1 . One evening I was resting in a café. I______ a pair of newly bought white leather shoes, which were rather expensive. Then a boy came to me.

He was in a(n) ______ shirt, looking pale and about eleven. No sooner had I begun to speak than he opened the ______ in his hand and took out the tools of shoe-polishing. He _______ down, took off my leather shoes, and began to shine them.

He was busy doing his work ______ heavy rain began to pour down. People rushed to the café for ______ from the rain. More and more people crowded _______and gradually separated the boy from me.

Hours passed, and it turned _______. I had no shoes on my feet and ______ where the boy had been. I thought he would not ______ my shoes, and I would have to go home on my bare feet.

When it was near midnight the ______ ended, and there were fewer and fewer people in the café. The café was to be ______ . I had to move to the door, head _______. Just as I went to the gate, I ______ found that a boy of about eleven, looking very familiar, was sleeping at the ______ with his head leaning against a box and his upper body being ______. He held a package made of his shirt tightly in his arms.

I shook him slightly and woke him up. He ______ up and rubbed his eyes for a while before he recognized me. Then he opened the package ______ , gave me my leather shoes, and apologized to me shyly. I ______ him and wrapped him with his unfit shirt, which had wrapped my leather shoes. On my way home, the boy’s image（形象）stayed in my ______.

1.

A．took

B．wore

C．mended

D．owned

2.

A．old

B．dirty

C．small

D．unfit

3.

A．bag

B．package

C．box

D．toy

4.

A．seated

B．bent

C．put

D．looked

5.

A．when

B．after

C．because

D．since

6.

A．preparation

B．rest

C．hide

D．protection

7.

A．out

B．away

C．in

D．off

8.

A．dark

B．light

C．dim

D．bright

9.

A．thought

B．wondered

C．guessed

D．imagined

10.

A． shine

B．keep

C．return

D．carry

11.

A．work

B．coffee

C．time

D．rain

12.

A．opened

B．locked

C．stopped

D．closed

13.

A．lowered

B．nodded

C．raised

D．held

14.

A．shortly

B．surprisedly

C．sadly

D．immediately

15.

A．table

B．door

C．bed

D．café

16.

A．wet

B．bare

C．pale

D．cold

17.

A．stayed up

B．kept off

C．jumped up

D．looked into

18.

A．finally

B．suddenly

C．unfriendly

D．hurriedly

19.

A．recognized

B．forgave

C．paid

D．inspired

20.

A．way

B．feet

C．form

D．mind

2 . People have wondered for a long time how their personalities and behavior are formed. It is not easy to explain why one person is intelligent and another is not, or why one is cooperative and another is competitive.
Social scientists are of course extremely interested in these types of questions. They want to explain why we possess certain characteristics and exhibit certain behavior. There are no clear answers yet, but two distinct schools of thought on the matter have developed. As one might expect, the two approaches are very different from each other, and there is a great deal of debate between proponents of each theory. The controversy is often conveniently referred to as “nature and nurture”．
Those who support the “nature” side of the conflict believe that our personalities and behavior patterns are largely determined by biological factors. That our environment has little, if anything, to do with our abilities, characteristics and behavior is central to this theory. Taken to an extreme，this theory states that our behavior is predetermined to such a great degree that we are almost completely governed by our instincts(本能)．
Proponents of the “nurture” theory, or, as they are often called, behaviorists, claim that our environment is more important than our biologically based instincts in determining how we will act. A behaviorist, B. F. Skinner, sees humans as beings whose behavior is almost completely shaped by their surroundings. The behaviorists' view of the human being is quite mechanistic. They state that, like machines, humans respond to environmental stimuli (刺激) as the basis of their behavior.
Socially and politically, the consequences of these two theories are far-reaching. In the US，for example, blacks often score below whites on standardized intelligence tests. This leads some “nature” proponents to conclude that blacks are genetically lower in status than whites. Behaviorists, on the contrary, say that the differences in scores are due to the fact that blacks are often robbed of many of the educational and other environmental advantages that whites enjoy, and that, as a result, they do not develop the same responses that whites do.
Neither of these theories can yet fully explain human behavior. In fact, it is quite likely that the key to our behavior lies somewhere between these two extremes and that the controversy will continue for a long time is certain.
1. This passage is mainly concerned with ________.

A．relation between personality and behavior

B．relation between behavior and environment

C．different accounts of patterns of human behavior

D．different theories of the formation of human behavior

2. The underlined word “proponents” in Paragraph 2 means ________.

A．creators	B．advisors
C．advocates	D．judges

3. In Paragraph 5, the author mainly writes about ________.

A．the considerable influence of the two theories

B．differences between the blacks and whites

C．racial discrimination in the United States

D．different responds to intelligence tests

4. What's the author's purpose in writing the passage?

A．To call our attention to the changes of human behavior.

B．To urge scientists to do more research in social science.

C．To give us a detailed explanation of human behavior.

D．To present an argument in the field of social science.

3 . On a cold winter day, I waited in line to see my hero, Jack Canfield, the author of The Success Principles, who was going to deliver a speech on his new book.
During his talk, Jack____his wallet, pulled out a hundred-dollar bill, and said, ‘‘Who wants this?” ____ shot up in the audience; people leaned forward to see whom Jack would ____ But I jumped up, ran up the____to the stage, and grabbed the bill. As I was launching myself in the air, ____raced through my mind — was I about to be humiliated(羞辱) in front of 800 people? Would they ____ security guards and take me from the stage? ____ my desire for bold （大胆的）action was louder than any____voice. As I got the bill from his hand, he said, “That’s it! We can’t wait for the____to come to us. We must take ____ to create what we want!’’
After his talk, I ____ to formally meet Jack and boldly asked for his personal e-mail address. Over the next months, I sent him emails ____ my points of view and dreams with him. He kindly e-mailed back lots of encouragement. But my life got busy ____other things. I stopped e-mailing Jack.
A year later, my dreams had worn away. I thought Jack would inspire me into action, like a giant arrow that would show me the way.
I e-mailed him, and then again — but got no ____ As I sat down at my computer to____my e-mails, I ____ woke up. What was I doing? I was waiting! Now I remembered the crowd, most likely ____ that hundred-dollar bill, while they sat glued to their chairs.
Usually we all have a “Jack” for whom we wait — whether it’s a person, a place or a thing. We ____ believe the gifts of life are just around the corner, and that everything will come in a(n) ____ way. So we don’t try. We____ But as Wayne Gretzky said，“You’ll always miss 100% of the opportunities you don’t take!” So I stopped waiting and started my writing career.
Now what are you waiting for?1.

A．brought in

B．reached for

C．took over

D．handed in

2.

A．Cheers

B．Shouts

C．Heads

D．Hands

3.

A．offer

B．trust

C．like

D．choose

4.

A．path

B．road

C．steps

D．route

5.

A．thoughts

B．opinions

C．ideas

D．plans

6.

A．ask

B．call

C．demand

D．order

7.

A．And

B．So

C．But

D．Or

8.

A．noisy

B．doubtful

C．meaningful

D．helpful

9.

A．opportunities

B．consequences

C．results

D．aims

10.

A．step

B．measure

C．way

D．action

11.

A．expected

B．tried

C．permitted

D．managed

12.

A．stating

B．describing

C．presenting

D．sharing

13.

A．with

B．in

C．about

D．over

14.

A．news

B．message

C．response

D．reaction

15.

A．check

B．examine

C．inspect

D．review

16.

A．gradually

B．suddenly

C．immediately

D．slowly

17.

A．desiring

B．claiming

C．begging

D．dreaming

18.

A．particularly

B．honestly

C．falsely

D．correctly

19.

A．difficult

B．impressive

C．early

D．natural

20.

A．give up

B．put up

C．take up

D．set up

4 . Bill and his family has been living in the six－family building for years. All the neighbors got along fairly well with each other until recently.
An old man and his wife used to live on the second floor. Bill’s mother and the old lady were good friends. Unfortunately the lady died last month. Her husband could not live alone, so he had his grandson move over and live with him.
The grandson has become a problem to all the neighbors, especially to Bill’s family. The walls of the building are thin and he is noisy. Bill is used to peace and quiet but the young man likes to listen to the radio late at night. Sometimes friends of his visit and they make a lot of noise. That is too much for Bill’s family.
Bill’s mother once asked the old man politely if he was able to sleep well at night, but obviously the man didn’t understand what she meant. If he did and spoke to his grandson, the young man obviously didn’t listen, since things haven’t changed any. Everyone in Bill’s family agrees that something must be done though they don’t want to hurt the kind old man.
1. Bill’s family got angry because ________.

A．the old lady had died

B．a young man moved in

C．the old man could not live alone

D．the grandson made a lot of noise

2. Which of the following statements is true?

A．The old man could not live without his wife’s help.

B．The old man and his wife were sometimes making trouble too.

C．Bill’s mother was kind to her neighbors.

D．Bill’s mother was the only one who likes the young man.

3. The grandson makes a lot of noise as ________.

A．he never thinks other people might not be happy with so much noise around

B．the walls of the building are thin

C．he likes to listen to the radio at night

D．friends of his visit

4. It seems that ________to solve the problem.

A．anyone is able	B．only the grandfather is going
C．Bill’s mother is able	D．nobody is likely

5 . Many facts suggest that children are overweight and the situation is getting worse, according to the doctors. I feel there are a number of reasons for this.

Some people blame the fact that we are surrounded by shops selling unhealthy, fatty foods, such as fried chicken and ice cream, at low prices. This has turned out a whole generation of grown-ups who seldom cook a meal for themselves. If there were fewer of these restaurants, then probably children would buy less take-away food.

There is another argument that blames parents for allowing their children to become overweight. I agree with this, because good eating habits begin early in life, long before children start to visit fast food shops. If children are given fried chicken and chocolate rather than healthy food, or are always allowed to choose what they eat, they will go for sweet and salty foods every time, and this will carry on throughout their lives.

There is a third reason for this situation. Children these days take very little exercise. They do not walk to school. When they get home, they sit in front of the television or their computers and play computer games. Not only is this an unhealthy pastime(消遣), it also gives them time to eat more unhealthy food. What they need is to go outside and play active games or sports.

The above are the main reasons for this problem, and therefore we have to encourage young people to be more active, as well as steering them away from fast food shops and bad eating habits.

1. What kind of children may eat more unhealthy food according to the text? (回答词数不超过6个)
__________________
2. Why do the author thinks that children are becoming overweight? (回答词数不超过10个)
__________________
3. What is the main purpose of the text? (回答词数不超过4个)
__________________
4. What does the passage mainly talk about? (回答词数不超过5个)
__________________

6 . When I was a boy, every holiday that I had seemed wonderful. My ______ took me by train or by car to a hotel by the ______. All day, I seem to remember, I ______ on the sands with strange ______ children. We made houses and gardens, and ______ the tide destroy them. When the tide went out, we ______ over the rocks and looked down at the fish in the rock-pools.

In those days the ______ seemed to shine always brightly ______ the water was always warm. Sometimes we left beach and walked in the country, ____ ruined houses and dark woods and climbing trees. There were ______ in one’s pockets or good places where one could ______ ice creams. Each day seemed a lifetime.

Although I am now thirty-five years old, my idea of a good ______ is much the same as it was. I ______ like the sun and warm sand and the sound of ______ beating the rocks. I no longer wish to ______ any sand house or sand garden, and I dislike sweets. ______, I love the sea and often feel sand running through my fingers.

Sometimes I ______ what my ideal (理想的) holiday will be like when I am ______. All I want to do then, perhaps, will be to lie in bed, reading books about ______ who make houses and gardens with sands, who watch the incoming tide, who make themselves ______ on too many ices…

1.

A．teacher

B．parents

C．nurse

D．younger sister

2.

A．sea

B．lake

C．mountain

D．river

3.

A．played

B．slept

C．sat

D．stood

4.

A．moving

B．exciting

C．anxious

D．nervous

5.

A．made

B．brought

C．watched

D．heard

6.

A．rolled

B．jumped

C．turned

D．climbed

7.

A．light

B．sun

C．moon

D．lamp

8.

A．and

B．yet

C．but

D．or

9.

A．exploring

B．examining

C．repairing

D．measuring

10.

A．sweets

B．sand

C．ice-creams

D．money

11.

A．make

B．sell

C．buy

D．offer

12.

A．house

B．holiday

C．garden

D．tide

13.

A．hardly

B．almost

C．still

D．perhaps

14.

A．waves

B．sand

C．hands

D．feet

15.

A．destroy

B．fix

C．use

D．build

16.

A．But

B．However

C．Otherwise

D．Besides

17.

A．wonder

B．feel

C．understand

D．believe

18.

A．strong

B．weak

C．young

D．old

19.

A．children

B．boys

C．girls

D．grown-ups

20.

A．happy

B．tired

C．sad

D．sick