I take the firm position that parents do not owe their children a college education. If they can  __1  it, they can certainly send them to the best universities. But they must not feel guilty if they can’t. If the children really want to go, they’ll find a   2   out. There are plenty of loans（貨款）and scholarships for the bright and   3  ones who can’t afford to pay.
When children grow up and want to get  married, their parents do not owe them a down payment on a house. They do not have the   4  to baby-sit their grandchildren. If they want to do it,it must be considered a(n)   5  not an obligation（責(zé)任，義務(wù)）.
Do parents owe their children anything? Yes,they owe them a great deal.
One of their obligations is to give their children personal   6  .A child who is constantly made to feel stupid and unworthy, constantly  7  to brighter brothers, sisters, or cousins will become so  _8_ , so afraid of failing that he（or she）won’t try at all .Of course they should be __9__ corrected when they do wrong, but it’s often better to let children learn their mistakes by themselves in time.All our parents should do is to trust them, respect them, tolerate（寬容）them and give them chances to try and fail.They must learn to stand   10  .When criticisms（批評(píng)）are really needed,they should be  11 with praises,with a smile and a kiss.That is the way children learn.
Parents owe their children a set of solid values around which to build their lives.This means teaching them to  12 the rights and opinions of others;it means being respectful to elders,to teachers,and to the law.The best way to teach such values is by  13  .A child who is lied to will lie.A child who sees no laughter and no love in the home will have   14  laughing and loving.
No child asks to be  15  .If you bring a life into the world,you owe the child something.

小題1:	A．find B．get C．a(chǎn)fford D．receive

小題2:	A．supporter B．help C．path D．way

小題3:	A．handsome B．honest C．eager D．worried

小題4:	A．time B．right C．duty D．energy

小題5:	A．favor B．pleasure C．honor D．service

小題6:	A．worth B．a(chǎn)ffair C．belief D．confidence

小題7:	A．brought B．compared C．forced D．taken

小題8:	A．unsure B．desperate C．embarrassed D．dependent

小題9:	A．properly B．gently C．sincerely D．severely

小題10:

A．failure B．examination C．fault D．test

小題11:

A．mixed B．satisfied C．shared D．balanced

小題12:

A．consider B．recognize C．respect D．know

小題13:

A．example B．guidance C．word D．deed

小題14:

A．worry B．difficulty C．fun D．problem

小題15:

A．praised B．valued C．born D．loved

Engineering students are supposed to be examples of practicality and rationality (理性), but when it comes to my college education I am an idealist and a fool. In high school I wanted to be an electrical engineer and, of course, any reasonable student with my aims would have chosen a college with a large engineering department, many famous professors and lots of good labs and research equipment. But that’s not what I did.
I chose to study engineering at a small liberal-arts (文科) university that doesn’t even offer a major in electrical engineering. Obviously, this was not a practical choice; I came here for more noble reasons. I wanted a broad education that would provide me with flexibility and a value system to guide me in my job. I wanted to open my eyes and expand my vision by communicating with people who weren’t studying science or engineering. My parents, teachers and other adults praised me for such a wise choice. They told me I was wise and grown-up beyond my 18 years, and I believed them.
　I headed off to the college and sure I was going to have an advantage over those students who went to big engineering "factories" where they didn’t care if you had values or were flexible. I was going to be a complete engineer: technical expert and excellent humanist all in one.
　Now I’m not so sure. Somewhere along the way my noble ideas crashed into reality, as all noble ideas finally do. After three years of struggling to balance math, physics and engineering courses with liberal-arts courses, I have learned there are reasons why few engineering students try to reconcile engineering with liberal-arts courses in college.
　The reality that has blocked my path to become the typical successful student is that engineering and the liberal arts simply don’t mix as easily as I supposed in high school. Individually they shape a person in very different ways. The struggle to reconcile the two fields of study is difficult.
小題1:Why did the author choose to study engineering at a small liberal-arts university?

A．He intended to become an engineer and humanist.

B．He intended to be a reasonable student with noble ideals.

C．He wanted to be an example of practicality and rationality.

D．He wanted to communicate with liberal-arts students.

小題2:According to the author, by communicating with people who study liberal arts, engineering students can ___________.

A．become noble idealists

B．broaden their knowledge

C．find a better job in the future

D．balance engineering and liberal arts

小題3: Which word below can replace the underlined word “reconcile”?

A．confuse

B．compare

C．combine

D．compete

小題4:The underlined sentence in 1st paragraph means ___________.

A．he has failed to achieve his ideal aims

B．he is not a practical and rational student

C．his choice of attending to a small liberal-arts university is reasonable

D．his idea of combining engineering with liberal - arts is noble and wise

小題5: The author suggests in this passage that ___________.

A．liberal-arts students are supported to take engineering courses

B．technical experts with a wide vision are expected in the society

C．successful engineering students are more welcomed in the society

D．engineering universities with liberal-arts courses are needed

閱讀下面的短文,掌握其大意, 然后從1-15各題所給出的A、B、C、D項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。
Once a young man was in deep love with a girl. This man folded 1,000 pieces of paper cranes (紙鶴) as a gift to his girl. Although he was a small branch manager in a company, and his __1__ didn’t seem too bright, they were very __2__ together until one day, his girl told him she was going to Paris and would never come back. She also told him that she couldn’t see any future for both of them, “so let’s go our own __3__ from now on…” The young man was __4__, but he agreed. When he regained his __5__, he worked hard day and night, just to make something out of himself. Finally with all the __6__ work, this man set up his own __7__.
One rainy day, while this man was __8__, he saw an elderly couple sharing an umbrella in the rain, walking to somewhere. He __9__ that they were his ex-girlfriend’s (前女友)parents, so he drove slowly beside the couple, wanting them to find him in his expensive car and to know that he had his own company, car, etc.
To the man’s surprise, the couple were walking towards a cemetery (墓地). He got out of his car and followed them. And there he saw his ex-girlfriend — a photograph of her __10__ as sweetly as ever at him from her tombstone, and those precious paper cranes in a glass bottle! He walked over and asked the couple why this had happened. They explained that __11__ she did not leave for France at all. She fell ill with cancer. In her heart, she had believed that he would __12__ some day. She didn’t not want her __13__ to be his barrier(障礙). Therefore, she chose to leave him. She asked her __14__ to put his paper cranes beside her, because if the day comes when fate brings him to her again he can take some of those back with him.
The man just cried __15__. He was heartbroken once again.

1. A. appearance	B. future	C. salary	D. apartment
2. A. happy	B. pleasant	C. worried	D. sensitive
3. A. futures	B. goals	C. ways	D. courses
4. A. excited	B. mad	C. heartbroken	D. puzzling
5. A. position	B. confidence	C. independence	D. freedom
6. A. main	B. beautiful	C. hard	D. heavy
7. A. office	B. family	C. studio	D. company
8. A. running	B. driving	C. walking	D. wandering
9. A. recognized	B. noticed	C. understood	D. memorized
10. A. glaring	B. talking	C. smiling	D. crying
11. A. fortunately	B. recently	C. difficultly	D. actually
12. A. come	B. make	C. suffer	D. succeed
13. A. illness	B. heart	C. cranes	D. sadness
14. A. husband	B. parents	C. friends	D. son
15. A. heatedly	B. hardly	C. sadly	D. excitedly

Some people are lucky enough to be born with a good sense of direction and even if they have only visited a place once, they will be able to find it again years later.
　　I am one of those unlucky people who have poor sense of direction and I may have visited a place time after time but I still get lost on my way there. When I was young I was so shy that I never dared ask complete strangers the way and so I used to wander round in circles and hope that by some chance I would get to the place I was heading for.
　　I am no longer too shy to ask people for direction, but I often receive replies that puzzle me. Often people do not like to admit（承認(rèn)）that they didn’t know their hometown and will insist on telling you the way, even if they do not know it; others, who are anxious to prove that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long list of directions which you can not possibly hope to remember, and still others do not seem to be able to tell between their left and their right and you find in the end that you are going in the opposite（相反的）direction to that in which you should be going.
　　If anyone ever asks me the way to somewhere, I always tell them I am a stranger to the town in order to avoid giving them wrong direction but even this can have embarrassing results.
　　Once I was on my way to work when I was stopped by a man who asked me if I would direct him the way to the Sunlight Building. I gave my usual reply, but I had not walked on a few steps when I realized that he had asked for directions to my office building. However, at this point, I decide it was too late to turn back and search for him out of the crowd behind me as I was going to meet with someone at the office and I did not want to keep him waiting.
　　Imagine my embarrassment when my secretary showed in the very man who had asked for directions of my office and his astonishment when he recognized me as the person he had asked.
小題1:What is the writer going to do when someone asks him for direction?
　  

A．He will direct the right way to the person willingly.

B．He will reply to it by the means of being a stranger to the town.

C．He will give the very person long list of direction.

D．He is going to show the man an opposite direction.

小題2:Why did the writer consider himself to be an unlucky dog?

A．Because of his poor sense of direction.

B．Because he always forget the way to home.

C．Because he did not have any friend.

D． Because he used to be shy and dared not ask others the way.

小題3:How did the visitor feel when he was showed into the very room?

A．He felt strange.	B．He felt embarrassed.
C．He felt very sad.	D．He felt astonished.

小題4:Who showed the right way to the interviewee according to the passage?

A．Someone we don’t know.

B．The writer did it for himself.

C．The secretary did so.

D．A warm-hearted old lady did itI.

A woman came out of her house and saw three old men sitting in her front yard. She said, "I don’t think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat." 
"Is the man of the house home?” they asked. "No", she replied, "He’s out." "Then we cannot come in", they replied.
In the evening when her husband came home, she told him what had happened. "Go to tell them I am home and invite them in!" The woman went out and invited the men in. "We do not go into a house together," they replied. "Why is that?" she asked. 
One of the old men explained that their names were Wealth(財(cái)富), Success and Love. Then he added, "Now go in and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your home." 
The woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her husband was overjoyed and he suggested inviting Wealth to fill their home with wealth. And his wife wanted to invite Success; but their daughter-in-law suggested they should invite Love so that their home would be filled with love. At last the husband said to his wife. "Go out and invite Love to be our guest."
The woman went out and asked the three old men, "Which one of you is Love? Please come in and be our guest." 
Love got up and started walking toward the house. 
The other two also got up and followed him. Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and Success: "I only invited Love, Why are you coming in?" 
The old men replied together: "If you had invited Wealth or Success, the other two of us would have stayed out, but since you invited Love, wherever He goes, we go with him. Wherever there is Love, there is also Wealth and Success!" 
小題1:The best title for this passage would be __________.

A．A Woman and Three Men	B．Wealth, Success and Love
C．A Strange Thing Happened to a Woman	D．A Husband and his Wife

小題2:The woman asked the three men to come in and have something to eat because _________.

A．she was a warm-hearted woman	B．they were her neighbors
C．they asked her to do	D．they were her friends

小題3:Who does the underlined word “the man” in the second paragraph refer to?

A．The woman’s son.	B．The woman’s father.
C．The woman’s son-in-law（女婿）	D．The woman’s husband.

小題4:It can be inferred（推斷）from the passage that __________.

A．The three old men are brothers and they can’t be separated.

B．The husband will refuse them in.

C．The wife will be scolded by the husband.

D．If a person has love, he will own everything.

It was a busy morning, about 8:30, when an elderly gentleman in his 80s came to the  41  . I heard him saying to the nurse that he was in a hurry for an appointment at 9:30.
The nurse had him take a   42  in the waiting area,   43  him it would be at least 40 minutes   44  someone would be able to see him. I saw him   45  his watch and decided, since I was   46  busy — my patient didn’t   47  at the appointed hour, I would examine his wound. While taking care of his wound, I asked him if he had another doctor’s appointment.
The gentleman said no and told me that he   48  to go to the nursing home to have breakfast with his   49 . He told me that she had been   50  for a while and that she had a special disease. I asked if she would be   51  if he was a bit late. He replied that she   52  knew who he was, and that she had not been able to   53  him for five years now. I was  54  , and asked him, “And you   55  go every morning, even though she doesn’t know who you are?”
He smiled and said, “She doesn’t know me, but I know who she is.” I had to hold back  56   as he left.
Now I   57  that in marriages(婚姻), true love is acceptance of all that is. The happiest people don’t   58  have the best of everything; they just   59  the best of everything they have.   60   isn’t about how to live through the storm, but how to dance in the rain.

小題1:	A．school B．hospital C．station D．bank

小題2:	A．breath B．test C．seat D．break

小題3:	A．persuading B．promising C．understanding D．telling

小題4:	A．if B．before C．since D．a(chǎn)fter

小題5:	A．taking off B．giving up C．looking at D．getting into

小題6:	A．very B．a(chǎn)lso C．seldom D．not

小題7:	A．turn up B．take in C．come on D．go away

小題8:	A．needed B．forgot C．a(chǎn)greed D．happened

小題9:	A．daughter B．wife C．mother D．sister

小題10:

A．late B．well C．a(chǎn)round D．there

小題11:

A．lonely B．worried C．doubtful D．hungry

小題12:

A．so far B．neither C．no longer D．a(chǎn)lready

小題13:

A．recognize B．a(chǎn)nswer C．believe D．expect

小題14:

A．moved B．disappointed C．surprised D．satisfied

小題15:

A．only B．then C．thus D．still

小題16:

A．chat B．tears C．words D．judgement

小題17:

A．realize B．suggest C．hope D．prove

小題18:

A．necessarily B．completely C．naturally D．frequently

小題19:

A．learn B．make C．favor D．try

小題20:

A．Adventure B．Beauty C．Trust D．Life

Linda Evans was my best friend—like the sister I never had. We did everything together: piano lessons, movies, swimming, horse back riding.
When I was 13, my family moved away. Linda and I kept in touch through letters, and we saw each other on special time—like my wedding and Linda’s. Soon we were busy with children and moving to new homes, and we wrote less often. One day a card that I sent came back, stamped “Address Unknown. ” I had no idea how to find Linda.
Over the years, I missed Linda very much. I wanted to share happiness of my children and then grandchildren. And I needed to share my sadness when my brother and then mother died. There was an empty place in my heart that only a friend like Linda could fill.
One day I was reading a newspaper when I noticed a photo of a young woman who looked very much like Linda and whose last name was Wagman — Linda’s married name. “There must be thousands of Wagmans,” I thought, but I still wrote to her.
She called as soon as she got my letter. “Mrs Tobin!” she said excitedly, “Linda Evans Wagman is my mother. ”
Minutes later I heard a voice that I knew very much, even after 40 years, laughed and cried and caught up on each other’s lives. Now the empty place in my heart is filled. And there’s one thing that Linda and I know for sure: We won’t lose each other again!
小題1:The writer went to piano lessons with Linda Evans        .

A．a(chǎn)t the age of 13	B．before she got married
C．a(chǎn)fter they moved to new homes	D．before the writer’s family moved away

小題2:They didn’t often write to each other because they        .

A．got married	B．had little time to do so
C．didn’t like writing letters	D．could see each other on special time

小題3:There was an empty place in the writer’s heart because she        .

A．was in trouble

B．didn’t know Linda’s address

C．received the card that she sent

D．didn’t have a friend like Linda to share her happiness or sadness

小題4:The writer was happy when she        .

A．read the newspaper

B．heard Linda’s voice on the phone

C．met a young woman who looked a lot like Linda

D．wrote to the woman whose last name was Wagman

小題5:They haven’t kept in touch        .

A．for about 40 years	B．for about 27 years
C．since they got married	D．since the writer’s family moved away

One day an out of work mime(啞劇演員) was visiting the zoo and attempted to earn some money as a street performer. As soon as he started to draw a 31)______, a zoo keeper grabbed him and dragged him into his office. The zoo keeper explained to the mime that the zoo’s most popular attraction, a gorilla, had died suddenly and the keeper feared that 32)_____ at the zoo would fall off. He offered the mime a job to 33)______ the gorilla until they could get another one. The mime 34)______.
So the next morning the mime put on the gorilla suit and entered the cage before the crowd came. He discovered that it was a35)_______ job. He could sleep if he wanted, play and 36)______ people and he drew bigger crowds than he ever had as a mime. 37)_____, eventually the crowds got tired of him and he got tired of just swinging on tails. He 38)_______ to notice that he people were paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his. Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience, he climbed to the top of his cage, crawled across a partition(隔墻), and dangled(懸蕩) from the top to the lion’s cage. Of course, this made the lion very angry, but the crowd 39)______ it.
At the end of the day, the zoo keeper came and gave the mime a 40)______ for being such an attraction. Well, this went on for some time, the mime kept 41)______ the lion, the crowds grew larger, and his salary kept going up. Then one terrible day when he was dangling over the angry lion, he slipped and fell. The mime was 42)______.
The lion gathered itself and prepared to pounce(猛撲). The mime was so scared that he began to run round and round the cage with the lion close 43)______. Finally, the mime started screaming and yelling, “Help me,help me!”, but the lion was quick and pounced. The mime soon found himself flat on his back, looking up at the angry lion and the lion said, “44)______you fool! Do you want to get us 45)_______.”

小題1:	A．ticket B．profit C．crowd D．lesson

小題2:	A．reputation B．cost C．confidence D．a(chǎn)ttendance

小題3:	A．take care of B．dress up as C．make up for D．keep up with

小題4:	A．declined B．hesitated C．a(chǎn)ccepted D．doubted

小題5:	A．great B．demanding C．meaningless D．busy

小題6:	A．make fun of B．communicate with C．cooperate with D．take advantage of

小題7:	A．Surprisingly B．However C．Therefore D．Additionally

小題8:	A．failed B．refused C．managed D．began

小題9:	A．loved B．feared C．forgot D．excused

小題10:

A．warning B．direction C．rise D．punishment41.

小題11:

A．fighting B．insulting C．boring D．frightening

小題12:

A．caught B．a(chǎn)ttacked C．terrified D．offended

小題13:

A．behind B．a(chǎn)head C．beyond D．a(chǎn)side

小題14:

A．Hurry up B．Get up C．Wake up D．Shut up

小題15:

A．helped B．killed C．favored D．fired

I will never forget the two impressive things that happened last winter. One of my classmates and I were   36  our project work late at night on my university's campus far from home.  Since there was   37  in the forecast, I had worn a winter   38  to school that day with a raincoat in my bag.
Throughout our work on the project, I could   39  that my friend was tired from a very long day working.  As we stepped outside to begin the   40  walk home, I   41  she was shivering(顫抖).  The temperature had dropped to the low thirties (Fahrenheit) and she   42  had a sweater on. I   43  offered her my warm jacket. She accepted it and asked me what I   44  wear then.  I told her I had another one and pretended that my   45  was a jacket.  She said later that she   46  the next morning and the first thing on her mind was feeling moved about my   47  of the jacket.
Coincidentally(碰巧), the next day I went to an open-air play and I was freezing   48  I didn’t expect it to be so   49 .  A person who I hardly   50  insisted that I wear his jacket.  I was   51  touched by this warm gesture.  He was so matter-of-fact(講究實(shí)際的) about me   52  his coat, too:  he simply took it off and handed it to me telling me that I should   53  it. I used to think that this vast universe was a cold   54 .  It turns out that even when the temperature drops low, the people never   55  to warm each other's hearts.

小題1:	A．starting B．destroying C．showing D．doing

小題2:	A．rain B．fog C．snow D．cloud

小題3:	A．suit B．jacket C．cap D．coat

小題4:	A．think B．guess C．see D．check

小題5:	A．easy B．short C．safe D．long

小題6:	A．heard B．believed C．noticed D．expected

小題7:	A．bravely B．nearly C．only D．usually

小題8:	A．suddenly B．immediately C．madly D．calmly

小題9:	A．would B．could C．should D．might

小題10:

A．blouse B．sweater C．dress D．raincoat

小題11:

A．ran away B．woke up C．fell ill D．got hurt

小題12:

A．sale B．size C．color D．offer

小題13:

A．though B．until C．since D．if

小題14:

A．warm B．cold C．sunny D．dark

小題15:

A．knew B．mattered C．loved D．blamed

小題16:

A．deeply B．wrongly C．finally D．firmly

小題17:

A．envying B．watching C．holding D．wearing

小題18:

A．keep B．buy C．borrow D．throw

小題19:

A．environment B．place C．wind D．situation

小題20:

A．deny B．a(chǎn)gree C．help D．stop

Bears and humans often meet in National Parks. Although campers and hikers are warned not to feed the bears, many people ignore these warnings and feed the beasts anyway. When bears are used to people’s food, problems soon arise.
Bears like to eat a large variety of things, both meat and vegetable. Without human assistance, bears live nicely on roots, twigs, leaves of trees, insects and small animals. With people around, the bears’ tastes quickly expand to include sandwiches, hot dogs, hamburgers, and anything else they can temp humans into giving up.
Bears often develop clever strategies for getting people to let go their food supplies. More often than not, an unsuspecting hiker has taken off his or her pack for a rest only to have a bear charge out of the woods, grab the pack and quickly disappear into the underbrush with it. Hanging the pack on a tree branch won’t help. Bears have been known to climb up, jump off, and catch the pack on the way down. One mother bear stretched up with her baby on her shoulders to reach a pack stored on a pole. Many bears threaten people into giving up their supplies. Although a bear is unlikely to attack a person and would probably run away if screamed at, few people are willing to do so. Most people drop the pack and run the other way. This, of course, delights the bear. In some places, the Park Service installed some metal barrels with lids to help campers keep their supplies safe from bears. Although the bears were unable to open these containers, the effort was less than successful. Most campers, unable to tell the metal drums from rubbish cans, never used them for the intended purpose.
小題1:Feeding bears on people’s food         .

A．brings the people a lot of fun	B．can cause problems
C．often causes injuries and deaths	D．helps bears survive

小題2:If people had never fed bears, the bears        .

A．might be satisfied with what they had originally

B．would have starved long before

C．wouldn’t have enough food supply

D．would have hunted for other kind of food

小題3:Which of the following is TRUE?

A．If fed on sandwiches and hot dogs, the bears would no longer eat roots, twigs and insects .

B．It’s likely that bears would hurt people if the people didn’t give up their food.

C．Most people would frighten away the bears that would temp their food.

D．Seeing a pack, the bear would quickly snatch it and run away with it.

小題4:Bear-proof containers didn’t work because         .

A．bears were clever enough to get the food in them

B．they were left open in the open air

C．people were not sure of their use

D．they were once used as rubbish cans