1 . On Saturday, Juliet and Darcy, 17-year-old friends, were enjoying sunshine at Furness Park when they noticed a man fall down on the sidewalk. They hurried to ________ the man.

Darcy felt ________ he was going to die in front of them. She took a closer ________. Then she observed his chest not going up and down, which meant he wasn’t ________.

The girls knew they needed to ________ help. While Darcy stayed with the ________ man, Juliet ran to nearby homes and began ringing doorbells, but no one ________. “I am really afraid he is going to die without help,” Darcy said ________.

Juliet continued to run for help. She finally found some men fixing a car and told them the ________. But they didn’t ________ what the girl said at first. They asked, “Is what you said a joke?” And she answered, “No, call 911 right now.”

The repairmen got it and then ________ CPR (心肺复苏术) on the unconscious man until doctors arrived and used a defibrillator (电击器) to restart his ________. Doctors said the man was in critical condition and should be ________ to hospital.

A doctor said, “To their ________, the two girls take fast action which is called ‘a chain of survival’, which can save the ________ of a patient in a dangerous situation.”

“What the two girls did was quite ________,” said another doctor. “They jumped into action to try to save a(n) ________, and they didn’t give up until that task was ________.” But doctors didn’t get the girls’ names at that time, so they launched a(n) ________ to the public to find them.

Finally, the two girls were found and praised for helping save a man’s life on the weekend. “We were brave,” Darcy said. “We got a bit scared in the beginning, but later we realized ________ won’t help the man.”

1.

A．recognize

B．applaud

C．aid

D．seize

2.

A．confused

B．terrified

C．pleased

D．curious

3.

A．walk

B．try

C．chat

D．look

4.

A．bleeding

B．breathing

C．starving

D．choking

5.

A．forbid

B．appreciate

C．quit

D．seek

6.

A．unconscious

B．familiar

C．absent-minded

D．ragged

7.

A．enquired

B．remembered

C．answered

D．succeeded

8.

A．anxiously

B．occasionally

C．eagerly

D．merrily

9.

A．consequence

B．emergency

C．concept

D．mystery

10.

A．believe

B．hear

C．doubt

D．interrupt

11.

A．searched for

B．put off

C．carried out

D．broke down

12.

A．hands

B．stomach

C．feet

D．heart

13.

A．rushed

B．admitted

C．persuaded

D．guided

14.

A．disappointment

B．credit

C．annoyance

D．horror

15.

A．reputation

B．prospect

C．life

D．honor

16.

A．embarrassing

B．amazing

C．contradictory

D．abstract

17.

A．acquaintance

B．colleague

C．stranger

D．relative

18.

A．received

B．presented

C．claimed

D．accomplished

19.

A．appeal

B．comment

C．attempt

D．apology

20.

A．prejudice

B．regret

C．offence

D．panic

2 . When will the man see Dr. Owen?

A．On Tuesday morning.

B．On Wednesday afternoon.

C．On Friday morning.

3 . The most important thing to keep in mind when deciding to serve another is that service expects no rewards. When you expect something in return, and are not serving out of the goodness of your heart, others will notice. Sure they’ll thank you.     1    

When you give from your heart, the real power of service comes into play. Serving is a great opportunity to strengthen your trust and respect for another, and for them to do the same to you. Not only do you feel great about helping out, but you build your relationship with them, and they will feel more willing to help you in the future.     2    

However, why is service so rarely seen these days?     3     Sure, living in this day and age does not leave us much time, and the last thing people want to do is more work. I'm too busy, there's too much work, or I don't have the time, ” may run through your head when you hear the word service, but the truth is the benefits are worth the sacrifice. Gandhi once said that, “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. ”     4     Some ideas of places you can serve are volunteer centers, nursing homes, boys and girls clubs, and so on. You can serve people as long as you want to.

    5     Although it does take some work, the benefits are more than worth the sacrifice. Not only do you feel better about making another's day a little less stressful, but you strengthen your relationship with them and they will be more willing to help you in the future.

A．It's a win-win situation.

B．Service is simple.

C．Overall, service and selflessly giving to others is very powerful and has many benefits.

D．And they will offer you worse service.

E．Service is a complex event.

F．The problem is, there's always an excuse not to serve.

G．But the service becomes more of a situation, “I’ll do this for you if you do this for me”.

4 . Pamela Malhotra and her husband Anil K. Malhotra have spent the last 25 years buying abandoned agricultural land and reforesting it. They want to _______ the land to a bio-diverse rainforest for elephants, birds and other _______

Now the couple _______ 300 acres of land in Brahmagiri, India. They’ve spotted more than 300 kinds of birds as well as many _______ and threatened(受到威胁的)animal species. But, this was not the _______ in 1991 when Anil and Pamela came to this part of the country. "When I came here, it was a _______. The owner wanted to sell because he couldn't grow coffee _______ anything else here," says Anil who worked in the real estate(房地产)and restaurant business in the US before moving to India. “For me and Pamela, this was what we were _______ all our life. "

The couple had a love for _______ from their childhood. When the Malhotras came to India, the pollution ________ them. "That was when we decided to ________ something to reclaim (开垦) the forests in India," says Anil. "We were not looking for money. Early on, we ________ that shortage of fresh water will be a ________ for India and the rest of the world. Acquisition, protection and reclamation of forested lands and wildlife habitat, where vital water sources have their origin, is the only way to ________ ourselves, ” explains Anil.

They sold property (财产) they owned in America, bought the first 55 acres and began to grow a ________. Soon, they bought the land nearby as well. "Many of the ________ considered their holdings 'wasteland' as very little grew on it and were ________ to get money," says Anil.

Stopping poaching (偷猎) was a ________ and often the locals did not understand what this couple was doing, so it required a lot of talking to create ________. They worked with the forest department to set up camera traps and keep poachers away. “There are times I have ________ with poachers. I was even in great danger once, ” says Pamela. “I hope what we are doing now will make a difference to animals. ”

1.

A．sell

B．return

C．move

D．offer

2.

A．plants

B．producers

C．creatures

D．businessmen

3.

A．needs

B．owns

C．collects

D．refuses

4.

A．rare

B．common

C．beautiful

D．lazy

5.

A．dream

B．design

C．land

D．scene

6.

A．landmark

B．park

C．field

D．wasteland

7.

A．and

B．or

C．as

D．but

8.

A．seeking for

B．leaving for

C．giving up

D．looking after

9.

A．culture

B．custom

C．nature

D．history

10.

A．interested

B．satisfied

C．terrified

D．embarrassed

11.

A．do

B．add

C．finish

D．drag

12.

A．forgot

B．realized

C．ignored

D．required

13.

A．comfort

B．success

C．concern

D．failure

14.

A．lose

B．thank

C．damage

D．save

15.

A．forest

B．plant

C．flower

D．grain

16.

A．workers

B．fammers

C．officers

D．businessmen

17.

A．happy

B．anxious

C．upset

D．free

18.

A．enjoyment

B．request

C．challenge

D．order

19.

A．conflict

B．development

C．disapproval

D．awareness

20.

A．united

B．watched

C．worked

D．fought

5 . On her first day in New York City, teaching students from low-income families at an after-school program, Alyssa Kapasi noticed so many kids were lining up for free sandwiches and fruit in the cafeteria. Many of these poor students don’t get enough food to eat at home, so a free school lunch or a free after-school meal might be the most food they would get all day.

Kapasi, who graduated from private school, was shocked. Therefore, she was determined to help. “I want other kids to understand that if they meet a problem, they don’t have to wait to be an adult to salve it,” says Kapasi. She and a group of friends are now putting their programming skills ta work to create an app called Food for Thought, which will allow parents, students and even kind-hearted strangers to donate to a lunch account for a student in need at a nearby school.

About 20 million American kids receive free lunches. Two million more quality for reduced-price meals, and those students’ families may pay for part of their food. When they don’t have the money on any day. the students might have to choose an “alternative meal” such as a free cheese sandwich.

One clever feature of the app which is being supported by donation from companies and social investors—is that it provides anonymity (匿名) to lunch recipients and donors. To receive financial help, a family will need only a recommendation from a school administrator, and no one else knows.

“I want to make the application a platform where all users feel no shame in using it,” says Kapasi. She hopes to test the app in a school district next month. And then, she will devote herself to charity.

1. Why did so many students have to eat school food according to paragraph 1?

A．The food was cheap.	B．They preferred to eat in the cafeteria.
C．The food was very delicious.	D．They lacked food at home.

2. What is the function of the app?

A．Selling food to the student.	B．Allowing people to help poor students.
C．Communicating well with students parents.	D．Helping students study well.

3. What is special about the app?

A．It is attractive and fun.	B．It is convenient to apply.
C．It manages users’ information secretly.	D．It can tell who is badly in need of food.

4. What can we learn about the app?

A．It has been abandoned half way.	B．It is being created by a student.
C．It is about to be put into practice.	D．It is being used in a school district.

6 . The world is designed for right-handed people, but why does a tenth of the population prefer the left?     1    

The answer to it remains a bit of a mystery. Since scientists have noticed that left-handedness tends to run in families, it’s assumed that left-handedness has a genetic(基因的) component to it.

    2     In fact, identical twins, who share the same genes, can sometimes prefer to use different hands. There are also plenty of theories on what else might determine which hand you write with, but many experts believe that it’s kind of random.

Historically, the left side and left-handedness have been considered a negative thing by many cultures.     3     In some areas, the left hand became known as the “unclean” hand. In many religions, the right hand of God is the favored hand. For example, Jesus sits at God’s right side. God’s left hand, however, is the hand of judgment. Various activities and experiences become rude or even signs of bad luck when the left hand becomes involved. In some parts of Scotland, it is considered bad luck to meet a left-handed person at the start of a journey.     4    A person giving directions will put their left hand behind them and even physically try to point with their right hand if necessary. In some Asian countries, eating with the left hand is considered impolite.

    5    People come to realize that left-handedness is natural. Some researchers find out that lefties are more creative and can deal with abstract thinking better. The left-handedness is more easily adaptable to the right-handed world as well. Being left-handed is no longer a sad story now; instead, it is a wonderful gift or maybe it is something you should take pride in.

A．In other words, left-handers are born that way.

B．Left-handedness used to be regarded as a disability.

C．The unfavorable associations of the use of the left hand among cultures are varied.

D．Why do they prefer to use their left hand rather than their right hand for routine activities?

E．Why do some parents force their left-handed children to become right-handed when writing?

F．In Ghana, pointing, gesturing, giving or receiving items with the left hand is considered rude.

G．Fortunately, nowadays most societies and cultures no longer reject left-handedness like before.

7 . “People are ruder today because they are rushed and more ‘time poor’ than ever before,” says Patsy Rowe, “ Manners have fallen off the radar(雷达).” Due to our strong attraction to electronic equipment it is a wonder that more people don’t wake up each morning and greet the singing birds with complaining about the noise. Here are some examples of rudeness.

Some people prefer to do almost everything over the Internet. To them, dealing with an actual human is like an evolutionary step backward. It feels very slow because humans don^’t work at 4G speeds. When you have dinner with friends, you will often notice someone paying more attention to his mobile phone. We have programmed ourselves to think that every new message brings life-changing news, so taking calls and checking our texts are more important than talking to the people we are with. What is worse, some people even tend to send anonymous（匿名的）rude messages by email.

However, rudeness is never acceptable. Don^’t assume it is OK to be rude if the person you^’re in touch with won^’t recognize you. If you have something awful to say, have the courage to face the person and say it, write a letter or email and sign it, or forget it. Upsetting people with unsigned messages is cruel and disgusting.

We shouldn^’t blame technology for our shortcomings. Technology is here to help us, but we should not allow it to take over our lives. An important step is acknowledging our shortcomings. People spend a lot of time pointing out bad manners but it would be even more helpful if we’d publicly acknowledge good manners when we see them.

1. What can be inferred from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1?

A．People care little about their behavior.

B．People can tell good from bad behavior.

C．Radar is able to observe human behavior.

D．Radar can be used to predict human behavior.

2. Some people are less willing to deal with humans because__________.

A．they are growing too independent

B．they have to handle many important messages

C．they are becoming less patient

D．they have to follow an evolutionary step backward.

3. The author thinks sending unsigned awful messages is ___________.

A．disgusting	B．acceptable
C．Ridiculous	D．reasonable

4. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．We should applaud good behavior.

B．We should keep pointing out mistakes.

C．Technology will take over lives one day.

D．Technology can never be blamed

8 . You may think that the story of Pygmalion (《卖花女》, 1913)---in which people are judged by the way they talk --- is something that only existed in the days of British high society. But thanks to etiquette (礼仪) expert and author William Hanson, we realize that little has changed during the past 100 years.

In a BBC radio program, Hanson released a list of common words used in British English that could reveal whether a person is “common” or “fashionable”.

And yet here comes the interesting part: While some of us might go through life using fancy words, dressing in ways that make us appear more well-off than we really are, there are wealthy people in the world who try to hide their riches because they want to be seen as “normal” instead of “showy”.

Beatrice, for example, is a New Yorker who inherited (继承) millions of dollars. She told The New York Times that she has a habit of removing the price tags from her clothes so her house staff don’t see them and feel uncomfortable.

“We don’t want that ‘Wow’.” said Scott, also a New Yorker, who had just inherited over $50 million. “We’re just not the type of people who wear it on our sleeve.”

1. What does William Hanson find?

A．People failed to judge others’ manner.

B．People meet impolite persons frequently.

C．People tend to use more polite words.

D．People judge others by their way of talking.

2. What do rich people prefer to do?

A．To earn more money.

B．To hide their riches.

C．To think highly of their wealth.

D．To judge others by their wealth.

3. Why did Beatrice remove the price tags on her clothes?

A．To show off her fashion sense.

B．To avoid making people around her uncomfortable.

4. What does the underlined word “it” in the last sentence mean?

A．The Times magazine.	B．The brand label.
C．The inheritance contract.	D．The price tag.

9 . Money is the root of all evil (邪恶) and new study claims there may be some truth behind the saying. Scientists at the University of California Berkeley, US, announced on February 27 that rich people are more likely to do immoral things, such as lie or cheat, than poorer people. The scientists did a series of eight experiments. They published their findings online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNA《美国国家科学院院刊》).

They carried out the first two experiments from the sidewalk near Berkeley. They noted that drivers of newer and more expensive cars were more likely to cut off other cars and pedestrians at crosswalks. Nearly 45 percent of people driving expensive ears ignored a pedestrian compared with only 30 percent of people driving mow modest cars.

In another experiment, a group of college students was asked if they would do immoral things in various everyday situations. Examples included taking printer paper from work and not telling a salesperson when he or she gave back more change. Students from higher — class families were more likely to act dishonestly.

According to the scientists, rich people often think money can get them out of trouble. This makes them less afraid to take risks, It also means they care less about other people’s feelings.

Finally, it just makes them greedier. “Higher wealth status seems to make you want even more, and that increased want leads you to bend the rules or break the rules to serve your self- interest,” said Paul Piff, lead scientist of the study.

Piff pointed out that the findings don’t mean that all rich people are untrustworthy or all poor people honest. He said the experiments were to show how people living in different social situations express their instincts（本能）and values in different ways.

1. By saying “money is the root of all evil”, the author wants to       .

A．link wealth with bad behavior

B．draw readers’ attention to the research

C．show how the saying proves the findings

D．defend rich people who do immoral things

2. According to the scientists, which is NOT the factor that makes rich people immoral?

A．They welcome risks.

B．They have more desires.

C．They believe money talks.

D．They become more selfish.

3. Why did the scientists do the experiments?

A．To show how social status affects people’s morality.

B．To show people’s instincts and values in different ways.

C．To test whether the saying “money is the root of all evil” is true.

D．To show the difference between higher - class people and lower - class people.

4. What does the passage really want to show us?

A．The poor are respectable.

B．Money is the root of all evil.

C．All rich people are untrustworthy.

D．The rich are more likely to act badly.

10 . When I told my father that I was moving to Des Moines, Iowa, he told me about the only time he had been there. It was in the 1930s, when he was an editor of the literary magazine of Southern Methodist University（SMU）in Dallas, Texas. He also worked as a professor at SMU, and there was a girl student in his class who suffered from a serious back disease. She couldn’t afford the operation because her family was poor.
Her mother ran a boardinghouse in Galveston, a seaside town near Houston, Texas. She was cleaning out the attic（阁楼）one day when she came across an old dusty manuscript（手稿）. On its top page were the words, “By O. Henry”. It was a nice story, and she sent it to her daughter at SMU, who showed it to my father. My father had never read the story before, but it sounded like O. Henry, and he knew that O. Henry had once lived in Houston. So it was possible that the famous author had gone to the beach and stayed in the Galveston boardinghouse, and had written the story there and left the manuscript behind by accident. My father visited an O. Henry expert at Columbia University in New York, who authenticated the story as O. Henry’s.
My father then set out to sell it. Eventfully, he found himself in Des Moines, meeting with Gardner Cowles, a top editor at the Des Moines Register. Cowles loves the story and bought it on the spot. My father took the money to the girl. It was just enough for her to have the operation she so desperately needed.
My father never told me what the O. Henry story was about. But I doubt that it could have been better than his own story.
1. Who found the O. Henry’s manuscript?

A．The girl’s mother.	B．The author’s father.
C．The girl.	D．The author.

2. Which of the following might explain the fact that the manuscript was found in the   attic?

A．O. Henry once worked in Houston.

B．O. Henry once stayed in Galveston.

C．O. Henry once moved to Des Moines.

D．O. Henry once taught at SMU.

3. The underlined word “authenticated” in Paragraph 2 probably means ______.

A．named	B．treated
C．proved	D．described

4. According to the text, why did the author’s father go to Des Moines?

A．To sell the O. Henry story.

B．To meet the author himself.

C．To talk with the O. Henry expert.

D．To give money to the girl.