AIDS control and prevention is a    to China as well as the whole world．

       A．surprise    B．challenge        C．reaction   D．threat

When the great library of Alexandria burned, the story goes, one book was saved. But it was not a valuable book; and so a poor man, who could read a little, bought it for a few coppers（銅錢(qián)）.The book wasn’t very interesting, but between its pages there was something very interesting indeed. It was a thin strip（條）of vellum（牛皮紙）on which was written the secret of the “Touchstone”!

The touchstone was a small pebble（小園石）that could turn any common metal into pure gold. The writing explained that it was lying among thousands and thousands of other pebbles that looked exactly like it. But the secret was this: The real stone would feel warm, while ordinary pebbles are cold.

So the man sold his few belongings, bought some simple supplies, camped on the seashore, and began testing pebbles. He knew that if he picked up ordinary pebbles and threw them down again because they were cold, he might pick up the same pebble hundreds of times. So, when he felt one that was cold, he threw it into the sea. He spent a whole day doing this but none of them was the touchstone. Yet he went on and on this way. Pick up a pebble. Cold-throw it into the sea. Pick up another. Throw it into the sea.

The days stretched into weeks and the weeks into months. One day, however, about mid-afternoon, he picked up a pebble and it was warm. He threw it into the sea before he realized what he had done. He had formed such a strong habit of throwing each pebble into the sea that when the one he wanted came along, he still threw it away.

So it is with opportunity. Unless we are vigilant（警惕的）, it’s easy to fail to recognize an opportunity when it is in hand and it’s just as easy to throw it away.

The book was special to the man because ______.

         A. it was made of vellum

         B. it was the only book that survived the great fire

         C. it was a story about how to tell the touchstone from ordinary stones

         D. it included the secret of the touchstone

He threw pebbles into the sea ______.

         A. to test how far he could throw

         B. to practice throwing pebbles

         C. to avoid picking up the same pebble once again

         D. to express his disappointment at failing to find the touchstone

What message does the story want to convey?

         A. Careful habits can lead to success.

         B. Habits can benefit you but also hold you back.

         C. Never judge a person or a thing by appearances.

         D. Opportunity only visits the ready and watchful mind

書(shū)面表達(dá)（滿分25分）

假設(shè)你是李華，是河南大學(xué)的一名學(xué)生, 想要參加黃河科技大廈的招聘工作，請(qǐng)你根據(jù)下列內(nèi)容給公司經(jīng)理寫(xiě)一份申請(qǐng)。

1. 1987年5月8日生于河南；

2. 明年7月大學(xué)畢業(yè)，學(xué)習(xí)英語(yǔ)專業(yè)4年；

3. 對(duì)英語(yǔ)感興趣，尤其擅長(zhǎng)口語(yǔ)和寫(xiě)作；

4. 熟練掌握電腦操作技術(shù)，會(huì)編程，打字每分鐘100。

注意:  1. 詞數(shù)：100字左右；   2. 可適當(dāng)加入細(xì)節(jié)，以使行文連貫；

       3. 參考詞匯：編程make programs      4.110詞左右

Dear Manager,

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________                                                                                                                                   Yours sincerely,

                                                                                                                                                                        Li Hua

The audience ______ when they heard the humorous story.

         A. burst into laughing                        B. burst out laughter   

         C. burst into laughter                         D. burst in laughing

We can relax ourselves by taking part in school activities after long hours’ study；_______, we can learn a great deal from other students.

   A. therefore            B. but             C. however            D. besides

Putting waste in different bins made it easier for it______．

     A．to recycle B．recycles    C．recycling  D．to be recycled

There is a great deal of evidence       that music activities engage different parts of the brain．      

       A．indicate         B．indicating       

       C．to indicate        D．to be indicating