Dear Cassy,
Thanks for reminding me by e-mail that you want to baby-sit our children. In spite of the fact that you are only 15 years old, my wife and I would be willing to consider your application if you can meet a few modest requirements:
1. Submit three letters from teachers who will prove that you have never failed to follow directions perfectly in class and never failed to hand in the homework on time.
2. Submit a note from two doctors which says that you are in perfect health, have never been sick, and never will be sick.
3. Submit a document (文件) from your physical education teacher or team coach that proves that you can do each of the following: Run two miles in less than nine minutes, climb an oily rope to a height of twenty feet in thirty seconds while balancing a glass of water on your nose, and walk in bare feet over hot coals and broken glass without complaint or injury.
4. Submit letters from at least two mental health experts saying that you have never had a bad thought towards any living being or not living object.
5. Play and defeat five expert chess players with your eyes covered after going without sleep for 48 hours.
6. Wait patiently for two years while we make sure that all your documents are true.
Your loving and trusting friends,
The Smiths
1. From the letter we can know that ______.
A. Cassy wrote to the Smiths twice B. Cassy loves children very much
C. Cassy will be in perfect health D. Cassy does very well in her studies
2. Which of the following can most probably replace the underlined word “submit”?
A. write B. report C. hand in D. recommend
3. What can we infer from this text?
A. Their children are hard to baby-sit. B. Their children are well educated.
C. Cassy is good at doing many things. D. Cassy won't get the job as a baby-sitter.
4. Which of the following words can best describe the Smiths?
A. Hu
morous. B. Patient. C. Honest. D. Kind-hearted.
Suppose you work in a big firm and find English very important for your job because you often deal with foreign businessmen. Now you’re looking for a place where you can improve your English, especially spoken English.
Here are some ads about English language training from newspapers. You may find the information you need.
Global English Center
﹡General English in all four skills: listening, speaking, reading and
writing.
﹡3-month (700yuan), 6-month (1,200yuan) and one year (2,000yuan) courses.
﹡Choice of morning or evening classes, 3 hours per day, Mon.---Fri.
﹡Experienced college English teachers.
﹡close to city center and bus stop.
Tel: 67605272 Add: 105 Zhongshan Road, 100082
Modern Language School
﹡Special courses in English for business, travel, banking, hotel management and office skills.
﹡Small classes (12-16 students) on Sat. & Sun. from 2:00p.m.---5:00p.m.
﹡Native English teachers from Canada and USA.
﹡Language lab and comp
uter supplies.
﹡3-month course: 1,050 yuan.
﹡6-month course: 1,850 yuan.
Write or phone: Modern Language School, 675 Park Road, 100056
Tel: 67353019
The 21st Century English Training Center
﹡We specialize (专门研究) in effective teaching at all levels.
﹡We offer morning or afternoon classes, both of which last three months and a half at a cost of 800 yuan.
﹡We also have a six-week TOEFL preparation class during winter and summer holiday.
﹡Entrance exams: June 1 and December 1.
﹡Only 15-minute walk from city center.
Call 67801642 for more information.
The International House of English
﹡Three/ Six-month English courses for students of all levels at a very low cost: 60 yuan for 12 hours per week; convenient class hours: 9:00a.m. –12:00a.m. and 2:00p.m.—5:00p.m.
﹡A four-month evening programme for developing speaking skills (same cost as day classes).
﹡Well-trained Chinese and foreign teachers experienced in teaching English as a second/ foreign language.
﹡Free sightseeing and social activities.
For further information call 57432308.
63. You work from 9:00a.m. to 4:30p.m. every day. Which school will you choose?
A. Global English Center and Modern Languange School.
B. Global English Center and the International House.
C. Modern Languange School and the 21st Century.
D. The 21st Century and the International House.
64. The 21st Century’s difference from the other three schools is that ________ .
A. its teaching quality is better
B. it is nearest to the city center
C. its courses are more advanced
D. it requires an entrance examination
65. You will probably prefer to go to the International House because it ________ .
A. offers sightseeing and social activities
B. has a special course in spoken English
C. costs less than the other schools
D. has native English teachers
66. Modern Language School runs only _______ .
A. big classes B. special classes C. normal classes D. small classes
A Battery’s Nightmare
Portable electronics that can be carried about easily are only as good as their batteries (电池) and, let’s face it, batteries aren’t very good, especially when compared with, say, petrol, which packs 100 times a battery’s energy into an equal space. That’s why a large group of mechanical engineers (centered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but with partners at other universities and companies) are hard at work in an effort to replace batteries with a tiny engine that runs on fuel. Imagine a battery-free life! When the fuel runs out in your mobile phone, you just fill up and go.
The engine---about the size of a ten-cent coin---starts with a combustion chamber (燃烧室) that burns hydrogen. Its tiny parts are etched (蚀刻) onto silicon wafers (硅片) in the same manner that computer parts are etched onto integrated circuits (集成电路). The first engine is made up of five wafers. And since these wafers could be produced in much the same way as computer chips, they could probably be produced quite cheaply.
But the devil in all this nice detail is efficiency. Tiny engine parts don’t always behave like the bigger parts of the first engine. Something between the parts can slow down the works, according to Columbia University Professor LucFrechette, one of the engine’s designers. Extreme heat from the combustion chamber is also a problem, often leaking to other parts of the engine.
The scientists’ goal is to create an engine that will operate 10 times better than batteries operate. Frechette says that a complete system, with all parts in place and working, will be set up in the next couple of years, but commercial models aren’t likely until at least the end of the next ten years.
60. According to the passage, the title suggests that _______ .
A. batteries should be greatly improved
B. petrol will be used instead of batteries
C. the time of batteries will be gone forever
D. pollution problems caused by batteries must be solved
61. What’s the meaning of the underlined word “devil” in paragraph 3?
A. Problem B. Advantage C. Invention D. Technique
62. What can we infer from the passage?
A. The new invention doesn’t need any fuel.
B. The new engine has been produced in large quantities.
C. The new invention is much cheaper than the battery.
D. The new engine needs to be improved before it’s on sale.
第三部分: 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分, 共40分）
阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Dear mommy and daddy,
I write this letter to you in hopes that you should consider your method of parenting me before I arrive. I am a joyous child. I expect love and respect, order and discipline. When I arrive, I will seem very small to you. Even though I don’t look like an adult, please understand that I am a human being.
Even though I will not speak words to you, I will know you with my heart. I will feel all your feelings, absorb your thoughts. I will come to know you more than you may know yourself. Do not be misled (误导) by my silence. I am open, growing and learning more rapidly than you can imagine.
I will keep in heart all that I see, so please give me sweet music and language that tells me how much I am loved. Give me silence to rest my ears. I will absorb all that I feel, so please wrap life in love.
I am waiting patiently to be with you. I am so happy to have the opportunity to be alive. Maybe when you see me you will remember how precious life is too!
Your joyous child
56. According to the letter, why did the child write this letter?
A. Because the child wanted to apologize to its parents.
B. Because the child wanted t
he parents to consider the method of being parents.
C. Because the child expressed the happiness of having such
parents.
D. Because the child wanted to show how much it understood its parents.
57. According to the text, we can infer the “child” is in fact _______ .
A. a lovely boy B.
a joyous child
C. an unborn baby D. a lovely girl
58. The child in the text required all the following EXCEPT that ________ .
A. it should be looked on as a human being
B. it would like to be loved by its parents
C. it wanted to be with the parents an soon as possible
D. it wanted a place full of beautiful music and love language
59. The letter is likely to be printed in the part of ______ in a magazine.
A. “Baby’s world” B. “Current news”
C. “Young parent center” D. “Science and our life”
As parents we like to make sure that our children are eating well and getting all the nutrients（营养）they need. Children need two to three kinds of vegetables every day.
A simple way to get our children to eat vegetables is by eating them ourselves. Following our example, they may start eating vegetables themselves. Don’t say things like, “If you eat your vegetables, you can have dessert. ” These methods work for a little while but can possibly lead them to hate vegetables more. Give your children new varieties of foods which will help them develop a taste for trying new things.
Sometimes the simple things just don’t work. We have to start becoming a little creative to make our children eat vegetables. By doing this in the beginning when children are small, we will help them learn to love vegetables.
Think of creative ways to make children eat vegetables. For example, cut up vegetables like carrots, cucumbers and place them in a creative way on a plate for an afternoon snack. Or try using cheese sauce either by dipping the vegetables in it or by putting the cheese right on top of cooked or raw vegetables.
If you prefer, you can also add a teaspoon of sugar on top of cooked green beans and peas to make them taste a little sweeter. Doing this shouldn’t lead to a sweet tooth as long as you only give them a small amount.
If you have children that refuse to eat vegetables, some of these suggestions I’ve listed will help to turn that around. In the end, you’re not only just getting them to eat vegetables, you’re also helping them to live a healthier lifestyle.According to the passage, all the following ways to get children to eat vegetables are creative EXCEPT _____.
| A．preparing carrots in an attractive way |
| B．adding some cheese sauce to vegetables |
| C．putting cheese on top of vegetables |
| D．making vegetables much sweeter |
If you want your children to develop the habit of eating vegetables, you should _____.
| A．set an example to them | |
| B．be very patient to them | |
C．give dessert to them as an award |
D．cut vegetables into different types to meet their tastes |
The best title for the passage would probably be “_____”.
| A．Vegetables are very important for children’s health |
| B．How to make children eat more vegetables |
| C．More and more children like eating vegetables |
| D．There are many kinds of vegetables for children |
French surgeons have performed what they said on Wednesday was the world's first partial face transplant--- giving a new nose, chin and lips to a woman attacked by a dog.
Specialists from two French hospitals carried out the operation on a 38-year-old woman on Sunday in the northern city of Amiens by taking the face from a brain-dead woman, who had hanged herself just hours before the operation. Her family agreed on the operation.
“The patient is in an excellent state and the transplant looks normal,” the hospitals said in a brief statement after waiting three days to announce the pioneering surgery.
The woman had been left without a nose and lips after the dog attacked her last May, and was unable to talk or chew properly. Such injuries are “extremely difficult, if not impossible” to repair using normal surgical techniques, the statement said.
The statement did not say what the woman would look like when she had fully recovered, but medical experts said she was unlikely to resemble the woman who had been the source of her new face.
The operation was led by Jean-Michel Dubernard, a specialist from a hospital in Lyon who has also carried out hand transplants,
Skin transplants have long been used to treat burns and other injuries, but operations around the mouth and nose have been considered very difficult because of the area's high sensitivity to foreign tissue.
Teams in France, the United States and Britain had been developing techniques to make face transplants a reality
There was a short-term risk for the patient if blood vessels became blocked, a medium-term danger of her body rejecting the new skin and a long-term possibility that the drugs used could cause cancers.
Experts say that although such medical advances should be celebrated, the transplant had thrown up moral（道德的）and ethical(伦理的)issues. Little is known about the psychological effect of the transplant.The best title for the passage would be ________.
| A．French Woman has First Partial Face Transplant |
| B．First Face Transplant Opens Debate |
| C．Risks and Ethical Problems of a Face Transplant |
| D．A Complete Face Transplant of a French Woman |
Why did the woman need such an operation?
| A．Her face had been bitten by a dog |
| B．Her face had been burnt in a fire. |
| C．She was born especially ugly |
| D．She wanted to test such an operation. |
The underlined word "resemble" means ________.
| A．to remember forever |
| B．to recognize immediately |
| C．to set as an example |
| D．to present similarity or likeness to |
What can we learn about the operation?
| A．The woman had used the dead woman' s whole face. |
| B．There has arisen a debate about the operation. |
| C．The woman will suffer from psychological damage soon. |
| D．Such transplants have been performed by doctors. |