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Nick Petrels is a doctor in Montreal. He works 60 hours a week. He takes care of 159 patients a week in the hospital and at his office. He’s been a doctor for ten years.
Dr. Petrels gives his patients good medical advice. But he doesn’t just tell his patients what to do. He also sings to them on television! Dr. Petrels has his own TV show. The show is in Italian, English and French. The doctor starts the show with a song and then gives medical advice. He explains a medical problem or disease in simple language. After that, he sings another song.
Dr. Petrels produces and performs in his own show every week. The program is very popular with his patients and with people who enjoy his singing. His dream is to perform(表演) in Las Vegas. His favorite songs are love songs, and he has a compact disk of love songs that he wrote. Dr. Petrels says, “I always loved to sing. All my problems are gone when I sing.” But when Dr. Petrels was young, his father didn’t want him to be a singer, so he went to medical school.
Some people tell Dr. Petrels he can help people more as a doctor. But Dr. Petrels says he helps people when he sings, too. “I like to make people smile. Sometimes it’s difficult to make a sick person smile. Medicine and entertainment(娛樂) both try to do the same thing. They try to make people feel good.”
1. Dr. Petrels works 60 hours a week, because he _______.
A. gives his patients medical advice      B. takes care of 159 patients a week
C. sings on television                  D. has his own TV show
2. Dr. Petrels _______, so he is called a singing doctor. 
A. has been a doctor for ten years       B. always loved to sing
C. is popular with his patients          D. also sings to his patients on TV
3. In his TV show, Dr. Petrel _______.
A. sings and gives medical advice         B. sings about different diseases
C. starts to explain diseases with a song    D. sings love songs he wrote
4. Dr. Petrels’ show is popular _______.
A. in Las Vegas.                   B. at medical school  
C. with people who like his singing    D. with patients in Montreal　　
5. Dr. Petrels says he likes to _______.
A. help people sing          B. make people feel better 
C. do the same thing         D. make difficult people smile

After too long on the Net, even a phone call can be a shock. My boyfriend’s Liverpudlian accent suddenly becomes too difficult to understand after his clear words on screen; a secretary’s tone seems more rejecting than I’d imagined it would be. Time itself becomes fluid—hours becomes minutes, and alternately seconds stretch into days. Week ends, once a highlight of my week, are now just two ordinary days.
For the last three years, since I stopped working as a producer for Charlie Rose, I have done much of my work as a telecommuter. I submit(提交) articles and edit them by E-mail and communicate with colleagues on Internet mailing lists. My boyfriend lives in England, so much of our relationship is computer-mediated. If I desired, I could stay inside for weeks without wanting anything. I can order food, and manage my money, love and work. In fact, at times I have spent as long as three weeks alone at home, going out only to get mail and buy newspapers and groceries. I watched most of the blizzard of 96 on TV.
But after a while, life itself begins to feel unreal. I start to feel as though I’ve merged(融合) with my machines, taking data in, spitting them back out, just another node(波節(jié)) on the Net. Others on line report the same symptoms(癥狀). We start to strongly dislike the outside forms of socializing. It’s like attending an A. A. meeting in a bar with everyone holding a half-sipped drink. We have become the Net opponents’ worst nightmare.
What first seemed like a luxury, crawling from bed to computer, not worrying about hair, and clothes and face, has becomes avoidance(逃避), a lack of discipline. And once you start replacing real human contact with cyber interaction, coming back out of the cave can be quite difficult.
At times, I turn on the television and just leave it to chatter in the background, something that I’d never done previously. The voices of the programs relax me, but then I’m jarred by the commercials. I find myself sucked in by soap operas, or needing to keep up with the latest news and the weather. “Dateline”, “Frontline”, “Nightline”, CNN, New York 1, every possible angle of every story over and over, and over, even when they are of no possible use to me. Work moves from foreground to background.
小題1: Compared to the clear words of her boyfriend on screen, his accent becomes _______.

A．unreal	B．unbearable
C．misleading	D．not understandable

小題2: What does the last paragraph mean?

A．Having worked on the computer for too long, she became a bit strange.

B．She is so interested in TV programs that she often forgets her work.

C．She watches TV a lot in order to keep up with the latest news and the weather.

D．She turns on TV now and then in order to get some comfort from TV program.

小題3: What is the author’s attitude to the computer?

A．At first she likes it but later becomes tired of it.

B．She likes it because it is very convenient.

C．She dislikes it because TV is more attractive.

D．She dislikes it because it cuts off her relation with the outside world.

小題4:The underlined phrase “coming back out of cave” probably means _______.

A．going back to the dreaming world

B．coming back home from the outside world

C．bringing back direct human

D．getting away from living a strange life

Mr Reese was born in a big city. His father had several companies and got a lot of money. He could give his son all the young man wanted. He was busy with his business and never asked him how he got along with his studies. So the boy spent most time in the restaurants or cinemas. Of course he was weak at his lessons and learned nothing at school. He made many friends but none of them was good and when they knew he came from a rich family, they began to teach him to gamble（賭博）. Of course he lost much money.
Now Mr Reese was twenty and finished middle school. He could not do anything. But his father didn't mind it until one day he found the young man had sold one of his companies. He became so angry that he made him leave his house. The young man couldn't gamble any longer. His friends made him pay his debt. He had to ask his mother to help him and the woman often gave him some money. But one evening his father happened to find it. The old man stopped his wife from doing so. They began to fight in the room. The young man brought out a knife and killed his father. His mother helped him to run away, but soon after that he was caught and sentenced（判刑）to death.
It was a cold and wet day. Suddenly it began to rain hard when Mr Reese was being sent to the execution ground（刑場）. Soon both he and the soldiers were wet through. He said angrily, “Bad luck! I shall be shot in such bad weather!”
“Don't complain（抱怨）, brother, ”said one of the soldiers. ‘You're luckier than us all. We'll have to go back to the city after that!”
小題1:Old Reese never wanted to know about his son's studies because ____.     [    ]

A．he was sure his son was good at his lessons

B．he spent all his energies on his business

C．he knew nothing about the education

D．his wife looked after their children

小題2:The bad young men taught Young Reese to gamble in order ____.      [    ]

A．to play with him

B．to spend spare time

C．that the could get much money from him

D．that they could find jobs in his father's companies

小題3: Old Reese became angry because ____.       [    ]

A．his son had learned nothing at school.

B．his son was weak at all his lessons

C．his son couldn't do anything in the companies

D．his son had lost one of his companies

小題4: Mr Reese complained ____.   [    ]

A．he was sentenced to death

B．he would be shot

C．he went to the execution ground on foot

D．he would be shot in bad weather

Robert was born in a small town in England. His father has a farm and can supply him enough money to finish university where he's studying law. The young man studies hard and hopes to be a famous lawyer.
Last Monday their term was over. Robert said to his father on the telephone that he was going to travel in a small country during his summer holiday. His father agreed to his plan and posted some money to him. So he started four days ago. Their plane landed at the only airport of the country safely. He took a taxi and got to a hotel in the centre of the capital. He felt hungry and tired. So he had a dinner and then a good sleep. This morning he was all right and was going to visit some places of interest. He met an English visitor while he was having breakfast and the man told him to be careful of thieves.
Robert thanked the man and left. But he thought he was smart（機(jī)靈的）and strong and he decided to have a try. He brought out a piece of paper and wrote on it, “A pig has stolen my wallet（錢包）!”Then he put the note into his empty wallet. After that he put the wallet into a pocket and set off. He did all carefully and hoped to find out who would steal it.
“Everything went well, ”Robert thought to himself after he had returned to the hotel. He brought out his wallet and put his money into it again. He had a look at the note. To his surprise, it was rewritten. It said, “Your uncle has touched your wallet!”
小題1: Robert can study in the university because ____.  [    ]

A．he wants to be a lawyer

B．his father is a rich farmer

C．he's smart and strong

D．he keeps his wallet well

小題2: Robert went to the small country to ____.    [    ]

A．make fun of the thieves

B．catch some thieves

C．visit the places of interest

D．have a nice meal and a good sleep there

小題3:The English visitor thought ____.  [    ]

A．there were a lot of thieves in the city

B．Robert could deal with the thieves

C．it was dangerous to travel in the city

D．Robert had to take good care of himself

American magician David Blaine left the glass box in which he had lived for 44 days without food on October 19. 2003. Hundreds of people came to watch the end of his starvation experiment, which has become one of London’s main tourist attractions.
Looking thinner and darker, 30 year-old Blaine was taken out of his box over the River Thames（泰晤士河）and immediately went to hospital. He was then slowly reintroduced to food, a process (過程)doctors say could be life threatening. He had been drinking only water since September 5.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Blaine first became known as a street magician in the early 1990s. He soon found himself doing magic tricks in bars for the likes of American actor Leonardo DiCaprio and his super model friends.
Over the last decade Blaine has become famous with a combination of breathtaking magic and clever tricks aimed at getting a lot of attention.
In 1999, he was buried in a coffin (棺材) for one week and, in 2000, he spent 62 hours in a giant block of ice. Last year he stood on top of a 25-meter pillar(柱子) in the center of New York for 35 hours before jumping into a pile of boxes.
“I think a lot of people are unable to accept that they’re able to do what they can do,” he said. “They don’t realize we can survive. The human being is an amazing creation.”
But he seems to have suffered from spending so long in the glass box. He said that at times he was unable to see, had serious back pains and lost his sense of taste.
小題1:It is _    __ for David Blaine to eat food after such a long starvation.

A．pleasant

B．delicious

C．dangerous

D．important

小題2:Having spent such a long time in the glass box, he suffered the following EXCEPT that _   ___.

A．he had become blind	B．he had serious back pains
C．he lost his sense of taste	D．he was in weak health

小題3:Which of the following can best describe David Blaine?

A．Serious

B．Adventurous

C．Mad

D．Crazy

小題4:Which of the following is NOT true of David Blaine?

A．Blaine immediately went to hospital after he was taken out of his box.

B．Blaine was born and brought up in England.

C．In Blaine’s opinion, people can create a wonder.

D．Blaine didn’t have any food for 44 days.

Ruben lived in a small village. There was no school there and he had to study in a school in the town. It was nearly five kilometres away from his village. His father couldn't buy a bike for him and he had to go to school on foot. He got up early in the morning. Usually he had to run there in order not to miss the first class. He kept running every day and it was helpful to him. He's strong and tall now and he ran faster than any other man in his village. He took part in several sports meetings and won some medals. The young man is proud of（以……自豪）it and always wants to have a race with others.
One day his mother was ill and his father told him to buy some medicine for headache in the town. The young man got there soon. There were many people in the chemist's shop while he was waiting there. And when his turn came, he could't find his money. An old woman hinted（暗示）a young man had stolen it. He saw the thief had already left the shop. He ran towards him quickly. The thief found it and began to run. He was happy and tried to catch up with him.
“Let's have a race and see who will run faster, ”Ruben called out behind.
Soon after that he caught up with the thief. But he didn't stop and went on running. At a crossing one of his friends asked, “What are you running for, Ruben? ”
“I'm running after（追）a thief. ”
“Where's the thief, then? ”
“He wants to show that he'll run faster than me, but he's fallen behind!”
小題1: Ruben had to run to school because ____.    [    ]

A．he had no bike

B．he hoped to win some medals

C．his village was a little far from the school

D．he was afraid to be late for class

小題2:____ , so he won some medals.     [    ]

A．Ruben is good at running

B．Ruben went to school on time

C．Ruben often took part in the sports meetings.

D．Ruben likes to have a race with others

小題3:The phrase “a chemist's shop”in the story means ____.  [    ]

A．化工商店

B．藥店

C．化工廠

D．制藥廠

小題4:Ruben's money was stolen ____.   [    ]

A．on his way to the town

B．before he went in the shop

C．when he was waiting in the shop

D．a(chǎn)fter he had left the shop

小題5:Ruben was happy because ____.   [    ]

A．he could easily catch the thief

B．he had a chance（機(jī)會(huì)）to have a race

C．he knew who had stolen his money

D．he would win another medal that day

Mr. Smith is well known in Washington because of his many social blunders. He always likes to attend the various so­cial functions because he wants to expand his circle of friends. Whenever he is invited, he goes, unless he is ill.
Recently he received an invitation to a fashionable ban­quet. Although he did not know the hostess, he accepted the invitation. He was secretly very pleased, because he felt that his reputation as a desirable guest was growing.
When he arrived at the banquet hall, he found that about one hundred people had been invited. He began to move a-round the hall. He spoke to other guests whether he knew them or not. He soon realized that he had never met any of the other people present, although they seemed to know each other.
At dinner he was seated beside a very dignified woman. The woman tried to be friendly even though she had never met Mr. Smith before. She spoke politely whenever he spoke to her. Between the first and the second course of the meal, she, turned to Mr. Smith and said, “Do you see that gray-haired man at the end of the table? The one with glasses.”
“Ah, yes. Who is he?”
“He’s the Secretary of the Interior!” she replied.
Mr. Smith said, “So that’s the secretary of the Interior! I’ m afraid that I find very little to admire about him, although he is the Secretary.”
The woman stiffened and did not reply. Mr. Smith contin­ued in spite of her coldness. “I really can’t see how he re­ceived his appointment unless he is perhaps a relative of the President.”
“It hardly matters whether you like the Secretary or not,” she said. “He was chosen because the President thought he was the man for the job. If he does the job well, you should have no complaint.”
“That’s just it,” persisted Mr. Smith. “No one does the things he does, unless he is a complete fool!”
“Sir!” said the woman in all her dignity. “Do you know who I am?” “No,” replied Mr. Smith.
“I am the Secretary’s wife,” she said coldly. Mr. Smith was shocked, but he went on in spite of his embarrassment. “Madam, do you know who I am?”
“No, I don’t,” the woman replied.
“Thank goodness!” exclaimed Mr. Smith, as he quickly left the table.
小題1:Why is Mr. Smith well known in Washington?

A．He’s the Secretary of the Interior.

B．He has more friends than other people.

C．He always makes foolish mistakes on social occasions.

D．He likes to go to all kinds of parties.

小題2:At dinner he was seated beside a very dignified woman. The underlined part means ________.

A．beautiful

B．serious

C．noble

D．kind-hearted

小題3:When Mr. Smith learned that the woman didn’t know who he was, he felt ________.

A．shocked

B．worried

C．embarrassed

D．relieved

Paul was a good athlete when he was a middle school student. He liked running and jumping and won some medals at the sports meetings. So he was tall and strong. Suddenly war broke out and the young man joined the army. He was sent to the front and killed several enemy soldiers. Two years later he raturned to his home town and found a job at the police station. People had known about his bravery by then and they all liked the polite young man.
One day a few young men had drunk too much before they came in a cinema. They danced and sang there and the film couldn't be shown. Paul was ill that day and went to the hospital. When he was passing there, the young men were beating an old man. He went to stop them and they began to fight. He caught them all and sent them to the police station. Since then all the bad men in the town were afraid of the brave policeman.
It was a summer evening. The weather was hot and few people could stay indoors. Paul was on duty and sat by the telephone. Suddenly in rushed a beautiful girl with a book in her hand. She stood there, shaking in her shoes.
“What's the matter, madam? ”asked Paul.
“I wish you could protect me sir, ”answered the girl.
“Protect? ”Paul said in surprise. “For what? ”
The girl showed the book to Paul. The young man understood at once: it was a book about Ghosts（鬼）！
小題1:Paul won some medals because ____.   [    ]

A．he was a middle school student

B．he was tall and strong

C．he kept doing morning exercises

D．he was good at running and jumping.

小題2: Paul was ____ after he joined the army. [    ]

A．a(chǎn) good athlete

B．a(chǎn) brave soldier

C．a(chǎn) polite policeman

D．a(chǎn) brave policeman

小題3:Paul sent the young men to the police station because ____.       [    ]

A．they made some trouble（鬧事）at the cinema

B．they drank much in the restaurant

C．they wouldn't see the filin

D．they wanted to fight with him

小題4:Paul sat by the telephone that evening because ____.   [    ]

A．he was waiting for an important call

B．he was going to call somebody

C．he was on duty

D．he wasn't afraid of hotness

TYPING
This course is for those who want to learn to type, as well as those who want to improve their typing. The course is not common. You are tested in the first class and begin practicing at one of eight different skill levels. This allows you to learn at your own speed. Each program lasts 20 hours. Bring your own paper.
Course fee: $ 125   Materials: $25
Two hours each evening for two weeks. New classes begin every two weeks.
This course is taught by a number of qualified business education teachers who have successfully taught typing courses before.
UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS
This twelve-hour course is for people who do not know very much about computers, but who need to learn about them. You will learn what computers are, what they can and can’t do and how to use them.
Course fee: $75    Equipment fee: $ 10
Jan. 4, 7, 11, 14, 18, Wed. & Sat. 9—11:30 a.m.
Joseph Saunders is Professor of Computer Science at New Urban University. He has over twenty years of experience in the computer field.
STOP SMOKING
Do you want to stop smoking? Have you already tried to stop and failed? Now is the time to stop smoking using the latest methods. You can stop smoking, and this twelve-hour course will help you do it.
Course fee: $30
Jan. 2, 9, 16, 23 Mon. 2—5 p. m.
Dr John Good is a practicing psychologist who had helped hundreds of people stop smoking.
小題1:If you choose the UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS course, you will have classes _______.

A．from Monday to Sunday

B．from Monday to Friday

C．on Wednesday and Saturday

D．on Saturday and Sunday

小題2:The STOP SMOKING course will last ______.

A．for half a day

B．for three hours

C．for a week

D．for four weeks

小題3:Mr. Black works every morning and evening, but he wants to take part in one of the three courses. The most probable course he will attend is ______.

A．typing	B．understanding computers
C．stop smoking	D．a(chǎn)ll the courses

小題4: If you want to learn computer and at the same time you want to improve your typing, you will pay _______.

A．$ 75

B．$ 15

C．$ 115

D．$ 235

小題5:The typical difference of “Typing” from the other two is ______.

A．people with different skill levels may learn at different speed

B．you will take a test after the course

C．you will pay the fee before practicing

D．you will pay less money

Dorothy Brown was very happy as she sat in the theatre listening to the music. Today her little daughter Lauren was giving her ___1___ concert. She had been waiting for this ___2___ for years and years. “Now it is here at last,” she thought. “How beautiful her ___3___ is.”
The song made her ___4___ to the days when she was Lauren’s ___5___. As a young ___6___, Dorothy wanted to be a concert singer. She studied ___7___ in France, Italy and in the United States. “You can become a fine ___8___ in the future,” her teachers told her. “But you must be ___9___ to study hard and work for many years. There will be ___10___ time for anything but music in your life.”
Dorothy was ___11___ at that time and she was ___12___ that music was all she wanted or needed to ___13___ her life. For almost a year Dorothy ___14___ of nothing else. Then she ___15___ David, a young engineer travelling Europe. They soon fell in ___16___. David asked her to be his ___17___. Dorothy also wanted to marry David. But she loved ___18___, too. She didn’t know what to do. David was against her being a singer. He said, “If you want to be a singer, you must forget about getting married. You can’t ___19___ do both.” Thus her days were gone and would never return.
Now Lauren became a singer instead of her, which was her ___20___.
1. A. sorry      B. successful   C. first    D. wonderful
2. A. dance     B. moment     C. show   D. party
3. A. voice      B. face    C. dress   D. life
4. A. think of  B. bring back  C. go back      D. come back
5. A. age B. friend C. mother       D. teacher
6. A. musician B. pop star      C. lady    D. girl
7. A. French   B. music  C. piano  D. dance
8. A. actress    B. student       C. singer D. dancer
9. A. prepared B. learning     C. driven D. waiting
10. A. some    B. any     C. no     D. enough
11. A. eight     B. eighteen     C. eighty D. eighty-eight
12. A. lucky    B. sure    C. afraid  D. fond
13. A. fill       B. live     C. lead    D. take
14. A. heard    B. knew  C. talked D. thought
15. A. saw off        B. learned from      C. heard of     D. met with
16. A. love     B. feeling       C. music  D. touch
17. A. assistant       B. teacher       C. wife    D. student
18. A. him      B. engineering       C. herself       D. music
19. A. certainly      B. possibly     C. only    D. mainly
20. A. thought                B. hope       C. purpose      D. will