2 . When my old dog developed major health problems, I knew that watching him fail would be painful, but I wasn’t prepared for the powerful lessons he’d offer in the last year of his life.

Chance was 14 when the problems started. First, he developed a cancer that left him whistling for breath. Then came cataracts（白内障）in both eyes, arthritis（关节炎）in his legs, and a series of mini-strokes（小中风）that threw off his balance. Any one of these misfortunes would have left me begging for relief, but Chance became calmer as the disabilities piled up.

When leg pain left him frozen on the floor, unable to rise for a quick pat as I came home, he didn’t complain. He just lay there patiently, signaling me with his hammering tail, each movement spelling out the value of waiting for the things you want. When his cataracts made steering impossible after dark, he’d stand calmly until I could guide him inside, proving how easy it is to find happiness if you let go of your pride and insecurities and learn to lean on those who love you. When mini-strokes had him walk unsteadily like a drunk, he taught the value of persistence. For days after each attack, he’d fall as he moved about. Yet again and again he’d try to walk, each day moving a few more steps until finally he was able to get outside and back by himself.

There were lessons in so much of what he did, but the key one surely was the importance of obtaining all the joy possible from each experience whether it’s a day lazing under a warm sun or a few minutes appreciating a favorite meal.

For most of our life together, Chance was always rushing ahead, searching out new adventures, then circling back to let me know what lay around the next turn. As an old dog, he did the same thing, using his attitude, instead of his once - fast legs, to show the way.

1. Chance suffered very much from all the diseases he had except for _______.

A．having problem with breath	B．walking around awkwardly
C．having trouble drinking	D．losing his eyesight in darkness

2. _______ is the most important lesson the author learned from Chance.

A．Living in the present and enjoying what we have

B．Learning to depend on those who we love and trust

C．That we should expect good things to happen patiently

D．That we should persevere in what we believe is worth trying

3. It is implied in the passage that _______.

A．people might suffer from different diseases when they grow old

B．people could face aging with courage and dignity

C．pets would become calmer for lack of energy in their last days

D．pets and masters should stick together helping each other in difficulty

4. Which of the following words best describes the author’s feelings to Chance?

A．Bitter.	B．Appreciative.
C．Proud.	D．Sympathetic.

3 . 语法填空

The ancient Chinese were stonewall masters. China     1     has the world's longest fortification (buildings or walls built to defend a place), the 21,196-kilometer-long Great Wall, but the world's longest circular city wall, the Ming City Wall, which was originally 35 kilometers around. The latter stands in Jiangsu's provincial capital of Nanjing. It's one of China's most underrated tourist attractions and many local residents think it is worthy     2     (visit).

Currently, visitors can access only about three kilometers of the wall, but about 22 of the     3     (remain) 25 kilometers of the once-inaccessible wall are scheduled to open to the public soon. "In the past, the wall was the end of the city," says Sun Xiaowei, 32, president of the Nanjing-based urban hiking community. "But now it's the starting point of Nanjing's culture.” Sun recently shared with us the greatest barbican (楼堡) (an outer defensive work)     4     attracts him most: Zhonghua Gate.

    5     (locate) immediately to the north of Qinhuai River, Zhonghua Gate, is one of the best preserved and most intricate barbicans in the world, according to Sun.The gate is used as a grand entrance to any tour of the City Wall.

It once served as the southern gate of ancient Nanjing, a 15,168-square-meter fortification that contained four layers of defenses, as well as three grand castles,     6    the ruins are connected to each other by a wide ring of wall. If paying an entry fee, visitors     7     view former garrisons, an exhibition about the history and variety of bricks used to build the City Wall.

7 . Climate change is caused by the extremely high levels of dangerous chemicals in the atmosphere, particularly carbon dioxide (CO₂). It is estimated that average global temperatures will rise between two and six degrees by the end of this century. We all know the effects could be disastrous, but are we aware of the possible solutions?

Solution one: _______?_______

Crazy as it sounds, a group of academics from British universities is making a plan to build a 12-mile pipe, held up by a huge balloon, that would let enormous quantities of poisonous chemicals, such as sulphur dioxide (SO₂), go into the atmosphere. Surprisingly, there is good science behind the idea. The chemicals would form a protective layer around the earth that would reflect sunlight and so cool the earth, much like the effects of a volcanic eruption.

Cost: around $10 billion a year.
Benefits: this plan would produce almost instant results.
Risks: volcanoes have almost wiped out humanity in the past through the poisonous chemicals released in the atmosphere, and the same thing could happen again with this plan.
Solution two: stir up the oceans

Intellectual Ventures, a company that invests in projects to combat global warming, has proposed building a million plastic tubes, each about 100 metres long, and using them to stir up the ocean. Why, you might be wondering, would we want to do this? Again, the answer is scientifically valid. The bottom of the ocean is almost freezing and by stirring it up, cold water would come to the surface and absorb heat and CO_2, and so cool the planet.

Cost: tens of millions of dollars.
Benefits: this plan is relatively cheap and technically possible now.
Risks: the tubes would disrupt and possibly destroy sea life, and the plan may not work.
Solution three: stop burning fossil fuels

This is undoubtedly the best solution but is it really like to happen in the near future?

Cost: unknown, but in the short term it would probably involve global economic collapse.
Benefits: it’s a simple and effective plan.
Risks: it may already be too late. Without real action, this plan could just mean “do nothing”.
1. Solution one is most likely to be ________.

A．pump even more chemicals into the atmosphere

B．form a protective layer with volcanic eruptions

C．build a pipe to get rid of poisonous chemicals

D．draw as much sunlight as possible

2. What can be learned about solution two?

A．It needs more valid scientific experiment.

B．It aims to cool the warm surface water in the ocean.

C．It may do harm to animals and plants living in the sea.

D．It is much more expensive to carry out than solution one.

3. What does the writer think of solution three?

A．It is effective because it will benefit world economy.

B．Whether it will come true remains to be seen.

C．Putting it into practice may cost nothing.

D．Action has been taken to carry it out.

8 . Once upon a time, much of the world was populated by wolves. They ranged all over the United States and Canada, Siberia and much of mainland Europe, as well as Great Britain, and if humans hadn't come along, they would still be there _______. But man did come along, farmed the land, _______ the wolves , killing their livestock and so gradually drove them out of the homes that had once been theirs.

Wolves are not ______ in our language and our literature, however. In fairy stories, they are seen as evil and dangerous, always ______ to eat people. Remember the time when Little Red Riding Hood thinks that a wolf is her grandmother? 'What big teeth you've got, grandmother? ’she says, and the wolf, disguised as her grandmother, shouts back, “All the better to eat you with, my dear!’

If you really want to see what English-speaking humans think of the wolf, just look at the ______! ‘A wolf in sheep’s clothing’ is not a pleasant person and a ‘wolf-whistle’ is not a pleasant sound!

Yet wolves are totally unlike the image we have of them from legend and language. For a start, they don't ______ humans; indeed they do their best to keep out of our way. They are very sociable animals, living in packs and looking after their young with a fondness that should make some humans _______ themselves. Far from wolf music being _______ , the howl of the wolf--the cry of the whole pack—as the full moon rises is one of the most beautiful sounds in nature. They are beautiful creatures which can run at speeds of up to 65 kph if they have to. They can jump up and run up rock faces like a cat. And when they do ______ , their 42 large teeth are fearsomely effective.

But the ______ remains that we love the lion, the king of the jungle, while we demonise (妖魔化）the wolf, one of the most beautiful animals in the world. Only _______ do writers treat them nicely; _______ a she-wolf is supposed to have fed the twins Remus and Romulus, who went on to found the city of Rome.

And so, while man kills animals in their millions, often just for the fun of it, the wolf on the mountain, out in the wilderness, running over the Siberian wastes, represents a state of natural ________ that we do not know and can never obtain, even though we ______ it in our hearts. Perhaps that's why, in the end, we ______ the wolf so much一for having something we can never get our hands on.

1.

A．on a regular basis

B．to a small extent

C．in great numbers

D．beyond certain limits

2.

A．succeeded in

B．identified with

C．figured out

D．objected to

3.

A．killers

B．victims

C．characters

D．mistakes

4.

A．reluctant

B．ready

C．unlikely

D．sure

5.

A．language

B．behavior

C．teaching

D．learning

6.

A．avoid

B．frighten

C．attack

D．protect

7.

A．surprised at

B．pleased with

C．ashamed of

D．interested in

8.

A．ugly

B．loud

C．musical

D．soft

9.

A．run

B．kill

C．jump

D．cry

10.

A．possibility

B．mystery

C．evidence

D．fact

11.

A．occasionally

B．recently

C．immediately

D．finally

12.

A．on the whole

B．in addition

C．even so

D．for example

13.

A．duty

B．grace

C．competition

D．level

14.

A．dream of

B．live by

C．fight against

D．learn from

15.

A．cage

B．keep

C．hate

D．notice

9 . Ask someone what they have done to help the environment recently and they will almost certainly mention recycling. Recycling in the home is very important of course. However, being forced to recycle often means we already have more material than we need. We are dealing with the results of that over-consumption in the greenest way possible, but it would be far better if we did not bring so much material home in the first place.

The total amount of packaging increased by 12% between 1999 and 2005. It now makes up a third of a typical household’s waste in the UK. In many supermarkets nowadays food items are packaged twice with plastic and cardboard.

Too much packaging is doing serious damage to the environment. The UK, for example, is running out of it for carrying this unnecessary waste. If such packaging is burnt, it gives off greenhouse gases which go on to cause the greenhouse effect. Recycling helps, but the process itself uses energy. The solution is not to produce such items in the first place. Food waste is a serious problem, too. Too many supermarkets encourage customers to buy more than they need. However, a few of them are coming round to the idea that this cannot continue, encouraging customers to reuse their plastic bags, for example.

But this is not just about supermarkets. It is about all of us. We have learned to associate packaging with quality. We have learned to think that something unpackaged is of poor quality. This is especially true of food. But it also applies to a wide range of consumer products, which often have far more packaging than necessary.

There are signs of hope. As more of us recycle, we are beginning to realize just how much unnecessary material we are collecting. We need to face the wastefulness of our consumer culture, but we have a mountain to climb.

1. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．Fighting wastefulness is difficult.

B．Needless material is mostly recycled.

C．People like collecting recyclable waste.

D．The author is proud of his consumer culture.

2. What does the underlined word “over-consumption” refer to?

A．Using too much packaging.

B．Recycling too much waste.

C．Making more products than necessary.

D．Having more material than needed.

3. The author uses figures in Paragraph 2 to show 　　　.

A．the tendency of cutting household waste

B．the increase of packaging recycling

C．the rapid growth of supermarkets

D．the fact of packaging overuse

4. What can be inferred from Paragraph 4?

A．Unpackaged products are of bad quality.

B．Supermarkets care more about packaging.

C．It is improper to judge quality by packaging.

D．Other products are better packaged than food.