I was working as a consultant(顧問) in a beer company, helping the president and senior vice-presidents with something important. It was a big   16  . At the same time, my mother was in the  17 stages of cancer. .
I worked during the day and  18 40 miles home to be with her every night. It was 19 and stressful, but it was what I wanted to do. My promise was to continue to do excellent consulting during the day, 20  my evenings were very hard. I didn’t want to 21 the president with my situation.  22  I felt someone at the company wanted to 23 what was going on. So I told the vice-president of Hunan Resources, asking him not to 24 the information with anyone.
A few days  25 , the president called me into his office. I  26 he wanted to talk to me about one of the many issues we were  27 on. When I entered, he asked me to sit down. He faced me from across his large  28 , looked me in the eye and said, “I   29  your mother is very ill.”
I was totally  30 by surprise and burst into tears. He just looked at me, let my 31  subside(平息)，and then he  32 said a sentence I will never forget: “Whatever you need.” That was it. His  33 and willingness to both let me be in my pain and to offer me  34   were qualities of compassion(同情) that I   35 with me to this day.

小題1:	A．honour B．success C．challenge D．task

小題2:	A．previous B．final C．fine D．developing

小題3:	A．walked B．rode C．ran D．drove

小題4:	A．tiring B．exciting C．boring D．frightening

小題5:	A．a(chǎn)s if B．a(chǎn)fter all C．even though D．now that

小題6:	A．help B．puzzle C．cheat D．bother

小題7:	A．or B．yet C．a(chǎn)nd D．so

小題8:	A．know B．realize C．hear D．a(chǎn)nnounce

小題9:	A．enjoy B．learn C．share D．hide

小題10:

A．a(chǎn)fter B．a(chǎn)go C．before D．later

小題11:

A．knew B．figured C．doubted D．found

小題12:

A．working B．getting C．living D．going

小題13:

A．room B．office C．desk D．computer

小題14:

A．guess B．hear C．believe D．think

小題15:

A．hit B．got C．made D．caught

小題16:

A．crying B．explaining C．talking D．worrying

小題17:

A．suddenly B．sadly C．gently D．carefully

小題18:

A．happiness B．understanding C．excitement D．sadness

小題19:

A．everything B．a(chǎn)nything C．nothing D．something

小題20:

A．take B．bring C．help D．carry

My wife and I used to feel that it was impossible to be a true friend to someone whose name we didn't know. How wrong we were! Years of Sunday-morning bus trips through the city with the same group of “nameless” people have changed our thinking. Before the bus takes off, we all join in a conversation: where’s the silent woman who sits up front and never responds to our cheery greetings? Here she comes. Her worn clothing suggests she doesn't have much money to spare, but she always takes an extra cup of coffee for the driver.
We get smiles from a Mexican couple as they get on the bus hand in hand. When they get off, they’re still holding hands. The woman was pregnant late last year, and one day her change of shape confirmed that she’d delivered the child. We even felt a little pride at the thought of our extended family.?
For many months, our only sadness lay in our inability to establish the same friendship with the silent woman at the front of the bus. Then, one evening, we went to a fish restaurant. We were shown to a table alongside someone sitting alone. It was the woman from the bus.?
We greeted her with friendly familiarity we’d shown all year, but this time her face softened, then a shy smile. When she spoke, the words escaped awkwardly from her lips. All at once we realized why she hadn’t spoken to us before. Talking was hard for her.?
Over dinner, we learned the stay of a single mother with a disabled son who was receiving special care away from home. She missed him desperately, she explained. “I love him… and he loves me, even though he doesn’t express it very well,” she murmured. “Lots of us have that problem, don’t we? We don’t say what we want to say, what we should be saying. And that’s not good enough.” The candles flared on our tables. Our fish had never tasted better. But the atmosphere grew pleasant, and when we parted as friends—we shared names.
小題1:All the following statements can describe the woman except ______.

A．poor

B．warm -hearted

C．silent

D．cold

小題2:The underlined word “establish” in the 3th paragraph has the same meaning as_________.

A．keep

B．discover

C．set up

D．a(chǎn)ccept

小題3:The woman had the same problem with her son in the way that ______.

A．they both disabled people

B．they both had some difficulty in expressing

C．they both liked bus travel

D．they both brought interest to the passengers

小題4:Which of the following might be the best title of this passage?

A．Friends of the Road	B．The Silent Woman on the Bus
C．Going to Work by Bus	D．Different Kinds of Friendship

Like lots of small-business owners, Lola Gonzalez had to decide to cut down her company’s nine-person staff (員工) when the economic recovery began to fail last spring. Unlike other companies, she picked an unlikely employee to lay off (解雇): herself.
Her business began to have problems in 2008 after going through her books (賬簿)
One day, her husband, Marcos, told her she had to reduce her payroll（薪金總額）by one person. Gonzalez said at a meeting, “I want you all to know that I have to lay somebody off and it’s been a very difficult decision. And that person is me.” Employees first froze in amazement and then burst into laughter until they realized she was serious. Gonzalez ’s employees said they were grateful for her kindness.
Her reason was simple. Although she ran the business and her employees did the legwork (跑腿), she thought she could find work more easily than her staff. Sure enough, she soon got a job as a social worker for a non-profit organization called Devereux Kids. She enjoys her social-worker job now, but the salary (薪水) cut has required some lifestyle changes. She and Marcos no longer eat out daily; they no longer pay for their son’s car and mobile phone, and they changed their car to a smaller one to save $300 a month.
Her business has picked up a bit recently and Marcos has begun to work part-time at Gonzalez’s company. Gonzalez says she has no plan to return to work at her company until the economic situation becomes better, perhaps in a year. Her employees, however, will get Christmas bonuses (獎金) this year.
小題1:How many workers are there in Gonzalez’s company at present?

A．8.

B．9.

C．10.

D．11.

小題2:How did her employees feel at first when they heard Gonzalez’s decision?

A．Happy.

B．Grateful.

C．Surprised.

D．Unbelievable.

小題3:After leaving her company, _____________.

A．Gonzalez sold her car and went to work by bus

B．Gonzalez always had meals in a restaurant

C．Gonzalez’s son helped her a lot

D．Gonzalez changed her lifestyle a lot

小題4:From the text, we can learn that ___________.

A．Gonzalez will not return to her company in future

B．Gonzalez’s business has improved a little lately

C．Gonzalez got her social-worker job with great difficulty

D．Marcos lost his job and had to work at Gonzalez’s company

One day, a farmer’s donkey fell into a dried up well. The animal cried  16 for hours as the farmer tried to  17  what to do. Finally, he decided that the animal was  18 , the well needed to be covered up, and  19  the donkey just wasn’t worth the  20 , so he invited his neighbors to  21  and help him bury the donkey in the well. They all held shovels (鏟) and begin to shovel  22   into the well. At first, the donkey  23   what was happing and  24   cried pitifully. Then, to everyone’s 25  , he quieted down. A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked  26  into the well and was  27  at what he saw.  28  each shovel load of dirt that hit his back, the donkey  29  something surprising. He shook it off and took a step up! As the farmer’s neighbors 30  to shovel dirt  31  the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. The donkey stepped  32  over the edge of the well! As with the donkey,  33  is going to shovel dirt  34  you, all kinds of dirt. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, by never giving 35  .

小題1:	A．happily B．hardly C．sadly D．greatly

小題2:	A．carry out B．think out C．leave out D．watch out

小題3:	A．young B．small C．old D．large

小題4:	A．rescuing B．killing C．selling D．buying

小題5:	A．money B．effort C．praise D．time

小題6:	A．come around B．come over C．come down D．come to

小題7:	A．stone B．earth C．dirt D．soil

小題8:	A．realized B．found C．heard D．saw

小題9:	A．a(chǎn)gain B．ever C．never D．once

小題10:

A．joy B．a(chǎn)mazement C．disappoint ment D．excitement

小題11:

A．off B．down C．up D．over

小題12:

A．a(chǎn)stonished B．sorry C．worried D．a(chǎn)ngry

小題13:

A．With B．As C．For D．On

小題14:

A．did B．had C．made D．considered

小題15:

A．began B．stopped C．started D．con tinued

小題16:

A．a(chǎn)t the top of B．on top of C．a(chǎn)t the foot of D．in front of

小題17:

A．luckily B．successfully C．hard D．easily

小題18:

A．life B．world C．time D．work

小題19:

A．off B．on C．up D．down

小題20:

A．up B．a(chǎn)way C．in D．out

Once my friend Peterson bought a pack of chicken, the brand of which was very famous at that time. But when he got home he found that the chicken had gone bad. He took the chicken back to the shop and he was paid twice of the price. We may say now he should have been satisfied but my friend would not like to stop. He decided to write a letter to Frank, president of the company, who was also the founder of the chicken brand.
About a week later he received a letter written by the president himself. In the letter he apologized to my friend for it whole –heartedly .There was also a card in the envelope ,with which my friend could get another pack of chicken in any of the shops. In the end my friend was asked to answer some questions.
1. When and where did you buy the chicken?
2. What was the real problem of the chicken?
3. What did the shop ass istant say when you took the chicken back to the shop?
4. W hat do you think is the reason for the chicken to go bad?
5. What do you suggest we should do to get away from such problems?
Two days later, my friend also received a telephone call from the president’s office, asking whether he had received the letter as well as the card and then some other questions. Since then, my friend has always bought chicken of this brand whenever he wants to.
小題1:What did the friend get when he took the bad chicken back to the shop?

A．Another pack of chicken.

B．Two packs of chicken.

C．Double the price.

D．A whole-hearted apology.

小題2:What did the author’s friend do when he came back from the shop after he was paid back?

A．He felt satisfied with the result.

B．He wrote a letter to the President of the US.

C．He became very angry with the shop assistant.

D．He wrote a letter to the president of the company.

小題3:What is the author’s friend’s attitude towards the chicken brand?

A．He still believes in it.

B．He doesn’t believe it at all.

C．He will never buy it again.

D．He has never been satisfied with it.

小題4:What can we infer from the passage?

A．The company may still be a top brand now.

B．The president of the company is a responsible person.

C．The company must have closed down.

D．The author may also believe in the chicken brand.

閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題的A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出合適填入對應(yīng)空白處的最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該選項涂黑。
I had been playing hockey (冰球)for about 10 years, I was always the one sitting at the end of the bench, and 26 got into a game.I went to all the 27   and showed up even when itwas so 28 that your ‘breath froze’ and whenplayers    had decided to stay home. I feltI had   29   enough and thought of quitting”
I finally decided to  30 the news to my mom that I was leaving the team. My mom may have looked like a tiny and quiet lady but on  31 my words, she said, “Remember, ‘A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.’ Your mother didn’t raise  32 , so think about yourself in a  33 way and see yourself as a winner!” So I worked harder than ever at getting in better shape,  34 my shot accuracy and changing my  35 .
Once in a match, we  36 our first game badly. What’s worse, one of our best players got hurt. I was sitting at my  37 place, at the end of the bench, when the coach came over and told me I was going  38 . I was nervous, excited and terrified all at the same time.
The opposing team was fast and I had to admit I was a little  39 .  But my mom’s words   40 out in my head like a church bell. Instead of being afraid, I was “pumped” and I very quickly found that all my  41 work was paying off.  I was as fast a skater as anyone else on the ice, and I seemed to get the   42  to score. The crowd went quiet.  All the time I spent on the ice when everyone had gone home had 43 me for this moment.
Won! I won!
The lesson I learned from my mom’s  44 has stayed with me over the years. I hear them whenever I am faced with a challenge, or whenever I  45 myself.  

小題1:	A．once B．seldom C．usually D．even

小題2:	A．meetings B．shows C．matches D．practices

小題3:	A．cloudy B．wet C．cold D．windy

小題4:	A．suffered B．explained C．planned D．escaped

小題5:	A．write B．break C．read D．report

小題6:	A．noticing B．gathering C．hearing D．a(chǎn)nalyzing

小題7:	A．talkers B．dreamers C．a(chǎn)ttackers D．losers

小題8:	A．positive B．familiar C．brief D．convenient

小題9:	A．testing B．improving C．questioning D．a(chǎn)ffecting

小題10:

A．a(chǎn)im B．taste C．habit D．a(chǎn)ttitude

小題11:

A．lost B．controlled C．practiced D．continued

小題12:

A．usual B．safe C．secret D．private

小題13:

A．off B．in C．by D．up

小題14:

A．a(chǎn)nnoyed B．a(chǎn)wkward C．scared D．bitter

小題15:

A．ran B．gave C．stood D．rang

小題16:

A．delicate B．extra C．creative D．casual

小題17:

A．chance B．message C．order D．note

小題18:

A．spared B．requested C．prepared D．sent

小題19:

A．a(chǎn)ctions B．reasons C．words D．promises

小題20:

A．judge B．express C．comfort D．doubt

Once again, I was in a new school. So was a girl in my class named Paris. That's where the similarities ended.
I was tall and she was small. My thick, black hair had been recently cut short. Her natural blonde hair flowed to her waist and looked great. I was awkward and shy. She wasn't. I couldn't stand her. I considered her my enemy. She liked me. She wanted to be friends.
One day, she invited me over and I said yes — I was too shocked to answer any other way. No one had invited me over to play. But this girl who wore the latest fashions wanted me to go home with her after school.
I got very surprised when she led me into an apartment building. She lived on the fourth floor in a two-room place with her mother, her stepfather, her two brothers and her sister.
When we got to the room she shared with her sister, she took out a big case of Barbies — which was my next surprise. I would have thought she'd outgrown them. I had never played with them. But we sat on the floor of a walk-in closet, laughing as we made up crazy stories about the Barbies. That's when we found out that we both wanted to be writers when we were older and we both had wild imaginations.
We had a great day that afternoon. Our jaws ached from smiling so much. She showed me her wardrobe, which had mostly come from a designer clothing store down the block. The woman who owned it used her as a model sometimes for her newspaper ads and gave her clothes in exchange.
Paris had the whole neighborhood charmed. The bookstore owners lent her fashion magazines, the movie theater gave her free passes and the pizza place let her have free slices. Soon I was included in her magic world. We slept over at each other's houses, spent every free moment together. My dark hair grew out and I learned to love being tall.
Paris, my first real friend since childhood, taught me an amazing and very surprising thing about making friends: that your worst enemy can turn out to be your best friend.
小題1:The writer and Paris were similar in that     .

A．they were both new students

B．both of them were friendly

C．both of them were tall

D．they were both the youngest in class

小題2:In the article the writer described Paris as a girl who was     .

A．a(chǎn)wkward and shy	B．fashionable and proud
C．quiet and lonely	D．friendly and lovely

小題3:What did the writer learn from Paris?

A．How to make best use of her neighborhood.

B．How to dress and look fashionable.

C．How to become a good writer

D．How to make friends.

小題4:From the article, we can see that through her friendship with Paris, the writer     .

A．found she and Paris had more similarities than differences

B．was able to fit in at her new school with Paris’ help

C．was not so awkward or shy as before

D．learned more about fashion herself

My husband and I insisted that our children were old enough to clean their rooms and make their beds. But they thought   11 . My complaints, even self-justified（自有道理）  12 , were always landing on   13  ears. Very often a whole hour’s scolding would end up with their   14  into tears. I felt very frustrated. I realized I needed to   15  my method of “mothering”.
One day when they were at school, I spent some time tidying their rooms. On their desks, in plain  16 , I left the cards: “Dear Bill(the other card was   17  to Sarah), your room was messy this morning and I’m sure you like it clean. Love, the Room Fairy.”  18  arriving back, the children were   19  excited to receive the little note from the Room Fairy. The next day, their rooms were fairly tidy. Sure enough, there was another note from the Room Fairy   20  
for them, thanking them for their nice “gift” of a clean room and   21  asking them to play a certain violin  22 . Each day, thank-you notes would be written differently to keep the ideas   23 ．
Sometimes the Room Fairy would propose a little   24 : “If you can finish your homework and go over your lessons before dinner, I’d like to watch a particular television program with you tonight.” Sometimes some colored markers or other little items would be left in   25  of well-done jobs the day   26 .
  27  I can’t remember how long “the Room Fairy” continued leaving her love notes. When they were age appropriate, we used various versions of Post-Its （貼條）. The bathroom mirror became the   28  centre of our home. Appointments, notices about visiting relatives, lesson schedules, and changes in plans could be   29 .
We all benefited from and  30  the idea of sharing reminders and daily details of life through notes. I believe the true advantage of the Room Fairy notes survives in our frequent and enjoyable communication．

小題1:	A．differently B．positive C．negative D．same

小題2:	A．shouting B．crying C．persuading D．beating

小題3:	A．side B．neither C．deaf D．either

小題4:	A．crying B．bringing C．droping D．bursting

小題5:	A．a(chǎn)ddict B．a(chǎn)dopt C．a(chǎn)ccess D．a(chǎn)djust

小題6:	A．sentence B．words C．speech D．sight

小題7:	A．sent B．a(chǎn)ddressed C．delivered D．read

小題8:	A．As B．On C．In D．At

小題9:	A．more than B．rather than C．less than D．other than

小題10:

A．a(chǎn)sking B．praying C．waiting D．expecting

小題11:

A．gently B．friendly C．politely D．toughly

小題12:

A．music B．piece C．song D．tone

小題13:

A．respectable B．uninteresting C．incredible D．fresh

小題14:

A．suggestion B．question C．challenge D．a(chǎn)dvice

小題15:

A．response B．a(chǎn)nswer C．praise D．honor

小題16:

A．a(chǎn)head B．before C．over D．a(chǎn)go

小題17:

A．though B．Even so C．Even if D．Actually

小題18:

A．memory B．main C．life D．reminder

小題19:

A．sent B．posted C．struck D．hanged

小題20:

A．a(chǎn)ppreciated B．learned C．shared D．thanked

The writer Margaret Mitchell is best known for writing Gone with the WinD.first published in 1936. Her book and the movie based on it tell a story of love and survival during the American Civil War. Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in AtlantA. GeorgiA.can go where she lived when she started composing the story and learn more about her life
Our first stop at the Margaret Mitchell House is an exhibit area telling about the writer's life. She was born in Atlanta in 1900. She started writing stories when she～a child. She started working as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal newspaper in 1922. One photograph of Ms Mitchell, called Peggy, shows her talking to a group of young college boys. She was only about one and a half meters tall. The young～tower over her, but she seems very happy and sure of herself. The tour guide explains; "Now in this picture Peggy is interviewing some boys from Georgia Tech, asking them such questions as‘Would you really marry a woman who works?’And today it'd be‘Would you marry one who doesn't?”
The Margaret Mitchell House is a building that once contained several apartments. Now we enter the first floor apartment where Ms Mitchell lived with her husbanD. John Marsh.They trade fun of the small apartment by calling it "The Dump"．
Around 1926，Margaret Mitchell had stopped working”a reporter and was at home healing after an injury. Her husband brought her books to read from the library. She read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it～time for her to write her own book. Our guide says Gone with the Wind became a huge success. Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for the book. In 1939 the film version was released It won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
小題1:The book Gone with the Wind was＿＿＿．

A．first published in a newspaper	B．a(chǎn)warded ten Academy Awards
C．written in "The Dump"	D．a(chǎn)dapted from a movie

小題2:The underlined phrase "tower over" in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to“＿＿＿”．

A．be very pleased with	B．show great respect for
C．be much taller than	D．show little interest in

小題3:Why did Ms Mitchell stop working as a reporter according to the passage?

A．Because she was rich enough.

B．Because she was injured then.

C．Because her husband didn't like it

D．Because she wanted to write books.

小題4:Which is the best title for the passage?

A．A Trip to Know Margaret Mitchell

B．Gone with the Wind：A Huge Success

C．An Introduction of the Margaret Mitchell House

D．Margaret Mitchell：A Great Female Writer

Robeson was born in a very poor family. At seven, he had to pick coal in a deserted mine near his home, then he sold   1  he had picked and earned a few coins to help his parents. He had   2  schooling, for being so poor, how could they   3  school fees?
When he was fifteen, he worked   4  a servant in a school. Looking at other children studying  in the classroom, he felt   5  for himself. How he  6  to have the same chance! He decided to study by  7 .  In the daytime, after the sweeping and cleaning was over, he   8  stand by the window outside the classroom trying to catch what the teacher said. At night, he tried his best to remember what he  9   during the day. He worked  10  hard at his lessons that he sometimes had just three or four hours to sleep. The more he learned, the greater   11  he showed in his lessons. A maths teacher discovered him and came to like this diligent boy and  12  him to sit at the back of the class. In one exam, he was the   13   one in the whole school who reached the highest grade. He would have been given the scholarship if he   14   a regular student of the school.
Robeson   15  through six long years with his study of maths and wrote several articles which captured the   16  of some university professors. They admired his talent   17  his diligence. To give him a good chance, they hired him as a librarian and   18   him free guidance. Robeson felt   19  , for he was sure that before him there was a broad road  20  success.

小題1:	A．whether B．which C．that D．what

小題2:	A．many B．few C．little D．much

小題3:	A．buy B．a(chǎn)fford C．send D．read

小題4:	A．a(chǎn)s B．like C．for D．by

小題5:	A．a(chǎn)ngry B．a(chǎn)shamed C．proud D．sorry

小題6:	A．hated B．decided C．wished D．regretted

小題7:	A．the teacher B．himself C．his parents D．his schoolmates

小題8:	A．could B．ought to C．should D．would

小題9:	A．had learned B．has been taught C．has heard D．had been written down

小題10:

A．very B．so C．too D．quite

小題11:

A．joy B．interest C．time D．taste

小題12:

A．a(chǎn)llowed B．a(chǎn)greed C．let D．refused

小題13:

A．worst B．only C．last D．laziest

小題14:

A．had been B．has been C．is D．was

小題15:

A．learned B．listened C．mastered D．struggled

小題16:

A．notice B．influence C．eyes D．a(chǎn)ttention

小題17:

A．except for B．a(chǎn)ccording to C．a(chǎn)s well as D．in spite of

小題18:

A．taught B．offered C．lent D．sent

小題19:

A．sad B．a(chǎn)ngry C．happy D．disappointed

小題20:

A．leading to B．coming from C．made of D．covered with