Enrique released(发行) his first album “Enrique Iglesias” in 1995. This album had a collection of rock ballads(民谣) and five singles from it went straight to the top spots in Latin music. This album was followed by another “Vivir” in 1997. Three singles from this album occupied the top spots on the Latin charts yet again! Enrique also found himself nominated(提名) for the “Favorite Latin Artist” at the American Music Awards. By 1998, he had released his 3rd album, “Cosas Del Amor”. This year Enrique won the “Favorite Latin Artist”. “Bailamos” got him great fame. One of the songs in this album was also used in a movie. With the success of “Bailamos”, Enrique now already had many loyal fans. The album, “Enrique”, was released in 1999.
The year 2001 brought more success for him. His album, “Escape” had a few singles that reached the top spots. Enrique became a household name. This album is his biggest successful album so far. “Hero” and “Don’t Turn Off the Lights” soon turned Enrique into a super star. His next release in 2002 was a Spanish album “Quizas”. This album brought Enrique a “Latin Grammy Award” for the Best Pop Vocal Album. In 2007, he released another album “Insomniac” and the song “Do You Know” became an instantly popular song.
1. After his parents divorced, Enrique was sent to his father’s because _________.
| A．he could be protected from some dangers |
| B．he could learn singing from his talented father |
| C．his mother would be able to focus on her career |
| D．his father could teach him how to behave correctly |
| A．wanted to try a new singing style |
| B．hated his father for his carelessness |
| C．didn’t want to benefit from his father’s fame |
| D．planned to give his father a surprise when he succeeded |
| A．“Vivir”. | B．“Bailamos” . |
| C．“Enrique Iglesias”. | D．“Cosas Del Amor”. |
| A．following the order of his albums’ influence |
| B．analyzing the style of his albums |
| C．making comparisons of his albums |
| D．following the order of time |
| A．Enrique Iglesias’ lucky life |
| B．Biography of Enrique Iglesias |
| C．Enrique Iglesias’ secret to success |
| D．Enrique Iglesias’ wonderful singing skills |
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The Power of a Note
On my first job as sports editor for the Montpelier(Ohio) Leader Enterprise, I didn’t get a lot of fan mail,
When I opened it, I read: “A nice piece of writing on the Tigers. Please
Later, when I got to know him, I learned that Don made a
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| A．so | B．because | C．for | D．since |
| A．interesting | B．strange | C．joyful | D．important |
| A．take up | B．pick up | C．bring up | D．keep up |
| A．played | B．passed | C．signed | D．tested |
| A．inspiring | B．moving | C．disappointing | D．depressing |
| A．if | B．until | C．as | D．while |
| A．felt | B．thought | C．wondered | D．doubted |
| A．confident | B．calm | C．upset | D．embarrassed |
| A．difference | B．habit | C．fortune | D．wish |
| A．different places | B．other fields | C．all walks of life | D．all kinds of uniforms |
| A．me | B．him | C．myself | D．themselves |
| A．surprisingly | B．fearfully | C．truthfully | D．safely |
| A．covered | B．filled | C．flooded | D．connected |
| A．up-to-date | B．spirit-lifting | C．sharp | D．remarkable |
| A．Over | B．On | C．After | D．From |
| A．they | B．what | C．which | D．who |
| A．books | B．newspapers | C．notes | D．magazines |
| A．praise | B．agreement | C．advice | D．advertisement |
| A．awful | B．strict | C．satisfied | D．generous |
| A．friends | B．classmates | C．parents | D．children |
The 4-day classic Beijing tour is designed for tourists who come to visit China for the first time. It covers the most popular and typical places in Beijing, fully displaying the scenery, culture, history, local lifestyles and features, food and drinks, business, etc. for you.
Day 1:Arrival in Beijing
Your guide meets you at Capital Airport, and helps you check in at your hotel.
Enjoy Beijing Duck as welcome dinner.
Accommodation: Beijing downtown
Day 2:The Great Wall & the Summer Palace
Start your day at the most famous part of the Great Wall, the Badaling Great Wall. Leave the downtown for the Great Wall at 8 am. Since it is a long drive to the Great Wall (about 2 hours’ riding) have a break at the Jade Museum on the way. Lunch will be enjoyed in a local restaurant. In the early afternoon come back to the city and have a sightseeing tour of the Summer Palace.
Recommended Activity: Beijing Opera Show (Liyuan Theatre, 19:30-21:10 every evening)
Accommodation: Beijing downtown
Day 3:Beijing city sightseeing & Local experience
Your guide meets you at the hotel at 8 am and set out for the day’s touring: Tian’anmen Square and the Forbidden City.
After visiting the two sites, have a break and get ready for lunch.
Hutong visit: see some traditional arts of the old Beijing, such as paper cutting and kite making, and visit a local family.
Accommodation: Beijing downtown
Day 4:Beijing Olympic sites
Visit the Olympic sites: Bird’s Nest, Water Cube and Olympic Park, witnessing the fast developing modern China. Enjoy some free time after visiting the sites.
After lunch, it is shopping time and then the tour is over.
1. This advertisement is aimed at ________.
| A．foreigners who are new to China |
| B．experts who study history and cities |
| C．kids who were born in other cities |
| D．people who are interested in touring |
| A．go to Liyuan Theatre in the evening |
| B．visit the Summer Palace on the first day |
| C．go sightseeing in Beijing Hutong |
| D．live and eat downtown in Beijing |
| A．Day 4. | B．Day 3. | C．Day 2. | D．Day 1. |
| A．Beijing Capital Airport. |
| B．Bird’s Nest, Water Cube and Olympic Park. |
| C．Tian’anmen Square and the Forbidden City. |
| D．The Great Wall & the Summer Palace. |
| A．Age requirement. | B．The hotel’s address. |
| C．Contact information. | D．The guide’s name. |
4 . Without proper planning, tourism can cause problems. For example, too many tourists can crowd public places that are also enjoyed by the inhabitants of a country. If tourists create too much traffic, the inhabitants become annoyed and unhappy. They begin to dislike tourists and to treat them impolitely. They forget how much tourism can help the country’s economy. It is important to think about the people of a destination country and how tourism affects them. Tourism should help a country keep the customs and beauty that attract tourists. Tourism should also advance the well-being (health and happiness) of local inhabitants.
Too much tourism can be a problem. If tourism grows too quickly people must leave other jobs to work in the tourism industry. This means that other parts of the country’s economy can suffer.
On the other hand, if there is not enough tourism, people can lose jobs. Businesses can also lose money. It costs a great deal of money to build large hotels, airports, air terminals, first-class roads and other support facilities needed by tourist attractions. For example, a major international-class tourism hotel can cost as much as 50 thousand dollars per room to build. If this room is not used most of the time, the owners of the hotel will lose money.
Building a hotel is just a beginning. There must be many support facilities as well, including roads to get to the hotel, electricity, sewers to handle waste, and water. All of these support facilities cost money. If they are not used because there are not enough tourists, jobs and money are lost.
1. Which of the following has most probably been discussed in the paragraph that goes before the passage?| A．It is extremely important to develop tourism. |
| B．Building roads and hotels is essential. |
| C．Support facilities are highly necessary. |
| D．Planning is of great importance to tourism. |
| A．a bad impact on other industries |
| B．a change of tourists’ customs |
| C．over crowded of places of interest |
| D．pressure on traffic |
| A．an increase of unemployment |
| B．a decrease in tourist attractions |
| C．the higher cost of support facilities |
| D．a rise in price and a fall in pay |
| A．use up large amount of water | B．weaken their economy |
| C．help establish their traditions | D．help improve their life |
| A．carry away | B．pick up |
| C．get in | D．take down |
Several yards away, Frank, 43, and his girlfriend, Jennifer, found a spot close to where the front of the train would stop. They were deep in discussion about a house they were thinking of buying.
But when he heard the scream, followed by someone yelling, “Oh, my God, she fell in!” Frank didn’t hesitate(犹豫). He jumped down to the tracks and ran some 40 feet toward the body lying on the rails. “No! Not you! ”his girlfriend shouted after him.
She was right to be alarmed. By the time Frank reached Lisa, he could feel the tracks shaking and see the light coming. The train was about 20 seconds from the station.
It was hard to lift her. She was just out. But he managed to raise her four feet to the platform(站台) so that bystanders could hold her by the legs and drag her away from the edge. That was where Lisa briefly regained consciousness(知觉), felt herself being pulled along the ground, and saw someone else holding her purse.
Lisa thought she’d been robbed. A woman held her hand and a man gave his shirt to help stop the blood pouring from her head. And she tried to talk but she couldn’t, and that was when she realized how much pain she was in.
Police and fire officials soon arrived, and Frank told the story to an officer. Jennifer said her boyfriend was calm on their 40-minute train ride downtown - just as he had been seconds after the rescue(营救), which made her think about her reaction at the time. “I saw the train coming and I was thinking he was going to die,” she explained.
1. What was the most probable cause for Lisa’s weakness?
| A．She had run a long way. | B．She felt hot in the subway. |
| C．She had done a lot of work. | D．She had donated blood the night before. |
| A．Because they would miss their train. |
| B．Because he didn’t see the train coming. |
| C．Because she was sure Lisa was hard to lift. |
| D．Because she was afraid the train would kill him. |
| A．By lifting her to the platform. | B．By helping her rise to her feet. |
| C．By pulling her along the ground. | D．By dragging her away from the edge. |
| A．When the train was leaving. |
| B．After she was back on the platform. |
| C．After the police and fire officials came. |
| D．When a man was cleaning the blood from her head. |
| A．warn us of the danger in the subway | B．show us how to save people in the subway |
| C．tell us about a subway rescue | D．report a traffic accident |
6 . For a long time being happy was considered something that just happened, and there was nothing special about it. Now we know that getting along with other people is something that we can work at. It is possible to act in such a way that other people will like us better. One way is being unselfish, not wanting everything from our friends. Another way is to look for good points, not bad ones in other people. It is surprising how successful this treasure hunt can be.
You don’t have to be spineless (没有骨气的) in order to be popular. In fact, you will be liked and respected if you are not afraid to stand up for your rights. But do it politely and pleasantly. Being friendly and polite to your group, to other people and to strangers and especially to those who do not look important or do not interest you is one way to develop a good character.
You can not expect to be perfect, and you must learn not to be unhappy when you make mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes, and no one is to be blamed unless he refuses to learn from them. Many young people become discouraged when they know in themselves qualities that they do not like — selfishness, laziness, and other unpleasant qualities. Just remember that we all have some of these faults and have to fight against them.
At the same time, it is important to remember that, while you are probably no worse than others, the best way to be happy is to think yourself above other people. When something is wrong, it is good sense to try to make it right. Perhaps you don’t like a teacher or a classmate. Try to see why and look at yourself, too, to be sure that you are not doing anything to make that person dislike you. Some day, things may turn out all right and then you will have to learn to get along the best with situation, without thinking too much about it. Worrying never helps in a situation you can’t change.
1. One of the two ways the author suggested for us to get along with others is _____.| A．to draw attention of our friends |
| B．to demand the best share of everything |
| C．to look for treasure in order to be successful |
| D．to pay more attention to other people’s good points |
| A．be polite and friendly |
| B．give up some rights |
| C．avoid arguing with other people |
| D．be ready to change his or her character |
| A．is no better than others |
| B．is selfish and lazy |
| C．does not draw a lesson from his own fault |
| D．is very happy about his unpleasant quality |
| A．no better than others |
| B．not the same as others |
| C．as having something better than others |
| D．as having better chances than others |
| A．train you to be perfect |
| B．show you the way to be happy |
| C．tell you how to act when you dislike a person |
| D．teach you how to be popular among your friends |
7 . We all know that eating junk food can make us fat. However, a new study suggests that it can do more than that – it can also make us lazy, reported CBS News.
In the study, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, US divided 32 female rats into two groups. The first group was fed a diet of healthy food such as corn and fish, while the second was given a diet of highly processed (加工的) food rich in sugar, namely “junk food”.
Within three months, the rats in the second group were already much fatter than those on the healthy diet. And when researchers trained the rats to do simple tasks, they found even more differences between the two groups rather than weight.
During the task – pushing a lever (杠杆) to receive a reward of sugar water – the rats on the junk food diet were found to be less willing to move, and they took longer breaks between each push than the lean rats did.
“It is as if the rat is thinking ‘This is too much work’,” Aaron Blaisdell, leader of the study, told the Los Angeles Times.
But what about the possibility that the fat rats were less passionate about getting sugar water because they were already eating lots of sugar in their daily diet? That’s why researchers repeated the tests by rewarding fat rats with plain water when they were extremely thirsty. However, the results came out just the same.
According to researchers, these differences suggest that junk food changed the chemistry in the rats’ brains.
The experiment didn’t end there. After six months, the rats’ diets were switched, and the overweight rats were given a healthy diet for nine days. However, this change didn’t help reduce their weight or improve their ability to perform tasks, which means the effects of their junk food diet persisted (持续存在). “There’s no quick fix,” said Blaisdell.
For a long time, we’ve believed that people become fat because they are lazy. But this study has proven the opposite to be true as well, which indicates that laziness and obesity are a “vicious cycle (恶性循环)”.
So, if you constantly feel tired, lacking any urge to get up from your chair, it could be that you’ve been studying too hard. But you should also pay attention to your diet.
1. During the first three months of the experiment by researchers at the University of California, ______.| A．rats from the healthy diet group ate nothing but corn and fish |
| B．rats on the junk food diet ate more than those on healthy diet |
| C．rats on the healthy food diet performed better at simple tasks than those on the junk food diet |
| D．rats on the junk food diet seemed uninterested in sugary food |
| A．help them control their weight |
| B．test whether fat rats lost interest in the test because they had taken enough sugar |
| C．change the diet habits of fat rats |
| D．find out the influence of sugar on rats’ brains |
| A．after the rats on the junk food diet had worked hard to get sugar water |
| B．after the type of food rats prefer had been identified |
| C．after a quick cure for obesity had been found |
| D．after the fact that fatter rats are lazier than lean rats had been found |
| A．fat people are usually lazier than lean people |
| B．people should switch between different types of diets to keep healthy |
| C．being overweight and being lazy can feed into each other |
| D．laziness is the main cause of weight problems |
| A．Eating junk food can make us fat. |
| B．Researchers got different results after repeated the tests to fat rats. |
| C．For a long time, we’ve believed that people become fat because they are lazy. |
| D．If you constantly feel tired or study too hard, you need to pay attention to your diet. |
8 . I stole your dog today. No, I didn’t set a foot on your house, but from the condition of your dog, I can imagine what it looks like…the word “rubbish” comes to mind.
I found her along a road, with a heavy chain wrapped around her neck, still attached to rotten boards from her doghouse. Not only did I know that most of the town people had already ignored her, judging by where I found her, but I knew that if she had gotten into the Woods, the “cross” that she dragged behind her would have wrapped around a tree until starvation or thirst killed her. She has a beautiful name now. Already in the first week she has come to look more like she should. Her eyes sparkle and she has learned to wag her tail in greeting. She has stopped flinching (畏缩) when I make a sudden movement, because she knows now that I won’t beat her, in fact, she rarely leaves my side. She’s even become brave enough to bark at a cat and today I watched from the window as she attempted to play with the other dogs. No, it’s clear she does not miss you or her former life on a chain.
It’s not clear yet whether she’ll remain here or whether I’ll find her a loving home where she can count on more individual attention than I can give her, but one thing is certain, this is one bit of stolen “property” who is never returning to you. So sue me, accuse me, plead with the courts that she is rightfully yours ... I’m convinced this is the best “crime” I’ve ever committed. Hardly anything has pleased me more than the day I stole your dog. I need only look into her beautiful brown eyes to know that she’d defend my decision with her life. If we have one prayer, it is that you will not replace her, and if we have one special day to celebrate together, it is the day I stole your dog and the day she stole my heart.
1. What’s the author’s attitude towards the former owner of the dog?| A．Puzzled. | B．Angry. | C．Shocked. | D．Satisfied. |
| A．the dog is not lovely |
| B．the dog tried to find a kind master |
| C．the dog was treated badly by its former master |
| D．the author will be charged with stealing a dog |
| A．playing with other dogs |
| B．barking at a cat |
| C．not missing her former master |
| D．waving her tail to make greetings |
| A．He was afraid of being punished. |
| B．He thought he had to do it. |
| C．He believed that the law would allow him to do so. |
| D．He did it with pride. |
| A．To warn the people in the town not to keep dogs. |
| B．To prove his love to the dog to her former owner. |
| C．To explain to the police why the dog were in the Woods. |
| D．To ask people to find the dog a loving home and a owner who loves dogs. |
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A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. He had
Many years passed. The young man did not contact his father
| A．excepted | B．enjoyed | C．admired | D．owned |
| A．offer | B．keep | C．support | D．afford |
| A．As | B．While | C．Since | D．Although |
| A．However | B．Finally | C．Quietly | D．Actually |
| A．encouraged | B．comfortable | C．proud | D．moved |
| A．excited | B．nervous | C．interested | D．disappointed |
| A．Angrily | B．Eagerly | C．Calmly | D．Anxiously |
| A．At | B．With | C．By | D．From |
| A．toasting | B．putting | C．forgetting | D．leaving |
| A．after | B．until | C．since | D．because |
| A．asking | B．announcing | C．telling | D．discovering |
| A．treasures | B．possessions | C．wealth | D．eagerness |
| A．filled | B．caught | C．attacked | D．beat |
| A．pick up | B．remind of | C．search through | D．refer to |
| A．clean | B．turn | C．read | D．count |
| A．made | B．written | C．underlined | D．designed |
| A．lost | B．appeared | C．showed | D．dropped |
| A．old | B．new | C．same | D．special |
| A．remembered | B．desired | C．found | D．met |
| A．word | B．picture | C．place | D．date |
No Extra Cost to You
That’s right; you buy your ticket for the London Eye and 4D cinema experience. Merlin Entertainments, the London Eye owners, spent 5 million creating the film and building the 4D cinema and wanted to improve the value for money of the London Eye.
What to Expect
The 4D Cinema entrance is in the ticket hall. So after buying your ticket, go straight to it, where you’ll be given a pair of glasses. About 160 visitors will pass through the 4D cinema every 8 minutes so don’t worry about waiting time. People in the bright pink cinema are all standing on four levels. The top level is designed for wheelchairs.
London Eye 4D Film
Put on your glasses and enjoy yourself. The story is about a little girl visiting London with her father and she wants to be higher to get a better view so she comes to the London Eye. It differs from watching the 3D film for all your senses are involved. When it snows on screen, you feel it snows in the cinema. And when you watch the fireworks, you can really smell them.
For a short film, less than four minutes, before the main attraction you think you’ve come for, you are going to love this free extra. I stood there with my mouth wide open at the end as many others did. It’s fantastic! The effects are the Hollywood standard as no expense is spared. I was lucky enough to try the film three times on the first day and I still want to go back again.
1. What does the author mainly tell us in this passage?
| A．He mainly introduces the 4D film of Merlin Entertainments. |
| B．He mainly introduces the London Eye entertainment centre. |
| C．He mainly tells us his experiences while creating the 4D film. |
| D．He mainly introduces to us how to take part in the 4D film. |
| A．Because it wanted to attract more visitors to London. |
| B．Because it wanted to increase the value of the London Eye. |
| C．Because it could provide more entertainments for visitors. |
| D．Because it could earn more money from the public in the UK. |
| A．Under the London Eye. | B．In the Hollywood. |
| C．In the ticket hall. | D．In the ticket centre. |
| A．greatly frightened | B．much worried |
| C．sweet smell | D．as if they were on the scene |
| A．4 seconds | B．8 seconds |
| C．4 minutes | D．8 minutes |
