Giving Back
Fair Way
The Westborough High School golf team had taken the official photos with the state prize. The other teams, disappointed, were on the bus heading home. And then Westborough instructor Greg Rota noticed something wrong x>n one of the score cards. A 9 had been recorded as a 7. They were not the state prize winner; Wobum High had won. "No one would have known," said Wobum's instruc­tor, Bob Doran. For Rota, it wasn't a difficult decision: "The prize wasn't ours to take."
Coin Stars
"College students are lazy, but they also want to help," says University of Pennsylvania graduate Dana Hork. So she made it easy, placing cups in rooms where students could leave their spare coins, and handing out cups to first-year students to keep in their rooms. Her " Change for Change" effort has collected $40,000 for charities 慈善機(jī)構(gòu)）, which were decided upon by students.
Never Forgotten
A school in Massachusetts received a $ 9.5 million check from Jacques LeBermuth. But it took offi­cials several days of digging to discover his connection to the school. Records showed the LeBermuth came from Belgium and studied in the school in the 1920s. When his family fell on hard times, he was offered free room and board. LeBermuth became a trader, owned shares of AT&T and lived off the earnings until he died, at age 89.
60. What did Greg Rota probably do in the end?
A. Took photos of Doran.
B. Had a meeting with Doran.
C. Returned the prize to the organizer.
D. Apologized to Wobum High School.
61. Greg Rota's decision shows that he was _______.
A. honest              B. polite               C. careful              D. friendly
62. The underlined word "Change" in the second paragraph means _______.
A. Idea           B. Decision      C. Cups               D. Coins
63. What did the school officials do after receiving the check from Mr. LeBermuth?
A. They tried to find out why he gave them the money.
B. They went to Belgium to pay their respects to him.
C. They dug out the records that were buried underground.
D. They decided to offer their students free room and board.
64. Jacques LeBermuth gave the money to the school because _______.
A. the school asked for it                
B. he had no need for that much money
C. the school had helped him in the past  
D. he wanted to be remembered by the students

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60.C 點(diǎn)評(píng)：細(xì)節(jié)理解題。從第一篇文章最后一句“The prize wasn’t ours to take”說明Greg認(rèn)為獎(jiǎng)品不應(yīng)歸他們所有，可以知道正確答案為C。
61.A 點(diǎn)評(píng)：整體理解題。文中Greg Rota首先發(fā)現(xiàn)比賽分?jǐn)?shù)被弄錯(cuò)了，之后下了個(gè)決定要把獎(jiǎng)牌歸還，這些事實(shí)都很好說明正確答案為A。
62.D 點(diǎn)評(píng)：整體理解或記憶搜索。文中 Dana讓學(xué)生們把“spare coins”捐出來攢在茶杯中或直接根據(jù)所學(xué)單詞change有“零錢”一意，可知D為正確答案。
63.A 點(diǎn)評(píng)：細(xì)節(jié)理解題。950萬美元不是一個(gè)小數(shù)目，校方收到這筆錢肯定要找出捐贈(zèng)者這樣做的原因，故選A。
64.C 點(diǎn)評(píng)：從文中“when his family fell on hard times，he was offered free room and board”說明Danna知恩圖報(bào)，可以知道C為正確選項(xiàng)。
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A long road leads through the woods to Don Robinson’s unfinished house. Wearing dirty sneakers and a shirt with holes, Don Robinson is an 81-year-old Missouri businessman. Although he’s rich, he didn’t use his money to buy himself a grand home. Instead, he used it to buy wild land.
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Robinson has lived here in a small wooden house since 1964．One room holds his bed, a few chairs and a desk. He said he didn’t care how much his donation was worth. Tom Pounders who used to work for Robinson said, "He doesn’t think material objects are important.” He also recalled that Robinson once repaired a broken tennis shoe with a spare tire.
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A．wild animalsB．wild landC．wild plantsD．wild wounds
小題2:Don Robinson has decided to donate _____ to the Department of Natural Resources after his death.
A．a(chǎn) green parkB．a(chǎn) big wooden house
C．843 acres of landD．a(chǎn)ll his money
小題3:According to the passage, which of the following statements about is TRUE?
A．Don Robinson paid much attention to how much his donation was worth.
B．New York City’s Central Park was built with Don Robinson’s help.
C．Don Robinson had many children and lived with them.
D．The idea of donation came from Robinson’s respect for the land and the environment.
小題4:Which of the following words can be used to describe Don Robinson?
A．rich, generous and simpleB．rich, mean and lonely
C．simple, lonely and cruelD．rich, simple and mean

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50. A. save     B. reduce C. protect       D. stop
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“It’s on me,” I told him．“Have a nice day．”
He smiled and thanked me before heading back out into the rain．
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I ran to the back of the shop and read the note．It read:
Christine,
Thanks for being so sweet, kind and thoughtful yesterday．It is so nice to meet someone who’s indeed nice．Please don’t change your ways! Have a great day! –Hank
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B．It was difficult to make iced coffee perfect．
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D．The job didn’t turn out as she had expected．
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C．buy a cup of iced coffee           D．get out of the rain
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7. A. had          B. ought        C. was              D. used
8. A. subject      B. life         C. way              D. plan
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11. A. thinking    B. working      C. writing          D. leading
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Alex feels the neighborhood watch groups ?  19  ?a lot in keeping crime down. Her husband Jim agrees,“Police are good people, but they can’t do   20  .”
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  London has more than nine million visitors every year.They come and visit some of the most famous places in England:Big Ben,the Tower of London and the River Thames.?You can see some of the most interesting places in the city by getting on one of London’s tour buses.It has an open roof and let you off at any places you want to visit.?
The River Thames is London’s main waterway.It has shaped the capital’s landscape,history and geography. So one of the best ways of making sense of the city is to take a trip along the river. Much of the river bank can now be walked along,particularly the south bank.?
The clock tower of the  House of Parliament, Big Ben,has become one of the main symbols of London.It rises up nearly 100m to a golden point above the clock and a 13-ton bell.The sound of the bell,which you can hear at the beginning of many television and radio programmes,has become well-known throughout the nation.No visit to London is complete without a look at the Tower of London.It is in the eastern part of the city.After Big Ben,the Tower may be London’s most visited tourist spot.?Sightseeing in London is great,but _____.So,the best way to start the day is to fill yourself up with an English breakfast.For starters,have an egg,bacon,sausages,tomatoes,mushrooms,black pudding and fried bread.Then finish off with toast and jam,and a large pot of tea.You can buy an English breakfast in nearly every hotel,and in many restaurants and cafés.?
An English pub is a good place to stop for lunch and a drink:you can get hot or cold food and try one of England’s beers.Or you can sit outside one of the many roadside pubs and cafés in London,and simply watch the busy world go by.?
1. What is the best title of the passage?(Please answer within 10 words.)?
2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one??
It is very regretful if you don’t go to the Tower of London when visiting London.?
3. Please fill in the blank in Paragraph 5 with proper expressions to complete the sentence.
(Please answer within 10 words.)?
4. Which place of London do you want to visit most?Why?(Please answer within 30 words.)
5. Translate the underlined sentence in the third paragraph into Chinese.?

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Eddie McKay, a once-forgotten pilot, is a subject of great interest to a group of history students in Canada.
It all started when Graham Broad, a professor at the University of Western Ontario, found McKay’s name in a footnote in a book about university history. McKay was included in a list of university alumni （校友） who had served during the First World War, but his name was unfamiliar to Broad, a specialist in military history. Out of curiosity, Broad spent hours at the local archives （檔案館） in a fruitless search for information on McKay. Tired and discouraged, he finally gave up. On his way out, Broad’s glance happened to fall on an exhibiting case showing some old newspapers. His eye was drawn to an old picture of a young man in a rugby uniform. As he read the words beside the picture, he experienced a thrilling realization. “After looking for him all day, there he was, staring up at me out of the exhibiting case,” said Broad. Excited by the find, Broad asked his students to continue his search. They combed old newspapers and other materials for clues. Gradually, a picture came into view.
Captain Alfred Edwin McKay joined the British Royal Flying Corps in 1916. He downed ten enemy planes, outlived his entire squadron （中隊(duì)） as a WWI flyer, spent some time as a flying instructor in England, then returned to the front, where he was eventually shot down over Belgium and killed in December 1917. But there’s more to his story. “For a brief time in 1916 he was probably the most famous pilot in the world,” says Broad. “He was credited with downing Oswald Boelcke, the most famous German pilot at the time.” Yet, in a letter home, McKay refused to take credit, saying that Boelcke had actually crashed into another German plane.
McKay’s war records were destroyed during a World War II air bombing on London — an explanation for why he was all but forgotten.
But now, thanks to the efforts of Broad and his students, a marker in McKay’s memory was placed on the university grounds in November 2007. “I found my eyes filling with tears as I read the word ‘deceased’ （陣亡） next to his name,” said Corey Everrett, a student who found a picture of Mckay in his uniform. “This was such a simple example of the fact that he had been a student just like us, but instead of finishing his time at Western, he chose to fight and die for his country.”
小題1:What made Professor Broad continue his search for more information on McKay?
A．A uniform of McKay.B．A footnote about McKay.
C．A book on McKay.D．A picture of McKay.
小題2:What did the students find out about McKay?
A．He trained pilots for some time.
B．He lived longer than other pilots.
C．He died in the Second World War.
D．He was downed by the pilot Boelcke.
小題3:McKay’s flying documents were destroyed in      .
A．BelgiumB．GermanyC．CanadaD．England
小題4:We can learn from the last paragraph that McKay     .
A．preferred fight to his study
B．went to war before graduation
C．left a picture for Corey Everrett
D．set an example for his fellow students
小題5:What is the text mainly about?
A．The research into war history.
B．The finding of a forgotten hero.
C．The pilots of the two world wars.
D．The importance of military studies.

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