spacecraft Shenzhou Ⅶ took off on November 1st, 2011, at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in        Northwest China.

A. The; the                 B. The; /                    C. A; the                    D. A; /

This job is great        salary. However, it has several disadvantage, such as long working hours and inconvenient working place.

A. on behalf of          B. in addition to        C. thanks to             D. in terms of

After being laid off, he was reduced to        himself        to plant vegetable on the farm.

A. hiring…out            B. catching…on                  C. splitting…off                  D. taking…up

— When shall we meet your cousin at the station?

— His plane took off two hours ago, and it        reach at 5 pm.

A. should                    B. could                                C. must                                D. can

The Prince and the Frog is a fairy musical that        the days when Walt Disney was a person, not a brand.

A. was dated back to                          B. dates back to

C. has been dating from           D. had dated from

So        that even the students in the next classroom could hear his argument with somebody.

A. loudly he spoke                      B. he spoke loudly

C. loudly did he speak                D. loudly spoke did he

American college students are increasingly        with credit card debt and the consequences can be rather serious.

A. boosted                          B. burdened              C. substituted           D. dominated

Children are        to meet with setbacks as they grow up, so their parents don’t have to worry about it.

A. consistent             B. arbitrary                C. fragile                    D. bound

More consumers are waiting for the further drop of housing prices with money in their hands  _       buying houses, according to a report.

A. no better than     B. little more than   C. other than            D. rather than

Many of us who have never been to Egypt always        Egypt with the ancient pyramids.

A. associate              B. abolish                   C. accumulate          D. acquire

       good service, the restaurant offers different kinds of traditional Yangzhou dishes to guests from different places.

A. Far from                B. Instead of             C. Apart from            D. Regardless of

       is known to us is that the 2016 Olympic Games will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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

The sunspot came into its active stage last year,        that happens once every eleven years.

A. one                         B. it                              C. the one                  D. what

Loulan city is not at all        a traveler who has never seen the desert before can imagine.

A. that                        B. what                       C. which                     D. where

— Have you graduated from collage?

— Yes, ________.

A. I studied French for two years.        B. I have been studying French.

C. I have studied French for two years.   D. I had studied French for two years.

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I met Ryan, a young man with cerebral palsy (脑瘫), in my biology class. My simple "Hello!" and his cheerful reply were the   36   to our friendship from the first day of school. There was a time when Ryan was not able to come to school. He was in a great deal of   37     after having a surgery on his legs, but he   38   his sufferings from everyone.

         In our junior year, we found that we didn't   39   a single class. This was not a problem, though. We just talked a little more in the hallway   40   passing periods. That year seemed to fly by. One day, Ryan asked me to hold the torch (火炬) runner's flag that would   41   the spot where Ryan would   42   his Olympic torch run. He gently explained that he would be honored   43   I would accept this position for him. The Olympic committee sent a letter saying that the person that holds the flag for him must be someone   44   to him. He said I was the only true friend he had   45   made that talked to HIM and not to his wheel chair. How could I   46   such a request?

         On the morning of June 5th, as I walked down the sidewalk, my heart   47   and my mind became a factory of questions. I kept wondering how everything was going to happen and how Ryan would   48   the huge crowd of thousands of people.

After the van arrived, the other runners got out and lined up outside the van, chanting his name, "Ryan! Ryan!" Then all of the people   49   in, “Ryan! Ryan!” The lift then lowered Ryan to the ground. There he was, in all his   50  .

It all became slow motion at the sight of the arriving torch. The runner lit Ryan's torch and then Ryan began his   51  . As he took off down the street, the chanting became louder and louder. The   52   filled the air and even I felt like I was on cloud number nine. I could not have been any prouder of Ryan！ He   53   this moment in time --a historic moment--a moment that he was a part of and   54   me to be a part of, too.

Mr. Weinheimer, the next torch runner, bent over and gave Ryan a hug. That moment will last in time forever. It symbolized the whole   55   of the flame: love, excitement, enthusiasm, brotherhood, and life of any man. The flame united us all and showed that love is really what makes this small world go around after all.

36. A. solutions           B. keys            C. routes                   D. responses

37. A. danger                        B. fear                  C. pain                        D. puzzle

38. A. hid                            B. prevented        C. released               D. relieved

39. A. change                    B. miss            C. attend                  D. share

40. A. except               B. for                    C. during                   D. before

41. A. mark                  B. test                  C. number                D. decorate

42. A. cover                  B. begin         C. continue         D. lead

43. A. while                  B. although         C. if                             D. unless

44. A. polite                 B. kind                  C. grateful                D. important

45. A. ever                          B. never         C. also                  D. even

46. A. admit                 B. refuse              C. make               D. repeat

47. A. ached                 B. raced               C. stopped                D. sank

48. A. explain to          B. differ from     C. respond to         D. call on

49. A. joined                 B. stepped          C. poured                  D. broke

50. A. potential           B. preference              C. glory                D. surprise

51. A. training                   B. journey            C. life                         D. struggle

52. A. anxiety                    B. satisfaction    C. harmony          D. excitement

53. A. deserved           B. recalled           C. treasured          D. chose

54. A. promised          B. encouraged    C. allowed           D. followed

55. A. mystery                  B. power              C. information         D. meaning

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An Australian man who has been donating his extremely rare kind of blood for 56 years has saved the lives of more than two million babies.

James Harrison has an antibody in his plasma（血浆）that stops babies dying from Rhesus disease, a form of severe anaemia. He has enabled countless mothers to give birth to healthy babies, including his own daughter, Tracey, who had a healthy son thanks to her father's blood.

Mr. Harrison has been giving blood every few weeks since he was 18 years old and has now racked up a total of 984 donations. When he started donating, his blood was deemed so special that his life was insured for one million Australian dollars.

He was also nicknamed the “man with the golden arm” or the “man in two million”. He said, “I've never thought about stopping. Never!” He made a pledge to be a donor aged 14 after undergoing major chest surgery in which he needed 13 liters of blood. “I was in hospital for three months,” he said. “The blood I received saved my life so I made a pledge to give blood when I was 18.”

Just after he started donating he was found to have the rare and life-saving antibody in his blood. At the time, thousands of babies in Australia were dying each year of Rhesus disease. Other newborns suffered permanent brain damage because of the condition. The disease creates an incompatibility between the mother's blood and her unborn baby's blood. It stems from one having Rh-positive blood and the other Rh-negative.

His blood has since led to the development of a vaccine called Anti-D. After his blood type was discovered, Mr. Harrison volunteered to undergo a series of tests to help develop the Anti-D vaccine. “They insured me for a million dollars so I knew my wife Barbara would be taken care of,” he said. “I wasn't scared. I was glad to help. I had to sign every form going and basically sign my life away.”

Mr. Harrison is Rh-negative and was given injections of Rh-positive blood. It was found his plasma could treat the condition and since then it has been given to hundreds of thousands of women. It has also been given to babies after they are born to stop them developing the disease.

It is estimated he has helped save 2.2 million babies so far. Mr. Harrison is still donating every few weeks now.

56. What does the underlined phrase “two million” refer to?

A. mothers    B. babies     C. dollars    D. blood

57. Why did James decide to donate his blood? Because _____.

A. his daughter asked him to help her son

B. he has a golden arm worth a million dollars

C. a vaccine called Anti-D is to be developed  

D. someone else’s blood saved his life

58. The sentence “The disease creates an incompatibility between the mother's blood and her unborn baby's blood” (underlined in Paragraph 5) suggests that _____.

A. the mother and the baby have different types of blood

B. babies suffer permanent brain damage before born 

C. Rhesus disease contributes to permanent brain damage 

D. all the patients have a rare antibody in their blood

59. What can we infer from the sixth paragraph?

A. His wife Barbara needed to be taken care of badly then.

B. Mr. Harrison was not glad to help develop a new vaccine.

C. Some of the tests to develop the vaccine are dangerous. 

D. His blood type was accidentally discovered after tests.

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DONALD SLOAN

Gates Hall

University of Kansas

Lawrence, KS 66045

913-243-1682

After May 2009:

46 Clayton Drive

St. Louis, MO 63130

314-726-8840

Objective

To work with the client（委托人）population in a social service position.

Education

B.A., University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 2009

Major: Social Services

Minor: Applied Psychology

Experience

Assistant Activities Supervisor, Fairview Nursing Home, Lawrence, KS, November 2006-present. Help organize and implement recreational activities for nursing home residents. Activities include crafts, dances, day trips, sing-alongs, and visiting performers.

Hotline Volunteer, Teen Crisis Center, Lawrence, KS, September 2006- May 2007. Handled crisis calls from teenagers in the community. Dealt with drug use, unwanted pregnancies, failing grades, and the breakdown of parent-teen relationships.

Nurse’s Aide, Danyers General Hospital, St. Louis, MO, Summer 2006. Assisted nurses in patient care. Took histories, updated charts, and helped prepare patients for surgery. 

Activities

University Concert Board. Work with other board members to plan and implement on-campus concerts.

Senior Gift Campaign. Help manage the campaign to raise funds for the senior class gift to the university.

Residence Hall Programming Board. Planned social events for Eggar Residence Hall.

Skills

Fluent in French. Water safety instructor. Skilled at working with people.

Interests

Skiing, softball, classical music, and guitar.

60. This passage is most probably ______.

A. an advertisement for enrolling new employees

B. a school report at the end of an academic year

C. a self-introduction meant to apply for a job

D. a part of a recommendation letter from a university

61. According to the “Experience” section, we can infer that Donald Sloan can be _____  .

A. a wise leader                                                  B. a skillful performer

C. a gifted scientist                                           D. a good social worker

62. From the passage we can learn that Donald Sloan ______.

A. is good at singing and dancing                  B. is about to graduate from a university

C. has an interest in being a surgeon           D. specializes in psychology

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Homeownership has let us down. For generations, Americans believed that owning a home was undoubtedly good. Our political leaders hammered home the point. Franklin Roosevelt held that a country of homeowners was “unconquerable.” Homeownership could even save babies, save children, save families and save America. A house with a lawn and a fence wasn’t just a nice place to live in or a risk-free investment; it was a way to shape a nation. No wonder leaders of all political types wanted to spend more than $100 billion a year on subsidies（补助）and tax breaks to encourage people to buy.

But the dark side of homeownership is now all too apparent: Indeed, easy lending stimulated（刺激）by the cult of homeownership may have triggered（引起）the financial crisis. Housing remains a drag on the economy. Existing-home sales in April dropped 27% from the previous month, worsening fears of a double-dip. And all that is just the obvious tale of a housing bubble and what happened when it popped. The real story is deeper and darker still.

For the better part of a century, politics, industry and culture lined up to create a fetish of the idea of buying a house. Homeownership has done plenty of good over the decades; it has provided stability to tens of millions of families. Yet by idealizing the act of buying a home, we have ignored the downsides. In the bubble years, lending standards slipped dramatically, allowing many Americans to put far too much of their income into paying for their housing. And we ignored longer-term phenomena too. Homeownership contributed to the hollowing out of cities and kept renters out of the best neighborhoods. It fed America’s overuse of energy and oil. It made it more difficult for those who had lost a job to find another. Perhaps worst of all, it helped us become casually self-deceiving: By telling ourselves that homeownership was a pathway to wealth and stable communities and better test scores, we avoided dealing with these frightening issues head-on.

Now, as the U.S. recovers from the biggest housing bust（破产）since the Great Depression, it is time to rethink how realistic our expectations of homeownership are—and how much money we want to spend chasing them. Many argue that homeownership should not be a goal pursued at all costs.

63. Political leaders wanted to spend money encouraging people to buy houses because______.

A. owning a home was undoubtedly good

B. homeownership could shape a country

C. houses could save families and America

D. homeownership was unconquerable 

64. The underlined sentence in Para. 2 means ______.

A. homeownership has quite a lot of bad effects

B. there might be another housing breakdown in the U.S.

C. the existing-home sales will keep decreasing in the U.S.

D. the result of homeownership is much worse than it appears

65. It can be inferred from Para. 3 that ______.

A. Americans choose to live out of urban areas

B. it is the way to wealth to have one’s own house

C. it is hard for Americans to get a home loan

D. homeownership has made many people out of work

66. What is the author’s attitude towards homeownership?

A. Cautious.           B. Ambiguous.            C. Favorable.       D. Optimistic.

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Hans was an honest fellow with a funny round good-humored face. Living alone, every day he worked in his garden. In all the countryside there was no garden so lovely as his. All sorts of flowers grew there, blooming in their proper order as the months went by, one flower taking another flower’s place, so that there were always beautiful things to see, and pleasant odors to smell.

Hans had many friends, the most devoted being the Miller. So devoted was the rich Miller to Hans that he’d never go by his garden without plucking a large bunch of flowers or a handful of sweet herbs, or filling his pockets with fruits. The Miller used to talk about noble ideas, and Hans nodded and smiled, feeling proud of having such a friend.

The neighbors thought it strange that the rich Miller never gave Hans anything in return, though he had hundreds of sacks of flour, many cows and sheep, but Hans never troubled his head about these, and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to listen to all the wonderful things about the unselfishness of true friendship.

In spring, summer, and autumn Hans was very happy, but when winter came, and he had no fruit or flowers to sell, he suffered from cold and hunger. Though extremely lonely, the Miller never came to see him then.

“There’s no good in going to see Hans while the snow lasts.” The Miller said to his wife, “When people are in trouble they shouldn’t be bothered. So I’ll wait till the spring comes when he’s happy to give me flowers.”

“You’re certainly very thoughtful,” answered his wife, “It’s quite a treat to hear you talk about friendship.”

    “Couldn’t we ask Hans up here?” said their son. “I’ll give him half my meal, and show him my white rabbits.”

    “How silly you are!” cried the Miller. “I really don’t know what’s the use of sending you to school. If Hans came up here, and saw our warm fire, our good supper, and our red wine, he might get envious, and envy is a most terrible thing, and would spoil anybody’s nature. I am his best friend, and I’ll always watch over him, and see that he’s not led into any temptation. Besides, if Hans came here, he might ask me for some flour. Flour is one thing, and friendship is another, and they shouldn’t be confused. The words are spelt differently, and mean quite different things. Everybody can see that.” He looked seriously at his son, who felt so ashamed that he hung his head down, and grew quite scared, and began to cry into his tea.

    Spring coming, the Miller went down to see Hans. Again he talked about friendship. “Hans, friendship never forgets. I’m afraid you don’t understand the poetry of life. See, how lovely your roses are!”

    Hans said he wanted to sell them in the market to buy back his things which were sold during the hard time of the winter.

    “I’ll give you many good things. I think being generous is the base of friendship.” said the Miller. “And now, as I’ll give you many good things, I’m sure you’d like to give me some flowers in return. Here’s the basket, and fill it quite full.”

    Poor Hans was afraid to say anything. He ran and plucked all his pretty roses, and filled the Miller’s basket, imagining the many good things promised by the Miller.

    The next day he heard the Miller calling: “Hans, would you mind carrying this sack of flour for me to market?”

    “I’m sorry, but I am really very busy today.”

    “Well,” said the Miller, “considering that I’m going to give you my things, it’s rather unfriendly of you to refuse. Upon my word, you mustn’t mind my speaking quite plainly to you.”

    Poor Hans was driven by his friendship theory to work hard for his best friend, leaving his garden dry and wasted. ks5u 

    One evening Hans was sitting by fire when the Miller came.

    “Hans,” cried the Miller, “My little boy has fallen off a ladder and hurt himself, and I’m going for the Doctor. But he lives so far away, and it’s such a bad windy night. It has just occurred to me that you can go instead of me. You know I’m going to give you my good things, so you should do something for me in return.”

    “Certainly,” cried Hans. He struggled into the stormy night, and got the doctor to ride a horse to the Miller’s house in time to save the boy. However, Hans got lost in the darkness, and wandered off into a deep pool, drowned.

    At Hans’ funeral, the Miller said, “I was his best friend. I should walk at the head of the procession.” Every now and then he wiped his eyes with a handkerchief.

67. From the passage, we can learn that Hans ______.

A. was extremely wise and noble               B. admired the Miller very much    

C. was highly valued by the Miller     D. had a strong desire for fortune

68. Hans worked a lot for the Miller because he ______.

A. was treated as a best friend by the Miller

B. owed the Miller many valuable things

C. was convinced of the Miller’s noble talk

D. intended to show off his unselfishness

69. What’s the main cause of Hans’ tragedy?

A. True friendship between them.              B. Blind devotion to a friend.

C. A sudden change of weather.                 D. A lack of formal education.

70. The author described the Miller’s behavior in order to ______.

A. warn the readers about the danger of a false friend

B. show the friendship between Hans and the Miller

C. entertain the readers with an incredible joking tale

D. persuade people to be as intelligent as the Miller

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In the United States, engineering is a profession that has been dominated historically by men. Even today, it’s still true that few women become civil or chemical or mechanical engineers, but that’s something www.EngineerGirl.org aims to change. Young women who visit the web site can find out about a great career choice they might not have considered.

“Women are very much underrepresented in engineering and in engineering education programs and then of course, down the road, in the engineering workforce. So only about 20 percent of engineering undergraduate degrees go to women, and then only about nine percent of working engineers are women.”

Mary Mattis in the National Academy of Engineering says the EngineerGirl website aims to reach young women around ages 11 through 14, when they are just getting old enough to start thinking about their futures.

“We know from the research that middle-school girls are at a critical point in their lives, and that it’s a time when we need to reach them, both with an understanding, increasing their awareness of interesting fields in engineering, what a wonderful productive and exciting career you can have as an engineer. But we also need to reach them at that time because you have to take certain courses, and you can’t start thinking about taking those courses when you’re a junior in high school.”

Engineering is a demanding course of study — there is a lot of science and mathematics, for many girls and even boys, that can be challenging. But Ms. Mattis says that the EngineerGirl website stresses that engineering can also be fun and exciting.

“It’s about designing things. It’s about changing the world for people. It’s about making a difference. And, in addition, you can make a good living; you can be independent economically by becoming an engineer. All of those things are messages that girls need to get.”

While most engineers go into traditional fields such as mechanical and electrical engineering, the EngineerGirl site also highlights unusual engineering careers in fields such as sports engineering and — believe it or not — chocolate engineering.

“There’s a section called ‘why be an engineer,’ and that talks about the many opportunities and increasingly different opportunities like with bio-engineering and environmental engineering, some fields that might appeal to girls who want to make a difference or have a meaning for their careers beyond earning an income.”[来源

Even if you are not a girl in the target age group, there’s a lot of interesting information on the site, including biographies of some notable women engineers.

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Website（71）  ▲   Girls to learn Engineering

Present（72）  ▲   for the engineering profession in the USA

The majority of men take up the profession throughout（73）  ▲  , while only a small number of women work as engineers.

（74）  ▲   of the website

To  make  young  women（75）  ▲   of interesting  fields  in engineering and what productivity and（76）  ▲   the career of being engineers can bring them.

（77）  ▲   of being engineers

* It can be fun and exciting.

* It can（78）  ▲   the world for people.

* You can make a good living.

* You can gain economic（79）  ▲   by becoming an engineer.

Other fields concerning engineering

Various opportunities are talked about like bio-engineering and engineering（80）  ▲   to sports, and even chocolate.