Hi, Tina ,we’re going to Sam’s house to celebrate his graduation. Would you like to      ?  

—Great! Let’s go.

A．come up   B．come on   C．come out  D．come along

—        he have been chosen as captain of our school football team?

—Yes ,he      . Can’t you see he’s wearing an armband（袖標）？

A．Can; can   B．Must ;must have   C．Can; must have D．Must ;must

Nothing       after the terrible fire caused by the careless doorkeeper.

A．left    B．continued  C．kept  D．remained

—Where is Tom?

—I last saw him      in the library reading.

A．sit     B．seated       C．seating      D．sat

I teach biology at UNLV three times per week. Last Monday ,at the beginning of class, I cheerfully asked my  1   how their weekend had been. One young man said that his weekend had not been so   2  . He had his wisdom teeth removed. Then he went on to ask me why I always seemed to be so 3   .

       His question  4    me of something I’d read somewhere before: “Every morning when you get up ,you have a   5  about how you want to deal with life that day,” I said. “I choose to be cheerful.

       “Let me give you an example,” I continued,   6  all sixty students in the class. “In  7    to teaching here at UNLV, I also teach out at a  8  in Henderson, 17 miles down the highway from where I live. One day a few weeks ago I drove those 17 miles to Henderson. I   9   the highway and turned onto College Drive .I only had to drive another quarter mile down the road to the college .But just then my car  10  . I tried to start it again, but the   11  wouldn’t work. 12    I turned my flashers on, took my books, and  13  down the road to the college.

       “As soon as I got there ,I called and   14  for a tow truck to meet me at my car after  15   . The secretary there asked me what had happened. “This is my  16  day,” I replied, smiling.

       She was  17  . “What do you mean?”

       “My car could have broken down anywhere along the highway. It didn’t .” I replied. “   18 , it broke down in the perfect place: off the highway,   19  walking distance of here.

       I’m still able to teach my class , and I’ve been able to arrange for the tow truck to meet me after class. If my car was meant to break down today, it couldn’t have been arranged in a more convenient  20    .”

       I ended my story. In spite of the early hour, no one in my class seemed to be asleep. Somehow ,my story had touched them.

1．A．schoolmates          B．children               C．teachers              D．students

2．A．bad                       B．good                   C．sad                     D．free

3．A．cheerful                B．grateful               C．hopeful               D．thankful

4．A．informed               B．told                     C．reminded             D．warned

5．A．decision                B．choice                 C．preference           D．judgment

6．A．showing                B．demanding           C．addressing           D．commanding

7．A．contribution           B．devotion              C．application           D．addition

8．A．school                  B．college                C．university            D．institute

9．A．exited                   B．found                  C．crossed               D．entered

10．A．broke                  B．died                    C．ended                  D．finished

11．A．instrument           B．wheel                  C．light                    D．engine

12．A．But                     B．And                    C．So                      D．Or

13．A．marched              B．drove                  C．rode                    D．followed

14．A．prepared              B．looked                 C．waited                 D．arranged

15．A．class                   B．work                   C．study                  D．lunch

16．A．usual                   B．unusual               C．unlucky               D．lucky

17．A．astonished           B．excited                C．puzzled               D．pleased

18．A．Anyway              B．Instead                C．Also                    D．Still

19．A．within                 B．beyond                C．without               D．along

20．A．order           B．need              C．way            D．situation

True or false ? Only old women knit（編織）?

       Not anymore! Knitting has now become a fashionable hobby with women in their 20s and 30s. Young women can be seen knitting in coffee shops ,hairdressers’ ,bookstores, and bus stops ,and Hollywood stars like Julia Roberts, Cameron Diaz, Madnonna, and Gwyneth Paltrow all knit. They are knitting collars ,hats ,socks ,and sweaters—even wedding dresses!

       Knitting is being called the “new yoga”. It is very relaxing and is the perfect hobby for our busy ,stressful ,21st “-century life. It slows down your heart and lowers your blood pressure. Lissay Blomster, a 25-year-old buyer from New York, says, “I come home from work ,mad and stressed almost every day. But after 30 to 45 minutes of knitting, I’m totally relaxed.” Jenny Carter ,a 32 –year-old advertising firm worker from Seattle ,always knits through her lunch break. “ It helps me clear my head and start fresh.” She says.

       Even some men are taking up knitting .Dave White ,a 33-year-old IT manager from San Francisco, started knitting six months ago , after a female friend introduced him to it. “I like knitting because I can go into my own little world and forget about my problems,” he says. But he has not told many of his male friends that he knits, and he never knits in public. Brian Duffey ,however, a 26-year-old student from Chicago , says, “I knit anywhere ,everywhere .I have never had a bad comment… in fact ,I find it attracts women!

1．What has changed about knitting?

       A．Most people are fond of knitting.

       B．Old women have stopped knitting.

       C．More women than men are knitting.

       D．Young people are taking up knitting.

2．Why is knitting called the “new yoga”?

       A．Because it comes from India.

       B．Because it is fun like a game.

       C．Because it is a rest during the break.

       D．Because it relaxes your body and mind.

3．In what way is Dave different from Brain?

       A．Dave’s male friends are not so good as Brian’s.

       B．Brian’s knitting skill is better than Dave’s .

       C．Brian is more popular among women.

       D．Dave isn’t so open-minded as Brian.

4．Which of the following could be the best title of the passage?

       A．It Is Cool to Knit

       B．Knitting Is Better Than Yoga.

       C．Americans Are Crazy about Knitting

       D．Women Are Better at Knitting Than Men

John H. Johnson was born in a family in Arkansas City in 1918. His father died in an accident when John was six. He was reaching high school age ,but his hometown offered no high schools for the blacks.

       Fortunately he has a strong-willed and caring mother. John remembers that his mother told him many times, “Son ,you can be anything you really want to be if you just believe.” She told him not to be dependent on others, including his mother. “You have to earn success”, said she, “all the people who work hard don’t succeed ,but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard.”

       These words came from a woman with less than a third grade education. She also knew that believing and working hard don’t mean everything. So she worked hard as a cook for two years to save enough to take her son to Chicago.

       Chicago in 1933 was not the promised land that black southerners were looking for. John’s mother could not find work. But here John could go to school, and here learned the power of words—as an editor of a newspaper .His wish was to publish a magazine for the blacks.

       While others discouraged him, John’s mother offered him more words to live by: “Nothing beats a failure but a try.” She also let him sell her furniture to get the 500 dollars he needed to start the Negro magazine.

       It’s natural that difficulties and failures followed John closely until he became very successful. He always keeps his mother’s words in mind. “Son ,failure is not in your dictionary.” Now John H. Johnson is one of the 400 richest people in America—worth 150 million dollars.

1．Why did John’s mother decide to move to Chicago? Because        .

       A．life in Chicago would be better for the blacks than for the whites

       B．John’s father died in his hometown when John was very young

       C．there were no high schools for the blacks in their hometown

       D．John needed education and he could go to school there

2．The underlined sentence in the fifth paragraph means        .

       A．if you try, you will surely succeed

       B．a try is always followed by a failure

       C．only by trying can you get out of failure

       D．a failure is difficult to beat, even if you try

3．We can learn from this passage that John’s mother        .

       A．didn’t depend on others or give up easily

       B．thought success only came from working hard

       C．thought one could be whatever one wanted to be

       D．believed one would succeed without working hard

4．What can be inferred from this passage?

       A．If someone wants to be successful ,he should always stand firm.

       B．Chicago was the promised land for the whites in 1933.

       C．John’s father died in an accident during the war.

       D．John’s mother was caring for him.

During the school year many parents take on the role of driver as they drive their children from one lesson to another .Understandably so. Many of us want our children to have a little taste of everything, from organized sports to music, dance and more. But we can overdo it, leaving our children feeling a little burnt out ,and according to parent educator Diane Loisie ,it’s their school work which suffers the most. “After school, if they’re busy in a number of sporting events ,besides they need to do their homework, then the time they’ll feel sleepy is in the classroom. Your child needs free time. So if you’re filling up that after school time, then it’s during the day they’re going to be taking a break.”

       Professor Claire McDermott agrees that there’s a lot to be gained from sometimes putting those scheduled lessons and activities away. “Relaxing time is important for children. It’s time just to do the things they want to do. A child can go up to their room, or they can play around. It doesn’t look like productive time; parents certainly wouldn’t be saying ‘Wow ,are they ever learning things now?’ But this relaxing time gives both the body and the brain just a wonderful chance to relax after a day. It helps a child prepare for sleep, put it also helps to understand the learning that’s gone on that day.”

       It’s hard to prevent signing our kids up for some activities and lessons. After all, many of us want our children to have a head start in life and the chance to join in great activities in the arts or sports is a part of that. However ,Loisie feels that in the long run most children feel better with just a few key activities because it gives them an opportunity to master them. “When we get our children in too many activities because we want our children to experience everything, then what we’re doing is setting them up not to be good at one thing or gaining a skill.” So choose your children’s activities wisely. It may be one of the best things you’ve ever done for your kids… and for the family drivers!

1．What is the biggest disadvantage for children to attend too many lessons after school?

       A．They can get bored easily about everything.

       B．They might have no time to do the homework.

       C．They might not pay much attention to learning.

       D．They can not easily focus on learning during the day.

2．What should we think of children’s playing around aimlessly?

       A．It is productive.  

B．It is helpful.        

C．It is a bad habit.  

D．It is a waste of time.

3．Why should parents limit the activities our children attend?

       A．Because children have no time.

       B．Because children cannot learn many things.

       C．Because children do not have enough sleep.

       D．Because children cannot focus on too many activities.

4．What is the main idea of this passage?

       A．Don’t be children’s drivers after school.

       B．Choose activities for your children wisely.

       C．Make your children learn as much as possible.

       D．Let children learn something from various subjects.

Everybody is happy as his pay rises. Yet pleasure at your own can disappear if you learn that a fellow worker has been given a bigger one. Indeed ,if he is known as being lazy ,you might even be quite cross. Such behavior is regarded as “all too human”, with the underlying belief that other animals would not be able to have this finely developed sense of sadness. But a study by Sarah Brosnan of  Emory University in Atlanta ,Georgia ,which has just been published in Nature, suggests that it is all too monkey ,as well.

       The researchers studied the behaviors of some kind of female brown monkeys.

       They look smart .They are good-natured, co-operative creatures, and they share their food happily .Above all ,like females human beings, they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of “goods and services” than males.

       Such characteristics make them perfect subjects for Doctor Brosnan’s study .The researchers spent two years teaching their monkeys to exchange tokens（獎券）for food. Normally ,the monkeys were happy enough to exchange pieces of rock for pieces of cucumber .However, when two monkeys were placed in separate and connected rooms ,so that each other could observe what the other is getting in return for its rock, they became quite different.

       In the world of monkeys ,grapes are excellent goods（and much preferable to cucumbers） .So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token, the second was not willing to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber .And if one received a grape without having to provide her token in exchange at all ,the other either shook her own token at the researcher ,or refused to accept the cucumber .Indeed ,the mere presence of a grape in the other room(without an actual monkey to eat it) was enough to bring about dissatisfaction in a female monkey.

       The researches suggest that these monkeys, like humans ,are guided by social senses .In the wild ,they are co-operative and group-living. Such co-operation is likely to be firm only when each  animal feels it is not being cheated. Feelings of anger when unfairly treated, it seems ,are not the nature of human beings alone. Refusing a smaller reward completely makes these feelings clear to other animals of the group. However ,whether such a sense of fairness developed independently in monkeys and humans, or whether it comes from the common roots that they had 35 million years ago ,is ,as yet ,an unanswered question.

1．According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?

       A．Only monkeys and humans can have the sense of fairness in the world.

       B．Women will show more dissatisfaction than men when unfairly treated.

       C．In the wild, monkeys are never unhappy to share their food with each other.

       D．Monkeys can exchange cucumbers for grapes ,for grapes are more attractive.

2．The underlined statement “it is all too monkey” means that      .

       A．monkeys are also angry with lazy fellows

       B．feeling bitter at unfairness is also monkey’s nature

       C．monkeys ,like humans, tend to be envious of each other

       D．no animals other than monkeys can develop such feelings

3．Female monkeys of this kind are chosen for the research most probably because they are      .

       A．more likely to weigh what they get

       B．attentive to researchers’ instructions

       C．nice in both appearance and behaviors

       D．more ready to help others than their male companions

4．Which of the following conclusions is TRUE according to the passage?

       A．Human beings’ feeling of anger are developed from the monkeys.

       B．In the research ,male monkeys are less likely to exchange food with others.

       C．Co-operation between monkeys stays firm before the realization of being cheated.

       D．Only monkeys and humans have the sense of fairness which dates back to 35 million years  ago.

5．What can we infer about the monkeys in Sarah’s study?

       A．The monkeys can be trained to develop social senses.

       B．They usually show their feelings openly as humans do.

       C．The monkeys may show their satisfaction with equal treatment.

       D．Co-operation among the monkeys remains effective in the wild.

This Weekend!

       Saturday, May 24

Star Wars II bus leaves N flagpole at 5:45 pm. Return leaves immediately following the movie. Cost $ 15. Sign up on SWIS by noon on Thursday.

BLOCK PARTY! Bands , volleyball. Starts at 6:00 pm.

Grandin Cinema Presents: Hearts in Atlantis. Asingle mother and her son change when a nice -looking stranger enters their life. Grandin, 7:00 pm.

NMH Theatre presents a modern play by Don Nigro. Silverthome Theatre, 7:30 pm. Tickets are $2  for NMH students, teachers and staff and $4 for all others. Anyone wishing to book tickets should SWIS Jake Kavanagh.

       Sunday, May 25

Trip to Six Flags Amusement Park! Bus leaves N flagpole at noon, MH Holbrook 12:15 pm.

       Return leaves park at 21:00 pm. This trip includes the following two films and is only for those students not attending the Chat .Cost $ 33 . Sign up on SWIS or at the ticket office by noon on Thursday.

★Dolben Cinema Presents: Heroes and Heroines . Jennifer Lopez in Anaconda A “National Geographic” film crew is taken hostage by a hunter with a gun , who takes them along in his search for the world’s largest and deadliest snake. Dolben ,8:00 pm.

★Grandin Cinema Presents: The Others. A woman who lives in a darkened old house with her two children becomes sure that there are ghosts in their house. Grandin, 8:00 pm.

1．According to the passage, NMH is a      .

       A．company             B．theatre                 C．school                 D．travel office

2．How many movies will be on this weekend?

       A．One.                   B．Two.                   C．Three.                 D．Four.

3．What can we learn from the passage?

       A．All the weekend activities were organized by Jake Kavanagh.

       B．Two of the movies mentioned in the ads are about social problems.

       C．Those who go to the amusement park will stay there for more than 10 hours.

       D．An NMH student inviting his parents to watch the play together should pay $ 10.