A little boy invited his mother to attend his elementary school's first teacher- parent conference. To the little boy's __1__, she said she would go. This would be the __2__ time that his classmates and teacher met his mother and he was embarrassed (難堪) by her __3__. Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a severe scar (傷疤) that __4__ nearly the entire right side of her face. The boy __5__ wanted to talk about why or how she got the scar.

At the conference, the people were __6__ by the kindness and natural __7__ of his mother despite the scar, __8__ the little boy was still embarrassed and __9__ himself from everyone. He did, however, get within earshot of a(n) __10__ between his mother and his teacher, and heard them speaking.

"__11__ did you get the scar on your face?" the teacher asked.

The mother replied, "When my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught on fire. Everyone was too __12__ to go in because the fire was out of control, so I went in. __13__ I was running towards his bed, I saw a beam coming down and I placed myself __14__ him trying to protect him. I was __15__ unconscious (失去知覺的) but fortunately , a fireman came in and __16__ both of us. "She touched the __17__ side of her face. "This scar will be permanent, but to this day, I have never __18__ doing what I did."

At this point , the little boy came out __19__ towards his mother with tears in his eyes. He held her and felt a great __20__ of the sacrifice (犧牲) that his mother had made for him. He held her hand tightly for the rest of the day.

1. A. pleasure B. disappointment C. happiness D. delight

2. A. last B. second C. first D. final

3. A. manner B. appearance C. ugliness D. shyness

4. A. covered B. spread C. hurt D. hid

5. A. always B. often C. never D. still

6. A. surprised B. satisfied C. taught D. impressed

7. A. feeling B. honesty C. beauty D. bravery

8. A. but B. so C. or D. and

9. A. stopped B. kept C. hid D. tore

10. A. argument B. question C. discussion D. conversation

11. A. How B. When C. Why D. Where

12. A. anxious B. afraid C. worried D. cruel

13. A. Before B. As C. Since D. After

14. A. above B. towards C. off D. over

15. A. beaten B. knocked C. lost D. found

16. A. helped B. noticed C. protected D. saved

17. A. burned B. cut C. darkened D. recovered

18. A. minded B. cared C. remembered D. regretted

19. A. crying B. running C. pushing D. forcing

20. A. sense B. wave C. favor D. benefit

There was once a great painter named Mechel in Germany about two hundred years ago. One day a young painter decided to pay him a visit for the secret of painting.

Mechel was painting when the young man arrived at his house. He smiled and waved his painting brush in the air. The young man understood his meaning and said, "Do you mean that I should keep on painting?""Yes!"Mechel said and pointed to the picture on the table. "You should not only paint more, but also look through others' works. They may serve as a silent teacher. But the young painter said, "I have painted a lot. I can paint many pictures within a day. And I have looked through a lot. I can look through quite a few copies within a day.""What are the results?" asked Mechel. The young painter scratched his hair and said, "Though I can paint many pictures, it takes me a year to sell them."

After hearing this, Mechel said seriously, "Why not do your job the other way? I am sure if you spend a year painting a picture, you can sell it within a day."

79. The underlined word "they" means ________ .

A. painters

B. others

C. famous teachers

D. other painters' works

80. -Why did the young man go to visit Mechel?

-He wanted to ________ .

A. paint more pictures

B. sell more pictures

C. sell pictures quickly

D. ask for some advice

81. The secret of painting according to the Mechel is ________ .

A. keeping on painting

B. looking through others' works

C. painting one picture in a year

D. working hard and learning from others' works

82. -What advice did Mechel give the young man?

- ________ .

A. Taking a year to paint a picture

B. Following the others' examples

C. Spending more time learning and painting

D. Spending less time selling his pictures

This Thursday, Irena Sendler will be honored for her work as a smuggler (偷運(yùn)者). During World War II, the Polish social worker smuggled nearly 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto (聚居區(qū)). She gave them new identities （身份）, found them safe places with good-hearted Christians, and kept the children's real names buried in jars in her neighbors' gardens.(The play, Life in a Jar, based on her story, is being performed. ) At 93, Sendler lives in a Warsaw nursing home and was too weak to travel to Washington D.C. to receive the 2003 Jan Karski Award for Valor and Compassion from the American Center of Polish Culture. One of the children she had saved accepted the award for her.

You risked your life to save the children?

I was taught by my father that when someone is drowning, you don't ask if they can swim, you just jump in and help. During the war, everyone was drowning, but mostly the Jewish children.

How did you persuade parents to give their children?

I had to answer honestly that I didn't even know if we would get past the guards.

What was the most frightening moment?

When I saw a priest (牧師)in charge of an orphanage for Jewish children in the ghetto walk with them out to be killed. The children were in their best Sunday suits. The priest was killed with them.

How did you get the children to behave as you smuggled them out?

I told the older children to act as if they were sick and sometimes gave the younger ones a sleeping pill. They were told to remember their new names. I also told the children to tell guards they had only been visiting a servant in the ghetto and were going back to their real homes outside.

Did you tell your own two children what you did?

I never told them. Only when my daughter went to Israel (以色列)did she learn all about me. I thought it was only normal to do so. And it was a very painful subject. It was always on my mind that I couldn't do more.

75. We can learn from the passage that Irena Sendler ________ .

A. would not accept the award

B. was caught a few times while she was rescuing the Jewish children

C. told those parents that their children's lives would be guaranteed (保證)

D. saved thousands of Jewish children at the risk of her own life.

76. The expression "everyone was drowning" can be best replaced by " _______ ."

A. everyone was involved （卷入）in the war

B. all the people were drowned

C. people were facing danger and death

D. Jewish children were being killed

77. Which of the following is NOT true when Sendler was smuggling the Jewish children?

A. Some children were told to pretend to be sick in front of the guards.

B. Some children pretended to be returning home after visiting servants in the ghetto.

C. The children were asked to remember and use new names instead of their real names.

D. The children pretended to be brothers and sisters from one big family.

78. Sendler didn't tell her own children what she did in the war because _______ .

A. she thought it was the most frightening experience

B. the topic was too painful and heartbreaking to mention

C. it was already recorded and made known to the public

D. she planned to bury the secret in her heart until her death

During times of trouble, Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke from a small room without a fireplace in the White House basement to millions of Americans. In his calm and conversational manner, he reassured（使......恢復(fù)信心）the nation in the depths of the Great Depression（大蕭條）and through a World War.

Saul Bellow described his own experience of listening to President Roosevelt, hold the nation together, using only a radio and the power of his personality.

"I can recall walking eastward on the Chicago Midway... drivers had pulled over, parking bumper（保險(xiǎn)杠） to bumper, and turned on their radios to hear Roosevelt. They had rolled down the windows and opened the car doors. Everywhere the same voice, its odd Eastern accent, which in anyone else would have angered Midwesterners. You could follow without missing a single word as you walked by. You felt you had joined to these unknown drivers, men and women..."

The nation needed the assurance of those Fireside Chats, the first of which was delivered on March 12, 1933. Between a quarter and a third of the work force was unemployed. Every bank in America had been closed for at least eight days. It's hard for us to imagine. It was the hardest time of the Great Depression.

The "Fireside" was symbolic（象征性的）; most of the chats came from a small room in the White House basement. Frances Perkins, Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor, described the change that would come over him just before the broadcasts: "His face would smile and light up as though he were actually sitting on the front porch（門廊）or in the parlor with them. People felt this, and came to respect and love him."

In that first radio visit, Roosevelt began by explaining how the banking system worked : "When you put money in a bank, the bank does not place the money into a safe-deposit vault（金庫房）. It invests （投資）your money in many different forms." He went on to announce that the banks would reopen the next day.

71. The main purpose of the article is to ________ .

A. give examples of the power of radio broadcasting

B. make people examine their attitudes toward money

C. suggest that Roosevelt was America's greatest president

D. show how Roosevelt reassured American during hard times

72. According to the article, the Fireside Chats raised the hopes of Americans because President Roosevelt ________ .

A. spoke to them in a friendly and confident tone

B. explained to them how to invest their money

C. was open about his own fears for the country

D. used humor to draw their attention away from their problems

73. The name "Fireside Chats" was probably intended to ________ .

A. demand listeners to protect resources

B. encourage spirited discussion among listeners

C. request people to desire for hope and reassurance

D. persuade Americans to talk with their families

74. Saul Bellow's description of his own experience of listening to President Roosevelt shows ________ .

A. how popular and encouraging Roosevelt's Fireside Chats were

B. how easily Roosevelt's Fireside Chats could be understood

C. what great interest general public took in national affairs

D. what a hard life Americans had in Great Depression

After graduation from Harvard Medical School, Dr William Thomas never thought he'd work in a nursing home. Then,　　51　　, he became a medical director of a nursing home in New York, and his ideas began to　 52　 . "For the first time in my career, I was　　53　 for the answer to the question. What does it mean to　　54　 another person?"

　 55　 that the biggest trouble facing nursing-home residents（居住者）are helplessness,　　56　 and boredom, he arranged laughter, usefulness and love as　　57　 .

　 58　 Thomas calls it, he began the "Edenization（伊甸園化）" of the nursing home in 1992. At last he founded the Eden Alternative.

Lazy moments and loud television programmes were　　59　 with lovely children, playful pets,　　60　 plants and music in the lobby. These living things are mixed into　　61　 . Residents are 　 62　 to tend the animals, water the plants, weed outdoor gardens and do crafts （手工藝品）with the children.

The Eden Alternative changed the 　 63　 of the residents at this 80-bed nursing home. In a three-day study, the nursing home was　　64　 with a nursing home of equal size. The Eden Alternative had 15 percent　　65　 resident deaths and 38 percent lower medication costs.

In 1995 Dr Thomas 　 66　 his full time to the promotion （推廣）of the Eden Alternative. More than 200 nursing homes throughout the country have　　67　 the Edenization process. Thomas receives queries（質(zhì)疑）from as　　68　 away as Turkey, Japan, Brazil and the Netherlands. He hopes that his idea of filling the

"　　69　 "with nursing homes and inviting the community in will help to "break conventional （傳統(tǒng)的）practice in long term 　 70　 ."

51. A. unexpectedly B. unfortunately C. unhappily D. suddenly

52. A. wonder B. struggle C. shake D. change

53. A. hoping B. replying C. caring D. searching

54. A. make B. visit C. tend D. care

55. A. Recognizing B. Supposing C. Regarding D. Imagining

56. A. loneliness B. poverty C. timelessness D. excitement

57. A. food B. reference C. treatment D. introduction

58. A. When B. As C. Unless D. Since

59. A. went B. replaced C. began D. met

60. A. man-made B. plastic C. alive D. live

61. A. hope B. life C. happiness D. success

62. A. got B. helped C. encouraged D. required

63. A. lives B. habits C. customs D. methods

64. A. compared B. covered C. dealt D. equipped

65. A. more B. less C. worse D. fewer

66. A. sent B. led C. devoted D. used

67. A. begun B. developed C. prevented D. invented

68. A. long B. much C. far D. soon

69. A. homeless B. homes C. plants D. pets

70. A. relation B. education C. match D. care

The report came to the British on May 21st, 1941. The German battleship Bismarck, the most powerful warship in the world, was moving out into the Atlantic Ocean. Her task: to destroy the ships carrying supplies from the United States to war-torn England.

The British had feared such an act. No warship they had could match the Bismarck in speed or in firepower. The Bismarck had eight 15-inch guns and 81 smaller guns. She could move at 30 nautical miles an hour. She was believed to be unsinkable.

However, the British had to sink her. They sent out a task-force headed by their best battleship, Hood, to hunt down the Bismarck. On May 24th, the Hood found the Bismarck.

It was a meeting that the German commander Luetjens did not want to see. His orders were to destroy the British ships that were carrying supplies, but to stay away from a fight with British warships.

The battle didn't last long. The Bismarck's first torpedo(魚雷)hit the Hood, which went down taking all but three of her 1,419 men with her.

But in the fight, the Bismarck was slightly damaged. Her commander decided to run for repairs to France, which had at that time been taken by the Germans. The British force followed her. However, because of the Bismarck's speed and the heavy fog, they lost sight of her.

For two days, every British ship in the Atlantic tried to find the Bismarck, but with no success. Finally, she was sighted by a plane from Ireland. Trying to slow the Bismarck down so that their ships could catch up with her, the British fired at her from the air. The Bismarck was hit.

On the morning of May 27th, the last battle was fought. Four British ships fired on the Bismarck, and she was finally sunk.

1. The Bismarck sailed into the Atlantic Ocean ________ .

A. to sink the Hood

B. to gain control of France

C. to cut off American supplies to Britain

D. to stop British warships reaching Germany

2. Many people believed that the Bismarck could not be defeated because she ________ .

A. was fast and powerful

B. had more men on board

C. was under Luetjens' command

D. had bigger guns than other ships

3. What happened on 24 May?

A. The British won the battle against the Bismarck.

B. The Bismarck won the battle against the British.

C. The British gunfire damaged the Bismarck seriously.

D. The Bismarck succeeded in keeping away from the British.

4. Luetjens tried to sail to France in order to ________ .

A. have the ship repaired

B. join the other Germans

C. get help from the French

D. get away from the British

5. Which of the following is the immediate cause of the sinking of the Bismarck?

A. The British air strikes.

B. The damage done by the Hood.

C. Gunfire from the British warships.

D. Luetjens' decision to run for France.

Mr. Gray's business was to sell all kinds of machines to farmers. It was not really a very exciting job, but Mr. Gray had always been interested in __1__, and he was quite satisfied __2__ his life.

He had a big __3__ and usually enjoyed driving it long distances, but he was also quite __4__ to go by train sometimes, especially when the weather was __5__. He was a little frightened of driving in rain or snow, and it was less tiring to __6__ comfortably in a train and look out of the__7__without being worried how he was going to get to the next place.

One of Mr. Gray's __8__ was often where to stay when he reached some small place in the country. He did not expect __9__ and wonderful food, but he found it rather annoying when he was given a cold room, and when there was no __10__ water or good food after a long and tiring day.

Late one winter evening, Mr. Gray arrived at a __11__ railway station. The journey by train that day had not been at all interesting, and Mr. Gray was cold and tired and __12__. He was looking forward to a __13__ but satisfying meal by a brightly burning fire and then a hot bath and a comfortable __14__.

While he was walking to the taxi stand, he said to a local man who was also __15__ there, "As this is my __16__ visit to this part of the country and I was in too much of a __17__ to find out about hotels before I left home, I would very much like to know how many you have here."

The local man answered, "We have two."

"And which of the two would you __18__ me to go to?" Mr. Gray asked then.

The local man scratched(撓) his __19__ for a few moments and then answered, "Well, it's like this: Whichever one you go to, you'll be __20__ you didn't go to the other."

1. A. farming B. cooking C. traveling D. driving

2. A. in B. for C. with D. about

3. A. house B. farm C. car D. store

4. A. satisfied B. tired C. unhappy D. easy

5. A. warm B. fine C. hot D. bad

6. A. stand B. sit C. sleep D. wander

7. A. doors B. roof C. windows D. stations

8. A. problems B. machines C. answers D. replies

9. A. pleasure B. comfort C. dance D. dinner

10. A. cold B. cool C. hot D. warm

11. A. small B. silent C. busy D. crowded

12. A. happy B. hungry C. pleased D. satisfied

13. A. nice B. delicious C. simple D. hot

14. A. bench B. table C. seat D. bed

15. A. staying B. walking C. living D. working

16. A. last B. best C. first D. only

17. A. worry B. joy C. chance D. hurry

18. A. hope B. advise C. allow D. permit

19. A. hand B. foot C. head D. back

20. A. sorry B. content C. dull D. glad

Have you ever used a typewriter? If not, you've surely seen one. This useful machine has a most interesting history.

Although you may think that the typewriter is a modern invention, the idea goes as far back as the early 1700s. It was then, in 1714, that England's Queen Anne granted Henry Mill the first patent（專利）for a machine that typed letters called An Artificial (人造的) Machine or Method For Impressing Letters. The machine remained just a design on paper.

Various other typing machines were invented over the next hundred years or so. However, all of them had the same problem: they required more time to use than writing the same material by hand. Things improved a little around 1829 when an American named William Burt invented a machine called the desired letter. He also pressed a bar to link the paper. The machine printed letters well, but it had a top speed of only five words a minute.

Finally, in 1874, a more practical machine was introduced to the public. Invented by an American Christopher Sholes and some of his companions (同事), the machine was set up by E. Remington and Sons and called the "Remington Model No. 1". It was the first typewriter to have the kind of typewriter keyboard we know today.

You may have a look at the typewriter keyboard and wonder about the strange arrangement of letters. As a matter of fact, the keys were so arranged to force typists to type slower. Typing too fast caught the keys of Remington 1 pressed together. They still follow this early arrangement of letters of the keyboard.

11. What does the writer mainly talk about in this passage?

A. What a typewriter is.

B. How the typewriter was invented.

C. The function and use of a typewriter.

D. Remington and his invention.

12."An Artificial Machine" was _______ .

A. the first typewriter that was made by Henry Mill

B. highly praised by the British people as the first typewriter

C. hardly produced at all

D. made as the first typewriter in 1714

13. The first typewriters were made ________ .

A. from 1700 to 1714

B. in the eighteenth century

C. in the nineteenth century

D. in the twentieth century

14. Who invented a machine called the desired letter?

A. Henry Mill.   B. Queen Anne.  C. Christopher Sholes.   D. William Burt.

15. That the keyboard of Remington 1 was designed so was because ________ .

A. the inventor wanted to make typing slower than writing

B. the inventor meant to prevent the keys from being pressed together

C. it was arranged strangely

D. it has nothing to do with Remington

Tourism probably started in Roman times. Rich Romans visited friends and family who were working in another part of the Roman empire. When the empire broke down, this kind of tourism stopped.

In the early 17th century, the idea of the "Grand Tour" was born. Rich young English people sailed across the English Channel. They visited the most beautiful and important European cities of the time, including Paris in France, and Rome and Venice in Italy. Their tours lasted for two to four years, and the tourists stayed a few weeks or months in each city. The "Grand Tour" was an important part of young people's education-but only for the rich.

In the 18th century, tourism began to change. For example, people in the UK started to visit some towns, such as Bath to "take the waters". They believed that the water there was good for their health. So large and expensive hotels were built in these towns.

In the 19th century, travel became much more popular and faster. When the first railways were built in the 1820s, it was easier for people to travel between towns, so they started to go for holidays at the seaside. Some started to have holidays in the countryside as cities became larger, noisier and dirtier.

Traveling by sea also became faster and safer when the first steamships were built. People began to travel more to faraway countries.

The 20th century saw cars become more and more popular among ordinary people. Planes were made larger, so ticket prices dropped and more people used them.

Thus tourism grew. In 1949, Russian journalist Vladimir Raitz started a company called Horizon Holidays. The company organizes everything-plane tickets, hotel rooms, even food-and tourists pay for it all before they leave home. The package tour (包辦旅行) and modern tourism industry was born.

The first travel agency in China was set up as early as 1949. But tourism did not take off until 1978. In 2002, the industry was worth 500 billion yuan and became an important part of China's social development.

6. In the early times, the travelers _______ .

A. all came from China

B. were very young and strong

C. had lots of money

D. traveled by boat

7. _______ played the most important role in the tourism development.

A. Education    B. Money    C. Transportation   D. People's ideas

8. Modern tourism industry was born _______ .

A. in 1949    B. in Roman times    C. in the early 17th century    D. in the 19th century

9. In which century did travel become much more popular and faster?

A. 17th. B. 18th. C. 19th. D. 20th.

10. The underlined phrase "take off" means _______ .

A. rise into the air

B. develop very fast

C. remove hats and clothes

D. bring down the prices

My mother married my father largely, it seems, to help him out with his five motherless children. Having any herself was a secondary consideration. But first she had a girl, then she had another girl, and it was very nice, of course, to have them, but slightly disappointing, because she belonged to the generation and tradition that made a son the really important event; then I came, a fine healthy child. She was forty at my birth, and my father forty-nine. Four years later she had another son, and four years later still another son. The desired preponderance (優(yōu)勢) of male over female had been established, and twice five made ten. I found the gap of two generations between my parents and me easier, in a way, to a single generation gap. Children seldom quarrel with their grandparents. I have been able to think of mother and father as grandparents. Also, a family of ten means a dilution (稀釋) of parental affection; the members tend to become indistinct (模糊的): I have often been called,"Philip, Richard, Charles, I mean Robert."

1. According to the author, his father married his mother because he wanted her to _______ .

A. bring him another five children

B. bear him more children

C. bring up his children

D. look after their children

2. It was disappointing for the author's mother to have one girl and then another because_______ .

A. there were already many girls in the family

B. boys were more important to her than girls

C. she didn't intend to have any children

D. she thought she would have boys only

3. The author seldom quarreled with his parents because_______ .

A. there was a lot of parental affection in the family

B. the parents were easy-going people

C. the generation gap between them was too big

D. the children were not distinct

4. The author's mother finally stopped having any more children because _______ .

A. she was getting old and did not want any more

B. she thought ten children were enough for the family

C. she had more boys than girls now

D. her husband did not want her to have any more

5. Which of the following is the author's first name?

A. Philip. B. Richard. C. Charles. D. Robert.