Time is very important in our lives. It organizes our everyday moments. However, time never had any importance in my life until I  16  a watch from my father, which organized my life and made me more responsible. It’s round in the center with two silver bands(帶) that   17 around my wrist and all of it is made of silver.
I received this   18 on a gray – sky day. I had to go to the airport at 9:00 am to  19  up my Uncle Ali and take him to my father’s house.  20  , I was late because I was   21 out with my friends. Later on that day, around 11:00 am, I   22 my uncle, but I was very late for him. He had   23 the airport and taken a taxi to my father’s house.
I got to my father’s house at 2:00 pm that day and felt ashamed of myself at that moment. After I said hi to my   24 father and tired uncle, my father asked me to sit next to him and handed me this watch as a gift from him. Then he said, “Peter, did you have   25 with your friends today?” I answered, “Yes, father, and   26  apologized for not meeting my Uncle Ali.” He said, “What you   27  was not very nice and you should be sorry for your action.” I was ashamed and said, “Father, I’ll never do it again . I promise.” He said, “I hope today you learned something important, and this watch will be a   28  for you.” He told me to take this watch and use it as an organizer of my  29  .
I learned a very important lesson from my father: to respect time and never to be late to get someone. This watch is   30  to me, not because of its price, but because of the lesson that I learned from it.

小題1:	A．received B．a(chǎn)ccepted C．won D．a(chǎn)chieved

小題2:	A．go B．run C．a(chǎn)re D．a(chǎn)ttach

小題3:	A．card B．letter C．gift D．thing

小題4:	A．call B．pick C．put D．bring

小題5:	A．Otherwise B．Besides C．However D．Therefore

小題6:	A．going B．leaving C．standing D．hanging

小題7:	A．forgot B．remembered C．saw D．visited

小題8:	A．a(chǎn)rrived B．recognized C．left D．found

小題9:	A．kind B．happy C．a(chǎn)ngry D．doubtful

小題10:

A．lunch B．quarrel C．a(chǎn)ppointment D．fun

小題11:

A．I B．he C．they D．we

小題12:

A．said B．did C．thought D．forgot

小題13:

A．wonder B．hope C．requirement D．reminder

小題14:

A．life B．day C．way D．thought

小題15:

A．useful B．necessary C．different D．Important

I have been consistently opposed to feeding a baby regularly. As a doctor, mother and scientist in child development I believe there is nothing to recommend it, from the baby’s point of view.
Mothers, doctors and nurse alike have no idea of where a baby’s blood sugar level lies. All we know is that a low level is harmful to brain development and makes a baby easily annoyed. In this state, the baby is difficult to calm down and sleep is impossible. The baby asks for attention by crying and searching for food with its mouth.
It is not just unkind but also dangerous to say a four-hourly feeding schedule will make a baby satisfied. The first of the experts to advocate a strict clock-watching schedule was Dr Frederic Truby King who was against feeding in the night. I’ve never heard anything so ridiculous. Baby feeding shouldn’t follow a timetable set by the mum. What is important is feeding a baby in the best way, though it may cause some inconvenience in the first few weeks.
Well, at last we have copper-bottomed research that supports demand feeding and points out the weaknesses of strictly timed feeding. The research finds out that babies who are fed on demand do better at school at age 5, 7, 11 and 14, than babies fed according to the clock. By the age of 8, their IQ （智商）scores are four to five percent higher than babies fed by a rigid timetable. This research comes from Oxford and Essex University using a sample （樣本）of 10,419 children born in the early 1990s,taking account of parental education, family income, a child’s sex and age, the mother’s health and feeling style. These results don’t surprise me. Feeling according to schedule runs the risk of harming the rapidly growing brain by taking no account of sinking blood sugar levels.
I hope this research will put an end to advocating strictly timed baby feeling practices.
小題1:According to Paragraph 2, one reason why a baby cries is that it feels______.

A．sick

B．upset

C．sleepy

D．hungry

小題2:What does the author think about Dr King?

A．He is strict

B．He is unkind

C．He has the wrong idea

D．He sets a timetable for mothers

小題3:The word copper-bottomed in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to _________.

A．basic

B．reliable

C．surprising

D．interesting

小題4:What does the research tell us about feeling a baby on demand?

A．The baby will sleep well

B．The baby will have its brain harmed

C．The baby will have a low blood sugar level

D．The baby will grow to be wiser by the age of 8

小題5:The author supports feeling the baby_______.

A．in the night

B．every four hours

C．whenever it wants food

D．a(chǎn)ccording to its blood sugar level

I was blind, but I was ashamed of it if it was known. I refused to use a white stick and hated asking for help. After all, I was a teenager girl, and I couldn’t bear people to look at me and think I was not like them. I must have been a terrible danger on the roads, coming across me wandering through the traffic, motorists probably would have to step rapidly on their brakes. Apart from that, there were all sorts of disasters that used to occur on the way to and from work.
One evening, I got off the bus about halfway home where I had to change buses, and as usual I ran into something,“I’m awfully sorry,”I said and stepped forward only to run into it again. When it happened a third time, I realized I had been apologizing to a lamppost. This was just one of the stupid things that constantly happened to me. So I carried on and found the bus stop, which was a request stop, where the bus wouldn’t stop unless passengers wanted to get on or off. No one else was there and I had to try to guess if the bus had arrived.
Generally in this situation, because I hated showing I was blind by asking for help, I tried to guess at the sound. Sometimes I would stop a big lorry and stand there feeling stupid as it drew away. In the end, I usually managed to swallow my pride and ask someone at the stop for help.
But on this particular evening no one joined me at the stop; It seemed that everyone had suddenly decided not to travel by bus. Of course I heard plenty of buses pass, or I thought I did. But because I had given up stopping them for fear of making a fool of myself, I let them all go by. I stood there alone for half an hour without stopping one. Then I gave up. I decided to walk on to the next stop.
小題1:The girl refused to ask for help because she thought_________.

A．she might be recognized

B．a(chǎn)sking for help looked silly

C．she was normal and independent

D．being fond blind was embarrassing

小題2:After the girl got off the bus that evening, she_________.

A．began to run

B．hit a person as usual

C．hit a lamppost by accident

D．was caught by something

小題3:At the request stop that evening, the girl___________.

A．stopped a big lorry

B．stopped the wrong bus

C．made no attempt to stop the bus

D．was not noticed by other people

小題4:What was the problem with guessing at the sound to stop a bus?

A．Other vehicles also stopped there.

B．It was unreliable for making judgments.

C．More lorries than buses responded to the girl.

D．It took too much time for the girl to catch the bus.

小題5:Finally the girl decided to walk to the next stop, hoping__________.

A．to find people there

B．to find more buses there

C．to find the bus by herself there

D．to find people more helpful there

Education from My Father
My memories of my father are slim because he was so sick in the last years of his life. But there are   32  that I am often reminded of and which may have had some bearing on my love of   33 .
When I was small I was somewhat   34  of lightning and thunder. My father explained it. The explanation was in   35  that a child could understand but was basically correct. I gained a better   36  later, but I didn’t have to unlearn anything.
What he said was that there was electricity in the clouds   37  it traveled to the ground like a spark. When it traveled   38  the air it made the air so hot that it   39 . Then there was nothing where the air had been and the air all around rushed in to   40  the space. He clapped his hands together very loud,   41  to be the air rushing in, and said that makes the thunder. When I hear thunder, I can still hear that   42 .
He explained why if it was cloudy in the winter the night was warmer than if it was   43 . It was one of those nights when the sky was full of stars: no moon, no town lights. But there were more stars than you could   44  and they had color too. He said that if there were no clouds, we had no blankets and were   45  to the universe. Our warmth was going to   46  the whole universe. When there were clouds, they were like blankets and we were not exposed to the universe. I   47  feel on the edge of space on a very clear night.
I am sure there were many other lessons that I   48  but no longer remember. What I did 49 , in general, was that there were explanations and that the more I understood them, the more    comfortable the world was to live in. I was not taught that there were   50  but that there was understanding if you looked for it. This may be why I have always been   51  in science.

小題1:	A．others B．few C．some D．a(chǎn)ll

小題2:	A．science B．nature C．weather D．universe

小題3:	A．sure B．fond C．tired D．a(chǎn)fraid

小題4:	A．depth B．words C．gestures D．data

小題5:	A．understanding B．knowledge C．command D．confidence

小題6:	A．but B．a(chǎn)nd C．for D．or

小題7:	A．a(chǎn)bove B．to C．a(chǎn)long D．through

小題8:	A．shone B．burned C．expanded D．broke

小題9:	A．fill B．make C．a(chǎn)void D．break

小題10:

A．trying B．proving C．hoping D．pretending

小題11:

A．clap B．remark C．voice D．crash

小題12:

A．cold B．bright C．clear D．foggy

小題13:

A．explore B．foresee C．imagine D．identify

小題14:

A．committed B．exposed C．related D．led

小題15:

A．heat B．protect C．extend D．light

小題16:

A．ever B．a(chǎn)lso C．even D．still

小題17:

A．selected B．a(chǎn)rranged C．a(chǎn)bsorbed D．delivered

小題18:

A．consider B．promise C．explain D．learn

小題19:

A．memories B．blankets C．mysteries D．thunders

小題20:

A．engaged B．interested C．successful D．skillful

How many times have you gotten upset because someone wasn’t doing their job, because your child isn’t behaving？How many times have you been annoyed when you’ve planned something carefully and things didn’t go as you’d hoped?
This kind of anger and irritation happens to all of us — it’s part of the human experience.
One thing that annoys me is when people talk during a movie. Or cut me off in traffic. Actually, I have a lot of these little annoyances — don’t we all? And it isn’t always easy to find peace when you’ve become upset or annoyed.
Let me tell you a little secret to finding peace of mind: see the glass as already broken.
See, the cause of our stress, anger and irritation is that things don’t go the way we like, the way we expect them to. Think of how many times this has been true for you. And so the solution is simple: expect things to go wrong, expect things to be different than we hoped or planned, expect the unexpected to happen. And accept it.
One quick example: on our recent trip to Japan, I told my kids to expect things to go wrong — they always do on a trip. I told them, “See it as part of the adventure.”
And this worked like a charm. When we took the wrong train on a foreign-language subway system, or when it rained on the day we went to Disney Sea, or when we took three trains and walked 10 blocks only to find the National Children’s Castle closed on Mondays … they said, “It’s part of the adventure!” And it was all OK — we didn’t get too bothered.
So when the nice glass you bought inevitably falls and breaks, someday, you might get upset. But not if you see the glass as already broken, from the day you get it. You know it’ll break someday, so from the beginning, see it as already broken. Be a time-traveler, or someone with time-traveling vision, and see the future of this glass, from this moment until it inevitably breaks. And when it breaks, you won’t be upset or sad — because it was already broken, from the day you got it. And you’ll realize that every moment you have with it is precious.
小題1:The author would probably agree that________.

A．we should control our anger and irritation

B．we must get well prepared for the future

C．optimism can help us overcome our anger and irritation

D．a(chǎn)nger and irritation is an important part of our life

小題2:The purpose of the author is to ___________.

A．tell us his own experience in life

B．give advice on how to find peace of mind

C．tell us a happy trip took with his children

D．a(chǎn)dvise us to see things from both sides

小題3:By the underlined part, the author intends us to _____________.

A．get ready for the worst result of things

B．enjoy the process of things

C．expect little from life

D．find the relation between cause and effect

小題4:The author’s children could enjoy their trip to Japan because _____________.

A．everything went smoothly

B．they had a lot of adventures

C．they had expected things to go wrong

D．they could soon get used to the customs there

小題5:We can learn from the passage that the author ____________.

A．often gets angry in his life

B．can adjust his state of mind accordingly

C．a(chǎn)lways expects others to act in his way

D．has suffered a lot from his anger and irritation

A year ago, I paid no attention to English idioms, though my teacher stressed the importance again and again. But soon, the importance of English idioms was shown in an amusing experience.
One day, I happened to meet an Englishman on the road, and soon we began to talk. As I was talking about how I was studying English, the foreigner seemed to be astonished. Gently shaking his head and shrugging his shoulders, he said, “You don’t say!” “You don’t say!” I was puzzled. I thought, perhaps this is not a proper topic. “Well, I’d better change the topic.” So I said to him, “Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall? By the way, have you ever been there?” “Certainly, everyone back home will laugh at me if I leave China without seeing it. It was wonderful.” He was deep in thought when I began to talk like a tourist guide. “The Great Wall is one of the wonders in the world. We are very proud of it”. Soon I was interrupted again by his words：“You don’t say!” I couldn’t help asking, “Why do you ask me not to talk about it?” “Well, I didn’t request you to do so,” he answered, greatly surprised. I said, “Didn’t you say ‘you don’t say’?” Hearing this, the Englishman laughed to tears. He began to explain, “‘You don’t say’ actually means ‘really?’ It is an expression of surprise. Perhaps you don’t pay attention to English idioms.” Only then did I know I had made a fool of myself. Since then I have been more careful with idiomatic expressions.
Always remember: what the English teachers say is always right to us students.
小題1:A year ago, I paid no attention to English idioms because _______.

A．I didn’t have the slightest interest in them

B．English idioms are not important

C．My teacher didn’t emphasize the importance of them

D．I was not careful with English idioms

小題2:At first, on hearing “You don’t say,” I thought the foreigner meant _______ .

A．I had talked too much

B．he was not interested in the topic

C．he was only interested in the Great Wall

D．he had something to tell me

小題3:Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．The Englishman left China without seeing the Great Wall.

B．The Englishman wanted to see the Great Wall after I talked about it.

C．The Englishman wanted me to act as his guide.

D．The Englishman visited the Great Wall and thought it worth visiting.

小題4:After the Englishman explained the idiom, _______. 

A．I felt very silly

B．the Englishman became a real fool

C．I thought he had made me a fool

D．I became more careful in everything

I don’t want to talk about being a woman scientist again. There was a time in my life when people asked constantly for stories about what it’s like to work in a field dominated (controlled) by men. I was never very good at telling those stories because truthfully I never found them interesting. What I do find interesting is the origin of the universe, the shape of space, time and the nature of black holes.
At 19, when I began studying astrophysics(天體物理學(xué)), it did not bother me in the least to be the only woman in the classroom. But while earning my Ph.D. at MIT and then as a post-doctor doing space research, the issue started to bother me. My every achievement—jobs, research papers, awards—was viewed through the lens (鏡片) of gender (性別) politics. So were my failures. Sometimes, when I was pushed into an argument on left brain versus (相對(duì)于) right brain, or nature versus nurture (培育), I would instantly fight fiercely on my behalf and all womankind.
Then one day a few years ago, out of my mouth came a sentence that would eventually become my reply to any and all provocations (挑釁) : I don’t talk about that anymore. It took me 10 years to get back the confidence I had at 19 and to realize that I didn’t want to deal with gender issues. Why should curing sexism be yet another terrible burden on every female scientist? After all, I don’t study sociology or political theory.
Today I research and teach at Barnard, a women’s college in New York City. Recently, someone asked me how many of the 45 students in my class were women. You cannot imagine my satisfaction at being able to answer, 45. I know some of my students worry how they will manage their scientific research and a desire for children. And I don’t dismiss those concerns. Still, I don’t tell them “war” stories. Instead, I have given them this: the visual of their physics professor heavily pregnant doing physics experiments. And in turn they have given me the image of 45 women driven by a love of science. And that’s a sight worth talking about.
小題1:Why doesn’t the author want to talk about being a woman scientist again?

A．She is fed up with the issue of gender discrimination (歧視).

B．She feels unhappy working in male-dominated fields.

C．She is not good at telling stories of the kind.

D．She finds space research more important.

小題2:From Paragraph 2, we can infer that people would attribute (把…歸因于) the author’s failures to ________.

A．the burden she bears in a male-dominated society

B．her involvement in gender politics

C．her over-confidence as a female astrophysicist

D．the very fact that she is a woman

小題3:What did the author constantly fight against while doing her Ph.D. and post-doctoral research?
A. Lack of confidence in succeeding in space science.
B. Unfair accusations from both inside and outside her circle.
C. People’s fixed attitude toward female scientists.
D. Widespread misconceptions about nature and nurtured.
小題4:What does the image the author presents to her students suggest?

A．Women students needn’t have the concerns of her generation.

B．Women can balance a career in science and having a family.

C．Women have more barriers on their way to academic success.

D．Women now have fewer problems pursuing a science career.

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D．Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context．
There once was a happy monkey in the jungle. He was wandering all days, eating delicious fruit when hungry and    36   when tired. One day he came upon a house, where he saw a bowl of the most beautiful   37  . He took one in each hand and ran back into the forest.
The monkey tried to eat them, but hurt his teeth. The apples were made of wood, but they were beautiful, and when the other monkeys said that they  38  them, he held onto them even tighter.
The monkey admired his new possessions proudly as he wandered the jungle. The two apples glistened (閃亮) red in the    39  , and seemed perfect to him. He became so attached to them that he didn’t even notice his    40   at first.
A fruit tree reminded him, but he felt the apples in his hands. He couldn’t bear to set them down to reach for the fruit. In fact, he couldn’t    41  , either, if he was to defend his apples. This proud, but less happy monkey continued to walk along the forest trails (小路).
The apples became    42  , and the poor little monkey thought about leaving them behind. He was tired and hungry; he couldn’t climb trees or collect fruit with his hands    43  . What if he just let go (釋放)?
Letting go of such    44   things seemed crazy, but what else could he do? He was so tired. Seeing the next fruit tree and smelling its fruit, the monkey stopped. He   45   the wooden apples and reached up for his meal. He was happy again.
Like that little monkey, we    46   carry things that seem too valuable. Letting go of them seems crazy. But    47  : only with open hands can we receive something else.

小題1:	A．walking B．shouting C．resting D．crying

小題2:	A．bananas B．pears C．stones D．a(chǎn)pples

小題3:	A．picked B．carried C．saw D．enjoyed

小題4:	A．rain B．sun C．shade D．wind

小題5:	A．a(chǎn)ppearance B．hunger C．danger D．home

小題6:	A．stop B．look C．relax D．breathe

小題7:	A．heavier B．larger C．taller D．cheaper

小題8:	A．full B．dirty C．wet D．flat

小題9:	A．inexpensive B．delicious C．strange D．valuable

小題10:

A．finished B．dropped C．sold D．passed

小題11:

A．a(chǎn)lways B．seldom C．never D．sometimes

小題12:

A．copy B．write C．remember D．Hope

A high school history teacher once told us, “if you make one close friend in school, you will be most fortunate. A true friend is someone who stays with you for life.” __1___ teaches that he was right. Good friendship is just not easily __2___.
It is possible that we simply do not stay in one place long enough for __3___ friendship to __4__. However, there can be _5__ disagreement on the need for each of us to think carefully about the kind of friendship we want.
To most of us, friendships are considered very important, but we need to have clear in our _6__ the kinds of friendship we want. Are they to be close or __7_ at arm’s length? Do we want to __8_ ourselves or do we want to walk on the surface? For some people, many friendships on the surface are _9__ enough---and that’s right. But at some point we need to _10__ that our expectations are the same as our friends’ expectations. The sharing of _11__ experience _12__ our tears as well as our dark dreams is the surest way to deepen friendships. But it __13_ be undertaken（進(jìn)行）slowly and carried on only if there are _14__ of interest and action in return.
What are some of the _15__ of friendship? The greatest is the attraction to expect too much too soon. Deep relationships __16_ time. Another “major difficulty” is the selfishness to think one “possesses” the other, including his time and attention, Similarly, friendships __17___actions in return, in __18__ words, you must give as much as you take. Finally there is a question of taking care of . Unless you spend __19__ time together, talking on the phone, writing letters doing things together, friendships will die __20__

小題1:	A．Knowledge B．Teachers C．Experience D．Parents

小題2:	A．understood B．formed C．realized D．produced

小題3:	A．true B．common C．deeply D．a(chǎn)ctual

小題4:	A．design B．intend C．developed D．a(chǎn)ppear

小題5:	A．a(chǎn)ny B．some C．no D．none

小題6:	A．hearth B．thoughts C．a(chǎn)ctions D．minds

小題7:	A．remained B．left C．kept D．stayed

小題8:	A．own B．share C．owe D．spare

小題9:	A．that B．very C．quite D．not

小題10:

A．make sure B．remember C．expect D．check out

小題11:

A．social B．ordinary C．good D．personal

小題12:

A．includes B．to include C．including D．included

小題13:

A．can B．must C．will D．need

小題14:

A．marks B．sights C．scenes D．signs

小題15:

A．difficulties B．differences C．a(chǎn)dvantages D．things

小題16:

A．cost B．spend C．a(chǎn)sk D．take

小題17:

A．require B．request C．depend D．suggest

小題18:

A．some B．many C．other D．different

小題19:

A．less B．comfortable C．reasonable D．a(chǎn) lot

小題20:

A．for B．a(chǎn)way C．out D．from

My husband Sid and I were never able to have children. I had always wanted a family and that feeling  36  after his death. He was all I had. When he  37 , I felt like I had lost my entire family. I never  38  I would finally get the family I had always wished for. A few years later I met Tom. When we married, I  39  got four grown children and eight grandchildren.
I was  40  about my first meeting with his children. My worries melted away when I realized that they  41  me and were more than willing to bring me into their family. And when his daughters  42  me if their children could call me “Mimi,” I was excited, Tom was divorced, and  43  I was also concerned about the  44  that the children already had two grandmothers. Would the little ones understand  45  I fit into the family？
At our first extended family gathering, I  46  our six-year-old grandson Jim staring at me with a  47  look. He seemed to be thinking about something serious.  48  sporting a big grin(咧嘴笑)，he jumped and said, “I know who you are! You are our  49  grandma!” At that moment, I know it was time to just relax and enjoy my new  50 .
People say when a door close, God opens a window. Now I know what that  51 . I lost so much joy when Sid died,  52  now I have a new happy life. I am enjoying so many things I  53  got to experience before like reading bedtime stories. My refrigerator is covered with drawings, and my walls are  54  with photos of the kids. I may be an instant “extra” grandma in Jim’s eyes, but I am just as  55  any other “regular” grandma I know.

小題1:	A．disappeared B．deepened C．improved D．worsened

小題2:	A．died B．returned C．recovered D．divorced

小題3:	A．dreamed B．found C．forgot D．regretted

小題4:	A．unwillingly B．merely C．naturally D．surely

小題5:	A．excited B．crazy C．curious D．a(chǎn)nxious

小題6:	A．doubted B．praised C．liked D．changed

小題7:	A．challenged B．a(chǎn)sked C．promised D．tested

小題8:	A．a(chǎn)s a result B．in other words C．from then on D．in the end

小題9:	A．trouble B．behavior C．choice D．fact

小題10:

A．when B．where C．what D．why

小題11:

A．a(chǎn)llowed B．noticed C．ignored D．hated

小題12:

A．frightened B．sad C．happy D．confused

小題13:

A．Generally B．Eventually C．Gradually D．Suddenly

小題14:

A．new B．extra C．distant D．great

小題15:

A．cause B．partner C．role D．job

小題16:

A．contains B．determines C．means D．matters

小題17:

A．a(chǎn)nd B．but C．or D．so

小題18:

A．ever B．still C．once D．never

小題19:

A．decorated B．replaced C．covered D．filled

小題20:

A．proud B．busy C．careful D．healthy