Books which give instructions on how to do things are very popular in the United States today. Thousands of these "How to" books are available; in fact, there are about four thousand books with titles that begin with the words "How to" One book may tell you how to earn more money, another may tell you how to save or spend it, and another may explain how to give your money away.  Many "How to" books give advice on careers (職業(yè)). They tell you how to choose a career and how to succeed at it. If you fail, however, you can buy a book called “How to Turn Failure into Success”. If you would like to become very rich, you can buy the book “How to Make a Million”. If you never make any money at all, you may need a book called "How to" Live on Nothing? One of the most popular types of books is one that helps you with personal problems. If you want to have a better love of life, you can read "How to" Succeed at Love Every Minute of Your Life.? If you are tired of books on happiness, you may prefer a book called "How to". Make Yourself miserable?
Many of these books help people use their time better. Some people want books which will give them useful information about sports, hobbies, and travel. Other people use their free time to make repairs and improvements on their homes. They prefer books which give step by step instruction on how to repair things like plumbing (衛(wèi)生管道工程) and electrical wiring, or on how to redecorate (重新裝飾) or enlarge a house.
Why have "How to" books become so popular? Probably because life has become so complex. Today people have far more free time to use, more choices to make, and more problems to solve. "How to" books help people deal with modern life. 
小題1:These "How to" books are written to______.

A．tell people to love their life

B．earn money

C．give people some good advice on how to do something they want to do

D．say something about America

小題2:Before someone wants to find a good job. He had better______.

A．buy a book on "How to" Make a Million?

B．read a book on how to choose a career and how to succeed at it

C．beg bosses or managers for it

D．use his free time to look for it

小題3:If people will not succeed in what he is doing a book called________ can give help.

A．＂How to" Turn Failure into Success？

B．"How to" Make a Million?

C．"How to" Succeed at Love Every Minute of Your Life?

D．"How to" Make Yourself Miserable?

小題4:Which headline of the following is the best for this passage?

A．“How to" Books in America

B．"How to" Books Are Ordinary in America

C．Thousands of "How to" Books

D．Books with Title That Begin with the Words "How to"

When TV news programs report wars or disasters, the editors rarely use the most horrifying pictures of dead or wounded victims because they don’t want to upset their viewers. Even so, viewers are usually warned in advance that they may find some of these scenes disturbing, so they can look away if they choose. But the men and women whose job is to record those scenes－the TV cameramen－h(huán)ave no such choice. It is their duty to witness the horrors of the world and record them, no matter how terrible and unpleasant they may be. Consequently, it is one of the most dangerous, exposed and emotionally taxing jobs the world has to offer.
Today, the demand for their work is rising. The explosion of satellite broadcasting and 24-hour news in recent years has created an almost insatiable (貪得無(wú)厭的) demand for TV information. But major broadcasters and the TV news agencies—such as Reuters and WTN－h(huán)ave never had enough staff to meet the worldwide demand for up-to-date pictures, so increasingly they turn to “freelance” TV cameramen.
These freelance cameramen are independent operators tied to no particular organization. They will work for any company which hires them, be it for just a few hours or for several weeks in a war zone. But if the freelance cameraman is injured in the course of the job, the TV company is not responsible for him. The freelancer must survive on his own.
TV will always need hard, vivid moving pictures which are fresh, but these companies feel uncomfortable with large numbers of employees on their books, explains Nick Growing, once foreign editor for Britain Channel 4 News and now a BBC news presenter.
By hiring freelancers, they can buy in the skills they need only when they need them. It also enables them to contract out the risk, he says.
小題1:TV news agencies turn to freelance cameramen in order to           .

A．save expense and avoid risks

B．get free and useful pictures

C．get first-hand information and pictures

D．satisfy the greed of the freelance cameramen

小題2:We can infer from the passage that the freelance cameramen             .

A．have to take a lot of risks in the course of work

B．a(chǎn)re tied to many TV news agencies

C．have better skills than other cameramen

D．need to contract out risks of work for TV companies

小題3:According to this passage, some major broadcasters and TV news agencies            .
A. have employed enough cameramen
B. are not willing to employ many cameramen
C. are very mean to freelancers
C. are responsible for the freelancer if he is injured
小題4:The author of this passage shows his           the freelance cameramen.

A．sympathy to

B．respect for

C．a(chǎn)nger to

D．a(chǎn)dmiration to

Owning a smartphone may not be as smart as you think. They may let you surf the Internet, listen to music and take photos wherever you are, but they also turn you into a workaholic（工作狂）.
A study suggests that, by giving you access to emails at all times, the smartphone adds as much as two hours to your working day. Researchers found that Britons work an additional 460 hours a year on average as they are able to respond to emails on their mobiles. The study shows the average UK working day is between 9 and 10 hours, but a further 2 hours is spent responding to or sending work emails, or making work calls.
Almost one in ten admits spending up to three hours outside their normal working day checking work emails. Some workers say they are on call almost 24 hours a day. Nearly two-thirds say they often check work emails just before they go to bed and as soon as they wake up, while over a third have replied to one in the middle of the night. The average time for first checking emails is between 6 am and 7 am, with more than a third checking their first email in this period, and a quarter checking them between 11pm and midnight.
Ghadi Hobeika, marketing director of Pixmania, said: “The ability to access millions of applications has made smartphones invaluable for many people. However, there are disadvantages. Many companies expect their employees to be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and smartphones mean that people cannot get away from work. The more constantly in touch we become, the more is expected of us in work . ”
小題1:With a smartphone the average UK working day is _______.

A．2 hours

B．9 to 10 hours

C．11 to 12 hours

D．24 hours

小題2:It could be inferred from the text that the British people _______.

A．prefer to check emails in the morning

B．a(chǎn)re crazy about different smartphones

C．shorten their normal working hours

D．work extra hours with smartphones

小題3:What does Ghadi Hobeika feel about smartphones?

A．They are unimportant for most of people.

B．They have disadvantages for some companies.

C．They make it impossible for people to rest.

D．They are useful to improve a work ability.

小題4:Where can we most probably read this text?

A．In a science fiction.	B．In a newspaper.
C．In a travel magazine.	D．In a storybook.

Most lives saved from sinking ferryCao Min couldn’t believe she was experiencing exactly what she had seen years ago in the film “Titanic”.
Cao and her two children from Anhui Province were traveling on board the “Liaoludu 7”on February 22.They were among the first people on the ship who were rescued by lifeboats. Cao’s one-year-old son was the youngest passenger on board.
The “Liaoludu 7”was traveling in the Bohai Straits(渤海海峽)from Lushun in Liaoning Province to the port city of Longkou in Shandong Province. It suddenly lost its power at 2:30 pm and tilted(傾斜)on its side. With 81 people on board, the ferry(渡船)began to sink.
“I was so scared that my legs couldn’t move forward. They kept shaking even when I was asked to jump onto a “ lifeboat.” Cao recalled.
Upon receiving the urgent appeal, China Marine Search and Rescue Center(中國(guó)海上搜救中心)immediately informed the State Council(國(guó)務(wù)院).The center sent eight lifeboats to the sinking ship and asked for help form the Ministry of Agriculture, the Navy and nearby fishing boats.
After more than four hours of fighting against strong winds and freezing ocean water, the passengers were recovered. All but four survived. These four died after spending too long in the freezing waters, according to a spokesperson for the Beijing-based center.
(From 21st Century, Mar.3, 2003)
小題1:How many people survived the disaster?

A．4

B．81

C．85

D．77

小題2:Who do you think were the first people rescued?

A．Women and children

B．Women

C．Children

D．Men

小題3:Which of the following is Not true?

A．The accident happened from Longkou in Shandong Province to Lushun in Liaoning Province.

B．The fighting of the people on board against the strong winds and freezing ocean water lasted several hours.

C．Cao and her children fortunately were saved.

D．But for the State Council, the passengers and the crew would have lost their lives.

It was not the first time for Shi Benliang, a senior physics major at Peking University, to feed cats. But the 22-year-old felt sad when he saw the scars and wounds on the bodies of the little creatures.
“I can imagine how they have suffered from being abandoned. They lead a harsh life wandering around,” said the student..Shi is one of a dozen students at the university volunteering to feed the stray cats during the winter break.
Recruited by the Stray Cat Rescue Association at the university through a Bulletin Board System (BBS), he took turns with other students to care for the homeless animals. It is estimated that there are more than 100 stray cats on the campus of Peking University.
Jin Jing, 18, an economics freshman at the university, cared for the cats for two days. “At around 5 pm I cycled to the 22 feeding sites on campus marked on a special map,” she said. “At each site I left some cat food and water.”Jin was excited when the animals rushed to her feet. “Some are shy and timid, and others are more outgoing. Each of them has their own name such as ‘Sweet Orange’ or ‘Karl Marx’,” she said. “By feeding them I learned to respect life.”
Liu Chenhao, a senior electronics and computer science major, who is in charge of the association, said that feeding was just one part of their responsibilities.“Our aim is to keep the stray cats in check and maintain harmony between them and the students on campus,” he said.
The organization also takes cats to the animal hospital to be treated for oral and skin disease. Another of its major tasks is to find new homes for the cats by uploading their photos and information online.
“We’re very careful when selecting owners and ask them lots of questions to ensure that they won’t desert their cat under any circumstances, such as when they move house or get married,” Liu said. But he stressed that their acts of kindness shouldn’t encourage anyone to abandon their cat. “A cat’s normal life expectancy is more than 10 years, but a stray one may survive for only two or three.”  (365words)
小題1:You may read the article from a (an)______________ .

A．a(chǎn)cademic journal

B．fashion journal

C．a(chǎn)utobiography

D．newspaper

小題2:Which of the following is NOT the task of the Stray Cat Rescue Association ?

A．To keep students have a harmonious relationship with cats.

B．To mourn the stray cats when they die of hunger or illness.

C．To choose suitable owners for stray cats deliberately.

D．To take stray cats to treat diseases when they were sick.

小題3:We can infer from the passage that____________ .

A．A married woman is not qualified to adopt the cat.

B．A stray cat may live shorter than the ordinary cats.

C．Volunteers can feed the stray cats in any place they like.

D．There are more than 100 stray cats on the campus.

Chinese star Yao Ming has retired. Yao made it official Wednesday, telling a news conference that a series of foot and leg injuries forced him to end his playing career at the age of 30.
“I will formally end my career,’’ said Yao, who became a household name in China before starting his NBA career with the Houston Rockets in 2002. Yao played eight seasons in the NBA.
“Today is an important day for me and holds a special meaning for both my basketball career and my future,’’ Yao said. “I had to leave the court since I suffered a stress fracture（斷裂） in my left foot for the third time at the end of last year. My past six months were a painful wait. I have been thinking about my future over and over. Today I am announcing a personal decision, ending my career as a basketball player and officially retire. But one door is closing and another one is opening.’’
Yao said he would return to work with his former Chinese team, the Shanghai Sharks, with the possibility of becoming general manager. He already owns the club and wants to contribute more. “My playing career started with the club. I hope I can do something for it,’’ Yao said.
He later appeared with his family on the stage to the applause and cheers of the crowd. He thanked a lot of people — his family, former coaches, even players like Shaquille O’Neal — “for making me a better player.’’
Rockets general manager Daryl Morey was among those attending the farewell(告別) conference Wednesday. Morey made the long trip from Houston. Morey said 20 hours on planes was tiring but “I would be sorry if I wasn’t here.” “It’s a big moment,’’ Morey added. “Yao had a sense of humor, a great attitude and sense of responsibility. I hope we can continue his culture in the NBA.’’
小題1:Yao Ming has retired from basketball because of _____.

A．his age	B．his bad conducts on the court
C．his foot and leg injuries	D．his poor health

小題2:Yao Ming was _____ before he decided to end his career as a basketball player.

A．peaceful

B．upset

C．confident

D．proud

小題3:Yao Ming started his playing career in _____.

A．Shanghai

B．Houston

C．Beijing

D．New York

小題4:According to the passage, which of the following words can’t be used to describe
Yao Ming?

A．Talented.

B．Responsible.

C．Humorous.

D．Cautious.

小題5: What do you know about Daryl Morey?

A．Daryl Morey thinks highly of Yao Ming.

B．Daryl Morey was Yao Ming’s coach.

C．Daryl Morey is a basketball player in the Houston Rockets.

D．Daryl Morey is not satisfied with Yao Ming’s retirement from basketball.

The slogan “a dog is for life, not just for Christmas” has been going strong for 27 years now. Dogs and cats have been popular Christmas gifts in the gifts in the UK and Europe for many years. But some people still haven’t quite got the message.
The slogan still holds good. Some 105,000 dogs were rounded up by local government last year because they had been abandoned, many of them shortly after the festival season.
The main reason given by owners for handing their dogs over to the Dogs Trust is that the dogs need more attention than they can give; behavioral problems and moving home are also reasons given.
But Eleanor Silk, the Trust’s communications director, says, “It’s often four or five months after Christmas, in early summer, when owners find that the dog has got too big and too active, or it hasn’t been trained properly and has caused damage around the home.”
In any case, some organizations that help pets are quick to point out that if you are serious about getting a puppy(小狗) as a pet, Christmas is not the time to do it. Puppies need to get used to their new surroundings, to be introduced to a routine, and to be looked after like small children. It’s hard to meet any of these needs at Christmas. What’s more, pulling a puppy out of a Christmas stocking in itself sends the wrong message to children. It encourages children to think of the puppy as a toy, rather than a responsibility.
Appreciating what you’re taking on with a dog can be a sobering (清醒的) realization. “For life” means thinking about the effect they’ll have on your life. It also infers you will need to care for the dog for its whole life.
小題1:What would be the best title for the passage?

A．Dogs and Cats—the Most Popular Christmas Gifts.

B．A pet is for Life, Not just for Christmas.

C．How to Take Care of Your Pets over Christmas.

D．Let’s Help Those Abandoned Pets

小題2:According to the passage, which of the following is NOT a reason for pets to be abandoned?

A．Pets spread some diseases.

B．Pets damage some things in the house.

C．The owners can’t take good care of the pets.

D．The owners have to move to other places.

小題3:The underlined words “rounded up” in Paragraph 2 mean “________”.

A．given out as gifts

B．thrown away

C．gathered into one place

D．raised to make money

小題4:The fifth paragraph mainly tells us________.

A．how to take best care of Christmas pets

B．the right time to have a puppy as a pet

C．the reasons why Christmas is not the time to get a pet

D．the worries about Christmas pets from organizations that help pets

小題5:Why is the author against the idea of putting a dog in the Christmas stocking as a Christmas gift?

A．Because these dogs can still cause damage.

B．Because children will not take dogs seriously.

C．Because children don’t like to have dogs as Christmas gifts.

D．Because a Christmas stocking is not big enough to put a dog in.

Drunken driving—sometimes called America's socially accepted form of murder—has become a national epidemic(流行病). Every hour of every day about three Americans on average are killed by drunken drivers, adding up to an incredible 250,000 over the past ten years.
A drunken driver is usually defined as one with a 0.10 blood alcohol content or roughly three beers, glasses of wine or several glasses of whisky drunk within two hours. Heavy drinking used to be an acceptable part of the American manly image and judges were serious in most courts, but the drunken slaughter(屠宰) has recently caused so many well-publicized tragedies, especially involving young children, that public opinion is no longer so tolerant.
Twenty states have raised the legal drinking age to 21, reversing(使翻轉(zhuǎn)) a trend in the 1960s to reduce it to 18. After New Jersey lowered it to 18, the number of people killed by 18-20-year-old drivers more than doubled, so the state recently upped it back to 21.
Reformers, however, fear raising the drinking age will have little effect unless accompanied by educational programs to help young people to develop “responsible attitudes” about drinking and teach them to resist peer pressure to drink.
Though new laws have led to increased arrests and tests and, in many areas already, to a marked decline in accidents, some states are also punishing bars for serving customers too many drinks. A bar in Massachusetts was fined for serving six or more double brandies to a customer who “obviously drunk” and later drove off the road, killing a nine-year-old boy.
As the accidents continue to occur daily in every state, some Americans are even beginning to speak well of the 13 years of national prohibition(禁止) of alcohol that began in 1919, what President Hoover called the “noble experiment”. They forgot that legal prohibition didn’t stop drinking, but encouraged political corruption and organized crime. As with the booming drug trade generally, there is no easy solution.
小題1:From the first paragraph, we can know that _________.

A．most Americans like drinking

B．heavy drinking is hard to avoid

C．many Americans are killed by drunk drivers

D．Americans are not shocked by traffic accidents

小題2:In America, public opinion about drunken driving has changed because ________.

A．judges are no longer serious

B．new laws are introduced in some states

C．the problem has attracted public attention

D．drivers do not appreciate their manly image

小題3:What can be inferred from the fact of the traffic accidents in New Jersey?

A．The legal drinking age should be raised.

B．Young drivers were usually bad.

C．Most drivers hoped to raise the legal drinking age.

D．Drivers should not be allowed to drink.

小題4:Laws recently introduced in some states have _________.

A．reduced the number of deaths.

B．resulted in fewer serious accidents.

C．prevented bars from serving drunken customers.

D．specified the amount drivers can drink.

小題5:Which of the following best shows the writer’s opinion of drunken driving?

A．It may lead to organized crime.

B．It is difficult to solve this problem.

C．The new laws can stop heavy drinking.

D．There should be no bars to serve drink.

There are many famous museums throughout the world where people can enjoy art, Washington, D.C. has the National Gallery of Art(美術(shù)館); Paris has the Louvre; London, the British Museum. Florida International University(FIU) in Miami also shows art for people to see. And it does so without a building, or even a wall for its drawings and paintings.
FIU has opened what it says is the first computer art museum in the United States. You don't have to visit the University to see the art. You just need a computer linked to a telephone.
You can call the telephone number of a University computer and connect your own computer to it. All of the art is stored in the school computer. It is computer art, produced electronically (采用電子手段) by artists on their own computers. In only a few minutes, your computer can receive and copy all the pictures and drawings.、
Robert Shostak is director of the new computer museum. He says he started the museum because computer artists had no place to show their works.
A computer artist could only record his pictures electronically and send the records, or floppy discs(軟盤(pán)), to others to see on their computers. He could also put his pictures on paper. But to print good pictures on paper, the computer artist needed an expensive laser(激光) printer.
Robert Shostak says the electronic museum is mostly for art or computer students at schools and universities. Many of the pictures in the museum are made by students. Mr Shostak said the FIU museum will make computer art more fun for computer artists because more people can see it. He says artists enjoy their work much more if they have an audience. And the great number of home computers in America could mean a huge audience for the electronic museum.
小題1:The main purpose of this text is to give information about ______.
A. famous museums throughout the world.
B. a computer art museum in Miami, U.S.A.
C. art exhibitions in Florida Intentional University
D. latest development in computer art
小題2:To see the art in FIU museum, your special needs include ______.

A．floppy discs

B．a(chǎn) computer and a printer

C．pictures and drawings on paper

D．a(chǎn) computer connected to the museum by telephone line

小題3:What are stored in this museum?

A．Paintings drawn by means of computer.

B．Different styles of paintings.

C．Drawings done by art students of FIU.

D．Old paintings.

小題4:The museum was started when ______.

A．Robert Shostak wanted to do something for computer scientists

B．Robert Shostak wanted to help computer artists

C．a(chǎn)rt students needed a place to show their works

D．computer scientists wanted to do something about art

小題5:The words "an audience" in the last paragraph here refer to ______.

A．a(chǎn)rt students

B．owners of computers

C．exhibits in the museum

D．those who can enjoy art

A camp built by students and volunteers spreads over Southern Methodist University（SMU）. The affordable  21  are designed to be used by the poor as well as survivors of war and natural disasters.
“By the time 2020, there’s going to be about 1.7 billion people living in slums（貧民窟） so we would like to  22  change,” says Stephanie Hunt, co-founder of the Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanities at SMU. The institute, which  23  build the village on SMU’s campus, was established to solve problem of the poor in the United States and around the world through engineering, and the free  24 .
The goal is not just to  25  lives, but to change the victims’ lives. The Institute hopes some entrepreneurs（企業(yè)家） might program and  26  some money with these ideas. One of the structures in the SMU village was built with bricks made  27  from recycled plastic bags.
They’re  28  together with heavy wires. Harvey Lacey, father of two college-aged sons, including one here at SUM, heard about this project and  29  his invention. It’s a heavy-duty, hand-crank compactor（手動(dòng)壓縮機(jī)）that anybody can use to form the big bricks he calls Ubuntu Blox.
“The advantages are that these  30  weigh less than two pounds. They’re very, very  31  These things can go for many generations of housing, ”says Lacey, who is  32  the design. Anybody can follow his online plans to  33  the compactor that turns plastic bags into bricks.
On this warm day, it’s  34  inside the Ubuntu Blox hut, thanks  35  to the thick plastic insulation（絕緣）. Kenyan  36  Ronald Omyonga, visiting the global village before returning to his native Africa, says his country is full of these recyclable bags. With Lacey’s design, he says that litter could be transformed into  37  housing. He dreams of other  38  too.
“Look at the Harvey Lacey hut, as a means of creating  39  ,”says Omyonga.“Leaning the environment, and turning  40  into something that can form houses, not just for the poor.”

小題1:	A．shelters B．clubs C．parties D．rooms

小題2:	A．a(chǎn)ffect B．a(chǎn)dapt C．effect D．a(chǎn)dopt

小題3:	A．discovered B．helped C．studied D．explored

小題4:	A．entry B．competition C．trade D．market

小題5:	A．save B．survive C．defend D．cure

小題6:	A．share B．donate C．earn D．cost

小題7:	A．briefly B．relevantly C．mostly D．efficiently

小題8:	A．held B．stressed C．knocked D．packed

小題9:	A．delivered B．contributed C．devoted D．sacrificed

小題10:

A．piles B．masses C．loaves D．blocks

小題11:

A．fragile B．thick C．hard D．bitter

小題12:

A．giving out B．giving off C．giving up D．giving away

小題13:

A．build B．invent C．improve D．possess

小題14:

A．hot B．cold C．wet D．cool

小題15:

A．nearly B．exactly C．partly D．fairly

小題16:

A．doctor B．a(chǎn)thlete C．photographer D．a(chǎn)rchitect

小題17:

A．safe B．dangerous C．beautiful D．large

小題18:

A．a(chǎn)dvantages B．chances C．benefits D．profits

小題19:

A．things B．jobs C．wonders D．conditions

小題20:

A．waste B．resources C．ideas D．technology