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Sam, a dog, was left behind in Colorado while his owners, Mr. And Mrs. Green moved to Southern California. They did not give the dog up. They found him a very nice home before they moved. They would have let Sam accompany them, but they were afraid the dog’s presence would make it difficult for them to rent a house when they reached their destination.
The Green family lived in Colorado for less than a year. Before that, they had lived in the same neighborhood in California to which they returned. So Sam had been there before, but only for a short time when he was young.
Several months after the Greens left Colorado, after they were comfortably settled back in California, they heard a scratch at the door. They couldn’t imagine who might be there. It never occurred to them that it might be Sam, because they were sure he was happily set up with his new family back in Colorado. When they opened the door, the Greens saw a dirty, tired dog with very hurting feet. The animal looked a little bit like Sam, but no one could believe that Sam could have walked 840 miles on his own. The tired dog spent the night under the family car. The next day, when he was more rested, he performed some of his old tricks. The Greens knew they had their own dog back.

  1. 1.

    The story suggests that _______ .

    1. A.
      dog owners have trouble renting
    2. B.
      many people treat their pets badly
    3. C.
      keeping a dog is easy
    4. D.
      dogs are too much trouble
  2. 2.

    Which is the right order of the following events according to the passage?
    a. Sam walked to California.            b. The Greens moved to Colorado.
    c. The Greens left Sam.                d. The Greens returned to California.
    e. Sam spent the night under the family car.

    1. A.
      b, d, c, e, a
    2. B.
      b, c, d, a, e
    3. C.
      a, c, b, e, d
    4. D.
      c, e, d, a, b
  3. 3.

    The underlined word “destination” in the first paragraph means _________.

    1. A.
      the cost of living
    2. B.
      the country of one’s birth
    3. C.
      the damage to oneself
    4. D.
      the place to which one is going
  4. 4.

    The Greens knew the dog was Sam ________.

    1. A.
      because of his hurting feet
    2. B.
      from the color and the markings
    3. C.
      by the way he walked
    4. D.
      after he did some tricks

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Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said that people should then go on to reduce their meat consumption even further.
Pachauri, who was re-elected the panel’s chairman for a second six-year term last week, said diet change was important because of the huge greenhouse gas emissions (排放) and other environmental problems associated with raising cattle and other animals. “It was relatively easy to change eating habits compared to changing means of transport,” he said.
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation has estimated that meat production accounts for nearly a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions. These are produced during the production. For example, ruminants (反芻動物), particularly cows, give off a gas called methane, which is 23 times more effective as a global warming agent than CO2.
Pachauri can expect some opposite responses from the food industry to his advice, though last night he was given unexpected support by Masterchef presenter and restaurateur John Torode. “I have a little bit and enjoy it,” said Torode. “Too much for any person is bad. But there’s a bigger issue here: where the meat comes from. If we all bought British and stopped buying imported food, we’d save a huge amount of carbon emissions.”
Professor Robert Watson, the chief scientific adviser for the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, said government could help educate people about the benefits of eating less meat, but it should not regulate. “Eating less meat would help, there’s no question about that,” Watson said.
However, Chris Lamb, head of marketing for pig industry group BPEX, said the meat industry had been unfairly targeted and was working hard to find out which activities had the biggest environmental impact and reduce them. “Some ideas were contradictory,” he said. “For example, one solution to emissions from cattle and other animals was to keep them indoors, but this would damage animal welfare. Climate change is a very young science and our view is there are a lot of simple solutions being proposed.”

  1. 1.

    What is directly related to global warming?

    1. A.
      Consumption of meat.
    2. B.
      Growth of cattle.
    3. C.
      Methane from ruminants.
    4. D.
      Processing of meat.
  2. 2.

    Who holds a view opposite to the others’ in the passage?

    1. A.
      Rajendra Pachauri.
    2. B.
      John Torode.
    3. C.
      Robert Watson.
    4. D.
      Chris Lamb.
  3. 3.

    It is implied in the passage that _____.

    1. A.
      we should try to keep away from cattle
    2. B.
      ruminants should not be left outdoors
    3. C.
      the meat industry will soon close down
    4. D.
      we must do our duty to save the earth
  4. 4.

    Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?

    1. A.
      Less meat, slower global warming
    2. B.
      More animals, more greenhouse gas
    3. C.
      Less imported food, better our environment
    4. D.
      Greater diet change, smaller climate change

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One day a mime(啞劇演員) is visiting the zoo and wants to make some money as a street performer. As soon as he starts to draw a crowd, a zookeeper drags him into his office. The zookeeper explains that the zoo’s most popular attraction, a gorilla(大猩猩), has died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance at the zoo will fall off. He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla. The mime accepts.
The next morning the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage before the crowd comes. He soon discovers he can sleep all as he likes, play and make fun of the people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime — the job he likes but loses.
However, with days going by, he begins to notice that the people are paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his. Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience(觀眾), he climbs to the top of his cage, crawls across a partition(隔墻), and dangles(懸掛) from the top to the lion’s cage. The lion gets angry at this. The scene is afuel to the crowd.
At the end of the day he is given a pay raise for being such a good attraction. Well, this continues for some time. The crowds grow larger, and the mime’s pay keeps going up.
Then one day when he is dangling over the lion he slips and falls. The mime is terrified(嚇壞). He starts screaming, “Help me!”, but the lion is quick. The mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and the lion says, “Shut up you fool! Do you want to get us both fired?”

  1. 1.

    How does the mime find the job dressing up as the gorilla?

    1. A.
      Hard and tiring.
    2. B.
      Dangerous.
    3. C.
      Easy and fun.
    4. D.
      Boring.
  2. 2.

    The mime’s first contact with the lion is to __________.

    1. A.
      find pleasure for himself
    2. B.
      get the lion’s attention
    3. C.
      get his pay raised
    4. D.
      win back his audience
  3. 3.

    The underlined works “a fuel” in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by __________.

    1. A.
      frightening
    2. B.
      common
    3. C.
      exciting
    4. D.
      familiar
  4. 4.

    From the last paragraph we can know that ___________.

    1. A.
      the lion will eat the poor mime
    2. B.
      the lion is also played by a person
    3. C.
      the animals in the zoo are all played by people
    4. D.
      animals played by people can attract more visitors

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The Marches were a happy family. Poverty, hard work, and even the fact that Father March was away with the Union armies could not down the spirits of Meg, Jo, Amy, and Marmee, as the March girls called their mother.
The March sisters tried to be good but had their share of faults. Pretty Meg was often displeased with the schoolchildren she taught; boyish Jo was easy to become angry; golden-haired schoolgirl Amy liked to show up; but Beth, who kept the house, was loving and gentle always.
The happy days passed and darkness came when a telegram arrived for Mrs. March. “Your husband is very ill,” it said, “come at once.” The girl tried to be brave when their mother left for the front. They waited and prayed. Little Beth got scarlet fever (猩紅熱) when she was taking care of the sick neighbor. She became very ill but began to recover by the time Marmee was back. When Father came home from the front and at that joyful Christmas dinner they were once more all together.
Three years later the March girls had grown into young womanhood. Meg became Mrs. Brooke, and after a few family troubles got used to her new state happily. Jo had found pleasure in her literary efforts. Amy had grown into a young lady with a talent for design and an even greater one for society. But Beth had never fully regained her health, and her family watched her with love and anxiety.
Amy was asked to go and stay in Europe with a relative of the Marches. Jo went to New York and became successful in her writing and had the satisfaction of seeing her work published there. But at home the bitterest blow was yet to fall. Beth had known for some time that she couldn’t live much longer to be with the family and in the spring time she died.
News came from Europe that Amy and Laurie, the grandson of a wealthy neighbor, had planned to be married soon. Now Jo became ever more successful in her writing and got married to Professor Bhaer and soon afterwards founded a school for boys.
And so the little women had grown up and lived happily with their children, enjoying the harvest of love and goodness that they had devoted all their lives to.

  1. 1.

    The members of the March family were Father March, Mrs. March and their _______.

    1. A.
      four daughters
    2. B.
      five daughters
    3. C.
      son and four daughters
    4. D.
      son and five daughters
  2. 2.

    Who was the most successful in career (事業(yè)) among the March girls?

    1. A.
      Jo
    2. B.
      Beth
    3. C.
      Amy
    4. D.
      Meg
  3. 3.

    Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

    1. A.
      The march Family
    2. B.
      The March Parents
    3. C.
      The March Girls
    4. D.
      The March Relatives
  4. 4.

    It can be inferred from the passage that the March family had ______.

    1. A.
      both happiness and sadness
    2. B.
      wealthy neighbors
    3. C.
      more girls than boys
    4. D.
      a lot of rich relatives

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If you exhibit positive characteristics such as honesty and helpfulness, the chances are that you will be thought as a good-looking person, for a new study has found that the perception （認知） of physical attractiveness is influenced by a person's personality．
The study, which was led by Gary W．Lewandowski, has found that people who exhibit negative characteristics, such as unfairness and rudeness, appear to be less physically attractive to observers．In the study, the participants viewed photographs of opposite-sex individuals and rated them for attractiveness before and after being provided with information about their personalities．
After personality information was received, participants also rated the probability of each individual' s becoming a friend and a dating partner．Information on personality was found to significantly change the probability, showing that cognitive （認知的） processes modify （修改） judgments of attractiveness．
"Thinking a person as having a desirable personality makes the person more suitable in general as a close relationship partner of any kind," said Lewandowski．
The findings show that a positive personality leads to greater expectation of becoming friends, which leads to greater expectation of becoming romantic partners and, finally, to being viewed as more physically attractive．The findings remained consistent regardless of how "attractive" the individual was formerly thought to be or of the participants' current relationship status．
"This research provides a positive outcome by reminding people that personality goes a long way toward determining your attractiveness; it can even change people's impressions of how good-looking you are," said Lewandowski．

  1. 1.

    In the study the participants were required to _____．

    1. A.
      try to make friends with each other
    2. B.
      try to prove positive characters make people more attractive
    3. C.
      exhibit negative characters such as unfairness and rudeness
    4. D.
      rate one's attractiveness by photos before and after knowing her or his personality
  2. 2.

    Which of the following is WRONG according to the passage?

    1. A.
      The research reminds people to pay more attention to the personality．
    2. B.
      Personality can change people's impressions of one's appearance．
    3. C.
      The judgment of one's attractiveness always stays unchanged．
    4. D.
      Positive personality may lead to more friends．
  3. 3.

    The passage is written in a（n） _____ tone．

    1. A.
      subjective
    2. B.
      objective
    3. C.
      skeptical
    4. D.
      negative
  4. 4.

    Who are the intended readers of this passage?

    1. A.
      People with positive characteristics．
    2. B.
      Good-looking people．
    3. C.
      People with negative characteristics．
    4. D.
      General people．

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Not everyone goes to university after high school graduation. Some work, others join the army and an increasing number worldwide are taking a “gap year” to travel or do community service in their own countries or abroad. They are studying sharks off the Australian coast, building schools in Mexico and learning Spanish or Italian.
The concept of a gap year may not be new, but the recent surge (涌現(xiàn)) of interest certainly is.  Some students are putting off admissions. Others, who don’t get into the college of their choice, are taking a year to explore new frontiers before reapplying.
Students are choosing to take a breather; they are thinking. They are not sure what they are going to do. They are going and exploring some of their interests. They are getting experience they can take to the school they finally go to.
It is an idea actively encouraged by colleges. Princeton University has just launched a “bridge year” program that will send 10 percent of its incoming class to do volunteer work abroad, starting in 2009. And the Harvard has spent the last 30 years urging incoming students to take a gap year.
“Many speak of their year away as a ‘life-changing’ experience or a ‘turning point’” says Harvard admissions director Marlin Lewis. “Many come to college with new opinions about their academic plans, their extracurricular interests and the career possibilities they observed in their year away.”

  1. 1.

    The reasons why some take a gap year are the following EXCEPT that ________.

    1. A.
      they hate studying
    2. B.
      they don’t know what to do
    3. C.
      they want to get experience
    4. D.
      they want to know their real interests
  2. 2.

    A student won’t ________ in a gap year.

    1. A.
      travel
    2. B.
      join the army
    3. C.
      do community service
    4. D.
      learn a foreign language
  3. 3.

    After a gap year, one would probably _________.

    1. A.
      take another year off
    2. B.
      earn a lot of money
    3. C.
      be refused by his college
    4. D.
      have new ideas about their future career
  4. 4.

    From the passage we know that ________.

    1. A.
      more and more students will take a gap year
    2. B.
      fewer and fewer colleges will encourage his students to take a gap year
    3. C.
      the gap year can only give one some experience about society
    4. D.
      nobody will change his own interests after the gap year

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American magician David Blaine left the glass box in which he had lived for 44 days without food on October 19. 2003. Hundreds of people came to watch the end of his starvation experiment, which has become one of London’s main tourist attractions.
Looking thinner and darker, 30 year-old Blaine was taken out of his box over the River Thames（泰晤士河）and immediately went to hospital. He was then slowly reintroduced to food, a process (過程)doctors say could be life threatening. He had been drinking only water since September 5.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Blaine first became known as a street magician in the early 1990s. He soon found himself doing magic tricks in bars for the likes of American actor Leonardo DiCaprio and his super model friends.
Over the last decade Blaine has become famous with a combination of breathtaking magic and clever tricks aimed at getting a lot of attention.
In 1999, he was buried in a coffin (棺材) for one week and, in 2000, he spent 62 hours in a giant block of ice. Last year he stood on top of a 25-meter pillar(柱子) in the center of New York for 35 hours before jumping into a pile of boxes.
“I think a lot of people are unable to accept that they’re able to do what they can do,” he said. “They don’t realize we can survive. The human being is an amazing creation.”
But he seems to have suffered from spending so long in the glass box. He said that at times he was unable to see, had serious back pains and lost his sense of taste.

  1. 1.

    It is ______ for David Blaine to eat food after such a long starvation.

    1. A.
      pleasant
    2. B.
      delicious
    3. C.
      dangerous
    4. D.
      important
  2. 2.

    Having spent such a long time in the glass box, he suffered the following EXCEPT that______.

    1. A.
      he had become blind
    2. B.
      he had serious back pains
    3. C.
      he lost his sense of taste
    4. D.
      he was in weak health
  3. 3.

    Which of the following can best describe David Blaine?

    1. A.
      Serious
    2. B.
      Adventurous
    3. C.
      Mad
    4. D.
      Crazy
  4. 4.

    Which of the following is NOT true of David Blaine?

    1. A.
      Blaine immediately went to hospital after he was taken out of his box.
    2. B.
      Blaine was born and brought up in England.
    3. C.
      In Blaine’s opinion, people can create a wonder.
    4. D.
      Blaine didn’t have any food for 44 days.

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You feel generally depressed and unable to concentrate. Your pattern of daily activity may change：you find yourself awake and active in the middle of the night；you sleep late into the day.  You stay in your room and have little contact with people except with those who speak your language. In your mind，you criticize the people around you；You are constantly comparing between life here and the perfect life back home. Above a11, you are homesick almost all the time.
If you ever find yourself behaving in these ways，you are probably suffering from culture shock. Culture shock is a psychological condition that sometimes has physical effects. It affects people who have moved away from an environment where they know how to live into a new environment where much is unfamiliar to them-the food，the weather, the language，and especially the unwritten rules for social behavior.
Culture shock is caused. therefore，by a lack of familiarity with the system of rules that the new society uses for everyday living. Language is an obvious example of one type of these rules. If your language is limited，even the simplest task can suddenly become difficult for you. However, knowledge of the language doesn’t make you free from the effects of culture shock as many Britons in the United States and many Americans in Britain will experience. Most people are unaware that each culture has its own rules for social behavior；they certainly think that polite， civilized people behave the same way worldwide. This mistaken belief will cause you to behave and judge the behavior of others according to the rules you learned as a member of your own culture. If the rules are different, then people will misunderstand your behavior, and you will misunderstand theirs.
How can you deal with culture shock? First, you need to realize that every newcomer suffers from some culture shock. You’re not the only case. Second，remember that culture shock can be cured. The process of recovery will start as you begin to become used to the new culture. Of course learning the language will help remove the obstacles to communication and will ease the job of making Mends with people. Recognizing and learning the new cultural rules of behavior, however, may be just as important. You’ll still have emotional reactions to unfamiliar situations but you’11 find yourself making jokes about them rather than condemning the entire society as “stupid.” The jokes are a good sign：they show that you are recovering.

  1. 1.

    What’s the main idea of the first paragraph?

    1. A.
      the causes of culture shock
    2. B.
      some signs of culture shock
    3. C.
      the cure for culture shock
    4. D.
      an explanation of culture shock
  2. 2.

    What does the underlined word obstacles mean?

    1. A.
      things that make a task easy
    2. B.
      things that make at ask enjoyable
    3. C.
      things that make a task difficult
    4. D.
      things that make at ask funny
  3. 3.

    What can be concluded when you find yourself making jokes about new culture?

    1. A.
      You are about to recover from culture shock.
    2. B.
      You have completely got rid of culture shock.
    3. C.
      You never suffered from culture shock before.
    4. D.
      You’re in culture shock for many years.
  4. 4.

    Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

    1. A.
      The passage suggests that culture shock makes you miss your family badly.
    2. B.
      A good knowledge of the language will prevent you suffering from culture shock.
    3. C.
      In the writer’s opinion，the social rules for polite，civilized behavior are international.
    4. D.
      If you have a perfect knowledge of their language, you will never be misunderstood.

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Scientists are uncovering the secrets of two port cities lost under the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, a researcher said yesterday.
Herakleion and Menouthis were rich and proud cities until something reduced them to rubble (碎石) and buried them in the mud beneath 30 feet of sea water, French underwater explorer Franck Goddio said at the American Geophysical Union conference.
“This is a mystery that is ongoing,” said Goddio, a founder of the European Institute of Marine Archeology, a Paris-based underwater research organization backed by the wealthy Hilti Foundation of Liechtenstein(列支敦士登基金會).
The destruction of the twin port cities has haunted Goddio ever since he happened upon the site about 15 miles from Alexandria while exploring sunken ships from Napoleon’s fleet.
Goddio and his group of expert divers, marine archeologists(海洋考古學家) and others, are using high powered vacuums, satellite navigation systems and sophisticated sonar(聲納) to excavate(挖掘) the sunken cities from underneath a carpet of silt about one meter (three feet) high.
Walls of shops, remains of streets and gold artifacts have been found and recovered.
Some experts believe that the port cities were destroyed by a series of massive earthquakes, much like the quakes scientists believe felled Troy(特洛伊城), Jericho and other ancient cities. The uniform direction of the collapsed columns and walls suggest an earthquake, Goddio said, but no fault lines have been found nearby.
Other researchers believe a massive wave, caused by either an offshore earthquake or a distant underwater landslide, could explain the catastrophe. Still others think rising seas and a shift in the Nile River outlet doomed the cities.
“The argument, as you can see, continues,” Goddio said.

  1. 1.

    The reason why the two port cities disappeared under the waters of Mediterranean Sea is that ______.

    1. A.
      the two port cities were destroyed by huge earthquakes
    2. B.
      the disappearance of the two port cities was caused by underwater landslide
    3. C.
      rising seas and a shift in the Nile River outlet doomed the cities
    4. D.
      the story didn’t tell us at all
  2. 2.

    From the story we can draw a conclusion that _______.

    1. A.
      the two port cities were famous for their wealth and the mystery
    2. B.
      the two cities belonged to France
    3. C.
      some mysterious creatures from other planets destroyed the two cities
    4. D.
      the American Geophysical Union conference was once held in one of the two cities
  3. 3.

    This article is probably from _______.

    1. A.
      a scientific magazine
    2. B.
      a report to the government
    3. C.
      a school text book
    4. D.
      a scientific report in a newspaper

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Zinc(鋅) is one of about 20 elements necessary for good health. It is present in the body in a very small amount but makes it possible for important chemical actions to be carried out in cells. Scientists are just beginning to discover how zinc and other elements work.
Researchers first studied zinc as a way to speed recovery. Dr. Waltor Powys formerly with the United States Air Force noted that the laboratory animals recovered faster when some matters were added to their food. One of these matters was zinc. Dr. Powys later tested the zinc treatment on an American airman recovering from medical operations. The airman who received zinc sulphate(硫酸鹽) recovered in half of the usual time. Other doctors studied persons who had a number of strange disorders. The doctors learned that all of these problems were caused by lack of zinc in the body. They treated these disorders successfully by giving the patients zinc sulphate.
The amount of zinc in the body can be found by examining blood and hair. A lack of this important element is not uncommon among people in both industrial and developing countries. Zinc is found in most high protein(蛋白質) foods such as meat, milk, fish and eggs. It is also found in whole grains. But many people do not eat enough of these food. Food markets should add these elements so that more people could get needed amount of these necessary matters.

  1. 1.

    Which of the following statements is true?

    1. A.
      Scientists found how zinc works a long time ago.
    2. B.
      People need a large amount of zinc to be healthy.
    3. C.
      Zinc allows important chemical actions to take place in cells.
    4. D.
      Zinc must be used in the course of medical operation.
  2. 2.

    One of the results from the study of zinc is that _______.

    1. A.
      there’s only a little zinc in the human body
    2. B.
      food rich in protein contains more zinc
    3. C.
      some physical problems are caused by lack of zinc
    4. D.
      any patient who receives zinc sulphate gets well immediately
  3. 3.

    The best title for the passage may be _______.

    1. A.
      A New Discovery
    2. B.
      Zinc and Health
    3. C.
      How Zinc Works
    4. D.
      Add Zinc to Your Food

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