Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A,B,C and D. Fill in each blank with word or phrases that best fits the context.
“Everything happens for the best,” my mother said whenever I  36 disappointment. “If you can carry on, one day something good will happen. And you'll realize that it wouldn't have happened if not for that  37  disappointment.”
Mother was right, as I discovered after graduating from college in 1932.I had decided to try out a job in radio, then work my way up to sports  38  . I hitchhiked to Chicago and knocked on the door of every station and got turned down every time.
In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations couldn’t risk hiring inexperienced person. “Go out in the sticks and find a small station that’ll give you a  39 ,”she said.
I thumbed home to Dixon, Illinois.  40  there was no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a local  41 to manage its sports department. Since Dixon was where I had played high school football, I  42 . The job sounded just right for me. But I wasn’t hired.
My disappointment must have  43 . “Everything happens for the best,” Mom reminded me. Dad offered me the car to job hunt. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, a wonderful Scotsman named Peter MacArthur, told me they had already hired an announcer.
As I left his office, my frustration  44 . I asked a1oud, “How can a fellow get to be a sport announcer if he can’t get a job in a radio station?”
I was waiting for the elevator when I heard MacArthur   45  . “What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?” Then he stood me before a microphone and asked me to broadcast an  46  game.
On my way home, as I have many times since, I thought of my mother’s words. I often wonder what  47 my life might have taken if I’d gotten the job at Montgomery Ward.  
36. A. faced                       B. received                    C. considered             D. met
37. A. old                          B. previous                    C. early                    D. original
38. A. layer                        B. manager                    C. announcer             D. fan
39. A. job                          B. suggestion                 C. chance                  D. advantage
40. A. While                      B. When                        C. Which                   D. So
41. A. worker                     B. student                      C. announcer             D. athlete
42. A. accepted                   B. agreed                       C. applied                  D. promised
43. A. come                       B. shown                      C. disappeared           D. brightened
44. A. turned over               B. hit over                     C. boiled over            D. took over
45. A. murmuring               B. calling                      C. whispering            D. announcing
46. A. forceful                    B. close                         C. imaginary              D. ordinary
47. A. side                         B. action                       C. approach               D. direction

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So you’re about to spend four years of your life and tens of thousands of dollars of your patent’s money, and all you really know about college is that all of your friends are going. Do you ever stop to wonder why you’re going?
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小題1:How many reasons for going to college does the author mention in the text ?

A．2

B．3

C．4

D．5

小題2:The author thinks you should choose the college that is _______.

A．well-equipped

B．competitive

C．suitable

D．famous

小題3:What does the author advise you to do to pay the high cost of college?

A．To ask the family for help

B．To make a study of financial courses.

C．To do research on the price of college

D．To get to know how to ask for financial aid

小題4:What’s the author’s purpose of writing this test?

A．To suggest ways to prepare for college learning

B．To help readers find the right college

C．To make Johnson Review popular

D．To introduce college life

July 21st, 2007 was a typical English summer’s day — it rained for 24 hours! As usual, I rushed home from work at midday to check on the house. Nothing was amiss. By the time I lift work at 5 pm, however, the road into our village was flooded. Our house bad never been flooded but, as I opened the front door, a wave of water greeted me. Thank God the kids weren’t with me, because the house was 5 feet deep in water. We lost everything downstairs. And the plaster had to be torn off the walls, ceilings pulled down.
At first we tried to push on through. We didn’t want to move the children out of home, so we camped upstairs. we put a sheet of plastic across the floor to protect us from the damp. But after three months, we felt very sick, so we moved to a wooden house in a park. The house was small, but at first we were all just delighted to be in a new place. Unfortunately, things took longer than expected and we were there for 10 months. The life there was inconvenient. What surprised me most was how much I missed being part of a community（社區(qū)）.We had lived in a friendly village with good neighbours, and I’d never thought how much I’d miss that.
Although-our situation was very bad, it’s difficult to feel too sorry for yourself when you look at what’s happening elsewhere. I watched a news report about floods in Northern India and thought , “We didn’t have a straw hut（茅草房）that was swept away , and our house is still sanding . We’re lucky .”
We moved back home in August. With December coming, there’s reconstruction work to be done, so it’s difficult to prepare for Christmas. But I can’t wait — I’m going to throw a party for our friends in the village to say thanks for their support. This year , I won’t need any gifts — living away from home for months has made me realize how little we actually need or miss all our possessions . Although we are replacing things, there’s really no rush — we have our home back, and that’s the main thing.
小題1:What does the underlined word “amiss” in the first paragraph mean?

A．Wrong.

B．Missing.

C．Right.

D．Found.

小題2:It can be inferred from the text that the author                    .

A．was sick of staying upstairs

B．cared much about her children

C．could not stand living a wooden house

D．did not deal well with her family affairs during the flood

小題3:Why does author say that they were lucky in the third paragraph?

A．Because her situation was not serious.

B．Because many other places were flooded.

C．Because she had been to Northern India.

D．Because some others suffered even more.

小題4:What does the author mainly want to express by telling her story?

A．She valued human feelings more than before.

B．She realized she almost didn’t need possessions.

C．She found Christmas gifts no longer badly needed.

D．She thought her own home was the most important.

Honesty comes in many forms. First there’s self-honesty. Is what people see the real article or do you appear through smoke and mirrors? I find that if I try to be something I’m not , I feel unsure of myself and take out a part from my PBA(personal bank account ).I love how singer Judy Garland put it, “Always be a first-class version(版本) of yourself , instead of a second-class version of somebody else .”
Then there’s honesty in our actions. Are you honest at school, with your parents, and with your boss? If you’ve ever been dishonest, I think we all have, try being honest, and notice how whole it makes you feel. Remember, you can’t do wrong and feel right. This story by Jeff is a good example of that:
In my second year of study, there were three kids in my math class who didn’t do well. I was really good at it. I would charge them three dollars for each test that I helped them pass. I’d write on a little piece of paper all the right answers, and hand them off.
At first I felt like I was making money, kind of a nice job. I wasn’t thinking about how it could hurt all of us. After a while I realized I shouldn’t do that anymore, because I wasn’t really helping them. They weren’t learning anything, and it would only get harder down the road. Cheating certainly wasn’t helping me.
It takes courage to be honest when people all around you are getting away with cheating on tests, lying to their parents, and stealing at work. But, remember, every act of honesty is a deposit（儲(chǔ)蓄）into your PBA and will build strength.
小題1:The underlined part “appear through smoke and mirrors” in the first paragraph means “         ”.
小題2:Which of the following can best explain Judy Garland’s words?

A．Be your true self rather than follow others.

B．Don’t copy others or you can’t be the first class.

C．Make efforts to be the first instead of the second.

D．Don’t learn from others unless they’re excellent.

小題3:What does the author expect to show by Jeff’s story ？

A．honesty can be of great help.

B．A bad thing can be turned into a good one.

C．Helping others cheat can do good to nobody.

D．One should realize the wrong in his bad deeds.

小題4:In the last paragraph the author mainly wants to express              .

A．one must be brave to be honest

B．it’s difficult to be honest when others are not

C．one should be honest when making a deposit

D．honesty in one’s actions can help him in the future

Cities alarmed by deaths and injuries of pedestrians are taking efforts to make crosswalks safer for people on foot, especially seniors and children who need more time to cross streets.
A pedestrian is killed in a traffic accident in the USA every 110 minutes；one is injured every nine minutes, according to official date. Crosswalk can be especially dangerous for the elderly. Among people 70 and older, 36% of pedestrian deaths in 2006 occurred in crosswalks, compared with 21% of those younger than 70, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
The Federal Highway Administration（FHWA）advises that next year states increase by nearly 15% the amount of time traffic lights provide for pedestrians to cross the street after the flashing orange hand appears .
FHWA spokesman Doug Hecox says reasons for the change include an aging population that needs more time to cross, health-conscious Americans walking more, children encouraged to walk to prevent getting overweight and high gas prices pushing people to walk instead of drive.
Pedestrian deaths went down by 12% from 5,449 in 1996 to 4,784 in 2006. But among those in 2006, 471 were killed in crosswalks, down slightly from 488 ten years earlier, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says.
小題1:Which of the following is true according to the text?

A．Among 100 pedestrian deaths there were 21 people younger than 70.

B．Old people are more likely to meet with accidents in crosswalks.

C．Traffic accidents killed more old people than young people.

D．About seven traffic accidents happened per hour.

小題2:What is FHWA’s suggestion to states?

A．Fixing more traffic lights.

B．Providing more crosswalks.

C．Giving pedestrians more time to cross streets.

D．Increasing the time before the orange lights appear.

小題3:What’s the cause of the crosswalk safety problem according to the test?

A．There’re many cars and buses on the road.

B．Pedestrians are careless.

C．Crosswalks are crowded.

D．Drivers don’t give way.

小題4:The report from NHTSA suggests that             

A．fewer people were injured in crosswalks

B．crosswalk safety has been greatly improved

C．much has been done to reduce traffic accidents

D．pedestrian deaths in crosswalk remain a serious problem

All too often , a choice that seems sustainable（可持續(xù)的）turns out on closer examination to be problematic. Probably the best example is the rush to produce ethanol（乙醇）for fuel from corn . Corn is a renewable resource —you can harvest it and grow more, almost limitlessly. So replacing gas with corn ethanol seems like a great idea.
One might get a bit more energy out of the ethanol than that used to make it, which could still make ethanol more sustainable than gas generally, but that’s not the end of the problem. Using corn to make ethanol means less corn is left to feed animals and people, which drives up the cost of food. That result leads to turning the fallow land — including, in some cases, rain forest in places such as Brazil — into farmland, which in turn gives off lots of carbon dioxide（CO2）into the air. Finally, over many years, the energy benefit from burning ethanol would make up for the forest loss. But by then, climate change would have progressed so far that it might not help.
You cannot really declare any practice “sustainable” until you have done a complete lift-cycle analysis of its environmental（環(huán)境的）costs. Even then, technology and public policy keep developing, and that development can lead to unforeseen and undesired results. The admirable goal of living sustainable requires plenty of thought on an ongoing basis.
小題1:What might directly cause the loss of the forest according to the text?

A．The growing demand for energy to make ethanol.

B．The increasing carbon dioxide in the air.

C．The greater need for farmland.

D．The big change in weather.

小題2:The underline word “it” in the second paragraph refers to

A．the energy benefit	B．the forest loss
C．climate change	D．burning ethanol

小題3:The author thinks that replacing gas with corn ethanol is    

A．impractical

B．a(chǎn)cceptable

C．a(chǎn)dmirable

D．useless

小題4:What does the author mainly discuss in the text?

A．Technology.	B．Sustainability.
C．Ethanol energy.	D．Environmental protection.

閱讀下面短文,并按照題目要求用英語(yǔ)回答問(wèn)題.
Almost everybody in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart（購(gòu)物手推車(chē)）. They will, in a lifetime, push the chrome-plated contraptions many miles. But few will know—or even think to ask—who it was that invented them.
Sylvan N. Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937. At that time he was in the supermarket business. Every day he would see shoppers lugging（吃力地?cái)y帶） groceries around in baskets they had to carry.
One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels. The wheeled baskets would make shopping much easier for his customers, and would help to attract more business.
On June 4, 1937, Goldman’s first carts were ready for use in his market. He was terribly excited on the morning of that day as customers began arriving. He couldn’t wait to see them using his invention.
But Goldman was disappointed. Most shoppers gave the carts a long look, but hardly anybody would give them a try.
After a while, Goldman decided to ask customers why they weren’t using his carts. “Don’t you think this arm is strong enough to carry a shopping basket?” one shopper replied.
But Goldman wasn’t beaten yet. He knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade people to give them a try. To this end, Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and pretend they were shopping! Seeing this, the real customers gradually began copying the phony（假冒的） customers.
As Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers of customers to his market. But not only did more people come—those who came bought more. With larger, easier-to-handle baskets, customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before.
Today’s shopping carts are five times larger than Goldman’s original model. Perhaps that’s one reason Americans today spend more than five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937—before the coming of the shopping cart.
小題1:The underlined words “chrome-plate contraptions” in Paragraph 1 refer to ______.
（No more than 3 words）
小題2:What was the purpose of Goldman’s invention? （No more than 10 words）
小題3:Why was Goldman disappointed at first? （No more than 10 words）
小題4:Why did Goldman hire people to push carts around his market? （No more than 10 words）
小題5:What do you think of Goldman? Please give your reasons. （No more than 20 words）

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首先請(qǐng)閱讀下列深圳書(shū)城的暢銷(xiāo)書(shū)的封面及基本信息：
 
 
下面是這些書(shū)的簡(jiǎn)要內(nèi)容，請(qǐng)匹配相關(guān)的書(shū)名。
56．This useful, popular book shows that if you are gone broke and lose love, please hold yourself back. If you look fat, just face it calmly. If you are in survival thinking, the most important is that you get rid of all the difficulties in front of us, life will be safe, perfect. If your daughters are to take their rightful place in society, they must become fearless.
57．In this book, the author calls the nation’s leading experts on violent behavior, and shows you how to spot even tiny signs of danger before it’s too late. Most violent acts are unpredictable. It points out that true fear is often a signal that can save your life. Believe the threat of violence surrounds us every day. But we can protect ourselves by straight judgment.
58．This book based on his years of clinical experience. It says about twenty-five million Americans take medicine to avoid depression. Despite the advances in the treatment of depression in recent years, many patients, even with the best medical care, feel that they are not living rich and fulfilling lives. This book will direct you how to survive well.
59．This interesting book tells us that annoyance is as much a political matter as a biological one. And anger is a definite message: Pay attention to me. I don’t like what you are doing. Restore my pride. You’re in my way. Give me justice. This book suggests that when you’re angry, just let it right out.
60．This valuable book states that nervousness has become a constant factor in today’s society like a sign of the times, but it is sometimes difficult to recognize the effects of anxiety on our mental health. The only way to feel better about ourselves is to go out and do it.

I was waiting for a phone call from my agent. He had left at message the night before, telling me that my show was to be cancelled. I called him several times, but each time his secretary told me that he was in a meeting and that he would call me later. So I waited and waited, but there was still no call. Three hours passing by, I became more and more and impatient. I was certain that my agent didn’t care about my work, and he didn’t care about me. I was overcome with that thought. I started to shout at the phone, “Let me wait, will you? Who do you think you are?”
At that time I didn’t realize my wife was looking on. Without showing her surprise, she rushed in, seized the phone, tore off the wires, and shouted at the phone, “Yeah! Who do you think you are? Bad telephone! Bad telephone!” And she swept it into the wastebasket.
I stood watching her, speechless. What on earth...?
She stepped to the doorway and shouted at the test of the house, “Now hear this! All objects in this room----if you do anything to upset my husband, out you go!”
Then she turned to me. Kissed me and said calmly, “Honey, you just have to learn how to take control.” With that, she left the room.
After watching a crazy woman rushing in and out, shouting at everything in sight , I noticed that something in my mood （情緒） had changed. I was laughing. How could I have trouble with that phone? Her aunties helped me realize I had been driven crazy by small things. Twenty minutes later my agent did call. I was able to listen to him and talk to him and talk to him calmly.
小題1:Why did the author shout at the telephone?、

A．He was mad at the telephone.

B．He was angry with his agent.

C．He was anxious about his wife.

D．He was impatient with the secretary?

小題2:What did the author’s wife do after she heard his shouting?

A．She said nothing.

B．She shouted at him.

C．She called the agent.

D．She threw the phone away.

小題3:What made the author laugh?

A．His own behavior

B．His wife’s suggestion

C．His changeable feelings.

D．His wife’s sweet kiss.

小題4:What does the underlined word “aunties” refer to?”

A．Smut words

B．Unusual actions.

C．Surprising Looks

D．Anxious feelings.

What is Math Anxiety?
Math anxiety or fear of math is actually quite common. Math anxiety is quite    1  to stage-fright. Why does someone suffer   2  ? Fear of something going wrong in front of a crowd? Fear of   3  the lines? Fear of being judged   4  ? Fear of going completely blank? Math anxiety conjures（使現(xiàn)出） up fear of some type. The fear that one won't be able to do the   5  or the fear that it's too hard or the fear of failure which often stems(起因于) from having a lack of   6  . For the most part, math anxiety is the   7  about doing the math right, our minds draw a   8  and we think we'll fail and of course the more frustrated and anxious our minds become, the   9  the chance for drawing blanks. Added pressure of having time limits on math tests and exams also cause the levels of anxiety grow for many students.
Where Does Math Anxiety Come From?
Usually math anxiety stems from    10 experiences in mathematics. Typically math phobias have had math presented in such a fashion that it led to limited understanding. Unfortunately, math anxiety is often  11   poor teaching and poor experiences in math which typically leads to math   12  . Many of the students I've encountered with math anxiety have demonstrated an over reliance on procedures in math as opposed to actually understanding the math. When one tries to memorize procedures, rules and routines without much   13  , the math is quickly forgotten and   14  soon sets in. Think about your experiences with one concept --- the division of fractions（小部分）. You probably learned about reciprocals（倒數(shù)） and inverses. In other words, 'It's not yours to reason why, just invert（反轉(zhuǎn)） and multiply'（乘）. Well, you memorized the rule and it   15   . Why does it work? Do you really understand why it works? Did anyone every use pizzas or math manipulative（巧妙處理的） to show you why it works? If   16   , you simply memorized the procedure and that was that. Think of math as memorizing all the procedures --   17  if you forget a few? Therefore, with this type of strategy, a good   18  will help, but, what if you don’t have a good memory. Understanding the math is critical. Once students   19  they can do the math, the whole notion of math anxiety can be overcome. Teachers and parents have an important   20  to ensure students understand the math being presented to them.
(    ) 1. A. different           B. similar             C. far                          D. familiar
(    ) 2. A. speech              B. performance     C. threatens                  D. stage-fright
(    ) 3. A. understanding   B. memorizing      C. forgetting                D. reading
(    ) 4. A. poorly              B. crazily              C. well                        D. publicly
(    ) 5. A. Chinese            B. math                C. English                   D. physics
(    ) 6. A. wish                B. conscience        C. determination           D. confidence
(    ) 7. A. fear                 B. joy                   C. pleasure                   D. doubt
(    ) 8. A .failure              B. choice              C. blank                             D. death
(    ) 9. A. further             B. greater             C. less                         D. smaller
(    ) 10. A. unpleasant      B. unfair               C. pleasant                   D. successful
(    ) 11. A. because           B. thanks to          C. resulting in              D. due to
(    ) 12. A. fear                B. anxiety             C. failure                     D. misunderstanding
(    ) 13. A. forgetting       B. use                   C. understanding          D. knowledge
(    ) 14. A. panic             B. excitement        C. disappointment         D. encouragement
(    ) 15. A. opens             B. works               C. starts                       D. runs
(    ) 16. A. so                  B. possible            C. not                          D. any
(    ) 17. A. Where            B. Why                C. When                      D. What
(    ) 18. A. memory         B. method             C. brain                       D. body
(    ) 19. A. fill                 B. realize              C. confirm                   D. recognize
(    ) 20. A. task                B. aim                  C. appointment             D. role