A feeling of excitement overcame me as I looked around the stadium．

At 5: 30 pm, two hours before game time, I walked into the locker room．My   1   of school, music and what I planned to do on Saturday night were   2   with the simple aim to beat the football team across the field from us tonight．

Approaching my locker, I noticed my teammates   3  ．Some rested on benches, staring up at the ceiling   4   it were a film of the opposing teams play．Some seemed a bit more   5  , using the time to tell jokes．A few stared at the field,   6   what would happen in 120 minutes．

Our coach, Tony Severino, came out of his office at 6 o’clock．He told the team how   7   this game was for the season, between two of the state’s top teams—my school and our opposing team, Liberty High School．His words gave the team impulse（沖動(dòng)）it needed to   8  ．

At 7: 10 pm, warm-ups finished, we went over the game   9  and discussed what we needed to do for the next three hours．The sound of the national anthem （國(guó)歌）   10  that we were only minutes from the action．Our coach usually made a final   11  ．But tonight was different．On this clear night he    12   looked around the room at all the players and shouted, “Let’s go and get them．” Even   13  the “get” came out of his mouth, we were already  14   our way out of the door．

Outside, a few young fans reached to touch our hands, eager to be a   15    of our school’s winning tradition．When I smiled and   16   my hand, the young faces lit up as if they had just met Superman．

Seconds later, the team ran onto the   17  , moving as a mass of blue, in front of a packed stadium．We enjoyed a noisy   18   from fans and the fight song played by our school band．Breathing in the    19    of one of the biggest game of the year, I felt we were sure to win．I told myself, “This was what it was all about” and   20   that it was for moments like this that I loved high school football．

1. A．thoughts              B．ideas                  C．pictures            D．minds

2. A．covered                 B．mixed               C．replaced            D．filled

3. A．exercising             B．struggling                 C．preparing                 D．previewing

4. A．in case                      B．even though             C．a(chǎn)s long as                D．a(chǎn)s if

5. A．relaxed                  B．worried                    C．frightened                D．impressed

6. A．dreaming                   B．wishing                    C．worrying                 D．imagining

7. A．useless               B．difficult                   C．a(chǎn)vailable                   D．important

8. A．warm up               B．pick up             C．get up             D．rise up

9. A．route                   B．frame               C．plan                   D．forecast

10. A．urged                   B．insisted                C．suggested                D．stressed

11. A．speech                 B．preparation               C．decision                  D．change

12. A．finally                   B．simply               C．a(chǎn)ctually                    D．eventually

13. A．when            B．before                       C．a(chǎn)s                 D．since

14. A．leading               B．dragging            C．showing                  D．making

15. A．player                 B．friend                C．part                D．team

16. A．held out              B．took out                  C．got out                   D．brought out

17. A．field                  B．stage                C．yard                       D．garden

18. A．success               B．reply                C．a(chǎn)chievement            D．welcome

19. A．a(chǎn)tmosphere             B．experience              C．expectation              D．examination

20. A．a(chǎn)ccepted              B．a(chǎn)dmitted                  C．realized                  D．recognized

Long bus rides are like television shows．They have a beginning, a middle, and an end with commercials  thrown in every three or four minutes．The commercials are unavoidable. They happen whether you want them or not．Every couple of minutes a billboard glides by outside the bus window．"Buy Super Clean Toothpaste．" "Drink Good Wet Root Beer．" "Fill up with Pacific Gas．" Only if you sleep, which is equal to turning the television set off, are you spared the unending cry of "You Need It! Buy It Now!"

The beginning of the ride is comfortable and somewhat exciting, even if you’ve traveled that way before．Usually some things have changed new houses, new buildings, sometimes even a new road．The bus driver has a style of driving and it’s fun to try to figure it out the first hour or so．If the driver is particularly reckless（魯莽的）or daring, the ride can be as thrilling as a suspense story．Will the driver pass the truck in time? Will the driver move into the right or the left hand lane? After a while, of course, the excitement dies down．Sleeping for a while helps pass the middle hours of the ride．Food always makes bus rides more interesting. But you’ve got to be careful of what kind of food you eat．Too much salty food can make you very thirsty between stops．

The end of the ride is somewhat like the beginning．You know it will soon be over and there’s a kind of expectation and excitement in that．The seat of course, has become harder as the hours have passed．By now you’ve sat with your legs crossed, with your hands in your lap, with your hands on the armrests even with your hands crossed behind your head．The end comes just at no more ways to sit．

1．According to the passage, what do the passengers usually see when they are on a long bus trip?

A．Buses on the road．                 B．Films on television．

C．Advertisements on the billboards．      D．Gas stations．

2．What is the purpose of this passage?

A．To give the opinion on long bus trips．

B．To persuade you to take a long bus trip．

C．To explain how bus trips and television shows differ．

D．To describe the billboards along the road．

3．The writer of this passage would probably favor ________ ．

A．bus drivers who aren’t reckless               B．driving alone

C．a(chǎn) television set on the bus                     D．no billboards along the road

4．The writer feels long bus rides are like TV shows because ___________．

A．the commercials both on TV shows and on billboards along the road are fun

B．they both have a beginning, a middle, and an end, with commercials in between

C．the drivers are always reckless on TV shows just as they are on buses

D．both traveling and watching TV are not exciting．

5．The writer thinks that the end of the ride is somewhat like the beginning because both are_________ ．

A．exciting               B．comfortable          C．tiring            D．boring

Allen: I’ve never been a big fan of the bears．On my last trip to Disneyland（1999）, we passed it by because we didn’t want to spend the time on something we didn’t really enjoy．If we’d known it would be closed by our next visit, I’m sure we would have watched it one more time．

But I think the idea of keeping some attractions open forever regardless of the number of visitors it gets is a mistake．We all have great memories of the Bears, but clearly very few kids today are making those same memories from this show．That may be a sad fact, but it’s a fact．For whatever reason, the show doesn’t pull in the numbers．Isn’t it right to use the Country Bear space to bring in a more popular attraction so that more kids today can make those magic memories of an attraction they like? Otherwise aren’t we just telling kids today that they “have to ” make great memories of the Bears, when it’s obvious that the kids themselves are not enjoying the Bears like we did?

Roger: I am very disappointed that they have decided to retire the Country Bear Playhouse．I remember going to the show as a child, and still enjoyed it as a teenager, and now young adult．It is true that there aren’t a lot of shows left at DL and with this one closing even less．Being at DL does require a lot of walking, and it is nice to have a few attractions that are a place to sit and enjoy a good show．I understand that DL has to develop, but there has to be some history to the Disneyland that Walt Disney first designed．There should be some parts of DL that just never go away, and this is one of them．By the time I have children it looks like there won’t be any attractions that I can say I went to as a child at the rate they are going．

Now the Bears are leaving．What I want to say is: stop trying to compete with everyone! DL is the best, because of attractions like the Country Bears．If DL insists on destroying all of its magic to make way for the latest, well, then it might as well be just another theme park．

1．What news might get people talking about the problem of the Country Bears?

       A．The Country Bear Playhouse will be closed．

       B．There will be a new attraction for our guests at Disneyland．

       C．The number of visitors to the Country Bear Playhouse is falling．

       D．The Bears will retire because of old age and can’t give shows any more．

2．Allen spoke mainly to get his point across that__________．

A．the Bears will be missed

       B．we should tell kids today that they “have to ” make great memories of the Bears

       C．the longtime attraction ought to make way for a future attraction

       D．people never care about what they have until all is lost

3．Which is the best choice to complete Roger’s idea: “The Country Bears have been a part of Disneyland for nearly 30 years, __________．”

A．a(chǎn)nd I feel it is time to give our bears a good rest

     B．but anyway, the attraction has lost interest

     C．but I know that Disneyland will always be changing, and I accept that

     D．a(chǎn)nd I am sad that the Bears will be leaving

4．Which of the following is not in the same group as the other three?

       A．a(chǎn)n attraction                                               B．a(chǎn) theme park

       C．the Bears                                                   D．the latest magic

5．Where can this passage be found?

       A．In a Web discussion zone．

B．In a suggestion book．

       C．In a report on the popularity of the Country Bears．

D．In high school students’ compositions．

A team of researchers recently created a robot that can repair itself．The newly designed machine can sense injury to itself and adapt．That ability sets the new robot apart from earlier machines．Because the robot can recover from unexpected damage, it may be especially useful in exploring unfamiliar places．“There is a need for planetary robotic rovers to be able to fix things on their own,” says Josh Bongard, one of the device’s creators．“Robots on other planets must be able to continue their mission without human help if they are damaged and cannot communicate their problem back to Earth．”

       A typical robot functions according to a computer program, but the new robot works differently．First, sensors in its four legs observe the robot’s movements and signals to its built-in computer．From the formation it collects, the robot creates its own programs that allow it to adapt to different situations．For example, when the researchers shortened one of the robot’s legs, the smart machine simply adjusted its way of walking—it used three legs instead of four．

       The researchers are looking for other places to put the resilient robot to work．One possible spot is the ocean floor．That dark and dangerous undersea terrain might be a good choice for a robot the scientists call the Starfish．“We never officially named the robot, but we usually refer to it as the Starfish, even though a real starfish has five rather than four legs,” says Bongard．“Also, a real starfish is much better than our robot at recovering from injury, because it can actually regrow its legs．” Scientists have created robots that help humans in many ways: by exploring space, fighting fires, and even performing surgery．

1．The newly designed robot is different from the former ones because it ___________．

A．can communicate with people on the earth about their problems

B．works according to a certain computer program

C．can find problems itself and get used to the new environment

D．can explore unfamiliar places

2．An example is given in the second paragraph in order to explain that the robot ___________．

A．is used to create new programs                   B．has typical robot functions

C．has sensors to observe its movements           D．can adapt to new conditions

3．The underlined word “resilient” in the last paragraph means the robot __________．

A．is creative       

B．uses advanced technology

C．recover easily  

D．is informative

4．What might be the best title of the passage?

A．How does the Starfish Robot work

B．Do-It-Yourself Robot Repair

C．Robots Designed to Work On Other Planets

D．New Robot Helping Us In Many Ways

5．Which of the following is True about the Starfish?

A．It has more than four legs．

B．It hasn’t been officially named．

C．It can regrow its legs quickly．

D．It has started to work on the ocean floor．

Susan Sontag （1933--2004） was one of the most noticeable figures in the world of literature．For more than 40 years she made it morally necessary to know everything—to read every book worth reading, to see every movie worth seeing．When she was still in her early 30s, publishing essays in such important magazines as Partisan Review, she appeared as the symbol of American culture life, trying hard to follow every new development in literature, film and art．With great effort and serious judgment, Sontag walked at the latest edges of world culture．

Seriousness was one of Sontage’s lifelong watchwords（格言）, but at a time when the barriers between the well-educated and the poor-educated were obvious, she argued for a true openness to the pleasure of pop culture．In “Notes Camp”, the 1964 essay that first made her name, she explained what was then a little-known set of difficult understandings, through which she could not have been more famous．“Notes on Camp”, she wrote, represents “a victory of ‘form’over‘content’,‘beauty’over‘morals’”．

By conviction（信念）she was a sensualist（感覺論者）, but by nature she was a moralist （倫理學(xué)者）, and in the works she published in the 1970s and 1980s , it was the latter side of her that came forward．In illness as Metaphor —published in 1978, after she suffered cancer—she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a special problem of repressed personalities（被壓抑的性格）, a concept that effectively blamed the victim for the disease．In fact, re-examining old positions was her lifelong habit．

In America, her story of a 19th  century Polish actress who set up a perfect society in California, won the National Book Award in 2000．But it was as a tireless all-purpose cultural view that she made her lasting fame．“Sometimes,” she once said ,“I feel that, in the end, all I am really defending is the idea of seriousness, of true seriousness．”And in the end, she made us take it seriously too．

1．The underlined sentence in paragraph 1 means Sontag_________．

A．was a symbol of American cultural life

B．developed world literature, film and art

C．published many essays about world culture  

D．kept pace with the newest development of world culture

2．She first won her name through ___________．

A．her story of a Polish actress

B．her book illness as Metaphor

C．publishing essays in magazines like partisan Review    

D．her explanation of a set of difficult understandings

3．According to the passage, Susan Sontag__________．

A．was a sensualist as well as a moralist

B．looked down upon the pop culture

C．thought content was more important than form

D．blamed the victim of cancer for being repressed

4．As for Susan Sontag’s lifelong habit, she __________．

A．misunderstood the idea of seriousness                 B．re-examined old positions

C．a(chǎn)rgued for an openess to pop culture                   D．preferred morals to beauty

5．Susan Sontag’s lasting fame was made upon___________．

A．a(chǎn) tireless, all-purpose cultural view

B．her lifelong watchword：seriousness

C．publishing books on morals

D．enjoying books worth reading and movies worth seeing

1．Our information comes from a ____________ （可靠的） source．

2．We p______________ the match from May 6^th to May 15^th．

3．He a______________ a label to his luggage．

4．I knocked at the door, but there was no r_______________．

5．His f_____________ English made us think that he was a native speaker．

6．Go your way according to your own ______________（良心）

7．A French firm will _________（投標(biāo)） for the contract．

8．She wants to study ________________（建筑學(xué)） in college．

9．She could t________ her family tree back to the 16^th century．

10．The present government’s p__________ on trade isn’t very satisfying．

閱讀下面短文，并根據(jù)短文后的要求回答問題（請(qǐng)注意問題后的字?jǐn)?shù)要求）

[1]Seven Chinese sailors are missing after a Chinese cargo ship sank in Russian waters near Japan on Saturday, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday．

[2]"Three of the 10 Chinese sailors on board were saved but                   after the ship sank off the waters of Vladivostok," it said in a statement on its website．

[3]The cause of the incident wasn’t mentioned．And rescue efforts and an investigation into the incident are ongoing．

[4]But the Global Times, a Chinese language newspaper based in Beijing, said yesterday the ship was fired on by the Russian navy before it sank, citing a Russian newspaper．　　

[5]New Star, the cargo ship, was sequestered（扣押） at the Russian port of Nakhodka earlier this month for alleged smuggling．It left the port not far from the Sino-Russian border without permission from Russian authorities last Thursday and was chased by a cruiser, the newspaper said．

[6]However, the Chinese ship started to sink on the way．According to the report, in a period of almost 24 hours, Russian navy officers and soldiers on board the cruiser（巡洋艦）watched the sinking boat and did not make any response to the cries for help from the crewmen．A Chinese Foreign Ministry official on Friday said that Russia’s attitude on the sinking of a Chinese cargo ship in Russian waters is unacceptable．In the end, 16 sailors on board New Star got on two lifeboats．

[7]Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Li Hui Thursday summoned Russian ambassador Sergei Razov, urging Russian authorities to complete investigations into the incident as soon as possible and try its best to search for the missing crew members．

1．What does the passage mainly tell us? （Within 15 words）

2．Which sentence in the passage has the close meaning with the following sentence?

    People are trying to find out the cause of the incident and look for the missing ones．

3．Fill in the blank in the second paragraph．（Within 5 words）

4．What’s the possible cause of the cargo ship’s sinking, according to the passage? （Within 15 words）

5．Translate the underlined sentence in the passage into Chinese．

某英文報(bào)就近年來(lái)我國(guó)學(xué)生出國(guó)留學(xué)低齡化的利弊在報(bào)上展開討論，希望廣大讀者暢所欲言，就此事發(fā)表自己的看法。假設(shè)你是中學(xué)生李華，請(qǐng)用英語(yǔ)給編輯寫一封120-150字的信，談?wù)勀愕目捶ā＜瓤梢再澩�，也可以反�?duì)，但必須說明理由。  （注意：信的開頭已給出，字?jǐn)?shù)不計(jì)算在內(nèi)。）

Dear editor,

I’m writing to tell you about my opinion on Chinese students going abroad for further studies when they are very young．

We’re planning to send out a thousand invitations          Expovolunteers.

A．over         B．in         C．on           D．to

It is said that two man-made structures are clearly visible from space. One is the Great Wall of China, and        is Japan’s Kansai International Airport.

A．a(chǎn)nother          B．other            C．the other          D．either