____ you may be right , I can’t agree completely.

  A. While         B. As      C. If             D. Since

I came to live here where I am now between Wounded Knee Greek and Grass Greek。Others came too, and we made these little grey houses of logs that you see, and they are square. It is a bad way to live, for there can be no power in a square.

You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the respectful circle of the nation, and so long as the circle was unbroken, the people were getting rich. The flowering tree was the living center of the circle, and the circle of the four quarters nursed it. The east gave peace and light, the south gave warmth, the west gave rain, and the north with its cold and strong wind gave strength and continuous power.

This knowledge came to us from the outer world with our brief. Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. Birds make their nests in circle, for theirs are the same as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same, and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.

Our places were like the nests of birds, and these were always set in a circle, the nation’s circle, a nest of many nests, where the Great Spirit meant for us to nurse our children.

But the “white people” have put us in these square boxes. Our power is gone and we are dying, for the power is not in us any more. You can look at our boys and see how it is with us. Where we were living by the power of the circle in the way we should, boys were men at twelve or thirteen years of age. But now it takes them very much longer to grow up.

According to the passage, the Indians _______.

A. don’t have modern instruments in their homes

B. refused to move from round places

C. lived in round places, but were forced to live in square houses

D. lived in round places, but then decided to move into square houses

Two things being compared in the passage are _______.

A. the Indians’ past and present living conditions

B. the Indians’ past and modern beliefs

C. the Indians’ old and new power

D. people and nature

In the second paragraph “the four quarters” refers to _______.

A. the four rooms of the Indian’s house

B. the four kinds of natural power

C. the four seasons

D. the four directions

According to the author, once the Indians moved into square houses, _______.

A. they had to move to other houses    

B. boys took more time to grow into men

C. they forgot the old way of life    

D. everyone was not happy

Yesterday I had a word with the CEO of the company, ___ who used to teach at Beijing University．

A．one  B．the one C．that     D．it

There is an old saying in English： "Laughter is the best medicine". Until recently, few people took the saying very seriously. Now, however, doctors have begun to investigate laughter and the effects it has on the human body. They have found evidence that laughter really can improve people's health.

Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films, while doctors checked their heart rate, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise. It increases blood pressure, the heart rate and the rate of breathing； it also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach, and even the feet. If laughter exercises the body, it must be beneficial.

Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be capable of reducing the effect of pain on the body. In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs. The group which tolerated the pain for the longest time was 'the group which listened to a funny program. The reason why laughter can reduce pain seems to be that it helps to produce endorphins （內(nèi)啡肽） in the brain. These are natural chemicals which diminish both stress and pain.

There is also some evidence to suggest that laughter helps the body's immune(免疫的)system, that is, the system which fights infection. In an experiment, one group of students watched a funny video while another group served as the control group - in other words, a group with which to compare the first group. Doctors checked the blood of the students in both groups and found that the people in the group that watched the video had an increase in the activity of their white blood cells, that is, the cells which fight infection.

As a result of these discoveries, some doctors and psychiatrists （精神病學(xué)家） in the United States now hold laughter clinics, in which they try to improve their patients' condition by encouraging them to laugh. They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce beneficial effects similar to those caused by laughter.

We learn from the first paragraph that laughter____________________.

A. is good for one's health

B. is related to some illness

C. has been investigated long since

D. has no effect on the body

Doctors have found that laughter_______________________.

A. keeps down blood pressure.

B. has similar effects to physical exercise

C. decreases the heart rate

D. increases stress

Which of the following statements is NOT true of laughter, according to the passage?

A. It reduces pain.

B. It exercises the body.

C. It improves the body's immune system.

D. It can cure cancer.

The writer's attitude towards laughter is__________.

A. critical

B. doubtful

C. positive

D. negative

The novel was so interesting that he read it _____ in a single day.

A. from word to word                B. from sentence to sentence  

C. from chapter to chapter             D. from cover to cover

－What field will you son go into after graduation from the university?

－I’m not quite certain, but he __________- a good software programmer.

       A．promises   B．becomes   C．makes       D．proves

I’m terribly sorry to turn you down this time, but I promise I will ________ to you next time.

A．pick it up　　　　　　　　　　　 B．make it up

C．turn it up　　　　　　　　　　　 D．set it up

During a recent holiday I visited Dusseldorf, a city in the former West Germany. The nine-day trip left a deep impression   1   me. I arrived at Dussedorf airport at 7 pm. It was already  2  outside. The first thing I needed to do was to find a place to    3 . I decided to telephone the youth hotel. But to use the phone I needed some   4   , I asked a lady for help. To my  5   she gave me three coins to use. But all the phones in the   6   needed phone cards. And phone cards could only be bought at post offices during the   7   . I was   8   I would not be able to call the hotel. An old gentleman helped me. He couldn’t speak English   9   understand that I needed to   10   a phone call. He showed me where the phone was and inserted  11   phone carD．I called the youth hotel and found a place to stay that night.

The   12   of the German people made me feel that I was not   13   my first day in Germany wasn’t as  14   as I expecteD．Whenever I went, I asked people for   15  . It surprised me that   16   every young German could speak English fluently. Older Germans couldn't speak English very well, but they would try to help me   17   they coulD．One middle-aged man I asked for directions even   18   me to the place I was looking for.

My   19   in Germany totally changed my impression of Germans. Now I think the people couldn't be more 20    .

1．  A．on    B．for   C．to     D．a(chǎn)bout

2．  A．late B．dark        C．light        D．early

3．  A．visit        B．eat    C．stay D．keep

4．  A．cards       B．information     C．money     D．coins

5．  A．joy   B．disappointment       C．emotion   D．surprise

6．  A．hotel      B．a(chǎn)irport     C．city D．pavement

7．  A．night B．daytime   C．trip   D．rush-hour

8．  A．a(chǎn)fraid      B．sure C．glad D．eager

9．  A．or    B．but   C．a(chǎn)nd   D．so

10．A．make       B．have  C．do    D．a(chǎn)nswer

11．A．a(chǎn)nother     B．a(chǎn)      C．my   D．his

12．A．use   B．success     C．care D．kindness

13．A．really      B．nearly out of   C．far from   D．close to

14．A．interesting       B．good        C．bad   D．busy

15．A．direction B．distance   C．travel       D．serve

16．A．a(chǎn)lmost     B．even        C．only        D．a(chǎn)lready

17．A．whenever        B．whatever C．wherever D．however

18．A．drove       B．reached    C．moved     D．came

19．A．experience      B．victory     C．visit  D．memory

20．A．friendly    B．unfriendly       C．cold-hearted    D．valuable

Mary never does any reading in the evening, __________.

A. so does John         B. John does too        C. John doesn’t too        D. nor does John

_______ has recently been done to provide more buses for the people, a shortage of public vehicles remains a serious problem.

A. That              B. What              C. Despite what       D. Though what