1 . It was a busy morning, about 8:30, when an elderly gentleman in his 80s came to the hospital. I heard him saying to the nurse that he was in a hurry for all appointment(约会)at 9:30. The nurse had him take a _______ in the waiting area,_______ him it would be at least 40 minutes_________someone would be able to see him. I saw him_______his watch and decided, since I was_______busy—my patient didn’t_______ at the appointed hour, I would examine his wound. While taking care of his wound, I asked him if he had another doctor’s appointment. The gentleman said no and told me that he_______to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his_________. He told me that she had been_________for a while and that she had a special disease. I asked if she would be____________if he was a bit late. He replied that she __________ knew who he was, that she had not been able to __________ him for five years now. I was____________, and asked him, “And you__________go every morning, even though she doesn’t know who you are?” He smiled and said. “She doesn’t know me but I know who she is”. I had to hold back __________ as he left.            

Now I __________ that in marriages, true love is____________of all that is. The happiest people don’t__________have the best of everything, they just__________the best of everything they have. ____________isn’t about how to live through the storm, but how to dance in the rain.

1.

A．breath

B．test

C．seat

D．break

2.

A．persuading

B．promising

C．understanding

D．telling

3.

A．if

B．before

C．since

D．after

4.

A．taking off

B．fixing

C．looking at

D．winding

5.

A．very

B．also

C．seldom

D．not

6.

A．turn up

B．show off

C．come on

D．go away

7.

A．needed

B．forgot

C．agreed

D．happened

8.

A．daughter

B．wife

C．mother

D．sister

9.

A．late

B．well

C．around

D．there

10.

A．lonely

B．worried

C．doubtful

D．hungry

11.

A．so far

B．neither

C．no longer

D．already

12.

A．recognize

B．answer

C．believe

D．expect

13.

A．moved

B．disappointed

C．surprised

D．satisfied

14.

A．only

B．then

C．thus

D．still

15.

A．curiosity

B．tears

C．words

D．judgment

16.

A．realize

B．suggest

C．hope

D．prove

17.

A．agreement

B．expression

C．acceptance

D．exhibition

18.

A．necessarily

B．completely

C．naturally

D．frequently

19.

A．learn

B．make

C．favor

D．try

20.

A．Adventure

B．Beauty

C．Trust

D．Life

2 . Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest thinkers in the world, began his career as an artist. Very little is known about Leonardo’s early life. He was born in 1452 in the town of Vinci. As a boy, Leonardo showed a great interest in drawing, sculpting and observing nature.

However, because Leonardo was born to parents who were not married to each other, he was barred from some studies and professions. He trained as an artist after moving to Florence with his father in the 1460s. It was an exciting time to be in Florence, one of the cultural capitals of Europe. Leonardo trained with one of the city’s very successful artists, Andrea del Verrocchio. He was a painter, sculptor and gold worker. Verrocchio told his students that they needed to understand the body’s bones and muscles when drawing people.

Leonardo took the teacher’s advice very seriously. He spent several periods of his life studying the human body by taking apart and examining dead bodies. While training as an artist, Leonardo also learned about and improved on relatively new painting methods at the time. One was the use of perspective (透视) to show depth. A method called “sfumato” helped to create a cloudy effect to suggest distance. “Chiaroscuro” is a method using light and shade as a painterly effect.

Leonardo’s first known portrait now hangs in the National Gallery in Washington, D. C. He made this painting of a young woman named Ginevra de’Benci around 1474. The woman has a pale face with dark hair. In the distance, Leonardo painted the Italian countryside.

He soon received attention for his extraordinary artistic skills. Around 1475 he was asked to draw an angel in Verrocchio’s painting “Baptism of Christ.” One story says that when Verrocchio saw Leonardo’s addition to the painting, he was so amazed by his student’s skill that he said he would never paint again.

1. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．We can find Leonardo’s work in the National Gallery.

B．Leonardo thought his teacher’s advice was unreasonable.

C．“Sfumato” is a method to show depth by using light and shade.

D．“Baptism of Christ” made Leonardo known across the world.

2. The underlined word “barred” in the second paragraph probably means ________.

A．prevented

B．protected

C．suffered

D．chosen

3. Which of the following words can be used to describe Leonardo according to the third paragraph?

A．Stubborn.

B．Creative.

C．Ambitious.

D．Determined.

4. Which is the correct order of the things that happened to Leonardo?
a. He finished the painting of Ginevra de’Benci.
b. He moved to Florence.
c. He finished drawing an angel in his teacher’s painting.
d. He began to learn art from Andrea del Verrocchio.
e. He began to study the dead body.

A．b, c, e, d, a

B．d, b, c, d, e

C．b, d, e, a, c

D．b, e, d, a, c

5. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．Verrocchio didn’t like Leonardo’s work.

B．Verrocchio thought Leonardo’s work terrible.

C．Verrocchio thought highly of Leonardo’s work.

D．Verrocchio didn’t believe Leonardo could paint well.

3 . When I was 24, I moved into an apartment and the couple next door were loud all the time. After putting up with it for a couple of weeks, I decided to ________ them and politely ask them to be ________ after noon, as I had to work at midnight, so I ________ went to bed around noon.

I went next door and knocked on the door and an old woman answered.I ________myself and she asked if I came over to complain about the ________, and I said yes. She________ both she and her husband were going ________ and that they needed to speak loudly to hear each other, She invited me in and ________ me a coffee and we started talking. ________, we heard a loud bang (巨响) in the kitchen. Then we found her husband had fallen onto the ground. Immediately, we ________ him to to hospital.

When I came home from work the next day, there was a ________ on the door from the lady asking me to come over. When I reached her ________, she asked if I'd drive her to the hospital, to which I said no ________. When we got to the hospital, I followed her to her husband's room, where he ________ me. Soon I ended up being friends with this couple ________ they moved away a year later.

One day after ten years, I got a ________ from a lawyer. I was ________ what was going on, so I went down and when I arrived at his office, the lawyer asked me knew a ________ by the couple's names and I said yes. He told me that the couple had died and he was employed by their children to find me. They wanted to thank me ________. I met the family and then we became friends! You can never know when, where or how you are next going to make new friends. Life is full of ________ . Whatever happens, try to treat others exactly as you would like to be treated.

1.

A．challenge

B．treat

C．punish

D．face

2.

A．quieter

B．calmer

C．kinder

D．slower

3.

A．seldom

B．already

C．always

D．still

4.

A．expressed

B．introduced

C．improved

D．examined

5.

A．stress

B．pain

C．alarm

D．noise

6.

A．explained

B．described

C．guessed

D．believed

7.

A．weak

B．blind

C．deaf

D．disabled

8.

A．brought

B．offered

C．bought

D．ordered

9.

A．Secretly

B．Unfortunately

C．Naturally

D．Suddenly

10.

A．invited

B．forced

C．rushed

D．led

11.

A．report

B．note

C．notice

D．bill

12.

A．home

B．car

C．office

D．door

13.

A．doubt

B．way

C．matter

D．problem

14.

A．punished

B．thanked

C．scolded

D．annoyed

15.

A．since

B．before

C．until

D．while

16.

A．call

B．visit

C．warning

D．question

17.

A．wondering

B．imagining

C．describing

D．recording

18.

A．team

B．patient

C．doctor

D．couple

19.

A．by mistake

B．on purpose

C．in person

D．in public

20.

A．dangers

B．surprises

C．choices

D．dreams

4 . Learn With Homer

Price: Free

Grade level: Pre-K, K

Skill: Comprehension, Phonics(拼读法)

Device: iPad

It’s a learn-to-read app for kids aged 3 to 6 that includes drawing, voice recording, stories, songs, and more, along with more traditional phonics exercises.

This app can be helpful for kids who have speech production problems and language organization problems.

Inspiration Maps

Price: $ 9.99

Grade level: 4th and above

Skill: Comprehension, Writing

Device: iPad

Inspiration Maps is a mind-mapping tool that helps kids visually (视觉上) organize ideas. They can create maps, organizers, brainstorms, and text outlines. Outlines can be changed to maps, and maps can be changed to outlines. Users can share creations by emailing, printing, or saving to iTunes, Dropbox, Photos, or the app (as PDF or PNG files) . The Lite version (简化版本),which is free, lets kids create up to five mind maps with no sharing choices.

Aesop’s Quest

Price: $ 0.99

Skill: Comprehension

Grade level: 2nd, 3rd, 4th

Device: iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch

Aesop’s Quest, based on Aesop’s Fables, is a learning game where the student must remember parts of a story to complete a level. At the end of each story level, the student is rewarded with tests. After solving the tests, the story is complete and the child can continue to the next story.

Developed together with the Virginia Department of Education.

LightSail

Grade level: Pre-K, K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and above

Price: Free

Skill: Comprehension

Device: iPad

LightSail is an e-reading platform that helps teachers support their students’ independent reading. Students can use LightSail to check out text from their schools’ online libraries and read the books directly on their iPad. As students progress through a book, questions appear to check their comprehension. As students complete these assessments (评定),they earn prizes.

1. What do the four apps have in common?

A．They try to improve kids’ comprehension ability.

B．They are developed for high-school students.

C．They can be downloaded onto iPhone.

D．They are free of charge.

2. The app Learn With Homer can help users who have difficulty in________.

A．singing songs

B．reading stories

C．making speeches

D．learning foreign languages

3. Which app inspires users’ visual imagination?

A．Learn With Homer

B．Aesop’s Quest

C．LightSail

D．Inspiration Maps

4. What should users do in order to read the next story on the Aesop’s Quest?

A．Finish reading the previous story.

B．Retell the previous story completely

C．Work out the tests of the previous story.

D．Remember every part of the previous story.

5. What do we know about the app LightSail?

A．It is developed only for teachers.

B．It is a platform to support students’ independent reading.

C．It helps users to finish their homework.

D．It develops users’ comprehension through games.

5 . Most humans are able to recognize about 1 million different colors, but some people can’t recognize this many because of something called colorblindness. In rare cases, some people can’t see any colors at all.

There are three cone-shaped (锥形的) cells at the back of our eyes that allow us to see colors. These cells absorb light waves and send a message to the brain, where the image is processed.

If something is wrong with these cone-shaped cells, this can result in colorblindness.

One of the most common types of colorblindness is red-green colorblindness. People who have this specific type of visual impairment (视觉障碍) have difficulty telling the colors red and green apart. “Problems with distinguishing red from green interrupt simple daily routines such as deciding whether a banana is ripe,” Karepov explained. That is why people with colorblindness sometimes find it difficult to finish their daily tasks.

Thankfully, special color-correcting glasses have already been made to help fix some types of colorblindness. Now, according to research published in Optics Letters, scientists have provided another choice.

Sharon Karepov and Tal Ellenbogen, engineers from Tel Aviv University in Israel, have found a way to apply this technology to contact lenses (隐形眼镜), which create a customized, compact and durable way to address these deficiencies (缺陷) of the special color-correcting glasses which are significantly bulkier (笨重的). The creation of the much smaller contact lenses is really good news for the millions of people worldwide who suffer from colorblindness.

This new research is groundbreaking (开创性的). In addition to offering those who are colorblind another option, it may lead to solutions for other visual impairments.

1. What can cause colorblindness, according to the article?

A．Only one type of cone-shaped cell exists in the eyes.

B．Cone-shaped cells cannot process images received.

C．The brain fails to absorb and process light waves.

D．Something is wrong with these cone-shaped cells.

2. What is true about people with colorblindness?

A．They can recognize l million different colors.

B．They are not interested in colorful stuff.

C．They may find daily tasks more difficult.

D．They have fewer cone-shaped cells than other people.

3. What is the advantage of the contact lenses over the glasses?

A．They are much smaller.	B．They are easier to make.
C．They are much cheaper.	D．They can help correct colorblindness.

4. Why is Sharon Karepov and Tal Ellenbogen’s research groundbreaking?

A．It has led to a cure for colorblindness.

B．It has found causes of visual impairments.

C．It could lead to solutions for other visual impairments.

D．It has helped to develop glasses to fix visual impairments.

5. Which of the following statements is right according to the passage?

A．People who suffer from colorblindness can’t see any colors at all.

B．It is the cone-shaped cells that send messages to the brain.

C．Nothing can help fix some types of colorblindness.

D．People with red-green colorblindness can tell whether a banana is ripe.

7 . A month before my first marathon, one of my ankles was injured and this meant not running for two weeks, leaving me only two weeks to train. Yet, I was determined to go ahead.

I remember back to my 7th year in school. In my first P. E. class, the teacher required us to run laps and hit a softball. I didn't do either well. He later informed me that I was "not athletic".

The idea that I was "not athletic" stuck with me for years. When I started running in my 30s, I realized running was a battle against myself, not about competition or whether or not I was athletic. It was all about the battle against my own body and mind. A test of wills!

The night before my marathon, I dreamt that I couldn't even find the finish line. I woke up sweating and nervous, but ready to prove something to myself.

Shortly after crossing the start line, my shoe laces became untied. So I stopped to readjust. Not the start I wanted!

At mile 3, I passed a sign: "GO FOR IT, RUNNERS!"

By mile 17, I became out of breath and the once injured ankle hurt severely. Despite the pain, I stayed the course walking a bit and then running again.

By mile 21, I was starving!

As I approached mile 23, I could see my wife waving a sign. She is my biggest fan. She never minded the alarm clock sounding at 4 a.m. or questioned my expenses on running.

I was one of the final runners to finish. But I finished! And I got a medal. Actually, I got the same medal as the one that the guy who came in first place had.

Determined to be myself, move forward, free of shame and worldly labels(世俗标签), I can now call myself a "marathon winner".

1. After the author’s ankle was injured, what was he determined to do?

A．quit	B．go ahead
C．have a rest	D．keep calm and walk

2. The author referred to his experience in the 7th year to ______.

A．treasure his precious old days	B．prove his inability in sports then
C．defend himself from prejudice	D．convey his gratitude to the teacher

3. What happened to the author eventually during his first marathon?

A．He succeeded for a strong will.	B．He quit running halfway.
C．He was awarded the first prize.	D．He walked to the end.

4. What did the author feel by mile 23?

A．He passed a sign: "GO FOR IT, RUNNERS!"

B．He became out of breath and the once injured ankle hurt severely

C．He was starving!

D．He was encouraged by his wife.

5. What does the story mainly tell us?

A．One is never too old to learn.

B．Failure is the mother of success.

C．Family support is the fountain of success.

D．Success can be acquired with a great effort of will.

8 . Chinese sword play

Learn Chinese swordsmanship and practice Chinese sword play under the instruction of a professional in Ditan Park every Sunday afternoon.

Fee: 60 yuan(US$ 7.2)

Time/Date: 2 pm — 3:30 pm, October 10.

Place: Meet at the south gate of Ditan Park, across the overpass north of the Lama Temple, Chaoyang District.

Tel: 8457-2772

See Lu Xun’s former residence

Visit the museum and former residence of Lu Xun, the father of Chinese modern literature, and learn about this period of Chinese history, from 1910 to the late 1930’s.

Fee: 50 yuan(US$ 6)

Time/Date: 2:30 pm — 4:30 pm, October 16

Place: Meet in front of Lu Xun’s Museum, Fuchengmennei Dajie, Xicheng District

Tel: 6432-9341

Hike on Heifengkou Great Wall

Heifengkou Great Wall is about one and a half hours’ drive north of Beijing. The hike starts from the village at the foot of the mountain where the Great Wall meanders to the top.

Fee: 150 yuan(US$ 18) for adults, 100 yuan(US$ 12) for kids under 12.

Time/Date: 8:30 am — 5:30 pm, October 16

Pick-up: Meet at 8:30 am in front of the Big Easy, at the South Gate of Chaoyang Park, returning by 5:30 pm.

Contact Lucy at lucy @ highclub. cn, or 6553-3920 for signing up.

Tai Chi class

This is a beginner’s level of Chen-style Tai Chi class, instructed by Paul Wang, who speaks excellent English and has a lot of experience teaching Westerners. He is the 12th generation master of Chen-Style Tai Chi, Tai Chi Sword, and Shaolin Temple longquan.

Time/Date: 10 am — 11:30 am, October 12, 19

Fee: 60 yuan(US$ 7.2)

Place: In front of Jintai Gallery, inside the West Gate of Chaoyang Park, Chaoyang District

Tel: 6432-9341

Contact Gina at linshujuan@chinadaily. com. cn.

1. The underline word “residence” in the second text possibly refers to ________.

A．a work	B．a famous person
C．a park	D．a house

2. If John wants to learn Chinese sword play, he may go to ________.

A．Ditan Park at 2 pm — 3:30 pm, October 10

B．Fuchengmennei Dajie at 2:30 pm — 4:30 pm, October 16

C．the South Gate of Chaoyang Park at 8:30 am

D．Chaoyang Park at 10 am — 11:30 am, October 12, 19

3. If you are free from 10:00 am — 11:30 am, you may go to _____.

A．learn Chinese sword play

B．hike on Heifengkou Great Wall

C．visit the museum and former residence of Lu Xun

D．take the Tai Chi class

4. In which section of the newspaper can you find the information above?

A．Sports.	B．Entertainment.
C．Advertisements.	D．Brief News.

5. If you and your 5 friends plan to hike on Heifengkou Great Wall, how much will you pay for?

A．$ 18

B．$ 120

C．$ 108

D．$ 90

9 . Before I turned 10, I lost my parents. My siblings left Hyderabad after relatives adopted them, but I insisted on staying back to continue my education. I lived alone in a room that a family member allowed me to use rent-free. To support myself, I began to deliver newspapers.

I would be up every morning by 5 a.m. and walk five kilometers to the newspaper office. By 6 a.m., I would collect 50 copies of Manzil (Urdu Daily)—the bundle must have weighed over 5 kilograms. My beat spanned 3 kilometers. After distributing the copies, I would rush home—another 3 kilometers —quickly cat and be off to high school.

One wintry morning in 1945,I got home after my deliveries to find a boy of my age at my doorstep. He introduced himself as Afzal and said his father wanted to see me.

I was greeted at the door by Afzal's mother, Naseem. She served tea and snacks as Afzal's father, Mr Kader, joined us. She gently asked me about my daily routine. I told her about my morning job.

Later, as I was about to leave after thanking them, Mr Kader asked me to wait. Later, Mr Kader emerged again, wheeling a new bicycle. "This is for you!" he said.

It took a few seconds for the love to sink in. It felt warm, like home. I didn't realize tears were rolling down my face.

Mr Kader said. Your newspaper editor is a friend of mine. He gave me your address. so I knew you lived close by. Then Afzal told us more about you."

I bowed, gratefully, shook hands with Afzal and left. This time I did not have to walk—I had the bicycle.

The bicycle saved my life for many years thereafter and taught me a lifelong lesson: Help should always be need-based. Never try to feed a person who is dying of thirst.

1. Why did Afzal's father want to meet the author?

A．He wanted to help the author.

B．The author's parents used to be his friends.

C．He wanted to know more about the author.

D．The author reminded him of his own childhood.

2. How did the author feel after Afzal's father offered him the bicycle?

A．Satisfied.

B．Interested.

C．Touched.

D．Confused.

3. To the author, the bicycle was        .

A．a gift from his parents	B．a childhood toy
C．something that made him proud	D．something that he needed most

4. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A．The author lived alone in his own house after he lost his parents.

B．The author worked hard to support himself by delivering newspapers.

C．The author didn't cry although he felt touched by Mr Kader.

D．The author didn't want to accept the help from Mr Kader.

5. What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph mean?

A．Sometimes helping others can hurt your relationships.

B．Try your best to help others even if you cannot.

C．Know what the person needs when giving help.

D．It's difficult to find out what a person really wants.

10 . As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn’t good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth has fallen close to zero. That’s bad for the economy, of course. And it may be especially discouraging if you happen to be looking for a job or hoping to change careers right now. But it actually shouldn’t matter to you nearly as much as you think.
　　That’s because job growth numbers don’t matter to job hunters as much as job turnover data. After all, existing jobs open up every day due to promotions, resignations, terminations, and retirements. (Yes, people are retiring even in this economy.) In both good times and bad, turnover creates more openings than economic growth does. Even in June of 2007, when the economy was still humming along, job growth was only 132,000, while turnover was 4.7 million!
　　And as it turns out, even today — with job growth near zero — over 4 million job hunters are being hired every month.
　　I don’t mean to imply that overall job growth doesn’t have an impact on one’s ability to land a job. It’s true that if total employment were higher, it would mean more jobs for all of us to choose from (and compete for). And it’s true that there are currently more people applying for each available job opening, regardless of whether it’s a new one or not.
　　But what often distinguishes those who land jobs from those who don’t is their ability to stay motivated. They’re willing to do the hard work of identifying their valuable skills; be creative about where and how to look; learn how to present themselves to potential employers; and keep going, even after repeated rejections. The Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that 2.7 million people who wanted and were available for work hadn’t looked within the last four weeks and were no longer even classified as unemployed.
　　So don’t let the headlines fool you into giving up. Four million people get hired every month in the U.S. You can be one of them.
1. The author tends to believe that high unemployment rate ______?

A．deprives many people of job opportunities.

B．prevents many people from changing careers.

C．should not stop people from looking for a job.

D．does not mean the U.S. economy is worsening.

2. Where do most job openings come from?

A．Job growth

B．Job turnover

C．Improved economy

D．Business expansion

3. What does the author say about overall job growth?

A．It doesn’t have much effect on individual job seekers.

B．It increases people’s confidence in the economy.

C．It gives a ray of hope to the unemployed.

D．It doesn’t mean greater job security for the employed.

4. What is the key to landing a job according to the author?

A．Education

B．Intelligence

C．Persistence

D．Experience

5. What do we learn from the passage about the unemployment figures in the US?

A．They clearly indicate how healthy the economy is.

B．They provide the public with the latest information.

C．They warn of the structural problems in the economy.

D．They exclude those who have stopped looking for a job.