71. After all, not even _____ speakers of English find it easy to do some reading aloud correctly in RP(Received Pronunciation).

 A. national                  B. native                      C. natural                            D. non-stop

51. In the low latitude area, it is usually very _____ all the year around.

A. warm                          B. hot                       C. cold                    D. Heat

31. Graham was not a little _____ because he drank too much last night.

A. tired                   B. tiring                          C. angry                          D. Drunk

11. How time flies! You should make _____ use of your time.

A. best                    B. the worst                       C. good                   D. the best

34. For a long time she couldn’t ______ the fact of her son’s death.

  A. accept    B. receive    C. get    D. Recognize

B

News（March 6, 2008）that Microsoft was making a $44. 6 billion bid to buy Yahoo was greeted with heated discussion by many Internet users on Friday. Here are some responses:

Mark Galeassi of Kansas City, Missouri

This is the best move for both parties. Yahoo has the ideas and Microsoft has the money to finally market these ideas correctly. Microsoft and Yahoo are a perfect fit and the deal will be good for consumers.

Scott G. of New Jersey

I was a Yahoo user for years along with Hotmail from Microsoft. Then Google came along. . . Google Earth, Google Toolbar and Gmail. Google is so innovative（創(chuàng)新的）with everything they do. Yahoo and Microsoft. . . same old story. . . I don’t think the merger（合并）will do anything for either company except improve the Yahoo shareholders’ bank accounts:

Michael Glosser of Estero, Florida

Right now, Yahoo offers a lot of features and tools at no cost for all different levels of Internet users. Microsoft seeks nothing but profit. Undoubtedly, they’ll do nothing other than find ways to start removing Yahoo’s formerly non-priced features. Microsoft’s greed will ruin the great thing that Yahoo currently is.

Toni Suarez of Hacienda Heights, California

Perhaps it would bring better high technology innovations to e-mail and help in researching and developing a better Internet!

Antonio Simmons of Parkville, Maryland

Microsoft purchasing Yahoo would be nothing more than an attempt from Microsoft to further impose upon the users their poor-quality software and obtain more wealth for the company. In my opinion, they will never be able to compete with Google because Yahoo and Microsoft’s current search engines are too inferior（差的）to compete. Even if combined, they still lack.

45. Who is in favor of the merger of Microsoft and Yahoo?

A. Antonio Simmons     B. Michael Grosser      C. Mark Galeassi      D. Scott G

46. In the opinion of Scott G. ,_______________.

A. Yahoo and Microsoft are lacking in innovation

B. the merger will contribute to Microsoft

C. the merger will allow Microsoft to overtake（超越）Google

D. Google is getting short of management experience

47. Michael Glosser is afraid that             .

A. the merger will lead to Microsoft’s monopoly（壟斷）of the market

B. the merger will cost Yahoo’s free features

C. Internet users will have to buy Microsoft’s costly software

D. the increased competition will force Google out of the game

48. What is Antonio Simmons’ attitude towards Google?

A. Doubtful          B. Positive       C. Negative       D. Disapproval

3. Michael Jackson ______ as “king of pop” was announced dead on June 25th, ______ the world.

   A. regarded; shocking    B. who regarded; shocked   

   C. regarded; shocked     D. was regarded; shocking

13．Not until I was a senior student_________the importance of English.

       A．I have realized B．did I realize     C．have I realized  D．I realized

18. – Students should devote most of their time to studying rather than playing computer games.

– ________. No pains, no gains.

       A．Really              B．Obviously          C．Actually        D．Exactly

D

I read about it in the paper, in the subway, on my way to work. I read it, and I couldn't believe it, and I read it again. Then perhaps I just stared at it, at the newsprint spelling out his name, spelling out the story. I stared at it in the swinging lights of the subway car, and in the faces and bodies of the people, and in my own face, trapped in the darkness which roared(隆隆響) outside.

It was not to be believed and I kept telling myself that, as I walked from the subway station to the high school. And at the same time I couldn't doubt it. I was scared, scared for Sonny. He became real to me again. A great block of ice got settled in my belly and kept melting there slowly all day long, while I taught my classes algebra. It was a special kind of ice. It kept melting, sending trickles(涓涓細(xì)流)of ice water all up and down my veins(血管), but it never got less. Sometimes it hardened and seemed to expand until I felt my heart was going to come spilling(溢出) out or that I was going to choke or scream. This would always be at a moment when I was remembering some specific thing Sonny had once said or done.

When he was about as old as the boys in my classes his face had been bright and open; and he'd had wonderfully direct brown eyes, and great gentleness. I wondered what he looked like now. He had been picked up, the evening before, in a sudden search on an apartment down-town, for selling and using heroin.

I couldn't believe it: but what I mean by that is that I couldn't find any room for it anywhere inside me. I had kept it outside me for a long time. I hadn't wanted to know. I had had suspicions(懷疑), but I didn't name them, I kept putting them away. I told myself that Sonny was wild, but he wasn't crazy. And he'd always been a good boy, he hadn't ever turned hard or evil or disrespectful, the way kids can, so quick, so quick, especially in Harlem. I didn't want to believe that I'd ever see my brother going down, coming to nothing, all that light in his face gone out, in the condition I'd already seen so many others.

67. The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 1 refers to ____.

    A. the swinging light of the subway car     B. the news of Sonny’s being arrested

   C. everything trapped in the darkness        D. newspaper

68. We can learn from the passage that ____.

   A. the news on the paper was unbelievable.

   B. I was too scared to believe the news

   C. I was ill because a great block of ice was in my belly

   D. Sonny and I hadn’t seen each other for a long time

69. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

   A. Sonny and I were brothers.

   B. Sonny had always been a good boy before being arrested.

   C. I didn’t care about Sonny.

   D. Many young men turned bad in Harlem.

70. Which of the following can best describe the author’s feelings towards Sonny?

   A. Concern, affection, expectation.             B. Concern, hatred, expectation.

   C. Affection, regret, sympathy.                   D. Regret, understanding, sympathy.