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Dear editor,

      Several days ago, I heard that a dear friend of mine had killed herself. I was deep in sorrow by the sudden news. I can’t keep calm any longer.    66   .
      Life is so precious. If we can slip into death in an impulsive (沖動(dòng)的) moment, what use in all our efforts and hopes? Our families, our ambitions, everything is thrown into total darkness.   67   .  Nevertheless, the suicide rate increases year by year, particularly of young people. Reasons may vary from person to person,   68  .
      First, today’s young people are morally weak. They hunger for success but can not face failure; they are eager to be understood but afraid of opening their hearts to others. They live in a wide world, from east to west, ancient to present, but their hearts beat in a narrow desert, closed tight, unable to communicate. Each becomes an isolated fortress (孤堡), lonely, and weak.
        69  . As a young teacher, she was devoted to her work but was disappointed with her students’ occasional failures. She fell in love with a colleague but he deserted her. With no friends, disappointed at work and in love, death seemed to her the only remaining choice and she took it.
      Another reason for the weakness of today’s youth, in my opinion, comes from society’s pressures.  70  . On the other hand, society refuses to accept that children sometimes do fail. But failure is more important because it can teach the young how to win next time.
      What can we do to save the desperate young?

A. I’m always thinking about life and death
B. yet I think they share something in common
C. The young are forced to try too hard to succeed
D. My friend is a good example of that
E. And death allows no time for regret
F. people love success and are afraid of failure
G. failure is the mother of success

The history of inventions leading up to the modern computer is a story of people trying hard to create machines that complete many tasks automatically, such as adding up large numbers, controlling airplanes in flight, etc. Many of the earliest methods of recording and counting data still remain mysteries (something that is not understood).

In England you can visit Stonehenge, where a mysterious collection of large stones has stood since 1,500 BC. Scientists have never discovered the stones’ purpose. However, by observing the way the sun shines between the stones, many people believe Stonehenge was used to predict the seasons and eclipses (蝕) of the sun and the moon.

Another early method of computing was a brass calculator, which existed in Spain nearly 1,000 years ago. The machine was shaped like a human head, with numbers instead of teeth. The shape became its undoing; some people were afraid the machine was supernatural, and destroyed it. In early recorded history, calculators that used the sun, or objects in the night sky, were developed to be used on ships to explore the world beyond the Tigris-Euphrates Valley of southwestern Asia. One such device, dating from the first century, worked with a system of gears designed to track the orbits of stars and planets. These orbits became the marked routes for ships.

In ancient Rome and Greece, one of the earliest machines ever used for processing numbers was the abacus. This simple collection of beads has been used for centuries in China and other Asian countries. The abacus is built with columns of beads attached to a rectangular wooden frame. Inside the wooden frame is a crossbar that separates each column of beads into two sections. In the Chinese version there are two beads above the bar and five below. Each column of beads means a different range of numbers. The first column from the right represents ones, the second tens, the third hundreds, etc. By moving beads, calculations are quickly completed. Because values are shown by positions, the abacus is very valuable in teaching arithmetic to blind students.

Experienced users operate the abacus very quickly. After World War II, a speed competition was arranged in Japan between the fastest calculator operator in the US Army and an employee of the Japanese Post Office using an abacus. The American was defeated easily by the moving beads of his opponent.

62. What does the author mainly talk about in this passage?

A. Old methods to manage data.　　　　　　　　 B. The great inventions in science.

C. The mysterious historical events.　　　　　 D. Theory and practice in computing.

63. How does the author try to prove his point?

A. By making comparisons.　 　　　　　　 B. By analyzing the cause.

C. By telling a true story.　　　　　　　 D. By giving examples.

64. The underlined word “undoing” in Paragraph 3 probably means ________.

A. cause of bad luck　　 B. reason for change　 C. way to escape　　 　　 D. loss of power

65. What will the author most probably discuss in the paragraph that follows?

A. The fast development of computer science.　

B. The use of abacus in Japanese Post Office.

C. The inventor of the first modern computer.　　

D. The invention of the first analytical engine.

Wilson Middle School

To: All students

From: Agnes Smith, Secretary of the Computer Club

Date: 8^th September

Subject: A New Year for the Computer Club

Welcome back to school. It is a new year for the Computer Club, and there are lots of things to tell you about, so here goes.

First of all, we have redesigned the school website home page. It is now more interesting, and contains information about updates to the school website. You can now click on the right places to see our new school motto, the information about our 25^th School Anniversary and a Chinese version. Why not have a look at it, and tell your friends about it, as well? The school website address is http://school.web/wms/index.html.

Secondly, the 15^th Joints Schools Computer Exhibition will be held from the 3^rd to the 10^th of July next year. The theme of the exhibition is ‘Computer Technology 20 Years from Now’. All participating schools must submit a project proposal (方案) by the 28^th of April next year. We want our school to participate in the exhibition, and we will prepare a project proposal for the school to submit before the deadline. If you have an idea for a proposal, please e-mail Kevin Shum or Amy Yale.

Finally, the Computer Club will hold a Get-Acquainted lunch on Saturday, the 20^th of September, at 12:30 pm in Room 12. We invite you all to the lunch, and we welcome you to come whether you are interested in joining the Computer Club, or you just want to learn something about computers.

We look forward to seeing you there!

58. What can we learn from Paragraph 2?

A. The school has a new website address.        

B. The students can see the old school motto on the home page.

C. The school will celebrate their anniversary on September 25^th.

D. The students can read the information in Chinese on the school website.

59. You can go and enjoy the 15^th Joints Schools Computer Exhibition on ________ next year.

A. April 28^th                B. July 3^rd     C. September 8^th                     D. September 12^th

60. What will the Computer Club do on September 20^th?

A. Redesign a home page.                    B. Hold a computer exhibition.  

C. Offer a special lunch.                        D. Submit a project proposal.

61. What is the purpose of the letter?

A. To report what the Computer Club did last year.

B. To tell about the activities of the Computer Club.

C. To teach the students how to learn computer well.

D. To persuade the students to join the Computer Club.

Around the World by Wheelchair

Rick Hansen was always an active kid and loved to fish. 里克·漢森是一個(gè)十分活躍又喜歡釣魚(yú)的孩子。When returning in a truck one day from a fishing trip, he had an accident and suffered injuries to his spine (脊柱). 一天在他釣完魚(yú)坐卡車回家的路上，一次意外的事故中使他的脊椎受了傷。This 15-year-old young man awoke to find that he had lost the use of his legs.這個(gè)年輕人醒來(lái)時(shí)發(fā)現(xiàn)他的雙腿已經(jīng)不聽(tīng)使喚了。 However, he didn’t give up. Many months later he began to compete in wheelchair sports. At the age of 27, he decided to wheel around the world 好幾個(gè)月之后他開(kāi)始參加輪椅運(yùn)動(dòng)的比賽。  to raise awareness and money for spinal cord research. 很快他就開(kāi)始為脊髓研究工作而奔走效力。他決定通過(guò)自己坐輪椅周游世界這一途徑來(lái)為脊髓損傷的研究工作來(lái)籌募資金并引起世人的關(guān)注。His tour took him through 34 countries around the world between 1985 and 1987. 在1985年到1987年間，他的旅程遍及世界上的34個(gè)國(guó)家。In this Man of Motion World Tour, he wheeled 24,901.55 miles, which is equal to the distance around the earth.

Bad weather and difficult, rocky roads often provided challenges for Rick, but he continued to push himself to complete the trip. 惡劣的天氣以及艱難坎坷的道路經(jīng)常成為里克所面臨的挑戰(zhàn)，但是他一直強(qiáng)迫自己堅(jiān)持完成了這次旅行。He was determined to succeed. 他一定會(huì)成功的。Even mountains did not stop Rick Hansen. 就算是崇山峻嶺也無(wú)法阻止里克·漢森。He wheeled himself up the Rocky Mountains and several other major mountains in the world. 他坐著輪椅登上了落基山脈和世界上幾座其他的主要山嶺。He even wheeled himself along the Great Wall of China!

“Never Give Up On Your Dreams” was his motto and he hasn’t given up yet. “不要放棄你的夢(mèng)想” 是他的座右銘，而且他從來(lái)沒(méi)有放棄過(guò)。He completed his world tour raising $24 million. 他完成了他的環(huán)游世界的行程并從加拿大的資助者那里籌集了兩千四百萬(wàn)美元的資金。He continues to work to increase knowledge of spinal cord injury. 他繼續(xù)著他的工作以不斷積累關(guān)于脊髓損傷方面的知識(shí)。He is a true Canadian hero who shows what determination can achieve.

54. What happened to Rick after the accident?

A. He lost the ability of living.               B. He had to spend his life in hospital.   

C. He couldn’t walk any more.             D. He couldn’t do sports any more.

55. When did Rick begin his tour around the world?

A. At the age of 15.                                          B. Soon after the accident.

C. A year after the accident.                        D. At the age of 27.

56. Why did Rick take his tour around the world in his wheelchair?

A. To gather money for the spinal cord research. B. To learn about the people of other countries.

C. To travel to different countries for fun.           D. To take photos of beautiful mountains.

57. From the passage we can see Rick is a(n) ________ person.

A. unhappy         B. determined       C. careful           D. quiet

Why do men die earlier than women? The latest research makes it known that the reason could be that men’s hearts go into rapid decline when they reach middle age.

The largest study of the effects of ageing on the heart has found that women’s longevity may be linked to the fact that their hearts do not lose their pumping power with age.

“We have found that the power of the male heart falls by 20-25 percent between 18 and 70 years of age,” said the head of the study, David Goldspink of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK.

“Within the heart there are millions of cells that enable it to beat. Between the age of 20 and 70, one-third of those cells die and are not replaced in men,” said Goldspink. “This is part of the ageing process.”

What surprises scientists is that the female heart sees very little loss of these cells. A healthy 70-year-old woman’s heart could perform almost as well as a 20-year-old one’s.

“This gender(性別) difference might just explain why women live longer than men,” said Goldspink. They studied more than 250 healthy men and women between the ages of 18 and 80, focusing on healthy persons to remove the confusing influence of disease. “The team has yet to find why ageing takes a greater loss on the male heart,” said Goldspink.

The good news is that men can improve the health of their heart with regular exercise. Goldspink stressed that women also need regular exercise to prevent their leg muscles becoming smaller and weaker as they age.

51. The underlined word “l(fā)ongevity” in the second paragraph probably refers to “________”.

A. health              B. long life             C. ageing              D. effect

52. The text mainly talks about ________.

A. men’s heart cells                        B. women’s ageing process

C. the gender difference                     D. hearts and long life

53. According to the text, the UK scientists have known that ________.

A. women have more cells than men when they are born

B. women can replace the cells that enable the heart to beat

C. the female heart loses few of the cells with age

D. women never lose their pumping power with age

One day in early December, we woke up to discover a heavy fall of snow. “Mom, can we go __31__ after breakfast?” my eleven-year-old daughter Erica begged. I didn’t want to __32__ her request, so we headed towards the only __33__ in our town.

When we arrived, the hill was crowded with people. We found an open spot next to a thin man and his three-year-old son. The boy was already lying in the sled (雪橇), __34__ to be launched. “Come on, Daddy!” he called.

The man looked over at me. “Okay if we go __35__?” he asked.

“Sure. Looks like your son is ready to go,” I said. With that, he gave the boy a huge __36__, and off he flew! And the father ran after his son at full speed.

“He must be afraid that his son is going to __37__ somebody,” I said to Erica. “We’d better be __38__, too.”

Then we also skied down the hill at a great speed. As we returned to the top, I noticed that the man was __39__ his son, who was still lying in the sled, back up to the summit（山頂）. When we reached the top, the boy was ready to play again. Again, the father __40__ him down the hill, and then pulled both the boy and the sled back up. The little boy was terribly spoilt by his father, I thought. __41__ he was small, the child could pull his own sled up the hill once in a while. This __42__ went on for more than an hour, but the man never __43__, and he was very happy instead. Finally, I could __44__ it no longer. I called to him, “You have tremendous __45__!”

The man smiled and said, “He has cerebral palsy (腦癱). He can’t walk. ”

I was dumbstruck (驚呆的). It had all seemed so happy, so __46__, that it never occurred to me that the child might be __47__. Although I didn’t know the man’s name, I told the __48__ in my newspaper column. Either he or someone he knew must have recognized him, __49__ shortly afterward, I received this letter:

Dear Mrs. Silverman,

The energy I expended on the hill that day is __50__ compared to what my son does every day. To me, he is a true hero.

31. A. skiing              B. hiking                       C. shopping                      D. camping

32. A. answer               B. allow                        C. refuse                      D. accept

33. A. lake                    B. hill                           C. market                    D. gym

34. A. waiting            B. advising                    C. promising                 D. warning

35. A. too                         B. second                            C. first                        D. last

36. A. wave                  B. ability                       C. touch                             D. push

37. A. look at                B. come across            C. run into              D. call on

38. A. careful                B. honest                      C. natural                     D. special

39. A. attracting            B. pulling               C. following                 D. forbidding

40. A. chased                B. found                       C. drove                             D. noticed

41. A. As if                   B. Now that                 C. Even though         D. Ever since

42. A. accident                  B. signal                       C. adventure                D. pattern

43. A. doubted                     B. laughed                    C. cried                       D. tired

44. A. stand               B. interrupt                   C. change                    D. demand

45. A. value                  B. energy                      C. skills                       D. attitude

46. A. fair                     B. normal                         C. frightening               D. unlucky

47. A. homeless             B. technical                   C. disabled                    D. creative

48. A. joke                    B. news                        C. meeting                   D. story

49. A. if                     B. unless                      C. because                   D. although

50. A. nothing               B. everything                C. something                D. all      

 If you had followed my advice, you ____________ better now.

   A. would be             B. would have been              C. are             D. should be

 My parents don’t mind what job I do ________ I am happy.

   A. even though        B. as soon as         C. as long as          D. as though

 The young man risked _____ by the car and carried the boy to safety.

   A. killing                 B. to be killed                C. being killed               D. killed

 _____ is reported in the newspaper, talks between the two countries are making progress.

   A. Which                B. As                     C. That                 D. What