I'm tired out. I        all afternoon and I don't seem to have finished anything.

A．shopped                           B．have shopped

C．had shopped                        D．have been shopping

Cindy shut the door heavily and burst into tears. No one in the office knew         she was so angry.

A．where         B．whether         C．that         D．why

Behind our house is the start of a fascinating trail （小徑）. This trail is one of the old roads that wind through untold miles of forest. My   1  , Beans, and I walk the trail frequently. Normally, Beans sniffs alongside the trail to follow the smell of a deer track or   2   some cause known only to him.

    Beans is a white dog, quite handsome and very   3 . He not only understands what we tell him, but also often makes sounds as if he were trying to  4   back.

    One morning, we took a different route, which led us to an unfamiliar trail. I was sure this trail would eventually lead us to our familiar   5  . But, no. We seemed to be far off course. After two hours, I suddenly realized that Beans probably   6   the way home. So I urged, "Beans, take me home." He ran down a new trail. But it merely led to an intersection （岔道口） of trails.

    Soon it became   7   that we were getting nowhere. I began to picture the rest of the day in the   8  , without food or drink. We had walked about ten miles. But Beans seemed totally   9 . The sniffing and exploring was going well for him.

    Finally, we   10   a crossroad near a highway. Lady Luck suggested I should turn left. We did and   11   reached a cottage beside a field．I knocked on the door and explained my situation to an old man. He laughed and then drove us home.

    Since our adventure, I   12   that Beans probably knew all along how to get home.

He was just having too much fan exploring new trails.

1. A．deer                 B．dog              C．lady              D．man

2. A．imagine               B．consider           C．explore            D．present

3. A．smart                 B．sweet             C．slow              D．shy

4. A．turn                  B．kick               C．jump              D．speak

5. A．driveway             B．path             C．crossroad          D．highway

6. A．knew                B．saw             C．showed            D．made

7. A．mysterious            B．ridiculous          C．fascinating         D．a(chǎn)pparent

8. A．house                B．forest            C．field               D．cottage

9. A．unconcerned          B．unconscious      C．undecided        D．uncomfortable

10. A．left for             B．went off           C．came to           D．drove toward

11. A．punctually            B．frequently          C．formally            D．shortly

12. A．regretted            B．remembered        C．concluded          D．confirmed

Directions: Complete the following passage by filling in each blank with one word that best fits the context.

    Parents are busy people. If they are working, they are usually not at home   1 their children return from school. Sometimes it is necessary for a parent to write   2   after-school note for their children. They sometimes put the note on the kitchen table, the refrigerator,   3   another place where their children are sure to find it. A note is often a  4  way to "talk" with a child than using the telephone. For one thing, parents have time to think about 5   they want to say before they write.  6   another, the note lists all the information in one place. It is easy to read again and again. People often forget all the details that  7   hear in a telephone call. Finally, cell phones can be turned   8  or telephone calls not answered．For these reasons, after-school notes are very popular with parents.

L1PITOR

1. What is a major function of Lipitor?

A．To help quit smoking                              B．To control blood pressure.

C．To improve unhealthy diet.                       D．To lower "bad" cholesterol.

2. Taking Lipitor is helpful for              .

A．breast-feeding women

     B．women who are pregnant

C．a(chǎn)dults having heart disease

D．teenagers with liver problems

3. If it has been over 12 hours since you missed a dose, you should         .

     A．change the amount of your next dose        B．eat more when taking your next dose

C．have a dose as soon as you remember       D．take the next dose at your regular time

4. Which of the following is a common side effect of taking Lipitor?

A．Face swelling.                                         B．Upset stomach.

C．Kidney failure.                                        D．Muscle weakness.

5. What is the main purpose of the passage?

A．To teach patients ways for quick recovery.

B．To present a report on a scientific research.

C．To show the importance of a good lifestyle.

D．To give information about a kind of medicine.

When Mary Moore began her high school in 1951, her mother told her, "Be sure and take a typing course so when this show business thing doesn't work out, you'll have something to rely on." Mary responded in typical teenage fashion. From that moment on, "the very last thing I ever thought about doing was taking a typing course," she recalls.

    The show business thing worked out, of course. In her career, Mary won many awards. Only recently, when she began to write Growing Up Again, did she regret ignoring her morn," I don't know how to use a computer," she admits.

    Unlike her 1995 autobiography, After All, her second book is less about life as an

award-winning actress and more about living with diabetes（糖尿�。�. All the money from the book is intended for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation （JDRF）, an organization she serves as international chairman. "I felt there was a need for a book like this," she says. “I didn't want to lecture, but I wanted other diabetics to know that things get better when we're self-controlled and do our part in managing the disease."

    But she hasn't always practiced what she teaches. In her book, she describes that awful day, almost 40 years ago, when she received two pieces of life-changing news. First, she had lost the baby she was carrying, and second, tests showed that she had diabetes. In a childlike act, she left the hospital and treated herself to a box of doughnuts（甜甜圈）. Years would pass before she realized she had to grow up--again---and take control of her diabetes, not let it control her. Only then did she kick her three-pack-a-day cigarette habit, overcome her addiction to alcohol, and begin to follow a balanced diet.

    Although her disease has affected her eyesight and forced her to the sidelines of the dance floor, she refuses to fall into self-pity. "Everybody on earth can ask, 'why me?' about something or other," she insists. "It doesn't do any good．No one is immune （免疫的）to heartache, pain, and disappointments. Sometimes we can make things better by helping others. I've come to realize the importance of that as I've grown up this second time. I want to speak out and be as helpful as I can be."

1. Why did Mary feel regretful?

    A．She didn't achieve her ambition.

    B．She didn't take care of her mother.

C．She didn't complete her high school.

D．She didn't follow her mother's advice.

2. We can know that before 1995 Mary         。

    A．had two books published

B．received many career awards

C．knew how to use a computer

D．supported the JDRF by writing

3. Mary's second book Growing Up Again is mainly about her _____

A．living with diabetes

    B．successful show business

C．service for an organization

D．remembrance of her mother

4. When Mary received the life-changing news, she ________.

     A．lost control of herself                        B．began a balanced diet

C．tried to get a treatment                       D．behaved in an adult way

5. What can we know from the last paragraph?

     A．Mary feels pity for herself.

     B．Mary has recovered from her disease.

     C．Mary wants to help others as much as possible.

D．Mary determines to go back to the dance floor.

People from East Asia tend to have more difficulty than those from Europe in distinguishing facial expressions--and a new report published online in Current Biology explains why.

     Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow researcher, said that rather than scanning evenly（均勻的）across a face as Westerners do, Easterners fix their attention on the eyes.

    "We show that Easterners and Westerners look at different face features to read facial expressions," Jack said．"Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereas Easterners favor the eyes and neglect （忽略）the mouth."

    According to Jack and her colleagues, the discovery shows that human communication of emotion is more complex than previously believed．As a result, facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey emotion in cross-cultural situations.

    The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of. expressive faces and put them into categories: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral. They compared how accurately participants read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies.

    It turned out that Easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than did Westerners. "The cultural difference in eye movements that they show is probably a reflection of cultural difference in facial expressions," Jack said．"Our data suggest that whereas Westerners use the whole face to convey emotion, Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less."

    In short, the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion. From here on, examining how cultural factors have diversified these basic social skills will help our understanding of human emotion. Otherwise, when it comes to communicating emotions across cultures, Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in translation.

1. The discovery shows that Westerners _________

    A．pay equal attention to the eyes and the mouth

    B．consider facial expressions universally reliable

    C．observe the eyes and the mouth in different ways

    D．have more difficulty in recognizing facial expressions

2. What were the people asked to do in the study?

A．To make a face at each other.             B．To get their faces impressive.

C．To classify some face pictures.           D．To observe the researchers' faces.

3. What does the underlined word "they" in Paragraph 6 refer to?

A．The participants in the study.                B．The researchers of the study.

C．The errors made during the study.         D．The data collected from the study.

4. In comparison with Westerners, Easterners are likely to ________

A．do translation more successfully

B．study the mouth more frequently

C．examine the eyes more attentively

D．read facial expressions more correctly

5. What can be the best title for the passage?

    A．The Eye as the Window to the Soul

B．Cultural Differences in Reading Emotions

C．Effective Methods to Develop Social Skills

D．How to Increase Cross-cultural Understanding

Directions: Read the following passage, Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage.

Secret Santas

    On Christmas morning, Linda wakes up, and tries to imagine the wide-eyed surprise of children in another household as they unwrap the presents she carefully chose for them. Linda has never met the children, but that’s all part of the joy of giving as secret Santas, she says.

    "It's an amazing feeling to buy gifts on an anonymous （匿名的）basis," says Linda．"It brings a whole new meaning to the holidays."

    Linda and Tony are an American couple living in Toronto, Canada, and Linda did charitable work as a member of the American Women's Club of Toronto. As the name suggests, members are U.S. citizens living in Toronto, who join together for fellowship and community service.

    To find her "adopted" family, Linda goes to the local schools and requests a wish list for a family that's struggling to survive. Last year she helped a single mother with three children. The mother works as a cleaning lady in a nursing home.

    "The list is always heartbreaking. They have an opportunity to ask for anything and do just the opposite, asking for basic clothes or simple toys," she says. "We always buy the kids a new winter coat, hats, and gloves." She also buys gifts for the parents.

    Last year Linda asked the mother for a second wish list--one that didn't include the basics. "Every child should have a Christmas that sticks with them for a lifetime." She purchased iPods for the two older children and a video game system for the youngest. “I have learned a very valuable lesson in all of this," says Linda．"Pay attention to what's going on in your own backyard--no matter where you live."

    The joy of giving as secret Santas is much sweeter when the gift is anonymous.

1. What reaction does Linda imagine the children will have?

      （No more than 5 words）                                       （2 marks）

2. Why did Linda join the American Women's Club of Toronto?

      （No more than 10 words）                                       （2 marks）

3. Why did Linda ask for a second wish list?

      （No more than 15 words）                                       （3 marks）

4. What kind of people does "secret Santas" in the passage refer to?

      （No more than 12 words）                                        （3 marks）

假設(shè)你和幾位同學(xué)成立了一個(gè)英語(yǔ)俱樂部，開展了為期兩個(gè)月的活動(dòng)�，F(xiàn)在，你將代表俱樂部在課堂上進(jìn)行經(jīng)驗(yàn)交流，請(qǐng)寫一篇英語(yǔ)發(fā)言稿，主要內(nèi)容如下：

    1．簡(jiǎn)要描述俱樂部開展的一項(xiàng)與英語(yǔ)有關(guān)的主要活動(dòng)：2．談?wù)勀銈冮_展該活動(dòng)的收獲。

    注意：

    1．詞數(shù)不少于120個(gè)；

2．不能使用真實(shí)姓名和學(xué)校名稱。

The visitors here are greatly impressed by the fact that_______ people from all walks of life are working hard for_____ new Jiangsu．

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