—Do you understand what I am talking about？

—___________，but not very clear.

A. Thanks                   B. Sort of                             C. Not a little            D. Yes, all right

____________they heard the shout for help, they rushed out.

A. The moment                  B. While                      C. Suddenly                D. Once

His__________to become a pilot was held back by his poor eyesight.

A. destination                    B. inspiration            C. ambition                D. promotion

I want to thank my friend John, without ____________ help, I wouldn’t have been saved.

A. his                  B. whose           C. whom           D. which

_________in the countryside made Mr. Wilson very hardworking when he was still young.

A. Bringing up           B. Having brought up

C. Being brought up         D. Brought up

___________was needed at that time, she told me, was some good luck.

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

Mary went to the box office at lunch time, but all the tickets_________out.

A. have sold               B. would sell              C. was selling            D. had sold

Teachingis____________everybody can do; it requires patience as well as professional training.

A. something            B. anything                C. everything            D. nothing

—Will the chairman come here by train?

—He should, but he __________ not. He enjoys driving himself.

A. shall              B. may               C. can                D. must

Don’t be so discouraged. If you________such feelings, you will do better next time.

A. carry on                 B. get back                C. break sown           D. put away

The film “Lost In Thailand”__________a great success and brought in a large profit to the cinema.

A. appreciated                   B. seized           C. won               D. enjoyed

Although the price has gone up by 5%, it’s still__________the limits set by the government.

A. beyond                   B. within           C. outside                  D. off

—Ring me at six tomorrow morning, will you？

—Why that early？ I ___________.

A. will sleep               B. have slept             C. have been sleeping               D. will be sleeping

The wetland park is__________attractive in spring and autumn, for the weather is pleasant in both seasons.

A. mostly                    B. hardly           C. equally                   D. merely

Although__________to be the best in a recent science competition, the student remains modest.

A. judged                    B. judging                   C. judge             D. having judged

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The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already know.

I stood up to look around, when a gentle hand  36  my shoulder. I turned around to find a  37  ，little old lady looking at me with smile that  38  her entire being. She said, “Hi. My name is Rose. I’m 87 years old. Can I give you a   39  ?” I laughed and enthu- siastically  40  ，“Or course you may！”，and she gave me a giant squeeze. I was  41  what may have motivated her to be taking on this  42  at her age. “I always  43  having a college education and now I’m getting one！ ” she told me. After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake. We became  44  friends. I was always fascinated listening to this “time machine” as she  45  her wisdom and experience with me.

I’ll never forget what she taught us. “You have to laugh and find  46  every day. You’ve got to have a dream. When you  47  your dreams, you die. There is a huge  48  between growing older and growing up. Anybody can grow older That doesn’t  49  any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always  50  the opportunity in change. Have no regrets. The elderly usually don’t have regrets for what we did,  51  rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with  52  .”

At the year’s end Rose  53  the college degree she had begun all those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died  54  in her sleep. Over 2,000 college students attended her funeral to salute the wonderful woman who taught by example that it’s never too  55  to be all you can possibly be.

36.A. struck                        B. touched                          C. covered                           D. surrounded

37.A. wrinkled          B. burnt                               C. puzzled                           D. frightened

38.A. gave up                     B. took up                            C. lit up                                D. kept up 

39.A. lift                               B. hand                                C. lesson                              D. hug

40.A. responded               B. commented                            C. praised                            D. explained

41.A. anxious                     B. curious                            C. upset                               D. certain

42.A. possibility                 B. challenge                        C. opportunity                    D. experiment

43.A. looked for                 B. talked about                  C. dreamed of                    D. dealt with

44.A. proud                         B. generous                        C. strange                           D. instant

45.A. explored                   B. developed                      C. shared                             D. possessed

46.A. humor                       B. peace                              C. reason                             D. fault

47.A. try                              B. lose                                  C. achieve                           D. continue

48.A. barrier                       B. fight                                 C. difference                       D. problem

49.A. take                           B. get                                   C. aim                                   D. lack

50.A. quitting                     B. finding                    C. expecting                       D. missing

51.A. and                             B. or                                      C. so                                     D. but

52.A. hopes                        B. regrets                                     C. rewards                          D. efforts

53.A. stopped                    B. prepared                        C. finished                           D. rejected

54.A. hopefully                   B. joyfully                   C. shamefully                     D. peacefully

55.A. late                                      B. hard                                 C. easy                                 D. early

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Randy Grim brought home his first stray dog（流浪狗）when he was only 5 years old. The fear that he saw in the eyes of that first dog-eventually replaced by gratitude and love-moved Grim so deeply that even at that young age he knew he had found his life’s work. In 1998, Grim formed a nonprofit group called Stray Rescue. The group’s goal： to save as many of St. Louis’s stray dogs as possible.

Today, Grim heads up an organization with a ＄3 million annual budget, a staff of more than 50 paid workers, thousands of volunteers, and a well-equipped shelter that houses as many as 200 dogs. The money that supports Stray Rescue has been raised through donations and through the force of Grim’s outspoken advocacy（宣传）. A man who sees himself as shy is anything but that when it comes to speaking out for dogs.

The impact has been significant. While there are no good estimates as to the number of stray dogs on the streets of St. Louis, today 40% more dogs are being picked up off the streets than just two years ago, about 98% are now adopted into homes.

Stray Rescue also funds（提供资金）a massive education campaign. The group’s bill-boards（广告牌）advocating adoption and neutering（绝育）of dogs are everywhere, as are brochures informing the public of free medical care for dogs and volunteer opportunities at Stray Rescue.

“The whole landscape has changed,”says Pam Walker, St. Louis city health director. Since Grim’s involvement, she says, St. Louis has become a model for good practices in the area.

Officials elsewhere sometimes ask how St. Louis deals with its dog problems. Walker says，“My answer is：We have Randy Grim.”

Grim says he is delighted at the way the city has responded. Many St. Louis citizens“were already there,”he says, in terms of concern for dogs. “I’m really proud of my city.”

56. Which of the following is true of Randy Grim？

A. He is afraid of speaking out for dogs.

B. He decided to rescue stray dogs when young.

C. He is the director of a nursing home.

D. He is dissatisfied with St. Louis government.

57. What can we learn about Stray Rescue？

A. It has got a big profit since it was founded.

B. It has adopted as many as 200 dogs.

C. It aims to rescue more stray dogs.

D. It doesn’t run well for lack of money.

58. According to Paragraph 4, the education campaign___________.

A. encourages adoption of stray dogs

B. supports medical care for the public

C. provides well-paid jobs

D. objects to raising dogs at home

59. According to Pam Walker,__________.

A. St. Louis has done little in treating dogs in America

B. Grim has improved stray dog adoption in St. Louis

C. provides well-paid jobs

D. objects to raising dogs at home

60. We can infer from the text that____________.

A. Stray Rescue promises to be the most famous

B. Grim has changed the whole city of St. Louis

C. most Americans are unwilling to solve dog problems

D. the number of stray dogs in St. Louis is reducing

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More than one in four children alive in Britain today will celebrate their 100th birthday, official figures showed. The special figure shows a huge social change, with today’s children likely to survive far longer than their parents or grandparents. Of the 12.4 million children aged 16 and under, 3.3 million（27%）will become someone who is a hundred years old or more. In a class of 30 children, eight can live to be 100. And the rest of the children are likely to get to an old age, even though they will not make it to three figures.

Experts warned that children may live to 100, but that they will not get their State pension until they are 70 or beyond. The State pension age is rising to 66 for both men and women by 2020, and the Government has warned it will continue to rise. Laith Khalaf, a pension expert, said, “Living to an old age is lucky if you can afford it, but a nuisance if you can’t. Those without enough savings will be depending on the State pension which will be changed.”

It also increases the possibility of millions of people surviving until their 100th birthday with a poor quality of life because of poor health and little money. Millions of older people have no pensions, no savings and no plans about how they are going to pay for their retirement other than to carry on working. If the older population demands more resources（资源），then it has to come from their own wealth or the government.

Laith said, “Millions of people will be spending over a third of their lives in retirement. It is high time that we reformed the State pension system. We want to make it fair for future generation.”

61. From the first paragraph we can learn that___________.

A. today’s children probably live longer than their parents

B. few of British children are expected to live to an old age

C. more than 30% of children aged 16 can live to be 100

D. 20% of British children will celebrate their 100th birthday

62. The underlined word “nuisance”in Paragraph 2 probably means__________.

A. somebody who is disabled              B. somebody who is dishonest

C. something that causes trouble     D.  something that is incorrect

63. What kind of life will people living to 100 probably face?

A. A high quality of life because of the development of technology.

B. A low quality of life because of bad health and limited money.

C. A high quality of life because of the increase in food price.

D. A low quality of life because of the present government.

64. Why should the government at present reform the State pension system?

A. The present pension system isn’t quite useful.

B. People nowadays don’t need the pension at all.

C. More and more people ask the government to do so.

D. The present pension system is unfair for future generation.

65. What can be inferred from the text？

A. The retirement age will be raised to 70 or beyond.

B. The government will provide job chances for the retired.

C. The State pension age for men is different from that for women.

D. It will increase the government’s pressure if more children live to 100.

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The World Bank estimates there are about 650 million mobile phone users in African countries south of the Sahara Desert. That is greater than the number of users in the United States and European Union.

Samia Melhem worke for the World Bank to increase information technologies in Africa. She says mobile phones are the fastest growing technology on the continent.

“Faster than TV, definitely faster than electricity. More people have access to mobile phones and therefore communication. More people have internet access today in Africa than they have access to water, clean water, or even sanitation（卫生设备）.So we can say that this has been the most significant revolution in terms of changing the African landscape（前景）and how people live their daily life.”

CNN television recently named seven ways of life it says have been revolutionized because of mobile phones. They include political activism, education, entertainment, disaster management, agriculture and health.

Another area is banking. Reports say half of more of the adults in Gabon, Kenya and Sudan use mobile money. Rene Mendy sells goods in the streets of Dakar, Senegal. But he never had enough money to open a bank account.

Now he uses a mobile phone banking service called Orange Money. With his telephone, he can add or take out as little as one dollar. He can make payments and send money to family members who live far away.

Orange Money says it serves four million customers in ten countries. The World Bank’s Samia Melham notes that the French company is facing competition from other mobile banking services.

“The mobile banking is a huge trend. And people in the West don’t understand it, because most people have bank accounts and they have credit cards. It-mobile banking-is the instant possession fo cash at a much lower cost. The cost is the cost of sending an SMS, which is almost nothing compared to what traditional transfer agents, like Western Union, would charge-10 dollars or more for a particular money transfer.”

66. Which area has the most mobile users according to the text?

A. The USA                   B. European Union            C. African countries          D. France

67. The most significant revolution refers to____________.

A. seven ways of life revolutionized because of mobile phones

B. more people having access to clean water

C. mobile phones being the fastest growing technology in Africa

D. the fast development of electricity in Africa

68. Using Orange Money, people can___________.

A. add or take out as little as 10 dollars

B. pay for what they want to buy

C. only send money to family members

D. deal with any financial problems

69. Most people in the West don’t use mobile banking because__________.

A. they have bank accounts and credit cards

B. they all have much money

C. mobile banking costs few dollars

D. mobile banking is hard to understand

70. The text is mainly about__________.

A. how people live their life in Africa

B. mobile phones have changed lives in Africa

C. mobile phones are the fastest growing technology

D. the mobile banking is a huge trend

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 “I don’t want to buy a traditional yearbook. I can keep and share memories of my high school on the Internet.”You may often hear this from many American high school students now. Instead of buying a book, more and more students choose to sign up at My Yearbook.com.

My Yearbook.com was created by two teenagers, Catherine Cook and her brother, 18-year-old David Cook, in 2005. They built it up to about 950,000 members in a year. The site allows people to create a profile（简介）with separate sections for high school, college, graduate school and professional life. Students who sign up are linked to other people at their school. Acting as their own editors, they can select friends from their classmates. The site also connects students through clubs and spprts pages. Like other so-called social-networking sites, it allows members to show photos and post messages. Students can do lots of things that old-fashioned yearbooks can’t offer, including hearing music and watching videos.

Catherine and David developed the idea because they thought that their own yearbooks weren’t good enough and were too expensive. “We just think yearbooks are obsolete,” said Catherine Cook, 16.“If you think about it, all you’re going to do with it is put it on the shelf and never really look at it.” Many American teenagers want different things out of their yearbooks than their parents did. They like the idea of creating an online yearbook. That is the reason why My Yearbook.com is becoming more and more popular.

Some people, however, still wonder if this free website can ever truly replace the traditional printed book of high-school memories-even for the generation that have grown up with the Internet. Some students would like to be the users of the My Yearbook.com as well as buy a traditional yearbook. The“war” between the tradition and the new technology will never end. Everyone is free to choose what he prefers and even has both.

71. What can be the best title for the texft?

A. Going online for yearbooks

B. How to select yearbooks

C. Two clever students in America

D. A famous social-networking site

72. Students who sign up on My Yearbook.com___________.

A. can select friends from the society

B. can make friends through school clubs

C. can do anything traditional yearbooks can’t offer

D. can’t hear music and watch videos

73. My Yearbook.com is becoming popular because____________.

A. it was created by two American teenagers

B. it allows to create a profile with separate sections

C. teenagers like the idea of creating an online yearbook

D. it is free of charge and is easy to access

74. Catherine and David thought traditional yearbooks were____________.

A. old-fashioned                   B. newly-developed

C. well-informed                  D. multi-functional

75. According to the author,____________.

A. the traditional yearbooks are out of date

B. My Yearbook.com can truly replace the printed yearbooks

C. teenagers should all use the online yearbooks

D. both traditional yearbook and My Yearbook.com are OK