假定你是李華，作為一名交換生（an exchange student）剛結束在英國為期一個月的學習。學習期間，你和房東Mr．Wilson結下了深厚的友誼。請按下列要點給Mr．Wilson發(fā)一封郵件：

1．對Mr．Wilson在你生活上的照顧和學習上的幫助表示感謝；

2．希望保持聯系；

3．邀請他來中國游玩。

注意：

1．詞數：120-150；

2．可以適當增加細節(jié)，以使行文連貫；

3．開頭已經寫好，不計人總詞數；

Dear Mr．Wilson,

Time flies! I've been back home．

       Best wishes．

Yours,

Li Hua

閱讀下面的短文，并根據短文后的要求答題。（請注意問題后的詞數要求）

[1] For more than 40 years, robots have worked in factories, doing jobs too boring or too dangerous for humans．Now, new robots are starting to help humans at home and at work．

[2] It was an exciting night at the Detroit Symphony （交響樂）．A special guest was joining the band．The conductor stepped out onto the stage and lifted both arms to direct the musicians．They played a song called "The Impossible Dream"．The audience was amazed．After all, ASIMO, the conductor, is only eight years old and four feet tall．It's just one of many robots being developed to perform tasks that humans usually perform．

[3] Japan has more robots than any other country．Four Out of every 10 worker robots are there．The Japanese government is spending millions of dollars building even more robots．Why the rush for more electronic helpers? More than one fifth of Japan's population is 65 or older, so there are not enough young people in the workforce．

[4] Many of Japan's robots are designed to interact with people．One Japanese hospital has three shiny robots that help out in the waiting room．They greet patients and give directions．"Robots won't ever be doctors," says hospital spokesperson Naoya Narita．"But they can be guides．"

[5] Since the 1960s, robots have been doing jobs that are too boring or too dangerous for humans．Some stand for long hours in factories, packaging food or putting together cars．Others milk cows on farms all day long．However, these industrial robots don't look like humans．Now that robots are moving into our homes, many are starting to look more like us．Trevor Blackwell's company, Anybots, makes robots．He built a dishwashing robot called Monty．It is as tall as a person and has humanlike hands,

[6] Will the robots of the future look more like machines or people? Either way, Blackwell is happy to let them do the chores．"I'd rather have a robot do dishes," he says．Wouldn't you?

76．What does the passage mainly talk about? （no more than 8 words）

77  Why did the audience feel shocked at the Detroit Symphony? （no more than 6  words）．

78．Why are the Japanese building so many robots? （no more than 10 words）

79．Complete the following statement with words from Paragraph 4 in the proper form.

       （no more than 3 words）

       I really don't work here, I am just                  for the moment．

80．List three things that the robots have been doing for humans since the 1960s．（no more than 10 words）

（1）               

（2）               

（3）               

     An average 30-year-old person who has eaten three meals a day since birth has eaten more than 30,000 meals to date. Even if you've only eaten half that much you have to admit this : you've let some of that breakfast, lunch or dinner go to waste. And it turns out we're all to blame for this shaming fact: 30% of all food produced in the world each year is wasted or lost. That's about 1.3 billion tons, according to a new report by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.

      That's the weight of more than 8.6 million full-grown blue whales, the largest creatures on earth. That's the weight of more than 2.3 million Airbus A380s, the largest planes in existence. That's as if each person in China, the world's most populous country with more than 1.3 billion people, had one ton mass of food they could just throw into the dustbin. It's almost unfathomable, isn't it?

     Setting aside that big number, we find the people with the most money are the ones who waste the most. Per capita( 人均 ), European and North American countries waste between 95 and 115 kilograms of food. Sub-Saharan African, South Asian and Southeast Asian countries waste much, much less -- between 6 and 11 kilograms per person.

     Here's another statistic: all the food that the world's richest countries waste is about equal to all the food that sub-Saharan Africa produces. The numbers: 222 million tons and 230 million tons, respectively( 分別地). Basically, the wasted food of the rich could feed much of the African continent. And these numbers come as we've just been reporting about rising food prices around the world in the past week.

     And my own personal tip: if I eat at a restaurant and can't finish it all, I ask for a doggie bag. I used to be a waiter years ago and will never forget the amounts of food I saw left on the table after the bill was paid. There's no reason to waste food. It's up to all of us to use our common sense to eat and shop just a bit more wisely.

71. According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, how much food do people produce each year in the world?

    A. About 3.3 billion tons.         B. About 3.9 billion tons.

    C. About 4.3 billion tons.         D. About 5.6 billion tons.

72. What does the underlined word "unfathomable" in Paragraph 2 mean?

    A. Possible to imagine.            B. Impossible to change.

    C. Impossible to understand.        D. Possible to understand.

73. It can be learned that the food the rich waste can support________.

    A. half the people in Europe           B. most people of America

    C. most people of Asia                D. most people of Africa

74. The author gave his personal tip based on the fact that _________

    A. he was once very poor                B. he was once a farmer

    C. he once worked in a restaurant          D. the price of food is very high

75. What is the purpose of this article?

    A. To show the author's opinion of food.

    B. To let us live more wisely and not waste food.

    C. To show the amount of wasted food a year.

    D. To ask the richest countries to help African people.

　　 My youngest eagerly entered kindergarten, while my oldest excitedly started college and I felt left behind. After being very happy as a stay-at-home mother of six children, I suddenly felt disappointed on a dead-end road and surrounded by a lack of direction, An inner anxiety troubled me that life was passing by. The road, requiting expensive education, appeared too long and difficult.

　　 Thanks to supportive friends and family, I eventually discovered the road sign pointing to the ideal program at an excellent college, which offered a lot of tuition grants( 學費資助 ). With anxiety and fear, I went to the college at age forty. Driving to my first master's class, I was as eager and nervous as children for the first day of school.

　　 School required sacrifices: weekends for class, sleep for study, and life's extra money for tuition payments. Yet, as with all good things, the rewards greatly outweighed the cost. The narrow, rocky road developed will power and patience, while the smooth, open road built low confidence. Along the way, I met companions of all ages and interests: a 50-year-old woman who took part in photography classes at the college; a 62-year-old successful businessman who worked toward a nursing degree to serve in developing countries; an 80-year-old woman who enthusiastically started classes to use the Internet, so she could keep up with the world

　　 This past May, twelve years after starting the journey as a non-traditional student, I graduated with a doctoral degree in literature one week before our youngest child graduated from college. All six children have been especially proud, lovingly calling me " Dr. Mom". Never could I have imagined the wild rush and great travel of this ride back to school. When you hear the small, still voice urging you to do something more or different, remember you can trust your heart.

66. How did the author feel after her youngest entered kindergarten?

A. She was satisfied with her family life.

B. She was unhappy about losing her job.

C. She was unwilling to live a common life.　　

D. She worried about her children's growth.

67. The author eventually managed to get the chance to study the college courses ____

A. before she gave birth to her sixth child　　

B. at a common college near her house

C.with free tuition beyond her expectation

D.with the help of her family and friends

68. What did the author think of the sacrifices she had made?

　 A. It was unfair for her to suffer these as she was not young.

　 B. They were worthwhile compared to what she got.

　 C. They made her lose her confidence during the study.

　 D. They did little help on her way to success.

69. The examples the author gives in Paragraph 3 fully prove that ____________

　 A. it is never too late to learn　 　　　B. she had many classmates

　 C. women are more hard-working　　 D. learning is the only way for kids

70. We can learn from this passage that the author __

　 A. graduated almost at the same time as her oldest child

　 B. studied the courses in the college as a traditional student

　 C. eventually became a doctor and worked in a hospital

　 D. got her doctoral degree in literature when she was 52

The way people hold the belief that a fun-filled, pain-free life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness．If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness．But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not, things that lead to happiness involve some pain．

As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness．They fear the pain certainly brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment, self-improvement．

Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying．If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment, for commitment is in fact quite painful．The single life is filled with fun, adventure, excitement．Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features．

Couples with baby children are lucky to get a whole night's sleep or a three-day vacation．I don't know any parent who would choose the word "fun" to describe raising children．But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild．

Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations．It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can increase our happiness? it liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless; and it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all．

61．According to the author, a bachelor resists marriage chiefly because _____．

       A．he finds more fun in dating than in marriage

       B．he believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single

       C．he is unwilling to take family responsibilities

       D．he fears it will put an end to all his fun adventure and excitement

62．Raising children, in the author's opinion, is _____．

       A．a moral duty              B．a painful job

       C．a worthless activity         D．a rewarding task

63．From the last paragraph, we learn that envy sometimes comes from _____．

       A．dislike      B．misunderstanding     C．prejudice     D．ignorance

64．To understand what true happiness is, one must _____．

       A．be able to distinguish happiness from fun

       B．make every effort to liberate oneself from pain

       C．put up with pain under all circumstances

       D．have as much fun as possible during one's lifetime

65．What is the author trying to tell us?

       A．It is important to make commitments!

       B．One must know how to attain happiness．

       C．Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain

       D．It is pain that leads to happiness．

Swiss national Louis Palmer fulfilled a childhood dream when he set off from his home country on July 3, travelling over desert, city and sea in 17 countries by a solar taxi to reach UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia．

"In 1986, I was a 14-year-old boy, I was dreaming that when I will be an adult, I want to drive around the world," he told reporters．

"Then it came to my mind, how can I travel around the world and enjoy the beauty of this world with a car that is polluting the world? Then I thought the perfect car would be a solar car．"

His car, which has become a major attraction at the gates of the summit of some 188 nations, was built in three years with scientific help from four universities and 15 Swiss companies．The car pulls a trailer with six squares metres of solar panels which absorb the sun．The electricity is fed into the battery which powers the car, and can run for up to 100 kilometres a day．

"It's the first time in history that a car is driving around the world without a single drop of petrol," said Palmer．

His epic solar journey is not his first adventure—he crossed Africa on a bicycle and North America in a light aircraft．

So far, Palmer has gone by land through Europe and the Middle East, then by sea to India and on to Indonesia．After covering much of Asia, Australia, North America and Africa, he will return to Switzerland to try and drum up support for the commercial possibilities of solar cars．

For the moment, he has his hands full, with more curious customers waiting to take a ride in his unique automobile which, he said, "works like a Swiss clock．"

56．The sentence in the third paragraph "how can I travel around the world and enjoy the beauty of this world with a car that is polluting the world?" means _____．

       A．Louis Palmer found it hard to choose how to travel

       B．Louis Palmer would feel guilty about his travelling in a polluting car

       C．Louis Palmer couldn't make up his mind whether to travel by car

       D．Louis Palmer was trying to enjoy the scenery in spite of polluting the world

57．Why did Louis Palmer take so long a journey by a "solar taxi"?

       A．To attend the conference           B．To advertise the solar car

       C．To realize his dream               D．To turn to the summit for help

58．So many visitors came to the car mainly because _____．

       A．it uses electricity as power           B．it works as well as a Swiss clock

       C．it is the first solar car in the world      D．they were eager to have a look at it

59．The underlined phrase "has his hands full" in the last paragraph probably means _____．

       A．becomes very popular           B．looks so proud

       C．is extremely busy               D．shakes hands

60．Which of the following is true according to the passage?

       A．Palmer will attempt to put solar cars on the market．

       B．Palmer dreamed of a solar car when he was a boy．

       C．Palmer will return home from Indonesia．

       D．Palmer has never made a journey before．

On Sunday, the day after my second visit to the Saturn store, my wife, Jane, said, “I don’t know if you remember, but today’s my fifth anniversary of being cancer-free.” She had been 　36 with breast cancer five years ago and undergone surgery. I was 　37 that I had forgotten.

The next day, Jane went to work and I called Saturn to 　38 her a new car. I knew she had always wanted a 　39 car. The sales consultant at Saturn said he had one left 　40 he couldn’t guarantee it’d still be available because they were 　41 fast. I said I’d take my 　42 and asked him to put it in the showroom.

At 9:30 Saturday morning I turned into the Saturn parking lot. “What are you doing?” Jane asked 　43 . “You promised me we’d get home 　44 .”

But no sooner had we stepped into the store than Jane 　45 the little white Saturn coupe(雙門轎車). “Oh, what a pretty car,” she said. “I’d love the new car.”

46 she let out a scream. A sign stood on the hood(車篷)of the car and it said “ 47 , Jane. This car is yours. Let’s celebrate 　48 . From Milt, Billy and Team Saturn”

Jane collapsed in my arms and 　49 . I was in tears too. There was 50 in the store. Our sales consultant had 　51 it so that we could share the moment alone. Even so, people were standing outside the windows. When Jane collapsed in my arms, I saw everybody outside 　52 . 　

Over the years, I’ve told this story across the world as an example of excellent 　53 . A woman in San Francisco heard it. She called 　54 long distance and bought a new car.

It’s like what a Saturn sales consultant said: “It’s only the 　55 told about us that differentiate(區(qū)別)us in the market place.”

36. A. infected　 　　　　 B. diagnosed　　　　　　　　 C. linked 　　　　　　　　　 D. associated

37. A. astonished　 　 B. concerned　　　　 C. embarrassed　 　　 D. convinced

38. A. buy 　　　　　　　　 B. give　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. show　 　　　　 D. deliver

39. A. new　 　　　　　　　　　　 B. pretty　　　　　　　　　　　 C. private　 　　　　 D. white

40. A. although　　　　　　 　 B. but　　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. because 　　　　　　　 D. if

41. A. selling 　　　　　　　 B. running　　　　　　　　　 C. changing　 　 　 D. updating

42. A. wife 　　　　　　　 B. money 　　　　　　　　　 C. chances 　　　　　　　　 D. order

43. A. eagerly 　　　　　　 　 B. delightedly 　　 C. excitedly　 　　　 D. angrily

44. A. right away　　　　　 B. tonight　　　　　　　　　　 C. tomorrow D. this afternoon

45. A. bought 　　　　　　　　　　 B. spotted　 　 C. selected 　　　　 D. reserved

46. A. Curiously 　　　 B. Naturally 　 C. Suddenly　　　 D. Deliberately

47. A. Congratulations　 B. Thanks　　　　　　　　　　 C. Sorry　　　 　　　　　 D. Welcome

48. A. marriage　　　　　　 B. friendship　　　　　　　　 C. love　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. life

49. A. smiled　　 　　 B. cried　　　　 C. screamed 　　　　 D. apologized

50. A. no one 　　 B. someone　 　　　　　　 C. a customer　　　 D. a consultant

51. A. decorated　 B. confirmed　　 C. made　　 　 　　　 D. arranged

52. A. laugh　　　 B. sigh 　　　 　　　C. applaud　 　 　　 D. leave

53. A. service　　 B. business　 　 　 C. attitude　 　 D. promotion

54. A. Billy　　　　　　　　　 B. Jane　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. me　 　　　　　　　　　 D. Saturn

55. A. lies　　　　　　 　 B. stories 　　　　　　　　 C. truth　　　　 　 　　　　 D. facts

—The lecture to be given by the Nobel Prize winner has been canceled?

—Oh, no! _____．

　　　 A．It's wonderful　　　　　　　 　　　　 B．It doesn't matter

　　　 C．I have no idea　　　　　　　 　　　　 D．I was looking forward to that

I am _____ about what I say because careless remarks are likely to hurt others' feelings．

       A．enthusiastic         B．concerned        C．doubtful     D．cautious

—She might complain about you to your manager．

—_____? I know I am in the right．

　　　 A．So what　　 B．Why not　　 　　　　 C．What's up　　　 D．What for