The little girl is walking along the beach, happy and joyful, ______ bending down to pick up a beautiful seashell.

A approximately B. regularly

C. obviously D. occasionally

He will surely finish the job on time he's left to do it in his own way．

A．so that B．so long as

C．in case D．for fear that

________ one of you breaks the window will have to pay for it.

A. Whoever B. Whatever

C. Whichever D. wherever

--- John, have you seen the program＂I am a singer＂ which______ hosted by Hunan TV?

--- Yeah, of course. Each boy and each girl in our class ____ it.

A. are; love B. are; loves

C. is; loves D. is; love

If I have any further news, you will be the first person_____.

A. to know B. known

C. knowing D. knew

Coming home from school that dark winter day so long ago, I was filled with excitement of having the weekend off. But I was into stillness by what I saw. Mother, seated at the far end of the sofa, , with the second-hand green typewriter on the table. She told me that she couldn’t type fast and then she was out of work. My shock and embarrassment(尷尬) at finding Mother in tears was a perfect proof (證據(jù))of how I understood the pressures on her. Sitting beside her on the sofa, I _____began to understand. “I guess we may all sometimes,” Mother said quietly. I could her pain and the tension(壓力) of the strong feelings that were interrupted by my arrival. Suddenly, something inside me turned. I out and put my arms around her. She broke then. She put her face my shoulder and sobbed（抽泣）. I held her and didn’t try to talk. I knew I was doing what I , what I could and that it was enough. At that moment, feeling Mother’s back with , I understood for the first time her being so easy to . She was still my mother, she was something : a person like me, capable of fear and and failure. I could feel her pain as she must have felt mine on a thousand occasions(場(chǎng)合) when I sought in her arms.

A week later Mother took a job selling dry goods at half the salary the radio station . “It’s a job I can do, though,” she said simply. But the evening practice on the old green typewriter continued. I had a very feeling now when I passed her door at night and heard her away across the paper. I knew there was something more going on there than a woman learning to type.

1.A. tired B. ashamed C. lazy D. shocked

2.A. crying B. smiling C. thinking D. whispering

3.A. eagerly B. worriedly C. little D. much

4.A. quickly B. gradually C. suddenly D. proudly

5.A. fail B. win C. fall sick D. give in

6.A. learn B. watch C. sense D. recognize

7.A. holding back B. putting away C. sitting up D. stopping from

8.A. found B. worked C. reached D. ran

9.A. to B. up C. through D. against

10.A. tightly B. thoughtfully C. carefully D. politely

11.A. should B. would C. could D. might

12.A. my hand B. tear C. happiness D. patting

13.A. content B. break C. fall D. understand

14.A. therefore B. however C. yet D. though

15.A. more B. much C. little D. huge

16.A. wound B. defeat C. cut D. hurt

17.A. coldness B. memory C. comfort D. support

18.A. supplied B. offered C. paid D. contributed

19.A. different B. hard C. pleasant D. serious

20.A. hitting B. tapping C. beating D. striking

The iPhone, the iPad, each of Apple’s products sounds cool and has become a fad (一時(shí)的風(fēng)尚). Apple has cleverly taken advantage of the power of the letter “i” – and many other brands are following suit. The BBC’s iPlayer – which allows Web users to watch TV programs on the Internet –adopted the title in 2008. A lovely bear – popular in the US and UK – that plays music and video is called “iTeddy”. A slimmed-down version of London’s Independent newspaper was launched last week under the name “i”.

In general, single-letter prefixes (前綴) have been popular since the 1990s, when terms such as e-mail and e-commerce first came into use.

Most “i” products are targeted at young people and considering the major readers of Independent’s “i”, it’s no surprise that they’ve selected this fashionable name.

But it’s hard to see what’s so special about the letter “i”. Why not use “a”, “b”, or “c” instead? According to Tony Thorne, head of the Language Center at King’s College, London, “i” works because its meaning has become ambiguous. When Apple uses “i”, no one knows whether it means Internet, information, individual or interactive, Thorne told BBC Magazines. “Even when Apple created the iPod, it seems it didn’t have one clear definition,” he says.

“However, thanks to Apple, the term is now associated with portability (輕便) .”adds Thorne.

Clearly the letter “i” also agrees with the idea that the Western World is centered on the individual. Each person believes they have their own needs, and we love personalized products for this reason.

Along with “Google” and “blog”, readers of BBC Magazines voted “i” as one of the top 20 words that have come to define the last decade.

But as history shows, people grow tired of fads. From the 1900s to 1990s, products with “2000” in their names became fashionable as the year was associated with all things advanced and modern. However, as we entered the new century, the trend inevitably disappeared.

1.People use iPlayer to __________.

A. listen to music B. make a call

C. watch TV programs online D. read newspapers

2.We can infer that the Independent’s “i” is aimed at __________.

A. young readers B. old readers

C. fashionable women D. engineers

3.The underlined word “ambiguous” means “__________”.

A. popular B. uncertain

C. definite D. unique

4.Nowadays, the “i” term often reminds people of the products which are __________.

A. portable B. environmentally friendly

C. advanced D. recyclable

5.The writer suggests that __________.

A. “i” products are often of high quality

B. iTeddy is alive bear

C. the letter “b” replaces letter “i” to name the products

D. the popularity of “i” products may not last long

Students from Florida International University in. Miami walked on water Thursday for a class assignment. To do it, they wore aquatic (水上的)shoes they designed and created.

Alex Quinones was the first to make it to the other side of a 175-foot lake on campus in record time - just over a minute. Quinones, who wore oversized boat-like shoes, also won last year and will receive $ 500. Students had to wear the aquatic shoes and make it across the lake in order to earn an '6A" on the assignment for Architecture Professor Jaime Canaves, Materials and Methods Construction Class. "It's traditional in a school of architecture to do boats out of cardboard for a boat race. I thought our students were a little bit more special than that, " Canaves said. "We decided to do the walk on water event to take it to the next level. "

A total of 79 students competed in the race this year in 41 teams. Only 10 teams failed to cross the lake. Others who fell got back up and made it to the end. The race is open to all students and anyone in the community. The youngest person to ever participate was a 9-year-old girl who competed in place of her mother, while the oldest was a 67-year-old female.

A large crowd on campus joined Canaves as he cheered on the racers. He shouted encouraging words, but also laughed as some unsteadily made their way to the end.

"A part of this is for them to have more understanding of designing and make it work better, " he said. It is also a lesson in life for the students.

"Anything, including walking on water, is possible, if you do the research,test it and go through the design process seriously.

1.Which statement about Alex 'Quinones is ture ?

A. He finished the race in less than a minute.

B. He won the race with the help of 2 boats.

C. He failed the race last year.

D. He set a new record this year.

2.For what purpose did the students take part in the race?

A. To go across the lake to school.

B. To test their balance on the water.

C. To pass Professor Canaves’ class.

D. To win the prize money of $ 500.

3.Which of the following is true about the race?

A. The students who fell into the water had to quit.

B. More than 20 teams failed to cross the lake.

C. The students kept silent when the other racers competed.

D. The youngest competitor competed instead of her mother.

4.According to Canaves, this race can help the students

A. understand designing better

B. achieve almost everything

C. work together and unite as one

D. walk on the surface of water

5.What is the purpose of this passage?

A. To advertise a student' s program.

B. To report an interesting assignment.

C. To introduce a creative professor.

D. To encourage special events on campus.

I am beginning to wonder whether my grandmother isn’t right when she complains, as she frequently does, that children nowadays aren’t as well-behaved as they used to be. Whenever she gets the opportunity, she recounts in detail how she used to be told to respect the elders and betters. She was taught to speak only when she was spoken to, and when she went out on her own, she was reminded to say 'please' and 'thank you'. Children in her day, she continues, were expected to be seen and not heard, but these days you are lucky if you ever hear parents telling their children to mind their p’s and q’s.

If you give her the chance, she then takes out of her drawer the old photograph album which she keeps there, and which she never tires of displaying. Of course when you look at pictures of her parents, you feel sure that, with a father as stern-looking as that, you too would have been "seen and not heard". He had a lot of neatly cut hair, long side-whiskers and a big moustache. In the photographs, he is always clutching (抓住) his coat with one hand, while in the other he holds a thin walking stick. Beside him sits his wife, with their children around her: Granny and her elder brothers. It always occurs to me that perhaps those long, stiff, black clothes were so clumsy to a little girl, that she hadn’t enough breath left to be talkative, let alone mischievous (淘氣的). It must have been a dull and lonely life too, for she stayed mainly at home during her childhood, while her brothers were sent away to school from an early age. Despite their long black shorts and their serious expressions in the photographs, I always suspect that their lives were considerably more enjoyable than hers. One can imagine them telling each other to shut up or mind their own business, as soon as their parents were out of sight.

Going to see Granny on Sundays used to be a terrible experience. We would always be warned in advance to be on our best behavior, since my mother made a great effort to show how well brought up we were, in spite of our old, comfortable clothes, our incomprehensible (to Granny) slang, and our noisy games in the garden. We had to change into what Granny described as our "Sundays best" for lunch, when we would sit uncomfortably, kicking each other under the table. We were continually being ordered to sit up straight, to take our elbows off the table, to wait till everybody had been served, not to wolf down our food, nor to talk with our mouths full. At length we would be told to ask to be excused from the table and ordered to find quiet occupations for the rest of the day. We were always very bad-tempered by the evening, and would complain angrily all the way home.

Yet though we hated the Sunday visit, we never questioned the rules of good manners themselves. I remember being greatly shocked as a child to hear one of my friends telling her father to shut up. I knew I could never have spoken like that to my father and it would never have occurred to me to do so.

However, my childhood was much freer than Granny’s. I went to school with my brother and I played football with him and his friends. We all spoke a common language, and we got up to the same mischief. I would have died if I had had to stay indoors, wear a tight dress, and sew.

But I do sometimes look wistfully (惆悵地) at an old sampler which hangs in the hall, which was embroidered (刺繡) by an even more distant relative—my great-great-aunt, of whom, regrettably, no photograph remains. It was done as an example of her progress in learning. The alphabet is carefully sewn in large colored childish letters from A to Z, and below it a small verse reads:

Mary Saunders is my name,

And with my needle I worked the same,

That by it you may plainly see

What care my parents have for me.

It must have taken that little five-year-old months and months of laborious sewing, but, in a circle in a bottom corner of the sampler, there is a line: "Be Ever Happy".

1.The writer’s grandmother will complain that ______.

A. children used to be mischievous

B. children behave worse than they did in the past

C. children are often reminded of what to do

D. children are very badly behaved

2.Visiting Granny on Sundays was a terrible experience because ______.

A. the writer was not so well raised as she was required to pretend

B. Granny continually warned the writer to be on her best behavior

C. Granny was always describing the writer’s "Sunday best"

D. the writer was always blamed for not behaving well

3.From Paragraph 4, we can infer that the writer ______.

A. seldom spoke to her father in the way her friend did

B. was never questioned about the rules of good manners

C. never doubted the value of the strict rules at that time

D. was worried that her friend’s father would be shocked

4.The writer looked wistfully at the sampler, because______.

A. it was embroidered by a relative.

B. she wished she could sew herself.

C. it called to mind the values of good old days.

D. she had no photographs of Mary Saunders.

5.By sewing "Be Ever Happy" in the sampler, Mary Saunders ______.

A. suggested she was unhappy then

B. indicated happiness was hard to gain

C. expected we would find happiness in sewing

D. hoped happiness would be everlasting

下面文章中有5處（需要添加小標(biāo)題。請(qǐng)從以下選項(xiàng)（A、B、C、D、E和F）中選出符合各段意思的小標(biāo)題，并在答題紙上將該選項(xiàng)標(biāo)號(hào)涂黑。選項(xiàng)中有一項(xiàng)是多余選項(xiàng)。

A.Learn to Evaluate Data Correctly

B.Learn to Speak Clearly and Persuasively

C.Learn to Make Decisions Quickly and Properly

D.Learn to Relax Timely

E.Learn to Use Internet Efficiently

F.Learn to Express Yourself Effectively

Top tips on How to Succeed in Life

What does it take to succeed in life? Author Dustin M. Wax has compiled a list of the top five skills you need for a successful life.

1.___________

Good writing skills are essential for today’s competitive job market. But writing well isn’t just a case of producing grammatically correct sentences---- it involves an ability to organize your thoughts, as well as being able to target your ideas to an audience in the most effective way possible.

2._____________

With so much information out there, you need to be able to sort the potentially valuable data from the trivial, to analyze its relevance and meaning, and to relate it back to other information.

3.______________

Analyzing information is all very well, but at some stage you also need to make a decision. Over-analyzing can lead to hesitation, so you need to learn how to respond quickly and effectively, and to know what to do based on the information available.

4. _______________

You don’t have to know everything, but you should be able to find out what you need to know quickly and painlessly. This means learning how to use the internet effectively, how to read productively, and how to draw on your network of contacts efficiently.

5._________________

Being able to switch off is extremely hard for some people, but you need to find time for exercise or ways of relieving stress and tension, or the pressure could end up literally killing you!