which your character lives. Try to understand why your character behaves in that way. So you must learn the lines or dialogues thoroughly and explore the thought behind every sentence. This will help you picture the circumstances in which the character finds himself/herself. Some actors go as far as “living” as that person for a while, to understand him or her. The idea is to go as close as possible to being that person. More importantly, only through practice can you get close to actually being that person. So seize every chance and perform as frequently as you can. This will help you develop confidence and overcome stage fright.

As a student of acting, you need to always be a sponge (海绵), ready to absorb, learn, and observe the performances of great actors, to learn the slight differences of the art. While you watch movies, plays and any other performance, study the differences of a role played by any actors, especially the masters. By just keeping your eyes open, you can pick up a lot of things.

Why do you want to act? Is it for money, fame, or genuine love for the art? Would you do it if you were not paid for it? If the answer and your motivation is love for acting, you are sure to eventually succeed.

About 15 years ago, I taught A Problem from Hell, a book on genocides (大屠杀), to a group of 18- and 19-year-olds in a mid-west university in the US. In my class there was a young man who had spent his boyhood in Bosnia as NATO bombed his hometown. My other students, amazed by his connection to the genocide in the textbook, asked him what it was like to grow up in a war-zone. “A pretty normal childhood as you had here,” he said. “We played cards inside a lot, and when there was no bombing we kicked a ball in the street.”

In the past few years, the world has seen a rapid increase in refugees (难民), with the number hitting 60 million. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s story collection The Refugees reminds us that literature is news that stays news. Set in the Vietnamese communities in California as well as in Vietnam, the stories do not aim to surprise us with new twists or shock us with wonderful details, as war and refugee stories could easily choose to do. Rather, like the young man from Bosnia, Nguyen’s characters tell these stories because they are the only ones known to them.

Included in the collection are two of the most touching pieces, both about siblings (兄弟或姊妹) separated by geography and history. In “Black-Eyed Women”, the narrator (讲述人), a young Vietnamese woman, is visited by the ghost of her elder brother, who died young on the boat when the family took flight from the war. The tale of love and loss, violence and violation, may not be unfamiliar to the reader, but the determination of the brother’s ghost (he has taken decades to swim across the Pacific to reach America) and the sister’s abandoning herself to a half death make the story lasting.

As an echo, the closing story, “Fatherland”, explores a more complex situation between two siblings. The narrator, a young Vietnamese woman, meets her half-sister, visiting from the US for the first time. Adding to the tension is the fact that her father has named the narrator and her siblings after his first set of children. Two sisters, one American and one Vietnamese, yet named the same by the father – it may sound strange, but isn’t it the fate many refugees have to face: a life left behind, that could have been theirs; and a life in an adopted country.

The theme of doubleness –  choice and inevitability (不可避免性), home and homelessness, starting afresh and being stuck – is present not only in the stories of Vietnamese refugees, but also of those who have become refugees from their own homes and loved ones. “Smiling at your relatives never got you very far, but smiling at strangers and acquaintances sometimes did.” So a pilot, who fought in the Vietnam war and is now revisiting the country for the first time, thinks while waving at the locals from a tour bus. He’s distant from his daughter, just as a Mexican American in the collection is distant from his wife, or a young man from Hong Kong is distant from his father.

The collection is full of refugees, whether from external or from a deeper, more internal conflict between even those who are closest to each other. With anger but not despair, with reconciliation (和解) but not unrealistic hope, and with genuine humour that is not used to insult anyone, Nguyen has breathed life into many unforgettable characters.

1.The first paragraph is intended to            .

A. describe the boring life of war victims

B. appeal to the readers to help war victims

C. criticize NATO’s killing of innocent people

D. introduce the story collection The Refugees

2.Which of the following about The Refugees is True?

A. It tells the news in a literary form.

B. It is full of surprising twists and plots.

C. The author experiences the stories himself.

D. Its characters narrate their own stories.

3.How are Black-Eyed Women and Fatherland mainly developed?

A. By giving examples.

B. Bymaking contrasts.

C. By providing evidence.

D. By making classifications.

4.We can infer from Paragraph 5 that     .

A. relatives hate their loved ones for being left behind

B. separation from loved ones tends to make them distant

C. people become refugees due to their double character

D. smiling is a good way to keep loved ones together

5.Which of the following is the theme of The Refugees？

A. Despair, suffering, and regret.

B. Anger, humour and hope.

C. Sympathy, regret, and reconciliation.

D. Dream, hope, and expectation.

6.The Refugees mainly focuses on     .

A. the problems of identity, love, and family for refugees

B. the miserable lives of refugees in the adopted countries

C. the refugees’ reunion with their families after separation

D. the various reasons for people’s being reduced to refugees

A person’s chances of falling ill from a new strain (菌株) of flu are at least partly determined by the first strain they ever met with, a study suggests.

Research in Science Journal looked at the 18 strains of influenza A ( 甲型流感) and the hemagglutinin protein (红血球凝集素蛋白) on its surface. They say there are only two types of this protein and people are protected from the one their body meets first, but at risk from the other one. A UK expert said that could explain different patterns in flu pandemics (流行病).The researchers, from University of Arizona in Tucson and the University of California, Los Angeles, suggest their findings could explain why some flu outbreaks cause more deaths and serious illnesses in younger people. The first time a person's immune system meets a flu virus, it makes antibodies targeting hemagglutinin protein that sticks out of the surface of the virus — like a lollipop (棒棒糖).

Even though there are 18 types of influenza A, there are only two versions of hemagglutinin. The researchers, led by Dr Michael Worobey, classed them as “blue” and “orange” lollipops. They said people born before the late 1960s were exposed to “blue lollipop” flu viruses — H1 or H2 — as children. In later life they rarely fell ill from another “blue lollipop” flu — H5N1 bird flu, but they died from “orange” H7N9. Those born in the late 1960s and exposed to “orange lollipop” flu — H3 — have the opposite pattern.

His team looked at cases of H5N1 and H7N9 — two kinds of bird flu which have affected hundreds of people, but have not developed into pandemics. The researchers found a 75% protection rate against severe disease and 80% protection rate against death if patients had been exposed to a virus with the same protein version when they were children.

Dr Worobey said the finding could explain the unusual effect of the 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic, which was more deadly among young adults. “Those young adults were killed by an H1 virus and from blood analysed many decades later there is a pretty strong indication that those individuals had been exposed to a mismatched H3 as children and were therefore not protected against H1. The fact that we are seeing exactly the  same pattern with current H5N1 and H7N9 cases suggests that the same fundamental processes may govern both the historic 1918 pandemic and today’s contenders (斗争者) for the next big flu pandemic.”

Jonathan Ball, professor of University of Nottingham, said, “This is a really neat piece of work and provides a reason why human populations have been sensitive to different strains of bird influenza over the past 100 years or so. The findings are based on analysis of patient records and they certainly need further proof in the laboratory, but nonetheless the results are pretty amazing and inspiring.”

1.The findings, if proved, will help people     .

A. protect themselves from flu attacks

B. analyze more clearly the records of a patient infected with a bird flu

C. find out who are easier to get infected with a bird flu than others

D. find new drugs to cure patients of flu infections

2.The researchers use “blue lollipop” and “orange lollipop” for two versions of hemagglutinin in order to produce                .

A. a good visual effect    B. a good logic effect

C. an effect of being abstract    D. an effect of being clear

3.While what Dr Worobey said is focused on the facts, Jonathan Ball’s remarks on the research are focused on                .

A. the popularity of the research    B. challenges and current situation

C. summary and future plans    D. evaluation and influences

4.What can serve as the best title of this passage?

A. Cure for Bird Flu Not Far Away

B. First Flu Affects Lifetime Risk

C. New Classification of Flu Pandemics

D. How Bird Flu Affects People