Scientists who study        noise say that           average noise level in  this district is as high as 70. 3 decibels.   

A. ／；the                       B. ／；an                 C. the；an                   D. a；the  

Before the Kings returned home, the house         thoroughly.   

A. has cleaned                                                      B. had cleaned  

C. has been cleaned                                                D. had been cleaned  

I          here earlier. I never thought the ear would break down halfway.   

A. could come                                                     B. should come  

C. would have come                                            D. may have come  

We could hear the noise of the kids           before entering the room.   

A. shouting and crying                                            B. being shouted and cried  

C. to shout and cry                                                 D. shouted and cried  

The computer system crashed and I lost           of work.   

A. three hour’s worth                                               B. three hours’ worth  

C. three hours’ worthy                                             D. three hour’s worthy  

Though money means           to her, yet she will donate however much you need.   

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

         Mr. Morgan appears very cheerful in public, he is actually leading a  very unhappy life.   

A. When                           B. While                    C. As                           D. Since  

What he had done really left us        about his real purpose.   

A. wondered                     B. wonder                 C. to wonder                D. wondering  

－It’s so embarrassing when you can’t remember someone’s name.   

－  

A. That’s too bad.                                                B. Nothing serious.   

C. I know the feeling.                                             D. What a shame!  

It was from the bedroom window, the police believe,           he escaped.   

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

－Learn how to manage time properly       

－I will. I’ll be trying my best, mum.   

A. on your behalf                                                   B. on your own account  

C. in your interest                                                  D. for your own favor  

Many friends as he has made,             of them are constant ones·  

A. any                              B. some                     C. many                      D. few  

Merry is the youngest of the four children, but she has no         and is treated just as the others.   

A. benefits                        B. advantages              C. privileges                 D. guarantees  

The project alongside with the experiment we had once devoted so much time       perfectly.   

A. to work out                                                       B. to working out  

C. to worked out                                                    D. has worked out  

The school was across the street from our home and I would watch the kids as they   36  during the break. She seemed so small as she,    37   her way through the crowd of boys on the playground. She stood out from them all.     

I began to notice her at other times, basketball in hand, playing   38   . She would practice dribbling（运球）and shooting over and over again, sometimes until dark.  One day I asked her  39  she practiced so much. She looked  40   in my eyes and without a moment of    41    she said, "I want to go to college. The only way I can go is if I get a（an）  42   . I am going to play college basketball. I want to be college. My Daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don't   43  "  

Well, I had to give it in to her—she was   44   . One day, I saw her sitting in the grass, head   45  in her arms. I walked toward her and quietly asked what was the matter. "Oh, nothing, "came a soft reply. "I am just too   46  . "The coach told her that at her height she would probably  47   get to play for a top ranked team much  48   offered a scholarship. So she should stop dreaming about college.   

She was heartbroken and I   49  her disappointment. I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were  50   .   

They just did not understand the   51   of a dream. He told her that if she really wanted to play for a good college, if she truly wanted a scholarship,   52  could stop her except one thing—her own   53  .   

The next year,  as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was seen by a college coach. She was indeed   54   a scholarship. She was going to get the college education that she had dreamed of and worked    55   it for all those years.   

36. A. studied   

B. relaxed   

C. played

D. enjoyed 

37. A. pushed   

B. cleared   

C. lost

D. gave 

38. A. well   

B. freely   

C. together

D. alone  

39. A. how   

B. why   

C. where

D. whether 

40. A. brightly   

B. bitterly   

C. directly

D. casually 

41. A. argument   

B. glance   

C. panic

D. hesitation 

42. A. scholarship 

B. reputation 

C. occupation

D. graduation 

43. A. disappear   

B. occur   

C. exist

D. count 

44. A. admired   

B. determined 

C. ashamed

D. ignored 

45. A. showed   

B. nodded   

C. turned

D. buried 

46. A. unique   

B. flexible   

C. short

D. nervous 

47. A. never   

B. always   

C. ever

D. still 

48. A. more   

B. less   

C. too

D. as 

49. A. removed   

B. sensed   

C. reduced

D. imagined 

50. A. wrong   

B. strict   

C. cautious

D. important 

51. A. nature   

B. complex   

C. power

D. result 

52. A. something    

B. anything   

C. everything

D. nothing 

53. A. skill   

B. attitude   

C. champion

D. award 

54. A. offered   

B. required   

C. promoted

D. gained 

55. A. out   

B. with   

C. toward

D. at 

Since we are social beings, the quality of our lives depends in large measure on our interpersonal relationships. One strength of the human condition is our possibility to give and receive support from one another under stressful conditions. Social support makes up of the exchange of resources among people based on their interpersonal ties· Those of us with strong support systems appear better able to deal with major life changes and daily problems. People with strong social ties live longer and have better health than those without such ties. Studies over types of illnesses, from depression to heart disease, show that the presence of social support helps people defend themselves against illness, and the absence of such support makes poor health more likely.   

Social support cushions stress in a number of ways. First, friends, s and coworkers may let us know that they value us. Our self-respect is strengthened when we feel accepted by others in spite of our faults and difficulties. Second, other people often provide us with informational support. They help us to define and understand our problems and find solutions to them. Third, we typically find social companionship supportive. Taking part in free-time activities with others helps us to meet our social needs while at the same time distracting（转移注意力）us from our worries and troubles. Finally, other people may give us instrumental support—money aid, material resources, and needed services—that reduces stress by helping us resolve and deal with our problems.   

56. Interpersonal relationships are important because they can          .   

A. make people live more easily                                B. smooth away daily problems  

C. deal with life changes                                          D. cure types of illnesses  

57. The researches show that people’s physical and mental health             .   

A. lies in the social medical care systems which support them  

B. has much to do with the amount of support they get from others  

C. depends on their ability to deal with daily worries and troubles  

D. is related to their courage for dealing with major life changes  

58. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word “cushions” in Paragraph 27  

A. takes the place of                                         B. takes care of  

C. lessens the effect of                                     D. gets rid of  

59. Helping fl sick neighbor with some repair work in spare time is an example of  

A. instrumental support                                    B. informational support  

C. social companionship                                   D. the strengthening of self-respect  

60. What is the subject discussed in the text?  

A. Interpersonal relationship.                                  B. Kinds of social support.   

C. Ways to deal with stress.                                    D. Effects of stressful conditions.   

It is hard to go after the blue whale, the ocean’s largest creature, which has almost been killed off by commercial whaling and is now listed as an endangered species. Attaching radio devices to it is difficult, and sightings with bare eyes are too unreliable to give real insight into its behavior.   

So biologists were delighted early this year when, with the help of the Navy, they were able to track a particular blue whale for 43 days, monitoring its sounds. This was possible because of the Navy’s formerly top-secret system of underwater detecting（探测）devices across the oceans.   

Tracking whales is but one example of an exciting new world just opening to civilian（平民的）scientists after the cold war as the Navy starts to share and partly uncover its global network of underwater listening system built over the decades to track the ships of potential（潜在的）enemies.   

Earth scientists announced at a news conference recently that they had used the system for closely monitoring a deep-sea volcanic eruption（爆发）for the first time and that they plan similar studies.   

Other scientists have proposed to use the network for tracking ocean currents and measuring changes in ocean and global temperatures.   

The speed of sound in water is roughly one mile a second－slower than through land but faster than through air. What is most important, different layers of ocean water can act as channels for sounds, focusing them in the same way a stethoscope（听诊器）does when it carries faint noises from a patient’s chest to a doctor’s ear. This focusing is the main reason that even ly weak sounds in the ocean, especially low—frequency ones, can often travel thousands of miles.   

66. The passage is chiefly about           .   

A. an effort to protect an endangered sea species  

B. the civilian use of a military system  

C. the introduction of a U. S. Navy top-secret weapon  

D. a new way to look into the behavior of blue whales  

67. The underwater listening system was originally designed             .   

A. to detect and locate enemy boats  

B. to monitor deep—sea volcanic eruptions  

C. to study the movement of ocean currents  

D. to replace the global radio communications network  

68. What is the closest meaning of the underlined word “to track” in the second paragraph?  

A. to study                       B. to fight against  

C. to follow                        D. to try to kill  

69. It can be inferred from the passage that                 .   

A. new radio devices should be developed for tracking the endangered blue whales  

B. blue whales are no longer endangered with the use of the new listening system  

C. opinions differ as to whether civilian scientists should be allowed to use military technology  

D. military technology has great potential uses outsides. the military forces  

70. Which of the following is true about the U. S. Navy underwater listening net work?  

A. It is now partly accessible to civilian scientists.   

B. It has been replaced by a more advanced system·  

C. It became useless to the military after the cold war.   

D. It is a must in protecting endangered species.   

Prince Charles yesterday pledged（承诺）to reduce the royal impact on the environment through sweeping changes to his personal lifestyle and official schedule.  The prince will replace carbon-heavy private jets and helicopters with scheduled flights and train services.   

The move came as Prince Charles urged business leaders to publish the environmental pact（协定）of their activities. He said, “Few accountants and business decision-makers ask, ‘How much of our critical natural resource is left? How many miles of polar ice cap has our business helped melt this year? By how many inches have we raised sea levels? How many species have we put at risk? How many homes will be flooded ,  how many people will die of thirst or starvation because of our activities?’ These are not comfortable questions, but, by God, they need to be asked. ”  

He added, “At the moment these costs do not appear in anyone’s books…Yet they are real, they are incurred now and in a ly short time, the damage being caused may be beyond remedy. ”He said the world was “running up the biggest global credit card debt in history, but with little or no thought for how the bill will ever be paid. ’’  

Flanked by the prime minister and business and community leaders at St James’s Palace, the prince said his new“accounting for sustainability” project would give consumers the power to choose products that caused less damage to the planet·  

Duchy Originals, the prince’s food company, is taking steps to work out how much carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas are emitted in growing, processing and distributing its products. The changes to the prince’s travel arrangements announced yesterday are part of a wider review of the carbon footprint associated with activities at all three of his residences：Clarence House in London, Highgrove and Birkhall on the Balmorals estate, as well as the activities of his 21 personal and 1 0 5 full-time staff .  Measures include a review of electricity use, commuter and other staff travel and are intended to identify further reductions in carbon dioxide emissions. The review will report in June, when Clarence House will announce annual targets to reduce carbon emissions.   

71. One of the moves Prince Charles will take to reduce the royal impact on the environment is   .   

A. taking private jets that are not carbon-heavy  

B. taking helicopters instead of private jets  

C. taking trains instead of scheduled flights  

D. taking scheduled flights instead of helicopters  

72. How does Prince Charles feel about business leaders in terms of environmental protection?  

A. Dissatisfied.                  B. Disappointed.           C. Doubtful.                 D. Impatient.   

73. In response to Prince Charles’ calls, Duchy Originals will           .   

A. make as much green food as possible  

B. cut down its cost  

C. figure out its greenhouse gas emission  

D. continue its greenhouse gas emission  

74. The underlined phrase “the biggest global credit card debt” in Paragraph 3 probably refers to  .   

A. the great amount of waste produced by industry  

B. the great damage caused to the environment  

C. the great amount of debts of the royal family  

D. the high cost of industry in their producing process  

75. What would be the best title for the passage?  

A. Prince Charles Pledges Greener Royal Lifestyle  

B. Better Late Than Never  

C. Prince Charles and His Concern For Environment  

D. The Royal Family Has a Role to Play in Environment Protection  

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Learning to save money when you’re young is an important lesson. All good lessons and habits begin early, and saving is a skill that everyone needs. Many people－adults included－do not have a good sense of saving for the long run.   

I have been lucky to learn this lesson early because I have had a grass. cutting business since I was 10 years old. Of the money I make I spend about 10 percent and save the other 90.   

Making sure you save and don't spend too much is a good way to build up wealth.   I have put my earnings in a bank. Many teens I know spend all the money they earn so it never has a chance to grow. Young people should realize that their teenage years are a great time to begin saving.   

At high school many parents pay for almost everything, so your expenses can be small.  If you have a lob, you should have fun with some of the money. But you should also save some so that it will grow. Then you can begin planning for your future. When you spend money, you not only lose that money, but also lose the interest you could have earned by saving it.   

After high school, college is expensive and then “real” life begins, with expenses such as food and rent. If you can hold onto a good percentage of the money you earn as a teen, going to college and buying a house will be much easier.                              ,  the more money you’ll save and the easier it will be. If you are in your thirties without any savings, you will always have to struggle.   

Later in life it can be hard to start saving because general cots of living are more expensive and you may only have enough to pay your bills. If you want to buy fl house and have a family, you need money to start with, which comes from saving.   

Many say money cannot make you happy, and this is true. But money can help you to lead a secure life.   

Saving early will mean you will have to work for fewer years when you are older. It will also allow you to spend time doing the things that you want to d0.   

In addition to this, it will mean you can live the way you want to without worrying.   

76.   What’s the best title of the passage?  

77.   Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one?  

As long as you save early, you’ll do less work to live well at your old age.   

78.   Please fill in the blank in the passage with proper words 0r phrases to complete  

the sentence. （Please answer within 10 words. ）  

79.   According to the passage, what do you think of saving?（Please answer within 30 words. ）  

80. Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.