1 . Last Christmas while staying with my parents, I _______ across some old love letters that my parents wrote to each other. These letters were all piled up in a basket, dirty and _______ with dust. ________to read and sort them, I asked them if I could take the letters back to my Illinois home. They agreed.

As I carefully opened each letter, all of them delicate with age, I discovered a new page______unknown to me in this private chapter of my parents’ lives.

My father used to ________ in the army. So his letters were full of frontline ________of the things about the war. Each of my mother’s letters was marked ______ her 1944 dark red lipstick kiss. I was _______ to these letters like a magnet (磁铁).

Just six weeks after our Christmas visit, Daddy became very _______ and was hospitalized. This time, he was fighting a _______kind of war. As I sat by his bedside, we discussed the ______. He told me how much receiving those lipstick-kissed letters had ______ to him when he had been so far from home.

It so happened that the next day would be February 14. From the   ______ letters I chose the card my father had sent Mother in 1944 and brought it to my father’s bedside.

At his bedside, I joked with him, saying _____, “Today is Valentine’s Day, don’t you want to send Mother a present?” He became more_______ when I handed him the old ______. He carefully opened it and took out the card, and when he ______it, his eyes were filled with tears.

My father, in a voice tight with ______read the loving______he’d sent to my mother fifty-six years earlier. And this time, he could read it to her ______   .

1.

A．came

B．hit

C．drew

D．fell

2.

A．hidden

B．covered

C．buried

D．filled

3.

A．Pretending

B．Suggesting

C．Preferring

D．Deciding

4.

A．recently

B．occasionally

C．previously

D．usually

5.

A．work

B．study

C．serve

D．report

6.

A．accounts

B．documents

C．introductions

D．occupations

7.

A．with

B．for

C．of

D．as

8.

A．devoted

B．abandoned

C．thrown

D．drawn

9.

A．depressed

B．dead.

C．dangerous

D．ill

10.

A．typical

B．traditional

C．different

D．familiar

11.

A．wars

B．illnesses

C．letters

D．prescriptions

12.

A．meant

B．intended

C．planned

D．said

13.

A．divided

B．sorted

C．separated

D．updated

14.

A．sadly

B．angrily

C．softly

D．loudly

15.

A．curious

B．enthusiastic

C．fantastic

D．positive

16.

A．Christmas card

B．envelope

C．basket

D．lipstick

17.

A．found

B．wrote

C．recognized

D．missed

18.

A．astonishment

B．sorrow

C．sickness

D．emotion

19.

A．story

B．message

C．speech

D．motto

20.

A．in brief

B．in private

C．in danger

D．in person

2 . Sex prejudices are based on and justified by the ideology (意识形态) that biology is destiny. According to this ideology, basic biological and psychological differences exist between the sexes. These differences require each sex to play a separate role in social life. Women are the weaker sex both physically and emotionally. Thus, they are naturally suited, much more so than men, to the performance of domestic (家庭的) duties. A woman’s place, under normal circumstances, is within the protective environment of the home. Nature has determined that women play caretaker roles, such as wife and mother and homemaker. On the other hand, men are best suited to go out into the competitive world of work and politics, where serious responsibilities must be taken on. Men are to be the providers; women and children are “dependents”.

The ideology also holds that women who wish to work outside the household should naturally fill these jobs that are in line with the special capabilities of their sex. It is appropriate for women, not men, to be employed as nurses, social workers, elementary school teachers, house-hold helpers, clerks and secretaries. These positions are simply an extension of women’s domestic role. Informal distinctions between “women’s work” and “men’s work” in the labor force, according to the ideology, are simply a functional reflection of the basic differences between the sexes.

Finally, the ideology suggests that nature has worked her will in another significant way. For the human species to survive over time, its members must regularly reproduce. Thus, women must, whether at home or in the labor force, make the most of their physical appearances.

So goes the ideology. It is, of course, not true that basic biological and psychological differences between the sexes require each to play sex-defined roles in social life. There is enough evidence that sex roles vary from society to society, and those role differences that do exist are largely learned.

But to the degree people actually believe that biology is destiny and that nature intended for men and women to make different contributions to society, sex-defined roles will be seen as totally acceptable.

1. According to the biology-is-destiny ideology, women_______.

A．cannot compete with men in any field.

B．are suited more to domestic jobs than men.

C．are sensitive enough to be a good caretaker.

D．are too weak to do any agricultural work at all.

2. Those who have prejudices against women think that_______.

A．women shouldn’t go out for work.

B．women should earn money to add the family income.

C．women going out for work should only do “women’s work”.

D．women should take jobs to drill the special capabilities of the sex.

3. The author thinks that the positions women hold outside_______.

A．are determined by what they are better suited to.

B．grow out of their household responsibilities.

C．represent their breakthrough of sex discrimination.

D．are physically and emotionally suitable to them.

4. What does the underlined sentence imply?

A．Sex roles are socially determined.

B．Sex roles are emotionally and physically determined.

C．Sex roles are biologically and psychologically determined .

D．Sex roles are determined by education people take.

3 . Canadian short story writer Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for Literature．Eighty-two-year-old Munro is only the 13th woman to win the 112-year-old prize．
Munro didn’t publish her first collection of short stories until she was 37 years old, but her stories have always been well-received．Lots of her stories share similar themes and characters, but each story has its own twists and turns．
Even though she’s won Canada’s most famous literary award, the Giller Prize twice, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature is the peak of Munro’s career．“It brings her incredible recognition, both of her and her career, and of the dedication( 投身，奉献 ) to the short story,” said one person．
Along with the well-respected title comes 1．3 million dollars．Munro said everything was “so surprising and wonderful” and that she was “dazed by all the attention and affection that has been coming my way．”
Munro knew she was in the list——she was named the second-most likely person to win this year’s prize, after Haruki Murakami (村上春树）of Japan——but she never thought that she would win．
Munro’s win also represents the long way Canadian writers have come．“When I began writing there was a very small community of Canadian writers and little attention was paid by the world．Now Canadian writers are read, admired and respected around the globe,” Munro said on Thursday．
She is technically not the first Canadian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, but many like to think that she is．In 1976 Saul Bellow, who was born in Quebec but moved to Chicago when he was still a child, won the prize．Even though he was born in Canada, he is mostly considered to be an American writer．
“This is a win for us all．Canadians, by our very nature, are not very nationalistic,” said Geoffrey Taylor．“But things like this suddenly make you want to find a flag．”
She wasn’t sure if she would keep writing if she won the prize, saying that it would be “nice to go out with a bang．But this may change my mind．”
1. What is the feature of Munro’s stories?

A．They have complicated (复杂的)contents．

B．They have similar story backgrounds．

C．They have specific themes for children．

D．They have the same characters in each book．

2. For Munro, the Nobel Prize is an award for______．

A．her love for Canadian culture

B．her devotion to the short story

C．her special form of writing

D．her career of editing short stories

3. What can you infer from the sixth paragraph?

A．Canadian writers paid little attention to the prize．

B．Canadian writers were respected across the globe．

C．Canadian writers have long been ignored

D．Canadians come a long way to win the prize．

4. What does the passage mainly tell us?

A．How Alice Munro wins the Nobel Prize

B．An introduction to the Nobel Prize in Literature

C．Alice Munro wins the Nobel Prize in Literature

D．A world famous writer, Alice Munro

4 . Tickets for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil have gone on sale, with fans able to apply on FIFA’s website. FIFA is expecting a similar demand to that in Germany 2006, when there were about seven applicants for every ticket of the 64 matches. And now around 3.3 million tickets will be available for the matches in 2014.

Tickets will range in price from￡58 for first-round matches to￡632 for the final at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian citizens over 60, local students and members of some social programs can purchase tickets for ￡15．

The Price of Football - World Cup 2014

Items	Prices	Items	Prices
Ticket	￡58-￡112	Final ticket	281-￡632
Sun cream	￡9.50	T-shirt	￡13
McDonald’s meal	￡11	Water	￡1.28
Imported beer	￡3.83	Domestic beer	￡1.91
Coffee	￡2.55	Average dinner	￡29

“It’s always difficult to predict,” said FIFA marketing director Thierry Weil. “But I truly believe that it will be more similar to what happened in Germany than in South Africa in 2010.” According to FIFA, the 2006 World Cup was attended by more than 3.3 million fans. Almost two million tickets were sold to the general public in South Africa, although the number of applications during the first ticketing phase was significantly lower．

All applications made before 10th October 2013 will enter a random selection draw if there are not enough tickets available to fulfill all requests. The sales of the leftover tickets will begin on 5th November on a first-come, first-served basis. Another phase（阶段） will begin on 8th December after the draw is made. The tournament begins on 12th June, with Brazil playing the opener in Sao Paulo．

A study on the price of World Cup 2014 looked at the ticket prices and the cost of travelling to Brazil and found that our English fans face hotel costs of between￡46 and￡797 a night, while packages range from￡2,999 to￡14,999．

1. How much should a Brazilian student pay for the opening match?

A．￡15	B．￡58
C．￡112	D．￡632

2. From the passage we know that Thierry Weil_______.

A．feels proud of what they achieved in South Africa 2010

B．feels worried about the sales of the tickets for Brazil 2014

C．holds the belief that Brazil 2014 will be the greatest world cup

D．believes that more fans will attend Brazil 2014 than South Africa 2010

3. What will FIFA do if there are not enough tickets available for requests before Oct.10, 2013?

A．They will sell the spare tickets to the applicants．

B．They will sell on a first-come, first-served basis．

C．They will choose the applicants based on a random selection draw．

D．They will sell them the tickets to be sold on Dec.8．

5 . A dense wave of smog began in the Chinese city of Harbin and the surrounding Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning Provinces on 20 October 2013. Unseasonably warm temperatures with very little wind across northeastern China coincided with the smoke from local farmers’ burning straws and the start-up of Harbin’s coal-powered central heating system．
Record densities of fine particulates（微粒）were measured in the city. In Harbin, the levels of PM2.5 （particulate matter） rise to 1,000 micrograms per cubic meter, worse than Beijing’s historic highs．Visibility was reduced to below 50m in parts of Harbin, and below 500m in most of the neighbouring Jilin Province. On Fa Yuen Street in Harbin, visibility of less than 5m was reported. The smog reduced after October 23, 2013 and completely broke up on October 28, 2013 by the first local snow and icy rain due to a cold front moving in from Russia．
Harbin lies in the north of China where winter temperatures can drop to -40℃, demanding a six-month heating season. Daily particulate levels of more than 40 times the World Health Organization recommended maximum level were reported in parts of Harbin. The smog remained till 23 October, when almost all monitoring stations in Heilongjiang, Jilin,and Liaoning Provinces reported readings above 200μg/m³for PM2.5. PM 2.5 is the amount of particulate matter less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter in the air, with the WHO recommending a maximum 24-hour mean （平均值） of 25 micrograms per cubic meter （μg/m³）．On the morning of 25 October, PM2.5 measurements in Harbin had fallen to an average of 123μg/m³.
All highways in the surrounding Heilongjiang Province were closed. In Harbin, all primary and middle schools were closed for three days and authorities stopped flights at the airports. Hospitals reported a 23 percent increase in admissions for breathing problems. However, this smog will have no influence on Harbin Ice Festival events later in December 2013.
Air pollution in Chinese cities is of increasing concern to China’s leadership. Particulates in the air can affect human health and also have influences on climate and rainfall. Pollution from the burning of coal has reduced life expectancy by 5．5 years in the north of China, as a result of heart and lung diseases.
1. One cause of the heavy smog in the northeastern Chinese cities may be _____．

A．the lasting cold weather

B．farmers’ burning of forests

C．too much strong wind

D．the start-up of heating system

2. One serious influence of the heavy smog was that_____．

A．Harbin Ice Festival would be cancelled

B．highways in Heilongjiang were free of charge

C．all flights at the airport were cancelled

D．doctors in hospitals were kept from working

3. The harmful smog was most serious on ______．

A．October 20	B．October 23
C．October 25	D．October 28

4. What measure might be practical to reduce the happening of heavy smog?

A．Forbidding people to own their private cars．

B．Advocating people having one meal a day．

C．Using natural gas to cook instead of coal．

D．Encouraging family’s coal-fired heating．

6 . A good teacher is many things to many people.In my own experience,the people I respect the most and think about the most are the teachers who demanded（要求）the most discipline（纪律）from their students.

I miss one teacher in particular that I had in high school.I think she was a good teacher because she was a very strict person.I remember very vividly（清晰地）a sign over her classroom.door.It was a simple sign that said, “Laboratory—in this room the first of the word was emphasized（强调）,not the last seven.” In other words,I guess, labor（工作）for her was more important than oratory,which means making speeches.

She prepared her work very carefully and demanded of us to do the same.We got lots of homework from her. Once she had broker arm,and everybody in the class thought that maybe the homework load would be reduced,but it continued just the same.She checked our work by stamping her name at the bottom of the papers to show that she had read them.

I think sometimes teachers who demand the most are liked the least.But as time goes by,this discipline really seems to benefit（有益于）the students.

1. Which of the following is considered a good teacher by the writer?

A．A patient teacher.	B．An honest teacher.
C．A strict teacher.	D．A hard-working teacher.

2. The teacher put up the sign over her classroom door______.

A．to remind the students that this room was a laboratory

B．to advise the students to follow the disciplines

C．to warm the students not to be careless

D．the students to work hard in the classroom

3. When the teacher's arm was broken,she______.

A．gave her students the usual amount of homework

B．gave her students less homework

C．asked her students to check the homework themselves

D．gave her students more homework

4. What’s the writer’s opinion of discipline?

A．It makes the students dislike their teachers.

B．It does good to the students in the long run.

C．It’s too much for young children.

D．It does more harm than good to the students.

7 . It is well-known _____________ a person eats causes changes in the body.

A．what	B．that what
C．what that	D．that

8 . Go for it while you are young. You can’t avoid _______ your job tomorrow unless you work hard today.

A．losing	B．to lose
C．to be losing	D．being lost

9 . Robots are smart. With their computer brains, they help people work in dangerous places or do difficult jobs. Some robots do regular jobs. Bobby, the robot mail carrier, brings mail to a large office building in Washington, D.C. He is one of 250 robot mail carriers in the United States. Mr. Leachim, who weights two hundred pounds and is six feet tall, has some advantages as a teacher. One is that he does not forget details. He knows each child’s name, their parents’ names, and what each child knows and needs to know. In addition, he knows each child’s pets and hobbies. Mr. Leachim does not make mistakes. Each child goes and tells him his or her name, then dials an identification (识别) number. His computer brain puts the child’s voice and number together. He identifies the child with no mistakes.
Another advantage is that Mr. Leachim is flexible. If the children need more time to do their lessons they can move switches. In this way they can repeat Mr. Leachim’s lesson over and over again. When the children do a good job, he tells them something interesting about their hobbies. At the end of the lesson the children switch Mr. Leachim off.
1. The first paragraph of the passage tells us

A．human beings are not as smart as robots

B．robots will take the place of man to rule the earth

C．we can only use robots to do some regular jobs

D．robots can help people in many different ways

2. What is the most important thing Mr. Leachim can do in his lessons?

A．To meet the needs of each student.

B．To talk to the students in different languages.

C．To keep everyone’s interest in his lessons.

D．To introduce more hobbies to the children.

3. The underlined word “flexible” probably means

A．not strict	B．not hard
C．suitable	D．changeable

4. Which of the following statements may be TRUE according to the passage?

A．There are 250 robot teachers in the United States.

B．Mr. Leachim is run and controlled by electricity.

C．Bobby works in a large office building in Washington D.C.

D．The lessons taught by Mr. Leachim are given on a TV set.

10 . ____，people are beginning to realize how serious the situation is.

A．Fortunate	B．Fortunately
C．Being fortunate	D．Being fortunately