When my first wartime Christmas came, I was in basic training in New Jersey and not sure if I could make it home for the holidays. Only on the afternoon of December 23 was the list of men who would have three-day holidays posted. I was one of the lucky soldiers. It was Christmas eve when I arrived home, and a light snow had fallen. Mother opened the front door. I could see beyond her, into the corner of the living room where the tree had always stood. There were lights, all colors, and ornaments (裝飾物) shining against the green of a pine. “Where did it come from?” I asked.

“I asked the Gates boy to cut it,” my mother said. “I wouldn’t have had one just for myself, such a rush！He just brought it in this afternoon…” The pine reached to the proper height, almost to the ceiling, and the tree top crystal star was in its place. A few green branches reached about a little awkwardly at the side, I thought, and there was a bit of bare trunk showing in the middle. But the tree filled the room with warm light and the whole house with the pleasant smell of Christmas. “It’s not like the one you used to find,” my mother went on. “Yours were always in good shape. I suppose the Gates boy didn’t know where to look for a good one. But I couldn’t be fussy (挑剔的)．”

 “Don’t worry,” I told her. “It’s perfect.” It wasn’t, of course, but at the moment I realized something for the first time: all Christmas trees are perfect．

From the passage, we can infer that ______．

A. the writer spent his first Christmas during the war

B. soldiers did not all go home for Christmas during the war

C. all the soldiers had three-day holidays

D. the writer could not go home for Christmas

When the writer got home, ______．

A. it was December 23th

B. it was snowing heavily

C. he found a Christmas tree in the living room

D. the Gates boy was cutting a Christmas tree for his mother

From this passage，we can conclude that ______．

A. the writer used to cut very beautiful Christmas trees

B. his mother didn’t like perfect trees

C. his mother didn’t want to have a tree

D. the writer wouldn’t have a tree cut by someone else

“All Christmas trees are perfect”，because they can remind you of ______．

A. the wartime                B. the green of a pine

C. the pleasant smell           D. the sweet home

The best title for this passage would be “______”．

A. How to Choose a Christmas Tree

B. How Soldiers Spent Christmas

C. The Perfect Christmas Tree

D. The Christmas Without a Tree

Net Library is a library that lends out digital books. It treats a digital book like a paperback copy. It charges libraries per book per copy and gives publishers a cut of the total income.

From the consumer’s point of view, this means that if more than five people want the latest Danielle Steel romance novel, other people who request that book will get a message saying the title is unable to get.

Many publishers seem to have embraced its model. More than 350 publishers gave the company rights to hand out their digital works, and McGraw-Hill Corporation and Houghton Mifflin Corporation have put money into the company. The California public libraries and about 1,800 others across the US are trying out the Net Library service.

Some librarians criticize the Net Library model. Stanford University librarian Michael Keller argues that the company is creating an unnatural fear of digital works, which is contrary to the ideas of the Internet.

Keller and some other librarians argue for the e-book vision set forth by Brary. Brary is starting a service that lets us users read books for free.

But it will charge about 25 cents a page when a person tries to point out material or copy and taste it into a different file or tries to download a copy onto a computer.

Christopher Warnock, chief executive of Brary, believes most consumers won’t want to buy entire books, only the parts that interest them.

“There is not really a lot of good owning an electronic file and having to store it and manage it. It doesn’t make sense,” he said.

How do publishers get money from the Net Library?

 A．They get money from selling their books to the Net Library

 B．They get money from the readers．

 C．They get money by cutting the cost of the books．

 D．They share the money with Net Library．

The underlined word“embraced”in the third paragraph means

A．tried out something hard       B．held something tightly

C．disliked something badly       D．taken something willingly

From the second paragraph we can see consumers             

A．don’t care if they are charged money

B．enjoy the service of the Net Library

C．don’t like other people’s borrowing books

D．complain about the limited number of the new books

What does the last paragraph mean?

A．Net Library is not a good way for the consumers．

B．There is no need for consumers to have a whole book．

C，Brary is not a good library for the consumers．

D It’s reasonable to charge the consumers money for copying some pages．

Postage ______, the necklace will cost you at least 650 yuan.

  A. including B. included C. include D. to be included

I like _____ when my parents are friendly to me.

A. it     B. that      C. these     D. them

You saved my life. I’ve forever in your debts.

Money, or the lack of it, changes everything, and that includes how people will be working out in 2010.

In these belt-tightening times  1  , cost-conscious workouts（鍛煉）at home and at the gym topped the list of fitness trends for this year in a survey, followed  2   by shorter, more time-efficient regimens, such as  3   boot camp（強力集中訓(xùn)練） and circuit training.

"People are looking  4   for ways to accomplish as much as possible with as little  5   time and money as necessary," said Cedric X. Bryant, chief science officer of the American Council on Exercise (ACE), which conducted the online poll of fitness professionals.

"Last year money was on the list but this  6   year the majority of the respondents put  7   it as one of the top," he added.

Bryant said some 600 ACE-certified fitness  8   professionals responded to the annual poll  9  , which the non-profit organization has been conducting for a decade.

Other money-saving measures  10  , such as the shift from personal training sessions to small group training  11   classes and in-home workouts  12   using smaller, more portable equipment, also made the list.

"Personal trainers are seeing they've got to respond to market needs  13  . Working with two to four clients at a  14   time they can charge less  15   but still get their hourly fee," Bryant said.

Boot-camp workouts and circuit training, both of which burn  16   calories while building strength and endurance（持久性）, will be among the most popular trends in 2010, as time-constrained（受壓制的） consumers  17   seek shorter, more intense activities.

One bright spot is the rise of exergaming-type systems, like Nintendo's Wii Sports, Wii Fit and the PC-based Dancetown. Bryant says the fitness-based video games are turning up  18   in health clubs and senior centers.

Functional training workouts, which are geared to improving the quality of life and the ability to perform everyday tasks, will remain strong  19  , and the use of computerized tracking and online training and scheduling tools will increase  20   in the coming year.

(   ) 1. A. times           B. years            C. centuries        D. societies

(   ) 2. A. caught          B. followed         C. covered      D. conducted

(   ) 3. A. such like       B. in other words   C. such as      D. that is to say

(   ) 4. A. taking          B. developing   C. opening      D. looking

(   ) 5. A. little          B. much             C. many             D. few

(   ) 6. A. that            B. next             C. this             D. previous

(   ) 7. A. manage      B. put          C. try          D. organize

(   ) 8. A. medicine        B. train            C. economy      D. fitness

(   ) 9. A. poll            B. conference   C. observation D. reception

(   ) 10. A. measures       B. procedures   C. policies         D. systems

(   ) 11. A. speaking       B. training         C. exercising       D. processing

(   ) 12. A. work          B. workouts         C. rest             D. race

(   ) 13. A. changes        B. prices       C. needs            D. habits

(   ) 14. A. some           B. no           C. any          D. a

(   ) 15. A. less           B. fewer            C. more             D. much

(   ) 16. A. produce        B. burn             C. cut          D. add

(   ) 17. A. professionals B. students         C. consumers        D. trainers

(   ) 18. A. turning up         B. turning down     C. turning around   D. turning out

(   ) 19. A. weak           B. useful       C. strong       D. possible

(   ) 20. A. decrease       B. appear       C. increase         D. want

．We’ve published large quantities of books. This year______ we’ve published three million copies.

     A．only          B．just            C．a(chǎn)lone        D．simply

— Will you go to the party?

— Of course I will _____.

A. if invited            B. if having invited

C. if I was invited      D. if I will be invited

In America, _____ car is _____ popular means of transportation.

A. the; a   B. a; the    C. the; the    D. the; /

All of us still remember the terrible earthquake that ________Tangshan twenty years ago.

A. attacked  B. struck  C. knocked   D. exploded