When I was 19，I got a job in my local bookstore. 1. (live) in the large city，I usually saw many strange customers，most of 2. were teenagers. They didn't come often；I forgot all the customers 3. two. One night a 15-year-old girl came in looking for a book with a boy. They seemed to find 4. they wanted to buy. But when they came to the counter, the girl found she was a dollar or two short to buy the book，and she took 5. all her money to prove it. She looked so 6. (disappoint). Just then I remembered my discount card and it was still active，so I told the girl not 7. (worry). I put in my code，being happy that I could help them with this card. With the book 8. her hand she gave me a thankful smile，and then she and the boy got out of the store happily，leaving me 9. (feel) content，too. This experience 10. (influence) me deeply every day since then. In fact, sometimes a little thing can also make one's world beautiful.
One morning, Ann found a lost dog wandering around the local elementary school. Ann took photos of the dog and 400 FOUND fliers（传单）everywhere. , her husband went to a store and bought some pet , warning their two sons not to fall in love with the dog. At the time, Ann’s son Thomas was 10 years old, and Jack, who was from a heart operation, was 21 years old.
Four days later Ann was still looking after the dog, they had started to call Riley. When she arrived home from work, the dog threw itself the screen door and barked at her. She was puzzled. she opened the door, Riley rushed into the boys’ room where Ann found Jack suffering from a heart . Riley ran over to Jack, but the moment Ann bent to help him the dog went .
“If it hadn’t come to get me, the doctor said Jack have died,” Ann reported to a local newspaper. At this point, had called to claim the dog, so Ann to keep it.
The next morning Ann got a call. A man named Peter his lost dog and called the number on the .
Peter drove to Ann’s house to his dog, and saw Thomas and Jack crying in the window. After the dog saved Jack, Peter , “Maybe Odie was to find you. Maybe you should keep it.”
1.A. put off B. set out C. gave out D. gave off
2.A. Meanwhile B. Therefore C. However D. Otherwise
3.A. supplies B. clothes C. chains D. houses
4.A. discouraging B. recovering C. treating D. dying
5.A. what B. that C. whom D. as
6.A. in B. over C. against D. up
7.A. quickly B. weakly C. hardly D. madly
8.A. As long as B. Once C. If D. As soon as
9.A. operation B. injury C. attack D. hurt
10.A. on B. in C. back D. over
11.A. silent B. crazy C. wild D. hungry
12.A. must B. may C. would D. should
13.A. somebody B. anybody C. everybody D. nobody
14.A. afforded B. decided C. refused D. managed
15.A. recognized B. remembered C. abandoned D. accepted
16.A.advertisementB. flier C. poster D. newspaper
17.A. put up B. give up C. pick up D. make up
18.A. learning B. suggesting C. reminding D. seeing
19.A. cried B. sighed C. answered D. laughed
20.A. supposed B. ready C. willing D. ought
The iPod Generation
Today it is common to see people who walk about with colored wires hanging from their ears wherever they go. They move about in their personal bubbles, sometimes unaware of what’s happening around them. They walk around in their own spaces, with their personal “digital（数码的） noise reduction systems” 1. So are you one of them?
For me, walking around in my own personal bubble is perfect. 2. What’s even better, wearing earphones seems to give a signal to people which says, “I’m not available for chatting at the moment.”
Suppose you’re at work and about to make a breakthrough, but a colleague suddenly turns up. At this exact moment, the slightest disturbance would interrupt your work. 3. Once again, those wires hanging from your ears would be sure to give that “Go away!” signal.
4. It’s probably part of the growing up stage when they just want to ignore their whole family. While their mothers give them lectures about why they should do, their “Yes. Mum.” Problem solved.
Pretty soon, not only will we have pretty colored wires hanging from our ears, but also our brains will be directly plugged into some new high-tech instrument. We’ll be in a virtual(虚拟的) world, communicating with everyone else, or choosing not to, as we like. 5. And they are changing our social habits along the way.
A. Outside life is shut out.
B. Our high-tech tools are changing quickly.
C. I also have wires hanging from my ears.
D. In the home situation, teenagers love these wires.
E. I don't have to deal with the noise from the environment.
F. After all, I am listening to my favourite music and would rather not be disturbed.
G. Listening to music through earphones is the perfect way to ignore such interruptions.
A safari park is a park in which wild animals are kept. They are mainly located in east or central Africa. They often occupy a very wild area, with mountains and rivers. To visit the park and look at the animals, people have to drive around in a car for a few of hours because the park is huge.
In south Africa there is a safari park, which contains all sorts of wild animals like lions, elephants, rhinoceroses, zebras, wild pigs, deer and giraffes.
There is a wild road leading through the park, but nobody is permitted to walk on the road. Anyone traveling in the park has to go in a car because wild animals may fiercely attack people. From the car he may see almost every types of African wildlife. Some of these are getting rare because people kill them for various reasons. For example, rhinoceroses are killed for their horns, which are used in traditional Chinese medicines for colds and headaches. Perhaps they will be seen only in museums and books one day.
Travels may purchase food for the animals. They can feed them when they tour the park. Of course, they should not feed them in a close distance because the wild animals may attack people. In addition, they should only give proper food to the animals.
A traveler may carry a gun with him in his journey. The gun is given to him by the government. However, it is not used for hunting. In fact, a seal(封条) is fixed to it. The traveler may fire at a wild beast to defend himself in case he is attacked. However, he has to prove to the government that he has been attacked and that he has not fired at a harmless animal.
1.When travelers feed the animals, they should _________.
A. give nutritious food B. stay away from the animals
C. stand close D. use tools
2.The government knows whether the gun is fired by the traveler or not by ___________.
A. checking the seal B. hunting the animals
C. following the traveler D. observing the traveler
3.What is the best title of this passage?
A. Protecting Wild Animals
B. Traveling in South Africa
C. A Safari Park in South Africa
D. Wild Animals in South Africa
Throughout July 1945, the Japanese mainland, from Tokyo on Honshu northward to the coast of Hokkaido, were bombed as if an invasion were about to take place. In fact, something far more threatening was at hand, as the Americans were telling Stalin at Potsdam.（伯茨坦）
In 1939 physicists in the United States had learned of experiments in Germany showing the possibility of atomic power and understood the coming damage of an atomic bomb. On August 2, 1939, Albert Einstein warned President Roosevelt of the danger of Nazi Germany’s advances in development of the atomic bomb. Eventually, the U.S. Office of Scientific Research Development was created in June 1941 and given combined responsibility with the War Department in the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear bomb. After four years of research and development efforts, an atomic device was set off on July 16, 1945, in a desert area at Alamogordo, New Mexico, producing an explosive power equal to that of more than 15,000 tons of TNT. Thus, the atomic bomb was born. Truman, the new U.S. president, believed that this terrible object might be used to defeat Japan in a way less costly of U.S. lives than an ordinary invasion of the Japanese homeland. Japan’s unsatisfactory reply to the Allies’ Potsdam Declaration decided the matter.
On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb, carried from Tinian Island in the Mariana in a specially equipped B-29 was dropped on Hiroshima, at the southern end of Honshu. The combined heat and explosion destroyed everything in the explosion’s immediate neighbourhood , produced fires that burned out almost 4.4 square miles completely, and killed between 70,000 and 80,000 people, in addition to injuring more than 70,000 others. A second bomb dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, killed between 35,000 and 40,000 people, injured a like number and ruined 1.8 square miles.
1.What is the main idea of the passage?
A．An atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
B．After research and development efforts, an atomic bomb was born.
C．An invasion was about to take place with the use of the atomic bomb.
D．The birth and use of the atomic bomb ended the Second World War.
2.Albert Einstein warned Roosevelt of _________.
A. Nazi Germany’ success in making an atomic bomb
B. the possibility of atomic power from Nazi Germany
C. Japan’s unsatisfactory reply to the Allies’ Potsdam Declaration
D. destruction of everything from the explosion of the atomic bomb
3.What made the U.S. decide to drop the atomic bombs over Japan?
A. Truman’s becoming the president of the United States.
B. The great destruction power of the atomic bomb.
C. Reducing the cost of its lives.
D. Not being content with Japan’s reply.
4.How many people were killed by the two bombs dropped in Japan?
A. Between 105,000 and 120,000 people.
B. Between 35,000 and 40,000 people.
C. Between 70,000 and 80,000 people.
D. Between 140,000 and 150,000 people.
A desert is a beautiful land of silence and space. The sun shines, the wind blows, and time and space seem endless. Nothing is soft. The sand and rocks are hard, and many of the plants even have hard needles instead of leaves.
The size and location of the world's deserts are always changing. Over millions of years, as climates change and mountains rise, new dry and wet areas develop. But within the last 100 years, deserts have been growing at a frightening speed. This is partly because of natural changes, but the greatest makers are humans.
Humans can make deserts, but humans can also prevent their growth. Mauritania is planting a similar wall around Nouakchott, the capital. Iran puts a thin covering of oil on sandy areas and plants trees. The oil keeps the water and small trees in the land, and men on motorcycles keep the sheep and goats away. The USSR and India are building long canals to bring water to desert areas.
1.In this passage, the underlined word “needles” refers to ________.
A．small, thin pieces of steel
B．long, thin pieces of branches
C．thin, hard, pointed leaf
D．small, thin pieces of sticks
2.Which of the following is NOT true?
A．The greatest desert makers are human beings.
B．There aren't any living things in the deserts.
C．Deserts have been changing quickly.
D．The size of the deserts is always growing.
3.People in some countries are fighting a battle against ________.
A．the growth of deserts
B．desert climate
C．natural changes
D．the disappearance of desert
4.What does the author want to tell us?
A．Deserts are lands of hardness, silence and space.
B．The deserts of the world are changing from time to time.
C．Man is to take measures to control the growth of deserts.
D．Deserts have grown at a fast pace in the past 10 years.
