Li Hua has just come back from the US and intends to give some of his relatives mentioned in 61-65 some books as gifts. He brings back six books (A-F). After the description of each person, decide which book is the most suitable one for the people and then mark the correct letter(A-F)on your answer sheet. There is one extra book，which you do not need to use.

_______61. Li Hua’s uncle is fond of reading story books. He reads all kinds of stories such as love stories, historical stories, detective stories, etc. However, there is no doubt that science fiction stories are his favorites.

_______62. Li Hua’s mother works for a local newspaper. She used to write a column (專欄) about love but now she is making a survey about how much foreigners know about Chinese people and culture. She has been collecting materials in China and from abroad.

_______63. Li Hua’s father is an history teacher who is very interested in the history of China, especially China’s modern history. What’s more, he pays special attention to the development of China’s minority areas.

_______64. Li Hua’s cousin is a senior middle school student who is going to take the College Entrance Examination next year. But she is not good at English, especially English grammar. So she is looking for some books which are helpful.

_______65. Li Hua’s little brother is studying in a Middle School. He as well as some other students is going to pay a visit to an American middle school and stay there for three weeks. He is a little worried because he knows nothing about American school life.

A. Into Tibet: The CIA’s First Spy and His Secret Expedition to Lhasa (by Thomas Laird)

This book introduces the identity and specific spy activities of Douglas Mackiernan, the first CIA agent (中情局探員) who was killed on duty by armed Tibetans. The author of the book based his description on detailed research based on the memories of former CIA agents and interviews with related eyewitnesses in Tibet and India.

B. Practical English Usage (by Michael Swan)

This book is a practical reference guide to language points. It deals with over 600 points which regularly cause problems for foreign students of English. Most of the points treated are grammatical, but there are also explanations of a certain number of common vocabulary problems. Being a reference book, it contains information at various levels, ranging from relatively simple points to quite advanced problems.

C. Battlefield Earth (by L. Ron Hubbard)

An intelligent and creative masterwork of adventure in the far future, L. Ron Hubbard’s Battlefield Earth describes an Earth controlled for a thousand years by an alien invader (入侵者)―and man is an endangered species. New York Times best-selling author L. Ron Hubbard has created a vast, unforgettable and exciting world in Battlefield Earth.

D. Xu Ling’s American Adventure ( by Mary Williams)

Xu Ling is an excellent Chinese student from Hangzhou. As his father goes to America for a one-year training, Xu Ling, as well as his mother goes with his father and begins his new life in Eisenhower High School. The book consists of 21 chapters, each reflecting Xu Ling’s life in America in a different aspects. The book is written in the most fundamental words and is intended for Chinese middle school students.

E. Chicken Soup for the Couple’s Soul (by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen)

This is a book for husbands and wives and lovers and anyone who dreams of finding their soul’s true mate (配偶). Each story in this book was written by someone who has been transformed by love. Some stories will make you laugh. Some will make you cry. But above all, the stories in this book sing high praise for love’s ability to endure, beyond years, beyond difficulty, beyond distance, beyond even death.

F. Where’s the Duck in Peking? ( by Cliff Schimmels)

Whether you are a China expert or a novice, this book will give you insight into the hearts and minds of the Chinese people. Cliff brings the reader to tears on one page and belly laughter on the next. This profound look into China’s everyday life is a must-read for anyone interested in working in China or working with the Chinese people.

In department stores and closets all over the world, they are waiting. Their outward appearance seems rather appealing because they come in a variety of styles, patterns, materials, and colors. But they are eventually the biggest deception (欺騙) that exists in the fashion industry today. What are they? They are high heels (高跟鞋) ― a woman’s worst enemy (whether she knows it or not). High heel shoes are the downfall of modern society. Fashion myths have led women to believe that they are more beautiful or stylish for wearing heels, but in reality, heels succeed in creating short as well as long term troubles. Women should fight the high heel industry by refusing to use or purchase them in order to save the world from unnecessary physical and psychological suffering.

For the sake of fairness, it must be noted that there is a positive side to high heels. First, heels are excellent for aerating lawns (草坪通氣). Anyone who has ever worn heels on grass knows what I am talking about. A simple trip around the yard in a pair of those babies gets rid of all the need to call for a lawn care specialist, and provides the perfect-sized holes to give any lawn oxygen without all those messy blocks of dirt lying around. Second, heels are quite functional for defending against oncoming enemies, who can easily be scared away by threatening them with a pair of these sharp, deadly fashion items.

Regardless of such practical uses for heels, the fact remains that wearing high heels is harmful to one’s physical health. Talk to any podiatrist (足病醫(yī)生), and you will hear that the majority of their business comes from high-heel-wearing women. High heels are known to cause problems such as misshapen feet and torn toenails. The risk of severe back problems and twisted or broken ankles is three times higher for a high heel wearer than for a flat shoe wearer. Wearing heels also creates the threat of getting a heel caught in a narrow sidewalk gap and being thrown to the ground―possibly breaking a nose, back, or neck. And of course, after wearing heels for a day, any woman knows she can look forward to a night of pain as she tries to comfort her aching feet.

57. Women don’t take the disadvantages of high heels too seriously because of _____.

A. the multi-functional use of high heels      B. their attempt to show off their status

C. the rich variety of high heel styles          D. their wish to improve their appearance

58. The writer uses the expression “those babies” (Paragraph 2) to refer to high heels _____.

A. to emphasize their small size                   B. to indicate their new appearance

C. to show women’s love for them           D. to show they are easily broken

59. The writer’s chief argument against high heels is that ______.

A. they create a threat to lawns                            B. they are harmful to women’s health

C. they don’t necessarily make women beautiful  D. they are ineffective as a weapon of defense

 60. It can be inferred from the passage that women should ______.

A. see through the very nature of fashion myths     B. refuse to buy the products of the fashion industry

C. go to a podiatrist regularly for advice                 D. avoid following fashion too closely

If U.S. software companies don't pay more attention to quality, they could kiss their business good-bye. Both India and Brazil are developing a world-class software industry. Their weapon is quality and one of their jobs is to attract the top U.S. quality specialists whose voices are not listened to in their country.

      Already, of the world's 12 software houses that have earned the highest rating in the world, seven are in India. That's largely because they have used new methods rejected by American software specialists. For example, for decades, quality specialists, W. Edwards Deming and J. M. Juran had urged U.S. software companies to change their attitudes to quality. But their quality call mainly fell on deaf ears in the U.S -- but not in Japan. By the 1970s and 1980s, Japan was grabbing market share with better, cheaper products. They used Deming's and Juran's ideas to bring down the cost of good quality to as little as 5% of total production costs. In U.S. factories, the cost of quality then was 10 times as high: 50%. In software, it still is.

      Watts S. Humphrey spent 27 years at IBM heading up software production and then quality assurance. But his advice was seldom paid attention to. He retired from IBM in 1986. In 1987, he worked out a system for assessing(evaluating) and improving software quality. It has proved its value time and again. For example, in 1990 the cost of quality at Raytheon Electronics Systems was almost 60% of total software production costs. It fell to 15% in 1996 and has since further dropped to below 10%.

Like Deming and Juran, Humphrey seems to be winning more praises overseas than at home. The Indian government and several companies have just founded the Watts Humphrey Software Quality Institute at the Software Technology Park in Chennai, India. Let's hope that U.S. lead in software will not be eaten up by its quality problems.

53. What country has more highest-rating companies in the world than any other country has?

A. India.    B. The US.                 C. Brazil.                D. Germany.

54. Which of the following statements about Humphrey is true?

A. He is now still an IBM employer.      B. He has worked for IBM for 37 years.    

C. India honors him highly.                 D. The US pays much attention to his quality advice. 

55. By what means did Japan grab its large market share by the 1970s and the 1980s?    

A. Its advertising was most successful.   

B. Its products were cheaper in price and better in quality.

C. The US hardware industry was lagging behind.

D. Japan hired a lot of Indian software specialists.

56. What is the writer worrying about?

A. Many US software specialists are working for Japan.

B. The quality problem has become a worldwide problem.    

C. India and Japan are joining hands to compete with the US.

D. The US will no longer be the first software player in the world.

Grand Opening

Bentwood Truck Museum

Saturday, November 8, at 10:00 A. M.

      After eighteen months of hard work by more than 100 volunteers, the Bentwood Truck Museum is ready to open. The old factory had been scheduled to be destroyed. When Roger Haygood heard about the plans to tear down the building, he bought it so that he could store his collection of old trucks there. Then he had the idea of turning the building into a truck museum.

      During the past year and a half, the old building has been transformed into a treasure chest of memories. Instead of a dark and dull house, the building has become a cheery, bright home for all kinds of trucks from the past.  The museum now houses 68 trucks, and we hope to have even more soon. There is a 1959 school bus, a 1942 bakery truck, and a 1937 fire engine. Our oldest vehicle is a 1919 milk truck. Our newest vehicle is a 1966 tow truck.

      You can take a ride on a fire truck, a mail truck, or an ice - cream truck. Rides are $ 2.00, but you can get a ticket for a free ride at any grocery store in Bentwood.

      Help us celebrate our grand opening by bringing your family and friends! There is something to interest everyone who attends. The Bentwood Truck Museum is a special piece of our history.

● To get to Bentwood Truck Museum, take Route 29 (Kingston Highway) to Palmer Street.

● Go south on Palmer Street for one block and take a left onto Norman Drive.

● You will see the museum building and the amusement park on your left.

● Parking is available across the street, on your right.

49. In which of the following can visitors take a ride?

A. A milk truck.       B. An ice - cream truck.    C. A bakery truck.      D. A school bus.

50. Where is Bentwood Truck Museum?

A. On Norman Drive.       B. On Palmer Street.   C. On Kingston Highway.           D. On Route 29.

51. What is special about this museum?

A. It is built on the ruins of an old building.           B. It offers visitors free rides to the museum.

C. It exhibits trucks dating back to 200 years ago. D. It's transformed from an old factory by volunteers.

52. What's the purpose of writing this passage?

A. To introduce the old history of Bentwood Truck Museum.

B. To persuade readers to attend the opening of the museum.

C. To explain why Bentwood Truck Museum was set up.

D. To call on the visitors to take a ride in old trucks.

Most Americans would have a difficult time telling you, specifically, what the values are which Americans live by. They have never given the matter any thought.

     Over the years I have introduced thousands of international visitors to life in the United States. This has caused me to try to look at Americans through the eyes of foreign visitors, I am confident that the values listed in this booklet describe most (but not all )Americans, and that understanding these values can help you, the international visitor, understand Americans.

     It is my belief that if foreign visitors really understand how deeply these 13 values are ingrained in Americans, they will then be able to understand 95% of American actions ― actions which might otherwise appear “strange,” “confusing,” or  “unbelievable” when evaluated from the perspective (aspect) of the foreigner's own society and its values.

     The different behaviors of a people or a culture make sense only when seen through the basic beliefs, assumptions and values of that particular group. When you encounter (meet) an action, or hear a statement in the United States which surprises you, try to see it as an expression of one or more of the values listed in this booklet.

45. An ordinary American can’t tell you his / her value system because     .

A. this is something an American lives by    B. everyone will have his/her own system

C. he/she has never thought about it           D. values are something often in their thought

46. The author lists 13 values in his booklet to       .

A. invite foreigners to visit America

B. look at Americans through the eyes of foreign visitors

C. describe the confusing actions of most Americans

D. help international visitors understand Americans

47. The underlined word “ingrained” in Line 2, Paragraph 3 most probably means      .

A. rooted in the minds     B. found in the grains  C. planted for food  D. prepared with grain

48. Visitors sometimes find Americans behave in a strange, confusing or unbelievable way, probably because       .

A. Americans are hard to understand

B. Americans have values which are entirely different from their own

C. they view Americans according to the values in their own society

D. it is difficult to understand any people when you first encounter them

     I must have been about fourteen then, and I put away the incident from my mind with the easy carelessness of youth. But the words, Carl Walter spoke that day, came back to me years later, and ever since have been of great value to me.

    Carl Walter was my piano teacher. During one of my lessons he asked how much practicing I was doing. I said three or four hours a day.

     "Do you practice in long stretches, an hour at a time?"

     "I try to.”

     "Well, don't,” he exclaimed. “When you grow up, time won't come in long stretches. Practice in minutes, whenever you can find them five or ten before school, after lunch, between household tasks. Spread the practice through the day, and piano-playing will become a part of your life."

When I was teaching at Columbia, I wanted to write, but class periods, theme-reading, and committee meetings filled my days and evenings. For two years I got practically nothing down on paper, and my excuse was that I had no time. Then I remembered what Carl Walter had said. During the next week I conducted an experiment. Whenever I had five minutes unoccupied, I sat down and wrote a hundred words or so. To my astonishment, at the end of the week I had a rather large manuscript ready for revision, later on I wrote novels by the same piecemeal method. Though my teaching schedule had become heavier than ever, in every day there were idle moments which could be caught and put to use. I even took up piano--playing again, finding that the small intervals of the day provided sufficient time for both writing and piano practice.

    There is an important trick in this time--using formula: you must get into your work quickly. If you have but five minutes for writing, you can't afford to waste four chewing your pencil. You must make your mental preparations beforehand, and concentrate on your task almost instantly when the time comes. Fortunately, rapid concentration is easier than most of us realize.

    I admit I have never learnt how to let go easily at the end of the five or ten minutes. But life can be counted on to supply interruptions. Carl Walter has had a tremendous influence on my life. To him I owe the discovery that even very short periods of time add up to all useful hours I need, if I plunge in without delay.

41. What is the best title of this passage?

A. Concentrate on Your Work   B. A Little at a Time  C. How I Became a Writer  D. Good Advice

42. The meaning of the underlined part "in long stretches" is the same as that in sentence ____ .

A. The forests in the north of the province stretch for hundreds of miles. 

B. Bob worked as a government official for a stretch of over twenty years.            

C. My family wasn't wealthy by any stretch of the imagination.                   

D. During his senior year his earnings stretched far enough to buy an old car.   

43. Which of the following statements is true?

A. The writer owes great thanks to his teacher for teaching him to work in long stretches.

B. Carl Walter has had a great influence on the writer’s life since he became a student.

C. The writer didn't take the teacher's words to heart at first.

D. Rapid concentration is actually more difficult than most people imagine.

44. We can infer that the writer       . 

A. has new books published each year however busy his teaching is

B. is always tired of interruptions in life because his teaching schedule is always heavy

C. has formed a bad habit of chewing a pencil while writing his novels

D. can find sufficient time for mental preparations beforehand, so he’s devoted to work instantly

       Today I am known for my voice. Perhaps the greatest honor came when I was asked to read The  New Testament（《新約全書》）on tape .

       But it  21  a long time to believe such good things could happen to me. When I was a child, I stuttered（結(jié)巴）so badly that I was completely   22  to speak in public.

         23   when I was 14, Professor Donald Crouch came to my school. He was a retired college professor. English was his favorite subject and   24  was his deepest love. He held a book of poems as if it were a crystal,    25   pages as if uncovering treasures. When he heard that our school was teaching Shakespeare and other classics, he felt   26  for not being a part of our school sooner.

       When he  27 that I not only loved poetry but was  28  it, we became closer. There was, however, one   29  -- Professor Crouch could not stand the  30  that I refused to read my poems to the class.

       “Jim, poetry is   31  to be read aloud,” he said. “You should be able to speak those beautiful words.” I shook my head and  32  .

       One day he   33  me .

       After handing in a poem, I waited for his  34  . It didn’t come. Instead one day as the students had gathered together, he   35  me , “Jim, I don’t think you wrote this poem.”

       I stared at him in disbelief. “Why,” I started,   36  flooding me. “of course I did !” “Well, then,” he said, “you’ve got to prove it by getting up and reciting it from   37  .”

       By then the other students had settled at their desks. With knees shaking, I walked up to the front. For a moment I stood there,  38  . Then I began, and kept going. I recited my poem all the way   39  !

       Afterwards, Professor Crouch encouraged me to read other writers’ poetry before the public. I discovered I did have a (n)  40  and found my classmates actually looked forward to hearing me recite.

Written in a hurry, _____.

    A. they found many mistakes in the report          B. Sam made lots of mistakes in the report

   C. there are many mistakes in the report              D. the report is full of mistakes

The exam he paid no attention to _____ him the chance to go to college.

A. being cost      B. be cost               C. costing             D. cost

There are many inconveniences that have to be _____ when you are camping.

A. put up with            B. come up with         C. kept up with       D. caught up with