1 . A lady wanted a birthday gift from her husband. For many months she had liked a beautiful _________, and knowing her husband could _________ it, she told him that was all she wanted. On the morning of the _________, her husband told her how _________ he was to have such a good wife, and how much he loved her. He _________a beautiful gift package (纸盒). She opened it and _________ a Bible. _________, she raised her voice and said to her husband, "With all your money, you give me a Bible?" She was so _________ that she left him.

Many years passed and the lady was very_________ in business. She owned two large companies. She __________ her husband was very old, and thought perhaps she should go to __________ him. But before she could, she __________ a letter telling her that he had died, and gave all of his possessions (财产) to her. She needed to come back and __________ things.

When she arrived at his house, sadness __________ her heart. She saw the still new __________, just as she had left it years before. With __________, she opened it and began to turn the pages. A ring __________ from the Bible to the floor and a __________ could be seen. She picked it up and found it was the ring she wanted in those days. And on the card was the date of her birth, and the words "LOVE U ALWAYS".

__________ your gift is not packaged the way you want it, it's because it is better packaged the way it is! Always appreciate little things; they usually lead you to bigger things! The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched for they must be felt with the __________ .

1.

A．watch

B．ring

C．coat

D．box

2.

A．afford

B．like

C．design

D．guess

3.

A．holiday

B．performance

C．birthday

D．meeting

4.

A．proud

B．kind

C．sorry

D．brave

5.

A．lent

B．asked

C．gave

D．moved

6.

A．carried

B．found

C．missed

D．held

7.

A．Politely

B．Lightly

C．Patiently

D．Angrily

8.

A．calm

B．upset

C．grateful

D．careless

9.

A．failing

B．lonely

C．successful

D．poor

10.

A．wondered

B．hoped

C．realized

D．explained

11.

A．visit

B．melt

C．catch

D．help

12.

A．passed

B．wrote

C．sent

D．received

13.

A．take care of

B．pay for

C．look for

D．give away

14.

A．covered

B．broke

C．left

D．filled

15.

A．car

B．Bible

C．letter

D．table

16.

A．smiles

B．laughter

C．tears

D．interests

17.

A．hid

B．dropped

C．disappeared

D．made

18.

A．book

B．pen

C．flower

D．card

19.

A．If

B．But

C．Although

D．So

20.

A．hand

B．eye

C．face

D．heart

2 . Scientists have designed a new machine - a robot which looks exactly like the famous scientist Albert Einstein.It can recognize and respond to human emotions(情感).The robot is made of special material that allows it to change facial expressions.The material that makes up the robot's face is so detailed that it looks like real human skin.

The robot's designers chose Einstein, the Nobel Prize winner, because he was one of the greatest scientists of all time.They also chose Einstein because his face is very well known and he appear 'loveable'.

Dr.Hanson,who designed the robot, explained that it was important to develop machines that know what human beings are feeling.

The robot uses computer software that helps it to understand hundreds of human expressions such as sadness, anger, fear and happiness.It can also recognize a person's age, and whether they are male or female.Mr.Movellan, who designed the software, said that in the future the robot could be in museums to help people from different cultures to understand one another.

1. What do we know about the robot?

A．It can recognize and respond to human emotions.

B．It can develop new machines for children.

C．Its color can be changed easily.

D．Its material is very common.

2. Who was one of the designers of the robot?

A．Albert Einstein.

B．Dr.Hanson.

C．Mr.Nobel.

D．A tour manager.

3. What might be the best title for the text?

A．Robot copy of Albert Einstein	B．New type of museum
C．How to design a museum	D．How to express feelings

4. Which is true according to the passage?

A．Albert Einstein designed the software.

B．In the future the robot will take the place of human beings to do everything .

C．Mr.Movellan can recognize all people’s facial expressions.

D．The material that makes up the robot's face looks like real human skin.

3 . No one knows for sure when advertising first started. It is possible that it grew out of the discovery that some people did certain kinds of work better than others did them. That led to the concept of specialization, which means that people would specialize, or focus, on doing one specific job.

Let's take a man we'll call Mr. Fielder, for example. He did everything connected with farming. He planted seeds, tended the fields, and harvested and sold his crops. At the same time, he did many other jobs on the farm. However, he didn't make the bricks for his house, cut his trees into boards, make the plows, or any of the other hundreds of things a farm needs. Instead, he got them from people who specialized in doing each of those things.

Suppose there was another man we shall call Mr. Plowright. Using what he knew about farming and working with iron, Mr. Plowright invented a plow that made farming easier. Mr. Plowright did not really like farming himself and wanted to specialize in making really good plows. Perhaps, he thought, other farmers will trade what they grow for one of my plows.

How did Mr. Plowright let people know what he was doing? Why, he advertised, of course. First he opened a shop and then he put up a sign outside the shop to attract customers. That sign may have been no more than a plow carved into a piece of wood and a simple arrow pointing to the shop door. It was probably all the information people needed to find Mr. Plowright and his really good plows.

Many historians believe that the first outdoor signs were used about five thousand years ago. Even before most people could read, they understood such signs. Shopkeepers would carve into stone, clay, or wood symbols for the products they had for sale.

A medium, in advertising talk, is the way you communicate your message. You might say that the first medium used in advertising was signs with symbols. The second medium was audio, or sound, although that term is not used exactly in the way we use it today. Originally, just the human voice and maybe some kind of simple instrument, such as a bell, were used to get people's attention.

A crier, in the historical sense, is not someone who weeps easily. It is someone, probably a man, with a voice loud enough to be heard over the other noises of a city. In ancient Egypt, shopkeepers might hire such a person to spread the news about their products. Often this earliest form of advertising involved a newly arrived ship loaded with goods. Perhaps the crier described the goods, explained where they came from, and praised their quality. His job was, in other words, not too different from a TV or radio commercial in today's world.

1. What probably led to the start of advertising?

A．The discovery of iron.	B．The specialization of labor.
C．The appearance of new jobs.	D．The development of farming techniques.

2. The writer makes up the two stories of Mr. Fielder and Mr. Plowright in order to________.

A．explain the origin of advertising	B．predict the future of advertising
C．expose problems in advertising	D．provide suggestions for advertising

3. In ancient Egypt, a crier was probably someone who ________.

A．owned a ship	B．had the loudest voice
C．ran a shop selling goods to farmers	D．functioned like today's TV or radio commercial

4 . Mr. Peter Johnson, aged twenty-three, battled for half an hour to escape from his trapped car yesterday when it landed upside down in three feet of water. Mr. Johnson took the only escape route—through the boot(行李箱).

Mr. Johnson’s car had finished up in a ditch(沟渠) at Romney Marsin, Kent after skidding on ice and hitting a bank. “Fortunately, the water began to come in only slowly,” Mr. Johnson said. “I couldn’t force the doors because they were jammed against the walls of the ditch and dared not open the windows because I knew water would come flooding in.”

Mr. Johnson, a sweet salesman of Sitting Home, Kent, first tried to attract the attention of other motorists by sounding the horn and hammering on the roof and boot. Then he began his struggle to escape.

Later he said, “It was really a half penny that saved my life. It was the only coin I had in my pocket and I used it to unscrew the back seat to get into the boot. I hammered desperately with a hammer trying to make someone hear, but no help came.”

It took ten minutes to unscrew the seat, and a further five minutes to clear the sweet samples from the boot. Then Mr. Johnson found a wrench(扳子) and began to work on the boot lock. Fifteen minutes passed by. “It was the only chance I had. Finally it gave, but as soon as I moved the boot lid, the water and mud poured in. I forced the lid down into the mud and scrambled clear as the car filled up.”

His hands and arms cut and bruised(擦伤), Mr. Johnson got to Beckett Farm nearby, where he was looked after by the farmer’s wife, Mrs. Lucy Bates. Huddled in a blanket, he said, “That thirty minutes seemed like hours.” Only the tips of the car wheels were visible, police said last night. The vehicle had sunk into two feet of mud at the bottom of the ditch.

1. What is the best title for this newspaper article?

A．The Story of Mr. Johnson, A Sweet Salesman

B．Car Boot Can Serve As The Best Escape Route

C．Driver Escapes Through Car Boot

D．The Driver Survived A Terrible Car Accident

2. Which of the following objects is the most important to Mr. Johnson?

A．The hammer	B．The coin.
C．The screw.	D．The horn.

3. “Finally it gave” (Paragraph 5) means that ________.

A．Luckily the door was torn away in the end

B．At last the wrench went broken

C．The lock came open after all his efforts

D．The chance was lost at the last minute

4. It may be inferred from the passage that ________.

A．the ditch was along a quiet country road

B．the accident happened on a clear warm day

C．the police helped Mr. Johnson get out of the ditch

D．Mr. Johnson had a tender wife and was well attended

5 . There are so many rabbits across Australia that it may be surprising to learn that they are a non-native species. A few rabbits arrived with British settlers in 1788, but it was not until 1859, when a British-born farmer named Thomas Austin brought 24 European rabbits to his land for hunting, that they began to live there. They are an excellent example of an invasive (侵入的) species, a non-native species that does harm to its new environment.

Rabbits have lived well in many different environments within Australia, such as grasslands, coastal areas, farmland, and even in towns or cities. Their activities have destroyed crops and plants. They compete directly with other wildlife for food and shelter, including taking over burrows (地洞) of other animals. They have led to dangerously reduced populations of many plant and animal species.

Efforts to control the rabbit population have had mixed success. The first main effort was the Rabbit-Proof Fence. In 1901, the government started building a knee in the state of Western Australia to protect farmland from rabbits. By the time it was finished in 1907, the Rabbit-Proof Fence ran some 2,000 miles from north to south. The Acting Chief Inspector of Rabbits, Alexander Crawford, headed a team whose job was to go around keeping the fence in working order. But over time, the fence proved to be no match for the rabbits.

Other main efforts have included programs to destroy rabbit burrows or use viruses that sicken and kill rabbits. Again, these efforts have been less than successful. The big problem to any efforts to control the rabbit population is simply that their population grows so quickly. One female can have 30 young in a year.

If Thomas Austin had known the damage that the rabbits would cause across the country, he might have had second thoughts about bringing rabbits to Australia.

1. Why did rabbits begin to live in Australia?

A．They travelled there by chance.

B．They were brought in by Thomas Austin.

C．They were introduced by the government.

D．They moved there to escape bad environment.

2. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．Some activities of rabbits.

B．Rabbits’ ability to live in the wild.

C．How fast the population of rabbits grows.

D．The damage rabbits have caused to Australia.

3. How successful was the Rabbit-Proof Fence?

A．It failed in the beginning.

B．It didn’t live up to expectations.

C．It was unfinished for lack of money.

D．It failed later for nobody protected it.

6 . Terry was a middle-aged businessman. He was _______ in career and often complained that he had been fooled by others. One day he told his wife he was _______ disappointed with the city that he had to _______.

So his family moved to another city. It was Saturday _______. When Terry and his wife were busily putting their things in their new home, the lights suddenly _______ and they were forced to stop work. Terry was sorry to have _______ to bring along some candles. Just then he heard light_______on his door.

“Who is it?” he wondered. Terry knew _______ else in the new city, and this was the moment he especially hated to be _______. He opened the door impatiently. At the door was a little ________, shyly asking, “Sir, do you have ________? I’m your neighbor.” “No,” answered Terry angrily. He shut the door ________.

After a while the door was knocked again. He opened it and ________ the same little girl outside. But this time she was ________ two candles radiating (放光) red light. She said, “My grandma told me the ________ neighbor downstairs might need candles. She sent me here to ________ you these.”

At that moment Terry suddenly realized what ________ his failure in life. It was his indifference (冷漠) and ________ to other people. The person who had fooled him in life was actually nobody else ________ himself, for his eyes had been covered by his ________ mind.

1.

A．experienced

B．unsuccessful

C．interested

D．useless

2.

A．very

B．so

C．such

D．rather

3.

A．leave

B．travel

C．stay

D．choose

4.

A．morning

B．afternoon

C．noon

D．evening

5.

A．came in

B．went out

C．broke up

D．calmed down

6.

A．wanted

B．decided

C．forgotten

D．remembered

7.

A．knocks

B．calls

C．strikes

D．sounds

8.

A．everybody

B．anybody

C．somebody

D．nobody

9.

A．troubled

B．followed

C．loved

D．heard

10.

A．boy

B．girl

C．postman

D．shopper

11.

A．candies

B．toys

C．lights

D．candles

12.

A．easily

B．worriedly

C．happily

D．heavily

13.

A．found

B．sent

C．touched

D．knew

14.

A．bringing

B．seeing

C．holding

D．drawing

15.

A．poor

B．kind

C．new

D．young

16.

A．give

B．buy

C．borrow

D．sell

17.

A．led

B．caused

C．developed

D．stopped

18.

A．laziness

B．sadness

C．unkindness

D．unhappiness

19.

A．besides

B．with

C．but

D．than

20.

A．open

B．right

C．warm

D．cold

8 . It was five years ago that something unforgettable happened. My wife and I celebrated our 40^th wedding anniversary that year. It was a lovely event hosted by our sons for us. My wonderful friends from the past surprised us with gifts and congratulations. Our gift to each other was a driving trip out west. We drove from Ontario into Alberta, then southward into Glacier National Park in Montana, and continued to Yellowstone National Park.

It was a cold spring day, and the Beartooth Highway had opened for the season just days before. Alongside the road, there was still a great amount of snow there. The scenery was so impressive that we made lots of stops to record memories with my camera. At the highest point of the highway, I stopped at a lookout to catch the amazing views, with my wife in the centre of my camera lens.

There were not many cars on the road. Sometimes, cars with energetic young tourists passed by. And then we heard a motorcycle in the distance. The driver of the motorcycle, who wore dirty clothes, parked behind our cars. As he approached us, his only words were, “Give me your camera and get over there with your wife.” I must admit I felt nervous that we might be robbed where we just created some beautiful memories. Surprisingly, he just took a picture of us, handed back my camera and rode off before we could express our gratitude. The photo he took is one of the most valuable and prized of our trip.

I learned my lesson somewhere I least expected it. We should never judge a man by his appearance. If the motorcycle driver reads this story and remembers the situation, we would like to say “Thank you” to him.

1. According to the passage, what do we know about the trip?

A．It was taken by train to the west.

B．It was a suggestion from their friends.

C．It was in the late autumn five years ago.

D．It was a gift for their wedding anniversary.

2. Why was the author nervous when the motorcycle driver offered to take a picture?

A．He could have lost the camera.

B．His wife might not be satisfied with the view there.

C．The motorcycle driver would borrow the camera.

D．The motorcycle driver might not be good at the taking pictures.

3. Which of the following best describes the driver of the motorcycle?

A．Kind and straightforward.	B．Rich and generous.
C．Creative and capable.	D．Careful and admirable.

4. Which of the following can be concluded from the passage?

A．No pains, no gains.

B．Seeing is believing.

C．Don’t judge a book by its cover.

D．The longest journey begins with the first step.