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Jerry was a manager in a restaurant.He was always in a good mood(脾氣）and always had something positive to say.This really made me curious, so one day I asked him,"It's hard to be a positive person all of the time.How do you do it?'' Jerry replied ,"Each morning I wake up and sayto myself,"Jerry, you can choose to be in a good mood or a bad mood," and I choose to be in a good mood. Life is all about what you choose.And what you choose leads your life."Several years later,I heard that Jerry left the back door open one morning and was robbed(搶劫）.While trying to stop the thief ,he was shot. I went to see him in the hospital.When I asked him how he was,he replied,"If I were any better,I'd be twins." "Weren't you scared when you were in danger?"I asked."Yes. The doctors kept telling me that I was going to be fine, but in their eyes,I read."He's dead."I knew I needed to take action." "What did you do?" "Well.there was a big nurse asking me if I was allergic(過敏的）to anything."Yes,'I replied ."Bullets(子彈）!Everyone laughed and I told them: I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive." Jerry lived thanks to the great doctors ,and also because of his amazing attitude(態(tài)度）.Attitude ,after all ,is everything.
【小題1】What kind of person was Jerry?

A．He was serious.	B．He was helpful.
C．He was allergic.	D．He was happy and smart.

【小題2】When Jerry met difficulties in life,how did he deal with them?

A．He faced them positively.	B．He talked to the writer about them.
C．He asked others to help him.	D．He tried to stop thinking about them

【小題3】What does the underlined word "curious" mean in Chinese?

A．敏感的

B．好奇的

C．開心的

D．有趣的

【小題4】Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Jerry was the writer's manager.	B．Jerry was not afraid of dead at all.
C．Jerry was nearly dead after he was shot.	D．Jerry didn't believe doctors.

【小題5】What is the best title(題目）for this passage?

A．Action Matters	B．Brave Jerry Beat the Thief
C．Attitude Is Everything	D．Jerry ,a Great Man

Recipients（接受者）of this year's Annenberg scholarships were announced on June 19. Brittany Blythe was one of them.
In seventh grade，Brittany Blythe dreamed of being a cheerleader（啦啦隊(duì)隊(duì)員）. Her school’s coaches were less than enthusiastic. “They said. ‘I don't know how you’ll be able to do it’. ”she recalls. “‘You won’t be able to do it’.”
But Brittany，now a junior at Strath Haven High School near Philadelphia，refused to give up. And when the junior school cheerleaders won a tournament last year, she was right there，dancing and cheering with the rest of the team.
Not bad for someone whose legs were cut off below the knee when she was two years old.
Brittany,18,was born without shinbones(脛骨）—“just blood and muscle tissue，”as she puts it. When she tried to walk, her legs twisted.    
After the operation, she adapted quickly. “From day one，I basically jumped up and wanted to do everything,’’ she says. Prostheses(假肢)allowed her to move around upright. But too slowly to keep up with her friends. Brittany’s solution was to take the legs off and walk on her knees something she still does when safety and comfort permit.
She has been rarely discouraged. Other children laughed at her through the years，especially in junior high school，but she says the challenge only made her stronger. Now she’s trying to convince her coaches to let her remove the prostheses and be a flyer. The cheerleader who's thrown in the air and caught by her teammates.
Brittany doesn’t think her problems put her at a disadvantage. “My disability was the first thing I had to get through., and that’s going to prepare me for the future. ”she says. “It’s all just a test：If someone throws you a difficult problem，what are you going to do?”   
【小題1】 What was the coaches’ first attitude towards Brittany's dream?

A．Supportive

B．Enthusiastic

C．Optimistic

D．Doubtful

【小題2】 What was Brittany’s reaction after the operation?

A．She abandoned herself to self-pity.

B．She refused to use the prostheses.

C．She accepted the result and tried to get used to it.

D．She challenged the children who laughed at her.

【小題3】 What does Brittany want to achieve at the moment?

A．To stop others’laughing at her.

B．To prove her coaches wrong.

C．To remove her prostheses.

D．To be a flyer.

【小題4】 We can learn from the last paragraph that Brittany _________.

A．doesn’t think she is better than others

B．is not well prepared for the future

C．takes a positive attitude towards life

D．likes the challenge of learning new things

【小題5】. What's the best title for the text?

A．A new leg，a new life	B．A new cheerleader, a new record
C．Passing the test	D．Seeking advantages

It is a matter of common observation that although money income keeps going up over the years, we never seem to become richer. Prices are rising continuously. This condition is what we call inflation: the money supply is becoming inflated so that each unit of it becomes less valuable. We have got used to higher and higher rates of inflation in recent years. What could be bought twenty years ago for one pound now costs well over 2 pounds. And at present this rate of inflation seems to be rising rather than falling. If in the real world our money incomes go up at the same rate as prices do. One might think that inflation doesn’t matter. But it does ------.When money is losing value it also loses one of the qualities of a good money—stability of value. It is no longer acceptable as a store of value; and it becomes an unsuitable means of delayed payment. Nobody wants to hold a wasting possession, so people try to get rid of money as quickly as possible. Inflation therefore simply stimulates（刺激）our spending and discourages saving.
【小題1】From the passage we can know that inflation is a situation in which________.

A．everyone’s incomes rise

B．money will hold its value

C．we can watch our money grow

D．money constantly loses its value

【小題2】．In the writer’s view, if incomes and prices rise at the same rate, ________.

A．inflation maybe still be a problem

B．we have nothing to worry about

C．inflation is no longer a problem

D．we will become richer and richer

【小題3】．Under inflation people are likely to ________.

A．go to the bank more often than usual

B．save more money since their incomes rise

C．spend money quickly rather than to save it

D．keep money at home instead of going to banks

【小題4】．We can conclude according to the passage that ________.

A．the writer is a government official

B．the writer is worried about inflation

C．the writer encourages people to spend money

D．the writer has become richer because of inflation

【小題5】. Which of the following words is omitted at the end of the underlined sentence “But it does”?

A．matter,

B．goes.

C．rises

D．fall

My newly-rented small apartment was far away from the centre of London and it was becoming essential for me to find a job, so finally I spent a whole morning getting to town and putting my name down to be considered by London Transport for a job on the underground. They were looking for guards, not drivers. This suited me. I couldn’t drive a car but thought that I could probably guard a train, and perhaps continue to write my poems between stations. The writers Keats and Chekhov had been doctors. T.S. Eliot had worked in a bank and Wallace Stevens for an insurance company. I’d be a subway guard. I could see myself being cheerful, useful, a good man in a crisis（危機(jī)）. Obviously I’d be overqualified but I was willing to forget about that in return for a steady income and travel privileges — those being particularly welcome to someone living a long way from the city centre.
The next day I sat down, with almost a hundred other candidates, for the intelligence test. I must have done all right because after about half an hour’s wait I was sent into another room for a psychological test. This time there were only about fifty candidates. The interviewer sat at a desk. Candidates were signaled forward to occupy the seat opposite him when the previous occupant had been dismissed, after a greater or shorter time. Obviously the long interviews were the more successful ones. Some of the interviews were as short as five minutes. Mine was the only one that lasted a minute and a half.
I can remember the questions now: “Why did you leave your last job?” “Why did you leave your job before that?” “And the one before that?” I can’t recall my answers, except that they were short at first and grew progressively shorter. His closing statement, I thought, revealed（顯示） a lack of sensitivity which helped to explain why as a psychologist, he had risen no higher than the underground railway. “You’ve failed the psychological test and we are unable to offer you a position.”
Failing to get that job was my low point. Or so I thought, believing that the work was easy. Actually, such jobs — being a postman is another one I still desire — demand exactly the sort of elementary yet responsible awareness that the habitual dreamer is least qualified to give. But I was still far short of full self-understanding. I was also short of cash.
【小題1】．The writer applied for the job chiefly because _________.

A．he wanted to work in the centre of London

B．he could no longer afford to live without one

C．he was not interested in any other available job

D．he had received some suitable training

【小題2】．The writer thought he was overqualified for the job because _________.

A．he often traveled underground	B．he had written many poems
C．he could deal with difficult situations	D．he had worked in a company

【小題3】．The length of his interview meant that _________.

A．he was not going to be offered the job

B．he had not done well in the intelligence test

C．he did not like the interviewer at all

D．he had little work experience to talk about

【小題4】．What does the writer realize now that he did not realize then?

A．How unpleasant ordinary jobs can be.

B．How difficult it is to be a poet.

C．How unsuitable he was for the job.

D．How badly he did in the interview.

【小題5】．What’s the writer’s opinion of the psychologist?

A．He was very aggressive（有進(jìn)取心的）.	B．He was unhappy with his job.
C．He was quite inefficient.	D．He was rather unsympathetic.

Violent winds swept the ocean, and waves thundered to shore, shaking the lookout tower at Pea Island Rescue Station. Surfman Theodore Meekins was on watch that evening of 11 October 1896. A hurricane had struck the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and the tide was so strong that beach patrols(巡邏)had been canceled. Still, Meekins paid close attention to the horizon. This was the type of weather that could blow ships hundreds of miles off course.
Offshore, the ship E.S. Newman was caught in the storm. The captain, whose wife and child were on the ship, feared the Newman would soon break up. He made the decision to beach his ship, then fired a signal, praying that someone onshore would see it.
Meekins, whose eyes were trained to cut through rain and surf mists, thought he saw the signal, but so much spray (水霧) covered the lookout windows that he could hardly make sure. Still, he took no chances. After summoning (召集) the station keeper, Captain Richard Etheridge, Meekins set off a coston signal, a signal made by using lamps of different colors. Together, the two men searched the darkness for a reply. A few moments later, they saw a flash of light to the south and knew a shop was in distress (遇險(xiǎn)). Even before the return signal burned out, Etheridge had summoned his men and begun rescue operations.
For the lifesavers, the rescue of the Newman was nothing unusual. Over the years, so many ships had foundered off the Outer Banks that sailors called the region the Graveyard of the Atlantic. Noting the dangerous surf and wind conditions, Captain Etheridge quickly decided the surf boats would be impossible to control. Instead, he decided to use another way to help the survivors.
The crew set off on the long journey down the beach to the scene of the wreck (海灘). Captain Etheridge hoped to fire a line from a gun to the ship’s mast (船桅). After the ship’s crew dragged the line onboard, the surfmen would fire a second line and carry survivors safely to shore.
The surfmen crossed three miles of sand to reach the ship Newman. The water was freezing, and the men often sank up to their knees in sand. Captain Etheridge noted in his diary that “the voice of gladdened hearts greeted the arrival of the station crew,” but that “it seemed impossible for them to do anything under such circumstances. The work was often stopped by the sweeping current.”
Even when the rescue equipment proved useless, Etheridge refused to give up. Choosing two of his strongest surfmen, he tied rope lines around their waists and sent them into the water. The two men, holding a line from shore, walked with huge effort as far as they could before diving through the waves. Nearly worn out while swimming against the tide, they finally made it to the shore.
The first to be rescued were the captain’s wife and child. With the two passengers tied to their backs, the surfmen fought their way back to shore. Taking turns, Etheridge and his crew made ten trips to the Newman, saving every person onboard. It was 1:00 a.m. when the crew and survivors finally made it back to the station.
That night, as the exhausted survivors lay sleeping and his lifesaving crew rested, Captain Etheridge picked up his pen, and in the light of an oil lantern, wrote with satisfaction that all the people onboard had been saved and were “sheltered in this station”—words he would remember for many years to come.
【小題1】The beach patrols were canceled because ________.

A．Meekins paid enough attention to the horizon

B．there was too much spray on the windows

C．the winds and tide were too strong

D．there was no ship near the station

【小題2】The underlined word “foundered” in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to “___________”.

A．stopped

B．sank

C．sailed

D．a(chǎn)rrived

【小題3】What was the author’s main purpose in writing the passage?

A．To warn sailors of the dangers of hurricanes.

B．To create a story describing a rescue at sea.

C．To inform people about Richard Etheridge.

D．To record the details about the Newman.

【小題4】What is the main idea of the passage?

A．The newman was very dangerous before Richard Etheridge and his team members saw the signal.

B．A terrible hurricane took place off the coast of North Carolina and threatened the lives of many sailors.

C．At no other time in American history have so many shipwrecked passengers survived such a violent storm.

D．All the passengers of a shipwreck were rescued because of heroic the efforts of a special leader and his crew.

I paid a visit to Cambridge last January.  Though the trip took me 5 hours and it rained the whole day with strong winds there, the town deserved a visit.
The bus started at 6:10 a. m. It stopped at 4 airports before we finally arrived，which wasted more time than we expected. Tired with long sitting，one passenger stood up to relax his numbed legs. The driver asked him to sit down but in vain. So he pulled up and said seriously, “Either you get off or sit down.” To him, safety is the first policy.
Cambridge consists of over thirty colleges. The oldest part of the university was built in the 13th century while the newest was founded in the mid 1960s.The number of the students is so great that many students live in lodgings（出租房）and move into college for their final year.
Cambridge is called a university town because there is no clear separation between the university buildings and the rest of the city. The university is not just one part of the town；it is all over the town. The heart of Cambridge has shops，pubs，and supermarkets，but most of it is university-colleges，departments，libraries，clubs and other places for university staff and students. Students fill the shops，cafes，banks and churches，making these as well part of the university.
With over 10,000 undergraduates and postgraduates, the town is a busy place indeed. Students here are not allowed to keep cars. If you happen to be walking in the street during a break，better stop a moment to avoid the boiling sea of bicycles hurrying in all directions，carrying students from one college or lecture room to another.
【小題1】The writer believed that the trip took more time because of________

A．bad weather	B．unexpected stops of the bus
C．one passenger	D．a(chǎn)n accident on the way

【小題2】Why is Cambridge called a university town？

A．It has 10，000 undergraduates and postgraduates.

B．There are over thirty colleges in the town.

C．All the students and staff live in the town.

D．The university and town are fully combined.

【小題3】It can be inferred that most Cambridge students take _______as their first means of transport.

A．boats

B．cars

C．bicycles

D．buses

　                        　A
The nervous-looking young man had waited for a few moments outside the jeweler's shop before he got enough courage to enter．He was warmly greeted by a young assistant. James felt a rush blood to his face as he explained he would bring in his future wife to choose a birthday present．The assistant listened carefully and told him he'd better buy a necklace. He wasn't used to buying jewelry and was a little worried about overspending. After some discussion as to reasonable price and type（類型）, the assistant showed him dozens of necklaces and helped him to choose. At last James chose one and left the shop promising to return at five o'clock. When, half an hour later, James did return to the shop with his future wife, Laura, the assistant acted as if she had never seen him before. When she was asked to show them some necklaces, she first brought out some inexpensive ones for them to choose and then gave them the one she had prepared. A choice was soon made and they went away, satisfied. James would certainly come back to buy what he wanted when he got married.
【小題1】A good title（題目）for this passage is ________.

A．A Clever Assistant	B．Buying a Birthday Present
C．How to Choose a Necklace	D．A Brave Young Man

【小題2】 Why did the young man look nervous?

A．Because he had never bought jewelry before.

B．Because he would get married.

C．Because he didn’t have enough money to buy a satisfying present.

D．Because he feared he would be laughed at by shop assistants.

【小題3】The word "overspending" in this passage means ________.

A．spending too much money

B．spending too much time

C．spending more time than be planned

D．spending too much time and too much money

【小題4】When James told the assistant why he wanted to buy a present, his
face________.

A．turned pale

B．turned black

C．turned yellow

D．turned red

【小題5】James would come back to buy what he wanted because ________.

A．the necklace was good

B．Laura liked the necklace

C．the assistant knew how to satisfy the people who came to buy things

D．the assistant who served James was very beautiful

How is it that siblings （兄弟姐妹） can turn out so differently? One answer is that in fact each sibling grows up in a different family． The firstborn is, for a while, an only child, and therefore has a completely different experience of the parents than those born later． The next child is, for a while, the youngest, until the situation is changed by a new arrival． The mother and father themselves are changing and growing up too． One sibling might live in a stable and close family in the first few years; another might be raised in a family crisis, with a disappointed mother or an angry father．
Sibling competition was identified as an important shaping force as early as in 1918． But more recently, researchers have found many ways in which brothers and sisters are a lasting force in each others’ lives． Dr． Annette Henderson says firstborn children pick up vocabulary more quickly than their siblings． The reason for this might be that the later children aren’t getting the same one-on-one time with parents． But that doesn’t mean that the younger children have problems with language development． Later-borns don’t enjoy that much talking time with parents, but instead they harvest lessons from bigger brothers and sisters, learning entire phrases and getting an understanding of social concepts such as the difference between “I” and “me”． 
A Cambridge University study of 140 children found that siblings created a rich world of play that helped them grow socially． Love-hate relationships were common among the children． Even those siblings who fought the most had just as much positive communication as the other sibling pairs．
One way children seek more attention from parents is by making themselves different from their siblings, particularly if they are close in age． Researchers have found that the first two children in a family are typically more different from each other than the second and third． Girls with brothers show their differences to a maximum degree by being more feminine than girls with sisters． A 2003 research paper studied adolescents from 185 families over two years, finding that those who changed to make themselves different from their siblings were successful in increasing the amount of warmth they gained from their parents．
【小題1】In terms of language development, later-borns ________．

A．get their parents’ individual guidance

B．learn a lot from their elder siblings

C．experience a lot of difficulties

D．pick up words more quickly

【小題2】What was found about fights among siblings?

A．Siblings hated fighting and loved playing．

B．Siblings in some families fought frequently．

C．Sibling fights led to bad sibling relationships．

D．Siblings learned to get on together from fights．

【小題3】The word “feminine” （in Para． 4） means “_______”．

A．having qualities of parents

B．having qualities of women

C．having defensive qualities

D．having extraordinary qualities

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【小題1】What made “I” finally think of getting a cell phone?

A．Being stuck by the highway．

B．Being urged by his grandkids．

C．Being persuaded by cell phone salespersons．

D．Being attracted by the friendly return policy．

【小題2】On the monthly basis of 100 minutes, the Jitterbug weekly rate is about_______．

A．$3．75

B．$4．99

C．$14．99

D．$19．99

【小題3】An advantage of Jitterbug mentioned in the passage is _______．

A．its discount price with a free gift

B．its reasonable rate plans without a contract

C．its "global-positioning" system with 911 access

D．its good customer service all over the world

【小題4】The main purpose of the passage is to _______．

A．tell a customer’s story of Jitterbug

B．provide two ways to order Jitterbug

C．give a brief introduction of Jitterbug

D．a(chǎn)ttract potential customers to Jitterbug．

I was small for my age. I was shy and sometimes it was hard for me to make friends with the others. However, learning came fairly easy for me. I was the best in most of my classes, but PE class was my nightmare (惡夢) and made me feel that I was not as good as the others.
Miss Forsythe was our PE teacher. She was young and energetic. Everyone liked her. She said that we all had to come to her classes. No one could hide from Miss Forsythe!
One day she told me that she wanted me to play a game with another girl in a PE show. I was rather worried that I wouldn’t do a good job when she explained her idea, but she was excited. With her encouragement, I had no choice but to agree. It was a "boy meets girl" game. I played the boy and my classmate, Margaret Ann, played the girl. We were dressed in evening clothes and danced around the floor. According to Miss Forsythe, I had to pick up Margaret Ann when we finished the dance. Since I was not strong enough to pick the tallest girl up, it was she who picked me up. I suddenly felt ten feet tall!
It was a huge success and everybody applauded (鼓掌) for our excellent performance. What a wonderful ending! Afterwards, I smiled confidently (自信地).
Miss Forsythe’s understanding and willingness to create a place for me in her show (which certainly did not need me) gave me some much needed confidence. She was and always will be my favorite teacher.
【小題1】What do we know about Miss Forsythe?

A．She was good at dancing.

B．She was a strict teacher.

C．She liked to play games with the students after class.

D．She taught students how to dance.

【小題2】How did the author feel about the game at first?

A．She was excited.	B．She thought it would be fun.
C．She was disappointed.	D．She was nervous.

【小題3】What is the best title for the passage?

A．Our PE Teacher—Miss Forsythe	B．My School Life
C．A Forgettable Experience	D．A Game with My Classmate