I opened my new patient's chart and headed for her room. My son, Eric, had just brought home a disappointing report card, and my daughter, Shannon, and I had argued again about her getting a driver's license. For the next eight hours I wanted to throw myself into helping people who I knew had much more to worry about than I did. Rebekah, mother of three lovely little girls, was only 32, admitted for chemotherapy after breast-cancer surgery, When I gave her an injection, Rebekah shut her eyes tightly and murmured a prayer until it was over. Then she smiled and squeezed my hand. “Before you go, could you get my Bible from the table?" I handed her the worn book. "Do you have a favorite Bible verse?" she asked. "Jesus wept. John 11: 35." "Such a sad one," she said. "Why?""It makes me feel closer to Jesus, knowing he also experienced human sorrow." Rebekah nodded thoughtfully and started flipping through her Bible as I shut the door quietly behind me.
During the following months, her hospital stays became frequent and she worried about her children. One day when I entered her room, I found her talking into a tape recorder. She picked up a notebook and held it out to me. "I'm making a tape for my daughters, " she said. I read the list on her pad: starting school, confirmation, turning 16, first date, graduation. While I worried how to help her deal with death, she was planning for her children's future. She usually waited until the early hours of the morning to record the tapes so she could be free from interruptions. She filled them with family stories and advice，trying to cram a lifetime of love into a few precious hours. Finally, every item in her notes had been checked off and she entrusted the tapes to her husband.
I often wondered what I would say in her place. My kids joked that I was like an FBI agent, with my constant questions about where they’d been and who they’d been with. Where, I thought, are my words of encouragement and love?
It was three o'clock one afternoon when I got an urgent call from the hospital. Rebekah wanted me to come immediately with a blank tape. She was breathing hard when I entered her room. I slipped the tape into the recorder and held the microphone to her lips. "Ruthie, Hannah, Molly, this is the most important tape." She held my hand and closed her eyes. "Someday your daddy will bring home a new mommy. Please make her feel special. Show her how to take care of you. Ruthie, honey, help her get your Brownie uniform ready each Tuesday. Hannah, tell her you don't want meat sauce on your spaghetti. Molly, don't get mad if there's no apple juice. Drink something else. It's okay to be sad, sweeties. Jesus cried too. He knows about sadness and will help you to be happy again. Remember, I'll always love you. I shut off the recorder and Rebekah sighed deeply. "Thank you, Nan, "You'll give this one to them, won't you?" she murmured as she slid into sleep.
A time would come when the tape would be played for Rebekah's children, but right then, after I smoothed Rebekah's blanket, I got in my car and hurried home. I thought of how my Shannon also liked her sauce on the side and suddenly that quirk, which had annoyed me so many times, seemed to make her so much more precious. That night the kids didn't go out; they sat with me long after the spaghetti sauce had dried onto the dishes. And we talked, without interrogations, without complaints，late into the night.
小題1:From the first paragraph we can learn that ____________ .

A．Nan was in a bad state and wept a lot in her daily life.

B．Nan was not on good terms with her children.

C．Nan was worried about how to help Rebeka deal with her death.

D．Nan laid more stress on attending on her patients than her children.

小題2:Which of the following scenes was most likely to be seen at Nan’s home before she met Rebekah?

A．The family sat down in a circle and shared an interesting story.

B．After dinner, the children either went out or shut themselves up in their rooms.

C．The son was the headache of the parents while the daughter their comfort.

D．When Eric did poorly at school, the parents comforted him and cheered him up.

小題3:Which was the most vital message Rebekah left to her children?

A．Bringing home satisfying school report cards

B．Landing a job after graduation

C．Growing up healthily and happily

D．Accepting their step-mother into their lives.

小題4:The writer learnt from Rebekah that a parent’s real concern should be_______.           .

A．protecting the children from the dangers they may be trapped in.

B．having encouraging and loving talks with children.

C．making tape records to guide the children in their future lives.

D．tolerating the children’s annoying quirks.

The largest campaign of killing rats in history is set to poison millions of rats on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. Scientists say the campaign planned for 2013 and 2014 will restore beautiful South Georgia to the position it once held as the world’s most important nesting sites for seabirds.
It was sailors in the late 18th century who unintentionally introduced rats to what had been a fresh environment. “If we can destroy the rats, at least 100 million birds will return to their home on South Georgia,” says Tony Martin, a biology professor at the University of Dundee who was invited to lead the project.
South Georgia is by far the largest island to get rid of animals that destroy native wildlife after being introduced deliberately or accidentally by people. Though rats and mice have done the most damage, cats, foxes, goats, deer, rabbits and other species have been targeted in the campaigns around the world.
South Georgia is seven times the size of New Zealand’s Campbell Island, currently the largest area ever killing rats. The successful war against Campbell Island rats was carried our in 2001 with 132 tons of poison dropped from five helicopters.
“New Zealand pioneered the techniques for ridding islands of rats and in fact our operation on South Georgia is based on New Zealand’s technology.” Says Martin. “Some New Zealanders will be helping our campaign, including our chief pilot, Peter Garden, who was also chief pilot for the projects at Campbell Island and Rat Island, in the Aleutian chain of the north Pacific.”
The second and third stages in 2013 and 2014 will involve dropping as much as 300 tons of poison from the air onto every part of the island where rats might live. It is a huge operation, carried out during the stormy southern autumn when the rats are hungry and the risks of poisoning native wildlife are less than in the spring and summer months. “Ideally we’d do in winter but the weather makes that too risky,” Martin says.
The ecological payback will be priceless. But Martin says, “The full benefits will take decades to arrive, because some of these birds are slow to hatch.”
小題1:According to the passage, how did the rats appear on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia ?

A．They were attracted there by wildlife.

B．They escaped there from Campbell Island.

C．They were introduced there by sailors accidently.

D．They were brought in by people deliberately.

小題2:Which of the following is True about Peter Garden ?

A．He is in charge of the campaign on the sub-Antarctic island.

B．He will be the only pilot for the project on the sub-Antarctic island.

C．He will benefit a lot from the campaign on the sub-Antarctic island.

D．He made great contributions to the project at Campbell Island and Rat Island.

小題3:The operation of ridding South Georgia of rats is to carried out in autumn because _________.

A．the war against Campbell Island rats failed in all seasons except autumn.

B．only then do the New Zealanders to help the operation have the spare time.

C．rats then need more food and the operation does less harm to native wildlife.

D．the poison kills rats more effectively than it does in any other season.

小題4:What can we infer from the passage?.

A．The campaign of killing rats will benefit the native wildlife in a short time.

B．Rats aren’t the only species to be blamed for the disappearance of wildlife.

C．The first stage of killing rats on the sub-Antarctic island didn’t make great achievements.

D．The campaign in South Georgia will fully follow in the footsteps of that on Campbell Island.

One Sunday, a picture in the newspaper touched me. A young woman stood in front of a totally destroyed home. A little boy stood beside her with his head    . Holding her skirt tightly was a tiny girl, eyes wide with        and fear.
With growing       I noticed that their sizes of each family member closely      ours. This would be a good opportunity to    my children, so I explained their difficult    to my seven-year-old twins and three-year-old Meghan.
“We have so much, but these poor people now have nothing,” I said, “we’ll      what we have with them.”
I brought three large boxes and placed them on the living room floor. Meghan watched seriously      the boys and I filled one box with canned food.
While I     our clothes, I encouraged the boys to go through their toys and     some of their less favorite things. Meghan watched      as the boys piled up useless toys in the box.
“I’ll help you find something for the little girl,” I said to her.
The boys placed the toys they had     to donate into one of the boxes while I filled the third box with clothes. Meghan walked up with Lucy, her worn, faded, much-loved doll    tightly to her chest. She      in front of the box, pressed her little face into Lucy’s face, gave her a      kiss, then, laid her gently on top of the other toys.
“Oh, honey,” I said. “You      to give away Lucy. You love her so much.”
Meghan nodded, eyes shining with tears. “Lucy makes me happy, Mommy.       she’ll make that little girl happy, too.”
I stared at Meghan for a long moment,        how I could teach the boys the lesson she had just taught me.
It’s easy to give what we don’t want any more, but       to let go of things we cherish, isn’ t it?       , the true spirit of giving is to give with your heart.

小題1:	A．off B．up C．down D．round

小題2:	A．smile B．confusion C．joy D．a(chǎn)nger

小題3:	A．happiness B．friendship C．puzzle D．interest

小題4:	A．matched B．equaled C．compared D．suited

小題5:	A．help B．complain C．change D．teach

小題6:	A．experience B．problem C．situation D．process

小題7:	A．give B．share C．send D．spare

小題8:	A．a(chǎn)s B．since C．though D．because

小題9:	A．came through B．broke through C．sorted through D．got through

小題10:

A．donate B．leave C．keep D．sell

小題11:

A．hopefully B．a(chǎn)nxiously C．depressingly D．quietly

小題12:

A．separated B．chosen C．bought D．confirmed

小題13:

A．hugged B．tied C．grasped D．caught

小題14:

A．settled B．regretted C．paused D．cried

小題15:

A．precious B．final C．hearty D．lovely

小題16:

A．wouldn’t like B．ought not C．had better not D．don’t have

小題17:

A．Also B．Yet C．Maybe D．Though

小題18:

A．knowing B．wondering C．realizing D．expecting

小題19:

A．a(chǎn)vailable B．necessary C．important D．hard

小題20:

A．However B．Therefore C．Otherwise D．Moreover

In 1970, at the age of 35, my father was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. There was not much     done at that time and my father had to rely on the medication and treatment that were     at that time. But one thing was     , my father was not a quitter. He was a teacher who      children with special educational needs in Chicago Public High School. Every day we would hear     about “his kids”. These “kids” did not usually     my sister and I.
One day, my father arrived at his school and walked up the    for his first period. He was having a very      day because the disease was really taking everything out of him. He      once and bruised (擦傷) his knee but he still kept going.       did he know that someone was watching.
As the day     his steps began to get a little lighter. At the end of the day, he was about to leave     a young girl entered his office. He had met her in the hallway but she was not one of his     . He asked what he could do for her and she said, “I just wanted to thank you for    my life.”
He looked at her and couldn’t      what he had done. She then went on     . “When I got up this morning, I felt as if I was at the end of my     and ready to kill myself. But when I saw you trying to go up the stairs and then you fell, I felt   and the feeling of sadness just kept getting    . And now you are walking as     as ever. It’s really true that everything will get better as the days go on.”

小題1:	A．information B．research C．knowledge D．experience

小題2:	A．favorable B．believable C．reasonable D．a(chǎn)vailable

小題3:	A．obvious B．special C．natural D．strange

小題4:	A．a(chǎn)bandoned B．followed C．taught D．a(chǎn)ttended

小題5:	A．stories B．jokes C．songs D．humors

小題6:	A．connect B．change C．mean D．defeat

小題7:	A．mountains B．stairs C．ladders D．streets

小題8:	A．normal B．pleasant C．simple D．difficult

小題9:	A．fell B．stood C．happened D．a(chǎn)ppeared

小題10:

A．Few B．Little C．Seldom D．Never

小題11:

A．a(chǎn)rrived B．progressed C．broke D．stopped

小題12:

A．until B．before C．when D．while

小題13:

A．students B．friends C．teachers D．workers

小題14:

A．losing B．giving C．passing D．saving

小題15:

A．write down B．figure out C．cut off D．put up

小題16:

A．responding B．a(chǎn)dmitting C．explaining D．complaining

小題17:

A．rope B．wall C．road D．work

小題18:

A．sorry B．bad C．lucky D．proud

小題19:

A．lower B．weaker C．higher D．stronger

小題20:

A．carefully B．quickly C．lightly D．slowly

閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的四個選項(xiàng)（A、Ｂ、Ｃ和Ｄ）中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該選項(xiàng)涂黑。
I still remember my first job in the city center. The        was large, dark and old        the physics lecture room was on the second floor.        , it wasn’t a lecture room at all, it was an ordinary room, but it had “LECTURE ROOM’ on the       . The students were sixteen or seventeen years old,        several years younger than me.       , some of them looked and acted       older than me sometimes.
The room was directly       the street, and had the window looking out over the street and many houses. One day, I was       some words on the blackboard when I heard a sudden change in the noise behind me. There was a man standing in the room with       an apple in his hand. He looked      .
“Who threw this?” he asked, looking round the class.
“I beg your pardon? What is the matter?” I said. “     threw this apple out of the window,” he said. “It       on my car.”
“Who threw an apple out of the window?” I       to the class. There was no answer.
“I       the fellow who threw this.” said the man. “I will be       outside for you.” And then he left, closing the door behind him.
     was silence and I continued with the lesson. At the end of every lesson, usually the class were all       before the bell finished ringing, leaving me saying “That’s all for today” to an empty    .  This time, when the bell went for the end of the lesson, no one      .  “That’s all for today,” I said. “You go first, sir,” said one of the boys. It made a nice change, I being out first.

小題1:	A．room B．building C．floor D．city

小題2:	A．a(chǎn)nd B．a(chǎn)s C．so D．but

小題3:	A．Happily B．Luckily C．Properly D．Actually

小題4:	A．floor B．ground C．door D．window

小題5:	A．over B．only C．up D．a(chǎn)lmost

小題6:	A．In fact B．In the end C．After all D．As a result

小題7:	A．more B．less C．very D．even

小題8:	A．on B．a(chǎn)bove C．below D．in

小題9:	A．getting B．making C．taking D．putting

小題10:

A．hardly B．a(chǎn)lmost C．half D．such

小題11:

A．a(chǎn)ngry B．kind C．sorry D．happy

小題12:

A．Anyone B．One C．Who D．Someone

小題13:

A．hit B．defeated C．landed D．a(chǎn)rrived

小題14:

A．a(chǎn)sked B．said C．talked D．told

小題15:

A．hate B．find C．get D．want

小題16:

A．waiting B．looking C．finding D．seeing

小題17:

A．It B．There C．This D．That

小題18:

A．walked B．left C．gone D．ended

小題19:

A．lesson B．class C．room D．lecture

小題20:

A．heard B．finished C．spoke D．moved

Long ago there were two people--- a young father and an old neighbor. One day the young father was visiting the old neighbor. They were standing in the old man’s garden, talking about children. The young man said, “How strict should parents be with their children?”
The old man pointed to a string（繩子）between a big strong tree and a thin young one．“Please untie（解開）that string，” he said．The young man untied it, and the young tree bent over to one side. “Now tie it again，please,” said the old man, “but first pull the string tight so that the young tree is straight again.”
The young man did so．Then the old man said，“There，it is the same with children. You must be strict with them, but sometimes you must untie the string to know how they are getting on．If they are not yet able to stand alone，you must tie the string tight again. But when you find that they are ready to stand alone，you can take the string away.”
小題1:The story is about ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ ．

A．how the young father should get on with his old neighbor

B．how to tie and untie the string

C．how to take care of young trees

D．how strict parents should be with their children.

小題2:The young man untied the string ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ ．

A．only to find that the thinner one bent over to one side

B．in order to let the old man teach him

C．in order to throw it away

D．so that both of the trees would grow straight

小題3:When can the string be taken away？＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ ．

A．When the young man has untied it next time

B．When the young tree grows strong enough

C．When the old man has left

D．After you have untied it

小題4:At last the old man told the young man ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ ．

A． that he should be strict with his children if they could not yet stand alone

B．that he should be hard on them

C． that he should tie his children until they are ready to stand alone

D．that he should always be strict with his children

Our house was directly across the street from the clinic entrance of John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. We lived downstairs and rented the upstairs rooms to the patients at the clinic.
One evening as I was fixing supper, there was a knock at the door. I opened it to see a truly awful looking man. He’s hardly taller than my eight-year-old son. “Good evening. I’ve come to see if you’ve a room. I came for a treatment this morning from the eastern shore, and there’s no bus till morning.” He told me he’d been hunting for a room since noon but with no success. “I guess it’s my face... I know it looks terrible, but my doctor says with a few more treatments...” For a moment I hesitated, but his next words convinced me: “I could sleep in this chair on the porch. My bus leaves early in the morning.”
I told him we would find him a bed. When I had finished the dishes, I talked with him. He told me he fished for a living to support his five children, and his wife, who was hopelessly crippled（殘疾的）from a back injury. He didn’t tell it by way of complaint. Next morning, just before he left, as if asking a great favor, he said, “Could I come back and stay the next time?” He added, “Your children made me feel at home. ”
On his next trip he arrived a little after seven in the morning. As a gift, he brought a big fish and the largest oysters（牡蠣）I had ever seen. I knew his bus left at 4:00 a. m. and I wondered what time he had to get up in order to do this for us.
In the years he came to stay overnight with us and there was never a time that he did not bring us vegetables from his garden. I know our family always will be grateful to have known him; from him we learned how to accept the bad without complaint when facing the misfortune.
小題1:Why did the author agree to let the man spend the night in his house at last?

A．Because the man said others refused to accommodate him.

B．Because the man said he would not cause much inconvenience.

C．Because the man said he had come from the eastern shore.

D．Because the man said he had been hunting for a room since noon.

小題2:How long would it take the man to travel from his home to Baltimore by bus?

A．About 1 hour．

B．About 2 hours．

C．About 3 hours．

D．About 4 hours．

小題3:From the text we can know that_____________．

A．the author’s children were kind and friendly to the man

B．the man was fed up with his hard-work and his family

C．John Hopkins Hospital provided rooms-for the patients to live in

D．the author and his family were thought highly of by his neighbors

小題4:The author’s family were grateful to know the man because__________．

A．he often brought them fish and vegetables from his garden

B．he paid them money for his staying

C．he taught them how to accept the bad without complaint

D．he stayed only overnight with the writer’s family

This week Faith Lapidus and Doug Johnson will tell you about Chuck Berry．Chuck Berry，born on October 18，1926，is often called the father of rock and roll．He is one of the most popular and influential performers of rhythm－and－blues and rock‘n’roll music during the 1950s，1960s and 1970s．
He started singing in church when he was six years old．His interest in music stuck with him．A lot of Chuck Berry’s material is about teenage life，especially school．Chuck Berry left school when he was 17．He headed west with two friends，but they did not get far．They were arrested after they used a gun to steal a car in Kansas City，Missouri．He was set free after four years.
Chuck Berry signed his first recording contract in 1955，with the company Chess Records．Because one of his early hits，“Rock＆Roll Music”，hit big in the United States then，which was greeted with enthusiastic reviews．Many other famous bands copied it again and again．
Filmmaker Taylor Hackford made a documentary called“Hail! Hail! Rock‘n’Roll”, named for a Chuck Berry song．It centered on the making of a concert to honor the musician on his 60th birthday in 1986．Guitarist Keith Richards from the Rolling Stones organized the concert．Listening to Chuck Berry songs got him interested in music．In Keith Richards’words，“I didn’t dream I could make a living at it but that’s what I wanted to do．”More than 75 artists and bands have done their own versions of Chuck Berry songs．
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland，Ohio，included Chuck Berry in its first year of honors in 1986．The Hall of Fame had this to say：“While no individual can be said to have invented rock and roll，Chuck Berry comes the closest of any single figure to being the one who put all the essential pieces together．”
Thank you for your listening．Faith Lapidus and Doug Johnson were your announcers．
小題1:The underlined words“hit big”in Paragraph 3 probably mean“__________”．

A．won great Success	B．made rapid progress
C．got into big trouble	D．made a small difference

小題2:Guitarist Keith Richards is mentioned in Paragraph 4 to show ___________．

A．music is a way of making a life	B．Chuck Berry influenced him a lot
C．he disliked Chuck Berry in fact	D．he is a real fan of Chuck Berry

小題3:Which of the following about Chuck Berry is true?

A．Chuck Berry was the first to invent rock and roll on his own．

B．Chuck Berry was put into prison for leaving school in 1943．

C．Chuck Berry can be said to have formed rock and roll’s basic structure．

D．Chuck Berry is the most popular and influential performer．

小題4:Where does this text probably come from?

A．An advertisement．	B．A science fiction．
C．A magazine．	D．A radio report．

A year ago, August, Dave Fuss lost his job driving a truck for a small company in west Michigan. His wife, Gerrie, was still working in the local school cafeteria, but it was         for Dave to find work, and the price of everything was rising. The Fusses were at the risk of joining the millions of Americans who have        their homes in recent years. Then Dave and Gerrie received a timely        —$7,000, a legacy(遺產(chǎn)) from their neighbors Ish and Arlene Hatch, who died in an accident. “It really made a difference when we were meeting difficulty.” says Dave.
But the Fusses weren’t the only folks in Alto and the neighboring town of Lowell to        unexpected legacy from the Hatches. Dozens of other families were     by what the Hatches had done. In some cases, it was a few thousand dollars; in       , it was more than $100,000.
It        nearly everyone that the Hatches had so much money, more than $3 million—they were an elderly couple who lived in an old house on what was left of the family farm.
Children of the Great Depression, Ish and Arlene were known for their habit of     . They preferred comparison shopping and would go from store to store, checking prices before making a new purchase.
Through the years, the Hatches paid for local children to attend summer camps when their parents couldn’t        it. “Ish and Arlene never asked if you        anything,” says their friend Sandy Van Weelden, “They could see things they could do to make you happier, and they would do them.”
Even more extraordinary was that the Hatches        their farmland. It was the Hatches’ wish that their legacy—a legacy of kindness as much as one of dollars and cents—should        the whole community and last for generations to come.
Neighbors helping neighbors—that was Ish and Arlene Hatch’s story.

小題1:	A．happy B．hard C．easy D．nice

小題2:	A．lost B．bought C．left D．wanted

小題3:	A．gift B．money C．encouragement D．package

小題4:	A．a(chǎn)ccept B．defeat C．win D．receive

小題5:	A．a(chǎn)mazed B．excited C．upset D．touched

小題6:	A．the other B．a(chǎn)nother C．other D．others

小題7:	A．surprised B．frightened C．pleased D．encouraged

小題8:	A．kind B．generous C．living D．saving

小題9:	A．a(chǎn)fford B．buy C．offer D．keep

小題10:

A．suffered B．enjoyed C．needed D．did

小題11:

A．put away B．put up C．gave up D．gave away

小題12:

A．enrich B．bless C．brighten D．expand

Long ago there was a poor farmer in Russia. He had been very       with everything he had. However, when he found his elder brother was        than him, he felt disappointed. So he       hard about how he could also be richer. Finally he got an idea. He started to spend less money on food and clothes to       some money to buy more land. Once he had enough money, he started       for land.
He       that on the neighboring land, there were some nomads (游牧民) living there. He bought some gifts and went to      their head. He presented the gifts to the head and told him the       of his visit. The head welcomed him, accepted the gifts and agreed to his       to get the land. The head told him that he could have the land       giving him anything. He can take as much land as he could       by walking through the land before sunset (日落). He should start in the morning and whatever distance he could travel during the      , he could have it.
The farmer became very       when he heard this offer. Now he could have lots of       without paying anything. He came       the next morning and started running, not walking,       he could cover the largest area. To reach his goal, he neither ate food, nor drank water, nor had any rest. He just continued      . Without eating, or drinking, or resting he just got very      . When he came back to the head in the evening, he       right on the spot. Sadly his son buried him in a piece of land about 6 x 4 feet.
Don’t be greedy (貪婪的) or you will       everything finally.

小題1:	A．careful B．pleased C．bored D．busy

小題2:	A．healthier B．stronger C．richer D．cleverer

小題3:	A．thought B．learned C．tried D．worked

小題4:	A．borrow B．spend C．make D．save

小題5:	A．waiting B．looking C．preparing D．caring

小題6:	A．explained B．hoped C．noticed D．guessed

小題7:	A．see B．follow C．help D．cheat

小題8:	A．chance B．result C．condition D．purpose

小題9:	A．promise B．request C．suggestion D．order

小題10:

A．for B．by C．without D．before

小題11:

A．cover B．farm C．buy D．have

小題12:

A．year B．month C．week D．day

小題13:

A．interested B．sad C．happy D．calm

小題14:

A．land B．crop C．experience D．knowledge

小題15:

A．quietly B．early C．finally D．suddenly

小題16:

A．so that B．even if C．because D．whether

小題17:

A．dreaming B．walking C．speaking D．running

小題18:

A．nervous B．excited C．tired D．worried

小題19:

A．refused B．died C．a(chǎn)ppeared D．rested

小題20:

A．lose B．face C．change D．defeat