1 . When I was 16 years old，I made my first visit to the United States. It wasn’t the first time I had been abroad. Like most English children，I learned French at school and I had often been to France，so I was used to speaking a foreign language to people who didn’t understand English. But when I went to America I was really looking forward to having a nice easy holiday without any language problems.

How wrong I was! The misunderstanding began at the airport. I was looking for a public telephone to give my friend Danny a ring and tell her that I had arrived. A friendly old man saw me looking like being lost and asked if he could help me.

“Yes，” I said.“I want to give my friend a ring.”

“Well，that’s nice，” he said.“Are you getting married? But aren’t you a bit young？”

“Who is talking about marriage？” I replied.“I just want to give my friend a ring to tell her I’ve arrived. Can you tell me where there’s a phone box？”

“Oh！” he said.“There’s a phone downstairs.”

When at last we did meet up，Danny explained the misunderstanding to me.

“Don’t worry，” she said to me.“I had many difficulties at first. There are lots of words which the Americans use differently in meaning from us British. You’ll soon get used to all the funny things they say. But most of the time British and American people can understand each other！”

1. Where was the writer from?

A．He was from America.

B．He was from France.

C．He was from England.

D．He was from China.

2. The writer wanted         .

A．to buy a ring for his friend

B．to make a call to his friend

C．to go to the telephone company

D．his friend to see him off

3. From the passage we can see that “give somebody a ring” _____________.

A．means the same in America as in England

B．means “call somebody” to the old man

C．means “be going to get married”

D．has different meanings in America and in England

2 . As a first-aid responder, you never know what type of situation you might walk into, or who you’ll meet along the way. That’s definitely been the case for Jeffrey Lanenberg, a 51-year-old first-aid responder since 1984.

Ten years into the job, Jeffrey received a call that reported that a man in his early 30s had fallen down in the Mall of America. When Jeffrey and his partner arrived at the scene, they found the young male face down on the ground. He had gone unconscious, making weak attempts to breathe. His wife stood beside him holding their small son in horror. They quickly rushed to calm the man to keep him under control and offer necessary first aid. After Jeffrey dropped the patient off at the neighboring hospital, he thought about the man and his family for a long time.

Jeffrey thought he had experienced everything under the sun until one random visit to Office Max three years ago, where he met a man repeatedly walk back and forth while staring at him. As it turned out, the man was the patient he had saved 20 years earlier.

“You gave me 20 years more than I ever thought I’d have,” the man said. He thanked Jeffrey repeatedly and told him he had someone he wanted him to meet. He stepped around the corner and reappeared with a 20-something-year-old man. Jeffrey instantly knew that it was the son he had seen standing by his mother all those years ago.

“That day changed my life,” Jeffrey said. “Before that, everything was about work…When I talk to my beginner-training class, I tell them you never know the impact you can have on someone’s life.”

1. What did Jeffrey do with the young man?

A．He cured the man at the scene.	B．He took care of the man’s wife and son.
C．He only sent the man to hospital.	D．He did what was needed.

2. What did Jeffrey think of the encounter with the man at Office Max?

A．It was a common routine..	B．It was troublesome.
C．It was unbelievable	D．It was a dangerous situation.

3. Why was the man thankful to Jeffrey?

A．Jeffrey helped bring up his little son.

B．Jeffrey donated to support his family.

C．Jeffrey gave him the present happy life.

D．Jeffrey taught his son to be a new doctor.

4. How did the meeting change Jeffrey’s life?

A．He was rewarded with much money.

B．He changed his attitude to his job.

C．He got a promotion to be a team leader.

D．He took up teaching work to train newcomers.

3 . Studying abroad is complicated. Apart from academic matters that needed to be dealt with, you also need to maintain a great many personal relationships.     1     I spent most of the three and a half years in Canada with my host family. Their house is not far from my school. They are a local family of five: the parents, two sons at the age of eight or nine, and the grandmother.

In the first half year, we had no big conflicts.     2     Take food as an example. I had to bring my own lunch to school and my host family made cold sandwiches for me every day. Back in China, I always had warm meals, which maybe was why after having cold sandwiches for half a year I couldn’t stand it anymore.

    3     They lived in a villa, and offered me a room on the first floor, while their living room and activity room were all on the second floor. At night or on weekends when I was ready to read, do my homework or go to bed, their sons would play with a ball, jump up and down and horse around. It felt like the whole floor was shaking.

After enduring for half a year, I told my parents I wanted to change to a Chinese host family, so that there would be less incompatible living habits.     4     He thought living in a Chinese host family overseas was no different from studying in China.

In the end, I chose to stay with that family and I gradually realized that they were actually nice people.     5     Gradually, they also started to care for me, a stranger from China. Occasionally, they would steam rice and make some stir-fried dishes for me; when the kids were playing upstairs, the host mother would remind them not to make too much noise. Although I was still bothered by their noise sometimes, I knew that there was no perfection in life. We needed to understand each other.

A．Another thing was about housing.

B．Luckily, my parents were of timely help.

C．But sometimes I did feel like fish out of water.

D．Therefore, we have to force ourselves to mature quickly.

E．From then on, I learned to communicate more with them.

F．Instead, sometimes I felt as comfortable there as at home.

G．However, my proposal was strongly rejected by my father.

4 . When I was in my first year of high school, I had a terrible time when every area of my life was a disaster. I felt so hopeless and alone that I thought everything was impossible.

On one such day, I was walking from class across the school to catch the school bus home, with my head down, fighting tears of total hopelessness, when a young man came down the sidewalk toward me. Though I had never seen him before, I did not want him to see that I was in such low spirits, so I turned my head away and hoped to hurry past. I thought he'd walk on by, but he moved until he was directly in front of me, waited until I looked up, and then smiled.

Looking into my eyes, this stranger spoke in a quiet voice："Whatever is wrong will pass. You're going to be OK, just hang on." He then smiled again and walked away.

I can't explain the effect of that man's unexpected kindness and caring! He gave me the one thing that I'd lost completely—hope. I looked for him in our school to thank him, but never saw him again.

That was thirty years ago. And I've never forgotten that moment. Over the years, whenever I see someone who is in trouble, I will always think of that young man and try to give a flash of hope in the dark wherever I can. I carry things for people when they are too heavy for them, sit with naughty babies in the waiting room while their mothers are busy, or talk to tired couples at the checkout line or it could be anything.

If you keep your head up, your heart will show you the place that needs hope.
1. Where did the writer meet with the young man？

A．In the school.

B．In the school bus.

C．In the classroom.

D．In the library.

2. From the passage we may infer that the author ________．

A．had known the young man for a long time

B．made friends with the young man afterwards

C．was grateful to that young man very much

D．avoided meeting the young man since then

3. The author has given a lot of help to others in order to ________．

A．show his sympathy to those who are badly ill

B．give others hope of life when they are in trouble

C．realize his promise made to the young man

D．get respect from those who were helped by him

4. It can be known from the passage that ________．

A．the young man always tried his best to help those who were in trouble

B．it was the young man's smile and words that made the author feel hopeful

C．the author had never been praised by others before he met with the young man

D．the author traveled to a lot of places to look for the young man but failed

5 . Some thirty years ago, I was studying in a public school in New York city. One day, Mrs Nanette O’Neill gave an arithmetic test to our class. When the papers were ______ she discovered that twelve boys had made exactly the same mistakes throughout the test.

There is nothing really new about ______ in exams. Perhaps that was why Mrs O’Neill ______ even say a word about it. She only asked the twelve boys to______ after class. I was one of the twelve.

Mrs O’Neill asked______ questions, and she didn’t______ us either. Instead she wrote on the blackboard the______ words by Thomas Macaulay. “The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. ” She then ordered us to ______ these   words one hundred times.

I don’t______ about the other eleven boys. Speaking for ______ I can say: it was the most important single______ of my life. Thirty years after being ______ to Macaulay’s words, they ______ seem to me the best yardstick( 准 绳 ), because they gave us a ______ to measure ourselves rather than others.

______ of us are asked to make ______ decisions about nations going to war or armies going to battle. But all of us are called ______ daily to make a great many personal decisions.

______ the wallet, found in the street, be put into a pocket or turned over to the policeman? Should the______ change received at the store be forgotten or returned? Nobody will know except you.   But you have to live with yourself, and it is always ______ to live with someone you respect.

1.

A．examined

B．completed

C．marked

D．answered

2.

A．lying

B．cheating

C．guessing

D．discussing

3.

A．didn’t

B．did

C．would

D．wouldn’t

4.

A．come

B．leave

C．remain

D．apologize

5.

A．many

B．certain

C．more

D．no

6.

A．excuse

B．reject

C．help

D．scold

7.

A．above

B．common

C．following

D．unusual

8.

A．repeat

B．get

C．copy

D．put

9.

A．worry

B．know

C．hear

D．talk

10.

A．myself

B．ourselves

C．themselves

D．herself

11.

A．chance

B．incident

C．lesson

D．memory

12.

A．referred

B．showed

C．brought

D．introduced

13.

A．even

B．still

C．always

D．almost

14.

A．way

B．sentence

C．choice

D．reason

15.

A．All

B．None

C．Few

D．Some

16.

A．quick

B．wise

C．great

D．personal

17.

A．out

B．for

C．up

D．upon

18.

A．Should

B．Must

C．Would

D．Need

19.

A．extra

B．small

C．some

D．necessary

20.

A．easier

B．more natural

C．better

D．more peaceful

6 . One day a few years ago, a very funny thing happened to a neighbour of mine. He is a teacher at one of London's big medical schools. He had finished his teaching for the summer term and was at the airport on his way to Russia to give a lecture.

He had put a few clothes and his lecture notes in his shoulder bag , and he had put Rupert , the skeleton (人体骨架）to be used in his lecture , in a large brown suitcase. At the airport desk, he suddenly thought that he had forgotten to buy a newspaper. He left his suitcase near the desk and went over to the shop.

When he got back he discovered that someone had taken his suitcase by mistake. He often wonders what they said when they got home and found Rupert.

1. Who wrote the story?

A．Rupert's teacher.	B．The teacher's neighbour.
C．A medical school teacher.	D．The neighbour's teacher.

2. Why did the teacher put a skeleton in his suitcase?

A．He needed it for the summer term in London.

B．He wanted to take it home as he had finished his teaching.

C．He wanted to take it to Russia for medical research.

D．He needed it for the lecture he was going to give.

3. What happened at the airport?

A．The teacher forgot his suitcase.	B．The skeleton was stolen.
C．The skeleton went missing.	D．The teacher took the wrong suitcase.

4. Which of the following best tells the teacher's feeling about the incident?

A．He was angry.	B．He thinks it very funny.
C．He feels helpless without Rupert.	D．He feels good without Rupert.