Directions:  Read the following passage.  Complete the diagram by using the information from the passage. Write NO MORE THAN 3 WORDS for each answer.

     American public education has changed in recent years.  One change is that increasing numbers of American parents and teachers are starting independent public schools called charter schools.

      In 1991, there were no charter schools in the Unite States. Today, more than 2300 charter schools operate in 34 states and the District of Columbia. 575. 000 students attend these schools. The students are from 5 years of age through 18 or older.

     A charter school is created by groups of parents, teachers and community members. It is similar in some ways to a traditional public school. It receives tax money to operate a number of students. The charter school must prove to local or state governments that its students are learning. These governments provide the school with the agreement, or charter that permits it to operate.

     Unlike a traditional public school, however, the charter school does not have to obey most laws governing public schools. Local, state or federal governments cannot tell it what to teach.

     Each school can choose its own goals and decide the ways it wants to reach those goals. Class sizes are usually smaller than in many traditional public schools. Many students and parents say teachers in charter schools can be more creative.

      However, state education agencies, local education-governing committees and unions often oppose charter schools. They say these schools may receive money badly needed by traditional public schools. Experts say some charter schools are doing well while others are struggling.

      Congress provided 200 million dollars for establishing charter schools in the 2006 federal budget. But, often the schools say they lack enough money for programs. Many also lack needed space, District officials say they have provided 14 former school buildings for charter education. Yet charter school supporters say officials should try harder to find more space.

Title: 71.

  Predicting when an earthquake or volcanic eruption will take place is extremely difficult, even with the advanced technological equipment available to modern scientists. There are some people, however, who believe they can sense when a major geological(地質(zhì)學(xué)上的) event is coming. They claim to be "earthquake sensitive".

 Sensitivity to the earth's movements, according to those who say they have it, is revealed in different ways. Some say they are unusually clumsy and keep dropping things and having small accidents just before a big event. Others suddenly have a strong desire to eat popcorn, and don' t know why. Though it may sound crazy, they say it tells them that a big earthquake is less than 24 hours away.

 The most common sign of an approaching disaster among earthquake sensitive people is said to be a bad headache. Arguably the first person to connect her own headaches to coming geological events was an American woman called Charlotte, King. She became famous for her prediction of the eruption of Washington's Mr. St. Helens on May 18, 1980, when she was accurate to within 12 minutes of the actual event.

    King was tested by doctors and scientists and found to possess unusual hearing abilities. She could hear sounds in frequencies that most human beings cannot, and claimed to have been hearing such sounds since 1976. Three years later, she noticed that when the sounds changed in pitch or rhythm, giving her unpleasant headaches, a large earthquake would be reported within 72 hours.

66. It is stated in the first paragraph that there may be ________.

    A. people who are able to detect earthquake activity

    B. people who are developing new methods of preventing earthquakes

    C. new machines to help earthquake sensitive people make predictions

    D. new machines that will soon be able to accurately predict earthquakes

67. Which of the following is the best title for this passage?

    A. Charlotte King                    B. A magical ability

    C. Human vs Machine                  D. Earthquake and volcanic eruption

68. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a sign of an approaching earthquake?

    A. A very loud noise.                  B. A painful headache.

    C. An urge to eat popcorn.             D. A tendency to drop things.

69. Charlotte King became well known because she ________.

    A. timed an earthquake to within 12 minutes

    B. correctly predicted a big volcanic eruption

    C. can make sounds other people cannot hear

    D. is smarter than many doctors and scientists

70. What enables Charlotte King to predict a geological event?

    A. The headache.                       B. The frequency of a sound.

C. Her special hearing ability.             D. The pitch or rhythm of a sound.

SHANGHAI--Partly because of a string of malfunctions and the July 23 train crash in Wenzhou, the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway was not as popular in its first month of operation as many had expected.

     In a news release on Monday, the Ministry of Railways said the railway had transported 5.26 million passengers from July 1 to July 31, or 170,000 passengers a day on average.

     And an average of 179 trains including both those that run at 200 km/h and at 300 km/h trains - were on the line every day, and the trains had an occupancy rate (上座率) of 107%, the ministry said. To many who traveled, that last figure no doubt seems puzzling. How, after all, could carriages that were often half empty have been 107% occupied? Zhao Jian, professor at Beijing Jiaotong University, said the figure is not a good reflection of reality. He accounted for it by noting that a seat aboard one of the trains would be said to have a 200% occupancy rate if one passenger had sat in it from Beijing to Tianjin and then another passenger had occupied the same seat from Suzhou to Shanghai.

     Despite the impressiveness of those figures, travelers will find, perhaps to their surprise, that they will have little trouble buying tickets to ride the 1,318-km-long high-speed rail line. By 7:30 pm on Monday, passengers could still buy 754 second-class tickets and 148 first-class tickets for a high-speed train that is to leave from Shanghai for Beijing on Tuesday afternoon, according to the China Railway Customer Service Center's website. The train contains 1,066 seats.

     The story was different for those who want to travel by air between Shanghai and Beijing. Luo Zhuping, board secretary of China Eastern Airlines, said seats on the company's flights on that route are selling well: 90 percent of them continue to be occupied.

     The situation was different in the first week after the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed train began operating on the last day of Junc. The airline then saw the number of travelers using its service fall by 20 percent and began offering generous discounts to draw in more passengers. Few such incentives are being given now, he said. Still, passengers have not totally abandoned high-speed rails in the days following the Wenzhou train crash, which has killed 40 passengers and injured 191.

61. Which of the following is NOT true about the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed train?

    A. It began operating on June 30th.

    B. There are trains that run at different speeds.

    C. An average of 179 trains were on the line every day.

    D. On average, 5.26 million passengers take it a day in July.

62. What made many people who traveled puzzled?

    A. The train's speed.                 B. The number of the trains.

    C. The train's occupancy rate.          D. The seats number of the train.

63. According to Zhao Jian, the occupancy rate of the train is ________.

    A. unreal          B. inaccurate      C. unbelievable   D. unreasonable

64. What can we infer from the words of the board secretary of China Eastern Airlines?

    A. Airlines offer more discount to attract passengers.

    B. The high-speed railway has a great impact on airlines.

    C. Airlines aren't affected by high-speed railway so much.

D. The high-speed railway is much more popular than airlines.

65. What can we know from the 4th paragraph?

    A. The distance from Belling to Shanghai is 1318 km.

    B. Passengers can buy tickets only at 7:30 pm on Monday.

    C. There is some trouble buying the tickets from Shanghai to Belling.

    D. There are 754 second-class seats and 148 first-class seats in a train.

      When a child is told he is "uncool", it can be very painful. He may say he doesn't care, and even act in ways that are opposite of cool on purpose. But ultimately, these are simply ways to handle sadness by pretending it's not there.

      Helping a child feel better in school had to be careful. If you say, "Why are you worried about what other children think about you? It doesn't matter!" children know that it does matter. Instead, an active way may be best. You could say, "I'm going to do a couple of things for you to help you feel better in school."

      If a boy is having trouble making friends, the teacher can help him. The teacher can arrange things so that he has chances to use his abilities to contribute to class projects. This is how the other children learn how to value his good qualities and to like him. A teacher can also raise a child's popularity in the group by showing that he values that child. It even helps to put him in a seat next to a very popular child, or let him be a partner with that child in activities, etc.

      There are things that parents can do at home, too. Be friendly when your child brings others home to play. Encourage him to invite friends to meals and then serve the dishes they consider "super". When you plan trips, picnics, movies, and other shows, invite another child with whom your child wants to be friends.

      What you can do is to give him a chance to join a group that may be shutting him out. Then, if he has good qualities, he can start to build real friendship of his own.

56. A child who has been informed of being "uncool" may ________.

    A. care nothing about it                   B. develop a sense of anger

    C. do something uncool purposely           D. pretend to get hurt very much

57. A teacher can help an unpopular child by ________.

    A. seeing the child as the teacher's favourite

    B. asking the child to do something for partners

    C. forcing other children to make friends with the child

    D. offering the child chances to show his good qualities

58. How can parents help their child fit in better?

    A. By cooking delicious food for him.

    B. By being kind to his schoolmates.

    C. By forcing him to invite friends home.

    D. By taking him to have picnics in the park.

59. Which of the following is TRUE?

    A. Children doesn't care others' comments on them.

    B. It's only teacher's work to make children popular.

    C. Parents should take their children out for picnic and shows more often.

    D. Inviting children's friends to family activities is good for them to make friends.

60. The passage mainly talks about ________.

    A. how to help an unpopular child

    B. why some children are unpopular

    C. who is responsible for unpopular children

    D. how to find out good points of unpopular children

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

     Nowadays, millions of lonely singles are now going online instead. The World Wide Web is quickly becoming 48. ________ world's most popular matchmaker(媒人).

     Singles are flocking (涌向) to the Internet mainly 49. ________ their busy lifestyles leave them little time to look for a significant other. Using dating sites(約會(huì)網(wǎng)址) is quick 50. ________           convenient. Many singles say the regular dating scene has just led them 51. ________ one bad experience to another and are ready to try something else.

Dating sites also make 52. ________ easy to avoid someone who you are not interested in. In the real world, 53. ________, ignoring someone you don't like can be difficult.

     54. ________ all the advantages, online dating also presents its own set of problems. People aren't always those 55. ________ they declare to be in their online description. Safety is another concern. You are just likely to find a criminal online as your Mr. or Miss Right.

  Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with a word or phrase that best fits the context.

                              The Monkey with the Wooden Apples

     There once was a happy monkey in the jungle. He was wandering all days, eating delicious fruit when hungry and   36   when tired. One day he came upon a house, where he saw a bowl of the most beautiful   37  . He took one in each hand and ran back into the forest.

     The monkey tried to eat them, but hurt his teeth. The apples were made of wood, but they were beautiful, and when the other monkeys   38   them, he held onto them even tighter.

     The monkey admired his new possessions proudly as he wandered the jungle. They glistened (閃亮) red in the    39  , and seemed perfect to him. He became so attached to them that he didn't even notice his   40   at first.

     A fruit tree reminded him, but he felt the apples in his hands. He couldn't bear to set them down to reach for the fruit. In fact, he couldn't   41   , either, if he was to defend his apples. This proud, but less happy monkey continued to walk along the forest trails.

     The apples became  42  , and the poor little monkey thought about leaving them behind. He was tired and hungry; he couldn't climb trees or collect fruit with his hands   43  . What if he just let go?

     Letting go of such   44   things seemed crazy, but what else could he do? He was so tired. Seeing the next fruit tree and smelling its fruit, the monkey stopped. He  45   the wooden apples and reached up for his meal. He was happy again.

     Like that little monkey, we   46   carry things that seem too valuable. Letting go off them seems crazy. But   47  : only with open hands can we receive something else.

36. A. walking                      B. shouting                   C. resting                            D. crying

37. A. bananas                            B. pears                        C. stones                      D. apples

38. A. pinked                       B. carried                            C. saw                         D. enjoyed

39. A. rain                           B. sun                          C. shade                       D. wind

40. A. appearance                 B. hunger                            C. danger                            D. home

41. A. stop                           B. look                         C. relax                        D. breathe

42. A. heavier                       B. larger                       C. taller                        D. cheaper

43. A. full                            B. dirty                         C. wet                          D. flat

44. A. expensive                   B. delicious                   C. strange                     D. valuable

45. A. finished                      B. dropped                    C. sold                         D. passed

46. A. always                       B. seldom                     C. never                       D. sometimes

47. A. copy                          B. write                        C. remember                 D. hope

 -- Have you moved into your new house'?

   -- Not yet. It ______ at present.

    A. will be painted                     B. was painted

    C. is being painted                    D. is painted

The terminal building put into use one month ago is ______ poor condition.

    A. on             B. in             C. under         D. with

Once again he failed to hand in his project in time, ______ he had been given

    enough time to do it.

    A. in case          B. as though       C. so that         D. even though

It's 7:30. Hurry up! Your train ______ at 8:15.

    A. leaves          B. left            C. is leaving      D. has left