I was loading (裝載) my truck to go to the market when I hurt my left eye. The pain was like a hot sword(劍) being shoved through my head. I fell down on my hands and knees, and I knew it was bad.

   I was taken to the Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga, and the doctors operated on me several times but couldn’t save my left eye. When they told me the news, I wanted to die.

   Even after I got my fake（假的） eye, I couldn’t shake the sadness. To make matters worse, I lost my job as a transportation officer because of my lost eye. But one morning, I woke up and the TV was on, and there was a 16-year-old girl who had been badly burned on her face and legs. Her situation was much worse than mine. She wore a big smile and seemed to look right at me and said, “You can’t ever give up.” At that moment, I thought, “This is just an eye. Get over it.” And I did.

   It’s been almost 12 years since my accident, and there’s nothing I can’t do now that I used to do. And although I didn’t get my old job back, I got my license again.

   I read a story once. In that story, a man was feeling bad because he had no shoes until he met a man who had no feet. No matter how terrible your problem is, remember there’s always someone somewhere who’s worse off. So cheer up and smile at life!

Because of the accident, the writer _______.

   A. lost both of his hands.     B. lost one of his eyes

   C. was paid a lot of money    D. knew he was not a good driver

According to Paragraph 2, when the writer heard the bad news, _______.

   A. he decided to refuse the fake eye    B. he accepted the fact immediately

   C. he decided to live a happier life     D. he felt extremely sad

What can we learn from the passage?

   A. The writer got his old job back      B. The writer can’t see things clearly

   C. The writer is not strong-minded     D. The writer has got over the accident

By writing his story, the writer most probably wants to _______.

   A. tell us his unusual experience      

B. ask people to help the disabled

   C. advised us to be positive（積極樂觀的） about life  

D. tell us that accident can happen anytime

-----What’s happening? I feel the house _____.  

-----An earthquake!

A. shake    B. to shake    C. shaking    D. shaken

The teacher together with the students ___________ discussing Reading Skills that _______ newly published in America.  

A．a(chǎn)re; were     B．is; were       C．a(chǎn)re; was            D．is; was

The Internet is regarded as one of the reasons_______ many people aren’t getting enough sleep now．

      A．which           B．what      C．a(chǎn)s     D．why

Spoken English slightly differs from country to country. For instance, in some parts of the US the “r” sounds at the end of the words______.

       A. is dropped         B. have dropped            C. has dropped              D. are dropped

---Shall I go to the party tomorrow?

   ---I would rather _____.

A. come    B. should come  C. would come  D. came

Watch out, Yahoo．There’s search engine out there with super speed and accuracy．It’s really cool．

Google is the Web’s largest search engine．In just two years it has gained a reputation for surprising speed and accuracy, delivering exactly what you’re looking for in a second．The site now does this 40 million times a day – a number achieved without spending a penny on a TV or newspaper ad．

Google doesn’t need them．In the past six months alone, the site has won a Webby （the online version of the Oscar） for technical excellence, set a new record for search engines by indexing a billion Web pages．

Yahoo still has 10 times the audience, but Google consistently ranks first in customer satisfaction: 97% of users find what they’re looking for most or all the time．“You see people smile when they use it, like they’ve found something no one else knows about,” says Danny Sullivan, editor of an online newsletter．

No one is smiling more than Larry Page, 27, and Sergey Brin, 26, who seem certain to become billionaires when the company goes public, probable sometime next year．They make a great comedy duo．When they first met as Ph．    D．students, the pair say, they found each other horrible – “I still find him horrible,” adds Brin – but were driven together by a computer – science project aimed at coming up with better ways of searching the Web．

The idea behind Google is that traditional search engines are stupid．They think relevance is based on repetition; if you type in a request for Tiger Woods, say, you’ll get websites listed according to how many times those words appear．Not only is this no guarantee of quality, but it’s also open to abuse．If you own a Tiger fan site and want to lead more people to it, simply type his name thousands of times in the site’s source code．

The first paragraph serves to           ．

             A．compare two websites     B．bring out the topic

             C．put blame on Yahoo     D．give the background of the topic

What does the underlined word “then” in the third paragraph refer to?

             A．40 million times．      B．Achievements．

             C．TV and newspaper ads． D．Web pages．

Which of the following wins greater customer satisfaction?

            A．Yahoo．  B．Google．  C．Page．     D．Brin．

It can be inferred that Page and Brin         ．

             A．work for Google            B．a(chǎn)re Tiger fans

             C．hated each other             D．work for Yahoo 

據(jù)一項調(diào)查顯示，有85．8％的中學(xué)生說自己的字跡不好看，而他們又不想改善字跡，其理由有很大差別。請根據(jù)下圖內(nèi)容用英語寫一篇短文，說明該現(xiàn)象并發(fā)表看法。   

注意：字?jǐn)?shù)120左右(開頭已給出。不計人總字?jǐn)?shù))。

     Nowadays, with the growing popularity of computers, more and more people are paying less and less attention to their handwriting.___________________________

He came back late, _______ which time all the guests had already left.

  A. after                     B. by                    C. at                                   D. during

To tell the truth, if it were not for the fact that you______ my daughter, I would not take such pains to serve you.

     A．were      B．a(chǎn)re    C．had been          D．have been