1 . A couple from Miami , Bill and Simone Butler , spent sixty-six days in a life-raft (救生艇)in the seas of Central America after their boat sank.

Twenty-one days after they left Panama in their boat, Simony, they met some whales(鲸鱼). “They started to hit the side of the boat, ” said Bill, “and then suddenly we heard water. ”Two minutes later , the boat was sinking. They jumped into the life-raft and watched the boat go under the water.

For twenty days they had tins of food , biscuits , and bottles of water. They also had a fishing-line and a machine to make salt water into drinking water-two things which saved their lives. They caught eight to ten fish a day and ate them raw(生的). Then the line broke. “So we had no more fish until something very strange happened. Some sharks(鲨鱼) came to feed , and the fish under the raft were afraid and came to the surface. I caught them with my hands. ”

About twenty ships passed them, but no one saw them. After fifty days at sea, their life- raft was beginning to break up. Then suddenly it was all over. A fishing boat saw them and picked them up. They couldn't stand up. So the captain carried them onto his boat and took them to Costa Rica. Their two months at sea was over.

1. Bill and Simone were traveling________ when they met some whales.

A．in a life-raft .

B．in Miami .

C．in Simony

D．in Panama

2. The whales hit the side of the boat, and two minutes later ________.

A．the boat was sinking	B．they bit the boat
C．they pulled the boat	D．they bit the couple

3. After their boat sank , the couple ________.

A．jumped into the life-raft	B．heard water
C．watched the boat go under water	D．stayed in the life-raft

4. When they saw the fishing boat which later picked them up,________.

A．They were too excited to stand up.

B．They knew their two months at sea would end.

C．They couldn’t wait to climb onto the boat.

D．Their life-raft was beginning to break up.

2 . An expensive car speeding down the main street of a small town was soon caught up with by a young motorcycle policeman. As he started to make out the ticket, the woman behind the wheel said proudly, “Before you go any further, young man, I think you should know that the mayor of this city is a good friend of mine.” The officer did not say a word, but kept writing. “I am also a friend of chief of police Barens,” continued the woman, getting more angry each moment. Still he kept on writing. “Young man,” she persisted, “I know Judge Lawson and State Senator (参议员) Patton.” Handing the ticket to the woman, the officer asked pleasantly , “Tell me, do you know Bill Bronson.”

“Why, no,” she answered.

“Well, that is the man you should have known,” he said, heading back to his motorcycle, “I am Bill Bronson.”

1. The policeman stopped the car because ________.

A．it was an expensive car

B．the driver was a proud lady

C．the driver was driving beyond the speed limit

D．the driver was going to make trouble for the police

2. The woman was getting more angry each moment because ________.

A．the policeman didn’t know her friends

B．the policeman didn’t accept her kindness

C．the policeman was going to punish her

D．she didn’t know the policeman’s name

3. The policeman was ________.

A．an honourable fellow

B．a stupid fellow

C．an impolite man

D．a shy man

4. The policeman ________.

A．had no sense of humor (幽默)	B．had sense of humor
C．had no sense of duty	D．was senseless

3 . When Boris left school, he could not find a job. He tried hard and he wrote letters to many companies until he could not afford to buy any more stamps. Boris began to lose his confidence, then depressed. Still he went on trying and still he failed. He began to think that he had no future at all.

“Why don’t you start your own business?” one of his uncles told him. “The world is a money-locker. You’d better find a way of opening it. ”

“But what can I do?”

“Get out and have a look round. ” advised his uncle.

“See what people want; then give it to them, and they will pay for it. ”

Boris began to cycle around the town and found a suitable piece of waste ground in the end. Then he set up his business as a cycle repairer. He worked hard, made friends with his customers and gradually managed to win his good fame. A few months later, he found that he had more work than he could deal with by himself. He found a number of empty shops but they were all no good:   in the wrong position, too expensive or with some other problems. But at long last, he managed to find an empty shop in a new place where there were plenty of customers but no competition.

Boris and his assistant taught themselves how to repair motorcycles. Slowly but surely the profits increased and the business developed. At last, Boris had managed to open the money-locker and found bank notes and gold coins inside.

1. Which of the following best describes Boris’s job hunting experience?

A．Boring.

B．Surprising.

C．Encouraging.

D．Disappointing.

2. Boris started his career by _______.

A．repairing cycles

B．buying empty shops

C．cycling around the town

D．developing a waste ground

3. Boris finally chose an empty shop in a place because _______.

A．it was not so expensive

B．he had a lot of old customers there

C．there were good opportunities there

D．he could make good use of his skills there

4 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每局中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

The teenage year from 13 to 19 were the most difficult time for me. They were also the best and worse years in my life. At the first, I thought I knew everything and could make decisions by yourself. However, my parents didn’t seem to think such. They often thought wrong for me to do some things without their permission and always tell me what to do and how to do it. At one time, I even felt my parents couldn’t understand me so I hoped I could be freely from them. I showed them I was independent by wear strange clothes. Now I am leaving home to college. At last, I will be on my own, but I still want to have my parents to turn to whenever I need help.

5 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下短文。短文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
My friend Nick told me story about his, experience back in the US, which was very interested. One day he was having a yard sale and the old man living next door come by to help. As the old man looked over the things on the yard that were to be sold, he stopped at a box of golden ball for Christmas trees. On the box was a card say:“25 cents each...”“You will never sell these for that much.”he told Nick. Convinced, Nick has brought the price up to 10 cents a piece.Without a moment’s delay, my neighbor picked up the box but announced: “I'll take them.”

6 . One summer, when I was young, my dad built me a lemonade stand. On sunny days I would set up outside the local car wash with a cooler and my little black safe. I didn’t get many customers but I always had fun, whether I was reading a book or adding paint decorations to the safe and signs.

One customer I did have was an elderly gentleman who lived across the street from the car wash.

He would come every day where I set up and buy a glass of lemonade for his wife. Even though I only charged 25 cents, he always paid me with a $1 Sacagawea coin. I built up quite a collection by the end of the summer!

Now, as a college student, I make a point of stopping at as many lemonade stands as I can, always paying more than the kids charge me. This has been going on for almost three years now but this week, I didn’t have any money with me when I stopped at a little girl’s stand. I dug around in my car thoroughly and eventually opened up one of my moving boxes showing a black safe covered in soft cloth painted rainbows and hearts. I opened it up and sure enough, there were my Sacagawea coins. I almost shut the lid again because they mean so much to me, but then I realized that this is exactly why I had to pay with the coin. When I gave that little girl the shiny gold coin, I said, “You hang on to this one; they don’t make them any more!” And her face lit up. As I drove away, I saw her running to her sister to show her the gold coin and I knew that I had made her just as happy as I was when I was a little girl.

1. What did the gentleman pay the author for the lemonade?

A．25 cents every time.	B．A collection of gold coins.
C．A one-dollar gold coin each time.	D．A little black safe with many gold coins.

2. Why did the author pay the little girl with a gold coin?

A．To pass the kindness.	B．To show her wealth.
C．To help the poor girl.	D．To make the girl happy.

3. How did the author feel when she gave the girl the coin?

A．Unwilling and hesitant.	B．Excited and willing.
C．Serious and pleased.	D．Peaceful and pleased.

4. What can be a suitable title for the passage?

A．A Kind Young Lady	B．A Shiny Gold Coin
C．A Wealthy Gentleman	D．A Happy Lemonade Stand

7 . It was 1504, and Columbus was making another trip to the New World. Columbus and his men needed fresh water and food after three months at sea. They saw an island and went on shore. On the island there were unfriendly Indians who refused to give food to them.

Columbus' men were afraid of the Indians, but he had a clever plan.He used body language to tell the Indians about his mysterious (神秘的) power to turn off the light in the sky. He knew about a lunar eclipse (月食) the next night because the information was in his almanac (天文历书).

Columbus told the Indians, “Tomorrow night I'll turn off the light in the sky.”But they didn't believe him. When the eclipse began the next night, the Indians became very frightened. They begged Columbus to turn on the light again, and they quickly gave him all the food and water he wanted. Immediately Columbus and his men hurried back to the ship and sailed away in the moonless night.

1. The Indians ________ Columbus and his men.

A．were not kind to	B．were glad to see
C．welcomed	D．were strict with

2. Columbus and his men stopped at the island because________.

A．they wanted to meet the Indians there

B．they had planned to visit it

C．they had never been on the island before

D．they hoped to get supplies of food and water

3. The Indians gave Columbus food and water because they ________.

A．were clever	B．were interested in Columbus' trip
C．wanted to help Columbus	D．believed Columbus was a man with mysterious power

8 . One day an old woman was traveling alone in the mountains. Suddenly she saw something shining in the stream. When she came close, she found it was a precious stone. She put the stone into her bag and went on with her trip.
The next day the old woman met a young man, who was also a traveler in the mountains. The young man looked very hungry, so the old woman opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked carefully, “The stone is beautiful. Would you like to give it to me?”
“Sure. Why not?” the woman said, and handed the stone to him.
The young man left happily with the stone. He knew it was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime. But a few days later he came back to return the stone to the woman.
“I’ve been thinking,” he said. “I know how valuable the stone is, but I give it back and hope that you can give me something even more precious. Give me what you have within your bag.”
The woman opened her bag. It was almost empty. She looked at the young man and smiled, “I have nothing special in my bag, but I do have something precious — the joy of giving!”
The young man felt ashamed and left silently.
1. How did the young man find the precious stone?

A．He found it in his food.	B．He dug it out in a valley.
C．He saw it in the woman’s bag.	D．He noticed it shining in the stream.

2. What does the underlined word “security” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

A．Money.

B．Worry.

C．Health.

D．Trouble.

3. The man returned the stone to the woman because ______.

A．he found the stone was not precious

B．he understood the real meaning of joy

C．he felt embarrassed at taking away the stone

D．he wanted to get something even more precious

4. Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?

A．A special stone	B．The joy of giving
C．A woman and a young man	D．An experience in the mountains

9 . One of the qualities that most people admire in others is the willingness to admit one’s mistakes. It is extremely hard sometimes to say a simple thing like “I was wrong about that,” and it is even harder to say, “I was wrong, and you were right about that.” I had an experience recently with someone admitting to me that he had made a mistake fifteen years ago. He told me he had been the manager of a certain store in the neighborhood where I grew up, and he asked me if I remembered the egg boxes. Then he talked of an incident and I began to remember it.

I was about eight years old at that time, and I had gone into the store with my mother to do the weekly shopping. On that special day, I must have found my way to the food department where the incident took place.

There must have been a special sale on eggs that day because there was a big show of eggs in dozen and half-dozen boxes. The boxes were put three or four feet high. I must have stopped in front of them to admire the show. Just then a woman came by pushing her shopping cart and knocked off the pile of boxes. For some reasons, I decided it was up to me to put the boxes back together, so I went to work.

The manager heard the noise and came pushing over to see what had happened. When he appeared, I was on my knees checking some of the boxes to see if any of the eggs were broken, but to him it looked as though I was the person who was to blame. He scolded me loudly and wanted me to pay for any broken eggs. My face turned red and I tried to explain, but it did no good. Even though I quickly forgot the incident, but the manager did not.

1. How old was the author when he wrote this article?

A．About 8 years old.	B．About 18 years old.
C．About 23 years old.	D．About 15 years old.

2. Who was to blame for knocking off the pile of boxes?

A．The author.	B．The manager.
C．A woman.	D．The author’s mother.

3. Which of the following statement is NOT TRUE?

A．The woman who knocked off the pile of boxes was seriously scolded by the manager.

B．The author was loudly scolded by the manager.

C．A woman carelessly knocked off the pile of boxes.

D．It was the author who tried to put the boxes back together.

4. The tone of the article expresses the author’s          .

A．admiration for the manager’s willingness to admit mistakes

B．anger to the manager for his wrong doing

C．dissatisfaction with the woman who knocked off the pile of cartons

D．regret for the mistake he made in the store

10 . When Pat Jones finished college，she decided to travel around the world and see as many foreign places as she could______she was young. Pat wanted to visit Latin America_____，so she got a job_______an English teacher in a school in Bolivia. Pat spoke a little Spanish______she was able to communicate with her students even when they didn't _____much English．

A sentence she had read somewhere stuck in her mind: if you dream______a foreign language, you have really mastered it. Pat repeated this sentence to her students and______that some day she would dream in Spanish and they would dream in_____．

One day, one of her______students came up and explained in Spanish that he had not done his homework. He had______early, but had slept _______ .

“What does this have to do with your ______?” Pat asked．

“I dreamed all night，Miss Jones. and my dream was in English.”

“In English?” Pat was very______，since he was such a bad student. She was______ secretly jealous (嫉妒的). Her_______was still not in Spanish. But she encouraged her young student. “Well，_____me about your dream．”

“All the people in my dream_____ English.” the student said. “And all the signs were in English. All the newspapers and magazines and all the TV programs were in English．”

“Great. That's______，”said Pat. “What did all the people say to you?”

“I'm sorry, Miss Jones. That's______I slept so terribly. I didn't _____a word they said. It was a nightmare (噩梦 )!”

1.

A．if

B．while

C．since               .

D．although

2.

A．first

B．last

C．at last

D．at first

3.

A．for

B．of

C．like

D．as

4.

A．and

B．but

C．so

D．yet

5.

A．say

B．know

C．read

D．write

6.

A．in

B．about

C．of

D．for

7.

A．thought

B．realized

C．wanted

D．hoped

8.

A．Spanish

B．English

C．Russian

D．German

9.

A．bright

B．excellent

C．best

D．worst

10.

A．got up

B．in bed

C．gone to bed

D．woken up

11.

A．badly

B．well

C．soundly

D．heavily

12.

A．1anguage

B．dream

C．homework

D．English

13.

A．surprised

B．worried

C．pleased

D．excited

14.

A．yet

B．also

C．seldom

D．hardly

15.

A．class

B．work

C．dream

D．study

16.

A．answer

B．write

C．tell

D．ask

17.

A．spoke

B．read

C．liked

D．learned

18.

A．funny

B．strange

C．wonderful

D．terrible

19.

A．how

B．why

C．when

D．because

20.

A．like

B．understand

C．remember

D．hear