When I was young，I wished for a good car and a big house. That was my idea of success. I took all the advanced classes and tried to do well in the exams with my mind set on going to a key school. I just knew that I would somehow become famous and be able to afford the car and the dream house. All the way through junior years，my mind was planning this beautiful future.
Then in the eleventh grade, many losses changed my mind. First, one of my friends died at 16. Soon after， my great-grandmother passed away followed by my beloved fourth-grade teacher. These events left me not knowing what to do or where to go. Death had never touched me so closely.
After a long period of emptiness, it finally struck me: Life is not promised and neither is future success. Though I was attempting to achieve material success， I was not enjoying my daily life. I realized that finding inner peace， purpose and happiness will stick with me forever and that is real success.
Enjoying life's precious quirks (偶發(fā)事件) makes an ordinary person more successful than a wealthy person who isn't content and takes everything for granted. The summer before senior years, my attitude changed greatly. Instead of memorizing facts, I began learning skills. Instead of focusing on the future， I focused on today and the many blessings and successes that came with it.
I still get excellent grades， but now I devote weeks to studying instead of struggling for exams, and I think about the future with a deeper sense of meaning. For me, being successful means truly living life each day.
68.The reason why the author changed his idea of success is ____.
A.that he can't afford his house
B.that his beloved teacher was dead
C.that he didn't know what to do or where to go
D.that he lost a few beloved persons in a short time
69.What does the author want to tell the readers?
A.The true meaning of the life.
B.The true meaning of studying
C.How to achieve success.
D.His opinion about success.
70. According to the passage which of the following is TRUE?
A.The writer thinks the success is not promised.
B.His teacher died before the death of his grandpa.
C.The writer didn’t do well in all the exams.
D.He didn’t want to take all the exams.

第三部分 閱讀理解
(共15小題，每題2分，滿分30分)
Cheating can happen in a lot of different ways. When people cheat, it’s not fair to other people, like the kids who studied for the test or who were the true winners of a game.
Many people like the action of cheating. It makes difficult things seem easy, like getting all the right answers on the test. But it doesn’t solve the problem of not knowing the material and it won’t help on the next test --- unless the person cheats again.
Some people lose respect for cheaters and think less of them. The cheaters themselves may feel bad because they know they are not really earning that good grade. And, if they get caught cheating, they will be in trouble at school, and maybe at home, too.
Some kids cheat because they’re busy or lazy and they want to get good grades without spending the time studying. Other kids might feel like they can’t pass the test without cheating. Even when there seems to be a “good reason” for cheating, cheating isn’t a good idea.
If you were sick or upset about something the night before and couldn’t study, it would be better to talk with the teacher about this. And if you don’t have enough time to study for a test because of swim practice, you need to talk with your parents about how to balance swimming and school.
A kid who thinks cheating is the only way to pass a test needs to talk with the teacher and his or her parents so they can find some solutions(解決辦法) together. Talking about these problems and working them out will feel better than cheating.
56．The author thinks that when kids cheat in class, _______.
A．it is unfair to other people    B．it does harm to their heath
C．teachers should punish them  D．teachers shouldn’t stop them at once
57．Some students like cheating mainly because_________.
A．the material in the test is very difficult
B．they want to do better than the others
C．cheating can make hard things seem very easy
D．they have little time to study their lessons
58．The fourth paragraph mainly tells us______.
A．cheating isn’t a good idea   B．why kids cheat in the test
C．some kids can’t pass the test without cheating
D．some kids don’t spend the time studying
59．We can learn from the passage______.
A．cheaters are often thought highly of
B．people show no respect for those who cheat
C．parents whose kids cheat are often in trouble
D．kids cheat in the test because of swim practice
60．In the passage those cheaters are advised to_______.
A．spend more time on school than on sports
B．find good solutions instead of cheating
C．try hard to be intelligent rather than lazy
D．a(chǎn)sk their classmates for good methods of study

第二節(jié)：完形填空（共20小題；每小題1分，滿分20分）
We often talk about ourselves as if we have permanent genetic defects （缺陷） that can never be changed．“I’m impatient．” “I’m always behind．” “I always put things   36  !” You’ve surely heard them．Maybe you’ve used them to describe   37 ．
These comments may come from stories about us that have been   38   for years—often from   39  childhood．These stories may have no   40   in fact．But they can set low expectations for us．As a child, my mother said to me, “Marshall, you have no mechanical （操作機(jī)械的） skills, and you will never have any mechanical skills for the rest of your life．” How did these expectations   41   my development? I was never   42   to work on cars or be around  43 ．When I was 18, I took the US Army’s Mechanical Aptitude Test．My scores were in the bottom for the entire nation!
Six years later,   44  , I was at California University, working on my doctor’s degree．One of my professors, Dr．Bob Tannbaum, asked me to write down things I did well and things I couldn’t do．On the positive side, I   45    down, “research, writing, analysis, and speaking．” On the   46   side, I wrote, “I have no mechanical skills．”
Bob asked me how I knew I had no mechanical skills．I explained my life   47   and told him about my   48  performance on the Army test．Bob then asked, “  49   is it that you can solve  50   mathematical problems, but you can’t solve simple mechanical problems?”
Suddenly I realized that I didn’t   51   from some sort of genetic defect．I was just living out expectations that I had chosen to   52 ．At that point, it wasn’t just my family and friends who had been   53   my belief that I was mechanically hopeless．And it wasn’t just the Army test, either．I was the one who kept telling myself, “You can’t do this!” I realized that as long as I kept saying that, it was going to remain true．  54   , if we don’t treat ourselves as if we have incurable genetic defects, we can do well in almost   55   we choose．
36．A．a(chǎn)way       B．off    C．up    D．down
37．A．them B．myself      C．yourself    D．others
38．A．said   B．spoken      C．spread      D．repeated
39．A．a(chǎn)s long as B．a(chǎn)s far back as   C．a(chǎn)s well as  D．a(chǎn)s much as
40．A．basis B．plot   C．cause D．meaning
41．A．lead  B．improve    C．a(chǎn)ffect       D．change
42．A．encouraged     B．demanded C．hoped       D．a(chǎn)greed
43．A．means      B．tools  C．facilities   D．hammers
44．A．therefore  B．somehow  C．instead      D．however
45．A．settled      B．turned      C．took  D．got
46．A．passive     B．a(chǎn)ctive       C．negative    D．subjective
47．A．experiences      B．trips  C．roads D．paths
48．A．unexpected      B．poor  C．excellent   D．a(chǎn)verage
49．A．When      B．What C．How        D．Why
50．A．complex   B．a(chǎn)dvanced  C．common D．primary
51．A．a(chǎn)rise  B．separate    C．suffer       D．come
52．A．believe     B．suspect     C．a(chǎn)dopt D．receive
53．A．weakening       B．strengthening   C．a(chǎn)bandoning      D．a(chǎn)ccepting
54．A．As a result       B．At the same time     C．In addition       D．On the contrary
55．A．a(chǎn)nything B．something C．nothing     D．a(chǎn)ll

第二節(jié)：完形填空（共20小題；每小題l分，滿分20分）
閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從36－55各題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。
I know that it's hard to devote enough time to class and to social efforts. But, I wanted to succeed in both. I knew this would be a  36 but didn't realize how much until classes began.
I  37 on well with the other girls who lived in my dorm. Often,  38 finishing my homework before it was  39 to hand in, I went upstairs and had ice cream with my neighbor. I  40 finished it the next day between classes. But I knew it wasn't very good and the  41 I received showed my lack of  42  .I realized that I needed to find some sort of  43 .So, the next day I created a  44 _ that would  45  my time up between going to class, doing homework, and relaxing. It seemed like a good idea, 46  I was only able to  47  it for a few days. A schedule like that had too much   48  .So I tried another plan. This one  49 lists and common sense. Each week I made a list of  50  I had to get done during that week and by which day I had to have it done. Then,  51 the list of things I had to get done, I made a list of things I could do if I had the time. This is the  52 I have used since then. Now, I have started my senior year and I feel time is  53. Scheduling my time has become more challenging, but I continue to do it.
My cousins, who are now in college, tell me that there are a lot of books to read by yourself and many different things to do, with various people and organizations. So I'm  54  that I've learned to balance things and it has helped  55  me for what is to come after graduation.
36．A．disaster            B．challenge         C．trouble             D．competition
37．A．kept              B．caught            C．took               D．got
38．A．a(chǎn)s well as          B．in order to        C．instead of         D．not only
39．A．point             B．late              C．ready            D．time
40．A．seldom           B．a(chǎn)lways           C ．hardly          D．never
41．A．degree            B．rank             C．grade            D．title
42．A．intelligence       B．confidence       C．exercise         D．effort
43．A．balance          B．skill             C．change           D．improvement
44．A．form             B．timetable      C．method            D．system
45．A．a(chǎn)verage           B．a(chǎn)rrange          C．divide           D．organize
46．A．a(chǎn)nd              B．but             C．so              D．then
47．A．a(chǎn)ccept            B．collect          C．follow          D．insist
48．A．pressure          B．influence         C．question         D．doubt
49．A．provided         B．included         C．formed          D．needed
50．A．a(chǎn)nything          B．something       C．nothing          D．everything
51．A．under            B．a(chǎn)mong          C．from            D．with
52．A．skill             B．method         C．experience       D．way
53．A．important         B．valuable         C ．limited        D．up
54．A．glad             B．convinced         C．sure             D．ungrateful
55．A．enable           B．prepare         C．practise          D．equip

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  The Polar Express
One couldn’t select a more delightful and exciting premise (前提) for a children’s book than the tale of a young boy lying awake on Christmas Eve only to have Santa Claus sweep by and take him on a trip with other children to the North Pole. And one couldn’t ask for a more talented artist and writer to tell the story than Chris Van Allsburg.

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  The Secret of Saying Thanks
Perhaps you’d like to know a secret, one of the happiest ones of all. You’ll discover it all on your own, maybe when you least expect. If you’ve not yet discovered the secret of saying thanks, it’s waiting for you. The secret can be found in the sunrise that offers promises for the day ahead, or in the gentle shade of a tree sheltering you from the hot rays of the sun.

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  The Runaway Pumpkin
When Buck, Billy and their little sister Lily spy the biggest pumpkin they’ve ever seen, they can’t resist (抵制). Buck and Billy try to roll the pumpkin down the hill to show everyone, but it’s too big! Before they know it, it’s rolling out of control down the hillside. It knocks over Grandpa Baxter and makes him think of pumpkin soup. And when Poppa Baxter finally stops, all he can think of is pumpkin bread.

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小題1:We can infer from the passage that Chinese New Year for Kids ________.

A．is very popular with readers all over the world

B．is helpful to foreigners to travel to China.

C．helps readers to learn about Chinese culture

D．introduces a lot of outdoor activities.

小題2:If you buy a copy of The Runaway Pumpkin on Amazon. Com, you can save ________.

A．30%

B．60%

C．40%

D．70%

小題3: The author wrote the passage mainly to ________.

A．offer us some advice on shopping	B．tell us some interesting stories
C．introduce some children’s books	D．compare some books’ information

It could happen to you
Many people think there is no need to take special care over home safety.
“I’ all right, I’m insured(投保).”
Maybe-----if you’re fully insured. Even then you can never recover the value you place upon your possessions, because you can’t insure against the suffering of mind that we all feel if our homes are torn apart by some strangers, our windows and doors broken, or our possessions ruined.
“It won’t happen to me.”
Won’t it? A house is broken into every three minutes of the day. Loss of all kinds, including cars and things stolen from cars, happens every 35 seconds.
“I’ve nothing worth stealing.”
You may think not. But in fact everyone has something worth a thief’s attention. And we all have things of personal value, even if they’re worth little or nothing inn hard cash.
“I’m only a tenant(房客) here.”
The thieves don’t care whether you’re a tenant or an owner. You’re just as weak either way. Have a word with the owner if you think extra safety fittings are necessary.
“They all get in anyway.”
Most thieves are on the lookout for easy pickings. They are soon discouraged by houses they can’t get into quickly and easily. So do pay special attention.
“This booklet(小冊(cè)子) will help you…”
It’s based on the practical experience of police forces throughout the country. Most of the suggestions will cost you only a few minutes and thought. A few may cost some expense, but this is small compared with the loss and sadness you might otherwise suffer.
If you are in any doubt, ask for free advice from the crime Prevention Office at your local police station.
60. The passage is mainly about _____.
A. how to protect your home         B. how to take special care of ourselves
C. how to hire a safe house in the country     D. how to escape being caught 61. What does the sentence “A few may cost some expense” in the last two paragraphs mean?
A. You should pay for some of the suggestions.
B. Following the suggestions means you will have to spend some money on home protection.
C. some people are willing to pay for the suggestions.
D. Some of the suggestions are expensive.
62. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A. It’s impossible to prevent a house from being broken into.
B. Few people would like to get advice from the local police station.
C. Some thieves are only interested in stealing things from houses protected well.
D. People should care more about home safety.
63. This passage is probably a (an) _____.
A. advertisement for selling safely-guarded houses             
B. article on crime
C. booklet from the Crime Prevention Office
D. suggestion from insurance companies 

For photographers lacking training, experience and even the ability to click a shutter button, they produce remarkable pictures. Under the sea, deep in the woods and high in the sky, furry, feathery and leathery-skinned creatures are opening up vistas（遠(yuǎn)景）by taking cameras where no human can go.
This is the world of animal-borne imagine celebrated last month at a conference sponsored(supported) by the National Geographic Society for the 20th anniversary of its Crittercam, the device that started it all.
Since its debut（首次公開(kāi)露面）in 1987 on the back of a turtle, the Crittercam and similar devices developed by others have grown smaller and more powerful.
“It’s more than just a camera now,” said Greg Marshall, the marine biologist and now filmmaker who invented the Crittercam. “We are now including more instruments to gather more data while at the same time reducing everything in size.”
The idea of attaching video cameras to animals came to Mr. Marshall in 1986 on a dive off Belize when a shark apporached him. When the animal quickly turned away, he noticed a shark with a sucker fish on its belly. He came up with the idea that putting a camera in place of the sucker fish would allow people to witness the shark’s behavior without disturbing it.
Crittercams have been attached to sharks, sea lions and other marine animals, and, more recently, to land animals.
Birds are a new addition, Mr. Marshall said. Dr. Christian Rutz of Oxford recently reported on tiny cameras called feathercams that monitor the crows in the South Pacific. It has discovered that crows are smarter than anyone knew they not only use twigs（嫩枝）and grass stems as tools to root out food, but they also save their favorite tools to use again.
Tracey L. Rogers, director of the Australian Marine Mammal Research Center in Sydney, said crittercam was a powerful tool in her work with leopard seals（豹斑海豹）in Antarctica. “In studying animals,” Dr. Rogers said at the meeting, “you want to see how our animal models align（與……一致）with reality. With a camera, you actually see what they do. You don’t have to guess.”
64.What’s the text mainly about?
A. The advantages of crittercam.
B. The development of Crittercams in the past 20 years.
C. How crittercam was invented.
D. How crittercam works.
65.What inspired Marshall to invent crittercam?
A. The sight of sucker fish clinging to a shark on a dive.
B. The thought of how to photograph animals better.
C. Noticing a shark eating a sucker fish on a dive.
D. Seeing a shark with a camera on its belly on a dive.
66.According to Dr. Rogers, crittercam ____.
A. can clear up all your doubts about animals
B. is the most powerful tool in studying animals
C. enabled her to observe the crows in the South Pacific closely
D. helped a lot with her research on leopard seals in Antarctica
67.All of the following are improvements of crittercams EXCEPT that ____.
A. the size is becoming smaller
B. more instruments are involved to gather more data
C. they allow researchers to see where and how animals live
D. they are able to be applied to smaller animals such as birds

We convince ourselves that life will be better once we are married, have a baby, then another．Then we get frustrated because our children are not old enough and that all will be well when they are older．Then we are frustrated because they reach teenage years and we must deal with them．Surely we'll be happier when they grow out of the teen years．
We tell ourselves our life will be better when our spouse （配偶） gets his/her act together, when we have a nicer car, when we can take a vacation, when we finally retire．The truth is that there is no better time to be happy than right now．If not, then when? Your life will always be full of challenges．It is better to admit as much and to decide to be happy in spite of it all．
For the longest time, it seemed that life was about to start—real life．
But there was always some obstacles （挫折） along the way, an ordeal （苦難） to get through, some work to be finished, some time to be given, a bill to be paid．Then life would start．It finally dawned on me that those obstacles were part of life．Little by little, that point of view also helped me see that there isn't any road to happiness．
Happiness is the road．So, enjoy every moment．And bear in mind that__________．So stop waiting for school to end, for a return to school, to lose ten pounds, to gain ten pounds, for work to begin, to get married, for Friday evening, for Sunday morning, waiting for a new car, for your mortgage（借款） to be paid off, for spring, for summer, for fall, for winter, for the first or the fifteenth of the month, for your song to be played on the radio, to die, to be reborn… before deciding to be happy．
Happiness is a voyage, not a destination．There is no better time to be happy than… NOW! Live and enjoy the moment．
60．The most proper title for the passage should be______．
A．Happiness Is a Frustration   B．Happiness Is a Destination
C．Happiness Is a Dream         D．Happiness is a Process
61．The first two paragraphs mainly tell us_______．
A．life is a worthwhile but challenging voyage
B．so long as you believe you can, you can
C．people tend to think the future will be brighter than now
D．people feel at a loss about their life
62．The writer thinks _______is a real happiness
A．setting our imagination free    B．enjoying our present life
C．finding our own shortcut to success       D．facing obstacles and challenges bravely
63．Which of the sayings can fill in the blank in the fourth paragraph?
A．Time waits for no one     B．Time is money．
C．Tomorrow is another day．    D．Time can work wonders．

第二節(jié)：完形填空(共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分)
閱讀下面短文，從短文后所給各題的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)(A、B、C和D)中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。
There are many American expressions that use parts of the body like the back, shoulders and even chest.
When I am facing a lot of  36  at work, my back and neck will start to hurt. I have too many things to do  37  my supervisor is on my back all the time. In other words, my employer is always telling me to do things.
Sometimes, I want my employer to get off nay 38 ! I want her to  39  criticizing me and making too many  40  on my time. I cannot say this, however. I would never turn my back on her and   41   to help when there is a need. If I did refuse to help, my supervisor might say  42   things about me behind my back. She might  43  me when I am not present. This would surely be a stab (暗箭) in the back. It is never kind to unfairly  44  or say bad things about other people.
I know that my employer carries a lot on her shoulders. She is  45  for many things at the office. And because she is so important, she sometimes gets to rub shoulders with the top officials. She gets to   _46  time with some very important people. 1 believe the top official  47  my supervisor. He  48_   gives her file cold shoulder.  49  he always treats her like she is an  50  part of the organization.
I also value my supervisor. In fact, I think she is very effective in her job. Of course, I could  51_   my opinion at the top of my lungs, or as  52  as I possibly could. It might even feel good to get my emotions off my  53 . It is always helpful to tell people how you  54  so that your emotions do not   _55  you.
36, A. pleasure              B. pressure                 C. promotion               D. power
37. A. before         B. because           C. though                  D. unless
38. A. back          B, shoulders          C. chest              D. job
39. A, continue       B. finish             C. stop              D. miss
40. A, interests        B. profits            C. demands          D. changes
41. A. agree          B. like               C. offer              D. refuse
42. A. important       B. valuable           C. bad              D. boring
43. A. praise          B, attract            C. call               D. criticize
44. A. harm          B, believe            C. ignore             D. trouble
45. A. reasonable       B. responsible        C. required           D. resistant
46. A. spare           B. speed              C. spend              D. spread
47. A. values          B. understands        C. challenges         D. responds
48. A. always         B. never                   C. often             D. sometimes
49. A. However       B. Similarly                C. Eventually               D. Instead
50. A. important       B. individual         C. inspiring          D. interactive
51. A. tell            B. yell               C. explain            D. scold
52. A. softly          B. eagerly             C. loudly             D. secretly
53. A. heart              B. chest             C. mind             D. hand
54. A. feel            B. go               C. think             D. act
55. A. support         B. protect            C. comfort           D. trouble

A senior official in charge of Internet security has claimed that the country has become the world' s biggest victim of cyber-attacks.
In an interview with Xinhua over the weekend, Zhou Yonglin, deputy chief of the operations department of China National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team ( CNCERT), also dismissed Google' s complaints that hackers traced to China had attacked its servers.
Google has not yet given CNCERT any report on the company' s complaints about the attacks, according to Zhou. "We have been hoping that Google will contact us so that we could have details on this issue and provide them help if necessary.”
Foreign firms such as eBay have turned to CNCERT for cyber security issues in the past year. Last year, the Internet security watchdog received 21,618 complaints from foreign companies, of which 1,095 cases were solved after combining similar cases. These cases included the trojan and phishing attacks (釣魚(yú)攻擊) against eBay /Paypal, JPMorgan Chase & Co and MarkMonitor Inc.
China has also sought other countries' help to clear web pages with malicious content. In November 2009, CNCERT reported to its US counterpart, the US-CERT, about two US-registered domain (域) names that were planting trojans on hundreds of Chinese websites. The domain names were shut down within two days of CNCERT’s requests.
With the number of Chinese netizens soaring but their Internet security awareness lagging, hackers have made China their primary target, Zhou said. He accused overseas hackers, especially those in the US, of illegally controlling computers in China by implanting malicious programs including trojans and zombie programs.
Compared with Interact security issues in the US, Japan and the Republic of Korea, it is very serious in China. Last year, 262,000 IP addresses in China were hit by trojans planted by nearly 165,000 overseas IP addresses. Those from the US ranked first, accounting for 16.61 percent.
60. What is the best title of the passage?
A. Google attacked by unknown hackers.                  
B. US legally responsible for Internet Security
C. Malicious Programs, an International Problem
D. China, the world' s biggest victim of cyber-attacks
61. Who does the underlined "a senior official" refer to?
A. An interviewer from Xinhua News Agency.
B. Deputy Chief of operation department of CNCERT.
C. A high official from Google Company.                 
D. A representative from foreign firms.
62. The author mentions eBay as an example of ________.
A. complaining for the cyber attacks                         B. seeking other countries for assistance
C. turning to CNCERT for cyber security                   D. taking USA as a counterpart
63. What does the writer intend to tell the readers in Paragraph 5?
A. The global cyber-attacks are mainly from the US.
B. International cooperation quickens steps to settle cyber issues.
C. The two US-registered domains are the counterparts of US-CERT.
D. CNCERT shut down the two US domain names within two days.